Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2320, John Payton Horton, Va.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE  Va.

Horton, John Payton

NUMBER S2320

carded

CONTENTS
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22135
Kentucky
John Payton Horton
of Knoxbo in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the com commanded
by Captain Payton of the regt commanded
by " in the Virginia line for 2 years

Inscribed in the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 80 Dollars - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Oct 1833 and Hon R M Johnson

Arrears to the 4th of Sept  200.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 40.00
$240.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 17

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Letter to [illegible] 1st Oct 1840.
[line crossed out]

Duplicate certificate issued [illegible] Oct 1840. and sent to Pensioner 
Barboursville KY
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of June the 7th 1832
State of Kentucky
County of Knox  ss
On this day of   personally appeared before Joseph Eor circuit Judge of the 15th Judicial district including the county of Know John Payton Horton a resident citizen of Lynn Camp Creek in the county  of Knox and State of Kentucky aged 74 years next December who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832
That he was drafted in the militia of the United States in the year 1777 in the fall season of the year Black vol Payton Capt Samuel Jackson Lieut John Ross Ensign Henry Lee Col I was living at the time of this draft which was for 3 months in Prince William County Virginia
The object of this draft was to raise troops to keep Philadelphia from falling into the hands of the Brittish - Before we got to Philadelphia the Brittish had taken it
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we were encamped at a little village the name not remembered, not very far from Philadelphia, we were so near that we could distinctly hear the Brittish cannon fire in Philadelphia - There was a General with the troops where I was stationed but I cannot recollect his name - I did not see Washington this tour though I understood he was stationed not far from us - I remember now my general was named Weiden [?] - I never expected to be called upon to give an accounty upon my oath of those times - from Prince William we marched through Leestown and Frederick's town - I think they called it 140 miles from where I lived to Philadelphia - I recd no written discharge from this service but when my time (3 months) was out I returned home with my Capt Black van Payton - he was called Black to distinguish him from another Capt Payton called White - van Payton
The second time I was drafted was also in the month of Sept I remember corn was getting a little hard, but whether it was in 1778 or 1779 I can not speak positively from the top of memory - this tour was also for 3 months under my former capt Black Von Payton in Prince William County Virginia - this draft
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was to raise men to save the county against the Brittish [British] who had in their shipping ascended the Potomac River - I did not quite serve out this tour but when the Brittish [British] descended the river was discharged but recd a credit for the full 3 months as though it had all been performed - [page torn] not march in this town out of our own county but was employed chiefly in guarding Dunsford and Colchester - Harry Lee was again our Col I recd no written discharge for this service  I now remember that this service was in 1778 because in 1778 I performed another tour of 3 months which I am going to describe - and in the fall afterwards 1780 enlisted for 18 months which expired on the 8th of March after Cornwallis was taken
In my 3d tour for 3 months which I now feel pretty confidence was in the fall of 1779 I was drafted under my former Capt Payton during a considerable portion of this tour I was engaged in cutting out a road thruogh Fairfaxx, Dumfrees, Fredericksburg & Falmouth - we were told that this
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I recd no written discharge for this service
In the fall of 1780 on the 8th of September I enlisted as a private under Capt John Tibbs - Lieut James Matson Ensign (William Metton I believe) Col Lee for 18 months - we rendezvoused at Dumfries in Prince William County Virginia - Thence we marched to Manchester - we encamped there some time - we were alternately marching and encamping in Virginia from the time of my enlistment until my discharge - it is impossible for me to point out our rout we were in Richmond, Falmouth, Williamsburg, Norfolk, and many other places of less general notoriety - I was at Yorktown at the taking of Cornwallis - I believe my regiment was the 25th but I would not be positive - then was a [illegible] of broken Regiments and companies and I may and probably did belong to many other Regiments during this service - I was discharged in Fredericksburgh on the 9 March 1782 - I received a written discharge for this service signed by Col Tolls which I kept until peace was made - when I returned home I shone my charge to Col Payton - Col Ewells and all our leading men in Prince William some years ago I went to the Federal City with
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James Green and examined the records in the War Department for the name of my Capt Tibbs and my own named - but they could not then be found. I then went to Dumfries in search of my Capt and then I learned from Col Tibbs a near relation of Capt Tibbs that my Capt had some year before moved to Kentucky and had died - I then made an application for a pension and proved my service in Culpepper County Virginia by Landy Watten and George Purley - I could also at that time and place have proved my service by George Figgins but I was told by Esquire James Green that two witnesses were sufficient - Charles Shackleford then the states atty prepared my papers - the same papers were [illegible] and sent back by the ar department with a declaration that I was too rich - James Green is now dead - my witnesses was living the last I heard of them but I am now too old and poor to travel to that county again if it is possible to save me this trouble and  expense

My services was in every instance as a private
I was born in Prince William on the Potomac River in
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I was living in Prince William County Virginia when I was drafted and when I enlisted - I lived there until the close of the revolution and moved to [illegible] and then to Culpepper and in January 1831 moved to my present place of residence on Lyman Camp Creek Knox County Kentucky
4th my three first tours of 3 months each was as a draftsman - my last tour of 18 months was under an enlistment
5th General Washington Marquis Lafayette Gen Weiden Gen Morgan and Genl Lincoln I do not remember with certainty the number of any of the regiments with which I served either Militia or continental
6th for the first 3 tours of 3 months each I received no discharge - for my last tour of 18 months I recd a written discharge which was signed by Col Tolls but now lost
7th I am known in my present neighborhood to Jesse Fowler, Jesse Moore William Duese Elijah Harris
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William Mullins *James Moody whom I knew well in Virginia) and many others besides my sons John B & Will Horton who are also my neighbours and who have for 30 years heard me speak of my revolutionary services and who knows the truth of the statement I have made about preparing my proof in Culpepper County Virginia  Philip Burnard now of this county who has lately removed from Culpepper
knows the same facts xx
I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension whatever or annuity expect the present and I declare my name is not on the pension roll of any state or agency
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid

[signed] John Payton Horton

[note on the side of page] all of whom I present would I doubt not testify to my character for veracity
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some years ago that he had served in the revolutionary war a tour of 18 months - we understood that the only cause of the applicants failing to get a pension at that lived was that he was worth too much - we state that the above applicant who has sworn to the foregoing petition is according to our belief 74 years of age - and that he has always been reputed and believed to be a soldier of the revolution in the neighbourhood when he has resided ever since we know him and that he is a credible person and his statements entitled to credit
sworn to and subscribed this da and year aforesaid
[signed] James Moody Philip Burden

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the questions 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 there is no clergyman living in the neighbourhood of the applicant and that James Moody and Philip Burdan who have signed the foregoing certificate are credible persons and their statements are lto credit and that they are resident citizens of Knox County Ken
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Tucky     Joseph Ean Circuit Judge

I James F Ballinger Clerk of the Knox County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Payton Horton for a pension   testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of Sept 1833

[signed]  James F Ballinger Clk
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John Payton Horton
Kentucky

Adm 2 years $80

Hon R. M Johnson
Great Crossing Ky
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, May 30 1833 To: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }) You will when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

[form - 9 columns] A Statement, showing the service of  John Payton Horton Period when the service was rendered/Duration of the claimant's service. years, months, days / Rank of the claimant. / Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom they served. / Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. / Battles in which the applicant was engaged. / Country through which he marched. / Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period / Evidence by which the declaration is supported.

1777/ - 3. - / pri / Cap Payton / 74 years. / Traditionary

1778 or 9 / - 3 - / pri / " " Prince William Co Va

1779 / - 3 - / "/"
1780 / 1-6- / " Cap Tibbs
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[STANDARD FORM]  REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
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[STANDARD FORM]  REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
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August 28, 1934.

BA-J/MMHF/ILL
John Payton Horton
S. 2320

Mr. Robert A. Stewart
The Shenandoah
Richmond, Virginia.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of August 20, 1834, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Payton Horton, of Prince William County, Virginia.

The data herein are obtained from pension claim, S. 2320, based upon service of John Payton Horton.

John Payton Horton was born in December 1759, between Christmas day and New Year's day (exact date not given) "on the Potomac River" in Prince William County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not shown, nor are the names of any brothers or sisters stated; 
[hand written note in margin]  next time I forgot [illegible] year in till typed - 
mmhf

John Payton Horton, while a resident of Prince William County, Virginia, (no town or post office stated), enlisted in the fall of 1777 and served three months as private in Captain Payton's company, Colonel Henry Lee's Virginia regiment; he enlisted in September, 1778, ad served almost three months under the same officers, guarding Dumfries and Colchester; he enlisted in the fall of 1779, and served three months under the same captain. He stated that his captain was called "Black Vol." Payton to distinguish him from another Captain Payton who was called "White Vol." Payton. He did not state whether he was related to either captain; he enlisted September 8, 1780, (rendezvoused at Dumfries, Virginia) served as private in Captain John Tibbs' company, Colonel Henry Lee's regiment, was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and was discharged March 8, 1782.

John Payton Horton resided in Prince William County, Virginia, until after the close of the Revolutionary War, then moved to Fanquier, thence to Culpeper, and in January 1831, moved to Lynn Camp Creek, Knox County.
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Kentucky.

John Payton Horton was allowed pension on his application executed September 27, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Lynn Camp Creek, Knox County, Kentucky.

At the time this soldier applied for pension in 1833, he stated that his sons John B. and Will, were living near him, neighbors. The name of soldier's wife is not shown and there are no further family data.

In 1840, soldier's post office address was Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and, possibly the date of death of the pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:

John Payton Horton
Certificate 29135
Issued October 12, 1833
Rate $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832.
Kentucky agency.

Very Truly Yours,

A.D. Miller
Assistant to Administrator.
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2320 Invalid

Rev war

File No. 2320

John P. Horton
Priv. Va. Line
Act June 7, '32
Index: - Vol. A., Page 175.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1934 Aug 28. Hist to Mr Robert A Stewart MMHF/Ill.
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Barbourville Ky
19th Octr

J.L.Edwards Com of Pen
Washington City
D.C.
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.

County of Knox Kentucky 88.
On this seventeenth day of October 1840, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Knox & State aforesaid personally appeared John Payton Horton who, on his oath, declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Tibbs in the regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Lee in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Kentucky that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the fifth day of September 1840 at or near Barbourville Knox County Kentucky
he lost or mislaid so that he has been unable to find it since thorogh search has been made

[signed] John P  his X mark Horton

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ran Adams J.P.


[standard notes section for the form]
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I certify that Frank Ballinger personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace for Knox county Ky on the 17th October 1840 in the Town of Barbourville and county and state aforesaid and made oath in due form of law that he prepared the original papers of John Peyton Horton upon which he procured a pension that he has been well acquainted with the said Horton ever since and knows him to be the same who subscribed and swore to the within affidavit when upon the opposit side of this paper
I certify that the said Ballinger is a person of veracity given under my hand this day & date above written

[signed] Ran Adams

State of Kentucky
Knox County 
I James F. Ballinger clerk of the county court of Knox county and State of Kentucky certify that Ran Adams whose signature is amended to the two preceding affidavits of John Peyton Horton and Frank Ballinger is a justice of the peace for the county and state aforesaid and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 17th day of October 1840

James F. Ballinger
Clerk of the Court of Knox County Ky.
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[letterhead logo] Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia

Office of the Historian and Genealogist

The Shenandoah, Richmond, Va.
August 20, 1934.

Mrs. E. M. Finch,
Revolutionary Records,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mrs. Finch:

I find in the Report of the Secretary of War, 1835, Pension 3, Kentucky, page 110 the name of John Payton Horton, whose pension began Oct. 12, 1833, in which year he was aged 78. He was then living in Knox Co., Ky.

This John Payton Horton was born in Prince William County, Va. If his pension claim papers are in the Archives I am anxious to know if they contain any reference to his parents, his wife, or bothers and sisters, also the locality of his home in Prince William County. He was probably the son of Snowdell (or Snowden) Horton.

[signed] Robt A Stewart