Pension Application of Jacob Butt: S39250
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
On this the 11th day of June 1832 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County aforesaid Jacob Butt resident in said County aged Seventy Eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & the first of May 1820 that he the said Jacob Butt entered the army in the War of the Revolution against our Common enemy in the fall of the year 1779 in the State of Virginia in the Company Commanded by Capt Thomas Bowyer in the regiment Commanded by Colo Richard Campbell in the army of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps for the full term of Eighteen months during which time he was in the battle at Guilford Courthouse & at Camden [sic: the second Battle of Camden, also called the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill, 25 April 1781] and several skirmishes then was discharged from the service at Camden in the State of South Carolina in the year 1781
that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except the state of Virginia, and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension to wit that untill very recently he lived with a relation who was in good circumstances and in whose house he lived for a great number of years as one of the family occasionally assisting in the labours of the farm and that his relation departed this life about two years ago since which time he has been and is now dependent upon the charity and bignificence[?] of the legatees of his deceased relation for a support and in pursuance of the act of Congress passed the first day of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed – that since the 18th of March 1818 no changes have been made in my property Jacob his+mark Butt
The following is a Schedule of the property of Jacob Butt to Wit One horse[?] [word illegible] worth $45 Jacob his X mark Butt
NOTE: A typed summary in the file states that Jacob Butt died August 8, 1838.