Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4985, John High, Va.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE   |                                 NUMBER
Va.             |     High, John      |   R.4985

CONTENTS
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State of Indiana Warren County

On this 18th day of May AD. 1850 personally appeared in open Court, before the Probate Court now sitting, John High of the County of Warren and State of Indiana aged Ninety four years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 4th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was drafted in the
month of June 1780 at Romney in the County Seat of Hampshire County in the State of Virginia, and mustered in Captain Parsons company and marched from there to Morristown, to join the army, where he was placed under command of Col. Lawson in what was called the second line or second division composed of Virginia Militia, that he remained there, with the exception of a few marches, six months or more, that from thence, he went to the Carolinas and joined Genl Green, and they crossed the Catawba River, which soon became so swelled by rain as to prevent the crossing of Cornwallis’s army for some time, that Green continued to retreat and soon crossed the Yadkin, which was swelled by the rain this deponent was placed with some four or five hundred militia at the break of day to annoy the crossing of Cornwallis but on the arrival of Cornwallis, they fled immediately. Green continued his retreat, but being joined by Genl Morgan, a battle ensued at Guilford, the troops were drawn up in three lines, the division that this deponent was in composed
the second line, there was a brisk cannonade in front by the English, and through some mistake a division quitted the field of battle, the second division maintained their fire until they were ordered to retreat, a retreat of the whole army soon followed, this battle was fought some time in March 1781. the retreat continued, when they received reinforcements and were informed that Cornwallis had retreated, we then were ordered back to Morristown which we reached after a long march, remained at Morristown some four or five months with a few marches, when we were taken by Genl Washington to the South where news was received of the arrival of a french Army, we arrived at the head of Elk river, then embarked and 
soon arrived at York Town. Here an attack was commenced on Cornwallis’s fortifications with artillery by French and Americans, we
were principally occupied in building fortifications and defending batteries, this was in October 1781. Two ships were consumed in the night and one in the morning, they were set on fire by bomb shells. Our regiment were engaged in storming a redoubt on the left of the works, and captured the troops that held it. The English made an attack and captured two batteries, their whole army soon after marched out, as prisoners of war. This deponent was discharged in November 1781 and had a written discharge which he kept until 1788 when he volunteered under Captain Parker
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to check the Indians on the Ohio River who had been committing depredations, he continued in this service about a year, and when he returned home to Hampshire County, Virginia, his discharge and all his other papers which he had when he came home from the Revolutionary war were lost, and He has no documentary evidence by which he can establish his claim and knows of no person at this late day who can testify to his service. He has forgotten the name of his Colonel, but thinks it was Col Campbell, he knew some of the Regular Officers particularly Captain Kirkwoods of the Delaware line, who he says was very near sighted and had to hold papers up high, to read them, his brother Jacob High served in the same Regiment with him and obtained a pension, he was one of the witnesses testifying to his services, Jacob lived for some time in Indiana, and finally died in Arkansas. He also recollects General Stevens who commanded some Virginia militia in the same division at the Battle of Guilford. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity, except for the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any state.
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					John    X    High
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
		Wm R Boyer, [hand signed] Clerk of the Probate 
		Court of Warren County, Ind.a
Interrogatories propounded by the Court to the Deponent
1st Where and in what year were you born
Answer  I was born on the 10th day of May 1756 on the Schuylkill in the State of Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
2c Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it 
Answer,  My age was recorded in a book, and I have written to Virginia for it, but it is lost.
3c Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live
Answer,  I was living when called into service in Hampshire County in the State of Virginia, and was then twenty four years old. After the Revolutionary war, I settled down in Hampshire County Virginia and lived there more than thirty years and raised a family. I then moved to the state of Ohio where I resided about six or eight years, I then removed to the State of Indiana and have lived in the state of Indiana twenty two or twenty three years, and I now reside in the County of Warren and State of Indiana

4th How were you called into service, were you draughted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute; and if a substitute, for whom

Answer
	  I was drafted as a militia man, I was no substitute
	  I waited until my turn came.

5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and
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Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your Service.

Answer   I recollect there was a Virginia Regiment at Guilford commanded I believe by Col Hawes. I recollect Kirkwood as I have Said before. I recollect Genl Stevens, and I recollect there was some Maryland regiments at Guilford. I was in the Service as a militia man, from the time I was drafted in June 1780 until I was discharged at York Town in November 1781

6th  Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.

Answer,   I have as I have stated in my declaration been regularly discharged in writing from the Service, but any discharge was lost with other papers in Hampshire County, Virginia. I do not recollect what officer signed my discharge.
7th   State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your Service, as a Soldier in the Revolution

Answer,    Judge Tharpe, James Musgrave, Sidney Cronkhite, and any of my neighbors can testify to my character. Musgraves father knew me in the Revolution, and lived in the same County with me, and could prove my service if he was living.
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						John    X    High
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
	Wm R Boyer, [hand signed] Clerk of the Probate Court of Warren County Indiana

We Isaiah Tharp and James Musgrave residing in Warren County, Indiana, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John High who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be of the age he states himself to be in the said declaration and the said Isaiah Tharpe says that he became acquainted with the said John High in Ross County in the State of Ohio in the year 1819 and has been acquainted with him since, that [“that”is crossed out] the said John High having removed to the State of Indiana in the fall of 1827 and the said Isaiah Tharpe in the fall of 1834 and they have both resided in Warren County Indiana since, and the said Isaiah Thorpe further says that he has for many years, heard the said John High in conversation, narrate his services in the Revolutionary War, and the said James Musgrave says that he has frequently heard his father, John Musgrave who is now deceased, speak of the
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services of the said John High, that his father resided in early life in the Counties of Hampshire and Hardy Virginia that he has heard his father say that he recollected very well when the said John High left for the purpose of joining the army, but whether he stated as a militia man or volunteer the same James Musgrave does not now recollect, that he has heard his father speak of it as a long as eighteen years ago, and often since, and the said Isaiah Tharpe and James Misgrave both say, that the said John High is a man of veracity, and that they believe him to have been a Revolutionary Soldier as he states.
				Isaiah Tharpe
				James Musgrave

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
				Wm R Boyer, Clerk  [hand signed] 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Isaiah Tharp and James Musgrave who have signed the preceeding certificate are residents of Warren County, Indiana, that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, William R. Boyer Clerk of the Probate Court of Warren County Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John High for a pension.
		In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
 		my hand and the seal of the said
                 Court this Eighteenth day of May
                 AD. 1850.	Wm R  Boyer Clerk [hand signed]
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Pension Office	      	       February the 19th
Commissioner, W.C.       1855						       
      Dear
          Sir 	     I wish to know of you whether
John Highs pension has been obtained or not his papers Was sent to the office by his agent & I have Never learned what has been done In the mater since John High my father willed the claim to me & my Sister. I will say to you why he done so my mother Died some two years previous to the death of my father and myself & sister being the only two children of my fathers second family & the taking care of him was left to us I supose was the reason that he Willed the claim to us I would like to now whether we could obtain the claim or not
Please direct your leter to west lebanon warren Co Ia
		
				Very  respectfully, 
				Amaziah High [hand signed]
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May 5, 1932.
							[Illegible]							 
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						       John High - R. 4985
Mabel High
[illegible #] South [illegible #] th Street
Springfield, Illinois.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information relative to Frederick and John High, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim R. 4985, based upon the service of John High in that war.

John High was born May 10, 1756 “on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania; the names of his parents are not given.

He applied for pension March 12, 18?0 [third digit is illegible], at which time he was residing in Warren County, Indiana, having moved to that county in 1827.

He stated that while residing in Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia, he enlisted in June, 1780, served as private under Captain Isaac Isaac [repeated] Parsons and Colonel Lawson in the Virginia troops, that he was in the battle of Guilford and at the siege of Yorktown and was discharged in November or December, 1781.

He stated also that in 1788, he volunteered under Captain [Illegible first name] Parker and served one year defending the settlements on the Ohio river [illegible] the Indians.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension laws.

The soldier lived in Hampshire County, Virginia, thirty-nine years and raised a family there, then moved to Ross County, Ohio and resided six years, after that moved to Warren County, Indiana.

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        In 1855, Amaziah High of West Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, stated that she and her sister, Julian, were the only surviving children of the soldier’s “second family”, that her mother, whose name is not given, had died about two years previous to the death of her father, and that they had cared for the soldier; she did not give the date of her father’s death. In 1857, she referred to soldier’s son, William High, who served during the War of 1812; his post office then was Marshfield, Warren County, Indiana.
	The soldier’s brother Jacob High, served with him in the Revolution.
	A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office fails to show a claim for pension on file based on the service of a Frederick High.
	It is suggested that as a possible means of securing information relative to military service of soldiers in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, you apply to the Adjutant General, War Department, this city.

				Very truly yours, 
                                   A. D. HILLER,
                                   Assistant to Administrator.


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John High 37976
Indiana
Suspended
Act 29 March 1850
To Hon, S. F. Vinton
Hon J. E. McDonald 25th June 1850
Amaziah High Mch 8, 1855
Same May 18, 1855

4983

Act 7 June 1862
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West Lebanon Ind
Feb 24


Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City District
of Collumbia [sic]


John High 
Act of Jul 1832
Cole
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606
Pension Office
June 25th 1850

Sir
   I have the honor to inform you that the Supplemental declaration of John High, under the act of 7 June 1832 has been received and filed with his other papers.
   In his declaration, Claimant states that he was drafted in the march of June 1780 at Romey [sic: Romney] in Hampshire County Va and mustered in Capt Parsons Company and marched from there to Morristown where he was placed under the Command of Col Lawson where he remained 6 mo or more, and was then marched to the South, and continued in the that section until after the battle of Guilford Court House in March 1781.  After they were ordered back to Morristown.  He states also that his brother Jacob High served with him.  This narrative does not correspond at all with the Course of Service rendered by the Militia of Virginia, that service was performed under drafts of 2 months time, and seldom continued for a larger period in the field at one time.  It appears from claimants statement that he was in continuous Service from June 1780 until the Closing of the Companies
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in 1781 at Yorktown.  By reference to the papers of Jacob High who applicant states was his brother and enlisted with him, was not at any time, it appears, at Morristown He states that he belonged to the Militia and that he served several times upon the Ohio River, and afterwards  March to the South and served one tour under Capt Parsons of Col Vanmeter's Regiment of 3 months.
   [marked out: Capt Capt Pars] If High served as stated in his declaration he must have belonged to the Regular Line. Capt Parsons the only other man who he states he served was attached to the Militia.  [marked out:  Before the claim]  If he belonged to the Continental Establishment he could not have belonged to the Command of Capt Parsons.  He should state more clearly the commencement and the duration of each term [marked out: of the] for which he enlisted or was drafted, the names of his company and field officers, and sustain [marked out: the] his statement by the testimony of those who had a personal knowledge of the same before a possible decision can be made in his case.
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John High
Indiana


The name of John High 
on roll
John Highs pay
164--Sol. Inf  [pound sterling]101:3:9
amt received does not
correspond with length of
service of Claimant


Act June 1832
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Indiana State      }
County of Warren}
  
   On this [?] day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred & fifty personally appeared in open Court before the Warren Circuit Court in the County of Warren & State of Indiana now sitting John High a resident of the {marked out] the County of Warren & State of Indiana aged Ninety [marked out: four] three years old on the tenth day of last May & will be ninety four years old, on the tenth day of next May, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June Seventh Eighteen hundred & thirty two that he entered the service of the United States at the age of twenty four years, he being drafted at the County seat of Hampshire County & State of Virginia & I was then mustered into the service under Captain Isaac Passons & in his Company in June AD Seventeen hundred & Eighty we then marched to Morristown N. Jersey here we joined the Army under Colonel Lawson who was Colonel of our Regiment which was called the Second line or Second division composed of militia from Virginia There we mustered six months or more to the exception of a few marches we marched from there to the State of Carolina where we met Gen. Green's Army near the Catawba River.  There news was received of the approach
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Cornwallis' army then a retreat was ordered by General Green we soon crossed the Catawba River a short after it was swelled by rain so high as to prevent the crossing of Cornwallis army for some time  Gen. Green pursued the retreat & soon crossed the Yadkin River which was swelled by the rain.  I was posted with some four or five hundred militia at the [?] during the day to [?] the crossing of Cornwallis' Army but on the arrival of Cornwallis' Army we fled immediately & Gen. Green continued his retreat  At length he was found by Genl.. Morgan when a battle ensued at Gilford Virginia our troops were drawn up in three lines the division that I was in composed the second line there was a a brisk cannonade in front by the English.  Through some mistake, a division of the Army left the field of Battle. Our Division maintained their ground until they were commanded to retreat which the whole Army retreated This Battle was fought sometime in March Seventeen hundred & Eighty one to the best of my  [?].  The retreat continued across the Dan River where the Reinforcements were met.  News was received sometime after of the retreat of the Enemy & I was then ordered back to Morristown on account of some Tory Bands in that Direction after a long march we arrived at Morristown where we remained four or five months when we were marched by General Washing-  [Washington]
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-ton to the South were news was received of the arrival of a french [sic] army when General Washington made forced marches & arrived at the head [marked out: River] of Elk River then embarked & soon arrived at Yorktown  here an attack was commenced on Cornwallis' fortifications with Artillery by the French & American Armys [sic].  The battle commenced in October.  There were two ships burnt by bomb shells  Our regiment stormed a redoubt on the left of the works & captured the troops therein.  There was an attack by the brittish [sic] that captured two Regiments [marked out] some time in [blot--illegible] the whole Brittish [sic] Army marched out prisoners of war.  At this place I was discharged in December 1781 from  the Division I served in.  In Seventeen  hundred & Eighty Eight I volunteered for to check the indians [sic] on the Ohio River from murdering the settlements under Capt Henry Parker & I was in this company where I remained about one year when I returned home to Hampshire County Virginia.  My discharge from the Revolutionary Army was lost & all my other papers that I had left when I came home from the Revolutionary Army by the children getting them & destroying them.  When I settled & raised a family where I lived about thirty nine years, when I sold out my property & moved to the Ross County & State of Ohio where I lived about six years when I sold out & moved to Warren County & State of Indiana where I have lived about twenty two or twenty three years.  The reasons why I moved made an
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application for a pension before was because I thought that the United States needed the money more than I did as I was in comfortable circumstances but now I am reduced & am not worth much & am unable to work & another reason was that I had not a good opportunity to make an application for a pension.  This Deponent further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service in the army & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service & that I [?] that for Eighteen months & I served out my time I believe I was discharged by Capt Passons I also served under Capt Parsons. One year I saw Gen Lafayette at Yorktown & talked with him. In consequence of old age & a loss of memory I cannot now remember the names of all the officers.  I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present. I declare that my [marked out: his] name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State or territory.
John  his mark High
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid.  
Wm R. Boyer Clerk

[the remainder of the pages is x-ed out]

We Corbuth Hall a Clergyman residing the town of West Lebanon in the County of Warren & State of Indiana &  [blank]  residing in the same place hereby certify certify [sic] that we are well acquainted with John High who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to ninety three years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court the day & year aforesaid.
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And the Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary & served as he states.
J. Naylor Court Judge
Eleazer Bromme }
Silas Hooker       }  Associate Judges

I William R Boyer Clerk of the Warren Circuit Court in the County of Warren & State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the matter of [ink blot] application of John High for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Williamsport in said County this 13th day of March AD 1850
Wm. R. Boyer Clerk
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Washington City June 18th 1850

Sir
     I have the honor herewith to transmit the application of John High for a pension with the request that the Same may be duly examined
   Yours respectfully
    J. E. McDonald

J. B. Edwards          }
Coms of Pensions  }
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Hon. S. F. Vinton
   March 2 [overwritten: 6 or 9] /50
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711
Pension Office
March 26th 1850

Sir,
   The declaration of John High of Indiana under act 7th June 1832, referred from the Dept of the Interior to this office has been examined and filed.  He alleges to have been drafted in June 1780 to serve as a private in the Virginia line, served under Cap. Parsons & Col. Lawson and was discharged in December 1781.  There are no records in this office of the claimants service as alleged.  It will therefore be necessary to obtain the testimony of two witnesses who had a personal knowledge of his service as required in the enclosed printed regulations.  The letter of Mr. John Williams is herewith returned.

Hon. S. F. VInton
N. R.
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May 18
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Indiana

Pension Office
May 189, 1858

Sir,
   In answer to your letter of the 26th ultimo, I have to state that no allowance has been made in the case of John High, who applied for pension in 1850 under act of June 7, 1832, nor could any arrears of pension be now due and recoverable by his heirs.
   No pension could be due William High for services in the war of 1812.
   Very Respy


Amaziah High Esq  }
Marshfield,             }
Warren Co              }
Indiana                   }
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March 8/[?]3
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Pension Office
March 8 1855

Sir
   No pension can be allowed in the case of John High of Indiana until his service [marked out: are] is proved by witnesses who [marked out: know] were contemporaries and know that it was rendered.  There is no proof on file at this office to support his allegations in his declaration.  All the children are entitled [marked out: equally] equally to any pension there may be proved to be due.

Amaziah High  Esq
West Lebanon
Ind
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Warren Co. }
Indiana       }
Marshfield  }

April the 26th 1857

   I would like to know whether there Has been anything obtained from John highs Pension Claim or not by any of the heirs of John high or by any agent.  It was for revolutionary Services the Claim was willed to Amaziah high & Julian high or whether there Is any probability Of anything being got I would be very thankful to The Commissioner to send me the Information Immediately By leter [sic] or whether there there [sic] was anything ever received for his son william highs services as a substitute In the war of 1812 he went norfolk.
Very Resfuly
Amaziah high

Direct the leter [sic] to
Marshfield po.
warren Co. Ia
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Hon S. F. Vinton
March 22/50

Present letter from John Williams, with declaration of John High for a Pension

Pension Office
for answer

Commr. of Pensions
for answer,
Dept of the Interior
March 25/50
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[left hand side]

1921 Oct 17  Hist ot
Mrs. Fitz-James Robins

1932. May 5-Hist to
Mabel High  ILL
1932-June 18-Ltr to-
Mabel High Inq. history
sent as above--MLB
See her letter in
Jacob High S.32320

[right hand side]
REJECTED
4785
P.O.---
John High
Service:----
Enlisted:----, 18
Discharged, ----, 18
Application filed:---, 18
Alleges: List of Suspended claims 
printed in 1852 shows
Re-enlisted:  cause of Suspension
as follows:  "for proof of Service 
by witnesses."

Attorney:------------
P.O. ----
----Recognized.   ---------Contract
----Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ___, 18
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[ink stamp:  Record  OCT 8 1951  Division]

Mount Etna, Indiana.
Sept. 29th, 1921 .

Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-  ATTENTION COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.

   Would you please look up the war record of John High, who served in the revolutionary War from the State of Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death was living in Warren County, Indiana.  The soldier was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and we think he served in the Revolutionary War from that State.

   I am a lineal descendant of the above mentioned soldier, John High, and want this information for the purpose of becoming a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Yours,
   Mrs. Fitz-James Robins


[ink stamp:  Pension  Office  U.S.  Oct 1 1921]
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[ink stamp:  Received  Apr 4 1932  Pension Files Sub-division]

STATE OF ILLINOIS

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SPRINGFIELD    iLL. 

March 31, 1932

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:

   Can you give me any information concerning the family of "High" who settled in Virginia before the Revolutionary War?  Frederick High emigrated from Virginia in the "30's" to Indiana and in 1842 came on to Mason County Illinois where he took land grants.  I am his grand-daughter and I would like to get information that will help me to track the family back to the time they came to America.  Can you furnish me with anything in this line?
   I was advised by the Librarian of the State Historical Library of this city to write to you for this information.
   Thanking you for any facts you may be able to furnish me I am
   Yours very truly.
   Mabel High  805 S. 5th St
   Springfield, Ills.

P.S.  I found in records here a John High--Hampshire Co. Virginia who may be father of Frederick High as my father "John High" was a son of Frederick High.
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Revolutionary War Records Section.    3-525

V. L. M.
R. F. 4985

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. , ________, 19 _____

   In reply to your request of ___, received, _, for a statement of the military history of John High 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.

Dates of enlistment or appointment.  |  Length of Service.  |   Rank.   |  Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered   |   State.
                                                            |                                 |               |       Captain.                 |      Colonel.                   |
June 1780                                            |  Nov. or Dec. 1781  |   Pvt.      |    Isaac Parson              |  Lawson                        |  Va.       
   1788                                                 |    1 year                   |               |   Henry Parker              |                                      |
                                                                                                                 { defended settlements on Ohio River from Indians     

Battles engaged in, Guilford
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Romney, Hampshire Co. Va  
Date of application for pension, March 12, 1850
Residence at date of application,  Warren Co. Ind
Age at date of application, b. May 10 1756, near Philadelphia, Pa
   Remarks:  Soldiers wife died about two years before he died.  William, Amaziah and daughter Julian are the only children whose names are stated  the last two are referred to as Soldier's "Second family".  The cl. was not allowed for lack of proof of the alleged service as required by the pension [?]

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.

[following written in margins]

1849
    93
______
1756

brother Jacob

Steuben is in Steuben Co. Ind.
As it is blurred he may have meant Stevenson Warren Co.  Ind.
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June 18, 1932

BA-J/WLB
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John High
R. 4985   [illegible pencile mark]

Mabel High
805 South 54th Street
Springfield, Illinois

Dear Madam:

   Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to John High, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
   The history of John High, R. 4985, furnished you on May 5, 1832, is that of the only soldier named John High found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

   Very truly yours,


     A. D. HILLER
     Assistant to Administrator