Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10603, for Thomas Tignor, Virginia
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Service                                                                                Number
Va                                 Tignor, Thomas                       R 10603

Contents
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*  Thomas Tignor
Ohio

Rejected 
See let 17 July 1840
Hon. Simin Banks
10603
service in a military capacity less than six months

Act 7 June 1832
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LEFT                                           RIGHT
Dec 27- 1904          Stamped REJECTED top right corner
JH Elder                                10603
Atlanta, Ga                      Thos Tignor
                                            1852 Printed
                                           Rejected and
                                   Suspended Pensions
                                               Book gives 
                                   Reasons for rejection-
                     "not military service for six months"
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10.603
Thos Tignor
July 8, 1840 - 74
Richwood Ohio

Aug 82 King + Queen Va
Capt Wm Dew
Col Wm Lyne
Pvt to Apl 83

March to Todds Bridge
Fredericksburg
Fraser Ferry Gloucester

Died July 3, 1851
no ?
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House of Representatives 16th July 1848

Sir, I enclose for your examination and decision 
the application of Thos Tignor asking to be
placed on the pension list for service rendered in the Revolutionary War. I knew Tignor
many years ago, located from my bounty to 
the state of Ohio I always understood in the 
neighborhood there he was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War.
                                                                    ______________
                                                                  Jesse Banks
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Power of Attorney
case of Thos Tignor
for examining Revly papers
Ohio or
Virginia
Suspended

Ex
F. E. Hasslen
Sep 27 1852
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Power of Attorney
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, etc.

State of Ohio
County of Union
JBW Haynes, Justice of the Peace personally appeared [illegible] aged 54 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due for of law states that she is the Daughter of Thomas Tigner who was a revolutionary soldier in the State of Virginia and that he died on the third day of January 1851 and that her mother, named Sarah died on the 28th day of September 1832 and that they were married on the _ day of _ in the year 1786 and that they were residents of Richmond in the State of Virginia and that they resided there within Ohio 46  years-till her mothers death, and that She resides in Venison Co. Ohio and that furthermore She by the presents, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington city, D.C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due her as daughter of Thomas Tigner who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law She may be entitled. 

In witness wheerof, she has on this 9th day September 1852 hereunto signed her name, and affixed her seal. 
Nancy Grace [Seal]

Witness: JBW Haynes
Witness:  FTWMillon

Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify that the Subscriber has always by the community been known as the daughter of the said Thomas Tigner
Dated on this 9th day of September 1852
JBW Haynes, J.P.
State of Ohio
County of Union
I hereby certify that JBW Haynes Exq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of Union County Court, this tenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 

James Turney Clerk.
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35.019
Thomas Tignor
Ohio

Hn. L? Bank,
HR
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of Ohio
Union County SS

On this 8th day of July 1840 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Thomas Lignor a resident of Richwood in the County of Marion and State of Ohio aged seventy five years next August 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. Col Wm Syne of King + Queen County Virginia and Capt Wm Dew of the same county and state in the latter part of August 1782 and served to about the middle of the month of April next thereafter. That he resided in said King + Queen County a when he entered the service as a volunteer, that he was not in any battle. We march to King William County and a place ? Tods Bridge and was back ? from that place to forge old field  and from that to Fredericksburg Va the business was taking care of prisoners which to Fredericksburg we marched in April and delivered them up to General Mathews by Lieutenant Fogg. ? during the month of October went with waggons loaded with balls from Piscatagua to Fraseurs ferry from there to Gloster on the East side of Yourk River and got there just after the seige of York. Saw there George Cisden a Capt of Militia from Richmond County and his Lieu. Thomas Smith
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Capt Dew and his company and myself joined LayFayette at ? Morgan Hills and from there I was detached to go with the balls aforesaid Booker Jeffreys was adjulant at the Morgan Hills and does not remember the name of any of the regular officers. That he went home with Lieu Fogg and was not called on any more. That he has no documentary evidence of his discharge or service and he knows of no person living who can testify to his services. That he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or teritory.

Tho Tignor
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

? Hamilton a clergy man residing in the County of ? and James W. B. Hanes residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Tignor who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 74 or 75 years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

William Hamilton
J,B,

And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after its 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 Wm Hamilton who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergy man resident in the county aforesaid and that James W. B. Hanes who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit,
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of this 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 William Hamilton is a clergyman resident in the county of Union aforward and that James B. W. Haynes who has also signed the same is a resident of the same county and is a credible person, and that this statement is entitled to credit.

I James H. Gill Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Tignor for a pension. The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8th day of July 1841.

James H. Gill Clerk