Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1494, John Burelle, French

SERVICE
NUMBER
French
Burelle, John
R 1494
Patience Hanna
CONTENTS
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To whom it may concern
This is to testify that John Burelle, and Patience Hanna Bird both Catholics were joined in the holy bands of Matrimony the 22 d day of February 1785 by the Rev d Ferdinand Larmer. Witnesses present Luke Pea, Catharine Boudrot.
Taken from the registers as witness my hand
Fran: Beaton Priest.
Given at Philadelphia This 27 th Nov r 1786.

13714 Apr 29 - 1848
Patience Hanna Burdoo M a of Doct. John _____
Act. 1848, D. C.

South Carolina Union District } 355 On this the first day of March 1848 personally appeared before me William Stevenson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Union District S.C. Patience Fanny Purcell a resident of the said District aged about Eighty one 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 the 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting Half Pay & Pensions to Certain Widows also the benefit of the acts of 3 rd March 1843 & June 17 1844.
That she is the widow of Doctor John Purcell who was a Surgeon in the French Army & Navy in America under Major General Lafayette & served in that Capacity with the Allied forces from the time he entered the service in 1778 until the French Army was discharged at the close of the war and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the Allied forces of France & America under General Washington & Genl Lafayette & other French officers at Yorktown.
She further declares that she was married to the said Doctor John Purcell on the 22 nd day of February Seventeen Hundred & Eighty five (1785) & that her husband the said Doctor John Purcell died in the said District of Union in the Month of March 1825 since which time she has remained his widow until now
That she has in proof of her said Marriage & the time when it occurred the Certificate of Fran: Beeston the Catholic Priest who joined her to her said husband in Wedlock dated

the 27 th November 1786 which is herewith shown that the same is true & has been either in her own possession or that of her husband from its date until surrendered to be sent to the Pension office. That she was not married to her said Husband prior to his leaving the Service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 to wit at the time above stated.
Sworn to & subscribed before me in the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas this day by year above written
Patience Hanna Purdie
WM. S. HENAN Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas S.C.
South Carolina } ss Union District }
I William S. Keenan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Union District in the said State do hereby certify that Mrs Patience Hanna Purdie who has this day sworn to & subscribed the above declaration before me is a Lady to whose statement full faith & credit are due & that she is the identical person she represents herself to be in the said Declaration.
Given under my hand & Seal of office this the 1 st day of March 1848.
WM. S. HENAN Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas S.C.

Field. Rique
Oct 5 48

15 Pension Office October 5 1848
Sir
The application of Patience Hanna Barrille for a pension and the widow of Dr John Barrille, late an Officer in the French Army during the Revolutionary War has been examined and decided upon our files, under the act of 7 July 1838. The act of 7 July 1838 provides for those widows only whose husband was or would have been entitled if living to the benefit of the act of 7 June 1832. That act especially prohibits the granting of a pension to a Foreign Officer . (Mrs Barrille's husband having been excluded by this law she now has no claim to a pension on  his widow  her application is therefore rejected.
J. M. Rasque Esq Pursuer

M r Petit, Procureur à la Grande Rue près F. Vidoret
Souvenez
BURELLE, JOHN

N OUS Maîtres en Chirurgie de cette Ville, commis dans ce Port par S. A. S. Monseigneur l'Amiral, en exécution de l'Ordonnance du Roi, du 5 Juin 1717, s'étant à nous présenté le sr Jean Burch Dubieu Dolioulle, en présence pour servir en qualité de Chirurgien naviguant; & nous ayant paru qu'il est Catholique, Apo- stolique & Romain, nous l'avons bien & dûe- ment examiné, sur quoi nous ayant satisfait, nous le jugeons capable de s'embarquer sur les Navires Marchands pour y exercer la Chirur- gie & y médicamenter les Malades avec toute l'application & l'exactitude possible: En foi de quoi nous lui avons expédié la présente Attes- tation. A Marseille le 15 Oct. 1725
En présence de Monsieur l'Amiral
Reçu Cinglières Gerreymond Contrôleur enregistré au greffe de l'amirauté de Marseille le 4. X. 1725. G. Alvois

Patience Hannah Burill widow of Dott John Burill of South Carolina abt 1836 or 1838
J. M. Gadsby
are the papers on file L. M. R.

No 13714
Patience Wama Burvelle
Sc Ld. F.W. Rhine Oct 5th '48
Reptd
1494
act 7 July 1838

1494
Purelle
P. O. Patience Hanna John Purelle
Service: REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: cause of rejection not entered on printed list of 1832
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Oct 26/80 Resp Can Hannah Burill
J. S. Edwards, Esq. Compt of Housing

Washington October 26 th 1850
Dear Sir,
On requesting of you, this morning, the favor to let me see the papers under the act of July 7 th 1838 re in the suspended case of Mrs Hannah Burrell, widow of John Burrell, dec d of North Carolina, you informed me that you could not under the new regulations of the Office; but if I would address you a letter, the information desired should be furnished. I therefore respectfully request that you will furnish me with a respectful statement of the service, as set forth in Mrs Burrell's declaration, in order that I may proceed understandingly in my efforts to procure the additional proof necessary to establish her claim to a pension.
I beg that you will give me the information without delay & oblige
Very respectfully, M c Mo. St
H. H. Addison
A. S. Edwards, Esq Comm r Pensions

April 29. 48
J. W. Pique son of Patience H. and A. Burrell m a of Doct John
Burrell
Asa

Washington City April 28 th 1848.
Sir,
I transmit herewith the declaration of Mrs Patience Hanna Burrelle widow of the late Doct r . John Burrelle, a surgeon in the French Army & Navy under Major General La Fayette and who served as such, with the allied forces of America & France from 1778 until the close of the War. Mrs Burrelle who is eighty one years old or thereabouts resides in Union District D.C.
She claims relief under several acts of congress, as set forth in her declaration. Early action is respectfully requested.
Yours Very Respectfully J. M. Risque
James L. Edward Ely Commissioner of Pension Washington City.