Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,719, Henry Conway, Va.
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Service - Va.


Conway, Henry
Sarah


Number - W. 6719
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Jonesborough Tenn.  426

Sarah Conway, widow of Henry Conway

of Washington Co., in the State of Tennessee
who was a Captain in the      commanded by
Captain   of the ....commanded by ... in the 
VA line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesborough 
at the rate of $480 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of January 1837 and sent to Hon. W.B. Carter, H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1836   $2640.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1837  $240.00

$2880.00

Act 6 July 1836}
3 Sec.}

{Revolutionary Claim,}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book   Vol. 1  Page 216
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1047


Wid. Sarah Conway

declaration 
for a pension



W.B. Carter
House of Representatives
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836

State of Tennessee
Washington County

On this 20th day of January 1837 personally appeared before me Samuel G. Bayles a Justice of the Peace for said County. Mrs. Sarah Conway a resident of Washington County and State of Tennessee, in the eighty sixth year of her age.  who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th, 1836.  That she is the widow of Henry Conway who was a Captain in the Army of the revolutionary war.  She further declares that she was married to the said Henry Conway on the 25th day of July in the year seventeen hundred and sixty nine.  That her husband the aforesaid Henry Conway died on the tenth day of September 1812 and that she remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.  She further states that she and her aforesaid husband Henry Conway were married in Spotsylvania County State of Virginia. That she knows of no record of their marriage being kept.  That she has lived upwards of fifty years.  Several hundred miles from where they were married and believes that there is scarcely a person living that saw them married.
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 

Sarah Conway


Test 
Samuel G. Bayles
Justice of the Peace

I Samuel Bayles a Justice of the Peace for Washington County State of Tennessee do hereby certify that Mrs. Sarah Conway whose affidavit I have taken to the within  ? is too old and unable to go to the court house it being some miles distance given under my hand this 20th day of January 1837.

Samuel G. Bayles


State of Tennessee
Washington County

This day came the Reverend Elbert F. Sevier before me Samuel G. Bayles a Justice of the Peace for Washington County aforesaid and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that Mrs. Sarah Conway is at this time and ever has been since the passing of her husband Henry Conway a widow.

Sworn to and subscribed this 20th day of January 1837

Elbert F. Sevier

Test
Samuel G. Bayles
Justice of the Peace

I Samuel G. Bayles a Justice of the Peace for said County do hereby certify that the Reverend Elbert F. Sevier is a credible witness given under my hand the 20th day of January 1837

Samuel G. Bayles
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State of Tennessee
Washington County

I Samuel Greer Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Samuel G. Bayles before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Conway and Probate of Reverend Elbert F. Sevier were sworn to was at the time and still continues to be an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due and should be given to all his official acts as such given under my hand and seal of Office at Office in Jonesboro this 21st day 
January 1837

Samuel Greer Clerk


State of Tennessee
Washington County

I William H. Blair Presiding Justices of the County court of said County do hereby certify that Samuel Greer is Clerk of said County and that this certificate is in due from of Law 
Given under my hand and Seal this 21st day of January 1837

William H. Blair 
Presiding Justice of the County Court of Washington County Tennessee
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I do hereby certify and state that Samuel B. Bayles whom the affidavit of Mrs. Sarah Conway was made as appears within is an acting Justice of Peace of Washington County Tennessee, that the (smear) Courts of Record are held by the Justices of the Peace under the provisions of a statute of said State.
Given under my hand 30th January 1837

William B. Carter
of the House of Representatives







Upside down

Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the House session
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Request for Photostating    M6
(To be prepared for duplicate)

Ex. CW

Office of Chief Clerk

Job. No. 889                           Date May 10, 1924

Subject - Henry Conway, Rev. War. W6719

1 copies of 5 pieces consisting of 8 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev. War Section Division.

Remarks:  Copies mailed May 20, 1924 to Mrs. N.B. Pearman
1714 Kilbourne Place NW
Washington, DC


see receipt for payment in James Landrum, W800

A.E. Wilson  Rev. War Section
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District of Columbia  Washington County

This day came James Sevier before me Robert Getty, a Justice of the Peace for said County, being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Captain Henry Conway who served as Captain in the Army of the revolution that he is also well acquainted with Sarah Conway who has always been purported as his lawful wife and by which marriage they had the following names
Children (to wit) Thomas, Nancy, Elizabeth and Susan. Thomas was about eleven, Nancy about nine years old, the other two children in ? their ages not known as the two eldest but all born before Captain Conway left the army as this deponent has been informed and believes this deponent who states that said Henry Conway is the same that obtained four thousand six hundred and sixty six and two third acres of land for his bounty of land as a Captain in the army of the revolutionary war in the troops of Virginia this deponent further states and believes that Sarah Conway who is now claiming a pension under the act of July the fourth 1836 was the legal wife of the said Henry Conway deceased and is now his widow and has been married since the death of her said husband Henry Conway

James Sevier

Sworn and subscribed to this 30th January 1837

Robert Getty J.P.
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Treasury Department
3rd Auditor's Office
10th January 1837


Sir:

In reply to your application for information in relation to Henry Conway revolutionary service, I have to state that it appears from the Muster Rolls of the 10th Regiment of the Virginia line on file in this office that Henry Conway was appointed a Captain on the 10th March 1777, and that he resigned on the 12th of March 1779.

I am very Respectfully,

Your most H.L.

Peter Hagner Auditor



James Sevier Esq.
now at Washington
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Evidence in 
Capt. Conway's
case
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I hereby certify that Henry Conway was an officer in the service of the United States in the Virginia Continental line and I well knew him as a commissioned officer in the year 1781 and 1782 and that I do believe he continued in the service to the end of the war. 

Given under my hand this 22nd of September 1806.

Simon Morgan 
late Capt. U.S.


I was well acquainted with the within Henry Conway as Capt. to the 14th Virginia Regt. and his services commenced about the last of 1776 or early in the year 1777 and continued in the service to the end thereof.  

Given under my hand the 16th of October 1806

J. Blackwell
Late Capt. 6th Virginia Regt.
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Executive Department
October 18th 1833

I hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the evidence on file in the department upon which Henry Conway was allowed land bounty for seven year services as a Captain in the Continental line.

J.H.B. Richardson
Assistant Secretary Committee


No.   - Acres

5556 - 1000
5557 - 1000
5558 - 1000
5559 - 1000
5560  - 666 2/3
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4666 2/3

Henry Conway is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a Captain of the Virginia Continental line for seven years service

Samuel Coleman


Council Chamber
14th February 1807

William H. Cabell