Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 606, Thomas Bateman, N. C.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776] 

SERVICE
N. C.

Bateman, Thomas

NUMBER
R.606

CONTENTS
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55

Thomas Bateman 

29.128- 

Refd [Referred] to Col Edwards by 
Jany [January] 18 34 J E [Plummer?]
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The State of Mississippi, Green [Greene] County and Circuit Court of Law September Term A.D. 1833 

On this the tenth day of September A.D. 1833 - personally appeared in open Court the undersigned Thomas Bateman a resident of said County of Green and State of Mississippi, aged Seventy-eight years, on the twenty ninth day of January last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 –viz: That he entered the Army of the United States, as a private, on or about the fifth of May in the year A.D. 1776 under the following named officers, viz: Christopher Cofel [probably Grisham Coffield], Cpt. [Captain], __ Gee [James Gee], Col [Colonel] – Isaac Dozier Lft [Lieutenant] Col [Colonel], __ Ash [sic, John Ashe] General; as a volunteer at Edgecombe [County], in the State of North Carolina, and join my company at Tarborough from thence we marched to Wilmington in said State, remained there three months, from thence to Halifax in said State, Cpt. Keil, & Nicholas Long Col. Commanding was on duty, till ordered to Guilford in said State, and arrived there the night before the battle, in which he was engaged on the fifteenth of March 1781 – in the company then commanded [by] Exum Phillips
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Etheld Phillips [Etheldred Phillips] Maj. William Linton [William Thomas Linton], Colonel, __ Eaton [Thomas Eaton] By. [Brigadier] General, General Nathiel Green [sic, Nathanael Greene] then commander in chief – he further states that he remained in the Army as a volunteer as above stated to the end of the war, but was in no engagement after the Battle of Guilford – he further states that he was in service of the United States during the revolutionary war, at least five years and six months – The undersigned further states that he has no documentary testimony, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service – And 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 and subscribed to}        Thomas [his X mark] Bateman
in open Court --} 
Alex McCaskill, Clk [Clerk]}
C. C. G. C.
Questions propounded by the Court 
1. Where and in what year were you born 
An. [Answer] In the State of Virginia, Bedford County on the 29th of January A.D. 1755 

2. Have you any record of your age [answer] Yes 
Where is the record? [answer] at my residence written as I have been informed by my Father and my age is as stated above.
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3. Where were you living when called into Service Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live 
Ans [Answer] I was living at the time I entered the service of the United States at Edgecombe County in the State of North Carolina about twenty five miles from Tarborough and said State I remained in said State after the Revolutionary war Eight years or thereabouts from thence I removed to South Carolina where I resided until I removed to the State of Mississippi in the year one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen [1818] to the same County of Greene where I now reside --
4. How were you called into Service were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute 
Ans. I was a volunteer as stated in my declaration 
6 [5.] Did you ever receive a discharge from the service 
Ans. Sometime after the battle of Guilford I received a regular discharge from Captain Exum Philips which said discharge was lost but before I left the State of North Carolina. 

Thomas [his X mark] Bateman

Sworn and Subscribed to}  
the day and year aforesaid} 
and in open Court} 
Alex McCaskill, Clk [Clerk]
C. C. G. C.
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We Isham Moody a Clergiman [Clergyman] residing in the said & County of Greene and Asa Woodard residing in the same County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Bateman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be of Seventy Eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that oppinion [opinion] –

Isham Moody L P
Asa Woodard
Sworn and subscribed to} 
in open Court on the day} 
and year aforesaid} 

And the said Court do hereby declare there oppinion [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 certifies that it appears to them that Isham Moody who has signed the preceeding [preceding]
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certificate is a Clergiman [Clergyman] resident in the said County of Greene and that Asa Woodard who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit –

I Alexander McCaskill Clerk of the Circuit Court of the said County of Greene do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Bateman for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have here unto Set my hand and private Seal there being no seal of office this tenth day of September A D 1833 
Alex McCaskill Clk [Clerk]
C. C. G. C. {Seal}
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I do certify that there is no official seal of this court in the County of Greene 
Thos A Willis 
Judge of the circuit 
Court for the 4th Judicial 
District 

I am acquainted with Alex McCaskill and know that he was Clerk of the Circuit court of Green County on the 10th Sept. last 
M. Black
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

WAR DEPARTMENT
PENSION OFFICE

22d Jany [January] 1834

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done these points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (these:}). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A STATEMENT, showing the Service of Thomas Bateman

[column headings: Period when the service rendered: Duration of the claimant’s service. Year Month Day: Rank of the claimant: Names and Rank of the Field officers under whom he served.: Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service, Proof by which the declaration is supported.]
[Row 1] 1776 5 [years] 2 [months] priv. Cap. Coffell Col. Gee 78 [Age] Edgecombe No Ca Traditionary

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
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2

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians OR privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration. which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of} ss.
County of}
On this     day of     personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of     in the county of     and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)    , with    and served in the      (e) regiment of the      line, under the following named officers: 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
1               of the Court of              do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of       &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the             and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with              , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be               years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
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 certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the            and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the            and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I,        Clerk of the Court of            do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of              for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this     day of     &c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in bis declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not. proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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[typed form, with handwritten response]

[written sideways] mailed [written] review F

April 21, 1936

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

THOMAS BATEMAN
R. 606
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. W.C. Carpenter
Aptb B 12
2260 PEachtree Road
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Damad:
You are furnished herin the record of
Thomas Bateman as obtained from the
papers on file in pension claim, R.606, based
upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Bateman was born January 29, 1755,
in Bedford County, Virginia: the names of his
parents are not given.
Thomas Bateman, while residing in Greene
County, Mississipi, applied for pension
September 10, 1833, and stated that while
living in Edgecombe County, North Carolina,
he volunteered about May 1, 1776, and served
as private in Captain Christopher Cofel's
company, Colonel James Gee's North
Carolina regiment, length of tour three
months: that he volunteered again in 1776
and served a tour of one month or six weeks
as private in Captain Jonas Johnston's
company, Colonel Thomas Ervine's North
Carolina regiment: that he volunteered
Febuarary 1, 1781, served as private in Captain
Exum Philip's company, Colonal William
Linton's North Carolina regiment, was in the
battle of Guilford and was discharged soon
after the battle.
Thomas Bateman's claim for pension was not
allowed as he did not furnish proof of six
months' service which was the requirement
of the pensions law.
After the Revolutionary War, the soldier
contintued to reside in North Carolina for
about eight years, then moved to South
Carolina and in 1818, moved to Greene
County, Mississipi, where he was still living
in 1838, with post office at Leaksville in that
county,
There are no family data shown in the claim of 
Thomas Bateman.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[check mark]

Thomas Bateman 
Mississippi 
Rejected 
See let [letter] 21. May 
1838 to applicant 
[words crossed out]
606
did not serve six month.
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Lakeville 8th July 1838
J L Edwards Esq, Pension Agent 
Sir- 
A letter has been recd [received] by Thomas Bateman an applicant for a pension, informing him that his claim had been refused in consequence of his not having served for six months in the Revolutionary war - with the entire service, owing to a misapprehension of the Law of 1832, was not stated in application, I am authorized to say that in addition to the time there mentioned viz "three months in 1776 & in 1781 entered on a second tour commencing 1st February & after the battle of Guilford Court House was marched to Deep River & discharged" one other tour was performed in 1776, under Col Thomas Ervine in the Company of Capt [Captain] Jonas Johnston, for the term of one month a [and] six weeks. If this additional service will entitle him to the pension, you will confer and from by sending on to this place the necessary pass directed to by [Case?] & when they shall be properly authenticated & forwarded- 
Joshua Murray 
Agent
Thomas Bateman
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V 34, 468 
Thomas Bateman 
Mississippi
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Declaration

The State of Mississippi} 
Green County} 
On the second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven [1837] Personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Thomas S. Sterling presiding Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit Court District of the state aforesaid - Thomas Bateman a resident of the State and County aforesaid aged eighty-two years – who first being duly sworn as the law directs – on his oath makes the following Declaration 
1st That he entered the service in Edgecombe County in North Carolina as a private soldier about the first of May A.D. 1776 under the command of Captain Christopher Coffel, Col. James Gee, Lieut. Colo. Isaac Dozier Commanding the 1st Regiment James Hagan Major and served 3 months and was stationed during the whole time at Wilmington that Cols. Thomas Irving and Col. Buncombe commanded the regular troops. 
[2nd ] Entered the service as a soldier Feby [February] the 1st 1781 - under the command of Captain Exum Philips, Eldridge Philips, Major – William Linton Colonel and Pinkerton [sic, Pinkatham Eaton] Lieutenant Colonel regular officers, John McNeas [sic, John McNees or McNeese] & Joshua Hadley regular Captains General Greene commander in chief – we rendezvoused at Halifax from thence to Guilford Court House where we met the enemy under Lord Cornwallis and on the 15th of March 1781 the action began and lasted about three hours and the Americans retired from the field – next day the enemy marched to Wilmington and we rallied at the
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the iron works on Deep River and marched towards Cape Fear and was discharged. 
Thos [his X mark] Bateman
 
Sworn to and subscribed} 
before me this the 3d day of} 
October A.D. 1837} 
Thos. S. Sterling, Judge of} 
the 5th Judicial District in the State of}
Mississippi}

The State of Mississippi} 
Greene County} 
We Isham Moody a Clergyman residing in the County of Greene and John Roberts residing in the same County - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Bateman who has subscribed and swore to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty two year of age, that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we Concur in that opinion –
Isham Moody Clergyman his
John [his X mark] Roberts

The State of Mississippi}
Greene County} 
I Thomas, S. Sterling presiding Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit Court District of the State aforesaid as having declared my opinion that – after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above
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The State of Mississippi}
Greene County} 
I. Thomas. S. Sterling presiding Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit Court District of the State aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion that - 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 certifies that it appears to there satisfaction that Isham Moody who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergiman [Clergyman] resident of the County aforesaid and that John Roberts - who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County that they are credible persons and that there statement is intitled to credit- 
Given under my hand and seal this the 3d day of October A.D. 1837 
Thos. S. Sterling {Seal]

The State of Mississippi} 
Greene County} 
I Daniel F McInnis Clerk of the circuit Court of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Bateman for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal of office this the 3d day of October A.D. 1837 
Daniel F McInnis clk [Clerk]
{I G}
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Interrogatories of Thomas Bateman for pension taken before the Honorable Thomas S. Sterling October of the 2nd 1837 

Question 1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer - In Bedford County Virginia in the year 1755 

Question [2nd] Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? 
Answer -- Yes here it is and is the only record of my age to my knowledge – I am 82 years of age 

Question [3rd] Where were you living when you were called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? 
Answer – In Edgecombe County North Carolina since the war I have lived in South Carolina – the most of the time and now I live in the State of Mississippi Green County 

4 – qts [Question 4th] How were you called into service; [were you drafted; did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if in substitute, for whom?]
Ans [Answer] – I volunteered 

5th Question State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Con
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tinental [Continental] and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. 
Answer – General Greene was the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and Colonel Irving [Henry Irwin] and Colonel Bunkum [Edward Buncombe] was in the regular service – they were both killed at Brandywine [indecipherable words] [Note: Henry Irwin was taken prisoner and died from wounds suffered at the battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. Edward Buncombe actually died from complications from a wound he suffered at the Battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777.]

Question [6th] Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and [if so], by whom was it given and what has become of it? 
Ans [Answer] I did it was given by my Captain in the first tour – in the first one – [Illegible] he told us our time [had expired and] discharged us. 

Question [7th] State the names of such persons in your neighborhood [and who can] testify [as[ to your character for veracity and their belief as to your services in the revolution. 
Ansr [Answer] John Roberts and Phincher Coal
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Thomas Bateman 

Petition of Thos. Bateman 
of Miss 
for a Pension

May 19 1834 
Ref’d Comr [Referred to Commissioner] Rev. Pensions

June 10. 1834. Comr [Commander] discharged – to be N C 
Col Linton 

Rev Miller [2 V.?] Pens
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: 

The petition of the undersigned Respectfully represents to your Hon. Body That he was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and as such entitled under the law of 7th June 1832 to a pension: That he has made the Declaration prescribed by the form adopted by the War Department in order to obtain his pension and has forwarded it and adduced to the Department all the testimony in his power (and which he thought would be satisfactory) to substantiate his claim – he further represents to your Hon. Body, that the papers have been returned from the Pension Office with the requisition that his services shall be proven by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service and the time and manner of his leaving the same as well as the Regiment, Company and line to which he belonged. Now the undersigned would further represent that he is totally unable to comply with this requisition because he knows of no one by whom he can prove his services & if there be any person or persons who are conscious of these facts they reside in places unknown to your petitioner. 
These facts were known to many persons in North Carolina at the time of his entrance into the Service but whether they now exist (and if so) where they reside are things entirely unknown to your petitioner and if he knew them his physical inability and great want of pecuniary means (being very decrepit and extremely poor) would prevent him from obtaining them. 
Your petitioner further represents: That the paper heretofore sent to the War Department relative to his claim to a pension accompany this petition and he hopes contain sufficient evidence of the rendition of the services mentioned. 
He therefore prays your Hon. Body to pass a law placing his name on the Pension Roll and as in duty bound will ever pray &c
Thomas [his X mark] Bateman

Attest James [his X mark] Smith
Jas P Wilson
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T. Bateman
July 23, 1838
Pri G C
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War Dept. Pen: Office 
July 23, 1838

Sir, 
In reply to your letter of the 8th with respecting your case, I have to inform you that you allege in you declaration two tours of service one of three months in 1776 and one in 1781 from the 1st February until a short time after the battle of Guilford Court House. The claim was rejected because you did not serve six months. If you served a tour of one months or six weeks in 1776, not stated in your declaration of said tour, should be proved by two witnesses from personal knowledge and you should swear to having performed said tour.

Mr. Thomas Bateman
Sinkenville [Leakesville?] Missi [Mississippi]
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The State of Mississippi} 
Greene County} Personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said State & County Thomas Bateman who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he knows of no person by whom he can prove the time of his entrance into the service of the United States as a Revolutionary soldier or the time of his leaving the same or the company Regiment or Line to which he belonged. 

Thomas [his X mark] Bateman

Sworn to & subscribed before me} 
this 8th day of April A.D. 1834} 
Jas P Wilson {JP}
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Leaksville Mi [Mississippi] Green County March the 25th 1838 
To the Hon. Secretary of War 
Sir permit me even to address you in relation to my getting my pention [pension] I received the necessary Blank forms from the debts [Department] and made the necessary proof, and sent them on to the dept. in the month of October last But has [have] not as yet received any answer as such I am unable to proceed any father [further] in the Business untill [until] I can get an answer.
I am now upwards of eighty four years old and am intirely [entirely] unable to work for a living, and if I am entitled to a pention [pension] under the Laws of the United States there certainly can not be any person Moore [more] in actual need. 
please to give me an answer as soon as possible, and if I am to get a pention [pension] please to let me draw it in Mobile Ala. 
I am Sir most respectfully your 
Thomas Bateman

Hon. Secretary of War} 
Washington City D.C}
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page] 
1916, Jan. 18, History to J. N. Bateman For
1936 Apr. 21 – Hist. to Mrs. W C Carpenter (See [Illegible] clm [claim] S.45844 of Joab Horne) MLB

[right side of page]
[Stamped sideways] REJECTED

___ Ex’r.    INVALID

NO. 606
[crossed out Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873]

Thomas Bateman
P. O. 

Service: Printed List of 1852 Rejected & Suspended claims shows following cause of rejection: 
“He did not serve 6 mos [months]”

Enlisted: ____ ,18
Discharged: _____ ,18
Application filed: _____ ,18
Alleges: ______
Re-enlisted: ______
Attorney: ____
P. O. ____
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Rev. War Section. 

January 18, 1916.

Mr.[s. crossed out] J. N. Bateman, 
10 Howard Street, 
Atlanta, Ga. 

[Madam crossed out] Sir:

In response to your letter of the 12" instant, you are advised that in the claim R. File No. 606, Rev. War, it is alleged that Thomas Bateman was born January 29, 1755, in Bedford County, Virginia, and while a resident of Edgecombe County, North Carolina volunteered and served as follows: 
May, 1776; Private, under Captain Christopher Cofel and Colonel James Gee; three months.
1776; Captain Jonas Johnston's company, under Colonel Thomas Ervine; month or six weeks.
February 1, 1781; under Captain Exum Phillips and Colonel William Linton; at battle of Guilford; discharged soon after. 
On September 10, 1833, while a resident of Greene County, Mississippi, he made an application for pension which was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof of six months service as required by the Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

You are further advised that the “Census of Pensioners” printed in 1841, in which the name of Thomas Bateman of Greene County, Mississippi, appears, was compiled by the marshals of the several judicial Districts, under the Act for taking the sixth census," without reference to the records of this Bureau, and is often incorrect in its statements as to the allowance of pension claims.

Very respectfully, 

Commissioner.


Bateman -- 2 -
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

April 21, 1936 

Thomas Bateman R. 606. Own
Joab Horne, S. 45344
BA-J/MLB 

Mrs. W. C. Carpenter 
Apt. B. 12 
2260 Peachtree Road 
Atlanta, Georgia 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Thomas Bateman, R. 606, and of Joab Horn, in order to verify the Revolutionary War record of Captain Exum Phillips, and in which you request, also, the record of service which this Captain Phillips may have rendered during the period from 1789 to 1815. 

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War nor the subsequent period to and including 1815 of any soldier with name Exum Phillips, under any spelling. The records of Thomas Bateman and Joab Horne are furnished herewith as shown in claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev Sec H

Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir: 
Please send me the record of service in the Revolutionary War(and any family references in his papers) of Thomas Bateman, a Revolutionary pensioner in 1840 in Greene Co. Miss, and oblige, 
Yours very Truly 
J. N. Bateman 
10 Howard St
Allanta Ga

Jan 12-1916- 

[circular stamp] PENSION D JAN 14 1916 U. S. OFFICE