Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1889 1/2, Anthony Chavers, Va

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Service: Va

Chavers, Anthony
Chavors

Number: R.1889 1/2

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Anthony, Chavers,
     N Carolina,

Act May 15. 1828.

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[numbers crossed out]
Ex'r. OLD WAR.
No. 1,889,1/2 [handwritten]
REJECTED [stamp rotated 90 degrees]
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [crossed out]
Anthony Chaver [handwritten]
P. O.
Service: Revolutionary [handwritten]
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.

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House of R[illegible]. Jan 23rd 1840

Sir, 
I herewith send you a letter from D[illegible] James A. Craig relative to the claim of Peter Chavers, together with the letter of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia stating the payments made to the soldier Anthony Chavers, father of the present applicant, You will please answer [illegible] Craigs enquiries through me.

Respectfully yours [illegible]
Mo, Hill. [illegible] 


Col
J.L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Anth Chavers
James A Craig Esq
Haw River
Orange Co
North Carolina

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Executive Department
Richmond Va ... 1837

Sir,

Illegible letter of illegible postmaster of Richmond had illegible missing illegible from a list of soldiers of the Va Contl LIne who received certificates for the balance of pay. This Anthony Chavers received three certificates as a solder, one on the Sept 1782 for $12 delivered to himself-one on the 21 March 1783 for $25 delivered to Capt Young, and one on the 14th April 1783 for $36 delivered to himself. It does not appear that he was illegible.

Respectfully illegible
Henry Richardson SC

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Haw River, North Carolina
13 January 1840

Dear Sir,

Since the receipt of your favour of the 21st relative to the claim of the heirs of Anthony Chavors,  of the Virginia Line to a pension under ait 15 May, 1828, Peter Chavers, son and only heir of the Decd Soldier has called upon and states that his father was a resident of McKlinburg County Va and in that County enlisted in the United States Service in the War of the Revolution for this War-that he has heard his Decd father speak of being in the Battle of the Brandywine, and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis.

That he has heard his father say he was under George Washington and Col Lafayette, has heard him speak of some other officers but does not know whether he served under them or not.

That he has heard his father say that he served to the close of the war, and was paid therefore-that his father died in Granville County N.C. in May, 1831 and has never drawn a pension that he knows of.

Has often heard his father say there was bounty land due him from Va and that it lay in the Ohio.

That he can prove by one or more persons residing in the County of Chatham, not his father, Anthony Chavers, did enlist in the Virginia Line as a private of the infantry and as such served until the close of the war.

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that he is the son, and only heir of the Identical Anthony Chavers, aforesaid.

I enclose you the letter of the Sunday of the Commonwealth of the Va Stating the payments made to the soldier, Anthony Chavers.

The son does not know how long his father served in the war of the Revolution, but this can be ascertained I suppose by reference to the muster and pay rolls of the Virginia Continental Line in the War Department.

Will you be so good sir as to submit the enclosed to W. Crump, Acting Comm. of Pensions for his inspection and ask him to be so kind as to let W. Chavers illegible if the illegible referred to will be competent for him to obtain a pension under Act 15 May 1828?

You will be so good as to return the enclosed letters to me with the answer of the Acting Comm of Pensions.

I remain, Dcr, yours truly
James A. Gray