Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1227, John Broaddus, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
va.
Broaddus, John
R. 1227
CONTENTS

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832
State of Virginia } County of Caroline } ss
On this 13 th day of October 1834 personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of Caroline then and there sitting as a Court for said county, John Broadus a resident in and of said county aged Seventy 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 "That he entered the service of the United States in May 1780, in the Militia of Virginia under one Captain James Pullen in Caroline County, who was employed to collect and drive beeswax to Fredericksburg and Williamsburg for the use of the Army, that in order to avoid a draft to serve in the regular army he continued under Capt Pullen until after the siege at York where he was discharged. The reason of his avoiding the draft was that Capt Pullen wished him to stay with him, and so did the applicant's father for Captain Pullen was a friend to the family, and the applicant was young and his father placed him in Capt Pullen's care. He was closely and actively engaged in collecting beeswax and when my time of three months would be out I would engage to continue longer with Captain Pullen. During three times we marched through Hanover, King William, New Kent, and the James River country, and were employed and did duty as soldiers in all these places as well as in Fredericksburg. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present andy declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State."
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Broadus
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states

I, Mordecai Broadus aged seventy four  two years, having being first duly sworn do hereby depose in Open Court. That I am well acquainted with the applicant John Broadus. I have known him from his infancy, and well know that he entered the army of the Revolution two years previous to its close and served until after the siege of York. He was to my own personal knowledge a soldier under Capt. Fuller, and was considered as an active, and faithful soldier. I have read his declaration of aid and I believe it contains nothing but the truth.
Given under my hand in Open Court
Mordecai Broadus
And the said Court then proceeded to put to the said John Broadus the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department which are here set forth, with his several answers thereto.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer In the aforesaid county of Caroline in the year May 7. 1764 —
2 nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer At home in our family bible
3 rd Where were you living when called into service — where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Answer Always in the aforesaid County of Caroline
4 th How were you called into service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Answer. In the manner I have stated in my declaration, I never was a substitute for any person.

5 th State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops, where you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general course of your service?
Answer. Genl Woodford, Col William Saunders Col Philip Johnson, Capt Kit Blackburn
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?
Answer. I had one but I have lost it
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Answer Docto J H Upshaw. Col Isa White. R M c Daniel And generally to the whole county
We Spilsbee Woodfolk a clergyman residing in the said county of Caroline and John Anderson - residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Broadus who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Spilsbee Woodfolk
John Anderson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court also certify that the aforesaid witness Mordecai Broadus

Sworn in open Court is a gentleman of character and credit. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Spilobee Woolfolk who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said county, and that J. Anderson who has also signed the same is a resident in said county and is a credible person and their statement is entitled to credit.
I, John L. Pendleton Clerk of the aforesaid Court of Caroline County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Broadus for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 29th day of October 1826 in the 5th year of the Commonwealth. John L. Pendleton
Mr. Pendleton Sir
See Petition
John Broadus
Shasta P.O.
Caroline Co
Virg

April 18, 1932
BA-J/TEL
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John Broadus-R.1227
Miss Martha Lou Houston 621-19th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your personal request of this date relative to John Broadus, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, R.1227, based upon the military service of soldiers in that war.
John Broadus was born May 7, 1764, in Caroline County, Virginia. His father was living during the Revolution, his name not given.
While residing in Caroline County, Virginia, he applied for pension August 13, 1832, and stated that while living in said Caroline County, he enlisted in May, 1780, in Captain Christopher Blackburn's Virginia Company, was transferred and served under Captain James Puller in the Virginia Troops, and was engaged in foraging and driving beeves to Fredericksburg and Williamsburg for the use of the army, and served in this capacity on tours of three months each until after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, at least one year and five months in all.
His claim was not allowed as the Act of Congress under which he applied provided only for service of six months in an embodied military corps, and the service of driving beeves did not come within the provisions of said act.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
In 1832, Andrew Broadus, formerly of Caroline County, Virginia, was a clergyman residing in Essex County, Virginia, and in same year, one Reuben Broadus was residing in Caroline County, Virginia. In 1834, one Mordecai Broadus was seventy-four years of age, his place of residence not given. No relationship of any of the above persons surnamed Broadus to the soldier shown.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1229. REJECTED
P. O. John Broadus
John Broadus
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of rejected (or suspended)
Claims, printed in 1852, shows
Re-enlisted: Cause of rejection as follows: Collecting & driving bees for the army, civil service, not military.
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____
_____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1905. Dec. 15. History to Annie M. Broadus. m. B. H.
1932-Apr 18-Visit to Miss M. L. Houston - E.E.H.
1934-Sept 20-Visit to Mary R. Riley - E.E.H.

John a Broddus- Virginia
Rejected
Dec 3 78 36
Confined (See typed copy of letter in claim)
1227

Dec. 5.
John Broadus Virginia
Woman's Store Dec. 5. 1832
Virginia etc.
Rejected see letter Dec. 22 to Seth Saunders.
at home
Adkins Sneer

Feb (Decem. 31) 1892
Sir,
You will receive herewith the papers in support of the Praddus claim to a pension under the act of the 7th June amended according to instructions.
Permit me to call your attention to the papers in support of Mrs. Saunders claim to a pension, transmitted to your office some time ago.
Very respectfully, J. B. North
Actt. Landlord
H. A. Edwards Esq.

I Robert Houston of the county of Caroline and state of Virginia do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Broadus an applicant for a pension under an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. that I have been acquainted with him from a child that I believe him to be not less than sixty eight years of age and do know that he was employed as a bus driver in the revolutionary war but how long he served I do not know
Robert Houston
Caroline County to wit -
Robert Houston personally appeared before me a justice of the peace and made Oath to the above certificate given under my hand This 10 th day of August 1832
J. H. Raper

Sitt. Sandus
Deed to 1832
Recorded Vol. 8. Page 130.
✓ P 157.

War Department Pension Office Dec 10, 1832
Sir
The documents in support of the claim of John Broadbent have been examined and they have been placed on the files in this office. It now appears therefore that he was employed for a period of 17 months in driving bees, for the use of the army. The revolutionary pension laws make no provision for such services of this description . His claim cannot therefore be allowed. When his  the declaration was returned for amendment it was not supposed that he was detailed for such service for so long a time, neither was it the militia of Virginia only drafted to perform tours of more than three months service at one time during the years 1780 and 1781. He
Seth Saunders Esq. could not therefore have been a regularly drafted soldier for the length of time mentioned in his declaration, but must have been employed for the greater portion of the time under a civil contract. f. Seth Saunders Esq. Turners Station Va.

State of Virginia Caroline County to wit
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Caroline John Broadus, who, being duly sworn, deposits 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 grade For the year 1780 he served as a private Eight Months and for the year 1781 he served Nine Months, Making One year and five Months, his whole term of service as a private in the Militia: and for such service I claim a pension
Given under my hand this 27 th day of Novem. 1832
J. H. Upshaw
I James H. Upshaw a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Caroline, whose name is attached to the certificates of Richard Broadus and Robert Houston which said certificates bear date the tenth day of August 1832 and were sworn to be- fore me, do hereby certify that the aforesaid Richard Broadus and Robert Houston whose sign- ed the certificates aforesaid are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit Given under my hand this 27 th day of Novem. 1832
J. H. Upshaw

3743
Mr. Broadus

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832
State of Virginia 5/2 Caroline County 3/2
On this 13 th day of August 1832 personally ap- peared in open court at a Court of Sessions held in and for the said County at the Court house John Broadus a resident of the said County and State aged sixty eight 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 act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - That some time in year 1780 he was drafted into were in the  the company in the com- pany commanded by Capt. Christopher Black- burn, that he was then detailed to forage, or drive horses for the supply of the army un- der the command of Capt. Samson Fuller
That he was contested in that complaint until after the surrender of Cornwallis at York Town , but does not recollect the precise time when he was discharged , or by whom it was given. That at the time
He entered into the service he was resi- dent of the said County and is now resi- dent. That he was never qualified with any of the officers of the regular Army, having been detailed for foraging as soon as he was drafted - That he here by relinquishes every claims whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State or of any, only on the roll of the of the
on the petition of the trust of the agency of the firms and accounts to the day & year aforesaid

Mr Andrew Broadus a clergyman residing in the county of King & Queen  Spotsylvania , formerly a resident of Caroline and Philip Long a resident of Car- oline County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Broadus who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty eight years  of age : that he is upright and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion, sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid and the said Court do hereby expressly declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Andrew Broadus who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman at present a resident of King & Queen  Spotsylvania county but formerly a resident of the county of Caroline and that Philip Long who has also signed the same is a resident of Car- oline County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I John L. Broadus Clerk of the Court of Caroline County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Broadus for a pension. I have hereunto set my hand and  seal and attested this 13th day of  January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  thirty one - John L. Broadus Clerk  and James M. Updegraff

was at the date of the annexed certificate, an acting justice of the peace in said County.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix my seal of office this 13 th day of August 1832.
John L. Biddle
I Reuben Broadus of the County of Caroline State of Virginia do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Broadus an applicant for a pension under an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. that I have been acquainted with him from a child that I believe him to be sixty eight years of age and do know that he was employed as a beef driver in the revolutionary war but how long he served I do not know.
Reuben Broadus
Caroline County To wit—
Reuben Broadus personally appeared before me a justice of the peace and made Oath to the above certificate given under my hand this 10 th day of August 1832
J. H. Marshall
notary

copy
Dec. 3, 1834.
Sir:
The claim of John Broaddus for a pension has been examined.
The character of his service (that of collecting and driving beebes to Fredericksburg) is not such as is recognized by the Act of June 7, 1832, as military service.
The claim is therefore disallowed and the papers placed on file.
To John Broaddus, Sparta P. O., Caroline Co., Va.

Aug. 13. 1832, } 68 years Caroline Co. Va. 2 1834.
at enlistment Caroline Co. Va.
2 { May 7. 1764. Caroline Co. Va.
Where
When May 1780
Term 1 year 5 mos
as
Capt James Puller.
John Ponder's Ser.
Col.
State Va.

W. and N. Div
3-407.
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Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
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The above title should be indorsed on every paper relating to this claim.
Washington, D. C., -----, 190-----
In response to -----
----- for information as to the status of the above-entitled claim for pension, you are informed that it awaits replies to letters of inquiry addressed by this Bureau under date of

Please furnish me record of John Broadus Caroline Co. Va.
Martha Lou Houston 621 - 19 th St., N.W. - city - Apr. 18, 1932
To the admr. Vet. Affairs

Anderson, S. C., Aug. 28, 1934.
The Veterans' Administration, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Kindly advise me whether you have record of service in the Revolutionary War of the following:
John Broaddus of Caroline Co., Va.
▷ Alexander Moorhead of Union and Pendleton Counties, S. C.
Sincerely,
Mary R. Riley
Mary R. Riley Post Office Anderson, S. C.

September 20, 1934
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BA-J/EEL John Broadus-R.1227
Mary R. Riley Anderson South Carolina
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Broadus, of Caroline County, Virginia, and Alexander Moorhead, of South Carolina, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service of an Alexander Moorhead in that war. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.
searched by m.t.s.
It is suggested that as a possible means of obtaining information in regard to the military service of soldiers of that war, you apply to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city, who is custodian of military records.
The record of John Broadus has been found and his history is furnished you herein, the data for which was obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 1227, based upon his military service in that war.
John Broadus was born May 7, 1764, in Caroline County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Caroline County, Virginia, John Broadus applied for pension on August 13, 1832, and stated that while living in said Caroline County, he enlisted in May, 1780, in Captain Christopher Blackburn's Virginia Company, was detailed to serve under Captain James Puller and was engaged in foraging and driving beebes to Fredericksburg and Williamsburg for the use of the army, and served in this capacity on tours of three months each until after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, at least one year and five months in all.

The pension claim of John Broadus was not allowed as the act of Congress under which he applied provided only for service of six months in an embodied military corps and the service of driving beeves did not come within the provisions of said act.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
In 1832, one Andrew Broadus, formerly of Caroline County, Virginia was a clergyman residing in Essex County, Virginia, and in same year, one Reuben Broadus was residing in Caroline County, Virginia. In 1834, one Mordecai Broadus was seventy-four years of age, his place of residence not given. No relationship of any of the above named persons with surname Broadus to the soldier, John Broadus, was shown.
There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.