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GAGenWeb Archives File Manager, Hall County Carolyn Golowka, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by Bill Stephenson, Jr., January 2000 Transcribed by William L. Stephenson, Jr., September, 1999. Transcription of Military Records Revolutionary War Veteran Beal Baker - National Archives file W. 5212 Beal Baker was born in MD. He migrated south through VA, spent some time in NC, lived for a number of years in Franklin County GA and eventually settled in Hall County GA. He is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville GA. As a descendant of Beal Baker, I have been researching his lineage. These documents provide some information, which in conjunction with other documents, help in understanding the genealogy. A copy of the Revolutionary War files of Beal Baker was requested from the National Archives. The copy of the documents is, at best, a poor copy which the National Archives attributes to the age of the original documents. A clean copy machine and better care in making the copies would certainly improve the results. Following is a transcription of the materials, using a best effort approach. ------------------------- N.C. Baker, Beal W.5212 Sarah Georgia 23847 Beal Baker of Hall in the State of Ga. who was a pri. in the ----- commanded by Captain ----- of the Inf. commanded by Col McDowell in the North Ca. line for 6 months Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 20 dollars ----- cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of April and Sind I..ue Law Gainesville, Ga. Arrears to the 4th of hearset 60 Semi-ant. Allowance ending at life 10 $70 {Revolutionary Claim, } {Act June 7, 1832. } Recorded by a. Flier Clerk, Book E Vol. 6 Page 86 Dead Past at the Treasury under the Act of 6 April 1838 from 4th March to 31 Aug 1842 - Agent notified 27 July 1845 --------------------------------- State of Georgia Hall County JP On this the fifth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty two personaly appeared in open Court Before John Nichols, Samuel Fenly and Thomas S. Tate judges of the Inferior Court now sitting as a Court of ordinary. Beal Baker a resident of said State & County aged Seventy Six years the ninth day of February last 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. Deponent states he entered the service by volunteering in the place of a younger brother who was drafted on the 25th day of March does not recollect distinctly in what year but thinks it was in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine under Capt. William Armstrong does not recollect the name of the Majr. But was under Col. Malanady but recollects that he marched under Genl. Butler until he joined head quarters when Genl. Lincoln commanded that he served a tour of three months. Lived in Rowann County North Carolina when he entered the Service this tour was called and known by the name of the Stone campaign. Deponent returned home at the expiration of the term. Removed to Lincoln County North Carolina and in the month of September Seventeen hundred and eighty one turned out again under Capt. John Hurstleberry. Majr. White Col. McDowell & Genl. Rutherford. Served a tour of three months at Wilmington North Carolina. Was discharged in wintery oper by Francis Defoe which discharge is lost or destroyed. Deponent further states that he received a discharge for his first tour of duty from Genl. Rutherford which is also lost. That he was born in Baltimore County State of Maryland on the ninth day of February Seventeen hundred and fifty one. That the record of his age has been recently lost. That he lived in Lincoln County North Carolina several years after the war. Then he moved to the state of Georgia Franklin County and remained upwards of thirty years. Then he moved to Hall County in said state where has lived for the last ten years and where he now lives. That he has no documenting evidence. He duly relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the payout 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 before. (signed) Beal Baker (signed) John Nichols JJC ----------------------------------- War Department Pension Office Apl. 17 1833 Sir: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:}). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. [Note - the following information is in tabular form that has been transcribed for clarity as text.] A statement, showing the service of Beal Baker Period when the service was rendered - 25 March thinks 1779 vol. Duration of the Claimant’s service - 3 months Rank of the Claimant - Pri. Names and Rank of the Company officers under which he served - Capt. Wm Armstrong Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. - Genl. Butler Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period - 76 years Rowan Co. No. Ca. Evidence by which the declaration is supported - Traditionary & Witness Period when the service was rendered - Sept 1780 Duration of the Claimant’s service - 3 months Rank of the Claimant - Pri. Names and Rank of the Company officers under which he served - Capt. Jno. Hurstlebury Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. - Maj. White Col. McDowell Genl. Rutherford I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions. ----------------------------------- Aucusetment to Beal Baker declaration Georgia Hall County Personally appeared before same the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for said county, Beal Baker who being duly sworn depoth 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 grades on this the 25 of March 1779. I volunteered in the place of a younger brother and undizaoused at a place called Charlotte in Mecklenburg County North Carolina and on the 11th of April in the same year was placed under the command of Capt. William Armstrong and attached to the regiment of Col. Malmady a french officer. This was a three months tour in which I served as a private militiaman . We marched to the Savannah River near Augusta and from there to a place called Pond Ponds near the Stono inlet where we remained five or six days before the battle was fought at Stono which engagement I was not in being with the baggage I remained at this place until the 27th of June it being two days after my term of service ended. I then went home & got my discharge from Genl. Rutherford after getting home. Some time in September 1781 I was called out again by Capt. John Hursteberry to stand a draft but volunteered for three months as a private militiaman and was attached to Col. McDowells Regiment and marched to Wilmington North Carolina and from there to a place called Claytons at the North East River eighten miles from Wilmington at which place I was discharged by Frances Defore a french officer having served my time of three months and for which service I claim a pension. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th Jany 1834 (signed) Beal Baker (signed) Wiley E. Wood J.J.C. Georgia Hall County I John B. Nichols clerk of the Inferior Court of said county hereby certify that Wiley E. Wood before which the above affidavit was made is an acting Justice of the Inferior Court and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. Given under my hand and seal Clerks office this 28th January 1834 (signed) John B. Nichols C.S.C. ------------------------------------ Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the Pension act of Congress of July 1838 for certain widows and pension benefactors under present conditions. State of Georgia April 2nd 1844 Hall County Special Claims Court On the 2nd day of April 1844 personally appeared before the Honorable the Inferior Court of Hall County Georgia the same being a court of Record Mrs. Sarah Baker a resident of said county and State aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law saith on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Beal Baker of the County and State referenced the identical pension named in an Original Certificate in her possession of which the following is a true copy. War Department Revolutionary Claims I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 June 1832. Beal Baker of the State of Georgia who was a private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty Dollars and ---cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. Given at the War Office of the United States this 10th day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty four - (Signed) Lew Cafe Secretary of War Examined and Countersigned (signed) J. L. Edwards -------------------------- Commissioner of Pensions That said Beal Baker was a private and served in the War of the Revolution and for proof of his services she refers to the evidence on which he drew his pension. And this deponent further states that the aforesaid Beal Baker died on the 31st day of August - eighteen hundred and forty two in Hall County Georgia. And this deponent declares that she was legally married to the said Beal Baker by a Justice of the Peace by the name of James Alexander in Burke County North Carolina on the 22nd day of March Seventeen hundred and Eighty two and that her husband died on the day aforesaid. That she has no Documenting evidence of their having been married as aforesaid that the Justice of the Peace handed her the marriage license after they were executed that they were destroyed in moving and their family record That she knows of no relative living other than Elias Baker and Sarah Baker who could testify to the fact that she has been a widow since the perview of her husbands death that she was not married prior to her husbands last service but was married prior to the 1st day of January 1794 and at the time above states all of which will more fully appears by reference to proof hereunto annexed. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court (signed) Sarah Baker (her mark) this 2nd day of April 1844 Attest J. P. Muncy Clrk ------------------------------------------ Personally appearance in open court Isiah Pricket - a resident of said County and State aged 50 years first being duly sworn according to law saith on his oath make the following statement that he has been acquainted with Beal Baker who was a residence of the Justice states in Hall County Ga and Sarah Baker the above claimant for the space of fifty five years or more First that they have been living together peaceably as man and wife from and before his first acquaintance with them that they were always reputed to have been legally married in their neighborhood where they have formerly resided and he concurs in that aforesaid and this deponent further states that he is personally acquainted with their children and believes the eldest to be at least fifty five years of age or more And this deponent further states that this aforesaid Beal Baker died on the 31st day of August 1842 leaving Sarah Baker his widow. Sworn to in open court and subscribed (signed) Isiah Pricket this 3 April 1844. Attest (signed) J. P. Muncy Clrk ---------------------------------------------- State of Georgia Chattooga County Be it known that on the nineteenth day of June eighteen hundred and forty four before me John Baker an acting Justice of the Inferior Court of said county personly appeared Sarah Baker wife of Elias Baker aged about 88 years resident of the county and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Statement that she lived in Burk County State of North Carolina in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two and that she entertains no doubts but that Beal Baker and Sarah Brown formerly - now Sarah Baker was legally married together in the year Seventeen hundred eighty two by James Alexandria a Justice of the peace in Said County though said deponent was not personally present to witness the ceremony but that she believes her husband Elias Baker was present and did witness the said ceremony and deponent further saith on oath that she has been personly acquainted with Beal Baker and Sarah Baker from the time of their intermarriage together until the death of Beal Baker and that she entertains no doubts but what they were legally man and wife and that they did live together as such until the death of the said Beal Baker and this deponent further saith on oath that her husband Elias Baker departed this life on the eighteenth day of November eighteen hundred and forty three. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above mentioned before me & I further certify that Mrs. Sarah Baker is a respectable witness and entitled to full credit - in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand officially this nineteenth day of June 1844. (signed) John Baker J.S.C. (signed) Sarah Baker her mark ------------------------------------ 4701 Georgia Sarah Baker widow of Beal Baker who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 dollars ------- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of April ’47 and sent to Col J Knox Walker Present Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 208 Vol.3 -------------------------------------------------- State of Georgia Hall County On this the 19th day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty nine before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared John Baker well known to me to be a credible person and after being duly sworn according to law Declares that he is the oldest child of Beal Baker and his wife now the widow Sarah Baker and according to the statements of his parents that he was sixty four year old on the 15th day of October 1848 and he states that he has heard his parents say frequently that they were married about the close of the revolutionary War and lived in Lincoln County North Carolina until they removed to Franklin County in this state which must have been 50 odd years ago as he was quite small when they moved to this State and he further states that he has no doubt that his parents were legally married according to the laws of North Carolina and about the year 1783 as the deponent was married in Franklin County in this State in the twenty second year of his age by Joel Mabry Esq. Which will go to prove that his parents were married about the before recutianed period and has no doubt that his mother Sarah Baker is entitled to a Pension as the widow of a Pensioner and a Revolutionary Soldier. Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year (signed) John Baker before written his mark Test (signed) W. M. Varnum (signed) Samuel Stephens J. Peace State of Georgia Hall County I William Sitton Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for the county & State aforesaid do certy that Samuel Stephens whose name appears in the above in an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature (above) is genuine. Given under my hand and Seal of office at Gainesville this 26th day of March 1849 (signed) William Sitton Clerk S.C. ------------------------------ ____12 War Section & 18 ion, March 25, 1925 Mrs. John M. Hulsey 93 Green St., Gainesville, Ga. Madam: I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.5212, it appears that Beal Baker was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, February 9, 1756. While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted March 25, 1779, as a private under Captain William Armstrong, Colonel Malmedy’s North Carolina Regiment, and served three months. Having moved to Lincoln County, North Carolina, he enlisted in September 1781 as a private under Captain John Hurstleberry, Colonel McDowell’s North Carolina regiment, and served three months. He was allowed pension on his application executed November 5, 1832, while a resident of Hall County, Georgia. He died there August 31, 1842. Soldier married in Burke County, North Carolina, March 22, 1782, Saran Brown who was born February 15, 1759. She was allowed pension on her application executed April 2, 1844, while a resident of Hall County, Georgia. They had children, no names mentioned except John who was born October 15 1784, and married in Franklin County, Georgia, when in his twenty-second year, name of wife not stated, and his address in 1849 was Crossville, Lumpkin County, Georgia. Respectfully, Acting Commissioner. One Elias Baker a res. in 1832 of Gwinnett Co. Ga. stated that he served 2 tours of 3 mos each in the Rev. - circle - this sol Beal Baker & one Sarah Baker in 1844 stated that her husband Elias Baker was present at the marriage of Beal Baker & Sarah Brown. The rela of these parties to the sol- is not shown. AWF