Fauquier County, VA - Francis Ballard Revolutionary War Record

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Series: M805  Roll: 45
Image: 410  File: S6553
[Following found in pension file]

October 4, 1938

Mrs. Bee Cockrell
Martha Washington Apartments
Gadsden, Alabama

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in
regard to John Shamburger of Moore County, North Carolina, and Frances
Clement Ballard, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Louis Frederick
Ballard, who was in the battle of New Orleans, and Frances Clement
Ballard, 2nd, who was in the war between the states and died while in
service.

Revolutionary Way and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are
obtained from claims for pension made to the United States based upon
the military service of soldiers of those wars.

A careful search of the records has been made in your behalf. No claim
for pension has been found based upon service of any soldier with 
surname Shamburger or similar spelling, and no claim on account of the
services of Frances Clement Ballard or Clement Ballard, Revoluntionary
War soldiers. The War of 1812 records do not show a claim for pension
on file on account of the services of a Frederick Ballard as described
by you, or of Louis Frederick Ballard or Louis Ballard. This office has
no record of service rendered in the Confederate Army, Civil War, hence
no record of Frederick Clement Ballard, 2nd. The history of Francis
Ballard, the only soldier of the name found on the Revolutionary War
records of this office, is furnished below, as found in the papers on
file in pension claim, S.6553, based upon his services in the War of
the Revolution.

Francis Ballard was born in January, 1761, about seven miles from 
Petersburg, Virginia, and when a child moved to Edgecombe County, North
Carolina (that part of Edgecombe County which was later Nash County).

He enlisted in Nash County, North Carolina, about June, 1777 and served
three months as a substitute for his brother, William Ballard, as a
private in Captain Solomon Carpenter's company, Colonel Axom's North
Carolina regiment. About a year after the termination of this service,
he enlisted and served for more than two months, dates and officers'
names not given. He enlisted in March, 1781, and served three months
under Colonel Linton in the North Carolina troops and was in the battle
of Guilford Court House.

Some five or six years after the Revolution, he moved to Pensacola,
Florida; lived there about ten years; then moved to Adams County,
Mississippi; then to Copiah County, Mississippi, where he had lived
for five years when pension was allowed on his application executed
June 24, 1833.

He died October 30, 1833.

There is no further data as to his family.

                             Very truly yours

                             A.D. Hiller
                             Executive Assistant
                             to the Administrator

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