Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10583, for Baze Thurman, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Thurman, Baze
R. 10583
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10.583.
P. O. Boyle Thurman Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Searched for
18

Baze Thurman
Kentucky
Suspended
Due to Hon Benj. Hardin March 25, 1836 do - do - July 2, 36 J. ch. ch. Colla No. 28/59 Ferdinand Miller Rev 8/62.
Act. 7 th June - 1832

Terre Haute Indiana November 23/60 To the Commissioner at the Pension office at Washington City Sir after my best respects I wish you if you please to examine in the Pension Records and see if you can find a claim filed by Benjamin Hardin of Kentucky & think in the year 1834, 35 or 1836 I am not sure which in favor of Basse Thurman of Kentucky, for a pension Basse Thurman was in the Virginia Militia the papers were there for there was a copy issued and sent to one of his sons in Kentucky several years ago and was lost My Wife is one of the Heirs of Basse Thurman He Died in May 1836 Pleas send a full copy of the case send it to Terre Haute to Jeremiah Mills and oblige yours
Jeremiah Mills

Dear Sir
Spencer County Ky, 17 July, 52
Please examine the papers at Wash- ington in reference to my father's Pension (Brige Thurman deceased) under act of 7 th June 1832, and report to me through G. H. Monsarrat of Louisville. By giving early attention to the above you will much oblige
Yours very Respectfully
J. J. Coombs Esq. Washington D.C.
Silas Thurman

I certify that the declaration of Bayle Thurman is incorrectly drawn up, inasmuch as his age is therein set forth as thirteen years of age when he entered the Service; whereas it should have been sixteen. The mistake originated not in the applicant for the pension, but in the person who wrote or copied the instrument - to the best of my knowledge and belief
Washington 1 July 1836
Dear Friend

Page Thurman 33.608
13 years & terms too long.
Mr B Hardin AK

State of Kentucky } Sct
Spencer County Circuit Court
On this 28 th day of August 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Spencer Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky now sitting, a resident of the County of Spencer State of Kentucky Baze Thurman aged twenty three years on the 22 nd day of January next, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth upon his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. He entered the Service as a private soldier in Prince William County in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Helm. in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lee in the month of May in the year 1776. the day of the month not recollecting, and served for the full period of five months. He was marched from thence to Alexandria and from thence to Philadelphia, and was discharged from the service in the State of Pennsylvania after the expiration of his five months Service as before stated. He states that he was drafted as a pioneer for the purpose of assisting in opening roads along on the Potomac river for the purpose of transporting of provisions and the marching of Genl. Washington's Army that he entered upon this service in the month of June in the year 1777. that he was employed in this service for the space of four months and was discharged at the expiration of the four months Service aforesaid. He states that in the year 1780. in the month of June the day of the month not recollecting. He entered the service of the United States as a private soldier as a substitute for John Thurman, and was mustered into service at Kempsville in the Company commanded by Capt. Brent in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lee. and was marched from thence to Alexandria and then towards Philadelphia, and was stopped and discharged in the month of October in the same year after having served four months. He states that he was drafted for the purpose of guarding the British prisoners and was employed in that service three months at Fincuffes Courthouse in the State of Virginia, and entered upon the Service in the fall of the year 1780. the day of the month

not recollected in all of the towns before set out, he states, that he served as a private soldier in the Virginia militia, and was not in any actual engagement. He states that he was born on the 22 nd day of January in the year 1763. in the County of Prince William in the State of Virginia as he has no record of his age, but makes this statement from information, he states that he lived in Prince William County Virginia until the year 1786. when he moved to the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia where he continued to reside, and in Franklin County Virginia until the year 1804. when he moved to Nelson County Kentucky, and resided in said County until the year 1824. when he was stricken off into Spencer County and that he now resides in Spencer County Kentucky. He states he has no written discharge, nor does he believe he was receiving one. he has no documentary evidence, and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services as such. He states that he knows one William Stout a clergyman and one George Wells. to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid Baze Thurman mark
we William Stout a clergyman residing in the County of Spencer and George Wells. residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Baze Thurman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two 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. Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Wm Stout George Wells

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting 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 William Stone who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the County Circuit of Spencer, and that George Wells who has signed the same also is a residing in the same County Circuit of Spencer in the State of Kentucky, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
State of Kentucky } ss.
Spencer Circuit. Raphael Lancaster Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the Circuit County of Spencer in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Baze Thurman for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of Office this 24 th day of November 1835. In the 61 st year of the Commonwealth.
Raph t Lancaster Clerk Spencer Circuit Ky.