REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - DAVID & REBECCA JONES Contributed by: Adina Dyer (adyer@nfe.com) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** State of Indiana County Jefferson On this 11th dy of February 1833 personally appeared in open court before Joseph G. Marshall Judge of the Court of Probate for the County and State aforesaid now setting DAVID JONES a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 - That he entered the service of the United State under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That he enlisted in the continental service in the Virginia State Troops in August or September 1776 under the command of Capt. Arbucle, Lieutenant Wallace and Ensign Woods as a private soldier under these officers and served for the term of two years - was stationed at Point Pleasant in the Kanawa river - lived in what is now call Kanawha County Virginia. When he entered the service he was in no regular battle. - Enlisted again as a private soldier at Point Pleasant on the Kanawha River under Capt. Dawson and Lieutenant ?. Cannot recollect in what year, thinks it was in 1778 or 9 - Capt. Dawsin took sick and resigned after marching his men from Point Pleasant to Pittsburg. Applicant was then joined? To Capt. Heath's company at Pittsburgh under Col. Gibson who commanded the 6th Regiment of the Virginia line. Service this time for the space of one year and seventeen days- That he has no documenting evidence except the affidavit of JOHN JONES and the mutilated discharge accompanying this declaration. That he knows of no person else whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Signed: David x Jones {seal} We - JACOB S?/L? RYKER a clergyman residing in the County of Jefferson and State of Indiana and JOHN G. RYKER residing in the same county and state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with DAVID JONES who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood which he lives, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Signed: Jacob S.? Ryker {seal} John G. Ryker {seal} And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the intempatines? prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court furthers that it appears to them that JACOB S?/L? RYKER who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Jefferson and State of Indiana and that JOHN G. RYKER who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same County and State and is a credible person and the their statement is entitled to credit. Signed: Jos. G. Marshall Judge of the Jefferson Probate Court Ans. To Q 1st - King George County, Virginia in 1759 (my note not included in doc.: place and date of birth) Ans. To Q 2nd - No. (question unknown) Ans. To Q 3rd - Lived in Nelson County Kentucky and Jefferson County Indiana since the Revolutionary War. Ans. To Q 4th - contained in declaration (question unknown) Ans. To Q 5th - ditto And. To Q 6th - Rec'd a discharge from Capt. Arbucle and left in the possession of WILLIAM MORRIS on the Kanawha River have since applied for it but since Morris being dead his family could not find the discharge. I, R. C. Talbot, clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid, do hereby certify that the aforegoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of DAVID JONES for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 11th day of February 1833 - R. C. Talbott, clk State of Indiana Jefferson County On this 11th day of May in the year 1839, personally appeared before the Probate Court of said county REBECCA JONES a resident of Shelby Township in said county of Jefferson aged seventy three years who having first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of DAVID JONES who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution, the same person who obtained a pension under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832, and who resided at the term of obtaining the pension in Shelby Township, Jefferson County Indiana and who died on the sixth day of May in the year 1835. That she was married to the said DAVID JONES in Nelson County in the State of Kentucky on the 4th day of February 1789 as will appear by the enclosed family record. That this declarant and the said DAVID JONES were married by one WILLIAM TAYLOR a Baptist preacher, that the marriage license was obtained from the clerk of the county court of the said county of Nelson in the state of Kentucky. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit: on the 4th day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine as above stated. Signed: Rebecca x Jones Sworn to and subscribed before the Judge of the Jefferson Probate Court in open court this 14th day of May 1839. ____________________________________________________________ >From the book Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, pg. 212: JONES, DAVID Born -1759, King George Co., Virginia Service-Enlisted in Aug. or Sept 1776, as pri. In Capt. Matthew Arbuckle's Vir. Co. and was stationed at Point Pleasant for about 2 years, after which he enlisted in Capts. Dawson's and Heath's Co., Col. Gibson's Vir. Regt. at Fort Pitt and was discharged at expiration of service of 1 year, 17 days. Proof-Pension claim W. 10050 Died-May 6, 1836. Buried in Indian Kentuck Cemetery near Canaan, Jeff. Co. Government marker placed by John Paul Chapter D.A.R. Married-Rebecca Rutherford. Ch. Sarah, m. John G. Ryker; David. Collected by John Paul Chapter D.A.R.