Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2736, for George King, Virginia
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Va.
King, George  W. 2736
Mary
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19.998
Ohio
Pittsburgh Agency

George King
of Richland County in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Scott of the regiment commanded by Colonel Green in the Virginia line, for the term of three years from May 1780 to February 1783

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 day of October 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of Decem 1828 and sent to Jacob Parker Esq
Mansfield, Richland County Ohio

Arrears to 4th of March 1829   $39.48
Semi-anl. all'ce ending             $39.48
Recorded Book C.
Vol 2 page 30         
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.}
Bk Beale
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891
Ohio, Cleveland
Mary King
widow of
George King
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
Va Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of Jany 1836
and sent to 
Hon F. W. Greene
House
of Reps

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 2, 1848, Page 164 Vol.00
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State of Ohio Richland County ss
Court of Common
 Pleas October Term AD 1828
on the twenty first day of October AD
1828 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the County and State
aforesaid George King resident in said County
aged Sixty Seven and a half years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the
1st May 1890 that to the said George King enlisted for the term of three years in the month of May 1780 in Facequiss County in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt Scott in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel John Green in the line of the State of
Virginia, in the Virginia, Continental establish ment, that said Company was afterwards commanded by Capt Bentley who was taken prisoner at the Seige of ninety six in the Carolinas that he the said George King continued to serve in the said corps untill as he thinks February 1783 when he was discharged from the service in Salsbury in the State of North Carolina that at the time of his discharge the said company was commanded by Capt Cowland and the said regiment by Colonel Samuel Hawes that he was in the battles of Guilford Court House Cambden & Eutaw Springs that
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that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension, except the present, that his name is not
on the Roll of any State
except that of Virginia and that the following are his reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension
that he thought he could live without a pension
by his own labour and while, that was the case he was unwilling to ask assistance of his country but that now his advanced age and increasing infirmities render him in a great measure in able to support himself without the aid of his Countrys bounty and in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen
of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and
that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner of with intent disposed of my property or any part there of with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not
nor has any person in trust for me, any property or secure his contracts or debts, due to me nor have I any Income other than what is contain
ed in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, That since the 18th of March 1818 no changes of any consequence have been made or have taken place in my property except that I have now two sugar 12 rites more than I then had and that I now have two cows whereas then I had
none-
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Schedule of my property, Necessary bedding &
clothing excepted

One Horse 15 years old  $25 00
two cows  $16  00
the house hold furniture
Kittles Sugar & Mettle including tea Kettle
as aforesaid included in said
Bake oven and other iron kettle  20.00 
4 hogs heads  4  00
our plough  2.00
1 set Gee is house hold furniture
chairs, 1 Small Pitcher
of every kind & discrip
tion owned by me  $20.00
part of an old waggon  6 00
one Loom  2.00
part of a log chair  1. 75 
2 Small Stacks of hay  7.00
a Quantity of corn  20.00
[Totaled]  $126.25

The house hold furniture of every Kind and discription as aforesaid included in said $20.00 consists of one chest two old tables, six knives & forks 6 Iron Table Spoons no Tea Spoons, 7 or 8 plates 6 cups & Saucers, one churn, 6 chairs, 1 Small pitcher 1 wheel Spinning, 1 Reel our meat Tub, and few other articles of little or no value-

the said George King declarant as aforesaid on his oath
aforesaid further declares and States that he is by occupation a Farmer, that from his advanced age, and in
creasing infirmities together with his poverty he is unable
to pursue it, and that his family consists of his wife
aged fifty four
years after debilitated with Rheu
matism, his own mother
Jane King aged Eighty
nine and his wifes mother Priscilla Bowling
aged Seventy six years, that they are all dependent
upon him for Support and are unable to contribute
any thing towards their own maintenance in conse
quence of their great age feebleness & ill health

George X King
his mark

Sworn to and declared in open Court on the twenty
first day of October AD 1828 before the said Court
Ellgry Hedges Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Richland County
I Ellgry Hedges, Clerk of the
Court of Common pleas for said
County do hereby certify that it
appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the
said George King did serve in the revo
lutionary war, as Stated in the preceeding
declaration against the common enemy
for the Term of nine months, under our
engagement, on the continental establish
ment. I also certify that the foregoing oath
and of the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly
copied from the records of the said
Court and I do further certify, that it is the
Opinion of the said Court that the total amo
unt [amount] in value of the property exhibited
in the aforesaid schedule is our hun
dred [hundred] and twenty six dollars and twenty
five cents
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Court on this
twenty seventh day of October
AD. 1828
Ellgry Hedges Clerk
of the Court of Com
pleas for said
County  & State
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No 823
Mary King
widow of Geo.
Act 29 July 1848
Married
1797
Hus d [Husband] died 1838,
Adm $96 per anum
Courg 4 March 1848

Cleveland

Hon. J.W. Green
Cleveland
H of R
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State of Ohio
Ashland County

On this second day of April
A.D. Eighteen Hundred and
Fifty, personally appeared
before me J.O. Jenning Clerk of the court of
Common Pleas within and for the County and
State aforesaid, Mary King, a resident of
the Township of Vermillion in the County of
Ashland and State of Ohio and aged Seventy
three years, who being duly sworn according to
 law, makes the following affidavit, in order
to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by
the act of Congress, passed and approved July
29th A.D. Eighteen Hundred and forty-eight,
that she is the widow of George King, who was
private volunteer soldier in the army of the
United State in the revolutionary war with
Great Brittain; she further declares that she
was married to the said George King during the
year A.D. Seventeen Hundred and Ninety
seven, but the precise time in said year she
cannot with certainty state; that her said
husband the aforesaid George King died on
the Fifth day of December A.D. Eighteen
Hundred and Thirty-eight, that she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the service
but the marriage took place previous to
the second day of January A.D. Eighteen
Hundred, viz; at the time above stated; she
further says that her said husband George
King was a resident of the State of Virginia,
and that he drew a pension from the United states
Government from about the year-
Eighteen hundred and twenty eight until the
time of his death. she further states that
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she is now a widow and has been since the
death of her said husband, and that she
has never before this time made application
for a pension-
Mary  X King
 her mark
Sworn to and subscribed
by affixing her mark to her signature on the
day and year above written, before me the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Ashland and State of Ohio and done
in open court
J.O. Jennings Clerk

A.
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The State of Ohio
Ashland County SS.
I,  J. O. Jennings Clerk of the court of Com
mon Pleas in and for the County and State
aforesaid do hereby certify that on the se-
-cond day of April in the year of our Lord
one Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty, Ma-
-ry King appeared before the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas of the County of Ash--land & State of Ohio, and in open Court and
subscribed her name by affixing her mark to the affidavit hereto at-
-tached and marked A. and was sworn to the truth of the matters
set forth in said affidavit and by her subscribed, and also that
John King, Eli Finley and John Tarver, on the same Second day
of April, appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas of said Ashland County and subscribed their names to the several
affidavits hereto attached, and marked B. C. & D. and were each
of them respectively sworn to the truth of the matters set forth in said
affidavits by thereby subscribed.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my signature and affixed
the seal of the said Court at Ashland this 25th Day of May A.D. 1850
J. O. Jennings Clerk
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about the year A.D Eighteen hundred
and twenty Eight, until the time of his death;
and that the said George
King died in the fifth day of
December A.D. Eighteen hundred and
thirty Eight, and that the said Mary
King who makes this application for a
pension is his widow, and has remained
his widow since the death of her said
husband, the said George King; and
has never since that time been married
John King

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court before me
this 2nd day of April A.D. 1850,
J.O. Jennings Clerk
Ashland Com. Pleas

(B)
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State of Ohio
Ashland County
John King of the
county of Ashland and
State of Ohio being duly
sworn according to Law make oath and say
that he is the Son and only child of one
George King and Mary King his wife,
That affiant was born in the County of
Fauquier in the State of Virginia, in the
year A.D. Seventeen hundred and ninety
Eight, and that the said George King
removed to and settled in the County of
Richland (now in the County
of Ashland)
and State of Ohio in the fall of the year
A.D. Eighteen hundred and Eighteen, and
that he verily believes the said
George King was a private
soldier in the army of the United States of America, in the Revolutionary war with
Great Britain, and that the said George
King and Mary King have always
declared themselves to have been legally
and lawfully married, and they always
lived and cohabited together as husband
and wife, and called themselves such;
and have always been esteemed and
reputed among all their neighbors and
acquaintances to be husband and wife,
but that there is no record Evidence of
the marriage of the said George King and
Mary his
wife, that can, now be found
Affiant further states he informed and verily believes that the said 
George King belonged to the Virginia
troops in the time of the Revolutionary war;
and that he drew a pension from the Government of the United States from
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State of Ohio
Ashland County

Eli Findley, of the County
of Ashland and State of Ohio
being duly sworn according to law, makes oath
and says, that George King and Mary King
his wife, became residents of the Township of Ver-
milion, now in the County of Ashland, (at that
time in the County of Richland) in the State of
Ohio, in the fall of the year, Eighteen Hundred
and Eighteen, or thereabouts and that he has
been well acquainted with him and his said
wife Mary King from that time and up to the time of 
the death of the said George King, and that Mary
King, who now makes this application for a pen-
sion was his reputed wife, that he always lived
with, and treated her the said Mary, as his wife,
from the time he first settled in said County
until the period of his death, in the year
Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-eight, and
that she is the same Mary King who now
makes this application for a pension, and
that she is now a widow and has been, since
the death of her husband the aforesaid
George King-
-
Eli
Tinley

Sworn to and subscribed in open court before me Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Ashland &
State of Ohio this 2nd day of April A.D.
1850

J. O. Jennings Clerk

(C)
-
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State of Ohio
Ashland County  Ss.
John Farver, of the County
of Ashland, in the State of
Ohio, being duly sworn,
makes solemn oath and says, that one George
King and his wife Mary King came into the
County of Richland, (now the County of Ashland
and State of Ohio, about the year Eighteen
Hundred and Eighteen, and that he has been
well acquainted with said George King and
his wife Mary from that time until the death
of the said George King, which occurred about
the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-eight;
that he said George King always lived with
the said Mary King, as his wife, and she was
considered and reputed in community, as
the wife of the said George King, and that she
is the same Mary King who now makes
this application for a Pension, and that she
is now a widow and has been since the
death of her said husband
George King-
John Farever
Sworn and subscribed before me clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for the County of Ashland and State of
Ohio this of April A.D 1850 in Open Court,
J. O. Jennings Clerk

(D)
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

April 10, 1924.

Edith Burrell,
830 E. Sandusky St.,
Findlay, Ohio.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolution-
ary War pension claim, W.2736, it appears that George King
enlisted in Fauquier County, Virginia, in May 1780 as a pri-
vate, served in Captains Scott, Bentley and Cowherd's Com-
pany, Colonels John Green and Samuel Hawes' Virginia Regi-
ment, was in the battles of Guilford, Camden and Eutaw
Springs, and was discharged in February 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed Oct-
ober 21, 1828, while a resident of Richland County, Ohio,
aged 67 years. He died December 5, 1838.
Soldier married in 1797, Mary, daughter of Priscilla
Bowling. She was allowed pension on her application execut-
ed April 2, 1850, while a resident of Vermillion Township.
Ashland County, Ohio, aged 73 years. Their only child John
was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1798.
In 1828 soldier's mother, Jane King, aged 89 years,
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and his wife's mother, Priscilla Bowling, aged 76 years
resided with them.

Respectfully,

Acting Commissioner.
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No. 823
Mary King
widow of George.
Ohio

Let J.S. Fritton  15 Nov 1850

Hon J [illegible] Green
N of R
Plet 29th July 1848
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Brief in the case of Mary King, widow of Geo.
Ashland County and State of Ohio.
act 29 July 1848

Claim, (original, or for increase.)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

He said was a pensioner,
Living
witnesses & traditionary
proof of marriage

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

Name and residence of Agent
Hon T W Green
H of R

S.Cole
Examining Clerk.
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Ashland May 25th, 1850
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir, Enclosed
you will find the affidavit s, and Certificate
of the Clerk of our Court, in reference to the
Pension of Mary King.  The Proofs  have
been taken in open Court, and certified to 
the Clerk, in accordance with the printed
directions sent to me from the Pension office.
I believe the directions have been strictly compli
ed with, and knowing the claim to be a perfect-
ly just and meritorious one, I would be glad
to hear from your department at your earliest
convenience.
Your Obed t Ser t [Obedient Servant]
J. S. Fulton

I.L. Edwards  Esq.
Commisoner Pensions
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W Ames
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Add: Evid 
Case
Mary King
George
Ohio 18M
[postage cancelation stamp illegible]
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[Left Side Notation]
1920, Mar.25 Hist
Mrs. Chas H. Wise
Box 15a & Mkl Ex

1924, Apr.10 - Hist. to Edith Burrell [illegible]

Rev War
Widow, &c.
File No. 2736
Mary King
Widow 
George King
Pri. Rev. War
Act:  July 29, 1848
Index:-Vol.a, Page 400
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Akron, O. Mar. 5th/ 20-
To the Pension Bureau
Dept of War Records.U.

[Stamped] Pension
D
MAR
8
1920
U.S.

Can you
give me any information
concerning the war record
of George King a participator
in the Revolutionary War.
He came from Virginia, and
lived in Ashland County Ohio,
where he drew a pension for
his war services, and probably
died there.
Kindly advise me as to fees
etc. should there be such for
looking up these records.
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Yours Truly
Mary Phoebe Wise.

Address Mrs. Charles A. Wise
Akron. O. [Ohio]
Box 15 A.E. Mkt. Ex.
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8-049.
Ex.  aw     Div. Rev. War Section
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug 28, 1923
The attached letter is respectfully returned
with the information that the data furnished is
not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intel-ligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below
as the information in your possession will permit,
and return to this Bureau.
First name of widow Mary Bowling
Name of soldier, George King
P. O. Address of Soldier at enlistment
and after service
Company
 Regiment
Commanding Officers 
Captain
Scott 
Bentley
Cowherd

Colonel
John Green
Samuel Hawes
[check mark] State where enlisted Farquier Co., Va.
Date of birth 1760/1
Date of Death Dec. 5, 1838
If unable to furnish company and regiment
give names of commanding officers.
July 2 reports are made for
each inquirer
Return attached letter with reply.
Washington Garders
Commissioner.

6-2[illegible]
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830 East Sandusky Street
Findlay, Ohio
July 21, 1923
[Stamp]U.S. Pension Office March 11 1[illegible] 
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me a state-
ment of the service records of George King
and Jonathan Draper, soldiers of the Rev-
olutionary War?
I would also like to know if you have a
record of any of the following William
Cumming, Edward Dorsey, or William Cumming
Dorsey. If you have a record of any
of these, I would like to have that too
Thanking you for the trouble of looking
these up, I am
Yours truly,
Edith Burrell

[Stamp]U.S.Pension Office Jul 26 1923

[penciled] over
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Mar. 9, 1924.
In regard to Jonathan Draper, we have no record
but are quite certain that he was a soldier of the
Revolutionary war and probably enlisted in New 
York State. He had several sons among whom
was Moses Draper and we are his descendants.
Yours truly,
Edith Burrell
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3- 525
W2736  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. [blank]
19 [left blank]
In reply to your request of [left blank]
received [left blank]
for a statement of the military history of George King
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
May 1780
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
3 yrs
RANK.
Pvt {
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Scott
Bentley
Cowherd
COLONEL.
John Green
Saml Hawes
STATE
Va.
Battles engaged in, Guilford Camden  Eutaw Spgs.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enliss. [Enlisted] Farquier Co. Va.

Date of application for pension, Oct 1828. He was

Residence at date of application, Richland Co. Ohio

Age at date of application, 67 yrs.

Remarks: Sol. [Soldier] Married 1797 Mary - He died Dec. 15, 1838  She was
al pen. on her ap. ex. Ap. 2,1850 aged 73 yrs. residing in Vermillion. Lwp-
Ashland Co. Ohio. X (Sol mother Jane King aged 89 and his infirm mother 
Priscilla Bowling aged 76 years resided with them in 1828. Names of husbands not stated.
X Their only child John was born in Fauquier Co Va. in 1798
Respectfully,
Commisioner

ap. ex. Oct 21, 1828 [initialed]M.M.
6-2856