Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6544, Reuben Atkinson, Continental (Va.)
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SERVICE
Continental (Va.)

Atkinson, Reuben

NUMBER
S. 6544

CONTENTS
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Paid at the Treasury under 
the act of the 6th April 1838
from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 Mar
1838. Agt Notified 16 Jany 1839

12.259
Virginia

Reuben Atkinson
of Essex in the State of Va
who was a Pr. Arty: in the ____ command
by Captain Miller of the Regt commanded
by Col. Harrison in the [crossed out: Va] [inserted: *]
linene for 3 years-
*Continental Line
Records corrected. Jany 2/04

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 100 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of April
1833 and Allin R. Hord
President-

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833.........200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept........50
...........................................................................$250

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 Page 1
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10,800
Reuben Atkinson

$100 per ann
[crossed out, illegible]

(on Va con. roll)

R. Hord, Esqr
Present
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State of Virginia
Essex County To wit
On this 20th day of August 1832 personally appeared
before the Court of the County of Essex, Reuben Atkinson,
resident of the United States, in county
of Essex and State of Virginia, aged [inserted: about] 77 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
June 7th 1832 - That he enlisted in the army
of the United States in the year 1777 on
the 4th day of March for three years, with
Capt William Miller, and served in the 2nd regiment
of the Virginia Continental line, under the
following named officers.
Capt William Miller, Lieutenants Tyre and William
Vawter, Colonel Charles Harrison, and Major
Holdman or Holdmer. That he left the service on the
10th day of March 1780 after having served three years
the term of his enlistment, and some time thereafter
obtained a certificate of Capt Miller of his service
which he filed in Richmond & on which he obtained
a warrant for the bounty land promised him on his
enlistment, a copy of which certificate, as well as
a certificate of the register he herewith files-
That he resided in Essex County when he enlisted
and has continued to reside there since the war to
the present, time, with the exception of about two years
he spent in the County King William in Virginia.
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He states that he was in the battle at Monmouth.
He marched after his enlistment to Portsmouth in
Virginia, where he staid nearly twelve months, &
thence to the north, through Maryland, Pennsylvania
and into the Jerseys-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension or an annuity except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the pension roll
of any agency in any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore
said
Reuben Atkinson

[Crossed out and mostly illegible: to hereby declare ? aforesaid,
that the above named applicant ??
honorary soldier, and ? as he states.]

[Crossed out, illegible, several lines]

The papers referred to in the foregoing declaration as filed therewith were not filed.
J R. Micon Clk
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Virginia
At a Court of Quarterly Session begun and held for Essex
County at the Courthouse in Tappahannock on the 20" day of
August 1832. Reuben Atkinson a Soldier of the Revolution
in order to obtain the provision made by the Congress of the
United States for the benefit of the Surviving Officers and Soldiers
of the Revolution this day appeared in Court and being first
duly sworn as to the truth of the facts and statements contained
in his written declaration which is this day exhibited to the
Court _ It is the opinion of the Court and is accordingly certified
and declared that the said Reuben Atkinson was a revolutionary 
Soldier and served as he states in his said written
declaration and it is ordered that the said written declaration
be transmitted to the Secretary of War of the United States

Teste
James Roy Micon Jr Clk

State of Virginia Essex County Court Clerks Office
I James Roy Micon Jr Clerk of the County Court aforesaid
in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
ginal proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Reuben Atkinson for a pension
In Testimony wherof I have hereunto set my
hand and cause the seal of my said Office
to be affixed this 25th day of August 1832
and 57th year of the Commonwealth
James Roy Micon Jr Clk
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office
January 9th 1839.

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," Reuben Atkinson,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at
the rate of one hundred Dollars [crossed out: and _ Cents]
per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837,
to the 4th March, 1838.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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6544.
Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 6544
Reuben
Rueben Atkinson
Pri. Rev War

June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. A, Page 12

[Arrangement of 1870.]