Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,610, Amos Ashcraft, Penn. Va.
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Service                               
Penn   
Va    

Ashcroft, Amos   

Number
 S16610

carded
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Missouri. 19.737 
Amos Ashcraft 
Cooper Co in the State of Missouri 
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Dougherty of the Regt commanded by Col Evans in the Virginia M & Pa 
line for 2 years 


Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri 
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of August 
1833 and sent to John Wilson Boonville 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 40.00
=$200.00 

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded  by F. S Evans Clerk
Book E Vol. 8. Page 79.
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Amos Ashcroft 
Missouri 
Adm 2 years
 John Willson 
Boonville 
Missouri
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
15th July 1833

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 shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). 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 Amos Ashcraft
==========================
Period when the service was rendered
1775
1778
Duration of claimant's service.
months
6
6
6
Names and rank of the Field officers
under whom he served.
Cap. T. Gaddis
Cap. Hamon
Cap. Hamon
Cap. Daugherty
Col Evans
Age at present,
and place of abode 
when he entered
the service.
76 years
Proof by which the declaration is supported.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS.
Commissioner of Pensions.
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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:
The Regular Troops.
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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, mucicians 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 its
County of
On this
day of
A. B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
in the county of
and State, Territory or District:
of
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)
served in the
(e) regiment of the
with and
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.
A. B.
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.
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
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
who has
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 days 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 his 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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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; 
and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be exexpected. 
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary
war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; 
such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given 
and what has become of it?
To an Officer  Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.


No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, 
taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

FOOTNOTES

The cause per une for crime
conforming to the rule.
the section in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must sign an iron for not
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.

a) The declarant must appear in open court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity: in which case the declarant will follow 
the rule laid down for his guidance.
b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he fails to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served: otherwise a satisfactory examination of the 
claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the 
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
" Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c A.R. who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason
of old age, the consequence loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of hi service; but according to the best of his 
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; __ For __year__ months, and ____ 
days.  I served as a_______.  For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is impossible in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served and the particular rank he held, as the law
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the death of his service. The use of the parents or for
particular rank he held, as the law
without specifying the tours, the name of the officers, and the
according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is to indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, names of officers, and other particulars representing their service.  This form of declaration is 
highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent  authority
that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
(i)  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i)  the Clerk must affix his seal. and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinquished from any other 
seal, or fi he has no public
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is no written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must 
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service
j) In case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, at the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.   The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, 
and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
>> The notes from (a) to (i) are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops.   The proof required by rule is
note (j) applies to continental troops only.
k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
n) if a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
m) The answers to the interrogatories must be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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State of Missouri
County of Cooper  Ss

On this ninth day of February AD
1833 personally appeared in open Court before
the Judges of the Cooper County Court now sitting
Amos Ashcraft sr a resident of the County of
Howard and State aforesaid aged about seventy
six 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- towit, he first joined the service as a volunteer
in the State of Pensylvania under Captn Thos Gattis in the
year 1775 and marched to the bank of the Ohio River
about ten miles above Wheeling at the mouth of Short
Creek to guard the frontiers against the Indians after three
months moved higher up the river and built a fort at
a place called the beach bottom there he remained untill
his six months tour had expired then in the summer
following he joined as volunteer as aforesaid the Company commanded
by Captn Wm Hamon and was stationed 3 monts
at Scotts mills in virginia the he was removed to guard a
public store of provisions at Col John Evans plantation
in Va where he remained a months this thus ending
that 6 months tour   In the next season he joined a
ranging Company under the command of sd{said} Capt
Wm Haman and Major James Chew in which
Company he remained 3 months nangeing on the
frontiers he then was placed under the command of
Capt Jesse Pigman and marched to Pittsburgh and
remained there and doing duty on the frontiers
watching and guarding against the depredations of
the Indians from thence removed to Wheeling doing
duty as aforesaid then expired his tour of duty -

in the year 1778 he joined the army destined to go
against the Shawnee & Delaware Indians in the
Company commanded by James Daugherty, under
Col. John Evans and Gen McIntosh then marched
to the Ohio River to Manshores bottom where
the militia consentrated then crossed the River and
marched to the Bluff and built Fort McIntosh
there the regular forces find the Militia &
then marched to Tuscaroras a fork of the
Muskingum River where they built another
Fort Called Fort Lawrance where the Militia
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were then dismissed and returned home this declarant
says he never had any regular written discharge but 
at all times at the end of his towers of duty was regularly
discharged by his officers by General order and
was allways when in service a volunteer-
Militia man

Amos Ashcroft
subscribed and sworn to
in open Court

The affidavit of Wm Munro
This affiant aged about 49 years being duly sworn
maketh oath and sayeth that he has been well acquainted 
personally with the aforesaid Amos Ashcraft
ever since the year 1810, to the present time that he
has understood firmly himself believes
that the said Amos Ashcraft was a Revolutionary 
soldier and believes that the statements
of the said Ashcroft are entitled to full
credit and belief. Given under my hand this
9th day of February 1833 

William Mann
subscribed and sworn to
in open Court the day
year aforesaid-

We Justinian Williams a Clergyman residing in the 
County of Cooper and State of Missouri aforesaid
and Ortho Ashcraft residing in the County of Howard
in the State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Amos Ashcraft sr who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration and also are
well acquainted with William Munro who has
subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit
and that we believe the said Amos Ashcraft
to be about seventy six years old that he is reputed
& believed in the neighbourhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the Revolution as he
States and that we concur in that opinion, we
further state we know him to be a man of
standing, as also William Munro aforesaid, and that
full credit is ought to be given the statements made
by each of them

subscribed
and sworn to
in open Court Feby 9th 1833-
Just Williams
Ortho Ashcraft
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State of Missouri
County of Cooper  SS

Cooper County Court June the 1833

On this day personally appeared in
open Court before the Judges of the Cooper County
Court now sitting, Amos Ashcraft, who by way
of an amendment to his declaration for a pension hereto 
attached, and being first duly sworn according to
law, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age
and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear ┃
positively as to the precise length of his service, but ┃
according to the best of his recollection he served
not less than thirty- months in the capacity of
a private malitiaman in the manner stated in his said
declaration, and for such service he claims a
pension

That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity, except the present, and he declared that
his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency
in any State-

And he further states that he makes his declaration 
before the Court of Cooper County, instead of Howard
where he resides, because his residence is something
was twenty miles from the County seat of Howard
County, which distance this declarant cannot
tract without great bodily pain - laboring at
this time under pains of limbs produced by
old age and infirmity of body, that he lives
immediately on the North Bank of the Misso
River, and that the County seat County
is immediately on the North Bank of said
River five or six miles below his residence
to which place he can be easily carried by
water craft without undergoing the bodily
pain incident to his travelling by land.

Interrogatories propounded by the Court,
to said Amos Ashcraft. 
1st - where & in what year were

1833
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you born? Answer. I was born in the year 1757
in the State of Virginia
2. Have you any record of your age, & if so where is it
An.  I have none, I had one but have lost it from which 
I still recollect my age
3. where were you living when called into service
where have you lived since the revolutionary war
and where do you now live?
An.  when called into service first I lived in Pensylvania
Since the revolution I have lived in Virginia
Kentucky and Missouri and now live in
Howard County Missouri
4. How were you called into service
An.  I always volunteered-
5. As.  I have stated in my declarations as near as
I can  answer to this question
6. Did you ever receive a written discharge.   An. no
7. State the names of the persons in your present neighborhood,
who knows you and can testify as to your
character for veracity and then belief of your
services as a soldier of the revolution
AN.   William Mono Otto Ashcraft and James
Cole & mark Cole & others

Amos Ashcraft {signature}
Subscribed & sworn to
this third day of June 1833
in open Court before us

Green Seat
Joseph Patterson
Judges

Atteste
Robt. P. Clark Clk
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August 15, 1939.

BA-J/ady
Amos Ashcraft, S.16610

Mrs. James P. King
323 Washington
Jefferson City, Missouri

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative
to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Thomas
Swearingen, Benjamin Neale, Johnathan Wood and
Amos Ashcraft.

Because of the giant demand for Revolutionary 
War data and the limited trained clerical
force available for furnishing such information
It is impossible to comply in full with each
request pertaining to soldiers of that war.

The record of Amos Ashcraft is furnished you
herein as found in the papers on file in pension
claim, S.16610, based upon his military service in
the Revolutionary War.

Amos Ashcraft was born in 1757, in Virginia,
place, day month, and the names of his parents are
not shown.

While a resident of Pennsylvania, place not
stated, he enlisted in 1775, and served six months
as private in Captain Thomas Gattis' Pennsylvania
Company. He enlisted in 1776, and served six
months as private in Captain William Haman's
Pennsylvania Company. He enlisted in 1777, and served
three months under Captain William Haman and his
James Chew in the Pennsylvania troops.  He served
in Captain Jesse Pegman's Pennsylvania Company, in
1777; length of service not shown. He enlisted in
1778, served in Captain James Daugherty's Company,
Colonel John Evans' Virginia Regiment and was in
General McIntosh's Indian Expedition; length of
service not stated.

After the Revolutionary War he lived in Vir-
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ginia, Kentucky and Missouri.

He was allowed pension on his application
executed February 9, 1833, in Cooper County,
Missouri. He was then a resident of Howard
County, Missouri, and referred to as Amos Ashcraft,
Sr.

In 1833, one Otho Ashcraft was living in
Howard County, Missouri, his age or relationship
to soldier not stated. There are no further family
data.

This is the record of the only Amos Ashcraft
that is found on the Revolutionary War records of
this office.

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 "Amos Ashcraft, Certificate No. 19737, issued
August 29, 1833, rate $80.00 per annum, commenced
March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Missouri Agency"

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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16.610
INVALID

File No. 16.610
Amos Ashcraft
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th, (18)32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 12.

{Arrangement of 1870.}

1921 Mar. 3. Hist to Mrs. John W. Pearce      AW
1935 Mar. 13 Hist. to R. L. Ashcraft               ADY
1939 Aug 15. Hist to Mrs. James F. King       ADY
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Amos Ashcraft
Claim for a pension
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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 Justinian Williams who has subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a clergyman & resides in the count of Cooper aforesaid and that Amos Ashcraft who has subscribed the aforesaid affidavit, and also William Munro who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing certificate are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

                                     //s//
                          Green Seat
                          Joseph Patterson
                          Anthony F. Read Judges

I Robt. P. Clark of the county court of the county of Cooper do here by certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Amos Ashcraft for a pension.

    In testimony whereof I the clerk aforesaid & have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three.

                                //s//
                      Robert P. Clarl  Clerk
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Amended Declaration
of Amos Ashcraft
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    I Robert P. Clark Clerk of the County Court within and for the county of Cooper aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing amended declaration contains the proceedings of said county court in the matter of the application of Amos Ashcraft to amend his original declaration hereto attached for a pension.  I do further certify that the original declaration hereto attached is the same and unattended and unobliterated and properly has my official seal as clerk also of the circuit court for the county of Cooper aforesaid, and that the original and amended declaration have been properly attached by me as Clerk of the county court if the county aforesaid. 

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this third day of June A.D. 1833.

                                      //s//
                               Robert P. Clark
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Ex_AW
Div- Rev War Section

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug 25, 1920

The attached letter is respectfully returned
with the information that the data furnished is
not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent
answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below
as the information in your possession will permit,
and return to this Bureau.

Name of widow, _
Name of soldier, _Amos Ashcraft
Name of war _ Revolutionary
address of claimant, at enlistment
after service, _
Company_ of Capt Thos Gaddis Co
Regiment _  served 93 days
State where enlisted _
Approvinate dates of birth & death _
If unable to furnish company and regiment
give names of commanding officers.
Some of family later lived in
Asheville, N. C.

Return attached letter with reply.
F D Byingdon

This for D.A.R. data

stamped: PENSION OFFICE FEB 28 1921
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2 tne
Revo.

Colorado Texas
Feb 18-1921

ComI - Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir 
Enclosed ship will
give all I have about Rev -
Soldier Amos Aschcraft  -
I have been told his name is
on list of pensioner of Secty's War
Report on Roll of 1835.
Will greatly appreciate any help
it is for D.A.R. data.

Very sincerely yours
Mrs. John West Pearce
Colorado
Texas

stamped: PENSION OFFICE FEB 23 1921
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Thayer - Kans.
Feb. 28, 1935

The Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir

Will you kindly send me the
Revolutionary Pension record of any of the
following:
Ichabod Ashcraft, Captain Westmoreland
County, Penn. rangers (1778-83)
Amos Ashereff (d. Aug. 5, 1833 in Ala.) was
private in Capt. Wm. Haymonds (or Haywards)
Company, Monongalia Co. Va. Militia 1777.
Uriah Ashcraft, private Westmoreland Co. Penn.
militia before 1783. Capt. Robert Ritchie's rangers

Thanking you for this courtesy, I am
Very truly yours
R. L. Ashcraft
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Mrs James F King
328 Washington DC

mailed in
Missouri

send one
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MRS JAMES FRAZIER KING

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

I would like to have a report
on the Pension of
Thomas Swearingen of
Montgomery Co Maryland
a Revolutionary Soldier

of Benjamin Neck of Harrison Co Ky

of Johnathan Wood of Bourbon Co Ky
of Amos Ashcraft
-
Thanking you
Alicia King

would like names of children
wives or any relatives
named in record
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Colorado Texas
Jan 23 -1921

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

Have you pension proof of one
Amos Ashcraft (sometime Aschcraft) a soldier
in the Revolutionary War -Virginia Militia.
This is for D.A.R. proof and will be
very much appreciated. If the children
are named I would be glad to get full
proof.  Thanking you very much for
any help I am

Very Res'p'y
Mrs. John W. Pearce
Baptist Parsonage
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Rev. War Records Section.        3-525
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C.. _________, 19__.

    In reply to your request of _____, received ______
for a statement of the military history of Amos Ashcraft a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
=============================
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/rank/Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered/State.

1775/6 mos./Pvt/Captain Thomas Gattis (no Colonel's name noted/Pa.
1776/6 mos./-/Captain Wm. Maman (no Colonel's name noted/-.
1777/3 mos./-/Captain Wm. Hamn Major James Chew/-.
1777/-/-/Captain Jesse Pigman (no Colonel's name noted/-.
1778/-/-/Captain James Daugherty Colonel John Evans/-.

Battles engaged in, See Gen McIntosh's Ind (illegible)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Pa.
Date of application for pension, Feb 9, 1833 Dis. I was al
Residence at date of application, Howard Co. Mo.
Age at date of application, born in Va. 1757.
Remarks:  There is no data on file as to his family.

                                  Respectfully,

                                   Commissioner.
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March 13, 1935.

BA-J/ady
Ames Ashcraft, S.16610
Uriah Ashcraft, R. 278


Mr. R. L. Ashcraft
Thayer
Kansas

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter relative to
soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims made to the United States
for pension and bounty land based upon military
service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of the records fails to show
such a claim on file on account of the services of
Ichabod Ashcraft, all spellings of the surname
searched.

The records of Ames Ashcraft and Uriah Ashcraft
are furnished you herein as found in the claims for
pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Amos Ashcraft, S.18510

Amos Ashoraft was born in 1757 in Virginia, place,
day, month, and the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Pennsylvania, place not stated,
he enlisted in 1775 and served six months as private
in Captain Thomas Gattis' Pennsylvania Company.  He
enlisted in 1776 and served six months as private 
in Captain William Nathan's Pennsylvania Company. He enlisted
in 1777 and served three months under Captain
William Kaman and Major James Chew in the Pennsylvania
troops.   He served in Captain Jesse Pegman's Pennsylvania
Company, in 1777; length of service no shown.  He 
enlisted in 1778, served in Captain James Daugherty's
Company, Colonel John Evans' Virginia Regiment and was in
General McIntosh's Indian Expedition; length of service
not stated.

After the Revolutionary War he lived in Virginia,

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Kentucky and Missouri.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
February 9, 1833 {in Cooke Co., Mo.  He was then} {'while' struck out} a resident of Howard County,  Missouri, and referred to as  {He was then called- struck out} Amos Ashcraft, Sr.
 
In 1833 one Otho Ashcraft was living in Howard 
County, Missouri, his age or relationship to soldier 
not stated.  There are no further family data.

This is the record of the only Amos Ashcraft that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

{Note on document: date of death not on A.B.}

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Uriah Ashcraft, R.278

Uriah Ashcraft was born in 1762, or April 6, 1765,
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The names of his
parents are not stated,

He applied for pension October 24, 1833 while a
resident of Harrison County, Virginia, and alleged
that while a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
he enlisted in August 1778 and served at various times,
until the latter part of 1780, about eighteen months
in all, as a private and Indian spy, protecting the
forts and frontiers, under Captains Moses Sutton, John
Hayden, and Robert Ritchie, and Colonels John McClelland
and Crawford in the Pennsylvania troops; that in 1781
he moved from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison
County, Virginia, and rendered the same kind of service
from 1781 until some time in 1783 about fifteen months in all, under
Captains Manuel Brown, Herbert Evans, George Jackson,
and others, and Colonels Bradford, Darke, Martain, and
William Lowther in the Virginia troops.

Upon an investigation by the United States
District Attorney in 1834, this soldier stated that
he enlisted and served the following tours against the
Indians and protecting the inhabitants from their
depredations: in July 1782, one month in Captain Robert
Richee's Company; in the fall of 1782, one month in
Captain Brown's Company; in April 1785, one month in
Captain Evans' Company; in June or July 1783, one month
in Captain Evans' Company and in the fall of 1783 per
haps twenty days, scouting, and that that was all the

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service he rendered in the Revolutionary War.
The provisions of the law under which he applied did not embrace frontier service, or service rendered
in the protection of the inhabitants in the forts, or scouting.
His claim was not allowed as he did not prove
that he rendered six months service in a regular organized military corps as required by the pension law.
There are no family data.

This is the record of the only Uriah Ashcraft
that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator