Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8847, for John Loyd, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)                                                                             NUMBER
SERVICE
Va.        Loyd, John            S. 8847
Carded 
CONTENTS
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28.187
Virginia
John Loyd 
of Washington Co in the State of Virginia who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lovell of the Regt. commanded by Col Hancy in the Va. Ma. line for 8 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Nov. 1833 and sent to Andrew Rupell Clk 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833. $66.66 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34 - 13.33
$80.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832.       }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book [illegible @&]  Vol. 6 ½  Page 22

Date of death [illegible unt or dB]
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Virginia 
On this 10th day of October in the year 1833 Personally appeared before Benjamin Estill Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the County of Washington in the State of Virginia in open Court being a Court of record John Loyd a resident of Washington aged Seventy 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 of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832. That he was drafted as a militia man in the County of Surry in the State of North Carolina, he thinks in 1779 or 1780 the draft was made at a place called Richmond being the County seat of Justice, the drafts were detained at that place  for about four weeks he was put under the command of Capt Edward Lovell, his Lieutenant was Jonathan Clark he was marched together with four Captains Company into Orange County, and there joined other troops, the whole commanded by a Colo Isaacks but cannot tell first name some time afterwards they were stationed below the Moravian Towns and were then with a body of about fifteen hundred men marched in different directions after the Tories  - orders were then received to march towards Hillsborough to reinforce General Greenes army, and on that march they met a body of the enemy’s troops which had got [illegible betiviset] General Green and his baggage waggons at a place near Whiteshilly
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Whiteshelly Mill on the Reedy fork of Haw River he belives in Orange County - the Detachment was ordered to [illegible Hevoro] itself between the Waggons and the British troops which was promptly done, by which the Waggons were saved but immediately brought on an attack from the enemy which appeared to be the Army under the command of Cornwallis the disparity of numbers being 20 [illegible prc] of their little band was soon routed and after three rounds fled for safety in that affair. the Applicant was wounded in the left wrist by a Ball and on the head by a Dragoons sabre at the moment he plunged his bayonet into the dragoons horse which held him they then received orders for each one to shift for himself he returned home just before his term of service expired being for six months having served not less than five months in the years of 1779 or 1780 or he thinks but cannot recollect perfectly the Year but knows it was the time that Genl Greenes army was near Hillsborough in N. Carolina that he remained some months at home and then was again drafted at the same {illegible place] and placed under the same Captain and was employed during a three months tour in routing the Tories: they were marched into Roan County scouring about after Captain Fanning who at the head of a band of Horses was doing much injury - then marched back thro Surry into the hollows of the Adkin endeavouring to take a Captain Roberts who also headed the torries there - who came in and surrendered himself and his men - was three months on that service - that he never had any regular discharge
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nor can he prove by any witness the service before stated having moved from Carolina about 45 years ago and settled in Virginia and is now too old and infirm and too poor to go in quest of proof. his only [illegible retianed] is on a good character and traditionary report, his service was in the capacity of a private soldier - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or anuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any State or Territory-- he was born in the County of Cumberland in Virginia 1763 thinks the record his age is at home in his Family Bible given him by his Father. he has lived since the Revolution some time in Surry in N Carolina and then moved into Washington County Virg. sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
John Loyd 

And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states And the Court further certifies that the interrogatores prescribed by the war Department were put to the said applicant in open Court upon the investigation of the matter-- And further Certify that it appears to the Court that John R Crawford who has signed the subjoined Certificate is a Clergyman resident of Scott County in the neighbourhood of the Applicant - and that Charles Barker and Thomas Fulkerson who has also signed the same are resident in the County of Washington Va and are credible persons that their statement is entitled to credit
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Virginia 
We John R Crawford a Clergiman residing in the County of Scott Va and Charles Barker & Thomas Fulkerson residing in the county of Washington, VA hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with John Loyd who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
John R Crawford 
Charles Barker
Thomas Fulkerson 

Virginia to wit: 

I Andrew Russell, Clerk of, the Circuit Superior Court of Law and chancery for Washington County, do hereby certify that the [illegible for] contains the original proceedings of the said Court [illegible missing] the application for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the [illegible xx] day of October and the year of [covered by seal] commonwealth the [illegible 385th]
Andrew Russell, Clk

[The following is from a form]:
Period when: cannot remem
Duration of the claimant service: " 8 "
Rank of Claimant: Private
Name & rank of Field officer under whom he served: Colo Isaacks
Age of present & place of board where drafted: 70 Surry Co N Carolina
Proof by which his declaration is supported: Traditionary and three witnesses one whom clergyman

{Sidways text]:
28.373
John Loyd

Admit an apruali
8 March $26.66
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June 6, 1940

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JOHN LOYD
 S. 8847
BA-J/MLB
 
Margaret E. Ford 
1616 Eighteenth Avenue South 
Nashville, Tennessee 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Loyd (or Lloyd ) who served from Pennsylvania, and that of his son, John Loyd, of Virginia, who you state was in the battle of Kings Mountain. 

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolution of a Thomas Loyd, under any spelling, who served in the Pennsylvania troops. You are furnished herein the record of the only John Loyd of Virginia, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers in pension claim, S. 8847, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 

John Loyd (as he signed) was born in 1763 in Cumberland County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not shown. 

He enlisted in Surry County, North Carolina, served five months as private in Captain Edward Lovell's company, Colonel Isaacs' regiment, and was in an engagement near Whitsall's Mills in which he was wounded in his left wrist by a ball and in his head by a dragoon's sabre. He subsequently served a tour of three months as private again in Captain Edward Lovell's company, dates of service not stated. 

The soldier moved about 1788 from Surry County, North Carolina, to Washington County, Virginia, where he was residing when he was allowed pension on his application executed October 10, 1833.
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It is not stated in the claim whether or not this soldier ever married.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of the soldier, John Loyd, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: John Loyd, certificate #23187 or 28187, issued November 27, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Virginia Agency. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator

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[Image of a seal]:

RECEIVED
APR 26 1940
MAIL SUB-DIV.
YETS. ADM. [SMUDGED]
READER [SMUDGED]
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MARGARET ERVIN FORD
1616 EIGHTEENTH AVE. SO 
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 
April 24 1940 
Veterans’ Administration 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir,
Please send me complete records of war service, Revolutionary, of Thomas Loyd or (Lloyd) of Capt. Jonathan Jones Company – 1st Pa. Battalion, Col. Jno. Bull, Enlisted Nov. 6, 1775 
Respectfully
Margaret E. Ford
Also his son Jno. Loyd of the Va. Militia - Fought at Kings not Sumner so. West Va. Page 861.

Please. M.E.H.
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8847
INVALID

File No. 8747
John Loyd
Prn Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. [illegible 1et}, Page 227

[Arrangement of 1879]

1940 June 6 – Hist to Margaret E Loyd
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