Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8511, John Fooshee, N.C.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N. C.

Fooshee, John 

NUMBER
S. 8511

? carded
CONTENTS
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Let [Letter] Hon. W. S. Ashe April 5 / 52
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

23,742
North Carolina
John Fooshee - of Co. Chatham in the State of N. Car. who was a pr [private] & Liet. [Lieutenant] in the – [company commanded] by Captain -- of the Regt. [commanded] by Col. Luttrell in the N. Car. line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina [at] the rate of 110 - Dollars -- Cents per annum, [to] commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d Mch [March] 1834 day of March [cut off] and sent to John S St. Lawrence N. Ca.

[Arrears to the 4th of] March 1834 330.
[Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending] 4 Sept. - 55
[$385.00]

[cut off {Revolutionary Claim} {Act June 7, 1832} Recorded by , Clerk Book Vol.  Page]
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Declaration of John Fooshee 
Act 7 June 1832
30.166

Admit as Lieutenant
3 mo. - $40
private – 21 mo. 70
$110.

John S Guthne
Chatham Co. NC
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions August Term 1833 
On this 15th day of August A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of said Court now sitting John Fooshee a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 74 years who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
In the Summer of 1778 he volunteered his service as a private in Chatham County N.C. and joined a company of Militia commanded by Captain William Cage and was marched to Luttrell’s Barracks where he joined a Regiment commanded by Colonel Luttrell [John Luttrell] he served 3 months under Capt. Cage in subduing the Tories in Chatham Randolph and Moore Counties the Barracks was headquarters he received a written discharge which was signed by Colonel Luttrell but is now lost. 
Shortly after his discharge in the same year 1778 he received a commission as Lieutenant in the North Carolina Militia which commission was signed by Colonel Luttrell that his commission owing to the great lapse in time has been lost or mislaid that he immediately joined Captain Cage’s Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Luttrell that he marched with the Regiment to near Pee Dee [River] he served for 3 months in the neighborhood of the Pee Dee and was in several slight skirmishes with the Tories he was marched back to Chatham and discharged his discharge was signed by Colonel Luttrell which is now lost. 
In the year 1779 he volunteered his services as a private in a company commanded by Captain Douglas [Edward Douglas] and was marched with several other companies in a southwardly
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Direction across Pee Dee into South Carolina and after having served 3 months he was discharged at the Long Bluff in South Carolina he has no recollection of having received any written discharge on this occasion nor can he recollect the name of any Field Officers but he distinctly remembers that Captains Guinn [perhaps William Gwinn] & Hodges [perhaps George Hodge] were in the same service.
In the same year to wit in 1779 he volunteered as Lieutenant in a company commanded by Captain Edward Douglas in Chatham County in the Militia he joined no Regiment but was actively engaged for 3 months operating against the Tories in Chatham and the adjoining Counties when the Tour expired himself and the whole company received written discharges from Col. Griffis [Roger Griffith] Col. of the Chatham militia but the one which he received is now lost.
He thinks it was in the latter part of the same year to wit 1779 he volunteered his services as a private in the company of Militia commanded by Captain Edward Douglas and was [marched] to Fayetteville where he joined Gen. Butler's [John Butler's] Army and was placed in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Armstrong he served 3 months in Fayetteville and its vicinity when he received a written discharge signed by Col. Armstrong which is now lost.
In the year 1780 he volunteered his services as a private in Captain Goldston's [William Gholson] Company of Horse and scoured the country in search of Tories from Chatham to the South Carolina line but principally on Drowning Creek when he was marched home & received a discharge signed by Col. Griffis Colonel of Chatham Horse after he had served 3 months.
In the early part of the year 1781 he volunteered his services as a private in a company commanded by Captain William Douglas he remained under his command about 6 weeks when himself Moses Terrell & Aaron Terrell quitted his command and went immediately in pursuit of Genl Greene's [General Nathanael Greene's] Army and reached in a few days before
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frequently called Baron Steuben he fought in memorable battle of Guilford and remained with the Army sometime after the battle when he was discharged at Hillsborough after he had served at least 3 months he received no written discharge on this occasion.
In the year 1781 he volunteered his services in Chatham County and joined a company as Lieutenant which was commanded by Captain Tavner Marsh [Taverner Marsh] in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Griffis he marched from Chatham to Drowning Creek in the neighborhood of which stream and the Raft Swamp he served a Tour of three months the whole of which time he acted as Lieutenant this service was exceedingly fatiguing in consequence of the great hordes of Tories in that quarter at the end of his Tower [tour] he was marched back to Chatham and got a written discharge from Col. Griffis he further states that he has no documentary [evidence] of his services --
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 or territory in the union. 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
John [his X mark] Fooshee

We Robert Bingham and William Neal both residing in the county of Chatham and state of North Carolina hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Fooshee who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration that we believe him to be 74 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 aforesaid}
[signed] Robt. Bingham
[signed] Wm. Neal
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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 Robert Bingham and William Neal who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Chatham County are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and the Court further certifies that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the declarant whose certificate he could procure without trouble expense and delay

State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} I Thomas Ragland Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Forster for a pension 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of September AD 1833 
Test Thos. Ragland CCC
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} 
On this the Tenth day of Feby [February] AD One thousand eight hundred and Fifty Two personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, now sitting Jeaddiah Fooshee a resident of the County of Chatham State of North Carolina aged Fifty 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 the 2d day of March AD 1829 
That he is the son of John Fooshee who was a Lieutenant in the militia in the Revolutionary war - and who drew a pension at the rate of one hundred and ten Dollars per annum to the time of his death. That the said Lieutenant John Fooshee died on 18th day of October AD 1842. That he left no widow, but left the following children viz Jeaddiah, Joseph, Elisabeth, Maria and Martha Fooshee in all five - That he does not make this Declaration for the purpose of drawing a pension but for the purpose of obtaining the arrearages of pension due his said Father - Lieutenant John Fooshee at the time of his death and that he makes this Declaration as well for the benefit of his Brothers and Sisters as himself and he further states that
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that he has no Documentary evidence to offer in his case, that his Father’s papers were all destroyed by fire at the burning of the house of Everitt Fooshee who swore to the same in the Court, but he relies in the proof now on file in the war department to be sufficient and satisfactory to establish his claim – Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 10th day of Feby [February] A.D. 1852 
Jeaddiah [his X mark] Fooshee
Test. 
W. Taylor C.C.C. 

I William P Taylor Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Chatham State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a correct statement of the proceeding of said Court in the matter of the application of Jeaddiah Fooshee for a pension or arrearage of pension due his Father Lieutenant John Fooshee -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this the 10th day of Feb AD 1852 – 
W. P. Taylor C.C.C.
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County}
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Feby 10th AD 1832 
It has been proven to the satisfaction of the Court that Lieutenant John Fooshee a pensioner of the United States who draw a pension at the rate of One hundred and ten Dollars per annum, died on the 18th of October 1842 and that he left no widow but left the following children Viz Jeaddiah, Joseph, Elisabeth, Maria and Martha Fooshee and that these are the only children and all the children that he did leave. 
I William P Taylor Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the above is correct - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this the 10th day of Feb AD 1852 –
W. P. Taylor C.C.C
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Own O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., S.8511

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of John Fooshee, 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.

[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. Captain. Colonel. STATE.

Summer 1778 3 ms [months] Pri [Private] [Captain] Wm. Cage [Colonel] Luttrell [State] N. C.
3 ms [months] Lt. [Lieutenant] 

1779 6 ms. Lt. [Captain] Douglass [Colonel] Armstrong [State] N. C.
3 “ [months] Pri

1780 3 “ Pri [Captain] Cholson [Colonel] Not stated “ [N. C.]

1781 3 “ “ [Captain] Douglass Steuben “ “

1781 3 “ Lt. [Captain] Tavner Marsh [Colonel] Griffis “

Battles engaged in, Guilford CH

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chatham Co. N. C.

Date of application for pension, Aug. 15 1833

Residence at date of application, Chatham Co. N. C.

Age at date of application, 74 years

Remarks: 

Very Respectfully,

Commissioner

Hon. B H Burne H. R.
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Feby / 52
No Ca
3d Auditor April 3, 1852

[written sideways] 10 Hon. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions Washington
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10 Hon. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions Washington

[written sideways] Feby / 52
No Ca
3d Auditor April 3, 1852
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To what time has John Fooshee, who was a pensioner on the North Carolina Roll under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the sale of $110 per annum, been paid? 
Pension Office, 
April 3, 1852. 
Was Paid to 4th Sept. 1842 
B.L.B.
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Feb 24. 1852

Honbl [Honorable] J. E. Heath 
Sir, 
I enclose you two applications one for Bank-land. The other for arrears of Pension due under the act of 1828.
Will you please have them both acknowledged
with respt [respect]
W S Ash
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

8511
Rev War INVALID

File No. 8511
John Fooshee
Pri. [Private] Rev. War

Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: - Vol. 1st, Page 129

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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4 Apr [April] 13 Hist to Hon. B H Burne H. R.
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Joseph Hackney [S.6973] aged 81 years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that during the war of the Revolution he thinks in the year 1781 or 1782 he performed the duties of commissary for a company of North Carolina Militia under the command of Captain Tavner Marsh for 3 months during the whole of which time John Fooshee of the County of Chatham and State aforesaid acted and discharged the duties of a Lieutenant in Captain Marsh’s Company -- That sometime in the year 1778 or 1779 he recollects distinctly that the said John Fooshee was a private in Captain Cage’s Company of Militia and served a Tour of duty at and near the neighborhood of Luttrell’s Barracks in Chatham County this deponent recollects distinctly having seen the Fooshee in Captain Cage’s Company he was at the same time in the service on the same station acting as a Lieutenant in Captain Jones Company. 
Sworn and subscribed before made this 11th day of June A.D. 1833} 
Joseph [his X mark] Hackney
A. G. Hinton, JP 

And I the said Albert G Hinton do hereby certify that Joseph Hackney who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding deposition is a resident of Chatham County. That he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit - Given under my hand this 11th day of June AD 1833
A G Hinton
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} I Thomas Ragland Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Albert G Hinton whose signature appears to the within Deposition and certificate was at the time of attesting the same an acting Magistrate in said County and that the same is his genuine signature – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 25th day of September AD 1833 
Test Thos Ragland CCC

[written sideways] Jno Forshee
3 p
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3 p
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3 p 
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Chatham and State aforesaid James Burns [S.4979] aged seventy years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that during the Revolution he thinks in the year 1781 or 1782 -- he performed the duty of a soldier in a company of Militia of North Carolina Commanded by Capt. Tabner Marsh for three months during the time John Fooshee of the County of Chatham acted as Lieutenant in said County and State aforesaid and further your deponent saith not. Nov. 15th 1833.
N. Stedman, JP
[Signed] James Burns

This may certify that James Burns who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition is a resident of Chatham of County and is a creditable person and that his statement is entitled to credit Given under my hand this 15th day of Nov. 1833
N Stedman JP
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State of No. Carolina} 
Chatham County} I Thomas Ragland, Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that N. Stedman whose signature appears to the within deposition and certificate, was, at the time of attesting the same, an acting Magistrate in said County, and that the same is his genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 4th day of December, A.D. 1833. 
Test: 
Thos. Ragland C. C. C.
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County & state aforesaid Wm. Marsh [S.7186] age Seventy-five years who being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that during the Revolution he thinks in the year 1779 he performed the duty of a soldier in a company of militia of N. Carolina Commanded by Capt. Wm. Douglas for three months during the term John Fooshee of the County of Chatham served as a private in said company. 
And further deposeth that the Capt. Goldston under which we served the next tour of three months was taken prisoner in consequence of which myself & Fooshee were separated during this Tour and the next three months under Capt. Edward Douglas I frequently saw the said Fooshee in the service and further your deponent sayeth not. 
[Signed] Wm Marsh
Novr [November] 19, 1833
G. W. Goldston, JP 

This may certify that Wm Marsh and sworn who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition is a resident of Chatham County and is a creditable person and that his statement is entitled to credit given under my hand November 19th 1833
G. W. Goldston JP
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State of No. Carolina} 
Chatham County} I Thomas Ragland, Clerk of the Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that G. W. Goldston whose name appears to the within deposition & certificate, was, at the time of attesting the same, an acting Magistrate in said County, and that the same is his genuine signature. -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 4th day of December, A.D. 1833. 
Test: 
Thos. Ragland C. C. C.