Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 341, Zachariah Butler, Va.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE 
Va
Butler, Zachariah
           Elizabeth

NUMBER
W 342
B.L.Wt.26418-160-55

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

19462
West Tennessee

Zachariah Butler
of Maury Co. in the State of W. T.
who was a pri [Private] in the co [Company] commanded
by Captain Hudson of the regt [Regiment] commanded
by Col. Skipworth in the Va [Virginia]
line for 7 mos [months]

Inscribed on the Roll of W. T.
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Sept.
1833 and [sent to] Chas C Mayson Columbia

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. [Ink Blot] [58.32]
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar 11.66
$69.98

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Danl Boyd, Clerk
Book E Vol. 7 Page 73

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page] [crossed out - Letter Pensioner May 11, 1834] found

[right side of page] [3 or 5]. 906 Tennessee Na

Elizabeth Butler 
widow of Zachariah Butler 
who served in the Revolutionary Va
war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on 
The 4th day of March, 1848

Certificate of Pension issued 
the 26 day of Apl. 1852
and sent to Hon. G. W. Jones  H of R [House of Representatives

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1846, Page 283 Vol. 3

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[left side of page] May [?8/55]
141.909 May 21/55

Elizabeth Butler 
Wid [widow] of 
Zachariah Butler 

Pri. Rev War 

[written sideways] No 36418 is [issued] May 26/56

Pensioner 
Tenn. Feby [February 48 -5906 

[Illegible] 23d/56
Boynton

C C Tucker
Present

[right side of page] This was a circular
[crossed out – C. C. Tucker Feb. 28/56

Vols B2-143.

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the law of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of Tennessee} 
Maury County} 
On this the 22 day of September 1832 personally appeared before Robert Worthom James Hughes & Peter William the Justices of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions, now sitting, in open Court Zachariah Butler, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions passed by Congress on the 7th of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 

That about the first of February 1781 he entered the militia service in the state of Virginia, as a substitute for one John Foster of Amelia county, under the command of Captain Robert Hudson; soon after he was enrolled & had marched from the place of rendezvous the company fell under the command of Maj’r [Major] Cunningham & Col. [Henry] Skipwith - when it was marched by them to the head Quarters of Genl Nat Green [General Nathanael Greene] under whom he continued until

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after the battle of Guilford [Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781] in which battle this applicant was engaged. After the battle of Guilford he was marched to Ramseys Mills thence to Hillsborough N.C. where he was discharged. Then he returned to Amelia County Virginia. In June 1781 on the first of the month he was drafted in the Militia under Captain Roland Ward [Rowland Ward, Jr.], and he was stationed at Amelia Court House for about one month, then he was marched on below Petersburg Virginia, after the British had left it. Then his company was marched to York Town & was under the command of General Washington. [Illegible words crossed out] Whilst at Yorktown he was detached as a guard under Captain Ward to the mouth of Queens Creek [sic: Queen Creek in York County] at which place he was stationed when Cornwallace surrendered [sic: Cornwallis, 19 Oct]. 

In the first Tour of duty this applicant was in service about two months & in the last tour about five months. 

This applicant states that he was born in Amelia County Virginia on the 15th day of November 1764 as stated by a registry kept by his father, which he was often seen, but which is now, he believes in the state of Virginia. 

That he continued to reside in Virginia untill [until]

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December 1810 when he emigrated to the State of Tennessee, & he settled in Maury County on the 5th of March 1811 where he now resides. That he has no documents by which to prove the statements herein made, nor does he know of any person living by whom he can establish the facts above set forth. That he is known to William Jennings and Richard B. Passmore who reside in his present neighbourhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity and also their opinion and belief as to his revolutionary services. 

And the said Zachariah Butler does hereby relinquish every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State - Zachariah Butler

Sworn to day & year aforesaid 
Thos J. Porter clerk

We William Jennings and Richd [Richard] B. Passmore do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Zachariah Butler who has Signed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about sixty eight years old; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier & that we concur in that belief. 
Wm Jennings 
Thos J. Porter Clerk        Richd [Richard] B. Passmore

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And the said justices of the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after propounding the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above applicant - Zachariah Butler was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - and the Court further certifies that appears to them, that the said William Jenning and Richard B. Passmore who signed the above certificate are residents of the County of Maury, are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Robert Wortham {JP}
Peter Williams {JP}
Jas Huey {JP}

I Thomas J. Porter Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Maury in the State of Tennessee and hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zachariah Butler for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed the seal of office, this 22d [22nd] day of September A.D. 1832. 
Thos Porter Clerk 

[written sideways bottom of page] 11945

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State of Tennessee} 
Maury County} The declaration of Elizabeth Butler in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the third of March one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

On this the 4th day of October 1850 personally appeared before me Elias C Frierson one of the acting Justices of the peace for said county Elizabeth Butler aged about Eighty Eight years a resident of said county of many who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress of the 3rd of March 1843 she declares that she is the widow of Zachariah Butler who was a private in army of the Revolution and who was on the pension roll at the time of his death which will appear by the records of the War office and she further declares that the said Zachariah Butler was placed on the pension agency at Nashville at $23 33/100 per annum and she further declares that she was married to the said Zachariah Butler in the county of Amelia in the state of Virginia by the Rev. John Pollard on the 9th day of December in the year 1787 and that Zachariah her husband died in Maury County state of Tennessee on the 8th day of April 1842 and that she is now a widow and has never married since the death of her husband the said Zachariah Butler. She further declares that the office containing the licence [license] and evidence of her marriage has long since been distroyed [destroyed] and the leaves of the Bible containing the date of her marriage is lost. She declares that her name is not on the agency of any pension office in the United States and she relinquishes all claims or annuity to any pension except the present and prays to be put on the pension agency at Nashville Tennessee and she further makes oath that owing to her great age and bodily infirmity she is unable to appear in open court to make this declaration or write her name.

Elizabeth [her x mark] Butler

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me 
Elias C Frierson {JP} Justice of the peace and one of the justices of Maury County Court

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State of Tennessee} 
Maury County} 
Oct 4th 1850} I Elias C Frierson one of the acting Justices of the peace for said county and one of the Justices of Maury county court do certify that Elizabeth Butler who makes the foregoing declaration to obtain the benefits of the pension laws is the widow of Zachariah Butler deceased and that owing to her great age and bodily infirmity is unable to go into open court to make this declaration. 
Elias C Frierson {JP} 
Justice of the peace and 
one of the justices of Maury County court 

State of Tennessee} 
Maury County} This day personally appeared before me Elias C Frierson one of the acting Justices of the peace for said county and one of the justices of Maury County Court Sarah Pillow of lawful age who makes oath in due form of law that she was present at the marriage of Elizabeth Butler to Zachariah Butler late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States that the partys [parties] were married in Amelia county state of Virginia previous to the first day of January 1794 and as she believe about the 8th day of December 1787 That said Zachariah Butler is dead and died on the 8th day of April 1842 in Maury County Tennessee and that said Elizabeth Butler has not married since and is now as widow.

Sarah [her X mark]

Sworn to and subscribed  before me this 4th day of October 1850 Elias C Frierson {JP} Justice of the peace and one of the Justices of Maury County Court

State of Tennessee} 
Maury County} I Elias C Frierson a justice of the peace for Maury County and one of the Justices of Maury County Court do certify that I have been acquainted with Elizabeth

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entitled to credibility having during all said time mentioned a good character and that I have been acquainted with Sarah Pillow the deponent in the foregoing paper for a long time and that is credible and entitled to credibility. 

Given under my hand this 4th Oct 1850 
Elias Frierson {J P} Justice of the peace for Maury County and one of the Justices of Maury County Court 

State of Tennessee}
County of Maury} SS. I William E. Erwin Clerk of the County Court of Maury County do hereby certify that Elias C. Frierson whose genuine signatures appear above is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Maury duly commissioned and sworn and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as such.

Given under my hand and seal of Office at office in Columbia this 9th day of November A 1850. 
Wm. E. Erwin Clerk

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State of Tennessee 
Maury Court 
Be it remembered that on this the 5th day of October 1850, personally appeared in open Court before me Edmund Dillahunty, a circuit Judge, for the eighth Judicial Circuit of the said State Tennessee said Court being a superior Court of record in state. Benjamin H. W. Bridgeforth & John F. Jordon who made oath and deposed that they were acquainted with Elizabeth Butler the applicant for a pension in this case, & that she is a credible person and that they are acquainted with the said Sarah Pillow upon whose affidavit the said Elizabeth [asks crossed out] prays that the said pension be allowed her and that she is also a credible person and entitled to be believed all which I certify that I do verily believe that said Elizabeth Batter is the widow of said Zachariah Butler and that her statement is true. Given under my hand and the seal of the Court this 8th day of October AD 1850. 
Edmund Dillahunty 
Judge JC

State of Tennessee} 
Maury County} I James O. Potter, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Maury County in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edmund Dillahunty before whom the above proceedings were had is, and was Judge as above set forth, and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand and [Ink smear] seal at Office there being no seal office this 9th day of November AD. 1850 
James C Potter Clerk

[circular handwritten seal with L in middle]

[written sideways on bottom of page] [Illegible] A. of Repo

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Know all men by these presents that we Zachariah Butler and William Butler are held and firmly bound unto his Chancellery Edmund Randolph Esq Governor of Virginia in the sum of Fifty Pounds amount money to the which payment will and truly to be made to the said Governor or his succession we bind ourselves our hand sworn &c Sealed with our seals and dated this 6th day of December 1787. 

Whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between Zachariah Butler and Elizabeth Noble. The Condition of this obligation is such that if there be no lawfull [lawful] [Illegible] to establish the said marriage then the above obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed & delivered in} 
presence of}
Jas Townes}

Zachariah Butler {Seal}
William Butler {Seal}

State of Virginia 
Amelia County Sct.

I Egbert G Leighs Clerk of the County Court of Amelia Certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the marriage Bond of Zachariah Butler, the original of which is now remaining [Illegible] among the records of my office. Given under my hand this 10th day April 1851.

Egb. [Egbert] Leighs Clerk
[Illegible] 

I certify that I wrote to the clerk of Amelia Co. Va.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page sideways]

INSTRUCTIONS.
1. Claimant’s name.
2. Soldier’s name
3. Here specify the service as follows: “in the company commanded by Captain      in the   regiment of   commanded by Col.    “ or “    on board of the United States ship commanded by   in the war of    ,” or as the case may be.
4. Enlisted, volunteered, was drafted, or shipped.
5. “Add, “that she has never before made application for Bounty Land,” or :that she made an application for Bounty Land for said service, and her claim was rejected or suspended.”
6. The claimant will here state that no public or private record of her marriage exists, or can be obtained, if such is the case. If there is a County, Town, or Church record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of such record must be sent. If there if no public, but a private or family record containing the marriage or the births of children, a copy of such record must be sent, and the magistrate will certify that it is a correct copy of the original. Parol evident of the marriage or of co-habitation, is not admissible until the absence of record evident is accounted for.
7. Claimant’s signature.
8. Witness’ signatures.
9. Magistrate’s signature.

[right side of page] 141.959 
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM. 

Act of March 8, 1855. 

ORIGINAL CLAIM FOR LAND WARRANT. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Butler 
WIDOW OF Zachariah Pensioner Act of 1848.

CHAS. C. TUCKER, 
Att'y [Attorney] for Claimant, 
WASHINGTON, D. C.

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Declaration to be made by a Widow who has never received Bounty Land.

State of Tennessee}ss. 
Maury – County,}
On this 7 day of May 1855 before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named, personally appeared (1) Elizabeth Butler - aged 91 years, a resident of Maury County, Tenn., who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of (2) Zachariah Butler, -- who was a (3) Rev. Soldier, and is a pensioner under the act of Feb 2, 1848, at $23. 33/100 per year, on the Tennessee roll [paragraph crossed out] and that she has never before applied for Bounty Land 

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the act of March 3, 1855, never having received Bounty Land or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service; and she hereby constitutes and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington, D. C., her attorney to prosecute her claim and procure her warrant. Hereby authorizing and empowering her said attorney to obtain from the proper authorities at Washington City, or elsewhere, certified copies of any Army or Navy records or documents in which her said husband's services may be recorded, and to procure any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish her claim, as fully as if personally present; and revoking and countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose. 
(7) Elizabeth [her X mark Butler

Sworn to, subscribed, and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written; and on the same day personally came before me John H. Joyce a resident of Maury County in the State above named, and William W. Joyce, a resident of Maury County, in said State, to me known as credible witnesses, who being duly sworn, declare that they are personally acquainted with (1) Elizabeth Butler widow of (2) Zachariah Butler - -, who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration; [several words crossed out] and they believe that the husband of the said (1) Elizabeth Butler was the identical person who was a Revolutionary Solider, that the above named (2) Zachariah Butler is now dead, and the said (1) Elizabeth Butler is now a widow. And they further swear that they are disinterested in this claim.
(8) Wm. W. Joyce
J H Joyce

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution this 7 day of May 1855 
(9) [crossed out - Andrew T. Gray JP {L}]

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STATE OF Tennessee}
Maury – COUNTY,} ss. 

I, John B Padgett, Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify that Andrew T. Gray - Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named, duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his signature thereto is genuine. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 7th day of May. 

John B. Padgett Clerk

Forwarded by Samuel L. Kelsey

[sideways on bottom of page] 141.959
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM. 

Act of March 8, 1855. 

ORIGINAL CLAIM FOR LAND WARRANT. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Butler 
WIDOW OF Zachariah Pensioner Act of 1848.

CHAS. C. TUCKER, 
Att'y [Attorney] for Claimant, 
WASHINGTON, D. C.

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11945 West 
Zachr [Zachariah] Butler 
Tennessee 
from 1781 private 
7 month 
$23.33/100
Return

5, 11, 12

[Illegible written sideways] 

Chs. C Mayson 
Columbia Maury Co.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

BRIEF in the case of Zachariah Butler, County of Maury 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 appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he: 68

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

[column headings: Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.]
Sub. in 1781 About 2 Private Genl. Green, Washington Capt. Hudson, Major Cunningham, Col. Skipwith

Drafted about 5 “ [Private] Capt. Ward

5.  In what battles was he engaged? Guilford,

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service? Virginia

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

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.

Chs W Forrest
Examining Clerk.

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An Amended declaration in order to obtain the benefit of a law of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of Tennessee 
Maury County 
On this the 17th day of June 1833 personally appeared in open court before James S. Crawford, John Mack & William A. Johnson the Justices of the court of pleas & quarter sessions now sitting being a court of record for said county of Maury in the state aforesaid, Zachariah Butler who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following Amended declaration in Order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of an act passed by Congress on the 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated That about the first of February 1781 he entered the Malitia [Militia]  service in the state of Virginia as a substitute for one John Foster of Amelia County Virginia under the command of Captain Robert Hudson; soon after he was enrolled & had marched in s’d [said] Company from the place of rendezvous the command of the company was assumed by Major Cunningham & Col. Skipwith & thence marched to the head quarters of Genl Green [General Greene] under whom this applicant continued untill [until] after the battle of Guilford in which battle this applicant was engaged. After the battle of Guilford he was

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marched to Ramsays Mills [Ramsey’s Mill] from thence to Hilsboro [Hillsborough] North Carolina where he was discharged by his officers in writing but what was the day of the month he cannot now recollect but what has become of said discharge this applicant does not know – he has lost it long since, during the service above mentioned applicant was a private & served two months from the time he entered the service untill [until] he was discharged, he held no office. 

On or about the first of June 1781 he was drafted in the malitia [Militia] of Amelia County Virginia in the company commanded by Captain Roland Ward this applicant & the said company was stationed at Amelia Courthouse, for about one month when in the same company he was marched below Petersburg Virginia – they were then marched to York Town & was under the command of General Washington. Whilst at Yorktown he was detached as a guard under Capt. Ward to the mouth of Queens Creek at which place he was stationed when Corn Wallis [Cornwallis] surrendered – he was then marched to Williamsburg remained some two or three weeks at which place & time he was discharged by Capt [Captain] John Towers to whom the command of the company had been transferred This discharge was also in writing but has long since been lost & what was the precise day of the month he cannot now recollect – applicant was in service during this tour five months – he was a private & served as such – he held no office in the ranks. 

This applicant cannot state with greater precision

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than he has done – he served only the tours above mentioned the first service being two months & the last five months in each of which he served as a private This applicant states that he was born in Amelia County Virginia on the 15th day of November 1764 as stated by a register kept by his father which he has often seen but which is now he believes in Virginia. That he continued to reside in Virginia untill [until] December 1810 when he removed to Maury County in the state of Tennessee on the 5 March 1811 at which place he now resides & has ever since resided. That he has no documents by which to prove the statements herein made, nor does he know of any person living by whom he can prove the facts herein set forth. That he is known to Gerard Vanburen – a minister of the Gospel and William Jennings who each reside in his present neighbourhood & can testify as to his character for veracity & also their opinion & belief as to his revolutionary services. And the said Zachariah Butler does hereby relinquish every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Zachariah [his X mark] Butler 

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Thos J. Porter Clerk
By Deputy Wm. E. Erwin

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states

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[Illegible words crossed out] 
We Gerard Van-Buren a clergyman residing in the County of Maury & State of Tennessee and William Jennings residing in the same hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Zachariah Butler who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Gerard Van-Buren
Wm. Jennings
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Thos J. Porter clerk 
By Deputy Wm E. Erwin 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Gerard Van Buren who has signed the proceeding certificate is a Clergyman & resident in Maury County Tennessee & that [Illegible words crossed out] William Jennings who has also signed the same & a resident in the same county & state is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Jno Mack JP {Seal}
James Crofford JP {Seal}
Will A. Johnson JP {Seal}

I Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas & quarter sessions County Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Sd [said] Court, in the [words cut off] of the application of Zacheriah Butler for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal of Office this 13 June 1833. & that the declaration of Wm. Jennings was made before the same was sworn to & affixed in Court.
Thos J. Porter Clerk

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T.H. Cahal
4 Sept. 1844

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43 

Pension Office 
4. Sept 44. 

Sir, 

The papers in the case of Elizabeth Butler widow of Zachariah Butler claiming a pension under the act of July 7th 38 have been examined [illegible] herewith returned for proper authentication. Where the Declaration is made before a [crossed out] justice of the peace the proceedings should be subsequently submitted to a Court of Record duly organized and approved thereby under seal. The date of the marriage shd [should] be established by the certificate of the Clerk of the County where it took place a copy of the marriage bond or some other record or documentary evidence. The service of Zachariah Butler who says he served under Captain Shockley in the Maryland militia shd [should] be proved by the certificate [ink spill] of the Register of the Land Office [ink spill] George W Brewer Esq. - at Annapolis [ink spill] The above claim is barred by the Act of April [ink spill] th '44 [act of April 30th 1844] which provides that "no pension shall be hereafter granted to a widow for the same time that her husband has recd [received] one" but shd [should] the proofs be satisfactory a certificate will be issued under [ink spill illegible] Act of March 3rd '43. 
Terry H. Cahal 
Columbia Tenn. 
10-702 Act July 7th '38

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10702
Elizabeth Butler
Tennessee
Act 7th July '38


This letter not found in old letter books; the entire month of July. 1844
searched. MMSTF
[arrow pointing from line above to line below]

10702 (July 27 1844)

[ink stamp] COLUMBIA TENN
[handwritten inside stamp] July 1844

Mrs
Elizabeth Butler
7 July 1838

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.

[underlined] 13,697-

[initials/signature]

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In Maury Co.
[arrow pointing to next line]
Columbia Tennessee
July.17.1844

J.L. Edwards
The enclosed application for a pension is made out. I do not know whether the applicant is entitled to any pension or not. She is certainly the wife of the soldier mentioned. If [illegible] she is entitled & there is any defect [illegible] the proof or form it can be supplied
Please correspond with me.
Respectfully
Terry H. Cahal
[signature underlined]

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Elizabeth Butler widow Zachariah Butler
Act July 7 1838
[illegible] Tennessee suspended file

Papers
L.O.M

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Mrs. Elizabeth Butler [page torn over part of name]
May 11/54

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227
Pension Office
May 11, 1854

Madam,
The vouchers in the case of Elizabeth Butler, widow of Zachariah Butler, have been referred to the Third Auditor of the Treasury that the amount due may be afsaid [aforesaid] agreeably to the provisions of the acts of 6 April 1838 and 23 August 1842

Mrs. Elizabeth Butler
Columbian'a [Columbia]
Tenn [Tennessee]
Rev

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[In top right corner, page stamped with: COPY [underlined and arrow pointing to it]] 

IN REPLY REFER TO 

 8-1885 

UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS 
WASHINGTON   March 8, 1851. 

Hon. J. H. Thomas 
     House of Representatives. 

 Sir: 
        I have the honor to inform you that the case of Elizabeth Butler widow of Zachariah has been examined. There is no reliable evidence that she was married prior to the 1st of January, 1794.  In all cases of this character record evidence of the marriage should be adduced if possible to be obtained. 

	In this case a certificate from the clerk of the court of Amelia County, Virginia, that he has made diligent search, stating the result, is required. If no evidence can be found there she must prove by credible witnesses, that fact, and they should refer to some event in their own history to satisfy themselves, and the office, that they have a distinct recollection of the precise period of the marriage. 

 Very etc. 

Copy made 
September 19, 1929.

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14.236 
Elizabeth Butler, 
widow of Zachariah 
Te 
Act 3 March 1843 
17 June 1844 & 2 Feb 
1848. 

 Married 1787 
[Abbreviated Husband] Hus died 1842 
[illegible] 7 mos pri & 23;33 
[illegible] 4 March 1843 

 Nashville 
Hon G.W Jones 
H of R

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IN REPLY REFER TO

8-1885
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON     November 28, 1851.

Hon. J. H. Thomas,
Columbia
Tennessee.

Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that on the 4th of September 1844 the papers in the case of Elizabeth Butler were returned to Mr. T. H. Cahal since which time no further steps have been taken and none of them are on file here. A declaration must be furnished, stat-ing her maiden name, the county in which she was married and the time. The certificate of the clerk of the county court of that county as to the marriage should accompany it, and if he have no record relative to it, witnesses must be introduced who know that she was married before 1794 and who can refer to some collateral incident by which they are enabled to testify to the date.

very etc.

Copy made
September 19, 1929

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Ten 14.236-Ten
Elizabeth Butler
widow of Zachariah
Act July 7 '38

[Illegible words crossed out]
Geo. W. Jones
[named crossed out]
H.R.

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10.702
Elizabeth Butler
Tennessee
_______
Rejected
[line crossed out] [arrow pointing to crossed out line] found
Hon. J. H. Thomas
[line crossed out]
[18]44
Act 7th July 38

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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Butler
Maury County and State of Tennessee
act 3 March 1843 &c

______________________________
Claim, ("original," [crossed out]")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

[abbreviated husband] Hus was a pensioner, Record proof of marriage

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?



Name and residence of Agent
Hon GW Jones
Ho of R

S. Cole
Examining Clerk.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON

RECORDS DIVISION
IN REPLY PLEASE QUOTE
R-RHH-LA

September 20, 1929

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Attention: Rev. &1812 Wars Section.
Sir:
 
With reference to your telephone communication of recent date in which you request information concerning Zachariah Butler, certificate #19462, $23.33 per annum, Tennessee Agency Revolutionary War, you are advised that the records of this office show the above named pensioner died on April 8, 1842, in Maury County, Tennessee, where he had resided for a period of thirty-two years, prior to which time he resided in Virginia. 

He left surviving a widow, Elizabeth Butler, and the arrears of pension due to the deceased pensioner were paid to Eliam C. Frierson on October 3, 1843, as attorney for the widow.

The records of this office further show that the last payment  of pension to Elizabeth Butler, widow of Zachariah Butler, was made to M. B. Young, as her attorney on April 9, 1855, at Nashville, Tenn., and covered the period from Sept. 4, 1853, to March 4, 1855.

For the Comptroller General of the United States.

Respectfully,
[signed] R Herrell
Chief, Records Division.

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9. 201 [underlined]
Tennessee Na

Elizabeth Butler
widow of Zachariah
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Ap.1852 and sent to
 Hon G W. Jones
H of R

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2   Page189

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State of Tennessee}
Maury County} SS

This day personally appeared before me one Elijah Blocker one of the justices of the peace for the State of Tennessee and for the County of Maury Sarah Pillow of lawful age and known to me to be a crediabel [credible] lady of the faith respectebility [respectability] and is entitled to the fulest [fullest] credit as to truth and veracity. and made oath before me on due form of law that she was present at the mareage [marriage] of the present Elizabeth Butler formerly Elizabeth Noble with the late Zachariah Butler in the county of Amelia and State of Virginia by the Reverend John Pollard in the month of December 1787 and she knows it to be before the first day of January 1794 from her own age and the family Bible and the age of the younger brothers and sisters and the age of Mrs. Elizabeth Butlers children and she said Elizabeth Butler still remain the widow of the said Zachariah Butler who Deceased on the 8 April 1842 in Maury County and was on the pention [pension] note at the time of his death and the oldest child of the said Elizabeth Butler was bourn [born] on the 23 March 1789 that she is

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unable to write her name owing to having the Rheumatick [Rheumatic] pains in her hands. 

Sarah [her X mark] Pillow 

Sworn to and subscribed before me} 
this 13 November 1851}
Elijah Blocker {JP} 

State of Tennessee}
Maury County.} I William E Erwin Clerk of the County Court of Maury County do hereby certify that Elijah Blocker whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction. 

Given under My hand and seal of office at office in Columbia this 15th day of November 1851.
Wm. E. Erwin Clerk
 
[written sideways Addition [illegible] 
Jas H Thomas. 
Columbia 
Tenn [Tennessee]

[written sideways on left bottom] Elizabeth Butler Ten. 38

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W.F Butler 
son of  
Elizabeth Butler 
widow of 
Zachariah Butler  
Sullivan Co Ten 
Act 7th July 1838 
Mr J L. Edwards 
Attn.
Washington DC 
will 
address 
A. Smith Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle 
County Ky

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

POWER OF ATTORNEY. 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. 
That I, [Elizabeth crossed out] William F Butler of the County of Sullivan and State of Tennessee- [widow crossed out] son of the of Zachariah Butler deceased - who "is the Identical man William F Butler being one of the legal heirs of representations of Zachariah and Elizabeth Butler deceased  
who was engaged in the Army of the Revolution War. That she made application for a pension from said county of Sullivan & State aforesaid in an act of Congress passed 7th July 1838 
do hereby constitute and appoint J L Edwards of Washington D. C., my true and lawful Attorney and Agent for me and in my name, to prepare and prosecute my claim for a Revolutionary pension by reason of the services 
of the said Zachariah - Butler as aforsaid [aforesaid] and I hereby empower my said Attorney for me and in my name to prepare and prosecute against the Government of the United States, before any Department or the Archives thereof, any and all claim or claims, have to arears of pay or pension money under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions of the Congress of the United States, and especially the Acts of 4th July, 1836, 7th July, 1838, 3d March, 1843, 17th June, 1844, 2d February, 1848, 29th July, 1848, 3rd Feb., 1853, as well as the more ancient Acts of 18th March, 1818, 15th May, 1828, 7th June, 1832, 5th July, 1832, and all other Acts bearing upon the interest of said claim, we hereby seek the investigation of. 
Said Attorney is moreover authorized in my name, to examine all records and documents in reference to said claim on file in the Department at Washington, D. C., to file additional evidence and argument, and to do all lawful Acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, with full power of substitution.-Hereby revoking and countermanding all former powers of Attorney that may have been given in the premises. interlined before signed 
Witness my hand and seal, this 27 day of April 1854 
William Butler signature L. S.

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State of Tennessee 
County of Sullivan 
   Be it known that on the 27th day of April 1854, before me the sub-scriber. a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally ap-peared William F Butler 
the subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledged the signing, seal-ing and delivering the same to be his Own Voluntary Act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth, and I hereby certi-fy that I believe him to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and is known to me to be a reputable resident citizen of the county and State aforesaid; and I have no interest in the result of this claim, nor concerned in its prosecution. 
   In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. 
Gio R. McClellan J. P. seal [the word seal is circled] 
State of Tennessee 
Sullivan County 

 I John C. Rutledge Clerk of the County Court for said County Do hereby Certify that George R. McClellan Esqr. where genuine signature appears to the above certificate of acknowledgment of Power of Attorney is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and justified. I am not agent nor interested in the claim 
 Given under my hand and official seal at office in Blountville this 2nd. day of may 1854. 
John C. Rutledge