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Benjamin Sadler of Sumner County, Tennessee
Revolutionary Pension file # S39060

Contributed by Jerald Wilson
© 2005

Transcribed from the Revolutionary War records on Heritage Quest;

From a letter in the file dated January 22, 1937 to Vallie Boatman of Cooksville, Tennessee the National Archives stated.

Pension #39060 is for service and disability incurred by Benjamin Sadler in the Revolutionary War.

Benjamin Sadler enlisted in Virginia in 1776, served as a private in Captain Samuel Woodson's Company, Colonel George Mathews' 9th Virginia Regiment and was discharged in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania having served two years and six months.

Benjamin Sadler was allowed pension from January 1, 1803 under the Act of April 25, 1808, on account of disability incurred in service during the Revolutionary War. The nature of the wounds and injuries are not shown.

The statements made by this soldier in this application for pension are not on file, because of the destruction of papers when the British burned the public buildings in 1814. Benjamin Sadler was a resident of Goochland County, Virginia in 1808, and in December 1819, had moved to Sumner County, Tennessee. While a resident of that county, he applied February 22, 1822, for pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War as stated above. In 1822, he was aged sixty-six years: the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. This pension was granted under the Act of March 18, 1818. There was no mention of a wife or children of this soldier.

District of West Tennessee-SS
On this 22nd day February 1822 personally appeared in open Court in the County of Sumner in said State being a Court of record for said County, Benjamin Sadler aged sixty six years & resident in said County in said District who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted in 1776 in the Virginia line with Capt Sam'l Woodson who belonged to or was attached to Colonel George Matthew's ninth Virginia regiment and served as a soldier in said regiment two years and six months and at the expiration of his time of Service was honorably discharged at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania and I so 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 means disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the united states in the revolutionary war passed on the18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any properties or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the attached hereunto annexed.

Schedule
One blind mare, one cow & calf 2 beds and furniture, one small pot, one oven & skellet Four pewter basons, 1 dish ditto & 3 plates and a spinning wheel and pair cotton cards and one Reel 1 can 1 coffee pot 2 pails and one washing tub
Benjamin Sadler
Property attested or valued by the Court to $75.00
Sworn to in open court on the 22nd day of February 1822
I David Shelby Clerk of the Sumner County Court in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the forgoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total subscribed in value of the property contained in the aforesaid schedule is Seventy five dollars, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 22nd day of March 1822.
David Shelby
Clerk of the Court for the County of Sumner.



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