Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8772, for Benjamin Sutton, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Sutton, Benjamin Mary
W 8772
CONTENTS

St. Louis 3002
Mary Patton widow of Benjamin Patton a pensioner under act 1832 who died on the 17th April 1833 of Lawrence in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Lacey of the reg t commanded by William Jones in the Virginia line for 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of St. Louis at the rate of 16 Dollars 25 Cents per annum to commence on the 5th day of April 1832.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Aug t 1839 to Mrs. Mary  Patton Residing in St. Louis
Arrears to the 14th of Mar ch 1839 $550.44 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept r 39 40.00
$590.44
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd }
Recorded by D.M. Gandy Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 179
SN P.G. Woods Apr 28. 1856
C. T. Sutter, d r 10.00 1/37
Warrant endorsed and answered in this claim see
Mary Patton, reg t 1834

766 Kentucky.
Benjamin Sutton
of Garrard in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Long of the Regiment commanded by Col. Morgan in the Virginia line for 3 years from 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 Dollars per Annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of October and sent to J. D. Anderson Leicester, Ky.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 -  120.00    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th March 1833  40.00     $160.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Mathias Rice Clerk, Book D. Vol. 7. Page 60
Dencl. See letter to Hon. R. P. Letcher May 17. 1834. do. to same V.P. Agt. 1835 Sept. 1835

No 1126 London Office July 28/88
Benjamin Sutton's application for a pension
Gen. T. H.

State of Kentucky Grant County 3 rd Feb.
On this 16 th day of July 1832. Person- ally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the Grant County court, now sitting, Ben- jamin Sutton a resident citizen of Grant County, and state of Kentucky, aged 76 years who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to attain the benefit of the Act of Congress pas- sed 7 June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated -
He entered the service under the com- mand of Capt. Gabriel Sayer, (Philip Slaughter being lieutenant). That he entered the service in the year 1777, as a regular having enlisted for 3 years, and continued in the service during said time -
That he resided in Culpepper County in the state of Virginia, at the time of entering the service, and he entered as a regular, enlisted for 3 years -
That he was at the battles of Bran- dywine, Germantown & Monmouth - That he marched through parts of Maryland & Pennsylvania, New Jersey & New York.
The command of his Regiment was under Genl. Morgan, part of the time, & this official received his discharge under Genl. Woodford, and the discharge was signed by him, but is now lost -
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 to subscribed the day before affirmed -
William Osuley and Benjamin Hudson residing in Grant County, State of Kentucky do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Hudson, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age, that he is respected and believed to be in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolu- tion, and served as he states - and we concur in that opinion - And the Court further certifies that William Osuley and Benjamin Hudson
Mr. Osuley Benjamin Hudson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrog- atories 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 William Osuley and Ben- jamin Hudson who have signed the preceding certificates are resident cit- izens of Grant County, are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit
I James H. Fletcher clerk of the Grant County Court do hereby certify, that the fore- going contains the original

proceedings of said court in the matter of the appli- cation of Benjamin Stillow for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16 th day of July 1832.
J. M. H. [unclear]

State of Kentucky
1791.
Garrard County Set.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th . May 1828. I Benjamin Sutton of the County of Garrard and State of Kentucky, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for the period of 3 years, and serving 5 th period and furnished a substitute who continued in its service until its termination; at which time I was a private in Capt. Gabriel Jones's company, of the 11 th Regiment of the Virginia line. And I also declare that I received a certificate for at least 15 th  May 1778 further declare, that I was on the 15 th day of March 1828, on the pension list of the United States.
Benjamin Sutton
Garrard County Set.
Before me Thomas Mitchell a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, of Garrard in the State of Kentucky, personally appeared, this 7 th day of November 1829, Benjamin Hudson of the County of Garrard and State of Kentucky, who did make oath, that Benjamin Sutton by whom the foregoing declaration was

Subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the army up the Revolution, in the man- ner therein stated.
Witness my hand this 7 th day of November 1829. Thos Millan J.P.
Garrard County Sec.
I James H. Fletcher clerk of the County Court of Garrard County, in the State of Kentucky, do hereby certify that Thomas Millan, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the peace for and for Garrard County, and duly sworn and qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, affixed the seal of my court, this 7 th day of November 1829.
James H. Fletcher C.R.

State of Kentucky County of Garrard
On this the 18th day of February in the year 1839 before the Justices of the Garrard County Court being a Court of record. Now in Session. Personally appeared Mary Sutton of said County of Garrard and State aforesaid aged Seventy Seven years (years) who being first duly sworn according to law oath on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by act of Congress passed July 14th 1836. That she is the widow of Benjamin Sutton deceased late a Pensioner on the rolls of the Kentucky Agency. She further declares that she was lawfully married to the said Benjamin Sutton in the County of Culpepper and State of Virginia in the Month of December Seventeen hundred and Eighty (1780). That her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton died the Seventeenth of April Eighteen hundred and thirty three. And that she has remained a widow ever since that period. She further declares that her aforesaid the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton was drafted and into service in the Spring after their marriage and did perform a tour of duty of the three months. But what company he went in or officers she does not know at this time recollects. But she recollects distinctly that when her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton started into the army she never expected to see him again as the report was then that the British were in the neighborhood and was expected every day to be in the County of Culpepper where they were then giving. She further declares that she well recollects that her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton had hired her Uncle John Stewart to go and attend to his farm and Negroes during his absence and the subsequent result and lived with her Uncle John Steel until the return of her husband. She further states she well recollects her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton did return home in company with two of the soldiers James Steel and Humphrey Arndt. They all three having furloughs so to do and staid with her for five days and nights and then returned back to the army. This visit was some time during the three months.
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Mary Sutton of Benjamin Sutton widow
Dec 1780
April 17 1833
Act 14 July 1836
John Stewart
James Steel
Humphrey Arndt

tour of duty which he was assigned to perform. She further states that when her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Sutter was performing the aforesaid tour of duty he was marched into the County of Orange and State of Virginia. She further states that she has no family record of her marriage nor does she recollect of ever having or seeing one.
Mary Sutter mark
State of Kentucky Perry County
The County Court began and held for the County of Perry at the Court House thereof in the town of Lancaster, being a Court of Sessions. I, Robert M. Lee clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration of Mary Sutter widow of Benj. Sutter who left a Commission of the United States in the army of the Revolution, was on the 10 th day of February (at a Court held as aforesaid) produced and sworn to in open Court and which by the said Court was ordered to be certified - and I further certify that Benjamin Sutter whose signature appears to the certificates of the death to the disposition of Margaret Sutter and John Sutter, now is and was at the time of affirming the same a justice of the peace in and for Clinton County, who is nominated appointed and commissioned as such, and is one of the judges of the Perry County Court. State faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that the two signatures on the sheet to the certificates aforesaid are known to me to be genuine.
In testimony of all which I have here set my name and caused the seal of the Court of which I am clerk to be hereunto affixed, at my office in Lancaster this 23 rd February 1829 and of the Independence of the United States the 53 rd . Robert M. Lee clerk

The deposition of John Sutton, aged fifty seven, years past, May, a citizen of Garrard County and State of Kentucky taken at his own house before Benjamin Schooner Justice of the peace for the County of Garrard, the being first duly sworn according to Law. Deposith and saith That he is the Son of Benjamin Sutton and Mary Sutton the widow of said Benjamin Sutton. That of his own knowledge he knew his father was a pensioner on the roll of the Kentucky agency at the time of his death and that the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton died on the seventeenth of April Eighteen hundred and thirty three. Since the aforesaid Mary Sutton his Mother has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton. And further saith Not John Sutton
State of Kentucky Garrard County Set
The foregoing deposition of John Sutton of the County of Garrard and State aforesaid and aged man was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me Benjamin Schooner. And I certify that the said Sutton is known to me to be a person of good moral character and man of truth and veracity.
Given under my hand as a Justice of the peace for the County of Garrard and State aforesaid this 13 th February 1839 Benjamin Schooner J.P.

The deposition of Mrs. Margaret Bourne aged seventy four years taken at the house of Francis Bourne the 13th day of February 1839 to be used as evidence in favour of the application of Mrs. Mary Sutton, widow of Benjamin Sutton for a pension under the act of Congress of the 11th July 1836. Deponent deposeth and saith that she was well acquainted with Benjamin Sutton deceased and his now widow Mary Sutton (whose name before marriage was Mary Arnold) before their marriage and ever since, that she the Deponent was at the wedding when the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton and Mary was married which marriage the deponent thinks took place a short time before Christmas Seventeen hundred and Eighty (1780). She the Deponent having waited on the aforesaid Mary when she was married they were married in the County of Culpepper County and State of Virginia by the Rev. Mr. Stevenson of the Episcopal Church. Deponent further saith that she is a cousin to the said Mary Sutton and they lived in the same house together until the said Mary was married. The aforesaid Benjamin Sutton and his wife after marriage moved about three miles from the deponent and there settled. The deponent recollects perfectly of the aforesaid Benjamin Sutton going out in the service of his country as a soldier the Summer after his marriage and having been from home on his tour for some time and the said Mary returned and staid with deponent our Uncle, Aunts until the said Benjamin Sutton return from the war. And further saith not. Margaret her Bourne mark
State of Kentucky Garrard County
The above deposition was this day subscribed and sworn to by Margaret Bourne before me Benjamin Schoen a Justice of the peace for the County of Garrard and State aforesaid. And I certify that the said Margaret Bourne is a person of good moral character and a person of truth and veracity.
Given under my hand this 13th day of February 1839 Benjamin Schoen

No 1126
Buy Sutter
$80-
adn Do.

BRIEF in the case of  Ben a Sutton  of Garrard Co  in the State of  Kentucky  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 76 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1777 3 private Gen. Morgan part of the time. was disch d by Gen l Woodford. — Capt. Gabriel Long. Lieut. Philip Shantz  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Brandywine Germantown & Monmouth
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Culpeper Co Virginia
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by the rolls being a regular and by traditionary evidence on roll
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They are correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Wang  W. Allison Examining Clerk.

the Benjamin Sutton and Humphrey Arnold are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of Fifty pounds current money to which payment and duly to be made and paid by us our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Witnesseth our hands and seals this 8th. day Decr. 1780.
The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas there is a marriage lately intended to be solemnized between the above bound Benjamin Sutton and Mary Arnold Spinster, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Arnold, if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the same, this obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed & delivered in presence of
Benjamin Sutton Humphrey Arnold
I, Benjamin D. Latham clerk pro tempore of the County Court of Fauquier County in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the marriage license bond of Benjamin Sutton, filed among the records in the clerk's office of said Court. Given under my hand this 23rd. day of April 1839.
J. D. Latham
Fauquier County, to wit:
This day Benjamin D. Latham clerk pro tempore of the County Court of Fauquier County in the State of Virginia, personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for said County, that the foregoing is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this 23rd. day of April 1839.
W. H. Hill
Virginia:
I, Benjamin D. Latham clerk pro tempore of the County Court of Fauquier County in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas Hill

who hath given the preceding certificate is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned, and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, this 23rd day of April 1839, and in the 63rd year of the Commonwealth.
J. D. Latham

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Benjamin Totten a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1777 3 years Pt. Gabriel Long N.Y.   1781 3 mos Green Black N.Y.          
Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown & Red Bank
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Carlisle, Pa.
Date of application for pension, Nov 7, 1839
Residence at date of application, Torrance County, N.Y.
Age at date of application, born in 1756. He died Sept 10, 1838.
Remarks: The man in Dec. 1780 in Carlisle Pa. the Mary, daughter of Nicholas Arnold. She was also pensioned on an app. ex. Feb. 15, 1839 while a widow of Thomas early aged 71 years. Her John was born in May 1782. Widow died Nov 7, 1839. There is no other data on file as to her family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Benjamin Patton Ken Act of June 1832 to what time paid? Pen Officin
died 1833
Aug t 21. 1839
Died 17 th April 1833 paid to that period 8/4

Mc Washington Cincinnati, O Apr. 29 - 1916 Rec Sec 2P
Pension Bureau Dept of Interior Washington D.C.
For free information - Dear Sir
Can you send me any authentic information relative to Benjamin Button & his son Stephen Button who served in Revolutionary war in the State of Virginia - said Stephen was a boy about 16 yrs old & served as minute-man for three years - am willing to pay small compensation for facts

Would like to know where - in what County they served? or any other information that you may have.
Very truly yours
Elizabeth Sutton

1919 May 15 Hist. to Elizabeth Sutton
Very WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8772
Mary Sutton Wid. of Benjamin Sutton Pat. Nov. line
Act: July 4 th 36, Sec. 2 d
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 254
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3 rd Auditor's Office April 25: 1836.
Pension Office April 18/56
Sir.
Mary Sutton Ky. Oct 1836, at $80.00 per ann. died 7 Nov r 1841, & her pension has been paid in full to that date.
Very Resp y Your O b t Serv t . W. Ferguson Auditor
J. Minot Esq r Comm r . of Pensions
Sir Please state to what time the pensions of Mary Sutton Her roll act of 1836 - was paid. Very respectfully,
S. Hall for Ferguson R. J. Atkinson Esq r 3 rd Auditor }
Look to this

Scituate Lancaster 17 Sept 8 18 ree
James L. Edwards Esq
Pension Commissioner War Department Washington City

Lancaster Ny 7 th Sept. 1835
Sir.
The widow of Benjamin Sutton deceased cannot obtain the balance of the Pension due at the time of her husband's death. I enclose you the papers upon which you will see the agents - memorandum - I once applied to you for a Duplicate Certificate presenting at the same time affavits of the loss of the original & understood from your letter of the day of May 1834 that the money could be had at Lexington without the Duplicate, or at any rate you said nothing about the necessity of obtaining one but enclosed me a form to draw the amount due. will you be good enough to send me such instructions as may necessary together with a Duplicate R.P. Fletcher

State of Kentucky Jefferson County set
Before me John Downing a justice of the peace in and for said County and State aforesaid, personally appeared, this 9 th day of November 1829 Joshua Hudson of the County and State aforesaid, who did make Oath, that Benjamin Sutton was an acquaintance of his . We were raised boys together in the same neighbourhood, and also were school mates, that after the Revolutionary War. took place, he the said Benjamin Sutton enlisted, as a soldier in said War for three years in the Continental Virginia line, under Captain Gabriel Long's Company, he further states that the said Benjamin Sutton served the said three years in said War, faithfully, and after his return to his from the bosom of his friends, that in March 1781. he was drafted for 18 months to fill up the deficiency in the Continental line, the said Benjamin Sutton found a substitute, who served during said 18 months - Witness my hand this 9 th day of November 1829. John Downing J.P.
State of Kentucky for Jefferson County set
I Daniel H. Price clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Downing, before whom the

The foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time a justice of the peace in and for Jefferson County and duly empowered to administer oaths,
In Testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand this 9 th day of November 1829.
Dan. P. Price clk

Joshua Henderson an aged man, being duly sworn on his oath deposeth and saith, that he was well acquainted with Benjamin Sutton from his boyhood that said Benjamin Sutton was enlisted in the regular army under Lieutenant Philip Slaughter of Culpeper County Virginia, about the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and continued in the service for and after that time for the space of three years that said Benjamin Sutton intermarried with Mary Arnold (with whom this affiant was well acquainted in said County of Culpeper some time in the fall or Winter of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty (AD 1780) he thinks in the month of December of that year; that in the spring of the following year, he thinks in the month of May Seventeen hundred and eighty one, said Benjamin Sutton was drafted to perform a tour of militia duty in Colonel Alcock's regiment in Culpeper County Virginia, and served in said Regiment for three months from and after that time, the name of the captain in the said regiment when the said tour began this affiant does not now remember, but Captain Green took the command shortly after said regiment was drafted, and continued in command thereof until the same was disbanded, which was about the first of August (AD 1781) and that Nathaniel Welch was Major, and Morgan Wright, orderly sergeant in said Regiment, this affiant recollects this tour distinctly being himself drafted about the same time that said Benjamin Sutton was

in the said Regiment, and having served with him said Benj. Sutton during the said "tour of militia duty," which this affiant well recollects he then considered a three months' tour -
# And the said Joshua Hudson on his oath aforesaid further deposeth and saith that William Bourne was drafted in Colonel Alcock's Regiment (so called) and served and performed therein the same tour of duty which he has before stated was performed by said Benjamin Sutton and this affiant - and that he said Bourne was married to Margaret Hawkins in Culpeper County Virginia some time in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty two. (1782)
And the said Joshua Hudson on his oath aforesaid further deposeth and saith that Benjamin Hudson his younger brother was hired and served as a substitute for himself in the regular (Army) in the Regiment drafted by Col. Patten, from the 19 th day of March (Seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781) until about the first of November, being as this affiant well recollects at least eight months, & that his said brother Benjamin Hudson intermarried with Semina Perry some time in the Summer of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five (1785).
And further this Affiant Saith Joshua Hudson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18 th day of February 1839. M. J. Rogers J. Peace.

State of Missouri } County of Pike } The foregoing deposition of Joshua Hudson of the county and state aforesaid, an aged man, was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me at his residence in said county and I certify that I believe him to be a man of good moral character and a man of truth and veracity. Given under my hand as a Justice of the peace within and for the county and state aforesaid this 18 th day of January 1839. W. S. Rogers J. Peace
State of Missouri } County of Pike } I Michael S. Rogers the Clerk of the county court within and for said county of Pike, certify that W. S. Rogers whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is and at the date of his said certificate was a Justice of the peace within and for said county of Pike, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, that his sig- nature purporting to be his is genuine, that good faith and full credit are due and are and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, as well in courts of record as elsewhere. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af- fixed the seal of said court at office this 18 th day of January in the year of our Lord 1839. W. S. Rogers, Clerk.
Decharges - to wit - Justice travelling fees 1.00 signing & certifying 25 Oath to affiant 06 1/4 Clerks certificate seal 50 $1.81 1/4