Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,306, for James Summers, Virginia
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Va.
CONTENTS
Summers, James

NUMBER
R. 10.306
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James Summers
Ga
Suspended
Letter 23 Nov 1833 to 
Charles McCarthy
10306
Act of June 1832
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Rejected
10306
James Summers
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.  Contract
Cert. of Dis.    Searched for ____, 18__
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Georgia
Jones County 
On this 4th day of November 1833personally appeared before the Judges of the Superior Court of said County James Summers seventy eight years old last July who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

This applicant states that he entered
the service of the United States as a substitute  
soldier for one Benjamin [illegible] a resident
of Loudoun County Virginia for whom he
served six months.  This was in the year
1781. This applicant was then twenty six years old.  He was born in Ireland in July 1755 -
This applicant arrived in New York from
England [illegible] and deserted the British to join the standard of American liberty.  His first
service was as a substitute as above stated
under Col Dabney, originally Col Gibson's 
regiment, in Goochland County Virginia.  
Capt William Brown, Lieutenant Harper,
Ensign Slaughter, those were the officers of the
company under whom this applicant served
1781 to 1783.  For the 1st six months
this applicant served as a substitute and
for the residue of the time he served under the officers aforesaid as an enlisted soldier.
This applicant was engaged at the siege of York town when Cornwallis was taken. This siege was in 1781 and the army was not discharged until April 1783.  This applicant was engaged in no other engagements and the company remained
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at York and Portsmouth until the company
was discharged. The company was not marched to no other places than those before stated and remained at the towns York and
Portsmouth until the final discharge of
the company. He here begs leave to give
a copy of the discharge which was given him
when the company was disbanded forever.

The bearer hereof James Summers Soldier
of the Legion Infantry of the State Troops
having served during the war with
Great Britain the term for which he was
enlisted is hereby discharged in which we
certify that he has behaved as a brave and
faithful soldier,
Given under our hands at York this 2nd April 1783 in the Seventh year of the commonwealth.

Signed
Wm Slaughter Lieut
A V Crump Capt
Com US Troops

This discharge was confided to the care of
Nicholas Wells, who made out my
application as a continental soldier
and sent the original discharge to the 
War Department, for retaining the above copy from the Department.  This applicant has never received it and hereby requests that it shall
be sought for as an evidence of the
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correctness of this claim upon the beneficent
provision of the government.

Answers to the questions of the War Department.  First, this applicant was born in Ireland in the year 1755
2nd.  He has not at this time any record of his
age.  3rd.  He was travelling through
the country and deserted from the enemies [illegible] America when he entered as a substitute in Goochland County Virginia. He has lived in North Carolina and this State and is
now a citizen of Jones County Ga.
4th.  He first entered as a substitute for Benj Balstow and afterwards enlisted for the
whole war.
5th.  Gen George Washington was commander
in chief at Yorktown when Cornwallis
was taken. This applicant knew or saw all
the regular and militia officers engaged
at that siege.
6th.  This applicant received a discharge as before accounted for.
7th.  Never received a commission
He is known to a great many persons
in this County and personally to all
the members of this Court, to Henry G. Lamar & others.
He hereby relinquishes all claims
to any other pensions and he declares
his name is on no pension roll
whatever.

Sworn to & subscribed
James Summers, his mark
this 4th Nov 1843

James Gray [illegible]
[illegible]
John R. [illegible]
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There being no clergyman convenient, the
Court who are personally acquainted with
this applicant take pleasure in submitting to the War Department the following certificate
---
We, James Gray, John R. Moore, Jonathan Parrish, Judges of the Superior Court for said County do certify that we are acquainted with James Summers the applicant who has in open Court sworn to the foregoing application for a pension, that we believe seventy eight
years old as he has stated and that he has for years been reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier and that no doubts have ever existed of the truth of this report upon our minds and that we have never heard it
contradicted.

John R. Moore JJC
Jon. Parrish JJC
James Gray JJC

Charles McCarthy Clerk of the Court certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Summers for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
Charles McCarthy, Clk. [illegible]
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Summers, John
WARRANT
NUMBER 11718
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Private
ACCEAG
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Maryland
ISSUED November 29, 1790
to Frederick Hall, Admr.
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.