Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2784, for Israel Mc Bee, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)                                                                                                                                                NUMBER

SERVICE                                                                                                                                                  S 2784
Va                                                                                McBee,  Israel                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                   B. L. Wt. 26413 - 160 - 55

Res. at enlistment, N. C.

CONTENTS
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3120                                                                                                                                  let w claimant s to Pension agent

East Tennessee                                                                                                             Pension ?                                                  June 15 1843

                                                                                                                                             do to Hon W M Cocke                           Dec 3d       45             
Israel Mc Bee
                                                                                                                                              "         "   same                                           Jan 13  1846
of Granger in the State of Tennessee
                                                                                                                                              "         "   same                                            Mar 20 
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
                                                                                                                                              "               Wm Lyon Jr                               "         "     "     "
by Captain Woodson of the Regt commanded
                                                                                                                                               "              A Noel                                         May 7 1846
by Col Bluford in the Virginia

line for 17 month 1779


Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee

at the rte of 56 -- Dollars 66 Cents per annum

to ? on the 4th day of March, 1831


Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Dec 32

care of Gray and sent to Pensioner

Garrett Esq.  Taszwell Ten


Arrears to 4th Sept 1832                                              84.99

Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833          28.33
                                                                                            ------------
                                                                                             $113.32

               
                                                                     Revolutionary Claim
                                                                     Act June 7, 1832


Recordedby Nathan Rice Clerk

Book D           Vol 9                Page 106
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122.895                  Mar. 3/55                                                                                      Cir. P. L . Maynatt Jany 31/56

                                   May 7/55


Israel McBee
                                   Private


Capt Dodson

Col Blandford


Virginia Militia

Ent

Dis

Revolution

No 26 413 of May 6/56


at: 160 acre  My 23/56

B O York


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P. L. Mynatt                                                                                                                     Vol M. 1 page 101

Blains  X Road 

Tennessee
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The State of Tennessee
                                                  SS
County of Grainger


On the twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord

one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before

the Court Office and Quarter Sessions, for the County of Grainger

in the State of Tennessee - the same being as Court of Records,

Israel McBee, a resident of Grainger County, in the state of 

Tennessee, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn

according to Law, doth on his oath make this following declaration

in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made the Act of

Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army

of the United States in the year 1779 with Robert F Walters, and served

in the third Regiment of the Virginia line, and in the following named

officers - to with - Colonel Abraham Bluford, commanded his Reg-

ment.  Hugh Woodson Captain commanded the Company to 
 -
which he belonged, the names of the of the Company Officer, this decla

rant ? now recollect.  That from time in the year 1780 but

left the service.  The he enlisted for eighteen months and after

serving for seventeen months he was taken prisoner, by the British

at the battle of the Hanging Rock in South Carolina - in the

Battle known as Benford's defeat - and was shortly paroled by

C Co. Tarlton the British Commander - his parole his has lost and

can not now produce, the same having been burned many ears

since his father's home  He enlisted in Pytsylvania County

in the state of Virginia, where he resided at the time of

his enlistment.  He states that he was in the battle of the Hanging

Rock, know as Bluford defeat in South Carolina where he

was taken prisoner  He state that in consequence of being taken

prisoner as aforesaid - and his term of enlistment having ?
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while he was on parole he received ? discharged -- He states that

during the period of his service, he was first rendevouzed at Frederick-

burg in Virginia - from thence he was marched to Petersburg in

the ? state, thence to Hillsborough in North Carolina, thence to

Salisbury in North Carolina, then through Charlotte,, thence to

Camden  Soutn Carolina, the n to Nelson Ferry on ? in South 

Carolina, then back to Camden, then to the battle at the Hanging

Rock, whe he was taken a prisoner as foresaid ---


He hereby relinquishes ever claim  whatever to a pension or

annuity excep the present, and he hereby declares that his

name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any state

from to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

                                                 Israel McBee
                                                 (His X Mark)


And the said Court do hereby declares the opinion that

the above named applicant was a revolutonary solder

and served as he states ---


I, John Cocke Clerk of the Court of Pleas  nad

Quarter Session for Grainger County in the state

of Tennessee do hereby certify, that the foregoing

contains the original proceedings of the said

Court in the matter of the application of 

Israel McBee for a pension.


In testimony where of I have hereunto

set my hand and seal of office, this

20th day of August 1832

                                             John Cocke, Clk
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5805

Israel McBee

from 1779 private

17 months

$56.66

East Tennessee
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.                                                                                               5805

BRIEF in the case of Israel McBee

County of Grainger in the State of Tennessee

                                                                              (Act 7th June, 1832.)


1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?

       Court


2.   If before a Judge, does it apppear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

      ------

3.   How old is he?

       72


4.   State his service, as directed in the form annexed

Period                                           Duration of Service.                                               Rank                                      Names of General and Field Officers
                                                                                                                                                                                                 under whom he served

                                                          Years,              Months,           Days.                     As a 

enlisted in 1779                            -----                       17                -------                     Private                                   3rd reg'mt Va. lin
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Col. Abraham Bluford
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Capt. Hugh Woodson


5.  In what battles were he engaged?

     Hanging Rock or Blufords defeat S.C.


6.  Where did he resien when he entered the service?

      Pytsylvania Cty Va


7.  In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
     incidental evidence, or by the rolls?

     by witnesses


8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

       Correct


I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.

                                                                                    F Waugh, Examining Clerk
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State of Grainger
County of Grainger

I certify that ? ? Waggoner Esq. before whom the foregoing

declaration and affidavit was sworn to and whose genuine official signature is thereto attached was

at the time of signing the name a Justice of thhe Peace of and forsaid County and State, and I have no

interest in this claim.  Witness my hand and official seal at Office in Rutledge this         day of

1855                                                                             J. K. Manally
                                                                                       Clerk County C0urt of said County



122.895
Bounty Land Claim
of
Israle Mc Bee, Private
und. Capt Woodson
Col Blandford 1779


Send Warrant Warrant to
P. S. Mynatt
Blains X Road
Tenn
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State of Tennessee

 County of Grainger

 On this 26 day of April A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty five

personally appeared befored me a Justice of the Peace within and partly County and State aforesaid

Israel McBee aged 93 years a resident of Grainger County in the State of Tennessee who being duly sworn

according to law, declare that he is the identical Israel McBee who was a private in the company

commanded by Captain Woodson in the he thinks the 3rd regiment of Virginia militia commanded by

Col Bluford in the war of the revolution with Great Britain from the declaration of Indepen - 
 
dence by the United States, an the 6th of July  A. D. 1776; he was ? for an Ingraham who had

been drafted, that he took said Ingrahams place in ? Sullivian County Virginia on or about the 15th day of July A. D.

1779 for the term of eighteen months, and continued in ? service in said war for the term of fourteen days

and was honorably discharged at Sallisberry in North Carolia on or about the 15 day of December A. D. 1780

being at the time                              ly the enemy having been taken captive by the enemy at Blewfords defeat


He is now pensioner, his certificate is recorded at the pension agency at Knoxville, Tennessee.  He makes

this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act

appeared March 3d 1855.  He also declares that he has not received any bounty land warrant under this

or any other act of Congress, that he has made application for a warrant for services against the Indians raid

? in 1783, 1793, and 1796, but his claim was suspended.  He hereby constitutes and appoints P. L.

Mynatt of Knox County, Tennessee to prosecute his claim and  ? his warrant, ? and

countermanding;  all other authority that may have been given for the above specified purposes.

                                                                                           Israel McBee
                                                                                           (His X Mark)


We John Hancock and Abraham Haynes reside of Grainger County in the State of Tennessee

upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged Israel McBee in our

presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identic-

cal person he represents himself to be.

                                                                                           John Hancock
                                                                                           (His X Mark)

                                                                                            Abraham Haynes


The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me in the

day and year above writen, and I certify that I know the affiant to be credible person, that the claimant

is the person he represents himsel to be and that I have no interest in this claim.

                                                                                           Jehu M Macgraw
                                                                                           Justice of the Peace for Grainger
                                                                                           County Tenn
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Samuel McBee
Deposition
in support of 
Israel Mc bee
for a pension
or to reclaim
his pension
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State of Tennessee

Grainger County


Be it known that on this

12th day of October one thousand eight hundred

and forty three before me John Bullard

a Justice of the Peace in for said County

and state aforesaid personally appeared Israel Mcbee

a citzen of the said county and made oath that

in the monthof                                 the                day a certif - 

cate of pension issued to him granting him a

pension of                                        per annum that has

drawn his pension ever since regularly up to

March 4th 1843 since which time by a 

notice re'd from the commission of pension

the payment of his pernsion has been suspended

for causes which he is unconscious of having 

done any wrong; and in conssequece of a 

new roll of Captian Hughes Woodson Company

having been obtained and his name not having

been found on it, and in order to be ?

- stated on the pension roll and obtain what

he knows to be his rights;  he makes the

following declaration; he states that he was

born in Pittsylvania County in the state of Virginia

and in the year 1761;  and my father moved

in time of the war to what is now Washing-

ton County in state of Tennessee then

it was a county of the Teritory of North Carolina

in 1798 there was a call for men to go under

Colonel Cambell and Selby to gain Macon

? to put down the Tories;  I was the ?

of sixteen years old at the time the men were

ballotted for and it fell to my lot to go;  I being

young and on that account; My father fixed

me with horse saddle bridle & money and sent 

me back to Virginia to Pittsylvania County
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to my relation to stay there a while, for the

purpose of avoiding a tour of service to the

south; I remaind in Virginia

from May 1778 to the 9th of August of the

same year.  Then being a call for Malita

men  and recruiting appears in the county

at the time; 2 was again called on to

go and serve a Malitia tour of service

My friends persuaded me and I  / prefered

doing so to enlist in the eighteen months ser - 

vice;  I did then enlist on the 9th of
 
August 1778 under Captain Cummings and

was sworn in by Col John Nelson  The

a justice of the peace for that county.

Our company was marched from the place

of my enlistment on through Virginia

by                    to Norfolk Virginia there

I was attached to Captain Hughs Woodsons

Company; near the least of November or 

first of December 1778; from Norfolk we

was marched as far North as Phyladephia

remained there perhaps about two weeks and 

the call for men at the south; There 

was thre Redjments of us detailed for

Col Heath; Col Blueford under

Brigader Genl Scott on our southern

March we passd through Alexandria

Dumfries  Fredericksburg  Richmand and

to Petersburg Virginia;  Cols Parker and 

Col Heath Redgements was marched on

to the south and Col Blufords Reg -

ment was order to remain there
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until further orders; Captn Woodson

Company was one of the companies

that composed that Redgment I was 

still attached to it.  About the first of

march 1779 we was ordered on to join the

other attachment that had gone before

under Col Heath and Col Parker at Camden

South Carolina; awhen we started for the south

from Petersburg a circumstance took place

which will account perhaps for my name

not being found on Captn Woodson Roll

there was Waggoner wanted and Odediah

Butts was Waggon Master was ordered

to select Waggoners that understood managing

teams and drivine from the line to take

the charge of several teams;  I having bee

brought up to driving wa one that was

slected to drive; on the March to the 

South and untile the day of battle at

the Hanging Rock where I was taken pris-

oner in South Carolina I did not Muster

in My Company but I was engaged in

the serumage & was taken prisoner

waggon and all; previous to this battle

we joined the Brigade at Camden and was

ordered on to Charlestown in Company

with Col Shows Redgiment to join at

Head Quarters; but could get no further

than a place called Monks Corner

being there interscepted by the Brittish

we was compelld to take retrograde

march up Rocky RIver and at thte

Hanging Rock the place before referd

to we file in with Col Tarltons de-

tachment of Brittish troops a battle

followed and Col Bluford was then  de-
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defeated and all taken prisoners Captain

Woodson was there  My Captain and made

prisoner also;  but as before observed from 

Petersburg Virginia unitl this time  I

did not muster in the line still driving

the waggon but never left my company

being the 24th day of May when this

took place; three days after we were

all parolld by the Brittish Commander

or by his orders on our being sworn

not to take up arms again untill we

were exchanged for in consequence of

which I was not called into service after

my time having expired before any

exhange took plan of Prisoners taken

in the south by the British from this place I

in company of many others returned to Pytsylvania

County in Virginia when we was first

enlisted; Col Tarlton Detachment of light horse

and was the Brittish command that took

as prisoners;  I then remained in Pittsylvania

County untill the latter part of July 17

and returned home to Washington COunty

now in Tennessee in August in going to

Virginia previous to my enlistment I went

by the lead minens as I returned home

twenty two months after I come on by

there it being the nearest and the com-

mon travelling road from that part of

Virginia to the Holstein and Wataugu

settlements in Washington each of there

trips   Mr Elioot Grills was in service

there how long  he served each time I 

do not know I become acquainted
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with him the first time.  I passd and saw

and become betther acquaintance with him

on my return;  and I understood that

he was in the Battle at Guilford and

that tour was out twelve months; I 

am made to say in my Deposition that

I knew he served the tour last ?

to but it was a clerical error.  I have

no doubt honestly made for Dr. Noel

states that although he took down my

Deposition for Squire Conn his 

recollection w that my statement was

that I only understood so and have on

examination of said deposition referd to

corrected the same before Squire Conn

and made it to read as the facts

? the seeming inconsistency of my

statements in the deposition with my

first Declaration besides I was lay-

ing very low with the afflections of old

age and disease of the chest at this 

time and frequently out of my head

about the time of my Deposition was taken

and might have made a wrong state-

ment unintentionally which i know was

the case or that I was misunderstood

The Deposition of Shadwick Hale

and the Deposition of Sameule Mcbee

are all the evidence now living that

I know of or have been able to

obtain W Spradling of the witnesses

is that was sworn on my obtaining my

pension is now dead or it is likely

I could have further explained the
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Fact of my name not being found

on the roll of Captain Woodson

I may in this Declaration have

committed erros in point of dats

for extreme old age laps of memory

and bodily afflection   I find is well

caculated to impari ourmemory it is hope

therefore that the department will exercis

as much charity on my case as is cons - 

stent with Justice; and restore to me

that which according to law I know

is just and not ? me of the

letter ? that it has pleas I the

government to give me for services so

well earnd at a time when I so

much need it for causes or suppose

errors or mistakes never intended to

committed -- all of which is cheerfully

submitted with such evidence hereto

affixed as I have been able to prove

not doubting but the department we

to what they believe to be right.


I will here make one statement

relative to my parole when I arrived

home it was put in my fathers desk and

was lost in the lapse of years and prays

that just may be done here.


Sworn & subscribed this day and year

first above written            Israel Mcbee
                                                  (His X Mark)
before me

John Bullow
Justice of the Peace for
Grainger County
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State of Tennessee
Grainger County

I do hereby certify that Israel Mcbee

who has sworn to the foregoin declaration

and subscribed to the same is on our

oldest and most reputable citizens

and give it as my opinion that he is

entitled to full faith and credit an I 

should say his statements on is entitled

to full faith and credit  I have been

? myself wheterh a few ? of

him and his character for truth and 

integrity is as good as any man

in this settlement where he lives

given under my hand and   I have this

12th day of October 18115  

John Beeler
Justice of the Peace for
Grainger County
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State of Tennesse

Grainger County


Be it known that on the fourth day of October

one thousand eight hundred & forty four personally

appeared before me Jesse F Bealr a Justice of

the Peace in and for said County Samuel 

Mcbee citizen of Claiborne County

and State of Tennessee who being first duly

sworn according to law   The truth to speak

the whole truth and nothing but the truth

touching the matter of the services of Israel

Mcbee a citizen of this county, during the

war of the revolution who has been suspended

from receiving his pension having heen a

pensioner serveral year past      Despoeth

and sayeth as follows to wit viz

That he is seventy three years old

and is well acquainted with Israel Mcbee the

applicant to be reinstated on the pension roll

and his known him from my earliest in - 

fancy to the present day and I very well

recollect his returning him to his father in Washington

County I recollect being his parole he receved from

Colonel Tarlton   I recollect his being exemted from

serving as a meletia man on account of his parrole

His fathers house was burnt and all the papers was

burnt that was in said house

Ques 1    Parson Mcbee please state whether not

it was generally understood during the twenty

two months that he was gone from May

1778 that he was in the regular service

and if the fact was generally known

as such pleas so state and any ?

matters you may recollect


Turn over for the answer
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Answer to the 1st Question

I very well recollect it was known in this country that

He was inlisted in the servics as he has stated and

the knew came to his father house of the defeat of

Collonel Bluford Defeat it was concluded by his father

and mother he was a mong the slain which caused great grief

In the family the contrary was not known tell he returned,

To his fathers house which was attended with great joy

the neighbours all gethered in to see him with his uniform

Dress on in his solder garb and I believe it was in

the latter part of the summer or the first of the fall

Further this deponant sayeth not sworn

and subscribed to the day and year

? above written

Jesse F Beeler                               Samuel McBee ?

Justice of the Peace

for Grainger County



And I furhter certify that Samuel 

Mcbee the deponant who has sworn and

subscribed to the foregoin deposition is

a man of reputable standing in society

is and has been a minister of the

gospel for many yeears known to me

as such and I give, it is my opnion

that any statement he would make on

oath full faith and credit  should be

given and I also certify that the

foregoing testimony and answer was

written down by himself given

under my hand and seal the 4th of

October 1844

                                  Jesse F Beeler

                                   Justice of the Peace 

                                    for Grainger County
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State of Tennessee

Grainger County


And I Edward Tate Clerk of the

County Court of the County of Grainger

and State of Tennessee do hereby certify

that the names John Mullard and

Jesse F Bealer which appears to the

Declaration of Israel Mcbee and to 

the Deposition of Samuel Mcbee and

the certificate thereunto annexed and 

hereto affixed an both Acting Justices 

of the Peace in and for the County

of Grainger aforesaid constitutionary any

Elected Commissioned and sworn

according to the laws of this state

and was acting as such full fiath

and credit should be given to all 

their official acts as such.

In testimony wherof of I have

hereunto set my hand and affixed

my seal of office at office in

the town of Rutledge this 11th 

day of March 1846

Edward Tate

Clerk of County court
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Samuel Mcbee

Deposition

in support of 

Israel Mcbee

for a pension

or to reclaim

his pension
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Rev. & 1812 War Section
An


                                                                                                                                            Nov. 23, 1983



Mrs. John McBee
203 Michigan Ave.
Mobile, Ala.


Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the pen -

sion claim S. 2784, it appears that Israel McBee was born in 

Pittsylvania Co. Va. in 1761.


While living in Washington Co.  N. C.  (later in Tenn.)

his father whose name is not at stated, sent him to relatives

in Pittsylvania Co. Va. where he enlisted August 9, 1776,

Served as a privated and wagoner in Capt. Hughes Woodson's

Company, Col. Abraham Buford's Va. Regiment, was taken pri -

soner in May 1780, at the battle called Buford's Defeat, was 

soon after paroled and returned home 1780.


He was allowed pension on his application executed Au - 

gust 20, 1838, while living in Grainger Co. Tenn.  It is 

not stated whether he was married.


A careful search of the records fails to show a claim

for pension on file on account of the services at any time

prior to 1840, of a Vardry Magby, or McBee, or Mabgly, who

is reported und the last name, as a pensioner residing in

Walker Co. Ala. in 1840.


Office Note:   CW  The man ? up his battles

Bufords Defeat was May 29, 1780 the battle of Waxhaws  - 

Hanging Rock battle was Aug 6, 1780 and soldiers was

then a prisoner or parole.


Nothing said about allegations

as to serving in 1793 etc  Everything

so messed up  & no data
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It is proper to add that the Census of Pensioners of

1840 was compiled from the reportsof the marshals of the

several judicial districts, under the act for taking the

sixth census, and without reference to the archives of this 

Bureau, and it is not always possible to verify the data

contained therein.

Respectfully,


Commissioner.
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1895 Febt 1"   Hist  to                                                Rev War 

John N Southern                                                         2784

Independence, Mo                                                      INVALID
--------------------------
Jany 19, 1905 Hist to                                                  File No. 2784

Mrs. Ina N. Barnett                                                      

Batesville, Ark                                                                Israel McBee
---------------------------
1910 Oct 6   To John P Davis &                                Pvt.  Va. line

1915  Jan 2  Hist to Mrs Esther

M.Money  Cents symbox                                            Act:  June 7, 1832
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1923 Nov 23    Hist to Mrs. J. McBee                      Index: - Vol. A, Page 243

                                                                                              [Arrangement of 1870.]
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S

26413

160 Acres
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5805                          Israel McBee
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(Crossed Out - ET)
                            (Crossed Out - 20th April 1846)




                                                                                                                 10
                                                                                            W J L Edwards
                                                                                            Commissioner of Pensions
                                                                                            Pension Office       City of Washington
                                                                                                                                  D. C.

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                                                                                                                                   Israel McBee
                                                                                                                                   Tenn Mil 32
                                                                                                                                    3123


Rutledge Tenn

April 23

No. 2 40
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Red Hill  P O E Tenn
                                           20th of April 1845



Dear Sir

Please state to me in anser

to theis at what time the evidence

came to hand for the Declaration of 

Israel Mcbee to his pension

if restored and at what date a

favorable descision was made and

pleas ? to me informing me

as is your usual practice in all

matters where I have been agent

I wish all matters that are sent on 

by me if you pleas:  the descision 

?  appertaining to the claims sent

to me I have been

the interferance of other persons

I thank Co. Cocke for his keen ?

aid whre it is derserving but all the

men that are pensioners are not 

highly honorable about paying expense

you will perfectly understand

my meaning; pleas write

amediately with High Esteem

Yours Truly


A Noel


JL Edwards Esq

Commisssioner of Pensions
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(Black Ink Stamp)
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                                                                    The Hon. Secretary of War
                                                                     Washington City
                                                                     District of Columbia


Ten
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Pension declartion of Israel McBee
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.                                                    Taswell, Tennessee,  August 25th 1832



The Hon. Secratary of War

? you my declaration and documents to obtain

a pension under the act of Congress of 7th June 1832.  Direct your

answer to "Israel McBee Tazwell Tennessee to the Cav Greg

Garrett Esquire - " this is the nearst post office to me.

                                                       Respectfully yours,

      
                                                        Israel McBee




The Hon. Secretary of War
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Israel McBee

for 

Mr Edwards






Hon W. M. Cocke

V 02
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.                                                                         Washington City
                              
                                                                          January14th 1846


Sir:

Upon the 15th June 1843 the pension of Israel

McBee. (paid at the Knoxville Tenn Agency) was

suspended because his name did not appear upon

the Roll of Captain Hugh Woodson company, in which

he states tat acted during the revolution. - there is a 

regulation of the department ? this deficiency

to be suppled by the testimony of two suitable witness

proving the time the applicants entered the service and the

time he left at this proof I think you will find ample

upon a rexamination of the papers - - Mr. McBee states

in his petition, that he entered the service of the United 

States in 1779 and that he served volunteer monthy when
 
was latter a prison by the British as the Battle of

the Hanging Rock -- Mr Waller & Spaulding state that

Mr. McBee entered the service with then in 1779 that he

with them will be an taken a prisoner at

said battle - which it will be found took place in

1780. -- In the Certificate of the Clerk you will find that

his character is well authenticated  ---- I wish you

to ? the case andif the proof will
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warrant, you will replace his name upon the Pension

Roll and pay him from the time his pension was

suspended.  If ? you ? to so, you will

please give me a copy of letter suspending his pension, with

a statement of the Amount of his yearly pension

                                              Your respt


                                               Wm M COcke
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The State of Tennessee
                                                 SS
County of Grainger


Be it remembered, that at a Court of Please and Quarter

Session, for said County being a Court of Record held at Rutledge is

said County upoin this 20th day of August 1832.  Personaly appeared

in Open Court, James Sprading aged Eighty aged Eighty three years, who

being first duly sworn, according to Law, dowth on his oath deposes to

the following facts, to wit - - That in the year 1779 - he was a regular sol - 

dier in the United States Army - in the third Regiment of the Virginia line

commanded by Colonel Abraham Bluford and that he served

five years - that he knew personally and was well acquainted with

Israel McBee who hath this day applied for a pension & who served as a

private soldier in said Regiment and

Captian Hugh Woodson's Comany.  That said McBee, served in said Regiment

seventeen month,  as a privete soldier, that said Israel McBee was in

the Battle at the Hanging Rock, in North Carolina, when he under

stood the said Israel McBee, was taken prisoner by the British forces

as he never saw said McBee again in the service - 

from to and subscribed, this day and year aforesaid -- 

P. S. Cocke, D. C.


James Spradling
(His X Mark)


And there upon Obadiah Wlters, aged sixty two years befing here

Personally before said Court and being first duly sworn according to Law

doth on his aoth deposes to the following facts to wit -- The he was acqu - 

ainted with Israel McBee who hat thid day --- made a declaration

as a solder of the Revolution, to obtain a spension.  That eh wa s acquain - 

ted with said McBee at the time of the enlistment.  That he enlisted

in Pystsylvania County in the Common wealth of Virginia for

eighteen months -- That some time after said McBee return - 

ed from the service he saw in his possesion a part to the said
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Israel McBee purporting to ?           by Colonel Tarlton

a British Commander -- 

From to and subscribed, the day and year afores

                                                      Obadiah Walters
                                                      (His X Mark)



And the said Court do hereby declrare, their apearance

to be that the above named James Spradling and

Obadiah Walters are men of good character, and

entitled full faith and credit upon oath


I John Cocke Clerk of said Court do hereby

certify that the foregoing contains the origin - 

ald affidavits of James Spradling - in rela - 

tion to the application of Israel Mc Bee for 

a pension under the act of Congres often

7th June 1832 and the opinion of the Court 

there on


In testimony where of I have hereunto

set my hand seal of Office this 20th 

day of August 1832

                                         John Cocke, clk
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I ? and M Cocke of the County of Grainger and

State of Tennessee do hereby certify that I am personally

acquainted wiht Obadiah Wallen the ? deponent

and that he is a man of veracity and any statement 

that he would make is entitled to credit

Feby 23rd 1846
                                              Wm M Cocke
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BRIEF objections to admissions of Pension Claims, of which those

answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of

Israel McBee which require

further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

       Yes


II.  Did the declarant make the declaraton in the county where he resides?

       Yes


III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county whre he resides, is there any reason
   
        assigned for his not doing so?   ---------


IV.   Has the declarant mentioned the period of the war when he served?

         Yes


V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he

        served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension

        he is entitled?

        Yes


VI.  Has he give tne names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

       Yes


VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other person that the one under the Act of 
 
         June 7, 1832?

          Yes


VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?

          Yes


IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?

         Yes


X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguisehed

      form any other seal?

      Yes
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.                                                                                                   2

XI.    Has the applicant obtained the evidene of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to

          their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolu - 

           tionary service?  

            No.


XII.    If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, it there any reason assigned for not obtain
           ing it?

           No

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one

          living witness, has he staetd in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

           Credible witnesses


XIV.  +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to has servie, has the magistrate who

            administered the oath certfied that he,  she, or they are persons of credibility?  Yes

            Has the official charcter and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under

            his seal of office? -----


XV.  Does it appear from any o fthe papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,

         as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
 
         Yes


XVI.  ++ Are the papers authenicated as the regulation direct?

          Yes


XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories presecibed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  Andd
   
           If not, which of them is not so answered? 12



                                                                            EXPLANATORY NOTES.

QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss ofmemory, state precisely, how

                      long he served, he should ammend his declaration by making an affidavit in th following:

                      "Pesronally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being

                       duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he

                        cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recol - 

                        lection he served not less than the periods mention below, and in the following grades:  For -----

                       year ---------- months and ------------- days, I served as a --------------.  For -------------- months

                       and----------- days, I served as a ---------------------; and for such service I claim a pension."
Page 39

.                                                                                                   3

It is important in all cases to determin with precision the period for which the applicant served,

and the particular rank he held, as the law directs and pension to be paid according to the grade of

the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is otoo

indefinite, and all such qualifying expression are objectionable.


+QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.

In a acase where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he

must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in theif affidavits

the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as

well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged.  The magistrate who may adminis - 

ter the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witness, and the official character and signature

of the magistrate mus be certified by the proper officer under his seal of office.


+QUERE XVI.  Mode of aunthenticating papers.

In evey instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated in papers is not

writien on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the

certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must

pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any papers from being im - 

properly attched to the certificate.
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Dec 19 . 1845

Papers sent


Com J. L. Edwards 

Commissioner

Washington 

DC
Page 41

.                                                                                           Washington City

                                                                                             House of Rep

                                                                                              Decr. 12th 1845




Hon. J. L Edwards



Dear Sir


Herewith I send you the

delcaration of Margaret Bogle, widow of Joseph

Bogle deceased and the accompanying proof in order

to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7th 1838.

You will please examine the papers, and advise of 

the result of your examination.


I  a revise send yo the letter

of Mr Toole asking informaton with regard to the claim

of Mrs Mackery of Blount County  E. Ten, you will

confer a favor by informing what is necessary to 

establish that claim.


I must ask of you the favor to 

furnish me a copy of the declaration of Israel

McBee a revolutionary soldier paid at the Knoxville Ten.

Agency to 10th June /63 and likewise a copy of the proof

establishing his claim an I desire to obtain a specail

act of Congress for his relief.

                                                    With great respect

                                                            I am

                                                      Your obt Sert

                                                      Wm Cocke


Hon

J. L. Edwards
Page 42

DE '45

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Commisssioner of Pensions

Washington City

D. C.


Israel McBee

Kentucky


Mr. W. M. Cocke
Page 43

Washington CIty
                                                                                                                                             House of Reps         Decr 2nd 1845



Hon J. L. Edwards


Dear Sir

You will please inform

why it was that Israel McBee a Revolutionary
                                                                                                                  
soldier,  paid at the Knoxville Tennessee Agency

has been stricken from the list of Pensioners; he

has been a pensioner formany years but for some

unknown cause hs pension was suspended on the

15th June 1843.  I am personally acquainted

with him, he is a man venerable in years, and 

where know universally considered, a worthy

receipent of the Boon of a nations gratitude.


                                                     With great respect

                                                     I have the Honor to

                                                      be you obt sevt

                                                      Wm Cocke


Hon 

J. L. Edwards
Page 44

Red Hill  P O E  Tenn
15th March 1846
Grainger County



                                                                       ? J L Edwards
                                                                       Commissioner of Pension
                                                                       Pension Office of the U.S.
                                                                       City of Washington  DC



Israel McBee                                                                                                                                       20
be Restored to                                                                                                                                   March 26, 1846
Pension:                                                                                                                                               Appn
Revolutionary Claim                                                                                                                       Israel McBee
                                                                                                                                                                 to be restored to Roll
Page 45

Red Hill Grainger County E Tenn
                                                        15th of March 1846


Dear Sir

I know enclose the papers 

of Israel Mcbee to be restored to

his pension which has been

witheld from a ?  ? in 

a deposition that he gave in support

of the claim of Elliott Gulls; if

it shoudl turn out that the objection

able part of his Deposition was in 

relation to the twelve months 

tour of service Mr Mcbee has

fully explaind wawy the error  and

I have the Brief of Guells testimony

which fully accords with the present

Declaration; whichis that he

understood tht Gulls served twelve

months tour of service and

not that he knew the facts of 

his own knowledge and will

explain how he obtain his information.

I am sattisfied myself that the old

man intended nothning but what was

strictly correct  The wod understood

having been left out;  the Deposition

of W Hale and Samuel Mcbee

affixed and declaration are all

herewith subscibed; when he 

drew up the Declaration for Restoration

he had not his certificate and ?

not given the date refere to

the left hadn pages of the letter
Page 46

But if necessary to                the date

of certificate it can supposed

pleas inform me as his agent

at this office;  Red Hill  whether

he will be restord or not at as

early a date as may be consestant

the press of ? your with

High Esteem     

                                A Noel

                               Agent for

                              Israel Mcbee
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State of Tennessee
Washington County,

Be it know that on 

the 25th day of September one thousand eight

hundredn and forty three personally appeared 

before me Valentine Levin a Justice of 

the Peace in and for the Count and

state of foaresaid Shaddwick Hale a citizen

of said County who beinf first duly sworn

on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God

the truth to speak the whole truth

and nothing but the truth touching 

the matter of the services in the war

of the revolution of Israel Mcbee

of Grainger County, deposeth and sayeth

that he is aged eighty four years next

years  and that in the year

1776 (?)   My father moved out to what is now

Washington County in Tennessee and

landed at the Buffalo Ridge within 

about twelve miles of the place I now

live ? the day before or the day after

christmas of that year;  and as I ?

understood Israel Mcbee was in the

servce of the united states in the south

I think in the regular services and I 

was ? to the Country every when

and about the year seventeen hundred

and excepts in the fall or spring of the 

year he returned home to this county

and visited my father in three or 

four days after he got home, and 

he resided here a number of years after

before he moved to Grainger County

and he is the Identical man that 

lived here at the time referd to

and the man understood to be in the service
Page 48

Ques 1

W Hale pleas state if at a 

very early date you did or did not hea

it proven in Open Court that he was

in the regual service and tht said

Mcbee was sworn in as a doldier of

the revolution


Answer  

I did  her the Question asked

asked and proved that he was a sworn

in soldier; and in the regular

services in the canoe trial; in this

state some years after he returned

from the services; for it was get

troublesome times and no man was

allowed to give evidence in court

unless he had take the oath of 

allegiance and took a certificate as

I then understod the law to be

There are many circumstances that 

sattifies me that he served some

eighteen months or longer from

general information and what was

understood at the time he was gone

and that he was taken presoner in the south


Question 2 

W Hale please state what

the general character of Israel Mcbee

was for truth integrity and is 

he was entitled to full faith and

credit on oath; and if you ever

heard it douted about his serving his

time out and if he was paroled when taken prisoner


Answer

as far as I know he alwy

stood fair in repsect to his character

for truth and integrity and

I never did hear a doubt sxpresed
Page 49

by any person but what he served

his time out and several circumstances

makes me  know severed his time

out for his services was a matter notorious

and that he was taken pesoner at ?

Hanging Rock in South Carolina


Question 3

Pleas state W Hale 

Whether or not you served a 

a tour at the lead menes in Virginia

the fall  before you left Virginia 

the fall before you left Virginia in

1778; and under whom and whether

you saw Israel Mcbee as he went on to

Virginia where he enlisted


Answer

I did serve a tour 

of three months under William Watts

at the lead mines and I saw Mcbee

as he went on to Virginia Olitt

? was in service  at the lead ? at the time refor to deponant sayeth

not; sworn and subscribed to this day and

year first above written

Valentin Irvin     SEAL                        Shadrack Hail

Justice of the Peace


And I Valentine Levin do further

certify that Sharick Hale the deponent

who has sworn and subscribed to the

foregoing deposition relative to the

services of Israel Mcbee as a soldier

of the Revolution is a man of high

respectability of good Moral character

and his statement in my opinion is

every ? worthy of full faith and credit

and I further certify that the foregoing

deposition was corretly taken down

in the witnesses, own words given

under my hand and seal this

24th day of September 1843

and that eight words third live on last page of the

deposition was undersigned

before assigned

 Valantine Irwin   Seal

Justice of the Peace for

Washington County
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

Personally appeared 

before me Valentine Irwin a Justice

of the Peace James Woods and Jane 

House & Nancy House Respectable citizen of said

County known to me as such and 

made oath in due form of law and

state that they are well acquainted

with Shadrick Hail the deponent

who has sworn and subscribed to the

foregoing deposition relative to the

services of Israel McBee and state

that from a great many years acquaint -

tance with the said Hail they would

give him full credit on oath and 

that his of good moral character

and entitled to the confidence of

the whole community given under

my hand and seal this 24th of 

September 1843

                    Valentine Irwin            S

                   Justice of the Peace
                   for Washington County
Page 51

Shadrick Hardy

deposition in

support of the claim

of Israel Mc'bee

?

pension
Page 52

State of Tennesse

Washington County 


I Saml Greer Clerk of

the County court of said County and

hereby certify that Valentine Gowen

who certifies that foregoing Depositions

was at the time an acting Justice

of the Peace for said county duly

commissioned and qualified and that

full faith and credit are due and

should be given to all his official

acts as such given under my

hand & seal of Office at Office

in ?  the

14th  Nov 1893

Saml Greer Clk
Page 53

I. N. BARNETT                        J. F.  BARNETT                                  C. A. BARNETT,                                         W. M.  BALL,
PRESIDENT                             VICE - PRESIDENT,                          SECRETARY,                                               TREASURER

                                                                         Barnett Bros. Mercantile Co.                    R

O.W. & N                                                                        DEALERS IN

                                                                               General Merchandise

                                                                                                      Batesville, Ark.      Jan 4" 1905

Pension Department

Washington, D. C.


(Black Ink Stamp.)
U.                              S.
OLD WAR & NAVY
JAN 9 1905
FILES


Sirs:

In tracing

My genealogy, in order that

I may prove my eligi - 

bility to the Daughters of 

the American Revolution, I 

find, by correspondence

with a great uncle that

Israel McBee is the name

of the relative who served

in the Revolutionary Army.

This great uncle is a grand 

sond of Israel McBee and

he writes that his (Israel Mc

Bee) ame is o the muster

Rolls and a recod of hi

servie as a soldier in the
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I. N. BARNETT                        J. F.  BARNETT                                  C. A. BARNETT,                                         W. M.  BALL,
PRESIDENT                             VICE - PRESIDENT,                          SECRETARY,                                               TREASURER

                                                                         Barnett Bros. Mercantile Co.                    R

O.W. & N                                                                        DEALERS IN

                                                                               General Merchandise

                                                                                                      Batesville, Ark.


Army must be in the office

of the War Dart ment

at Washington, other iwse

he could not have drawn

a pension from the

Government.  His pension

check amounting to $8.00 per

month was always made

payable to him at Knox - 

ville, Tennessee.


Will you please be so

kind as to examine the rec -

ords in your charge and

give me any information

you may gain, as I am 

anxiously awaiting same .

Very Respt,

Lockie Ball Barnett

Mrs. Ira Nelson Barnett
Page 55

OFFICE OF
JNO. P. DAVIS
LAWYER

                                                                                         Tazewell, Tenn
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                           3/30/1916



The Commissioner of Pension,

Washington, D. C.


Sir: ---

I want to learn the military record of Israel McBee, who

whas a soldier in the war o the Revolution, who drew a pension

from the U. S. Government as such soldier, and who died in Union

County, Tenn.  about the year 1856.  The present County seat of

Union County is Maynardville, and that was most likely his post

office, but I am not sure about that.


This information is sought for the purpose of enabling 

some of his desendents to become members of the D.A. R., and

not for the purpose of founding any claim against the United 

States Government.


A few days since I wrote to the War department in regard

to this matter, and ahve been informed that I would be more likely

to obtain the information from your office, as the records of

the Revolutionary war are not very complete.

                                                        Truly yours,


                                                        John A. Davis


Dict.

                                                          (Black Ink Stamp)
                                                           OCT 4 - 1910
Page 56

Rev Ser
C

                                                                                             (Crossed Out - 1207 N. Main Street)

                                                                                              (Crossed Out - Bloomington, Ill) Heyworth, Ills

                                                                                              December 26, 1914



Commissioner of Pensions,

Washington, D. C.



Dear Sir:

In order to prove my eligibility to membership in the

D. A. R., I aksed you to send me the military record of Israel

McBee.  To aid you in finding this,  I herein hand you a copy

of the facts, which I understand you gave to another of his de - 

scendants in another State:

" I. S. C. Serv. File 2784.

Enlisted Aug. 9, 1778 and Nov.of Dec. 1778. Was
a private and wagoner.  Served until taken prisoner at
Buford' defeath May 29, 1780, after which he was paroled.

He enlistedin Washington Co. Tenn., then N. C.

Applied for pension Aug. 20, 18332.  His claim was al -
lowed, resided in Granger Co.

He was born in 1761 in Pittsylvania,, Va"


Captain Daniel Huddleston served in the Revolution as 

a captin in Washington's army.  His son, David, also served as

a prviate in the company of his father, Capt. Daniel Huddleston,

and I also want the military records of both.


These records are desired solely for the purpose of be - 

ing used in showin the eligibility of myself and family to mem -

bership in the D. A. R., and not for any purpose to prove any

aliam agains the United states government,

                                                 Your respectfully,


                                                   Ellen M Mooney
Page 57

.                                                                    Mobile, Alabama

                                                                      Oct. 14, 1923.



United States Pension Bureau

Revolutionary Department,

Washington, D. C.


Dear Sirs:

Please send me copies of the pension papers for

the Revolutionary services of the following:

Vardry Madby (sometimes spelled McBee) who was living in

Walker County, Alabama, June 1, 1840

Israel McBee, who was Living in Grainger County, Tenn, June

1, 1923.


I want data as to family history and war ser -

vices contained in the above to use for historical pur -

purposes.

Very truly


Mrs. John McBee
 
202 Michigan Avenue, 

Mobile, Alabama.



Notes to the left side of page

Magby
is spelling
on 1840
list 
AE 102
residing
with 
Robt Magby


No such
claim 
2 letter com
searched 
aw