Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9636, for Walter Skinner, Maryland
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Service 
Md
Skinner, Walter
Number R. 9636
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No. 30.310
Report to Calvin Waldo Weston 
Lewis County, Va

Walter Skinner
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State of Virginia      }
Lewis County           }   ss     On this 2nd day of November 1833 personally appeared before me Samuel Z Jones a Justice of the Peace in and for Lewis County in the said state of Virginia.  Walter Skinner a resident of Lewis county in the state of Virginia aged seventy three years,  who being first duly sworn according to law saith on his oath makes 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 hereto stated.

That in the year 1776 he volunteered in Carroll county in  Maryland under  Captain David Luckett in a company of Maryland Militia to serve six month is so long required.  He was marched to a place called Havre De Grasse on Havre DeGrasse the British were there over in Pennsylvania.  The Maryland troops were marched over and at a place called Brandywine we had a battle in the fall of 1776 where General Washington was (illegible).  The applicant was in a regiment commanded by Col. Ward and under Gen. Smallwood.  Col. Ward's horse was shot under him and in the actual he was taken on behind General Smallwood on the same horse.  He was marched back into Maryland 
and discharged in November 1776 full six months as a private militiaman and volunteer.
He returned home to Carroll County, and in the month of May 1777 he again volunteered in a company of Maryland Militia under Captain Hawson in a Battalion under Major McPherson was marched to Port Tobacco near the Potomac was kept there watching the British in the Otomaw.  The landed on the Virginia side and made an attack on the Va. Militia.  Eng. Breuts used burnt Breuts hours.  The Maryland Militia with some (illegible) prepared to cross in barges with a few small cannon to try
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to take this [?] however returned to it too
soon for us [?] we had to haul [?] we
were kept along the Potomac on the Maryland
side watching the incoming till in November
1777 he was discharged by Captain Hanson
having served six months in the Maryland
Militia. Then again in March 1778 he again
volunteered in a company of Maryland militia
men under Captain's ..... Bentley he was
marched from Carroll County in Maryland
was marched to the shore of the Chesapeake Bay
at a place called Cove Point there joined a
regiment commanded by [?] they were
stationed there but were marched to other places along
the Bay to guard and watch the enemy particularly
at the mouth of [?]. He was continued
in this service till in September 1778 when
he was discharged having served six months
tour as a private militia man - In March
1779 he joined a company of Maryland Minute
Men under Captain  ..... Brown he was
soon called out from Carroll County to the [?]
of [?]. Continued there till in May
when he was permitted to go home. He was then
taken sick and served no more this year of 1779
but six weeks. [?] in March 1780 he was called
out as a minute man was marched to Baltimore
from there down the Patapsco to the Bay and
down the western side of the Bay and again
back to Patapsco [?] down to Annapolis and
below there to the mouth of the [?] River hereabouts
he was continued in the service till in December
1780 when he was discharged having
been out nine months under this call
he was generally under command of Captain [?]
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Luckett / David the same man that was his captain
before and under the same General Smallwood.
Then in July 1781 he was again [?] out as
a minute man from Carroll County under
his same Captain Brown was placed in [?]
[?] regiment marched to
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by disease is not able to attend court he lives more than fifteen miles from the Courthouse. He was at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis General Washington Lafayette Wayne and several others whose name he has forgotten. He served many regular officers and militia officers whose names he never heard. He served regular troops and militia Pennsylvania and Maryland troops. He does not now remember if he ever knew his company or name of regiments. He has no documentary evidence. He knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to 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 or state subscribed and sworn to this day and year aforesaid.

Walter Skinner - His X Mark

The several interrogatories prescribed by the war department were [illegible] to the applicant while he gave the following answers viz.

1st - that he was born in Carroll County in Maryland in the year 1760.
2nd - That he has no record of his age
3sr - That he was living in Carroll County in Maryland that he removed from there to Prince William in 1780 and in 1807 he removed to Harrison County in Virginia which by a law of 1816 past became Lewis County where he now lives and has since first of 1833.
4th - That he volunteered first was afterwards a volunteer and minute man
5th - He served General Washington, Way, Lafayette and some others whose names he has forgotten. He seen many regular and militia officers at Yorktown where he was
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5th - Marched after the surrender of Cornwallis. He saw regular and militia troops PA, Va & Maryland troops. He cannot remember the no. or names of regiments though he served many. He thinks he heard no names except Continental and state troops or regular militia. The general circumstances of his services are set forth above.
6th - He rec'd discharges from all his captains above named signed by each of them at the respective times of his discharges. He has lost them long since.
7th - That he is known in his present neighborhood to Elijah Waggoner and Shelton Furr. They can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief and the neighborhood generally beliefs of his services as a soldier of the revolution. There are no resident clergymen near him. There are many itinerant methodist preachers with whom he has no acquaintance. He is too frail to have [illegible] to their meetings. Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.

Walter Skinner - His X Mark

We Elijah Waggoner and Shelton Furr residing in said county in the state of Virginia hereby certify they are well acquainted with Walter Skinner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to seventy-three years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Elijah Waggoner
Shelton Furr
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And I the said Samuel Z Jones a justice of the peace in and for Lewis County in the State of Virginia aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion that the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant (Walter Skinner) was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I the said Justice of the peace do hereby further certify that it appears to me that Elijah Waggoner and Shelton Furr who have signed and before me sworn to the proceeding certificate are resident citizens of Lewis County in the said State of Virginia. That they are credible men, and their statement is entitled to credit. I the said justice do further certify that the applicant resides at least 15 miles distant from Lewis County Court house that he is too frail to travel there without great inconvenience and risk and I do further certify that there is no clergyman residing near him.

Given under my hand at the County of Lewis in the State of Virginia this 2nd day of November AD 1833

Samuel Z Jones - J.P. 

State of Virginia
Lewis Couonty

I John Talbott Clerk of the County Court of Lewis County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel Z Jones is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office at Weston this 25th day of November 1833.

J. Talbott - Clerk

SEAL
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Walter Skinner
Virginia
Rejected
See Mr Singleton's report
Enclosed
Lot 16 [illegible] 35 N. Goff
9636
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Rejected
9036
P.O. Walter Skinner
Service:
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted: In Book of Rej. Claims.
Fraud, Claimant was imposed upon" EV
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for , 18
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Nathan Goff
11 March 1835
A.C.
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war Dept PC
March 16,1835

Sir

The claims of the following named person or persons under the act of June 7, 1832, the merits of which have been thoroughly investigated by Mr. W.G. Singleton a special agent appointed by this Dept. for that purpose, have upon the receipt of his report been rejected, viz.

Anthony Swick
Michael McKinney
George Ward
John Roe
Walter Skinner
Christopher Knight
Elisha Griffin
Gilbert Gallione
John Harbin
John Cole
Abraham Brake and John Mitchell

all of Harrison Co. Va. You will please inform them of this decision on their claims.

[illegible]

Nathan Goff
Clarksburg
Harrison Co
Va
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Walter Skinner - Appl

Harrison Cty

[illegible]

Rejected
Singleton Report
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Walter Skinner, Applicant

This man states on the 12th July 1834 that he has never done any service in the Revolutionary war, and that he told the man so who called on him to get him a pension - think his name was Calvin Waldo - waldo
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-9-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name. Skinner, William. Grade. Private. Line. Delaware.

WARRANT Number. 10877.  ACREAGE. 100.
Issued.  January 17, 1791 to not shown-

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.