Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1266, Isaac Webb, Va.
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(3─1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Webb, Isaac

Number
S.1266

CONTENTS
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[13678] [top torn off]
Kentucky
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13678
Isaac We[bb]
Fayette Co in the State of Ken[tucky]
who was a Lieutenant in the __________[comman]ded
by Captain ________ of the Regt. commanded
by Col Scott in the Virginia
[li]ne for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 320 Dollars ----- Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Mar
1833 and sent to Hon.
Chilton Allen Winchester
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Arrears to the 4th of March 640.00
Sem-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 160.00
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$800.00
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d: June 25 1833

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 32

See letter to Sec. of State
Feb 24. 1847
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[right] 1903.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act entitled an Act for the relief of certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the army of the Revolution Approved on the 15th day of May 1828. 
I, Isaac Webb of Fayette County and State of Kentucky do declare that on the 13th day of January 1777 I was appointed & commissioned a second Lieutenant in the 7th Virginia Regiment on Continental establishment (See the Commission here enclond) and I continued in said service until I was appointed and Commissioned a first Lieutenant in the 5th Virginia Regiment on Continental line on the 20th day of March 1779 and I continued in said service until February 1780 at which period I was in Charleston South Carolina, and having been in Bad health for several months resigned my commission & returned home to Richmond County in Virginia, and that upon a proclamation of General Stueben inviting the officers of the army absent on Furlough or resignation to return to the army and promising to reinstate them in the army and that I accordingly returned & attached myself to said Baron Steuben for service & was appointed & Commissioned (which Commission I have lost or mislaid) Brevet Captain and ordered to the South to join General Green which I did and was recognized by him (Genl Greene) as Captain & he gave me the Command of a Company, and I continued as Captain in said service until the summer or fall of the year 1781 at which time the period of the enlistments of the Company Commanded by me was about to expire and I was ordered by General Green to march my Company to Virginia and discharge the soldiers of said Company which I did & I remained at home subject to the orders of the Government; and I did not resign my Commission, nor was I discharged but was not again called into service.
And I further declare that I never applied for nor received Certificates commonly called commuta-
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tion certificates not knowing the law and believing that the compensation given by a resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March 1783 applied to those who were wounded or disabled in Service only- and since I have seen the resolutions of Congress on the subject I consider myself entitled to the benefits of the Resolve of Congress of the [blank] of October 1780

I reside near to Lexington Kentucky and it will be convenient to me to receive a draft on the Branch Bank of the United States at that place -
[signature] Is Webb

Fayette County Kentucky
Before me, James E Davis a justice of the peace for said County and duly empowered to administer oaths, personally appeared the above named Isaac Webb and signed and swore to the above declaration in my presence, and he is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution - 
Witness my hand this 11th day of September 1831 - 
[signature] James E. Davis JPH

Kentucky Fayette County Sct
John Nelson late a Capt in the 5th Virginia Regt who is now drawing his pay under the Act of Congress of the 15th May 1828 made oath before me a Justice of the Peace for said County that he was personally acquainted with the above named Isaac Webb in the Revolutionary War & knew him as an officer as he has stated in his declaration above & he knows him to be the identical person he represents himself to be, & further
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he believes the whole of said Webbs declaration to be true. 
[signature] Jno Nelson

Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that the deposed Capt Jno Nelson is a credible person on oath this 18th day of September 1830
[signature] James L Hickman J.P.H.

Commonwealth of Kentucky Fayette County towit.
I James C. Rodes, Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do certify that James E. Davis and James L. Hickman, whose names are affixed to the foregoing Certificates, are and were at the dates thereof, two of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace in and for said County, Commissioned and qualified as the law directs, fully authorized to administer oaths, and that said Signatures are genuine, to which full faith and credit is and ought to be given.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 18th day of September 1830 and in the 39th year of the Commonwealth.
[signature] J.C. Rodes Clerk of
Fayette County Court.

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]

Being required by the Commissioner of Pensions (see his letter to the Hon'ble Secy at War. 5 Apr 1833) to make an amended declaration & showing more precisely the length of time I served as Captain in the Army of the Revolution I state, that in consequence of having lost or mislaid my commission and the great lapse of time since, I am not able to give particular dates, but from the best of my recollection not more than six or seven months lapsed between the time of my resignation as 1st Lieut and my appointment as Captain. The Endorsement on my 1st Lieut. commission shows that I resigned on the 26th Feby. 1780 and believing that I was not out of service more than six
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or seven months I must have again joined the army as Captain in August or September 1780 and that I remained in active service in that grade, until the summer of the year 1781 at which time the term of the enlistment of my Company expired & I was ordered by Genl. Greene to march the soldiers of said Company into Virginia and discharge them and there to remain subject to further orders, which I did, but was not called again into service - I further state that I did not resign my Commission as Captain, nor was I discharged from the army and therefore consider myself as having belonged to the army until the end of the Revolutionary War - 
[signature] Is Webb

State of Kentucky 
Fayette County Sct
Before me James E Davis a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid and duly empowered to administer oaths, personally appeared the above named Isaac Webb & signed & swore to the above amended declaration in my presence and he is generally reputed and believed to have been a ["Captain" lined thru] an officer in the army of the Revolution. 

Witness my hand this 15th day [illegible words lined thru] of May 1833.
[signature] J. E. Davis JPH

The date was attuned by me to 15 May 1833- 
[signature] J.E.Davis JP
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April 7, 1938.

BA-J/ILL
Isaac Webb
S. 1226

Mrs. Lloyd L. Arnold
1013 East 17th Avenue
Denver, Colorado.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Captain Isaac Webb of Virginia.

The data which follow are found in pension claim, S. 1226, based upon service of Isaac Webb in that war; it is the record of the only Isaac Webb of Virginia found on the Revolutionary War pension records.

Isaac Webb was a resident of Richmond County, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War, date and place of his birth not stated.

January 13, 1777, Isaac Webb was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Virginia regiment and served until October 8, 1778, when he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 5th Virginia regiment and served until February 26, 1780. In August or September 1780, he was commissioned Captain, 5th Virginia regiment and served to the end of the war. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1830, at which time he resided near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.

Captain Isaac Webb died June 25, 1833.

There are no data pertaining to the family of this officer.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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Act 1828
Papers transferred to Pension
Office 5th April 1833.
N 1266 Inv
OK
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[illegible date stamp]

Revolutionary Cla[im]
Hon.
S. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City

Sept 25th
Ansd Nov 13th
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2148
1903
Rc'd 25 Sept 1830
Lexington Ky 18th Sept 1830
Sir
You will herewith receive the papers of Mr Isaac Webb, & you will please to have reference to the Gen'l Land Office for further evidence of his Service.
Very Resp'y your Obt. Serv't
[signature] Henry Asbury

Hon
S. D. Ingham
Treasury Dept.
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[illegible date stamp]

Free

Hon
Saml. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City
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Recd 18 Jany 1831 2367
Fayette County Kentucky 7th Jany 1831
Hon
S. D. Ingham
Treasury Dept
Sir
I have received your letter of the 3d ult requesting certain explanations of me in relation to my military services during the Revolutionary War, and in reply thereto I can inform you as follows. You ask me why I did not receive or apply for my commutation at the close of the War, my answer is, that I understood and believed that the five years full pay, or half pay for life was only given to those Officers who were wounded or disabled in service, and to those that
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that now in reduced circumstances - this was the rumour - and I have never seen the Law, and so I let it rest ever since.
you inquire what Regiment I was attachd. to in 180 or 1781 when I went to the south and who were the field Officers. in answer I can state - that in 1780 or 1781 I was called into Service by Baron Stuben and given by him a Brevet Commissioner of Captain in the Virginia Continental line, the same service I had just left - I had no other than a Brevet commission at that time, the Brevet commission was signed by Baron Stuben by Order of the Government, and he ordered me to report myself to Genl Green, I did so and was recognized by him as a Capt. and he gave me the command of 104 men (Virginia Regular Troops)
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The Virginia Regiments had been so xut to pieces & taken prisoners at Charleston that I do not know to what particular Regt. I belonged to - but I considered myself as belonging to the 5th if it should ever be filled up again. - I know of no Field Officers that was stationed in that region of Country as I only command the mentioned detachment of 104 men.
If it is necessary for me to make oath to the above statement you will please instruct me to do so - As almost a half Century has lapsed since I closed my service it will I hope not be expected that I can recollect all the circumstances clearly.
Very Respy. your Obt. Sert.
[signature] Isaac Webb
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Secy. of State
Feb. 24, '47.
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Pension Office
Feb 24. 1847
Sir,
I have the honor to request that a search may be made of the Washington Papers in your Department, with a view of ascertaining when Isaac Webb, a Lieutenant of the Virginia continental line, left the Army. He was commissioned in 1779. It is also requested that we may be informed whether he resigned, or was a supernumerary officer, and further, if the Proclamation of Baron Steuben, muster of certain officers to return to the service, is among the papers to furnish a copy of the same
[signature] J L Wick[sp]

Hon. James Buchanan
Secretary of State.
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Lexington May 15, 1833-
Dear Sir
Will you do me the favour to examine the enclosed papers concerning Capt Isaac Webb claim for pension & if in your opinion the case is made out according to the views of the Commissioner of pensions forward them to the war office. I am induced to ask this favour of you believing that an earlier answer may be received. I think Capt Webb case is within the provisions of the act of Congress of May 1828 and that he is entitled to pay under that law, which would make a difference of five years pay.
Before sending on the declaration & evidence I would thank you to examine the Case & the Law & if you concur in opinion with me, please give it to the Secretary at War & request the payment under the lay of May 1828.
I am very respectfully,
Your obt servt
[signature] M. F. Scott

Honble Chilton Allan
Winchester
Kenty [Kentucky]

P. S. Please observe that the amended declaration of Capt Webb is sworn to before Jas. E Davis J. P. & certified by him-- Mr D. deemed it unnecessary to get the Clerks certificate that he is a magistrate, because his former attestation to the original declaration was so certified & because he is well known & recognized as a Justice of the peace at the war office-- perhaps you know that Davis is a Justice
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of the peace and can state that part to the Secretary of War - But if in your opinion the County Clerks seal & attestation will be required please return the paper to me & I will have it obtained.
Yours [signature] M.T. Scott

P S If Capt Webbs case comes within the Act of 1828 Please allow it and the decision please inclose to me early. And if not under the act of 1828 try it by the act of 1832
[signature] Chilton Allan
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Department of State
Washington Feby 25th 1847
James L Edwards Esq. Comm'r of Pensions
Sir
In compliance with your request, I have caused the Washington Papers to be examined for evidence of the service of Lieutenant Isaac Webb in the Virginia Line of the Revolutionary army, and have to report as follows:
In a paper purporting to be "a list of the subaltern officers in General Woodfords brigade Jany 18, 1779". the name of Isaac Webb is found among the 2nd lieutenants of the 5th Regiment, and 
In a paper, (not dated) purporting to be an arrangement of the Virginia Regiments the name of Isaac Webb is found among the lieutenants of the 5th Regiment date of Commission, 3 Oct 1778. No other evidence in relation to the said Isaac Webb is discovered
I am Sir, very respectfully
your Obedt Serv't
[signature] James Buchanan
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1917 June 6 Hist to Miss Pansy Webb
1919 Nov 21 Hist to Mrs. J. R. Spraker
Letter in S. 16582 Daniel Wilcoxen
1924. 19. Hist to Edward M. Michelson MMH.
1931 April Hist. to N.M. Clapham
Copied for M.M.H. for [?]
ERL
1934 Dec 29. Hist. to Mrs. John C Cochear 
Copied by JRL
1936 - Aug. 14 - Hist to Mrs. R. M. Herron
the letter in John Webb. B.L.M. 2052-450 
Copied by JRL

INVALID.
File No. 1266
Isaac Webb
Lt. Va. Line.
Act June 7, 1832
Index:─ Vol. A, Page 397
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cordele Ga
May 30, 1917
Rev War

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear [illegible];
Please send me the record of service of one Isaac Will of Fayette Co. Ky who was a revolutionary pensioner in 1833.
If there is any charge for this please state same and will remit at once

[date stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE O
JUN 2 1917
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Yours Truly
(miss) Pansy Webb
602 Fifth Ave,
Cordle,
Ga.
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Dear Sir:
Kindly give me ^ Copy ^ if possible all the data contained in the pension papers of Isaac Webb who secured pension Sept. 18, 1830, Fayette Co Kentucky, particularly the details of any family names mentioned and moves. Is any John mentioned in his history, or any names whatsoever.
Have you any other data on John Webb who was in Mason Co. in 1788-9. Had served in 7th Virginia I think. 
Mrs. John C. Cochrane
1023 Eighth Ave. South
F. Cloud, Minn.

January 18, 1924
Revolutionary War Section,
Pension Office,
Washington D.C

Gentlemen:
Can you give me the service record of Isaac Webb of Fayette County, Ky who was a Revolutionary pensioner in 1833. I am very anxious to obtain this information and will greatly appreciate any information you can give me.

Edna M. Michelsen
3720 Morrison St
Washington D.C
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March 9, 1931.

Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I will appreciate it very much, if you will advise, if the application for pension, of Isaac Webb, a Lieutenant in the Virginia Line, Revolutionary War, dated May 31, 1833, from Fayette Co., Ky., gives any family history, place of enlistment, etc.
Yours very truly,
N. M. Clapham,

N. M. Clapham,
4780 Crittenden Dr.,
Louisville, Ky.
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August 14, 1936.

BA-J/ILL
John Webb
B. L. Wt. 2052 - 450
Isaac Webb
S. 1266

Mrs. R. W. Herron
16 South Thornton Avenue
Dolton, Georgia.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Isaac Webb, 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Virginia Regiment, and John Webb, Captain of the 7th Virginia Regiment and Major of the 5th Virginia regiment in 1778 under Colonel William Russell.

The records of Isaac Webb, noted above, and that of John Webb, Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia line, are furnished herewith as found in pension and bounty land claims based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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August 14, 1936.

BA-J/MMHF/ILL
Isaac Webb
S. 1266

Mrs. R. M. Herron
16 South Thornton Avenue
Dalton, Georgia.


Dear Madam:
The data given herein were found in pension claim, S. 1266, based upon service of Isaac Webb in the Revolutionary War.

Isaac Webb was a resident of Richmond County, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War, date and place of his birth not stated.

January 13, 1777, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant ["in the" lined thru] 7" Va  regiment ["of Virginia" lined thru] and served until October 8, 1778, when he was commissioned 1" Lieutenant ["in the" lined thru] 5" ["regiment of" lined thru] Virginia and served until February 26, 1780. In August or September 1780, he was commissioned Captain, ["in the" lined thru] 5" Va  regiment ["of Virginia" lined thru] and served to the end of the war.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1830, at which time he resided near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.

Captain Isaac Webb died June 25, 1833.

There are no data regarding the family of this officer.
Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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December 29, 1934.

BA-J/MMHF/ILL
Isaac Webb
S. 1266

Mrs. John C. Cochrane
1023 8th Avenue South
Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Isaac Webb, a pensioner of Fayette County, Kentucky, also, information regarding one John Webb who had service in the 7" Virginia and was in Mason County, in 1788-9.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and there is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service of the John Webb described above. The record of Isaac Webb, the pensioner, is given herein as found in the papers on file in his claim, S. 1266, based upon his service in that war.

Isaac Webb was a resident of Richmond County, Virginia, during the Revolution, date and place of birth not stated.

On January 12, 1777, he was commissioned 2" Lieutenant in the 7" Regiment of Virginia and served until October 3, 1770 when he was commissioned 1" Lieutenant in the 3d Regiment of Virginia and served until February 26, 1780. In August or September 1780, he was commissioned Captain in the 5" Regiment of Virginia and served to the end of the war.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1830, at which time he resided near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.

He died June 25, 1833.

There are no data relative to his family.
Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Note -
Agency book & Secy of W. both show J[?] under act 1832-
Leave Date as originally used.
Mrs. Finch
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April 9, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MMHF/eel

N.M. Clapham
4780 Crittenden Drive
Louisville, Kentucky

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.1266, that Isaac Webb was a resident of Richmond County, Virginia, during the Revolution, date and place of birth not stated.

On January 13, 1777, he was commissioned second Lieutenant in the seventh Regiment of Virginia and served until October 2, 1778, when he was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Virginia and served until February 26, 1780.

In August or September, 1780, he was commissioned Captain in the Fifth Regiment of Virginia and served to the end of the war.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 8, 1832, while living near Lexington, at the Fayette County, Kentucky.

He died June 25, 1833.

There are no data as to his family.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
acting Commissioner.
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MMHF

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

February 13, 1974

Edna M. Michelson
3720 Morrison St.,
Washington, D. C.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 1266 it appears that Isaac Webb was a resident of Richmond County, Virginia during the Revolution, date and place of birth not stated.

On January 13, 1777 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment of Virginia and served until October 8, 1778, when he was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Virginia and served until February 28, 1780.

In August or September 1780 he was commissioned Captain in the Fifth Regiment of Virginia and served to the end of the war.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 18, 1832 while living near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. He died June 25, 1833. There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [blank] 19__.
S.F. 1266
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In reply to your request of [blank] received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Isaac Webb 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.
[six column table of service]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Jany 13, 1777
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK. 2nd Lieut
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN.    
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. COLONEL. ⎬ in the 7th Regt of
STATE. Va

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Aug or Sept 1780
LENGTH OF SERVICE. to end of war
RANK. Capt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN.    
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. COLONEL. ⎬ in the 5th Regt of
STATE. Va

Battles engaged in, not stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Richmond County Va.
Date of application for pension, Sept 16, 1850 Then I was at
Residence at date of application, near Lexington Fayette County Kentucky.
Age at date of application, not stated. He died June 25, 1833 *
Remarks: There is no data on file as to family.
---
Respectfully,

Commissioner

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Rev ─ 1813

1013 East Seventeenth Avenue
Denver, Colorado
March 29, 1938

To the Adjutant-General
Veterans' Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you in an attempt to get some correct information about my great-great-great grandfather, Captain Isaac Webb, a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

According to information furnished me by my grandfather's sister, Mrs. Eliza Webb Moorman of Hardy, Virginia, he lived at Bedford County, Virginia, married a Miss Rice, and had a son Reuben, who married Nancy Saunders and had a son William Webb, my great-grandfather.

The only Captain Isaac Webb of Virginia that I can find anything about in various reference books in the Denver library is one who was born in 1758, entered as ensign in 1776, and in 1777 was a lieutenant in the 7th Virginia Regiment. In 1778 he was a lieutenant in the 5th Virginia Regiment, and was at Charleston when he became ill. When a call was made for furloughed officers to return he served as captain under Baron Steuben in the South. Another reference says he served under General Greene in the Southern Campaign, until 1781. He died in 1833 in Kentucky. He had at least five children that I have found -- Lucy, Elizabeth, Winny, Catherine, and James, his wife was Lucy Ware. In the census of 1790 Isaac Webb is listed at St. Stephen's Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia, with a family of eight white persons.

You see nothing agrees but the name and the state, for in the lists of Revolutionary soldiers and pensioners of Bedford County, Virginia, I found no Webbs at all. Perhaps my great-aunt is mistaken in the name, or Isaac may have had a second wife who was the mother of Reuben.

I have very little idea just how much of this information would be contained in your records, but I would greatly appreciate anything you may be able to tell me that would shed some light on this puzzle.

Enclosed is a stamped and self-addressed envelope for your reply.

Yours very truly,
[signature] Charleen H. Arnold
(Mrs. Lloyd L. Arnold)

[date stamp at top with numbers 1 thru 12 in quarter hour increments arount the perimeter and an arrow pointing at 3:15]
RECEIVED
APR 1 1938
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETE. ADM.
READER # 2F
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July 17 Va.
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay,
Rode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO Isaac Webb Gent'n

WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be a second Lieutenant in the seventh Regiment of Virginia in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of second Lieutenant and by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as a second Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
DATED ["at" lined thru] the thirteenth day of January 1777 seventy seven

By Order of the CONGRESS,
[signature] Joh Hancodk PRESIDENT.

ATTEST [signature] Chas. Thomson, [illegible]

S. file 1266
S. File 1266
John Hancock
●
1
PRESIDENT.
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No. 8.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Isaac Webb Gentleman Greeting, We, Reposing especial trust
and confidence in your Patriatism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity. DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the fifth Virginia Regiment in the Army of the United States to take rank as hereby Lieutenant from the third day of October A. D. 1777. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And do strictly charge and require all officers and and soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders, as Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such orders and direction from time to time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United States Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commision to continue inforce until revoked by this or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress beforementioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness his Excellency John Jay Esqire President of the Congress of the United States of America , at Philadelphia the 20th day of March 1779, and in the [illegible] year of our independence.
[signature] John Jay

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest 
[signature] Richard Peters
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