Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9478, for George Shearman, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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Shearman, George
S. 9478
CONTENTS
Carleah

acts to Hon. Lina Banks & 3 an dition 27 Decr 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the acts of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March 1831. to 4 March 1838 Age notified 121 Jany 1839.
Paid as above from 4 March 1838 to 4 Sept 1838. Age notified 7 Aug 1839
Paid as above from 4 March 1839 to 4 March 1840. Age Notified 8 th Decr 1840
Virginia D.B. CHC
George Shearman of Orange in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ by Col. Payler in the _____ time for 8 months & 3 days
Reduced from $100
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 27 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of May 1836 and sent to Hon. J. M. Patten House of Rep.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $135.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1836 13.50 $148.50
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by M. Addison Clerk Book _____ Vol. 672 Page 33

No. 386
George Shearman
Adm'd as a private 12m. $40.
Reynold Chapman U.S. Army Co. C Va

State of Virginia, Orange County to wit
On this 24 th day of June 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the justices of the county court of Orange now sitting, George Shearman a resident of the county of Orange and State of Virginia, aged seventy one 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 act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832; That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated , first he served a tour for one month, as a substitute for his father Martin Shearman deceased at the barracks in Albemarle county Virginia under Capt James Burton, and a tour of one month at the same place as a substitute for John Hunter, both of which was in the year 1780, Capt Hudson Marks was stationed there at the same time, and Col Francis Taylor commanded, after serving the two months he returned home in the winter of the same year, where he remained until April 1781. during the time he was a resident of the said county of Albemarle. He then  afterwards entered the army in the company of Capt. Bennett Henderson as a volunteer, of which William Estlin was the lieutenant, attached to the command of Col. Reuben Lindsay of the alternate Regiment, and marched from said county of Albemarle to Longbridge  to Longbridge & the field in the count of Spangler where they joined Col. Lawson's brigade , and marched Gen! Lawson's brigade, when they retreated to the upper part of the state, as high as Culpeper County, whence they followed the enemy somewhere in the neighbourhood of Hanover Court house, when he was engaged in a battle at a place called Hot Winter, after which the company of which he was a member was discharged, the time engaged therein being two months. He again immediately (having formed a determination to serve until the end of the war) volunteered and entered, as a private, the company of Capt. John Henderson, in which Francis Walker was a Lieutenant, it being in the latter part of June or 1 st of July 1781, and marched thence to James town and was in the battle at that place, during which he received a wound from a bayonet, they then marched to Malvern hills where Capt. John Henderson left the service. He was then placed under the command of Capt. William Estlin, who was his former lieutenant, at which time Micajah Clarke was the lieutenant, Col's William Campbell & Reuben Murray were field officers. They then marched from thence to the siege of York, where he was engaged until after the capture of Cornwall and his army, remaining there two weeks after the said capture, expecting during the time to march under Gen! Morgan to the south after which he returned home. He was with Morgan ten days or thereabouts, he near Gen! Matthews, Lafayette, and Steuben. During the whole of his service

which was eight months, he acted in the character of a private. He has no documentary evidence to prove his service, having taken no care of his discharge, not thinking that they could be of any service to him, and they having been long since lost or destroyed, and he knows of no person or persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify as to his service. He was born in the county of Lancaster Virginia in the year 1762. There was a record of his age taken, which was left in the possession of his sister many years ago, who moved to the county of Frederick and has since died, and whether it is still preserved or not, and by whom if preserved he knows not. When he was about twelve years of age his father moved to the county of Augusta in this state, from whence after about three years, he moved to the county of Albemarle, where he finished, when he first entered the service. He lived in that county until sometime after the war of the revolution, and then moved to this county where he now lives. He has known Robert Williams, Joseph Stephens, George Stephens, & Thomas Sorville.
Who live and have lived within his neighbourhood, and within ten, fifteen and twenty miles of him, who can testify as to his character for veracity, and can state their belief as well as that of the neighbourhood as to his service 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 to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
George Shearmore
We George W.S. Harper a clergyman residing in the county of Louisa Virginia and Thomas Sorville — residing in the county of Orange and state of Virginia hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with George Shearmore, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is respected and beloved, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
George W.S. Harper Thos Sorville
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting 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 them, that George W. S. Har- per who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the county of Louisa Virginia, and that Thomas Corville who has also signed the same, is a resident in the county of Orange and State of Virginia and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Reynolds Chapman, Clerk of the county Court of Orange, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of George Shearman for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the county Court of Orange this twenty eighth day of June 1833.
Reynolds Chapman

Reuben
9478
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File No. 9478
George A. Warren
8011 New York
Act: June 7th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Virginia 23.040-
Let Jan'y 6. 1836. A. G.
" " " " " Panama
George Sheppard of Orange - in the State of Va.
who was a British in the — commanded
by Captain _____ of the Regt - commanded
by Col. Sanborn in the Re-
line for 1 st  December - 1910
End; 3 a.m.
Should be $27.00 $27.
Issue new cert. for above amt.
Subscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 5 10 Dollars — — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Oct 33.
and Mr. Reynold Chapman. A large C/O. on
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1873 100
Semi-ant. allowance ending L near 34 20
120-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Watt: Fife Clerk,
Book C Vol. 5 1/2 Page 32

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 25 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," George Sherman, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Seven Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1838, to the 4 th Sept., 1838,
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson B. Parise Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 1 st , 1839
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," George Shearman, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Virginia Agency, at the rate of Twenty seven Dollars and ( reduced rate ) each per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid (the balance due 29.00) at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1831, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson E. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 5 th , 1840.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," George Sherman, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Seven Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1839, to the 4 th March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion P. Parker Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Payments to be made at Richmond by the Fr. U.S. Br. Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers in the Agency of C a
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 6 in Page 32 by Cath. Rice Clerk.
m Paxton H. J. D. Potter N.R.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, George Shearman of the state of Virginia who was a private in the army of the revolution is entitled to receive Forty dollars and — cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 29 th day of October - one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
J. P. Kirtland Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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