Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30. 813, Abraham Aarons, Va.

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Service
Va

Aarons, Abraham

Number
S 30813

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7434
Kentucky

Abraham Aarons
of Adair Co in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Witcher of the Rgt commanded by Col Mason in the Va line for [crossed out 1 year] six months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of April
1833 and sent to Wm
Owens Columbia [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March
80 00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept
20.00
$100.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Daniel BoydClerk,
Book E
Vol.7
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See letter to Per Agent Wm Owens. Columbia, 18 April 1835

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Abraham Aarons
21024

A. Aarons
Declaration

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State of Kentucky Adair County Sct
on this 29th day of November 1832 Abraham
Aarons a resident of the County of Adair of
and State of Kentucky aged 73 years the 17th
Day August last past, who being first
Before the undersigned Justice of the peace for said County
Duly sworn according to law doth on his
Oath make the following Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832
that he entered the service of the united
States as a private soldierin the month of March 1780 under
Captn. William Wilcher Joseph Williams
Quent.for the Term of six months as 
A Drafted Malitiaman in the County
of Pitsylvania State of Virginia he
was marched from Pitsylvania under
his Captn to Salisbury North Carolina
where they remained for a few weeks
waiting for other troops when they
were joined to General Masons Brigade
or division from there they were marched
to Camden from then to stone where
they had a severe engagement with
the British & Tories in which battle
this applicant was in from beginning
to end & the Americans were victorious
& took a great number of prissoners

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after remaining there some time were marched to various places through the country and finally back to Camden having now served out his full term for which he was drafted he was by his Capt discharged at Camden he states that he has lost his discharge many years ago he further states that he is unable to attend Count for the purpose of making his application there; he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of state. he further states that he was born in Lancaster County state of Pennsylvania on the 17th day of March 1759 agreeable to the information of his parents which he believes to be turn and correct he never having heard them speak of any other at about 12 years of age his father moved to 
Virginia Pitsylvania County where he continued to live until long after the close of the war when he moved Bauttertand County Virginia where he

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continued until the year 1816 when he moved to Green County Tennessee where he remained until 1824 when he moved to and settled in the county of Adair where he now lives. He has no register of his birth sworn to and inscribed this day and year of 

Abraham X Aarons
his mark

William Epperson J.P. [signature]

We William Bradshaw, and Thomas Sparks residing in the County of Adair [illegible] do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Abraham Aarons who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 73 years of age. That he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion; and we further state that the said Abraham Aarons is so affected that he is unable to attend Court for the purpose of making his application.

Sworn to subscribed this day and year of
William Bradshaw [signature]
Thomas Sparks [signature]

William Epperson J.P. [signature]

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State of Kentucky
Adair County

I William Epperson one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace in and for the County of do hereby certify and declare that the of Abraham Aarons who subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration before me and after the investigations of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories presented by the War Department do declare that it is my opinion that the said applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states and I further certify and declare that from his afflicted condition is unable to attend Court and that he is a man of respectability and have no doubt that full faith and benefit ought to be given his statements and I further certify that I am well acquainted with William Bradshaw and Thomas Sparks who has signed and sworn to the preceding certificate subscribed and sworn to the same before me are credible persons and their statements is entitled to credit given under my hand as Justice of the Peace the day and year of

William Epperson J.P. [signature]

State of Kentucky Adair County set William Caldwell Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that William Epperson Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration

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of Abraham Aarons was made is now and was at the time said declaration was made an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Adair aforesaid and a member of the Adair County County Court, duly commissioned and qualified that the full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, that the signature annexed to the foregoing declaration is his genuine signature and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had before said William Epperson Esquire in the matter of the application of said Abraham Aarons for a pension 

[words obscured by sea]

testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 5th day of December 1832.

Wm Caldwell [signature]

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No 21021
Abraham Aarons
Adair County Kentucky

from 1780 private
6 months

[crossed out]

should be $20

Witcher
Maper
Va

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BRIEF in the case of Abraham Aarons
County of Adair in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Justice of the Peace

2. If before a Judge, does it appear the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 73

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period - Drafted in 1780 March
Duration of Service - 6 months
Rank - Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt Witcher, Gen'l Mason

5. In what battles was he engaged? Stone

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Pittsylvania Co, Va

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Testimony is [illegible]

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

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

Dyer Aestor [Custor?] [signature]
Examining Clerk

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30813

Recy
INVALID

File No. 30813
Abraham Aarons
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 1

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Kentucky
Abraham Aarons of Adair Co in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Witcher of the reg't commanded by Gen'l Mason in the Va Mila for six months.

Inscribed in the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of June 1835 and sent to Wm Owen Columbia Ken

Arrears to the 4th of March  80
Lems-ane, allowance ending 4 September 35 10
90

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 7, Page 1

See letter to [illegible] Owens 18 April 35
Feby 5, 1906 Tombstone data DQ.M. Genl USA
A.O.T.

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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

Abraham Aarons

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 of 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 namesof 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 6, 1832? 

VII. 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 of respecting his age and 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 not 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? 

XIV.  If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, as the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 

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 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? 
1  2  3

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 undersiend, 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 recoolection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades;  For _______ year _______ months and _________ days, I served as a ________ For _________ months and _______ days, I served as a __________; as 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 each 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. 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 authenticates 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 ends 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 the 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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Payments to be made 
at Lexington
by the Pred of Mr. J B Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of  Kentucky
Recorded in the Pension Office, in the Book E Vol 7 Page 1 by 
Daniel Bayd 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, Abraham Aarons of the State of Kentucky who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to received Forty dollars and ---- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1834, 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 Twelfth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Lew Cap [signature]
Secretary of War.

J L Edwards [signature]
Commissioner of Pensions.

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7434

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Columbia
11th May 1835
Dear Sir
I was from home when yours of the 18th ultimo came to this place immediately upon my arrival I procured the pension certificate of Abraham Aarons which I enclose your agreeable to your request.

I am dear Sir
Respectfully your most obt svt

Wm Owens