Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7922, for Darling Jones, North Carolina
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2989
Tennessee
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Nancy Jones
widow of Darling Jones NC
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a  Private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 96 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on 
the 3d February, 1853.
Ded. payments made since 27 July 1868
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Certificate of Pension issued
2nd day of Nov. 1868
and sent to 
W. M. Gasham
Jonesboro Tenn.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 254, Vol. H

J. N. Smith


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He died Oct 9 184[blank]
1887 Aug 1 Pen agt reports paid to 
June 4 1887 & living in Jonesboro Washington
Co Ten (then 73 years old)
1899 Sept 17  Pensioner explaining the rate of soldier's 
pension & original commencement of hers Prior 
1890 Oct 23  Knoxville Journal history  Prior
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36227 
Act March 3/55
Rec April 2 "
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Nancy Jones wid of 
Darling Jones dec  Pvt
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Claimant states that she 
is pensioned under the act 
of Feby 3 1853 - She refers
to pension papers on file
in the Pension Office in support
of her claim for bounty land
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Feby 55   2989
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W. 160 acs May 16/56
Boynton
M
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A. G. Graham
Jonesboro
Tenn.
Vol. J 83

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No 26674 iss May 21/56

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Cir. A.G. Graham Aug 22/55
let "  "  "  Tenn   Oct 27/55
Feby 53 - No 2989
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high hills of Santee & to the Santee swamps
where they joined Marion and continued
in service skirmishing & skouting until 
the expiration of his term of time during 
which time in an engagement at Monks
Corner with the British, they took a number
of prisoners & this declarant was sent as
one of a guard to guard them to Camden
where they were left & this declarant
discharged, his term of time having
expired which was for three months.
That after his return home the Cherokee
Indians being hostile & depredating he 
volunteered his service to go against the 
Cherokee Indians under Col John Sevier
and was stationed at what is now the 
[crab?] orchard, and served his term of time, 
& again volunteered as second time and 
served in that quarter & service in expelling
the Indians & guarding & scouting
during the most of the summer under said 
engagements as a volunteer.  He is very
confident three months each term being 
six months under the two and with the 
three months first specified was nine
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November 3, 1932

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BA-J/AWF
Darling Jones
W. 7922

Anne Mae Mimms
2161 Greene Street
Augusta, Georgia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the record of the Revolutionary War pensioner,
Darling Jones of Carter County,  Tennessee.

The data furnished herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, W. 7922, based
upon the Revolutionary War service of Darling Jones.

He was born in 1764 in Wake County, North
Carolina, moved from there, with his father, whose
name is not given "to the frontier west of the mountains"
and settled in what is now Carter County, 
Tennessee, then the Cherokee country.

He was drafted to perform a tour of duty in Captain
Carter's company, Colonel Shelby's North Carolina
regiment, marched to the Santee Swamps, where they
joined General Marion, was in the battle of Monk's
Corner, also in several skirmishes and scouting parties,
and served three months.  He was again out against the 
Cherokee Indians under Colonel John Sevier in the North
Carolina troops, two tours of three months each, no definite
dates stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
July 23, 1834, then a resident of Washington
County, Tennessee, having moved there from Carter
County, Tennessee.

He died October 9,1848 in said Washington County.

He married in March, 1832 or 1833 in Carter County,
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[top left edge of paper torn off] 1853
Appl. of Nancy
Jones widow of 
Darling Jones 
Washington 
Ten
7101
Act 3d Feby 1853

Revy
$20.00 per an -
Com - Feby 3d 1853
A G Graham
Jonesboro
Tenn
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Nancy Jones
wid of 
Darling
Tenn
Rev. cl. for Restoration
Issue Cert. for $20. per an.
under the 2d Sec. of the Act of 
Feb. 3d 1853 to Com March
4" 1861 & to continue during
widowhood.

Boynton.


Cert. to 
Messrs.
Butler & Smith
Knoxville
Tenn
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No. 843
Nancy Jones
widow of Darling
Tenn.

Let to A. G. Graham
3d June 1853

Act Feby 3/53
Page 37

State of Tennessee
County of Washington

On this 11th day of November
AD 1865 personally appeared before 
me Henry Hoss Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court
at Jonesboro in said County and State the same being
a Court of Record, Nancy Jones aged 49 years a resident
of Washington County and State of Tennessee who being 
duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the 
identical Nancy Jones who was a pensioner on the roll
of the agency at Jonesboro and whose certificate is 
herewith returned; that she has resided since the first
day of January AD 1861 as follows, five miles East 
of Jonesboro Te. that during this period her means of 
subsistence have been daily labor and that she 
has not in any manner encouraged the rebels or manifested
a sympathy with their cause and that she was last
paid her pension on the 4th day of March AD 1861
This application is made for the purpose of securing a 
restoration of her name to the pension rolls and of 
obtaining a new pension certificate such as she may
be entitled to under existing laws reference being
made to the evidence heretofore filed in the Pension Office
to substantiate her original claim, 

Nancy Jones  X  her mark

Also personally appeared S. T. Shipley, and Samuel
E Griffith residents of Washington County persons
whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to 
credit and who being by me duly sworn say that
they were present and saw Nancy Jones make her 
mark to the foregoing declaration and they further
swear that they have every reason to believe
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Nancy Jones - 3 June 53

Amended Declaration 
and Additional Evidence

Act 3d Feb. '53
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Department of the Interior,
Pension Office,
Jany. 8" 1866.

Gentlemen.

I have examined and suspended the claim of 
Mrs. Nancy Jones for restoration to the pension roll.
The Clerk of 
Court before whom the claimant made her declaration, must
certify that the contents of her declaration were made known 
to her before signing.
The affidavits of at least two 
credible and disinterested witnesses would be filed in proof 
that, the claimant her not in any manner encouraged
the rebels nor manifested a sympathy with their
cause.  Proof should also be filed, as to how the 
claimant has been supported during the rebellion.

I have the honor to be, 
Yours Very Respectfully,


Jas. H. Barrett
Commissioner



Messrs. Butler & Smith
Knoxville, Tenn.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
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I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of 
February 3, 1853,
Nancy Jones
widow of Darling Jones
who was a private in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of twenty
dollars and [blank] cents per annum, commencing on the 
3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again 
marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such
marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior,
this twenty third day of November
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three


R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and Countersigned.
L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions.


lived in Washington to 4 Sept. '[53?] - 21 yrs
before in Carter Co
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Nancy Jones - arr. of 
Pension - March [illegible]
$1 93
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Jonesboro, Tenn.  Sept. 11th 1890

Hon. Comr. Pens.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am a pensioner by Cert.
#2,989 as the widow of Darling Jones
Pr. in the "Revolutionary War".  My husband
drew a pension during his life time, but 
as I then understood the matter he 
only drew half pension say $4
per month when he aught to have 
had $8 per month, and it 
seems to me that I aught to 
have arrears from the time he 
died up to the year 1868 July 27th 
when my last ctf. was issued.
Please review the papers and advise 
me what was due husband and me.

Very respectfully

Nancy Jones.  X  her mark

Attest.
M. L. Peoples
W M H Jones

P.S.  Write me in care of M. L. Peoples
Jonesboro Ten.


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U. S. PENSION OFFICE
C
SEP 13 1890

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SEP 16 1890
RECEIVED
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Jonesboro, Tenn
Aug 28 1926

U. S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

In looking up my 
ancestors in order to become a 
member of "the Daughters of the 
American Revolution" organization 
I have every thing necessary
excepting my great grandparents'
birth, marriage etc.
I understand if one does not
possess such data, neither posses
their ancestors Pension Certificate - 
such dates can be ascertained from 
your office -
My great grandfather, Darling Jones, 
was a pensioner and his widow, 
Nancy Huff Jones was one of the last
three Pension Widows of the Rev-
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RIO GRANDE CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

MRS. D. C. HOGAN, Regent, Pharr, Texas
MRS. T. J. CALDWELL, Vice-Regent  Mission, Texas
MRS. NAN SHERWOOD, Chaplain  McAllen, Texas
MRS. THOMAS MAHONE, Treasurer  McAllen, Texas
MRS. OSCAR PERKINS, Librarian  Mission, Texas
MRS. D. P. GERMANE, Rec-Secretary  Mc Allen, Texas
MRS. FRED N. TAYLOR,  Registrar  McAllen, Texas
MRS. CONRAD ROITSCH, Cor-Sec.  McAllen, Texas
MRS. W. A. WRIGHT, Parliamentarian  Donna, Texas

McAllen, Texas
Jan 5, 1932

Mr A. D. Hiller,
Veterans' Administration.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

(a) Do your records list the Rev. service
of one Darling Jones of South Carolina, and 
show among his children a Mary Ridley Jones?
She was born 1769 so our records state.
(b)  Do you find listed the Rev record or any 
account what so ever of one Jacob (Smyser) Schmeisser?
Pa?

Thanking you kindly for your 
attention to these queries I am Yours Very Truly

Grace B. Taylor
(Mrs. Fred N. Taylor)
McAllen, Texas
R.F.D.

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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

July 19, 1924.

F. Millspaugh, Pres. Tenn Society S.A.R.
Nashville, 
Tenn.

Sir;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the 
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 7922, it appears
that Darling Jones was born in 1764 in Wake County,
North Carolina and moved from there, with his father,
(his name is not stated) "to the frontier west of the 
mountains" and settled in what is now Tennessee, Carter Co. then 
the Cherokee Country.

He was drafted in 1781 to perform a tour of duty
in Captain Carter's Company, Colonel Shelby's North Carolina
Regiment, and marched to the Santee Swamps, where 
they joined General Marion and was in the battle of 
Monk's Corner, also in several scouting parties and served
three months.

He was also out against the Cherokee Indians, under


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