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Mordecai Batson, of Fauquier County, VA
b.Abt 1755
m. Bef 1755 - Mordecai Batson, of Fauquier County, VAAbt 1755 - 1829
- Abel BatsonAbt 1767 - Bef 1845
Facts and Events
Research Leads
Likely related to Abel Batson (abt. 1770-1845) who was married 1798 in Fauquier County, Virginia. [possible sibling?]. Needs additional research.
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Batson, Mordica - entered service 1776 in Virginia; granted Pension age 63 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 1818; died 1/6/1829; family in 1821 was Rachel Batson age 61 & Wesley Batson (no relationship listed); query letter in file states soldier's widow Rachel died in Dayton, Ohio. R177.
References
- Ancestry.com - Message Boards.
Dr. John D. Batson
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 648 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
DR. JOHN D. BATSON; P.O. Oddville; was born in Millersburg, Bourbon County, Ky., Aug. 5, 1824; son of John A. and Rachel (Drummond) Batson. He, born in Fauquier County, Va., in January, 1787; a farmer, and son of Mordecai and Elizabeth Batson, who were natives of Virginia. She, born in Virginia Nov. 22, 1793; daughter of Amos and Rebecca Drummond, of Virginia. John A. died in Kentucky in 1851, his wife having preceded him to the Land of Shadows in 1839, leaving seven children, our subject being the sixth son. Dr. Batson received his primary education principally in Bourbon and Harrison Counties, and then took a course at the Medical College at Cincinnati, graduating from that institution in 1845, when he commenced the practice of his profession, at which he has continued ever since. Jan. 2, 1853, he married, in Harrison County, Miss Susan C. Crow, born in Harrison County, in October, 1834; daughter of Rev. J.C. and Nancy W. Crow, from which union has resulted in three children: David W., James R., and John B. The first named is President of the Kentucky Wesleyan College, the second is a physician, and the third a farmer....
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=206&p=surnames.batson
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension application of Mordecai Battson (Mardica Batson) S35184 f23VA
Transcribed by Will Graves 2/11/18
[p 11]
District of Kentucky SS
On this 19th of August 1818 before the Subscriber one of the Judges of the General
Circuit Court for the District aforesaid personally appeared Mordecai Battson aged 63 years a resident of Bourbon County in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the provisions made by the late 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 –
That he enlisted in the year 1776 in the state of Virginia in the Company commanded by
Captain Stephen Ashby of the 12th Virginia regiment Colonel Wood [James Wood] as well as he
now recollects for the term of two years and that he served out the said time and was discharged in the State of Pennsylvania not very far from Philadelphia – that he was in the Battles of Brandywine [September 11, 1777] and Germantown [October 4, 1777]; – That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence than he now offers of his said services
Sworn to and declared before me this Day and year aforesaid.
S/ Benj. Johnson, Circuit Judge
[p 12]
[illegible] Hardin1 this day made oath before me that he served in the Revolutionary war in 1776 and that the above named Mordecai Battson served in the same Company with him the affiant and that he is in reduced circumstances in life. Witness my hand this 19th of August 1818.
S/ Benj. Johnson, Circuit Judge
[p 13: erroneously included in this file]
I do hereby appoint Colonel Richard M. Johnson my agent and attorney-in-fact to act for me in [indecipherable word] the within business. Witness my hand this 19th day of August 1818
S/ Benj. Hardin, X his mark
[p 4]
State of Indiana, Sullivan County Sct
On this 15th day of October in the year of our Lord 1821 personally appeared in open
Court being a Court of Record being Expressly made so by the Laws of the State in the Circuit Court of Sullivan County and State aforesaid Mardica Batson [sic] aged sixty-six years Resident in the State and County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows for the Space of two years in the Company commanded by Captain Stephen Ashly [sic] – in the 12th Virginia regiment
Commanded by Colonel Woods [sic] in the Virginia line agreeable to an original declaration
dated 19th of August 1818 – and pension Certificate No. 5065 and I do Solemnly Swear that I
was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 – and that I have not Since that time by Gift, Sale or in any Manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it 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 the 18th of March 1818 – and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Security or trust or dense due to me nor have I any income other than what is Contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed new (Viz.) 2 horses worth seventy dollars $70.00
3 head of Cattle worth twenty dollars 20.00
10 hogs fifteen dollars 15.00
Cupboard ware twelve dollars 12.00
Castings five dollars twenty-five cents 5.25
And Spinning wheels three dollars 3.00
1 Table three dollars 3.00
Three Chairs one dollar fifty cents 1.50
Two pails one dollar 1.00
Making in all one hundred and thirty three dollars and
Twenty five cents $133.25
S/ Mardica Batson
I am a farmer but unable to farm it I have besides myself only two in family Rechel Batson
[Rachel Batson?] aged Sixty one years nearly blind and unable to support herself and Wesly
Batson aged 11 years and unable to support himself –
Sworn to in open Court this 15th of October 1821
S/ Samuel Coleman, Clerk
[The above docuument sworn to be a true copy of the documents filed in the records of the court by the clerk.]
[Veteran was pension at the rate of $8 per month commencing August 19th, 1818, for service as a private for 2 years in the Virginia Continental line.]
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11 Benjamin Hardin S31100. This veteran filed for his pension on the same date before the same judge
http://revwarapps.org/s35184.pdf
- United States. War Department. Revolutionary War rolls 1775-1783. (Washington [District of Columbia]: The National Archives, 1957).
Name: Mordicai Batson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 3 Apr 1775
Military Place: Virginia, USA
State or Army Served: Virginia
Regiment: 12th Regiment
- United States. War Department. Revolutionary War rolls 1775-1783. (Washington [District of Columbia]: The National Archives, 1957).
Name: Mordacai Batson
Gender: Male
Military Date: 2 Sep 1778
Military Place: Virginia, USA
State or Army Served: Virginia
Regiment: 4th Regiment
Rank: Private
- Kentucky, United States. Tax Lists, 1799-1801. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006).
Name: Mordecai Batson
Residence County: Bourbon
Residence Year: 1800
- United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).
Name: Mordica Batson
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Stoner, Bourbon, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1765 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1 [b. 1765 or before]
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 4
- United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).
Name: Mordecai Batson
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Sullivan, Indiana
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
Free White Persons - Under 16: 2
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4
- The Pension Roll of 1835: Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).
Name: Mordecai Battson
Rank: Private
Age: 74
Birth Year: abt 1744 [Note: Revolutionary Pension File shows Mordecai was born abt. 1755]
Pension Enrollment Date: 19 Aug 1818
Residence Place: Sullivan, Indiana, USA
Death Date: 6 Jan 1829
Service Description: Virginia line
Note: Transferred from Burton County, Kentucky.
- Summers, Lewis Preston. History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870. (Richmond, Va: J.L. Hill Print. Co, 1903)
pg. 147-148.
That on the 24th of July [1774], he, with his three man, repaired to the place appointed, where he found that a part, or all of the company, had assembled according to agreement, but had gone off in the greatest precipitation, leaving him only this notice written on a tree: "Alarmed by finding some people killed, we are gone down", upon which he, with his small party, immediately set out, steering for our settlements; and after an extremely painful and fatiguing journey of sixteen days through mountains almost inaccessible and ways unknown, he at last arrived on Clinch river. He did not well understand the notice left him on the tree, whether part of the company had assembled at the Cabin, and that they had gone down to the camp in order to warn those who were at work in that neighborhood of danger, or whether the whole company had met and were departed down the Mississippi, as several in the company had before proposed returning home that way, with a view both to see the country and avoid the fatigue of returning by land. The names of some of the party not then returned are here inserted, viz: James Douglas, Hancock Taylor and Isaac Bledsoe; Surveyors John Willis, Willis Lee, Captain John Ashby, Abraham Hempenstall, William Ballard, John Green, Lawrence Darnell, Mordecai Batson, John Sodusky, James Strother and John Ball."
- Pendleton, William Cecil. History of Tazewell County and southwest Virginia, 1748-1920. (Richmond: W.C. Hill Print. Co., 1920)
pg. 261-262.
[April 1774]
In the first entry [Thomas] Hanson says:
:We left Col. Wm. Preston's in Fincastle County at one o'closk in high spirits, escorted by the Coln. three miles, eight of us being in company, viz. Mr. John Floyd, assistant surveyor, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Hite, Mr. Dandridge, Thos. Handon, Jaems Nocks (Knox), Roderick McCra & Mordecai Batson. We traveled fifrteen biles to John McGuffins at Sinking Creek.
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