Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,908, Jethro Butler, S.C.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Butler, Jethro
NUMBER
S. 30.908
CONTENTS
[stamp] This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

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See letter to P Agt & G or J. Moore 
31 Aug 1836 - jo
to J. Moore Sept. 29. 1836 -

F Moulton J 3d and Mch 23 1855
Vouchers to 3rd auditor with 
to pay 29. March 185_

30.215
Louisiana
Jethro Butler
in the State of Louisiana
a private in the compy commanded
by Captain [James] McDaniel of the regt commanded by Col. [Francis] Marion in the S. Carolina line
for three years from 1775

Inscribed on the Roll of Louisiana
At the rate of 80 Dollars _Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Date of Pension issued the 17 day of October 1855 and sent to RL Killgore
Russellville

_to the 4th of Sept 1835           $360.-
_anl allowance ending 4 Mch 36 40.-
Died Apl 9. 1841                       =$400. -
Revolutionary Claim, act June 7 1832
_ded by Wm S Allison, Clerk
Book E.2 Vol. 8 Page 68

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State of Louisiana Claiborne Parish 
On this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty-five personally appeared before me the Parish Judge for the Parish [county] of Claiborne Jethro Butler a resident of the Parish & State aforesaid viz Parish of Claiborne & state of Louisiana aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year of 1776 in the seventh day of August of said year with Capt. James McDaniel & Lieut. Danl Masique [Captain Daniel Mazyck] recruiting officers for Charleston district S. Carolina and served in the second regiment of the S. Carolina regulars under the following named officers, to wit, Col.  Mott [Isaac Motte], Major O'Ree [Lt. Colonel Peter Horry], Capt. James McDaniel & Lieut. Danl. Masique [Captain  Daniel Mazyck], which said regiment was attached to the command of General William

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William Moultree - He rendezvoused at Charleston Barracks (S.C.) two weeks after his first enlistment. He resided in the Salem district where he entered service (then a Parish of some name he does not recollect what) S. Carolina - He & the rest of the said Regiment were stationed at (quartered in) the said Charleston Barrack as nearly as he can recollect nine months & a half - at which time (day the 20th Novr. (same year) himself & two hundred & seventy nine others of his regiment (2d regiment as aforesaid) were detailed out as a detachment & put under the command of then Capt. [Francis] Marion and were marched to Gadsden's Wharf & put on board a large Brig going at the said wharf & from thence sailed over the harbor to John's Island, then landed in order to take Fort Johnson, on said Island in possession of the British - on the second night after landing on said Island the same

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the detachment made scaling ladders, took the fort by storm about 12 o'clock on the same night - In a short time after this, the remaining part of the said 2d regiment came over to this detachment (to which he belonged) kept possession of the Fort two months as nearly as he can recollect - Then the 1st regiment commanded by Col. Cattles [Lt. Col. William Cattell]  over from Charleston Barracks (and Gen. [Brigadier General Christopher] Gadsden along with it) and relieved them of the said 2d regiment which then went on board of their boats & crossed to Sullivan's Island & immediately commenced building Fort Moultrie thereon and as they were about finishing the building of the said Fort, Sir Peter Parker came to attack the last said Fort = On the 18th of June 1777 [sic, 1776] as nearly as he can recollect, the said second regiment (to which he then belonged) in the morning of said day opened fire on Sir Peter's force

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which was quickly returned by them - the engagement continued, warmly contested, till about 9 o'clock at night - about the conclusion of the battle the British ship Aeteon was sunk - the remaining part of the British ships hauled off and sailed off to some other point =
This declarant & his regiment remained in the said Fort Moultrie perhaps one month when there was a call for fifty men to serve on board of a gun boat to take a large British ship which was aground at the upper end of Bull's Island with many British sailors on board - the said Jethro the declarant was of the number and they took the ship & made the sailors prisoners of war - after the said Jethro & the said detachment to which he belonged set the ship on fire & returned to the last aforesaid fort -

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And then they were relieved again by the 1st regiment & then recrossed to Charleston - And shortly after this there was a call for three hundred men to go by forced marches to Savannah under the command of Col. Hugee [Brigadier General Isaac Huger] and this declarant was of the number and the detachment to which he belonged arrived in the said town [Savannah] on the 4 or 5 night from Charleston afd. - and early next morning they attacked the British at Cockspur Island - after a few rounds they charged bayonet = the British retreated to their boats and made their escape - They [the Americans] then returned to Savannah, remained there perhaps 2 months & then returned to Charleston (S.C.) - And from thence his said detachment were ordered to march to Dorchester Town to guard the magazine of that

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that place, remained there 2 weeks under the command of Col. O'Ree [Lt. Colonel Peter Horry] from thence were ordered again to Charleston, thence to Fort Moultrie to relieve the first regiment - and from thence to guard Hobcaw magazine 13 or 14 miles from Charleston on the North side of Cooper river, under the command of sergeants [Daniel] Holiday & Stewart - From thence his said detachment moved to the mouth of Edisto river under the command of Lieut. [Captain William] Fishburne to guard a large French ship loaded with ammunition & clothing for the 1st & 2d regiments - and from thence again to Fort Moultrie - This is all of any moment that transpired during the 2 first years of his service that came immediately under his notice -
In the 3d year of his service Gen. [Robert] Howe called out a large body of troops in order to take St. Augustine in E. Florida & this declarant went a

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recenter on board the Beaufort gun boat Commanded by Capt. Mabry (Maberry) There were 5 boats in company commanded by Col White of Virginia & Col Melbourn of Georgia- he with this detachment first against St. Catherine's Island which they
captured a few days after they landed the garrison fled after a few fires
from the American gun boats with the exception of two old persons that
could not get away And after this event the said declarant went out on a hunting expedition while hunting he discovered a log cabin filled with British goods of different kinds
he returned to the Fort informed Lieut. Baker [Captain Richard Bohun Baker] who took 200 men, went out and brought in all the goods and
put them on board the Beaufort gun
boat & carried them to

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the City of Charleston (SC)
Not long after this the afd. detachment were ordered to take a strong British Guard on the
North side of the mouth of St. John's River -- they took said guard & brought them on board of the gun
boats. Four or five days after this event  Colonel Milborn took a Captain Lieutenant & 50 men & landed at Nassau Point (this declarant being of the number) -- after landing the Colonel placed a guard some distance in the woods -- this declarant & one Johnson while on guard were cut off from the Main body of the detachment & made prisoners by a Company or body of British Dragoons & carried to Alligator
Bridge on St. Marys road. At this place was stationed a British force-

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5
 on approaching their lines the Commanding officer of the British Dragoons cried out --
"huzza boys we have caught a couple of d__d rebels[”] -- they were immediately placed under a
strong guard. Before day next morning they were hurried off very speedily by 4 dragoons to St.
Augustine - they were there put in irons & cast into a gloomy dungeon where they remained several months until they were nearly dead & then they were taken out & allowed certain bounds from which after two months the said Jethro Butler  having partially recovered his health made
his escape from his captivity with the British & after suffering with unparalleled fatigue & hunger arrived on the frontier of the American settlements & made his way to Charleston

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where he met with Col as
son who gave him an hour
arable discharge which
has since been lost. This de
Clont doth state & declare
that from old age & decay
of memory he cannot be
ately recollect the differ
at times in which the
Danial occurences has
mentioned takes place
knows
but
them to have
beliveen the said
17th day of August 1776
when he entered the service
the first of December
when he left it
having served all the
intermedate line of the
years & more either in the
field or in Garrisonhe
entered a private served
as such except as a spi
in which capacity he served
●
perhaps half of his time
being capton thereof very
often-

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He was born in Bartie [Bertie] County North Carolina -- he never had any record of his age -
He removed very young to South Carolina where he lived when he was called into the service --
since the revolution he has lived in the State of South Carolina, Georgia, of Mississippi & he now lives in Claiborne Parish State of Louisiana -- he enlisted in the service a fifer but preferred shouldering his musket in the line after he found it was made part of his duty to chastise the
soldiers. He was acquainted with Generals [Charles] Pinckney & [Christopher] Gadsden, Colonel [Barnard] Elliott made commander of artillery by General Washington, Colonel [Isaac] Huger & Colonel Peter O'Ree [Horry] & Colonel Hoy. He received a written discharge from Colonel F. Marion as aforesaid -- And that
he has no documentary evidence & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure
(or indeed

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of any person and all) who can testify to his service or to any part of them --
The names of persons to whom this declarant is known in his neighborhood & who can testify as
to his character for veracity & as to their belief in his services as a soldier of the revolution are D. Thompson, a clergyman & Thomas Henderson a citizen of Claiborne Parish with the said Jethro. This declarant never received a commission in the aforesaid service --
He was born in Bartee County State of North Carolina as aforesaid in the year of our Lord 1761 as nearly as he can ascertain -- he has no record of his age as he has already stated -- he was living in South Carolina when called into the service as he has before stated where he enlisted a
Fifer and went into the line for the cause aforesaid. Since the revolution he has lived in the states
of South Carolina, of Georgia, of Mississippi & now lives in the State of Louisiana as aforesaid
& which he has certificates that will show -- and the discharge he received of Colonel Francis Marion was a written discharge which is since lost as aforesaid. --

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And that he served with the aforesaid Corps which he doubts not was called into service by
competent authority -- that he served the whole of the aforesaid term of three years & upwards
either in the field or in the garrison & for & during the aforesaid term he was not employed in
any civil pursuit -- And this declarant further states & declares that he served from the time of his
coming out of the regular Army aforesaid till the close of the Revolutionary war a private in the
militia of South Carolina but as such service is not necessary to his obtaining of his pension he
only mentions this in modo protestandi [sic] that if need be for it hereafter he should not by
omitting to state it now deprive himself of the benefit thereof --
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present &
he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State -- and that there is
no clergyman 
S/ Jethro Butler

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in the vicinity the whose attendance can be had to give the requisite certificate.
S/ Jethro Butler
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
S/ R. L. Killgore, Parish Judge
Parish of Claiborne

We D. Thompson, a clergyman residing in the aforesaid Parish
of Claiborne & State of La and
Thomas Henderson residing in the same Parish & state hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with
Jethro Butler who had subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed & believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion-
(Signed) D. Thompson
Thomas Henderson
Sworn & subscribed the day & year afd s/ RL Killgore Parish Judge
 of Claiborne  Parish
And the said Court hereby declares his 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 __ who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Claiborne Parish & state of La & that __ who has signed the same indent in the Parish & State aforesaid are both credible persons, that their statement is entitled credit and that the said applicant from bodily attend court [sic]
I __ Clerk of the Court for the Parish of Claiborne do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the Court in the matter of the application of Jethro Butler for a pension. In testimony whereof this
day of __ AD 1835

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[much of image is illegible]

Charles Huys
said declarant Jethro Butler as well 
as to the above certificate of 
D. Thompson & Thos. Henderson & his signature to his opinion of stating the belief of the said Jethro Butlers services as a soldier of the Revolution
and his (the judges) opinion of the credibility &c of the said Thompson & 
Henderson purporting to be his signature as Parish Judge of 
Claiborne Parish afd is his genuine signature as purports to be-- In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand & seal office this 17th day of April AD 1835
M Mahon Dept Clk
of the Parish of Claiborne
State of Louisiana

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and the said Parish Judge of Claiborne Parish afd declares his opinion of the investigation of the matter of putting the interrogatories
presented by the war department that the applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And
the said judge further certifies that
appears to him that D Thompson &
Thomas Henderson who have signed
the preceding certificate are residing
in Claiborne Parish & State of La
aforesaid & that they are both creditable persons  & their statement is entitled to credit and that the 
said declarant Jethro Butler aforesaid cannot from infirmity attend court
And further that the said declarant 
made as part of his declaration the
statement [illegible] on the 11 and 12
pages of his declaration that he has no documentary evidence & that he knows no person whose testimony he can procure &c. who can testify to his
services &c and also that he said that on the 13 & 14th of [illegible]   
RL Killgore Parish Judge Parish of Claiborne

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State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne
I Harman A. Drew Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District Court of the State of Louisiana and Exofficio Judge of the Probate Court in and for the Parish of Claiborne in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Ransom Butler who is one of the children and heirs at law of Jethro Butler deceased who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, has been appointed administrator of the Estate and succession of the said Jethro Butler
a revolutionary pensioner, that said Ransom Butler has qualified as administrator as aforesaid and given bond with security according to Law. I further certify that satisfactory proof has been adduced before me in open Court.  That Jethro Butler who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and resided in the Parish of Claiborne and State of Louisiana, at the time of his death, died on
the Ninth day of April AD 1841 in said Parish and State and that he has left no widow now surviving him and that he left the following children to wit. Ransom Butler, Britton Butler
Mary Butler Eliza Butler Anna Butler, William R Butler Isaac Butler, Samuel Butler, and Richmond Butler his only heirs at law, who and now residents of the Parish of Claiborne

Note: child heir names are numbered sequentially 1 - 9

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the Parish of Bienville and the Parish of Ouachita in the State of Louisiana
Given under my hand officially in the Town of Homer, this 29 day of
September, AD 1854
Harmon A. Drew Judge of 17th Dist.
State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne
I Dickson Henry Dyer Clerk
of the seventeenth Judicial District Court in and for the parish of Claiborne and State of Louisiana
do hereby certify that Harman A. Drew whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing 
instrument, is and was at the time of
Signing the same the acting Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District of the State of Louisiana, in which District is situated the parish of Claiborne 
Given under my hand and
Seal of our said Court.
at Homer State and parish
aforesaid this 29th September
A. D. 1854
J. Harry Dyer
Clk Dist Court

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State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne
Know all men by these presents that We Ransom Butler Britton Butler Mary Butler & Eliza Butler residents of the said Parish and State heirs at law
of Jethro Butter a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and a Citizen of said Parish and
State aforesaid, have nominated, constituted and appointed and do by these presents nominate constitute and appoint Vespasian Ellis of
the City of Washington and District of Columbia our true and lawful attorney act for us and in our names to collect receive and [illegible] for all and any sum or sums of money which may
due and coming to us from the Government of the United States for the services of our said father
Jethro Butler in the Revolutionary war, hereby fully authorizing and empowering our said attorney to
do and perform all and any other acts or act in the premises which may be necessary for the recovery of all or any sum or sums of money which may be due and coming to us for the service aforesaid and to do and perform any other act or acts in the
premises as fully and absolutely as we might or could do ourselves if personally present acting for ourselves. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this
the 19th day of April AD 1854
Attest James A Millican
Ransom Butler his X mark
Britton Butler his X mark
Mary Butler her X mark
Eliza Butler her X mark

State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne ⎬ personally came and appeared before me the undersigned authority RansomButler Britton Butler, Mary Butler and Eliza Butler and to me well known
who acknowledged that they signed the above and foregoing
power of attorney as their act and deed and for the purposes therein
mentioned and they not being able to write made their ordinary mark

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To the same and in my presence on the day and date afore named Given under my hand officially this the day and date above written
James A. Millican
Justice of the Peace

State of Louisiana 
Parish of Claiborne
I Dickson Henry Lyon Clerk
of the 17th Judicial District Court in and for the parish of Claiborne and State of Louisiana
do hereby certify that James A. Millican whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of begining the same an acting Justice of the
peace in and for the parish and
State as due and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit
Given under my hand and
Seal of office at Homer this
14th day of April 1854
D. Henry Dyer
Clk. C. Court

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
 Jethro Butler c/o Millican
5 of 35

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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
Encld
No 7876
Jethro Butler
(Admr of)
$448
Rept April 2. 1855

Reqn No.3.704, dated
9th & sent to Treasury
10th  April, 1855

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[printed document with fill ins]

STATEMENT.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE

The United States,
To  The Admr of Jethro Butler, dec.

pensioner of the  Louisiana Agency, per Act of Congress of 7 June 1832       Dr. For his pension from 4 Sept 1835
to 9 Apl 1841 at $80 per Annum  $448 

Stated April 2. 1855 by WTR Saffell  Clerk

Treasury Department
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE

Examined  April 3  1855 by
Jos. T Adams   Clerk.

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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
EEL HMM April 8, 1930.

Mr. W. D. Goodson
Brookhaven Mississippi.
Dear Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension
claim S. 30908, it appears that Jethro Butler was born in 1761, in Bertie County, North Carolina, and when very young removed to the State of South Carolina.
While residing in Salem District, South Carolina, he enlisted at the beginning of the Revolution and served as a private, spy and fifer under Lieutenant [William] Fishburne, Captains James McDaniel, Daniel Hazyck [Mazyck] and [Francis] Marion, Colonels [Isaac] Motte, O'Ree [Peter Horry] and [Isaac] Huger in the South Carolina Troops, and was discharged December 6, 1779, after which he re-enlisted and served as a private in the South Carolina Militia until the close of the war, exact dates and officers' names
not stated. He was in the battles of Fort Johnson; Fort Moultrie;
went under General [Robert] Howe in the expedition to East Florida, was
taken prisoner and held three months in a dungeon at St. Augustine;
Stono Ferry, Siege of Savannah, Monk's Corner and Quinby's Bridge.
He was commissioned July 4, 1794, Captain of a company of militia in the Western Regiment, Charleston District, called the Four Hole Company. After the Revolution he lived in South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi and then removed to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1835, at which time he was a resident of Russellville, Louisiana.
He died April 9, 1841.
From AB
[noted] He gave date of enlistment in one declaration as Aug 7, 1776 but as
he gave such minute details of the battle of Fort Johnson which was Sept 14th 1775 I did not use date
of enlistment.

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It is stated that he had a large family but the names of his wife and children are not given and there are no other family data.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to William Goodson, as described by you, or to any William J. Goodson or James Goodson.

Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.

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[printed document with fill ins]
[left side of page ]
30908
Revy  INVALID.

File No.  30908
Jethro Butler
Pri  Rev War

Act:  June 7 32
Index:-Vol. 9, Page 98

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side of page]
1930 Apr 8 - Hist. to W. D. Goodson   EEL
_____________
1932 - Oct 20. Ad. Mr. Robt Floyd Kerman that
places of death & burial 
are not given in this 
claim  EEL

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[printed form] Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
18 Jan 7 1830
Jethro Butler of Claiborne Parish in the State of Louisiana has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the
Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination
at which period he was a Private in
 captain [James] McDaniel's company, in the _  regiment of the S Carolina line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the
15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the
records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary. FA. Dickins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
18th January 1830
It further appears that Jethro Butler
is not now on the pension list of any
agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826
The name of Jethro Butler cannot be
found among those of the South Carolina line to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dolllars, were issued  s/ Peter Hagner Aud
Correct

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War Dept Bounty Office
Jany 25. 1830

The name of Jethro Butler does not appear on any Record of the South Carolina line on file in this office
among those, entitled to Bounty Land of the U. States or to whom a Land Warrant was issued
Wm Gordon

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State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne
Personally before me the
undersigned Parish Judge in and for
the State and parish aforesaid
Jethro Butler, of said Parish who
made oath. That he enlisted
at the commencement of the Revolutionary war in the company of
Captain James McDaniel of the
Second Regiment of South Carolina
Continentals - being the fourth
company in said Regiment under the
command of General [William] Moultrie - that your affiant continued in said company after the
resignation of said McDaniel
under the command of Captain
Daniel Mazeck [Mazyck] and continued in the same, until the
regiment was cut off at the
Battle of Savannah
your affiant further says that he served during the war in the siege of Fort Moultrie, the battle of Quinbee [Quinby's] Bridge & Monk's Corner
also at the taking of Fort

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Recd 18 Jany 1830
Johnson - your deponent further
says that he was taken
prisoner by the British at Alligator bridge in East Florida and lay upwards of three months in the dungeons of [St.] Augustine
your deponent further deposes
that he was regularly discharged at the end of the war, but that he
lost his said discharge, together with several other papers, on moving from
Georgia Jethro Butler his X mark

Sworn to & subscribed before me
at the Town of Russellville at the Parish aforesaid this 1 Dec. 1829.
s/ Chichester Chaplin
Judge of the Parish of Claiborne

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South Carolina
Charleston District Before me Richard Yeadon Jr one of the Justices of the Quorum, duly qualified to administer oaths in & for the district & State aforesaid Richard Bohan Baker
Captain in the 2d Regiment, in the So. Carolina Line, of the army of the Revolution, who being sworn deposeth that Jethro Butler, mentioned in the letter of Judge Chichester Chaplin to this deponent, dated July 30. 1830, at Russelville
La, from his naming the officers of the said Regiment is the same individual whom this deponent knew
as a soldier (of the Revolution) attached to the said Regiment, and this deponent therefore firmly believes him to be entitled to his pension as a Revolutionary soldier
s/ Richd Bohan Baker

Sworn to before me this 30th Sep. 1830 s/ R Yeadon QJC

The State of S. Carolina
Office of Common Pleas.
Charleston District
I William S. Smith Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for the District and State aforesaid do certify that Richard Yeadon Jr before whom the above attestation is made is Justtice of the Quorum lawfully appointed and sworn and is as such duly authorized to administer
an Oath. Given under my hand and the Seal of the said Court at Charleston on this 30th day
of September 1830 -
WS Smith
C.C.P

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To all to whom these Presents should
Come Send Greeting
Know ye that we the
Subscribing Citizens of Saint Georges Parish Charleston & Colleton Districts in the State of South Carolina do Certify for Captain Jethro Butler
that he answers the character of a very worthy citizen we breath our warmest wishes that every friend to virtue may treat him with
respectability.
Given under our hands this
7th day of May 1806 Thomas Riddlesping, Jno Glare Lt Col
31st Regiment 17th Brigade,
James Mimes, Wm Harley, Davd Rumph, Dan H Milhous, DB Earle, Adjutant-General, A. Rumph Qu, Jacob Read [illegible] 7th Brigade,
H Hutchinson Major 38th Regt, Thos.  R. Mitchell Aid du camp to the
Brigadier Gen 7 Brig, Isaha M McClord Qu

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Know all men by these presents, that I Jethro Butler of the Parish of Claiborne, in the State of Louisiana
do hereby constitute and appoint, Walter H Overton, my true and lawful attorney with a power of substitution, for me and in my name, to receive from the United States, the amount of pay now due to me, under the act
for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution approved 15th May 1826, as a private in the second regiment of the Continental line of the army of the
Revolution
Jethro Butler his X mark
Witness my hand and seal this ninth day of Sept. in the year 1829
Witness Asa Duty
Before me Chichester Chaplin Judge of the Parish of Claiborne, in the State of Louisiana personally
appeared, this day. Jethro Butler, whose name is subscribed
to the foregoing power of attorney, & acknowledged the same to be his act & deed - Witness my hand & Seal this ninth day of Sept in the year 1829
Chichester Chaplin
Parish Judge Parish of Claiborne

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I Asa Duty,
Deputy Clerk
of the District & Parish Courts of the Parish of Claiborne and State of Louisiana do hereby certify
that Chichester Chaplin, before whom the foregoing power of attorney
was acknowledged is Judge of the Parish of Claiborne
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this ninth day of September in the year 1829 -
Asa Duty Deputy
of the District and Parish Court
Parish of Claiborne

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Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of war
Washington City

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Washington Ark
July 30th 1836
Hon Lewis Cass
I have been requested by Jethro Butler a pensioner of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana and Benjamin Goodson a pensioner who resided near chatches [Natches]
Mississippi when he obtained his
pension, but who resides in Claiborne Parish La also, to write to the department over which you with so
much distinction preside to ascertain
if they cannot draw their pensions
at Natchitoches La. Out of Branch of
the Louisiana Union Bank at that
place in the place of the mother Bank
in the City of N. Orleans where the former is now entitled to draw and
the Bank of Natches where the latter is so entitled-- by are both very old men and unacquainted with business so that it is very expensive for them to take a voyage of 4 or 5 hund miles for their money (even if their decrepitude would allow it) and inconvenient to empower any other person to do so for them. In fact I am informed by Butler that the Bank of Orleans requires an application for the money in proper person and under that State of the question his pension is of no value to him whatever, as the pains he suffers in going afar is

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after paying one half of it for his
passage is more than it is with
The Cashier of the bank of N. Orleans
did inform said Butler that he would
not pay his pension to any agent or
attorney in fact that he must always
apply in person for it or not [illegible]
If the arrangement could be made
to pay them their pensions at the
land office at Monroe, La. is maybe equally convenient to them both.
It were needless to tell you that
those men live in a Parish (Claibourne) adjoining to the County of which the above place is the County site and any arrangement that may be made in their behalf forwarded to the undersigned will be communicated to them immediately
this is according to their wish respectively. Truly & respectively your
obt. Servt J Moore

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Commercial Bank of New Orleans
New Orleans, Septr 15. 1836.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Washington City
Sir
Your favor of 31st ultime was
received yesterday, in answer to which, I have to state that I have never in any instence declined paying pensions to persons duly authorised
by the Pensioner to receive the same, and further that Mr Jethro Butler has never applied for the amount of his pension, either in person or by attorney, since the transfer to me, of Books & papers from the United States Bank
I am Sir very respectfully Yr mo obs sert Wm G  Hewes
Pension Agent

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R. 11. W.D.
[illegible]
4 October 1835
Pension office

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Russellville La, September 15th 1835 
free
To the honble Lewis Cass secretary of war of the United States Washington City

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State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne Russellville
September 15th 1835
Sir enclosed is a supplemental declaration from Jethro Butler -
If you should have occasion to communicate with Jethro Butler
on this matter you will
address your letter to Russellville
Post Office Claiborne Parish
Louisiana
and much obliged
your Obed servant
R L Killgore
for Jethro Butler

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Russellville, LA November 20th
To the Honbl The Secretary of the Treasury Revolutionary Claims Washington City DC

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Recd. 28 Dec 1831
4241
Russelville Claiborne Parish La
Nov. 17th 1831.
To the Honbl the Secretary of
the Treasury
Sir
I have written several communications to the Deptmt containing evidence as to my claims on Govt for Revolutionary services under the act of the
15th May 1828. I have also received
a letter from Richard B. Baker Esq
of South Carolina in which he states
that he has forwarded an affidavit
to the Dept on the same subject.
The last letter I had the honor
of receiving from the Dept stated
that all that is wanting now is
further evidence, such as a copy
of a grant of lands for said Services.
I now enclose a copy duly certified of the grant which I received for that purpose, under the commutation law of SCa
It is to be hoped that the evidence
now transmitted will be considered as complete  I have the honor of remaining Yr Obt Sert
Jethro Butler his X mark

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I Robert L Killgore Post Master
of the Russelville Post Office, do hereby certify that the mark of Jethro Butler to the foregoing letter is genuine and that he cannot write his name not knowing how
R L Killgore
Russelville Nov. 17. 1831

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State of Mississippi
Lawrence County
Whereas Jethrew [Jethro] Butler
of the County & State aforesaid
hath expressed his intention to us
to move to Read River in the State of
Louisiana we therefore state
that from a personal acquaintance
of many years with the said Jethro
Butler, that we believe him to
be an honest & respectable
citizen & we therefore recommend him as such. Decr 16th 1818
Howel W Runnels
Senator from the dist
composed of the counties
of Hancock, Marion &
Lawrance

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Fort Alford Lieut Col in and for the County of Lawrence
Harmon M Runnels, Clk Lawrence
County & State Miss
Shadrach King Rector of the Pearl River Academy
Harmon Runnels Representative State Legislation County of Lawrence
Richard M Rotton Merchant in County
Eli Garner Colonel of the 9th M.M.
Harper Garner (JP)

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Russellville LA
August [illegible]

Richard B. Baker Jr Esq.
Charleston, SC

written 30th
received the 6th September at [illegible]
1230
mail

you will find a
Volume of Bounty
grants between
1785 & 1790-

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Russelville La July 30th 1830
Sir
I have been requested by an old
Revolutionary soldier, by the name of Jethro Butler to write to you in order to obtain testimony to lay before the Treasury dept in his favor-
Mr Butler enlisted, at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, in Capt. Daniel Mazeck's [Mazyck] Company, in the second Regt of South Ca Continentals, commanded by Gen [William] Moultrie, and continued therein, until 
the Regt was cut off at the battle of
Savannah - Mr Butler was one of those who were drafted to go on what was called Howes Expedition to East Florida & he was taken prisoner at the
Alligator bridge into put into the dungeon at St. Augustine & lay there
many months. He was also at the siege of Fort Moultrie
He would wish also to call to your remembrance, the bloody

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battle of Stono Ferry
near Charlestown, also
the battle of Wauban bridge [Wanbaw Creek] close to Monks Corner under the command of Gen [Francis] Marion, and then the battle of Monks corner in all which he was concerned.
About five, six or seven years
after the war Mr Butler obtained a County warrant from the land office in CharlesTown Whilst Capt Thomas
Hall was Clerk in the office who, if he is yet alive will remember Mr Butler
He requests of you (if you do not recollect his services as above mentioned) to get a certificate, or other proof of the County Warrant
from the land office in Charles town
& enclose the same to theSecty of the
Treasury as he requires proof of that
description to entitle claimants to the
benefit of the law of the 15 May 1828
And if you remember his revolutionary
services you will please state the

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same to the Secty in the form of an affidavit or proof tantamount thereto
It is to be hoped that this appeal to a surviving officer of the Revolution
by one of his brother soldiers, will not be made in vain & that you will use every effort to obtain for him that testimony which is required either by proving that he was in the service,
or had obtained his bounty warrant
If the following [illegible] give they can testify completely to Mr. Butler's
character & services
Cap David Mazyck
Cap. T [Thomas] Hall 
Capt [John] Blake
Cap. [William] Charnock
Cap. [General William] W. Moultrie
& Cap [Thomas] Dunbar of the Grenadiers.-
Respectfully Yr Obt Servt
Chichester Chaplin
Pleas to acknowledge the rect of the above- Direct to Jethro Butler, care of Judge Chaplin
Russelville. Parish of Claiborne Louisiana

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Free
Revolutionary [illegible]

To the Honbl The Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City DC

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Recd 18 Jany 1830
1268
Russelville Decr 5. 1829
Sir
At the request of Mr Jethro Butler I enclose to you an affidavit made
by him, concerning his revolutionary services
He received a communication some time since, from the department stating that the evidence already transmitted was not sufficient it is to be hoped that the enclosed affidavit will elucidate the matter, so as to enable you to act on his application-
Mr Butler is an old man with a large family and far from the place, where his revolutionary services were performed
He is not in possession of any
further evidence, than that already
transmitted
He is universally respected in this Parish, as an honest man & of undoubted veracity
Respectfully
Chichester Chaplin

Hon SD Inghan Sect Treasury

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Judge Chaplin 
Louisiana
mail
Mr. William Withers
Fauquier County
Virginia

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Russelville  July 30. 1830
Sir I have been requested by an old
Revolutionary soldier by the name of
Jethro Butler, to write to you in order to obtain testimony, to lay before the
Treasury department in his favor-
Mr. Butler enlisted at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, in Capt Daniel Mazecks [Mazyck] company in the second regiment of South Carolina Continentals, commanded by Gen. [William] Moultrie, and continued therein
until the Regiment was cut off at the
battle [siege] of Savannah. He was
taken prisoner at the Alligator Bridge
in what was called Howe's expedition to East Florida and lay in [St.] Augustine prison many months. He
was at the siege [battle] of Fort Moultrie, the Battle of Stono bridge [Ferry] & Monks [Corner]

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Corner  in each of which he very well 
recollects that you were present-
If you recollect Mr Butler and his revolutionary services or if you can
offer any testimony to the treasury
department in his favor, you will
confer a great obligation on him as
he is a poor man encumbered with
a large family-
I send this letter under cover to the
Treasury department to which
Dept you will please enclose any facts you may know
in relation to the subject
I Remain respectfully
Chichester Chaplin
Please acknowledge the rect of this direct to Mr Butler care of Judge Chaplin

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Russellville - Parish of Claiborne
Louisiana
answered on the 4 Sept from Alexr DC

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It appears to me that this Grant to Jethro Butler must
have been for revolutionary services, for it states no
consideration money paid for the Granted lands, which
the acts of assembly required in all other cases.
This Grant was under the commutation act -
the records of Grants for Revolutionary services in the
State have not been kept distinct from other grants
as I am informed-
Henry A. De Saussure
5 Sept 1831
the Son of Judge De Saussure
R B Baker 
[Captain Richard Bohun Baker]

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No 6
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
To all to whom these presents shall come -- Greeting:
KNOW YE, That in pursuance of an Act of the Legislature, entitled "An Act for establishing the mode of Granting the Lands now vacant in this State, and for allowing a commutation
to be received for some lands that have been granted," passed the 19th day of February, 1791, WE have Granted, and by these presents do Grant unto Jethro Butler
his heirs and assigns, a plantation or tract of land containing three hundred and Eighty Acres Surveyed for him
the fifth day of December 1800 Situate in the District of Charleston Bounded by lines running N.W. & S.W.
by said Jethro Butlers Land N E. by John C Tolkers Land all other sides Vacant Land
having such shape, form and marks as are represented by a plat hereunto annexed, together with all woods, trees, waters, water courses, profits, commodities, appurtenances and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of
Three Hundred & Eighty acres of Land, and all and singular other the premises hereby granted unto the said Jethro Butler his heirs and assigns forever, in free and common soccage.
Given under the seal of the State.
WITNESS His Excellency John Drayton Esquire, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief, in and over the said State, at Columbia, this fifth day
of January Anno Domini, one thousand of eight hundred and one
and of the Independence of the United States of America the twenty fifth-
s/ John [LMS] Drayton
And hath hereunto a Plat thereof annexed, representing the same, certified by Artemus B Darby dep Surveyor General
20th Decr 1800
Secretary of States Office
Columbia S.C 2th Augt 1831
A true copy from record
Grant Book Vol 71 Page 211
Charleston Grants
Chas L Hammond dep. Secretary of State

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South Carolina Columbia 8 Aug 1831
I do hereby certify that Artemas B
Darby, whose signature to the
within grant of deputy Surveyor General is affixed, was the deputy Surveyor General and that Charles L. Hammond whose signature is affixed to the within Certificate, is Deputy
Secretary of State: and that full
faith & credit is due to his certificate
s/ Henry Wm De Saussure
Chancellor
I certify that Henry Wm De Saussure who hath subscribed the above certificate is a Chancellor of the State of South Carolina Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas at Charleston on the
fifth of September 1831
s/ WS Smith
C.C.P
copy grant $1.07
Certificate      .31
$1.38

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Please send me word if you have found the grant to Jethro Butler
H.W. D.

There is but one Grant toJethro Butler of Record in this office & that is located in Chastn District Granted 1801 for 380 acres
C L Hammond

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Jethro Butler  Pvt
So. Car. line

Louisiana

old Inv File No 41.465
Act 1828
Evidence insufficient

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1828 papers to be filed with Ad OW Inv File #30.908

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State of South Carolina
Charles[ton] District
I do Certify that Capt Jethro Butler Esq of the Westren [Western] Regiment did Solemnly swear that he would support and maintain to the utmost of his ability the Laws and
constitution of this state and of the United States
Sworn to this 13th of June 1795
Before me Elisha Hall JP

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE
UNITED STATES
Jethro Butler S.30908 SC

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Will m Moultrie
Secretary's Office. Certified by
Peter Freneau Secretary

The STATE of SOUTH CAROLINA
To Jethro Butler Esquire
We reposing special trust and confidence in your courage and good conduct, and in your fidelity and attachment to the United States of America, have commissioned and appointed you, and by these presents do commission and appoint you the said Jethro Butler Captain of a Company of Militia in the Western Regiment Charleston District called the Four Hole Company.
which said Company you are to lead, train, muster and exercise, according to military discipline. And you
are to follow and observe all such orders and instructions you shall from time to time receive from the governor, the commander
in chief for the time being, or any of your superior officers, according to the rules and discipline of war, pursuant to laws of this State and of the United States. And all inferior officers and others belonging to the
Company are hereby required and commanded to obey you as their Captain
This commission to continue during pleasure Given under the SEAL of the STATE.
Witness his Excellency William Moultrie Governor and Commander in Chief of the said State, this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the
United States of America

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Russellville LA
Sept 13 1829
To the Honbl The Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City DC
Revolutionary Claims

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Recd 12 Oct 1829    1746
Declaration of Jethro Butler
a revolutionary Claimant
Under the law of Congress approved 15 May 1828.

for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "an act, for the relief of certain surviving officers, and soldiers of the army of the revolution, approved the 15th May 1828. I, Jethro Butler, of the Parish of Claiborne in the State of Louisiana, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a
private in Captain James McDaniels
company in the second regiment of the line-
(1 ) and I also declare, that I became entitled to receive a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of
Congress passed the 15th of May 1778
(1). The declarant never received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, although entitled to it by law

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And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States
his X Mark
(Signed ) Jethro Butler
Witness
Asa Duty

Before me Chichester Chaplin Judge of the Parish of Claiborne in the State of Louisiana, personally appeared
this ninth day of September Robert L. Killgore and Asa Duty of said Parish who did severally make oath that Jethro Butler, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army
of the Revolution in manner as therein stated 
s/ RL Killgore Asa Duty

Witness my hand & seal of office
of this ninth day of Sept in the year 1829 s/ Chichester Chaplin Judge of the Parish of Claiborne La

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I Asa Duty Deputy Clerk of the
District & Parish County of the Parish of Claiborne, in the State of Louisiana
do certify, that Chichester
Chaplin before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, Judge of the Parish of Claiborne
and duly empowered to administer
oaths
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this ninth day of September the year of our Lord One 
thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Asa Duty Deputy Clerk
of the District and Parish Court
Parish of Claiborne

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KIIWD
Supplemental Declaration of Jethro Butler to obtain a pension under act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

on roll S. Carolina from 1775 for 3 yrs $80.

To Honbl Lewis Cass Secretary of War of the United States Washington City

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State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne
On this seventh day of September A.D. 1835 Personally appeared in the Honorby District Court of the 7th Judicial district held in and for
the state and Parish aforesaid-
Jethro Butler of the State and Parish 
aforesaid aged 74 years who being
duly sworn according to law doth 
on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the 
benefit of the provision made by the 
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he enlisted into the army 
of the U. States at the time mentioned in his original declaration so fore as his memory serves him and quit the same at the time mentioned therein, and that he enlisted as aforesaid some time before the attack on Charleston South Carolina by the British in June AD. 1776-
That he recollects the following non
commissioned officers in his company Jacob Coleman first Sergeant,  Daniel Holladay second Sergeant. John Keals third Sargeant. Isaac Keal & John Cantly and one McGee corporals-
John Davis a drummer. Manuel Lassos fifer a spaniard, by country
and that he recollects the following
privates in his company

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Lucas George Raburn, Patrick McCann, Briant Killed in the battle of Fort Moultry [Moultrie]. Yarborough likewise killed. Adam Beck killed. Sorj Young leg cut off in same place,
two men by the name of Davidson the
Adjutant of the regiment that this declarant belonged Dilyong or Dilyon a Frenchman and the serjant [sergeant] majors name was Fash or Fuach a one armed man
Gasper was the first Sergeant of the
Granadiers [Grenediers] and sergeant Newton of the same -
That the reason he the
said declarent did not obtain a
pension under the act of 1818 he is
not able to answer but from information he obtained from Capt. [Richard Bohun] Baker of
Charleston South Carolina who commanded a company in the same
regiment he served in who informed
this declarent that none were entitled
to a pension under said act but
those that enlisted for during the
war and survived it serving out their
time which this declarant did not
enlist for but for the period mentioned in his original declaration
but before he was thus informed he
applied to a Judge Chaplin late of
this Parish Parish Judge to make application for him which he did or
pretended to do, but whether or not 
he did so according to legal form
this declarant is not capable of

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Judgeing nor does he pretend to Judge but if the aforesaid Capt. [Robert Bohun] Baker should now be alive he can verify what this declarant doth allege and declare that there was no other Jethro Butler in the army of the South or any where else to his knowledge than this declarant himself-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any state signed,
Jethro Butler his X mark
And the said Court does hereby
declare its opinion that the above
named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
S Lewes Judge 5th Dish presiding
in the seventh District
I Jas. P. Irwin Dept Clerk of the 
aforesaid district Court for the Parish
of Claiborne aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jethro Butler for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th day of September A.D. 1835
Jas P Irwin
Dep. Clerk

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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER RECEIVED FROM GAO

Pension Office
March 29. 1855

You are authorised to
pay the amount due.
Respy
S. Cali
for Commr
RJ Atkinson Esq
3rd Aud

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Jethro Butler died April 9th 1841
State of Louisiana
Parish of Claiborne
On this 19th day of July AD 1854 personally came and appeared before me the undersigned authority John L. Dyer a resident of Claiborne Parish in the State aforesaid who being first
duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was well acquainted with Jethro Butler in his life time who was a revolutionary pensioner
that he has examined the family record in the possession of Ransom Butler that the above and foregoing copy of the entry of the death
of the said Jethro Butler from the family record of the said Jethro Butler is a true copy of the genuine family record of Jethro Butler deceased that he knows the family record of the
said Jethro Butler very well having frequently seen it in the possession of the said Jethro Butler in his life time and that he lived in the
immediate neighborhood of said the Butler for many years s/ JL Dyer

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year first above written this 19th day of July AD 1864
James A. Millican Justice of the Peace

State of Louisiana Parish of Claiborne I Dickson Henry Dyer Clerk of the District Court of Claiborne Parish in the State of Louisiana do hereby certify that James A. Millican whose genuine signature appears on the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for Claiborne Parish and that all of his official acts are entitled to full faith
and credit-
Given under my hand and seal of office this 30th day of Sept. 1854
D. Henry Dyer Clk dist court

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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER RECEIVED FROM GAO

Payments to be made T New Oeleans by WW Montgomery Esq 
Pt: US Br[anch] Bank &
Agent for paying pensioners
in the Agency of Louisiana

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E2 Vol. 8 Page 68 by

Wm. S. Allison Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States
of the 7th June, 1832, Jethro Butler
of Louisiana
who was a Private in the Army
of the Revolution
is entitled to receive eighty--
dollars and
cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-
annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in
every year
Given at the War One of the United
States, this Seventeenth day of
October
one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five
s/ Lewis Cass Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned
J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Washington D.C.
March 19th /55
F. Moulton,
Recd Mch 24th /55
$80 4 D 55
        9 Apr 41
claims for 
all payments of five
years pension.
Respy referred
to the Commr of
Pension for
a Special admit
to pay
3 Auditor office
March 29th 1855.
Robt J [illegible]
Auditor
[illegible]
Mr Randall

Commissioner
Act of 7 June 32
Pay this admd
the amount
[illegible]
care of Mr. M.

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Washington March 19th 55
Sir
I enclose the papers in the case of the children of Jethro Butler who are
applying for arrears due them under
Act of 7 June 1832. I believe the proofs are complete
Pension Certificate letters of Administration - proof of Heirship Power of Atty &c  Hoping the matter
will receive as early attention as practicable I am very Respy
s/ F Moulton
Commr of Pensions

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

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ROBERT FLOYD KENNON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
MINDEN, AND BENTON, LA.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Twenty Sixth Judicial District
BOSSIER & WEBSTER PARISHES

October 5, 1932

Director of Pensions,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
I am interested in knowing the burial places of the following two veterans of the Revolutionary War.

These names are Jethro Butler, age 88, and Benjamin Goodson, age 82, as they have appeared on the roll of Pensioners in 1840 from Claiborne Parish.

I am getting this information for the Daughters of the Revolution, who are interested in placing markers on, these graves.

Appreciating your interest in this, I am
Sincerely,
s/ ROBERT FLOYD KENNON

RFK:rl

RECEIVED OCT 7 1932 PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION [Stamped]

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Brookhaven Miss
1/3 - 1930
W.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C
Dear Sir:-- Do you have any
Pension  [missing text] of a Mr Jethro Butler Proberty [probably born] Bored in S.C. and who I understand moved to Claiborne Pa[rish] LA & lived at Homer LA and very likely at Nocatock [Natchitoches] same Pa LA
He was half Bro[ther] to Benj Goodson who died at Homer LA 1851
per Rev War Pension Claim W. 7550
Any information your office have
of Mr Butter, will much
appreciated by me
Yours very truly WD Goodson
P.S.  Jethro Buttler 
[stamp] US Pension Office   FEB 6 1930

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[illegible] do you have any record
Wm J Goodson,  Wm N Goodson, James Goodson, who were born
in Chestershire Pa S.C.
and came to Miss, and married
at Monticello, Lawrence Co Miss
in the early 20's and & Proberly
drifted, into (Claiborne Pa) La -as well as a Mr Wm Goodson who was in Chestershire Pa S.C. at the census of 1790- and moved to MO later- was a Rev War Pensioner understand
from a list of Mo. pensioners,
W.D.G
1840_Carroll 


[Stamped] US Pension Office FEB 6 1930

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October 20, 1932

Jethro Butler-S. 30998 
Benjamin Goodson-W.7550
BA-J/EEL
Mr. Robert Floyd Kennon
Minden
Louisiana
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information
in regard to the burial places of Jethro Butler and Benjamin
Goodson, Revolutionary War pensioners.
In the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 30908,
based upon the military service of Jethro Butler in that war, the
places of death and burial are not shown. The last place of residence
given is Russellville, Louisiana, in 1835, at the time he made
his application for pension. He died April 9, 1841.
In the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.7550,
based upon the military service of Benjamin Goodson, the places of his
death and burial are not given. The date of death is May 26, 1851,
and the last place of residence shown is 1847, at which time he moved to
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.