Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31777, for Isaac Jones, North Carolina
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
N.C. Jones, Isaac S.31777
Va.
CONTENTS
B. Mar 30, 1761 in New Jersey
res during Rev. Frederick Co. Va. & Guilford Co N.C.
res in 1836 Telfair Co. Ga, Had resided also
in Jefferson & Wilkinson Cos., Ga
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Georgia
30.456
Isaac Jones
of Telfair Co. in the State of Georgia
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Baldwin of the commanded
by Col. Newman in the Va militia
time for 9 months & NC do
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of
30 Dollars Cents [crossed out] per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of March
1836 and suit to Hon. Jno.
Coffee, HR
Arrears to the [illegible]  of 4 Mar. '36.                    150.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '36.     15.00
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                                                                   $165.00
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 6 Page 94
Letter to 3d and 23d Feb. 1839.
Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sept 1836 to 4 March 1838. Agt
notified 14 March 1839.
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State of Georgia
County of Telfair

On this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable the Justices of the Inferior Court in and for the said County of Telfair, Isaac Jones a resident of the said County of Telfair and State of Georgia aged seventy four years and --- months, 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 passes June 7th 1832; that he was born in New Jersey on the 30th day of March 1761, in what part of New Jersey he does not recollect to have heard-and from New Jersey his parents removed with him while he was an infant (as he has been informed) into Frederick County, Virginia and that part of Virginia then called New Virginia: that he has no other record of his age than the entry thereof by his father in a family bible now remaining in his possession: that's in the year 1777 during the Revolutionary War he was drafted in the said County of Frederick in the said State of Virginia into the service of the Militia thereof for the term of three months and served under Captain Thomas Baldwin from some time (the precise day not recollected) in September in the year last aforesaid until the 4th day of March 1778 when he received his discharge from the said Captain Baldwin which has been lost or destroyed-that while in said service under said Captain Baldwin he was marched from said Frederick County to Fort Pitt on the Ohio River where they joined Colonel Johnson and General Hand and from thence marched down the Ohio River to Fort Wheeling where he completed his service for the three months for which he was drafted as aforesaid and a part of the troops called in the service were discharged but the Company in which he, the Declarant served was (he still continuing in the service in said Company) marched from thence up to Beach Bottom Fort to protect the Frontiers against the Shawnee Tribe of Indians and continued there until discharged as aforesaid all of which service he, the Declarant, performed as a foot or militia soldier: That during the summer of the year 1778 he removed from the said county of Frederick State of Virginia into Guilford County, State of North Carolina: that in the said County of Guilford in the year 1779 he was drafted into the service of the Militia of the State of North Carolina for the further term of three months and served under Captain William Wilson as a foot or militia soldier for the term of three months when he received his discharge from the said Captain Wilson which has also been lost or destroyed-that while in the said service under the said Captain Wilson he was marched from the Courthouse in the said County of Guilford to the town of Salisbury where they joined General Rutherford and from thence marched down the Adkin to Rocky River where he was in a slight skirmish with the Tories embodied on said Rocky River at a place called Coalson's old plantation whom they were drafted to dislodge or break up and from thence returned to the Courthouse in
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the said County of Guilford where he received from the said Captain Wilson his discharge last mentioned-the name of the Colonel under which this last service was performed was Colonel Newman. That in the same County of Guilford in the year 1780 he was again drafted into the service of the Militia of the State of North Carolina for the further Term of three months and served under Captain Peter O'Neal as a foot or militia soldier for the said term of three months. That while in said service under the said Captain O'Neal he was marched from the Courthouse in the said County of Guilford toward the said Town of Salisbury until they joined Colonel Robert Porterfield and General Gates who was on his way from the North and from thence marched by Cheraw, State of South Carolina toward Camden in the same State of South Carolina until they met the British Army at or near Camden aforesaid in which engagement he was and from thence returned home to Guilford County, State of North Carolina but the American Army having been routed and the Company in which he served separated he received no regular discharge; that he the Declarant performed other lesser tours of service which from loss of memory he cannot undertake to recount nor can he from the same cause state the days and months when the two last mentioned tours of service were commenced and ended but that he was engaged in no civil pursuit while performing any of said services; that since the Revolutionary War he has lived in the said County of Guilford, State of North Carolina, from whence he removed into Jefferson County, State of Georgia, from Jefferson County aforesaid to Wilkinson County, State of Georgia, and from Wilkinson County aforesaid to the said County of Telfair, State of Georgia, where he now lives and has resided and lived for the last ten years immediately preceding the date hereof. That he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his services aforesaid but that James Williamson a Clergyman and Mark Willcox can certify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Solider of the Revolution; and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State or (if any) on that if the Agency in the State of Georgia.

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year first aforesaid. 

Isaac Jones
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The answers of Isaac Jones the Declarant to the seven Interrogatories propounded agreeable to the regulation of the War Department.
To the first Interrogatory "Where and in what year were you born?  He answers that he was was [sic] born in New Jersey on the 30th day of March 1761 as he has always been informed and believes.
To the second interrogatory "Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?  He answers that he has no other record of his age than the entry thereof by his father in a Family Bible now in his possession.
To the third interrogatory "Where were you living when called into service , where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?  He answers that he was living when called into the first tour of service in Frederick County Virginia__ when called afterwards into service he was living in Guilford Count, North Carolina :  That since the Revolutionary War he has lived in the said county of Guilford and in Jefferson Wilkinson and Telfair Counties State of Georgia__  in which said county of Telfair he now resides and lives.   
To the fifth Interrogatory  "State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the Troops where you served;  such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services?  To answer this would be to recapitulate his Declaration on the preceding leaf, in which a full answer to this interrogatory is to be found to the best of his recollection.
To the sixth Interrogatory "To a soldier" "Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?  He answers that he received two discharges as mentioned in his said Declaration one from Captain Thomas Baldwin and the other from Captain William Wilson which discharges never thinking they would be of any service to him he did not preserve and they are now lost or destroyed. 
To the seventh Interrogatory " 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?"
He answers and give the names of James Williamsson Clergyman and Mark Willcap

Ansered sworn to and subscribed in open Court this sixteenth day of February AD 183?

James A Rogers JJC
Drury A [illegible] JJC
David Ryals InJC
Isaac Jones [signature] [handdrawn deal]
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[illegible] James Williamson a Clergyman residing in the said county of Telfair, State of Georgia, and Mark Willcox residing in the same county of Telfair and State of Georgia, hereby certify , that we are well acquainted with Isaac Jones who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years and [blank] months 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.

[signature]James Williamson Clergyman
[signature]Mark Willcox

Sworn and subscribed in open Court this the sixteenth day of Feby AD 1836

Sworn to us before us 16th Feb 1836
James A. Rogers J.J.C
Drury [illegible] J.J.C
David Ryals J.J.C

And the said Inferior Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certified that it appears to them that James Williamson who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said county of Telfair State of Georgia and that Mark Willcox who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county of Telfair  & State of Georgia and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

[signature]James A Rogers JJC
[signature]David Ryals JJC
[signature]Drury [illegible] JJC

I Lewis Church Clerk of the Inferior Court of the said county of Telfair State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Jones for a pension: In testimony whereof I have hereunto set me hand and private seal having no seal of Office this sixteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty six

[signature]Lewis Church [initials "LS" with a curly line around it follow the signature]

I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Lewis Church & know him to be Clerk of the Inferior court of Telfair state of Georgia [word smeared] also acquainted with the hand writing of the said Lewis & have no doubt the above is his own proper signature--

Dated at Washington D.C. 1st March 1836
[signature] [illegible]
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31777
Revy INVALID.   cm
File No. 31,777
Isaac Jones
Pri^e  Rev War

Act:  June 7  32"
Index:_
Vol. 2, Page 215

[Arrangement of 1870]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office

February 28th, 1839

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 State,"  Isaac Jones,
a Pensioner of the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and [line through] Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836, to the 4th March, 1838.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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certificate Completed &
returned  4 Aug. 1836
to Hon Jno Coffee

J. L. Canard Esq
Pension officer
Washington City
D. C.
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Jacksonville
Telfair County Georgia
21 July 1836
J.L. Edward Esqr.
Sir
The certificate of Isaac Jones of
this State has been left blank, as to the place where the pension is to be paid, & by whom.
Also as to the book, vol. &  page, where it is recorded. Will you please inform me if it is necessary to return it to the department to have the blanks filled up? or will you direct the agent at Savannah to pay remittance the blank lines filled? an early answer is respectfully requested.
I have the honor to be respectfully your Obt Servant.
Jno Coffee.
 

P.S. Since writing the above I have determined to sue on the certificate for the allocations. you will please return it as soon as possible.

respectfully yours
Coffee
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33292
Isaac Jones
Ga

Admit for 9 mo
$30
Capt Baldwin O [?]

Hon. J Coffee
HR

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office

Mar 20
Geo.
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House Representatives
March 1st, 1836

The enclosed petition was received by yesterdays mail. Will you have the goodness to give it your early attention?
respectfully yours
Obit Servant

Jno Coffee

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office