Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 539, Thomas Davis, Va.
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1776

SERVICE NUMBER
Va.  
Davis, Thomas Frances
NUMBER
W.539
B.L. Wt. 28551-160-55
CONTENTS
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State of Virginia } to wit:
County of Matheus }
On this 15th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the court of  Matheus County [illegible] sitting, Thomas Davies, a resident of Matheus County and State of Virginia, aged sixty nine 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 Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
that he entered the service if the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He was under John Billups Lepton, George [illegible]  was an officer whether Leuiftenant or Ensign he cannot recollect [illegible] Payton was the acting, the acting Lwo Co at that time, he first work out as guard [illegible]   Island and at other places. He does not recollect the inast time when he first entered the service he was not on the muster list when Lord Daurmore came to the Island but he was on shortly after and he was young when he was first called out he thinks he was called directly after being put upon the list and [illegible] out off and on until the seige at York, he left the service in October 1781 after [illegible] was taken, he [illegible] upon the enemy lines several times but now in no set [illegible] the regiment to which he was attached, he resided in  what now was called Kingson Parrish a part of eloncester  [illegible] County that part which now constitutes Mathues County, and has been living there ever since. He went out once as a volunteer, some time before
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September 26, 1939

BA-J/MCS
Thomas Davis, W. 593

Mrs. Jerome P. Carr
500 Westmoreland Avenue
Portsmouth, Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Thomas Davis, a Revolutionary War soldier of Mathews County, Virginia, who died July 19, 1845.

The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claims, W.593, based on the military service of Thomas Davis.

Thomas Davis was born in 1762 in Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia.

While a resident of Kingston Parish in that part of Gloucester County which was later Mathews County, Virginia, he served at various intervals from sometime in 1777 until after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, amounting to a little over twelve months in all, as private in the Gloucester County militia under Captain John Billups and Colonels John Peyton and Ennis.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, at which time he was living in Mathews County, Virginia.

He died July 19, 1845, in Mathews County, Virginia.

Thomas Davis married December 4, 1824, in Mathews County, Virginia, Frances Simmons.

As the widow of Thomas Davis, said Francis was allowed pension on her application executed June 13, 1853, at which time she as seventy years of age and a resident of Mathews County, Virginia. She was living
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there in 1855.

The soldier's son, Thomas B. Davis, was living in Hill Grove, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in 1860.

There are no further data relative to the family of Thomas Davis.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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