Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9758, Isham Burks, Va.

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Service Va. 
Burks, Isham. Elizabeth. 
Number W.9758. Contents.

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(left side of page)
let 12 June 1840
Hon. John Miller
to date 6 January 1841
let to same 2nd March 1841

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20914 
Missouri Roll
Isham Burks
Private
of Boone Co. in the State of Missouri who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wallace of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bufords in the Virginia line, for the term of Eighteen Months from the year 1780 to 1782. 

Inscribed on the roll of Missouri at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th day of Sept. 1829

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of October 1829 and handed to G. Sexton, present.

Amount due on 4th March 1830 - $48.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820

Book C. Vol X p. 112.

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Missouri 3707 
Elizabeth Burks
widow of Isham Burks
who was a Pensioner under the act of 1818
who died on the 22 August 1839
of Boone Co. in the State of Missouri
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wallace of the regt. commanded by Col. Buford in the Va line for 18 months. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri at the rate of 60 Dollars       Cents per annum to commence on the 22 August 1839. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of April 1842 and sent to George Sexton, Esq of Missouri, Present

Arrears to the 4th of Sep, 1842.      182.50
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar.43.    30.00

$212.50

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3. 

Recorded by D. Brown         Clerk, 
Book C. Vol 1. Page 203

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Reported to Agent

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State of Missouri

On this 22nd day of April in the year of our Lord 1841 Elizabeth Burks (Crossed out) personally appeared before the Judge of the second Judicial Circuit in open court in the State aforesaid Elizabeth Burks a resident of Missouri in the County of Boon State of Missouri aforesaid aged seventy seven years who being first 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 July 4th 1836 & the joint resolution of  July 7th 1838. That she is the widow of Isham Burks who was a private in the regular army during the Revolutionary War in the Virginia line that he served also in the Militia of Virginia. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Isham Burks (late pensioner and a pensioner at the time of his death) in the Spring in the year 1778 after which period he was at the battle of Guilford.
Isham Burks died on the 22nd day of August 1839 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period 

Eliz Burks

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Jno D. Leland Judge of the second judicial circuit in the state aforesaid.

(signatures)
Jno D Leland
Roger N Todd Clerk

No 5384

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State of Missouri 
County of Boone ss

 I Roger N. Todd clerk of the circuit court within and for the County of Boone in the state of Missouri do hereby certify that John D Leland whose name is subscribed to the written and foregoing certificate to the affidavit of Elizabeth Burks was at the time of signing the same and now is solo and presiding Image of the Second Judicial Circuit the state of Missouri which includes the said County of Boone in said state and that as such full faith and credit is due and aught to be given to all his official acts as such 
In Witness where of I Roger N. Todd clerk of the said Boone Circuit Court have here to set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Columbia on this 31st day of May 1841. 
Roger N. Todd Clerk

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Original Claim 

Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the Act of the 18th March 1818.

State of Missouri 
County of Boone} SS 

On this 2nd day of June 1829 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the Circuit of said County Isham Burks a resident in said county aged seventy or seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st of May 1820 that he the said Isham Burks enlisted for the term of eighteen months in the year 1779 or 1780 (day not recollected) in the state of Virginia in the Company of Captain Adam Wallace in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Abraham Ford and Lieutenant Col Haws in the line of the state of Virginia in the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said Corps, until Colonel Burford's defeat at Hanging Rock South Carolina, that he then returned to the State of Virginia and was attached to the troops commanded by Col William Davis and continued in service until two days before the time for which he had enlisted expired and was then regularly discharged from service in Chesterfield County  in the state of Virginia, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and that the following is the reason for not making earlier application for a pension

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that he never knew until recently that those who enlisted for eighteen months were entitled to pensions
and until recently I have been able to support myself and family by my labor. And 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 property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed; one mare, one three year old colt, one two years old, two cows 1 calf 12 years old, one year old, one sow and twenty one pigs and shoats, one coarse dining table, 11 chairs, one plow two sets of gears, two axes two hand saw two drawing knives,, two augers and five gimlets, eight chisels, four gouges, one coopers [illegible] and crows [croze] and compass, [illegible], 9 or ten plates two dishes five glass tumblers, four glass bottles, one set of cups and saucers, two pitchers, three crocks, three water [illegible] and one churn, two pots and [illegible] tongs, one flat Iron 8 knives and forks, [illegible] bucket, one [illegible], one salt seller, one pepper box, one [illegible] sugar box, two old [illegible], one looking glass, one sugar bowl and cream jug, two razor strop & box, one [illegible], pack of cards, one [illegible]each and two pair hooks, one frow and wood file, three [illegible] files and padlock one hand hammer one Bible Testament
1 hymn book, two volume [illegible] notes on the

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Testament & Woods dictionary on the Bible in 2 volumes, and one debt of five or six hundred dollars due and owing to me from one Thomas Edmison of Cumberland County State of Kentucky who is hopelessly insolvent.
Isham Burks [illegible]
That since the 18th day of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property on or about that time I was passed of seven head of horses and mares, a good waggon and gear, between three & 4 hundred dollars in bank bills, five feather beds, and furniture, five good Cows house hold and Kitchen furniture the amount and description the not precisely recollected and one thousand dollars owing me by said Emmerson I do not recollect the different changes which have taken place and can only say that it is all gone out of my papers except two Feather beds and some few articles of Small Value, My occupation is coopering and turning and chair making but afflicted with disease and visited with the infirmities of old age, I am seldom able to work at either. My family is composed of the following members, my wife Elizabeth Burks, who is about 65 or sixty six years old the 16th day of January or February last, and crippled in her right hand, James Payne Burks my youngest child 21 years old in May last and Nancy Sexton my Grand daughter who is [illegible] by my son in law
Isham Burks [illegible]
Sworn to and declared on this 22nd day of June 1839 in open Court before me
David Todd Judge of said Court
State of Missouri
County of Boone } SS
I Roger N. Todd Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Isham Burks did serve in the Revolutionary war

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As stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy for the term of nine months under our engagement on the continental establishment, I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules thereto annexed are truly [illegible] from the Records of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount of value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and sixty seven dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 10th day of July 1829
Roger N. Todd Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Boone afsd

Admitted
12 Oct 1829
to commence
Sept first
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p 355 Va [illegible]

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Family Record 

Births

Robert Rawland Burks
Born May the 6 1789 died the 20 of December 1791

Nancy Burks was Born July the 23 1791

Isham Burks jn was born the 8th of November 1794

John Burks was born July the 21-1797

Allison Burks was born September the 28-1800 

Mahala Burks was born December the 3-1802

Wesley Burks was born May the 27-1806

James Pone Burks was born May the 29-1808

Grandchildren

Isham Burks Fletcher was born June the 3-1809

Wilson See Fletcher was born July the 18 1811

Sally Fletcher born the October the 11 18-1813

Deaths

John Burks was murdered by
George Beauly the 23 day of July 1822 and was buried the 24 in the midst of weeping friends and neighbors. 

Sarah Simpson Mother of John Rawland and Elizabeth Burks departed from this life on the 28 of January 1829 about fifteen minutes after twelve o clock aged between 80 and Ninty [ninety] years

Nancy Mahe formerly Nancy Sexton departed from this life on Wednesday the 1801 November 1830 about Mid day aged 22-2 months 10 days

November the 20 1830 deceast [deceased] last night the 19 of Instant the youngest son and child of Rawland an [and] Mahala Frost

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Family Record

Births

Jane Gilliland the daughter of James and Elizabeth Gilliland was born April the 12th 1817. 

Sally Gilliland the daughter of James and Elizabeth Gilliland was born August the 27th 1822

The ages of the children of Isham and Eliz Burks 

Isham Burks son of John and Sarah was born 1759 

Elizabeth Rawland now Eliz Burks was born January the 17 1764

Charles Burks son of I & E was born October 11 1780

Sally Burks was born July the 15-1782

Betsey Burks was born February the 27-1780

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Deaths 

Lidia Gilliland the daughter of James and Elizabeth Gilliland was born March the 15th 1808 died June the 17th 1809

James Gilliland was born  [illegible]  1744, died Sunday the 22 September 1822

Elizabeth Gilliland died the 10th of Oct 1822

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[Printed form with handwritten answers]

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of military history of Isham Burks Sr. 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. 

Md file 9758
Dates of Enlistment of Appointment | Length of Service | Rank || OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED | Captain | Colonel || State 
1779 to 1780 | 18 mo. | Pri. [Private] | Adam Wallace | {Abraham Bruford {William Davis | Va.

Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Va. 
Date of application for pension, June 22, 1829-Allowed
Residence at date of application, Boone Co., MO
Age at date of application, born in 1759 son of John & Sarah Burks
Remarks:  Col. [illegible] in Va. Spring 1778
Elizabeth Rowland b. Jan. 14 1764 died. Aug 22, 1839  she was allo. pension
applic. Apl. 22 1841; she resided with Geo Sexton in Boone Co. Mo. in 1842.
OVER

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Children:-

Charles b. Oct 11, 1780
Sally      "  July 15, 1782
Betsey   "  July 27, 1786 
Robert Rowland "May 6, 1789 
Dec. 20, 1791
Nancy   "   July 23, 1791
Isham    " Nov 8, 1794
John      " July 21,1797
William  " Sept 28, 1800
Mahala  " Dec. 3, 1802
Wesley   " May 27, 1806
James Pane?  "  May 29, 1808

Gilliland
[illegible - image cut off]

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1909 Sept 4. Hist. to Miss Zannie May Estes   letter in W. File 8334 Wm Armstrong

1909 Nov. 19 To Fr. Wm General F. W.

1915 Mch. 23. To Miss Josephine Tindall

Revy WIDOW, & c. 

File No. 9758

Elizabeth Burks
Wid of 
Isham Burks
Pri; Va. line

Act: July 4 36, Sec, 3
Index:-Vol. A, Page 102

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Isham Burks Mo. Act 1818
to what time pd?
Pen office
Apl 20. 42
Died 22 Augt. 1839 paid to that period 
JH

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Elizabeth Burks of Isham 
Missouri
Suspended 
See let 17 June 1841
to Geo Sexton
let: 27 Dec 1841 to Hon. J. Miller
let: 4 Feb 42 George Sexton
Act 4 July 1836

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5384 
Elizabeth Burks of Isham 
Missouri 
Admitted 
Private 18 mo. $60.-
Cap Wallace Col Buford
died 22 Augt, 1839
Act 4 July 1836 
George Sexton of Mo 
Present

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War Department 
Pension Office
July 31st 1829

Sir, 

I herewith return your declaration, it being insufficient to authorize the inscription of your name in the pension list. You must make a more explicit statement respecting the disposition of the money which you were in possession of on the 18th of march 1818, and of your personal property since that time , which statement must be corroborated by the testimony of audible witnesses. You state that on the 18th of March 1818, Thomas Emmerson owed you $1000, and in your schedule of property you exhibit a debt due you from said Emmerson of 5, or $600, who you state is now insolvent. The application of the amount received from Emmerson, and evidence that said Emmerson is insolvent must be produced.

I am respectfully
Your obt. Servt.
James L. Edwards

Mr. Isham Burks
Sexton's Post officer
Boone County 
Missouri

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Cert. iss'd & del'd [issued & delivered] to G. Sexton Oct. 12, 1829

Missouri State Boone County September the first 1829
Honored Sir agreeable to this letter of instruction I have procured the affidavit of your respectable men in support of my former declaration be fore the Court and my additional affidavit herewith enclosed if any other information is necessary I refer you to Mr. George Sexton the barer of these papers and is well acquainted with me and my circumstance for the last thirty years
one Remark I shall state my money and property have not been Expended for spiritous drink or surplus raments I fear God and serve my country and its laws I am sir yours with all Respect Isham Burks Senior

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Washington City 
Dec. 23, 1841
Sir
I enclose you herewith, a letter from George Sexton of Mo on the subject of a pension claimed by a Mrs. Burks- you will confer a favor, by giving me such information in relation to this claim as may be in your power to communicate.
Very respectfully
Your obt. servt
John Miller

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions

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Washington City
February 27th, 1841
Sir 
I enclose you herewith a letter from George Sexton in reference to the Pension Claim of Mrs. Burks- from which it would appear, that he had not received my letters to him of the 8th ult.[January 8th] in which was included your letter of about that date in reference to [illegible] Claim will oblige me by finishing a copy of your letter [ink mark] together with the law governing this case with blank forms etc  at an early day. If you can do so on Monday next you will greatly oblige me [ink blot] Be pleased to cause Mr. Sextons with to be returned
Very respectfully 
you obt. servant
John Miller

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions

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Washington City 
January 4th 1841
Sir 
I enclose you herewith a letter from George Sexton of Mo. in reference to a pension claimed by Mrs. Burks on account of the Revolutionary Services of her husband- I will thank you for such information in regard to it, as may be in your power to communicate. - If her papers are not already on file you will oblige, by enclosing me the necessary blank forms, so as to enable her to make out her amount etc
Very respectfully 
Your obt. servt [obedient servant]
John Miller 

J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions

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Washington City
June 11th, 1840

Sir

I enclose you here with a letter from George Sexton, on the subject of a pension claimed by Elizabeth Burks- will you have the goodness to inform me if she is entitled to a pension - + if so, I will thank you to furnish me with the necessary papers to enable her to draw it-

Very respectfully 
your Obt Servant [obedient servant]
John Miller

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions

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Missouri State Boone County August the 29th 1829

Personally appeared before me John Slack one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Isham Burks Junior and after being first sworn said that he has lived near to [ink blot] Isham Burks Senior for the last fifteen or sixteen years and that he was well acquainted with the property held by said Isham Burks Senior and that to his own knowledge the said Burks Sr has lost eight head of horses and several head of milk cows and that he believes that the statement made by him respecting his property and the disposal of his money since the year 1818 to be strictly true and that he accompanied Charles Burks from Alabama three years ago last fall to Cumberland County the place of the residents of Thomas Emmerson in order to collect the money he owed to Burks Senior and [ink blot] that they did not get one cent from him and that he offered to take $250 for the judgement against said Emmerson but could not get that and that he believes] from the Report of Good Men that he the said Emmerson is insolvent and has taken the oath of insolvency 
Isham Burks Jr.

State of Missouri
County of Boone

Sworn and subscribed to before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid this 29th day of August AD 1829
John Slack Justice of the Peace

I certify the above deponent Isham Burks to be a man of unquestionable credibility 
John Slack

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State of Missouri Boone County August the 29th day 1829

In addition to a former declaration made by Isham Senior before the Circuit Court for Boone County state afore said on the 22 day of June 1829 the said Isham Burks Sr personally appeared before John Slack a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and after being first duly sworn saith that in the year of 1818 or 1819 that he left Burksville Cumberland County Kentucky State in the month of March in order to move to the Black Water with about 31 children and grandchildren that by the time they had reached Franklin County in West Tennesy [Tennessee] that he found that he had incured a Considerable Expence [expense] in traveling he concluded to stop for a season which he did and raised a crop and owing to the high price of grane [grain] and other necessaries that by the fall of the said year he had nearby expended all his money that him and his children moved into what was cald [called] Jacksons Purchase in the upper end of the state of Alabama and that when he left Tennessee that he had only  seventeen dollars left of the money brought from Cumberland County and there he found that cane and meat and salt higher in price than in Tennessee and was compelled to contract a considerable debt in order to keep his family from suffering at length he sent his Eldest son Charles Burks to Kentucky to collect money from Thomas Emmerson who owed him $1000 [inserted] in two bonds of $500 each but he could not get one cent from him that the said Charles Burks bartered of one bond to Peter Simmerman for dry goods for $500 dollars and give 20 percentum on the goods above their selling price that the proceeds of the said goods went to pay his debts and support his children -that since that time 1818 he has lost by death and thieves eight good head of horses and mares and six good milk cows and after he lost his horses he sold his wagon and hind gear to John Burks [illegible] receive a and shortly after he was murdered and his estate not sufficient to pay his debts.

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he lost his wagon also and this deponent Further Saith three years ago in November last that he started from Jackson County State of Alabama and move to Boone County State of Missouri in a two horse stage with his son in law George Sexton and his wife and that he Brought all his property in the stage and four persons in the stage a distance of 6 or 7 hundred miles and that only had twelve dollars and  seventy five cents to Bare his expenses and that since living in Boone the most of his wants have been supplied by a tender son in law and daughter and this defendant Saith that his part labouring so as to maintain himself- and this defendant Further Saith no more
Isham Burks Senior

State of Missouri 
County of Boone

Sworn and subscribed to before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid this 29th day of August AD 1829
John Slack Justice of the Peace

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V no 5484 June 17 '41
Elizabeth Burks 
Wof [wife of] Isham
July 4, 1836 Missouri
Eliz Burks


Geo. Sexton, 
Present
of Sextons[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]

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State of Missouri
Boone County

The deposition of a witness sworn and examined by me, George H. Sexton a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid on this 15th day of May 1841, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on July 4th, 1836, and the joint Resolution of July 7th 1838-

John Rowland being sworn, deposeth and Saith that to the best of his knowledge and belief Isham Burks late a pensioner of the Revolutionary War was married to Elizabeth Burks about the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight- and that a short time after their marriage Isham Burks, was called into Service and he believes from the best information he can get, was at the Battle of Guilford. Further this defendant saith not.
John Rowland 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace this 15th day of May 1841
George H. Sexton J.P.

State of Missouri
County of Boone 
I Warren Woodson Clerk of the county court within and for the County of Boone aforesaid, do hereby certify that George H. Sexton esq whose name is subscribed to the above certificate now is and now is and was at the time thereof an acting Justice of the

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Peace within and for the said county of Boone 
duly commissioned and qualified as such, that his said commission being date on the 9th day of February 1838, and will expire on the 9th day of February 1842 and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is Genuine

In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county court at Office this 31st day of May AD 1841
Warren Woodson Clerk

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District of Columbia
County of Washington
On this twentieth day of April one thousand eighteen hundred and forty-two, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county personally appeared George Sexton of Boone County State of Missouri and made oath on the Holy Evangelical of Almighty God, that he was well acquainted with Isham Burks of the same State in his lifetime, and intimately acquainted with the hand writing of the said Isham Burks, And this defendant states that the hand writing in the annexed "Family Record" marked A at page 679 and 680, surrounded by a black line is the genuine handwriting of the said Isham Burks, and said defendant further states that he saw the leaf or page, hereunto annexed and described, torn out of the Family Bible of the said Isham Burks which was done in the presence of his widow, Elizabeth Burks, who is now living in the family of this deponent and has now in her possession the said Family Bible.
Sworn before
W Thompson
J.P. [Justice of Peace]

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State of Missouri
Boone County 

This day Parris Ellison and Hearvy Ellison personally came before me John Slack a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County aforesaid and after being duly sworn they agree in saying as follows to wit
That they both have been acquainted with Thomas Emerson of Cumberland County Kentucky for 15 years and we believe from Generall information that he the said Emerson hath been insolvent since the year 1819 The said Parris went from Missouri to Kentucky in the year 1827 and was requested by Isham Burks sons to call on the said Emerson and try if possible to get something from him for a judgment he the said Burks had vs Emerson if it was even a loss but Emerson told him it was imposable to pay him anything Farther they say not August 31st 1829
Paris Ellison
Harvey Ellison

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State of Missouri}
County of Boone } Ss

Sworn & Subscribed to before me this day and year before written

John Slack J.P. 

It is hereby certified that Parris Ellison and Harvey Ellison are both [ink blot] credible men

John Slack

[sideways text]

Affidavit  
of
 P J H Ellison

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State of Missouri
County of Boone} SS

This day Charles Burks personally appeared before me John Slack a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid and after being duly sworn deposeth and Sayeth. That he knew Thomas Emerson (the same alluded to by his Father & Brother in the affidavits) to be indebted to his father in the sum of $1,000.00 for which his said Father had on the said Emerson two notes for $500.00 Each one of which said notes were due in the year 1819 or 1820 the other in one [illegible] after 
This affiant further states that his Father procured him to go from the state of Alabama when they then decided to the state of- Kentucky where the said Emerson resided for the purpose of making a collection of one of the said notes which had been said on at some time previous & executive issued & no turned no property found. He then sealed the debt to Peter Simmerman for $500.00 in merchandize at 20 percentum above the detail prices.  He then put the other note in Suite But [strike out] afterwards found it impasable [impassable] to cease the debt.

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the business lays in that situation until now. In the year 1826 he offered to sell the judgement or in cash the balance for $300.00 in horses to Emerson himself & others but could not dispose of it. Generall report was that he the said Emerson was insolvent. And as for the money his Father took on with him from Kentucky when he moved to Tennessee it was expended in the support of his family the first year. he states his Father moved from Tennessee to Alabama and his maintenance there in the first year nearly took all the goods received from Timmerman. He farther says his Father sold his waggon to John Burks for which he never was paid. He states disputing the loss of property since the year 1818 or 1819 he is having to his loosing of eight head of good horses with some [illegible] cattle & their stock
And farther this deponent sayeth not August 31st 1829 Charles Burks
Sworn & subscribed to this day and year above written John Slack J.P.
I certify the above Charles Burks to be a man entitled to full credit or in their words to be a very credible man
John Slack

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Jan 27. 42
[illegible] Burks

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Sexton's [illegible] [ink smear] Free
14th January 

J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington City

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State of Missouri
Boone County

I Geo H. Sexton; a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid hereby certify that I have examined the Family Bible of Elizabeth Burks who is now prosecuting her claim for a Pension, and I find there Recorded in the handwriting of Isham Burks now deceased. That Charles Burks the oldest child of the said Isham and Elizabeth Burks was born on the 11th day of October in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty (1780) and, that the youngest child of the said Isham and Elizabeth Burks was born May 29th 1808.
In relation to the character of John Rowland whose affidavit as it respects the date of the Marriage of Isham and Elizabeth Burks, is now your possession, I can further certify that I have been acquainted with him for more than fifteen years, and I have never heard any charge against him; but have always [strike out] heard him spoken of as an honorable  and honest man. 

In testimony where of I have here unto set my hand, the 13th day of January 1842

Geo. H. Sexton
Justice of the Peace

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Sexton's Mo-
14th Jan 1842

Dr Sir: Enclosed I send you the certificate of G.H. Sexton an acting Justice of the Peace (which fact has been certified to, and is now in [ink smear] possession) in relation to the claim of Mrs. Elizabeth Burks. Your letter to me on that subject, dated 14th June 1841 has not come to hand. There is no record in Mrs. B's possession [strike out] of the time that Isham & Elizabeth Burks were married; and as they were Married in the State of Virginia some sixty four or five years ago, it is not likely that Mrs. B. could get any further testimony by writing to the Clerk of the Court.
The Evidence now in the war office and the enclosed certificate seem to be the best Evidence that Mrs Burks can obtain, owning to the lapse of time and the great distance from her place of Marriage. When you have examined the enclosed you will please write me again and if there is anything further I can do to advance the claim of Mrs. B. I will readily undertake it, as her case is one which calls from compensation

I am with Respt.
Yr. obt-. servt. 
Geo. Sexton

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Fayette, Missouri.
March 8, 1915.

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Kindly send me a copy of the pension application of Elizabeth Burks of Boone Co. Mo., through the Revolutionary services of her husband, Isham Burks, of Va. She was born in 1762- and at the time she applied for a pension was residing with her son-in-law, George Sexton, in Boone Co. Mo. I believe. She was living in 1840 in said county. I also desire a copy of the pension application of Ephriam Bates, born in

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Bath Co. Va., died in Howard Co. Mo. Aug. 1829- married Rebecca Wiley. He resided after the Revolution, for a time in Ohio, later going to Ky., and then to Mo. Ephriam Bates appears to have enlisted in the Revolution, in Va. where he resided at that time. 

Yours very truly, 
(Miss) Josephine Tindall 
Registrar, Howard Co. Chapter, D.A.R.

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March 23, 1915

Miss Josephine Tindall,
Fayette, Missouri.

Madam: -
In addition to the history of Isham Burks Sr.  W. File No. 9758 Rev. War. you are furnished the following list of his children from the papers on file in the claim.
Children of Isham and Elizabeth Burks,

Charles   born October 11, 1780.
Sally        "         July 15, 1782.
Betsey     "        February 27, 1786.
Robert Rowland " May 6, 1789 died December 20, 1791.
Nancy     "         July 23, 1791.
Isham     "         November 8, 1794.
John       "         July 21, 1797.
William   "        September 28, 1800.
Mahala   "         December 3, 1802.
Wesley   "         May 27, 1806.
James Pane?     May 29, 1808.

Very respectfully,

G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.