Service; Virginia
STATE OF GEORGIA
ELBERT COUNTY
On this twenty first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared In open court before Dilliard Herndon, James Oliver and William A. Beck, Justices of the Inferior Court In and for Elbert County and State of Georgia, now setting for said county, James Butler a resident of Elbert County and State of Georgia, aged Seventy four years, seven months and few days, who being 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he was drafted into the service of the United States In the year Seventeen hundred and seventy‑eight for two months under Captain James Anderson In the Regiment Commanded by Colonel John Burton, that at the time when he entered the service he resided In the County of Mecklenburg, State of Virginia, that he joined the regiment at Portsmouth State of Virginia, Where he remained stationed till discharged, after serving two months in the United States service, in the Revolutionary War, the exact date he does not recollect and that he served with no regular officers and none but his own Regiment.
That he was also drafted into the United Service In the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, the exact month or day he does not recollect, for eighteen months under Captain Richard Swiftown in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Davis that he lived In the County of Mechlenburg State of Virginia at the time when he was drafted into the service of United States and joined at Chesterfield Court House State of Virginia, the Headquarters of the regiment when he was changed to Capt. Scotts Co., marched from thence to a place called Wood's Point on James River, where he was in a battle, marched back to head‑quarters at Chesterfield Court House, where he remained station till the expiration of hes service, and then was discharged after serving eighteen months in the United States service the time for which he was drafted. The exact date of his discharge he does not at this time recollect, that he received a written discharge given by Colonel Davis and that he served with no regular officer and with no other Regiment but one to which he belonged.
That he was also drafted into the service of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one, the day and month he does not recollect, for two months under Capt. whose name he cannot now recollect in the Regiment commaned by a Colonel whose name he has entirely lost, that he lived at the time he entered the service of the United States In the County of Mechlenburg State of Virginia, that he joined his regiment at Gloucester In the State of Virginia where he remained until the British army under the command of Lord Corwallis was surrendered to the American and French Army, and after the expiration of two months was discharged from the service of the United State the time for which he was drafted, the exact date of said discharge he does not now recollect that he was acquainted with General Weeden of the Regulars and lived with the army stationed at that place. The particular regiment or companies he does not know by name, that the whole of his service In the United States during the Revolutionary War amounted to one year and ten months and that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person except William Ward whose affidavit is hereto amended whose testimony he can prove, who can testify to his service as a soldier of the Revolution.
He says that he was born in Hanover County in the Parrish called Saint Pauls, State of Virginia on the fifth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight, that he has had a record of his age, but it has either been lost or destroyed, he says that everytime when called into service he was living in the County of Mechlenburg State of Virginia and that he lived after the Revolutionary War about one year or perhaps a little longer In the State of Virginia then removed to Wilkes County now Elbert in the State of Georgia where he has lived ever since and now resides there. Says that he was drafted into the service of United States, says that recollects but one regular officer which served with him, who was General Weedon, he mostly served only with his own Regiment except when at Gloucester, State of Virginia at which place he served with Army stationed there. The names of the particular regiments he does rot recollect by names. He says that he did receive a discharge for his eighteen months service given by Colonel Davis, which he left In Virginia at the time of his removal to the place of his present residence and cannot tell what has become of the same for his other service he received only verbal discharge or disbandment.
That the names of the persons to whom he Is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify to his charactor for veracity and their belief of his ervices as a soldier of the Revolution are: William, Dyogonius Oliver, N. E. Oliver, Samuel Snellings, Arthur Jones and Samuel Jones.
He hereby relinguinches any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Attest.
Benjamin W. Fortson
Signed: James Butler
State of Georgia
Elbert County
Personally appeared in open Court before their Honors Dilliard Herndon, James Oliver, and William A. Beck, Justices of the Inferior Court now setting for said County, William Ward who after being duly sworn, on oath says, that he was well acquainted with James Butler in the Revolutionary War and was with him at Chesterfield Court House in the War of the Revolution and at that place says he was his orderly sergeant.
Sworn to and subscribed this 21st day January 1832.
Benj. W. Fortson
Signed: William Ward
Received from Brian Butler
Transcribed by Madine Butler Evans