Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38668, Isaac Doty, N.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Doty, Isaac
NUMBER
S38668
CONTENTS
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20.044
West Tennessee
Issac Doty
of Overton County in the State of Tennessee who was a private-[?] in the company- commanded y Captain Carter- of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lytle- in the North Carolina line, for the term of Eighteen months from 1782 to 1783

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, t commence on the 26th day of November 1828.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of February 1829~ and sent to the Hon. J. C. Isacks, House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of March 1829 $26.36 Semi-anl. all'ce ending
$26-36

{Revolutionary Claim Acts March, 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820[?] / }
March 1823

Recorded Vol 9
Book. 6[?]. page 160
B.L.B
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State of Tennessee
Overton County
Be it remembered that heretofore to wit at January Sessions of our Court of pleas and quarter Session held for the County and State aforesaid in the Court house in the Town of Monroe on the fourth Monday of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, an entry was made of record in said Court in the words and figures following to wit

State of Tennessee
Overton County Court
January [ILLEGIBLE] 1895

On the 25th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appeared in the open Court, [ILLEGIBLE] being a Court of record proceeding[?] according to the course of the Common Law, denominated a Court of pleas and quarter Sessions, holden for the County of Overton [ILLEGIBLE] State of Tennessee Isaac Doty aged about Seventy five years resident in the said County of Overton, who being first duly sword upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God according to the laws of the land doth on his oath declare and State that he   enlisted and served as a regular Soldier in the revolutionary war of the United States of America in the Continental establishment as follows to wit That is to say he first enlisted in the State of New Jersey in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy five and in the neighborhood of New German Town under Captain John Armstrong, and enlisted for the Term of one year - Marched from thence to Discharge[?] under the Command
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of Colonel Armstrong, and was in the battle of the three rives about ninety six miles above Qaebee[?] and remained in the neighbourhood of Quebee[?], until his time was expired, That he then enlisted under the same Captain John Armstrong, for the Term of Three years and was at that [ILLEGIBLE] in the neighborhood of Lake Champlain, and states that he continued in the Service of the United States of America, for three years, during which time he was in a small engagement at Staten Island in the State of New York, and also at the battle of Brandywine, in Pennsylvania, he states he marched from thence to the Southern States, and was in several inconsiderable engagements in that viccinity[?] -  During the last three years he was under the command of [ILLEGIBLE] officers all of whom he cannot recollect and name, but States in North and South Carolina he was under the command of General Green, and was discharged while under his command, within ten miles of Charleston. Archibald Lytle was the then Colonel and Benjamin Carter was the then Captain under whose immediate command this [ILLEGIBLE] was placed at the time he received his discharge. He states that he faithfully served out his whole time[?] of four years in the Service of the United States of America as a regular soldier in the Continental establishment.
He further States on his oath aforesaid that he lost his discharge by getting his house burned[?] and that he knows of no living [ILLEGIBLE] by whom can prove his service aforesaid.
The said Isaac Doty further makes oath that he was a citizen of the United States of America on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight
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hundred and eighteen, and that he has not [ILLEGIBLE] that him[?] by a gift sale, sale or in any way or in any whatever disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish the same[?] so as to bring himself within the provisions of the Acts of Congress of the United States of America passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and on or about the first day of May 1820, made for the benefit of certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States of America in the Revolutionary war and that he has not himself no has any one in trust for him either directly or indirectly any property, security, contract, debts or dues of any kind or descriptions whatever, nor has he any income whatever, save what is contained[?] and enclosed[?] in the following schedule hereto annexed which is a true and perfect inventory of all the estate of the said Isaac Doty, he further states upon his oath aforesaid, that he has a wife living about fifty eight years of age, and is very infirm and weak, he also states that he has had eleven children, of which number there is eight living and perhaps nine but about the latter cannot speak with certainty out of this number there are four females living, he further states that there are two of his children living with him who are daughters the elder about eighteen and the younger about thirteen years of age

Schedule
One small horse with about - $15-
One small heifer worth about - $5
Some little household furniture
not exceeding - $10-
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he has contracted for fifty acres of land at six and one quarter dollars but not yet paid for
He states in addition to the above, that he is unable to support himself by his own labour and therefore prays the benefit of the above acts of Congress
Isaac Doty
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court January 25th 1825
Joseph Harris Clk
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court from the evidence of Valentine[?] Mattock and David Stewart, respectable men who were sworn before the Court that the schedule annexed to the written statement of the said Isaac Doty, is true and that this said Isaac Doty is a man of good moral character, and entitled to full credit in a Court of Justice on his oath, it is therefore ordered that a copy of this certificate be annexed to the written statement and declaration of the said Isaac Doty 
State of Tennessee
Overton County
I Joseph Harris clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and complete transcript of the record therein mentioned, In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 27th day of January and year of American independence
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20,264.
Isaac Doty
Overton [ILLEGIBLE] Tenn:
Transcript

Hon: J. C. Isacks,
Winchester, Tenn:
-
Reed[?]. 5 Mar: 1827

To In.[?] 13. M Cormick Esq?[?]
Gainesboro.
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State of Tennessee 
Overton County 
Be it remembered that heretofore (to wit.) at April Sessions of our Court of pleas and quarter Sessions held for the County and state aforesaid, in the Court house in the Town of Monroe in the the fourth Monday of said Month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six an entry was made of records in said Court in the words and figures following (to wit)
"State of Tennessee
"Overton County
April Sessions 1826
"Overton County Court of pleas and quarter Sessions
"On the twenty seventh day of April 1826 personally appeared in open Court it being a Court of records for the 
"County of Overton aforesaid, Isaac Doty who being first
"duly sworn upon the evangelist of Almighty God
"according to law doth on his oath make the following 
"declaration in addition to his original statement and 
"declaration made in this Court at the January
"Term 1825 and authenticated copy of which is herewith
"included and prayed to be considered one statement and declaration with this amendment
"in order to be placed on the pension list, under the 
"acts of Congress of the United States of America passed 
"the 18th day of March 1818, and the second on the 1st
"day of May 1820 or thereabouts
"First the said Isaac Doty in open Court
"upon his oath doth declare that as to the apparent
"tardiness and lateness of his said Doty's application
"he states that soon after the passage of the first 
"act of Congress on this subject, he made his 
"statement in the circuit court for said County of
"Overton with a view of being placed on the pension list
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"under the act of Congress of the United States passed
"on the 18th day of March 1878, that the said Statement
"as he is informed and beleives true was never placed upon
"the records of said Court, that it was sent on to the 
"proper department of the United States Government for 
"adjudication that the same was sent back for Amendment
"and the amendments made, the Statement
"thus amended was as he said Isaac Doty is informed
"and believes again sent on by mail by his Counsel &
"attorney who attended to said business to the proper
"department of the United States Government for adjudication
"and that is the last the said Isaac Doty
"states he has heard of his statement. Nor does he
"know where it is or any thing about it further than 
"above stated, he states that he delayed considerable 
"time in endeavouring to ascertain what had befallen
"his other petition, but could make no disovery
"From his poor and helpless condition he 
"he was again induced to make another attempt
"which after made as aforesaid he was advised is 
"informal and required to make these amendments
" The said Isaac Doty makes the following
"statement & declaration as to his property, estate,
"debts, dues, and Contracts of what description and 
"kind soever, which he was in any way entitled to 
"on the 18th day of March 1818.
"One small horse beast worth about ~ $20.00
"thinks he may have had one cow worth say ~ 9.00
"some little household furniture worth say ~ 20.00
"The said Isaac Doty says that the above
"includes all his estate at that time of every kind &
"that he has not to his recollection had more property
"or of greater value since that time the said Isaac
"Doty, hereby relinquishes every claim to any pension
"except the present and that his name is not on
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"the roll of any state
Isaac Doty
"Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
"this 27th day of April 1826
Jo. Harris Clerk
"This day personaly appeared in open Court George 
"Hinshaw a respectable man Citizen of said County of
"Overton who being first duly sworn. Saith that the statement in the foregoing Declaration by Isaac Doty he beleives to 
"be true, that he has been acquainted with the situation
"of the said Isaac Doty for a considerable time past 
"that always within his Knowledge he was a very poor 
"man, and that he is entitled to full audit[?] on his
"oath in a court of justice

State of Tennessee
Overton County
I Joseph Harris clerk of the County[?] the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and Complete transcript of the record therin Mentioned 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed this seal of said Court at office this 22nd day of September 1826 and 31st[?] Year of American Independence
Jo. Harris Clerk
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20.264
Isaac Doty

See[?] letter 2d[?] April 1827 to Hon: J. C. Isacks Winchester Tennessee
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State of North Carolina
Secretary of States' Office 19th March 1827. I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears from the musterroll[?] of the Continental line of this State, that Isaac Doty a Sergt. in Capt. Carters' Company of the 10th Regiment was mustered, or enlisted in 1782, for the term of 18 months, that nothing more is said of him on said rolls, it is therefore believed he served the term for which he enlisted [ILLEGIBLE] under my hand this 19th March 1827.
Wm Hill [SIGNATURE]
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38668
Revy[?] INVALID
File No. 38,668
Isaac Doty
[ILLEGIBLE] Rev Mar

Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 8, Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Tennessee
Overton County 
Court of Pleas
Be It Remembered that heartofore to wit at i [?] Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Began and held for the County aforesaid at the Court House in the Town of Monroe on the Fourth Monday in October in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight A Record was made[?] in the words and figures following to wit;
"Isaac Doty this day files his declaration in 
"Court in the following words and figures towit
"State of Tennessee
October Session 1828
"Overton County
"On this 31st day October in the Year 1828
"Personally appeared in open Court it being
"a court of Record for said County of Overton
"Proceding[?] according to the Course of Common 
"Law with Jurisdiction unlimited in amount
"Keeping a Record of its Procedings[?] and
"having Power to fine and Imprison Isaac
"Doty Resident of said County of Overton
"aged about 78, who being duly sworn
"according to Law doth on his oath make
"the following Declaration in adition to 
"those he has heretofore made in this Court
"in order to obtain the provisions made
"by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March
"1818
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"and of the 1st of May 1820 that he is so aged
"and infirm[?] and has been so for many years that
"his Recollection has become grately Deficient that
"from the Grate lapse of time he cannot pretend
"to give a minute detail of all his different
"Majors[?] and his different officers and states in his
"previous declaration he has done every thing in his
"power to give satisfaction one thing he does[?]
"well know that he faithfully served the united
"states as a Regular soldier in the Revolutionary 
"ware[war] in the Continental Establishment as he
"has stated in his previous declaration and simply[?]
"believes that if any old and faithful soldier
"did from his services and situation ever deserve
"the charity of his country he does, he states that
"when he first enlisted under Captain Armstrong
"believes[?] his name was John Armstrong for the Term
"of one year he Marched for the neighborhood of 
"New Germantown where he reinlisted to [ILLEGIBLE]
"under the command of Colo Armstrong believes
"his name was Benjamin as well as he recollects
"he belonged to what was new jersey[?] troops dos[does?]
"not Recollect the name or number of the
"Ridgement[?] believes he belonged to the the
"new jersey line, where he enlisted the second
"time as stated in his preceding[?] declaration
"he still belonged to what was caled[called?] the new
"jersey troops in the Continental[?] line of the united
"states; he states that when he Marched
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"towards the South he was under the command
"of Major Cagliston[?] as he believes Enlisted the third
"time under Capt Benjamin Carter and was plaised[placed?]
"under the command of Colonel Archibald 
"Lytle and there Belonged to the 1st Redgement
"of the North Caroline line his Enlistment was
"there for Eighteen months or during the war
"he states he continued in that Redgement until
"the close of the war, he declair[?] that his recallection
"will not as he believes enable him
"to be any mor precise and definit in his
"detail, he prays that this Declaration may
"be taken as a part of his former Declaration
Isaac Doty
"sworn to and subscribed in open Court Court[?]
"this 31st October 1828[?] Win Gore[?] clerke
=From the testimony of Joseph Goodlear William=
==Gore[?] Walter Greer and Louis Carpenter Respectable 
"witnesses it appears to the satisfaction of the Court
"that the said Isaac Doty did serve in the 
"Revolution was as stated in the previous
"Declaration against the common Enemy for the Terms therein stated in the Continental Establishment
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State of Tennessee
Overton County
I William Gore[?] clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said do hereby Certify that the foregoing Declaration and affidavits are true copies of the Originans[Originals?] as stands of Record in my office in Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 26th day of November A.D. 1828
Wm Gore clerk [SIGNATURE]

Isaac Doty
To [SCRIBBLE] Declaration
Copy
pen: to com: 26 Nov. 1828
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Rec. 2 Feb. 1829 [written vertically on the left side]
20.264 [written vertically on the left side]
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office
Adm?[?]
pen: to com: 26 Nov. 1828.
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1st Febry 1829
Sir The enclosed papers of Isaac Doty have again been sent to me with an addition declaration and proof as his[?] property. He is certainly very poor and needy and any formality in making his scedule might safely be dispensed with. If I recollect right you were [ILLEGIBLE] of the opinion that the time of his inlistment ought [ILLEGIBLE] stated [ILLEGIBLE] more precision. I understand from his acquaintances that though he retains his recollection as to important parts in early live[life?] yet being unlettered and his mind impaired by age and affliction, he can not remember dates. But I would remark that as tothe[to the] last time of his inlistment for three years he has given what would appear tobe[to be] equally certain data by which to ascertain whether his name can be found on the Rolls- the battle he was in and the marches he made, first at Staten Island then at Brandywine- [ILLEGIBLE] marched tothe[to the] south, thence into Virginia, and was discharged near Charlottesville, being at the close of his service in the Company commanded by 
Benj. Carter. in the Rep.[Regt.?] of Col Archibald Lytle. [UNDERLINED] 
Capt John Armstrong was the Col[CROSSED OUT] under[?][CROSSED OUT] officer with whom he inlisted both times. I would respectfully suggest whether is from the data of facts[UNDERLINED] given the rolls can be found and they should show the service for the period required by the law. whether it would be proper to reject his application because his recollection has faild[failed] as to dates, he honestly declining tostate[to state] what he don't remember. I must request that you will reconsider his case. And if the records will show the service I trust the rest of his[?][CROSSED OUT] it is sufficiently made out Respectfully yours, 
J.C. Isacks [SIGNATURE]