Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,299, John Bryant, Va.

SERVICE
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Bryant, John
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CONTENTS

Alabama Huntsville
John Bryant Jackson Co in the State of Alabama who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Weyton of the Regt commanded by Maj. Jones in the Va. Militia for 16 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of March 1839. and sent to T. M. Rector Bellefonte Alabama
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839. $ 200. 00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th of Sept 1839. 10. 00.
$ 210. 00.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. S. Evans Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 8 Page 92
Lt. Col Hon. T. C. Tolson March 14, 1838 June 5, 1838

State of Alabama
Jackson County 3 On this 22 nd day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
personally appeared in open court before me Thompson M. Keaton Judge of the County Court of the County of State of Alabama
John Bryant a resident citizen of the County of State of Alabama aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration In order to attain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 (to wit) That he was drafted into the service of the united States for three months under Captain Anthony Winston under whom he served a term of three months at the time of entering said service he was a resident citizen of the County of Buckingham in the State of Virginia & was marched by said Capt. to Cabbins point where they spent some time & the  near the only Troop Station at that point was the Regiment to which he belonged the said Regiment was commanded by a Colonel whose name he cannot recollect The Major in command there was. Jones
his Lieutenant was by the name of Capt Walker & his Ensign John Ganaway and We marched from thence to Casper's Mill

2 That he remained until our Term of Three Months Service Expired and received a Written Discharge from Said Captain They were in no Engagements with the enemy from the place last mentioned they marched home and again he states that about the 20 th of August following then being a resident of the Said County of Buckingham State of Virginia he was drafted for a term of Three months again under Captain John Mosely and marched to Little York before arriving at That place they joined the army & marched to That place with them he cannot Recall the principal officers that commanded at that place the number of the Regiment to which he belonged he cannot recall but believes it was No 7 They continued at the place last mentioned until the surrender of Cornwallis & after that he with others guarded the prisoners to the Barrax near Winchester In Virginia at which place they were stationed until their Term of Three months Expired & was then discharged at Little York The army was commanded in person by General G Washington he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pen- roll of any agency of any State Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 nd day of February 1838 Thompson M. Neer his John Bryan C Judge of the County Court mark

Interrogatory 1 st
Where & in what year  place were you born
Ans) In Albemarle County, Virginia and think in the year 1754.
I have you any record of your age and also where is it
and I have no record of my age I did have but it was destroyed
3 When were you living when called into service when have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Ans - When I entered the service both times I lived in Buckingham County State of Virginia since the Revolutionary war I have lived in Lincoln County Kentucky (Adair County - Ky, the same State), Lincoln County Tennessee then Jackson County Alabama then back to Lincoln County Tennessee then Jackson County Alabama where I lived about twelve years then to Franklin County Tennessee then back to Jackson County Alabama where I now live
4 th how were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute & if a substitute for whom
ans. I was drafted both times as before stated
5 State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service

4 and 5) I cannot recollect the names of many of the officers my battalions were Anthony Winston & John Mosely & Majr Jones commanded in the regiments, which I belonged I believe the Seventh I cannot recollect the numbers of any of the regiments) Generals Washington -ton & Lawson are the only officers I can at present recollect and the general circumstances of my services are embodied in my declaration
6 th did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
ans.) I did receive 2 discharges one from Capt. Anthony Winston & the other from Capt John Mosely The first of which has been Burned & the other lost or mislaid some way
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your settlement present neighbour- hood and who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution.
Ans.) I know S d Rector Thos Henderson Robert Proctor S d William S d Snadgrass Beryn Snadgrass applicant states that he knows no witnesses in this state by whom he can prove his services there did live in the state of Kentucky some years ago by whom he could have proved it but whether they are yet living he does not know sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 nd day of February 1838 Thompson. U.S. Rector Judge of the County Court. John his Bryant mark

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12.299 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 12,299
John Bryant Priv Peter War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. a , Page 47
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Bryant Alabama
Suspended.
See let. 14 March 1838 to Hon: C. C. Clay do. 5 June 1838.

State of Alabama on this 12 th day of October being 3 May 1838 — personage appeared in open court before me Thompson M c Rector Judge of the court being in and for said court John Roy and a resident citizen of said court aged Eighty four years the 5 th of November next Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Supplementary Declaration intended as a Supplement to a Declaration by him hereto fore made for record and now on file in the Pension Office of the War Department in order to obtain the benefits of the pro- vision made by the act "to provide for pensions" June 4 th 1832. Then being a citizen of the county of Buckingham in the State of Virginia that he entered the services of the United States as a soldier man, that being his first term, he thinks same when between the first and Twenty sixth day of January 1811. as a proof of that he says he got them on Easter Monday of that year from his said first term of three Months States that he can't speak with much certainty as to the particular cause or purpose for which the troops with whom he marched this term was called out he states that the British were then in some portions of the coun- try and others were daily appearing

To come in. He then supposing and still was that the troops with whom he served the first time in his original Declaration mentioned were intended to meet such or even then in the country and oppress them in their villages and to oppress such as were on the way and prevent them making the inroads upon the country and show all the army reasons in a dis- tinct so that he has history given that he can now possibly give and hopes that what he has now stated will be a suffi- cient answer to the two first interrogatories proposed as to the time he entered the service and the object. His reasons for not making an earlier application to obtain his pension are as follows (he was first some two or three years after the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1838. He was then sick and confined for something like two years and for some time after was quite unfirm and unable to attend to business of such a nature but so soon as he was able able to do so did but he states that prior to the time of his illness and not long after the passage of said Act of Congress the — employed one Col. M. L. of Winchester, Vir- ginia to prepare his papers and for the pur- pose of getting them attended at Winchester. Jennifer gave different times but that Col. Lall had not a nor did he at any time propose them for him.

and that after his recovery from his illness and got so he could attend to business he went and called upon one Essey Patrick of Sumpter. Who at the same time prepared his papers and when he received them Essey Patrick informed him that he was of the opinion that the Declaration was improperly drawn and advised him to not to send it but to give some one who would understand better how such business should be done, at that time he was preparing to remove to Noxubee County Alabama where he now lives and where he had formerly lived it was then out of his power to attend to it in Sumpter and that as soon as he got to Alabama and settled he had his papers prepared and forwarded, and that he could not go so soon then he did under all the circumstances under which he labored I mean toward President John F. Bryan to before me this 12th day of May 1838 Thompson W. Reeder Judge of the County Court
State of Alabama I Moses Jones Clerk Jackson County of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the proceedings of said County Court in the matter of the application John Bryan for a pension In testimony whereof I have

I hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my private seal having no seal of office at office this 12 th day of May AD 1838 Moses Jones Clerk.
The above is the genuine signature of Moses Jones, Clerk of Jackson County Court, Alabama. There is no official seal of S d Court as I believe. May 21 st 1838.
C. C. Clay.
Hon. C. C. Clay Senate U.S.

Inat. June 2
John B. Clay  Bryant
St. Thomas Ky.
Miss J. P. Mason
Washington Ky.
C. C. Clay Senate U.S.

Washington City, May 31. 1838.
James L. Edward Esq.
Sir,
Please examine the annexed declaration of Mr. John Bryant, herewith enclosed. I am requested, if the proof should not appear to entitle him to two tons allowance, to decline receiving for any and have the case suspended for further proof, as he believes, by sending to Kentucky, he may yet make it out. Please let me know the result as soon as practicable.
Very respectfully your obed. Servt.
C. C. Clay.

State of Kentucky Adair County ss.
Be it Remembered that on this 27 th day of August in the year of our Lord 1838 Philip Minfrey of the County and State aforesaid aged 74 years personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Adair and made Oath that he is well acquainted with John Bryant now a citizen of the State of Alabama Jackson County. That he has been acquainted with said Bryant upwards of sixty years. He became acquainted with said Bryant in Brunkham County Virginia that said Bryant moved to Kentucky about the year 1795. That soon thereafter this affiant came to Kentucky & settled near said Bryant. in the County of Lincoln that some time thereafter the said Bryant and this affiant moved to what is now the County of Adair & settled near together. That between 20 & 30 years ago said Bryant moved from here and is now living in Alabama. This affiant further states that said John Bryant served two tours of duty in the Army of the Revolution against the Common

knowing as a drafted militia man took the first tour said Bryant served under Capt Anthony Winston and the second tour he served under Capt John Mosely in which last tour said Bryant was at the siege of Little York at the capture of Corn Wallis This affiant states to his certain knowledge that said Bryant did serve two tours of three months each the full term and was honorably discharged. The reason that this affiant is so confident & certain as to his services, is because this affiant was with him each tour from beginning to end. and were imp matter he further states that said John Bryant is a man of respectability and his statement is entitled to credit on oath or otherwise Given under my hand this 27th day of August 1838
J J Caldwell J.P.
Adair County, Set. I John J. Caldwell before whom the above affidavit was made certify that Philip Winfrey the person who has sworn to the above affidavit is a resident citizen of the county of Adair and that he is a man of respectability & is entitled to credit on oath or otherwise. Given under my hand this 27th day of August 1838
J J Caldwell

State of Kentucky § Adair County } ss
I William Caldwell Clerk of the County Court for the said County, do certify, that John G. Caldwell whose name is signed to the foregoing Certificates, is an acting justice of the peace in & for said County, duly Commissioned & qualified, and that full faith and credit should be given to all his Official acts, I further certify that his signatures to the said Certificates are genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Name, and affixed the seal of the said County Court this 27 th day of August 1838 and 47 th Year of the Commonwealth
W m Caldwell

34.380 31.501 John Bryant M Alabama
admitted P. 6 mo. $20
21 Feb
J. M. Rector, Bellefonte, Ala.

We Charles I Roach a clugimian residing in Jackson County State of Alabama and Ludwell L Rector residing in the same state & County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bryant who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be about eighty four years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in the opinion
Charles I Roach
Ludwell L Rector
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 d of February 1838
Hampton M. Rector Judge of the County Court
State of Alabama - And the said being as fully informed as before their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named officer was a Revolutionary soldier and lived in the state and the County further certify that it appears to them that the said Charles I Roach who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the County of Pickens and State of Alabama and that
who has also
signed the same is a resident of the County and State last above written and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credence
Hampton M. Rector Judge of the County Court

I Moses Jones Clerk of the County Court of the County of Jackson in the State of Alabama do hereby certify that the foregoing pages from one to six inclusive contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Bryant for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affix-
(Handwritten flourish)
-ed my private seal having no
official seal of office at office
In Bellefontaine this 22 nd day
of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
and of the American Independence the 62 nd year
Test Moses Jones Clk. 66

I know the hand writing of chosen James Clark & T. M. Rector Judges of the County Court of Jackson County Ark. the signatures of both in the foregoing sheet are genuine. There is no public seal of said County Court.
March 12 th 1838.
C. C. Clay.
Mr. C. C. Clay Such
Mr. C. C. Clay
Vol.

Aw -
Mr Bryant
Scarsdale N.Y.
Rev J. P. Schuch Cannon Church of persons Washington City -
PA

Baltimore February the 2 d 1839 James I Edmonson Esq r
Dear Sir Some time in the Month of Sept last I obtained and forwarded proofs in support of my suspended Discharge for a Pension as a Soldier of the Revolution and having heard nothing from you respecting since that time on the subject of my claim I am induced to fear that some accident has happened either a miss carriage or something of that nature I am now advised as the best and surest chance of information to address you I hope you will therefore do me the singular favour to let me no whether or not you have received my proofs and the situation of my claim is and if so doing you will confer a singular favour upon your humble servant
John Bryant

Oct 5
pa. or al. case add proof Wm. Bryant.
J. J. Edwards Esq. Commissaire of Customs at the Port of Washington

Bucksport Sept 15 th 1878. J. L. Coombs Esq. Dear Sir
Inclosed I send you the paper obtained by John Bryant in relation to his services as a soldier in the Revolution. The paper seems to be positive and of such character as to be relied upon most fully in aid, and I trust will give satisfaction and enable the old man to draw his pension, (long since so recklessly denied), I am Sir with much esteem yours affec I Humble Servt
J. M. Peabody