Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8817, for Barton Law, Pennsylvania
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Service:  Penn

Law, Barton

S.8817

carded
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Hon. A. Ellison 10 Jany 1855 
Ohio 26.281.
26,281 
Barton Law of Clermont Co. in the State of Ohio who was a  Pri  in the Company commanded by Captain Warren of the Regt commanded by Col Fletcher in the Penna Militia 
6 Mo Pri   $20.00 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 20 Dollars- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of April and Sent to 1834 R. Dickens Batavia 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34 60.00    
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 34 10.00 
$ 70.00   
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk
Book C  Vol 8 Page 21
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State of Ohio Clermont County County Court of Common Pleas - November term 1833 and the fifth day of the term

State of Ohio
Clermont County

On this eighth day of November 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Barton Law, a resident of Monroe Township in the County of Clermont and State of Ohio, aged Seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, Passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

Joshua Bell was the colonel of the regiment to which this claimant belonged and Thomas Williams was Major of it. The regiment was under the direction of General Smallwood.  Allen Wheeler was his captain and Warrant his Lieutenant, and he thinks Thomas Mitchel his Ensign.  He will not be positive as to the day or year but he thinks on the fourteenth day of June 1780 this claimant left his residence in Prince George County Maryland, about seven miles below the outskirts of Washington city, the place where he was born, entering the service of the United States having been drafted.  He marched immediately to Baltimore where he remained three months. The company to which he belonged was the only military force stationed at Baltimore at that time. At the end of this period of three months, this claimant returned to his former residence where he resided till the fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord 1781 when he again entered the service of the United States. Edward Law was his Captain during this his second term of service. All other officers the same as during his first term the year previous.  His company was now stationed on the Maryland side of the Potomac River.  About five or six days after the company to which he belonged as well as himseff arrived on the Potomac, a British man of war, Captain Scott, came up the Potomac, a part of her men landed a few miles below the port of Alexandria, were attacked by the company to which this claimant belonged, twelve of the British crew were taken prisoners, the residue of those
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who landed effected a retreat to their ship. In this encounter this claimant was not present in the action but on duty under the direction of his superior, watching the motions of the enemy. On the fifteenth of October 1781 after an absence of three months this claimant returned to his former residence where he continued to reside till he arrived at the age of thirty-three, then he removed to Lowdon County Virginia where he remained eleven years, and then came to this (Clermont) County Ohio and here he has resided for the last twenty-seven years. He is acquainted with Isaac Mitchell and John Shaw who reside in his present neighbourhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution; and with Mathew Weaver who knows as he states that this claimant was in the service of the United States six months at two periods during the Revolution; but he is acquainted with no clergyman whom he can claim without great trouble and expense to testify in his behalf. This claimant was born on the second day of May 1762 but has no record of his age. At the close of each term of service he received a discharge from the service from the Captain in command but lost said discharges from service after the close of the war.

He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Barton Law (his mark)

Sworn to in open court, November 8, 1833

J D Morris Clerk
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Mathew Weaver aged sixty-six years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he lived in Prince George County in Maryland in 1777.  That Barton Law whose declaration precedes was a neighbor of his; that in the month of June 1777 said Barton Law entered the service of the United States, that he (Law) left home some time in the month of June 1777 and returned some time in September of the same year; that in July of the following year said Barton again entered the service of the United States and returned to his home in deponent's neighborhood sometime in the month of October; 
this deponent was not in the service of the United States with said Barton Law but distinctly recollects that the general report and the understanding of the neighborhood at the time was that said Law (with whom this deponent was intimate) was, during his first term of service, at Baltimore in Maryland, his company being stationed there as a guard and that he was the second term of his service on the Maryland side of the Potomac, about 8 or 10 miles below Alexandria now in the district of Columbia; and this deponent recollects that it was distinctly understood that said Barton law was in the service three months at each term, though he does not recollect the precise day of the month he left home and returned at either term. The deponent went to Virginia two or three years after said Barton Law had their taken his residence; lived within three or four miles of said Law till said Law went to the State of Ohio, Eleven years after which he this deponent came also to Ohio and settled in the immediate vicinity of said Law in Monroe Township Clermont County Ohio where this deponent and said Barton Low have both since resided

Matthew Weaver (his mark)

subscribed and seven this 8th day of November 1833 before me,
J W Robinson
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We Isaac Mitchell and John Shaw both residing in Monroe township, Clermont County, Ohio, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Barton Law who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration of the first and second page hereof; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Isaace Mitchell
John Shaw

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court November 8th 1833. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that Isaac Mitchell and 
John Shaw who have signed the preceeding certificate and the said Matthew Weaver who made the preceding deposition are residents of Monroe township Clermont County Ohio, and that their statements are entitled to credit

I Jonathan Morris, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Barton Law for a pension, and further that the said J. W. Robinson before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, is a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Clermont
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Washington D C

Jany 4 1855

Sir:

Herewith you will find a letter from Gideon M Lowe accompanied by a copy of a pension
certificate to his father, Mr Barton Lowe. The son is satisfied that the father did not get from the Government anything like the amount which he ought under the law.

Please have the case examined & oblige

your obt servt
A Ellison

Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Barton Law
Ohio 1832

Hon Mr Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Hon A Ellison, H Reps
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8817

INVALID

Rev War

File No:   8817
Barton Law
Priv - Rev War

Act:  June 7th 1832

Index:  Vol R, Page 215

[Arrangement of 1870]
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County 

Court of Common pleas
November Term AD 1833

On the 8th day of November AD 1833 personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas in and
for said County now in session Barton Law an applicant for a pension under the law of Congress of June 7th 1832 and the said Court having seen that the interrogatories prescribed by the war department have been property answered, declare their opinion that the applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he States, and the said Court further certify that it appears to them that Matthew Weaver who has sworn and subscribed to the accompanying affidavit relative to the service of said Barton Law, and that Isaac Mitchell and John Shaw who sworn to and subscribed the accompanying certificate are credible persons "

The State of Ohio
Clermont County

I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of said Court of common pleas in Barton Laws case for a pension and that John W Robinson Esq was a Justice of the peace in and for said County at the time of subscribing the affidavit of Matthew Weaver and that his signature is genuine.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
Batesville this 5th day of April AD 1834 

J. D. Morris Clerk