Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41465, Jethro Butler, N.C.

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SERVICE				                   
N.C.		
NUMBER
 S  41465

Butler  Jethro

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41465

Rev’y   INVALID

File No.  41465

Jethro     Butler 

Pri. Rev. War

Act   18 March  18

Index – Vol     3   Page 69

(arrangement of 1870)

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7050
North Carolina

Jethro Butler

of                 in the state of North Carolina
who was a  Private   in the regiment commanded by Capt. Dixon   of the   1st NC  Regt. for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 8  Dollars per month to commence on the 24th of April, 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Mar. 1819 and sent to Hon. J H Bryan    H. of Rep.

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  
                  10 mo.   7/30   4/31     82.84
Semi-anl.  all’ce.  ending  4th Sep. 1819                   48                                                                                        130.89

Revolutionary Claim
Act  18th March 1818

Continued.

Right side of page (sideways)
Notification sent 10th Feb. 1891 to Hon. Wm. Burton
					H.R.

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Schedule

Jethro Butler

$ 5.    7050

  Sept  1819


Copy

Con.

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State of North Carolina      Court of pleas and quarter sessions
Bertie County    held for said county at the Courthouse in Windsor on the 2nd Monday of Nov. A D 1820.

On this fourteenth day of November  AD 1820, personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of record for the County aforesaid, made so by the laws of North Carolina, proceeding according to the Court of Common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of find and imprisonment, Jethro Butler, aged 59 years, resident in the said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:  that he enlisted for the term of three years on or about the spring of 1778 or thereabouts in Bertie County, North Carolina in the company commanded by Capt. Dixon in the regiment commanded by Col . Ashe in the line of the State of North Carolina on the Continental establishment, that he continued in the service until the spring of 1781, when he was discharged at Bacon Bridge in South Carolina – that he was in the Battles of Charleston, Eutaw Springs and Guilford – that he has a pension certificate bearing date the 5th of March 1819 and he has received payment at eight dollars per month from the 24th April, 1818 up to the 4th March 1820, and that said certificate has no number on it.  -  And I, the said Jethro Butler do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day

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of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any other manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “ an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.  Viz.  1 sow and 8 young pigs – 1 pine table – 1 axe.   He further says that he is a farmer by occupation, but unable at times to work – that his family is composed of 6 persons with himself – viz – his wife, Nancy, about 30 years old – Winney, his daughter about 11 years, Isaac, his son, about 5 years, Robert, his son, about 3 years and John, about 1 month old.  His wife and daughter are able to contribute to their support 
                                   	 his
         (signed)     Jethro     X    Butler        
			mark


sworn to and declared in
open Court by the Said
Jethro Butler, this 14th day
of Nov. 1820

Attest   E  A  Rhodes, Clk.

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State of North Carolina
Bertie  County: 
             I, Elisha a. Rhodes, Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter of the County of Bertie, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed are truly copies from the record of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is  five dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto  set my hand affixed the seal of said court on this 19th day of December, 1820. - , 
		E. A. Rhodes  
                           Clerk of the Court for the 
           	               County of Bertie, NC

State of North Carolina
Bertie County
              I, Robert. M. Brickell, presiding magistrate of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions of the County of Bertie, do hereby certify that Elisha A. Rhodes is clerk of said court + that his attestation as above is in due form.  Given under my hand at Windsor, this 19th day of December 1820.
			R.M. Brickell, Pres. Msg.

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State of North Carolina                            
Bertie County    	
Personally appeared before me, Thomas Ruffin, Judge of the Superior Court of Law and Equity for the County of Bertie, Jethro Butler, who maketh oath that he was a soldier in the army of the United States for three years in times of the Revolutionary War, that he enlisted under Capt. Telman Dixon of the first North Carolina regiment at Hillsborough N.C. and that he was discharged at the expiration of the period for which he enlisted by Col. Hardy Menfree at Bacon’s Bridge in S. Carolina.  That some years ago his house was consumed by fire in which his discharge was burnt and further states that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his government for Support.
							
Sworn to + Subscribed before me 
   the 24th April , 1818                   
                  his
Jethro          x     Butler
		mark
Thomas Ruffin   Judge

I, Joseph H. Bryan do hereby certify from a personal knowledge of Jethro Butler that he is in great poverty and needs the assistance of his Government for Support.   Feb. 7, 1819
					Jos. H Bryan

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                       Jethro Butler
			North Carolina Line
			
			3 years      Adm.   if W B
			will certify as to need
 			W. Bryan

State of N. Carolina Secretary’s Office,  5th Feb 1819 William Hill, Secretary of State in (illegible) the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jethro Butler, a private in the N Carolina Continental line in the Revolutionary War, appears to have enlisted as such on the 15th of April 1781, in the 10th Regiment under Capt. Dixon for the term of 12 months, and left the service on the 25th of April, 1782. –

			Given under my hand at office
			the date above.
				Wm Hill

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State of North Carolina       Superior Court of Law
Bertie County    		    April (illegible)  1818

I do hereby certify that the Hon’ble Thomas Ruffin, whose name is subscribed to foregoing affidavit of Jethro Butler, did attend and preside as Judge during the present term of this Court _ and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to his official Acts.

		Given under my hand & seal
                              of office
                           H.	Reynolds.