Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38064, Rush Hudson, Continental Va.
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Continental Va   Hudson, Rush  S38064
B. L. Wt. 1948.100
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Rush Hudson No. 1948,
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Hudson
Rush  Declaration
7, 249
Rush Hudson Sept. 1 NJ
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Fauquier County State and District of Virginia
On this 30th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of records made so by and of Assembly invested with Common Law and chansery jurisdiction unlimited in amount and possessed also of the power of fine and imprisonment Rush Hudson aged sixty seven years in January last resident in said county and state who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that he enlisted in the year 1775 for the term of two years under Ensign Thomas Callett and Captain Samuel Hawes in the county of Caroline Virginia of the 5th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel William Spotswood that at the end of this term at Valley Forge he enlisted under Cornett Presley Thornton until the end of the war of the 3rd Virginia Regiment of Cavalry commanded by Col. George Baylor and afterward by Col. William Washington that he was discharged at Nelson's Ferry in 1783 by General Greene that he was in the Battle of Brandywine Germanton Cowpens Guilford Courthouse Campdens and Eutaus Springs that his original Declaration was sworn to before the Hon. Robert White one of the judges of Virginia that he has received his pension up to the 4th of September 1919.
I Rush Hudson do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1888 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States of the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me; nor have any income other than what is described viz--one sow and pigs, 5 shotes 1 or 2 tilling hoes 1 dutch oven 1 shoe knife 1 case knife 2 forks and spoons 1 plate 2 dint pans 1dint pot. I live upon piece of land for from Rent holding it at the pleasure of James Marsh Esquire and cultivate as much as i can with my own hands. My family consists of a wife named Anne aged sixty five years she is a sickly woman supposed to be in a consumption. A daughter named Elizabeth aged thirty two years and a granddaughter named Una aged seven years. Elizabeth helps me in cultivating the land.  she also attends to the house and takes care of her mother and niece that he is unable to support.
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to support himself and family without the assistance of his country.  Rush Hudson
Signed  sworn to and declared in open court on the 30th August 1820 by Rush Hudson Thos C. Kelly  Dy. C. FCC  

Fauquier County State of Virginia this 30th August 1820. Nimrod Farrow appeared in open court and made oath that he has been acquainted with above named Rush Hudson many years that he is very poor and infirm and unable to do much that his family and its situation is such as he has represented in the above declaration. $11.37.  
Subscribed and sworn to in open court by Nimrod Farrow on the 30th August 1820 
Thos C Kelly DyCFCC 

At a court of quarterly sessions continued and held for Fauquier County the 30th of August 1820 Rush Hudson a Revolutionary soldier offered his declaration and schedule of property which being sworn to by the said Rush Hudson and Nimrod Farrow a credible witness in open court is ordered to be filed among the records of this county. The court is of opinion that the property on the schedule mentioned is worth eleven dollars and thirty seven cents and is ordered to be certified. 
A Copy
Teste 
 Daniel Withers Clk
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Fauquier County Court this 30th day of August 1820. I Daniel Withers Clerk of the said court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and affidavit and the schedule here annexed are truly copies from the record of the said court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eleven dollars thirty seven cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 30th day of August 1820  Daniel Withers clk
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7249 
Virginia 
Rush Hudson 
of Faquier [sic] in the state of Virginia 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Bailor of the Virginia
line, for the term of six years. 
Inscribed on the roll of Virginia 
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of March 1819 and sent to the pensioner
 Faquier County Virginia  
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819: 10 17/30 4/31,   85:56   Semianl. all'ce ending 4th April 1819   48:
$133.56

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818} 

Faquier County continuance

Notification sent to Gideon Johnson Esq. 7 Nov 1820 Faquier [sic] County Virginia 
Duplicate certificate issued 17 May 1821 to Inman Homer, Esq Warrenton Va.
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Hudson certificate 
Admd. 
rate cert. 5 March 
To the pensioner 
Farrowsville, Va
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District and State of Virginia Sct

On the 14th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber sole and presiding judge of the superior court of law for the said County, personally appeared Rush Hudson aged sixty five years, resident of the the said county of Fauquier and State and District of Virginia, who being by me first duly sworn according to law.  Doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled 'an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war'.  That the said Rush Hudson enlisted in February 1775 as a private soldier in the County of Caroline in the state aforesaid in a company of infantry commanded by Captain Samuel Haws of the second Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Spotswood.  That in the year 1777 he enlisted in a company of Dragoons commanded by Col. George Bailor of the 3d Virginia Regiment, that he served in the said compy or in the service of the United States untill [sic] the year 1783, at which time he was discharged by General Green at Nelson's Ferry in South Carolina.  That he was in the battles of long [?] Brandywine, Germantown, the Cowpens and Guildford Court house.  That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support.  And that he has no other evidence of his said service except the affidavit of Capt  William Ball of Frederick County, which he expects to get.

Sworn to before me the Day and Year aforesaid.

Robt. White
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District and State of Virginia Frederick County Sct

Made oath before me the subscriber, sole and presiding Judge of the Superior Court of law for the said County by William Ball of the town of Winchester in the said County, that he served in the same regiment of cavalry with the above named Rush Hudson, and that he knows that the facts state by the said applicant respecting his services in that regiment [marked out: to be] are true.

Sworn to before me this 25th day of April 1818

Robet White

I Robert White Judge as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Rush Hudson did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the preceding and testimony, taken and had before me to the secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Certified by me the day and year last aforesaid.

Robt White.
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I Berkeley Ward Clerk of the Superior Court of Law of Fauquier County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby certify that the within named Robert White before whom the within mentioned Declaration appears to have been made was at the time of making the same and still is the sole and presiding Judge of the Superior Court of Law of Fauquier County to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well is Courts of Justice as thereout.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and annexed my private seal there being no official Seal this 25th day of May in the year 1818 and of the Independance [sic] of the United States the forty second.
   B. Ward

I Robert White Judge &c as aforesaid do hereby further certify, that it appears to my satisfaction from testimony this day given before me that the aforenamed [sic] Rush Hudson is in reduced circumstances and does stand in need of his countrys aid for a support.  Certified by me this twentieth day of Jany. 1819.  My signature being placed above the seal of Fauquier County
   Robt. White.
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I William Gibson of the county of Fauquier and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Rush Hudson the subscriber to the within declaration is a pensioner of the revolutionary War and that I have drawn his pension for him from the year 1820, from the Government of the United States up to the 4th day of March last.
   William Gibson


Rush Hudson Va. 12.
Near William Gibson Fauquier

Recd. July 16, 1832
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DEPARTMENT of WAR.
Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land
from the United States, but have not received it.  By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776. it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land
from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant :

State of Virginia
County of Fauquier
I, Rush Hudson, Corporal of Dragoons  Seventy Eight years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seventy five I enlisted for the term of two years after that term, for three years & before that term expired I enlisted for during the war,: and served in the regiment  No. 3 of Cavaliers [?]  under the command of Colonel George Balor of the Continental line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the the [sic] third regiment, commanded by Colonel William Washington,
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the
United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: therefore
KNOW all men by these presents, that I, Rush Hudson. aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John Balthrope of the above state county to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
   Rush Hudson  {seal}
Attest,
Wm Gibson
William Laurence

I, _____ aged _____  years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with _____who has
subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and believe that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest, _____

Before me, William Gibson a Justice of the peace for the county of Fauquier personally appeared the above named Rush Hudson subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed and, likewise, personally appeared _____
who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 21st day of June 1832
Wm Gibson
Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the abovewritten William Gibson was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Virginia at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Warrenton this 6th day of July 1832
John A. W. Smith C. Clerk, &c.
This [marked out]
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September 28, 1934.
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
BA-J/ady and
Rush Hudson
S.38064

Mrs. Jennie T. Grayson
P. 0. Lock Box 105
Charlottesville, Virginia

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one Rush
Hudson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers
on file in the Revolutionary War claim, s.38064, based upon
his military service in that war.
Rush Hudson was born in January 1753, place not stated.
He enlisted in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1775,
served as private in Captain Samuel Hawes' Company, Colonel
Spotswood's Second Virginia Regiment, as corporal in Captain
Churchill Jones' Company, Colonels William Washington and
George Baylor's Third Regiment of Dragoons, was in the
battles of "Long Bridge", Brandywine, Germantown, Cowpens,
Guilford Court House, Camden, and Eutaw Springs and was dis-
charged in 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 14,1818, while a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia,
his post office, Farrowsville, Virginia.
In 1820 soldier's wife, Anne, her maiden name not
stated, was aged sixty-five years, a daughter Elizabeth,was
aged thirty-two years and a granddaughter Tina, name not
clearly written, was aged seven years, the names of her
parents not stated. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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April 6, 1933.
BA-J/ADY
Rush Hudson
S.38064

Miss Nellie F. Ayres,
1595 Forrest Avenue,
Memphis, Tennessee.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one
Rush Hudson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim,S.38064,
based upon his military service in that war.
Rush Hudson was born in January 1753, place not
stated.
He enlisted in Caroline County, Virginia, in 1775,
served as private in Captain Samuel Hawes' Company,
Colonel Spotswood's Second Virginia Regiment, as corporal
in Captain Churchill Jones' Company, Colonels William
Washington and George Baylor's Third Regiment of Dragoons,
was in the battles of "Long Bridge", Brandywine, Germantown,
Cowpens, Guilford Court House, Camden, and Eutaw Springs
and was discharged in 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, while a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia, his post office, Farrowsville, Virginia.
In 1820 soldier's wife, Anne, her maiden name not
stated, was aged sixty-five years, a daughter Elizabeth,
was aged thirty-two years and a granddaughter Tina, name
not clearly written, was aged seven years, the names of
her parents not stated. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

[in margin:  date of death no on A.B.]
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P. O. Lock Box 105
Charlottesville, Virginia
Sept 17, 1934

To the Pension Bureau
 Please send me the Pension record of Rush Hudson (Fauquier Co. Virginia) Revolutionary War.
   Thank you.
   (Mrs.) Jennie T. Grayson
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Memphis, Tenn. March 14, 1933.
The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please give me any information contained in your files concerning Rush Hudson who served in the Revolutionary War as a private in
Capt. Samuel Hawes' Co., 2nd Va. Reg.
Thanking you in advance for the service, I remain,

Yours very truly,
Nellie F. Ayres.

Miss Nellie F. Ayres,
1595 Forrest Ave.,
Memphis, Tenn.

[ink stamp:  RECEIVED Mar 17 1933  Mail Sub-Div. Vets. Adm. Pension #2]
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38064
Revy  INVALID

File No. 38,064
Rush Hudson
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:  Vol. 2, Page 243

{Arrangement of 1870}

1933 Apr. 6. Hist. to
Nellie F Ayres  A..DY
1934 ept.28.Hist. to
Mrs. Jennie T Grayson  A..D.Y.
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W. Gordain
Chief Clerk of hte
Bounty Land office
Washington City

From Jn. Balthrope
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Recd. April 23, 1833

[Reversed script]

W. Bourdain
Chief Clerk of the
Boundty Land Office
Washington City

From Jno Balthrope
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Richmond April 21th 1833

enlisted in 1775 for two years, Col. Spottswood [sic] 2nd Virg. Regt. at the end of his term enlisted under Colnel [sic] Paisley Thornton, untill [sic] the end of the war--of the 3rd Virg Regt. of Cavalry under Coll. Geo. Baylor & afterwards by Coll. Washington --Dischd. at Nelson Ferry in 1783 by Genl. Greene.
   I left with you last June a power of attorney made to me by old W. Rush Hudson to obtain his land from the Genl Government which you said he was intitled [sic] to for his servises [sic] during the Revolutionary War you said you would lay it before the Secretary of War and give it a triel [sic] if it has bin [sic] received you will pleas [sic] send me on the warrent  [sic] and inform me how I shall prosede [sic] to git [sic] the Scrip for the warrent [sic].
   with much respect
     your obediant [sic] servant
     John Balthrope

Virg 37249
Baylor's Regt. Va
5 March 1819

W. Gordain

The above was answered on the 30th May 1833--informing that a Warrt. will issue, and requessing [sic] information of the writers residence.

[in left margin:  aged 37 years--
Fauguire Co. Virg.

[?] 30 Aug 1850
[?] 1818
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Fauquier County State of Virginia
On this 3rd day of May in the year 1821 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the County aforsd.; personally appeared Rush Hudson who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt Churchill Jones in the regiment commanded by Colonel William Washington it being the 3rd Virginia regiment in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Virginia; that he recd. a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of he Secretary of War; which Certificate on or about the last of Decr. 1820, was through ignorance of its importance destroyed by Capt Gideon Johnson; he being told that it was of no further use; and the sd. Capt Gideon Johnson having his papers in his possession used the original certificate as waste paper in his shop at Warrenton Virginias.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto se my hand and seal this 3rd of May 1821.
  Baldwin Bradford  {seal}
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Fauquier County State of Virginia
This 23rd day of April 1821 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County afored. Capt Gideon Johnson and made oath that somewhere about the last of December 1820, in his Shops at Warrenton Virginia, he used the original Certificate of Rush Hudson together with others as waste paper; having been told that they were of no further use.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of April 1821
     Thos. A Jennings  {seal}

Fauquier County towit
   I John A W Smith Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Balderin Bradford and Thomas A Jennings are at this time [?] acting Justices of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and Qualified according to Law and due faith and credit are and ought to be given to all their acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my offices this 8th day of May 1821 and in the 65th year of the Commonwealth.
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Fauquier County towit
   I Joseph Blackwell presiding Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing Certificate of John  A. W. Smith, Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid is in due form of Law  Given under my hand this 12th day of May 1821.
   Jo. Blackwell