Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35967, John Gibbons, Del.
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Service                        Number
Del. Gibbons, John      S. 35967

                                   (This file contains the last pension payment of record (RG217) of John Gibbons)
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John Gibbons
of New Castle in the state of Delaware 
who has a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Smith of the Delaware Blues line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of August 1815
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of July 1819 and sent to the Pensioner, at Dover Delaware
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 ~ $55.48
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $47..
6 months 29/31, $103.48

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818

Dead Dee 16,18/8
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John Gibbons
Private
Delaware Blues
One year

Admitted.

It must be proved, by satisfactory testimony, that the applicant served on Continental establishment 
The regiment to be designated and the name of the Colonel, or commanding officer.
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State of Delaware Ss:
In testimony that Isaac David Esquire, who made and subscribed the certificate immediately under the deposition of John Gibbons on the opposite half that of this paper and before whom the said deposition of the said John Gibbons was made, was at the time of making the said certificate and that he now is one of the Justices of the Supreme of [crossed out] Court of the State of Delaware aforesaid: - and also that Pennell Corbit Esquire who makes the two certificates hereto annexed was at the time of making the said certificates and that he now is one of the Justices of the Peace of the State aforesaid in and for New Castle County; I Henry M. Ridgely Secretary of the said State have here unto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the said State at Dover the twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the independence of the said State the forty third
H.M. Ridgely
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John Gibbons -
Adm.
The claimant lives in Dover, Del.
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State of Delaware
Kent County
Be it remembered that on the Seventh day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen, Before one Isaac Davis one of the Judges of the Supreme Court for the said State Personally appeared John Gibbons, Aged sixty four years or thereabouts and being duly sworn uppon [sic[ the Holy Avangals [Evangels] deposeth and says that in the year One thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six he Inlisted as a souldier [sic] in Captain Samuel Smiths Company in the Delaware Blues for one year, that he Marched from the [illegible] in New Castle County, that he performed regular duty, for one year and returned at the end of his term with his Captain, obtained a discharge which is Lost, and has remained in the Said county ever since, that he is poor and indigent and needs some assistance in the decline of Life, being unable to perform hard labour and destitute of support without it. 
Sworn and subscribed before on the 7th of Aug 1818 - Isaac Davis
X
his Mark
John Gibbons
State of Delaware
Kent County Ss
I do certify that John Gibbons of New Castle County in the State of Delaware served as a soldier in the Company of Samuel Smith, Captain, in the Delaware Regiment for one year in the year, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the Revolutionary War between Great Britton and the United States of America, and that he is initiated to be placed on the Pension list of the U. States, for his services. Agreeably to the Provisions of an act of Congress Passed [illegible] he being old, poor, and indigent in testimony where I have hereunto Set on my hand the 7th of August 1818
Isaac Davis
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State of Delaware Ss.

Before me James Booth Esq Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the Said State personally came Mary Gibbons Administratrix of all and singular the Goods & Chattels, Rights and Credits which were of John Gibbons late of New Castle County deceased and made Oath that the Said John Gibbons was the same John Gibbons who is registered and Enrolled as a Pensioner of the United States on the Roll or List of Pensioners in and for the State of Delaware; That the Said deceased was entitled to Eight Dollars per month to commence on the Seventh day of August, One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, as appears by his Certificate and that he departed this life on the Sixteenth day of December One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen aforesaid; and that the Said deceased then resided in the County of New Castle & State aforesaid.
Mary V her mark Gibbons

Sworn & Subscribed this      )
9th day of June A.D. 1820.   )
Before me                            )
J.A. Booth  C.S.
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I Elizabeth Lesley of Appoquinimink hundred New Castle
County and State of Delaware about thirty years of age do depose and say that I was and had been acquainted with a
certain John Gibbons who lived in said hundred above
mentioned for about eighteen years, that during his life time he was married to Mary his wife and deceased on the sixteenth of December in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and eighteen. And further the deponent says not witness her hand this twenty eighth day of April eighteen hundred and twenty.
Sworn and subscribed
before me John Lowber

Elizabeth Lesley
her Mark
State of Delaware
New Castle County

I John Lawler one of the justices of the peace in and for the County of New Castle
State of Delaware do hereby certify that Elizabeth Lesley
the deponent in the above deposition appeared before me
and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty
God that the same is true and correct in every particular.
Witness my hand this 28th of April 1820
John Lowber
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Rev. and 1812
wars section
KEL
Section
Alice V. Robinson
1423 - 21st Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Dear Madam:
December 7, 1929
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S.35967, it appears that John Gibbons
enlisted in 1776, exact date not given, and served one
year as a private in Captain Samuel Smith's Company of the
Delaware Blues.
He died December 16, 1818.
There are no data as to his family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and the name and address of person paid, you should
apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,
Records Division, citing all of the following data:
John Gibbons, Certificate No. 13396, issued July 7,
Very truly yours,
Pension was allowed on his application executed August
7, 1818, at which time he was aged about sixty-four years
and a resident of Newcastle County, Delaware.
1819, rate $8 per month, commenced August 7, 1818, Act of
March 18, 1818, Delaware Agency.
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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E
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No. 20.
State of Delaware, June 9, 1820
Received of James R. Black. President of the
Branch of the Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware,
at New Castle, Agent for paying Military Pensions in the
State of Delaware, Thirty four
dollars and fifty seven
cents being for amount of months pension due to
John Gibbons from the 7th day of August 1818
to the 16th day of December 1818
for which I have
signed duplicate receipts
her mark
Test
Evan Webster
Mary Gibbons, Admr
of John Gibbons deceased
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New Castle County ss.
8
I do hereby certify that Mary Gibbons
is the administration of all and singular the Goods & Chattels
rights and credits which were of John Gibbons late of
Appequnmink Hundred deceased, lawfully constituted and
authorized and that full faith and credit is and ought to be
given to all her lawful transactions as Administration afored
as will within the State of Delaware as elsewhere
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the Register's
Office, at New Castle the 17th day of April A.D. 1820
Evan Thomas Reg
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War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, John Gibbons, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Delaware Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
JC Calhoun Secretary of War.
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In the case of John Gibbons of New Castle County ⎬
in the State of Delaware, a petitioner for a pension
under the act of Congress of the 18 March 1818
entitled ""an act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of
the United States in the revolutionary war"
Office of the Secretary
of the State of Delaware
Dover 4 June 1819-
There are not in this office any pay rolls
of Captain Samuel Smiths
company. There is however in this office "a muster roll of Capt
Samuel Smith's company & Delaware Regiment of continual
Troops commanded by Col. John Haslet and in the service of
the United Colonies, in barracks at Dover the 12th day of April
1776", from which it appears that a person of the name of
"John Gibbons " enlisted into the said company on the 29th
January 1776 and that he was serving therein as a private
soldier at the time of the date of the said muster roll.
I know of no other paper that will tend to prove he was
of the said John Gillon
certified for the United States War Department
H. Ridgely
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Deposition
John Hyatt
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State of Delaware
New Castle County}1st
Personally appeared before me the subscribed  one of the Justices of the Peace for said County Sarah McDonough who made oath in due form of Law that she knows John Gibbons that she also knew him in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that he then enlisted as a Soldier with Captain Samuel Smith who commanded a company called the Delaware Blues that they marched from the [Trap?] in said County and that he returned with his Captain at the end of a year in witness where I have hereunto set my hand this 26 day of June 1818
Pennell Corbit
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State of Delaware
New Castle County}Ss
Personally appeared before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace for said County John Hyatt who made oath in due form of Law that he knew John Gibbons in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy six that he then enlisted as a Soldier with Capt. Samuel Smith and march'd with him from the Trap in said County in the company called the Delaware Blues in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of June 1818
Pennell Corbit
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Dear Sir,

Have you a record of payments made to John Gibbons Delaware pensioner of 1818 which would show when and wh where he died or any data in regard to his relatives?

Alice V Robinson 143 [Crossed Out] 1423 21st Ave Seattle Wash.

[Illegible] [Stamp]
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(1224M) [Stamp] OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE ADDRESS REPLY TO COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE AND REFER TO Ad: CS: KBK

Treasury Department
Washington

December 5, 1929.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Department of Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Herewith find letter postmarked November 30, 1929, by Alice V. Robinson, 1423- 21st Avenue, Seattle, Washington
regarding John Gibbons, Delaware pensioner of 1818.

referred to you for the following reasons: for attention

[Stamp]

Respectfully, 
Robt. H. Lucas, 
[Crossed Out] D. H. Blair,
Commissioner, by 
J.L. Evans.
Head of Division.
[Illegible]
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The National Archives Bounty Land Warrant Record Card* Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name Gibbons, John Grade Private Line New York
Warrant Number 7168 Acreage 100 Issued Sept. 15, 1790 to John S [illegible] , assignees 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "and Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issues to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.