Person:Obediah Basham (3)

About Obediah Basham

Obediah owned 50 acres of land worth $150, one horse, two cows and three calves. In Feb 1823 he sold the land to Henry Basham. One horse and some money went to pay his debts.

Obediah was a private in the Regiment of Col Parker in the Virginia Line for three years and was placed on the Kentucky Pension Roll at $8 per month under the Act of 1818 from 25 July 1818. Certificate #9411 was issued 14 April 1819.

Some sources say Obediah was the son of William Basham or James Basham or Jeremiah Basham.

One source notes Obediah was the son of James Basham (born bef. 1746 in Cumberland County, Virginia and died after 1830) and Frances Mary Taylor. They married on 20 Mar 1762 in Fauquier Co., VA. Frances was the daughter of Benjamen Taylor and Elizabeth.

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. :

Bassham, Obadiah, entered service 1777-8, Cumberland County, Virginia; granted Pension Breckenridge County, Kentucky, 1818; abt. age 63 there in 1823 when family, wife abt. age 60, son Francis age 15; soldier died 5/28/1840. R171.

1.   Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000).

   Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000.

2.   National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Cemeteries, ca. 1800-2006. (Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006).

   Online publication - National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Cemeteries, ca.1800-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006.Original data - National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator..

3.   Find A Grave.

   Obediah Basham
   Birth 7 Apr 1760
   Cumberland County, Virginia, USA
   Death 28 May 1840 (aged 80)
   Clifton Mills, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, USA
   Burial
   Basham Cemetery #5
   Breckinridge County, Kentucky, USA
   
   Rev WAR soldier.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12624487/obediah-basham

4.   United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.).

   Name: Obadiah Bassham [
   ]
   Pension Year: 1819
   Application State: Kentucky
   Applicant Designation: Survivor's Pension Application File
   Second Applicant Name: Obediah Basham
   Archive Publication Number: M804
   Archive Roll Number: 171
   Total Pages in Packet: 18
   
   

5.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   Pension Application of Obediah Basham S35185
   Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
   
   Commonwealth of Kentucky
   Breckenridge [sic: Breckinridge] County Sct [25 July 1818]
   Obediah Bassham of the County & State aforesaid states and declairs that as well as he now recollects in the year 1777 or 8 in Cumberland County in the State of Virginia he enlisted under Capt John Lee in the first Virginia Regiment Command by Col’n. [Richard] Parker to serve for three years in the Continental line that he served out the full period of his enlistment he was first transfered to Capt Joseph Carringtons Company then at Petersburg in the State of Virginia he was transfered to Capt. Tollivers [Taliaferro’s] Company that he was taken prisoner at Charlestown [12 May 1780] that he was sent by water to Williamsburg and was discharged by an officer whose name he does not recollect that he has lost his discharge – that he knows of no person in the County by whom he can prove his services – that he was never placed on the pention list – and that from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his Country for Support
   Obediah [his X mark] Basham
   
   Kentucky Breckenridge County Sct.
   County Court September term 1823
   Declaration in order to be restored to the pension list under the act of the first of March 1823.
   County of Breckenridge Sct On this 16 day of September 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the County of Breckenridge Obediah Basham resident in said County aged 63 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18 of March 1818 The first of May 1820 and the 1 of March 1823 that he the said Obadiah Basham enlisted for the term of 18 months on the [blank] day of Jan’y. in the year 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt. John Lee in the regiment commanded by Colonel Parker in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the Corps until the [blank] day of July 1779 when he was discharged from the said service in Williamsburg in the State of Virginia
   And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my 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 person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed Fifty acres of land worth $150 one horse worth $50 two cows & three calves worth $25
   Obediah Basham
   his X mark
   
   That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property fifty acres of land N.B. the said Basham further states that he served over his time for which he enlisted on account of his having been taken prisoner at Charlestown.
   
   Names of Persons to whom sold time of sale
   Amount of money, of description of Property received in return Henry Basham February 1823 One horse and some money all went to pay my just debts And my occupation a farmer & very ill able to labour for my living and my family consist of myself & wife & one son my wife aged 60 years & very sickly and my son Francis aged 15 years
   
   NOTE: A document in the file states that Basham died 28 May 1840.
   
   https://www.revwarapps.org/s35185.pdf