Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8042, John Barmer, Va.

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Va Barmer John S. 8042
or Balmore
or Balmer carded

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23.538
North Carolina
John Barmer. ___ of Montgomery in the State of N. Car who was a Pr: ___ in the ___ commanded by Captain ___ of the ___ commanded by ___ in the 15th Va Regt. [crossed out: line] for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of July: 34 and [illegible] Hon Edin ___ D Berry. H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 23 40
$240

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, Book and Vol. 6 1/12 Page 46

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23.538
North Carolina
John Barmer. ___ of Montgomery in the State of N. Car who was a Pr: ___ in the ___ commanded by Captain ___ of the ___ commanded by ___ in the 15th Va Regt. [crossed out: line] for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of N Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of July: 23 and [illegible] Hon Edin DeBerry H.R.

Arrears to the 4th day of Sept 1833 200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 23 40
$240

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, Book & Vol. 6 1/2 Page 46

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State of North Carolina Montgomery County - Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. State of North Carolina Montgomery County ___ Court of Pleas and quarter [illegible text] July [illegible text] 1833 - on the first day of July AD 1833 personally before us Arch [illegible] Graham - John C. Atkins [crossed out text] and Littleton Harris justices of the peace for the county and state [illegible text] in open court there in [illegible text] John Barmer a resident of the said county and state aged as newly as can be ascertained between eighty and eighty five years who being, first duly sworn according to law doth on his auth make the following, declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was born in the county of Southampton in the state of Virginia in what year or month he is unable to state as he never  had any record of his age or neither himself or his father before him could either read or write that from the best information he has on the subject, from the ages of his children and other circumstances, he is now between eighty and eighty five years of age and [illegible text] as well as he recollects when he entered the service of the United States about thirty years old. That this statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief, that he entered the service of the United States as a private, the year [illegible text] about two years or eighteen months before the battle at Guilford Courthouse ___ that he enlisted under Col Mason at Williamsburg, in the state of Virginia in the fifteenth regiment of the Virginia line, which enlistment was for the whole term of the war and as a compensation besides his daily wages he was promised, at the end of the war, to have a certain tract of land but how much he does not [illegible text; erased or smudged] Williamsburg, I was put on board of a vessel together with fifty or sixty men ___ under one Captain Crittendom who sailed with us from a place called Little York on the Seacoast ___ and about a weeks sail we landed at a place called Bush Town and from there we were marched to Philadelphia. The place we landed at war at the month of [illegible text] when we got to Philadelphia we remained there a while in Barracks and shortly after wards were carried to a place called Middlebrok whcih I think was not far from Philadelphia where we joined General Washingtons army and then we met Col Taylor who commanded the fifteenth Virginia Regiment and I was placed under his command and that of one Captain Boyer __ at Middle Brook the whole army consisted of several thousand men went into winter quarters. At Philadelphia I was inoculated for the small pox as this disease was at that time raging in the town ___ In the beginning of the next spring when we left winter quarters there was a considerable number of men detached from Genl Washingtons main army for the southern service. I do not know how many men were detached but I think there were a thousand or more and they were placed under the command of one Col Blufort. - of this number this offrant was one Captain Boyer also went with us and he was my immediate Commander ___ Col Blufort marched us back to Petersburg, and from there we went through north Carolina crossing the Yadkin River at the shallow ford passing through Salisbury and Charlotte in NoCarolina ___ from Charlotte we marched into South Carolina, passing through Camden __ from thence crossing the Sanlee River we marched six or seven miles in the direction of Charleston ___ near a place called the block House when Col Blufort Received intelligence that the Brit

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[illegible text] had when Charleston which [illegible text] Blufort to retreat over [illegible text]. [illegible text] in that section of Counties in what is called the high Hill of Santic until his army was met and defeated by the British, at a place called the Hanging Rack under the command of Randon and Tartleton the last of whom commanded the enemies cavalry.  The soldiers under the command of Blufort after his defeat received orders to rendezvous at Edinburg in Virginia. The offrant states that himself and [illegible text] others made the best of their way to Petersburg. The defeat of Blufort was in the fall of the year as I received it [illegible text covered by black mark] some of the British were digging several Polutae that the engagement commanded ___ When we arrived at Petersburg, we were joined by a new [illegible text] of Bluforts men and we were all placed under the command of one Col. Campbell. We remained in Petersburg until the coldest of the weather was over and we were marched by Campbell to join Genl. Greens army which was then in North Carolina. It was a short time before the battle at [illegible text] Guilford he was commanded by one Captain Howard [dash mark] Col. Campbell___ When General Green was defeated at Builford. He retreated for several miles and remained for the night. Cornwallis who commanded the British Army march off to [illegible text] Deep River and crossed that River at Ramrays Mill to which Place Genl Green followed him with his armys. When Genl Green had crossed the River at the Mill  instead of following Cornwallis, he marched across in the direction of Camden __ in the neighborhood of Camden Green had a partial engagement with Lord Rawdon just at the time his cannon which was bringing up arrived. When many of his army was engaged in washing and cooking __ After the engagement at Camden Greens army marched to ninety six which it [illegible text] and was on the point of blowing up when the British received as reinforcements and Genl Green abandoned the  place and continued on the march until he engaged the British at the Utaw Springs at which Place Col. Campbell under whom this offrant was heaced at Petersburg was killed at which engagement the british were worsted and a good number of them killed. This offrant  states that this was the last battle that he ever was engaged in and afterwards not a long time but he does not recollect the time. This offrant together with a good many others were marched to Salisbury in North Carolina where he received his Discharge in writing by Captain Howard __ Having been constantly engaged in actual service since the time he entered the service at Williamsburg in Virginia under Col. Mason ___ That after the war was over he never  returned to South Hampton in Virginia but came into Montgomery County where he married and has ever since lived which is more than fifty years. He states that he took up at one Christopher Chappels to which place he came in company with one Paul Taylor who had been in the service with him__ At Chappels he left his Discharge which has been long since  [illegible text]. This offrant states that he once asked Chappel if he had his Discharge and he stated he had lost it but well remembered having seen of [illegible text] testimony. The offrant has understood that his name is not on roll of the Virginia soldiers - which he is not able to account for - except that he never went  back to claim his land which was prom

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good character as a man of truth and also customary as to his reputation of having been a soldier of the revolution - That there are many respectable old men in his neighbourhood who have known him ever since the revolutionary war ended or not long after he came into the County who can testify as to his reputation in both of the aforesaid respects - The offrant states that although at the tale period of time he is not able to give a detailed and particular account of different services and their dates yet he is well assured and feels no hesitation in saying & [illegible] that he was engaged for two years and six months at least as a reference to the detail of his services will [illegible] - and for thes services he claims a pension. This offrant is known to the Edmund De Berry Esqr George Brunton, Benjamin Bell & William Christian who can testify as to his character for veracity and then [illegible] of his services as a soldier of the revolution -
He surely relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state - John Barmer his mark [added x]
sworn to and subscribed the day and year of [illegible mark] I [illegible] ik
Questions [illegible] to the declarant y the Court - 
Question first - Where and in what year were you born?
Answer -I was born in the County of South Hampton within state of Virginia and in what year I am unable to state, as I am an untellind man and have no knowledge of the date - but according to the best conformation I have on the subject I am now more than eighty years of age - 
Q. second Where were you living when called into service - where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Answer - I lived when called into the service in South Hampton County in the state of Virginia. At the breaking up of the war I settled in Montgomery County in North Carolina and never returned to my native place and I have ever since lived in Montgomery County of [illegible mark] where I still reside.
Questions 3rd - Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer My father was an illiterate man and never made or [illegible] record of his childrens ages
Q. 4th How were you called into service: were you drafted - Did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer I enlisted with one Col. Mason as I have stated in my declaration during the war and immediately went on to the north to join Genl. Washingtons army - The conditions of my services were that at the end of the war I should be paid a tract of land or besides my wages but I never went back to Virginia to present my claim for said land. Owing to the distance and difficulty attending

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[illegible] had when Charleston which [illegible] was up.
Q 5th State the names of some of regular officers who were with the troops, when you served [illegible] Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and then general circumstances of your services
Answer I recollect Col. Mason with whom I enlisted in South Hampton Col. Taylor who commanded me when I went to Middlebrook near Philadelphia and also Captain Boyer who was my captain. I always understood and still believe that I belonged to the fifteenth Virginia Regiment and that this regiment was Commanded by Col. Taylor but in as much as different times placed under so many different officers - I may be possibly mistaken in this opinion or belief. Col. Blufort afterwords took Command of me and marched to the south. I was still commanded by Captain Boyer who also went. I was also after the battle at the Hanging rook placed at Petersburg under one Col. Campbell and Captain Howard who ever afterwards Commanded me until he was killed at the battle of the [illegible] springs near the Close of the war - I recollect a Col. Hawes and Col. Martinn the last of whom [who crossed out] commanded the militia at the Battle of Guilford. I am not able to state names or numbers of the regiments in the different service that I was engaged - I given a detail of the general circumstances of my services as well as I could recollect them in my declaration
Q. 6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the services and if so by whom was it given - and what has become of it?
Answer. I received a discharge in writing at Salisbury in North Caroline from Captain Howard - which I left with one Christopher Chappell who lived in the County and still  lives [illegible]. After the war was over I remained at Chappels House for some time engaged at work and when I left there I neglected to bring away my discharge which afterwards was lost I afterwards called on Chappel for it and it could not be found although Chappell recollected that he had seen it  and that I had left it at his house - I am not able to procure the [illegible] of said Chappell in as much as he has entirely lost his memory and is in able to relate anything - This fact I can establish by [illegible]
Q. 7th State the names of persons to whom your known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Answer I am known to Edmund De Berry Esqr George Burton James M. Lilly William Christian and Benjamin Hill all of whom are my neighbours and they can establish my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution
John Barmer his mark [added x]
Sworn to & subscribed this day and year of [illegible mark]
I [illegible]

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State of North Carolina Montgomery County
The amended Declaration of John Balmer in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832.
On this 18th day of January 1834 personally appeared before me Edmund F Lilly one of the
Justices of the peace in & for the county
John Balmer a resident of said County who
being duly Sworn according to law
Deposeth and saith, that the Declaration he
has heretofore made with respect to his services as a soldier of the revolution is
substantially true and that notwithstanding his
name is not found on the rolls of the War
Department he certainly enlisted as already
stated as a regular
soldier of the revolution
in the County of South Hampton
the State of
Virginia
as long as the war
should continue
and that he continued in service
until the
expiration of the war under the several officers
whose
names have been already mentioned
This Deponent Saith that he may have
been mistaken
as to the number of the regiment to which he belonged and instead of
the 15th Virginia Regiment he may have been
attached to some other and he begs the Department to make a strict search to see if he
name Does not appear somewhere on the
roll as a regular soldier of Virginia, for
if it Does no where appear. he is [illegible]and
that then must have been neglect in not recording it, and he calls heaven
to witness when he departs that he has faithfully served
as heretofore stated. This Deponent for the
states that his name
has been called in different ways 
sometimes Balmore & sometimes
Burmer-
This Deponent further states that he has availed himself of all the testimony which
it is now in his power to procure which
he hopes will afford strong circumstance

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in aid of his claim. He herewith transmits
the testimony of Mrs Patience Harris, Parks Chappel & Mrs Elizabeth Chappel respectable and
aged persons who prove the time he first
came into Montgomery County, and the circumstances under which he came and if I even
not for the infirmity of old Mr Christopher
Chappel, who has from age lost his memory, he has no Doubt he could prove by
him that he left his written Discharge
in the possession of said Chappel. This
deponent further saith that the papers of said
Chappel have been searched and that his discharge cannot be found This Deponent saith that he came from the battle at the Eutaw springs to Salisburg where he was Discharge
and in making his way back to Virginia
he took up for a while in the neighborhood of Chappel Haris, until he could
procure clothes, and remained in that neighborhood until he married and never
afterwards returned. This Deponent saith
that he has made every proof that is in
his power as to his services, that he can
produce abundant proof more of his
character & reputation of [illegible] and
that he now submits. his case to the De
partment; confidently hoping that they
may will sustain & comfort the Declining
years of a poor, but faithful solder of
the revolution
Sworn to and subscribed
John
Barmer
X
His Mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 18th of January
1834 
E. F. Lilly  J. P.

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Mr. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington



Admitted by the Seal
2 yr. $8000

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H of R Jan 29, 1834
W. Edwards
I remarked to you this morning when I submitted to you the paper of John Barmer or John Balmer (for his name is spelt both ways) that I had not any doubt nor had and person with whom he is well acquainted as far as I could learn of the truth of the statements made in his declaration.
I have often had him recite the incidents and occurrences which took place in the army and the [] of events as they occurred under his personal observation. His statements therefore in his declaration of the events of the Revolutionary war are his own from a personal knowledge of this himself.
This old [] under conscious belief that he was entitled to a pension applied under the act of 1818 but could not then produce any positive proof of his services neither can he now but that he did serve the time he states no one who knows him has any doubt. His character as to the veracity is not doubted I have known him for 35 years.
Respectfully Edwd Deberry

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RevWar
8042
INVALID.
File No. 8042
John Barmer
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:__ Vol. 1st, Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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State of North Carolina Montgomery County-
Personally appeared in open Court at the Date afsd [aforesaid] Benjamin Bell
a resident of the County and State of who being duly sworn according to law Deposeth and Saith that he has been well acquainted with John Barmer. the above applicant for fifty years or thereabouts. that he became acquainted with him immediately
after the war and to the best of his knowledge & Belief he had
on a uniform Coat which the said Barmer represented to him
to have been worn in the war of the revolution, that the said
Burner has uniform only from his first acquaintance to this
Deponent that he served as above stated that it is the general belief of all the applicants neighbours that he was a
soldier of the revolution and the Deponent fully concur in that belief. that the said Barmer has supported the character of
a man of truth and that his statement is entitled to cred
Benjamin Bell
Sworn to and subscribed the
day and year of add [aforesaid]
I [illegible] clk [clerk]

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26.469
Mr. Barmer
Declaration for a pension

[illegible]

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John H Treadwell
clergyman residing in the County of Montgomery in
North Carolina and Edmund Deberry
residing in the same hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with John Barmer who has subscribed and
Sworn to the above Declaration that we believe to him to be more than
eighty years of age. that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution ┃
and that we concur in that opinion-
John H. Treadwell
Edmund Deberry

Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year af'd [aforesaid]
I Barton Clk [clerk]

And the said Court Do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by
the war Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states. and
the Court further certifies that it
appears to them that [large blank space]
who has
signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in aforementioned County and that
Edmund Deberry who has signed the same is a
resident of the same
County and is a credible person and that there
statement is entitled to credit

[illegible]
Jno [C Atkins J. P.
A Graham J P

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State of North Carolina
Montgomery County
I John B Martin clerk of the Court [text missing]
and quarter sessions for Montgomery County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court
in the matter of the application of John
Barmer for a pension and I do further certify that Benjamin Bell whose
name appears to the within affidavit
is a credible and that his statement is
entitled to credit
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office
the 1st day of July AD 1833
J B Martin Clk

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State of North Carolina Montgomery County
On this 28th day of December 1833 personally appeared before me William A Mask a justice of the peace in
and for said County Patience Harris a resident
of said County who is eighty years of age or more
who being duly sworn according to law to Depose
what she might know touching the services of
one John Balmer as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Deposeth and saith, that the said John Balmer came to her house when
she lived with her husband who is now
dead on the River in said County and stated
that he had just served a tour of two or
three years as a regular soldier in the service of the United States and further this de
ponent saith that the said John Balmer was
very ragged and Dirty being covered
with vermin and had every appearance of one who had been engaged
in the service as a soldier. This deponent
saith that she is unable to state how long
ago then took place but that it was about
the breaking up of this old war and that it
must have been fifty years or thereabouts
this Deponent saith that the said John Balmer
remained in the neighbourhood until he married where as she understands he has since lived
and has raised his family This deponent states
further that the said Balmer came to her house Shortly before or after she cannot say which, her brother
Samuel Taylor who enlisted as a soldier of the revolution and went into the service as a soldier from South Hampton County in the State of Virginia and that Bulmer and her brother were at her house
and stated that they had been both soldiers in the war the revolution
her

Patience Harris
X
Her Mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this
28th day of December 1833
Test 
W A Mask      jP.

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State of North Carolina Montgomery County
on this [blank] day of December 1833 personally appeared before me William A Mark a justice of the peace in and for
said County. Parks Chappell a resident of said County
about the age of sixty two years who being duly sworn according to law touching what he knew concerning the services of John Balmer as a soldier of the revolution
Deposeth and saith that some where about fifty years
ago for this Deponent thinks he was then about
ten or twelve years of age, John Balmer, in company with one William Taylor came to the house of his
father (Christopher Chappell) in a very ragged and dirty condition, being almost covered with vermin and
stated that they had been regular soldiers in the
war of the revolution. this deponent thinks that Bulmer stated he had been a soldier almost during the
whole war at least for two or three years
This deponent states that the said Balmer had every
appearance of a soldier who had been in the
service for a long while, that he remained
with his father for a year or more, working until he could get clothes & This affiant states that
he has often heard the said Balmer, shortly after
he came to his fathers recount the many trials and
difficulties he had had in the war and especially that he was at the battle of Guilford
under General Green and a great many other
things that happened while he was a soldier
This deponent saith further that his father Christopher Chappell, who is now So old and infirm
that he has almost entirely lost his memory could
if it were not for his want of memory give a
more satisfactory account of said Balmers services for he has often heard him speak of him
as an old soldier and that he ought to receive
a pension for his services. This affiant states that the
said Balmer has always been an inoffensive man and a man of truth and has invaria[bly]

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stated to this Deponent that he was a soldier of the revolution - This affiant states that Balmer Came to
his father about the breaking up of the war and
that he stated he had been discharged in the South
and was in his way to Virginia South Hampton County
when he had enlisted and further this deponent saith
that a good number of soldiers passed about the same
time from the south on their way to virginia and that Balmer was one of them but that
he took up at his father and remained there and in the neighborhood until he married a few years afterwards. Sworn to and Subscribed
before me this day & date above written
Test W A Mask is
Parks Chappell

I William A Mash Justice of the peace as af'd [aforesaid] do certify that Patience Harris, Parks Chappel & Elizabeth Chappel are
Credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit.
W A Mask jp
I John B Martin clerk of the court of pleas and quarter Sessions for Montgomery County, certify that William A. Mark is a magistrate above and that the
foregoing signature purporting to be his Genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed
my name, this 18th day of Jany [January] 1834
J. B. Martin Clk
By Henry Lilly D.C.

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State of Carolina Montgomery County
on this 29th Decr [December] 1833 personally appeared
before me William A Mash a Justice
of the peace in and for said County
Elizabeth Chappell a resident of
of County who is as she thinks Eighty
five years of age who being duly
Sworn according to law to depose
what she may know Touching the
services of one John Balmer as a
Soldier in the revolutionary the
deposeth & saith that he the said
Balmer came to her husbands house
who is yet living but from great
infirmity and deafness is unable
to make any statements respecting
the said Balmer not withstanding
they lived together 24 mo. or more conversed frequently respecting the difficulties and hardships which he the said Balmer underwent during his services as a
soldier who the further states that
when the said Balmer came to her
husbands house he had every appearance of a soldier being very dirty
almost without clothes and full of
vermin and that she washed &
boiled his clothes but was at much
trouble get them free from
dirt & vermin and then he the
Balmer had to lay on the floor
for some time until he was
clothed, she also states that she
thinks  he served as a soldier as
much as 3 years she further states that the
said Balmer came with other soldiers [illegible] house.
Elizabeth Chappell
have sworn to & assigned before me
the day & date above written
Test. W A Mark JP