Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,194, John Betsill, Continental (Va.)

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Va.)
Betsill, John
or
Betsell.
or
Bedsell

NUMBER
S.39.194

CONTENTS

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South . Carolina.
17,792 R
John Betsell, (or Bedsell) Betsill of Charleston in the state of South Carolina who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baylor, of the Cavalry, Virg. one, for the term of four years.
Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of August, 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of Sept. 1820 and sent to James Jewey, agt. Charleston, South Carolina.
Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1820 
Semi-anl.all'ce ending 4 March 1821 $9.00 
$48.00
$57.00
1 mo. 4/30.}
{Revolutionary claim. Act 18th March, 1818.} and 1st May, 1820

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17.241.
John Betsell, (or Bedsell) of Charleston So. Car
1st. Aug. 1820:
Cols. Baylor & Washn.
Regit. Cavalry,
Virga. Line from  
January 1779 to end of the war.
Found on the rolls of the Virga. Line, under the name of John Bedsell.
Worth $:50 –
Admitted.
James Jewey, agent, 
Charleston, S.C.
10. Augt. 1820.
a prepaid Schedule, Fifty dollars, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the said Court on this first day of August 1820.
James Jewey, Dist.Clk.

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Original Claim
District of South Carolina. In the District Court house.
On this first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, for the above mentioned District John Betsill, aged fifty nine 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 the 1st May 1820; That he the said John Betsill, enlisted in Col. George Baylor's Regiment of Cavalry for the term of three years, on the first day of January 1779 in the State of Virginia, in the fifth Troop in said Regiment, Commanded by Capt'n. William Barrett in the Line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps under Lieutenant Col. William Washington, untill [sic] the end of the war, when he was discharged by the said Col George Baylor, after the said Baylor was exchanged – he having been a prisoner of war during all or the greater part of that time. The said discharge the said John Betsill, through imposition in selling his land right, gave it over to Ephraim Owens, who purchased his land; & it was left in the Auditor's Office in Virginia; which prevents the said John Betsill from affixing it hereto. He however, affixes hereto, Wm. Dangerfields affidavit, as proof of his having belonged in the said Baylors Third

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Regiment of Cavalry or Light dragoons: Also a letter, from Col. William Washington, which goes to shew the confidence & knowledge he had in him: Also, a Certificate from William Drayton, Late Colonel of one of the United States Regiments of Infantry – which tends to support his present claim – and that he the said John Betsill is really & truly what he pretends to be. And the said John Betsill further on his oath States, that to the Best of his knowledge & belief, all the Officers who held Commissions in the said Regiment residing in this State, are now dead – for which reason, he cannot have the benefit of their certificates on this occasion: and is reduced to the necessity of obtaining Wm. Dangerfield's Certificate, who served in the said Regiment as Serjeant Major. The said John Betsill further swears, that he was at the two surprizes at Monk's Corner, and Lenud's ferry in South Carolina, in 1780 & at Tarleton's defeat at the Cowpens; at the battles Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina, the Siege of Ninety Six & the battle of Eutaws in South Carolina: after he was sent, by Captain Parsons of the Regiment with dispatches to Virginia to Major Call, who was then recruiting. And that he has no other evidences in his power to produce. 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

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thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain person engaged in the land 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. viz my working tools as a millwright but seldom can work through bad health – one horse, a gun, cloaths [sic] & bedding for self, wife & family: My wife is named Sarah, & my three Children are named, Charity, Sarah & John Madison: I live in Christ Church parish, on a small fine land Tract of Land, belonging to my wife, & settled upon her before marriage. The little articles of house Furniture in the house generally belong to my wife: And that I have no other property – There are two Negroes also made over to my wife before marriage; one of them ninety years old & the other about forty, also six or seven Cows & Calves but they are not my property.
John 
Sworn to and declared on the said first day of August 1820, before me.
John Drayton
District Judge So. Carolina
I James Jewey, District Clerk of South Carolina District do hereby certify that the foregoing sale and the Schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the Said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of Said Court that the total amount in value of the property schedule

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aforesaid Schedule; Fifty dollars In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this first day of August 1820.
James Jewey, Dist. Clrk
17.241
John Betsell, (or Bedsell) 
Of Charleston, So. Car
1st. Aug’t. 1820.
Col’os. Baylor & Wash. 
Regimt. Cavalry,
Virg’a. line, from 
January 1779 to end of the war.
Found on the rolls of the Virg’a. line, under the name of John Bedsell.
Worth $: 50-
Admitted.
James Jewey, agent, 
Charleston, S.C.
10. Aug’t. 1820.

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39 194
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 39.194
John Betsell
Priv Rev War
Act: 18th March 18"
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 33
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Charleston 31st May 1820. I certify that I have seen a paper subscribed by General William Washington, deceased (with whose handwriting I am well acquainted) setting forth, that John Betsill of Christ Church Parish in the State of South Carolina, was a private or non-commissioned officer (I think the latter) in the corps of cavalry in the service of the United States, which was under the command of the deceased General Wm. Washington, during the revolutionary war. Wm. Drayton

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I do certify that John Betsill served with me as a trooper in the third regiment of light dragoons during the revolutionary war for three years and always Behaved in a brave and Courageous Manner and to my knowledge was honourably discharged by Col'n. George Baylor of the said regiment 
Wm. Dangerfield
The truth of this certificate was Sworn to before me on this 24th of July 1820 by  William Dangerfield Peter Sanders J.P.

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Rantowle's Bridge  June 25th 1807 During revolutionary war a number of Negroes were taken by the British & Tories from the Estate of the late Charles Elliott whose only Child & Daughter is my wife. Among other Negroes which were stolen from the Estate there is one in particular named July who is now in the neighbourhood of Louisville, in Georgia, as I have been creditably informed. I do hereby authorize Mr. John Betsill to apprehend the said Fellow July and any others belonging to the said Estate either Male or Female provided he delivers them safely to me. W. Washington Witness Adam F. Pitsinger

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July is about forty years of age, his Father's name was Isaac & his Mother Bikah, his uncle's name is Jonas & his aunt's Harriet and his Grand-Mother's name Franky.   W. W.

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STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
John Geddes
Governor and Commander in Chief and over the State aforesaid.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
Know ye, That Peter Sanders Esquire before whom the annexed deposition has been taken is a Justice of the Peace for the Parish of St. John's (Bukley [sic]) in the district of Charleston & State aforesaid
Therefore, all due Faith, Credit and Authority is ad ought to be, had and  given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, i the City of Charleston, the first Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty and i the forty fifth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR
Beaufort T. Watts
Secretary of State

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