Greene County NcArchives Military Records.....Jones, David Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 July 30, 2016, 3:41 pm David Jones Pension Application, Knox County, TN - 1833 Service: NC Jones, David Number: S.2653 B. Feb. 1763 in Dobbs Co NC there at enl. (It was later Greene Co) In 1833 res. Knox Co Tenn State of Tennessee Knox County Circuit Court for sd county February sessions 1833 on this 13th day of February 1833 personally appeared in open court at a circuit court for said county now sitting, the same being a court of record, David Jones a citizen of said county aged 70 years, who having been duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of an act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was born in what was then Dobbs County N Carolina, afterwards Greene County, sometime in the month of February 1763, where he continued to live at until the commencement of, and during the whole continuance of the Revolutionary War, and for ten years after its termination, applicant states that sometime in the winter of 1779 or 80, as well as he now recollects, he well remembers that he was but 16 years old, he, with about twenty others volunteered in the said Dobbs County, under a Captain whose name he believes was Williams, for the purpose of guarding the American magazine at Kingston, on the Neuse river in what was then Dobbs, but afterwards Lenoir County NC, applicant states that he marched with the said company to Kingston and remained there guarding the said magazine for one month, when they were relieved by a new guard and returned home. Applicant states that sometime in the winter, he thinks the next winter, after the last campaign, but of this he is not certain, he was drafted in the said Dobbs County for a three months tour, and his company was ordered to rendezvous at Kinston in said county, here he was enrolled as a private into a company commanded by Captain Daniel Dudley and Lieutenant Samuel Holiday. Under these officers applicant marched from Kingston to Tar river a short distance below a little place called Greenville. Here our company lay a few days for the purpose of collecting all the men of our company. From here our company marched to Cross creek, now Fayetteville, where we camped several days and were joined by several other companies. At Cross creek Major Dennis took command of our Battalion. Col. Brown of our Regiment and all under the command of General Lennington. From Cross creek applicant was ordered with his company under the said officers, to march down into South Carolina to dispose some tories which were understood to have collected there. They marched crossing the river at Cross creek down to Ashpole swamp, near the junction of Drowning creek and the little Pedee river. After marching about in this service two or three weeks and being unable to find any embodied tories, our company marched up upon the Big Pedee river where we met again the other division of the troops under Genl. Lennington as by previous orders we were directed to do. The whole army lay encamped on the Peedee for two or three weeks during which time we were engaged in building a fort, but many of the men getting sick and several of them having died we marched up the river leaving the fort unfinished, and continued our march up to Guilford County. Here applicant three months for which he had been drafted having expired and several days more, he and his company were marched to Kingston and there discharged. Applicant states he was within ten or fifteen miles of Guilford Courthouse at the time he understood it was burned, which was shortly before his last campaign had terminated. He sates that in this campaign he continued in service at least a week after his three months had expired. Applicant states that sometime after this last campaign, he was drafted with a company of about twenty men to go and guard Webbers Bridge which was thrown across Trent river a small stream which empties into the Neuse river, for the purpose of preventing the enemy from crossing. He states that he remained stationed at said bridge for ten days when being relieved by others he was discharged and returned home. He sates that every night a part of the bridge was taken up and replaced in the morning. He states that the officer who had command of him during this ten days was named Abraham Shepherd. Applicant states that sometime after this perhaps two or three years, he was drafted in the said county of Dobbs to perform a three months tour. He was enrolled into a company commanded by Captain William Shepherd, and under him marched from Kinston down to the rich lands on New river, not far from the sea shore, and after securing that part of the country were marching on towards Wilmington where we expected to meet with the main American army, but while on our march thither the intelligence reached us that peace was made, and we marched by to Kinston, and was there discharged. Applicant states that he received a written discharge from Captain Shepherd for three months tour although he believes his three months had not expired by about fifteen days. Applicant states that from the long time which has elapsed since the above mentioned services were performed, he has forgotten many of the incidents commenced with it. He states that he is extremely illiterate never having learned a single letter. He sates that he is so confident he was in actual service in the American army during the Revolutionary War for six months and a half, for which he claims a pension. He states that about ten years after the close of the war he moved to Marion Co South Carolina where he lived about 9 years, when he moved to Bladen Co NC where he lived 10 or 12 years, when he moved to Knox County Tennessee where he has lived ever since and now lives. He states he has no record of his age but believes from information of his parents and others that he is 70 years old. He states that the persons in his neighborhood who can testify to his veracity and his reputation for military services are Robert Duncan, John Hanson, Isaac Bond, John F. Bond and others. He sates that he received a written discharge for two of his said campaigns, but he has lost them both. He sates that he has no documentation evidence whatever of his services, nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 14th Feby 1833 David (his x mark) Jones Will: Swan Clk State of Tennessee Knox County We Robert Duncan and John F. Bond, citizens of said county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Jones who has signed the forgoing declaration and have been so acquainted for several years; that we believe him to be 70 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. We further certify that there is no resident clergyman in the neighborhood where declarant resides. Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 14th day of February 1833 Robert Duncan John F. Bond Wm Swan Clk And the court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the said court further certifies that it appears to them that Robert Duncan and John F. Bond, who have signed the forgoing certificate are citizens of Knox County, are credible persons and their statements entitled to full credit. Edw Scott one of the Judges of the Court Courts of Law & Equity in and for the State of Tennessee I William Swan clerk of the Circuit Court for Knox County Tenn. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding 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 private seal, having no official seal, this 15th Feby 1833 Will: Swan I Hugh L. White a Senator in the Congress of the United Sates from the state of Tennessee do hereby certify that William Swan is clerk of the Circuit Court of Knox County, Tennessee; that I am well acquainted with his had writing, and that the signatures to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his are in his proper hand writing. Hu. L. White June 10th 1833 19172 East Tennessee David Jones of Knox Co in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Williams of the regiment commanded by Col. Dudley in the N Carolina line for 7 months and 2 days Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 23 dollars 55 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the (blank) day of Augt 1833 and sent to Wm BA Ramsey Knoxville. Arrears to the 4th of March 47.10 Semi-amt allowance ending 4 Sept 11.77 (Total) $58.87 Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832 Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk Book C (E?) Vol. 7 Page 54 24692 The certificate to this applicant on these papers of returned will be directed to William B.A. Ramsey Knoxville Tennessee Source: HeritageQuest Online File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/greene/military/revwar/pensions/jones707gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 9.9 Kb