Robert Bittick & Sarah Henthorn

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Family Group Record                0130
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                      War of 1812 Service (1814-1815)
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Husband's Name   Robert Bittick
 Born:           1788    Place: North Carolina
 Died:    16 Oct 1869    Place: Arkansas
 Married:    Abt 1825    Place: Clark (Pike) County, Arkansas
 Father:         ....... Bittick
 Mother:         
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Wife's Name      Sarah Henthorn
 Born:                   Place: 
 Died:                   Place: 
 Father:         James Henthorn
 Mother:         Dorcas .......
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Children
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 1. Sex Name
     M  John Washington Bittick
        Born:       Abt 1827    Place: Clark (Pike) County, Arkansas
        Died:    21 Jul 1862    Place: Tupelo, Mississippi (Civil War)
        Married:                Place: 
        Spouse:  Mary .......
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 2. Sex Name
     M  William Franklin Bittick
        Born:    09 Jan 1830    Place: Clark (Pike) County, Arkansas
        Died:    08 Jul 1909    Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas
        Married: 28 Aug 1869    Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas (B-387)
        Spouse:  Silvania Moreland
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            Pike County, Arkansas established November 1, 1833
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 3. Sex Name
     F  Sarah Jane Bittick
        Born:    21 Oct 1834    Place: Pike County, Arkansas
        Died:                   Place: 
        Married: 23 Jul 1850    Place: Hempstead County, Arkansas (A-92)
        Spouse: Andrew Jackson Blevins
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Sources of Information: Census Records: Clark County, Arkansas 1830; Pike
County, Arkansas 1840; Hempstead County, Arkansas Marriage Records, Book A,
page 92; Book B, page 387. 
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                          Military Service Record
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CARD 1: 1 Mounted Gunmen (Dyer's) Tenn. Vols., Robert Biddix, Pvt. Capt.
Robert Evans' Co., 1 Reg't Tennessee Mounted Vol. Gunmen. (War of 1812),
Appears on Company Muster Roll for Sept. 28, 1814, when mustered into
service, to Mar. 28, 1815. Roll dated Fayetteville, Sept. 28, 1814. Date
of appointment or enlistment, Sept. 28, 1814. To what time engaged or
enlisted, Mar. 28, 1815. Present or absent, Present.

CARD 2: 1 Mounted Gunmen (Dyer's) Tenn. Vols., Robert Biddix, Pvt. Capt.
Robert Evans' Co., 1 Reg't Tennessee Vol. Mounted Gunmen. (War of 1812),
Appears on Company Muster Roll for Sept. 28, 1814, when mustered into
service, to Apr. 27, 1815, when dischared. Roll dated, Nashville, Apr. 27,
1815. Date of appointment or enlistment, Sept. 28, 1814. To what time
engaged or enlisted, Apr. 27, 1815. Present or absent, Present.

       Note: Each non-commissioned officer, musician, artificer
       and private travelled 60 miles in marching from Franklin,
       Williamson county, place of residence, to Fayetteville,
       where they were mustered into service.

CARD 3: 1 Mounted Gunmen (Dyer's) Tenn. Vols., Robert Biddix, Pvt. Capt.
Robert Evans' Co., 1 Reg't Tennessee Vol. Mounted Gunmen. (War of 1812),
Appears on Company Oay Roll for Sept. 28, 1814 to Apr. 27, 1815. Roll, not
dated. Commencement of service or of this settlement, Sept. 28, 1814.
Expiration of service or of this settlement, May 1, 1815. Term of service
charged, 7 months, 4 days. Pay per month, 8 dollars, -- cents. Amount of
pay, 57 dollars, 6 cents. Travelling allowance for rations and forage not
received in kind, at 20 cents, 100 cents. Allowance for the pay of horse
from 28 September, 1814, to 1 May, 1815, at 40 cents per day, 216 days,
86.40. Amount of pay, 144 dollars, 46 cents. Remarks: Added 4 days
travelling pay, forage & subsistence, to the place of Rendezvous as pr.
certificate.
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Military Service Record, Robert Biddix, National Archives, GSA, Washington,
D.C.
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                     Clark County, Arkansas Census 1830
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SCHEDULE of the whole number of persons within the division allotted to
Jacob Barkman.

Head of Household               Males               Females

    Missouri           00 05 10 15 20 30 40   00 05 10 15 20 30 40
    Township           04 09 14 19 29 39 49   04 09 14 19 29 39 49

Bittick, Robert         4  1  0  0  0  2  0    0  0  0  1  2  0  0
Henthorn, James         0  0  1  0  0  0  1    0  0  1  0  1  0  1
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         Lived in Illinois 1836-1837, Clark County, Arkansas 1838
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No. 3632                                   12th day of February, 1838

I, Robert Bittick of Clark Co., Ark. do hereby apply for the purchase of
the S.W. 1/4 of N.W. 1/4 of section numbered fourteen in township numbered
nine, South of range numbered twenty two West containing forty acres,
according to the returns of the Surveyor General, for which I have agreed
with the Register to give at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre.

                               Robt. Bittick
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                                Receiver's Office at Washington, Arkansas
                                           February 12th 1838

No. 3632

Received from Robert Bittick of Clark Co., Arkansas the sum of Fifty
dollars and -- cents, being in full payment for the South West Quarter of
North West quarter of Section No. Fourteen in Township No. Nine, South of
Range No. Twenty Two West, containing Forty acres, at $1.25 cs. per acre.

$50.00                    D.T. Witter, Receiver.
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No. 3632 LAND OFFICE, at Washington, Arks. February 12th 1838

IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That in pursuance of Law, Robert Bittick of Clark
County, State of Arkansas on this day purchased of the Register of this
office, the Lot or the South West quarter of the North West quarter of
Section No. fourteen in Township No. Nine, South of Range No. Twenty two
West containing forty acres, at the rate of one dollar and twenty five
cents per acre, amounting to fifty dollars and -- cents, for which the
said Robert Bittick has made payment in full as required by law.

Now therefore be it known, That, on presentation of this Certificate to the
Commissioner of the General Land Office, the said Robert Bittick shall be
entitled to receive a Patent for the lot above described.

                          Geo. Conway, Register.
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Cash Certificate 3632, Land Office, Washington, Arkansas. Washington
National (Archives) Records Center, Suitland, Maryland.
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                     Pike County, Arkansas Census 1840
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SCHEDULE of the whole number of persons within the division allotted to
Richard L. Wilson.

Head of Household               Males                  Females

    Missouri           00 05 10 15 20 30 40 50   00 05 10 15 20 30 40
    Township           04 09 14 19 29 39 49 59   04 09 14 19 29 39 49

Robert Bittick          0  0  2  0  0  0  0  1    1  1  0  0  1  0  0
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                              Land Transaction
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This Indenture made the thirtyeth (sic) day of Dec. one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one between Robert Bittix and Sintha A., his wife, of the
County of Pike and the State of Arkansas of the first part, and Joshua D.
Stewart of the County of Clark and State aforesaid, of the second part.
Witnesseth: that for and in consideration of the sum of thirty five dollars
($35) good and lawful money of the United States to the said Robert Biddix
and Sintha A., his wife, in hand payed (sic) by the said Joshua D. Stewart,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the said Joshua D. Stewart
therefrom discharged; Have granted, bargained, sold and alliened, released
and confirmed unto the said Joshua D. Stewart, his heirs and assigns
forever, all that tract or parsel (sic) of land situate, lying and being,
in the County of Clark and State of Arkansas, known and designated as the
Southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, section fourteen (14) township
nine (9) South, Range twenty-two (22) west, containing forty acres, be the
same more or less, upon which fourth quarter section of land full payment
has been made and a patent received in the name of Robert Bittix; To have
and hold the same, to the only proper use and benefit of him, the said
Joshua D. Stewart, his heirs and legal representatives forever, free from
the claim of all and every person or persons whatsoever claiming by,
through, or under me or mine, or in the name of any other person or persons
whatsoever, either in law or equity.

In Testimony where of, the parties of the first part have set there (sic)
hands and seals the date before writen (sic).

                          Robert Bittick (Seal)
                      Cintha (her x mark) A. Bittick

In the presents (sic) of

Witness

John Speer
A.T.W. Long
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State of Arkansas
                      sct.
County of Clark

Be it remembered that on the thirtieth day of December in the year A.D.
1841, personally appeared Robert Bittick and Cinthia A. Bittick before the
undersigned, and acknowledged that the foregoing deed was made by the for
the purposes and uses therein aspcified, and the said Cinthia A. Bittick,
being examined separate and apart from her husband syas that she executed
the above deed of her own free will and not from any force or compulsion
from her husband. In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand as said
justice.

                            A.T.W. Long, J.P.

Set in Record Book E. Pages 29 and 30.

                   Jas. S. Ward, Clerk and ex officio
                                Recorder
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Clark County, Arkansas Deed Book E, page 29-30.
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                          Bounty Land Application
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                            Bounty Land Claim.

           Form of Declaration for Surviving Officer or Soldier.

STATE OF ARKANSAS,
                       ss.
COUNTY OF Hempstead

On this 10th day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one,
personally appeared before me, Danl. E. Williams, a Justice of the peace
duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State
aforesaid, Robert Bittick aged 63 years, a resident of Hempstead County, in
the State of Arkansas who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that
he is the identical Robert Bittick who was a private in the Company
commanded by Captain Isaac Hammonds or Hammons in the Regiment of Tenn.
recruits commanded by, name not recollected, in the war with Great Britain
declared by the United States in June 1812; that he was employed as a
substitute for one ....... Williams, who was drafted, and that he joined
his company at Shelbyville, Tennessee in the month of March A.D. 1813 for
the term of Three months and continued in actual service in said war for
the term of Three months and was honorably discharged at Shelbyville, Tenn.
in the month of June A.D. 1813; that his company joined Genl. Jackson's
army at the Horse Shoe Bend on the Coosa River, Ala. as will appear by
reference to the muster-rolls of said Company.

He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to
which he may be entitled under the "act granting bounty land to certain
officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the
United States," passed September 28th, 1850.

                              Robert Bittick

Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written. And I 
hereby certify, that I believe the said Robert Bittick to be the identical
man who served as aforesaid, and that he is of the age above stated.

                      Danl. E. Williams, J.P. (L.S.)
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STATE OF ARKANSAS,
                       ss.
COUNTY OF Hempstead

I, Simon T. Sanders, Clerk of the Circuit Court, in and for the County and
State above mentioned, do hereby certify, that Daniel E. Williams, whose
genuine signature appears above is, and was, at the time of signing the
same, a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid,
duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are
entitled in full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Circuit Courth,
is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.

GIVEN under my hand and seal of office, at Washington, Ark. this 10th day
of April A.D., 1851.

                            S.T. Sanders, Clerk.
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                             Power of Attorney.

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Robert Bittick of the County of
--------- and State of Arkansas, do hereby irrevocably make, constitute and
appoint Chas. C. Tucker of Washington, D.C. my true and lawful Attorney,
for me and in my name, to demand and receive from the Department of the
Interior of the United States, the Certificate or Warrant, to which I am
entitled for my Military services, as set foth in the foregoing
Declaration; and, for good and sufficient reasons, do hereby revoke and
countermand any and all other powers of attorney or other authority that
may have been heretofore given by me.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 10th day
of April 1851.

                           Robert Bittick (L.S.)
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STATE OF ARKANSAS,
                       ss.
COUNTY OF Hempstead

On this 10th day of April 1851, personally appeared before me, Daniel E.
Williams, a Justice of the peace duly authorized by law to take
acknowledgments in and for the county aforesaid, Robert Bittick, and
acknowledged the above Power to be his act and deed, for the purposes
therein mentioned.

                      Danl. E. Williams, J.P. (L.S.)
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Bounty Land Application, Robert Bittick, 10 April 1851. National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
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                          Bounty Land Application
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State of Arkansas
                      Sct.
County of Hempstead

On this 4th day of August 1852, personally appeared before me, Danl. E.
Williams a Justice of the peace duly authorized by law, to administer oaths
within and for the County and State aforesaid, Robert Bittick a resident
of Hempstead County in the State of Arkansas who, being duly sworn
according to Law declares: that he is the identical Robert Bittick, some
times called & spelled Beddex or Biddix, who was attached to Capt. Robt.
Evans' Company of Tennessee Vols. in the War of 1812 as set forth in his
declaration now on file. And that he also served a Three months Tour under
Capt. Isaac Hammond in 1813 as a substitute in the place of John Bittick or
Biddix of which he can make no proof, there being no officers or privates
of said Company living within his knowledge. That he received a written
discharge for services in Capt. Evans' Company which was destroyed by his
house being burned in the State of Illinois in the year 1836 or 1837. That
no written discharge was received by him for services in Capt. Hammond's
Co. He further states that in consequence of extreme sore eyes the pay
Rolls of Capt Evans' Co. were signed by his (Evans) holding the pen. When
his mark was made he could scarcely see at all, at the time.

                              Robert Bittick

Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above written.

                          Danl. E. Williams, J.P.
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State of Arkansas
                      Sct.
County of Hempstead

I, Simon T. Sanders, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and
State above mentioned, do hereby certify that, Daniel E. Williams whose
genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the
same, a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid,
duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are
entitled to full faith and credit.

Given under my hand and seal of office at Washington, Hempstead County,
Arkansas this 4th day of August A.D. 1852.

                            S.T. Sanders, Clerk.
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Bounty Land Application, Robert Bittick, 4 August 1852. National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
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Update 11.04.00               David Kelley 2000                FGR-0130.HTM
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