Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9341, Isaac Barret, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.

Barret, Isaac
Barrett
or Berrett
Lucy
NUMBER
W9341

CONTENTS
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North Carolina 23.61
Isaac Barrett
of Davidson in the State of N Car
who was a pr in the _____ commanded by 
Captain_____ of the Rgt commanded
by Col Addison in the Md line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 40 Dollars ___Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of May
34 and sent Samuel William Sherman, Salisbury W.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.
 120
   20
$140
:
Recorded by A Rice Clerk
Book E Vol ___ Page 40

[ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832 ]

Let Agt. July 1 3
pay up ?
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State of North Carolina
Davidson County
On this 12th Day of November 1835 personally appeared before the Justices who are Judges of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for
Davidson County the same being a Court of Record, Isaac Barrell resident of said County aged Seventy four years who being first
duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration for the purpose obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress June 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers. that he was Drafted as a private Soldier in the Militia under Captain Edward Latham in Prince George County in the State of Maryland about the Summer of the year 1779 in the Regiment of Col John Addison, and served as a guard on the
Shores of Maryland occasionally until the winter of the year 1781 having been frequently allowed to go home on furlough that to the best his knowledge the time that he was in actual service during the the fore mentioned was twelve months. That he has in document or evidence of his service having lost his discharges. That he was born in Prince George County Maryland and has no record of his age that he emigrated to Davidson County then Rowan in the year 1804 where he has resided ever since. that he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove her service as a soldier in the war of the Revolution except his brother Jonathan Barrett to whose affidavint he refers as well as to his present neighbors 
Frederick Thompson William Wiseman James Wiseman  and John Smith who can testify
this reputation and character him to hear him and that his Clergyman acquainted lives near him and that he cannot procure the certificate of any. He hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not the pension Roll of the agency of any state to his knowledge
Isaac Barrett
Sworn to & subscribed in open 
Court the day & year aforesaid

Sam Garther CCC

D. Mack DC
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Jonathan Barrett of Davidson County aged 76 years do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Barrett my brother who has signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that he is of the age of 74 years that I served with him in the war of the Revolution nearly all the time he was in the service and believe that he served as he states that we were both bound to the same military
duty and were some times parolled at different periods
Jonathan Barrett
Court and subscribed in open Court
November 17th 1835
Saml Gather CCC
R D. Mock DC
 WeJohn Smith and William Wiseman residing in Davidson County North Carolina hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Barrett who has Signed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration, that we believe him to be of the age 74 years that he is reputed and believe in the heighibourhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & do concur in that opinion
John Smith
Wm Wiseman 
Sworn to & subscribed the day
and year above mentions
John Smith
Saml Garther Clell
No Weseman Six
By D.Mock C
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the
matter and putting the interogatives prescribed by the War Department, that the
above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states and that Jonathan Barrett John Smith and William Wiseman who have signed and sworn to the foregoing certificate are credible citizens residing in Davidson County and their statement is entitled to full credit
November 13th 1833-
Tho Hampton Chm {seal}
I Samuel Garther Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Davidson 
County North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Barrett for a Pension That Thomas Hampton & is chairman of said Court for this com and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 13th day of November AD 1833
Saml Gaither Clk
By D. Mock   DC
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Isaac Barrett
28.704
admitted private
12 mo. $40
Samuel Sullivan
Salisbury
Md
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the foregoing declaration and certificates having been returned from the
Department of war with attend the applicant h Isaac Barrett  appeared before
John Gobble an acting Justice of the Town of Davidson, North Carolina and on oath afore the following amendment and to his Declaration. That by reason of old age, disease and the consequent loss of Memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise part of his service
that according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades. As a private Soldier for four months in the year 1779. for four months in the year 1780 and a private soldier for four months in the year 1781. all in the Militia company of Captain
Sahnam in Colonel John Addis regiment for which service I claim a pension.
The declarant further states that he belonged to that part of the Militia of Maryland
to whom was assigned the duty of guarding the sea coast; that they were frequently
permitted to disperse and go home; and were called into service again upon alarm being given, without any new draft or different arrangement, and that he was in actual service in the field for times, not less than above specified.
Isaac  Barrett
Sworn to and subscribed before
me the ___ the day of April AD 1834
John Gobble

I Samuel Gaither Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Davidson
County North Carolina do hereby certify that John Goble is a magistrate in and for said County and that the foregoing signature,
purporting to be his is Genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 4th day of April AD 1834
Saml Gaither CCC
By
D. Mock DC
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State of North Carolina
Davidson County
On this 2 day of Octo. 1848
Personally appeared before me Meshack Pinkston one of the acting justice of peace for the County aforesaid Lucy Barret widow of Isaac Barret decd of the County aforesaid a
resident of the County and state aforesaid aged 83 years who being first sworn in due form of law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March the 3rd day 1841, and the act of June the 7th 1844, entitled an
act granting pensions to certain widows. That she is the of Isaac Barret decd of Davidson County N Carolina who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war and was allow a pension at the rate of ninety six dollars her annum by the United States, and under the act of June
the 7th 1832, And she further declares the she was married to the said Isaac Barret in the County or city of Alexandra State of Virginia or District  of Columbia that her husband the aforesaid Isaac Barret died on the 9th of May 1833 in the County of Davidson N Carolina and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, that she was not married prior to the time of his being in the service but, that the marriage took place prior to the act of
January 1794,
Lucy Barret  her mark
 Sworn to & subscribed the day date that
is on the and date above written before me
M Pinkston
And I the aforesaid magistrate do certify that I am well acquainted with Lucy Barrett who has this day appeared before me sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration & that
she is a resident of the County of Davidson, and that she is a person of truth & to be believed on her oath - and I do also certify that she is unable to appear in court to make her declaration, by reason of old age & bodily infirmetes
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even under my hand the day and date above written
Oct 3 1848
M. Pinkston
State of North Carolina, I C F Lowe clerk of the Court of Davidson County Pleas & quarter Sessions of said county, do certify that Meshack Pinkston before whom the foregoing declaration of Lucy Barret was proven, is a acting Magistrate as above, & that the
signature purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Affixed the seal of our office & Court
And subscribed my name this the 4th day
of October A. D. 1848
C. F. Lowe Clk
No 13843
Lucy Barrett
wid of Isaac
NC
act 7 July 1838
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Set. to Jas. T. Kerr, Aug. 25, 1853
352
North Carolina Fayette
Lucy Barrett
widow of Isaac Barrett
Md 
who served in the Revolutionar
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
the 3d February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued to
12 day of May 1853
and sent to
J.E. Kerr
Salisbury
N.C.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
July 29, 1848, Page 133 Vol. A
1832
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18
  40
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720
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State of Virginia
County of Alexandria Towit
J. R. A. Sinclair Deputy
Clerk of the Court of Alexandria County do here by certify, that it appears from a certificate returned by the Revd James Muir, Rector of the 1st Presbyterian Church in the town of Alexandria & duly recorded in my office, that he legally solemized the rites of Matrimony between Isaac Barrett & Lucy Burgess on the 4th day of August One thousand eight hundred and three,

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name, and annex the seal of my said office
this 22nd day of May, One eight hundred & fifty one,
R. A. Sinclair
Deputy Clerk
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State of North Contain
Rowan County
On this the 19th day of February AD 1853
personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Henderson Barrett, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath makes the following statement, that he is the son of Isaac Barrett deceased, late of Davidson County, State of North Carolina who was a pensioner of the United States; that he was the administrator of the said Isaac Barrett
and settled his estate; that the said
Isaac Barrett died on the 9th day of May
1835, and that Lucy Barrett his widow has not
since and married.
Henderson Barrett  his mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and your above written.
Obadiah Woodson, J. P.
State of North Carolina
Rowan County
I, James E Ken Clerk of the Court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid certify that Obadiah Woodson Esquire, who certify the above affidavit of Henderson Barnett, is and was at the date of the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature purporting
to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the my official seal this the 19th day of
February 1853
James E Ken Clerk
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Revy
WIDOW, &c
File No. 9341
Lucy Barrett
Wid
Isaac Barrett
Privt Rev War

Act: July 29" 1848.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 32
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No, 13843
Lucy Barrett
NC
Lt to Samuel Green
May 10 '49

 Act 7 July 1838
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Isaac Barrett N.C. act 7 June 1832 $40th per

To what time was he last paid
G.C. A
Paid to 4th March 1835
 MLB
Pension Office 
May 5 1849
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No 410
Lucy Barrett
widow of Isaac
N.C
Act 3 Feb 1853

Address
James E Kerr
or B. Craige
Salisbury
N.C.
$40 per annum
Comg 3 Feb 1853

J. E, Kerr
Salisbury
N.C
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State of North Carolina }
County of Davidson }

On this the 14th day of February in the 
year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty 
three, personally appeared before me an acting 
Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and by 
virtue of my office one of the Judges of the Courts of 
[repeated: of] Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County aforesaid, 
being Courts of Record, Lucy Barrett, a resident 
of the County of Davidson, in the State of North 
Carolina, aged ninety years, who being duly sworn 
according to law, doth, on her oath, make the fol
lowing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of 
the provisions made by the act of Congress passed 
on the 3rd day of February, 1853; that she is the 
widow of Isaac Barrett who was a private in 
the Maryland militia, and a pensioner of the United 
States at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum; 
that he was placed on the pension list on the 5th  
day of May, 1834, residing at the time in the 
County of Davidson, in the State of North Carolina, 
and that his pension was paid at the Agency of 
the United States for paying pensions at Fayetteville, 
in the State of North Carolina.

She further declares that she was married to the 
said Isaac Barrett on the fourth day of August, one 
thousand eight hundred and three, in the County of 
Alexandria, in the State of Virginia, and that before 
her marriage her name was Lucy Burgess; that her 
husband the aforesaid Isaac Barrett died on the 9th 
day of May, 1835; that she was married to him 
at the time above stated.  She further swears that 
she was a widow at the passage of the act, and is 
still a widow and that she has never before made 
application for a pension. Lucy her X mark Barrett
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Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year 
above written. And I hereby certify that Lucy 
Barrett is unable from bodily infirmity and old 
age to be taken to a Court of Record.
H. Beck 

State of North Carolina } 
Davidson County } 

I hereby certify that H. Beck 
Esquire, before whom the foregoing declaration 
was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his 
name, was at the time of so doing, an acting 
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid 
duly commissioned and sworn, and that the sig
nature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
the seal of my office as Clerk 
of the Court of Pleas and Quarter 
Sessions [struck out: this the day of] of the 
County of Davidson, this 
the 17th day of February 1853.
C. F. Lowe Clk
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[Envelope with notes]

[Written vertically left margin]
Feb 25, 1853
Appl. of Lucy 
Barrett widów of 
Isaac
N. C. '32
Act 3d Feb 1853

[Circular mail stamp]
WILMINGTON 
FEB
23
N.C.

Revied 
23961
Jas E Kerr
Salisburg
N. C.

[Address]

Pension Claim
FREE  Free
Hon J. C. Heath 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City 
D. C.
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Barrett
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Brief in the case of Lucy Barrett widow of Issac 
Davidson County and State of North Carolina 
act 3d Feb. 1853
===================================
Claim, ("original," [struck out: or "for increase].")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner under the act of 7 June 
1832, at $40 per annum
Proof of marriage - Record from Clerk's 
office Alexandria Co Va

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent 
J. E. Kerr | S. Cole
Salisbury | Examining Clerk.
N.C.
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Salisbury N.C. Feby 19th '53

Dear Sir

I herewith enclose you the declaration 
of Mrs Lucy Barrett, widow of Isaac, of 
Davidson County, under the recent act of 
Congress, together with proof of marriage, 
death of the husband &.c.

I discover on the original certificate 
issued to Isaac Barrett, the following en 
dorsement, "payment suspended by order 
of J. L. Edwards 2nd July 1835."  This en
dorsement, I suppose, must have been 
made by the Agent at Fayetteville, where 
the certificate was sent there for the purpose 
of drawing the arrears due at the death 
of the pensioner.  This order being subsequent 
to the death of Isaac Barrett, and there 
being but two months pension in arrear 
at the time of his death, no inquiry was 
ever instituted with the view of ascertaining 
what even the grounds upon which the order 
was made.  If you find on file in your 
office, any evidence subjecting the claim 
of Isaac Barrett to suspicion, you will 
please communicate it to me; possibly 
I may be able to abviate it even at this 
[illegible] day.  Allow me in behalf of 
Mrs Barrett, to bespeak an early examin
ation of this claim-she is very old and 
extremely infirm.

Very Respectfully, 
Your Obt. Svt. 

James E Kerr

Hon J. E. Heath
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[Envelope]
[Circular mail stamp]
WILMINGTON 
OCT
5 N.C.

[Address] 
Davidson County, N.C.

J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
W.C.D.C
[Note behind address}
Mr. Ames
[illegible]
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Sept 4th 1840

Dear sir,

Wishing you to receive this letter, which 
encloses the declaration of Lucy Barret, be so 
kind as inspect the same & let me hear from 
you as soon as convenient.

I have the honor to be yours 
Truly

Sam Green
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Know all men by these presents 
that I Lucy Barrett of the County of 
Davidson, and State of North Carolina have 
constituted & appointed, and by these presents do constitute 
and appoint Burke Craige, and James 
E. Kerr my true, and lawful attornies [attorneys]  
for me & in my name to demand, ask 
for and recover a pension due me 
as the widow of the late Isaac Barrett 
from the government of the U. States 
and to file all necessary applica
tons therefor, and to take all the 
necessary proofs to sustain the 
same & to do & perform all 
such other acts & deeds, in, & 
about the premises, as may 
be necessary & proper [words struck 
out] In witness whereof 
I have hereto set my hand & 
affixed my seal this 5th day 
of February 1853.
Witness 
N R Wyatt | Lucy her X mark Barrett [word seal encircled]
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Know all me by these presents that I Lucy Barrett of Davidson 
County in the State of North Carolina do hereby constitute and appoint James 
Hart my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name 
to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions 
in Fayetteville, State of North Carolina the arrears of pension 
due me from the 4th day of March 1835 to the 9th day of May 1835 
Witness my hand and seal this 22 day of February 1836
Sealed and delivered in person of 
Andrew Swicegood JP | Lucy her X mark Barrett [word Seal encircled]

[Written vertically left margin]
died 9 May 1835 
Act 1832 
at $40 p annum

State of North Carolina }
Davidson County } Be it known that on the 22 day of 
February 1836 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for 
said County personally Lucy Barrett above named and acknowledged 
the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.  In testimony 
whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above 
mentioned.  Andrew Swicegood J.P.

I Samuel Gaither Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for 
Davidson County do hereby certify that it has been given in evidence to the 
satisfaction of said Court, that Isaac Barrett a Pensioner of the 
United States died on the 9th day of May 1835, and that Lucy 
Barrett above named is his widow.  I also certify that Andrew
Swiegood is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing 
signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony 
whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and 
subscribed my name this 22 day of February 1836
Saml Gaither CCC
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State of Maryland, Cumberland County}

Be it known that on this 17 day of of(sic) May 1836 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared James Hart the Attorney named in the forgoing power of attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or Mortgage of the pension or any pension therein authorized to be received by him. Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me.}

James Hart

[illegible]