Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6058, for Timothy Sisk, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va 

Sisk, Timothy 
Ann

NUMBER
W.6058


CONTENTS
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8427
Virginia
Timothy Sisk
of Culpepper in the State of Virginia
who was a Private in the Compny commanded
by Captain White of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Thornton in the Virginia
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 20 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of April 1833 -- and sent to W. Walden Woodville

Arrears to the 4th of Ma:'33 $40
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sep'33  10
$50

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Geo. C Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4 Page 26
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Timothy Sisk
Declaration

admd
6 mo riu
_________
20.$

S. Church Shushan
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Declaration, in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832

State of Virginia
Culpeper County ss
On this 10th day of August 1832 personally 
appeared in open Court, before the Justices of the Court of Culpeper County Timothy Sisk a resident of the County of Culpeper State of Virginia aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832, That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers and served as herein stated That he was drafted with militia service during the Revolutionary War for a three month tour of duty with Company commanded by Captain Francis Nalle from the County of Culpeper, and marched to the Malvern Hills, below Richmond, Virginia, in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Thornton aforesaid County, and after the term for which he was drafted had expired, was discharged and returned home. That he was again drafted in the service for three months tour of duty from the County of Culpeper Virginia in the company commanded by Capt Armstead White in the said county, and was marched to Yorktown, and served during the siege of that place. That after the capitulation of the enemy at that place, was marched with the prisoners to Winchester, where he received his discharge, having served upwards of three months this tour. And after his discharge returned home. That he was born and raised in the County of Culpeper and has continued ever to reside there. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Timothy Sisk X his mark

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day & date aforesaid
F. T. Lightfoot

We Thomas Pulliam and John Lillard both residents of the County of Culpeper hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Timothy Sisk who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age, and that we know of his service as set forth in his declaration having served with him each time, under the officers as named by him
Thomas Pulliam
John Lillard

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
F. T. Lightfoot
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And the 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 - And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Thomas Pulliam and John Lillard who has signed the preceding certificate are residents in the County of Culpeper, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Francis T Lightfoot Clerk of the County Court of Culpeper do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Sisk for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and in the 37th year of the Commonwealth.
F. T. Lightfoot
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1899
Richmond Virginia
Ann Sisk
Widow of Timothy Sisk dec 
Va
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 
and who died on the 2nd September 1833
of Rappahannock Co. State of Va
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain White of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Thornton in the Va 
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond Va
at the rate of 20 Dollars --- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Feby 1839 and sent to Hon L Banks Ho. of Reps.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept, 1838 $50.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39 10.00
$60.00

Act July 7 1838.

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book A Vol 2d. Page 183

(right side)
(smudged illegible) rept'd Apr 10. '39
Let to E. Broadus June 10, 1839

(vertical)
Her death not on A. B
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Mrs Sisk
4374 
Ann Sisk
Wid of Tim
Va
Mar'd 1787
died 1835
Allow $20 per
ann. --
Al 7 July 1838

Hon L. Banks
H R
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(page placed on top of another page - under page not transcribed here)

Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838, "entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows

State of Virginia County of Rappahannock
On this 23d day of November 1838, personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Ann Sisk widow of Timothy Sisk decd a resident of the said County aged 76 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Timothy Sisk who was a private in the militia service of the United States and whose services is set forth in his own declaration for a pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 and for which he was allowed a pension of (blank) dollars per annum, to which declaration and accompanying testimony she refers now to sustain the claim and which she is informed about the close of 1832 was filed in the pension office.

She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Sisk on the 24th April Twenty fourth April Eight: That her husband the aforesaid Timothy Sisk died on the 2nd day of September 1835

That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the
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the time above stated
Ann Sisk X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day above written before me
John L Partlow JP

I certify that the names Sisk was interlined after Ann and Timothy on the other page before the execution, the mistake occurring (illegible) consignence of the drafts. man having before him the register of the widow's maiden name which was Jenkins.
John L. Partlow

I John L. Partlow, the justice before whom the aforesaid declaration was made, do certify that I am now at the House of the declarant and that she is now confined to her bed and that she is utterly unable to go or to be carried to the Court House to make it in Court. That she is of good character and deserves to be believed in whatever she says.
John L. Partlow

Rappahannock County Court
I William J. Memefee clerk of the court of Rappahannock County certify that John L. Partlow is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I haave hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 14th day of January in the year 1839.
W J Menefee
Clerk of the Court of Rappahannock County
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Virginia

At a Court held for Rappahannock County on Monday the 14th day of January 1839 - 

A paper purporting to be a declaration of Ann Sisk for a pension made before John L. Partlow a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rappahannock Virginia, on the 23rd day of November 1838, accompanied by the certificate of the said Justic of the Peace, s to the bodily infirmity and credibility of the said Ann Sisk at the time said declaration was made before him, was this day presented to the Court, and thereupon the Court doth order that it be certified to the War Department, that it was proved to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said papers were genuine and entitled to be so regarded to the full extent of their purport. And that it be further certified to the War Department, that it was proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Ann Sisk did make the declaration in the said paper set forth on the 23rd day of November 1838 before John L. Partlow who was at that time a duly qualified and acting Justice of the Peace of the County and State aforesaid; that the said Ann Sisk was, at the time of making the said declaration, and that she has always borne in her neighbourhood an excellent character for honesty and probity

In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy from the records of said Court, I, William J Menefee, Clerk thereof, have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 14th day of January in the year 1839
W J Menefee
Clerk of Rappahannock County Court
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Mrs Sisk
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Virginia
I Francis T Lightfoot Clerk of the County Court of Culpeper County in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears from the records of said Court that a license issued on the 21st day of April 1787 for the marriage of Timothy Sisk and Anney Jenkins - but that no return of said marriage has ever been made to my office. I further certify that it has happened in many instances, that Ministers of the Gospel celebrating the ritual of matrimony have omitted to make return of the same as required by law.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 8th day of December1838, and in the 63rd year of the Commonwealth
F. T. Lightfoot
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October 2-, ---
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Mrs. W. N. Chenault Timothy Sisk, W. 6058
Henrietta BA-J/MCS
Missouri
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Benjamin and Timothy Sisk.
The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information relative to a Benjamin Sisk.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 6058, based upon the military service of the only Timothy Sisk that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Timothy Sisk was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. The date of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted in Culpeper County, date not given, and served three months as private in Captain Francis Nalle's company in Colonel John Thornton's Virginia regiment. He enlisted in 1781 and served three months as private in Captain Armistead White's Virginia company and was in the siege of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Culpeper County, Virginia, where he stated he had always lived.
Timothy Sisk died September 2, 1835.
This soldier married April 24, 1787, Ann Jenkins.
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As the widow of Timothy Sisk, Ann Sisk was allowed pension on her application executed November 23, 1838, at which time she was seventy-six years of age and was living in Rappahannock County, Virginia.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the family of Timothy Sisk.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1921 Dec. 9 Hist. to Mrs. W. R. Vantie
1932 Mch. 27 Hist. to Mrs. L. R. Gundrum.
1922 Apr. 3 Hist to Agnes Weakley
1937, Apr. 9. hist to Mr. Wm. H. Garrett M.C.S.
1937, Oct. 25. hist. to Mrs. W. N. Chelnaut. M.C.S.

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6058
Ann Sisk
Widow
Timothy Sisk
Pvt. Va. line
Act: July 7/38
Index:-Vol. M, Page 214
Arrangement of 1870.
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Mrs. Sisk
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Virginia
At a Court held for Rappahannock County on
Monday the 14 day of September 1835
Ordered to be certified that it was proven to
the satisfaction of the Court, that Timothy Sisk a pensioner of the Revolution departed this life on the 2nd day of this month leaving a widow Anna Sisk.
In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy
from the Records of said Court, I William J.
Menifee, Clerk thereof have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office this 13th day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
Wm Menifee Clk
of the Court of Rappahannock County
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MAR 6 1922
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Culpeper, Va.
Mar. 2, 1922
Pension Bureau
Wash. D.C.
Please send me information you have recorded of
Timothy Sisk who was in the Revolutionary War.
. I wish to become a D.A.R
Thank you
Miss Agnes Weakley
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Washington
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To
Ann Sisk
Frank Bradley



Commissioner of Pensions
J L Edwards Esq
Washington DC
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Culpeper County Va 5th June 1839
Sir,
some time early in April last I wrote you from
Richmond informing you that the pension claims or rather the pension certificate of Ann Sisk and Frank Bradley had been sent to me by Col L. Banks probably some time in March, but had never been certified to the pension agent in Richmond. I had sent the certificates of Allowance to the old ladies and one of them had sent me a power of Attorney to receive the money. The power was correct and the agent was about to pay me when he  discovered and that he never had been informed of its allowance and upon looking he found that the other had not either
I immediately wrote you desiring that you would be apprized me at Culpeper Court whether you had sent on the information necessary at Richmond to authorize payment.
May I ask that you inform me now, as they want
their money and do not know whether to send or not till I hear from you. 
Some 2 months ago I sent to you from Richmond also the papers in support in support of Mr Slaughter's claim for a pension under the
act of Congress of 7th July 1838.
I have never
heard from them. please write me at Culpeper
Court House as soon as convenient.

Very Respectfully
Edmund Brodus

Lucy Slaughter
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Apl 10
Sick
1898 Bradley
1899 VA
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Richmond April 9th 1839
Sir,
just before the adjournment of Congress Col Banks sent to me at this place a pension Certificate, the one for Ann Sisk the other for Frances or Bankey Bradley I sent them to the County of Rappahannock where the widows
live and Ann Sisk sent on a power of Attorney to re receive the money. The agent informed me to day that those claims had never been certified here and advised me to write to you on the subject-- Please have the omission corrected.
Respectfully
Edmund Broadus
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April 9, 1937
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Timothy Sisk, 6058
BA-J/MCS

Mr. William H. Garrett
5683 Kingsbury
University City
Missouri
Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for  information relative to Timothy Sisk who served in the Revolutionary War and James Dearing or Deering who served in the War of 1812. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the
pension claim, W. 6058, based upon the  Revolutionary War service of Timothy Sisk.
He was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. The date of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. He enlisted in Culpeper County, Virginia, date not given, and served three months as private in Captain Francis Walle's company in Colonel John Thornton's Virginia regiment. He enlisted in 1781 and served three months as private in Captain Armistead White's Virginia company and was in the siege of Yorktown. He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was living in Culpeper County, Virginia, where he stated he had always lived.
Timothy Sisk died September 2, 1835.
This soldier married April 24, 1787, Ann Jenkins,
As the widow of Timothy Sisk, Ann Sisk was allowed pension on her application executed November 23, 1838, at which time she was seventy six years of age and was living in Rappahannock County, Virginia.
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The papers in said claim contain no further data relative to the family of Timothy Sisk.
The War of 1812 records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to pension having been claimed on account of the service of a James Dearing or Deering in that war.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
W.F. 6.58
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.

In reply to your request of _______ received
for a statement of the military history of Timothy Sisk 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.
1781
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.

3 mos.
RANK.
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Francis Walle
Armistead White
COLONEL.
John Thornton

STATE.
Va
Battles engaged in, Siege of York
-
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Drafted from Culpeper Co.
Date of application for pension, Aug, 13, 1832 His claim was allowed
---
Residence at date of application, Culpeper County.
Age at date of application, year or & aided in Culpeper Co
Remarks: He married Apr 24 1787, Ann Jenkins, and  he died Sept. 2, 1835. She was allowed pension on an application executed Nov. 23, 1838 while a resident of Rappahannock Co. Va. aged 77 years. There is no other data on file as
to his family
Respectfully,
______________
Commissioner of Pensions.
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●
Henrietta, Missouri
October 8, 1937

Veterans
Administration
Washington D.C
Dear Sir,
Will you please send me any information you have
concerning  Timothy Sisk, and Benjamin Sisk who served in the Revolutionary war, that you have on
file.
Thanking you for any assistance you may offer

I remain,
Sincerely yours
(Mrs W.W.) Susan Chenault
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University City, Mo.
6683 Kingsbury
March 18, 1937


Pension Department
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Will you please give me the Revolutionary Pension
of Timothy Sisk, given under "Report of the Secretary
of War in relation to the Pension establishment of the U.S. Vol. 2. Washington 1835 Timothy Sisk (Culpepper Co. Va.) Pension 2, 129.
Also 1812 pension of James Dearing of Deering
who died in Maniteau Co. Mo. 1854, his wife was named Rebecca.
Thanking you very much I am most sincerely,
W. H. Garrett
Wm. H. Garrett.
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MEMBERSHIP


Pension Office Feb 25, 1922
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Fontanelle, Iowa
Feb. 22, 1922.

Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C
I am very anxious to obtain the service record of Timothy Sisk a soldier under General Washington in the Revolutionary War. He lived in Culpeper County
Virginia and was at the surrender of Lord
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Cornwallis at Yorktown Va. I am quite sure he
was pensioned .
as I am a descendant of his and desire to become
a member of the D.A.R. I'd be glad to receive any
information as soon as possible. He married a
Miss Jenkins but I do not know when and I also wish the dates of his birth and death. 
sincerely yours
Mrs. L.K. Gundrum
Fontanelle, Iowa
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Records division Nov 28 1927
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Marshall MO
Nov. 24, 1921


Pension Department
Washington, DC
Gentlemen.
 Will you please give me any record you may have
of Timothy Sisk, Revolutionary line from Virginia and
and under General Washington.
Yours Respectfully
Mrs. W. A. Venter
338 East_____ St
Pension