Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5735, for Thomas Jones, North Carolina
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N. C.

Jones, Thomas
Mary
or Polly

NUMBER
R.5735

CONTENTS
War 1812 

after Rev. [revolutionary war] res. [resided] in Charlotte Co. Va & Gallatin Co Ky. d. [died] in Bartholomew Co. Ind. June 12, 1832
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Johnson County Indiana Sct} 
Godfrey Jones of the said County aged 48 years being Sworn does on his oath make this following statement (Viz.) 
He is one of the sons of Thomas Jones and his wife Polly Jones both of whom are now dead (Viz) The said Thomas Jones died in Bartholomew County of this State on the [blank] day of [blank] AD 1833 (Eighteen hundred and thirty three) leaving the said Polly his widow who survived him and remained his widow and also died in the same county on the [blank] day of August AD 1851 (Eighteen hundred and fifty one) 
The said Thomas Jones in his life time had the reputation of having been a solider in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution. I do not now remember what Regiment it was that he served in but I refer to the application which my mother the above named Polly Jones made in her lifetime from Bartholomew County Indiana for
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2.
for the particulars etc of his service.
I have often heard my father say that he was in the Battle known as the Battle near Camden or “Gate’s Defeat” and that he was also in the Battle at “Guilford Court House”. I do not now remember whether he told me he was in the “Battle of Kings Mountain” or not, but he was there about the time of the Battle. I once knew two men in Kentucky when we lived there named Jesse Cannell and — Whitson These two men had the reputation of having been Tories in the time of the War of the Revolution. I have often heard my father say that the Americans had these two men as prisoners and were going to hang them but that they escaped from the guard. I remember when I was small hearing my father tell the said Jesse Cannell that there was a reward on his head and they began to quarrel about it and my father asked him if he remembered how he ran down “King’s Mountain” to escape hanging, and that he had seen him running on that occasion. I do not remember any battle he told me he was in besides these, and I
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I am not positive about his being in the Battle near Camden although that is my impression that he was. 
I do not remember the names of his officers. I always believed his statements to be true. I do not know of any person living by whom I can prove his services. I once knew a man named Job Hamblen who died in Brown County of this state some ten or twelve years since and who at the time of his death was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. I have heard this Hamblen and my father more than once talking together about their service in the War of the Revolution and always understood from them that they served in the same Regiment but whether in the same Company I do not know. I always heard and believed that my father and mother had been lawfully married (See her declaration and accompanying proof) My mother left at her death the following named her surviving and only surviving children 
1 Margaret now the wife of Archibald Thomson 
2 Leanah intermarried with George Baker 
3 Godfrey Jones this declarant 

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4 Thomas S. Jones 
5 Joseph Jones 
6 Smith D Jones 
I make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the arrears of Pension and bounty land in behalf of myself and the other above enumerated heirs. Witness my hand and seal in Johnson County Indiana on this 18th day of October AD 1852 
Godfrey Jones {Seal}

Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county on the day and year above written and I do certify that I am full satisfied in regard to the truth of his foregoing declaration and of his identity as one of the sons of the above named and foregoing described Thomas Jones who I am fully satisfied did in his lifetime bear the reputation of having been a soldier in the service of the United States  in the War of the Revolution. I believe him to be of the age he calls himself. The word “State” underlined before signing.
Morgan Pitcher J.P. {Seal}
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State of Indiana} SS 
Bartholomew County} On this 1 day of September one thousand Eight hundred and forty five before the subscriber Judge of the probate Court In and for said County personally appeared Polly Jones, who says she was caled [called] Polly or Mary, a resident of said County aged Seventy nine years past who Being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838, march 3rd 1843, and June 17th 1844 Granting pensions and half pay to Certain Widows that she is the widow of Thomas Jones who was a private in the Militia of the state of North Carolina and served as many as six or seven tours of three months each she does not know whether he was drafted or volunteered nor is she able to state the names of his Colonel & Captain that her said husband was in the Battle of the Cowpens that she claims for two years service of her said husband she thinks he was not stationed at any Fort during these tours of duty but that he with the other troops were marched from place to place watching and checking the operations of the enemy and aiding the Regular army 
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Jones about the first of August she thinks in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty five in the County of Charlotte in the state of Virginia by license and that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Jones died on the 12th day of June one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two and that she still remains his widow she further declares that she was not married to the said Thomas Jones prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four Viz. at the time above stated 
Polly [her x mark] Jones
Subscribed and sworn to before me}
On the day and year first above}
Written Henry B. Roland, Judge}

I certify that Polly Jones the above declarant who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration before me is unable from old age and bodily infirmity to attend said court.
Henry B. Roland Judge
Probate Court, B. C. In
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State of Indiana} SS 
Bartholomew County}
Be it known that on this 1st day of September 1845 Before the subscribed Judge of the probate Court in and for said County personally appeared Smith D. Jones who being duly sworn according to law says that Thomas Jones the husband of the above named applicant Polly or Mary Jones died on the 12th day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and that said Polly or Mary Jones has not intermarried but continues the widow of the above named Thomas Jones.
Smith D. Jones
Subscribed and sworn to before 
me this 1st day of September 1845
Henry B. Roland Judge

I certify that Smith D. Jones who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition is a credible witness. Given under my hand this 1st day of September 1845.
Henry B. Roland Judge

State of Indiana}
Bartholomew County} I Isaac S. Boardman Clerk of the Bartholomew Court in and for said county (the same being a court of record and so declared by the law creating it, do hereby certify that Henry B. Roland is Judge of the Probate Court duly Commissioned and Qualified and that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are Genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court This 1st day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Isaac S. Boardman Clk
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12,245
Act 7th July 1838

Rd Oct 6 1845

Polly Jones
Wid of Thomas
Indiana
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Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Jones and Thomas Holt are held and firmly bound unto Kenny Lee Esq. Governor of the commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of fifty pounds current money to which payment will and truly to be made to our said Governor and his successor for the rise of the Commonwealth we bind ourselves our heirs & firmly by these presents – sealed with our seals and dated this 30th day of July 1793.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage suddenly intended to be solemnized between the above bound Thomas Jones and Polly Clarkson. If therefore there by no lawful cause to obstruct the same then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full favor and virtue.
Thomas Jones {Seal}
Thomas Holt {Seal}
Sealed and delivered in presence of Wm. Morton Jr.
The following paper was found enclosed, and filed away with the foregoing bond.
I do hereby certify that my daughter Polly Clarkson is of twenty one of age to act and [chrise] for herself. Given under my hand this 29th day of July 1793.
Elizabeth [her x mark] Clarkson
Attest
Paschal Greenhill
Joseph Greenhill
Patsey Greenhill
Col Thomas Read
Sir – please grant Mr Thomas Jones a marriage license to intermarry with me, witness my hand this 29th of July 1793.
Polly [her x mark] Clarkson
Attest
Paschal Greenhill
Joseph Greenhill
Patsey Greenhill – Col Thomas Read
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Married August [Illegible] 1793 Thomas Jones to Polly Clarkston By Rev. Henry Lester.

Virginia Charlotte County towit
On the 3d day of September 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Winslow Robinson who being duly sworn upon his oath says that he is clerk of the county court in and for said county, and that the foregoing are true copies from the records & files of his office.
Winslow Robinson Clk
Sworn and subscribed}
the day & year ---above}
mentioned before me}
William T. Scott J.P.}

Virginia Charlotte County towit:
I Winslow Robinson Clerk of the County Court of Charleston in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that William T. Scott is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly Commissioned and qualified according to law, and that the signature annexed to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this third day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty five and in the 70th year of the Commonwealth.
Winslow Robinson Clk
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Raleigh N. C.
Comptrollers Office
I William F. Collins, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the name of Thomas Jones appears of record in this office as having had the following special certificates issued in his name for Military service by One for thirty Seven Pounds, five Shillings (£.37.7) see Book No 10 page 17 another for Nine pounds Eighteen shillings (£9.18) see Book 10 page 38 another in same book for fifteen pounds ten shillings (£.15.10) Another for Nine Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Two pence (£9.16.2) See Book G. No 19 page 12 another in Book No 2 page 17 for Six pounds Eighteen Shillings (£6.18) Also another in Book F No 2 page 2 for Ten Pounds (£10) Another in book L No 2 page 24 for Two pounds Eight Shillings (£2.8) Another in Book G No 16 page 36 for Fourteen pounds Three shillings and five pence (£14.3.5) Another for Two pounds Two shillings (£2.2) see Book A No h16 page 65 another in book 5 page 26 for eighteen pounds twelve shillings (£18.12) and another in Book No 6 page 40 for fifteen pounds sixteen shillings (£15.16) given under my hand and seal this 10th day September AD 1845.
Wm F. Collins Comptroller
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State of Indiana Bartholomew County
On this tenth day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace, duly authorized to administer oaths within and for said County, Mary Jones, widow of Thomas Jones, deceased, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, true answers to make to the following questions, thereunto answering, respectfully saith:
1 - Question: what was your Maiden Name before your marriage?
Answer: My Maiden name was Clarkson, and I sued to be called Polly Clarkson.
2nd - Question: Was your father living at the time of your marriage?
Answer: No, my father was dead at that time.
3d - Question: What was your Mothers Name?
Answer: Elizabeth Clarkson
4 - Question: Were you over or under twenty one years when married?
4 Answer: I was under twenty one; I think Eighteen years old.
5 - Question: Were you married by a Minister, or by a Justice? If what was his name?
5 Answer: By a Minister; his name was Lester, or Luster, and I think he was a Baptist preacher.
6 - Question: Do you know what persons were at your wedding? If so name them without any regard to their being living or dead.
6 Answer: Thomas Holt, Patsy Holt, Hannah Holt, Dolly Holt, Joseph Greenhill, Paschal Greenhill, David Jones, Lewis Jones, Godfrey Jones, Betsy Jones, Cad Jones, Dowry Clarkson, My youngest brother, and William Clarkson, Joseph Clarkson and Thomas Clarkson, other brothers
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7 - Question: How many years since you left Charlotte County Virginia?
Answer: I lived with my husband just about three years after our marriage in Charlotte County, Va, we then moved to Kentucky; the question, I cant answer at all certain
8 - Question: Do you know any old relatives of your own, or of your husbands? If so who, and where, are they?
Answer: About 10 years ago, my brother Drury Clarkson was living in Kentucky, Mercer County, I think – Thomas Clarkson another brother may still live there yet – and David Jones, brother of Thomas my husband deceased, was living about 10 years ago, near Nashville Tennessee, and further this affiant saith not.
Mary [her x mark] Jones
Attest
Benjamin F. Mynes
Jephthah Stucker

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written. And I hereby certify that the above subscriber Mary Jones, is a person of good and credible reputation, and that I believe she has spoken the truth in answer to the foregoing inquiries – I further certify that I believe her general memory has been bad for many years.
Jephthah Stucker Justice of the Peace {Seal}
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Mrs. Mary Jones
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State of Indiana Bartholomew County
On this 10th Day of December AD Eighteen Hundred and fifty personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace  duly authorized to administer oaths within and for said county, George Smith, George Becker & Leanor Becker his wife, persons who are entitled to credit, who being duly sworn according to law upon their oaths say that they have respectively known and been acquainted with the said Mary Jones, whose name is subscribed to the above and foregoing questions, for at least 20 years last past – that during said period they lived in the immediate vicinity of the residence of the said Mary Jones, and that she is a person entitled to credit, but that her memory for the last five or six years has been defective and bad.
George Becker
Leanor [her x mark] Becker
George Smith

Subscribed and sworn to before me this day and year above written. And I certify that the said George Becker & Leanor his wife and George Smith, are well known to me, and are persons entitled to credit.
Jephthah Stucker Justice of the Peace {Seal}

State of Indiana Bartholomew County SS
I Isaac S. Boardman, Clerk of the Bartholomew County Court hereby certify that Jephthah Stucker who certifies the foregoing affidavit, is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified to administer oaths, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 11th day of December AD 1850.
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Polly Jones
wid of Thomas
de'd

J. J. Coombs
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Bartholomew County, Indiana Sct}
Thomas S Jones of Bartholomew County Indiana being sworn does on his oath say that he is the administrator of the estate of Polly Jones deceased the widow of Thomas Jones deceased a soldier in the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution as set forth in the application of said Polly Jones from Bartholomew County Indiana heretofore filed in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions and in the declaration of Godfrey Jones one of her sons made before Morgan Pitcher Esq of Johnson County Indiana on the 18th day of October AD 1852 (Eighteen hundred and fifty two) also heretofore filed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
The said Thomas Jones died in the county on the twelfth day of June AD 1831 (Eighteen hundred and thirty two) leaving the said Polly Jones his widow who remained his widow and also died in the same county on the thirteenth day of July AD 1851 (Eighteen hundred and fifty one) leaving at her death the following named her surviving and
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And only surviving children (Viz)
1 Margaret now the wife of Archibald Thomson 
2 Leanah intermarried with George Baker 
3 Godfrey Jones
4 Thomas S. Jones 
5 Joseph Jones 
6 Smith D Jones 
He makes this declaration as the administrator aforesaid on behalf of the above enumerated heirs for the purpose of obtaining the arrears of pay or pension money or Bounty land to which they are entitled under any Acts or Resolutions of the Congress of the United States. Witness my hand in Bartholomew County Indiana on this thirteenth day of December AD 1852
Thomas S Jones

Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace  in and for said county on the day and year above written.
Jephthah Stucker {Seal}
Justice of the Peace
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Know all men by these presents that I Thomas S Jones of Bartholomew County Indiana administrator of the Estate of Polly Jones deceased widow of Thomas Jones deceased a solider in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution as set forth in my foregoing declaration and in the former over to which it refers; do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph J. Coombs of Washington City D. C. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the United States before any Department thereof any and all claims I have to arrears of pay or pension money or bounty land as administrator aforesaid under any Acts or Resolutions of the Congress of the United States to the benefit of which the Secretary of the Interior may deem me entitled.
Said Attorney is authorized in my name to demand at my Department of said Government a reconsideration of any decision wither to or hereafter to be given touching my interests and
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and to obtain from any Department or the archives thereof any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in any wise bearing on the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of.
Said attorney is authorized to do all necessary acts and deeds to carry out the foregoing purposes and to receive the certificate of Pension or other character of Drafts or evidence of the amounts due me; and to appoint one or more Sub-Attorneys and confer on him or them – all the powers herein confirmed on Joseph J. Coombs hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
Witness my hand in Bartholomew County Indiana on this thirtieth day of December AD 1852
Thomas S. Jones {Seal}
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Bartholomew County Indiana Sct}
Be it known that on this thirtieth day of December in the year AD 1852 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county Thomas S. Jones the subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivery the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes of therein set forth.
In testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name on the day and year above written.
Jephthah Stucker {Seal}
Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana
Bartholomew County, Jr
I, Isaac S Boardman, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in this and for said County, hereby certify that Jephthah Stucker, Esquire, before whom the annexed Declaration, made by Thomas S. Jones, bearing date the 30th day of December 1852, was subscribed and sworn to, and before whom the within Power of Attorney was acknowledged was at the time then of said swearing,, subscribing and acknowledging, and still is, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Barthlomew, that the signatures, purporting to be his; are genuine and that his said official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and cause the seal of said county of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed this 26th day of January 1853.
I.S. Boradman
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

5735

P. O. Polly Jones
Service: Thomas

Enlisted:       ,18
Discharge:    ,18

Application filed:   ,18

The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as “For proof of identity with the solder of the same name on the North Carolina records.”

Attorney:
P. O.
   Recognized.   --- Contract.
   Cert. of Dis.  Searched for    , 18

[Stamped REJECTED]
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12,245

Polly Jones
Ind

[Illegible] V Ellis
Dec 3d /50 [Illegible] 
Letter V. Ellis Apr 23 1851
J. J. Coombs [Illegible] 

Acts – 7 July 1838 -
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No 12245

Polly Jones
Ind Thomas
5735
Sent to Hon Sidney Breese 45} [Nov 5 scratched out]
“ “ Hon A. B. Ficklin [scratched out 7 April 1866[
to Hon W L Marcy July [22 scratched out] 1847

Letter to J J Coombs 31st May 1853
Let Uri Manly [Illegible] 

Act July 7 1838
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State of Indiana
Bartholomew County
Nov 20 1850

The Commissioner of Pensions will please permit Mr. V. Ellis to examine my application for a pension filed about four years ago.
Mary [her x mark] Jones

Attest:
Wm A Hamilton
B F Mynes

under widows Acts July 1836 or March 1837
V Ellis
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Mr. Cole will oblige me if he will again send over the pension papers No. 12,245 under Act July 7/38 in case of Mary or Polly Jones, widow rejected. I omitted to take a not on one important point. My authority was sent to you last week.
Yours truly V. Ellis

Please send these papers again B. Hooe cc
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Sir     Pen Off
Dec. 1 46

I have the honor to make the following report upon the appeal of W. Manly in the case of Polly Jones.
His case was presented in 1845 upon an indefinite declaration for service in the N. C. entitled & the certificate of the Comptroller of N C relied upon for a fulfilment of all the requirements of the rules touching the narrative & proof of service this appeal as far as it is deciphered admits that the narrative of service has not been furnished and assails the rule which requires it. As the pension is a pro rata one to be computed by the half pay while in service, it follows of course that the special features of a tour must be known before it can be understandingly adop-
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ted as entitling her to a pension & computed in her pension. His objection then is to the law which by granting a ratable pension renders it indispensable necessary to adjudicate the data by which it is computed. If claimants cannot furnish the data, the Dept. has nothing to decide upon.
But W. Manly’s appeal is principally directed against the requisition of some proof, that her husband who was the common name of Thomas Jones, rendered any one term often 11 tours of militia duly credited to that name in the Comptrollers certificate and maintains that such requisition accordingly the records of service & renders it null & unassailing. If instead of general denunciation of that requisition W. Manly had pointed out the data which he would obtain from the papers to compute this pension he would have been better understood. If he had maintained that all of 11 tours were rendered by one & the same persons amounting to above four years
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and a half he would have been answered that it would require the most satisfactory proof in detail to establish so improbable a conclusion as that of a militia man on N. C. rendering under such an extraordinary number of drafts between 4 & 5 years service. If he claims that her husband was that militia man, the proof of it has not been filed & if he asserts that he was one of the Thomas Jones embraced in the Comptrollers certificate, he [Illegible] be required to point to anything in her papers which would enable him to assign to her husband any particular tour or tours.
If claims can be established upon such grounds as are set up in this case, every woman who were married to a Thomas Jones before 94 might make out a similar declaration and obtain the complex certifi
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-cate and all the services rendered by men of that name might there be computed over & over again in the pension of each. It is not necessarily a particular claim because the proofs do not establish it to be a good one. Papers No 1 & 2 enclosed.

Hon W L Marcy
Dec 1 ‘46


Hon W L Marcy
Secy [Secretary] of War
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Pension Office
April 7, 1846

I have the honor to inform you that the affidavit of William Chase in the case of Polly Jones [Illegible] no evidence whatever of her husband Thomas Jones services.
The certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina filed with Mr. Jones papers shows a number of payments amounting in all to upwards of £152. Made to the very common name of Thomas Jones, for service in the Milita of that states no one individual rendered as many tours as appears upon this certificate, and before claimant can receive the benefit of any portion thereof she must produce the testimony of credible witnesses who from their own personal knowledge can state the time of her husband entering the service in each time and the time and manner of his leaving the same with the name of [words scratched out] the company and find officers under whom the service was performed. The witness William Chase did not become acquainted with Jones until 1812 and of course cannot give such testimony as is here required. No one tour of service has been set forth
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by Mrs Jones in here declaration nor has she produced proof at all satisfactory to sustain her claim

[written sideways – Hon. O B Ficklin 1 April 1846]

Hon. O B Ficklin House of Rep
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[addition and division calculating to 142.67]

[written sideways – 12245 Polly Jones Inda [Indiana] Act 7 July 38]
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[Illegible] M. Sept 27 1845

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Sir
I send you herewith the papers in the case of Polly Jones to a pension. May I ask you enlist attention to them as she is old and death may have deprive her of the benefit of the case.

Sidney Breese
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Marshall, Illinois
Sept 18th 1846
Sir, some 18 months since I presented through my friend Judge Breese of the State the claim of Mrs. Polly Jones widow of Thomas Jones of Indiana to a pension under act 7 July 1838. The Commissioner refused to allow it. In her declaration she alleges that her husband served in the North Carolina militia. She filed record proof both of marriage age & of her husbands services. But the Commissioner required proof of identity or in other words required her to produce a witness who had a personal knowledge that her husband was the Thomas Jones whose name is borne upon the NC Record. Is not the effect of such a requisition on the part of the Commissioner to virtually satisfy the Pension Laws many mistakes. If a witness can be found who can give such proof of [Illegible] he can as matter of course give such a statement as well establish the husbands services without the record. So that for all practical purposes the Record is rendered null and the applicant deprived of its benefits.
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One now as to that thought now in the Pension Office “Speciation” she must “Specify” the exact date when her husband entered the Army his officers Battles he was in & in short she is required to make a statement on oath which no honest claimant, as a general rule, is able to do. Suppose for example the husband served 2 years in Vermont in 1775 6 he serves no more in the war and in 1793 he names a woman in Georgia can it be expected that she is able to tell much about his services or that she is at all able to “Specify” then as required of the Commissioner now this Mrs Jones has either preferred a fair claim or else she has professed a fraudulent one knowing it to be [Illegible]. Has she acted like a woman interfering to possess a fraudulent claim? It leaves to me that if she has intended to prefer a fraudulent claim she would first have [Illegible] to the proper office in NC and as a time precisely how long her husband served – [Illegible] that she [Illegible] alleged the time of his service at a period when such [Illegible] here. [Illegible] have been performed and though she would have alleged him to have serviced under certain officers [Illegible] have served and in that way [Illegible several words] the Record.” but perhaps [Illegible] furnished sufficient
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“specifications” and proof of [Illegible] she however swears to no such thing. She simply swears the truth. that her husband & others informed her that he served in the Revolution and in the NC militia – how long it is probably impossible for her to state – her husbands name is found on the Record. I need not say to you that the manner in which he had served makes her claim much I think than it would be if the case supposed and this too upon well established rules of evidence. I believe she has “identified” herself sufficiently as the widow of the soldier and that her claim ought to be allowed – allowed for something – anything for in her advanced age and impoverished condition she is not to die late the amount. He certainly served 6 months and with that she will be [Illegible] – it could not have been the intention of that act if [Illegible] to require impossibilities of claimants.
I [Illegible several words] with the most accumulation of [Illegible several words] but I fell myself upon the decision of the Commissioner in this case and request that Mrs. Jones claim be examined in your office and I can hardly doubt but the old lady will be gratified of the allowance of her certificates, which may be
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[Illegible] to me.

Very Respectfully
I have the honor & [Illegible] 
Uri Manly

Hon Secretary of War

[written sideways – Marshall Ind Nov 18/46
U Manly
Appeals [Illegible] Polly Jones pension claim
M. 420 [Illegible] 25/46
Pension Office]
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July 22 '47
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170
Gen. Office
July 22nd 47
Sir
Enclosed you will receive copy of my report to the Secy of War upon your appeal in the care of Polly Jones; and I am instructed by his endorsement therein to inform you that he concurs in & confirms it. -

Uri Manly Esq.
Marshall Illinois -
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Mary Jones
Widow of
Thos Jones
Revolutionary
Act 1838 - Ky
Sus.

Addl [Additional] Evidence

J. J Coombs
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Bartholomew County Indiana Sct
I Zachariah Tannehill of said County aged past 70 years do make the following statement (Viz) “I was well and intimately acquainted with Thomas Jones who died in this county many years ago (more than 20 I think). The said Thomas Jones was a reputed Soldier of the Service of the United States (of the North Carolina Troops as well as I now remember) in the War of the Revolution. I have often heard him tell of his said services. We were together in Kentucky Militia War 1812 (I as Quartermaster and he as a solider) I had some slight acquaintance with him before; and our being together their and our intimate acquaintance above named impressed his statements were probably more fully on my mind than would otherwise have been the case; I was his neighbor in Gallatin County Kentucky for a short time, and then here for several years. I heard him speak of having been in a battle or battles
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in Revolutionary War cannot say what over - His statements were generally received and believed to be true. I never heard it contradicted or called in question – He was a man whose statements could be relied on – Such was his general reputation – The said Thomas Jones left Mrs Mary Jones is widow – She applied in her lifetime from this county for a pension as I was told; She died in this county several years ago; never having married again.
And I am a disinterested witness. Witness my name this 8th day of February 1856. Z. Tannehill

Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county on the day and year set forth therein – I certify that said affiant is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity. I believe him to be of the age that he calls himself and to be disinterested, and I am myself so. G. W. Grason 
Justice of the Peace  {Seal}
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I Valentine Lain of Bartholomew County Indiana aged past 51 years do make the following statement Viz
“I was well and intimately acquainted with Thomas Jones who died in this county many years ago. He was a reputed solider of service of United States Revolutionary War. I remember seeing him once at a 4th July celebration – he was the oldest man there and being a reputed Revolutionary Solider he was honored as such. And before the Declaration was read he got up and talked awhile to the audience and told them of the scenes that he had witnesses and the battles he had been in what over I do not now remember and I am disinterested.
Valentine Lain 
Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county on this 8th day of February 1856. And I certify that said affiant is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity. I believe him to be of the age that he calls himself and to be also disinterested. And I certify
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that I am also disinterested.
George W. Grason {Seal}
Justice of the Peace 

State of Indiana}
Bartholomew County} SS
I Nathan Tompkins Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County do certify that George W. Grason whose genuine signature appears to the within certificate to the affidavit of Zachariah Tannehill, was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly Commissioned and qualified.
I further certify that George W. Grason whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned & qualified Witness my name and official Seal at my office in Columbus on this 14 day of February 1856.
Nathan Tompkins Clk
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Polly Hones Wid
of Thomas
Ind

J J Coombs
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Bartholomew County Indiana Sct
It is hereby ordered to be certified that satisfactory evidence has this day been presented to me Zachariah Tannehill The said judge of the county of Common please in and for said county in open count now sitting that Thomas Jones a reputed soldier in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution departed this life in the said county on the 12 day of June AD 1832 (Eighteen hundred and thirty two) leaving Polly Jones his widow who survives him and remained his widow and in her lifetime applied for a Revolutionary Pension as the widow of said Thomas Jones and died in this county on the 21st day of [August scratched out] July AD 1851 (Eighteen hundred and fifty one) leaving at her death the following named her surviving and only surviving children (Viz.)
1 Margaret intermarried with Archibald Thomson 
2 Leanah intermarried with George Baker 
3 Godfrey Jones this declarant
4 Thomas S. Jones
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5 Joseph Jones 
6 Smith D Jones 
Given under my hand in open court aforesaid on this 4th day of January AD 1853.
Z. Tannehill {Seal}
Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas

[whole sentence scratched out]

State of Indiana
Bartholomew County,
I Isaac S. Boardman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas certify that the foregoing certificate of Zachariah Tannehill, made and subscribed by him in his own proper handwriting, is duly recorded in the records of said Court; that the said Zachariah Tannehill is the sole Judge of said Court of Common Pleas for said County, and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit
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Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Columbus this 19th day of January 1853.
I S Boardman
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Hon Sidney Breese

Nov 5 45
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Pension Office
Nov 5 1845

Sir
The papers in the case of Mrs Polly Jones have been examined and filed.
No evidence is advanced to show that the Thomas Jones, whose service is proved by the certificate of the Comptroller of NC was the husband of claimant. Distinct proof of his identity will be required before her claim for a pension under the act of ’38 can be allowed

Hon Sidney Breese [Illegible]
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To the Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Sir;
I have to ask a reconsideration of the case of Polly Jones, rejected, under act July 7/38 & letter 3/43 and numbered 12,245. The records in Indiana, has the widow of Thomas Jones of the N. Carolina militia.
On examining the papers several weeks ago, I made up my mind that a great blunder had been committed by the agent, who prepared the papers, as it seems Mrs. Jones was made to swear she was married in 1785, when from letters written to me, it seems she was married much later, when the record of her marriage proves she was married in 1793
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There was a singular coincidence between a portion of her declaration & the record proof of marriage filed in the papers; in this, that she is made to say she was married in 1785, but says 1st August, whilst the endorsement on the marriage bond says she was married 1st August 1793. She was right in the month & day of the month, but by some means the year was wrongly inserted. There are some other coincidences, between her answers to questions herewith filed, & the proofs filed towit. She was called Polly Clarkson, & such is the name in the bond! & her mother was a widow & was Elizabeth Clarkson, &
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Such is the proof of the bond filed: & she says she was married by Lester or Luster, & such appears to be the first.
The questions which she has answered were propounded by me, by letter, without any intimidation to her of the uses to be made of the answers or of the facts required to be established. The proof & identity of marriage seems clear, under the explanations her answers furnish. As to service, there is proof of his declarations made nearly 20 years ago, & proof of services from the Comptroller of N Carolina. The Comptroller
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Says in another letter that £25.00 (twenty five pounds) I think, would be the pay for 6 months services. At this rate Jones served nearly three years.
Respectfully submitted
Vespasian Ellis
her attorney

[written sideways – Polly or Mary Jones Widow of Thos Jones for Reconsideration
Vespasian Ellis Atty Washington]
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Pension Office
March 14, 1856,

Sir
The affidavits which accompanied your letter on the 5th inst. a affiant & the claim of Polly Jones a widow of Thomas, add nothing to the testimony previously filed & the case. The certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina referred to by you, were payments to a Thomas Jones [Illegible] to $377.50 [Illegible] upwards of five years service. That certificate, [Illegible] the service of several soldiers with that name, a very common one or one soldier not for the reg nature of the [Illegible] service five years [Illegible] of North Carolina. If the Comptroller will make a new certificate, declaring the different districts in where the parties [Illegible] the payments, some [Illegible] may be reached by this office. [Illegible]
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[Illegible several words] to determine whether Polly Jones’ husband served an amount of service [Illegible] would [Illegible several words]


[written sideways – J J Coombs June 14, 1856]


J. J. Coombs Esq.
Present
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Washington, March 5th 1856

Sir,
Enclosed I have the honor to present additional evidence in support of the claim of Mary or Polly Jones, widow of Thomas, of Ky, for pension under Act of 1838.
The depositions of Zachariah Tannehill and Valentine Lain, now prosecuted that very strongly to identify the claimants husband with the service now by the certificate of the Comptroller of N. C. and I hope will be deemed sufficient to warrant an allowance of the claim.
Very Respectfully
Yr. obt. Sert. [Your obedient Servant]
J. J. Coombs

Hon. J. Minot
Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions
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31 May 1853
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573

Pension Office
31st May 1853

Sir,
The application of the heirs of Polly Jones dec’d of Indiana, has been received and filed under the Act 7th July 1838, with the original papers.
In the year 1846 the case of Polly Jones was taken to the then Secretary of War, on an appeal, and he confirmed the decision of this office rejecting the claim. The evidence supplied, exhibited no fact no already set forth in the first application, and cannot be regarded of the material character which would entitle the case to re-examination.

J. J. Coombs Esq.
Washington
D. C.
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Washington Feb. 1, 1853

Sir:
Enclosed please find the declaration of the dclart [declaration] of Polly Jones, widow of Thomas of Indiana, claiming the benefit of the Act of 1838. Also, certificate of cause as to death & hardship.
Mrs. Jones needs a declaration in her lifetime, claiming for 6 or of tours of service in the North Carolina Militia. In the file you will find a certificate from Comptroller of N. C. showing numerous payments to Thomas Jones, amounting in all to about £142.

Very respectfully
Your obt Servt [Your Obedient Servant]
J. J. Coombs

J E Heath, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Polly Jones 
wid of Thomas
Act 1838 Wid.




J J Coombs
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Know all men by these presents that I Godfrey Jones of Johnson County Indiana one of the children of Polly Jones deceased the widow of Thomas Jones deceased a reputed soldier in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution as set forth in my foregoing declaration do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph J. Coombs of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the United States my claim to arrears of pay or pension money to which I may be entitled by reason of the facts set forth in my above named and foregoing declaration under any Act or Resolution if the Congress of the United States to the benefit of which I may be entitled.
Said Attorney is authorized in my name to demand at any Department of the said Government a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given touching my interests and to receive from any Department or the [Illegible] thereof any and all information or evidence of
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of any character whatever relating to or in any wise bearing on the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of
Said Attorney is authorized moreover to do any and all necessary acts and deeds to carry out the foregoing purposes and to receive the certificates or pensions or other character of drafts or evidences of the amounts due me and to appoint one or more Sub-attorneys and to confer on him or them all the powers herein conferred on Joseph J. Coombs and I hereby certify and confirm whatever my said Attorney may in my name do or cause to be done by virtue of these presents.
Witness my hand and seal in Johnson County Indiana on this 18th day of October 1852.
Godfrey Jones {Seal}
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Johnson County Indiana Sct}
Be it known that on this 18th day of October A.D. 1852 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Godfrey Jones the subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribed my name.
Morgan Picher J. P. {Seal}
The State of Indiana} SS.
Johnson County}
I, Jacob Sibert, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Jonson aforesaid, do hereby certify that Morgan Pitcher, whose certificate of acknowledgement appears to the Instruments to which this is attached was, on the day and at the time of making said certificates to=wit, the 18th day of October 1832, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Johnson duly elected, Commissioned, and qualified and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts.
In Witness of which, I hereunto affix the seal of said Court, and subscribe my name at Franklin this 18th day of October A. D. 1854
Jacob Sibert, Clerk.
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State of Indiana} SS
Brown County} Be it known that on this 5th day of March 1846 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared William Chase aged seventy years past who being duly sworn according to law says that he was personally acquainted with Thomas Jones from about the year Eighteen hundred & twelve or thirteen until his death and also with his wife Polly Jones who is now an applicant for a pension as the widow of said Thomas Jones and says that he has frequently heard said Thomas Jones talk about his services in the Revolutionary war and the officers he was under and the battles he was in says he has heard him say that he was about sixteen years old when he entered the service in North Carolina says he has heard him say he was in the Battle when Cornwallis was taken and says that said Thomas Jones was a man of truth & from what he ahs heard him relate respecting his services he has no doubt but he was in the Revolutionary war and further says that he the said Thomas Jones was generally reputed to be a Revolutionary soldier.
And further says that although said Thomas Jones was an old man exempt from military duty about 56 years old at the time of the late war that he volunteered and served twelve months as a ranger then took a drafted mans place went to New Orleans and was in the Battle at Orleans says he was there with him.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this}   William Chase
5th day of March 1846}
William A. Boardwell JP {Seal}
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I certify that William Chase who has this day subscribed & sworn to the foregoing deposition is a credible witness. Given under my hand this 5th day of March 1846.
William A Cardwell J. P. {Seal}

2

The State of Indiana} SS
Brown County}
I Thomas M. Adams clerk of the circuit court of said County do hereby certify that William A. Cardwell is an acting Justice of the Peace of said County duly Commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said county at Nashville this 11th day of March A.D. 1846.
Thomas M. Adams Clerk
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Mary Jones 
wid. Of Thos -
Ky.

Act 1838 Sus

Addl Evidence
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State of Indiana
Barthlomew County
William Herod aged fifty two years and Jesse Ruddick aged 69 years swear that they knew Thomas Jones in his lifetime that he was reputed and believed in his lifetime in his neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier – and that said Jones used to say of himself that – he had been a Revolutionary solider.
William Herod
Jesse Ruddick

Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Justice of the Peace for said county this fifth day of July 1853.
George W. Grason {Seal}
Justice

State of Indiana
Barthlomew County SS I Isaac S. Boardman clerk of the circuit court of said county, do hereby certify that the above subscribed George W. Grason Esq. before whom the above was acknowledged, and whose certificate of acknowledgment in his own proper handwriting is thereto annexed, was, and yet is, a duly Commissioned & qualified acting Justice of the Peace within said county, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Columbus, July 5th 1853.
Isaac S. Boardman 
Clerk
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3-1865

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON

COPY

April 23, 1851. 

V. Ellis, Esq.
Present.
Sir:

The case of Polly Jones of Indiana, under the Act of July 7th 1838, has been examined. I find that in 1846 this case was taken to the then Secretary of War, on an appeal and he confirmed the decision of this office, rejecting the claim.
My opinion is that this decision was correct, but if I differed from it I have no authority to reverse it. The supplemental declaration which you file cannot be regarded as in any sense additional evidence.

(signed}  J. E. Heath, Comr. [Commissioner]