Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,231, Peter Eversole, Penn.
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Service: Penn
Eversole, Peter
Number: S.46,231
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[3-320.]
ctif
No. 1121
Revy War
Name: Peter Eversole
Rank: Pri Siggles 
Comp'y:
Reg't: Col Broadhead Pa Line

Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G. Vol. ,Page
Registering Clerk

Allowed Act 1828
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Eversole
For} Declar
A pension
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State of Virginia}
by the County} to wit:
Before me, Henry Whitman, an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia, personally appeared Peter Eversole, a resident of the said County of Wythe in the State, aforesaid, known to me as a person of good repute and entitiled to credit, who first being duly sworn according to law, does on his oath say,  that he entered the service of the United States, in the war of the Rev-olution, as a regular soldier under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He enlisted into Captain Henry Tiggle's Company a very short time before harvest in the year 1777, in the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania in a small village called Elizabethtown. He does not recollect the day on which he entered the service, but distinctly recollects it was a few days before the beginning of harvest of that year. The Company to which he belonged was attached to the Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Broadheard, according to the best of his recollection at this time. The regiment, to which his company was at-tached, was occasionally however, commanded by other Colonels, doing his long term service, the names of two of whom he now recollects, viz, Col Harman and Col. Butler. He is now very infirm from old age being eighty six or seven years old, and in a great degree has lost distinctness of recollection. He may therefore, be slightly mistaken in some of the particulars of the statment he makes in this declaration. He is unable to state his precise age having lost his register, but he knows that he is not younger than eighty six. He was born in Elizabethtown & lived there when he enlisted into service. His term of enlistment was during the war; and he actually served to the close of the same and of something upwards of five years and six months. General Wayne was the commanding general of all these troops, with whom this applicant served. He continued in the same company commanded by the same Captain the whole time of his service.
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He thinks the name of his Lieutenant was Butler, but he does not now distinctly remember. He does not now recall the names of any of the other officers, with whom he served. After his enlistment, he was first marched to the town of Lancaster in Pennsylvania, where his Company remained a few days only, and was marched from thence to Philadelphia, where they also stayed a few days (about a week) and marched thence across the Delaware River into New Jersey to a little town about thirty miles from Philadelphia. He does not recollect the name of the town. He was in an engagement with the British forces, while at that place, in which he received a wound in his right arm. His company spent a good deal of their time in New Jersey, particularly in the winters. They were frequently marched out into other part of the Country, and were in several other engagements and battles. He was at the battle of Brandywine and Germantown, also at a skirmish at a place called Mud Island. His company was marched to Yorktown, and they were at that place at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He was in several other engagements and skirmishes, but he cannot now recollect the names of the place where they took place. He received his discharge, shortly after the close of the war from General Wayne about twenty miles from Philadelphia on the Delaware river at a ferry, the name of which he has forgotten. His discharge he has long since lost. He thinks it was signed by General Wayne himself. He thinks he received all of his pay for service during his term of service. He thinks he received it mostly or altogether from a paymaster, who lived in Phila-delphia- He cannot now recollect his name. He recollects, however that he was a small man. He received a bounty of twenty dollars at the time of his enlistment. This twenty dollars was the only amt he ever received as a bounty either from the United States or any of the states. He received a reward of eighty dollars, or a certificate therefore. He received a warrant for bounty land many years ago and thinks he sold it very shortly after for some trifling sum, or lost it. He made an application, a few weeks ago, for a pension under the act of Congress of 7th June 1832, but received information shortly thereafter that his service entitled him to the benefit of the act of Congress of 15th May 1828, of which service there was evidence in the war Department, and his declaration under said first named act being returned to him, without any action on the same, for the
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purpose of enabling him to make application under the last named act, he therefore now makes that application. He has never received a pensions from the United States or from any of the states, nor has he ever made any other application than the one just named. He has no documentary evidence of his service. He knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service.
And in testimony whereof he has hereunto annexed his signature.
Witness my hand this 26th day of June in the year 1834. Henry Whitman J.P. 
Peter Eversole x His Mark
State of Virginia Wythe County} to wit:
Before me Henry Whitman, an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Wythe and the state of Virginia personally appeared, this day, George Ambrister and John L. Linderberger, of the said County, persons known to me as credible witnesses who did severally make oath that Peter Eversole, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have served in the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 26th day of June in the year 1834
Henry Whitman J. P
George Armbrister X His Mark
John L. Lindenberger
State of Virginia Wythe County} to wit:
I, John P. Mathews Clerk of the County court of the County of Wythe in the state of Virginia do hereby certify, that Henry Whitman, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time an acting Justice of peace; and duly empowered to administer oaths and I believe the signature annexed to the same and purporting to be his, to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 26th day of June in the year 1834
J.P. Mathews Clerk of the Court of Wythe
By A.B. Moore D.C.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-3-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Eversole, Peter GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 9343 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 21, 1793
To not shown

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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5712
Rec’d 25 Feb. 1834
To the Hon’ble R. B. Taney
Secretary of the Treasury

Your petitioner James Withers of the
County of Rappahannock in the State of
Virginia respectfully represents
that during the war of the revolution
he was duly appointed & commissioned
an Ensign in the service of the common
cause & agst. the common enemy in the
regular army. That in 1777 he was transferred
 to & made a part of the 1st Va State
regiment commanded by Colo George Gibson. 
That he was promoted to be a lieutenant 
in that regiment & continued in
faithful service therein so long as his
health permitted. That he never did resign &
was an officer subject to be ordered
at the close of the war into any service
the Government might direct: that the
said regiment became entitled to
half pay for their services, by the
act of assembly of May 1779 in Virginia,
commuted afterwards by five years 
full pay with most of
the continental officers: that this particular
regiment being regarded by the known law
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as a State regiment & not as then known within the
promise of Congress of October 1780, application
 was made to the state for the half pay
& a memorial sent to Congress
by the State of Virginia led to the
passage of the act of Congress of
July 5th 1832, under which his
half pay was allowed to him &
paid. Your petitioner further represents
that the regiment to which he belongs
was transferred into the Continental
from the State service by act of October
session 1777 & so continued until
the regiment was reduced & the officers
retired in February 5th 1787. & of course
that they became entitled to all the benefits
 of the promises of Congress in the various 
Resolves during the revolution October 1780 & [illegible]
& the laws since the adoption of the present constitution, 
May 15th 1828 & June 7th 1832.
By act of May 15th 1828 Your petitioner is
entitled to full pay from the 3rd of
March 1826 to the period at which
his present full pay as a pensioner
under the act of June 7th 1832
was allowed & commenced of (that the
3rd March 1831.) For that period he
received half pay only under the act
of July 5th 1832 - Every officer of
Gibson’s regiment alive in 1828
has rec’d this pay with the solitary exception
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exception of your petitioner. He will take the 
liberty of mentioning the names of Gibbs,
the two Mr Ruckers, Mr Broadens & believes
one or two others; & your petitioners
case is the only one in which it has
not been paid. What he thinks is
right is this - to pay him half pay from
March 3rd 1826 to March 1831. This would
be giving him precisely what others have
been allowed by the Legislative &
Executive departments of the federal government.
 He asks the benefit of the act of May 15th
1828, which after deducting the half pay rec’d 
as an officer of the Va State line w’d make half pay
for that period. If he was a continental
supernumerary office, he is clearly entitled
to this demand and the question recurs -
was he such continental officer?
In the case of Lieutenant Vanter, Congress recognized the
 claim & paid him 5 years full pay & interest after the
prescribed rate. (see acts of Congress for
June 1832.) The secretaries of War
Messrs Porter Eaton & Cols have
uniformly decided in favour of this class of
claimants, by allowing them lands for
continental service to the close of the war
and in my own case Governor Cass
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as Secretary of War allowed
me Land Bounty & paid it. In
the cases of Gibbs Rucker & others Mr Ingham
allowed the pension under the act of May
1828. So that I repeat the Legislature (Congress),
 & two executive departments have allowed & settled
the principle by which my claim ought to be paid.
That I was in Gibson’s reg’t on the 8th of February
1781 is shown by the Mr McLanes decision of last year
 & Gov’r Cass Secretary at war makes me virtually in
service to the close of the war, by granting the land bounty 
after [illegible] deliberation. 
He [illegible] for 5 years [illegible] pay that
is for full pay under the pension act of 
1828, from March 3rd 1826 to 
March 1831, deducting therefore the
half par rec’d. In this demand he
is sustained by the evidence on fill
in your Dept, by the decision of Congress 
in Vanter’s case, by the decision
of the war & Treasury departments, 
by several secretarys made in
cases identical in every point with
His own. 
Respectfully submitted
James Withers by
J. S. Barbour
His attorney in fact

Power of attorney filed in 
Treasury Dept
with F. A. Dickens Esq.
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Know all men by these presents, that I, Peter
Eversole, a resident of the County of Wythe in the State of
Virginia, who was a private in the Pennsylvania
regular troops in the war of the Revolution, do hereby
constitute and appoint John H. Fulton, member of
Congress from the District, composed in part of the said
County of Wythe, to be my true and lawful attorney for
me and in my name, to demand and receive from
the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
any pension money that may be allowed at the
Treasury department for services in the war of the
Revolution, and all of the same that may be due
to me up to the time when my pension may be
allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury aforesaid.
Witness my hand and seal this 26th day of June
in the year 1834.
Peter Eversole his mark {seal]
Attest
George Eversole his mark
Thos J Boyd

State of Virginia Wythe County 
to wit:
Be it known, that on the 26th day
of June in the year 1834, before the subscriber, an
acting Justice of the peace in and for said County
of Wythe personally appeared Peter Eversole above
named and acknowledged the foregoing power of
attorney to be his act and deed. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand the day and year
last above mentioned.
Henry Whitman J.P

State of Virginia
Wythe County to wit:
I, John P. Mathews, Clerk of the County
Court of the said County of Wythe, certify that Henry
Whitman is an acting justice of the peace, as above, and
that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed
my name this 26th day of June in the year 1834.
J.P. Mathews Clk
of the Court of Wythe County
By A.B. Moore, D.C.
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Let the warrant be sent to Peter
Eversole to the care of Thomas J. Boyd Esq
Wythe Court House Virginia

J W Fulton
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Eversole
to Power of Atty
Hon. J. H. Fulton
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Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department
Washington City
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No. of orig. Pay’t 1169

5909
Wythe Ct. House Va. June 26th 1834
Hon. Secretary of the Treasury
Sir
Enclosed I transmit
herewith, at the request of Mr. Peter Eversole, his 
declaration &c &c. for a pension under the act of Congress
of May 15th 1838. Should his pension be allowed,
which he doubts not, as there seems to be abundant
evidence in some of the Departments in Washington
City of his service to entitle him to a pension under
this act, his wish is that the Hon. John H. Fulton,
member of Congress from this District, be allowed
to receive the whole amt due him from March
3rd 1826 to this time, in order that he may bring
it to him. From the papers rec’d by me, for Mr
Eversole, from your Department, I see it is probable
he is entitled to a reward of $80- he being required
to say whether he has rec’d it- He has never rec’d
it, as his declaration shows; and he desires me to
request that it be added to the amt. that
may be due as pension money, if he is entitled to it
by any law of Congress, and that the same be also
sent by the Hon. J. H. Fulton. Should Mr. Fulton
have left Washington City, and therefore, not apply
for Mr. Eversole’s money, he desires that it be forwarded
to him in a draft on the U. S. Branch Bank in
Richmond, as if no power of attorney had been executed,
 and that the same be enclosed to me- the draft
made payable to him on order. The power of Attorney
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herewith enclosed, may not be agreeable to the present form.
No form of a power was sent to me with the forms I 
rec’d a few days ago, from the Treasury Department. 
And I, therefore, prepared a power without reference
to any particular form.
Should Mr. Eversole be allowed his pension, you will much
oblige him by sending to me the forms necessary to enable him
to draw the annual or semi annual sums that hereafter
 accrue. Be pleased therefore to enclose me such
forms; also the form B (of a power of attorney) [illegible] in the
 Regulations under which Mr. Eversole is now applying.
Having been applied to for information, by individuals who seem to be
entitled to the benefits of the act of Congress of 5th July
1832 providing for settlement of claims ag’st. Va. as the
representatives of some of the Officers of Crockett's regiment, 
& not being able to give that information from
not having a list of the officers of that Regiment, it
would be doing me and these interested an act of
kindness, if you would have transmitted to me a copy
of the list of these officers. Permit me, therefore, to
ask this kindness. A manuscript list of the officers
of that regiment was reported to Congress by Th.
W. Gilmer Esq, and was lodged in your Department.
Very respectfully
Your most Obt serv’t
Th J. Boyd