Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,953, for John Price, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va.

Price, John

NUMBER
S.5953

carded
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Let B. Watkins July 24. 1834 duplicate issued Aug 8. 1834 – and old one returned and filed with the papers
Letter to 3d Auditor 6th July 1839. Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1835 to 4 Sept 1838. Agt [Agent] Notified 29 July 1839.

[right side] 4296
Virginia
John Price
of Henry Co. in the State of Virginia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hubbard of the Regt. Commanded by Col. Mason in the Virginia [crossed out - line for] Militia for 9 months priv.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of January 1833 and sent Hon. N H Clairborne H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1832 45.00
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar ’33 15.00
Dollr [Dollars] 60.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester, Clerk
Book D Vol. 7 Page 110
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To /
Lewis Cass Esq.
Secretary of War.
Washington City, D. C.
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State of Virginia Henry County to wit: 
On this 12th day of November 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of the County Court for Henry now sitting, John Price, a resident of the County of Henry and State of Virginia, aged 70 years of age on the 7th June next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
viz. -- That he was born 7th June 1763 in Charlotte County Va. about four miles from the Charlotte Court house ^ that the record of his age is in Pittsylvania County Va. – That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was drafted in his 17th year ^ and was a member of a company under command of Capt. Hubbard [William Hubard] which had for rendezvous Salisbury, N. Carolina - from this place he marched under the immediate command of Capt. Hubbard above mentioned & lieutenant Samuel Henry to the South, - and was under the command of Gen [Benjamin] Lincoln in an engagement, on the borders of a stream some 25 or 30 miles from Charleston South Carolina [Battle of Stono Ferry on Stono River, about 12 mi W of Charleston, 20 Jun 1779]. That he served in this campaign 6 months – superior officers for part of this time Col [David] Mason & Col Burruss. That after his return to home which was to Pittsylvania in this State, he joined Gen [Nathanael] Greene’s army after the battle fought at Guilford Court House, North Carolina [15 Mar 1781], and served for the space of 3 months, making in all his time of service 9 months. 
This applicant further states upon oath that his discharge is not in his possession, but in that of a Mr. Robert Finley, having by this disposal of it received a compensation in salt. 
This applicant further saith, that he has been residing in Henry County for these 37 or 38 years and that he is well known to Col. Martin, Gen John Dillard Mr. Boling Dandrige [Bolling Dandridge], Mr. George
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Arston [George Hairston] & others — 
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, or (if any) only in that of the agency of the State of Virginia.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforsaid [aforesaid]
John [his X mark] Price

We Arnold Walker Clergyman, residing in the County of Henry and John Lane residing in the same certify that we are well acquainted with her John Price, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 70 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Arnold Walker 
John Jane 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Arnold Walker who has sign of the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Henry, and that John Lane who has also signed the same is a resident of the same county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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I Anthony M. Dupay Clerk of the Court of Henry County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Price for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Henry Court house this 12th day of November 1832 in the 57 year of the Commonwealth 
Anthony M. Dupay
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[left side] April 15/76 Letter to Hon W. M. Robbins, with [blank?] C. for former widow to apply if she is now a widow. White 
1931 - Feb. 2 - Jane P. J. Wilson advised cost of photos, See correspondence & all transactions in Jacob Price S. 3730 MHF

Rev War 5953
INVALID

File No. 5953
John Price
Priv. [Private] Rev War

Act: June 7th, /32
Index: - Vol. M, Page 302

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cascade Va. Free
1st August 

Department of War
Pension Office
Washington City

[written sideways] Va. Aug 7

[written upside] Benj Watkins app to the case of Jno Price
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D Sir 

Inclosed [Enclosed] is Mr. John Price’s Pension Certifate [certificate] he has put it into my hands for the purpose of having it allowed so as he can receive his money in Richmond Va. instead of Fayetteville N. C he says he has never recd [received] any thing [anything] as yet - from your letter to me on the subject, the certificate has to be sent on, - you can make the allowance & inclose [enclose] it to me, or otherwise to have directed to Cascade, Pittsy [Pittsylvania] Va. Jno Price Lives in about 10 miles of that P. Office in Henry Cty [County] Va., and I will issue him when the letter comes – 
Respectfully Yours 
Benj Watkins
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[Letterhead] [right side] JANE PIERCE JENNINGS WILSON TREASURER 
[center] JENNINGS FAMILY RECORD 503 RICHMOND TRUST BUILDING RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. U. S. A. ADDRESS MAIL P. O. Box 1612 CABLE ADDRESS CHALOEBER
[right side] RESIDENCE 2201 HANOVER AVE. PHONE: BOULEVARD 4335

Bureau of Pensions
Wars Rev & 1812 
Washington D. C.

Dear Sirs,

Please give me any information concerning John Price, of Henry Co Va. who is listed as a pensioner in [in] S. or W. 1835 – 2 - 154 also the cost of photostats.

Thanking you, I am 
Sincerely 
Jane P. J. Wilson 
2201 Hanover Ave 
Richmond Va.

Oct 14-1930

[oval stamp sideways] REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS SECTION OCT 15 1930 BUREAU OF PENSIONS

[written sideways] 4 pages
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Payments to be made at Fayetteville N. C. by Pres. U. S. Br. Bank Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of North Carolina

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 7 page 110
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 

Revolutionary Claim. 

I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Price of the State of Virginia who was a private in the Militia of the State of Virginia during the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive ---Thirty ---dollars ---- and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year. 

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 

Lew Cass 
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.} 
J L Edwards
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No. 4296
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller’s Office,
July 17th, 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,” John Price, --- a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of thirty Dollars and    Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March, 1835, to the 4th Sept. 1838.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.