Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Jones, Richard September 20, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Richard Jones, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #W26799
                               Declaration
Sumner County, Tennessee, September term of Circuit Court for said county}
	On this 20th day of September, 1832, personally appeared in open court 
before the Honorable Thomas Stewart, judge, etc, now sitting, Richard Jones, a 
resident of Sumner County and state of Tennessee, aged 66 the 8th day of June, 
1832, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the 
following declaration…:

	He entered the service of the United States under Captain Besheres 
[Brashears] in the state of North Carolina in the year 1780 where he was at 
that time residing, and marched to the state of South Carolina, where they had 
an engagement with the Tories and a parcel of British officers at a place 
called Colson’s [Mill] on the Peedee River. General Davidson was the commanding 
officer, and during the engagement he received a wound which caused him to 
remain at that place for some length of time.

	From this place he was marched through different ____ [?portions] of 
South Carolina and went to the ___ [?town] of Cheraws which had been consumed 
by fire some short time before the army reached [it]; and pursued the enemy to 
Camden. The army was now under the command of General Gates. Applicant was not 
in the battle that was fought at Camden, having been left behind with the sick. 
During this service applicant believes that he was some part of the time under 
the command of General Sumter.

	From this place, applicant returned home, when he received orders to 
march to New Providence on a tour of duty of two months and 14 days under the 
command of Captain Brashears and General Davidson as the commanding officer.

	After this tour of duty expired, applicant returned home and remained 
for some time when he volunteered under Colonel James Martin who raised a 
company of horsemen to suppress the Tories and British foraging parties in the 
county of Guilford. James Martin, the officer under whom he first volunteered, 
was wounded at a place called Alamance in a skirmish with the British, when his 
brother Samuel Martin took the command of the company. The applicant served in 
all a time around nine months.

	After his tour ended at New Providence, he was discharged by General 
Davidson, which he has lost or mislaid. This was the only discharge that this 
applicant received. He states that he was born in the state of North Carolina, 
he thinks in the county of Guilford. He has a record of his age in his Bible at 
home. At the time he entered the service he was living in the county of 
Guilford in the state of North Carolina, where he continued to reside until he 
removed to the county of ?same? in the state of Tennessee where he has been 
living for about 45 years…etc. Richard Jones, his mark

Jane Jones was born January 9th in the year of our Lord, 1786.
Mary Jones was born May 1st in the year of our Lord, 1787.
Elizabeth Jones was born March 22nd in the year of our Lord, 1788.
Nancy Jones was born April 2nd in the year of our Lord, 1790.
Squire Jones was born June 1st in the year of our Lord, 1792.
Fortuneattus Jones May 2nd in the year of our Lord, 1794.
Rebekah Jones was born 18th in the year of our Lord, 1796.
Selah Jones was born April 2nd in the year of our Lord, 1798.
Sinthey Jones was born November 16th in the year of our Lord, 1800.
William B. Jones was born October 16th in the year of our Lord, 1802.
Rezin Jones was born December 18th in the year of our Lord 1804.
Richard Jones was born December 28th in the year of our Lord, 1806.
James b. Jones was born May 2nd in the year of our Lord, 1809.
Mahalee S. Jones was born December 13 in the year of our Lord, 1811.

State of Tennessee, Sumner County}
	On this, the 25th of November, 1839, personally appeared before me, 
Robert Joyner, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county and 
state of Tennessee, Mary Jones, a resident of said county aged 71 years, who 
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following 
declaration…:

	That she is the widow of Richard Jones who was a pensioner of the 
United States and who drew his pension in Nashville, state of Tennessee for 
services rendered during the War of the Revolution. She further declares that 
she was married to the said Richard Jones on the 29th day of December, 1785. 
That her husband, the aforesaid Richard Jones died on the 14th day of August 
1837. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the 
marriage took place previous to the first day of January, 1794, to wit, at the 
time above stated. Mary Jones, her mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first written above, 
Robert Joyner, Justice of the peace, Sumner County

From a typewritten letter to a descendant, Mrs. Jennie Roe Wallace who lived in 
Pinckneyville, Ill, dated Oct. 27, 1926, it was stated that Mary Jones was the 
sister of a James Buchanan, who in 1839 was living in Davidson County, 
Tennessee, aged about 77 years. In 1843, Mary Jones had moved to White County, 
Illinois. She died in April or May, 1845.

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