Pension file of Thomas Jones S5630 Caroline Co., Va. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives and Transcribed by: Anne Baker abaker@searnet.com USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Unauthorized use for commercial ventures expressly prohibited. All information submitted to this project remains - to the extent the law allows - the property of the submitter who, by submitting it, agrees that it may be freely copied but NEVER sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge & permission of its rightful owner. 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D - Dec. 16, 1844 [PAGE TWO] Treasury Department, Second Comptroller's Office March 28th 1846 Sir: Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The adms of Thomas Jones, dec'd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond Va. Agency, at the rate of fifty six dollars and 66 cents per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 2nd of Sept 1844, to the 16 Dec 1844. Respectfully yours, [note there is a name here, I cannot read the signature] Comptroller. [PAGE THREE] Virginia Thomas Jones Spotsylvania in the State of Va. who was a Pen. In the Company commanded by Captain Bibbing of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Va. line for 17 months. Inserted in the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 56 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of Mar 1833 Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Aug. 1833 and sent to Thos. H. Botts Fredericksburg, Va. Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 113.32 Semi-anl. Allowance ???? 4th Sept 28.33 $141.65 Revolutionary Claim act of June 7, 1832 Recorded by ? Rice, Clerk, Book E. Vol. 6, Page 13 Paid at Treasury, under act 6 Apr 1838 from 4th Sept 1844 to 16 Dec 1844. Agent notified 24th April 1846 [PAGES FOUR, FIVE, SIX.] Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed 7th of Jun 1832. State of Virginia, County of Spotsylvania to wit: On the 1st day of July 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the Justices of the County Court of Spotsylvania in open Court setting, Thomas Jones a resident of the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia aged seventy seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed of June 1832 - viz. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States duly in the month of Sept. 1776 or 1777 as a private under Capt. Charles Bibbing and served under the following named officers, viz.: the said Capt. Charles Bibbing, Capt. Samuel Hawes, Lt. James Upshaw, Lt. - Woolfolk and afterwards in the militia service under Capt. Anthony New and Capt. Philip Buckner the names of these subaltern officers not recollected. He states that at the time of his enlistment he resided in the County of Caroline in the State of Virginia and enlisted as a private under Capt. Chas. Bibbing for twelve months for the purpose of performing any duty that might be required of the Company of which he was a member and understood at the time of his enlistment that the company was not to be attached to any regiment but was to be kept in readiness and embodied to enter actual service whenever it should receive marching orders - within a few days after his enlistment he was marched to Bull Church in the County of Caroline by Capt. Chas. Bibbing where he remained twelve days, after which he was ----ted with the rest of the Company to return home, but with orders to hold themselves in readiness to rendezvous at any minute they might be called upon. About ten days thereafter he was again called into service and was first under the Command of Capt. Samuel Hawes, Lt. James Upshaw and Lt. Woolfolk and served under these officers in the County of Caroline for ten months marching to and from in the said County and never stationed for any length of time at any one place and ----ting for further orders, during all this time he was in actual service and was not employed in the Civil pursuit after the application of the ten months he was again permitted to return home, to be again called into service for his unexpired term of enlistment should occasion it, very shortly after his return home he was married and within a few days thereafter was again ordered into service, when he hired one George Hampton as his substitute who performed the balance of his enlistment tour. He further states that about the first of Septr (the precise day not recollected) in 1780 he was drafted in Caroline (where he still resided) and marched as a private under Capt. Anthony New from the said County below Williamsburg, he passed through Richmond and went to a garrison on the South side of James River below Richmond from the garrison he was marched to Cabin Point and from thence below Williamsburg and then stationed after some time he was marched with about 170 others to Colo. Brumell's buildings and then stationed as a guard, he remained there a week or more, from thence he was marched back to Cabin Point and from thence to Petersburg when he was discharged about the middle or near the close of Decr following, viz. Dec 1780 -making a tour of three months and a half - In the following spring as ---as he recollects early in the month of March 1781 he was again drafted from the County of Caroline and marched from there as a private under Captain Philip Buckner and was again marched below Williamsburg ------- Richmond during this time he was constantly in motion, scouring the county below Williamsburg and things he was again discharged at Petersburg - He states that he was discharged about the middle of May 1781 making a tour of --- ---than three months. Thus making in all a service of one year and five months fully, during all of which time he was within Camp or marching and rendering actual service and not employed in any civil pursuit. He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of no one now alive whose testimony he can obtain to prove his service. He also states that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot give the precise dates of the several times of going unto and leaving the service but feels no hesitation in saying that he served as a private in the revolutionary war as above set forth fully one year and five months. He further states that during the was he lived in the county of Caroline and shortly after it termination removed to the county of Spotsylvania where he has resided ever since. He further states that he has never received any compensation whatsoever for his revolutionary service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on he pension role of the agency of any state - Sworn to and subscribed this day and year afsd. [signed] Thomas Jones The following questions were then propounded by the Court: When and in what year were you born? Ans: In the County of Caroline and on the 10 Sept 1755 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? Ans: I had but is now lost, I do not know what has become of it. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, where do you now live? Ans: In my declaration I have already stated that I lived in the County of Caroline in the State of Virginia when called into service and that shortly after the war I removed to this County - the County of Spotsylvania and have resided here ever since. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom? Ans: I was first enlisted, we called it enlisting, it might have been voluntary and served 10 mo. & 12 days, was afterwards drafted and served three months and a half and was again drafted and served rather more than 3 months. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. Ans: I do not recollect having been with any regular officers - the company of which I was a member on each occasion was never attached to any regiment, consequently I --- --- of the regiments --- of I did. I have forgotten them, my memory has almost entirely failed me since a violent spale of sickness with which I was affected a few years since and from which I have not yet actually recovered. I have given the names of the only officers I knew myself the subalterns of Capt. Bibbing, Capt. New and Capt. Buckner and the names I have forgotten - it has been a long time since I was with them and was with them only a short time - for the general circumstances of my service I refer you to the foregoing declaration. Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it? Ans: I received discharges, but have lost them. I did not think them worth saving, never expecting to have any occasion for them. I suppose they were given to me by my Captain. State the names of persons to whom you are known and your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for honesty and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution. Ans: I would refer to any one who is acquainted with me, say the Rev'd Jeremiah Chandler, - John A. Billingsley, one of your worships, Colo Robert Crutchfield and Mr. Lewis Rawlings. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afsd. [signed] Thomas Jones We Jeremiah Chandler, a clergyman residing in the County of Spotsylvania and Robert Crutchfield and Lewis Rawlings residing in the County of Spotsylvania, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Jones who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 77 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. Sworn to and subscribed this day & year aforesaid. Jeremiah Chandler Lewis Rawlings Ro. Crutchfield And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter and after putting the ----- provided by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and sworn as he states - And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Jeremiah Chandler who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the said county of Spotsylvania and are viable persons and that their statement is entitled to audit. I Richard L. Stevenson, Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the ----- preceding of -- said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Jones for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of my office this the 1 day of Jul 1833. R. L. Stevenson C.C. State of Virginia County of Spotsylvania to wit Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the Count afsd, Thomas Jones, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the [note: whatever follows this was not sent with this pension file]