Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8671, John Dinwiddie, Va.
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Dinwiddie, John 
Sarah 

w. 8671
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Kentucky 
John Dinwiddie of Lincoln Coy [County] in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Campbell of the Virginia line, for the term of 18 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of September 1918. 

Certification of Pension issued the 5th of April 1820 and sent to the Hon. Mr. Quarles House of Representatives.  

Arrears to the 4th of March 1820 - $145- 03 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1820.    48

18 mo 4/31                                      $193.03 

{Revolutionary Claim, , Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued

[Side note]
Notification sent to Thom. Montgomery, Stanford(?), Ky, 29 September 1821
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Kentucky 2294 

Sarah Dinwiddie 
widow of John Dinwiddie 

who was a pensioner under the Act of AMrch 1818 and who died on the 18th October 1831 of Lincoln Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the - commanded by captain - of the Regt. command by Col. Campbell in Virg. line for 18th Months 

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 60 dollars - cents per annum to commence on the 4th Day of March 1836 

Certificate of Pension Issued the 9th day of April 1839 and sent to Hon. J. Harlan
Harrodsburgh, Ken. 
 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1939  180.00 
semi= annual allowance ending  4 Sept. 30.00
$210.00

{Act July 7, 1838} 

Recorded by D. Brown
Clerk [missing edge]
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 211
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John Dinwiddie 
private 
inlisted in '79 in Capt. Robert Jouett's CM regt. 
com by Col. Lee 8th Penn. a line- Brigade Comm'd by Gen'l Lee - (for 18 Months) 
 
The line [illegible] must be set forth in the Declaration 

The line [unclear] must be set forth in the declaration.

on Roll in Campbell's Regt.

[unclear]
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John Dinwiddie aged about sixty years with a view of being placed on the pension list in conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress passed in March 1878 upon his oath states that he enlisted as a Regular soldier some time in the year 1779 commanded by Capt Robert Jouett the Regiment commanded by Col. Lee, & said as well as he recollects to be the eighth Pennsylvania Regiment & the brigade was commanded by General Lee that he was marched to Guilford, Scotch lake, [illegible], Harmony other places in South & North Carolina that he continued in the service eighteen months & was in the battles of Guilford & Edenton & others, discharged his duty faithfully & was honorably discharged by Ensign Green on the second day of January 1782 which discharge he sent to Richmond Virginia & has not seen it since, that he is poor not able to perform much labour & stands in need of the aid of government contemplated in the act of Congress before referred to

[Signature]
John Dinwiddie

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Court [illegible]
At a circuit court [unclear] for the County of Lincoln at the Court house in the town of Stanford on Tuesday the eleventh day of
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August in the year 1818 before the honourable Thomas Montgomery one of the circuit Judges in the state of Kentucky John Dinwiddie an applicant for a pension made oath to a written statement which was filed, the court after having the statements & interrogating the said John Dinwiddie is of opinion that he has stated the facts truly.  Therefore it is ordered that the said statement with the above expression of this courts opinion be copied & certified to the secretary of the war of the United States.

Kentucky, Lincoln County & Circuit Sct.
I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the statement of John Dinwiddie which was sworn to & filed in the Court in relation thereto in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office hereto this 1st day of September 1818

[Signature & Seal]
Thomas Helm, Clerk
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State of Kentucky, Sct

On this day John Dinwiddie an applicant for a pension offered before & after being sworn, stated in addition to his declaration made in the Lincoln cir-cuit court on the 11th day of August in the 1718, contained on this sheet, that when he first enlisted & entered the service he belonged to the company com-manded by Captain Robert Jouett; that the Regiment was commanded by Col. Campbell & believes the Regiment was part of the Virginia line upon continen-tal establishment; that he was very soon taken from the company & Regiment & placed under the command of Capt. Handy, who with others were as infantry attached to the troops under the com-mand of Colonel Henry Lee, who also commanded a corps of cavalry; and that the services rendered by him were under said Lee's immediate command.  Given under my hand or one of the Judges of the circuit courts of the state aforesaid, presiding in the Lincoln circuit court this 10th day of August, A.D. 1819

[Signature]
Thomas Montgomery
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State of Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Sct.

I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Lincoln Circuit Court, do hereby certify that Thomas Montgomery whose name is subscribed to the preceding affidavit, made by John Dinwiddie is one of the circuit Jud-ges in the State of Kentucky, & that full faith & credit is & ought to be given to his official acts.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office hereto this 10th day of August 1819.

[Signature and Seal]
Thomas Helm Clerk
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V3574
2294 Elizabeth Martin
Sarah Dinwiddie 

admitted
Pa 18 H.60
Act of 38

Died Oct 18. 1831

Hon. J. Harlan
[illegible] Ken
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State of Kentucky Lincoln County Court Sct.
At a county court held in for Lincoln County in Stanford on this day the second day of October 1839 it being a court of record, Sarah Dinwiddie , a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged 78 years being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath saith the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed duly of the 1828 entitled An Act to grant in half pay and provisions to certain widows. That she is the widow of John Dinwiddie dec'd who was a private in the Army of the Revolutionary War, she further states her deceased husband was granted a pension on the 18th of March 1818 hereunder the Act of the Congress of 1818 [illegible] she refers the Declaration to her [illegible].

She further declares that she was married to the dec'd John Dinwiddie on the 3rd day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven that he husband the aforesaid John Dinwiddie ------ dec'd on the 18th day of  October 1831 that she was not married to him prior to his entering the service.  The marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four viz it was twice above stated and that she has remained a widow since the death of her husband as will many family alive by appearances for the proof hereto annexed.
[Signature & Seal]
Sarah Dinwiddie

Elizabeth Martin a resident of Lincoln County in the State of Kentucky appeared in court at the time and place stated in the caption of Sarah Dinwiddie's declaration and also being first sworn according to law, states that she is a sister to John Dinwiddie Dec'd the late husband of Sarah
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Dinwiddie.  That she was present when the said John Dinwiddie was married to Sarah Dinwiddie now his widdow in the State of Virginia and -- witnessed the marriage rite.  About the year 1787.  That John Dinwiddie was absent from home in the army of the Revolutionary War and she always understood that the was a private sol-dier in that  war.  She further states that John Dinwiddie died on the 18th of October 1831 and that Sarah Dinwiddie is his widdow that she has remained a widdow ever since and is still a widdow this deponent states she is 65 years of age.
[Signature and Mark}
Elizabeth Martin

Obadiah Marin a resident of Lin-coln County in the State of Kentucky appeared in court at the time and place stated and the caption of Sarah Dinwiddies declaration and after being first duly sworn according to law states that he is 56 years of age, that he recollects distinctly that John Dinwiddie dec'd was always regarded as the husband of Sarah Dinwiddie who were from all he ever could learn married about the year 1787.  That he always understood that John Dinwiddie was a soldier in the Revolution and that he drew a pension during the latter part of his life for his services.  He states that John Dinwiddie died on the 18th of October 1831.  That Sarah Dinwiddie is now and has been a widdow ever since his death.

[Signature]
Obadiah Martin
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State of Kentucky Lincoln County Court

At a county court holdest for Lincoln County at the Court House and the town of Sanford on this day the second day of October eighteen hundred thirty eight the foregoing written declarations of Sarah Dinwiddie, Elizabeth Martin & Obadiah Martin are creditable & should be believed.

In testimony whereof I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln County court have hereunto sub-scribed my name & affixed the seal of my office this 24th day of October 1838.

[Signature & Seal]
Thomas Helm Clerk
Lincoln County Court
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State of Kentucky Lincoln County sct.
On this 31st day of January 1839 Sarah Dinwiddie = die personally appeared before the [illegible] and acting justice of the peace in and for the county afore = said, and a member of the county court for said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath the make the following additional declaration (in addition to note therefore made and on to the war department at Washington city) in order to obtain the begin of the provision made by the act of Congress July 7th, 1838, enlisted an act granting half pay pensions to certain windows ." That she is the widow of John Dinwiddie [illegible] pensioner on status in her former declaration. She further states that she was married to the said John Din=widdie on or about the 3rd day of January 1787- the register of which was kept in an old Bible as well as the ages of their children, and the children taking it to school was like to tare [sic] & deface said register so that he then copied it off (that in the said John Dinwiddie) into an Almanac which is now present in the present in the hand writing of said John Dinwiddie, and she refers to the clerk's office of Amherst county court in the state of Virginia, where the license was obtained, and where she was married, she would further declare that she always understood that David Simpson went said John Dinwiddie; security in the marriage bond. at the time the license was obtained her husband & said Simpson both told her so, which record evidence of the marriage do.  She thinks she can obtain a file as additional evidence of her marriage, and she further declares that she registered of the birth of
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her husband John Dinwiddie, and that of her own age and of their children as in here introduced, was copied from or taken out of the old Bible aforesaid, which Bible is entirely worn and gone, which register as it now stands is in there register, and which is in the following words and figures to wit,
John Dinwiddie born the 1st of July 1759 - 
Sarah his wife born April the 25th 1760. 
John Dinwiddie and Sarah Martin was married January the 3rd 1787 --- (Their children's ages) 
Nancy Dinwiddie born April the 13th 1788. 
Polly Dinwiddie born  October 13th, 1792. 
Rhoda B. Dinwiddie born June 23rd 1795. 
She further declares that the foregoing register was again copied into a large family bible from the old Almanac aforesaid which is now present and she had compared and examined the same and it is a true register of the same and has a perfect and distinct recollection that it is true from memory 
[Signature and mark]
Sarah Dinwiddie

Lincoln County sct.
Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year first above written, before the undersigned and acting Justice of the Peace & a member of the county court for the county aforesaid -- and would further certify that the said Sarah Dinwiddie is & ought to be entitled to full credit, on oath, she being a woman of respectability, and would further state that he has no doubt but the register here produced is a true register of the marriage & ages as afore-said from the age & appearance of said Register & from his own knowledge of the family as he has been well acquainted with the family ever since 1804.  He would further certi-fy that from age & infirmity she Sarah Dinwiddie could
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not well attend court at this inclement series of the year. 

David Shanks, J.P.S.C.
Also Rhoda B. Martin appeared before the said David Shanks on a justice of the peace aforesaid, and made oath that the register of the marriage and ages as stated in her mother's declaration herein she knows was in the hand writing of her father John Dinwiddie and said register she has no doubts is true it being always held out to her ever since she can recollect as being the true register of the marriage of ages as is therein specified. 
[Signature]
Rhoda B Martin

Lincoln County Sct.
I David Shanks as acting justice of the peace and member of a court of record for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify to thou Rhoda B. Martian the witness, was sworn to & subscribed to the above on the 31st of January 1839 before me, and would further certify thou she is a woman of respectability, and whose statements upon oath is entitled to full faith and credit 

David Shanks J.P.S.C.
State of Kentucky Lincoln County Court
I, Thomas Helms clerk of the court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that David Shanks Esq whose name is subject to the foregoing certificates is and was on the day of the date of his certification, an acting Justice of the Peace  in Lincoln County duly commissioned & qualified that the foregoing signatures are his genuine signatures, In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office this first day of February 1839
Thomas Helm Clerk
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John Dinwiddie 
schedule 
16,644 - sept. 1820
[illegible]
[illegible]
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State of Kentucky 12th Judicial District & Circuit Court for/of Lincoln County Sct

On the 18th day of August A.D. 1820 in open Court before the Court abovementioned, it being a court of records by act of Assembly proceeding according to the course of Common Law John Dinwiddie aged about sixty one years personally appeared in court and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows Viz,:  that in the month of July or August in the year 1779 he enlisted in the service of the United States for the term of eighteen months; that he was at first placed under the command of Captain Scott, but before and at the battle of Guilford he was put under the command of Captain Robert Jouett, the Regiment by Col. Campbell; that he was afterwards attached to the Light Infantry which accompanied Col. Lee's corpse of horse, and then was in the company commanded by Captain Handy(?); that he was enlisted as a soldier of the United States upon the continentals establishment as will more fully appear by the affidavit under which he obtained his certificate for a pension [illegible] 16.644 dated the 5th day of April 18(?)

And I the said John Dinwiddie 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 or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for
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certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for and any property or securities contracts or debt due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in this schedule below hereunto annexed and by me subscribed Viz.:

One horse beast not worth more than $30 in possession - $30.00
One horse beast lent to my son in law Henry Small, not worth more than $40 - 40.00
2 cows and one calf the whole not worth more than $20 - 20.00
4 sheep not worth more than $8 - 8.00
6 or 8 hogs not worth more than 10.00
A number of tools the whole not worth more than than $3 - 3.00
$111.00

sworn to and subscribed the day and year first mentioned
[Signature]
John Dinwiddie

And the said John Dinwiddie further stated upon his oath that he is a tiller of the ground; but he is able to labor but little.  That he has a wife about sixty years old who is very infirm & able to perform but little labour.  That he has three children all daughters & all married & settled, and all in law circumstances, with respect to property, sworn to, declared & subscribed before me John L. Bridges presiding judge of the circuit court aforesaid, this day & year first mentioned.
[Signature]
John L. Bridges
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Kentucky Lincoln Circuit County Sch

I Thomas Helm Clerk of the circuit court holdin' for the County of Lincoln do hereby certify that the circuit Court holdin' for the County of Lincoln on the 15th day of August in the year 1820 John Dinwiddie an appli-cant for a pension under the acts of Congress exhibited into Court his written statement of the time and manner of entering the service of the United States and also a schedule of his property, and that the foregoing is a true copy of the same, taken from the records of my office.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office hereto this 18th day of September in the year 1820.

[Signature and Seal]
Thomas Helm Clerk

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Court Sct
At a Circuit Court holdin' for the County of Lincoln at the Courthouse in the town of Stanford on Monday the fourteenth day of May in the year 1821 being the first day of the term, John Dinwiddie an appli-cant for a pension under the several act of Congress appeared in court and in addition to the state-ments made by him in open court on the fifteenth day of August eighteen hundred & twenty declaring an oath that he is and was a resident citizen of Lincoln County and the state of Kentucky on the said fifteenth day of August 1820,
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[first few lines repeated from previous page]
ments made by him in open court on the fifteenth day of August eighteen hundred & twenty declaring an oath that he is and was a resident citizen of Lincoln County and the state of Kentucky on the said fifteenth day of August 1820,

whereupon the Court after examining the said John Dinwiddie & Benjamin Duncan a creditable and disinterested witness touching the value of the property of the said John Dinwiddie, order it to be certified to the Secretary of the War Department that it is the opinion of this court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the schedule made by said John Dinwiddie does not exceed one hundred & eleven dollars.

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Sct
I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Lincoln Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the order made at the last May term of the Lincoln circuit Court respecting the residence of John Dinwiddie and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Circuit Court of Lincoln County that the total amount in value of the property of the said John Dinwiddie does not exceed one hundred and eleven Dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office hereto this first day of June 1821
[Signature and Seal]
Thomas Helm Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section 

November 21, 1923
Mrs. Mary Sails, 
1509 s. Garrison st., 
Carthage, MO 

Madam; 
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim, W. 8671, it appears that John Dinwiddie was born July 1, 1759, and enlisted in July or August 1779, Served eighteen months as Private under Captains Scott, Robert Jousett, Handy, Colonels Campbell, and Henry Lee, was in the battles of Guilford and Eutaw, and was discharged January 3, 1782. 
He was allowed pension on hs application executed in Linclon County, Kentucky, August 11, 1818. He died October 18, 1831. 
Soldier married in Amherst County, Virginia, January 3, 1787, Sarah Martain, who was born April 25, 1760.
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she was allowed pension on her application executed October 2, 1838, while a resident of Lincoln County, Kentucky. 
Their Children- 
Nancy born April 13, 1788. 
Polly " October 13, 1792. 
Rhoda B. " June 23, 1795, married Martin. 
In 1820, a son-in-law, Henry Small is referred to. There is no further family data on file, 
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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Carthage, Missouri. Oct. 13th. 1923
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D.C 
sir;- 
In order to join the D.A.R I am very desirous of obtaining information as follows; - 
John Dinwiddie served in the Rev. From Va. and drew pension in Lincoln Co. KY in 1818. He died Oct. 18- 1832 I think. Will you give me all the information contained as to his family in his application for pension and very greatly oblige. 
Yours Truly,
Mrs. Mary Sails 
1509 S. Garrison St. 
Carthage -- Missouri
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Rev Widow, &c
file no. 8671 
Sarah Dinwiddie 
wid. of 
John Dinwiddie 
Pvt. Va, Line 
Act: July 1838 
index: - Vol. A, Page 183

[Arrangement of 1870] 

[Left panel horizontal writing]
1923 Nov. 21 Hist to Mrs. Mary Sails
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Sarah Dinwiddie 
of John 
Kentucky 


Suspended 

Select; 18 dec '38
Hon. J. Harlan
let: 16 [illegible] 69 to do

Act of July 1838
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Note.

Mr. O Dinwiddie of Orchard Grove Ind wanted the hist of a John Dinwiddie but his ancestor of that name died January 11, 1822.

May 2 - 95.  T.S.
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Harrodsburg Ky
22 March 1839

Sir.

I enclose you herewith a letter addressed to me by Sam M. Garland Clerk of Amherst County Court Va. relative to Mrs. Dinwiddie's case.

If a copy of the bond referred to is regained, you will please inform me.

I am [illegible]
J. Harlan

Col. Edwards
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[illegible] 
22 March 1839 
Sir, 
I enclose you herewith a letter addressed to me by Sam M. Garland clerk of Amherst County Court, VA relative to John Dinwiddie's case. 

If a copy of the bond referred to is regained, you will please inform me.

I am [illegible]
J Harlan
 
Col Edwards
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Amherst CH
March 11 
Honorable James Harlan 
Member of Congress 
Harrodsburg KY
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Amherst County Court Clerks office March 8th, 1839

Sir 
In answer to your letter the day received, I have to inform you, that in January 1787. John Dinwiddie entered into a marriage bond as required by the law of the state, in order to obtain a license to marry Sarah Martin - which bond is now on file at this office. 

Your obt svt
Sam M. Garland