REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT - TOBIAS HONEA

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TOBIAS HONEA
MERRIWETHER COUNTY
PRIVATE
NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA
$40.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$120.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED
JULY 30, 1833 PENSION STARTED
AGE 72
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Tobias Honea

Revolutionary Pension record number S.31761
A Certificate of Pension was issued the 30th day of July
1832 in Greensboro GA. He was to receive $40.00 per year.

A letter dated 5 November 1832, Meriwether Co. GA, stated
that Tobias Honea was born 25 April 1762 in Nash County, NC
where he was raised and lived until after the Revolution. He
entered the Militia Infantry as a volunteer in 1780 and had
4 terms of service totaling 14 months, being discharged for
the final time in August 1782. After the Revolution he
removed from NC to Pendleton District SC where he lived 18
or 19 years. Removed then to Gwinnett County, GA, then to
Dekalb Co., then to Carroll Co., and then to where he now
lives in Meriwether Co., GA. Also in this 4 page letter is a
history of his military service.

On the 11th of June 1833 another letter is recorded which
states he came to this new county of Meriwether March 1829
from DeKalb Co. GA which is 5 miles from his present
residence. The letter explained the reason he did not have a
Clergyman as a witness was that he has lived there only 5
years and resides in a remote, sparsely settled part of the
county .

Transfer of pension letters: 13 March 1838, transfers
pension from GA to Benton Co. AL, stating the reason for the
move was that his children have all removed to this state
and he will live with them.

17 April 1838, from the War Department Pension Office,
transfer from the Roll of Georgia to that of Decatur, AL.

8 January 1839, a letter from the Treasury Dept. stating
that the pension was paid at the Huntsville, AL Agency.

14 September 1840, a letter requesting a change from
Decatur, AL to Meriwether Co. GA, where he expects to
permanently reside.

11 October 1840, a letter to Washington City, there is a
request for the pension payment to be transferred to the
Georgia Agency.

21 July 1841, letter from the Comptrollers Office states
that the pension of $40.00 has been paid to the widow of
Tobias Honea, a pensioner on the roll of the Georgia Agency.