Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2729, John Gibbs, N.C. Va.
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SERVICE                                                                                               
  N.C.   Va.	       
                         Gibbs,  John                                              
	                       Hannah
NUMBER    W.2729
    Born in Va.
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LEFT SIDE:    

Kentucky                     19191
 (struck out:  West Tennessee)

John Gibbs
Bedford Co. in the State of Tennessee
who was a  private in the company commanded by Captain Farmer of the reg’t. commanded by Col Rogers in the Virginia
line for  16 months and 12 days.
      
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of  54  dollars  66 cents per annum
 to commence on the   4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension is issued the  14th  day of Augt    1833   and sent to  Ths. C. Whiteside, Shelbyville

Arrears to 4th of March      109.32
Semi-ani. allowance ending 4th Sept     27.33
                                       $136.65 
                                         {Revolutionary claim
                                         Act of June 7, 1832 
Recorded By Dan’l. Boyd    Clerk
Book  E   Vol. 7    Page 79   

     D to 4 Sep   1842
          5 July  1843

RIGHT SIDE:    
Let. to A.B. Patrick  Ma 31, 1843
Let to Pen. Agt  11 July 1842

To Kentucky from 4 Sep 1843
28 Sep 1843  Notification to
Pensioner   Breathitt, Ky
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943
 Kentucky
      Hannah Gibbs   dec’d
widow of   John Gibbs
 
who served in the Revolutionary 
                  Va.
war as a Private   
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
     54   dollars    --66
 cents per annum to commence on 
the    (scratched out) 4th day of March, 1848.
                       18th of October
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Certificate of Pension is issued the
 20th  day of May 1852        
and sent to
Hon. J C Mason 
    H of R.
[Illegible]  17th September 1856
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848   Page   174  Vol. A
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No 18810
John Gibbs
Bedford Co.
Tennessee
from 1777 Private
16 months  12 days
   54.66/100

Farmer
Rogers
Va.

Tho. C Whiteside
Shelbyville
Tenn
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BRIEF in the case of John Gibbs
County of Bedford  in the state of Tennessee
         Act  7th June 1832

1.	 Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge :    Court
2.	If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.	How old is he?   76   years
4.	State his service as directed in the form annexed

Period	
Summer in 1777  vol
Aug 1778
Oct 1778
Jan’y 1779
June 1779
Spring 1781
Duration of Service
years:   
 Months
 3
 9
 Days
	
Rank
As a 
Private
Sub pr.

Names of General and Field Officers
Under whom he served
Gen
Col Rogers
Captain (name not stated)
Capt Farmer
Col Dixon
Cap High Major Donaho
Gen’l Provost
Capt Bird

5.	 In what battles was he engaged:   2  14   Charleston   Guilford C. House
6.	Where did he reside when he entered the service    Halifax Co. Virginia
7.	Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls      Traditionary evidence
8.	Are the papers defective as to form or authentication, and if so, in what respect?  defective

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.                          

               John H. Ashton

				       	Examining clerk amended decl. says 16 mos  12 days 
several months afterwards he entered at H.Fax Co. Virginia under Capt Long -  3 months  as a sub prv. states that [illegible]  these engagements he served his country about 17 months
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as a volunteer under Col Peter Rogers in Halifax County Virginia for a term of three months.  The name of his Captain he does not remember -  as soon as he volunteered, his company marched to Portsmouth Virginia to guard and defend that place against the British -  he remained stationed at that place until the expiration of his three months term of service when he was verbally discharged by his captain.  He states that he then remained at Home until the latter part of August or first of September 1778 when he again entered the service as a substitute for a man by the name of Edmund Kelly for nine months in the militia in Granville County North Carolina – but before they were any service, his company was discharged for a few months on furlough – but in a few weeks, after they were dismissed upon their furlough an [illegible] came for them to meet at Hillsboro N. Carolina and offering all of them who would agree to serve before their furlough expired pay for what time they had been on furlough. Agreeable to this [illegible], this applicant and a large number of the company to which he belonged which was commanded by Captain John Farrar, met at Hillsboro about the first of October 1778 as well as he recollects – when after remaining there a short time, probably a week or two for the purpose of organizing themselves and making necessary preparations
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for marching, they marched under the command of Farrar and Col Henry Dixon + Col Lytle to a place called the ten mile Spring or Ten Mile House, within ten miles of Charleston S. Carolina.  They arrived at this place shortly before Christmas and spent their Christmas there.  They then took up their line of March to go to the assistance of Gen’l Lincoln on the Savannah river between South Carolina and Georgia.  They arrived at a place called Purrysburg sometime in January 1779 at which place Lincoln’s Army was then stationed.  Shortly after their arrival at this place, this applicant with others of his company were placed under the command of Capt High, Major Thomas Donoho and Major Armstrong – regular officers of Gen’l Lincoln’s army and sent in a detachment up the Savannah River to Black Swamp where Gen’l Lincoln had an encampment. At the same time, some of Capt Farrar’s company were sent to Briar Creek to assist Gen’ Ashe against the British – after remaining at Black Swamp a short time, this applicant was sent in a detachment under the above named officers still higher up the Savannah to Galphins Mills – from this place the detachment to which he belonged was ordered to march under the same officers to Charleston S Carolina to defend that place against the British.  They arrived at Charleston sometime in the later part of the Spring as well as this applicant recollects it was in the month of May.  Shortly after they got into Charleston, they had a little engagement with the British under Gen’l Prevost.  This was the first engagement that this applicant
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was in during the war.  Shortly after this engagement, General Prevost abandoned his attempt to take Charleston and marched his forces, or most of them into the country.  This applicant was then marched out of Charleston to Stono Ferry under the command of Capt Donoho’s Army to where they fought a battle with the British under the command of Gen’l Prevost.  This was as well as he recollects in the month of June 1779

He was then marched to Walltown between Stono and the Savannah River where he was discharged, his nine months term of service having terminated.  Shortly before or about this time when discharged, they were ordered to meet at Monks Corner to receive their discharges, at which place this applicant states he received a written one from Major Armstrong.  He states that while he was in Charleston, he saw and canvassed with Count Pulaski – a foreigner who he believes commanded the light horse on a company of them at that place.

He then remained at home until a short time before the battle of Guilford in North Carolina when he volunteered under Captain Bird Walls in Halifax County Virginia and marched under him into Guilford County North Carolina.  He states that Captain Walls company arrived at Guilford Court House during the battle at that place between Gen’l Greene who commanded the Americans + Cornwallis who commanded the British in time to take part in it, in this battle the British has rather the advantage and compelled the forces under Green to retreat.  This battle he thinks was fought early in the Spring of 1781. After this battle, part of the Americans pursued Cornwallis to Ramsays Mill on Deep River where they took fifteen prisoners at this place.  This applicant was discharged by Captain Walls, verbally, having served this tour
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about ten weeks – Several months afterwards, he entered the service in the militia in Halifax County Va. under Captain Long for three months as a substitute for a man by the name of Ervin Brannan – he marched under Captain Long to Yorktown to aid General Washington against the British under the command of Lord Cornwallis.  This applicant’s company arrived at Yorktown some two or three weeks as well as he recollects before the surrender of Cornwallis – when they arrived, they found General Washington there and they were immediately set at work digging and throwing up entrenchments for the purpose of besieging Cornwallis’ Army, then in possession of the town.  This applicant states that he saw General Washington frequently at this place and on one occasion while he was at work, he recollects that Genl Washington took his axe and worked a little while with it – He states that he was in the Battle of Yorktown, but he took sick and left that place the day after the battle was fought and before the British marched out of the town.  Shortly after the surrender of Cornwallis, this applicant’s three month tour of service expired and he was verbally discharged by Captain Long.  This applicant states that he served his Country in the Revolutionary War including the different tours above stated about seventeen months.  He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service, nor does know any person now living by whom he can make any proof of it.  He never received any written discharge but the one above mentioned from Major Armstrong which is lost or mislaid.
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He was acquainted with all the American officers mentioned in this declaration except Genl Greene.  He cannot now recollect the names of any regular or militia Regiments that he was in or acquainted with during his service.  He states that he has no record of his age – he recollects that he was informed that he was fifteen when bound out as before stated, and he has kept his age from memory ever since.  After the Revolutionary war, he moved from Va. to N. Carolina from North Carolina to York County S. Carolina, then he moved back to the waters of the Yadkin N. C.  From thence to Kentucky, from thence to Bedford County, State of Tennessee where he has lived upwards of seven years and now lives.  He is acquainted with Major Wm Gay, Maj, Wm Murphy, Robt Clark + Wm Vancleave (* written sideways on right:  who is personally acquainted with  whose certificate at this time he can procure)  – all of whom will testify as to his character and their belief of his services as a revolutionary soldier.  He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or amount whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.     John Gibbs

Sworn to in open court + subscribed  
12. Nov 1892
                     Jas McKisick  Clk

We, William Murphee, Robt Clark, and Wm VanCleave, residing in Beford County, State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with (and have been for a number of years)  John Gibbs who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration.  We believe him to be seventy six years of age or near that age as he states.  He is a man of strict honestly and veracity and has always sustained hat character since we became acquainted with him.  He is respected and believed to have been, in the neighborhood where he resides, a revolutionary soldier and we firmly concur in that opinion.

Sworn to & subscribed  
the day and year aforesaid      Wm Murphee
					Robt Clark
Jas McKisick      Wm  VanCleave
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And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after [illegible] 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 Murphee, Robt Clark, and Wm VanCleave who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Bedford County, State of Tennessee and highly credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit.
				Jno L Neill
				Samuel Phillips
			     John  B Armstrong


I, James McKisick, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarterly Sessions for Bedford County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Gibbs for a pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have herewith set my hand and seal of office
this 13th day of November,  A.D.  1832    
                                    James McKisick, Clk
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State of Tennessee
Bedford County               personally appeared before me, the undersigned Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, John Gibbs, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the whole length of his services but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the following periods.  During the first period or tour of service mentioned in the foregoing declaration, he served as a private soldier three months.  The second tour of service mentioned in said declaration, he served as a private nine months.  The third tour of service mentioned in said declaration, he served at least six weeks. The third, or last term of service mentioned in said declaration, he served three months as a private soldier and for such services he claims a pension -  He further states that at the time the foregoing declaration was made, he could not obtain the certificate of a clergyman regarding his age and the general belief in the neighborhood relative to his revolutionary services because there was not one living in his neighborhood or any where near him with whom the applicant was acquainted as who knew anything about his revolutionary services or the belief in his neighborhood relative to them.  
                          John Gibbs

Sworn to & subscribed  
before me this 7  May 1833
                                 Wm McClun   J P


I, James McKisick, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarterly Sessions for  Bedford County do hereby certify that William McClum, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn to, is now and was at that time and acting Justice of the peace for said County, duly commissioned + qualified as such 
and that his signature thereto is genuine

In Testimony whereof,
 I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office
at office in Shelbyville,
this 15th day of May,  A.D.  1833    
                                    Jas McKisick, Clk

(right hand side, sideways:   Declaration of John Gibbs   18810)
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       May 17/12
M Cole

Hon J.C. Mason
H. R.
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State of Kentucky
Morgan County                1st April  County Court   1851
It was this day proven to the satisfaction of the Court, Hannah Gibbs, who has previously made application to the War Department for a pension departed this life on the 17th day of September, 1850 + that the same Hannah Gibbs left the following heirs as her legal heirs and representatives to wit John Gibbs, Sally Woods (Late Sally Gibbs) + Nathan Gibbs.  And it was also proven by Nathan Gibbs + John Rose that they have been acquainted with John Gibbs + Hannah Gibbs for sixty years and that they know them as husband and wife up to the day of the death of the said John Gibbs + that the said Hannah Gibbs remained his widow up to the day of her death all of which is [illegible] to be certified to the War Department
			Given under my hand and seal of Office, this 8th day of May, 1832
				F. Garett   Clk  [illegible]
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654 
Hannah Gibbs
March 29 /50

Her declaration to obtain the benefits
of the act of July 29 / 48 1848  

Letter to Hannah Gibbs
April 18, 1850

Ref’s to Comm. of Pension
Dep Interior
April 18 1850

Act  29  July 1848

(written upside down)
To Secretary of War
Washington City
D C  

West Liberty  Ky
7th Apr  1850
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State of Kentucky
Morgan County        Sct
              On this 29th day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before the undersigned Caleb Kash,  a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Hannah Gibbs, a resident of Morgan County Kentucky,  aged Ninety five years, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of the Congress passed 29th day of July 1848 –
   John Gibbs (formerly of the State of Tennessee) who was a private of infantry in the army of the Revolution was entitled to receive a pension of Fifty four dollars and Sixty six cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 21st day of March 1831 according to an original certificate given at the War Office of the United States on the 14th day of August, 1833 and recorded in the pension office Book E  Vol 7  Page 79.

  She further declares that She was married to the said John Gibbs on the 22nd day of January, Seventeen hundred and Eighty two, that her husband, the aforesaid John Gibbs, died on the 18th day of October, 1848; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the Second of January, Eighteen hundred viz. at the time above stated.  She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension
								
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before  
   Caleb Kash  J P M C                                                  

her
  Hannah   x   Gibbs
mark
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State of Kentucky
Morgan County        Sst

I, John W. Hazelrigg, Clerk of the County for the County of Morgan and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Caleb Kash,  whose name appears to the above certificate, is a duly commissioned , qualified and acting Justice of the peace in and for the County + State aforesaid + the signature purporting to be his is genuine

Given under my hand and seal of office
this 3rd  day of April,  A.D.  1850    
                                    Jn W. Hazelrigg   clk
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	June 26. 1938
					 
BA-J/ILL
					John Gibbs
 W 2729
					
Mrs. Annie Gibbs Wilson
C/O Mrs. W. T. Wood
Rocky Face   Georgia

Dear Madam:
      Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Gibbs of Virginia, who resided in Tennessee at the time he received a pension.
    The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim W. 2729, based upon of John Gibbs in the Revolutionary War.

     John Gibbs was born December 1756, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, his parents, whose names are not shown, died when he was very young and, at the age of fifteen years, he went out as an apprentice in Halifax County, Virginia.

     He volunteered in the spring or summer of 1777, and served three months as a private in the Virginia troops under Colonel Peter Rodgers, engaged in the defense of Portsmouth.  About September 1778, he went into Granville County, North Carolina, enlisted there, served as private in Captains John Farrar’s and High’s companies under Colonels Henry Dixon and Lytle in the North Carolina troops, was in an engagement near Charleston, South Carolina, was in the battle of Stono Ferry and was discharged at the expiration of service of nine months.  After his return to Virginia, he enlisted in the spring of 1781, served as private in Captain Bird Wall’s Virginia company, was in the battle of Guilford Court House and was discharged, length of service, ten weeks;  he enlisted afterwards, served as a private in Captain Long’s Virginia company, was in the battle of Yorktown and was discharged after serving three months.

	John Gibbs moved after the Revolutionary War from Virginia to North Carolina, then to York County,  South Carolina, afterwards returned to the “Waters of the Yadkin,  North Carolina, thence to Kentucky, from then  to Bedford County, Tennessee.
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John Gibbs was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1832, at which time he resided in Bedford County, Tennessee; he had resided there for about seven years.  About November 1842, he moved from said Bedford County to Breathitt County, Kentucky.

	The soldier died October 18, 1848

          John Gibbs married January 22, 1782 or 1783, in Guilford County, North Carolina,  Hannah, whose maiden name was not given.

	Hannah Gibbs, the soldier’s widow, applied for pension March 29, 1850, at which time she resided in Morgan County, Kentucky.  The claim was allowed.  In 1850, she gave her age at ninety-five years, but did not state the date and place of her birth.  She died September 17, 1850, survived by the following children, all of whom were living in 1852:  John Gibbs, Sally Gibbs Woods; and Nathan Gibbs, who was born Oct 12, 1793, whose residence was West Liberty, Kentucky in 1850

                         Very truly yours

					A.D.  HILLER
					Executive Assistant
					to the Administrator
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Left hand side
 
Rev’y  WIDOW &c

File No 2729
Hannah Gibbs
Widow
John Gibbs
Pri.  Rev. War

Act   July 29, 1848  
Index   Vol   A Page 271
 
[Arrangement of 1870]

Right hand side:

1933  July 11  Hist to R Abbott Gibbs
			JLL
1938  July 26  Hist to Mrs. Annie Gibbs Wilson   JLL
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 July 27, 1843
(stamp  NASHVILLE, Ten.   July 20

  No. Evans
  No  Evans
(sideways):    J.L. Edwards  Esquire                   (stamp):  FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Payments to be made
at  Nashville
by the Pres   of  N B Banks
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of  West
Tennessee

Recorded in the Pension Office
in Book  E   Vol.  7
Page (19?)    Dan’l Boyd
		Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Revolutionary Claim

	I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832,   John Gibbs of the State of Tennessee who was a private of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive  Fifty four  dollars and sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4 of September in every year

			GIVEN at the War office of the United States
			this   14th   day of Aug’t. one thousand eight
			hundred and thirty  three
			   Lew Cass
				Secretary of War

Examined and
Countersigned
    J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
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  J.  W.  Hazelrigg
    Apr 20 / 50
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632
Pension Office
April 20 / 1850

Sir,
              The declaration of Hannah Gibbs, widow of John Gibbs entered at 29th July 1848 has ben ex’c and filed.  She should make a declaration in open court if able to do so, and if not able, the magistrate before whom it may be made should certify to the fact.  She should also prove her marriage as required in the enclosed printed regulations.


J.W. Hazelrigg, Esq
West Liberty
Ken
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Hon  J.C.  Mason
 12 Sept 1850
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Pension Office 
12 Sept 1850

Sir
 		I have the honor to inform you that the declaration of Hannah Gibbs, widow of John Gibbs has been received and filed
		The evidence in regard to the marriage of these parties required by my letter to J. W. Hazelrigg of 20 April last has not been presented.  If no record proof can be procured, the testimony of respectable and intelligent witnesses who knew them as husband and wife prev. to 1800 should be [illegible]

Hon J. C. Mason
 House of Rep.
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Brief in the case of Hannah Gibbs
Morgan County and State of Kentucky
              act  29  July 1848
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Claim  (“original”  [crossed out:  or “for increase”]

Proof exhibited  (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary or supported by rolls?    If either, state the substance:

Husband was a pensioner
traditionary proof of marriage

(If for increase.)
   Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim ?  If so, what?
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             (bottom of page): 
  Thos  C  Whiteside
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 BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Gibbs which require further proof or explanation

I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides   :   Yes
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides   :   Yes
III.	Did the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides , is there any reason assigned for his not doing so.
IV.	Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served:   Yes
V.	* Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?                 No                 Amended
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with regulations :    Yes
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7 1832           Yes.
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion   :   Yes
IX.	Has the Court given his certificate   :   Yes
X.	 Is the Clerk’s seal affixed?  And, if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?     Yes
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	3
       It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank be held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.   Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers and other particulars respecting their service.   This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
 In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

 QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

      In every case where the clerk of court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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LEFT side:     reversed 

West Liberty
Aug 26    KY
Hon’bl  John

RIGHT side
       No   654
Hannah Gibbs   de.
widow of John
Ky
Act   29 July 1848
Married before 1800
Husb. died  18 Oct  1848
Adm   1st March  2 days for
54.66 per annum
Com’d   18  Oct 1848  & ends
17 Sept  1850  payable
to  John Gibbs
Sally Woods &
Nathan Gibbs, only
surv’g children

Hon  J.C. Mason
H of R
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State of Kentucky
Morgan County      SST

An additional declaration of Hannah Gibbs this day taken before me, Andrew S. Nickell a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Morgan and state aforesaid, the said Hannah Gibbs this day personally appeared before me and made the following statement to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed on the 29th day of July 1848  granting to certain widows pensions on account of services in the   Revolutionary War of their dec’d. husband.  States that she was married in the County of Guilford  + State of North Carolina on the 22 day of January 1783  (seventeen hundred eighty three).  that she has no record of her marriage, that the same was recorded in a family bible, + the same  together with the age of her children has been torn out of the same ;  that about Twelve years back, she lost her eye sight + has been blind ever since;  that she lives about fifteen miles from the county seat + is not able to attend court for the purpose of making her declaration in open court.  She further states as in her original declaration that she still continues the widow of the said John Gibbs;  that is has been over thirty years since she left the state of North Carolina + does not now know of any person living by whom she can prove her marriage but that she can prove it by reputation. Sworn to + subscribed this 3rd day of August, 1850
Attest
Andrew S. Nickell      J P M C                                    her                                 
Hannah   x   Gibbs
     mark
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State of Kentucky
Morgan County      SST

I, Andrew S. Nickell a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Morgan and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Hannah Gibbs, who made the within statement is a woman of good moral character and that she should be credited on her oath + that is she is unable to attend court to make her declaration   Given under my hand, this  3rd day of August, 1850 

Andrew S. Nickell a J P  M C

The Deposition of Nathan Gibbs, the deponent being sworn, states that he is the son of Hannah Gibbs; that he was fifty six years old on the 12th day of October last according to the record of his age which is now lost;  that his mother Hannah Gibbs who makes the written statement and John Gibbs dec’d  lived together as man and wife ever since his recollection up to the day of his father’s death; that his father was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension + further saith not.   Sworn to and Subscribed this 3rd day of August, 1850
Atest
Andrew S. Nickel  J P M C                               Nathan Gibbs
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State of Kentucky
Morgan County        Sst

I, John W. Hazelrigg, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Morgan and State of Kentucky, hereby certify that Andrew S. Nickle,  whose signature appears to the above certificate, is a duly, qualified and commissioned acting Justice of the peace and was so at the time of his signing the above certificate + that in the signature purporting to be his is genuine + that full faith + credit should be given to all his official acts.

                                           Given under my hand and seal of office
this 20th day of August  1850    
                                		    Jn W. Hazelrigg   clk

			West Liberty Ky
			21st  August  1850

Mr. J C  Mason
              Dr Sir  please attend to the above and write me at Hazelgreen Ky  + much oblige

					Nathan Gibbs
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                            June   26 ‘ 43


No. Evans
(sideways) :   Breathitt, KY
        June 10th

J. L. Edwards
Comm  Pensions
Washington City
           D.C.
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State of Kentucky
Breathitt County      SS 

Be it known that before me, Thomas Sewell a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid     personally appeared  John Gibbs and made oath in due form of Law that he is the identical John Gibbs named in the original Pension certificate in his possession of which ( I certify ) the following is a true copy – 
War Department Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, John Gibbs of the State of Tennessee who was a private of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to Receive Fifty four dollars and sixty six cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.  Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14th day of August, 1833

Examined and 
countersigned
J.L. Edwards					Lew Cass
Commissioner of Pensions			Secretary of War

That he now Resides in Breathitt County, Kentucky and has resided there for the space of 7 months past and that previous thereto he Resided in Bedford County, Tennessee

Sworn and subscribed  before me
this on the 7th day of June  1843                John Gibbs                                     
John     His X   Gibbs                                     
Thomas Sewell	  J P B C					mark
     Nathan Gibbs
note the above words these + before
entered   before signed

Thomas Sewell,  JP  B C
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State of Kentucky
Breathitt County      SS 

Be it known that I, Thomas Sewell a magistrate of the County abovenamed, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence of personal witnesses that John Gibbs, who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of Identify is the Identical person named in the pension certificate which he has exhibited before me numbered  19191 – and bearing date at the War Office the 14th day of August 1833 and signed by Lew Cass, Secretary of War, given under my hand this 9th day of June, 1843
Thomas Sewell  J P B C
Note the word (named)  enterlined before signed + also the word   ( he)
Thomas Sewell  J P B C


State of Kentucky
Breathitt County      SS 

  I,  John Hargis, clerk of the Court of Breathitt County, certify that Thomas Sewell is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 9th day of June 1843.
John Hargis, clerk
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	Breathitt County, Ky   9th June 1843

Dear Sir
          Some time in March last, I applied for my pension by my att’y. which is as Requested owing to my name not being enrolled on Pension Record at Louisville.   I hope you will do me the favor to Instruct the Pension agent at Louisville to enroll my name on the Record as I send you affidavits that I hope will be satisfactory to you that I am a live                Yours Truly
					John Gibbs

J.L. Edwards
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   Gentlemen
                Please send me the pension record of John Gibbs, who served in the Revolution in Virginia line.  He drew a pension and lived in Tennessee.

            Yours very truly
                              no signature
Mrs. Annie Gibbs Wilson
Care Mrs. W.T. Wood
Rockie Face
Ga.
			(received stamp:   July 16, 1938
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(Seal:  DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR
     FORWARDED
JULY  3  1933
Vets Admin.			1516 Grove Avenue
				Richmond Virginia
				June 30, 1933
Dept. of Interior
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I am getting up the Genealogy for the Gibbs family, and I found at the Virginia State Library, in a book on Revolutionary Soldiers, that John Gibbs, of Bedford County, had gotten a pension of twenty dollars a month.  I do not know when he applied for this pension or received it.  I also found that Edward Gibbs, who enlisted in 1776 under Colonel Mead had also gotten one.   Edward Gibbs lived in Amelia County when he enlisted but later on moved to Campbell County and was living in Campbell County when he applied for and received his pension

I wonder if you could look them up for me and give me all the information you have about them. Such as, who their parents were, when they were born, etc.  if you have that kind of information.  If you don’t have that, anything at all you have about them will be appreciated.

Thanking you in advance for doing anything you can to help me with this,  I am
				Very sincerely yours,
				R Abbott Gibbs

RAG: H
				Stamp:  Received  Jul 6 1933
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JOHN GIBBS – W. 2729
John Gibbs was born in the month of December 1756,  in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; his parents, whose names are not shown, died when he was very young and, at the age of fifteen years, he went to serve as an apprentice in Halifax County, Virginia.  in which county he resided at the time of the Revolutionary War. 
John Gibbs volunteered in the spring or summer of 1777 and served three months as a private in the Virginia troops under Colonel Peter Rodgers in defense of Portsmouth  About the first of September he went into Granville County, North Carolina and entered the service as a private in Captain John Farrar’s and High’s companies under Colonels Henry Dixon and Lytle  in the North Carolina troops, was in  an engagement near Charleston South Carolina when the British arrived there, in the battle of Stono Ferry and was discharged at the expiration of service in the spring of 1781, served as a private in Captain Bird Walls’ Virginia company, was in the battle of Guilford  Court House and was discharged having served about ten weeks;  afterwards, he enlisted in Captain Long’s Virginia company, assisted in digging the entrenchments at Yorktown and was in the battle of Yorktown and was discharged after serving three months.
After the Revolutionary war, the soldier moved from Virginia. to North Carolina, then to Carolina York County, South Carolina, after that returned to the “Waters of the Yadkin North Carolina”, thence to Kentucky,and from there to Bedford County, Tennessee.  He moved about November 1842 to Breathittt County, Kentucky.
John Gibbs was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1832, at which time he resided in Bedford County, Tennessee; he had lived there for about seven years.  He moved abt Nov  1842, to Breathitt Co., Ky.

	He died October 18, 1848

          John Gibbs married January 22, 1782 or 1783, in Guilford County, North Carolina, Hannah, whose maiden name is not shown.

Hannah Gibbs, the soldier’s widow, applied for pension March 29, 
					2.
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1850, at which time she was a resident of Morgan County, Kentucky.  She was ninety-five years of age, the date and place of her birth not shown.  The claim was allowed

Hannah Gibbs died September 17, 1850, survived by the following children, all living in 1852:  Nathan Gibbs who was born October 12, 1793, of West Liberty Kentucky, in 1850; John Gibbs, and Sally Gibbs Woods.   There are no further data on file in this claim regarding these children.

The record of John Gibbs furnished you is the record of the only soldier with that name who applied for pension in the United States on account of service in the Revolutionary War in the Virginia troops that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

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