Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7059, Berry Hunt, Va.
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Service Va.
Hunt, Berry
Number S.7059
carded
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1933 - Feb 28 - Hist. to Joseph Brooks. See request in case John Brooks S.6732 EEL
7059
Invalid.
File No. 7059
Berry Hunt
In Rev. war
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: Vol. 1st, Page 184
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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7085
North Carolina
Berry Hunt
of Caswell Co in the State of N. Carolina who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Robt Hopkins of the [illegible] commanded by Col. Buchner in the Virginia & [illegible] for 2 years from 76.
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of March 1833 and sent to Hon AH Sheperd H of Ressr
Arrears to 4th of March 1833. $160.00
Semi-anl allowance ending Septr 1834 $40.00
$200
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded  by W.L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 6 Page 42.
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from 1776 private 2 years $80
Berry Hunt Declaration
on Roll.
Hon A.N. Shepperd
[illegible]
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State of North Carolina
Caswell County
On this 8th January 1833, personally appeared before the court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Caswell aforesaid Berry Hunt aged seventy eight years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make he following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he was enlisted by Captain Samuel Hopkins in the latter part of the year 1775 or in the early part of the year 1776 in the 6th Virginia Regiment of the Revolutionary army in the county of Mecklenburg State of Virginia aforesaid That he marched from the court House of said county in the month of February or March 1776 with a company of said 6th Regiment to the Town of Williamsburg in said State and with that Company to an old field distant from Williamsburg about 3 miles where the company encamped and the encampment was called Spring Field Camp; that on the 4th of July 1776 the regiment to which he belonged paraded in college old field & partook of the festivities & rejejoinings of that day. that he continued in service in said Regiment in the vicinity of Williamsburg untill the expiration of the time for which he enlisted which he thinks was 2 years. tho he does not distinctly recollect he well recollects after the expiration of his enlistment he received a written discharge from Captain Samuel Hopkins which he has lost or mislaid that he returned to the county of Mecklenburg aforesaid where he remained untill after the surrender of Cornwallis at York. he recollects the 6 Va Regiment was commanded by Colonel Buchnerl, Majors Spottswood & Hendricks that after the surrender of Cornwallis he removed from the County of Mecklenburg Va to the county of Caswell State of North Carolina.
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where he has resided ever since with the exception of 2 years which time he resided in the county of Orange an adjourning County to Caswell, that he was informed by his Parents, and believes he was born in the county of Medklenburg Va on the 23rd of January 1755.
He hereby relinquishes ever claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and says his name is not on the pension role of any State or Teretory in the United States
[illegible] Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[illegible] Paul A. (Harrison
Berry his x mark Hunt
And the Courts do hereby declare that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states.
(illegible)
John P. Harrison
Stephen Latham
I, Paul A. Harrison Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Session of the County of Carville and State of North Carolina, do hereby (illegible) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Berry Hunt for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and Seal of office this 8th day of January [illegible] 1833.
Paul A. Harrison Clk
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February 28, 1933
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Berry Hunt-S.7059

Mr. Joseph Brooks
Pembrooke
North Carolina
Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.7059, based upon the military service of Berry Hunt in that year.
Berry Hunt was born January 3, 1753, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
He enlisted in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, about the first of the year 1776, and served as a private in Captain Samuel Hopkins' Company, Colonel Buckner's 6" Virginia Regiment; length of service about two years.
After the surrender of Cornwallis, he moved to Caswell County, North Carolina.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 8, 1833, while residing in said Caswell County, where he stated that he had resided ever since the Revolution except for two years when he lived in Orange County, North Carolina; the dates of his residence in Orange County, North Carolina, are not given.
There are no data as to his family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Berry Hunt, S.7059, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:
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Berry Hunt. Certificate No. 7085,, issued March 1, 1833, rate $80 per annum. commenced March 4, 1832, Act of June 7, 1832, North Carolina Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.