Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5724, for William Jones, Virginia
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SERVICE
Va.

Jones, William
Martha

NUMBER
R. 5724

CONTENTS
[illegible] Nov. 12, 1828 [illegible] Co. Va
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1241
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.

State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	Martha Jones, widow of William Jones, a private in the Revolutionary service, on this 25th day of July 1838, personally appeared before the subscriber William W. Hunt, a justice of the peace in and for said county and state Mrs. Martha Jones, a resident of the state and county aforesaid, aged eighty-seven years, who being first 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 4th, 1836, that she is the widow of William Jones, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That he volunteered she thinks in 1776 or 1777 in Captain Paul Waddington's Company of Virginia and served out his time faithfully which was for six months. He volunteered a second time, the date not recollected, and marched with the army to the south and was at the Battle of Guilford Court House 15th of March 1781. He marched afterward to South Carolina and his company was at the Battle of Eutaw Springs under General Nathanael Greene. He was himself accidentally absent, having been sent out by the proper officer for [illegible]. He continued in service for some time thereafter, but how long exactly she is unable to say, but is confident he was in service more than two years in all.
	She further declares that she was married to the said William Jones on the 9th day of October in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and that her husband, the aforesaid William Jones, died on the twelfth day of November eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as well…
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... more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

								her
							Martha X Jones
								mark

Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above written before a Justice of the peace of the County aforesaid and I further certify that the said Mrs. Martha Jones is from bodily infirmity unable to attend Court in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of July Eighteen hundred and forty-three.

							William W. Hunt
							an acting Justice of 
							the Peace for the County
							Carroll, Tennessee

State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	I, Young W. Allen, clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that William W. Hunt Esqr. whose name appears to the above certificate is and was an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County at the time of signing the same as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all of his official acts.

						In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 							and affixed the seal of the court at office this 28th 							day of July A.D. 1843
									Y. W. Allen Clk
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State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	Personally appeared before me William W. Hunt an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Elizabeth Shaw who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth as follows that she is nearly eighty years of age, and that she is and has been very intimately acquainted with William Jones from her [illegible] infancy until this time both of us having resided in the same neighborhood in Virginia & this state. She was certainly lawfully married to William Jones who served in the Revolutionary War. They lived peaceably together as man and wife until the 12th of November 1828 - when he died. And I am convinced that her declaration her filed to obtain a Pension under the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 is strictly true.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this [illegible] day of July 1843		her
William W. Hunt							Elizabeth X Shaw
acting Justice of 								mark		        the Peace in and for 
the County of Carroll, Tennessee

State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	I, Young W. Allen clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that William W. Hunt Esqr. whose name appears to the above certificate is and was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County at the time of signing the same as such full faith is due & ought to be given to all of his official acts.
							In testimony whereof...
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I have hereunto set my hand and affixed 								the seal of the said court at office this 28th 								day of July A.D. 1843
										Y.W. Allen Clk.

State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	I, William [illegible], Chairman and presiding Justice of the Couty Court of Carroll County, do hereby certify that Young W. Allen whose name appears to the above certificate is and was Clerk of the County Court at the time of signing the same, and that his certificate is in due form of law, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all of his official acts and deeds as such. Given under my hand at office this 7th day of August 1843.
								William [illegible]
									Chairman
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State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	Personally appeared before me, William W. Hurt, an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, Thomas Seamore, and after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and says that he is now seventy-nine years of age, and that he is and has been intimately acquainted with William & Martha Jones from his [illegible] infancy, was born in the same neighborhood in Virginia that they were. That he knew them when they were married, that they were married by one Rev. Alexander Gordon on the 9th October 1796 in the County of Halifax, State of Virginia; that they lived peaceably together and raised eleven children with all of whom I was well acquainted & several of them are with their mother at this time in my present neighborhood. William Jones died in Virginia the 12th November 1828. William Jones & myself commenced our revolutionary services about the same time but in different companies. I have heard [illegible] the declaration of Mrs. Martha Jones, the declarant, as widow of the said William Jones, and feel no hesitation in stating it to be true.

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
this 25th day of July 1843					his
William W. Hurt					Thomas X Seamore
an acting Justice of 					 	mark                                               the Peace in and for the 
County of Carroll, Tennessee

State of Tennessee}
Carroll county       }

	I, Young W. Allen clerk of the County court of Carroll County do hereby 
[illegible sentence]…
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Sworn to & subscribed before me this
25th day of July 1843					his
William W. Hurt				Thomas X Seamore
an acting Justice of 					mark					         the Peace in & for the 
County of Carroll, Tennessee

State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	I, Young W. Allen, Clerk of the County Court of Carroll County, do hereby [blank] William W. Hurt Esq., [illegible] [illegible] to the above certificate, [blank] an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County at the time of signing the same, as such full faith is due and ought to be given to all of his official acts [illegible].

						In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand 							and affixed the seal of said court at office this 28th 							day of July A.D. 1843.
									Y. W. Allen, Clk
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State of Tennessee
At a County Court began and held in and for the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee at the Court House in the Town of Huntingdon on the first Monday in May, it being the 6th day of said Month A.D. 1844. Present and holding said Court, the Worshipful John H. Hawkins Chairman and presiding Justice, John L. [illegible] and George W. Holliday Justices & Jeremiah T. Rust Sheriff and Young W. Allen Clerk.
	Be it remembered that on said first day of the term the following proceedings were had, and severally entered upon the minutes of said Court, to wit: “This day the Declaration of Martha Jones for the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 made before William W. Hurt a justice of the peace in and for the said County of Carroll on the 25th of July 1843, was submitted to the Court, the said Martha being unable from bodily infirmity to appear in Court, and the same having been examined, the Court doth approved of the act of the said William W. Hurt in the [illegible] and certifying the same, and hereby directs the Clerk to endorse the approval on the papers.”
	And also the following to wit:
	“This day appeared in open Court Royal Wyatt, and on his motion, and the proof introduced before the Court, it fully appears to the Court here that William Jones, a revolutionary soldier, departed this life…
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in the state of Virginia in Halifax County on the twelfth day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty eight. And it further appearing to the Court, that the said William Jones died leaving Martha Jones, his widow and relic. That the said Martha after the death of the said William removed to Carroll County Tennessee, where she died and fully appears to the Court here on the Eighteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty three, unmarried and widow of the said William Jones deceased, and it further appearing to the Court that the said Martha Jones died leaving the following children alive at the time of her death (to wit) Mary Chism widow and relic of John Chism deceased [illegible] Mary Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Jane Jones, Temperance Brown the wife of Samuel Brown formerly Temperance Jones Sarah Wyatt wife of Royal Wyatt formerly Sarah Jones, and William R. Jones, And it also appearing to the Court that Royal Wyatt who intermarried with Sarah Jones as aforesaid has duly qualified as the Administrator of the said Martha Jones deceased, all of which is ordered by the Court to be certified accordingly.
And also upon the same day the following (to wit)
"This day William R. Jones, the son of William and Martha Jones aged about the age of forty-two years, came into open court and being first duly sworn according to law states that he has frequently in the life time of his said father William Jones, heard him speak of having served two tours in the Revolutionary…
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…war but does not recollect whether he stated how long each tour was, that he distinctly recollects hearing him (his said father) in conversations he had with one William Kirk also a revolutionary soldier, speak of his services in said war and give incidents and tell anecdotes of occurrences that happened to the army during his service, that he has often heard his mother the said Martha say that his father served two tours of six months each in the revolutionary war against the British, and has heard her say that she had frequently been compelled to lay her infant down under a shade in the field and hoe corn in order to make a support during the time his said father was in the service. He further states that he has heard his father and mother say that they were married some time before his father the said William entered into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, and also that they were married by publishing the bow of matrimony as was the custom in Virginia at that time, where they were married, and that they were not married by a license, he also states that his said father was entirely an illiterate man, and never kept any family record neither his marriage nor the birth of his children, so that they merely much kept the ages of his children [illegible] diary events, or the season of the year in which they were born. He states that his said father died the 12th November 1828; that his said…
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…Mother after the death of his said father removed to Carroll County Tennessee where she died after making her declaration for a pension under the 3rd section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 on the 18th day of August 1843. He also states that his said mother remained a widow from the death of his said father up to the time of her own death. And that she died leaving the following children alive at the time of her death. To wit, Mary Chism widow and relic of John Chism died formerly Mary Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Jane Jones, Temperance Brown wife of Samuel Brown formerly [illegible] Jones, Sarah Wyatt wife of Royal Wyatt formerly Sarah Jones and affiant William R. Jones, all of which is ordered by the Court to be certified to the war department.

State of Tennessee}
Carroll County      }

	I Young W. Allen Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing these several entries stand of record on the minutes of said court, and that the above are true & perfect copies thereof. And that the same were [illegible] upon by the Court and admitted to record at the May Term 1844 of said court.

			In testimony whereof I have 
			hereunto set my hand and affixed
			my seal of office this the 31st
			day of May A.D. 1844.
					Y.W. Allen clk
					 of the County Court of
					Carroll County, Tenn
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May 13, 1938

									William Jones
									R. 5724
									BA-J/AWF
Mrs. John D. Freeman
1808 Ashwood Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Madam:

	Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of David Barton of Virginia, later lived in South Carolina; Thomas Barton of Virginia, later lived in South Carolina; Willoughby Barton of Georgia; James Dysart of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; William Jones of Halifax County, Virginia, whose widow, Patsey Jones, lived in Tennessee; and John Le Grand of Halifax County, Virginia.

	The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claims for pension found based on the service of David, Thomas, or Willoughby Barton, or of John Le Grand.

	You were furnished, March 8, 1938, the record of the only James Dysart, found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

	You are furnished herein the Revolutionary War record of William Jones of Halifax County, Virginia, as found in papers on file in claim for pension, R. 5724.

	The date and place of birth of William Jones were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.

	William Jones married October 9, 1776 in Halifax
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County, Virginia, Martha; her maiden name was not given, nor was it stated when and where she was born.

	William Jones died November 13, 1828 in Halifax County, Virginia, and his widow, Martha Jones, moved to Carroll County, Tennessee.

	She applied for pension, July 25, 1843, then aged eighty-seven years and living in Carroll County, Tennessee. She alleged that her husband, William Jones, volunteered in 1776 or 1777, served in Captain Paul Waddington's Virginia company, that he volunteered again, marched to the south, was in the battle of Guilford Court House, and was in service at the time of the battle of Eutaw Springs, but not in that battle.

	The claim for pension was not allowed, as proof of service, as required by the pension law, was not furnished.

	The widow, Martha Jones, died in Carroll County, Tennessee, August 18, 1843.

	They reared a family of eleven children. The following children survived their mother, Martha Jones:
	Mary, widow of John Chism;
	Elizabeth Jones;
	Jane Jones;
	Temperance, wife of Lemuel Brown;
	Sarah, wife of Royal Wyatt;
	William R. Jones, aged forty-two years in 1844.

	Names of other children were not designated.
 
    			Very truly yours,

			A. D. Hiller
			Executive Assistant
			to the Administrator
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1938 May 13 [illegible]
							[illegible] Mrs. [illegible] D. Freeman
	5724

P.O. Carroll Co. Tenn.
Martha Jones

Service: [illegible]
1776-7 Capt. Waddington. [illegible] battle of Guilford 1781. Eutaw [illegible]

Enlisted: ______________, 18

Discharged: ____________, 18

		REJECTED

Application filed: _______, 18

[illegible]: The printed list of 1852 gives cause of rejection as "for further proof."
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6241
Martha Jones [illegible]
	Tennessee
[illegible sentence crossed out]

	R. 5724
	[illegible] July 4, 1836
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6241
Martha Jones, [illegible]
	Ten:
       act 4 July 36
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Thomas Green
   Oct 9, 1844
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Ten [illegible]				168
						    Oct 9    44
    Sir
	In the case of Martha Jones, dec’d, which is [illegible] for two tours of Va Militia service estimated by him at [illegible] [illegible] there is no specification of the period length or grade of each tour with the names of the Company & Field Officers as the rule requires – The only tour of the militia of that state which exceeded 3 mo was the expedition [illegible] in '79, no evidence is addressed of the service, altho there must be some survivors in Halifax County. The proof of the date of the marriage is unsatisfactory and the suggestion that they were married by public [illegible] & without license is very extraordinary when we consider the laws of [illegible].

[illegible] Green Esq
		Present ––
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Postmark:
RICHMOND
JUL 2
Va

	To
Col. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington

[Vertically written notes:] 
[illegible] 	July 5 44

[illegible]
July 4 1836
[illegible] [illegible]
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Richmond 2 July 1844
Col. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions

					Sir,

	I send you the affidavit of Wm. R. Jones, one of the children of Mrs. Martha Jones, the widow of Wm. Jones, a soldier of the Revolution, for a pension under the Act of 4th July 1836.
	She had made her declaration on 25 July 1843 – before a Justice of the Peace, sent it to me. I returned it for the approval of the Court.
	This approval was given 6 May 1844, but in the meantime the widow has died — and the Court certified the names of the surviving children. Royal Wyatt a son in law, qualifies as her [illegible] & Wm. R. Jones her [illegible] [illegible] affidavit before the Court which certified the facts of the case.
	The forms appear to be substantially complied with the proof of service appear to be [illegible] [illegible] 
					I am [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 
								Thomas Green

The declaration of the widow
is sent as explanatory of the
whole story.
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[Stamp]
Received
MAR 26 1938

						1806 Ashwood Ave.,
						Nashville, Tenn.
						March 19, 1938.

Veterans Administration,
Bureau of Pensions (Revolutionary War),
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:—
	If you have a record of the following Revolutionary Soldier will you please send to me:
	1. Thomas Barton (a Virginian ? soldier) who settled after the war, on Tiger River, near Greenville, S.C…
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…        2. Willoughby Barton of Virginia (?) and Georgia.
	3. David Barton (of Virginia(?)) who settled near Greenville, S.C. after the war. His wife was Nancy Barrett.
	4. William Jones of Halifax County, Virginia. He died in Halifax County, Virginia, about 1830. His widow, who was Patsy Brown, moved to Tennessee between…
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…1835 and 1840 and died there about 1860-1865.
	5. James Dysart of Mecklenburg County, N.C., who was killed (with Gen. W.L. Davidson) on the Catawba River Feb. 1, 1781. His widow moved to Burke County, N.C., and died there between 1800 and 1810.
	6. John Le Grand who died in Halifax County, Virginia…
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…1784; his widow, Elizabeth Chandler, and several children survived him.
	I shall so much appreciate the information.

			Sincerely,
			Mrs. John D. Freeman.

[Stamped]								  [Stamped]
RECEIVED Mar 26 1938        Received A.G.O. MAR 21 1938         RECEIVED MAR 22 1938
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[stamp] RECEIVED [illegible] 21 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS. ADM READER 4 54
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							1806 Ashwood Ave.,
							Nashville, Tenn.
							March 19, 1938.
War Dept.,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, D.C.					[Stamped] RECEIVED MAR 21, 1938

Gentlemen:

	If you have a record of the following Revolutionary soldiers will you please send it to me:…
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…	1. Thomas Barton (a Virginia ? soldier) who settled on Tiger River near Greenville, S.C., after the War.
	2. Willoughby Barton, of Virginia (?) and Georgia.
	3. David Barton, of Virginia, who settled near Greenville, S.C., after the war.
	4. James Dysart of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, who was killed…
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…(with Gen. W. L. Davidson) on the Catawba River Feb. 1, 1781.
	5. John Le Grand of Halifax County, Virginia.

	I shall so much appreciate any information you may have.

					Sincerely,
					Mrs. John D. Freeman