Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,054, Bartlet Belcher, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Belcher, Bartlett Alice
N. 2054
CONTENTS

436.
Wm Kee Jones
Alice Belcher widow of Bartlett Belcher
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private , Va Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 — Dollars 33 —
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March  April , 1848. (on the 8 th of April 1848.)
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Dec r 1847, and sent to
D. Alexander Rogersville Tenn.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 20 1848, Page 341, Vol. 1,
July — Book D,
Henry Robinson Clerk

12243 Lousborough Tennessee
Bartlet Belcher
of Hawkins in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Shelton of the Regiment commanded by Col. Hartrun in the Virginia line for Nine Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Lousborough at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May and South P Warren Rogersville
Arrears to the 4th of March 66.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th 16.66
$83.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 7 Page 122
see letter to the Hon. J. Bunch H.R. H.P. Agt. 27 Dec. 1836 — do. to Hon. J. Bunch Jan. 11. 1837
do Pen. Agt. Lousborough, and Hawkins Feb 6. '37
New Certificate issued 17. Nov. 1847. I sent to W. Lyon for Pen. Agent. Knoxville Tennessee

(24) Sarah Belcher was January 11 th 1801
George Belcher was June 16 th 1803
John Belcher was born February 16 th 1805
Lana Belcher was born March 31 st 1807
Joseph Belcher was born January 5 th 1810
Elizabeth Belcher was born October 5 th 1812
Thomas Belcher was born October 24 th 1826
Martha Belcher was born February 16 th 1827

Simeon Beleher was born June 24 th 1831
Mary Beleher was born July the 10 th A.D. 1839

B
Bartlet Kitcher was born June 8 th 1764

10.037
Bartlet Belcher Nashville 6 th Jan Lee
Jonesboro' Agency,
5, 16
from 1780 private 10 months,
$33 \frac{33}{100}
P Parsons
Copy B. 1780

BRIEF in the case of  Bartlett Becher  County of Newkins  in the State of  Tennessee  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 years  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.     Spring In 1780 abt. 31 — Private Gen. Shelton   Subsequent 6 — " Capt Wallen Gen Stevens   Winter and Spring 781 " Col. Farner   Summer 781 — 2 " Capt Bland Col. Lyon   Capt Smith  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Camden.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Patrick Co. Virginia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attested as regu? 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Coates  Examining Clerk.

10. 037 Pineon Diteration
Bartel. Bels hun
————— " —————

State of Tennessee Hawkins County 3 August Session 1832
On this 28th day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for said County now sitting Bartlet Bulcher aged sixty four 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that in the Spring of 1780, in Patrick County in the State of Virginia he volunteered under Capt n Oliver Hutton for three months, to go to a place Wallen called the hollows in said State on the head of the Yockum Run that he remained in said service about one month, at which time he was promoted to take the place of his deceased father, who had been drafted for three months and left the army without permission and in consequence of which he was returned to serve six months, and that he said declarant served a six month tour as a substitute for his father under

Capt n George Wallen Lieutenant Turkey Chain and he was marched from Henry County in Virginia to Hillsborough North Carolina, where he joined the main army under General Stevens Colonel William Fortune & Maj r Purnell when the army remained some days, and from there he was marched to Camden South Carolina, where there was a Battle fought, in which General Gates was and he received two wounds in the right arm, of the officers The American Commander in Chief, and General Cornwallis was the English Commander in which Battles the American army was defeated he states that he did not get with his Company again until he arrived at Guilford Courthouse where he also found his Capt n and Lieutenant whom he was taken sick and ordered to the hospital, and he very unwillingly to go to the hospital got permission to go home which was not for a distant, he states that the Company was again ordered to march to Hillsboro and he attended at Henry Courthouse to return March and on account of his ill health he was permitted to go home by Col d Purnell the Colonel of Henry County Va. and since our

to the expiration of his furlough, and also before he recovered his health, the said months expired. He states that he never attended to get his discharge as his officers held at a custom He states that same time in the Winter or Spring fall away. He volunteered to go against Cornwallis to intercept his march through Virginia, under Colonel James Lyon Capt n William G. Bland Lieutenant William Gorton, and was marched on toward Beckton ferry on Dan River through in Va. and he states that he was finally discharged by his Colonel on a creek called Creech in Virginia, he states that in the early part of the summer 1781 he was drafted in Henry County in the state of Virginia to go law down in Virginia against the English under the command of General Lord Cornwallis -Wallace under Capt n John Smith. Lieutenants Edmiston and were marched to Point of View Court house where the army under General Robert Lawson, Colonel Purnell and Major Purnell, and had was marched on to Gorton's Ferry on James River where

They were stationed for some time and the British on the opposite side of the River and prevented the Americans from encamping from them he was marched on to James Town & Williamsburg, he states that then he was marched about in that neighborhood some time, he was then marched back, after the British had left that neighborhood by Waller, to a place in Virginia called the Mohong hills where he remained until discharged after having served a term of two months. he states that his Ensign Morty gave him his discharge. Which discharge was burned in his father's house, he states that in all he served over nine months. in the United States Army in the Revolutionary war. he states that he belonged to the Third Virginia Regiment he further states that he has no document neither is there any Minister of the Gospel living in his neighborhood in view of his Army, with the exception of the Rev. of any person whose testimony he can prove who can testify to his service

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 any State agency. Sworn to and subscribed this day above. and Your afforementioned Bartlett Belcher Wm Mitchell clerk
See Nathanson Scott & Elmona Goodman Residents of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Bartlett Belcher who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier Revolutionary, and that we concur in that opinion. I & the above sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 3  Scott Wm Mitchell clerk  Elmona Goodman
And the said Court, do hereby certify & declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war departments, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary -ary soldier, and that we concur in that opinion

I Stockley D. Mitchell Clerk of the court of appeals and quarter sessions of Hawkins County in the state of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the case of the application of Betsy Belcher for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 31 st day of August 1832
D. Mitchell Clerk By M. B. Mitchell D. Clerk

The Supplemental Statement of Bartlett Belcher made in order to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress passed the June 1832
This declarant states that he was born in Chesterfield County Virginia on the 8th of June 1764 which statement he makes from recollection of the record in the family Bible of his father but he has not the Bible and knows the same was burnt near forty years ago in his father's house and he has lived in Virginia North Carolina and Kentucky and Tennessee where he now resides ever since the revolutionary war
This applicant states that he served first month as a volunteer in the Militia of Virginia. He then served six months as a substitute for his father in the Militia of said state both times serving as a private. The third time he volunteered as a private and served on Dan river one month. He then, the 4th time, was drafted and served two months against Lord Cornwallis whilst he was in Virginia in 1781 which makes

Ten Months Service tho he stated it in his former declaration over Nine Months that he might be within rather than over the true length of time but on reflec- tion he is satisfied he served in all as a private in the manner he has stated ten months in the revolutionary war
He has already stated the names of the officers and circumstances of the service as well as he now can state it -
State of Tennessee } Hawkins County } Personally appeared before me Lazarus Spears — one of the Justices of the peace for said for said County and State and made oath that the facts before stated in this declaration as a supplement to his former pension declaration are true May 6th 1833 Bartlett B. Baker
Lazarus Spears (SS) Hawkins County
State of Tennessee
I Stockley D. Mitchell Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions of Hawkins County in the State aforesaid do certify that Lazarus Spears before whom the above affidavit was made as now and was at the time the same bears date an acting

Justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and qualified
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of office at office in Rogersville this 7 th day of May A.D. 1833
H. Mitchell Clerk By M c Mitchell Clerk
Pension Declaration Bartlett Belcher

No 560.
Mrs. Fletcher widow of Bartlet, Tenn.
Act 29 July 1848.
Married 1799 Married 8 th April 1848
Ald o 10 th March $55.33 1 / 3 per ann. 8 th April 1848
A. Alexander, Rogersville Tenn.

State of Tennessee, Hancock County - 55.
On this 15 day of September 1849 personally appeared Alice Belcher a resident of Lee County, in the State of Virginia aged eighty one years, before William Robert Esq. a justice of the Peace in & for said County, who being first duly sworn according to law with me her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act "Spencer's passed on the 29 th July 1848 extending the provisions of the Pension laws to widows who were married to Revolutionary Soldiers to the Year 1800"
That she is the widow of Bartlett Belcher who was on the Pension roll of the East Tennessee Agency at Knoxville Tennessee at the rate of between thirty two & thirty four dollars per annum. the exact amount not now ascertainable, who was a private in least Waller's company of Infantry in the 3 d Virginia Regiment.
She further declares that she was married to him the said Bartlett Belcher on the 10 day of January in the 18 th century hundred & ninety nine (1799) in Patrick County State of Virginia; that she was not married to him previous prior to his leaving the service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first of January 1800 at the time above stated, that her said husband died on the fifth day of April 1848 at his house in Lee County aforesaid. that there is no record of said marriage known to her said widow on the day and year above written before Me
William Esq. J. P. S. her Alice Belcher mark
I do hereby that the said applicant for a Pension cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court given under my hand and seal above

State of Tennessee Hancock County SS.
Be it known that I John Farmer clerk of the County Court of the County State aforesaid do certify that William H. Gilbert is a justice of the Peace in for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 16 th day of April 1848 and expires on the 16 th day of April 1854 and that his signature when written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at office in Knoxville this 15 day of September 1849
John Farmer C.C. By Samuel Place Dept. C.C.
State of Tennessee Hancock County
On the 28 th day of September 1849 personally appeared Betsey Johnson a citizen of said County State (wife of Thomas Johnson also a resident of said County & State) aged Sixty Nine Years and Six Months, before me Robert Rogers - - - - - a justice of the peace in for the County of Hancock State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law deposes & states that she is well acquainted with the deceased Alice Bledsoe widow of Bartlett Bledsoe did residing at the time in Lee County Virginia, near the line of Hancock County Tennessee, and that she at present has known the said Alice her husband Bartlett ever since they were married, that she the affiant was present when they were married in the County of Patrick State of Virginia, at the House of Richard Davis, a brother in law of the affiant sometime in the Month of July in the Year one thousand Seven hundred Ninety Nine, that said Couple were married by a Baptist Minister Regularly ordained, by the

name of Rev. John Brown according to the ceremony of said Baptist Church, the publication of bans and after remaining many years in Virginia said Bartlett his wife moved to Hawkins County, afterward, and about six or seven years ago they moved back to Lee County Virginia, where the said Bartlett died on the 8 th day of April 1848. She further states that they have lived together as Man & Wife ever since their said Marriages, & have had the following named children with Sarah Belcher, born 17 January 1804, Joseph Belcher born June 10 th 1803 John Belcher born July 16 th 1805 Sarah Belcher born March 31 st 1807 Joseph Belcher born June 5 th 1810 Elizabeth Belcher - born October 5 th 1813, and where names & births are set down on the annexed paper marked A. The other children named on said paper are the Grand children of Mr. Bartlett & Alice - said paper A. & B. are taken out of the family Bible & Testament belonging to them & having the age of said Bartlett set down on it "born June 8 th 1764" That the memory of said Alice has failed of late so that she cannot recollect all the facts connected with her said Marriages, that the said Alice states remains the widow of said Bartlett Belcher, & resides in said Lee County, joining Hawkins County afterward, that said Bartlett was a Resident of the United States, as stated in the declaration of his wife Alice. Sworn to & subscribed before me this 29 th day of September 1849. Betsy her Johnson Mark Robert Rogers J. P.
I also testify that I am well acquainted with the said witness, Betsy Johnson, & that she is reputable, and respectable & fully entitled to belief, and that is her general character. Given under my hand this 29 th day of September 1849. Robert Rogers J. P.

State of Tennessee. Sevier County
I John H. Ellis clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do certify that Robert Rogers is a justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the 17 th day of March 1848 ————— and will expire on the 16 th day of March 1854 ————— And that his Signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand & the Seal of said County, the 15 th day of October A.D. 1849
John H. Ellis Clerk By J. H. Vance D. Clerk

Rev. H. W.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2054 Alice Belcher, Widow Bartlett Belcher, Proc. Rec. War.
Act: July 29, 1848.
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 48
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Battle Belcher

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Bartlett Bilscher  Howkins 6 Ten years which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? no V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? no VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? no VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? no
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
1 - 2 - 5 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
† QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

B. Belcher
FREE
James A. Edwards Esq. warrant of Pensions Washington city Dist. Columbia  Miss Cate  Mail 33

Cogswell's Innkeeper
November 1 st 1849
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I herewith enclose to you the declaration of Abigail Beecher, widow of Bartol Beecher, and with the accompanying testimony & exhibits. Should the certificate be allowed. She requests that it be forwarded to my case, at this place.
very respectfully &c D. Alexander.

Bartlett Belcher
Bartlett Belcher made
Payments to be at Jonesboro Hall by W m H. Denson Agent for paying ers, in the Agency of Tennessee
Of
Recorded in the Pen- sion Office, in Book E V Page 122 by D. M. Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Bartlett Bullock of the State of Tennessee who was a Private of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty three dollars and Thirty three 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 Second day of Augt one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
John B. B. Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.

affidavit of Bartlett Belcher for New Certificate

Application for a new certificate State of Tennessee Hawkins County on this 21 st day of October 1847 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Hawkins personally appeared Bartlet Belcher, who on his oath deposes that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. George Waller in the Regiment commanded by Col. Yates in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Tennessee, that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and Seal of the acting Secretary of War John Robb, which certificate is herewith submitted to the Pension office in consequence of its having become mutilated, and I request that a new one may be issued for me in lieu of it. Sworn to & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
Will Renear (P)
his Bartlet Belcher mark
Be it known that on the 21 st day of October 1847 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for Hawkins County personally appeared Leich Alexander made oath that he is personally ac- -quainted with the above named applicant Bartlet Belcher, and that he is the same individual as stated by him in the foregoing affidavit. Sworn to & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
L: Alexander
Will Renear (P)
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Leich Alexander the above deponent that he is a gentleman of veracity -
Will Renear (P)

State of Georgia DeKalb County
I John H Ellis Clerk of the county court for for the County State aforesaid do certify that the Mr. Roman City. whose name appears to the within affidavits is now here at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in for said County and that his signatures are genuine
Given under my hand & Seal of office at office in Reps.ville this 23 d day of October A.D. 1847
John H Ellis, C.C.P.
By J. H. Vance D.C.P.

Rogersville May 7.
Free
May 21
Rev. Rule H.
James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Commissioner Washington City D.C.

Rogersville 7th May 1853
Dear Sir
I herewith return the papers and supplemental statement of Bartlet Belcher an Applicant for Aspersian and hope you will revise it as soon as practicable and advise me of the result
I am Sir your Obedient Servt &c
P. Parsons