Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34903, Benjamin Goodwin, Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE           NUMBER
Va.    Goodwin, Benjamin        S. 34903
CONTENTS
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Duplicate Certificate
issued Decr. 10th 1824. Va. Sent to Hon"ble Sr. Rankin
H. Reps.
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`17.5410
C Mississippi
Benjamin Goodwin
of      in the state of Mississippi
who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel J. Gibson of the Virga. line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Mississippi at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16th of Feby. 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of June, 1820 and sent to J. Taylor, Esq. George Natchez Ms.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820    $3.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept    48.
$51.86
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Cond April 25, 1823
& sent [illegible] Ramkin
[illegible]  Miss
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Before John Taylor presiding Judge of the supreme Court of the state of Mississippi personally appeared Benjamin Goodwin and living duly sworn deposeth and saith that in this said deponent did on the 26th day of December in the year of our Lord 1776 enlist as a Sargant (Sergeant) for three years in Captain Davids Sixth Company of the 13th Virginia Regiment Commanded first by Col. Rupert and afterwards by Col. John Gibson and continued to serve in the Revolutionary War (against the common crossed out) on the continental establishment against the Common enemy untill the 9th day of March 1780 at which time
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for nunward(?) a neighbor his discharge from Lie.t Col. Richard Cambell of the 9th Regiment to which at that time this deponent belonged that said discharge has been lost of destroyed by time or accident this deponent further saith that he is a Native Born Citizen of the State of Maryland and has resided ever since his said discharge within the limits of the present United States and now resides in the State of Mississippi and is a Citizen thereof and the said deponent further deposeth and saith that he is in such reduced circumstances in life as to stand in need of assistance from his Country for support and further saith the [illegible]
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attened(:) or married using pensions in consequence of his aforesaid service.
Sworn & subscribed this 16th of Feby. 1820} 
Benjamin Goodwin
Before J. Taylor
I the above named Judge do certify that it has been fully and satisfactory made to appear to me that the said Benjamin Goodwin served in the Revolutionary War as set forth in the above and foregoing statement against the Common enemy and also that the said Goodwin by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is iNuthz(?) Feby. 16th 1820
J. Taylor
To the Honl. Sir y y the department of War -
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I, Jo. Henry K. Newman deputy clerk of the Supreme court, state aforesaid do hereby certify that the within named Jo. Yaylor is presiding Judge of the said court to whose acts as such fall faith and credit is due.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court at Natchez this sixteenth of February of Eighteen hundred and Twenty
Jno. Henry K. Newman
Deputy Clerk S. C. of [illegible]
Admitted
on Vira. roll
(pound sign) 83. 5. 4
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State of Mississippi
Superior Court of Chancery}
Western District} January Term 1823
On this twenty second day of January in the year, of our Lord, eighteen Hundred and twenty three, personally appeared in open Court, the same being a Court of Record for the aforesaid District, Benjamin Goodwin, aged Sixty eight years, a resident of the County of Jackson, in this State, who being first duly Sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows, - First, in the thirteenth Virginia Regiment, under the Command of Col. Repell, & in the Company commanded by Captn. Scott, which said Regiment was afterwards Commanded by Col. John Gibson, and was afterward numbered nine - that he was enlisted on the Twenty Sixth day of December 1776, and was disbanded on the ninth day of December 1780. And that he served the whole time, between the 26th day of December 1776 and the ninth of March 1780 as a Sargent (Sergeant)- That his original declaration was made on the Sixteenth day of February 1820, that he had received a pension certificate which is numbered  17541 - That his employment has been that of a Farmer, that he is wholly unable to pusue the same, by reason of his infirmity of body - That he has two Sons with whom he resides - Said Sons are named Benjamin Goodwin & Allen Goodwin, the first aged 39 years and the Second 33 years, and that he has also
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also a Daughter aged 22 years and that his said children are wholly unable to contribute any thing to the support and maintenance of their said father, by reason of their Indigence - He further states that his pension certificate issued from the War Office on the 19th day of June 1820 and that he did not receive the Same, untill late in the month of August 1821. That he then resided about four hundred miles from the Planter's and Merchant's Bank at Huntsville in the State of Alabama, the place where said certificate was payable, that on receipt of said certificate, he proceeded immediately to the aforesaid Bank and presented the said certificate, and demanded the sum then due on the same, but was informed, that no payment could then & there be made, as the funds of the United States, had a short time previous, been transfered to the Bank of the State of Mississippi and that the Cashier of said Bank of Mississippi was authorized the pay the same.  and that he has presented said certificate, to the Cashier of the Bank of the State of Mississippi at Natchez - in said State, and that said Cashier has refused to pay the amount due on said certificate, previous to the time that the funds of the United States were deposited in said Bank of the State of Mississippi, and before the time that said Bank was authorized to pay pension certificate.
I, Benjamin Goodwin do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 10th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by Gift, Sale
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sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 & Naval Service 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, and property or Security Contracts or debts due me, except the one contained in the Schedule, hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed, no have I any income whatever- 
Benj. Goodwin
Sworn & Subscribed to in open Court 21st Jany. 1823{
Jas. A. Girault Clk
Schedule
Demand on open account against the Estate of John Demars, amounting to about Seventy One Dollars - Said Estate is insolvent - 
Benjn. Goodwin
Sworn to and declared this 21st day of January 1823}
Jas. A. Girault Clk
I do hereby certify that the property exhibited in the opinion of the Court is worth nothing - 
Jas. A. Girault Clerk
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Superior Court of Chancery
Western District{ Clerk's Office
I James A Girault Clerk of Said Court, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed as well as the Value of Said Schedule, are truly Copied from the Record of the Court
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my Seal of court aforesaid on this twenty fifth day of January 1823. -
Jas. A. Girault Ck. S.C.C.
W.D.
(seal) WESTERN DI[illegible]
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34903
Revy INVALID    OW
File No. 34, 783
Benjamin Goodwin
Serg. REv. War
Act:  18 March 18"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 477
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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(stamp) WASH[illegible]
free
26
69
Pension Office, of the War Department
City of Washington
Recd. Feb. 24. 1823.
Mail.
Mississippi
Recd. 28 Feb. 1823
Benjamin Goodwin
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(stamp) WASH[illegible]
free
26
69
Pension Office, of the War Department
City of Washington
Recd. Feb. 24. 1823.
Mail.
Mississippi
Recd. 28 Feb. 1823
Benjamin Goodwin
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free
26 
Va
Christopher Rankin
Esqr. (MC) City of Washington
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Washington January 26 1823
Sir I Recd your Phoour(?) of the 6th of December Last, and am Truly Thankfull for the Attention you Paid to my Buzziness (Business), I have complyed with the Directions of the Secretary of the War office & Sent it on and Shall Be Truly thankfull to you for your Attention to my Buzziness (Business) the Pention (Pension) Bill was Dated the 16th of Febrary Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Payable the 4th of Marc and September Out of Which I Recd. $5.55 Cents and no more in pursute (pursuit) of which I have spent the small remains of what I had and has Left me in debt
2 C. Rankin Esqr
I am with Due Respect 
Your Obt Srvt
Benj Goodwin
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Wt. Rankin
Feb. 24
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office
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Washington Feby 23 1823
Sir
You will receive enclosed a letter from Benjamin Goodwin who if I understand correctly has forwarded his papers to the War Dept. agruably (?) to a form received by me from you this winter and enclosed. I f his case be acted upon before I leave the City I would carry the old mans papers
to him.
Yours respectfully Christopher Rankin
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Washington December 8, 1824.
Sir,
A letter heretofore sent you in relation to the Certificate of B Goodwin by which he was authorised to draw a revolutionary pension contains a detailed statement of the facts attending the top of the certificate, by me, and may be considered a part of the statement with my certificate which you have enclosed.
Yours very respectfully
Christopher Rankin
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War Department,
Pension Officer
October 28, 1824.
Sir.
In answer to your letter of yesterday, in relation to the loss of Benjamin Goodwin's pension certificate, I have to inform you, that it is proper before a new certificate can be issued in his name, to file some document containing the evidence of the loss of the origin. In most cases of the kind, it is usual for the Pension to make an affidavit agreeably to the enclosed blank form but as such an oath cannot be made in this case, a formal certificate from you, setting forth the necessary facts will be deemed sufficient.
I am, very respectfully
Y. Ovt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
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I, Christopher Rankin a Representative in the Congress of the United States from (the State crossed out) of Mississippi do hereby certify that the certificate of Benjamin Goodwin ^Stating (of which crossed out) his declaration to the Revolutionary Pension roll under the provisions of the Act of Congress amending the original act for the relief of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war, was placed in my hands by J. L. Edwards of (this crossed out) War Department to be delivered to said Goodwin and that, by some means said Certificate was lost of mislaid by me & that it cannot after proper examination be found, in the summer of 1823 at Natchez in the State of Mississippi. The certificate above alluded to placed Benjamin Goodwin for whom I had provided on the Pension roll of the State of Mississippi and directed the payment of his pension by Gabriel Techenor Esqr agent  of the  U. States I have been frequently written to by the said Benjamin Goodwin to obtain him a copy of the original certificate so lost or mislaid by me.
December 8, 1824
Christopher Rankin
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State of Mississippi}
Adams County }  Ss.  Circuit Court
May term 1823.
Personally appeared in open court on the twenty eighth day of May, A. Domini 1823. Benjamin Goodwin aged Sixty eight years, who being duly swron doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts of the 18th Mach 1818, 1st of May 1820 and first of March 1823. That he the said Benjamin Goodwin enlisted for the term of three years, on the 26th day of December 1776 in the State of Virginia as a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain David Scott in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Russell in the State of Virginia on the continental establishment;  that he continued to serve in the corps until the 9th day of March 1780, when he was discharged at Peterborough, State of Pennsylvania. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818, and that I have not since that time b y gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act ro provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1818. I have not nor has any person for me any property or securities contracts of debts due me neither have I any property, other than is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Since the exhibition
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tion of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
To whom sold  } Time of sale} Property} Amount received
William Buell} Oct, 1822}  one horse { Sixty dollars - $60
The applicant further states that he lives with his son in law William Buell a mechanic who lives by his daily labour and who is unable to support him. that he is himself by trade a farmer, and is by reason of his age and infirmities unable to pursue such occupation, and that he has no way to subsist without dependance (dependence) upon public charity.
Benjn. Goodwin
Sworn to and subscribed this 28thy May 1823 in open Court Jno. T Griffith Clk
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this twenty eighth day of May in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
Jno. T. Griffith, Clerk
I Richard Stockton Jr. Esqr. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi and presiding Judge of the Second Judicial district of the State aforesaid do hereby certify that John T. Griffith
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who attests the above oath and certificate if Clerk of the Circuit Court of Adams County in the State aforesaid and that full faith and credit should be given to all his acts as such. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand this 28th day of May  A.D. 1823.
Rich. Stockton Jr.
Judge & &.&