Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,983, for Zachariah Rexrode, Virginia
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Va.   Rexrode. Zachariah     S. 5,983

carded
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4124
Virginia

Zachariah Rexrode
of Pendleton Co in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Baxter of the Regt commanded
by Col. Bowyer in the Virginia
Militia for 6 mo. from 1781 -

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of January 1833 and sent  Hon W. McCoy H R

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 30.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833  10.00
-- 40.00

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk, 
Book D  Vol. 7 Page 113

Paid at the Treasury under 
the Act of the 6 April 1838 from
4 Sep 1839 to 4 March 1840. Agt
notified 5 Jany 1841.

Paid as above from 4 March
1843. to 4 Sep 1843 agt Notified
28. Jany 1845

Letter to Hon James McDowell
21. Jany 1847.
Letter to Hon. W.B. Preston &c
3 Audr. June 5 1848

Date of
death not
on AB
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State of Virginia}
Pendleton County } S.S.

On this 8 day of Augt 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the county court of the said county of Pendleton now sitting, Zachariah Rexrode Senr a resident of said county of Pendleton and state of Virginia, aged 71 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 7th. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as is herein stated.  - 
On or about the last day of December 1780 or 1st day of January 1781, he the said Rexrode was drafted to go on a tour of three months service as a private to Portsmouth in the county of Norfolk& State of Virginia, that part of the county of Pendleton in which he then resided constituting a part of Rockingham, the said county of Pendleton not having at that time been laid off.  that on the 2nd or 3rd day of January 1781 he marched from this part of the (then) county of Rockingham, under the command of Captain George Baxter, Lieut. John Hartman & Ensign Thomas Shankler, who command the company from Rockingham to which he was  attached; that upon their arrival at Portsmouth they were attached to the troops from the county of Rockbridge Virginia, and placed under the command of Col   ______ Bowyer of the last named county, Major Gavin Hamilton having been their superior officer previously to their reaching Portsmouth.  That during  a part of the time that he was stationed at Portsmouth, the troops at that place were commanded by General Muhlenburg, both officers, as he believes, belonging to the Regular Army, they being the only officers of the Regulars whose names he can now recollect.  When after having faithfully served out his time he was discharged at or near Petersburg Va and got home on or about the 4th or 5th of May 1781; having served during this tour at least four months, the time of their service only being  computed from the date of their arrival at Portsmouth
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no allowance being made for the time spent in going from and returning to his home.  ----During this three months tour he was not engaged in any regular battle. ----

That during the same year, on or about the      day of August, he was again drafted, into the service to perform a second tour, that he was marched from the same county under the command of Capt.     Cowgar of Rockingham they were marched directly to Willaimsburg in Virginia where on or about the 25th of September they were joined by the regulars and French Troops & placed as he believes under the command of the Marquis Lafayette; from Williamsburg the United forces were immediately marched to Yort Town, where the said Rexrode continued to serve during the whole of the siege of that plain which continued as well as he can remember for about Eighteen days after his  arrival there and during all of which time he was almost constantly engaged under the fire of the British forces. on or about the 19th of October 1781, the British forces at Yorktown capitulated to the combined American & French forces, and the said Rexrode was sent with other Troops to guard the prisoners to the interior.  At a place called Falmouth, near Fredericksburg in Virginia the prisoners were seperated; the English & Irish were sent (as he understood) to Fredericktown in Maryland, and the German prisoners to Winchester in Virginia, to which place he assisted in guarding them, and when he was discharged about the          day of November 1781, and got home about the           day of the same month, having faithfully served during the second Tour at least three months, making in all at least Seven months which he served during the year 1781.--
That he has no documentary evidence of his service, never having received a written or printed discharge from his officers.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                   his
Zachariah    X   Rexrode
                  mark
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And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier. and served as he states - 

I Zebediah Dyer Clerk of the Court of Pendleton County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter the application of Zachariah Rexrode Sen - for a persion - 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of August 1832 and is the 57th year of this Commonwealth. - 
Z Dyer

State of Virginia }
Pendleton County}  S.S

On this 18th day of September 1832 personally appeared before me William McCoy Jr a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid James Reister Senr a resident of said County and made oath that he is well acquaintd with Zachariah Rexrode who has sworn to and subscribed the forgoing declaration that he believes him to be 71 years of age, and that he is {?} and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the {?} and that the said {?} of his own personal knowledge is positively certain that he was drafted as he states on or about the 1st day of January 1781 to perform a three months Tour, and verily believes that he did so serve not only the three months but four months as stated in his declaration,  That he also knows that the said Rexrode was drafted again into the month of August 1781 to {stamp covered words} tour of three months, that he (Keister) being on his return home from a tour which he had served in the militia of the lower part of Virginia, met the said Rexrode sometime in August 1781, not far above Richmond, he being on his way to join the Troops {?} Yorktown, and that he verily believes that said Rexrode then served out his time faithfully as stated in his declaration.  Given under my hand and seal at the county
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aforesaid, the day and year above mentioned -
Wm. McCoy Jr. {Seal}

Pendleton County Virginia }
October 6th 1832- }
I William McCoy Junr. a resident of the County of Pendleton and State of Virginia do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Zachariah  Rexrode who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that I believe him to be 71 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 I concur in that opinion.
W. McCoy

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year last }above mentioned, by the Honbl. Wm McCoy }before me. }
W McCoy Jr }
a Justice of the Peace - }

Virginia Pendleton County Sct
I Zebulon Dyer Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that William McCoy Jr before whom the aforesaid affidavits of James Kiester and William McCoy appear to have been taken is a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that due faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this 8th day of October 1832 - and in the 57th year of the
Commonwealth-
Z Dyer

I certify that Zachariah Rexrode, who asks this Person and James Keister who Testifies in his behalf are both reputable Farmers & Both of them reputed to be men men of Truth by their neighbours opinions  of whom the Subscriber
is one, he believe every word they have Sworn & moreover has knowledge of the service, but not precisely as to length of time -
Wm McCoy
Jany 4th 1833

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To Declarations
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON

December 12, 1932

BA-J/EEL
Zachariah Rexode-S. 5983

Honorable C. C. Dowell
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Dowell:

Reference is made to your request of December 7, in behalf of Mrs. R. L. Rankin of 1510 41st Street, Des Moines, Iowa, who desires the Revolutionary War records of Peter Stone, Zachariah Rexrode and James Stunkard.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service of Peter Stone and James Stunkard. The notation of Mrs. Rankin does not pertain to the records of this office but possibly to the State records. Only one claim for pension has been found based upon service of a
Zachariah Rexrode; his record is given below as found in the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.5983
.
Zachariah Rexrode enlisted about January 1, 1781, in Pendleton (that part which was later Rockingham) County, Virginia, and served
four months as a private in Captain George Baxter's Company, Colonel Bowyer's Virginia Regiment: he again enlisted in August, 1781, served in Captain Cowgar's Company in the Virginia Troops under the Marquis de Lafayette, was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of the British at that place after which he guarded prisoners to Winchester, Virginia, and was discharged in November, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-one years and resided in Pendleton
County, Virginia. The date and place of his birth are not given.

There are no data as to his family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the

{ Date of death not on AB]
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Revolutiionary War pensioner, Zachariah Rexrode (S.5983) you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, , this city citing all of the following data:

Zachariah Rexrode, Certificate No. 4124, issued January 11, 1833, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1838, Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours


A.  D. JILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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(Postcard)

(Stamp)
DANVILLE
MAY 22
8 30 PM
1940
ILL.

Veterans Administration
Washinton
D. C.
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(Postcard)

Would you please send me any information you might have concerning Zachariah Rexroad (Rexrode) who served in the Revolution from Pendleton Co. Va.?

Mrs. Lester W. Bandy
1014 Franklin St.
Danville, Illinois.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 30th 1841.

Sir"
Under the act of  6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remainng unclaimed by certain Pensioners and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, " Zachariah Rexrode a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and _____Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th of June 1832 has been paid at this department, from the fourth of Sept 1839 to the fourth of March 1840

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pension
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Decr 12th, 1844.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Zachariah Rexrode - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va  Agency, at the rate of Twenty
Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March 1843, to the 4th Sept. 1843.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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February 24, 1933

BA-J/EEL
Zachariah Rexrode - S.5983

Ouita McKinley
Care Clarksburg Publishing Company
Clarksburg, West Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Edward Morton and Zachariah Rexrode, soldiers of the Revolutionary
War. Their histories are furnished herewith.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 5983, based upon the military service of Zachariah Rexrode in that war.

Zachariah Rexrode enlisted about January 1, 1781, in Pendleton (that part which was later Rockingham) County, Virginia, and served four months as a private in Captain George Baxter's Company, Colonel Bowyer's Virginia Regiment; he again enlisted in August, 1781, served in Captain Cowgar's Company in the Virginia Troops under the Marquis de Lafayette, was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of the
British at that place after which he guarded prisoners to Winchester, Virginia, and was discharged in November, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-one years and resided in Pendleton
County, Virginia. The date and place of his birth are not given,

There are no data as to his family.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 - 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. , ________, 19________

In reply to your request of _______, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Zachariah Rexode. a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. 5983

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Dec 1780 or Jan 1781
Aug. 1781.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
4 mos.
3 mos.
RANK.
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
George Baxter.
____ Cowgar.
COLONEL.
____ Bowyer. 
STATE.
Va.

Battles engaged in, Yorktown.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Rockingham, later Pendleton Co. Va
Date of application for pension, Aug. 8. 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Pendleton Co. Va.
Age at date of application, 71 years.
Remarks: there is no family data on file

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6-28.6
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SEVENTY-SECOND CONGRESS
EDWARD B. ALMON, ALA., CHAIRMAN
BOLIVAR E. KEMP, LA.
LINDSAY C. WARREN, N. C.
WILBURN CARTWRIGHT, OKLA.
O. H. CROSS, TEX.
CLAUDE A. FULLER, ARK.
WILLIAM M. WHITTINGTON, MISS.
WRIGHT PATMAN, TEX. 
ROBERT RAMSPECK, GA.
CLAUDE V. PARSONS, ILL
EUGENE B. CROWE, IND.
CHARLES H. MARTIN, OREG.
CASSIUS C. DOWELL, IOWA
CHARLES BRAND, OHIO
JOE J. MANLOVE, MO.
DON B. COLTON, UTAH
JOHN M. NELSON, WIS.
ROBERT H. CLANCY, MICH.
CONRAD G. SELVIG, MINN.
C. MURRAY TURPIN, PA.
J. ROLAND KINZER, PA.
CHARLOTTE R. CURRY, CLERK

House of Representatives U.S.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
Washington, D. C.

Rev & 1812

December 7, 1932.

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington,
D.C.

My dear Sir: ---

I am just in receipt of a letter from Mrs. R. L. Rankin of 1510 41st Street, Des Moines, Iowa, from which I quote the following:
'Will you please secure for me from the Bureau
of Pensions, information concerning: Peter
Stone, Zachariah Rexroad, both were soldiers
from Virginia (now Pendleton Co. W.Va.) Also
concerning James Stunkard. I have a notation
'List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia
Supplement notation p. 292'  James Stunkard,
4, 8 and 12 V.R.) What information does the
notation contain? I am seeking data concerning
the parents, date of birth of the soldier's,  wife's
name and children of the above."

Will you kindly give me such available
information on the above request as you may have, and oblige,

Yours very truly,
C C Dowell

RECEIVED
DEC 8 1932
CONGRESSIONAL  I
MAIL SUB. DIV.
U.S.V.B.
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U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
D 
NOV 6 1914
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Harrisville, W. Va.
Nov. 5, 1914.
Dept. of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.

Kindly give me information regarding Revolutionary service of Zachariah Rexroad ("Rexrode", sometimes) who on June 1st 1840, was a Rev. pensioner of Pendleton County W. Va.

Let me know fee for same.
Very truly yours.

(Mrs.) C. K. Chapman.
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5983.
Rev War INVALID.

File No. 5983
Zachariah Rexrode
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: -  Vol. M, Page 312

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1914 Nov 7: history to Mrs. C.W. Chapman M.B.H.
1932 -Dec 12-  History to Hon C.C Dowell - EEL
for Mrs R. L. Rankin
1933. Feb. 24 Hist to Ouita McKinley - Letter 
in case Edward Morton - S 5728 - EEL
1940 July 3. Hist to Mrs. Lester W. Bandy. E.E.L. copied.
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July 3, 1940.

BA-J/ copied E.E.L.
hist. 2/24/1933.
Zachariah Rexrode, S. 5983

Mrs. Lester W. Bandy
1014 Franklin Street
Danville, Illinois

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Zachariah Rexrode, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.5983, based upon the military service in that war of Zachariah Rexrode.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Zachariah Rexrode are not shown.

Zachariah Rexrode enlisted about January 1, 1781, in Pendleton (that part which was later Rockingham) County, Virginia, and served four months as private in Captain George Baxter's
Company, Colonel Bowyer's Virginia Regiment; he again enlisted in August 1781, served in Captain Cowgar's Company in the Virginia troops under the Marquis de Lafayette, was at the siege
of Yorktown and surrender of the British at that place after which he guarded prisoners to Winchester, Virginia, and was discharged in November 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-one years and resided in Pendleton County, Virginia.

There are no family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting
Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following data: "Zachariah Rexrode, certificate No. 41--, issued January 11, 1833, rate $20.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Virginia Agency".

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator