Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40588, Joseph Fulcher Trible, Va.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE: Va
Trible, Joseph Fulcher.
NUMBER: S. 40588
CONTENTS: Blank
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Noticifation sent September 6th 1820 to George [Dunlong?], Point Harmer, Ohio

3.931
Ohio
Joseph F. Trible
[* B*ckner?]
private
Virginia line
77- 2 years
In the army of the United States during Revalentary Wa
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio.
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at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence o
the 7th of May, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of Oct 1818
and sent to John Sharp Esq
Marietta, Ohio
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 [**]$31.51
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819. 48. 00
$79.51
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Continued
Marien, Washington County
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Joseph Fulcher Trible
7 May 
Admitted 
*[*] to the Clerks certificate of Judge 
Sharp being an [*]
[*]ate Judge
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State of Ohio
Washington County [*]

On this Seventh day of May in the year of our Lord 1818 before me [*] [*] of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Washington, personally
appeared Joseph Futcher Trible aged fifty Eight, resident in the Township of Warren, County & State aforesaid, who being by me first Duly Sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declarration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
Naval Service of the United States, in the revolutionary war that he the said Joseph Fulcher Trible Enlisted into the army of the United States some time in the month of February AD 1777 in Caroline County in the State of Virginia he joined the army on the last day of the said month at Williamsburg, the Term of his enlistment was for two years
he served in the second regiment of the Virginia line, commanded
Buckner in a Company commanded by Captain Samuel
Haws, that he continued to serve in that corps untill the end
the Firm for which he was enlisted - that he then enlisted for the
Term of eighteen months in a company commanded by Captain Alex
under Parker & was detached to Georgia in the first Virginia detachment
the detachment commanded by Col Richard Parker- his said enlistment for the last term was in the spring of 1779 the [*]
in that Corps until the surrender of Charlestown at which time
[*] was made a prisoner with General Linus army - that he
remaned ten months & two day he made his escape from the Brit
is from on board a prison ship-- he never was discharged the last
time because his time expired a considerable time before he exected from
Ninth of October 1778
the Enemy, he was a battle at the Town of Savannah in Georgia, on the
C
Charlestown throughout the sure of that place - that he is in reduced
circumstances & needs the assistance of his country for his support
he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said services
Joseph Fulcher Trilles
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid John Shark
Washington County
John Shark Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfation
that the said Joseph Tresher Trible Did service the revolutionary war, as stated
in the preceding declaration, against the common Enemy for the Term of nine
months, on the Continental Establishment; & I now transmit the proceeds
& Testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of war in
pursuance of the Directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Marietta May 7th 1818
John Sharp
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State of Ohio
Washington County }
On the 11th day of July 1820 Personally appeared in Open court, to [illegible] the court of common Pleas within and for said County being a court of records, Joseph F. Trible aged sixty years resident in said County of Washington who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted in the month of February 1776 or 1777 for two years in Samuel Haws Company in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by General William Woodford that just before the expiration of said two years he enlisted in a company commanded by captain Alexander Parker in the first Virginia Detachment to Georgia Commanded by Colonel Richard Parker for three years that he continued in said Detachment till the fall of charles[caret]ton, in South Carolina that he was there taken Prisoner by the enemy and detained ten months and two days that he then made his Escape and Joined the Marquis De Lafayette as a volunteer and continued with him till the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown in Virginia, that at the siege of Savanna he received a wound by a shot through his life grant Pension certificate No 3,930 Application for pension made the 7th May 1818
And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property as any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions [caret] of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the [caret] Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any [caret] property or [illegible] contracts or
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or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed.
I am by occupation a farmer but unable to do but little labour myself having lost the sight of my left eye and the sight of the other very much impaired, my wife Margaret Trible aged thirty seven years is a very weakly woman. Children as follows, Roxania aged fifteen years, William aged thirteen John aged ten years very sickly, Nancy eight years old, Elizabeth five years old very sickly Samuel four years old Andrew Six months old the two oldest children capable of supporting [illegible] by their labour
Joseph F. Trible

Schedule of Property
One Yoke of Oxen $55.00 for which I owe Isaac Monkton the same sum of $55,

One cow                } $23.00 for the cow and calf and  
One calf                 } yearling I owe to the said Isaac   
One yearling heifer} Monkton the sum of $17.00

Two cows 32.00} for the two cows I owe George Dunlevy the said sum of thirty two dollars

The two year olds, 2 Steers & 1 heifer} for which I owe Geo Dunlevy $[illegible],

 One year old Bute
Two Sows & six pigs
One mare & Spring colt  } [illegible] which I owe [caret] to 
Under Execution for Debt} John Stevens sixty dollars for 
two ploughs                        the purchase of the same
One set of horse gears
three axes
two bars
[illegible]
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One Set Iron Wedges
One hand saw
One drawing Knife
One foot Adze
One augur
One oxe yoke
One log chain
Three Iron Kettles} for which I owe Leon Barber $9.50
Two Bake ovens
Two Iron Pots
One Small Skillet
Three pewter Dishes
Five pewter plates
Eleven earthen Plates
Nine can kives
Seven forks
four sugar cones
Seven cups
Four Soreall Earthen Bowls
One copper Tea Kettle
One Tin Tea Pot
four Table Spoons
four pewter Tea Spoons
three buckets & one tub
8 Barrells
2 Saddles and Bridles
2 wheels
1 churn
4 Earthen crocks

Joseph F Trible
3931.Oct. '18
A
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A Debt due from me to Benjamin Joes Gelman
On a Judgment about . . . . . . . . . $60.00
A Debt due to Augustus Stone . . .30.00
A Debt Due to Robert McCabe . . .10.00
Joseph F. Trible
Sworn to and declared on the 24th day of July 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County in Session. 
Attest Geo. Dunlevy Clerk
The court doth certify that the Declarants Statement respecting his bodily disability true.
Attest Geo. Dunlevy Clerk
I George Dunlevy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Washington in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the Record of said Court. And I do further certify that it [caret] is the opinion of the [caret] said court that the total amount in value of the property Exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred Eighty two Dollars and Sixty five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this thirty first day of July Anno Domini One thousand Eight hundred and twenty.
Geo. Dunlevy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of Washington County Ohio
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40588
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 40.588
Joseph F. Trible
Priv Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 573
{Arrangement of 1870.}