Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6150, for James Spicely, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Continental 
                     Va.

Spicely, James 
or 
Spiceley, Martha H.

NUMBER     W. 6150
                      B.L.Wt. 53748-160-55

CONTENTS
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259. 764 Act
Oct. 18, 36

Martha H. Spiceley wid.
James Spiceley.

Revy. war.

Pens. Act rev. 3. '53 - 56

Vol 82. page 32

James T. Sutton jr.
Richmond, Va

[in faint pencil] 53748 of Jany 1837
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Restoration 5670

Virginia (Richmond)
Martha H. Spicely
widow of Va James Spicely
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Trumpeter
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 dollars, [blank] cents per annum to commence on the [deleted] 3rd February 1853 [/deleted] 4th March 1861
Certificate of Pension issued 18th day of May 1866 and sent to Claimant Care of J. T. Sutton, Richmond
Recorded on Roll of P [page cutoff]
February 3, 1853, Pa [page cutoff]
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Virginia
James Spicely
in the State of [illegible]
he was a [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the [illegible] commanded by [illegible] in the [illegible] for [illegible]
Subscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 120 Dollars - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of May and [illegible]
Swears to the 4th of [illegible]
allowance ending [illegible]

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk,
Book - Vol 63 Page 33 -
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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6t April of 1838 from the 4th Sept 1837 to the 4 March 1838.

Agt notified 13 Decr 1838
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Rec'd 17 Nov. 1832                           5135
Konnaday’s Post Office
Brunswick County Aug. 3rd 1832

The Secretary of War

Sir,
I have the honour to address to your department of the Government my Claim for Revolutionary Services in conformity to ^the resolve of Congress conferring bounty land and to the^ act of Congress of 18th May 1828; according to the accompanying documents. You will file my warrant with the Commr. of Gen. Land Of. to be sarifified (certified), and you will address your Communication to me in answer hereto to the above post office, whither a Warrant upon the U. States Bank at Richmond for my back pay would be satisfactory.
Respectfully
Sir,
Your Obt. Servant
James Spiceley

Signed in my presence
Abner Adams J.P.
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Revolutionary Claim
Oak Grove, VA
8th. August, 1832

Secretary at War Cass
Washington City
District Columbia

No. 5389
Va.

free

respectfully refd
to the Secretary of
the Treasury,
Pension office
Nov 17. 1832
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17 Nov. 1832 2057
Pay Claim
of Trumpeter James Spicely
of Colonel White's Company
Declaration of James Spicely
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution appeared on the fifth of may, 1878. I, James Spicely of the post office of Kenneday, in the County of Brunswick in the State of Virginia to hereby declare, that, after having entered into the company commanded by Captain Culbertson in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Campbell, of Charleston. C. H. of a substitute for John Bishop, and served out his time  of 18 months.  I enlisted, at Pedee and Great Jennet's Creek, in South Carolina under Captain Gunn in the Regiment of Calvary commanded by Colonel White of the 21st of March
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March, as well on December 1781 for during the war, and was appointed Trumpeter having been commended by the Trumpeter Kaiser and continued in this rank (having been promised 10 dollars a month but I never got anything) while I was discharged in the summer of 1783 at Hampton in Virginia, having declined to purchase my horn and preferring to take water at Charlestown South Carolina, an option given to the soldiers for returning to their respected homes, when the army was ordered to be disbanded about the middle of June 1783, at which time I was a Trumpeter in the Troop commanded by the said Captain Gunn and in which a Throcmorton was Lieutenant and in the Regiment of Dragoons Commanded by Colonel White as aforesaid.

And I further declare that at Richmond, I received eighteen dollars cash and from an officer there, Baker perhaps (Simon),  I received  a certificate for 27 pounds and this is all I received for four years of service. 
    And I further declare that I am not upon any pension list, and [page end]
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that I was not on the fifteenth of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States.
      Witness my hand this 3rd day of August, 1832, in the 57th year of the Republick.
                           James Spicely [signature]

Dinwiddie County to Wsh

Before me, Abner Adams, a ---------magistrate for the County of Dinwiddie duly empowered to administer oaths in the State of Virginia, this day personally appeared James Spicely of the County of Brunswick and State of Virginia, and after signing the foregoing Declaration in my presence, made oath to the truth of his certificate and Declaration. And I certify that he has been always recognized by old people of this part of the world, as a revolutionary soldier and upon Lafayette's arrival at Petersburg, he was invited and partook of a dinner provided for that occasion in Consequence of his revolutionary services at which I was present.  I have heard him blow the trumpet in a troop of cavalry of the county and I always understood that he was a trumpeter during the revolutionary war. 
                            Abner Adams J.P [signature]
3rd August 1832
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Dinwiddie County to wit.

I, James Scott, aged fifty-four years, a Colonel of Indiana certify, that I have, for about forty years, known James Spicely, who during that time served, for a few years, Captain Scott, has served in this County. That I have always understood that he was a regular soldier of the Revolutionary War and a trumpeter in a Troop of Cavalry, which he was in that service. That in consequence  of his excellence as a Trumpeter he has been employed many years since as  Trumpeter to a Troop of Horses raised in this county and Commanded by Col. Robert Pegram; and that no man has sustained a character for veracity and conduct more  unimpeachable since I knew The said James Spiceley than he has done and I have no doubt, but that he has performed the service stated by him in the foregoing declaration. 
     Given under my hand this 4th day of August 
1832                                 James Scott [signature]
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Dinwiddie County to wit
This day, personally appeared before me James G. Young a magistrate for the County of Dinwiddie, duly empowered to administer oaths  in the state of Virginia, Colonel James Scott who subscribed the foregoing certificate in my presence and was qualified according to law to his said certificate. And I certify that he is entitled to full credibility. 
Given under my hand this 4th day of August, 1832.
                          James G. Young JP
_______________

Dinwiddie County Virginia    to wit
I James Bishop aged Seventy three in about November next, do certify that I was born and have lived in this county to this day. That James Spiceley of this county, until he removed to Brunswick about five years since was made a substitute for my brother John Bishop in the war of the Revolution. That I knew him before he went into the said service and since up to this time. That I never knew him to have been a trumpeter before he went into the war, but know that since he come out he [page end]
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was a Trumpeter and I have always understood that he has ever since the Revolution been deemed a soldier of the said Revolution. 

          Given under my hand this 4th of August, 1832.    
                          James Bishop (signature)
Teste (Testimony) 
[illegible]

Dinwiddie County to
The foregoing certificate was granted according to law before me a Justice of the aforesaid Court. 
This 4th of August, 1832.
Thomas G. Wynn (signature)

Dinwiddie County & State of Virginia
To Wit, I Jane Goodwyn of the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that I have known James Spicely forty years or upwards who was a resident of the county until a few years past, now of Brunswick and have always understood from many of the Officers and Soldiers of the revolution; as well as from himself, that he was a revolutionary soldier, and served principally in the latter part of the war, in the Southern Army and was a Trumpeter in Washingtons  Corps of Cavalry and I further certify that James Spicely for sound integrity
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Chesterfield County Virginia to Was. 
I, Richard Jones of the county and state aforesaid do certify that after enlisting for eighteen months in the Virginia Continental line of light Dragoons, under Captain Gunn attached to the first Regiment under Colonel White, I after serving about nine months in the South, enlisted for during the war in the same company and regiment, and served out my time faithfully and received my discharge. That I knew James Spicely, who, entered the same service with me as a private in the regular Army and was afterward made a trumpeter of same Regiment of Dragoons by an enlistment at the Pedee and great Lynch Creek with me, at the same time that I did, and for during the war under the county that was promised by the act October seventeen hundred and eighty of sixty pounds in Gold or Silver, or a negro of between ten and thirty years of age, and three hundred acres of land in lieu of all former bounty and knew that the said James Spicely served out his time faithfully and we returned home together. Given under my hand this 13th of Nov.'r 1824.

Witness                                       his 
John Gregory               Richard  x   Jones
                                                  mark
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and honestly stands as high as any man 
Given under my hand this 4th day of August 1832 
                         Jo's Goodwyn (signature)


Dinwiddie County to wit
I do certify that above signature to the best of my knowledge to be in the hand write of Col. Joseph Goodwyn, who was a CL. in the Last War.
Thomas G Wynn J.S,
August 4, 1832

State of Virginia
Dinwidgie County, to wit:
I, John P Crump, clerk of the County Court of Dinwiddie in the State of Virginia aforesaid, do hereby certify that Abner Adams, James Scott, James G. Young, and Thomas G. Wynn are acting Justices of the peace in and for this County of Dinwiddie, and that they are duly Commissioned and qualified. In testimony wherefore, I hereto subscribe my name and annex the seal of this said County, this 4th day of August, 1832, and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth.
John P. Crump, GDG.
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I, William Hix, aged 63 years, a Citizen of Virginia, do certify that I have been long acquainted with Richard Jones, who hath subscribed the above deposition and having heard and seen his discharge for the service aforesaid, do well know that he is the very man he therein represents himself to be.
William Hix
John Gergory

Chesterfield County Virginia to Wit
Before me, a magistrate for the counter aforesaid, personally appeared Richard Jones subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate and deposition and likewise personally appeared William Hix aforesaid who has subscribed the Certificate of identity and made oath to the truth of the deposition by him subscribed both to me well-known and to be men of respectability and truth given under my hand this 13th November 1824.
                             John Gregory (signature)

Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to Wit.
I, Abner Adams, do hereby certify that the certificate and depositions from Chesterfield were transcribed and diligently compared with the original by me and the above is a true copy.
Abner Adams
6th August 1832.
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Know all men by these presents that we James Spicely and Robert Turnbull are held and firmly bound with w'm B Giles Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the just and full sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to which payment will and truly to be made to the said Governor for the time being and his current of we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators jointly and severally  firmly by these presents sealed our seals and dated this 16th February 1829.
The Condition of the above obligations is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended to be had & solemnized between the above bound James Spicely and a certain Martha Edwards, if therefor there be no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full for & virtue. 
 witness                James Spicely seal (signature)
                                R Turnbull seal (signature)


State of Virginia, Brunswick County, to wit:
J.E.R. Turnbull, clerk of the County Court of Brunswick in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the above is a true transcript from the record of said Court. 
          In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & annex the Seal of said Court this 3rd Oct. 1855.
                           E.R. Turnbull (signature)
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19. 047.

James Spicely
Virginia

for 1781 musician of Dragoons (Trumpets)
2 yrs $120.

Hon J. H. Gholson
Ho. of Reps.
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War department
Pension Office
Sir;
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and subjcined notes, you will readily percieve that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brac (thus:}) You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them, and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
 
A Statement showing the Service of James Spicely

Period when the service was rendered.
1779/ 1780/1781

Duration of the claimants service.
6 months/ 1 year/ 2 years

Ranks of the claimant.
Priv/Priv/ Trump. Can'ls/11

Name and Rank of the Field Officers under whom he served
Captain Calverson (crossed out)
Col. Gibson/ Cap. Culverson Col. Campbell/ Cap. Gunn Col. White

Age at Present and place of abode when he entered the service.
69 years
Petersburg Va

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary.

I am, respectfully.
   Your Obedient Servant,
          James L. Edwards,
             Commissioner of Pensions.
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Regulations under the Act of June, 1832
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to etend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continetal Line," "State troops," "Militia," and "colunteers," all persons enlisted, drafter, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occassionally employed with the army upon civil contracts such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Tamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols or were engaged in particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission, but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected herewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witnesses cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, and he will also, whethere he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, whichcan be usedful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his service.
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before soem Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there, subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. The Court will propound the following interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State Troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and  if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops were yoiu served, such Continetal and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6 To a soldier: Did you ever recieve a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer: Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant,
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court without too much expense and incovence to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one live in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they bnelieve he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court willl so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons given such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof except the declaration of the party. And the courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmaty, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the eximination before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Judstice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of  Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the decased the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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State of Virginia, Brunswick County, to wit
On this 23rd day of September 1833, personally appeared in open Court before the Justice of the County Court of Brunswick James Spicely, a resident of the County of Brunswick, State of Virginia, aged sixty-nine years the 22 March last, has no record of his age, who being first 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 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779 as a substitute for John Bishop, and was stationed in Petersburg for the purpose of guarding the magazine at that place Col. Gibson was the commanding officers, does not recollect any other commissioned officer he served Six months for said Bishop as well as he recollected. That in the year 1780, he volunteered his service under a Sergeant by the name of Connell, who was stationed in Petersburg and after remaining there some time was marched to Chesterfield Court house and placed under the Command of Col.o Campbell, there was a Captain Culverson also, immediately upon arriving at the Court house he was marched to Guilford Court house No. Carolina, and arrived there a few days before the battle, his tour of his duty as a volunteer was nearly or quite twelve months; That a few days after the battle of Guilford in the year 1781 he enlisted as a private during the War under Capt. Gunn in the regiment commanded by Col.' White who commanded a regiment of Horse, that he was marched shortly after his enlistment to Staunton, Virginia under Sergeant Butler and achieved by him to Lieutenant Throgmorton and by him marched to Petersburg, and placed under Capt. Hughes (John) who commanded a company of horse, and by him appointed trumpeter to his company as well as he recollects in the month of May 1781 and continued in that capacity until he was dismissed in Richmond in the years 1783 until further orders, which was the ending of the war. From Petersburg he was marched to South Carolina to the town of Charleston under Capt. Hughes. He was in no regular fought battle under Cap. Hughes but was in several skirmishes and one in particular with the Indians near Savannah in Georgia. He has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no person who can prove the same. That by reason of Old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot particularly swear as to the precise length of time of his service but
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according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned hereafter to serve as a substitute for John Bishop six months, as a volunteer twelve months, and after his enlisting during the war two years and six months, and served as a trumpeter. Two years and four months of that time. 
 He hereby relinquishes ever claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the pension and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                                James Spicely. (signature)
We.            a Clergyman residing in the County of Brunswick and Robert Turnbull residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Spicely who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration; that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age ; that is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur on that opinion Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.                     

Levy Organ
R. Turnbull

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above names applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Littleberry  Orgain who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the County of Brunswick and that Robert Turnbull who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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I. Robert Turnbull, Clerk of the County Court of Brunswick, in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains, the original  proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Spicely for a pension.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and annex the seal of the said  Court, this twenty fifth day of September One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three and in the fifty-eighth year of our. foundation.
                             R. Turnbull.
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Declaration of Mrs. Martha H. Spicely
for Bounty Land
act of March 3. 1855

See application of 
James Spicely under same 
act for Bounty Land by me.
259.764


Presented by
James T. Stutton Jr.
Richmond, VA.
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State of Virginia, County of Dinwiddie Ss.
                             On this 23rd day of September 1856 before me, Batty H. Evans, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and the state aforesaid personally appeared Mrs. Martha H. Spicely near sixty years of age, a resident of the County and State aforesaid, 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 make by the act of Congress passed March 3rd, 1855. That she is the widow of James Spicely, dead who was a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner of the United states, that he resided in the county of Dinwiddie in state of Virginia until his death, which occurred on the 18th day of March 1855, and drew a pension at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, and that as his widow, she has been allowed the same rate of pension under the act of Feb'y 3, 1853, and that she has not married again since the death of said James Spicely that is still a widow and makes this application in order to obtain the bounty land she may be entitled to under the act of March 3, 1855.
                             Martha H. Spicely (signature)
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We, Frances A. Manlove and Susan J. Hardaway residents of the County of Dinwiddie in the state of Virginia, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs. Martha H. Spiceley in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that she is still a widow.
Frances A. Manlove
Susan J. Hardaway.

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd day of September 1856 and I certify that I believe the claimant to be the identical person she represents herself to be the witnesses are credible persons and that I have the interest in this claim.


        (signature)       Batty H. Evans  J.Pea ce
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State of Virginia.       }
County of Dinwiddie } Sct:
I, Charles A Hargrave,  Clerk of the County Court of Dinwiddie County in the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Batty H. Evans Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed, is and was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County and stat duly elected commissioned and qualified according to law and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
                In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the said Court, this the 15th day of October 1856, and in the 81st year of the Commonwealth.
                 C. A. Hargrave Clerk
               of Dinnwwiddie County Ct.
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Mrs. Martha H. Spicely's
Declaration to obtain a 
  pension act 3rd Feb'y 1853.


Filed by Jas. T. Sutton Jr.
     Richmond Virginia

[illegible]
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State of Virginia.     }
County of Dinwiddie}. Ss.

   On this 17th day of September AD 1855, personally appeared before the County Court of the County of Dinwiddie, Martha H. Spicely, a resident of Dinwiddie County aforesaid, aged fifty-nine years, who being 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 on the 3rd of February 1853, granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War;  That she is the widow of James Spicely, who was a pensioner under the act of Congress of 7th June, 1832, received one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, resided in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and received his pension at the agency in Richmond and state aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to the said James Spicely on the 19th day of February, 1829, that her maiden name before her intermarriage with the said Spicely was Martha H Edwards. That her said husband died at his residence in Dinwiddie County and state aforesaid on the 18th day of March, 1855. That she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated, she further declares that she is now a widow and that she has never before made application for a pension. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before the County Court of Dinwiddie County.
                             Martha H. Spicely  
                                  her (x) mark
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State of Virginia
County of Dinwiddie
I, Charles A. Hargrave, Clerk of the Court for Dinwiddie County in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that at a County Court held for said county, at the Courthouse thereof on the 17th day of September, 1855, that the within named Martha H. Spicely, personally appeared in open court, and being first duly sworn, made and subscribed the within declaration, and I further certify that Batty H. Evans Esq. before whom the accompanying affidavit of Robert W. Vaughan and Charles R. King was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for the said county and state, duly elected, commissioned and sworn, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
   In Testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix The seal of said court, the 20th day of October, AD 1855 and in the 80th year of the Commonwealth.
                           C.A. Hargrave, Clerk (signature)
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J. L. Edwards
Coms.r of Pensions
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House of Rep.
6 May, 1836,
Sir,
I again request for your examination and decision on the application of James Spicely of Virginia for a Pension. After having examined the papers with attention I cannot discover the ground on which they were returned to the applicant. I recollect that it was stated to me that the applicant's declaration did not fully complete with his affidavit before the magistrate. I can perceive no contradiction. The Declaration in somewhat more minute: But M. Turnbull's letter was enclosed will remove any doubt on this point should any still exist. The applicant is well known to me and I take pleasure in saying that his obstacles is in all respect unimpeachable. 
 It will be seen that he filled the office of Trumpeter. I should be glad to know your decisions as soon as can be made. 
                      Very Respectfully,
                        Jas. H. Gholson (signature)
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53748
160 acres
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The Standard Sewing Machine Co.
Agency at 400, E. Broad St.
Richmond, VA.
Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen,
Would you be kind enough to send me a copy of the application for a pension made by Jas. Spicely, who was a Revolutionary soldier? If there is any fee attached to this, advise me what it is and I will send you the amount. He was my grandfather, and these papers would be highly appreciated.
                                 Yours truly,
                                   S. B. Lucy (signature)

[faded circular stamp]
US Pension office
Feb 6 1906
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
December 7, 1838
Sir,
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the treasury of the United States," James Spiceley, a pensioner on the Roll of Richmond, VA, Agency, at the rate of 120 dollars and - Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th day of September, 1837 to the 4th March, 1838.
                       Respectfully yours,
                         Albion K. Parris (signature)
                              Comptroller.


To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
                   Present.
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Martha H. Spicely
Widow of James Spicely,
Dinwiddie County, Virginia
An Act February 3, 1853, at rate of $120
 per annum, commencing 
March 18, 1835 when hurt and died.

Husband men a trumpeter
2 years
Pay Widow
Certificate to 
James T. Sutton
Richmond
Virginia.
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No. 6169
Martha H. Spicely
Widow of James Spicely
Virginia
Lt. James T. Sutton
December 29/53
Act of July 3, 1853.
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file 6150
Widow &c.
Dic'd April 23"76
Paid Aust 4" 76,

Rev'y File No. 6150
Martha H. Spicely
Widow of
James Spicely
Trumpeter Rev. War
Act Feb. 3rd 1853
Index:--Vol M, Page 234

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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76, Nov, 13" Second Continental
rancher for armies
Bills #52 received 1353
Esq.         Spregen
Mar. 6 1906 hist to S. B. Lucy F. B. J.
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*left side text*
J.T. Sutton Mrch  23"44
3rd Aud: May 10th 66

*right side text*

Virginia, 5670
Martha H. Spicely, 
widow of James Spicely,
 who served in the Revolutionary war as a Trumpeter
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
 of 120 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on 18th March 1855

Certificate of Pension issued 26th day of February 1856 and sent to James T. Sutton
Richmond, VA
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 130, Vol A.
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State of Virginia
County of Dinwidoie to wit,
This day, personally appeared before me, Batty H. Evans, a justice of the peace in and for the County of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia, Robert W. Vaughan and Charles R. King, credible witnesses, over the age of twenty-one years, who, being duly sworn according to law upon their oath, severally state that they are well acquainted with Mrs. Martha H. Spicely, widow of James Spicely, deceased and that they were also well acquainted with the said James Spicely deceased in his lifetime who was a pensioner under the act of Congress of 7th June, 1832, that the said James Spicely died at his residence in the County of Dinwiddie and state aforesaid, on the 18th day of March, 1855; that the maiden name of the said Martha H. Spicely before her intermarriage with the said James Spicely deceased was Martha H. Edwards, and that she is still the widow of the said James Spicely, she never having married since his death.
                      Robert W. Vaughan (signature) 
                          Charles R. Kin (signature)     
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace as aforesaid on the 28th of September, A. D. 1855
                  Batty H. Evans, J. P. (signature)
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State of Virginia,
County of Dinwiddie to wit,
On this 13th day of March 1866, Personally appeared before me, Albert M. Organ, Clerk of Dinwiddie County, the same being a Court of record, Martha H. Spicely, aged 70 years, a resident of Dinwiddie County, and who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical person who was a pensioner on the roll of agency at Richmond VA and whose pension certificate is herewith returned, that she has resided since the  1st day of January 1861 in Dinwiddie County. Va that during this period her means of subsistence has been by Farming.  
 that she has not in any manner encourage the relief  or manifested a sympathy with them come by that she was last read her pension she thinks in the  4th  daySeptember 1860, Given under my hand this 12th day of March 1866.
                  Marthy H. Spicely (signature).       

      Post office Dinwiddie Ct. house, VA.

Also personally appeared before me R.C. Shell & James W. Bornson residents of Dinwiddie County Va. Persons when I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly  sworn, say that they are present and saw Martha H. Spiely make her mark to the foregoing declaration and they further swear that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and they further since they have no interest in the pursuance of this claim.   
                        R.C. Shell (Signature)
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Dinwidollie County
State of Virginia to wit,
Sent to and subscribed before me this 13th day of March, 1866, and I hereby certify that I have in indescribed an inderect in the persecution of the claim. Given under my hand and seal of Office at Dinwidollie County this day and date anove written
Albert M. Organ UK
Dinwollie County Court.
Page 45

I Martha H. Spicely do solemnly swear in the presence of almighty God that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States and the Union of the states thereunder that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. 
                                      her + mark
                              Martha H. Spicely

"So help me God"   
Jas. T. Sutton 
Gen. H. Lucy


Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of March 1866 and I hereby certify that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim. and further that being requested to explain the contents of the foregoing Declaration to Mrs. Spicely, which was omitted by the clerk before whom she appeared; I have made known the contents, throu of as required by law she stating however that she knew the contents or the nature of the same before making her mark. Given under my hand this the day & year last above written. 
                                 Frances V. Sutton Gen. Notary Public for the City of Richmond 



                            Pension Agency
                                Richmond Va
                                   March 12, 1866

I James T. Sutton jr. Pension agent at Richmond Va do hereby certify that it is known to me that Francis T. Sutton seal and Notary public in and for the City of Richmond in the state of Virginia and that his signature above is genuine. 
                         Jas. T Sutton j. Pension Agent
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State of Virginia, County of Brunswick, Ss.
On this 26th day of April 1866 before me, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared John A. Hawks and Carter R. Anderson residents of the County Brunswick in the state of Virginia persons whom  I certify to be respectable and credible who on their oaths say that they have sworn Mrs. Martha H. Spicely for many years and that during the late rebellion she lived on her farm in Dinwiddie County on which she maintained herself, that since the loss of her slaves, she has rented out her farm and (scratched out text) is now boarding with her son in law, Mr. Geo. H. Lucy, and further that Mrs. Spicely has not encouraged the rebel, or manifested a sympathy with their cause and they are satisfied she is truly loyal to the Government of the United States.
                        (signatures ).  John A. Hawks
                                    Carter R. Anderson

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 26th day of April- 1866
           (signature)  Samuel K. Lucy   J.Peace
Page 47

to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace for said County. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand, I annex the seal of said court this 28th 1866
                      (signature) E. R. Turnbull.


*stamp upside down*

Department of the Interior 
Mar 4, 1866
Pension office
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Pension Office
December 27, 1855
The third auditor write place certify the date to which within named pensioner was paid and if is in of his poer, the date of his truth
                               Very respectfully
                                     R. McRae
                           Third Commissioner

                     3rd Auditors office
                     Dec'  28. 1853.

Sir.  The within named pensioner has been paid, in full, to 4 March 1855.  There is no evidence of his death on our books.  
                                   Very Respectfully
                                    Hon. J. Skinner
                                       Auditor

J. Minot Esq. 
Comm'r of Pensions
Page 49

This is to Certify that it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts and received Certificates for the balance of their Fill Pay, according to an Act of Assembly passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 21st day of August, 1783, in the name of James Spicely as Trumpeter Cavalry for 27.0.0 which Certificate appears to have been delivered to himself, and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
   {No Seal of Office} 
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 12th day of May 1884
Jas E. Heath, Auditor.
Page 50

Payment to be made at Richmond
by W. D. Newman Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioner in the Agency of Virginia
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February  3d. 1853,  130 Vol A.
E. V. Strong Clerk.



*right side stamp*
Department of the Interiors
Mar 14, 1866
Pension Office
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Department of the Interior
Widow's Pension
I certify that, in conformity with the 2nd section of the act of February 3, 1853.
Martha H. Spicely, widow of James Spicely who was a Trumpeter in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars and _______ cents per annum, commencing on the 18th of March, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
R. McClellan
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and countesigned
J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Honorable James H. Gholson
Washington City.
Page 53

Lawrenceville, 23rd April 1834
Dear Sir,
         I again enclose you the papers of Mr. Spicely. You will be so obliging as to let me know what objection there is to them. He says he knows of no one by whom he can prove his services and has stated so in both his states. They were both written by me, and of there is  any material difference in the two was a mistake of mine.
                                     Yours respfully,
                                        R. Turnbull (signature)
Page 54

                            Auditors Office
                                May 13, 1834


Sir,
I have received yours of the 8th past, enclosing the declaration of James Spicely and I enclose you a certificate showing that a pension of that name served his account as a trumpeter in the Continental line. He rec'd no land bounty.
                I am very respectfully 
                        yours,
                    Jas. E Heath (signature)






J. L. Edwards
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Payments to be made at Ricmond Va
 by Prest.  US Br Br. 
 Agent for paying Pensioners 
in the Agency of VA 




Recorded in the Pension office in Book C. Vol 8/2
Page 53 by
J. T. Sprague Clerk
Page 56

War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, James Spicely of the State of Virginia who was a Trumpeter during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive one hundred and twenty dollars and____ cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September every year.

             Given at the War Office of the United States this 18th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four
                                  (signature) Lew Cass,
                                     Secretary of War.

{Examined and 
Countersigned}
J. L. Edwards (signature)
Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 57

Brief in the case of Martha H. Spicely, under James Spicely of Dinwiddie County and State of Virginia 
act February 3, 1853.
=================================

Claim ("original," or foreigners.") *foreigners marked out*
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance
Husband was a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832, at a rate of $120 per annum died March 18, 1855, as proved by his witness. The 3rd Auditor Certificate shows he was part to 4th March, 1855. His certificate is now understood.

Marriage proved by verified copy of Marriage find and parol.


(If for increase) *crossed out*
 Has additional evidence been filed since he admission of the claim? If so, what? *crossed out*

The claimant identity as the widow of the pensioner and her present widowhood proved by C.R. King and R. W. Vaughn- credible witnesses
allowance accordingly, 
        

James S. Sutton 
Richmond
Name and residence of Agent Virginia 
      R Giddes, Examining Clerk.
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                                            Richmond, VA, 
                                           Feby 4th, 1836.

Richard McRae Esq.
Washington City
Dear Sir,
                 Enclosed, I send you the Original Pension Certificate of James Spicely dec'd to be filed with this application on Mrs. Martha H. Spicely, his widow for pension under the Act of 1853.
Please attend to this at as early a day as practicable &  oblige. 
                                  Very Respectfully Yours,
                                     Your Obt. Serv.
                                    James T. Sutton Jr.                      
                                           (signature)
Page 59

Pension Agency
Richmond, VA,
May 3rd, 1866
Hon. J. H. Barrett
Clerk of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Sir,
I am requested by Mr. George H. Lucy, the son-in-law of Mrs. Martha H. Spicely, to enclose you the additional evidence of loyalty & required in your letter of March 23rd, and further, to ask that you send her certificate to my care.
                                    Very Respectfully,
                                    Your Obt Servant,
               (Signature)  Jas. T. Sutton Jr.
Page 60

Brief in the Case of Martha H. Spicely, widow of James Spicely,
Dinwiddie Count and State of Virginia
Act 3rd of 1853, J. T. Sutton.
Claim for New Pension Certificate
Proof exhibited.
Claimant was pensioned on the Richmond Va roll at the rate of $120 per annum.
 Known he as veracity and loyalty is shown by the credible witness and surrender of the Original Cert. of Pension.  The Third Auditor reports the pensioner paid to the 4th March 1861. 
Claim allowed at the rate of $120 per an. commencing the 4th March 1861 and to continue during November.
May 17, 1866
                                            Bors. Howe
                                         Examining Clerk 

Cert. to:
Claimants,
    Care of John Sutton Esq.
       Richmond Va
Page 61

Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
May 16th, 1866
Sir,
In reply to your inquiry of the  10" insh I have to inform you that the pensions of Mrs. Martha Spicely on the Richmond, VA roll under the 2nd section of each 3'' February 1853, appears by the books of this Office to have been lash paid to 4' March 1861.
                             Very respectfully,
                                A M Gangewer(signature)
                                  active auditor


Hon JOs. H. Barrett
Com'r of Pensions


JRH.                                                HLR
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[shield-shaped stamp in black ink] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Mar 10 18
PENSION OFFICE
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Spiceley

[shield-shaped stamp in black ink] Department of the Interior
Mar 14 1866
PENSION OFFICE
Page 64

                             Richmond, March 13th 1866
J. H. Barrett Esq
Washington City
Sir,
I was on my way to Washington City with Mrs. Spicely, my mother in law, to have her name restored to the pension list, having had her papers drawn up before the Clerk of the County. Bearing thus Mr. J.T. Sutton was the pension agent at Richmond who knows all about Mrs. Spicely petition we stoped and submitted the papers to him who told us it was unnecessary to visit Washington unless we had other business and we concluded to send the application by mail hopeing you will give it your early attention Mr. Sutton had some omission supplied which he thinks makes it all correct. 
                                   Very Respectfully
                              Geo. H. Lucy (signature)

P.S. as the mails are not very regular through the country please send the Pension certificate to the care of J.T. Sutton Esq. Richmond City Va.
                                         Yours & C.
                                     Geo. H Lucy (signature)
Page 65

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Nov. 17.
Va James Spiceley
19047

[vertical]
Lawrenceville Va. Free
Nov 15
The Secretary of the War Department
Washington City
Page 66

Before me, John Wyche a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Brunswick in the State of Virginia personally appeared James Spicely of St. Andrew Parish in the County of Brunswick and state of Virginia know to me as a person of good repute and entitled to credit who being first duly sworn does on his oath say, And he entered the service of the United States as a substitute for John Bishop in the year 1779 and was stationed in Petersburg for the purpose of guarding the Magazine at that place a Col' Gibson was the Commanding Officer he recollects no other Commissioned officer but there was a Sergeant named Connell, he remembered there until he was marched to Chesterfield Courthouse and put under the command of Col. Campbell and Culverson Captain and marched under those to Guilford Courthouse. N. Carolina and got there a day or two before the battle and was in that Bttle that a few days after the battle aforesaid in the year 1781 he enlisted in the army of the United States for & during the war was Capt. Guinn in the regiment commanded by Col. White and continued in the service until its termination that he was sent to Statenton under the Command of Sergeant Butler and was delivered over by him to Lieutenant Throgmorton and by him marched to Petersburg and put under Capt. John Hughes who commissioned a company of Horses and was by him appointed Trumpeter to the said Company and marched to Charleston South Carolina and remarched with him in the capacity aforesaid until the termination of the war was in no regular fought Battle after he was placed under Capt. Hughes but was in several skirmishes and one in particular he recollects was with the Indians near Savannah in Georgia and In testimony he has hereto annexed his signature 
                                James Spicely (signature)
Page 67

Witness my hand this fourteenth day of November the year one thousand eight hundred thirty two.
                                 John Wyche (Signature)

Before me, John Wyche, a Justice of the Peace in the County of Brunswick in the State of Virginia personally appeared this day Robert Turnbull and Edwin A. Morrison of the said County, persons known to me as credible witnesses  who is severally make oath that James Spicely of whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is respected and believed to have served in the revolution in manner as he therein stated.
                                    (Signatures) R. Turnbull
                                         E.A. Morrison

Witness my hand this fourteenth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
                             (Signature) John Wyche

I Robert Turnbull clerk of the Court of the County of Brunswick in the State of Virginia do hereby Certify that John Wyche before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer Oaths; and I believe the signature annexed into name & purporting to be his, to be genuine.
      In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this fourteenth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
                                    R. Turnbull (signature)
Page 68

Mr. Spicely requests that if the foregoing Declaration is not in proper form or any further testimony should be wanting that a letter will be sent to him directed to Lawrenceville.
Brunswick County, Virginia.
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                                                   2057

Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department
19 Nov 1832
James Spicely of - in the county of Brunswick in the State of VA has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in Virginia in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Trumpeter in Captain Gunn's company, in Col. Whites regiment of the Dragoons in the line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May 1778, and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
                                   By Order of the Secretary 
                                         F.A. Dickins
Exd. Ref. Inv.

6150 
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                       Treasury Department,
                               Third Auditor's Office
                              20th November 1832
*2 lines text crossed out*
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to - in the -

It further appears that James Spicely is not on the pension list of any - - - -agency, and has not been so since the 3rd of March 1826.  

[crossed out] at the rate of   ______ dollars per month.

The name of James Spicely cannot be found on any those of the Virginia line, to whom certificates for the quantity of Eighty Dollars were issued. 
                          Peter Hagner Aud (Signature)


[faded text]
No record of Pens.
correct not allowed  rcd 1838
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Dept of War, Bounty Land Office
Novem. 22d 1832
The name of James Spiceley is not returned on the records of the Virginia line on file in this office among those entitled to bounty land from the U. States nor was a Land Warrant ever issued in his name
                                Wm Gordon (signature)

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