Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,027, Benjamin J Byrun, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Byrun, Benjamin J.
R. 10,027
Squire, Mary
(Former Widow)
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10.1127.
P. O.
Mary Squirr
Service: former widow
Benjamin J. Byrum
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Springfield Ills. 15. June 1866 J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir Enclosed is the Declaration of Mary Lynn for a Pension. She sent me all particulars I wrote out her Declaration and had written the name wrong the Clerk corrected it.
Please report to me and if objected state the particular points of objection -
Yours Respectfully
Erasmus Wright
The testimony of two old persons who have known her fifty years would be satisfactory evidence in our Courts to connect them by marriage by our records.

let: 3? October 1844, to
Ebenezer Wright - No 6233 →
19027
act 4 July 1836

6233 Declaration of Mary Squire Benj. I. Dymon formerly Mary Bynum
Illinois at 4 July 36

State of Illinois Declaration
Green County? On this 8 th day of June 1844 Personally appeared before Thomas S. Booth & J. A. Keely two of the Judges of the County Commissioners Court in and for said County Judicially sitting Mary Squire (formerly Mary Bayrum) a Resident of the County of Green in the State of Illinois aged Eighty nine 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 24 th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 rd 1837 = (That reserving for errors by infirmity of Body & Mind in recalling remote events) She states she was married to Benjamin Bayrum on the 20 th May Seventeen hundred and seventy nine during which time said Benjamin Bayrum was in the service of the United States as a soldier. That he served three years in all. That they lived on Jacob's Creek in Virginia about 40 Miles from Pittsburg where he was married That said Bayrum was Marched into the Southern Counties of Virginia in the Militia was in several Skirmishes in one of which he was wounded by the British in the left leg. The Officers she does not recollect. And that afterwards he volunteered and went with Capt Mills and Col Broadhead in a light horse company of Dragoons she believes he started in the Spring of 1778 That he was out in the last four twelve months That he went to Chillicothe in Ohio and helped to build the Fort there That he left the service of the United States on or near the month of June 1779 That he received a discharge but it has been lost some years since. She believes he was out in the Militia perhaps Capt Mills & Col Broadhead was in the regular service. In 1780 he volunteered under Capt Moore and Lieut James Burk to assist in the Indians, Burk was killed by the Indians. Bayrum returned in August

That her husband the said Benjamin Byrum died in the year 1793 and of the Bilious Fever, in the year 1796 in the Territory now State of Illinois - That she afterwards married to one Michael Squire and in January 1820. said said Michael Squire died near Edwardsville in Illinois.
That she does not know of any persons living in the west by whom she can prove her first marriage to Benjamin Byrum and she has no family record to prove from - That she has remained a widow since 1820 the death of M Squire - That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim -
She further declares that to the best of her recollection her said husband Benjamin Byrum entered the service of the United States on or near the 10 th day of November 1776 and served during Eighteen months in the Southern Counties of Virginia
And that he went out as a volunteer on or about 20 th 20 th day of March 1778 and served as a Dragoon for about 18 months
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written before me
William Carlin Clerk } Mary Squire (mark)
2 witnesses { R.W. English Joh. Phillips
State of Illinois Green Co. } The undersigned hereby certifies that she has been acquainted with Mary Squire (formerly Mary Byrum) during the last fifty years and believes she is the widow of Benjamin Byrum and that she is of the age of 89 years and her statements in the foregoing declaration are correct judging hereof from her former statements, her age, and circumstances and connected with her narrations in relation to

The trials of the Revolutionary struggle also that she is a woman of veracity Sworn to and Subscribed this 8 th day of June 1844 Before me — William Carlin Clerk of the Co. Com. 17 H. Winterrowd Court of Iowa Green County Henry Cook
State of Illinois } Green County }
Be it known that on this 8 th day of June 1844 personally appeared in open court Judicially sitting Mary Squire and made oath to the foregoing declaration — and the Court would express its Opinion from interrogatories put to her and her answers that she is of the age of 89 years and that her first husband Benjamin (Barnum) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That she is a respectable citizen of Green County and her statements in her Declaration entitled to Credit — Also that James H. Whitehead & Henry Cook whose names appear attesting the credibility of Mary Squire are credible and worthy citizens of Green County Illinois.
Also that the Magistrate Clerk William Carlin whose signature appears above is duly authorized to administer oaths
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set my  our hands and affixed our seal Seal of Office at Carrollton in the County of Green in the State of Illinois this 8 th day of June 1844
Thomas J. Booth } Judges of the A. S. Sels } County Court of said County.