Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2810, Joshua Dean, Va.

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Service Va
Dean, Joshua Tabitha
Number R.2810
Contents

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8.072
Tabitha Dean
S. C.
Act 7. July ’38.
2810

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State of South Carlonia
Edgefield District
On the 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one (1841) personally appeared before the undersigned one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Tabitha Dean, a resident of the district of Edgefield and state aforesaid, aged seventy three years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7th of July 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Joshua Dean, who during the war of the Revolution, served as an enlisted soldier in the Continental line of Virginia, as will be made appear by the accompanying documents from the pension office of the United States and from the auditory office of the state of Virginia. She knows nothing personally of her husbands services, but learned from himself that he was in the battle of Brandywine and at the taking of Trenton, and was transferred to So. Carolina and made prisoner when Charleston in that state was taken by the British. That he escaped from confin

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ment and returned to Virginia in a state of great destitution, when he substituted and joined a corps of Virginia Militia and served at the siege of Yorktown and that he was present at the capture of Cornwallis. She thinks that he enlisted twice, reentering the service at the expiration of his first enlistment. She cannot say with any certainty who were the officers under whom he served, but thinks that he was part of the time of his service under the command of Genl. Smallwood. She further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Dean on the 28th day of December, Seventeen hundred and eighty five (1785) That her husband died of pleurisy on the 23rd day of May eighteen hundred and one, (1801) and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me in open court.
John Belton O’Neall
Presiding Judge and [illegible] Fall Term 1841
Tabitha Dean

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The State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
L Geo Pope Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the District and State aforesaid do certify that John Belton O’Neall is and was at the time of signing the foregoing affidavit or certificate one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the state aforesaid: and that due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given to his attestations as judge aforesaid.
In witness whereof I have hereinto set my hand an applied my seal of office at Edgefield court this 4. Day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred forty one
Geo Pope
C. C. K.

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South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came before me Lewis Culbreath a magistrate in and for the said state Sarah T Wate and sayth on oath that she knew Joshua and Tabitha Dean during this life time and knew they lived together as man and wife until the death of Joshua Dean which took place in the year one thousand seven hundred ninety nine some time during that year and that he was buried in war like manner by some of the Revolutionary Soldiers but does not recollect their names and she believes him to be the Joshua Dean that served in the revolutionary war and does believe that Smallwood Dean and his sister Sarah Waitts is Joshua and Tabitha Deans children and that she has heard Joshua Dean speak of being in several battles and that Tabitha Dean died in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four sometime in April.
Sworn to before me the 6th day of June 1853
Lewis Culbreath M. E. D.
Sarah T. Wate

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South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appeared before me Lewis Culbreath a magistrate in and for the said state Sarah Turner and sayeth on oath that she is seventy four years old, says she knew Joshua Dean before he was married, and knew he was married to Tabitha Mays, and they was married by the Rev. James Hill and that her father and mother was at the wedding and Joshua and Tabitha Dean moved to his fathers house the next day after they was married and remained there two weeks and they lived together as man and wife until the death of Joshua Dean and they had six children of which there is two living children Smallwood Dean and Sarah Waitts and that she has heard Joshua Dean speak of being in the Revolutionary war and heard them speaking of several battles, one at the Cowpens and several others not recollected, and that she believes him to be the Joshua Dean that served in the war and that he died in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine some time in the summer of that year and that Tabitha Dean the wife of the above named Joshua Dean died in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four sometime in April.
Sworn to before me this 1st day of April 1853
Lewis Culbreath M. E. D.
Sarah Turner

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South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appeared before me Lewis Culbreath a magistrate in and for the said state Frances Smith and sayeth on oath that she is ninety years old and that she knew Joshua Dean during the Revolutionary war and believes him to be the Joshua Dean that served in the war, during the war her father house was burned down by Torys the knews reached the army and the Col. sent Joshua and Julus Dean and grate many others to their assistance besides had been them in scouting parties after the British and believes that he was in the war at that time after that war was ended she believes he was married to Tabitha Mays but did not see them married but they lived together as husband and wife as long as Joshua Dean lived and believes that Smallwood Dean and Sarah Waitts is their children and that Joshua Dean died one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine sometime in the summer and was at his burial and was buried by the honors of war, Tabitha Dean died in year one thousand eight hundred and forty four the 4th day of April.
Sworn before me 6th June 1853.
Lewis Culbreath M. E. D.
Frances Smith

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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came before me C. B. Turner and sayeth on oath that he was born in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty four the 10th day of August at Halifax North Carolina, and has been acquainted with Joshua Dean ever since he was born or ever since he could recollect, and that Joshua Dean’s father raised his father (an orphan) and that his father died, and left him and his mother in the care of the Deans and was three or four brothers Joshua, Julus, and William (the name of the other not recollected), when the war [illegible] Joshua Dean and William Dean and Julus Dean all went into the army and did not see them in a year afterwards, during that time my mother moved to Saulsbury or Salisbury, the enemy had taken Julus Dean and put him jail at Saulsbury, Joshua Dean came there to lay  some plan to get Julus Dean out of jail, Joshua Dean succeeded in get him and, the enemy ordered every house to be set on fire [illegible] all the Red my mothers house was set [illegible] fire, Joshua Dean took me and my mother and put us in ambush until he could get a place for us, he carried us to a little place called Guilford, there he, saw Joshua Dean and many others under [illegible], and recollects the general was very much pleased to see as small a boy, in camps and noticed him a grate deal, which make him recollect him, they was stationed at Guilford a which and had a battle there, before the battle orders was give for womans and children to leave until after after the battle [illegible crossed text] gain the fight and we all went back, and saw Joshua Dean and several others in scouting parties after the Torys, recollects at one time they was on a scout and there was a very noted tory by the name of Stuart [illegible crossed text] he was riding a very fine note horse

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they took Stuart and his horse, the company casted lots for the horse, the lot fell to Joshua Dean and has seen the horse a grate many times after the war Joshua Dean had the horse when he was married to Tabitha Mays was at the wedding but did not get there in time to see them married, did not reach there until a half hour afterward and he is the identical husband of the claimant that served in the war and they lived together as man and wife for fifty six years.
Sworn to before me the 20th day of April 1854
Lewis Culbreath M. E. D.
C. B. Turner
South Carolina
Edgefield District
I Lewis Culbreath magistrate in and district and state aforesaid do certify that the above is a true affidavit of C. B. Turner of North Carolina
Lewis Culbreath M. E. D.

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I hereby certify that I am familiar with the [illegible] of Lewis Culbreath a magistrate in Edgefield District in the State of South Carolina, before whom the attached affidavit was taken and that he was a duly appointed magistrate at the time of these [illegible]. I am [illegible] satisfied of the genuineness of origination as magistrate.
I am not acquainted with the following ward personage Francis Smith, Sarah Turner, Sarah J. Wate and C. B. Turner, but am sure that their affidavits and signatures are correct
Sworn of my certain confidence in Lewis Culbreath the Magistrate 
P. S. Brooks 
[illegible]
23 July 1854

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Tabitha Dean
Joshua S.C. [illegible] 1838

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Know all me by these presents that I Smallwood Dean of Edgefield District and state aforesaid, have constituted made and appointed, and that by these presents do constitute make and appoint Thomas P. Morgan my true and lawful attorney to act and transact for me as if I was personally present myself in prosecuting my father’s claim Joshua Dean in the pension office at Washington City D. C. and I Smallwood Dean have hereby giving granting unto my said attorney, by these presents full and hole power, strength and authority in and about the said office, to have use and take all lawful ways, and means in my name for the recovery thereof, and upon the receipt of any such pensions dues or sums of money aforesaid, acquittance, or other sufficient discharges for me and in my name to make, and seal and deliver and generally all and every other act and acts thing and things device or devices in the law, whatsoever, needful and necessary to be done in and about the said pension office and for me and in my name to do execute and perform as fully largely and amply to all intents and purposes as I might or could do if I was personally present or if the matter required more special authority than this herein given and attorneys one or more under Thomas P. Morgan for the purpose aforesaid, to make and constitute and gain at pleasure, to revoke, ratifying allowing and holding for firm and efficient all and whatsoever the said attorney shall lawfully do in and about the office, and I do hereby revoke all other powers of attorney heretofore given by me to any person or persons, by virtue hereof in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six and in the eighty first year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America.
Smallwood Dean
Sign seal in the presence of 
Lewis Culbreath M. E. D.

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[Begin crossed text] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [End crossed text]
REJECTED
2810
P. O. Tabitha Dean 
Service: Wid. of Joshua
Enlisted: ,18
Discharged: ,18
Application filed:  ,18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
________ Recognized. __________Contract.
____Cert. of Dis. _______ Searched for____________,18.

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Hon. F. W. Pickens
Wo2

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Pension Office
September 15, 1841
Sir,
The papers of Mrs. Tabitha Dean, widow of Johsua Dean have been examined and placed on file. The proof of the alleged service of her late husband, as will as the date of the marriage is unsatisfactory. The claim for the service is based entirely upon the fact that a soldier of the name of Joshua Dean served in the Virginia Line. This evidence first having been obtained from this office and from the [illegible] at Richmond, Virginia, it is all important that the most clear and unequivocal proof should be introduced to show that the claimant is the widow of the person who performed the service. To prove that her husband was the identical person whose name is on the roll of revolutionary soldiers, she offers the testimony of Stirling Stentall who swears that he had two brothers, Samuel and William Stentall, who were both in the regular service in North Carolina; that they served with, and were acquainted with the said Joshua Dean, then a soldier in the Virginia Line, and finally that at a subsequent period he was present and witnessed the meeting and recognition of the said Dean, and one of his brothers in South Carolina. I have caused the rolls of the N. Carolina Line to be examined, and find they bear no such names as William and Samuel Sentall. Further proof will be

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required both of the identity and marriage of the said Joshua Dean.
It is proper to remark that Dean was not a Pensioner. The letter of the 13th of April [illegible] this office to Dr. Mays does not state that he was a Pensioner, but merely that a person of that name had been a revolutionary soldier.
I have the honor to be very respectfully your Obt. Sevt. 
J. L. Edwards

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Edgefield Courthouse South Carolina January 2nd 1843
I do hereby certify that I am bound to believe that Joshua Dean was the lawful husband of the applicant Tabitha Dean and that they must have been married upwards of fifty years before this time as I was acquainted with one of their sons who would have been fifty years or upwards of age if he had lived to this time.
I further certify that I have often heard from old revolutionary soldiers (now dead) that and many others that Joshua Dean the husband of this applicant was a soldier of the revolution and done considerable service.
I have further to state that one of the sons of said Joshua Dean decd served as a soldier in the 18th Regiment of Infantry in the late war and that Joshua Dean a nephew and several other nephews of said Joshua Dean decd served in the same regiment which will be seen by referring to names of the soldiers of the said 18 Regt of Infantry, and I [illegible] in the time of the late war that the [illegible] of the soldiers and officers of my acquaintance were descendants of old revolutionary soldiers and officers. And particularly the Deans and others were imitating the examples set by their forefathers.
I am opposed to persons receiving pensions who are not entitled but am [illegible] of [illegible] that Mrs. Dean is entitled to a pension
Respectfully, A. B. Addison

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South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appeared before me Katherin Maynard and maid othe that she came to Edgefield District on the 26th day of December 1785 and on the 27th or 28th December 1785 Tabitha Dean and Joshua Dean [illegible] and she don’t now any thing about his being a revolutionary soldier more [illegible] often herd that he was [illegible] in all do war and has often herd that he cain to their cavalry from the state of Virginia. Sworn to me before me October 30th 1844 Katherin Maynard
James Maynard J. D.

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South Carolina
Edgefield District
I George Pope clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Genl. Sessions do hereby certify that James Maynard is and was at the time of [illegible] this aff. an acting magistrate of Edgefield District aforesaid.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Edgefield C. House 2nd day of February 1843
Geo Pope
C. C. K.

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S. Carolina
Tabitha Dean

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Washington
August 11 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
In the matter of the [illegible] Revolutionary claim under act of July 7th/38 of Tabitha, widow of Joshua Dean, Edgefield Dist. S. C. I have the honor to submit the additional evidence herewith enclosed
Very Respectfully Your Obt. Serv. 
S. M. Knight

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Pension Office
April 13, 1841
Sir, 
Your letter of the 23rd [illegible] addressed to the Home Secretary of War, upon the revolutionary services of Joshua Deen or Dean has been referred to this office, and in reply I have to inform you that there was a person by the name of Joshua Dean, who was in the Army from the State of Virginia.
I am, respectfully, Your Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
R. G. Mays, Esq.
Edgefield Co. House
So. Carolina

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Senate Committee Room
March 26th: 1856
Hon. J. Minot
Commission of Pension
Sir
In the case of the application of “Tabitha Dean” of South Carolina now before the Pension office and which has been suspended for want of proper evidence in regard to the character of the testimony offered. I am, and have been for many years acquainted with most of the parties and can testify to their credibility further. The applicant Tabitha Dean I know well in her lifetime and always understood and believed her to be the widow of a revolutionary soldier, Joshua Dean, the family of Deans were re

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markable as soldiers during the war of the revolution, and I have never heard their services as soldiers in that war questioned.
I have no doubts as to the heirs of Tabitha Dean being entitled to the Pension claimed by them for services rendered by their deceased parent.
If there should be an early decision in the case, please send the same to my [illegible] Thomas P. Morgan of this city.
Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servant
A. P. Butler

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Delicately duck a stamp of [illegible] as to mark there in certificate
A. P. Butler

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Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office

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Edgefield
7. Nov. 1841 
Dear Sir
Dr. Mays a very respected gent of this place has first placed in my hand the enclosed papers, to [illegible] the claim of Mrs. Dean to a Pension on account of her husband’s service. You will see that his name was on the pension roll from Virginia according to your [illegible] 1841 and the certificate J. L. E. [illegible] Audit 29. March 1841. You will be [illegible] to acknowledge the [illegible] by the papers and [illegible] with decisions of the Department. From her claim, there is no doubt, as to be right, as there seems to be some difficulty as to

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the time he served exactly, as this very be exposed by [illegible] on the records of the office [illegible] the pension of Joshua Dean.
Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt.
F. W. Pickens

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South Carolina 
Edgefield District
Personally appeared Stirling Sentall before me A. B. Addison one of the magistrates for Edgefield District, who being duly sworn, saith that he had two brothers, [illegible], Samuel and William Sentall who were in the regular service, from North Carolina, during the revolutionary war, and were acquainted with Joshua Dean (the husband of the declarant Tabitha Dean) a soldier in the Virginia Line, that they served with him, and were made prisoners with him, when Charleston in South Carolina fell into the hands of the British. That his brother Samuel Sentall removed to the state of South Carolina sometime between the years seventeen hundred and ninety and ninety five. That he witnessed a meeting between his brother Samuel Sentall and the said Joshua Dean (after their removal to the state of South Carolina and subsequent to the marriage of said Dean to Tabitha Dean the declarant, at David Richardson in Edgefield District) and that his brother Samuel Sentall recognized said Joshua Dean, as an old companion in arms.
He also declares that he has been acquainted with Tabitha Dean, widow of the above named Joshua Dean, from the period of her husbands death; that she is a woman of good character and has remained the widow of the said Joshua Dean from the period of his death to the present time.
Sworn to me this 20th day of October 1841
Stirling Sentall
A. B. Addison Magst.

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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally came Abner Corley before me A. B. Addison one of the magistrates for said District, who being duly sworn according to law saith that he was well acquainted with Joshua Dean, the husband of the declarant Tabitha Dean; that he was present at the marriage of the said Joshua and Tabitha, and lived neighbor to them for several years after their marriage. He further saith that the said Joshua Dean was esteemed and generally believed to have been a revolutionary soldier. That said Tabitha Dean is a woman of good character, and has remained the widow of said Dean since the period of his death. He cannot say precisely in what year the marriage took place, but thinks that was between fifty and sixty years ago.
Sworn to before me this 5th day of November 1841
Abner Corley
A. B. Addison Magst.

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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
[All text crossed out] Personally appeared before me A. B. Addison, one of the magistrates for the District of Edgefield, who being duly sworn according to law saith that he was personally acquainted with Joshua Dean, the husband of the declarant, for a number of years, and that he was respected and generally believed to be a revolutionary soldier. That the said Joshua Dean was the husband of the declarant Tabitha Dean; that said Tabitha Dean is a woman of good character, and has remained the widow of said Joshua Dean from the period of his death up to the present time.

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State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Personally appeared Col. L. S. Brooks before me A. B. Addison, one of the magistrates for Edgefield District, who being duly sworn according to law, saith that he was acquainted with Joshua Dean, from a period shortly after the close of the Revolutionary; the said Dean was respected and generally believed to be a revolutionary soldier. That Tabitha Dean was the wife of Joshua Dean, and that (the declarant) is the widow of said Joshua Dean, and has been from the period of his death up to the present. He further says that she is a woman of good character. 
Sworn before me 22nd October 1841
Lah. S. Brooks
A. B. Addison Magst.
State of South Carolina 
Edgefield District
I George Pope Clerk of the Court of Edgefield District certify that A. B. Addison is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be theirs is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereinto applied my seal of office and subscribed my name this 5th day of November in the year of our Lord, 1841
Geo. Pope Clerk of the Court of Edgefield District S. C.

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This is to certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 11th day of July, 1783, in the name of Joshua Dean as a Soldier of Infantry for £78, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to James Haskins and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
P130 {No Seal of Office} 
Given under my hand at the Auditor’s Office, Richmond, this 29th day of March 1841.
Jas. E. Heath Auditor.