Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1880, for William Keeble, Virginia

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(3-1776)
Service Va.
Keeble, William
Mary
Number 
W.1880 
B.L.Wt. 14518_160_55
Contents

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Duplicate certificate
issued 30 July 1830, and
sent to J.R, Rogers.
Lee letter 24 May 1836, to Hon Pryor Lea.
Lee letter 28 May 1830 to SR Rodgers. do 25 June 1830


12,376.
East Tennessee
William Keeble
of Blount co in the State of Tennessee
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Scott of the regt commanded
by Colonel Marshall in the Virginia
line, for the term of three years
from 1777 to 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 6 day of June, 1818.
and
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of June
1819 and sent to James Turk
Maryville, Tenn.

Continued on the Roll on 18th day of
March: 1830 and notification sent to
Samuel R. Rodgers at Knoxville Tenn,
Pension commencing on the 3 of February 1830,
Amount due on the 4th of Sept 1830} $56.45

{Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
May 1, 1820.}

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116.773

Act. ? 3/55
May 3/55

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Mary Keeble
Widow of 
William Keeble

Mary Keeble widow William Private

Va. Continental Line


Revolutionary Pensioner

_____________________________

? 160 Ac January 14/56

Tenn. July 49 - 415

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Boynton


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John E. Toole
Maryville
Tenn.

April 7/58 Letter to Agenty

Letter to Commissioner General Land Office - Grant lapses

Vol. K, 19 -

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475

Tennessee

Mary Keeble
widow of William Keeble
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Va.


Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.


Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of February 1850 and sent to 

Hon. A.G. Watkins
House of Representatives

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act July 29/48

Page   Vol. 


Letter to Hon. A.G. Watkins
February 11 1850

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Original Claim
State of Tennessee
Blount County
June Session of the County Cort for the county and state aforesaid 1829

On this 23rd day of June 1829 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county and state aforesaid by the laws of this state William Keeble resident in said county aged about 75 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 March 1818 and 1st of May 1820 that he the said William Keeble enlisted in August in the year 1777 for the term of three years in the state of Virginia in the company of artillery commanded by Capt. Lias Edmuns. Regiment of artillery commanded by Col Thomas Marshel - in the line of the state of Virginia on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve said corps until the twenty second of August 1780 when he was discharged from the service at Richmond in the state of Virginia and that he enlisted as he believes in the 1781 in the company commanded by Capt. Beverly Ray - regiment commanded by Col Posey in the line of the state of Virginia on the

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continental establishment that he continued to serve said corps until the army was discharged in 1782; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not enrolled in any state except the United States and that the following are his reasons for not making earlier application for a pension; the first reason why he did not make earlier application for a pension is that heretofore he has been able to support himself by the assistance of his children who has lately left him; and another reason is that he has been an occupant on the land generally known by the land lying south of French Broad and Holston Rivers and as he was unable to pay the installment the land was sold to pay the installments and that he has become very infirm and scarcely able to do any work whatever as he is a [illegible] in pursuance of the act of the 1st 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

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property or any par thereof with intent thereby so 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 March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herewith annexed and by me subscribed. That on the 18 of March 1818 I had the following articles of property to wit. 250 acres of land the value not known had not a little was only an occupant, 2 horses each worth about $20 four head of sheep worth $1.00 each - the above is all the property I at the time above mentioned except some household furniture, some bedding & some wearing clothes. The 250 acres of land was sold by the treasurer of E. Tennessee to pay the installments due upon it which was bought by said increase for the use of the state aforesaid one of above named horses I sold to Nicholas Norton and appropriated the money to the use of my family all four of the above named sheep died the following is a complete schedule of the property I have at this time to wit. 1 negro woman supposed to be sixty years old worth $50, 1 sorrel horse 14 years old worth $20

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one horse 12 years old worth $20, one mar and colt worth $25, three milk cows worth $18, 7 head small cattle worth $17, 21 hogs worth $21, five sheep worth $2.50, one cupboard and furniture worth $6, one chest worth $2.50, some furniture worth $7, farming utensils $6, one iron wedge worth $.37 one dressing knife worth $0.37. I am indebted $12, $4 are owing me three of which the men are insolvent the above is all the property I own in the world except my bedding and wearing clothes. The declarant is a farmer but is unable to do anything at farming or anything else in consequence of his infirmity and crippled situation. The following are the names of declarant's children that are with him - Rebecca Keeble aged 19 years, Richard Keeble aged about 18 years, Walter Keeping aged 13 years and very sickly, Polly Keeble aged 10 years. Charlotte Keeble aged about 5 years, James aged about 4 years, declarants' wife is sickly and unable to assist in making support for the family. Declarant is so old and infirm that it is impossible for him get any money of the sale of the land he lived on. He therefore hopes the secretary of war will give him that which he is honestly entitled to.

William Keeble
His X Mark

Sworn to & subscribed in open court the 23rd April 1829 Jac F Foute Clerk
by his Dep D D Foute

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State of Tennessee
Blount County

Be it remembered that this day came William Keeble a citizen and resident of and in the said county who says he is and appears to be upwards of sixty0three years of age before me James Frick presiding justice of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the said county (which court is a court of record) and the said William Keeble being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of a late act of congress passed the 18th day of March 1818 entitled and act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war to wit; that he the said William Keeble did enlist in Fauquier County in the state of Virginia in the company of Captain James Scott of the regiment commanded by Colonels Toliver and Stephens and Maj Thos Marshall for the term of one yar during which time he served as a private soldier and was in the battle known by the name of the battle

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of the Long Bridge in the state of Virginia and at the expiration of said term of one year he was honorably discharged.

That in the month of August 1777 the said William Keeble again enlisted from the county and state last aforesaid in Captain Elias Edmonds company of Artillery of Col Thomas Marshall's regiment of the Virginia line in which regiment he served as a bombardier three years and was again honorably discharged in Richmond Virginia on the 22nd day of August 1780. And in the year 1781 was in the militia service at the siege of York and Capture of Lord Cornwallis and late in the fall of the same year just before Christmas as well as this deponent now recollects he enlisted in Captain Beveryly Posey's company in the regiment commanded by Maj Finley and Colonel Posey and marched to the south and was in the battle at the defeat of Old King Sago the Indian Chief about four miles above Savannah in  the state of Georgia beside some other skirmishes and later in the fall of 1782 was marched back to Cumberland Old Courthouse in the state of Virginia and again honorably discharged - all of which said discharges are now lost.

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or so mislaid that this deponent cannot find them nor does he know of any other or better evidence of the facts above stated than the deposition of Mr. James Hennard herewith accompanying that he claims no pension from the United States or any of them otherwise then under the late act of congress above mentioned and that from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his country for support.

William Keeble
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of June 1818.

James Turk

State of Tennessee
Blount County

Be it remembered that this day came Mr. James Hennard a respectable citizen of and in said county before me the said James Turk presiding Justice etc. and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has long been acquainted with the above-named William Keeble that he served with him in captain Edmonds company of Col Marshall's Regt for the term of three years and was in the same mess with him during the said term of his second enlistment and service and that from his knowledge of the other facts and of

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the circumstances and from his knowledge of the said William as to his character for veracity he this deponent has no doubt but that the facts as above stated by him the said William are true.

James Hennard 
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this said this 6th day of June 1818

James Turk

State of Tennessee
Blount County

I the above mentioned James Turk presiding Justice of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions in and for the said county do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Keeble did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as by him above stated and do transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken thereon before me to the Secretary for the Department of War of the United States according to the act of congress in that case made and provided.

Given under my hand at Maryville in the county aforesaid this 6th day of June 1818.

James Turk

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the 29th of July 1848

State of Tennessee
Blount County

On this fifth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine personally appeared before the county court of Blount County in the state of Tennessee aforesaid being a court of record, Mary Keeble a resident of said county and state aged sixty-give years in February last now being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of congress made and approved the 29th of July 1848 entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army" that she is the widow of Wm Keeble who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution; that she is mostly indebted to information from her husband, the said William Keeble and others who served with him for all the knowledge she possess of his services and enlistment in the revolutionary war. Her husband informed her that he enlisted in Fauquier County in the state of Virginia shortly as well as she remembers after the commencement of said war under Capt. Elias Edmonds. She thinks he informed her he was in the service about seven years. That he was at some time during the service was stationed for about two years at Williams burg in the state of either Maryland or Virginia, that he was at Yorktown during eh siege and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis - that at some time during the war he had served under Capt. Bayles - she has been acquainted with and informed by Andrw smith and James Kanard that they had been soldiers in said war and served with her husband but at what times, places and in what battles she does not remember - the said James Kanard she well remembers was witness for he said husband to prove his services in said war when he applied for a pension under the act of congress of the 18th of March 1818 from whose evidence and perhaps of others he was allowed a pension in 1819 - Some few years afterwards her husband was called in by Andrew Smith as a witness for him to prove his services in said war in tan application to accompany a declaration made by him for a pension - whether he obtained it she knows not. The papers of both of which application are as she presumes on file in the pension office. Her husband was allowed to draw a pension under the act of congress of the 18th of March 1818 for some two or three years; when his pension was discontinued or suspended for some years and again revived from the 3rd of February 1830 agreeable to the act of congress of the 1st of March 1823 as appears from the accompanying letter from the commissioner of pensions

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of the 18th of March 1818 appended to this declaration - This is the only evidence of record in her power or possession as far as she knows to present before the department as proof of her said husband's services; to which she appends an affidavit of her said husband found after his death among his papers. Which evidence she hopes will facilitate the commissioner of pensions in referring to and examining her claim; to the papers of which and the evidence therein contained she refers the commissioner for satisfactory proof of her husband's services; that she can produce (Kanard and Smith being now dead) no other proof of which she is now informed of her said husband's services.

She further declares that she was married to the said William Keeble in the seventeenth day of December seventeen hundred and ninety-nine in Fauquier County in the state of Virginia. That she removed with her husband the said William Keeble shortly thereafter from the state of Virginia in the winter or spring of 1800 to Little River in Blount County Tennessee in the vicinity of which place she has ever since resided and now resides. That her said husband William Keeble died at his residence in said county of Blount on the 30th day of December 1834. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that their marriage took place prior to the second day of January eighteen hundred viz at the time above stated. She further swears she is still a widow and that she has never before made an application for a pension of any kind except for arrearages at the time of his death of her said deceased husband. That she was married on the said seventeenth day of December 1799 by John Picket of the Baptist Order or Church a clergyman and minister of the gospel in Fauquier County in the state of Virginia as before stated - that said minister gave her a certificate of her said marriage and advised her that as she was very young to take care of it - that it might be of use to her - but not having appreciated his advice she has long since lost or mislaid the certificate and cannot now produce it to present with her declaration - that she has no family record of her said marriage nor is it within her power to produce any other record thereof to her knowledge nor any other evidence thereof except such as is hereto subjoined and herewith presented before the honorable commissioner of pensions.

Mary Keeble

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 5th day of November 1849 by the above name Mary Keeble.

Robt A Ledford - Clk

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116773
Bounty Land Claim
of
Mary Keeble widow
of Wm Keeble
a private under Capt. Elias Edmonds
in Revolutionary War.

Send warrant to John E Toole
Maryville, Tenn

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State of Tennessee
Blount County

On this 29th day of March one thousand eight hundred & fifty-five personally appeared before me John Clarke an acting justice of the peace for the county and state aforesaid Mary Keeble aged about seventy-one years a resident of Blount County in the state of Tennessee who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of William Keeble deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Elias Edmonds in the regiment of Virginia Troops commanded by blank in the Revolutionary war, that her said husband enlisted under said Edmonds & she believes was actively engaged as a soldier in said war for & during several tours of service in fact she says that her said husband spoke of serving for several years, he enlisted in Fauquier County Virginia she further states that her said husband William Keeble was inscribed on the pension list under the act of congress passed in the year 1832 & continued to draw a pension until he died, that she was put upon the pension list at ninety-six dollars per annum on the eight of February 1850 her pension commences on the 4th of March 1848 under the act of Congress passed July 29th, 1848 & that she is now in receipt of said annuity.

She further declares that she was married to the said William Keeble in Fauquier County Virginia on the seventeenth day of December 1799 by John Picket a minister of the Gospel that her name before her said marriage was

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Mary Keeble that she does not know of any public or private record by which said marriage could be established as she has no family record of the same that her said husband died in Blount County on the blank day of December 1834, that she is now a widow, she further declares that her said husband William Keeble never received any Bounty Land whatever either from the government of the United States or from any other source within her knowledge, she therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of congress approved March 3rd 1855.

Mary Keeble
Her X Mark

We James Henry & Solomon Farmer residents of the county of Blount & state of Tennessee upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Mary Keeble in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. We further swear that we have known said Mary Keeble for a great many years, that we knew her in the lifetime of her said husband William Keeble & for years before his death her and her said husband lived & cohabitated together as husband and wife & were reputed as such, that they raised a considerable family of children all of whom are now grown & some of them residing near her one of whom now living with her is probably fifty years of age & has always been understood & believed to be the son of the said William & Mary Keeble. We further swear that said Mary Keeble is now

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a widow

James Henry
Solomon Farmer

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the said witnesses that they are worthy of full and entire credit in all their statements, I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the applicant & that I believe she is the identical person she represents herself to be that her statements are worthy of full faith & credit and that I have no interest whatever in this claim.

John Clarke
Justice of the Peace
for Blount County

State of Tennessee
Blount County 

I certify that John Clark Esq whose genuine official signature appears to the foregoing certificate is & was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace for said county and I have no interest in this claim.

Witness my hand & official seal of office in Maryville this 27 April 1855.

J C McCoy - Clerk
by W S Walker - D Clerk

SEAL

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Record Division
Revolutionary War Records Section

3-525
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C. 9-12 1922

In reply to your request of blank received blank for a statement of the military history of Wm Keeble a soldier of the revolutionary war you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W.1880

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
1. checkmark
2. Aug 1777
3. 1781

Length of Service
1. 1 yr
2. 3 yrs.
3. 1 yr

Rank
1. Pvt
2. Bombardier
3. Pvt

Officers under whom service was rendered
Captain
1. Jas Scott
2. Elias Edmonds
3. Beverly Ray

Colonel
1. Toliver & Stephenson
2. Thos Marshall
3. Posey

State
VA

Battles engaged in - Long Bridge, Siege of York and with Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment - Fauquier Co Va
Date of application for pension - June 6, 1818 - allowed
Residence at date of application - Blount Co Tenn
Age at date of application - 63 yrs. Died Dec 30, 1834, in Blount Co Tenn
Remarks - He married Dec 17, 1799, in Fauquier Co Va Mary Keeble while res in Blount Co Tenn
She was allowed pension on an application executed Nov 5, 1849, age 65 yrs. She died before 1858 date not stated. Children ref to in 1829 Rebecca aged 19, Richard 18, Walter 13, Polly 10, Charlotte 5 and Jane 4 years

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

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Left Side Page

1922 Sept 12 - Hist to Will E Parham
Tombstone data
122 Sept 28 - hist to Will A McTeer
letter in W.69 Jos Bogle

Right Side Page

Revy WIDOW, etc.

File No 1880
Mary Keeble
Widow
William Keeble
Pri Rev War
Act July 29, 1848
Index Vol A Page 390
{Arrangement of 1870.]