Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3408, Reuben Graves, Va.
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VA.


Graves, Reuben

S. 3408


Carded
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19099

West Tennessee


Reuben Graves
at Jacksonville in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the company commanded
by Capt. Rodgers of the regt. commanded
by Col. Flemming in the Virginia
line for 8 months

Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per 
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831


Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of August 1833 and sent to 
James T. Qualres, Jamesboro

Arrears to the 4th of March 55.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 15.53

$65.53

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

Recorded by Daniel Boyd  Clerk

Book E Vol. 7  Page 79
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15545
Reuben Graves
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Tennessee
Jackson County

October Tenn. 1832  of the Circuit Court

Be it remembered that at a Circuit Court of Law and Equity held for the County aforesaid at the Court house in Gainesboro present the honorable Nathaniel W. Williams Judge on this 2nd day of October 1832 Reuben Graves of said County, aged about seventy two years, personally appeared in open court, and thereupon being first duly sworn according to Law, and the interrogatories requiring by the rules of the War department being propounded said applicant doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, to wit. That he entered the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia as a substitute for his father John Graves in the latter part of February, or early in March 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Peter Rodgers, in the regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Burrell in Brig. General David Mason's brigade, that he was mustered into service in Halifax County, Virginia at a place called Dobe's old store, that he was then between fifteen and sixteen years of age, but being stout and well grown for his age, and well known to the captain, he was received as a substitute for his father as aforesaid, that he was mustered to Guilford Court house North Carolina thence to Salisbury where he remained about two months thence to Mecklenburg County, thence to Camden in South Carolina, where he was discharged on the 23rd day of May 1776 then being 16 years old as well as he recollects he was mustered into service for a term of five months, but was discharged before the expiration of the terms or aforesaid his discharge was signed by General Mason, and the same has been lost.

That afterwards, about the 8th January 1780 he again returned the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia, being drafted for a three months term in
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the company commanded by Captain Charles Wall, he served in Col. Fleming's regiment, in General Muhlenberg's brigade, that he was mustered into service at Petersburg, Virginia, marched to Cabbin point, thence into the County  of Nansemond (the British then being in Portsmouth and that he continued in the section of County above Portsmouth until he was discharged from service at a place called Bobb's old field in the County of Isle of Wight as he recollects on the 8th April 1781.  His discharge for this term signed by Capt. Wall has been present, and is herewith exhibited
That afterwards in the latter part of August or early in September 1781 he again returned the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia (being drafted for a three months term) in the company  commanded by Captain Fleming Bates - in General Steven's brigade and that he was mustered into service in Halifax County, that he marched to Yorktown where he remained until Cornwallis was taken - that he was then sent with the prisoners until they were met by the Maryland troops and that he was discharged from service as well as he recollects in Leesburg about 13 November 1781.  His discharge was signed by Capt. Bates, and he believes ?  that he had assisted in Guarding the prisoners as aforesaid, and for this he was to have a credit for a three months tour in addition to the one for which he was drafted  in which discharge has been lost.
Said applicant further shows that a  noted Tory Dr. Thomas Smith, who had been taken prisoner and carried into Maryland, afterwards escaped, and the captain of the company in which applicant resided hearing that he was probably in the neighborhood called upon him to assist in retaking said Smith - said applicant accordingly went with Capt. George Willis and took said Smith; and by the directions of Col. John Coleman guarded said Smith to Fredericksburg distant
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about two hundred miles from the residence of said applicant  - and having produced the receipt of Capt.  Barbe for the body of said Smith to Col. Coleman, he gave said applicant a certificate in substance reciting this, service and declaring that the same should entitle him to a credit for a tour of Militia duty.   This took place about March 1782 and said certificate has been lost.

Said applicant further states that he was born in the County of Spotsylvania, State of Virginia as he has been informed and believes on the 23rd day of May 1760.  that the record of his age is thus set forth in an old family bible of his fathers' from which said applicant transcribed his age unto one of his own and he does not know where his father's bible is - He resided in this County of Halifax as he has set forth at the different times he entered the service of the United States  - that he removed from said County of  Halifax in the year 1805, and settled on ?  in Jackson County, Tennessee where he has since resided, that he has no documentary evidence of his service in the army of the revolution except the discharge herein before referred to , and herewith exhibited 
that Daniel Ramsey and Matthew Brooks of said County of Jackson and Miles West, a clergyman living in the adjoining county of Smith have been long and well acquainted with applicant to whose annexed affidavits he refers and said applicant knows of no further testimony in this
states that he can adduce in support of his service -He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on
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roll of the agency of any state, and this is his first application for a pension.

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year first aforesaid

Ruben Graves

James T. Quarles Clerk

And then came also in open court Daniel Ramsey  a resident of said County of Jackson aged about 69 years and hereby certifies that he resided in the County of Persons North Carolina adjoining Halifax County Virginia previous to his removal to Tennessee and that previous to his removal eh was well acquainted Ruben Graves applicant in the foregoing declaration - that he recollects to have heard it frequently stated in the neighborhood from which he removed that said Graves served in the Revolutionary war in the Virginia Militia as a substitute for his father John Graves and also when drafted himself, Deponent does not recollect the dates or the different times, or the precise time of the absence of said Graves from the neighborhood; but he recollects  he was more than once absent, and said and believed  at the time, to be in the army  - that he has often before his removal from North Carolina heard the service of said Graves spoken of, and he never heard it doubted or disputed neither in the state of North Carolina, or Virginia or in the neighborhood in which he at present resides.  That deponent removed to Tennessee in the year 1805, and has since resided in the neighborhood of said Graves, and for a part of the time within a few miles of him.  That since their removal to Tennessee they have had frequent conversations as to his service in the revolution, and he has no doubt that
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that the matters set forth by said Graves in his declaration touching said service are true.
What said Graves sustains a fair and unblemished reputation in his neighborhood - where it is reputed and believed that he was a soldier of the Revolution.

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the date first mentioned this 2nd October 1832.

Daniel Ramsey

James T. Quarles Clerk

And then came also in open court the Reverend Miles West, a clergyman, residing in the adjoining county of Smith, and Matthew Brooks a resident of said County of Jackson, and they do hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Ruben Graves, applicant in the foregoing declaration - that they believe him to be about the age of seventy two years - that he sustains a fair and unblemished character in the neighborhood where he resides, and that he is reputed and believed in said neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that they concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 2nd day of October 1832.

Miles West
Matthew Brooks

James T. Quarles Clerk

Whereupon 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 named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - saith this court
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further certifies, that it appears to them that Miles West who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the County of Smith; and that Daniel Ramsey and Matthew Brooks who have also signed the preceding certificates are creditable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

Nath W. Williams Judge

I James T. Quarles, clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Jackson in the state of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court aforesaid, in the matter of the application of Ruben Graves fro a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal (having no seal of office yet provided) at offices in Gainsboro 2nd day of October 1832.

James T. Quarles, Clerk

Tennessee

I James T. Quarles, clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Jackson in the state of Tennessee, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court aforesaid in the matter of the application of Ruben Graves for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county (one having been provided since the previous certificate was made) at offices in Gainsboro 14th May 1833

James T. Quarles Clerk
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Tennessee
Jackson County

May Sessions 1833 of the Court of Quarter 
Sessions for said County.

Be it remembered Ruben Graves, applicant for pension in the foregoing declaration, this day ? 14 May 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices thereof in deposition David Apple, John H. Carver, and Sandy K. Witcher and the said Ruben Graves being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following amendment to his former declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  ? Said Ruben Graves deposes and saith that by reason of old age, and the ? of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service in the different tours set out in his said original declaration, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below. And in each and every of the times of service, he served in the grade of a private - to wit.   That in the year 1776 when he entered the army as a substitute for his father, as before set forth; he served in the grade of a private, not less than two months and a half.
That in the year 1781, when he entered the army in January of that year, he served in the grade of a private, not less than three months.
That afterwards in said year 1781 when he again entered the army, he served in the grade of a private not less than two months and a half - and these are the tours of service set out in his original declaration and to which this is an amendment - and the same for which he claims a pension.

Ruben Graves

Sworn to and subscribed in open court 14 May 1833

William Galbreath Clerk 
of Jackson County Court

Whereupon said court  hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and that said applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states in his original and amended declarations -And the court concurs in the opinion and certificate of the Circuit Court hereto given in the matter of said declaration; that said Miles West is a clergyman and that said Daniel Ramsey and Matthew Brooks are creditable persons and their statements entitled to credit.

John W. Carver
Sandy K. Witcher
David Apple

Justices
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Tennessee
Jackson County

I William Galbreath clerk of the court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the amended declaration of Ruben Graves in his application for a pension  - and that the proceedings of said Court accompany the original declaration of said Ruben Graves heretofore made and certified by the clerk of the Circuit Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at offices at Gainsboro 14 May 1833
William Galbreath

15545
Ruben Graves
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No. 15545

Reuben Graves
Jackson County
Tennessee

from 1776 private
8 months
$26. 66/100


James T. Quarles Clerk
Gainsboro
Jackson County Court
Tennessee
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Brief in the case of Reuben Graves
of Jackson Co. in the State of Tennessee
(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? about 72

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



Period - Substitute - In 1776

Duration of Service - From last Feb. to 23 May

Rank - As a Private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served
Capt. Rodgers - Col. Burrell


Period - Drafted - In 1781

Duration of Service - 3 months

Rank - As a Private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. Wall - Col. Flemming


Period - Drafted - In 1781

Duration of Service -  about 2 months

Rank - As a Private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. Bates - General Stevens


5. In what battles was he engaged?   None

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Halifax Co, VA

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Documentary proof and Traditionary Evidence

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect? - no county seal
The papers are not connected as the regulations require

I Certify that  the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Dyer Castor
Examining Clerk
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October 26, 1932


BA-J/KEL
Reuben Graves - S. 3408


Mrs. Anne Carver Graves
Belle Meade Drive
Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request date of death of Reuben Graves, S. 3408, whose history was furnished you on February 17, 1932, and records of John Graves, father of Reuben and also of Lieutenant William Hamlin or Hamblen, of the Fourth Virginia Regiment.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found based upon the services of John Graves, father of Reuben Graves, or of William Hamlin, or similar spelling, as described by you, or of William Hamblen.

This office is unable to advice you in what county the Fourth Virginia Regiment, War of the Revolution, was raised.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Reuben Graves (S.3408), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:

Reuben Graves, Certificate No. 19099, issued August 2, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, West Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator
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Graves, Rebuen
VA.   S 3408
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1912 May 31, History to Mr. W.H. Trotter letter in claim
S. 1649 Charles Carter

1932 Feb. 17 Hist. to Mrs. Anne Carver Graves

1932 Oct 26 - Ad Mrs. Anne Carver Graves ? to obtain date of death 


Rev. War?


3408 
INVALID

File No. 3408

Reuben Graves
Priv. VA. Line

Act:  June 7 1832

Index:  Vol. A, Page 149

[Arrangement of 1870]
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February 17, 1932

BA-J/MCS


Mrs. Anne Carver Graves
Belle Mead Drive
Nashville
Tennessee

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of January 18, 1932, requesting information in regard to soldiers of the Revolution.

The data contained herein are obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 3408, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Rubin or Reuben Graves (personal signature Rubin but pensioned as Reuben.)

He was born May 23, 1760, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and was the son of John Graves.

While living in Halifax County, Virginia, he enlisted at "Dobe's old store", in that county and served as private with the Virginia troops as follows: from late in February or early in March, 1776, until May 23, 1776 in Captain Peter Rodgers' Company in Colonel Lewis Burrell's Regiment and was substitute for his father John Graves; from about January 8, 1781, until April 8, 1781, in Captain Charles Wall's Company in Colonel Fleming's Regiment; from late in August or early in September, 1781, until about November 13, 1781, in Captain Fleming Bates' Company; about March 1782, under Captain George Willey and Colonel John Coleman he aided in capturing the Tory, Dr. Thomas Smith.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 2, 1832, at which time he was living in Jackson County, Tennessee, having moved there from Halifax County, Virginia in 1805.

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

For rest of letter
see Abm. Carver S. 8158 
Rev.
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Belle Meade Drive
Nashville, Tenn.
Jan. 18, 1932

Mr. A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

Will you kindly send me any records you may have of one Reuben Graves who served in Halifax Co. militia and was put on Pension roll in 1833, Aug. 2?
He was then living in Tenn. He married Elizabeth Yarbrough in Halifax Co, Va. Nov. 28, 1786.

Also I'd like any records you may have of Henry Carver of 

over
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N.C. who received a warrant
#4772

Wm. Carver of NC who received a pension for his service in the Revolution.

Thanking you for your assistance

I am ,

Very Respectfully yours,

Mrs. Anne Carver Graves
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Belle Meade Drive
Nashville, Tenn
Oct. 12, 1932

Mr. A.D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator,
Washington, D.C.

My dear sir:

Feb. 17, you sent me the record of Reuben Graves born in Spotsylvania Co. and enlisted in Halifax Co, 1776
The data which you sent me from pension claim S. 3408 Could you give me the date this pension ceased or the date of death?
Part of his service was for John Graves his father.  I am anxious for the record and all information concerning this John Graves
What records have you of Wiliam Hamlin (Hamblen) who was Lieutenant
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in the 4th Va. Regiment. He was commissioned March 21, 1776.  What county would the 4th Regiment come from?

Thanking you for your trouble in advance, I am 
Very truly yours,

Mrs. Anne Carver Graves
Belle Meade Drive
Nashville, Tenn.
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Gainsboro, TN
March 16th

(Declaration for pension by Reuben Graves)

Free

Hon. Lewis Cass

Secretary of War,

Washington City,
Dist. Ca


Tenn. May 31
retd.

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