Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6559, Peter Badgett, N.C.
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[3-1776]

SERVICE
N.C.

Badgett, Peter
or Badget

NUMBER
S. 6559

CONTENTS
Born N. C.
carded
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3961
North Carolina
Peter Badget *

of Caswell Co. in the State of N. C.
who was a private & ensign in the Company commanded
by Captain Taylor of the Regt [Regiment] commanded
by Col. Saunders in the N. Carolina
[crossed out - line for] Militia for twelve months from 1778
*Peter Badgett June 7, 1904; Records completed [date illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Jany [January]
1833 and sent Hon. B. Brown U.S. Senate

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1832 - $120.00
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 40.00
[Illegible] 160.00
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Henry H Sylvester, Clerk
Book D Vol. 8 Page 49
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832

State of North Carolina}
 County of Caswell} Superior Court of Fall, Fall Term 1832 
On this 5th day of November A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of the Superior Court of Law, now sitting in and for the County and State aforesaid, Peter Badget a resident of the County of Caswell and State of North Carolina aged Seventy Two years on the 23rd day of December 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 Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 – 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, to wit: Sometime about the last of October 1778, I entered the Militia service as a substitute in place of my father John Badget in the County of Granville North Carolina in the company of Captain Richard Taylor, for the term of four months. We were marched to Hillsborough in this State, and at that place we found a Regiment commanded by Colonel Saunders a militia officer, we were ordered to march to Salisbury, having been called into the service to march to the relief of South Carolina and Georgia. Colonel Lytle a Continental officer and his Regiment marched in company with us though I believe the Regiment to which he commanded were not Regulars – when we arrived near Salisbury I was ordered to remain with William Badget, a private in the company in which I served, who had been taken sick and was unable to proceed with the Army, though we were directed to join the Army again, as soon as he recovered
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from his sickness, but he having continued in a very bad state of health, I remained to attend on him until about the middle of February following when I returned home, after having been out about three and a half months – I received no discharge in this tour except the order or furlough which I received from Captain Taylor to remain with William Badget who was sick. This order or furlough I afterwards gave to the Paymaster at Hillsboro, from whom I received pay for my services – 
About the first of September 1780, I volunteered for three months in the County of Granville in this State in a Militia Company commanded by Captain Vass in which company I acted as Ensign, my commission for that appointment having been signed by Abner Nash at that time Governor of North Carolina. We marched to Hillsborough and were placed under the command of Colonel William Moore a militia officer; a number of other Militia troops were also there, which together with the Regiment of Colonel Moore, were commanded by General Butler. From Hillsborough we marched to Salisbury, and shortly after leaving that place, we joined Colonel Washington and his troop of horse; Colonel Lea as well as I remember was also a long, and General Davidson who commanded a number of Militia, and after Joining them, the Regiment in which I served, was placed under the command of General Davidson; General Butler having remained at Salisbury - & part of our troops were ordered in pursuit of a large body of Tories, and having taken a number of them prisoners at Rugeley's Mills, they returned with them to our Army, which had remained behind, and with which I had continued. The prisoners taken were sent to Salisbury under a guard in which I served commanded by Colonel Moore, and after remaining at Salisbury a short time, I was discharged sometime in December 1780, after having served a tour of three months or more. My discharge was signed by Colonel Moore, which I have lost or mislaid – About the first of
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February 1781, I volunteered in a Militia company for three months in the County of Granville in this State, the company being commanded by Captain Harrison; and we joined several Militia companies commanded by Colonel Taylor at Harrisburg in Granville County, where we were placed under the command of General Butler, a few days afterwards we were joined by a [Illegible] of Militia commanded by General Eaton, we then marched to the High Rock on Haw River, and joined the Army commanded by General Green [Nathanael Greene], we then marched in the direction of Guilford Court House, near which place I was in the Battle of Guilford on the 15th of March 1781 – We were afterwards marched to the old Iron Works in Rockingham County and after remaining there about a week, we marched to Ramsey's Mills on Deep River, from which place we marched to a place called Abernethie [John Abernethie was Deputy Commissary] in Wake County, where I received a discharge on the 10th day of May 1781, Signed by James Allison Ensign of the company in which I served, this discharge I have lost or mislaid – 
About the first of September 1781, I volunteered for three months in the County of Granville in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Walker in which company I served as Ensign, during the tour of three months, acting under the same commission which I had received about the first of September 1780, and which was signed by Abner Nash then Governor of North Carolina – The Company in which I served was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Taylor, we then marched to Cross Creek, where we met General Butler on his return from the lower part of this State. He had under his command several regiments of Militia, one of which was commanded by Colonel Moore and another by Colonel Owen; from Cross Creek we marched in the southern part of this State in pursuit of a body of Tories. In this tour General Butler and his troops were sometimes with the Regiment in which I served, and at other times they left us and acted
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separately. After marching over a large extent of Country, we went in the neighborhood of Wilmington, and after remaining there three or four weeks, I was discharged at a place called Rocky Point, about the first of December 1781. My discharge was signed by Colonel Owen, under whose command the company in which I served or a part of them were placed, Colonel Taylor who commanded our Regiment having returned home before the end of the tour, – In all of the above tours of service I was out something upwards of twelve months, six months of which time I served as an Ensign. The commission under which I acted has been lost or mislaid many years since – 
I was born in the County of Granville, State of North Carolina on the 23rd day of December 1759 – My age is recorded in the family Bible of my father now in the possession of William Badget of this County – I was living in Granville County in this State when first called into service, where I continued to live until 1793, when I removed to Person County in this State and lived there until the year 1818, when I removed to Caswell County in this State, where I have remained until this time. I am known to Henry Howard & Abner Mills being in my neighborhood – who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution. - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 
Sworn to and Subscribed} 
the day and year aforesaid}
Jeremiah Graves, C. S. C. 
Peter Badgett
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January 21, 1910.

Hon. Lee S. Overman,
United States Senate.
My dear Senator:
I reply to your letter dated the 18th and received the 20th instant, I have the honor to advise you that Peter Badgett, Our File No 6,559, was allowed pension on his application executed November 5, 1832 while a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina. He stated that he was born December 23, 1759 in Granville County, North Carolina, (his age being recorded in his father's Bible in the possession of William Badgett, and that he served from Granville County, as follows.
Enlisted as substitute for his father John Badgett, the last of October 1778, in Captain Richard Taylor’s Company, Colonel Saunders’ regiment; three and one half months.

Enlisted September 1, 1780 as Ensign in Captain Vases’ company, Colonel William Moore’s regiment; three months.

Enlisted February 1, 1781, in Captain Harrison’s company, Colonel Taylor’s regiment, was in the battle of Guilford, and was discharged May 10, 1781. Enlisted September 1, 1781, Ensign in Captain Waller’s company, in the regiment commanded by Colonels Taylor and Owen; three months.
Soldier died May 1, 1836 - - there is no further family data on file.
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[left side – 1910 Jan 21 – Hist. to Hon. Lee S. Overman etc.] 

Rev War 

6559

INVALID

File No. 6559

Peter Badget *
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 19

[Arrangement of 1870.]

*Peter Badgett, June 7, 1094 Records corrected. SS
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3-871.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,

Briefed by Geo. M. Moore
[Claim No. crossed out] Jan. 20, 1910
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Peter Badgett
Service N. C.  Rev.
Additional Service 

No   claim, State records   ,190
No claim, combination records  ,190

REMARKS:
No O. W. J. War Ras. above except J. F. 6552

0-8   Chief Division
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Declaration by Peter Badget in order to obtain a pension

[written sideways – State of North Carolina} County of Caswell} Superior Court of Law Fall Term]
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State of North Carolina} 
County of Caswell} Superior Court of Law, Fall Term 1832 
Personally appeared in open Court on this 5th day of November A.D. 1832 William Badget a resident of the County of Caswell and State of North Carolina who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he lived with Peter Badget who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration when he was first called into service in the Revolutionary War. That about the last of October 1778, he entered the Militia Service with the said Peter Badget for a tour of five months in the County of Granville North Carolina, that in marching to the South this affiant was taken sick near Salisbury, and was unable to continue his march with the Army, that the said Peter Badget was directed by the Captain commanding the Company in which they served to remain with and take care of him during his sickness, that he continued sick until the middle of February following, or thereabouts, and was attended to during [^ the greater part of] his sickness by the said Peter Badget. – This affiant further states that in the Fall of 1780, that the said Peter Badget volunteered in a Militia Company in Granville County in which the said Peter Badget acted as Ensign; though this affiant was not in that tour of service, but having lived with the said Peter Badget at that time, he remembers to have seen the commissioned by which he was appointed Ensign, and believes that he served a tour of three months, as it was that time or longer before he returned home – This affiant further states, that about the first of February 1781, he volunteered for three months, with the said Peter Badget in the County of Granville in this State, in a company commanded by Captain Harrison, that they were
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at the Battle of Guilford together, and were afterwards discharged at the end of the tour of three months, at a place called Abbanathie in this State – This affiant further states, that about the first of September, the said Peter Badget, with whom he then lived, volunteered in a Militia company in the County of Granville in which company he served as an Ensign, and though this affiant was not in service himself at that time, he believes that the said Peter Badget served the tour for which he entered into the service, as he was out for three months: and more, as well as he now recollects. 
William Badgett

We Henry Howard & Abner Miles residing in the County of Caswell, North Carolina, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Badget who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age or upwards, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a solider of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Henry Howard
Abner Miles
Sworn and subscribed}
this day and year aforesaid}
Jeremiah Graves Clk

And this 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 certify, that it appears to the Court, that William Badget who has signed the above affidavit and that Henry Howard & Abner Miles – who have signed the preceding certificate are credible person, and that
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their statements are entitled to credit.
[Illegible] 

I Jeremiah Graves Clerk of the Superior Court of Law in & for the County of Caswell & State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Peter Badget for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of Office of said County.
This the 5th day of November AD 1832.
Jeremiah Graves Clk
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
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Washington City, 5th January 1833.

Sir:
I received yesterday, your communication of the 3rd inst returning the papers of William H. Rice, David Barker, William Badget and Peter Badget, who are applicants for Pensions, under the late act of Congress.
For the purpose of obviating any objection which may have arisen, in examining either of the above cases, in consequence of the regulations of the War Department, not having been complied with, as to the manner in which they should be certified – I will state, that the Declaration of William H. Rice was drawn by myself and that the declarations of David Barker, William Badget and Peter Badget were drawn under my directions, and having examined them, I am confident that no papers, have since been improperly attached to them. I will state further that I have been for many years acquainted with the above named applicants, and they are reputed to be worthy and credible persons.
Very respectfully yours
B. Brown
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Peter Badgett

Admd
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Peter Badget which require further proof or explanation.

1.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? YES
II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? YES
III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? YES
V.  *Has he mentioned 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? YES
VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? YES
VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? YES
VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion? YES
IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate? YES
X.  Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? YES
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  Two Citizens
XII.  If the cleryman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Has a witness
XIV.  +If the applicant’s name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant’s service? YES
XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered? [Illegible] ?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V.  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. B. who, being duly sworn, 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 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.
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It is important 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 length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectional.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn 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.
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a 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, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line in 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.
+QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.
In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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[Stamped - CONGRESSIONAL
JAN 20 1910
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS]
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United States Senate,
Washington, D.C. January 18, 1910

Hon. J. L. Davenport,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
I will thank you to have me informed as to whether the rolls in the Pension Office show any record of service in the Revolutionary War of William Badgett, Peter Badgett, and Jesse Badgett, all of whom are said to have entered the service from North Carolina. The records in the War Department disclose the name of Jesse Badgett who served in the Tenth North Carolina Regiment, but they do not contain the name of either Peter or William Badgett.
I would be glad to know if there is any evidence of record in your Office that either or all three of these parties belonged to any organization of North Carolina or Continental troops which served in the Revolutionary War. I applied to the War Department for this information, but the Revolutionary records in that Office, I understand, are not altogether complete, and it has been suggested to me by the Adjutant General of the Army that possibly I might obtain the information I desire through the Pension Department.
Very truly yours,
Lee S. Overman
U. S. S.