Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39250, Jacob Butt, Va.

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SERVICE Va Butt, Jacob NUMBER S 39250

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[Begin crossed out text] 4680 [End crossed out text] 
Virginia 
Jacob Butt of Botetourt in the State of Va: who was a pr: in the Compy commanded by Captain Bawyer of the Regt commanded by Col: Campbell in the Va: line for 18 months from 1779 - 
 
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 60 Dollars – Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
 
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jan: 3[illegible] and Sent [?] Hon. R. Craig, House of Reps. - 
Arrears to 4th Sept 1832.   		        90- 
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Mar: 33   30- 
                              		[Total]        $120- 
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 7 [or 9] Page 124.

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Original Claim 
Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the act of the 18th March 1818 
Couty of Botetourt Sct 
On this the 11th day of June 1832 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County aforesaid Jacob Butt resident in Said County aged Seventy Eight years Who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & the first of May 1820 that he the said Jacob Butt entered the army in the War of the Revolution against our common enemy in the fall of the Year 1779 in the State of Virginia in the Company Commanded by Capt Thomas Bowyer in the regiment Commanded by Colo. Richard Campbell in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the Said Corps for the full term of Eighteen Months during which time he was in the battle at Guilford Court house & at Camden and Several Skirmishes when he was discharged from the Service at Camden in the State of South Carolina in the year 1781 that he hereby relinquishes every Claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of Virginia and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension to Wit that untill [sic] very recently he lived with a relation who was in good circumstances and in whose house he lived for a great number of years as one of the family Occasionally assisting in the labours of the farm and that his relation departed this life about two years ago since which time he has been and is now dependant [sic] upon the Charity and beneficence of the legatees of his deceased relation for

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a Support and in pursuance of the act of Congress past [sic] the first day of May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I Was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or in any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is Contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed – that Since the 18th of March 1818 no changes have been made in my property 
Jacob his X mark Butt 
The following is a Schedule of the property of Jacob Butt to Wit “One horse beast worth $45 Jacob his X mark Butt 
This 11th day of June 1832 Jacob Butt personally made oath in open court that the above Schedule hereto annexed and by him Subscribed Contains the truth to the best of his knowledge and belief  
tesa HW Bowyer Clk. B. County 
Virginia Alleghany County 
This day Jacob Lemmon personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Alleghany aforesaid and made oath that Jacob Butt of Botetourt Virginia Served as a private Soldier in the revolutionary War for the term of Eighteen months under Thomas Bowyer as their Captain and Richard Campbell as their Coln. as a Soldier in the Service of the United States in the Virginia line that Said Jacob Butt entered the Service

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in the latter part of the year 1781 at Camden in South Carolina and the Said Jacob Lemmon further certifies that he frequently Saw Said Butt when in the Said Service under the command of the said officers Given under my hand and Seal this 17th day of april 1832  
Isaac Steel  Seal 
 
I Isaac Steel a Justice of the peace (as above stated) for the county of Alleghany do hereby certify that Jacob Lemmon whose certificate is hereunto annexed is a man of respectability and entitled to full credit Given under my hand and seal this the 17th day of April 1832 
Isaac Steele Seal 
 
Virginia Botetourt County to Wit 
This day George Lemmon personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Botetourt and made oath that Jacob Butt of the Said County of Botetourt (his neighbour) served with him as a soldier in the revolutionary war in the defence [sic] of his country under Thomas Bowyer as their Captain and Richard Campbell as their Colo (in the 12th regiment of the Virginia line) that the said Butt entered the army in the latter part of the year 1799 and was subsequently discharged at Camden in S. Carolina in the year 1781 the Said Lemmon further deposeth and Saith that he Served a tour of duty with the said Butt under the same officers and in the Same regiment Given under my hand and Seal this 3rd day of July 1832 
Nash L Pitzer  Seal 
 
Virginia Botetourt County 
I Nash L Pitzer a Justice of the peace for the said county of Botetourt do certify that the within George Lemmon whose affidavit is hereto annexed is a respectable man and entitled to the fullest credit as a man of [begin crossed out text] honesty [end crossed out text]

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probity and truth Given under my hand & Seal this the 11th day of April 1832 
Nash L Pitzer  Seal 
 
Virginia Botetourt County to Wit 
I Henry W Bowyer Clerk of the Couty Court of Botetourt do hereby Certify that it appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the Said Jacob Butt did Serve in the Revolutionary War as Stated in the preceeding [sic] declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of Eighteen months under one engagement on the Continental establishment I also Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is in the Opinion of the Said Court that the total amount in Value of the exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty five dollars 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Said Court on this 15th day of June 1832 – [serrated circular seal is attached]  
HW Bowyer clk 
of the court of the county of Botetourt 
 
[Written vertically at the bottom left of the page] 
Pen: to com: June 15. 1832 
$8 per mo 
act March 18. 1818 
 
Hon. R. Craig HR

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[This is a typewritten letter] 
 
December 11, 1933 
 
Pearl C. Hubbard 
Arrow Rock 
Missouri 
 
JACOB BUTT 
S. 39250 
BA-J/MLB 
 
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Butt, of Botetourt County, Virginia, and the record of a Joseph Evans who served in the War of 1812 from New Jersey or New York and died in Washington County, Missouri, about 1863.  
 
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension made to the United States based on military service of soldiers in those wars. 
 
A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension on file on account of the War of 1812 service of the Joseph Evans (under any spelling of the surname) as described by you. 
 
You are furnished below the history of the only soldier named Jacob Butt found in the Revolutionary War records of this office; the data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 39250, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution. 
 
The date and place of soldier’s birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim. 
 
Jacob Butt enlisted in the fall of 1779 in Virginia, served as private in Captain Thomas Bowyer’s company, Colonel Richard Campbell’s Virginia regiment, was in the battles of Guilford Court House, Camden and in several skirmishes, and was discharged sometime in 1781 after having served eighteen months. 
 
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 11, 1832, at which time he was seventy-eight years of age and a resident of Botetourt County, Virginia.

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[This is a typewritten letter] 
 
Jacob Butt died August 8, 1838, place not stated. 
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children. 
 
Very truly yours, 
A.D. HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator

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Jacob Butts 
$60 per ann 
 
Hon.  R. Craig H.R

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Montgomery C. H. July 27th 1832 
 
D. Sir, 
The enclosed papers have been forwarded to me from Washington, since my return home. I wish you to consider them, & to make any communications which may be necessary, relative to them, to the Clerk of Botetourt County Va 
Respectfully 
R. Craig 
J. L. Edwards Esq.

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[This page is divided into two sections, a left and right side] 
[Left side section] 
 
Virginia 20.460 
Jacob Butt 
Of Botetourt in the State of Virginia who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Bowyer of the Regt commanded by Colonel Campbell in the Virginia line, for the term of 18 months from 1779 to 17 
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15th day of June 1832 
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Jan: 33 
and sent to Hon: R. Craig, House of Reps. 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  [$] 18.66 
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 
4 March 1833		            [$] 48— 
                [Total]             $56.66 
{Revolutionary Claim,  
Acts March 18, 1818. 
May 1, 1820. 
March 1, 1823.} 
Recorded Book D vol. 7 page 92. 
by Nathan Rice clerk 
 
[Right side section] 
 
let: 29 Jun: 1833. to Pension 
agent. Richmond Va 
Dead 
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 8 Aug 1838 the day of his death Agt 
Notified 5 June 1839

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
Second Comptroller’s Office, 
May 18th, 1839. 
Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th April, 1838 entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” The admor of Jacob Butt, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va, Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars [begin crossed out text] and Cents [end crossed out text] per [begin crossed out text] annum [end crossed out text] month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838 to the 8th August, 1838, the day of his death. 
Respectfully, yours,  
J. Seaver 
acting Comptroller 
To the Commissioner of Pensions,  
Present.

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[This page contains a circular stamp that reads:] 
RECEIVED/ NOV 22 1933/ MAIL SUB-DIV/ VETS. ADM/ [illegible] 10 
  
Arrow Rock, Mo 
November 19, 1933 
Veterans Administration 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sirs, 
From “Rev. Soldiers of Virginia” of Va Library, I find that only one Jacob Butt of Botetourt County Va. was a Rev. Soldier and drew a pension. I believe it was 244 will you please send me what data you have on this. 
Also please tell me from your records if Joseph Evans who died in Missouri about 1863 fought in the War of 1812 from New Jersey or New York and drew a pension. He died in Washington County Missouri 
Thanking you I am  
Very truly yours 
Pearl C. Hubbard

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[This page contains two stamps, one rectangular (upside down), one circular] 
 
[Rectangular stamp reads:] 
U S /[illegible] Navy/ SEP 24 1891/ [illegible] ES 
 
[Circular stamp reads:] 
 PENSION/ US/ SEP/ 22/ 1891/OFFICE. 
 
CB Titus DC 
Sept 21 1891 
Jacob Buttz NJ 
1812 
Michael Robt Buttz

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[This is a typewritten letter] 
Refer in reply to following: 
Department of the Interior 
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 1891. 
The Honorable 
Commissioner of Pensions. 
Sir:- 
I desire to obtain such information as your office can afford me in regard to the record of my grandfather’s grandfather, Jacob Buttz. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, from Northern New Jersey, now known as Blairstown, Warren County. He was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware and took Trenton. 
Also, I wish to obtain the record of my grandfather’s father, Michael Robert Buttz, who was a soldier in the War of 1812. He may have enlisted from Portland, Pa., or from the region near the Delaware Water Gap.  
By causing the above information to be sent to me, you will greatly oblige, 
Yours very truly,  
C. B. Titus. 
Office of Indian Affairs, 
City.

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Bureau of Pensions. 
Replying to your leter [sic] asking for a statement of the [illegible] or if Jacob & Michel [sic] Robert Buttz you are informed that only one left for pl for ser in the Rev War has been found in the na of Jacob [begin crossed out text] Bullz [end crossed out text] Butts or Buttz He was a pri in Capt [begin crossed out text] Boyers [end crossed out text] Bowyer’s Co Col Campbells Reg of the Va line and served 18 months.

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Applied for pension from [begin crossed out text] Botetuart [end crossed out text] (Botetourt Co.) Va June 11 32.  
Died [begin crossed out text] Aug 8 - [illegible] 8 [end crossed out text] Aug 8 – 38 
Set If it is ho[illegible] 
also dat 
cur. MR [or Nik] B

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This is the only Jacob Bull or Buttz 
[begin crossed out text] Servic[illegible] for [illegible] [end crossed out text] 
Furnish name of wid of MR Butz

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[This page is divided into three sections, a left, middle, and right side] 
 
[Left section] 
Hist 
[illegible] 5. [or S.] 
 
[Middle section] 
39250 
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 39 250 
Jacob Butt 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 63 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
 
[Right section] 
1892 Jany 14 
To CB Titus C 
1933, Dec 11 – Hist to Pearl C Hubbard – MLB

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Original Claim 
Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the act of the 18th March 1818 
County of Botetourt SS 
On this the 9th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county aforesaid Jacob Butt resident in said County aged Seventy Eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & the first of May 1820 that he the said Jacob Butt entered the army in the War of the Revolution against our Common enemy in the fall of the year $1779 [sic] in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captn. Thomas Bowyer in the regiment commanded by Colo. Richard Campbell in the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment that he continued to Serve in the said Corps for the full Term of Eighteen months during which time he was in the Battle at Guilford Court house and at Camden and Several Skirmishes when he was discharged from the service at Camden in the State of South Carolina in the year 1781 – that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his name of not on the roll of any State except the State of Virginia and that the following  are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension to wit – that untill [sic] very recently he lived with a relation who was in good Circumstances and in whose house he lived for a Great number of years as one of the family occasionally assisting in the labours of the farm and that his relation departed this life about two

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years ago since which time he has been and is now dependant [sic] upon the Charity and benificence [sic] of the Legatees of his deceased relation for a Support and in pursuance of the Act of Congress past [sic] the first day of May 1820. I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed  
That since the 18th of March 1818 no changes have been made in my property 
Signed Jacob his X mark Butt 
The following is a Schedule of the property of Jacob Butt to wit 
One Horse beast worth $45 Signed Jacob his X mark Butt 
This 9th day of July 1832 Jacob Butt personally made oath in open Court that the above Schedule hereto annexed and by him Subscribed Contains the truth to the best of his knowledge and belief 
Teste HW Bowyer clk B County 
Virginia Alleghany County to wit 
This day Jacob Lemon personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Alleghany aforesaid and made oath that Jacob Butt of Botetourt Virginia served as a private soldier

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in the revolutionary War for the Term of Eighteen months under Thomas Bowyer as their Captain and Richard Campbell as their Colo. as a Soldier in the Service of the United States in the Virginia line that said Jacob Butt entered the Service in the latter part of the year 1779 and was discharged in the year 1781 at Camden in South Carolina and the Said Jacob Lemon further certifies that he frequently saw said Butt when in the said Service under the Command of the said officers Given under my hand and Seal this the 17th day of April 1832 
Isaac Steel  Seal 
I Isaac Steel a Justice of the peace (as above Stated) for the County of Alleghany do hereby certify that Jacob Lemon whose certificate is hereunto annexed is a man of respectibility [sic] and entitled to full credit Given under my hand and Seal this 17th day of April 1832 -  
Isaac Steel Seal 
 
Virginia Botetourt County to Wit -  
This day George Lemon personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said county of Botetourt and made oath that Jacob Butt of the said county of Botetourt (his neighbour) served with him as a soldier in the revolutionary War in the defence of his Country under Thomas Bowyer as their Captain and Richard Campbell as their Colo. (in the 12th regiment of the Virginia line) that the Said Butt entered the Army in the latter part of the year 1779 and was Subsequently discharged at Camden in South Carolina in the year 1781 – the said Lemon further deposeth and saith that he served a tower [sic] of duty with the Said Butt under the same officers and in the same regiment Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of April 1832 
Nash L Pitzer Seal

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Virginia Botetourt County 
I Nash L Pitzer a Justice of the peace for the Said County of Botetourt do certify that the within George Lemon whose affidavit is hereto annexed is a respectable man and entitled to the fullest credit as a man of probity and truth Given under my hand Seal this the 11th day of April 1832 
Nash L Pitzer Seal 
 
Virginia Botetourt County to wit 
I Henry W Bowyer clerk of the county court of Botetourt do hereby Certify that it appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the said Jacob Butt did serve in the Revolutionary War as Stated in the preceeding [sic] d[illegible]tion against the Common Enemy for the Term of Eighteen months under one engagement on the Continental establishment 
I also Certify that the forgoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the Said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Forty five dollars -  
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 10th day of July 1832 
H W Bowyer Clerk of the Court of the County of Botetourt 
[serrated circular seal affixed to lower left of page]