Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3826, Thomas Travis, Md.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Md.  Travis, Thomas
NUMBER
S.3826
Carded
CONTENTS
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25478
West Tennessee
Thomas Travis
 of Fentress in the State of Tennessee
who was a private in the [illegible] commanded by Captain Standifer of the regt [?regiment] command by Col in the [illegible] line for 6 months

Md. Line. Records corrected Mar. 14 '04
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars  // Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. -

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Jany. 1834 and Robert A. Dabney [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 50.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March  10--
[totaled] $60.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832 }

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book [illegible]  Vol. 7  Page 98

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Let to Pen. agent Dec 6. 1834
Papers copied for Hon. J.B. Forrester
HR Dec 17. 1834 - do. to J. B. M: Cormick March 20. 1835

Suspended
[illegible] to Third Audn 10. Dec 1839.
[quote mark] [quote mark] J. L. Kennedy apl 24, 1840.
to same 28. oct. 1840
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No. 28.983
Thos Travis
Tennessee
From 1777 for, 6 mo  $20
Can only allow for six months as it is believed that the battle of Brandywine & [illegible] took place during the same tour.

Rob. A Dabney
Jamestown. Tennessee
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State of Tennessee }
Fentress County }
On this the 29th day of November 1833 personally appeared before me Robert H. Richardson one of the Justices of the court of pleas and quartersessions for the county aforesaid Thomas Travis, resident citizen of the County of Fentress State of Tennessee aged, ninety six years agreeable to his best and undoubted account he is that age. but he has no record of his age and after being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832,
That he entered the service of the united in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland, owing to [illegible] old age and loss of memory he cannot State the precise time as to date or month he entered the Service Some time in the fall season of the year as a drafted Soldier To serve three month. under capt John Standefer he cannot recollect the name of his Col he marchd,, To various places in the State of Maryland. and some in Pennsulvania and after having ser,d out his said Tour of three months he was verbally discharged at a place about 24 miles from Philadelphia and returned home. and some time thereafter he was drafted To serve under Captain John Standefer & Lieutenant William Parish he cannot state the day or date nor anything
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verry definite as To the time he was ch'd off under said officers and after marching To various points Joind the main army over Brandywine and went on to the Battle of Brandywine, and sometime thereafter he was again verbally discharged near his home in Baltimore county having servd three months This Tour

and sometime thereafter he was again drafted and entered the service To serve three months more under Capt Edmund Stansberry does not recollect the name of the Col he cannot designate the period from the want of memory he march'd off under Said Capt Stansberry, To many places and finally To the Battle of German Town and shortly thereafter he was again verbally discharged having servd out his Tour of three months, he was again drafted but he substituted a man in his place ["he having" stricken out] applicant has no written or documentary proof of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services and there is no clergyman any place near as within his present neighborhood he states his memory is so impair'd from affliction and extream old age that he cannot designate the periods of the war he positively states he is wholy unable To attend a court of record from bodily infirmity
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He has no doubt he can prove his character as a man of veracity and as being believ,d
To hav been a soldier of the Revolution by his neighbors generally some of whom he name to wit William Crocket   Jessee Bean  he staid some few years after the end of the Revolution in the Said County of Baltimore in Maryland where he was born and raise,d and serv,d dont recollect precisely how long and then mov'd to wiks county South Carolina some few years Washington County Georgia and staid  there ten years and then mov,d to Green County Tennessee liv,d there about four years and then mov,d To overton County Tennessee, which is the part Taken off of overton County and made Fentress where he has liv,d upward of thirty years, applicant hereby relinquis his every claim whatever To a pension of annuity Except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension rolls of the agency of any state.
Thomas his x mark Travis

Sworn To and Subscribed before me the day and year afore said }
Robert H. Richardson  JP

We Phillip Williams & Yearby Keyton residing in the County of Fentress Stat of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Travis who has subscribed and sworn To the foregoing Declaration that we blieve him to be fuly ninety six years of age
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and a man of veracity and that he is reputed in his neighborhood as having been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the same opinion
Philip Williams
Yearby Keyton
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year afs,d  [? aforesaid]  } 
Robe't H Richardson   JP

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Justice of the peace for the County of Fentress State of Tennessee hereby declare my apinion after the investigation of the matter and after puting the interrogatories prescrib,d by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and serv,d as he states - and I further certify that Phillip Williams & Yearly Keyton -- who has subscrib,d and sworn To the foregoing certifficate are resident citizens in the County of Fentress aforesaid and that their statements are entitled to credit they being credible men of Veracity, and I further certify that applicant is unable To attend court from bodily infirmity.
Robert H. Richardson  JP
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State of Tennessee }
Fentress County }
I John. H Richardson clerk of the court of pleas and quartersessions for the County of Fentress aforesaid hereby certify that Robert Richardson Esquire whose name appears to the foregoing certifficate was at the time of doing the same an acting Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, and that full faith and credit is due his official acts as such and that his signature thereto is in his own proper hand writing
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Given under my hand and seal of office at office in Jamestown this the 7th day or December - AD 1833
John H Richardson[illegible]
By John Albertson [illegible]
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Pall Mall [illegible]   Free
Januy 17th

J L Edwards Esq
Comr of pensions
Wahington City DC
Pensions Office

[written sideways]
Feb 1. 1840
Tho Travis
Tenn [illegible]
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Pall Mall Fentress Co Ten
17th January 1840
Sir
In the case of Thomas Travis late a Revolutinary pensioner on the Nashvill roll at Twenty Dollars per annum who has died on the 5th day of June 1837 and the claim of his son [crossed out] was farwarded by me to the Treasury department for settlement at the third auditors office To P Hagner Esq who informs me that his payments was Suspended in December 1834 and we are unapprised for what reason it was Suspended ---

Please inform us by letter to this office as we are now as we think able to gave satisfaction as to the validity of the claim a speedy answer will kindly be received
I am verry respectfully
your obt Serv
J L Kennedy

J L Edwards Esq
Comr of pensions
Washinton City D C
pension office
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RevWar
3826
[check mark]  INVALID.

File No. 3826
Thomas Travis
Pvt. [crossed out] Pa. [end crossed out] line

Act: June 7th  32
Index: - Vol. A, Page 378
[open square bracket] Arrangement of 1870.[close square bracket]

Md. Line, Records corrected Mar 14 '04
[illegible]
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[address for letter sent]
[circular post mark containing]
[illegible]BARTA  JUN 29 TEN
[Postmark overwritten with]
July 10 1841

[upper right corner] Free
[illegible] [?Handto?]

[address] J. L. Edwards
City of Washington D.C

[lightly written left side of address block]
Nearly all dead
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Monda June 22nd 1841

Honbl"  J. L. Edwards
Sir,
I received on yesterday your favour of the 7th  I will give you such information as I have my power  
Robert Dabney in my opinion may have engaged in fraud on the [word crossed out ] war [end crossed out] pension office for about seven years, probably more
I could be more [illegible] if I had a list of the pensions cases of Fentress and M.you Counties in this state [illegible] to the following cases 
[lightly written] dead [end lightly written] [illegible] [illegible] of Fentress, his declaration was not made in court. he was able to attend court
[lightly written] dead [end lightly written] Traverse of Fentress I learned that he was never sworn
[lightly written] dead [end lightly written] Harrison of Overton - the same - these cases were publicly spoken of long since and I believe the facts will turn out so
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Richard Crabtree of Fentress - I understand he is made a pensioner - This must be wrong in every point of view - He is not old enough - He is an able bodied man - a thief once convicted - new trial.  Witness [illegible] - and he escaped - a notorious counterfeiter -- A man in Morgan by the name of Howard spoke of the smartness of
Dabney - "Why said he - he get a pension for me - and never swore me"
I heard of his taking a man from the lower side of Overton to the upper end of Fentress - and there making out his declaration - I knew the man, but cannot now give his name - He was not old enough
I have record of many cases, but cannot now give the names
His range is embraced within the counties Cumberland & Wayne Kentucky and Overton Fentress & Morgan Tennessee 
I understand he has now turned his attention to widows.  [illegible] course [illegible] very frequently spoken of some pensioner
I have no doubt of his guilt
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I think he has an associate in Fentress county - I infer it mainly from understanding that he is connected with Dabney - and hearing that he drew for a man after his death without administration being granted
If the department wishes to search out hands on Dabney, they had better look to the pension cases in the counties I have given - and I promise you will find fraud enough.
I have the honor to be 
Very respectfully your 
obt servt
J. Bell Canneck
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State of Tennessee }
Fentress County }  [illegible}

Be it known that on 1st day of October 1841 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared    Smith Willis with whom I am personally acquainted a man of most undoubted veracity and a Revolutionary Pensioner and after being duly Sworn according to law on his oath make the following affidavit (viz)
That about the year of 1782 he affiant - became personally acquainted with Thomas Travis deceased at which time both affiant and said Travis was both in the service of the United States as privates but did not belong to the same company he afterwards had a long acquaintance with said Thomas Travis before his death and always had the undoubted belief that he was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution and was a man of most undoubted veracity and have heard him speak of being in the noted Battle at Brandywine which he had no doubt of being as he stated and have heard William Craige annother old Revolutionary say that himself and Travis belonged to the same company at that time and place as to the names  of the officers under whom they served he cannot state but always had the undoubted belief that Travis was entitled to a Pension
Smith Willis [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me 
Joseph Upchurch 
Justice of the peace
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State of Tennessee }
Fentress County }  Sot
I john H Richardson Clerk of the County Court of said Fentress County hereby Certify that Joseph Upchurch is a Justice of the peace as above and that the foregoing Signature perporting to be his is genuine -----
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my Sear of office this 5th day of October 1840
John H Richardson [signature]
Clerk of the County of Fentress County
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[address cover]

Jamestown Ten
Dec 17th 1833 
Free

J L Edwards
Washington City, D.C.
War department
Pension office

[written sideways left side of address]
30 Dec, 1833
[underline] Tennessee [end underline]
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Jamestown Tennessee
Dec. 10th 1833
I enclose To you the papers and proceedings in the matter of the application of Thomas Travis & Timothey Gauney To obtain Pensions under the act of Congress of June the 7th 1832
Please communicate an answer To me at this place as soon as consistent
your humble servant
Robert A Dabney

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War }
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Pall Mall Tennessee
6th October 1840
Sir
I enclose to you the affidavit of Smith Willis in Support of the claim of Thomas Travis whose claim was granted and then Suspendered in order to satisfy the Department that the Said Thomas Travis was most certainly entitled to a Pension during his natural life who is now dead and left a Son whose name is William Travis if the evidence here enterduced is satisfactory the Pension Certificate will again be forwarded to the Treasury Department or Such other regulations as you may think proper- to direct please communicate the result to me at this office - - - - -
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
J L. Kennedy

J L Edwards Esqr
comr of Pensions
Washinton City  D C

Pension office