Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35191, John Biswell, Continental Va.

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Service Continental Va.       Biswell, John       Number S35191

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35191

Revy INVALID

File No. 35191
John Biswell
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 38

[Arrangement et 1870.]

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John Biswell
private 1st Virginia
Req Cap. Faintleroy
company served
5 years

a man of this
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roll -- list Drag

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FREE
Secretary of War of the U.S.
Washington City

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State of Kentucky Fayette County [illegible]
On this 18th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Circuit Judges for the State aforesaid personally appeared John Biswell [illegible] of Jessamine County and State aforesaid who [illegible] by me first duly sworn according to law maketh his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made for [illegible] 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" [illegible] the said John Biswell entered first in the Company of Commanded by Captain Thomas Hudgins at Pittsylvania Courthouse Virginia in the 6th Virginia Regiment served in the said company & regiment two years and was discharged at Valley Forge [illegible] in the [illegible: word scratched out] 1778. He again enlisted at Hillsborough in the company commanded by Captain Griffin Fauntleroy of the Virginia Continental line of 1st regiment that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States and the conclusion of the Revolutionary War at that time he was living with [illegible] the regiment at Nelson's Ferry in [illegible] State of South Carolina from [illegible] he went under Furlough to Virginia when he was in the year 1783 as [illegible] by [illegible]  that we was in the battles of Guilford Courthouse [illegible] Eutaw Springs + others + that [illegible] 60 years of age in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence of [illegible] in his power of his said services and that he has never received a pension from the United States Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Benj. Johnson
Circuit Judge

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Benjamin Johnson [illegible] aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Biswell did service in the Revolutionary War as stated in the primary declarations against the common enemy for the lines above Stated on the continental establishment and I now transfer the recordings and testimony taken and have before me to the Secretary of the department of Government to the directions of the aforementioned acts of Congress. Witness my hand this day & date above. Benjn Johnson
Circuit Judge

I hereby certify that the above named John Biswell is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of the country for support. 
Ben Johnson
State of Kentucky Fayette Circuit Jud 

I Thomas Bodley clerk of the court for the Circuit aforesaid do certify that the Honorable Benjamin Johnson who hath subscribed the foregoing Certification is presiding Judge of the said Court and his official acts are entitled to full faith and Credit. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal  of said Court this 18th day of June 1818. 
Thos. Bodley

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[illegible] June 18th, 1818
Within you will find the Declarations which wherein handed to me by the [illegible] with a [illegible] that it should [illegible] therein to the [illegible] the War department, in order to obtain [illegible] their claims to pensions from the United States [illegible] . 
[illegible] Should be Opinion that they conform [illegible] of the law, and consequently be placed on the pension list; you will Enclose the Certificate letter directed to myself at Lexington Kentucky and very much oblige your old friend. 
Hugh M. Hawes

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John Biswell,

[X covered paragraph] 
Cont:  of the Judge that this claimant is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for  support is wanting.
War Dept.
Pension Office
11 July 1819

Admitted

Transmitted by H.W. Hawes Esq. Lexington, KY

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(illegible) sent hour 21 1821 to (illegible) Lexington, KY

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John Biswell
of Jessamine Co in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by (strikethrough)Colonel(strikethrough) Lt. Fludging of the Virginia line for the term of 2 years. 

Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8-- dollars per month to commence on the 18th of May on 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of Feb 1819 and sent to Hon. R.M. Johnson House of Representatives. 

Arrears to the 4th of Sep: 1818. 3 mos 14/31 + 4/30 28.67
Seminanl.all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48--
$76.67

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818

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John Biswell
6.932
March 1819

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John Biswell 
Schedule

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Schedule
District of Kentucky SS
Jessamine County Court Sch
On this 19th day of September 1820 personally appeared in the open court John Biswell aged 60 years being on court of record for the said District and Country having its proceedings recorded by a clerk and professing power to fine and imprison for any contempt offered it according to act of Assembly. John Biswell aged 60 years resident in Jessamine County in said District who being first duly sworn according to law, on his oath declares that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: Was inlisted with Capt Thos. Hudgins at (illegible) Courthouse Virginia for two years in Va. line on continental establishment in the 6th Va. Reg under Col. Buckner, sometimes he thinks in March 1776 or 177. Cont'd to serve till discharged at valley forge by Col. Weeden -- again for during the war with Lieut. James Gunn at Hillsborough N. Carolina in 1st Va. Regt. was immediately detached under Capt. Fauntleroy & annexed to Col. Wllm. Washington's reg. of Light Dragoons (3rd) where he continued to serve for about

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3 1/2 years  - the end of the war, when he was discharged by the proclimation of Congress - was in the battle at Guildford Courthouse where Capt Fauntleroy was killed at Camp Deer, Seige of Ninety Six - taking of Lt. Col. Rugley with the pine log instead of a cannon - and at the Eutaw Springs under Capt. Watts where I saved his life, as is more at large detailed in my former declaration - And 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 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 Person engaged in the land + 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 securiting, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto announced by the subscribed. --

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One half acre of land worth $20.00
And one pony worth ----- 10.00
Both of which I have lately bought out of my pension money - 
One sow [illegible] pigs worth ---- 7.00
Some towels worth ----  1.00
One ax ----- 2.00
I had one hoe but some one stole it 
----  $40.00
I have nothing due me & owe about twenty or thirty dollars. I have no one in family but myself. I have been a [illegible] for twenty odd years & can work very little in tending a little garden.
John Biswell


Sworn to and declared before [crossed out] on the 19th days of September 1820 before us
Geo G. Brown
Jno. Downing
James Martin
Justices of the Peace & Judges of Sd. County County Court

Daniel B. Price clerk of Sd County
I hereby certify that the foregoing certificate and the schedule there to announced are truly copied from the record 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 aforementioned schedule

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is $40 dollars
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my heard and affirmed the real of the said Court on this twenty second day of September 1820.

Dan B. Price, clerk of the court of the County of Jessamine

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[typed form with some handwritten responses]

(upper left corner) THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES FORM VAM-51 12-5-41 

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 

(upper right corner) Division of Veteran's Administration Archives

Name Biswell, John Grade Private Line Virginia

Warrant number 11912 Acreage 100 Issue May 7, 1794 to --not shown-- 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issues Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in the General Land Office records in the National Archives.