Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,899, John Winn, Va.
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3-1776
Service
VA.
Winn, John
Number
S.7.899
Carded
Contents
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6455 Virginia 

John Winn 

[Illegible] Halifax in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bowers of the Reg commanded by Col - in the Virginia line for 18 months,
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents per annum [illegible] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Mar 1833 and sent to Hon T Davenport [illegible] 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832 $90.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 $30.00     
$120.00 
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by Ino Cromwell Clerk Book D Vol. 7 Page 128 
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6th April 1838 and 23 Aug 1842 from [illegible, crossed out] to 4 Sep 1841
Agt notified 21 Dec 1842 
Atto J.B. Stoval July 7 '47
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John Winn's del

15419
found on rolls
for 133
37
173
[illegible]
18 mo pri
60$
HJ Davenport
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Virginia, to wit:
On this 25th day of September 1832.
 Personally appeared before the County Court of Halifax - John Winn is a resident of said county and state aforesaid aged 67 years who being first duly sworn according, to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by the act of Congress,
Passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in this county in the continental service for eighteen months as well
as he remembers in the year 1780, or thereabout and was put under the command of Capt Beyers: the Regiment he does not.
Being very young, remember at this time nor does he remember the name of [illegible] who commanded it, he well remembers he was first commanded by Genl Gates and lastly by Genl Green, his Capt then by the name of Hoofman, and that he was discharged in South Carolina at a place called the [illegible] or that his discharge is lost or mislaid, that he was in the battles of Guilford Courthouse, Camden, Eutaw Springs, and the Siege of Ninety Six. 
that he has no evidence to substantiate his said claim except the affidavits of David Street & Fielding Bomar, 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 the agency of any state. 
John Man
x mark
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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And the said Court to hereby declare their opinions that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

I, Samuel Williams, clerk of the court of Halifax County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Winn for pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 13th day of October 1832.

Samuel Williams.
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In reply to your request of -, received - for a statement of the military history of John Winn 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. 

S.7899

Dates of enlistment or appointment. 
Sept 1780
discharged at [illegible]

Length of service.
18 months

Rank. 
Priv.

Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain | Colonel
Beyers
Huffman

State
Va.

Battles engaged in, 
Guilford C.H., Camden, Eutaw Springs, Siege of Ninety-Six
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Halifax Co., VA 
Residence at date of application, Halifax Co., VA.
Age at date of application, sixty-nine years
Remarks: No family [illegible]
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
G-2856
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Revolutionary
7899
INVALID
File No. 7899
John Winn
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index :- Vol. [illegible] 3, Page 409

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]

1914 June 22. Hist to Hon.
Wm P. Borland. letter in
S.26922 John Winn C.
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I certify that John Winn of Halifax county VA some three or four years ago | date not recollected | placed in my hands a military discharge. The object for his so doing at the time was to enable me to apertain whether he [illegible] intitled under the then existing laws to a pension. 
I put the paper after seeing it was a discharge, carelessly into my pocket - by accident, perhaps [illegible] it has been either lost or mislaid so that it cannot now be found by me. 
The discharge was executed & signed (or purported to be so) by an officer, either of militia or continental line, [illegible] names of the officer or his grade, I cannot now recollect.
I also specified, I think, that said Winn had served in the army eighteen months~ under my hand.
September 27th 1832
H.T. Davenport
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State of Virginia
Halifax County V.

This day personally appeared before me William Faulkner, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, Thomas Davenport who's name is subscribed to the within certificate & made oath to the truth of the statement therein contained. Given under my hand & seal this 27th day of Sept 1832.

W.M Faulkins  Seal

Virginia [illegible]
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Gideon, Printer

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's office 
Nov 21st, 1842.

Sir:

Under the act of the 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 States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, John Winn, - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. - Agency, at the rate of sixty dollars and -- cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of march, to the 4th Sept 1841.

Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the commissioner of pensions, 
Present.
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Virginia Halifax County to wit

The Reverend David Street, a preacher of the gospel, truly respectable, this day came before me & made oath that in the month of September 1780, as well as he remembers John Winn, now of this county was enlisted for eighteen months as a Continental Soldier in the Revolutionary War, in his [illegible] by Col. Coles of this county & he believes was put under the command of Capt Boyer, that he knows after the said Winn enlisted he went into service and from all accounts was a faithful soldier, more specially as he did not return home short of eighteen months.

Fielding Bomar, also respectable made oath before me, that he has been acquainted with John Winn of this county from his infancy up to the present period & that he knows he enlisted a soldier in the revolutionary war for eighteen months under Capt. Boyer & that he has every right to believe & do believe that he served his time fully & faithfully as they were neighbors & now are.

Given under my hand & seal this 16th August 1832. 

W.M. Faulkins [Illegible]
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wit:

I, Samuel Williams, clerk of the county court of Halifax do hereby certify that William Faulkner before whom the within [illegible] of Thomas H Davenport, David Street, and Fielding Bomar were taken as a justice of the peace for said county and the signatures thereto annexed are his genuine signatures. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County at my Office this 15th day of October 1832.

Samuel Williams
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July 6 47 

John Winn
VA WU 

Halifax [illegible] VA

J L Edwards [illegible]
commissioner of pensions
Washington City
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Meadsville Va
Dear Sir    June the 30th 1847
John Winn a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832 has become so [illegible] as to wholly unable from mental disability to make the necessary affidavit of identity to draw his semiannual pension should he have a [illegible] or [illegible] so what formes should be observed by them in drawing his pension.

I am very respectfully 
JB Stovall

JL Edwards [illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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S.File 7899 John Winn of Halifax Co. Va. aged sixty-nine years in 1832 was all of pension on account of his services of 18 months in the VA troops from Sept 1780 under Captains Bowyer and Huffman; he was in the battles of Guilford Court House, Camden, Entaw Springs & siege of ninety six.