Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,002, Thomas Bibee, Va.
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SERVICE Va.
Bibee, thomas 
NUMBER S. 3,002.
CONTENTS [left Blank]
carded
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26585
East Tennessee
Thomas Bibee
of Cocke Co. in the State of Tennessee 
who was a private in the com [company]
commanded by Captain Higgin [Jacob Higginbotham ]
of the regt commanded by Colo [blank] in the line 
for 1 year and 5 months

Va. Line Records corrected. Feby 9 '04
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate 
of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 
4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1834 
and Hon John Blair House of Representatives 

Arrears to the 4th of March $170.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept $28.33
$198.33

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol 7 Page 37
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[Declaration page 1]

State of Tennessee
County of Cocke Ss

On this 1st day of March 1834 personally appeared before Richmond Baker a Justice of the peace for Cocke County and State of Tennessee, Thomas Bibee resident citizen of the County of Cocke and State of Tennessee, aged about one hundred 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 the Declarant Thomas Bibee has no record of his age and does not know in what year he was born. Before the termination of the Revolutionary War he was too old to be Subject to Military duty in Virginia. He was born in Goachland [Goochland] County, State of Virginia. Before the Revolutionary War, he removed to Amherst County, State of Virginia. 

In the month of February day not recollected in the year 1776. This Declarant volunteered for six mo nths under Captain Higginbottom [Jacob Higginbotham] to march to Charleston, South Carolin, to aid in repelling the British who were then about to invade that State. The company's rendezvous was at the Court House of the county- 

the Declarant having volunteered to Serve at his home in that County
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The Declarant was marched under his Captain Higgen bottum  [Jacob Higginbotham] in a Southerly direction, We first crossed the Fluvanna river [upper James River] in Virginia - the pedee river [Pee Dee] river in North Carolina- and the Santee [area] in South Carolina.

The particulars of our rout [route] are not Sufficuntly [sufficiently] recollected for me to give a detail of it, through the very impaired State of my  memory, which is now almost entirely destroyed. The Declarant was marched near to Charleston [SC], where we joined the American Army under General [Charles] Lee.

Here Declarant Served out a tour of five months under Captain Higginbottom  [Jacob  Higginbotham], being employed in guarding the City of Charleston, until  the British fleet and Army with drew from before that city, having failed in the attack [June 1776] they made upon Fort [later named Fort Moultrie] on Sullivan Island. 

In the month of July 1776 day not recollected Declarant received a written discharge from his Captain in the city of Charleston [SC], which discharge he has lost, where or when he does not know. In this tour declarant Served five months for which he never received any pay, 

After receiving his discharge he returned to his home in Amherst County, Va. The Lieutenant and Ensign and Sergeant of the company are not recollected by him. Colonel [William] Moultrie commanded the Fort on the [Sullivan] Island and successfully resisted the attack of the British on it. [Battle of Sullivan's Island, SC June 1776] General [Charles] Lee commanded the American troops on the Main land. 

In the month of February day not recollected
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[recollected] in the year 1779. 

This Declarant again volunteered under Captain Reed (Lts and Ensigns being forgotten] to march to Charleston, South Carolina, to aid in repelling an invasion of that State - Declarant volunteered at this time for Six months. He volunteered at home and from Amherst Court House [Virginia] in the month of February day not recollected 1779  He was again marched to the South as before, and joined the American Army under General [Benjamin] Lincoln near Charleston. 

The Lieutenants, Ensign and Sergeants of the company are not recollected. Declarant's company was attached to General Mason's Virginia Brigade - Colonel [William] Washington and one Armstrong were regular officers - General [William] Moultrie s Genl. [General] 

Declarant was in the attack upon the British forces under Col. [John] Maitland at Stono [Battle of Stono Ferry, South Carolina June 1779] - which attack was unsuccessful, a considerable number of our men being killed. 

In the month of August day not recollected, in the year 1779 after serving Six months this Declarant was discharged by his Captain in the 
City of Charleston and returned to his home in Amherst county [Va.] 

Shortly after his return from this tour Declarant, not being then Subject to military duty, in the month of September 1779 day not recollected became a substitute for one Johnson and marched back to the South, when he served under General [Benjamin] Lincoln until just before the taking of Charleston by the British in 1780 returning home, having received a written discharge from his captain in March 1780.
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The name of this Captain is gone from his memory. From Amherst County Virginia, Declarant moved to North Carolina, on the Yadkin river, thence he moved to Burke County, N.C. then to Rutherford [NC] - then to Boncombe [Buncombe] and then to Cocke County, Tennessee where he has lived for twenty two years and where he now lives being now, as he has been for many years, supported by his Step Son. Declarant does not recollect the number of years, which he lived in each of the places to which he moved.

He was before the termination of the revolution excused from Military duty in Virginia, being then just passed the age at which the citizens of that State were exempted by law from military Service - which he believes was fixed at fifty five years of age in that state, And according to an estimate from  this fact he is now upwards of one hundred years of age.  

The Declarant never received any compensation for his services. He has no documentary evidence of his Services, nor does he know of any person living, by who, he can prove his services. 

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 any agency of any State. Declarant has so much lost his memory that he may be mistaken in the name of his captains
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Reid [John Redd] - and so much gone is his memory that he cannot recall that of his third Captain or the particulars of his services, as he could wish. 
Thomas Bibee [his mark]  X

Interlined and erasures before signed 
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 1st day of March 1834
Richmond Baker POCty
Justice of the peace for Cocke County

Question 1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer 1st - I was born. From the best evidence that I have, I am about one hundred years old.
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer 2nd I have no record of my age. 
Question 3rd. Where were you living, when Called into Service; Where have you lived Since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer 3rd When called into service, I was living in Amherst County, State of Virginia. Since the Revolutionary War I have lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and Cocke County State of Tennessee, where I now live.
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Question 4th. How were you called into Service; were you drafted, did not volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom?
Answer 4th. I volunteered twice for Six months each time- and I became a substitute a third time for one Johnson for Six months. I served Seventeen months in South Carolina in the years 1776 and 1779-80.

Question 5th. State the name of Some of the regular officers, who were with the troops, when you Served: Such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general Circumstances of your service.
Answer 5th. My memory has so very much failed that I cannot recollect the particulars of my service, as I could wish. I served as a Volunteer under Capt. Higgin bottom [Jacob Higginbotham] from February 1776 day not recollected until July 1776 day not recollected -a period of five months -This service was in South Carolina at Charleston under General [Charles] Lee- General [William] Moultrie was one of the General officers. Other officers not recollected. I again Served as a volunteer under Captain Reed [John  Redd] from February 1779 day not recollected untill August 1779 day not recollected
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a period of Six months- In this service, I was in South Carolina, near Charleston under General [Benjamin] Lincoln. I  became a Substitute for one Johnson in September 1779 under a Captain whose name I cant recollect for Six months. I was in the Battle of Stono [Ferry, SC June 1779] which was an  attack under Genl [Benjamin] Lincoln upon Col. Maitland, who commanded a considerable body of British at Stono [Ferry, SC] - in this attack we were unsuccessful, loosing many of our men. This was in my second tour- My third tour was in South Carolina. I served in all Seventeen months.

Question 6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Answer 6th. I received written discharges from my Captains at the end of each of my periods. I've lost them. I never expected that they would be of any Service to me, and I never took any care of them.

Question 7th. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
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Answer 7th. I would refer to the Rev. Jos. Maning,  W. Joseph Oneal and Major W.P. Gillet who have all known me for many years, who can be examined touching my character for veracity their belief of my Services as soldier of the Revolution, and concerning the belief of my neighborhood as to my Services. 
Thomas Bibee [his mark]  X
Interlined and erasures before signed.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of March 1834.
Richmond Boker
Justice of the peace for Cocke County

We Joseph Maning a clergyman residing in the county of Cocke and Joseph Oneal and Major W.P. Gillet residing in the Same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Bibee who has subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration and annexed answers; that we believe him to be about one hundred 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; We have been acquainted with him for
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Declarant was marched under his Captain Higgin bottom [Jacob Higginbotham] in a Southerly direction We first crossed the Fluvanna river in Virginia- the pedee river [Pee Dee River] in North Carolina and the Santee [area] in South Carolina.

The particulars of our rout [route] are not sufficiently recollected for me to give a detail of it, through the very impaired State of my memory, which is now almost entirely destroyed. 

The Declarant was marched near to Charleston [SC], where we joined the American Army under General [Charles] Lee. Here Declarant served out sd [said] tour of five months under Captain Higginbottom [Jacob Higginbotham], being employed in Guarding the City of Charleston [SC], until the British fleet and Army with drew from before that city, having failed in the attack they made upon the Fort on Sullivans Island. [later named Fort Moultrie] [Battle of Sullivans Island, SC June 1776] 

In the month of July 1776 day not recollected Declarant received a written discharge from his captain in the city of Charleston, [SC] which discharge he has lost, when or where he does not know. In this tour Declarant served five months, for which he never received any pay. 

After receiving his discharge he returned to his home in Amherst County, Va. The Lieutenant and Ensign and Sergeants of this company are not recollected by him. Colonel [William] Moultrie commanded the Fort on the Island [Sullivan Island, SC] and successfully resisted the attack of the British on it. [Battle of Sullivan's Island, SC June 1776] General [Charles] Lee commanded the American troops on the Main land.

In the month of February day not recollected
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Thomas Bibee
Declaration
29 993
for 1776 pri 1 year
$56.66/100

Sent me by P B. Anderson, & to be 
placed on Knoxville agency
John Blair
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I have hereunto Set my hand and private Seal ,having no public Seal of office at office in New Port, the 10th dau of March 1834.
G. M. Porter Clerk
[illegible seal affixed]