Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,511, Moody Burt, Va.

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Va.       Burt, Moody        R. 1511

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The State of South Carolina
Anderson District 
I Moody Burt at present in this State and District being of sound mind for the disposition of My worldly Estate, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. 
First I give and bequeath to William Joney and David G. Raney a negro slave named Jack aged seventy two years in trust for my daughter Sarah Pope during her natural life and after her death to the heirs of her body in for simple forever. 
Secondly, I give and bequeath to the said William Joney and David G. Raney in trust for my said daughter Sarah Pope during her natural life a certain tract of Land in Florida where I formerly lived adjoining the Land of Col. William Joney and others containing one hundred & sixty [160] acres and after her death I give and bequeath the said lands to the heirs of her Body in fee simple forever, and for the better carrying into effect the true intent of the foregoing trust in this the preceding clown contained the same being here by declared to be for the sole and entire benefit comfort and support of my said daughter during her life and the heirs of her body - after her decease the said trusts are authorized and empowered independently and exclusively to control the same by an annual hire and rent or other disposition of said property for a time of years care being had that the proceeds there from shall be had and enjoyed by my said daughter during her life and by the heirs aforesaid after untill [until] such time as it may deemed by them as most conclusive to their interest that the same shall be distributed amongst them when they

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Shall have power are hereby authorized to divide the same equally amongst the said heirs. Their shares to be ascertained by a sale or apportionment as they may deem most advisable.
Thirdly, out of the residue of my estate I direct that my Just debts be paid and all that remains of my estate real and personal, I give and bequeath to my daughter Martha H. Goode during her natural life & the heirs of her body after he decease in fee simple forever, subject to the control and management of my son in law Levelling Goode for their interest and benefit.
Fourth, I appoint [Lewelling] Goode and Martha H. Goode my lawful Executors of this my last will and testament thereby revoking all other wills by me made-
Given under my hand and seal this sixth [6] day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty four [1834] & fifty ninth [59] of American Independence-
Moody Burt [seal]

Executed and Published as his will by testation in presence of each of us three persons
Matthew Burt
Alexander Evans
Isaac R. Towers

South Carolina
Anderson District
Personally appeared efore me Alexander Evans and made oath in due form of Law that he saw Moody Burt sign his name to the witness as his last will and Testament, that he was then of sound disposing mind, memory and understanding and that Matthew Burt, and Isaac R. Towers

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Were subscribing witnesses with himself
Sworn to and subscribed the 6th day of November 1843
William Magee C. A. D.-  
A. Evans

State of South Carolina
Anderson District
Whereas by a will signed and executed by me on the sixth [6th] day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four [1834], a portion of my property was willed to my daughter Martha H. Goode during her life and to the heirs of her body at her decease, and where as the said Martha H. Goode as also her husband Lewelling Goode are both since then, dead, I therefor being still in sound mind and condition for such business do ordain and establish them as an alteration of said will- 
First. All the property that by said will would have come into the possession of said Martha H. Good and of her decease to the heirs of her body. I do now give and bequeath to her four [4] children Sarah Goode, Martha Goode, Thomas Goode, and John Goode to be divided between them in equal proportion I have share and share alike-
Second I do appoint Thomas Payne and John Maxwell my executors and I hereby authorize and empower them to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of such property for the benefit of such children, it being my desire that they be well educated from the proceeds of such property. In writings whereof I have hire unto set my hand and seal this Twenty seventh [27th] day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and forty one [1841] in the presence of 
Jessen McKinney
Wm Steele
Micajah Anderson
Moody Burt [seal]

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South Carolina
Anderson District
Personally appeared before me William Steele Esq and made oath in due form of Law that he saw the written name Moody Burt sign the written instrument as codicil to his last will and testament and that Jessen McKinney and Micajah Anderson were subscribing witnesses with himself and that said Burt was then of sound disposing mind, memory and recollection Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day of November 1843
William Magee C. A. D. 
Wm Steele

State of South Carolina
Anderson District
I William Magee Ordinary of said District hereby certify that the within last will and Testament of Moody Burt decd [deceased] was this day admitted to Probate by the Oath of Alexander Evans and the codicil by the oath of Wm Steele [illegible] and that on the same day John Maxwell as Executor –
Given under my hand and seal the 6th day of November 1843- 
William Magee Ordinary [seal]
Anderson District

State of South Carolina
Anderson District
I Willian Magee hereby certify the within to be a just and true copy of the last will and testament of Moody Burt died and also the codicil with probate of the witness to the same. Given under my hand and seal the 10th day of November 1843-
William Magee [seal]
Ordinary Anderson
District

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The State of South Carolina
Anderson District
On this twelfth [12th] day of October one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six [1836] personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the court of Sessions and Common Pleas for the said District  now in session Moody Burt residing in the State and District aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
This Deponent was born on this Twenty Fifth [25th] day of December in this year 1757 at the half way House between Williamsburg and York being nearly Seventy Nine [79] years of age. He was residing in Charlotte County, Virginia when he first entered the service. In the spring of the year 1779 he entered the service by enlisting in the Company of Capt. Benj. [Benjamin] Toliver. Maj Anderson, Lieut. Col. Saml [Samuel] Hopkins and Col. Parker commanding the Regiment which belonged to Scotts Brigade for the term of Eighteen [18] months. Their line of march was taken up at Petersburg and continued through North and South Carolina to Savannah in Georgia. There this Deponent remained Six [6] weeks and while there the city was besieged and he was severely wounded and in consequence of his wound he was sent to Charleston, South Carolina and remained there three [3] months under the treatment of D. Harris. When being so far recovered he obtained a Permit from Col Heath of the same Brigade to join his Regiment under Col. Parker, which he did at Augusta Georgia. Shortly after Charleston was besieged and Col. Parkers Regiment marched to their relief. This Deponent remained at

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Augusta, his wound having broken out again from his fatigue and exposure in traveling from Charleston to Augusta. There he remained under the Treatment of D. Wells until he recovered after the fall of Charleston this deponent in Company with Thomas Glascock, Jesse Walton and Col [Marbray] left Augusta on their way to Virginia and in their presence he destroyed all his papers & showing his enlistment and services. This was done in order to avoid detention by the way, and they were pledged to prove his service and the destruction of his papers showing his enlistment. But since they have all died. On his way to Virginia he joined Col. Buford’s Regiment on this day after their defeat by the British at Charlotte in North Carolina. And continued his march with them to Hillsborough where he obtained a furlough from Lieut. Col. Saml. [Samuel] Hawes of the same regiment, to return home. Shortly after his return home, he was called out to meet the recruits at Chesterfield Virginia and while in training there his term of Enlistment expired. He there obtained a permit from Col. Davis to go to Richmond to get his discharge, which he did from Genl. Murenburg. He has since lost it. In February 1781 volunteered in a Light Horse Company commanded by Capt. Bedford and Maj. Walker Daniel and was appointed Adjutant finding his own horse and arms. They were from there marching to Dan River and from there to Hillsborough and then on to Whitesells Mills where they under the command of Otho Williams of the Maryland line had an engagement with the British under Lord Cornwallis. They were then present at the engagement at Alamants [Alamance] and afterward at Reedy Fork at which place they were commanded by Gen. Washington and then marched to Guilford

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Court House , March 15, 1781 and was also present at that engagement. One week after that Battle he received his discharge. Having been in service since the expiration of his first enlistment Six [6] or Eight [8] weeks After that the Legislature of Virginia gave him a Land Warrant for Eleven hundred [1100] acres of Land on the Ohio River in the Continental Reserve as a Bounty for his last mentioned Services which warrant was granted on the Certification of his Major Walker Daniel and to whom it was delivered as an agent to locate it. And while on his way to locate it he was killed by the Indians and the warrant. This deponent believes that it can be seen on reference to the Records of the Legislature of Virginia. He also received an indent from the Same Legislature in Consequence of the depreciation of the paper money. This Deponent has no other proof than what is here submitted. All those with whom he was particularly well acquainted in the service being dead and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to all Pensions or amenities whatsoever and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
In Open Court Moody Burt
12th 6 1856
Van A Lawhue
Ne. Jacob Burriss [crossed out[ and Ebenezer Smith residing in the state and District aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moody Bury who resides in the said District and who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding Declaration that we believe him to be of the age he has stated, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a solider of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. sworn to subscribed in open court day and year aforesaid 
Jacob Burriss 
Ebenezer Smith
Van A Lawhue

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I John S Richardson Judge of the said Court do hereby certify and declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and the substances of the interrogations prescribed by the war department having been answered as far it is said as is in the power of the Applicant. From his general appearance and his reputed character that he was a soldier of the Revolution and served as Stated. That Jacob Burriss – who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman who together with Eben Smith signing the forgoing certificate and also the undersigned Jos N Whitner, John Archer, A. Evans, John P. Benson., A N McFall, W. Smith [illegible] are credible and respectable men and entitled to implicit belief as represented by there in whom I have confidence as well as from personal acquaintance.
J.S. Richardson, [illegible Judge
Dec. 1836
The State of South Carolina
Anderson District
We the undersigned citizens of the State & District certify that we have long known the applicant Moody Burt a citizen of this District that he is universally esteemed a man of irreproachable character and as universally reputed a [illegible] been a soldier of the Revolution and that upon his body the evidences of wounds always regarded  as received in that war.
J. Whitefield
John Archer
A J Ledell 
John P Benson
Jno Lipscomb
A N McFall
Whitaker Smith 
Jesse P. Lewis
E. B. Benson
I Gan A [Lawhon] of the Court of Gen Sessions & Common Pleas for Anderson District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moody Burt for a Pension
In Testimony where of I have set my hand & seal of office this twelfth [12th] day of October 1836.
Gan A [Lawhon]
C.C

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Known all men by these Presents
That, we Mae M Goode and M. H. Hammonds hereby nominate constitute & appoint Abner Perrin the lawful attorney for us and in our names to apply for and [illegible] the Pension Certificate for any amount of Pension that may be found due us as the grandchildren of Moody Burt Decd [deceased], who was a Sergeant in one of the Continental Regiments of the Virginia State Line, in the war of the American Revolution on account of his military service in said war. We hereby empower our said agent attorney to withdraw all papers on file in the Pension office; to file additional evidence if necessary, and in our name & stead to do every act that we [designate] or could do lawfully in the premises, were we personally present and acting for ourselves.
In testimony where we have hereunto set our hands & affixed our seals this 23rd day of August, 1858.
Mackerness M. Goode [seal]
Martha H. Hammonds [seal]

The State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
On this 23rd day of August A.D. 1858, before me W. F. Durisoe, Judge of the Court of Ordinary in the District & State aforesaid personally came M. M. Goode and M. H. Hammonds and acknowledged the foregoing Power of attorney to be their act & [illegible] for the purposes therein mentioned; and I hereby certify unto the same M. M. Goode and M. H. Hammonds did sign their respective names in my presence; and that they are the identical persons the represents themselves to be; and that I have no interest whatsoever in their claim.
W.F. Durisoe
O. E. D.

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South Carolina
Edgefield District
On this 20th day of December 1854 before me Tho G. Bacon Clerk of the court of C.P.+G.S. for the district and state aforesaid, personally came. Thomas Payne, a Resident of the district and state aforesaid who having duly sworn according to the Law, discloses upon oath that he is the identical man who was legally constituted and appointed Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Moody Burt Dcd, [deceased] who was a sergeant of the Regiment of Continentals of the Virginia Line in the War of the American Revolution.
He makes the above declarations for the purpose of obtaining the Pension certificate to which he may be entitled, as the Executor of the said Ded, [deceased] for his said services, for any money that may be due and payable to the heirs and legal representatives of the said Moody Burt 
Tho. Payne [seal mark]
Sworn to and subscribed before me as witness my name and seal of office as clerk of the court for said district, the day and year above written.

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Known [illegible] by those Presents
That I, Thomas Payne of the District of Edgefield, and State of South Carolina, do by these presents make constitute and appoint A Pension of the district and state aforesaid true and Lawful Attorney for me, and in my name to demand and receive of the Department of the Interior of the United States the Certificate for any pension or other money that may be found due and payable to me as the Executor of the last will and Testament of Moody Burt decd [deceased] and as the Representation of the heirs and Legal representatives of said Deceased, for his service in the Revolution as within stated, and to do every act that I might or could do, were I personally present and acting for myself
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this 20th day of December 1854
Thos Payne [seal mark]
South Carolina
Edgefield District
Acknowledged before me as witness my hand and seal of office as Clerk of the Court of C. P.& G. S. for the district of Edgefield and state of South Carolina the day and year of above written
Tho. G. Bacon
Clk. C. P.

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The State of South Carolina
Anderson District
Mrs. Nancy Hall personally appeared before and being duly sworn declare that she is the Sister of Moody Burt now residing in the District and now applying for a Pension from the United States. Although Young at the time she has a distinct collection of many of the events of the Revolution and especially of the service, rendered by her Brothers, Mother, father & family resided in the County of Charlotte Virginia during the war and this deponent remembers that the applicant Moody Burt first went into the service as an enlisted Soldier together with a younger Brother Robert Burt. That the said brother went off to the South & recollects of a letter received from a physician in Charleston informing her father that one of the boys was wounded. She recollects that Moody was away from home more than two [2] years and came home wounded as it was said at the time. The wound had been received at the Siege of Savannah.
This Deponent has a distinct recollection of her brother Moody Burt being again in service. She herself was within [hearing] of the battle of Guilford and Knows that the said Moody Burt was in that battle. This Deponent is not able to speak on to the terms of service or the officer with whom he serviced that known that he was frequently

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From home and in service sometimes for months at a time and during those times was an active Whig and devoted to the cause of Independence during that Struggle as was every member of the family.
Sworn to + Subscribed March 27th 1840
Nancy Hall

In presence of and before B. J. Earle
Presiding Judge at the circuit court of Anderson District March Term 1840.

Anderson. SS.
I furthermore certify that the within named Nancy Hall resides in Anderson District that she is a person of most respectable connection, of genteal deponent, and of excellent character, and that she is entirely worthy of Confidence and Credit. That I am also acquainted with her brother Moody Burt and have been for many years, who has always  been reputed a soldier of the Revolution; and that he is also properly respectable and worthy of Credit.
March 27 1840
B. J. Earle

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COPY
Veterans Administration
Washington July 13, 1936
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Mr. J.C. Burt BA-J/MMRF/eel
P.O. Box 296
Leland, Mississippi

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that the photostatic copies desired by you are requested for the purpose of replacing family records that have been lost and that at this time you desire only the Mexican War record of William Patterson Robison, whose widow, Elisabeth, received a pension and the names and addresses of only South Carolina soldiers of the Revolutionary War with the surname Burt.
There is only one claim for pension on file based upon the services of a soldier with the surname Burt, of South Carolina. His record is given here with as found in the papers on file in the claim for pension, R.1211, his name is Moody Burt.
Your letter has been referred to the proper division for reply in regard to the Mexican War soldier.
Very Truly Yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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See letter to Mr. J.C. Burt
Dated May 28/36 in Misc
Filed for Burt.
July 13, 1936
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Mr. J.C. Burt BA-J/EEL
P.O. Box 296 Moody Burt-R.1511
Leland, Mississippi

Dear Sir:
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.1511, based upon the military service in that war of Moody Burt.
Moody Burt was born December 25, 1757, at the “Halfway House” between Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia. The names of his parents are not known.
After the Revolution, he resided for a time in Edgefield District, South Carolina.
While a resident of Anderson District, South Carolina, Moody Burt applied for a pension October 12, 1838, and alleged that while residing in Charlotte County, Virginia, he enlisted in the Spring of 1779, served as corporal and sergeant in Captain Benjamin Taliaferro’s Company, Colonel Richard Parker’s Virginia Regiment, marched to Savannah, Georgia, and was in the siege at that place; that he was severely wounded at said siege, nature of wound not stated, was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, where he remained for three months receiving treatment, then rejoined his regiment at Augusta, Georgia, and that he remained at Augusta until after the fall of Charleston, his wound having re-opened, and was later discharged, date of discharge not shown; that he volunteered in February, 1781, was appointed adjutant and served six or eight weeks in Captain Bedford’s Company of Light-Horse, under Major Walker Daniel and that he was at the battles of Alamance, Whitsell’s Mills, and Guilford Courthouse, also at the engagement at Reddy Fork and was discharged one week after the battle of Guilford Court House.
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by pension laws.
On June 24, 1785, Moody Burt was commissioned ensign of the 2nd Company of Charlotte County, Virginia Militia, his commission

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Signed by Patrick Henry.
Moody Burt was referred to as Major Burt: no explanation for the title was given. It was stated that he and all his family were active Whigs and devoted to the cause of independence.
In 1834, soldier referred to his daughters, Sarah Pope (name of her husband not given_ and Martha H. Goode, wife of Lewelling Goode. [crossed out line reads “Martha and her husband were both deceased in 1841.”] The name of soldier’s wife, date of her birth and death are not shown nor is the date of the soldier’s death given.
Both Martha H. Goode and her husband, Lewelling were dead in 1841. The names of four of their children are given, as follows: Sarah, Martha, Thomas, and John Goode. In 1858, Martha H. Hammond and Mackerness Goode stated that they were the grandchildren of the soldier, Moody Burt. They made joint affidavit in Edgecomb District, South Carolina. In 1854, Francis Burt, Esquire, was Third Auditor of the Treasury; no relationship to the family was stated. The name Matthew Burt appears: no relationship to the family was stated.
Soldier had a brother, Robert Burt, who served in the Revolutionary War. In 1840, his sister, Nancy Hall, resided in Anderson District, South Carolina. Her age and the name of her husband are not given.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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July 10
Anderson Ch. Dc
July 14- 1834
file unto Moody Burt papers
S.C
J.L. Edwards
Com [Commissioner] of Pensions
War Department
Washington City.

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Anderson C. H. [Court house] So. Ca. [South Carolina]
July 1st 1837
J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir
I forwarded to the Department the original papers of Moody Burt of this District who applied for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 1832 & requested to be answered by Letter addressed to the place as I wrote from between this time November or December last. Will you have the kindness to inform the me what [illegible] has been made of his application.
I neglected to inform at the time the enclosed [illegible] as evidence thereby of character as I think his service was done under it for which any claim is [illegible]
Respectfully,
Joseph N. Whitner

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Depart of [Interior]
Penna Off. [Pension office]
Oct 13, 1837
Sir,
In reply to your inquiry upon the subject of the claim of Moody Burt of S.C. That the [illegible] that the claim was examined in Dec [December] last, and the result made known [Genl] Whitner of Anderson C. H. as my letter of that  date to him a copy of which is herewith enclosed
[illegible signature]

W. Thompson
HR

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Pension Office
August 21, 1854.
Sir,
I have [illegible] the copy of the will of Moody Burt, dc [deceased] which accompanied you such of the 11th [illegible] you on informed that it did not meet the requirements of this office which will [illegible] the [line crossed out] letter addressed to F. Burt. Esq on the 11th [illegible]. A court of Record must certify when Moody Burt died, and also state the names and ages of his children now [illegible], who done on [illegible] to any means of papers where or may be awarded. For the kind of testimony on which the certificate of the Court must be [illegible] the accompanying printed sheet.
John Maxwell Esq
Pendleton,
S.C.

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John Maxwell
Pendleton
S.C

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Pendleton August 11th 1854.
Dear Sir
I was requested by my friend W. F. Burt to address you on the subject of Moody Burts pension you have inclosed [enclosed] a certified coppy [copy] of his will. Please make the necessary arrangements and address me at this place
Respectfully Yours,
John Maxwell

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Jny 28/54 [Jan 28, 1854]

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Pension Office
Jany [January] 28 1854
Sir
The enclosed copy of a letter of the 28th of May 1840, to J. N. Whitner Esq. will disclose the ground upon which this office has refused to admit the claim of Moody Burt of So. Ca. [South Carolina]

A. Perrin Esq
Edgefield. [crossed out words] C. H. So.Ca

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Francis Burt 

June 22 1854

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Pension office
22nd June 1854

Sir, 
In compliance with your request, this claim of Moody Burt of South Carolina has been examined. 
Evidence of the date of the marriage of Moody and his wife and of his death should be furnished. If he left a widow she should make applications under one of the widow acts. If she is dead, the date of her death and the name and number of the surviving children should be provided. 

Francis Burt, Esq 
Third Auditor

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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
June 24th, 1854

Sir: 
I have to request that you will be pleased to loan me the papers in support of the claim of Moody Burt of the Virginia Line of the Revolution, which are on file in your Office
Very respectfully, 
Your Obt [obedient] Serv [servant
F. Burt
3rd Auditor

Loren P. Waldo, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
July 7th, 1854

Sir:

I have to request that you will be pleased to inform me what further will be necessary in order to complete the claim in the case of Moody Burt of the Virginia Line of the Revolution.  His Heirs are living as well as his executor or administrator, Thos. Payne.  It is also desirable to know the amount of Pension accruing under the length of his services as Sergeant and Adjutant.  Allow me to request an early answer.

Very Respectfully
Your Ob Serv
F. Burt

Loren P. Waldo, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Dept Interior

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May 27, 1840
[postmark illegible]

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington, D. C.

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Va. L [Line] Office, Richmond, May 25th, 1840
To J. L Edwards Esq. Commr. [Commisioner] of Pensions:
Sir,  your letter dated the 22nd Inst.  was received this day and contents duly noted. It does not appear that Moody Burt ever received Bounty Land from this state, nor is there any allowance on file in his behalf, or in behalf of his heirs or [devices]. 
I am sir, 
very respectfully, 
[Your obedient servant] 
S H Parker

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S H Parker 
May 22' 40 [1840]

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338
Pension Office
May 22 1840

Sir, 
Will you please inform me whether Moody Burt, a soldier in the Virginia Line, received Bounty land from the state, and for the quantity. 
I am,

Stafford H Parker Esq.
[illegible] Land Office
Richmond , VA

June 7, 1832

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The Claim of Moody Burt for Revolutionary Pension

A. Perrin
Edgefield C. H. [Court house] S. C. [South Carolina

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No papers of Moody Burt Va.
Answered 22nd Dec. 1853

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
[postmark] Richmond, VA Dec 16
[postage] FREE

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Moody Burt, 
S C [South Carolina], sus 32
Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Official Business
Commissioner

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After a careful search we cannot the application of Ed. Crosslin registered in this office

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Moody Burt So. Car. [South Carolina] Act 1832 [illegible]
paper
R. P. W.

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Va [Virginia] L [Land] Office, Richmond, Dec 16, 1853

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Sir: 
It is said that Moody Burt applied some years ago at your Department for a Pension and stated that he had served in either the VA State of Continental Line. It is important to get a copy of his petition filed in your office, in order to obtain information desired by me, which I have been requested to furnish. You will therefore oblige me by sending a copy of his petition to this office. I am not able to inform you of the date of his application for a pension. 

I am Sir:
Yours very respectfully, 
S. H. Parker

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Moody Burt
So Ca [South Carolina]
[Sus. sec let Gen]

[crossed out: J. N Whitner dec  14 1836 do do Oct 13, 1837]
Hn. Waddy Thompson
[crossed out: S. H. Parker 22 May '40 [1840] Genl J. N. Whitner 28 May '40 [1840] same July 6, 1840 A. Perrin Jany [January] 28, 1854]
Act 7 June 1832
 [crossed out: Fr. Burt 22 June 1854]
Let [letter] fr [from] Burt July 12, 1854

1876 June 5 W. H Trescott - that he applied [1836] & the right to a pension not established up to 1854

[crossed out: Let [letter] to Burt,]
July 12, 1854
[crossed out: illegible]
Aug. 21, 1854
A. Perrin, Sept 20, 1858

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Wm. [William] Burt p. Inf [private infantry] 18.5.8. V 
Robert Burt [do] 16.8.0. V
Moody Burt Sergt [Sergeant] 49.3.8. V
Robert Burt p. Inf [private infantry] 48.9.6. V
[math problem]

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A Perrin
Sept. 2

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Pension Office
September 2, 1858. 

Sir, 
The powers of attorney which accompanied your letter of the 24th [ineligible], have been filed with the papers in the case of Moody Burt. 
Before a child of a deceased revolutionary soldier or of his widow can be entitled to anything under existing  pension laws such soldier or widow must have been pensioners of the United States and in no case can the name of such soldier or widow be inscribed upon the pension roll subsequent to their decease. 
Moody Burt was not a pensioner at his decease. His heirs therefore are not entitled to anything under the general pension laws. If his service can be established & he had a child living who was a minor  on the 3rd March, 1855, such child is entitled bounty land. 

A Perrin Esq. 
Edgefield C. H. [Court house] S. Carolina [South Carolina]

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Pension Office
July 5th, 1840
Sir, 
In answer to that  part of your letter upon the subject of the claim of Moody Burt of S. C, under the act of June 7, 1832, which particularly refers to his declaration made in Oct. 1836, and of which it seems both yourself as well as M. Burt have no recollection, than to state, that the declaration has appended to it his own proper signature, with a certificate signed, by [eleven] aged persons in support of his good standing in society and reputation as a revolutionary soldier for the head of this list of names I find yours. 
The only point at issue is that of Mr. Burt's identity, and  I will again refer you to my letter the 28 May last, which show the points which have rendered this proof necessary. Presuming that the

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facts above state will bring to Mr Burt's recollection, the declaration of Oct 1836, to which the one made in April 1840, appears to be supplementary, I have thought it unnecessary to send you the copy requested. 
I am,

Genl. [General] J. N. Whitner
Anderson C. H. {Court house]
S. C.
[act] June 7, 1832
33668

July 6, 1840
O. C.

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Edgefield C. H. [illegible]
August 24th 1858

Sir,
I send you herewith some powers of attorney from the legal [ineligible] timeline of Moody Burt [illegible], who applied for a pension during his life for military service during the war of the revolution.
Be pleased to examined the claim & let me know its condition. I have been informed that the claim was established some time since
Very respectfully your obt [obedient] servant

A Perrin

To Com [Commissioner] of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

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33668
Moody Burt S. C. [South Carolina]
Certificate of Col. Hammond

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State of South Carolina, Charleston District
Personally appeared before me Col. Samuel Hammond a citizen of South Carolina and a resident of Edgefield District in the said State an officer of the Revolution and well known to me the Notary and after being duly sworn made the following declaration. That Major Moody Burt formerly a resident of Edgefield District is the same individual who was seen by this deponent in Augusta Georgia in the year 1780 and that he then belonged to Col. Richard Parker, Regiment of the Continental line, & that this deponent was informed that the said Moody Burt removed from Edgefield and that he has no doubt that the Moody Burt of Pendleton District is the same person that he saw in Augusta in the year 1780 in the Service of the United States.
[signature] S. Hammond
Sworn & subscribed before me this Sixteenth [16th] day of May 1836
[signature] Samuel Kingman
Notary Public

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[postmark] Anderson C. H. S. C [Court House South Carolina] Jun [illegible date]
July 3, 1840
[postage] free
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm [commissioner] of Pensions
War Department
Washington City

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Anderson S. C.
June 26, 1840
J L Edwards
Sir, 
On my return from the [North] a few days since I found your favor of 27 May on the subject of Moody Burt’s application for a pension. I repeat exceedingly that the proof is yet delivered was satisfactory the more especially that it is to be feared all has been furnished so that may now be within his power [illegible] under further testimonial of his good character would suffice & revolutionary  reputation. This may be had to any extent.
The object of the present communication is simply to ask since further intelligence as to the remark that in "October 1836 Moody Burt of Georgia presented his declaration for 18 months service in the Va. line and as proof exhibit the auditors certificate for [British pound] 49.3.8 - Old Major Burt for whom I have been acting request to be informed more particularly of this application by the [illegible] that he may be furnished with a copy of the declaration referred to . If that the  another has attempted to use his name he wishes to be fully [informed] that the proper exposure may

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take place - he postponed his application until most of his [illegible] in arms have been received because having a small family and being in easy pecuniary circumstances he [convinced] it rather disreputable to be at all dependent on public bounty and refused to apply. Which added to his known opportunities & all [illegible] on the subject induced a persistence in his refusal notwithstanding the change in his circumstances and now it will seem a great hardship of this remainder of his days are to be spent. Otherwise than in ease and abundance, with the scars inflicted in his country service and a reputation of Whig Service in the Revolution acquired by the testimony of those who lived in his neighborhood but even [illegible] by death all have long, long since confirmed [the] [illegible] [illegible] in the fact of his merit.
If you will furnish me with a copy of his papers on file, I will prepare such further papers as may be had & seek to lay them before Congress at another session if he cannot comply with the rules of the department with the hope

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that a departure from the rigid rules had [illegible] may be sanctioned - if a certificate of character alone would be satisfactory by those known to the Department Mr. Burt is personally known to Hon J. C. Calhoun. & Gen. [illegible] [illegible] in whose district he resides & both of whom will cheerfully furnish any testimonial - if he is thrown back upon specific proof [though] those who served with him may be abandoned as hopeless.
Very respectfully
J. N. Whitner

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Pension Office
July 12, 1854
Sir: 
In reply to your letter of the 7th instance  You are informed that the claim of Moody Burt, late of S. Carolina may not admitted for the reason that his [illegible] of the declaration under the Act of June 7, 1832, conflicted with [illegible] known facts and the records in the office of the Regents of the Law office at Richmond, Va. He alleges that he served in Col Parker's Regiment of the Virginia Continental Line, [illegible] the Spring of 1779; during which he was marched in at the [illegible] Savanah, Geo [Georgia] (Oct 9, 1779). That at the expiration of that enlistment he in February 1781, volunteered in a "Light Horse Company" commanded by Capt Bedford and Maj. Walker

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Daniel, and his "appointed Adjutant," finding his own horse. &" this senior under this last engagement was " six or eight weeks - "Je when, on the certificate of Major Daniel Water, the legislature of Virginia gave him a warrant for 1100 Acres of Land! That the warrant was lost, for the name that the party to whom it was capded(?) for the purpose of locating it was killed by the Indians!!
There is some authority in support of same decided to have the senders in the Virginia Line, in the fact that a soldier named Moody Burt, who was a Sergeant, served a the 12 E galley 1783, a defmarcta (?) certificate for F49 s 3 & a *: and also, in the additional pact, that a soldier named Robert Burt, the name of a brother of Moody, who it is ^Netu(?) enlisted at the same time and under the same engagement, neried(?) ont he 14th of May 1783, a cer-

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tificate 48 19 & 6. But the
ament of the receipt of 100 Acres
and 68 weeks service is
sect a descredited by our Knowledge
the facts, as by the Record at
Richmond, when caldon no dice
state not he reed land. He
possell at he has, he loss of men
, contended the alleged receipt of
Land with same private transaction
then no does home, let not
he served in Parker Regina,
by idently is present the afficiant
or Samuel Hammond
pension at the said Carter Bell
and the Act of June 7, 1832, and
going him the event of any doth
then have arisen from his seat
at the receipt of Land the
deeded to throw distruct on his
the nation, I think that the
office hold be justified in aditting

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[illegible] Burt
July 12 1854

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the service [illegible] as a sergeant, for which a certificate which given at the rate of $90 per annum from the 4th of March 1831 to the day of his death, when [illegible] filed [showing] when he died and the names and ages of his children now living. Grandchildren, & may as well to state [illegible] no claim to arrears of pension.
A court of Record must certify to the time he died and the names and ages of the living children. It is also necessary that an [administration] be [illegible]to receive and distribute the arrears of pension the amount of [illegible] [illegible] must be satisfied. See also the 2nd [regulation] on the accompanying printed sheet.
F. Burt
Third Auditor

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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
[illegible] 26th, 1854
Sir;
I herewith return to you the papers in the case of Moody Burt of the Virginia Line of the Revolution which were borrowed from the files of your office a day or two since.
Very Respectfully Your Obt [obedient] Servant
F. Burt
3rd Auditor

[Loren] P. Waldo, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior

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This is to certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 12th day of May 1783, in the name of Moody Burt as a Sergeant of Infantry for 49.3.8. which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Mr. Collier and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782. 

Given under my hand at the Auditor’s Office, Richmond, this 7th day of April 1886. 

Julle Heath Auditor 
$163 94.4

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Certificate from Auditor of Virginia

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Depart [Department] of War, Pension Office
[Dec] 14, 1836
Sir,
I have rec'd the papers in the case of Moody Burt, and have placed them upon the [illegible] of the officer. The period of service claimed by M. Burt made his enlistment, appears not to be definitely stated. He enlisted, he says for 18 mos [months] whether as private or sergeant, he  does not say. in the Spring of 1779, and was [illegible] and came home in May 1781. The service claimed is the company of Light [horse] under Capt. Bedford, & of a [doubtful] character. There is no such officer or adjutant in such companies, neither had the officers [authority] to grant [illegible] a [illegible] [illegible].
The certificate of the auditor at Richmond shows that a man by the name of Moody Burt, was paid in 1783 [British pounds] 49.3.8 as sergeant by a [certificate] delivered to Mr. Collier. The Department will require Mr. Burt to state the [reason] for the long [delaying his

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application; the law of March 18, 1818, as well as that of June 7, 1832 [illegible] his case. He will be also required to prove his identity, by showing that he is the person named in the auditor's certificate, delivered to Mr. Collier.
The case of Fredk [Frederick] Owen will be the subject of another communication.
[illegible signature]

Gen. Jos. N. Whitner
Anderson C. H. [Court House]
S. C. [South Carolina]

Jos. Whitner
[illegible initials and numbers]

Rec Vol 29
Page 355

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Jos. Whitner
[illegible initials and numbers]

Rec. Vol. 39
Page 355
Gen Jos. N. Whitner
Anderson C. H. [Court House]
S. C. [South Carolina]

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The Commissioner of Pension will please direct all communications respecting this application of Thos. [Thomas] Payne for the pension of Moody Burt[deceased] to Gen. W. C. Moragne, at Edgefield C. H. [Court House] South Carolina
A. Perrin
atty S. C.

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Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas Payne of the District of Edgefield and State of South Carolina, do by these presents make constitute and appoint A. Perrin my true and lawful attorney for me and in any name to prosecute with any claim that I, as the Executor of the last will and testament of Moody Burt, Decd [deceased], may have against the Government of the United States, for the military service of the said Moody Burt decd [deceased] as a Sergeant of one of the Regiments of the Virginia line, in the War of the American Revolution; to withdraw all papers on file and to file new evidence if necessary; and to as every act that I might or could do were I personally present and acting for myself.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this eighteenth [18th] day of October, A. D. 1857 [Oct 18, 1857]
[signature] Thomas Payne

The State of South Carolina
Edgefield District
Mr. R. T. Mims and Lewis Jones, residents of the district and state aforesaid, upon our oaths declare, that foregoing Power of Attorney was subscribed and acknowledged in our presence by Thomas Payne, that Thomas Payne is personally well known to us; that he is the identical man he represents himself to be; and that we have no interest whatever in this claim.
R. T. Mims
Lewis Jones

The State of South Carolina, Edgefield District
The foregoing Power of Attorney was subscribed and acknowledged before me by Thomas Payne, also the foregoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed by R. T. Mims and Lewis Jones each of whom are well known to me and are in every way entitled to credit, and thereby certify that Thomas Payne is the identical [illegible] he represents himself to be.
[signature] W. F. Durisoe O. E. D.
Ordinary Office.
Edgefield District, S. C.
October 18th 1857

I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, the day and year herein mentioned.
[signature] W. F. Durisoe O. E. D.

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Pension Office
May 28 1840

Sir

The claim of Moody Burt, has again been examined and suspended for further proof of identity.

In April 1836 a certificate of the Auditor at Richmond was obtained showing that a soldier by the name of Moody Burt, a Sergeant of Infantry in the Virginia line was paid [British pound] 49.38 for serving [illegible] to Jan 7, 1782. The certificate for this amount was delivered to W. Collier, May 12, 1783. 

In October following Moody Burt of Ga. [Georgia] presented his declaration for 18 mos [months] service in the Va. line, and as proof exhibits the Auditor certificate above mentioned.

Among other things, Mr Burt stated that he was from the State of Virginia a certificate for depreciation pay, as above, and also eleven hundred acres of bounty land.

The objection to the claim was that Mr Burt was not the identical person mentioned

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May 28, 1840
in the Auditors Certificate. The reason for this [illegible] was drawn from the fact, that he had never before applied for a pension, to which he would have been entitled since 1818, had he served in the manner described.
Another [illegible] is that the records in the land office of Va. [Virginia] do not show that any land [warrant] has ever been issued to Moody Burt [crossed out - or his heirs]. Nor was bounty land granted for a period of service less than three years.
The most satisfactory proof of identity will be required of Mr. Burt. His paper [illegible] upon  [illegible]
I am
Gen. J. N. Whitner
Anderson C. H. [Court House]
S. C. [South Carolina]
O. C.
[Act of Congress] June 7, 1832
[33.1.1.1]

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[stamp at top left with illegible interior and exterior surrounding markings]

GeoMcDuffie

[South Carolina State Coat of Arms - illustration]

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

[decorative horizontal line]

BY HIS EXCELLENCY,

George McDuffie Esq.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the State aforesaid.

To all to Whom these Presents Shall Come.

Know Ye, That Samuel Kingman Esquire, whose Seal and Signature appear to the Instrument of Writing, hereunto annexed, is one of the JUSTICES of the QUORUM, assigned to keep the Peace for the said State, and NOTARY PUBLIC, Commissioned by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the State:

THEREFORE, All due Faith, Credit and authority is and ought to be had and given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such. And further that Col. Samuel Hammond who made and Subscribes the Annexed Deposition is a man of high respectability and intiled to full faith & credit.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia the Third day [blank space] of December [blank space] in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and in the sixty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

BY THE GOVERNOR, B. H. Saxon
Secretary of State.

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Amended declaration of Moody Burt
J. N. Whitner
May 19, 40 [1840]
Anderson S. C.

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The State of South Carolina
Anderson District
Personally appeared Moody Burt and being duly sworn on oath declares by way of amendment to his declaration hereafter submitted to the War Department that he was promised at the time of his enlistment in 1779 the appointment of a Sergeant and did therefore enlist and enter into the service as such though for a short time he was made to serve as a corporal. From the time of his enlistment which was for the term of eighteen [18] months until the expiration he was subject to the commands of his officers. He immediately marched to the South and was in active service until he was wounded at the Siege of Savannah and as constantly after as his wounds would permit and for a short time when on furlough as before stated. This deponent did not apply for the benefit of the Acts of 1818 and of 1832 for no other reason than that he was at those times and has always since been opposed to the system of pensioning. This soldier of the Revolution and is confirmed in his oppositions by the experience of his after life having lived to see those who were conscientious in sitting out their services [illegible] its benefits whilst those and who have comparatively seen but little services have received large compensations because possessed of a more supple memory. This deponent has since applied not because his opinions have changed but because he has been urged by his friends who have been satisfied of his deserts [desserts].
Sworn to & subscribed April 29th 1840
Moody Burt
Joseph N. Whitner
[illegible after this]

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South Carolina, Anderson District
I Elijah Webb clerk of the county Sessions & common Pleas for the District of Anderson in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph N. Whitner is a Notary Public as before mentioned and that the Hon. B. J. Earle was the Presiding Judge of said court at March Term of the present year and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name. This first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and forty [May 1, 1840]
[signature] Elijah Webb
C. C. G S & C P

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[stamp] O. W. & DIVISION RECEIVED Jun 12, 1900
[stamp] U. S. Pension Office Jun 9, 1900
Office of A. Moody Burt, M. D.
Macon, GA
Second and Mulberry Streets
6/6/1900 [June 6, 1900]

Hon. H. Clay Evans, Washington, D. C.
My dear sir,
will you please do me the kindness to inform me whether the names of Mathew [Matthew] Harwood, & Moody Burt appear on the records of the Pension office or were in the War of the Revolution enlisted from Virginia or So. Ca. [South Carolina]? If not asking too much of you please also furnish me

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with a list of the Burts who enlisted in the revolution from Virginia and So. Ca. [South Carolina] also the counties from which they enlisted. Any of this information will be gratefully appreciated. I desire it for patriotic intentions & the completion of family records. Thanking you in advance I beg [illegible] to be
Very Respectfully yours,
A. Woody Burt

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1511 REJECTED
P. O. Moody Burt
Service [blank]
Enlisted: [blank]
Discharged: [blank]
Printed list of 1852 shows cause of rejection. Proof of identity required that he is the same Moody Burt, to whom certificate of pay as sergeant (for [British pound] 49.30. 8d) of infantry in the Virginia line, was issued. 
Application filed: [blank]
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney; [blank]
P. O. [blank]

June 14, 1900 Dr. A. Moody Burt Macon Ga.
1936 July 14 - Hist to J. C. Goode