Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 459, Osborne Ball, N. C.

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Service NC  
Ball, Osborne    
        Mary
Number R. 459

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State of North Carolina
Warren County}

On this the 26th day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Warren and state of North Carolina. Warren Ball, resident of the county and state aforesaid aged sixty one years who being first duly sworn according to law does on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight or any other act under which he may be entitled: that he is the only child of Mary Ball who was the widow of Osborne Ball who was a private in a regiment commanded by Brigadier General Sumner in the division commanded by General Nathaniel Greene during the campaign in North and South Carolina in the war of the Revolution between the United States and Great Britain of 1776, that the said Osborne Ball volunteered in the county of Greenville state of North Carolina in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty as he believes and served during the greater part of said war.

He further declares that the said Mary Ball as he always understood and believes was married to the said Osborne Ball in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, that the said Osborne Ball died about the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, that the said Mary Ball was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place as he believed and has always understood previous to the first of January A.D. one thousand seven hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
He further declares that the said Mary Ball died some time in the Fall of the year A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty five, that neither Osborne Ball or Mary Ball ever received a pension during their lives, that the said Mary Ball never afterwards married after her said intermarriage with the said Osborne, that the reason why, the applicant herein named never applied for a pension before and the said Mary did not apply in her life time, was on account of the fact that they were ignorant of any provisions for them by Congress untill so advised by counsel recently, that there is no family record of marriages or deaths in the family, and that the belief is general and no doubts have ever existed in the opinion of the neighborhood that he was a Revolutionary Soldier, and that the applicant

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Herein named together with others has heard the said Osborne speak about being at the battle of Guilford Court House and other places in Western North Carolina and South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.

X Warren Ball (his mark)

Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year above written & I hereby certify that the said Warren Ball is a credible applicant.
Henry Harris (seal) 
& member of the Co. Court

State of North Carolina
County of Warren}

On this the 26th day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the country and state aforesaid James Ball and Tabitha Jordan residents of Warren county state of North Carolina aged the former seventy five years and latter seventy nine who being duly sworn according to law declare, that the above named applicant for a pension is the son of Mary Ball who was the widow of Osborne Ball who was a Revolutionary Soldier and served with General Sumner in the War of the Revolution between the United States and Great Britain, that they have a slight recollection of the times when he was in service it being towards the close of the said war and they being born and raised close by him, knew him at that time, that he always had the reputation of being a Revolutionary Soldier; that the said Mary Ball was married to the said Osborne in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine and lived together as man and wife up to the day of the death of the said Osborne, which occurred some time in the year one thousand eighty hundred and thirty; that the said Mary Ball was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January A.D. one thousand seven hundred and ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
They further declare that the said Mary Ball died some time in the Fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five without ever having married after her said intermarriage with the hundred said Osborne Ball, that they were intimate with the transactions of the said Osborne and Mary Ball being close neighbours, and knows they never received any pension during their lives nor never kept a family Record of marriages or deaths, and were ignorant of any pension laws by which they could be benefited. And they further declare that they were well acquainted with the said Osborne and Mary Ball as man and wife and have often

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Heard the said Osborne speak of his services in the Revolutionary War, and that the above named applicant for a pension is the only child either living or dead of the said Osborne and the said Mary Ball; that they never had but the one child the applicant herein named. And they further swear that they are disinterested witnesses. 

James Ball
X Tabitha Jordan (her mark)

Sworn to and subscribed before me the above day and date and I here certify that James Ball and Tabitha Jordan are credible witnesses, and that the facts set forth  in the above affidavit are true.

Henry Harris (seal)  
& member of the County Court

State of North Carolina
Warren County} ss

I John W White Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Henry Harris Esq whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit, is, and was at the time of signing the name, a 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 Accord having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Warrenton this the 27th day of February A.D. 1852.

Jno White Clerk of 
Warren County Court.

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In the matter   Warren Ball application for a pension, the papers setting forth the claim to said pension are exhibited in open court and being examined by said court, the procedings which were originally had before Henry Harris Esq, a Justice of the Peace, are ratified and confirmed by the court and the said court certifies that the applicant Warren Ball for a pension is known to this court as well as the witnesses James Ball and Tabitha Jordan to the above affidavit and are known to be persons of veracity and respectability, and it is within the knowledge of said court that the above named applicant for a pension in the child of the said Mary and Osborne Ball, who are both dead, and it is their opinion, that the said Osborne was a Revolutionary soldier as he always had that reputation in his neighborhood both before and since his death and that the facts set forth in the above declaration and affidavit are substantially true.  And it is ordered that this be certified to the Department of the Interior of the United States; and also that the original procedings had before the said Henry Harris Esq are made a part of the procedings of this court. 

State of North Carolina
Waren County } ss
I, John W. White, Clerk of the County Court in and for the county of Warren and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true copy from the Records of said County Court as entered on the Minutes at February term A.D 1852. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of office at Warrenton this the 27th day of February A.D. 1852.

Jno W. White
Clerk of Warren County Co.

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Ex'r  INVALID
No. 459 
REJECTED (vertical stamp)
Mary Ball

Service:                    , 18
Enlisted:                   , 18
Discharged:
Application filed:     , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.:

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V No 14630
Mary Ball dec'd
wid of Osborne
No 459

Letter Evans & Fant-June 29/52
Same Apr 7.1853
"  "  " May 25,1853
Same Feb 28 1853

Act 7 July 1838.

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(envelope)

Jan:11th 1853

Addl evi: in case
of Mary Ball decd
wid of Osborn

Evans & Fant
Present.
Cole

Court of Pensions (vertical)

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Mary Ball
Widow of Osborne
North Carolina
Act 7 July 1838.


Evans & Fant
Washington D.C.

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State of North Carolina
{Comptroller's Office

I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office, among the payments made by said State to sundry persons, for Military services in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit:
Ozbern Ball
Statement C. payments to privates 4c of North Carolina Line, account 724, $115 38/100-.
Settlements at Halifax September 1784, Indent
No. 484 "Pay to 1st August 1779 and Interest from 1st August 1783 f31 S6 D4 specie.
Halifax Indent No. 1202 September 5th 1781, f2S8C2 specie.
In testimony whereof, I have hereinto subscribed by name and affixed my seal of office this 20th day of March A.D. 1852. 

Wm. J. Clarke Compt'r

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Additional Proof
Warren Ball, son
of Mary dec'd widow
of Osborn Ball, Private
Regt Gen. Sumner:
Rev: War.

Evans & Fant, Attorneys

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State of North Carolina 
Warren County }  August Court 1853

I John W White Clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions in and for the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to Said Court that Osborn Ball who was reputed to be a Revolutionary Soldier died in the year 1830 and that Mary his wife died in the month of October 1845, and that Said Mary left the follow= =ing children at her death viz  Warren Ball. the present applicant who was her only living child at her death
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 22nd day of August A.D. 1853.
Jno W. White Clerk

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Mary Ball decd
Widow of Osborn
No.

7 July 1838

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Washington, March 25 1852

Sir,

We herewith enclose the papers in the case of Mary Ball, widow of Osborne, of North Carolina, under the Act of July 7, 1838

Very respectfully
Evans & Fant.

J. E Heath Esq
Court of Pensions.

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Additional evidence
in the case of
Mary Ball
widow of 
Osborne Ball

N. Carolina

(illegible) "D Act of July '38

Evans & Fant
Washington City

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State of North Carolina
Warren County}

On this the 24th day of August A.D. 1852 personally appeared before me Solon Southerland one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the county and state of aforesaid Tabitha Jordan and William Rudd aged the former seventy six and the latter eighty one who being first duly sworn according to law do on this oath declare that they do not recollect exactly the year Osborne Ball and his wife were married but they know that the said marriage took place within six or seven years after the close of the Revolutionary War, about 1790: the Said Tabitha states that she was married in the year 1795 and she knows that Osborne Ball and his wife were married several years previous to her own marriage, that the said Osborne & Mary Ball and the said Tabitha Jordan were all raised in the Same neighborhood and were acquainted with each other from very early infancy and William Rudd states that he has known Osborne (illegible) all his life and that the Said Osborne was married when he the Said Rudd was a boy not more than fifteen or sixteen years old, and the Said Tabitha and the Said Rudd both state that they never knew any other man in Warren County or the adjacent counties by the name of Osborne Ball except the one herein men=tioned and that they never heard of any other per=son by that name in this section of country, and the Said William Rudd recollects the time when the Said Osborne was in the revolutionary service and the time he returned home after the close of the war. 
And they further declare they have no interest in the pension claim of Warren Ball. 

X  William Rudd (his mark)
X  Tabitha Jordan (her mark)

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Sworn to - subscribed the foregoing day and date.  And I hereby certify that the witnesses William Rudd and Tabitha Jordan are respectable persons and credible, and that I believe the facts set forth in this affidavit are true. 
Solon Southerland
J. P. Esq

State of North Carolina
Warren County}

I , John W. White Clerk of the County Court in and for the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Solen Southerland Esq whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the Same an acting justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid and 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 - 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office at Warrenton this the 25th day of August A.D. 1852.

Jno W. White
Clerk of the County Court

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In the matter of Warren Ball application for a pension it appears to the court and they so declare that Osborne Ball was once a resident of Warren County and that he died the year 1830 and that his wife Mary died in the year 1860 and Warren Ball is the only child of said Osborne and said Mary; and it is ordered by the Court that this be certified to the Department of the Interior of the United States.

State of North Carolina
Warren County}

I John W. White Clerk of the County Court in and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the procedings of the county court of Said county in the matter of Warren Ball applications for a pension, as entered on the Minutes of said court at August term in the year 1852. In testimony whereof I hereunto  set my hand and affix my seal of office at Warrenton this the 25th day of August A.D. 1852.

Jn W. White
Clerk of the County Co

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Washington, Aug 25th 1853

Sir,
Enclosed please find additional Evidence in case of Warren Ball, son of Mary, widow of Osborn Ball, Private, Regt of Genl Sumner, Revolutionary War - 

Very Respectfully.

Evans & Fant

To
L. P. Waldo Esq
Court of Pensions

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Washington, Jany 8th 1853.

Sir

We herewith enclosed additional testimony in the case of Warren Ball, son of Mary Ball widow of Osborne Ball, North Carolina,  (illegible) "

Very respectfully
Evans & Fant

James E Heath, Esq
Court of Pensions

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Warren Ball
son of
Mary Ball
widow of
Osborne Ball
N. Carolina (illegible)

Evans & Fant

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(Envelope with postmark)

Warrenton - JUL 14

(Addressed to)

B. F.  Simmons Esq
Halifax N.C.

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State of North Carolina }
Warren County }

I John W White Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Warren aforesaid, hereby certify that I have examined my office and cannot find any Marriage License bond by Osborne Ball to his wife Mary, I further certify that the records (as to Marriage License) was not kept regular in former times - 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Warrenton this 13th day of July A.D. 1852

Jno W. White 
Clerk

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Additional evidence in the case of
Mary Nancy Ball, widow of
Osborne

Oct 20/52

NC - { 8

Oct 20, 1852 (upside down)
(illegible) (upside down)

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Washington, Oct 16th 1852.

Sir,

We hereunto enclose additional evidence in the case of Mary Ball widow of Osborne, N. Carolina, Act July 7th 1838, (illegible) "  This case has long been before this office, and we hope to have a speedy adjudication.

Very Resptly
Evans & Fant