On the sixth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty three personally
appeared in open court before the Court of Hickman County now sitting,Ivey Burnham, a
resident of Hickman County in the County of Hickman and the State of Tennessee aprt(?)
twenty nine years 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 (orig?) passed the 7th of
June 1832.

That the aforesaid Ivey Burnham entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer
between the age of sixteen and seventeen (say 16 & 17) under the following named
Officers. General Isaac Gregory, Colonel Peter Dozier, Major William Finly(?), Captain
John _____?, Lieutenant Thomas Grandy(?) and Ensign Joseph Stockett(?). That he served
a six months tour or Campaigne, was regularly discharged ___? and obtained a certificate
of his discharge which said certificate he left in the possesion of a certain Lott Sawyer, a
citizen and resident in the County of Pasquotank in the State of North Carolina about forty
six years ago when he emigrated to this state Tennessee that he has understood and
believes that the aforesaid Lott Sawyer hath long since departed this life and he further
believes that the aforesaid Certificate of discharge is destroyed lost or mislaid so that he
cannot find or procure the same. And this affiant further states that he as a volunteer served
in two other Campaigns in partisan? now?, once under a Captain Harbarde(?) when he was
out a long time and suffered many privations and at another time he went Col. Peter Dozier
after the Tories. He also further states that he is unlettered and a man of little or no
__________?  and from various afflictions his memory is somewhat impaired so that he
cannot consistently be more minute. But prays that the accompanying Certificate of his
correct  as Portment(?) veracity and good standing may be taken as a of this his affiance.
the certificate being marked Letter A.

And he the aforesaid Ivey Burnham relinquishes every 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.
Ivey Burnham (his mark)
Statement of  Alexander Baker and William Underhill

State of  Tennessee
Hickman County

We Alexander Baker & William Underhill both residing in the County of Hickman in the
State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ivey Burnham who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be about seventy
nine years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to
have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid that is the sixth of March 1843

Alexander Baker
Wm. Underhill

_______? Said Court do hereby order their opinion after investigation of the the matter and
after ______? the ___________? prescribed by the War Department that the above named
applicant ( Ivey Burnham) was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.nd the
Court further certifies that it appears to them that Alex Baker & William Underhill who has
signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of Hickman and are Honorable
Persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, James D. Easley, Clerk of the County Court of Hickman do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the
application of Ivey Burnham for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the sixth day of March
1843
J. D. Easley Clk.

Ivey Burnham _____? to amend his affidavit by saying that he has produced the best
evidence in his power of his service in the revolution for that every one of his compatriots
in that glorius struggle lived in the State of North Carolina & that he has understood that
they have long since departed this life or if any of them be living they unknown to him. At
the time he served his six month tour he took up his line of march at & from Kaur(?) bridge
in Camden County, NC and marched to North west near Riverbridge(?) in Virginia. the
name of the county in VA. he does not recollect. after being at North west bridge we had to
retreat. formed a kind of Kind of fortification in Currituck Swamp in North Carolina where
we fought the British and drove them back. When with Col. Dozier we took five Tories on
Currituck Shore. And further this affiant saith not.
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Answers to Interrogotories:
To the interrogotories proposed by the war Department he answer as follows
Question 1st: When & in what year were you born?
Answer 1st: On the 8th May 1764
Question 2: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer 2: I had a record of my age in the Family Bible but it is now lost misplaced or
destroyed, the leaf being torn out.
Question 3: Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since
the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Answer 3: When I volunteered I lived in Camden County North Carolina where I continued
to live until the year 1790 when I emigrated to Tennessee and I now live in Hickman
County in the State of Tennessee.
Question 4: How were you called into Service. Were you drafted, did you volunteer or
were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer 4: I volunteered was not drafted & was not a substitute.
Question 5: State the Names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops
when you served such. Continental & Militia regiments as you can recollect and the general
circumstances of your service.
Answer 5: I have stated in my affadavit the General and other field officers who were with
us. Col. Jarvis of Currituck County N.C. was also with us. the names and members of the
regiments I do not remember nor do I remember that I ever knew them but I recollect that a
certain Colonel Thomas Harvey of Pasquotank County N. Carolina was with us and I run a
race with him. Then together with the other particulars and several circumstances which I
have heretofore stated are all that I can recollect in relation to the 5th Question.
Question 6: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it
given and what became of it?
Answer 6: I did receive a discharge from the service. It was given me by Colonel Peter
Dozier under whom I served. About 46 or 47 years ago when I was about leaving N.
Carolina for Tennessee, I gave my discharge to a certain ____ _____ _____?
Question 7: State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhoodand who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your
services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer 8: Moses Johnson, Granville Johnson (a Justice of the peace), Joseph Hassell?,
William Hassells, William H. Dorman? (a constable) & William Chamberlain and further
the affiant saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this sixth day of March, 1843.
Ivey Burnham
his mark
 

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