Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4817, for William Sturdivant, Virginia

SERVICE
1/2.
Sturdivant, William Elizabeth
NUMBER _____
No. 4817
CONTENTS

6088
N. Carolina
Elizabeth Sturdivant widow of William Sturdivant Va who was a Private in the Va Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9. day of Sep. 1844 and sent to
C. Busbee, Raleigh NC
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A June 17. 1844
Vol. 1 Page 205
Sent to Pension Agt 18 March '45
repd

Wm Sturdivant and Elizabeth Denton was married the 1 of January 1784 Sally Sturdivant the Daughter of Wm and Elizabeth Sturdivant was Born the 20 of Sept 1786 Rebecca Sturdivant the Daughter of Wm and Elizabeth Sturdivant was Born February 20 th 1786 Albin Sturdivant the son of Wm and Elizabeth Sturdivant was born the 20 of April 1788 - Susannah Sturdivant the Daughter of Wm and Elizabeth Sturdivant was Born the 6 th March 1790 - Nancy Sturdivant the Daughter of Wm and Elizabeth Sturdivant was Born the 17 th of June 1792 -

N 3799
Elizabeth Sturdivant widow of Mr. J. M. Kanchia
1860

State of NC } I Johnson Dasher do hereby certify that Wake County } I am well acquainted with Hollow Burdiant and have for the last forty years that he is a man of fair character & respectable standing in society Given under my hand & seal 8 th Sept 1838
J. Dasher
State of North Carolina Wake County
I Alfred Williams Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid, do hereby certify that Johnson Dasher whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate & declaration is now and was at the time thereof an acting justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned & qualified as such, and that his signature is in his own proper hand writing.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name at Office in Raleigh this 7 th day of September 1838
A. Williams Clerk of the Court of Wake County

State of North Carolina Wake County
On this 4 th Sept 1888 personally appeared before me Johnson Beulca
one of the Justices of the peace for said county Hollow Stewardant of the County and State aforesaid, aged about seventy eight years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on oath depose and say, that William Stewardant an older Brother of his enlisted as a private in the service of the United in the Revolutionary war for two years under William Wagon- burg, at the end of the time he come home and staid but a few weeks before he entered the service for two year more and if I mistake not the second time he was taken a prisoner at Charlestown S.C. and brought to Williamsburg Virginia and exchanged he then come home, staid but a few weeks and enlisted the third time under Col. Perkins for three years on the end of the war, and staid until the end of the war he was in the battle at Princeton, Germantown, Brandywine, Charlestown S.C. and Little York & many other battles (he said) he served seven years believe faithfully, I think he served one time under Capt. Walts, he was raised in Sursex County Virginia and married there to Elizabeth Denton in the year of 1788 or 1789 and then moved to Wake Co. N.C. in 1788 and died within the Gravel in Wake Co. N.C. in 1826, he left a widow and four children his widow still living and is afflicted with pains & has not walked in four years she has never married since her husband died, I have lived by her for the fifty years and went with my Brother to get married, sworn and subscribed to before me
Just J. Busbee J.P.
Hollom his Stewardant mark
intended before signed Johnson

State of North Carolina } On this 6 th day of September 1838 Wake County } personally appeared before me Johnson Busbee one of the justices of the peace for said County, Elizabeth Sturdivent of the County and State aforesaid aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following de- -claration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 that she is the Widow of William Sturdivent dec d who was a private in the Mils. Co. in the revolutionary war. I have always understood that he served seven years and was in many battles, also marched from Tarenton to Georgia and has by him four children that is now living their ages is fifty two, fifty, forty eight & forty six years she further declares that she was married to said William Sturdivent about the first of January seventeen hundred and eighty four and that she has never married since and that her husband died 31 st May 1826 with the gravel she further saith that she married in Sussex County Virginia and that the accompanying Card is the only paper that she has in her possession that has any reference to his services. She saith further that she has been afflicted for four years and is not able to get out of the house.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the year and date above written.
J. Busbee
Elizabeth her Sturdivent mark
State of N.C. } I, Johnson Busbee do hereby certify that I am well Wake County } acquainted with Elizabeth Sturdivent and have been for forty years that she is a respectable Woman and a woman of Truth, and I further certify that she has been afflicted for the last four years & not able to get out of her house given under my hand and seal 6 th Sept 1838
J. Busbee (Seal)

State of North Carolina
This day personally appeared Allen Sturdivant before me R. M. Saunders, Judge of the Superior Court of Law in said State & being duly sworn according to law - says he is the son of William Sturdivant now deceased - that about twenty three years ago he copied from the family Bible of his Father the age of his children - that from this copy he took the copy which has been sent to the Pension office, with the papers of Elizabeth Sturdivant & that said copy is a true transcript from the original written in the Bible to the best of his recollections - given to this 15 th - 7 mo. 1859. Allen Sturdivant
R. M. Saunders Judge S. C. L.
No. Wake Co. 16 th Nov 1859.
Dear Sir, I would of got the gov t sent & certificate to Judge Saunders signature but it is already to one of the papers.
Yours truly. J. B. Saunders

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
W.F. 4817
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of William Sturdivant 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.     Greater part of Rev. War Pvt. William Massenburg Wales James Pa.   He was taken prisoner at Charleston, & exchanged at Williamsburg Va. Sept 8 May  
Battles engaged in, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown and Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sussex Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Sept 6. 1838. He el. was al.
Residence at date of application, Wake Co. N.C.
Age at date of application, She was 85 years old.
Remarks: He was born Jan'y 1. 1784 in Sussex Co. Va. Elizabeth Denton and died May 31. 1826 in Wake Co. N.C. She died about the year 1847 in Wake Co. N.C. Children: Sally born Sept. 20. 1784. Rebekah b. Feb'y 20. 1786. Allen b. Apr. 20. 1788. Susannah b. Feb. 6. 1790. Nancy b. June 4. 1792. The only W m Sturdivant & c
Respectfully,
brother Hallam or Hollow Sturdivant
Commissioner.

15-65-2-1-1-1 The Beaver off ... Prisoner ... Belongs to THE EN GINEERS DEPART MENT. Full Name Full Name

No. _____
Name Wm. Sturdivant Rev. War.
Date May 31 1920 No. Wid. File H 817
Photographic copies wanted of 1 pieces, consisting of 2 pages.
Remarks:
McNiton Ext. Ms. A. 9. 2. 10 Chief Record Div.
2036
Serial
Law Clerk.

playing card photographed see receipt for payment re Samuel Sheffield 8 39 842

Wm Stewart a. 1826.
Elizabeth m. Jan. 1 1784. Ref used as a copy ex h . of all ch h . b h il h .
on roll cont h in y h ra.
On roll of W in March 1781

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental 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 19 th day of March 1783 , in the name of William Studdiment as a Soldier of Infantry for £53. 14. 4, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Col o D. Mason and was given for services prior to the 1 st January, 1782.
p 264.
{ No Seal of Office. }
See copy
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this
2 nd day of September 188 9.
A. M. Mason V. C. R. Auditor absent

Elizabeth Townsend 4785 in account with Mrs. N.C. Let to Tom R. Saunders June 10, 1839. Lots of Burhull Jan 29, 39 " " " 28 Oct. 39 Ltr. Nov. 6, 1839 - to ditto 20 Nov. 39 - blk board Super 60 N o 4 Dec 1839. J. Budoe - 24 April 1840

5488.
North Carolina
Elizabeth Sturdivant widow of William Sturdivant , die
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 31 May 1826 of Wake Co in the State of N. Caro. who was a private in the N. Car. commanded by Captain P. Pison of the commanded by in the W. Cont. time for 2 years.
Entered on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of June 1840 to for  Busbee Eddy Busbee's Store, Wake Co N.C. Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $ 320.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Oct 40 40.00 $360.00
} Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D.M. Gandy Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 189.

1917 Dec. 3 Hail. to Mrs. Elephonia Chiss 1920 May 2. Photostat of plough card furnished Dr. S. King 2235 R. St. Wash. D.C. (see re for payment in Samuel Shep 1839 etc.) cu
Rev. WIDOW, & Co.
File No. 4817
Eliz th Sturdivant
Wid.
W m Sturdivant
Wife Caroline
Act: March 3 rd June 17 th 1874
Index: — Vol. 86 Page 240
[Arrangement of 1870.]

North Carolina Wake County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions May Term 1840.
Samuel A. Smith of Wake County, age about sixty five his day appears in open court and maketh oath that he knew William and Elizabeth Sturdivant of said county previous to the year 1794, and thereafter also, till the death of the former, and that they lived together and were known as man and wife before and after that date.
Sworn & subscribed in      Samuel A. his Smith Open Court May 19 th 1840      marks
J. Price Clerk
North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Wake County } May Term 1840
Be it remembered that at a County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions begun

and held for the County of Wake, at the Court House in Raleigh on the third Monday in May A.D. 1840 that Samuel A. Smith appeared in open Court and made oath to the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit.
I further certify that Woodham Price is one of the Justices of said County and presiding Magistrate Pro tempore of the Court aforesaid.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court at its sitting at my hands at Office in Raleigh this 19 th day of May 1840 A. Williams C.C.
Attest my hand and seal this 19 th day of May 1840

Boston Star 23 May
May 26. 1870
J.C. Good proof Eliz. Stanton
Free
L. S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
1870

No 6 Wake County 22 nd May 1940
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir you have herewith the proof required, & if I am not allotted you have the evidence of William Standivant brother of Mrs. proving the marriage 1 st May 1754. Yours very respectfully J. Busbee

Elizabeth Hudson Mrs of William
NC
6 Oct 1842

State of North Carolina Wake County 3 August 1854
W m Allen Sturdivant the undersigned son of William Sturdivant and his wife Elizabeth do hereby certify that my said Father was a Soldier during the greater part of the Revolutionary war and my said Mother who received a very small pension up to her death from the County of Wake and State of North Carolina and the undersigned believing an increased still is due as heavily constitute and empower J. C. Ames Attorney with full power to examine his said mother's papers in Washington City and collect whatever may be due he further certifies that his said Mother died about the date 1847 in the County of Wake North Carolina.
Allen Sturdivant
I Johnson Braly a Justice of the peace in & for said County do hereby certify that W m Allen Sturdivant this day acknowledged the foregoing power before me for the purposes and consideration therein expressed this the day stated above

State of North Carolina
Wake County } Thomas J. Utley clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid do certify that J. Busbee whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature pur- porting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at office in Raleigh the 4 th day of August A.D. 1884
Thomas J. Utley clerk
Elizabeth Hudson Mrs. J. McLean N.C.
G.C. Myers

Bush's Store,
Wake 6 th April 1840
L.S. Edward Jr
Dear Sir,
Elizabeth Sturdivant request me to write you to know if her claim is allowed & if not what further proofs is necessary. as for myself I am not interested in the courts either directly or indirectly, but will say if there ever was a best claim this is one (so says Lodge Sanders) for fear you may think I am forward in this business & you not knowing me, I will refer you to our Delegation in Bangor, who mostly know me & I am acquainted with all of them & they are or have been with me yours respectfully, J. Bussey

after 21. Mar
Free
Am. J. P. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
wise
with 12m

Buckley's Store No 157 State
1. Dubuc P. H.
fall
Nov 19
Mr. Lyle
J. L. Edwards Esq George Wm Crump Esq War Department Pension Office Washington City D.C.

No 10 Wake St 16 th Nov 1839.
George Van Grafton Esq
Dear Sir inclosed is the birth certificate asked for in your note, which I hope will answer yours respectfully
J. Burkin
J. L. Edwards, or Geo Van Grafton } Esq

Slaterant Nl
Burkin Stree No 2 floor
124
now's
H. L. Edwards Esq
N
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
Dis

Nov 10th 1939
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir in close the paper that Judge Sanderson had before him & also Post & myself when took 160 pages of. I was present when Hon R. H. Sanderson was there & see the paper now don't know it to be the same.
I think the old Lady needs it but whether she will live to read the language or not is very doubtful.
Yours respectfully
J. B. Bick

2 not
Burden's Store Hake 60 N 17 W
Isle
Nov 29.
R.C. Geo. H. Co. 2nd trip Ev on J.L. Edwards En Com of Pensions Washington City

No Wake 64 27 th Nov. 1838.
Geo. M c Cracken
Yours of 20 th is recd. and in answer have to say that the copy taken some twenty years since became so mutilated & worn out that Allen Sturdivant took a copy of the original copy about five or 6 years ago and destroyed or lost the first copy spoken of in his affidavit and the one you have is the oldest in existence.
The family got me to take a copy of the one sent before it was sent which is the only one they have.
I have no doubt from my acquaintance with the family that all the statements is correct & that the widow is as much intitled to a pension as any in the U. S.
Allen Sturdivant is the only one of the family that can write, I live by them know them all and am about the age of their oldest child.
Yours at humble servt.
J. B. Burch

Atlantic Iowa Nov 26 th / 1914 Rev
There are a number men of Ladies in Town who are eligible to the Daughters of the Revolution they are thinking of starting a chapter, would like some information they asked me to write you in regard to myself. My Maelin name was Stuolyn in they spell it different-ways. (Stuolyn in Stuart) My Grandfathers people were from Virginia his name was William Stuolyn My Father was from Ohio his name was Stephen Stu... also my Great Grandfather, name was William Stuolyn in, if it will not be too much trouble to you would like to have you do what you could in the way of looking it up, yours with respect
Mrs Sophronia Childs Atlantic Iowa
504 Chestnut St -

Mr. Dyl Suburban 6400 3rd or Wall Street Oct. 13. 3
Geo. Wm. Crump Esq. Acting Commissioner of Pensions Washington
Quinn

Clerk's Office of Super County Court Sister Capt. Dec. 12. 1839
Sir
I have examined the Records of this Office for the years 1783 and 1784 agreeably to your request of the 4 th inst. and find no record of the marriage of William Sturdivant and Elizabeth his wife, nor any marriage bond.
I find a Return by John Meglame on record of the marriage of Thomas Sturdivant and Elizabeth Knight on the 2 nd of December 1784.
I am Very Respectfully In Obedience L. Gannet
Geo. W. Crump Esq. Acting Com d of Pensioners City of Washington.

3799 4785 Elizabeth Skirdivant
Wid of William
NE
Act July 7. 1838
Maria 1784
died 31 1826
Allan $80 per ann
Valentine on roll
p 278
Dunloe Esq Bursier, Stone Wake 6° NE

Sept 10 Barnesville The 10 Sept nc ackn of Mrs. Sturtevant
Free
Edwards Commission of Portland Washington City D P
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]

66 Wake 69 10 th Sept 1939.
L. S. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir, Inclosed is a certificate of a part of the services of Mr. Sturdivant in the Virginia line. Mr. Sturdivant & a son H. A. Dufresne did apply for a pension under the Act of 1818 & was rejected on account of his having too much property at that time. (I think that was the cause) Dufresne was with Sturdivant 3 years as I have often heard him say. But Dufresne has been dead 12 years. You will please to attend to this & let me know if the old lady can get any thing. — for she needs it very much.
Yours truly, J. B. Buel
more to you W. H. H. H.
855

Busbee's Store, N.C. & Sept
Rec
(37199) Supt N.C. 4 July 1836.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Mr. Wm. B. Bunker Store 9 th Sept 1909
L. S. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir in close is the papers for my Statement after examining the same write the result to Bunker's Store N.W.
yours truly J. Bunker

1364
Aug 23 d 44.
113 ash 1844
N.C.
Mar 3 rd 1844 17 June 1844
Eliz. Stufleworth B
P
L. Edwards Acad. 1844 Com. Pensions W. N. City
Barbee Raleigh N.C.
[Faint mirrored text from the reverse side of the page]

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3 rd of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under the act of the 7 th July 1838
State of North Carolina Wake County
On this the 15 th day of August 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Wake Mrs Elizabeth Studivant Widow Resident of the County aforesaid aged about Ninety Two years Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on 3 rd of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to Widows of persons who served during the War of Revolution that she is the Widow of William Studivant who was a Private Soldier in the Revolutionary War that she received under the act of July the 7 th 1838 a pension at the Rate of Eighty Dollars per annum as the Widow of the aforesaid William Studivant and that she has remained a Widow ever since as will appear from proof heretofore afforded
Sworn to me subscribed the aff idavit of Elizabeth Studivant and year above written before me her  D. Park Rand J.P.

State of North Carolina } Wake County }
I Parker Rand an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Wake aforesaid do hereby certify that Mrs Elizabeth Hurdivant the Mistress of William Hurdivant - else is commonly known to me I further certify that she was a citizen of the United States under the acts of the 7 th July 1838 that she is free as Mistress and free from all debt and Credit may be given to her statement as aforesaid Given under my hand seal this 16 th day of August 1844
Parker Rand
State of North Carolina } Wake County } I James B. Merritt Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Wake aforesaid do hereby certify that Parker Rand is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature hereunto being to be his and genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court subscribed my name at office in Raleigh this 20 th August 1844
James B. Merritt

Wake 6:16 Mr L. L. Edwards sending you will receive with this Mr R. Sturdivant's application for our position which you will please to attend to yours respectfully
J. [unintelligible]
order L of 1863

V
4785
Elizabeth Sturdevant. widow of William
N. Carolina. Oct 7 July, 1838.
On roll Collins V p 278 ] 4785

THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Be it known that H. M. Saunders - whose signature appears in his own proper hand writing to the annexed Certificate -
was at the time of signing the same, and now is a Judge of the Sup r Court of Law & Equity of the State aforesaid, and as such he is duly qualified and empowered to give said Certificate - which is here done in the usual and proper manner, and full faith and credit are due to the same, and ought to be given to all the official acts of the said H. M. Saunders -
In testimony whereof, I,
Edw. B. Boddie
Governor, Captain General and Com- mander in Chief, have caused the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affix- ed, and signed the same at the City of Raleigh, on the 18 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three and in the 63 rd year of the Independence of the United States.
Edw. B. Boddie
By the Governor.
J. A. Isbell
Private Secretary.
For Fowle

State of North Carolina
Wake County - February 12 th 1889 -
On this day personally appeared before me Ran d Mc. Sacerdos a Judge of the Superior Court of Law & Equity in & for the County & State aforesaid - it being a Court of record - Elizabeth Studewant a resident of said County - & whom from age & infirmity I hereby certify is unable to attend any Court & I have therefor attended in person at her residence - who is represented herself & who appears to me to be Eighty four years of age - who being first duly sworn according to Law - doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 7 th July 1882 entitled an act grant- ing half pay to certain widows - That she is the widow of William Studewant who was a Common Soldier - and that she now states is what she has heard from her husband & which she believes to be true - that he was living in Fauquier County Virginia & enlisted as she understands as Capt. of Col. Me. Art. Battery - that she is not able to state his service - Tho' she well recollects she heard husband say he was taken a Prisoner at Charleston & held by the British captives - that he also spoke of being at Little Fork at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis - that her husband had a Brother by the name of William Studewant - whom statement has heretofore been taken & which statement she believes to be true - she remembers hearing him say he fought under an Col. - Bails - that he served altogether Seven years & was regularly enlisted - as he said he was Bacc

a Melinda name.
She further declares that she was married to the said William Steadman in Dupon County Virginia on the first day of January, Seventeen hundred & eighty four - that her husband the aforesaid William died on the last day of May 1896 - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the scene - but the marriage took place at the time aforesaid - as above stated January 1. 1784 - that the time of her marriage was not drawn in a family Bible but which has been since and - the said Bible is the one now here exhibited - that the memorandum here exhibited is a correct copy - as she believes & contains the correct date of all her children's births.
Sworn to & subscribed before Elizabeth Steadman - the date above mentioned - by the making of her mark -
R. M. Steadman
Rebecca Steadman - being sworn states - she is the daughter of Wm & Elizabeth Steadman - that the memorandum here exhibited has been kept by her - that she has seen the original entries in the family Bible - that the said memorandum contains the following entries - Wm Steadman and Elizabeth Steadman was married the 1 st of January 1784 - Sally born 20 Sept. 1784 - Rebecca born Feb. 20. 1786 - Allen - 20. April 1788 - Susannah 6. March 1790 - Nancy - 4 Jan 1792 - The foregoing are the children of the said Wm & Elizabeth - Sworn to & subscribed before me - R. M. Steadman

John an Boushe Esq. also being sworn before me - states - that he has known the said William & Elizabeth Steedward - since the year 1790 - that they lived within a mile of this residence - that the said William now dead - came to his house - after - that he reportedly heard him speak of his revolutions services - that he spoke of being at the battle of Germantown - Brandywine & Red Bank - that he was taken prisoner at Charles Town at York at the surrender - that he has also known Elizabeth & believes her to be near eighty years of age - that he has also seen the casket in the Bible - a copy of which is now exhibited - as well as the Bible - which has on leaf ten and - that he also knows the several children whose names are recited above - sworn to & subscribed. !Boushe before me -
R. M. Lawrence - J. P. C. & S. E.
Feb. 12 - 1839
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said J. Boushe Esq. - whose statement is recited above - & that full & entire credit is due to his statement as also to that of Rebecca Steedward - that the Bible & Paper has also been exhibited before me & is truly stated as above - Given under my hand the date above -
R. M. Lawrence