Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,122, John Bradberry, Penn. Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Bradberry, John
P. 1,122
Va.
CONTENTS
1

Ex'r.
INVALID.
REJECTED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1122.
P.O.
John Strawberry
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

John Bradberry Tennessee
Rejected
See let 27 Dec 1838 Hon E. J. Shields.
did not serve six months by order of competent authority
1/22 Act June 1832

W 34. 668 John Bradberry Terrepa
Wm. E. J. Sheff H. R.

State of Tennessee 385
This County 3 In the the 9 th day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the County Court of the County and state aforesaid now sitting at the Court house in the Town of Pulaski County and state aforesaid John Bradberry a resident of said County and state aged eighty eight (88) 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, That he first entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in Kentucky Heavartillery Company, he entered said Company some where on the Monongahela River in the state of Pennsylvania, but owing to his great age and infirmities of heart and mind he cannot recollect in what County in said state of Pennsylvania he joined said Company, nor can he recollect the precise time but believes said Company rendezvoused some time in 1776. or it is possible it might have been in the year 1777. he recollects said Company was attached to the Regiment under the Command of Col. Morgan and was much as a part of said Regiment to the western part of Pennsylvania or Virginia against the Indians and renegade Tories, he volunteered for six months, and during this tour of duty some prisoners were taken in the western part of Virginia or Pennsylvania, he recollects that he was one of the detachment sent to guard the prisoners on their march to a Town called Winchester in said State of Virginia, at said Town of Winchester the detachment was relieved, and sent from hence to their original rendezvous on the Monongahela, where at the expiration of their six months of service they were discharged, he received a regular discharge in writing from his Captain, which discharge has since been destroyed by having his house burnt down by fire, by the same accident he had two other discharges as burnt for services rendered in the army of United States after the services above mentioned.

Having his discharge  discharge  discharged  discharged as a result of the same accident he was  he was  discharged  discharged  from  from  the  the  army  army  of  of  the  the  United States  United States after the services above mentioned. This next tour of duty in the Army of the United States was in the year 1777, or early in the year 1778, he entered said service as a volunteer Twelve months man in Captain Mark Hearn's Company of Twelve months volunteers unless sooner discharged, he retired  retired in said state of Pennsylvania, but is unable to state the county of said state where said company rendezvoused, he states that he only served Eleven months on this tour, during the whole of which time he was engaged in active service as one of a detachment who were employed in packing flour on horses from a place called "Old Fort Cumberland" in said state of Pennsylvania to a Fort a short distance below the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers called "Fort Red Stick", he believes said last mentioned Fort was also in said state of Pennsylvania, at the expiration of Eleven months he was regularly discharged by his Captain Mark Hearn which said discharge was destroyed when his house was burnt as above stated. Some short time after his discharge as above stated he removed from Pennsylvania and settled in the County of Rockbridge, state of Virginia, in said County of Rockbridge, and state of Virginia he was drafted some time he believes in the year 1781, as a regular drafted Militia man for a tour of Three months duty, said Company drafted in said County of Rockbridge was under the Command of Captain Henry Walker and was attached to the Regiment under the Command of Col. Burrill, said Company and said Regiment was marched from said County of Rockbridge to Fort Smith in said state of Virginia, and stationed at said Fort until the expiration of their service, and was at said Fort discharged, he received a regular discharge from his Captain (Henry Walker) which was also burnt at the time his house was destroyed by fire, as above mentioned. Some time in the month of September or October 1781 he was again drafted in said County of Rockbridge and state of Virginia as a regular drafted Militia

man for another term of duty for three months, he collected his his second draft was but a few weeks before the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Little Yorktown, in said State of Virginia, in the last hour of duty he only served about 15 or 16 days and was under the same Captain (Henry Walker) and belong to the same Regiment still commanded by Col. Burville, after said Regiment had reach Danwoodg. Court house in said state of Virginia and its march to join the main army near Yorktown and under the command of General Washington, they were at said Court House met by an express from the main army with the news of the surrender of of Lord Cornwallis - Col Burville. Their commanding officer by the same express received orders to discharge his Regiment from service, he was in pursuance of said orders discharged at Danwoodg Court House. a few days after the surrender of Cornwallis, but did not receive any discharge in writing from any of his officers. This was his last service in the army of the United States, he shortly after his discharge returned to private life in the county of Macklenburg and state of Virginia. 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 in open court this the 7 th day of November 1838.
J. M. Bradberry Mark
State of Tennessee ss Giles County } We Philip Ball a clergyman residing in the county of Giles and State of Tennessee and Peachie Carpenter residing in the county and state aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bradberry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty eight years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier

State of Tennessee 355
Mark
Giles County 3 We Philip Ball a clergyman residing in the county of Giles and State of Tennessee, and Peabody Carpenter residing in the county and state aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bradberry who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty eight years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Philip Ball Peabody Carpenter
State of Tennessee
Giles County 3 Examination by the Court.
Question 1 st By the Court; - Where and in what year were you born -
Answer By the Applicant - I was born in the county of Amelia State of Virginia, in the year 1750
Question 2 nd By the same - Have you any record of your age; and if so where is it -
Answer By the same - I have no record of my age; my knowledge of my age I have derived from my family, I do not recollect ever to have seen any record of it, at any time -
Question 3 rd By the same, - Where were you living when called into the service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War; and where do you now live; -
Answer By the same - At the time I entered the service of the United States I lived on the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania, but before the close of the Revolutionary war I removed to the county of Mecklenburg State of Virginia, I think I moved to Mecklenburg county in Virginia in the latter part of the year 1779, or early in 1780. I lived in said county of Mecklenburg for nineteen years after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and in the year 1800 I moved to the county of Wilson State of Tennessee where I lived for Twenty Eight years and in 1828 moved from said county of Wilson to the county of Giles State of Tennessee where I have lived up to the present time.
Question 4 th By the same - How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute; and if a substitute for whom -
Answer By the same - In my first and second tours of duty I was a volunteer, and in my third and fourth tours of duty I was drafted as a regular drafted Militia man I never substituted myself during the war, but served as a volunteer and as a regular drafted Militia man, as stated above in my declaration.
Question 5 th By the same - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given - and what became of it -
Answer By the same, I received three regular discharges from the service

of the United States. Your first was from Captain Henderson under whom I had volunteered, and the last was when I was discharged at Fort Smith in the State of Virginia - and was from Captain Henry Walker, not being able to read writing. I am unable to state who signed my said discharges. They were all three burnt when my house was destroyed by fire, as above stated in my declaration. Question 6th - by the same - State the names of some of the Regular officers, who were with the Troops when you served such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Answer By the same - I have already stated the names of such officers as I can recollect and all the Regiments both Continental and Militia - that from great age and inability of mind and memory I am unable to recollect any other Regiments or officers of the Army. I have stated in my declaration such general circumstances of my services in the army of the United States as is in my power to recollect. Question 7th - by the same. State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer, By the same, John Walsford, John Simmons, Peahy Carpenter, William Wilson, James Henderson, William Brown, Philip Ball and John Seckey.
State of Tennessee } ss Hiles County } 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 soldier of the Revolutionary war, and served as he states, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Philip Ball who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman, resident in the County of Hiles and State of Tennessee and that Peahy Carpenter who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Hiles and State of Tennessee, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

of Giles and State of Tennessee, and Statement is entitled to credit.
State of Tennessee Giles County } I Edward D. Jones Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said County Court in the matter of the application of John Bradberry for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office. This the Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Eight,
E. D. Jones Clerk
State of Tennessee } Giles County } sc
I Alexander Black Chairman and Presiding Justice of the County Court of said County hereby certify that Edward D. Jones whose signature is affixed to the foregoing Certificate is now and was when he signed the same Clerk of the County Court of said County of Giles, duly Elected and quali- fied for that office, that his said Certificate is in due form of Law, and that full faith and credit are due to and should be given to all his official acts and attestations as such Clerk — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal officially this 7 th day of Novem- ber A. D. 1838.
Alexander Black Presiding Justice of Giles County Court