Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 7007, John Devericks, Va.

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Service
Va.

Devericks or Deverick, John
Mary

Number
W7007

Contents

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5423
Virginia R
Mary Deverick widow of John Deverick NC who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of May 1850 and sent to Hon J. W. H. Beale [illegible] [illegible]

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 149 Vol. 3.

H. E. Robinson
Clerk

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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4th March to 4 Sept 1821. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] June 1838.

[illegible] to Va J. T. Penny [illegible] 
Dec 31 45

Virginia 4868
John Devericks of Pendleton in the State of Va: who was a pr: in the country: commanded by Captain Guinn of the Regt commanded by [blank] in the [illegible] line for 6 months from 1781.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Jan: 33 Wm McCoy [illegible] of Reps[?].

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar: 33

30-
1c-
$40-

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book [illegible] Vol. 7 Page 12

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Jno Deverickss
Declaration [illegible]
14,240

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Pendleton County to Wit;

On this 3rd day of October 1832 Personally appeared before the justices of our County Court for said County, John Deverick [illegible] a Resident of the County aforesaid, aged 69 years next March, an who was born in the Year 1783. but who has no record of his Age in this County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. — States that he was drafted in the Year 1781, and started in the M[illegible] of February for North Carolina, under the command of Capt David Guinn, who was commanded a company of Riflemen; that he was in the Battle of Guilford, but received no Wound, but received no written discharge: He returned home and in the year following was drafted out of Capt Thomas Hicklins Company, and served a Four of [illegible] months at Clover L[illegible] on the Head of Greenbriar River, then in the County of [illegible], under the Command of Capt George Poage, who commanded a Company of Riflemen; was not in any actual Engagement and received a written Discharge which I have lost or misplaced; I believe the whole time I bore [illegible] was [illegible] [illegible] Months

John Devericks
This day Eduard Stewart [illegible] came before me Charles Stewart a Justice of the peace for + in the county of Bath, + made oath that John Devericks [illegible] was legally drafted out of the company of Capt. Thomas Hicklin in the year 1782 + served a term of three months at Clover [illegible] in the head of g[illegible]

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= or [illegible], then the frontier of Augusto County, under the command of Capt George Poage. — They above mentioned Eduard Stewart was Ensign and drafted + served the same tour in company with [illegible] John Deverick, under the conduct of the Indian-spies, Jacob Warwick + Alexander Donlap
Eduard Stewart

I do hereby certify that the above certificate was sworn to + subscribed before me Charles Stewart this 11th of Sept. 1832
Chal. Stewart

This day Samuel Pullin came before me Charles Stewart a Justice of the peace in + for the county of Bath + made oath, that John Deverick s[illegible] served a tour of duty with himself in company with himself in year 1781 — Starting in the month of February — + was in the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina. Given under his hand this 19th of Sept 1832.

Samuel Pullin

I do hereby certify that the above certificate was sworn + subscribed to before me as before stated. that day + year above written. Given under my hand
Chal. Stewart

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Octor 9th 1832
I certify that the within named Charles Stewart is a Justice of the peace for Bath County + that his signature is in his own hand [illegible]

Wm McCoy

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State of Virginia Pendleton County } [illegible]
On this third day of February One Thousand eight hundred and forty six, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the County of Pendleton, and state of Virginia, Mary Devericks, a resident of — in the County of Pendleton and state aforesaid, aged 83 years who, being first 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 Congress, passed [crossed out] the July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" or the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed March 3rd 1843. That she is the widow of John Devericks, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and pensioner of the United States in conformity with the law of Congress the United States of the 7th June 1832. And that he served as set forth in his declaration of the day of [blank] 18 and on file in the Department of War. She further declares that she was married to the said John Devericks, on the 24th day of April [1787 crossed out] in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven and that her husband the aforesaid John Devericks died on the 12th day of June 1843. That she was not married to him prior to his [illegible] the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety=four, [illegible] at the time above stated
her
Mary X Devericks
mark

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me
Th Jones J. P.

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I certify, that Mary Devericks, who has sworn to the forgoing declaration, is from age and infirmity unable to go to the Court house of Pendleton, a distance of 29 miles,

Given under my hand this 4th day of February 1846

Th Jones J. P.

State of Virginia Pendleton County } [illegible]

The deposition of Mary Hodge aged 73 years of Pendleton County, Virginia: who being duly [illegible] sworn according to law, saith, that she was [illegible] at the marriage of [John crossed out] John and Mary Devericks, she believes in the month of April in the year 1787. That the marriage took place at the house of John Peples who then resided in the County of Augusta, Virginia. And that they were married by the Rev Samuel Shannon who was a regular pastor in the presbyterian church

her
Mary X Hodge
mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the 4th day of February 1846 before me
Th Jones J. P.

State of Virginia Pendleton County to wit
I Edmund W. Dyer Clerk of the County aforesaid, certify that Th. Jones is a magistrate as above stated, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine: In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 6th day of March 1846

Ed. W. Dyer C. C. C. P.

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Devericks and Peples Certificates of Marriage

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Virginia

Augusta County Court Clerks Office to wit:

I Jefferson Kinney Clerk of the County Court of Augusta in the State of Virginia aforesaid do hereby Certify that it appears from the Record of Marriages in my said Office that John Devericks and Mary Peples were married by the Reverend Samuel Shannon on the 24th day of April 1787.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office at [illegible] this 70th year of the Commonwealth.

Jefferson Kinney, Clerk of Aug. County by Jacob K. Stribling D. C.

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July 2, 1940
[Typed letters scrambled] 1940

Mrs. Grace Clark
Box 143
Alamongordo, New Mexico

BA-J/MOS
John Devericks, W.7007

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of John Devericks, W.7007.

The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, W.7007, based on the Revolutionary War service of John Devericks.

John Devericks was born in March, 1763 or 1764. The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted in February, 1781, and served three months as private in Captain David Guinn's Virginia Company and was in the battle of Guilford. He enlisted in 1782 and served three months in Captain George Poage's Virginia Company.

John Devericks was allowed pension on his application executed October 3, 1832, at which time he was referred to as John Devericks, Senior, and was living in Pendleton County, Virginia.

John Devericks died June 12, 1843.

This soldier married April 24, 1787, at the house of John Peples (relationship not shown) in Augusta County, Virginia, Mary Peples.

As the widow of John Devericks, Mary Devericks was allowed pension on her application executed February 3, 1846, while living in Pendleton County, Virginia, and she then stated she was eighty-three years of age.

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Mary Devericks was living in Wood County, Virginia, in April, 1850, and she then stated that she was eighty-nine years of age.

The papers on file contain no further data relative to the family of John Devericks.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Mary Devericks, (the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of death Mary Devericks, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C., giving the following data:

Mary Deverick, widow of John Deverick (pensioned as Deverick but soldier signed in person as Devericks) Certificate #5423, issued May 1, 1850, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848, Virginia Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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[illegible] [illegible] to Hunt J. M. U. Beal [illegible] 11:1850

1863
Virginia Richmond
Mary Deverick widow of John Deverick who was a Private in the Revolution [illegible] [illegible] 12 June 1843

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the [4th is crossed out] 12th day of [March is crossed out] June, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of July, 1846 and sent to Hon J. S. Penney [illegible] [illegible] United States

Act of March 3, 1843. + 19 of June, 1849[?]

Recorded in Book a Vol. 2 Page 136

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V
W 12666

Mary Deverick
Va
Letter[?] [illegible] J. S. Penney [illegible]
21st [illegible] 1866

act 7 July 1838

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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

April 27, 1927

F. C. Devericks
Clarksburg, P. O. Box 168
West Va

Sir:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 7007, it appears that John Devericks was born in March 1763 or 4, place not stated.

He enlisted in February 1781 and served three months as a private in Captain David Guinn's Virginia Company, and was in the battle of Guilford; and in 1782, he served three months in Captain George Poage's Virginia Company.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 3, 1832, while a resident of Pendleton County; Virginia. [illegible]

He died June 12, 1843.

Soldier married April 24, 1787 in Augusta County, Virginia, Mary Peples. She was allowed

at hand of John Peples

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pension on her application executed February 3, 1846, while a resident of Pendleton County, Virginia, aged eighty-three years.

In 1850, widow was living in Wood County, Virginia. There is no further family data on file.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

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Revolutionary War Records Section
AW[illegible]
W. 7007

3 525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D. C. [blank] 192

In reply to your request of [blank], for the history of John Devericks, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the soldiers' + widows' claim for pension.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Feb. 1781
1782

Length of Service.
3 mos
3 mos

Rank.
Pvt

Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered.
Captain.
David Guinn
George Poage
Colonel.
[checkmark]
[checkmark] Va
State.
Va.
W. C.

Battles engaged in, Guilford
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Oct. 3 -1832 - His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Pendleton Co. Va.
Age at date of application, Born March 1763
Remarks: He died June 12 - 1843. Soldier married in Augusta Co. Va. Apr. 24, 1787, Mary Peples. she was allowed pension on her application executed Febr 3 1846 while living in Pendleton Co. Va. aged 83 yrs.
In 1850 widow was living in Wood Co. Va.
No further family data

Respectfully,
CK
Commissioner.

*allowed for 6 mos

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Box 143
Alamogordo New Mexico
May 13- 1940

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sirs: I am writing you for a copy of the Revolutionary War Record of my great-grandfather, John Devericks of Pendleton County, Virginia. Born March 1763, date of application Oct. 3-1832, Revolutionary War Record Section A.W.T.-W7007

Respectfully,
Mrs Grace Clark

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Past Commanders
W. P. Hinton
E. V. Selby
Homer Rector
John Dow
Fred Burka

Officers
F. C. Devericks, Commander
Arthur W. Somerville, Sr. V. C.
Guy C. Ice, Jr. V. C.

H. A. Smith, Ajutant
624 S. Seventh St.
Leo S. Lyon, Q. M.

Trustees
WM. Barensin
R. R. Somerville
H. A. Schmidt
J. P. Heitz, O. D.
Frank Shuttleworth, Chaplain

V. F. W.
America's "Old Guard"
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Organized [illegible]
An association of men who have fought America's foreign wars [illegible] land and sea

Meuse-Argonne Post No. 273
Clarksburg, W. VA.

April 20th.
1927.

Col. Winfield Scott,Commissioner.
Washington,D.C.

Dear Commissioner:-
The "Census of Pensioners of the War of the American Revolution" issued for the year 1840, contains the name of one John Devericks, of Pendleton County Virginia, This evidently was my Great-Grandfather, and I would like to have his service record if the same is available from the records on file in your office.

The datawhich I would like is the Company and Regiment with which he served date of Birth and Death and any information relative to his ammediate family,

Thank you kindly of any data that you may be able to supply, I am,

Very truly yours,
FCDevericks[signature]
F. C. Devericks.

P. O. Box 168,
Clarksburg, West Va.

Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month

[stamp reading: Pension Office U. S. Apr 21 1927]

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[illegible] Widow, &c.

File No. 7007
Mary Deverick
Widow
John Deverick
Pvt. Rev. W[illegible]

Act: [illegible] [illegible]
Index: -- Vol. A[?], Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[the following is written sideways]
1923 June 15 Hist to E. L. Kincaid see letter in James Kincaid R. 5929 [illegible] 
1927 Apr. 27- Hist to F. C. Devericks [illegible] 
1927 Aug. 15- " " W. Guy Tetricks - See letter in caledr [illegible] W. 740 [illegible]
1940 July first to Mrs Grace Clark.

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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,

June 19. 1838

Sir.
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," John Devericks a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond Va Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and [blank] Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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Brown H[illegible]
James L Edwards [illegible]
Com. Pensions

Sir, You will receive[illegible] the Pension Certificate of Mary Deverick, with a comm[illegible] of D. R. Neal -- Please [illegible] now Certificate under the late act of Congress and [illegible] to me

Respectfully
Jm H Beale

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Act 43 8955
Act 44 492

[illegible] 12666
Mary Deverick
widow of John
Va
Act 7 July 1838
Rejected husband died
12 June 1843

[illegible] Acts 3 March 1843 and 19 June 1844
[illegible] [illegible]
$20.00 pr anm
[illegible] 12 June 1843

[illegible]  J. S. Penney[illegible]
[illegible] W. [illegible]

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12666
Mary Deverick
widow of John
Va
Act 7 July 1838

Married 1787
husband died 12 June[?] 1843
Rejected

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Pendleton County [illegible]
I Edmund W. Dyer Clerk of the Court of Pendleton County do certify that the foregoing Declaration of Mary Devericks was this day presented to Court, examined and approved by the Court and ordered to be [illegible] to the war Department

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Franklin this 5th day of June, in the year 1846
Ed. W. Dyer C. C.

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State of Virginia
Wood County

On this 8 day of April 1850 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for [illegible] County Mary Deverick a resident of the County of Wood Va. aged (89) eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to [illegible], doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2nd February, 1848, granting pension to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Deverick who was a private in the Crew of the Revolution, and that she received Twenty dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 17 June 1844. She further declares she is still a widow

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. before.

her
Mary x Deverick
Mark

Barnes Beckwith J. Peace

I certify (upon the testimony under oath of Andrew Guinn and David Guinn) that Mary Deverick is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit. Given under my hand this 8 day of April 1850.

Barnes Beckwith Justice Peace

Virginia
Wood County [illegible]
I John R. Mendock Clerk of the County Court for said County in the State aforesaid do hereby Certify that Barnes Beckwith is a Justice of the Peace in an for Said County and that the foregoing Signatures Purporting to be his are genuine - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of such Court this 11th day of April 1850 and in the 74th year of the Commonwealth

Jno R Mendock

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Washington 27th April 1850

L J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
I hereunto [illegible] to you the widow of a Pension claim, together with a letter from D. R. Neal of Parkersburg[?] making certain [illegible] Will you please acknowledge the reception of the [illegible] to me, and [illegible] the [illegible] made in [illegible] to Mr Neal or to my self

very respectfully
Jm H. Beale

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R[illegible] 8 March 1850 The pension certficiate of Mary Deverick
D. R. Neal of [illegible] Va.

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W 12666
Mary Deverick
widow of John
Va
act 7 July 1838

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[illegible] to [illegible] [illegible] the 11th 1846-
I send these papers to Mr. Edwards accompanied with a request that if any thing further is [illegible] [illegible] until [illegible] inform[?] me[?]

I am, very respectfully yours [illegible]
J. S. Penneybacker

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John Devericks

$20 per am

Hon W. McCoy

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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 Devericks which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If 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?
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?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
No
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
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?

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
has two [illegible]

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

XV. Does it  appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
3, 5, 7.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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 precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank] year [blank] months and [blank] days. I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank], and for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he 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.

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, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or 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.