Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35807, John Byrd, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Byrd John
S 35807
CONTENTS

12,564 Indiana 4 Kentucky John Byrd
of _____ in the state of who was a _____ in the regiment commanded by Colonel _____ of the Virginia line, for the term of 2 years
scribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of March 1849
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of July 1811 and sent to Col. R. M. Johnson Great Falls, Ky.
arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 19. $43.57 ms 2 H 5 35 30 $43.57
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
transferred & continued in 1824, from Mar 27 to Ben. J. Noble Sept 1824
Lts E. Vance Oct 29 1840.

Wm Moore
John Byrd - 8 Reg t Virginia line Col d Mughlenburgh 9 March 1776 2 yrs
I am Mrd

State of Kentucky
On this 30th day of March 1819 before me the undersigned one of the circuit judges for the Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared Thomas West John Byrd aged about 60 years resident in Bourbon County & State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war That he enlisted in the service of the United States as a private soldier in the year 1776 on the 9th day of March That the company in which he enlisted was commanded by Capt Jonathan Clark of the 8th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Hughlenburgh which regiment belonged to the Virginia line on the Continental establishment. That he continued to serve in 5 th Company a regiment for two years the

term of his enlistment & was discharged at the Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania. That he lost his discharge at a place called the defeated Camp in an Indian defeat in the year 1786 & therefore cannot produce it. That he was in the battles of Brandywine & Germantown & some skirmishes & that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Also Thomas West states upon oath that he was acquainted with the applicant John Byrd when he was a private soldier in Capt. Clark's Company of Col. the 8 th Virginia Regiment in the years 1776 & 1777 & part of 1778 & he believes that s d Byrd served in s d Company & Regiment for about two years.
Also Thomas Ravenscraft states upon oath that he was acquainted with the applicant John Byrd when he was a private soldier in Capt. Clark's Company of the 8 th Virginia Regiment in the years 1776

1797 & part of 1798 & that he believes that S o Byrd served in S o Company & Regiment for about two years. He further states that he is well acquainted with S o Byrd's present circumstances & that he is well satisfied that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support as he is old infirm; has very little property & has a very helpless family.
Sworn to & declared before me by the S o . Byrd West, & Ravenscraft the 30 th day of March 1819
John Trimble
I John Trimble Judge do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the S o John Byrd did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in the preceding declaration for the term of nine months & upwards on the Continent- al establishment & that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support & I now transmit the proceedings had & the evidence taken before me to the Secretary for the department of War In Testis

testimony when of I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of the Harrison Circuit Court to be affixed this 30th day of March 1819
J. Trimble
I Andrew Moore Clerk of the  of the of the Harrison Circuit Court do certify that the above named John a Trimble is the Judge of s d Court given under my hand this 30th day of March 1819.

John Byrd's Petition

State of Indiana Fayette County Fayette Circuit
Be it Remembered on the 27 th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three personally appeared in Open Court being of record held in and for County and State aforesaid John Byrd Resident in said County of Fayette, and Circuit aforesaid aged about sixty three years who being sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit, the term of two years in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan Clark under Col. Mullenburgh commanding the 8 th Regiment of the Virginia line on continental establishment as is more fully detailed in his original declaration in the war office dated the 22 nd July 1818 in pursuance of which he has been inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Kentucky agency at the Rate of Eight Dollars per month and has received a Certificate thereof dated 22 nd day of July 1819 which is now in his possession, And he does solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 10 th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift, grant, or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to come within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons who were in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" and that he has not, nor any person in trust for him any property, or securities contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any income other than is contained in the schedule annexed and by him subscribed,

Schedule of the estate of John Byrd, wearing up = parcel, and bidding excepted,
  One Horse worth $60. 00   One plough & gears 12. 00   One Cow & Calf 10 " 00   Five hogs. 5 " 00   Post Suttal 20 " 00   One Chest & trunk 3 " 00   One wheel & four chairs 11 " 00   Cup board furniture 10 " 00   Two hoes and one log chain 5 " 00   Total $129 " 00 
The said John Byrd has a wife aged fifty seven years, and one child aged twenty years living with him to be supported, and he feels unable to support them &c. by labor &c.
Sworn to and subscribed by the above named John Byrd this 27 th day March 1823 in open Court Being a Circuit Court of Record, Before the Honorable Miles C. Eggleston President Judge & Edward Webb and William Helm associate Judges of the Fayette Circuit Court aforesaid and it is ordered to be certified by the said Court that the property contained in the foregoing sche- = dule is valued by the Court to be worth One hundred and and Twenty nine dollars
Jonathan M c . Early C. R.
State of Indiana ss I Jonathan M c . Early Clerk of the Fayette Circuit Court do certify that the foregoing is a true transcript of the Original Declara- = tion and Schedule as remains of record in the Court's Office  Court aforesaid in County. For testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 22 nd day of April 1823 Jonathan M c . Early Clerk

December 3, 1937.
Mrs. R. W. Van Valin Newberg Oregon.
BA-J/ILL John Byrd S. 35807 Robert Bird B.L.Wt. 26786-160-50
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Bird who served from Virginia and moved later to Kentucky, also, the record of his son, Robert Bird, who was born 5/22/1776 in Virginia, lived in Barren County, Kentucky, married Rachel Allen, and was in service against the Indians, either in the War of 1812 or Black Hawk War, and died in 1855, in Oregon.
Next time use "based upon his military service." The Revolutionary War record has been found of only one John Byrd who served from Virginia and moved to Kentucky. His record is given herein as found in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35807. The record of Robert Bird is furnished also, as shown in his claim for bounty land based upon his service against the Indians in 1793-1794, in War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War. (omit this next time.)
JOHN BYRD-S. 35807-Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of John Byrd are not shown.
He enlisted March 9, 1776, the place not stated, served as a private in Captain Jonathan Clark's company, Colonel Muhlenberg's 8 th Virginia regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and was discharged at the expiration of service of two years.
John Byrd was allowed pension on his application executed March 30, 1819, at which time he was aged about sixty years. He resided then in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Sometime before March 1823, the soldier moved from Kentucky to Fayette County, Indiana. He died about the year 1829 or 1830.

John Byrd married in March 1780, Elinor; her maiden name and the date and place of her birth are not shown. Her age in 1823 was given as fifty-seven years.
In 1823, the soldier and his wife had only one child, aged twenty years, living at home with them; the name of said child was not stated, nor the names of any other children given. A daughter of the soldier had married after the family moved to Indiana, date of her marriage and the name of her husband not shown; however, it took place before October 1823.
In 1840, Elinor Byrd, the soldier's widow, was living in Indiana.
----- ROBERT BIRD-B.L.Wt.#26786-160-50.
Robert Bird, (as he signed his name) enlisted at "Little Laurel", Kentucky, and served from July 1, 1792 until January 1, 1793, as a private in Captain David Logan's company of militia in General Wayne's War against the Indians; he enlisted July 1, 1793 and served another six months under the same officers and was discharged at Fort Logan.
He enlisted in 1813, as a private in Captain James Hall's company of Kentucky militia to serve three months, but, because of disability resulting from injury of one foot when he fell into a well, did not march with this company.
Robert Bird enlisted and served from May 1832 until June 18, 1832, as a private in Captain Barnes' company of rangers in the Black Hawk War in Illinois.
He applied June 7, 1852 for the bounty land which was due on account of his military service. The soldier resided then in Washington County, Oregon Territory, and was aged seventy-five years. He was allowed 160 acres of bounty land on warrant #26786, Act of September 28, 1850. He stated then that in 1800, he resided in Barron County, Kentucky, where his home was destroyed by fire.
Robert Bird married, but the name of his wife, and date and place of

their marriage are not shown. His son, Reverend Milton Bird, lived near Louisville, Kentucky, in 1854.
If you desire information in regard to the location of the land which was granted Robert Bird, you should address the Commissioner, General Land Office, this city, and furnish that official the following: bounty land warrant #26786, 160 acres, Act of September 28, 1850.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

State of Indiana } Payette County } Be it remembered that amongst the Records of the Payette Circuit Court within and for the County of Payette aforesaid in the third Circuit in the said State of Indiana being a Court of Record, there is the following tenit:-
" State of Indiana } Payette County } Tenit. Be it remembered that at the October Term of the Payette Circuit Court in the year A.D. 1825, being a Court of Record there here come personally into open Court John Byrd a Revolutionary Soldier, who after being duly sworn in open Court deposeth and saith that on the 18 th day of March in the year 1818, he, this deponent, had in personal property and debts owing to him one thousand dollars exclusive of the debts owing by him that Eight hundred dollars of the total money owing to this deponent was payable in Commonwealth Bank Papers of Kentucky that previous to the time this deponent would collect the payment of the same, Commonwealth paper depreciated in value one half leaving this deponent but four hundred dollars out of the debts owing to him that this deponent became security for Cornelius Clapscomb Nathaniel Smullen and Zachariah Jacobs for for seventy five dollars, who became insolvent and this deponent was compelled to pay the same without the probability of ever receiving any thing from them that he this deponent since the 18 th day of March 1818 has necessarily expended in removing himself and family from the State of Kentucky to the State of Indiana and supporting himself and family in Indiana before he could possibly earn a support that further sum of Two hundred dollars, that the

Daughter of this deponent, since that time, intermarried and this deponent gave her, as an ant-settling in order to enable her and her husband to go to house keeping about forty dollars worth of bedding and furniture that the balance of the money has been expended in divers necessary ways not now recollected but this deponent has none left, nor has he ever disposed of one cent for the purpose of reducing himself within the limits of a pensioner that he this deponent was informed by the Hon ble James Noble Senator in Congress that by a late Act of Congress the Revolutionary Pensioners were reinstated in their former pension and until then he thought it unnecessary to exhibit his schedule nor was he aware of the mistake of this impression until after the passage of the act of Congress of the 1 st of March 1825. And further this deponent saith not. John Byrd - Sworn and subscribed to in open court at the October Term of the Fayette Circuit Court 1823. this 28 th day of October A.D. 1823. And the first day of the Term of said Court, now here in Session. The Testimony whereof Jonathan M c Carty Clerk of the said Fayette Circuit Court afore said have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this day above written. Jonathan M c Carty Clerk H.B.C.
State of Indiana } Fayette County } ss Jonathan M c Carty Clerk of the Fayette Circuit Court within and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct transcript of the deposition of the said John Byrd as the same remains of record in our said Court and that the same was made in open court in Session of the Term of October 1823
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 8 th day of January 1824 Jonathan M c Carty Clerk H.B.C.

35807
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35,807
John Byrd His Ever Mad
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 59
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1912 Apr. 29 Hist. to Mrs. H. P. Chestie V.L.M. 1914 Feb. 19. Hist. to Mrs. Y. M. Boulware d/o. Hon. James T. Lloya (littu in Isaac Nick- ell. R. 7647) and 1937 - Dec. 3 - Hist. to Mrs. E. N. Van Valin J.H.L.

Elisha Vance
Oct. 29. 1840.
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Pension Office,
Oct 29. 1840
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 22 d inst I have to inform you that the widow of John Byrd, dec d , may perhaps, obtain a pension under the Act of July 7. 1838, on producing the necessary proof of marriage, identity &c. Enclosed herewith is a copy of that law, and the regulations adopted under it.
Elisha Vance, Esq, Connersville, Indiana.

I am personally ac- quainted with all the parties, the Widows are entitled the applicants highly deserving the charity of the Govt. let the certificate of Pension money to 4 th March be forwarded without delay as the men are now here at the place where they expect the County Rh. S. S. S. S.

Mr Edgar 88 Indiana John Byrnes
Rec? 8 Aug. 1823.
on Kentucky pension roll.
The Brookville Ind 25 July
Washington City
Secy of War
John C. Calhoun
Mail

Brookville 1823
Sir,
I send the declaration of Mr. Byrnes will you be so good as to have it act- ed upon, and notify me
I have the honor to be yours very Respectfully
James Noble

L. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office Washington

Washington Jan. 31 st 1824
Sir
I send the declaration of Mr Byrd. After examination, inform me, let it take place as early as possible
Yours very Respectfully James Noble

Connersville Ind Oct. 23 rd 1840
Dear
Rev. Mr. J. B. Edwards
Not yet Ind.
Commissaire of Pensions Washington City

Connersville Ia October 23 d 1840.
Dear Sir
Elinor Byrd, the widow of John Byrd, deceased, (who was formerly a pensioner of the United States) requests me to say to you that her late husband was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States up to the period of his death. That he died about the year 1829. or 30. That she has remained his widow ever since; and that she was married to him in March 1780. and it is her intention to procure a pension if practicable -
Will you, therefore, be so good as to say to her whether or not she would, under the circumstances, be entitled to a pension, and if so will you send her the regulations of the department in relation to the proof required etc. I have not the pension laws in my possession or I should not thus trouble you at present -
I Am Sir very Respectfully Your O bt Servt. Elisha Vance
Wm J. L. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City.

231 - Madison St - Brooklyn N.Y.
April 21 - 1912
Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C.
In list of names of Revolutionary Pensioners which have been placed on the Roll from Kentucky under the Law of March 18 - 1818. I find - John Byrd private in Virginia Line

Did you kindly give me his Service - Thanking you in advance I am
Most Sincerely (Mrs.) H. P. Christie 231 - Madison St. Brooklyn N. York -

OREGON
Newberg, Oregon, Nov. 20, 1937.
Veteran's Administration, Washington, D.C.
Pension Dept. Rev. War Records.
Gentlemen:-
only info need is by Barren Co Ky
I am looking for Revolutionary War Record of a certain John Bird who had service in Virginia and believe he later moved to Kentucky. In Kentucky Land Grants I find where a John Bird did receive a grant of land - 200 acres in Barren County - date of survey was 8/22/1799. This particular part of Kentucky was reserved for Military Land Grants. Can you confirm this service. Or if this is not the John Bird, can you tell me if any man by the name did have such service, later moving to Kentucky, and if he ever applied for a Pension. Any information regarding name of wife and names of children, with dates of his birth, death and marriage will be greatly appreciated. This information is desired by a woman who wishes to join the D.A.R. thru his record. It is believed he had several children, among them, one named Robert.
The Robert Bird above named, was born 5/22/1776 in Virginia, and died 10/13/1855 in Oregon. He married 1/22/1799, Rachel Allen. While living in Barren County Kentucky, he saw service in some war, and while carrying water to soldiers in a cave, he slipped and fell, injuring his hip, from which injury he was lame the rest of his life. He applied for a pension, but I believe did not receive it. Can you tell me if there is record of this application and any data connected with it - whether it was war of 1812, Black Hawk war, or some Indian skirmish.
Thanking you for any data on the above, I am
Yours truly,
Minnie D Van Valin
(Mrs. R.W. Van Valin)
State registrar, Oregon Society, D.A.R.
Land? DAR Pension Ry

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. John Ryd S.F. 95-807
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mar. 9. 1776 2yrs. Pvt. Jonathan Clark Nuhlenberg Pa.                                     
Battles engaged in, Brandywine + Germantown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, 1
Date of application for pension, Mar. 20 1819. His cl. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Bourbon Co. Ky
Age at date of application, b. 1759 or 1760
Remarks: Soldier married in Mar. 1780 Eleanor ---- He died in 1829 or 1830. In 1823 his wife was 57 yrs old and one child was 20 yrs old. In 1825 Soldier had moved to Fayette Co. Ind. he referred to his daughter having been married before that time. No names are stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.