Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6586, David Bartee, Va
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
VA

Bartee, David

NUMBER
S 6586

CONTENTS Carded
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Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838
from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839 Agt. notified 7th March 1840

Letter to 3rd Auditor May 2nd 1842

Paid as above from 4th Sept 1839 to 4th Sept 1841. Agt notified Jun 1st 1842.

Letter to 3rd  auditor Nov 19th 1842.

Letter to 3rd auditor 4th Feb 1843.

Paid as above from 4 March to 4th Sept 1842. Agt notified 12 April 1844.

1888
April 27 Mr. G. H. McLaughlin - history [ILLEGIBLE]

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2836
Virginia
David Bartee
of Charlotte in the State of Virginia
who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Spencer of the Rgh commanded by Lit: Fleming in the Virginia line for 6 months from 1781 - 

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 - dollars a 2 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Dec "32 and Aunt to W. Robinson, Charlotte, CH VA

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. 33

30 - 
10 - 
$40.- 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book D Vol. 7- Page 124-
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7587 +
David Bartee

from 1781 private
6 months.
$20.
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7587

BRIEF in the case of David Bartee
County of Charlotte in the State of Virginia
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? -

3. How old is he? 66
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed.

[in table form]

[COLUMN HEADER:] Period
[COLUMN CONTENTS]
[ILLEGIBLE, Substitreto?] In 1781
[NEW LINE] ditto 81

[COLUMN HEADER:] Duration of Service.
[COLUMN CONTENTS]
Years, Months, Days.
- 3 - 
[NEW LINE] - 3- 

[COLUMN HEADER:] Rank
[COLUMN CONTENTS]
As a
private
"

[COLUMN HEADER:]  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
[COLUMN CONTENTS]
Gen.
Capt Dudley Barksdale
Col. Fleming Gen. Marklenburgh
Capt. G. Spenser Generals Washington & La Fayette

5. In what battles was he engaged? Yorktown
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Charlotte City; VA

7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & one witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The afidavit is not attached to the sealed required

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

T. Waugh Examining Clerk
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State of Virginia, Charlotte County Court:

On this 3 day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the County Court of Charlotte now sitting, David Barton
a resident of the county and State [illegible] aged Sixty 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 7 1832.

That he served two tours in the Militia of Virginia of three months as a [ILLEGIBLE] Revolutionary War.

1st. In the year 1781 his father John Bartee drafted in the militia in the Claimant then in his Sixteenth year  took his place. He marched from [ILLEGIBLE] of Charlotte (where he then  and ever since resided) to Portsmouth in [ILLEGIBLE] under the Command of  Capt Dudley Barksdale - he was of Norfolk, Williamsburg, Hoff Hole and [ILLEGIBLE] places in that neighbourhood. Col Fleming and Genl Mekleburg are [illegible] only field, officers whose names he can now recollect. He recollected but two companies of Continental one commanded by Capt Song afterward Major Song & the [ILLEGIBLE] by Capt [ILLEGIBLE]. He does not recollect [ILLEGIBLE] of his [ILLEGIBLE] but he recollected that he served the whole tour of three months he received no written discharge. 
2nd: In the Same year of 1781, his father was again drafted in the militia and the claimant again offered his service & was accepted as his  substitute. He marched from the County of Charlotte to the Siege of York under the Command of Capt [ILLEGIBLE] Spencer. He remained there until the Surrender of Sir Cornwallis and was then [illegible]. He thinks  tho he Commd State [ILLEGIBLE] that during his tour he served something upwards of three months. [ILLEGIBLE] were Commanded by Genl [ILLEGIBLE] and Genl Lafayette. He does not recollect the name of any [ILLEGIBLE] officers. He received no written discharge.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is [ILLEGIBLE] on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and inscribed the day &year afore said.

His Marking:
David Bartee
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We Wiltshire Cardwell & John Foster Sen.
residing in the County of Charlotte and residing in the same county hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with David Bartee who has subscribed and swarn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Sixty Six 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 to and subscribed the day & year afore said.
His Mark
[SIGNATURE]
Wiltshire Cardwell
John Forster Sen

[NEW SEGMENT]
but the said applicant provided in Court the affidavit of [ILLEGIBLE] and the Court certifies that he is a credible [ILLEGIBLE]. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the  investigation of the maker and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary solider and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that in [ILLEGIBLE] to them that Wiltshire Cardwell and John Foster who signed the preceding ~ certificate are residents of the County and are credible persons and that their [ILLEGIBLE] is instilled to credit.

[NEW SEGMENT]

I Winslow Robinson clerk of the County Court of Charlotte in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Bartee for a pension. 

And I do further certify that Archibald D Alexander is an acting Justice of the Peace on and for the said County and that his signature annexed to the affidavit of Alexander [IILEGIBLE] is his genuine signature.

In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 4th day of September 1832
Winslow Robinson 
[EMBOSSED SEAL]

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I Alexander [ILLEGIBLE] of the County Charlotte  and state of Virginia do hereby certify that that I served one tours of duty with David Bartee under Capt Richard Gains at Portsmoth.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 4th day of September 1832 - 
Winslow Robinson

I Alexander Hunter of the County Charlotte and State of Virginia do hereby certify that that I served one times of duty with David Bartee under Capt. Richard Gains at Portsmoth in the year of seventeen hundred and eighty-one. We left home the 9th of January the same year and were discharged the 9th of April of Charlotte County, [ILLEGIBLE]. 

This day Alexander Hunter personally appeared before me a justice of the peace
for said County and made [ILEGIBLE] the
above certificate contained the truth.

[SIGNED] under my hand and seal this
third day of September 1832
Seal
Arch D Alexander
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6586
INVALID.
[in cursive to the left of title and vertically oriented] Revhan
[in cursive to the right of title and vertically oriented] [illegible]

File No. 6586
David Bartee
Pir Rev-War
__________
Act: June 7th, 32
Index: __ Vol A, Page 19
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Small Print in top right corner] 
GIDEON, PRINTER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
March 6, 1844.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pen-sion agents, David Bartee, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at the rate of
Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept. 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
Present.
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[Small Print in top right corner]
GIDEON, PRINTER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
January 29th, 1840..

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pen-sion agents, David Bartee, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at the rate of
Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838 to the 4th Sept. 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
Present.
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[Small Print in top right corner]
GIDEON, PRINTER.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 17th, 1842.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pen-sion agents, David Bartee, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at the rate of
Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept 1839 to the 4th Sept. 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
Present.
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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
David Bartee which require further proof or explanation.

I. 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?
[strike through mark]
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 amout 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?
No Clergyman but 2 citizens

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No

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?
There is one credible witness

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Yes

Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? Yes

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. [DOUBLE CROSS SYMBOL] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 127
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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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Bartee David
7587
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[FILE WITH TWO PAPER CLIPS]

_________BARTEE, JOHN
B.L. Reg 330162-1855

Rev War

[STAMPED]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND FILES

ACT OF 1855 - Rejected #330, 162
VETERAN John Bartee
GRADE Pri
SERVICE  1776 Martha Slater, former widow
Revolutionary War
CAN NO. 1867 BUNDLE NO 60
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3301hz
Mch. 3 1833-
Feby 13, 1872

Martha Slater, widow

John Bartee private

Revolutionary War

John S. Jennings
Greencastle
Indiana
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Green Castle Indiana Feb. 10th 1872,
Hon J H Baker

Com of Pensions

Sir
Mrs Slater formaly Bartee is a poor old woman and has lost her memory so she
cant remember what Regt, nor the State
where her husband went from but she
thinks it was North Carolina Hon Joseph
A. Wright, when in Congress and he repeated that John Bartee served five months and 25
day and as you letter to Mrs Stater stating that
she could not get a pension but she was
entitled to Land Warrant. I hope you will
have all the examination made you can do. 
Yours truly
John S Jennings
Atty for Court
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Application of Martha Slater, WIdow of John Bartee, Sr. for Bounty-Land.
Residence Greencastle Ind
John S. Jennings Attny
Greencastle Ind
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Be it remembered, That on this day, towit: the
_____ of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, the following Marriage License was issued from the
Clerk's Office of the Decatur Circuit Court, to wit:
THE STATE OF INDIANA, DECATUR COUNTY
To any Person empowered by law to solemnize Marriage in Decatur County, Greeting:
You are hereby authorized to join together as Husband and Wife
John Barter Sr and Martha Long
according to the Laws of the State of Indiana, and of the same make due return, within three months.
In Testimony Whereof, I, Henry H. Talbott, Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, at Greensburg, this 13th day of May 1835
Henry H. Talbott H.D. H. H.
And Afterwards. To-wit: on the 22nd day of August 1835 the Certificate of the Marriage of the above parties was filed here in the
Clerk's Office, towit:
I Matthew Elder a licensed minister of the Gospel do certify that I did on the 19th day of May 1835 joined together in the holy state of matrimony John Bartee Sr. and Martha Long according to the laws of the state of Indiana. 
Matthew Elder

STATE OF INDIANA,
Decatur COUNTY,
} SS:
I, Ira G. Grover, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for said County of Decatur, and State of Indiana, do hereby certify the foregoing to be true and correct copies of the Marriage License and Certificate of Marriage of John Bartee and Martha Long, as the same now appear upon the Marriage Record now on file in my office, of which I am the lawful custodian.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Greensburg, Indiana, on this 2nd day of February,  1872
Ira G Grover, Clerk.
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State of Indiana
County of Putnam
J. S. 

On this the 26th day of January 1872 appeared before me Jamie C Grooms a Notary Public within and the County of Putnam and State of Indiana. Martha Slater "family Bartee" & Widow of John Bartee Sr. now deceased, aged 73 years, resident of Putnam County, State of Indiana. Who bring duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of John Bartee Sr "deceased" who was a soldier of the ware of the Revolution War with Great Brit=ain declared by the United States on the 4th day of July 1776. That her husband enlisted and served five months and 25 days and continued in actual Service in said war for the term of 5 months and 25 days and was honorably discharged. As to the term of service her husband made application for pension through the Hon. Jos A. Wright and if any papers are on file at the department she refers to them for future information of proof of service. She states that she was named to the said John Bartee Sr on the 19th day of May 1835 by one Mathew Elder Baptist minister, that her name before her said marriage was Martha Brooks. That her said husband died in Putname County Indiana on or about the 35th day of February - 1848. That she afterwards remarried to one William slater who departed this life on the 21st day of January 1868. And that she
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is now a widow. And never remarried - She makes this declaration  for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. And she further declares that she has not received or applied for Bounty Land [ILLEGIBLE] this or any other act of Congress. 
She further states in Explanation of the Above in relation to her name and marriage that her maiden name was Martha Brooks, that she first married Abner Long - now deceased - that when she married to John Bartee Sr her name was Martha Long - that she appoints John S Jennings of Greeneast Morana her attorney.

Martha Slater
her mark

Witness 
Tanin C Grooms
Permelia A Bartee

We Permelia A Bartee and Tanin C Grooms residents of the state of Indiana upon our oaths declare the the forsigned declaration was signed and acknowledged by Martha Slater in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the indicated person she represents herself to be and is still a widow. 
Permelia of Bartee
Tanin C Grooms

I, Henry C. Priest clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, do certify that the above affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible witnesses.

[ON THE RIGHT MARGIN WRITTEN VERTICALLY]
State of Indiana County of Putnam I hereby certify that the person herein named indicates her marks in my presence & was by me sworn to the same that a copy of my permission is on file at the pension office at Washington City D.C. and that I have no intent in the prosecution of this claim. 
Tanin C Grooms
Notary Public
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applicant that she is the indicated person she represents herself to be and is still a widow.
Permelia A Bartee
Tanin C Grooms

I, Henry C. Priest clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, do certify that the above affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible witnesses that the claimant is the person she rep-resents herself to be and is still a widow and that I have no interest in this claim. Witness my hand and official seal

[SIGNATURE]
Henry C Priest
Clerk of the Putnam County Circuit Court for the State of Indiana -