REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - BENJAMIN HOOMES/HOLMES

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection



Holmes, Benjamin (Hoomes)      Pen. 200                  1785-1814
Captain-2nd Virginia Regiment
King and Queen Counties

Son: Thomas

Also See also: Burk, John--Boush, Goodrich

At a Court held for King and Queen County this 9th day of August 1785:
  Benjamin Hoomes being summoned to appear at this Court to show cause as to why 
his pension should not be discontinued, and having appeared the Court upon 
examination are of the opinion that it ought to be continued which is ordered to 
be certified. A copy teste: Richard Termstally? Ck.
   
 I do with the advice of the Council hereby certify that Benjamin Hoomes late a 
Captain in the 2nd Virginia Regiment, appears to have been disabled in such as 
manner while in the service of the United States as to entitle him to the sum of 
seventy two pounds yearly: which allowance is to commence from the 1st day of 
January 1786.  Given  under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 
at Richmond, this 10th day of  June, 1786.  Signed: P. Henry
T. Meriwether

At a Court held at King and Queen County on Monday the 12th day of June 1786:
  Benjamin Hoomes formerly a Captain in the 2nd  Virginia Regiment in the 
service of the United States of America produced a certificate from under the 
hand of his Excellency, Patrick Henry Esq. that he is continued on the pension 
list with an allowance of half pay being  seventy two pounds per annum.  It is 
ordered that the said certificate be recorded and that the Sheriff of this 
County pay unto the said Benj. Hoomes thirty six pounds in part of said pension.  
A Copy teste: Robert Pollard D Clk.

Gentelmen: Agreeable to a session of your Court in February, I have proceeded  
to examine into the disability of Captain Benj.Hoomes and John Marshall pensions 
and residents of this County:  
  Captain Benj. Hoomes is still subject to the Epilepsy (or what is commonly 
called the falling down sickness) and the returns of it are frequent and the 
attacks of it are usually very violent and from sundry circumstances--it is very 
probable that this disease will accompany him for the rest of his life, it has 
likewise be productive of sundry other complaints-as particularly a general 
debility of body; which renders him unfit for any of the laborious exercises of 
life and the general injury done to the faculties of his mind has been such as 
to render him by no means adequate to the exercise of any function which 
requires a steady regular uniform (rest is cut off, continued on the next file 
with top part cut off, but signed by Joseph W. Lee February 20 1790  

Hoomes'  son Thomas acted in Benj.'s behalf to present a warrant for pension 
during the term of pension.