Monroe County GaArchives Military Records.....DAVIS, TOLIVER January 1, 1829
Revwar - Pension VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE
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PENSION
TOLLIVER DAVIS
VIRGINIA CONT'L LINE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAR PENSION FILE: 20.027
Tolliver Davis of Monroe Co. in the State of Georgia who was a private in the
Company commanded by Captain Lamb of the Regiment commanded by Colonel febiger (?)
in the Virginia line for the term of eighteen months from 1779 to 1781.
Described on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of $8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1st day of January 1829.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of January 1829 and sent to _____Cuthbert,
Esq., Forsyth, Ga. 
Arrears to 4th of March 1829. $17.03 Semi-anl.'all'ce ending. $17.03

COUNTY OF MONROE, STATE OF GEORGIA
On this tenth day of March 1827, personally appeared in open court of record, being
a court of record for said State and county, Tolliver Davis, resident of said county
aged between sixty five and seventy years, who being duly sworn according to law, on
his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by
the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May 1820, that he
the said Tolliver Davis, enlisted for the term of eighteen months, ____ in the year
1779, in the State of Virginia, in the company commanded by Captain Lamb, in the
regiment commanded by Colonel Frebecher (?) in the line of the State of Virginia, on
the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until his
said term had expired when he was discharged from the service in the State of
Virginia; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except that
for the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state and that the
following is the reason for his not making an earlier application viz; that he has
led an obsecure life, being in proverty and was ignorant until recently of the law
under which this application is made.
And in persuance of the act of 1820, I do solumnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not
since that time by gift or sale, or in any manner disposed of any property, or any
part thereof with intent thereby do to di----- it as to being my _____ the provision
of Congress, entitled in act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war, provideed on the 18th
day of March 1818. To that I have got, nor _____any person in trust for ____my
property, or securities, contracts or debt, due to said war have I any reason other
than what is contained in the schedule herewith annexed by me subscribed that since
the 18th of March 1818. The following changes have been made in my property. At that
time I owned one hundred and forty acres of farm lands, which about the latter part
of the year 1821 was sold to Willie Cox, for two hundred dollars, which money was
paid to my creditors.

Schedule of property was sold:
Two small ovens
One small pot
A small quantity of furniture
Value (including the whole lot) - - $15.00

He is a farmer, but in consequence of bodily infirmity is able to labor but very
little.

My family consists of one daughter, Penelope, between twenty five and thirty years
of age; one daughter Polly, about twenty four years of age. One daughter Patsy about
twenty four years of age, one son Chasley, about eighteen years of age, one daughter
Emily, about fourteen years of age and one grandson, Thomas F. Gallahor, about two
years of age. My family depends on their own labor for support.
Signed by Tolaver Davis
Sworn to and declared on the 10th day of March 1827 before me Charles J. McDonald,
Judge L. C. 


REV. AND 1812 WARS SECTION ADF/HEM 
(LETTER TO MRS. J. E. LANE, ALTAVISTA, VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER 9, 1929)

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.37879, it
appears that Tolaver (Pensioned Tolliver) Davis enlisted in the state of Virginia in
1779, and served eighteen months in Captain Lamb's Company, Colonel Febiger's
Virginia Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 10, 1827, at which time he
was residing in Monroe County, Georgia, aged between sixty-five and seventy years>

In 1827 he referred to the following children:
Penelope aged between 25 and 30 years
Polly aged 24 years
Patsey 20 years
Chesley 18 years
Emely 14 years
and to a grandson Thomas F. Gallahor aged ten years.

The name of soldier's wife is not given, nor are there any further data as to
family. Very truly yours. E. V. Morgan, Acting Commissioner

(Note by Transcriber. Please see separate file by Valerie Freeman,
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/monroe/military/revwar/pensions/davis215gmt.
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for additional information)

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