Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 12735, Jesse Davis, Va.
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SERVICE                         NUMBER

Va.         | Davis, Jesse  |  S12735
                                       B.L. WT. 17583-160-55

CONTENTS
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7239
Kentucky
Jesse Davis
of Fleming in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain Young of the [illegible] commanded by Col. Ward in the Virginia line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 Dollars ____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of March 1833 and sent to [illegible]
P Fleming Flemingsburg, K

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833       160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept       40.00
                                                           $200.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Daniel Boyd     Cler[illegible]
[piece missing]ok 6    Vol. 7       Page 7
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Jesse Davis
19260
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Jesse Davis
19260
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[Declaration page 1]

State of Kentucky County of Fleming Sct

On this 10th day of Sept. in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before William P. Roper esq. Judge of the Fleming Circuit Court being a court of Record and now in session 
Jesse Davis of said County and State and now in his seventyeth year who being first duly sworn according to Law now on his oath make this following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 

That he was born in the County of Stafford in the State of Virginia that he entered into the Service of the United States and served as herein after stated and that in the month of Oct. in the year 1779 (he thinks the 17th), he enlisted into the service of the  United States in the Company of Capt. Thomas Young at the town of Dumfries in the State of Virginia in the Virginia State line in a Battalion called the Western for two years 

that so soon as the Battalion was organized he was marched to the barracks in Albamarle [Albemarle] Va to guard the prisoners taken from Burjoine [John Burgoyne] that while there he was commanded by Col. or Genl. [James] Wood and the fall following I went with the troops who guarded said prisoners to Frederick Town in the State of Maryland from there we went to Pittsburgh where we were commanded by Genl George Rogers Clark and continued under his command until I was discharged which was in Dec. 1781.
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[Declaration page 2]

at Louisville in the State of Kentucky at which place he got an Honorable discharge having served Two years and about two months which discharge that not knowing It would at any time thereafter avail him any thing hath been lost no particular care having been taken to preserve it t

that he hath heretofore made application to the war departed to be placed on the pension list but was then rejected because he belonged to the Virginia militia & not on continental  establishment  That at that time he was able to procure the affidavit of his Capt. Thos [Thomas] Young which is now attached hereto that he does not know whether he is now dead or alive and that he knows no other person by whom he can prove his service.  

He hath no record of his age, his discharge he thinks was signed by his Capt. and perhaps by another since his discharge he hath lived (with the exception of one year) in the State of Kentucky & 14 or 15 years last in the County of Fleming.  He hereby relinguishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rool [roll] of the is agency of any State
Jesse Davis [his mark]
Sworn to and subscribed the day& year afs [aforesaid
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We Basil Hunt a clergyman residing in Fleming County and Isaac Cassidy residing in same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse Davis who hath subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be about 70 years 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 
Sworn to and subscribed the year afs [aforesaid]
Basil  Hunt
Isaac R Cassidy

State of Kentucky
Fleming Circuit Sct September term 1832.
The foregoing Declaration of Jesse Davis in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 was sworn to in open Court by the said Jessie Davis.  And also the certificate of Basil Hunt and Isaac R. Cassidy was also sworn to in open Court.

And the said 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 applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certified that it appears to them that Basil Hunt who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident of the County of Fleming and that Isaac R. Cassidy who has signed the same is a resident in the same county and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. Leakew D. Stockton, Clerk of the Court for the Circuit
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[Declaration page 3]

aforesaid, do hereby certify that he foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jesse Davis for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal of office, this 13th day of September 1832.
L. D. Stockton

[Seal is attached]
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19260

Jessie Davis
Kentucky

[written lightly] look on [illegible] state roll

from1779 [illegible]
2 years
$80
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BRIEF in the case of Jesse Davis
County of Fleming in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 70

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
enlisted in 1779-
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
2 years & about 2 months
Rank. As a
Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen. Clark Va. State line
Capt Thos. Young, Col Ward

5. In what battles was he engaged? None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Shefford Co Va

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness & traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chs. W. Forrest
Examining Clerk.

The affidavit of the witness
was taken in 1821, when Davis
made application for a pension
under a former Act
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140 451 - Act Mar 3 | 55
May 19 | 55
Jesse Davis pri
No 17583 iss. Feb 26/56

Capt Young
Colo - Crockett
Va Mili
Revolutionary War
Private
Va Line
Ky June 32 - 7239
Ad. 160 ac's Feby 21/53
Dodge
dc
Dixon Clark
Flemingsburgh
K.Y. Vol. D. 8. ~
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140,451

Jesse Davis
Application for
Bounty Land

Presented by
Dixon Clark
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State of Kentucky}
County of Fleming} SS
On this 8th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me J E Johnson a Justice of the peace duly authorized to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid Jesse Davis aged about 93 years a resident of Fleming County in the State of Kentucky who being duly Sworn according to law declares that he is the identical 

Jesse Davis, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Young in the - Regiment of Virginia troops commanded by Col. Joseph Crockett in the war of the revolution that he enlisted at Dumphries in Virginia about the 17th day of October 1779 for the term of two years and continued in actual service in said war for two years and was honorably discharged at - on the - day of December A.D. 1781. as will appear by the muster rolls of said Company. his original Certificate of discharge he has lost or had it destroyed


He makes This declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he  may be entitled under the act approved March 3d. 1855 He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under This or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefore
Atest
Isaac R. Cassady Jesse Davis x his mark
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We Isaac R Cassity and John K Hawkins residents of Fleming County in the State of Kentucky, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Jesse Davis, in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be
Isaac R Cassady
John, R, Hawkins

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me ont he day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
J E Johnson J.P.F.C

State of Kentucky
Fleming County Sct
I William T. Dudley Clerk of the court
for the County aforesaid certify that J.E.
Johnson Whose genuine Signature
appears to the foregoing official
Certificate was at the date thereof
an Acting Justice of the Peace for
Said County duly commissioned &
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qualified & his official acts are
entitled to full credit.
In Witness Whereof
I have hereto set my hand
& affixed the Sesal of the Flem
-ing County Court this
14th day of May 1855.
W. L. Dudley C.F.C.C.
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December 30, 1936
xxxxxxxxxxx
Mr. Jesse Davis Tuggle JESSE DAVIS
C/o Tuggle & Tuggle S. 12735
Barboursville, Kentucky BA-J/MLB
Not the one he wanted. See regt. files - 
No - 5,937

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jesse Davis who, you state, served in Captain Craughorn's company, 8" Virginia Regiment under Colonel Stephens and applied for pension while a resident of Knox County, Kentucky, in 1820. You state, also, that a Jesse Davis was living in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1840, and you wish to know whether or not they are one and the same person.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension or bounty land found for a Jesse Davis who applied for pension or land while residing in Knox County, Kentucky, in 1820. The record has been found of only one Jesse Davis of Fleming County, Kentucky. That record follows as shown in pension claim, S. 12735, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. There is no way to determine whether or not he is the same person you cite as of Knox County, Kentucky, in 1820.

Jesse Davis was born in Stafford County, Virginia; the date of birth and names of his parents are not given.

Jesse Davis enlisted at Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia, October 17, 1779, served as private in Captain Thomas Young's company, Colonel Joseph Crockett's Virginia regiment, usually called the "Western Battalion", marched to Albemarle Barracks where he assisted in guarding prisoners of Burgoyne's army and escorted them to the following fall to Fredericktown, Maryland; from there he went on an expedition to Pittsburgh under General George Rogers Clark, and was discharged by Captain Young at Louisville, Kentucky, December 20 or 21, 1781.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed September 10, 1832, at which time he was aged sixty-nine years and

Sec 3" Aud. Report
at back of this correspondence
F
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a resident of Fleming County, Kentucky, where he had lived fourteen or fifteen years, his post office then being Flemingsburg in that county. He was still a resident of Fleming County in 1855, but died November 21, 1857, in Rowan County, Kentucky, where he had lived one year.

There are no data in the claim relative to soldier's family.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension and name of person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Jesse Davis
Certificate #7239
Issued March 18, 1833
Rate, $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
Kentucky Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

Records searched & no appln.
under Act of 1818, "in Knox
Co. Ky. found, as quoted by 
writer - MLB
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17,583

160 Acres
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1909 Feby 26. Hist. to Mrs Henry Wolf C
1912 Dec. 31. to Mrs. Rebecca H. Eib. C
1915 June 24 " " Forest Rose - C
" " " to aud. for usual date showing C
date of last payment, to whom paid & residence
1929 - Sept. 27 - Wm P. King adv. cost of
photos. See Wm Davis, S. 35884 - MMHF
1936, Dec. 30 - Hist. to Jesse Davis
Tuggle - MLB.

Rev War 12,735
INVALID.

File No. 12, 735
Jesse Davis
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:-Vol. - , Page -
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
& County of Bourbon} Sct
Be it remembered that on the 20th day
of September came before us Thomas Young of the said County & State, and being duly sworn according to law did depose and say, that he was a captain in a battalion of the Virginia line in the revolutionary war usually called the Western battalion under the command of Colo. Joseph Crockett - That after the battalion was organized, it was ordered on duty at the barracks in Albemarle County Virginia, guarding the prisoners of Burgoyne's army, under Colonel or General Wood of the Continental army, and escorted said prisoners the fall following to Fredericktown in Maryland. From thence the battalion was ordered to Pittsburg, and placed under the command of Gen George Rogers Clarke, and continued under his command till the battalion was discharged on the 20 or 21 December 1781. That on the 17th of October 1779 he said Young at Dumfries in Prince William County Virginia enlisted Jesse Davis now a resident of Fleming County in this State, and who is now present, as a private soldier in said battalion, who was attached to his company, and continued to serve therein on the duties aforesaid for the term of his enlistment, which ended when the battalion was discharged as aforesaid - and that the said Jesse Davis was discharged honorably at Louisville Kentucky in December, and received a discharge signed by this deponent & countersigned by said Colo. Crockett.
Thos. Young C.W.B.
We the undersigned two justices of the peace in and for said County & Commonwealth do certify that the foregoing statement was taken & sworn to before us, & that the deponent Captain Young is a respectable credible witness, and his statements are entitled to full weight.
Given under our hands the date first written
Jas. Garrard Jr
Boon Ingels
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Kentucky Sct
I Thomas P Smith Clerk of the County Court
of Bourbon in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that James Garrard Jr and Boon Ingles before whom the foregoing Deposition is acknowledged and whose certificate is annexed thereto was at the time of taking and subscribing tereto and still are two of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be had and given as well in courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed my seal of office this
20th day of Sept 1821 and in the
30th year of the Commonwealth
Tho. P Smith
By
Andw P McIlvain DC
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Flemingsburg Ky
Nov Free

Honble. Lewis Cass Scty of War
Washington City
Mail}

NOv: 19 ~
Ky.
19250
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Flemingsburg Ky.
Octr. 12th 1832
Dr Sir please receive the within
Declaration and every commu-
nication on the subject you
will please address to me
or Will P. Fleming Esq at
this place
J. Davis
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jesse Davis which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declartion in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No (crossed out)

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

x. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes