Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,888, John Denton, Va.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
[handwritten] Va. Denton, John R.2,888 [end handwritten]
CONTENTS

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John Denton
24671

Law [illegible] Cap. [illegible]
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State of Georgia Hancock County} ss.
On this fourth day of January 1833 personally appeared before the Justice of the Honourable the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid. John Denton a resident in the County of Hancock and State aforesaid aged 70 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 7, 1832. That he enlist-ed in the army of the United States in the year 1777, with Laurence House, Lieut. and served in the [crossed out] Second regiment of Virginia State Artillery. for three years. he left service on the 23rd day of August 1780; that he resided at the time he entered service in Brunswick County Virginia, that he served under Captains Crowley, House and Allen under Major Edmunds, Mazzard, under Colo Elias Edmunds signed by William Spellers his Captain which discharge is lost.
He have by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State. [crossed out]
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year afore-said in open Court. Denton
Henry Rogers. Clk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the aforementioned applicant was a Revolutionary soldier. and served as he states
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I. Henry Rogers. Clerk of the Inferior Court of Hancock County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Denton for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the office this 4th day of Feby 1833
Henry Rogers Clk

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Hancock County Georgia
[illegible] their Names
John W. Rabun}
Wilson Bird}            [illegible]
John L Swinney}

The undersigned was born in Brunswick County State of Virginia on the seventh day of May 1762 and on the 16th day of August 1777 enlisted in the Second Regiment of Virginia artillery commanded by Col Thomas Marshall and served out the term of three years and was discharged at the city of Richmond on the twenty third day of August in 1780 I perceive in the papers returned from the war department that my name is not on the Regimental muster Roll in the war office, I have to observe that our Regiment was placed on the Continental establish-ment in 1779 and in 1780 was under marching order for Charleston, and on the 23th of April the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colo Elias Edmunds formed a junction with Colo Charles Porterfield who commanded a regiment of state Infantry. and two troops of Horse under com-mand of Major Armand Porterfield commandi-ng the wholl attachment. We marched for Charleston then besieged by the Brittish. and about the twentieth of may we began to mat the militia who were [crossed out] at the [illegible] of this post; but we still parsed our march till within a short distance of Charlottetown village in North Carolina. Where we received the account of Colo Bufords defeat near the [crossed out] settlement from thence we retreated to Salisbury thence to Guilford Court House from thence to Hillsboro, and after

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in camping there for a few days we took at the line of march for Virginia but after a few hours march were met by the Maryland Brigade commanded by General Baron Decalb who countermanded our march but ordered Colo Edmunds to detach one Company of his regiment to take Charge of the Ordinance Stores a few miles on the road at General Persons I belonged to the first company our Regiment Commanded by James Wilson Bradley which was detached for that purpose who took them back to Taylors Ferry. Where I remained till the 17th of August with about one hundred more of the Regiment we march-ed for Richmond and received out discharge on the 23rd day of August, The above is all the reasons I give for my name not being on the Muster Roll. I continued in the Service of my country till late in November 1781 I was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse under general Green on the 15th of March, and at Petersburg Virginia about the first day of May under General Mulinberg and at the Siege of York in October and after the surrender of Cornwallis helped guard the Prisoners on their March to Albem-arle Barracks as far as Falmouth on the north bank of Rappahannock and arrived at home the twentieth of November 1781 Having remained in service from the 16 of August 1777 till the 20th of November 1781 then [illegible] living within this Revolution by whom he could prove his services sworn to in open Court this 6th August 1833 Denton
Henry Rogers
Clerk Inferior Court

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We James Barnes a clergyman residing in Hancock County and John W. Rabun Engr. residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Denton who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that can believe him to be seventy one years old, that he is reported and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed in open Court 17th August 1833} James Barnes - M. B. 
John W. Rabun

Was born in Brunswick County Virginia Has no record of his age believes his birth is recorded in the Parrish Register when he resided Was living in Brunswick County when called into service lived since the Revolutionary in North Carolina from Janu 1785 until 1792 moved to No. Ca and lived then two years, since that time lived in Georgia
He enlisted-- Received a discharge is lost was given by order of Lieut Elias Edmunds & signed by Capt William Spillers-
He is known by all the neighbors who have lived in his neighborhood any length of time- John W. Rabun Esquire a member of the Inferior Court is a neighbor and [illegible] acquainted with him from a very early period of his life
[illegible] Subscribed & sworn to an open Court Denton
Henry Rogers Clerk
Inferior Court

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary solider and was as he states

I Henry Rogers Clerk of the Inferior Court of Hancock County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of this said Court in the matter of the application of John Denton for a pension I testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of this this eighth day of August 1833
Henry Rogers Clk Inf Court

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April 30, 1936

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BA-J/EEL
Daniel Denton-S.43486
John Denton-R.2888

Mrs. P.H.Haward
Box 192
Barnwell, South Carolina

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of James, John and Daniel Denton. of any New England state or of Georgia, who served in the Revolutionary War; also, informa-tion in regard to any soldier of Georgia, which the surname Wyche.
There are no claims for pension or bounty land on file based upon the service in the Revolutionary War of a James Denton or of any soldier with surname Wyche. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.
The records have been found of a Daniel Denton, who served in a Connecticut regiment during the Revolution and of a John Denton, who served in a Virginia regiment and applied for a pension which re-siding in Hancock County, Georgia. Those records are furnished you herein, as found in the respective claims for pension.

Daniel Denton
S.43486
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Daniel Denton are not shown.
Daniel Denton enlisted in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1776. served in Captain Robert Durkee's Connecticut Company, and as corporal in Colonel John Durkee's 2d Connecticut Regiment, was in the battles of Millstone River, Bound Brook and Germantown and in General Sullivan's expedition, and was discharged June 9, 1783, by Lieutenant Colonel Ebenezer Huntington, 1st Connecticut Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1819, at which time he was aged sixty-two years and resided in Wallkill, New York.

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Daniel Denton died at Wallkill, New York, March 30,1826.
The names of the following children are shown. There are no data in regard to soldier's wife.
Shubael B. Denton........ in 1831, living in Orange County, New York.
Daniel Denton, Junior
Nehemiah Denton
Thomas Denton
Samuel Denton
Deborah Denton........ in 1831, the wife of Samuel Van Fleet.
Four grandchildren also survived the soldier; their names are not given.

John Denton
R.2888
The date which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.2888, based upon the mili-tary service in that war of John Denton.
John Denton was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, May 7, 1762. The names of his parents are not shown,
After the Revolution, he lived in the state of North Carolina, from January, 1785 until 1792, then moved to South Carolina and lived two years; thence to the state of Georgia. 
On February 18, 1833, while a resident of Hancock County, Georgia, John Denton applied for pension and alleged that while residing in Brunswick County, Virginia, he enlisted August 16, 1777, served as an artificer in the 2d Virginia Regiment of Artillery, under Captain Lieutenant Laurence House, and Colonel Thomas Marshall and was dis-charged August 23, 1760: that he afterward served under Captains Crowley, Hawes and Allen, and William Spiller, Major Elias Edmunds and Colonel James Wilson Bradley in the Virginia Troops, was in the battles of Guilford Court House, Petersburg, at the siege at Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis and that afterward he guarded prisoners bound for Albemarle Barracks as far as Falmouth, Virginia.
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[handwritten] He made & [illegible] all [illegible] that I coned not make a clear statement so consolidated as that I coned [end handwritten]
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by the pension law.
There are no data as to soldier's family
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER

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John Denton
Ga
Suspended [illegible]
[crossed out]
2888

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[located on left page]
1936-apr 30- 7 [illegible]
Mrs. P. H. Haward
Lecter in care
Daniel Denton
S.43486- EP

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[crossed out]
2888
P.O. [handwritten] John Denton [end handwritten]
Service: ___
Enlisted: ___, 18
Discharged: ___, 18
[handwritten] Printed list of 1852 
[illegible] cause of suspension [end handwritten]
Application filed: ___, 18
[handwritten] His name is on the rolls as a private of infantry, but not in the identical corps [end handwritten]
Alleges: [handwritten] he specifies x [end handwritten]
Re-enlisted: [handwritten] Colo Marshall, arty 1777 for 3 yrs Born aug 16, 1762 Brunswick Co Va [end handwritten]
Attorney: ___
P.O. ___
___ Recognized. ___ Contract
___ Cert. of Dis. Searched for ___, 18

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John Denton's
Case-

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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 [handwritten] Continental [end handwritten] 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 [handwritten] 10th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] Decemr. 1783 [end handwritten] in the name of [handwritten] John Denton [end handwritten] as [handwritten] a Soldier of Infantry [end handwritten] for £ [handwritten] 69.2.4 [end handwritten], which Certificate appears to have been delivered to [handwritten] himself [end handwritten] and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.

{No Seal of Office} Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this [handwritten] 6th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] January [end handwritten] 188 [handwritten] 6. Jas E Heath [end handwritten] AUDITOR

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Department of War
Pension Office
May 1 1836,
Sir,
I have [illegible] the papers of John Denton I have placed them on the files of this Office. The proof in his case is [crossed out] unsatisfactory. Mr Denton in the past alleged that he performed under at enlistment in Virginia in the State Artillery, three years service, having [illegible] under Lieut. Laurence House.- that he [illegible] under Capts, Crowley, Hawes, Allen & Maj. Mazzard & Colo Edwards, and that he was discharged by Capt Spiller in aug 1780.
In his second statement he alleges that he enlisted in a Regt commanded by Col Marshall for three years & was discharged at Richmond at aug 1780. [illegible] that he continued in the [illegible] as a militia volunteer [crossed out] until nov 1787.
In his last statement, he claims to have enlisted as an artificer for three years, & attached to Colo Marshall's regiment.
Lieut L. House [crossed out] & Capt Allen were officers in the infantry, Capts Crowley Spiller & Maj Mazzad, names do not appear upon any roll. 
[crossed out]
Upon the rolls in the office, transcribed from upon at Richmond the name of Jno Denton appears as a private in the infantry, but has recad [illegible] he [illegible] a [illegible] in the [illegible] as Mr Denton [illegible] state, that he served in a different corps. His name [illegible] upon the rolls, either as of the artillery or as an artificer. The pension claimed from aug 1780 & nov 1787 is, a main result, a [illegible] [illegible]: A further explanation [crossed out], is relative to it, and proof of the alleged three years

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[illegible] [illegible] be [illegible] be from any part of his claim can be [illegible]
Thas M Morris

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Hon C E Haynes
May 6 [illegible]

[written on the bottom]
Hon C E Haynes
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State of Georgia Hancock County}
On this day of april 1836 personally appeared in Open Court before his Honor Garnell Andrews Esquire Judge of the Inferior Court of said County of Hancock and State aforesaid 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 1833.
He was born in Brunswick County State of Virginia on the fourth day of May in the year 1762 (agruable) to the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and enlisted on the 16th day of August 1777 in the Company of artificers attached to second Virginia Regiment of Artillery he served in the garrison of [illegible] and York till the spring of the year of 1779 when his regiment was put on the Continental establishment and Early in March 1780 all the [illegible] [illegible] of the [illegible] [illegible] with a [illegible] [illegible] were ordered to Charleston in South Carolina to reinforce General Lincoln. They then marched from Williamsburg in Virginia on the 23d day of April in the year of 1780 and [illegible] their march till the early part of June- where near the village of Charlottesville of North Carolina where they received the intelligence of the defeat of Col Bufords regiment on the Hanging Rock Road. Col Porterfield his commander [illegible]

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to Salisbury to Guilford Court House thence to Hillsboro after [illegible] there a four days. They took up their [illegible] of March for Virginia but had not marched more than ten or twelve miles when they had the Maryland brigade commanded by General Decalb and as Senior officer he ordered our Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colo Elias Edmunds to gain him and ordered him to detach a company of his regiment to take charge of the infantry horses and to convey them to Taylors Ferry an Roan Oak River. He belonged to the first company which was attached for that purpose in which service he contained till the 11th day of August when his term of service terminated. He marched with about one hundred more to Richmond Virginia where they were discharged.
On the 25 of the same month having served the [illegible] term of his enlistment. He continued in the service till the Capture of Cornwallis at York Town and helped guard the prisoners to Falmouth an Rappahannock River on their way to Albemarle Barracks & [illegible] [illegible] on the 30th of November having served in the Revolutionary War four [crossed out] and three months. He had a certificate of his enlistment which has been lost & of which from the [illegible] [illegible] of him it is [illegible] to [illegible] give an exact copy - but as well as he now recollects this is a copy "The bearer of this [crossed out] under me as a private in the Company of artificers attached to Colo Thomas Marshalls Regiment of artillery this 16th aug 1777 Laurence House Inf Clk
And on the 23d August in the year of 1780 [crossed out] he was discharged at Richmond. The following is

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a copy as well as he now recollects. "The bearer John Denton a private belonging to Capt Marshalls regiment of Artillery having faithfully served the term of his enlistment: is hereby honorably discharged this 23 day of aug 1780
By order of Lieutenant Elias Edmondson commanding 
Wm Spillers Capt

He was in the battle of Guilford Courthouse on the 12th of March 1781 as a volunteer from Virginia attached to General Cawford Brigade and in another at Petersburg where Philips & Arnold took [illegible] Town was his commander which took place on the last day of April or the 1st of May - During the Summer of 1781 he served in the Militia under General Lafayette who commanded in Virginia & was at the Sign of York Town and marched to guard the prisoners to Falmouth
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court this 12th day of april 1838 Denton
Tuttle H. Audas Clk
And this said Court do hereby declare the opinion of the Court that the aforementioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Tuttle H Audas Clerk of the inferior Court of Hancock County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Denton for a pension for Testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seal of office this 12th day of apri; 1838.
Tuttle H. Audas Clk