Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38214, for Peter Mines, Virginia
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Va.

Mines, Peter

NUMBER
S.38214 

CONTENTS
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[printed form, handwritten responses]
5224 
Virginia 
Peter Mines
Capt. Hays ["private" crossed out] 
Musician
Virginia line, 3 Years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia 
at the rate of 82 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 28th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of Jany 1819 
and sent to the Hon. W. McCoy 
House of Reps. US.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 mo. 7/20 33.86 Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4th, Mar 1819. 48.00
[total] $:81.86
{Revolutionary claim,   }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

d. Sept. 30. 1825

Augusta County
Continued
Notification sent September 7th 1820 to 
D. Sheffey, Staunton, Virginia
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Peter Mines
Declaration 
&
Certificate
5224 Augusta
Jan 1819
[Illegible]
Mar 1819
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Peter Mines’s
Declaration 
&
Certificate

Certificate
5224 
Augusta Jan 1819
[Illegible]
Mar. 1819
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State of Virginia
Augusta County to wit
On this, 26th day of June 1820. personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the said County. Peter 
Mines aged about Sixty nine years resident in the said County, who being 
first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the
revolutionary war as follows: He inlisted [enlisted] with Captain John Hays in the Coun-ty of Rockbridge in Virginia on the first day of September 1777. and was
marched in company to White Marsh, and was there attached to the 9th Virginia 
Regiment commanded by Col: George Matthews, that he was marched 
from White Marsh to Valley Forge, from thence to Morris Town, to Trenton 
and thence to Philadelphia: that he was in the battles of Monmouth 
Court House and Guilford Court House, and that at Monmouth Court 
House from severe Labour in erecting huts for winter quarters he became 
badly ruptured, that he was discharged in the month of July 1780. 
that he is 
unable to obtain a livelihood by his occupation, which is that of a breeches 
maker, he has already made a declaration under the act of congress passed 
on the 18th day of March. 1818. The date of which declaration he does not now 
recollect, his pension certificate is dated the 7th day of January. 1819. He 
solemnly swears that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on 
the 18th day of March. 1818. and that he has not since that time by gift 
sale or in any other manner disposed of his property or any part thereof 
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provi-
sions of an act of Congress intitled [entitled] an act to provide for certain persons 
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the 
revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March. 1818. and that he has
not, nor has any person in trust for him any property, or securities
contracts or debts, deed to him, nor has he any property except what is 
included in the Schedule hereunto annexed. He has no family but 
his wife, an old and infirm woman, and a Daughter who contributes
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nothing towards my support

Schedule of property
Two [illegible] Three Hogs altogether north Thirty Dollars
Peter his x mark Mines 
Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of June 1820 before the said court 
of Augusta County-             
Teste
Erasmus Stribling CaC

I Erasmus Stribling Clerk of Augusta County Court do hereby certify 
that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied 
from the records of the said court: and I do further certify that 
it is the opinion of the said court; that 
the total amount in 
value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Thirty Dol-
lars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal of 
the said court on this 28th day of June
in the year of our Lord one Thousand 
Eight Hundred and Twenty 
Erasmus Stribling C.a.C
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Peter Mines

Apr. 20th, 1818

Suspended for the
Virginia Roll

Correct
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Virginia 
Augusta County, to wit,
This day Peter Mines, of the County aforesaid, per-
-sonally appeared before me, John Brown, Judge of the Chancery 
District Court holder at Staunton in the country & state aforesaid,
 & being sworn, saith, That in the year 1777, he enlisted, as a 
Drummer, for three years, in Cap. Hays’s company, of the 9th 
Virginia Regiment, on Continental establishment; That he con-
-tinued in the army until the 19th day of July 1780, when he was 
discharged, at Fredricksburgh, by Brigadier General Muhlenberg, 
on account of a rupture, which disqualified him from further 
service;__ That he received a regular discharge at that time, 
which he afterwards sent to Richmond by Major Hays (his former 
Captain) for the purpose of receiving some pay then due to him; The 
said Major Hays left the discharge at some of the offices (believed 
to be the Auditor’s) in Richmond, as he informed this affiant, but 
afterwards furnished this affiant, at his request, with an attested 
copy of it, hereunto annexed;- The said Major Hays has been dead 
for several years. - This affiant also saith, that he never had 
a pension allowed him by the laws of the United States, -__that 
he is in reduced circumstances, old & infirm, & that he stands in 
need of the aid of his country for support.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & 
caused the seal of office of the said court to be affixed the ["day & year first above mentioned" is crossed out] 20th day of Apl. 1818
JW. Brown
(seal)
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[printed form, handwritten responses]
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., [blank], 19 [blank]

[illegible]
S.F. 38214
                   
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank]
for a statement of the military history of Peter Mines 
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired 
information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pen-
sion on file in this Bureau.

[Column Headings: Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.  Length of Service.  Rank. Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered.  Captain.  Colonel.  State.]

Sept. 1. 1777.  July 1780.  Drummer.  John Hays.  George Matthews.  9th Va.

Battles engaged in, Monmouth. Guilford Co. H.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Rockbridge Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 20. 1818. His [illegible] was al.
Residence at date of application, Augusta Co. Va.
Age at date of application, 67 yrs.  He died Sept. 30. 1825- *
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife and a daughter but 
no names are stated.  
* from A.B.

Respectfully, 
Commissioner. 

6-2856
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Fredricksburge July 13. 1780
Peter Mines a Soldier formerly belonging to the Ninth 
Virginia Regiment whose term of Enlistment would 
have expired in the first September next having had [Illegible] 
Misfortune to get a rupture which is the opinion of the
Surgeon renders him unable to perform the duties of a Soldier 
he is therefore at his own request discharged from [illegible, page damage]
Service.
Peter [Illegible] 
[Illegible]
a Copy
Cha. Jones Ck a. office

[round stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

Mines, Peter
Va S 38214
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[printed form, handwritten responses]
38214
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 38214
Peter Mines
Musician Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 276

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1914 July/ To Hist. to Wilbur
C. Morrison V. L. M.
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Wilbur C. Morrison 
William L. Geppert
Editors    

Established 1861 
Daily and Weekly

THE 
CLARKSBURG 
TELEGRAM

Clarksburg, W. Va.,

July, 10, 1914.

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir:
Please give me such information as your records have concerning Peter Mines, who served as a Revolutionary 
soldier, as to enable me to use the same in application for member-
ship in the Sons of the Revolution, and oblige,
Yours truly,
Wilbur C. Morrison