Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 31,549, Enoch Benson, Va.
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Service                          Number
Va      Benson, Enoch     S31549
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Georgia    16.446
Enoch Benson of Gwinnett in the State of Georgia who was a Pri in the Company command by Captain Toles, of the Regh command by Col. Graves in the Va time for 6 mo: 14 days
Inscribed in the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 21 Dollars 55 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of August and sworn to NL Hutch [xxx] Lawrenceville, Ga
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  13.10
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 10.77
$53.87
Revolutionary claim, act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nath. Rece Clerk
Book E Vol. G Page 8G
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No. 3
Enoch Benson
Revolutionary Soldier Declaration admitted a private 6 mo. 14 days   Va. 55
Nathan Hutchinson Lawrenceville, Ga
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Enoch Benson
14198
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State of Georgia Inferior Court September 1832
Gwinnett County on the 25th day of September 1832
Personally appeared in open court it being a court of record, now sitting Enoch Benson a resident of the said county of Gwinnett State of Georgia aged seventy 4 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 of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated; that he entered the service in the County of Culpepper & State of Virginia under Captain William Stanton for 3 months in 1780 or 1781 not certain of which & was stationed at Hunters Iron Works. Afterwards cald in to service again under Captain Henry Toles for one other tower of three months [xx] Captain permitted him to remain at home for a few days to have some clothes finished he then in a very few days started on to join his said Captain Toles but could not get with them convenintly was advised by a Genl officer whose name he cannot recolect at present to join another company which he did at Fredricksberg which company was commanded by Captain Nolen with whom he remained until they joined his said Captain Toles but before he served his full three months out he hired his brother Zachariah Benson to serve the ballance of said tower of three months; afterwards cald out again under Captain Reuben Clark for three months & at Williamsburg he was transferred to Captain Triplit atached to Major Welch's Battalion & he believes Colonel Graves Regiment. From Williamsburg marched to a place caled Little York & was in the Battle at that place under the command of Genl George Washington  Served out his tower & was regularly discharged. & that he was regularly discharged from each of his 3 several towers of duty making in all nine months of duty rendered in defense of his country but have lost or mislaid his several discharges so that he cannot find them.
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that after the Revolutionary War that he has lived first in the State of Virginia from their he came to South Carolina Greenville District and from there to the State of Georgia and county of Gwinnett where he now resides and that he has no documentary evidence whereby he can prove his said services - and that he knows of no person now living whose testimony he can procure that will go to establish same. He hereby relinguishes every claim whatever to a pensionor annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court. (Attest) Wm. Maltbie C.I.C.
Enoch Benson
Georgia Gwinnett County
We John S Nelson a clergyman residing in the said county of Gwinnett and state aforesaid and Robert Adair residing in the same state & county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Enoch Benson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six 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.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court (attest) Wm. Maltbie C.I. C.  John S. Nelson Robert S. Adair
Georgia Gwinnett County
And the said court do hereby declair their opinion after the investigation of the matters and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
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and served as he stated and the court further certifies that it appears to them that John Wilson who has signed the presiding certificate is a clergyman  resident of the county of Gwinnett and State of Georgia and that Robert S. Adair who has also signed the same is a resident of the state and county aforesaid and is a credible person and that the statement is entitled to credit.  J Harallson J.I.C  John Brewton J.I.C. J.R. Smith J.I.C.
I William Maltbie Clerk of the Inferior Court for the County of Gwinnett and State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Enoch Benson for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 25th day of September 1832.
Wm. Maltbie C.I,C,
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Georgia Gwinnett County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of said county Enoch Benson who being duly sworn saith that from the best of his recollection and of which he is verry certain he entered the service of the United States as a drafted malitia man in the year 1780 & served as a private soldier in that year as stated in his annexed declaration and after serving out his of three months was regularly discharged by his Captain Stanton that in 1781 in the month of May he entered the service again as a private soldier for three months and served two months then employed his brother to serve in  hsi place as a substitute and that in the same year (1971) in the month of August in Culpepper County Virginia he again entered the service as a drafted militia man & served as a private soldier as stated in his declaration & received a regular discharge from his Captain Triplitt & that the said discharge one lastly- that he recollects to have distroyed all his old revolutionary papers except the oath of alligance to the country which he yet has & he presumes that the discharges [xx} that may [xx] never having expected to receive anything for his services [xx] never thought valuable and that he has never received any pay for his services that he was born in the month of December 1756 (seventeen hundred fifty six) in the said
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State of Virginia & Culpepper County as he has been informed / that he has the [xx] of his age as told him by his parents & which is now in his [xx] that at the time of entering the service each time he resided in the said county of Culpepper & State of Virginia - that after the Revolutionary War he resided in the county of Culpepper until the year 1785 then removed to to Greenville District South Carolina remained there till the yeaer 1818 & then removed to the State of Georgia & settled in the neighborhood where he now resides in the county of Gwinnett - that John S. Wilson a clergyman and Robert S. Adair Esq William Maltbies Rsq Charles W. Rawson Buckner Harris & many othrs of his neighbors who reside in his neighborhood & to whom he is well known can testify to his character for veracity & of their belief in his services as a soldier of the revolution and for the above services he claims a pension.  Enoch Benson
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24 June 1833.  John Mills JP
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Georgia Gwinnett County
I William Maltbie Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County hereby certify that John Mills whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit (signed by Enoch Benson) as a subscribing witness is an acting Justice of the Peace for said county and that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to his attestation as such - given under my hand & seal of office this 24th day of June 1833
Wm Maltbie C.I.C.
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April 6, 1931.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
ILL  
OM [handwritten]

Mrs. Willis B. Maxwell 
#11, McElroy Apartments
 South Orange Avenue
Orlando, Florida. 

Dear Madam: You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 31549,that Enoch Benson was born in December, 1756 in Culpeper County, Virginia.

 While a resident of Culpeper County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1780 and served three months as a private in Captain William Stanton's Virginia Company; he enlisted in May, 1781, served two weeks as private in Captains Nolan's and Henry Towles Companies, then “hired” his brother, Zachariah Benson, to finish out the balance of the three months for which he had enlisted; he enlisted in August, 1781, served as a private in Captains Reuben Clark's and Triplett's Companies in Colonel Graves' Virginia Regiment, was in the battle of Yorktown and was discharged, having served three months. 

After the Revolution, soldier lived in Culpeper County, Virginia, until 1795 when he moved to Greenville District, South Carolina , where he resided until 1818. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 25, 1832, while a resident of Gwinnett County, Georgia, having moved to that neighborhood from South Carolina, 

There is no family data other than the reference to his brother, Zachariah, noted above.

 In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension,
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name of the person to whom pension was paid and possibly the
date of death of Enoch Benson, you should apply to the
Records Division,
General Accounting Office,
Washington, D.C.
citing all of the following data
Enoch Benson,
Certificate #16446,
issued August 24, 1833,
Rate - $21.55 per annum,
to commence March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832.
Georgia Agency.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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31549 INVALID File No. 31549 Enoch Benson Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 33
[Arrangement of 1870]
1915 - Jan 30: history to Mrs W.D. Coleman   M.B. H.
1931 - April 6 - Hist to Mrs. W. B. Maxwell - ILL
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Atlanta, Ga Jan 26, 1915
Commissoner of Pensions Washington DC
Dear Sir
Will you please send me an abstract of the Revolutionary service and my family data & he fourmed in the applica-
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tion papers of Enoch Benson a pensioner who fought in Virginia during the Revolutionary War and lived in Gwinnett County Georgia in 1833. and [xx] from my [xx] Emma N. Coleman Mrs. H.B. Coleman 551 Euclid  Ave Atlanta, Ga
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11 McElroy Apts.
S. Orange ave.
Orlando, Fla.
Mar. 4, 1931

Dept. of War
Washington, D.C.

Dear sirs:
Please send me all the data
you have about Enoch Benson
who served in the Virginia
Militia as a private during the
Revolutionary War. He
served from Stafford Co. Va. but
was living in Grinnett Co. Georgia
during the time he received his
pension.
His oldest son, Reuben, had
his father's papers and they were
burned so I am trying to
find out the following things
about Enoch Benson:
1. His wife's name
2. His childrens names
3. His parents names
@ whether the John
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2 in re Enoch Benson
Benson who served from
Stafford Co. VA.. was Enoch's father
4. His birth date (The census
of pensioners in 1840 gives his
age as 84 and in 1835 as 78
so the year is about 1756
but I would the exact
date if you have it)
5. Any record of his service
beyond just the fact that he
was a private in Va. Militia.
6. Do you issue any duplicate
or facsimile copies of
pension ships and if so
what is the charge made
doing so?
7. The date of his death.

I shall appreciate any
information you may be able to
send me about the above

Sincerely,
Mary Benson Maxwell
(Mrs. Willis B.)
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
Washington, D. C., , 19 
In reply to your request of ___, received ___ for a statement of the military history of Enoch Benson. a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's ) [parenthetical remark struck through] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 31.549. 
[Following listed as a table]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. 
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.
CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
1780 3 mos Pvt. William Stanton Va.
May 1781 2 mos Henry Toles & Nolen 
1781 3 mos Reuben Clark & Triplett Graves  
Battles engaged in, Yorktown.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Culpeper Co. Va. 
Date of application for pension, Sept. 25, 1832. His claim was allowed. 
Residence at date of application, Gwinnett Co, Ga. 
Age at date of application, born in Dec 1756. Culpepert Co. Va. 
Remarks: [check mark]
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
6-2856