Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2271, for Thomas Terry, Virginia
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[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va.

TERRY, THOMAS 
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W2271

CONTENTS
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4746 
Kentucky 

Thomas Terry 
Barren in the state of Ky: 
who was a pri: [private] in the company commanded by Captain Waters - of the Regt commanded by Col Perkins in the Va. line for 2 years from 1778- 

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 28 - day of Jan: 33- and send Hon. C. Tompkins, House of Reps 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832      120-
Semi=anl [annual], allowance ending 4th Mar: '33   40-
                                                                  $160-

                                        {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                        {Act June 7,1832} 

Recorded by Nathaniel Rice Clerk, 
Book  D Vol  9 Page  62

C. 2. For 8.
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[left side of page written sideways] Let to M. N. Carr, March 21, 1857

[right side] [1875?] Kentucky 
Elizabeth Terry 
widow of Thomas Terry who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Va. Line 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1853 

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Aug / 53 and sent to Marion N, Carr Clover Hill Ky 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3/53 178 Vol. 
1832
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Marriages Solemnized 
By the Rev.d [Reverend] Robert Stockton, 
1817. November 30th, "Thomas Terry & Elizabeth  Dunn" 

State of Kentucky 
Barren County Sct, 
I Travis Cockrill clerk of the County Court for
said county certify that the foregoing copy of the record of the marriage of Thomas Terry & Elizabeth Dunn Is a true & perfect copy from the records of my office. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of my said office at Glasgow, 23 day of May AD. 1853 
Travis Cockrill CBCC
By Mike H Dickinson DC
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May 28/53

May
1853
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State of Kentucky} 
County of Adair} SS
On this Seventeenth day of May A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before the under signed a Justice of the Peace for the County and
State aforesaid Elizabeth Terry a resident of Barren County in the state of Kentucky aged 65 years who first 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 February, 1853 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of Thomas Terry who was a private in the Revolutionary War for proof of which she refers you to the evidence filed in his application for pension which he drew and continued to draw up to the time of his
death; the particulars if which being unable to state she refers you to the record in order that she may obtain the benefit of the act of 3rd February 1853, and the acts thereby referred to. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Terry on the 30th day of November eighteen hundred and 
seventeen, that her said husband died on the 10th day of June 1837, that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January eighteen hundred but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow. 
[signed] Elizabeth Terry 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
And I certify that she is the widow of Thomas Terry who drew a pension as before stated; and that from bodily infirmity she is unable to attend Court to make this declaration; and that
I am not prosecuting this case, and have no interest whatever in any pension she may draw.
John J. Wallace J.P. B.C.
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We the undersigned, hereby certify that we were personally acquainted with Thomas Terry, who is referred to in the within declaration, and that Elizabeth Terry lived with him for many years, and was reputed and generally believed to be his lawful and married wife; and that she is now a widow, not having married since his death; and that we are not interested in any pension she may draw.
Peter A Hay 
Joseph Read
{illegible name]

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 17th day of May 1853.
I certify that the persons whose names appear to the foregoing certificates are entitled to credit on oath

John Y. Wallace J.P.

State of Kentucky, County of Adair, Sct.

I, Sinclair Wheat Clerk of the County
Court for the County afsd [aforesaid], do hereby certify that John Y. Wallace Esq., whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing is and was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Adair, duly elected, commissioned & qualified, according to Law, that his Commission
was dated on the 26th day of May 1851 & continues until the first day of June, 1855.
In Testimony Whereof
I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the Seal of said
Court this 28th day of May
1853

Sinclair Wheat
Clerk
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Sir, Enclosed you will find the claim of Elizabeth Terry for pension, which you will please examine and report to me at Clover Hill, Kentucky.
Respectfully yours
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
 Marion W. Carr.
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Thomas Terry 


From 1779 private a year 
$80 
Admit if on
Va. State Roll

on Roll
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BRIEF in the case of Thomas Terry 
County of Barren in the state of Kentucky 
(Act 7th June, 1822)

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? 78

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

[column headings] Period. Duration of Service. 
Years, Months, Days. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 

enlisted In 1778,  3 [months] As a Private Gen 
Capt. J. Water Cold P Perkins - 
Capt. J Waters, Col Wm Dicks 

enlisted 1779 July 2 [years] and upwards regmt [Regiment] Va. state line or Continental line
Gen Greene. 

5. In what battles was he engaged? Guilford Ct. House, Eutaw Springs. 

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Pittsylvania Cty. [County] Va.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls? 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 answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

F. Waugh Examining Clerk.
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Sworn to by all
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State of Kentucky} 
Barren County} On this 17th day of September 1832 personally appeared before the Barren Circuit Court of said County being a court of record Thomas Terry – a resident citizen of said County 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 of the 7th of June 1832 providing for certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army – of the Revolution, Saith that he is now near seventy-eight years of age – that William Williams of Virginia has a family Bible which contains a record of his age. That he was in the revolution a citizen of Pittsylvania County Virginia, that in the month of July 1778 – he was enrolled in Capt. John Waters Company of Militia as a Substitute for Benjamin Edwards who was drafted for three months in the Regiment [of] Virginia militia commanded by Col. Peter Perkins Capt. John Waters commanded the company in which he served. He marched to Boston &c Served a Tour of three months recv.d [received] a discharge which has long since been loss.d [lost], returned home and in July 1779 enlisted for the period of during the war in the Company commanded by Capt. John Waters of the Regiment commanded by Col. William Dicks in the Virginia State line or Continental line, he cannot be positive which – He was in the Battle at Guilford Court house to wit the 15th of March 1781 -
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– Gen.l N. Green [General Nathanael Greene] Commanded in that engagement = Col. Washington [William Washington] was there, Col. E Lee [Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee] also commanded some light horse, the American arms got the better of the engagement – Shortly after the Battle at Guilford Court – he was in the Battle at the Eutaw Springs [September 8, 1781] – Cols. Lee & Washington was also there, the Americans there gained a signal victory Corn Wallace [Cornwallis] then sailed round to York, he then marched with some prisoners to Halifax old Town Virginia marched then towards York did not reach there before the Surrender by Cornwallis – was honorably discharged in the year 1781 after the surrender of Cornwallis in October of that year – but loss.d [lost] his discharge before he got home he never recv.d [received] any warrant for the Bounty land due him in right of said Services – 
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he further declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the United States or the agency of any State. Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day & year afs.d [aforesaid] 
Thomas [his X mark] Terry
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We William B Cook & Edm.d Rogers residing in in the County of Barren & State of Kentucky do certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Terry who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration that we believe him to be the age he represents himself to be that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year afsd [aforesaid] 
Wm B. Cook 
Edmd Rogers, 

And the said Court certify as their opinion from the declaration and affidavits aforesaid that said Thomas Ferry served as in his declaration stated and that said Roger the Witness is a man entitled to credit on oath, all of which is certified to the department of War of the United States. 
I Richard Garnett Clerk of the Circuit Court for Barren County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Terry for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 17th day of September 1832. 
Richard Garnett CBCC
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Rev. War Section. 

[written sideways] Own Thomas Terry W.2271

November 10, 1914. 

Mrs. R. H. Dean. 
3003 St. Vincent Avenue, 
St. Louis, Mo. 

Madam: 
In response to your letter dated the sixth instant, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records of this Bureau fail to show any claims on file for James and John Crawford, Crafford or Craford described by you, or to the Thomas Terrys who served in the 2d and 3d Virginia regiments. 
There is no family data whatever in the claim of James Crawford Sur. File No. 1191. 
The following information is furnished you relative to the Thomas Terrys pensioned in Barren County and Montgomery County, Kentucky, and you are again advised that from the lack of data given by you, this Bureau cannot determine whether either is your ancestor. 
W. File No. 2271. Thomas Terry aged seventy-eight years, resided in Barren County, Kentucky. In 1832, enlisted from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and served in the Virginia troops under Captain John Waters (or Walters), Colonels Peter Perkins and William Dick, and was in the battles of Guilford
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and Eutaw Springs. He died June 10, 1837.
He married November 30, 1817, Elizabeth Dunn who was sixty-five years of age and a resident of Barren County, Kentucky, in 1853. There are no children mentioned.
W. File No. 3,053, Thomas Terry born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, December 4, 1761, enlisted from Powhatan County, Virginia, served under Captain Martin Healey, Colonel Charles Porterfield, and was in Gates' defeat near Camden.
He died December 18, 1838, in Montgomery County, Kentucky. He married in Bedford County, Virginia, April 2, 1789, Mary (Polly) Milan who was seventy-four years of age and a resident of Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1843.
There are no children mentioned.
For information relative to the 4000 acres of bounty land which was granted to Captain John Peyton by the state of Virginia, you should apply to the Secretary of that state, at Richmond.

Very respectfully,
[signed] G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner

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V        9856
Mary  Terry 
Kentucky 

Let to Hon G Davis January 2 '43

Act 7 July 1838.
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V 9856
Mary Terry
Kentucky

Let to Hon G Davis January 2 '43

Act 7 July 1838.
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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 
Thomas Terry which require further proof or explanation. 

1. 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 dud not make the declaration 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 amount of pension he is entitled?  Yes

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
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?   Two Citizens 

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?   No 

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
No 

XIV. + If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? --
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? --

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. + Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not answered? [crossed out - 1  7]

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ---         year -- months, and -- days, I served as a --             For -- months and -- days, I served as a -- ; and for such service I claim a pension."
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East Fork, Ky 

Sir,

Some years since I made application for a Pension in the name of Elizabeth Terry widow of Thos of Ky, a Revolutionary soldier. The acting Com.r [Commissioner] at that time would only extend it back to Feb 3rd 1853, which was clearly wrong. Numerous letters have been written by agents at Washington endeavoring to get the claim in hand, but believing that you will look into the error, I respectfully submit the case to you believing you will grant whatever you are allowed by law. 
I am, respectfully 
Your obedient Servant 
M. N. Carr, 

Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions 
Washington D. C.
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May 28 18[55 or 58]

No 1906 
Appl of Elizabeth Terry widow of Thomas 

Ky Act 32 
4746 

Act 3d Feby 1858 

Rev: 
Allowed $80 per annum Com. Feb 3, 1858

Marion N. Carr Clover Hill Ky:

[stamped sideways] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business
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East Fork, Ky 
April 11th 1857. 

Sir,

Your favor of March 21st. in regard to the Pension of Elizabeth Terry, has been received. I am clearly of the opinion that this case extends back to March 4th 1848. The 2nd section of Febr. [February] 3, 1853 admits of no other constriction 
It says expressly that the widow of a Revolutionary soldier who was married since the 1st day of Jan. 1800 shall be entitled to pension in the same manner as those married before that period. 
I can see no need of the action of Congress in regard to this case. I think the action of the Court of Claims only refer to those embraced in the 1st section of said act. 
Yours &c. M. N. Carr

Com.r [Commissioner] of Pensions 
Washington D. C.
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Terry
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Terry, widow of Thomas Adair County and State of Kentucky act of Feb 3 1853 

Claim ("original," [crossed out - or “for increase.”) 

Proof exhibited, (if original.) 

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Was a private -- revolutionary war & Pensioner under act of 1832 at $80 per annum 

(If for increase.) 
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Death proven and report Marriage public record Identity certificate of Subscribing Magistrate

Name and residence of Agent 
Marion N Carr Esqr [Esquire]
Clover Hill Ky 

Examining Clerk. 
J L Gray
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Pension Office Aug 13 / 53 

Sir Please report time of last payment to or death of the within named Pensioner 
Respectfully &c 
L. Cole for Comm.r [Commissioner]
F. Burt Esqr [Esquire] 3 Aud [3rd Auditor] Present

Thomas Terry, Act 32, $80 p. an. - Died 10th June 1837. paid to his death 

F. Burt 
Auditor
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3003 St. Vincent Ave, St. Louis, Mo.
Nov. 6, 1914 

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir, 
Please send me all the Information you can of Thomas Terry, 3rd. Va. Regiment, Col. Wm. Heth, Revolutionary War - also of Thomas Terry of 2nd Va. Regiment, Col. Thos Posey, Revolutionary War. - One Thos. Terry was of Barren Co. the other of Montgomery Co. Ky. - I am trying to find the revolutionary record and all the information I can of Thomas Terry, whose daughter Polly my grandfather, Jesse Padow son of Mary Padow of Ky. I do not know his wife's name, but hope you will tell me the names of the wives & children if possible of those above mentioned, and shall be thankful for any information. - There is also a Capt. John Peyton (spelled different ways) who received a Bounty Land warrant for 3 yrs. services in the Va. Continental Line, of 4000 acres, Dec.. 17, ‘82, 3rd, Va. Reg. Col. Wm. Heth, whom I should like to know more about, as I’m anxious to find our ancestors. 
Again thanking you, I am 
Sincerely M. C. Dean 
(Mrs. R. H. Dean.) 

[circular stamp] PENSION D NOV 9 1914 U. S. OFFICE.
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[left side] 1914 Nov. 10 Brief history to Mrs. R. H. Dean [cent sign]

[right side] Rev War WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2271
Elizabeth Terry,
Widow
Thomas Terry,
Priv. Rev. War

Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index: - Vol. M, Page 267

[Arrangement of 1870.]