HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA - SHUMATE PENSION PAPERS File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Molly Shumate SAMUEL SHUMATE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION PAPERS Card No. Virginia 25455 Sanuel Shumate of Henry in the State of Va., who was a Pvt. in the (blank) commanded by Captain (blank) of the Regt. commanded by Col. Marshall in the Va. line for 6 months. Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 dollars and no cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Jan. 1831. Signed: Anthony M. Dupuy Esq. Martinsville, Va. Arrears to the 4th day of September 1833 50.00 Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March 1834 10.00 60.00 Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 Recorded by c. Veltice(?) Clark Book E, Vol. 6, Page 32 ................................................................. Card No. 29283 Samuel Shumate's Declaration for pension State of Virginia Henry County On this 11th day of November 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the county court of said county non sitting Samuel Shumate a resident of Henry county and State of Virginia aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of this act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in his first tour he served under Major Pinckett, and Colonel Thomas Marshall, in the same tour his captain was Samuel Blackwell, and his lieutenants were John and James Hattaway. In his second tour his colonel was Elias Edmund, his captain was James Wynn and afterwards Sharp. His first lieutenant was named Connaway. These are all the field of company officers which he now recollects, he does not recollect the precise time when he first entered the service, but he recollects that immediately after joining his company proceeded to headquarters and arrived there he thinks the morning after the battle of Germantown (4th Oct 1777) the second tour commenced shortly before the seige of York in Virginia at which he was drafted for three months during both of his times of service, but served a little over that period. At the time of being drafted he resided in Fauquier County, Virginia, he was drafted for both periods of service, as before stated he was at the seige of York. In the first tour he started under the company officers aforesaid and Major Pickets from Fauquier courthouse, Va. and went on into the State of Maryland (there being 4 companies along) when the single men were ordered to proceed on the march and the married men to return home, he being a single man proceeded and they went through York, Lancaster, to headquarters a few miles from Germantown where he remained until his time was out. In the second tour he started from the same place under the aforesaid officers and went on _____, Fredricksburg, the Bowling Green, Williamsburg and to Yorktown where he was during the seige after which he went near to Winchester along with the British prisoners, whose barracks were prepared for their custody - after the war ended he returned home. In the first tour he acted with the 3rd Virginia regiment under Col. Marshall whom they fell in with at headquarters. In the second tour General Washington with numerous continental regiments acted with him. That he frequently saw Generals Washington, Lafayette, and various others. That he has no documentary evidence in support of his claim and knows of no person whose testimony will avail him except that of James Smoot whose affidavit is hereto annexed. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 the day and year aforesaid. Samuel (X) Shumate We, William Davis, a clergyman residing in the county of Henry and James Dyer residing in the same county hereby certify that Shumate we are well acquainted with Samuel Shumate who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 78 years of age that he is accepted and believed in the neighborhood which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. William Davis James Dyer And the said court do declare their opinion after the 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 court further certifies that it appears to them that William Davis who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in Henry County and that James Dyer who has signed the same is a resident in Henry County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to audit. I Anthony M. Dupuy clerk of the county court of Henry do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Shumate for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of my office the 11th day of November 1833. Anthony M. Dupuy State of North Carolina Wilkes County Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid on the 15th day of August 1833, James Smoot, a resident of the County aforesaid, aged Sixty nine years, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he was a soldier of the revolution, and was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Little York - that previous to his entering the service of the United States, and during that period he was well acquainted with Samuel Shumate now of Henry County Virginia, and that during the stay of this deponent at Little York aforesaid, he well remembers to have seen the said Samuel Shoemate several times, at that place, that he was in the service of the United States, and that they remained at that place until after the capture of Lord Cornwallis when they received their discharges and returned home in company. This deponent does not pretend to know how long the aforesaid Samuel Shoemate was in the service of the United States at Little York as they belonged to different companies but is well convinced that from the time he first saw him at that place, until they left it, it must have been at least two months. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. James (X) C. Smoot Witness: J. Rhodes, Jr. State of North Carolina Wilkes County I, Robert Martin, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county and state aforesaid hereby certify that John Rhodes Esquire who signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time of attesting the same an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, and that all due faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official act as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 15th day of August 1833. J. Martin, Clk B. W. 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