Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9436, for Basil Shaw, Maryland
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Shaw, Basil
Number R9436
Contents
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State of North Carolina
Haywood County
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions
April [illegible] 1834
Be it remembered that on this 2nd day of April 1834 before the justices of the court  of pleas and quarter Sessions opened and held for the County of [illegible, black mark] at the court house in Harpersville, on [black mark covering text] after the 4th  monday in the March [black mark covering text] Basil Shaw after first being due [black mark covering text] to law on his oath doth make an[blackmark covering text] following declaration in order to a[black mark covering text] under the act of Congress of June [black mark covering text] the United States for services render[black mark covering text] in war of the united [crossed out] states [crossed out] Revolut[black mark covering text] That he entered the service of the United States the following named officers and served as  herein That he entered the regular Service of the united States under Captain Thomas Bell who was under General Smallwood as a regular in the state of maryland in Prince George county in the fall of the year 1776 or 1777 he is not certain which but believes it was the former and served one year and six months as here after stated (vis) he was enlisted in the regular service as above stated in the to[black mark covering text] of Blandensburg in said Prince George [black mark covering text] for the [illegible]  of Eighteen months and was marched [black mark covering text] to Anap[illegible] and remained there three days then Capt [black mark covering text] he enlisted resigned and Captain Be [black mark covering text] [illegible] in office and at that time at the sa [black mark covering text] [illegible] Captain Bell General Smallwood [black mark covering text] this [illegible] recruiting officer int he county [black mark covering text] Georg[illegible] Charles, and Frederick in the state of Maryland [illegible] that he served in that capacity untill the full [illegible] of his said term of Eighteen months that he disch[illegible] his duty faithfully in said office enlisting soldier returning them to Anapolis for the service of the United States and that at the end of his said term of [black mark covering text]
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Eighteen months General Smallwood being absent at head Quartering - he received a discharge from Govern Thomas Johnson which discharge he was long since lost but is certain that his name appears on the books of the war office of the United States and thinks [black mark covering text] books will also show when he was discharged that [black mark covering text] left Maryland he moved to Pittsylvania [black mark covering text] where he resided thirteen years [illegible] [black mark covering text] to Newberry district South Carolina [illegible] [black mark covering text] thirteen years then removed to [illegible] [black mark covering text] county North Carolina where he resided [illegible] [black mark covering text] [illegible] Haywood county [illegible] North Carolina where he has resided [illegible] years and since February last and where he now resides that he is Eighty six years of age on the twenty ninth day of July next that he claims a pension for his said service he hereby relinquishes all and every claim to any pension [black mark covering text] [illegible] accept the present and doth hereby [illegible word crossed out] declares that his name is not on the pension roll of [illegible] agency of any state that he knows of no man living by whom he [black mark covering text] his service and that he has in his [black mark covering text] knowledge  no documentary [black mark covering text] his service except what he has [black mark covering text] the war [black mark covering text] of the United State[black mark covering text] subscribed in open court this 2nd day of [black mark covering text] 34  his X mark Basil Shaw
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State of North Carolina Haywood County
Court of Pheasant Quarter [Sepious] April [Sepious] 1834. 
The court hereby certify that Basil Shaw who has
[illegible] subscribed the foregoing [illegible]{[illegible] is a resident of this county is [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] him to be 86 years of age.
[Illegible signature]

State of North Carolina 
Haywood County
Court of the Pleas and Quarter
[illegible] April [illegible]
I John Chambers clerk of the court of the pleas [illegible] quarter session for said county hereby certify that the foregoing is the original proceeding of application of basil Shaw for a pension [illegible] certified under my hand [black mark covering text] seal of office this 2nd day of April 1834
J Chambers Clerk
of Haywood County
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State of North Carolina
Haywood County
[illegible] swear that I
drew the within declaration for 
Mr Shaw that I drew it in haste, that Basil Shaw applicant is very old and ignorant, that I think he said he was in the regular service but from the description he gave me one of his services in Maryland and the rolls [illegible] and the whole of his statements to [black mark covering text] before and since I think he does not [black mark covering text]perience between the regular service and [black mark covering text] one of the Maryland [illegible] and from his [black mark covering text] to me so positively that his name did appear on the rolls kept at Annapolis I have no [black mark covering text] is the same Basil Shaw whose name is [black mark covering text] on the rolls of Maryland troops and I think [black mark covering text] highly probable that had I have well acquainted with the arrangement and the difference myself I should have set it down  as of the Maryland troops and not as a regular
Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th August 1834
N.W. Woodfin

[illegible] 

[written vertically on page]
30.755
Basil Shaw
N.Ca.

[black mark covering text]
I John T. Chambers Clerk of the [black mark covering text] County
County Court of said County here [illegible] that J.W. Garton who attested the above affidavit is a magistrate as above and the signature [illegible] [black mark covering text]ting to be his genuine certified under my hand and the seal of the office this 29th August 1834
JT Chambers Clerk
of Haywood County Court
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[stamped]REJECTED
9436.
[illegible] . O. [blank]
Basil Shaw
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18
[illegible]lleged: [blank]
[illegible]e-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
[illegible] O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized.  [blank] Contract
[blank] Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank], 18
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36,755
Basil Shaw
[Ct] Carolina
Rejected
C.M. Moodfin -
24 Sept. 1834
9436
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Acts 7th June 1832
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Basil Shaw
N.C
Aom Rec Case
D. H. Wood
June 8/53
papers
room
Reg 1832
N.C.
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Sam Downing
Lancaster OH
2'a
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LAND OFFICE.
Annapolis, May 24th 1884
I Certify, that it appears by a Pay Roll remaining in the office, that he Basil Shaw a Sergeant
received of John Hamilton,
Agent of the Maryland Line, $120.00 cts arrears of pay from the 1st August, 1780,
to the 1st of January, 1782 - also $120.00 cts pay from the 1st January, 1782, to the
1st January, 1788 - also $65.00 cts from the 1st January, 1788, to the 15th of November
, 1788.
Gratuity, Total received, $305,00
George G Brewer
Registe Land Ofice W. S. M.
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G. G. Brewer
cu : in the case
of Basil Shaw
of - NC
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Land Office Annapolis, May 24th 1834
Sir
Your's of the 19th Inst with the declaration
of Basil Shaw of North Carolina, enclosed, was
received, In reply, I have to inform you, that I
find upon the roll of the regular troops of the
revolution in this office, the name of but one
Basil Shaw. By the Muster rolls it appears,
that he enlisted as a private in Rawlings's Regiment, on the 5th day of April 1779; and was promoted to the rank
of Sergeant, on the 27th of July 1779. he also
appears by the rolls to have received pay up to the
15th of November 1783; as the anclofed certificate
from the pay roll will show, Basil Shaw the
applicant however states in his declaration, that
he enlisted in 1776 or 1777 in Capt Thomas Bealls
company, for the term of 18 months, and was only
eighteen months in service, his statement therefore
does not correspond with the rolls in this office.
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it however appears by the rolls, that Captain Thos
Beall belonged to Rawlings's Regiment the
declaration is herewith returned
I am respectfully
[undecipherable]
G. G. Browas
J.L. Edwards Esqr
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Asheville Augst 30th 1854
Sir I received the application of Basil
Shaw for a pension returned for and
explanation and and evidence
which you say must be adduced before a
favorable decision in his claim can be made.
Now as soon as I saw the objection I was
of the opinion that the error was principally 
in me, as he frequently made use of 
both terms "regular soldier" and soldier of
the Maryland line and (illegible) to use
them as denoting the same character of service
and seemed principally to rely on the
record which we understood were lodged
in the war office of the United States
from this I supposed it must be the regular
service and so mentioned it not supposing
it would matter so the name was found
on record. I was satisfied that it was an error
either of his or my own and resolved not to
(illegible) the papers until I could see him and
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converse with him on the subject, which
I did on yesterday when in Haywood County
where he resides.  I readily found on questioning
him that he knew he served the United States
in the State of Maryland and
that his name was registered but that
he did not know the difference between
those of the State line and the regular.
The old man is very old and infirm and
I suppose naturally ignorant but he is reported
to be honest and truthful and I have
not the first doubt that the old man served
as he states. I am confirmed in this opinion
by his filling the same story every time I 
converse with him about the matter this
has induced me to make the affidavit you
will find appended to the declaration to
explain as nearly as I could the facts as they
appeared to me to exist. I hope you may
find this sufficient to enable it to pass
as the old man is very poor and entirely
unable to labour.  
Very respectfully
C
A. W. Wood in
Hansel Co B
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[Document has considerable damage so only parts of this letter can be transcribed.]

[inside address and date illegible]
Sir:
The declaration of Basil Shaw [illegible] and is herewith returned.
The name of Basil Shaw app[illegible letters and words]  Maryland troops but as it does [illegible words] another person [illegible words] name.  Some possible[?] explanation must therefore be adduced in order for [illegible] a favorable decision on his claim.
I am Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards

A. H. Woodfin Esqr.
Asheville
N.C.