Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6553, Francis Ballard, N.C.

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NC   Ballard, Francis.   S.6553
carded

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Mississippi 22.42
Francis Ballard
Of Copiah  in the State of Mississippi 
who was a [illegible]  in the [illegible] commanded
by the Captain Carpenter of the [illegible] commanded 
by in the
Line for 8 mo.
N.6. Line 
[illegible] 
Inscribed on the Roll of Mississippi At the rate of 20 Dollars 66 Centers per annum. To commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pensions issued the 31 day of Oct 1833 and sent to Harris & Learned. Gallatin Miss. 
Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] 66.66
Semi-anl. Allowance ending [illegible] 12.33
Died Oct
30, 1823
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Calmer Clerk
Book (illegible) Vol. 8. Page 66

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Francis Ballard’s Declaration for a pension

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State of Mississippi 
Copiah County ss. For the 24th day of June 1833 personally appeared in open court before the probate court now sitting in and for the county and in the state aforesaid Francis Ballard (age about seventy two years) a resident of said county and state, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
 That he was born in Virginia about seven miles from Petersburg in January 1761 and removed while a child to North Carolina to the county of Edgecomb and to that part afterwards called Nash County from which place he entered the service of the United States as a substitute for his brother William Ballard who was a drafted militia soldier about June in the year 1777 and marched with his company commanded by Capt. Solomon Carpenter The Cape Fear River, crossed over the Yadkin and proceeded some twenty miles on the other side without the enemy overtaking them, when they returned recrossed the Yadkin and encamped near the banks until the expiration of his term of service which was three months. During this term of service Col. Axom commanded the regiment in which he served and there was also a body of troops in company with them he believes from Virginia commanded from one Col. Sowell. He also recollected a captain Richards who commanded a company in the regiment to which he belonged. But the names of the other officers and the particular places through which they marched have gone from his memory and he cannot recall them. He was drafted as a private soldier about a year after the term of service above (illegible) for three months and served in the vicinity of Rocky river more than two months but was discharged a short period before his terms of service expired but he was in no engagements nor can he recollect the names of the officers with whom he at this time serviced or any places in particular through which (illegible) feels confident that he was out on service at the least two months. 
He was a third time drafted in March of the year 1781 as a private soldier for the term of three months and (illegible) at Halifax on the Roanoke River, and from thence he marched in the regiment under the command of Col, Linton and joined-

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the regular army under the command of Genl. Green and proceeded to Guilford Court House where an action took place  between the American and British army in which he took a part but received no injury. After this action he retired with the army to Hills Iron Works with the army, and was one of the detachment letters by order of Genl. Green to return home with the  (illegible)  horses of the militia light  house while the remainder of the army marched on for (illegible) at this time he served three months. After he feels (illegible) confident that in the whole he served during (illegible) eight months and believed the served longer, but would not state it at more on account of his imperfect recollection of matters that that occurred at that distance of time, and his inability to procure any documentary evidence which can put any light upon the the subject. He believes that he received a written discharge at the expiration of his first term of service which has long since been lost or destroyed and that  the other discharges at the expiration of the two other terms were merely oral, but he can not state positively, nor can he recollect the names of the officers who discharged him on account of the extreme imbecility  of his memory occasioned by age and infirmity. He further states that some five or six years after the close of the Revolution he removed to Pensacola in East Florida where he resided for about ten years and from there to Adams County in this state and came to this County about five years ago where he has resided ever since, that he has no record of his age nor has he any documentary evidence by which he can prove the length of his revolutionary service nor does he know of any living witnesses who can testify to the same or any part thereof form personal knowledge. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not  on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
Sworn and subscribed 
Day and year aforesaid 
Francis Ballard 
The (illegible) a clergyman residing in the county aforesaid and Benjamin Kennedy residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Francis.

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Ballard who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration, that we believe him to be about seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed that day and year aforesaid
Jesse Scrivner
B. Kennedy 
And the said court do hereby certify and declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to that Jesse Scrivner who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the county aforesaid in this state and that Benjamin Kennedy who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and state and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit 
Thos. Keller 
Judge of probate 
I John G. Davis clerk of the probate court in and for the county of Copiah in the state of Mississippi, do hereby certify that the foregoing( ^together with  the annexed affidavit) contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Francis Ballard for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and seal of office this 9th day of June A.D. 1838. 
John G Davis Clerk of Probate

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State of Mississippi
Copiah County  
Personally appeared in the court before me the undersigned a judge of probate in and for said county Francis Ballard the within named applicant for a pension who being duly sworn according to law upon oath deposeth and says that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his services, names of officers, and places, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the pension mentioned in the within declaration and in the following grades: For eight months I served as a private soldier, three months of which as a substitute for my brother William Ballard who was drafted, and  the other five month under draft of myself. And for such service I claim a pension. 
Sworn and subscribed the 24th day 
Of June 1833 before me in open court
Francis Ballard 
Thos. Keller Judge of Probates

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October 4, 1938 
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Francis Ballard S. 6553
BA- J EEl: MLB 
Mrs. Bee Cockerel 
Martha Washington Apartments
Gadsden, Alabama

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Shamburger, of Moore County, North Carolina, and Frances Clement Ballard, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Louis Frederick Ballard, who was in the battle of New Orleans, and Frances Clement Ballard, 2nd, who was in the war between the states and died while in service. 
	Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension made to the United States based upon the military service of soldiers of those wars. 
	A careful search of the records has been made in your behalf. No claim for pension has been found based upon service of any soldier with the surname Shamburger or similar spelling, and no claim on account of the service of Frances Clement Ballard or Clement Ballard, Revolutionary War soldiers. The War of 1812 records do not show a claim for pension on file on account of the services of a Frederick Ballard as described by you, or of Louis Frederick Ballard or Louis Ballard. This office has no record of service rendered in the Confederate Army, Civil War, hence no record of Frederick Clement Ballard, 2nd. The history of Francis Ballard, the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, is furnished below, as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6553, based upon his services in the War of the Revolution. 
	Francis Ballard was born in January, 1761, about seven miles from Petersburg Virginia, and when a child moved to Edgecombe County, North Carolina ( that part of said Edgecomb County, which was later Nash County). 
	He enlisted in Nash County, North Carolina, about June, 1777, and served three months as a substitute for his brother, William Ballard,

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As a private in Captain Solomon Carpenter’s company, Colonel Axom’s North Carolina regiment. About a year after the termination of the service, he enlisted and served for more than two months, dates and officers’ names not given. He enlisted in March, 1781, and served three months under Colonel Linton in the North Carolina troops and was in the battle of Guilford Court House. 
	Some five or six years after the Revolution, he moved to Pensacola Florida; lived there about ten years; then moved to Adams County, Mississippi; then to Copiah County Mississippi, where he had lived for five years when pension was allowed on his application executed June 24, 1833. 
	He died October 30, 1833. 
There are no further data as to his family. 

Very truly yours
 
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
To the Administrator

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1933- Feb 7 History to Mrs Bee Cockrell (illegible) 1938 Oct. 4 Mrs. Bee Cockrell revised sane record with name changes from Fredrick to Francis Ballard- (illegible) 

Invalid.
File No. 6553
Francis Ballard
(illegible) Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index : Vol. A Page 19 
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Gallatin Mi. June 25th 1833
To the War Department 
Inclosed we forward the declaration of Francis Ballard for a pension, and it is his regret that any communications to him on the subject should be directed to this place to us, in as much as he lives at a considerable distance from any post office and being old and decrepit seldom goes out from home. 
Respectfully yours
Harris & Learned

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26. 515 22. 429

Francis Ballard 
Mississippi 

Adv 8 months
26.66. 

Harris & Learned 
Gallatin 
Miss.

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MRS. BEE COCKRELL 
MARTHA WASHINGTON APTS. 
GADSDEN. ALA. 

January 16, 1933

Veterans Bureau 
Washington D.C.

 Will you give me what information you can about John Shamburger, Moore County North Carolina and Francis Clement Ballard, both of whom fought in the Revolutionary War. Also Louis Fredrick Ballard 1812 who was in the Battle of New Orleans , and Francis Clement Ballard II Smith County Texas who was in the war between

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 the states and died while he was still in the service. 
	Thanking you for any information you can give me. 
	I am yours truely
	Lucille Ballard Cockrell 
        (Mrs Bee Cockrell)

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October 4, 1938 
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Francis Ballard S. 6553
BA- MMHF: MLB

Mrs. Bee Cockrell 
Martha Washington Apartments 
Gadsden, Alabama

Dear Madam: 

	In making a search in the Revolutionary War records of this office on this date, for the record of Francis Ballard, a copy of a letter furnished you February 7, 1935, has been found on file which shows that in the record of Francis Ballard, paragraphs three and four, his name was erroneously typed Frederick. 
	A corrected record is furnished you herewith with the name Frederick changed to Francis. The error is regretted. 

	Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
To the Administrator

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February 7, 1935 
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BA-J/ KEL 
Francis Ballard- S. 6553


Mrs. Bee Cockrell 
Martha Washington Apartments 
Gadsden, Alabama

Dear Madam; 

	Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Shamburger, or Moore County, North Carolina, and Frances Clement Ballard, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Louis Fredrick Ballard, who was in the battle of New Orleans, and Frances Clement Ballard, 2nd, who was in the war between the states and died while in service. 
	Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension based upon military service of soldiers of those wars. 
	A careful search of the records has been made in your behalf. No claim for pension has been found based upon service of any soldier with surname Shamburger or similar spelling, and no claim on account of the services of Frances Clement Ballard or Clement Ballard, Revolutionary War soldiers.  The War of 1812 records do not show a claim for pension on file on account of the services of Frederick Ballard, as described by you or of Louis Fredrick Ballard or Louis Ballard. This office has no record of service render in the Confederate Army, Civil War, hence no record of (written correction: Should be Francis) Frederick Clement Ballard, 2nd. The history of Fredrick Ballard, the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, is furnished below, as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 6553, based upon his services in the War of Revolution. 
	(written correction: Should be Francis) Fredrick Ballard was born in January, 1761, about seven miles from Petersburg, Virginia, and when a child moved to Edgecombe County, North Carolina ( that part of said Edgecombe County, which was later Nash County). 
	He enlisted in Nash County, North Carolina, about June, 1777,

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and served three months as a substitute for his brother, William Ballard, as a private in Captain Solomon Carpenter’s Company, Colonel Axom’s North Carolina Regiment: about a year after the termination of this service, he enlisted and served for more than two months, and served three months under Colonel Linton in the North Carolina Troops and was in the battle of Guilford Court House.  (Written correction: Could not verify officers) 
	Some five or six years after the Revolution, he moved to Pensacola, Florida; lived about ten years; then moved to Adams County, Mississippi; then to Copiah County, Mississippi, where he lived for five years when pension was allowed on his application executed June 24, 1833. 

	He died October 30, 1833. 
	
	There are no (Written correction: should have been further) data as to his family. 

	Very truly yours

	A.D. HILLER
	Assistant to the Administrator.