Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6191, for John Tate, Virginia

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Pate, John
S. 6191
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Dead. See letter to B. 14. 1836 -
Virginia
John Tate - - - -
of Botetourt - in the State of Va:
who was a M t : in the - - - - commanded
by Captain - - - of the Reg t commanded
by Col. - - - in the Va
time for 14 days -
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Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 24 - Dollars 55 - Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of March 1833 - and since to 10 - 11 - Bowyer. Lynchburg - Va
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 49.10 Semi-ant. allowance ending - Sept - - 12.27 61.37
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk Book 6 Vol. 6 Page 28 -

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Mo. State
Admnl for 7 mo and 14 days by purchase - piano 777 - 24,55 Col Lee. M. A.  5, 11, Int 5.7-
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H. W. Boring Fincastle va
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John Tate  BRIEF in the case of  County of Botetourt  in the State of  Virginia  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71  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 vol. not stated " 111 private Gen. Col. Patrick Buchanan   May 1778 or 79 vol. about 2 months " " Tate   1781 vol. " 2/3 " " in May May Rowland   Aug st 1781 upwards of 3 months " Gen. Green Col. Lee   7, 14 d. Capt. D. May  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? York  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Augusta Co. Va.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. W. W. W.
Examining Clerk.

Virginia
At a Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery held at the Court house for the County of Botetourt on Friday the 7 th day of September 1832 —
On this 7 th day of September in the year 1832 — personally appeared in Open Court before the Hon ble Allen Taylor Judge of the Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the County of Botetourt John Tate aged Twenty one years and being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 7 th day of June 1832 — That he was born in the County of Augusta on the 6 th day of August in the year 1761 — in the year 1777 he served as a private in a Volunteer expedition which went from Staunton in the County of Augusta under the Command of Captain Patrick Buchanan & Thomas Smith against a Body of Tories who had assembled in the Vicinity of the Peaks Mountain about Thirty Miles below Staunton the leaders of the Party were Captured and lodged in Jail and the residue of them dispersed, on the Month of May 1778 or 1779 the Indians from the Western Side of the Ohio came in a large body against the Inhabitants of Greenbrier and made an attack upon Donnelly's Fort information of it was sent to Augusta and three companies commanded by Captains James Tate Patrick Buchanan and Francis Lang were ordered to their assistance this Affiant again volunteered and Marched in Tate's company the three Companies encamped at the Savannah Fort which stood where the Town of Lewisburg now is, there they remained for about one month when they were discharged and returned home, this Affiant received a discharge from Capt n Tate which has been lost or mislaid — In the year 1780 he removed with his father to the County of Botetourt where he has resided ever since — Lord Cornwallis having made very active exertions to take the prisoners taken at the Battle of the Cowpens
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in January 1781 a requisition was made on the County of Botetourt for Militia Captain - May, John Cartwright, Matthew Wilson, Holston Butler were ordered into service a heavy draft was made and this officer volunteered in Mays Company each man was directed to provide himself with a good horse and six days provision the Detachment was placed under the Command of Maj Thomas Rowland and marched in a Southern direction until it crossed the Dan River then the horses were sent home and the Detachment soon after joined the Army under the Command of General Green at a place called Allumance on a branch of Haw River the army had a skirmish with the British where several men were killed belonging to Mays Company the detachment to which this officer belonged and the Cavalry under the Command of Col. Lee were sent to bring on the action a few days after this General Campbell of Washington County Virginia joined Genl Green with about men, on the morning of the Junction a Battle was fought at the Reedy fork of Haw River when Captain May and all the officers of Company and all his men, except myself and thirteen others, left the field of Battle and came home this officer remained with the Army which encamped at Spotsylvania Iron Works in North Carolina the next day after the fight Capt. James Tate and Capt. Smith from Augusta County in Virginia joined the Army with their Companies my friends from Augusta wished me to join them I declined doing so and in a few days afterwards returned home. This officer states that he was in service on this occasion about three months as well as he now recollects. In the latter part of July or August in the Year 1781 he again volunteered as a private in Capt. David Mays Company and marched from Boyer Ferry now the Town of Petersburg in Botetourt County to York Town in Virginia and remained there in service

during the whole of the Siege after the Surrender of Cornwallis he near went with the Prisoners to the Barracks in Winchester where he was discharged - He received a written discharge signed he thinks by William Estlin or Estill a Lieutenant of the Company which has been lost the discharge was dated in November 1781 on this Town he served upwards of three months he has no documentary evidence of his service and does not at this time know of any person living in this part of the Country who is acquainted with the fact of his having served except Henry Cartmell and John Hewett both of whom served with him at York Town - he hereby extinguishes 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 and subscribed in open Court - Signed John Tate
We Henry Cartmell James Buckridge John Hewett residing in the County of Botetourt do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Tate who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age and that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides as having been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion - The said Henry Cartmell and John Hewett further state that they served at the siege of York Town with said John Tate and marched from Botetourt County with him and the said James Buckridge states that he has known the said Tate for upwards of forty years and that he believes him to be a man of undoubted veracity - Sworn
Subscribed in open Court Signed Henry Cartmell James Buckridge John Hewett

And the Judge of the said Court doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after setting the interrogatories presented 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 him that Henry Conner and James Brackridge and John Hewitt who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents of the County of Botetourt and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit - and further that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the applicant - and the Judge of this Court further states that he has known the above named John Tate for many years that he believes him to be a man of undoubted veracity and has the fullest confidence in what he has stated all which is ordered to be certified -
Virginia Botetourt County to wit
I Henry M Bawyer Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery for said County of Botetourt do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Tate for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of the office of which I am the Clerk this the 15 th day of September 1832 in the 57 th year of the Common-
J. H. Bawyer CLK
Copy Bawyer A. H.

October 7, 1935
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BA-J/MCS John Tate, S. 6191
Miss Minnie Robertson 405 Hill Crest Avenue Macon, Georgia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Robert Bean, William Howard and John Tate and the record of a John Crawford who served as lieutenant during the War of 1812.
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension based upon the military service of soldiers in these wars. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of Revolutionary War services of a William Howard who enlisted from Virginia or of any Robert Bean, or on account of the War of 1812 service of a John Crawford who served as a lieutenant.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 6191, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Tate, the only soldier of that name who enlisted from Virginia that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
John Tate was born August 6, 1761, in Augusta County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Augusta County, he enlisted and served as private with the Virginia troops as follows: In 1777 he served about two weeks under Captain Patrick Buchanan and marched from Staunton to Peaked Mountain in pursuit of the Tories; from May 1778 or 1779 he served about two months under Captain James Tate (relationship not given) and was stationed at Savannah Fort. In 1780 he moved with his father to Botetourt County, Virginia, where he enlisted in January, 1781, and served about three months as private in Captain May's company under Major Thomas Rowland and was in a skirmish at Allamance and in the battle of Reedy Fork of Haw River. He enlisted in July or August, 1781, and served about three

months as private in Captain May's Virginia company and he marched to Yorktown where he remained through the siege and after the surrender he guarded prisoners to Winchester Barracks.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 7, 1832, at which time he was living in Botetourt County, Virginia.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to wife and children of the soldier.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of John Tate, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing the following data:
John Tate, Certificate 12105, issued March 25, 1833, rate $24.55 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Virginia Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Virginia
Botetourt County Va
Personally appeared be- fore me a justice of the peace for said county John Tate, who made a declara- tion in the Superior Court of Law & Chan- cery for Botetourt, county on the 7 th day of Septem- ber 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed on the 7 th day of June 1832, and being first & duly sworn, depos- eth and saith, That by reason of his advan- ced age, and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served as follows, viz On the expedition to the Peaked Mountain not less than two weeks, on the expe- dition to the Savannah Fort, against the Indians, not less than two months, The affiant in his declaration has stated that he remained at the Fort about one month on further reflection he believes he was detained two months, he is confident that his whole period of service on that occasion was not less than two months

4664 3 On the expedition to the South under Capt May he served not less than three months. To York Town upwards of three months as stated in his declaration. This affiant believes that he served for greater length of time than is stated above but he prefers taking the shortest period. He hereby re- linquishes all claims to a pension un- on any law of the United States except that passed on the 7th day of June 1832 and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state. In Witness where- of I have hereto set my hand this 13 day of February 1833
Isaac Russell
Butler County Pa
This day Absalom Dewey my made oath before me a justice of the peace for said county that he is acquainted with above named John Tate and believes him to be a man of integrity and veracity. That he lives more than eleven miles from the resi- dence of said Tate and is not acquainted with the reputation of the neighborhood as to his revolutionary services, so far as he states that he is a clergyman in regu- lar communion with the Baptists & Church Given under my hand this 13 day of Feb- ruary 1833
Isaac Russell

OFFICE OF Consulting Physician,
R. N. MAYFIELD, M. D.
Ex. Surgeon Union Pacific Railway System. Major and Surgeon, First Regiment, N. G. C. (retired) Ex. President of the Colo. State Board of Medical Examiners. Late Lecturer on Pathology, Hygiene and Clinical Medicine University of Colo.
Dr. KOCH'S SANITARIUM,
INCORPORATED.
119 WEST 22d STREET,
New York City, Dec 6 1901
War Records + Pensions
My G. G. G. Father John Tate born 1743. Served in Revolutionary war.
Could you give me any information in regard to him. He died, died Dec. 15. 1828 Russell Co. Va. Kindly oblige.
Yours truly.
Born 1743.
R. N. Mayfield 119 W 22d St N.Y.C.

Richm? V: 12 Oct. 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I enclose the Pension claim of John Tate of Paterson City, which was applied for some time ago, but not paid at the agency here. Because 90 days had expired before it was paid, & before any steps could be taken to obviate that difficulty, he died (about the last of August) and the agent still says it can't be paid without your authority — if this be paid, it will dispense the necessity of administering on his estate to distribute it, & I hope you will feel authorized & inclined to direct the agent here to settle it, as no fraud exists about the matter, as alleged — I shall be glad to hear from you at your convenience & am,
Most Respectfully Sir John Abbott
Bernard Beyle

Rev. War
6191 INVALID.
File No. 6191
John Gate Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: — Vol. M , Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Nov. 6-1909 Romaine Braden Irvington Ind.
Dec. 31-1909
Dr. R. N. Mayfield - N.Y. City
1914 July 27. Hist. to John N. McClellan
1935 Oct. 7 Hist. to Miss Winifred Robertson

Virginia
Botetourt County
I Henry W Bowyer Clerk of the County Court of Botetourt do hereby Certify that Jacob Rudinell Gent n whose name is attached to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Botetourt duly Commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and Credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my said office this 15 th day of February 1833 In the 57 th year of the Common th
H W Bowyer (Clerk)

Macon Ga 405 Hill Crest Ave
Pension administration Wash, D.C.
Dear sir,
In Sumner's History of S. West Va., William Howard , John Tate, & Robert Bean are listed as Rev. soldiers & in the battle of King's Mountain, N.C. I am sure this is my William as 2 generations later we had a John Tate Howard in the family - also an Elizabeth Bean, who married a Howard. Will you please see if you have a William Howard whom this description will fit especially as regards the battle of King's Mt.
also please send me this record (pension) Jno. Crawford, Lt. in Officers of 1812

Militia 1812-13 in 105th Reg. John Preston Col. "
Thanking you very much Miss Minnie Robertson.

Box 101.
Crystal City, Mo.
15, July 1914
To the Commissioner-
Bureau of Pensions: Dept. of Interior.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly advise me of the war record (Revolutionary) of:
no genealogy no genealogy no genealogy Q (1) Capt. James Tate, commanded Company from Augusta county Va. under Gen. Green. Fell at Guilford Courthouse, 15, Mar. 1781; m Sara Hall (dau Edward Hall and Eleanor Stuart); was son of John Tate and Mary Campbell? Q (2) Gen. Wm. Tate of Washington county Va. (bro above); m Nancy Mitchell of Southwest Va. Participated in battle of Point Brandywine and others. Elected to House of Delegates 1861.
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(3) John Tate of Augusta county, Va. (bro. of above) b 6, Aug. 1761, Augusta county, Va. In 1777 volunteered under Capt. Pat Buchanan and Capt. Thos. Smith. In 1779 under Capt. Jas. Tate. Discharge signed by Wallace Estell, Lieut.; m Miss Luke? Q (4) Thos. Tate, bro above. Removed to Botetourt co. Va., where he probably died; M Oct. 1764, Jane Campbell. Q (5) Capt. Thos. Smith (above mentioned) (see p 281 Annals Augusta co. Va. - Waddell ); was called out to reinforce Gen. Greene in N. C. Later was promoted to "Major." b 1744; d 1805?. Q (6) Lieut. Jas. Steele of Augusta county Va. b circa 1735; d 1802? m 1765, Sara Wright. In 1777 he and Wm. Kincaide marched from Staunton, Va. with a company to a blockhouse on the west fork of the Monongahelia.
Thanking you in advance for the information, Yours very respt.
I am
Jno. N. Milne
Miscel. neg for others. &

July 27. 1914.
Mr. John N. McCue, Box 101, Crystal City, Missouri.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 15 th instant, you are advised that the papers in claim, Sur. File No. 6191. Rev. War. show that John Tate was allowed pension on his application executed September 7, 1832, while a resident of Botetourt County, Virginia.
He stated that he was born August 6, 1761. in Augusta County, Virginia. and served in the Revolutionary War as follows.
Volunteered in 1777. as Private under Captain Patrick Buchanan and Thomas Smith. marched from Staunton to Peaked Mountain in pursuit of Tories, and served 2 weeks.
Volunteered in May 1778 or 1779. under Captain James Tate, and was stationed at Savannah Fort. 2 months.
Volunteered in January 1781. Captain May's company, Botetourt County Militia, under Major Thomas Rowland. had a skirmish at Allamance and battle of Reedy Fork of Haw River and served 3 months.
Volunteered last of July or August 1781. Private in

Captain David May's company. marched to Yorktown, Virginia. where he remained through the siege. and after the surrender guarded prisoners to Winchester Barracks- discharged Novem- ber 17 1781; 3 months.
It is further stated that he died about the last of August. 1836.
There is no family data on file.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

B. Peyton, Va
Actr 14-1836
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Recora (36) pag. 273

War Dept
Pension Office.
Oct 14. 1836
Sir,
I cannot order payment to be made on the enclosed vouchers in the case of John Tate, dec d . No suspicion whatever is attached to the papers: but the rules in regard to such claims are imperative. If the Agent for paying Pensions, or the Commissioner of Pensions, knows that a Pensioner is dead, it is his duty to cease all further payment until the widow or children, as the case may be, make the proper application for the balance due: and if there be neither widow nor child, then the amount must be paid to the executor or administrator.
Bernard Peyton, Esq r Richmond Va.