Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2848, for Thomas Phillips, Virginia
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Roll of any agency of any State of Teritory.

Sworn to and subscribed }
before me the day & date}  Sarah Phillips
above mentioned             }

Jordan Owen J.P.G.C.

State of Kentucky Green County SS.

I. Jordan Owen Justice of the Peace in & for the
County & State aforesaid. do  certify that the foregoing Declaration was this day subscribed & Sworn to before me by the said Sarah Phillips.  I further Certify that said Sarah Phillips from age & Bodily Infirmity is unable to attend Courts for the purpose of making her said Declaration in Court & that said Sarah Phillips is a person of undoubted Veracity & her said Statement is Entitled to full credit & belief In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 16th day of October 1840.

Jordan Owen J.P.G.C.
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WIDOW, &c.
Revy.
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File No. 2848
Sarah Phillips.
Widow of
Thomas Phillips.
Priv. Rev. War
Act: 2 Feb'y 1848
Index:-Vol. M., Page 127.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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This page is a printed form with blanks written in
Left side of page
6100.
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Kentucky
Sarah Phillips
widow of Thomas Phillips
who was a pensioner under the Act of [blank]
and who died on the 18th February 1818.
of Green Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Compy. commanded
by Captain Holmes of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Ballard. in the Virginia
line for 2 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Lescington
at the rate of 80 Dollars --- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of March 1841, and sent [illegible] hon Willis Green. Greene, Grayson Co. Kentucky.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1840   $360:00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar:'41 40.00
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                                                        $400.00

{Act July 7,}
{1838}
Recorded by Wm. C. Lansinger Cerk
Book A. Vol. 2, Page 214.
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Amended Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 ----------------------
State of Kentucky Green Co.  ss
On this 10th day of February 1841 personally came Sarah Phillips before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid.  who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following amended Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838 for the relief of Widows of Soldiers of the Revolution War She states as in her former Declaration that She is unable to State the name of the Colonel or Captain who commanded the Company or Regiments in which her husband served.  the names of Ballard, and Homes, & Willson are familiar to her. Isaac Willson was a  
shipmate as she was informed of her husband and was with him in the Service.  Ballard. or Holmes.  might have been & probably was the Captain of the company in which her husband marched. from Mecklinburg County
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Phillips Decd. under the act of Congress of 7th July 1838 granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows and that her said Declaration Setting forth her marriage with said Thomas. Phillips.  his services in the Revolution war. his age and Death, and giving a full detail of his services in the War of the Revolution is now on file in the War Department at Washington City. upon which Declaration she states the she drew a pension for five years at Eighty Dollars per year. commencing on the 4th of March 1836. and ending the 4th of March 1841. and that is all she has ever Drawn  as a pensions or  [illegible] for the service of her ded. husband. she refers to her said Declaration and proof file there for a more complete account  of the character and nature and extent of the Service of her ded.  
 husband in the War of the Revolution. her recollection is now that her husband dd. Thomas Phillips was born about the year 1761 and Entered the service of his Country about the year 1776. and served two years.  Was in the Battles of Trenton, Brandywine & Guilford.   she herself was born  about the year 1772.  intermarried with Dd. Thomas Phillips in the County of Charlotte & State of Virginia on the 31st May 1792. Removed with said Thomas to Green County Kentucky. when said Thomas Departed this life in February 1818.  She further declares that she is still a widow and has never  intermarried since the death of her said husband Thomas Phillips  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before James D. Mottley Jpgc

Sarah Phillips {signature on right side of page}
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before his removal to Ky.). had not [illegible] the said Phillips for a great no of years
& unexpectedly to each other they met in Greensburg in this County & as soon as they saw each other they rushed together & clasped one another in their arms without speaking a word for some moments when they both began to rejoice  at ever more having the happiness of loving each other.  this meeting he [illegible]  himself & heard their concerns about their [illegible] trial & difficulties & danger during the war of the revolution. -- he states that the time that said Phillips serving his Country he heard from said Phillips was two years in the northern army & also during the service at the Battle at Guilford Court house.
Signed 
Thomas Parsons
Subscribed & Sworn to before me the day and date above written
James D. Mottley J. P. G. C
State of Kentucky Green County SS
I Jas D. Mottley Justice of the peace in & for the County & state aforesaid certify that Thomas Parsons this day personally appeared before me & made oath to the foregoing Statements.  I further Certify that said Parsons is a person of credibility & truth & his said statements entitled to full faith & credit & belief given under my hand as Justice of the peace aforesaid this 10th day of February 1841
James D Mottley J.P.G.C
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State of Kentucky Green County
I Thomas Parsons of the County & State aforsaid being called on do certify that I was Personally acquainted with Thomas Phillips (who is now dead) who was the husband of Sarah Phillips who is now living in Green County / State of Kentucky & who is about to make application for a Pension under the law providing for the pay of  certain widows & for the relief of the Revolution Soldiers De.  I became acquainted Personally with said Thomas Phillips about the year 1780 in the County of Charlotte in the State of Virgin1a 7 from that time untile his death was intimately acquainted with him.  As it reqards the Service of said Phillips in the war of the Revolution I am not enabled to speak of my own personal knowledge.  I have frequently heard the said Thomas Phillips talk of the Service has was in & have frequent heard others who professed to know about the Service Say. about the time of my first acquaintance with sd Phillips that he was a soldier in the Revolution war that he Enlisted in the Service of his Country in the County of Mecklinburg in the State of
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Virginia the year I am not enabled now to state but that he marched from thence and joined the Northern Army. & was engaged in the Battles fought at Brandywine. & Trenton. or Trentown. the names of the men & officers who marched with said Phillips.  I have forgotten the most of them but, I can recollect the names of Ballard or Ballad. & Holmes. & Isaac Willson the last named, one I heard frequently speak of said Phillips & himself as having served together in the Service before married & that he sd. WIllson & Phillips were ship mates together.  I have heard on [illegible} occasions. these matters spoken of about my first acquaintance with sd. Phillips. & never heard it once doubted that he was revolution soldier the sd. Phillips was a man of strict honesty & veracity & whose word was taken with the utmost confidence & was never doubted in an Instance that I knew or heard of..___  After the service of sd. Phillips in the Northern army.  I understood that he became a substitute for some one (I do not now recollect the name) in a Company & marched to Guilford Courthouse & was in the Battle fought at that place
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was generally reported & believed by all who was acquainted with said Phillips from my first acquaintance with him down to the present time that he was in those battles before named.  I have often heard others speak of him as a Revolution Soldier & have never heard any one doubt the facts that dd [deceased] Phillips was a man of strict honesty & veracity & whose words was well received on all occasions to my knowledge - he witnessed with his name serving in war.  Sarah about the year 1792 to the best of my knowledge in the sd [said] County of Charlotte in the State of Virginia.  I moved from there to Green County in the State of Kentucky &  died .  I am informed the [illegible] July 1818 & whose [illegible] living at present.
Subscribed & sworn to}  Thos Gaines
before me this 20 day }
November 1840}
John P white JPGC
State of Kentucky Green County Ss
I J. P. White Justice of the Peace in & for the  County & State aforesaid do certify that Thomas Gaines Sen