Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 711, Henry Begley, Va.
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SERVICE
Va.
Begley, Henry
or Begly
NUMBER
R 711
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State of Tennessee } Sct
Morgan County      }
on this 29th day of January 1844 personally appeared before me William Bertram one of the acting Justices of the peace for said county Henry Begley a resident citizen of this county aged eighty six years agreeable to his best and undoubted calculations which is from the register taken from the record taken from the record that was kept by his father from which the transcribing is a true copy showing that he was born on the 4th day of March 1756. And after being duly sworn on his oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832. He states that he was born and partly raised in Hampshire County state of Virginia and entered the Service of the United States in the frontier of Virginia, in a place then Montgomery County but now the place where he then lived is included in with the county by volunteering into the malitia [sic] service verry [sic] early in the spring of 1782 it being the spring next ensuing after the surrendry [sic] of Cornwallice [sic] at Little York Town he volunteered to serve a Tour of seven months under Captain Robert Crockett Lieutenant James Taylor and belonged to Colonel Prestons Redgment [sic] the number of the Redgment [sic] he dose [sic] not recollect
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they stationed at a fort at the head of Clinch River and Ranged the age of Greenbriar and various other places and would occasionally return to the Fort one and went one hundred and twenty miles down Guican [sp?] River and was gone just Twenty eight days that time fell in at the head of Sandy River and then returned to the Fort again in this rout [sp?] a man by the name of Joseph Gilbert was killed and Samuel Lusk was taken prisoner by the Indians he then continued in service some time and was permitted to go home for ten days and then returned and Joined the Company at the said Fort and then served out the time and then was honerably [sic] discharged by Captain Robert Crockett which was in the fall season of the same year he knowes [sic] of no person by whom he can prove his Service except his brother William Begley who saw him receive his discharge and Mozes Anderson was present when a [illegible] returned home to the house of his aplicants [sic] Fathers in withe [Wythe] County verginia [sic]
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity accept [sic] the present one and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state.
he furthermore states that the reason of his not sooner applying for the benefit of the liberal act is that he lives a quite remote place on the Cumberland Mountains
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Twenty Two miles from the court house and there being no public Road leading past him said aplicant [sic] so that he has had no opportunity of engaging with a business man to prepare his declaration he once got a Mr Robert A Dabney to promise to come and see him and prepare for him but  being so much out of the way that Dabney never came and aplicant [sic] being old infirm and unable to travil [sic] so that his presant [sic] agent has now come to his house together with a Justice of the peace which is the first oppertunity [sic] that ever has presented sworn to and subscribed the day and date above written.
[signed] Henry Begley
before me
[signed] William Buttram
             Justice of the pece [sic]
State of Tennessee }
Morgan County     }
Then on this 29th day of January 1844 personally appeared William Begley together with Moses Anderson both men of first rate character and of undoubted verasity [sic] and after being duly sworn according to law state as followes [sic] William Begley states that he did see Henry Begley receive the discharge as set forth by him that he did actually serve for seven months with an embodied Corps called out by competant [sic] authority except the Ten days before spoken of in the manner set forth and stated by himself affiant will recollect it all for he was there
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fourteen years of age and is now seventy five years of age and Moses Anderson states that he was at the house of aplicants [sic] father at the time that Henry Begley the presant [sic] aplicant [sic] came home from Service of the United Staes as he then understood and at that time and ever since it was his undoubted understanding that he did serve as set forth in his declaration 
Sworn to and subscribed the date above writen [sic]
[signed] William Begley
              X his mark Moses Anderson
before me [signed] William Buttram
                               justice of the pece [sic]
I William Buttram the justice of the peace before whom the business was transacted do hereby declare my opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named aplicant [sic] served as above stated In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and I further certify that from old age and infirmity the aplicant [sic] is unable to attend Court 
[signed] William Buttram
              justice of the pece [sic]
State of Tennessee }
Morgan County     }
I Samuel P Vaughn clerk of the county court of said Morgan County hereby certify that William Buttram is a Justice of the peace as above that the foregoing signatures purporting to his are genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of office this 5th day of Feb, 1844
[signed] Samuel P. Vaughn Clerk
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September 22, 1932
Mrs. E. B. Lane                      BA-J/MLB
1334 Cypress Street             HENRY BEGLEY
Pueblo, Colorado                 R. 711
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter addressed to the Old Records Division, General Accounting Office, which has been referred to this office for reply, relative to Henry Begley, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 71, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Henry Begley or Begly.
He was born March 4, 1756, in Hampshire County, Virginia (West Virginia), where he was "partly reared".
He applied for pension January 29, 1844, at which time he was living on Cumberland Mountains in Morgan County, Tennessee, in a remote place twenty-two miles from the Court House, and alleged that he volunteered very early in the spring of 1782 in a place then in Montgomery County which was later Wythe County, Virginia, and served in Captain Robert Crockett's company in Colonel Preston's Virginia regiment, that he served seven months ranging the frontiers and was discharged in the fall of 1782; and that after his discharge he returned to the home of his father (name not stated) in Wythe County, Virginia.
His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by the pension laws.
It is not stated whether soldier was ever married.
In 1844, William Begley, soldier's brother, aged seventy-five years, made affidavit in Montgomery County, Tennessee.
There are no further family data in this claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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[no visible writing, just big dark bit of paper]
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____________Ex'r.                      INVALID.
REJECTED
711
Henry Begley
Printed List of 1852 shows cause of suspension
"He did not serve six months."
[opposite page] 
1932 Sept. 22 - Hist. to Mrs. E.B. Lane - MLB
1932 - Nov 4 - Ad. Mrs EB Lane no further info. on henry Begley. EGS
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No. 35.842
Henry Begley
Ten,
Suspended
711
Act 7th June '32
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J. L. Kennedy
Sept 14/1844
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Ten
Sep. 12 44
Sir [circled]
The claim of Henry Begley has been examined & disallowed He claims to have served a tour of 7 mo. in 1782 in Col. Prestons militia regt. No such service was required or rendered as the militia of Va. & it may be confidently asserted that no part of Col. Prestons Reg't. was ever in service beyond 3 mo to which the militia tour was limited by law. Not having served 6 months he is not entitled and is therefore unnecessary to point out objections to the claim he has asserted
[signed] J. L. Kennedy Esqr
Jameston
Ten.
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Morgan Co Ten
Feby 17th 1844                                Free
J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington City DC
War Department 
Pension
[written along left side of envelope]
33498 March 1st 1844
Ten
Henry Bagley
7 June 1832
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Morgan Co Tenn
5th Feb 1844
Sir
enclosed you will receive the Declaration of Henry Begley together with the proof in the case you will please communicate the result to me at this office or to the case of William Buttram for me
I am verry [sic] respectfully
your obt servant
[signed] J L. Kennedy
[illegible]
or you may answer me at Jamestown Tennessee
[written on left of pag]
35.842
Henry Begley
Tennessee
Act June 7th '32
J L Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City D C
War Department
Pension
Office
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[small piece of paper without any writing]
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1334 Cypress St., Pueblo, Colo.
July 7, 1932
[stamped] GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                  1932 JUL 11
Chief
Old Rec. Div.
Washington D. C.
My dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me all family data from the pension application of Henry Begley who on Jan 29, 1844, was living in Morgan Co. Tenn.? His brother William also made affidavit to the facts sworn to by Henry as to his Rev. service.
Respectfully
[signed] Mrs. E. B. Lane
[another stamp in upper right]
RECORDS DIVISION
No. Claim B   X
7 - 18 -32
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[letterhead stationery]
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
Washington
Records Division
In Reply Please Quote
R-13995 & 15526-RMB.
October 19, 1932.
Veterans Administration,
Director of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir: 
Attached communication dated August 29, 1932, from Mrs. E. B. Lane, 1334 Cypress Street, Puebloe, Colorado, requesting information concerning the pension applications of Henry Begley, and John Begley, is referred for your consideration and direct reply.
The writer has been advised of this reference.
Respectfully,
[signed] W W Richardson
Chief, Records Division.
[2 round mailroom stamps]
RECEIVED Oct 25 1932 Pension Recs. 
RECIVED Oct 22 1932 Pension Files
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[official letterhead stationery]
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
Washington
Records Division
In Reply Please Quote
R-13995-ND
September 7, 1932.
Veterans Administration,
Director of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
The attached communication dated July 7, 1932, from Mrs. E. B. Lane, 1334 Cypress Street, Pueblo, Colorado, requesting information concerning the pension application of Henry Begley, is referred to your office for consideration and direct reply.
The writer has been advised of this reference.
Respectfully,
[signed] G. L. Fallon
Acting Chief, Records Division.
[2 round mailroom stamps]
RECEIVED Sept 10 1932 Pension Files Sub-Division Records Section
RECEIVED Sept 9 1932 Pension Files Sub-Division Receipt Section
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November 4, 1932
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Mrs. E. B. Lane                      Henry Begley-R.711
1334 Cypress Street              BA-J/EEL
Pueblo, Colorado
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter herewith of September 1, 1932, addressed to Chief of the Records Division, General Accounting Office, this city, in regard to Henry Begley and John Begley, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
This office has no further information in regard to Henry Begley other than was furnished you on September 22, 1932, and no information in regard to a John Begley, various spellings of the name searched.
The General Accounting Office would have no information in regard to either of those soldiers as no payment of pension was ever made.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
[handwritten notation along right margin]
This letter returned as it was just like the other one & did not want to pad the jacket
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Begley, John
GRADE Private
LINE South Carolina
WARRANT NUMBER 11966
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED May 2, 1794 to - not shown -
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior 59 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the   War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Behall, Casper
GRADE Private
LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8134
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED June 16, 1789 to Thomas Coyle, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior 59 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.