Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2746, John Davis, Va.

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(3-1776)

        SERVICE                                                          NUMBER
         Va.                         Davis, John                      R.2746

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Certif of marriage in Jany 1797

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"1797 Do join John Davis B. & Mary Arnall 5 2nd January" 

State of Virginia Hanover County, to wit 

William O. Winston Clerk of the County Court of Hanover in the State of Virginia , do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from a list of Marriages celebrated by Henry H. Mallory J. M. E. C. are now of record in my office In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 2nd day of June 1852 

Wm O. Winston J.H.C.

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Susan Davis
Afft of service
death, widowhood & children

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The affidavit of Susan Davis

My name is Susan Davis, I am the daughter of John Davis. I am about eighty seven years old. My register has been lost and I can't tell my exact age. I was ten or twelve years old when my brother, John Davis, went into the service of the Revolutionary War. He went from the County of Louisa, VA, but his father's family lived in the County of Albemarle, Va. I very well remember him going into the service and his coming back home, but can't now remember how long he served. It had been so long and I am so old and inform that I have forgotten a good deal about it - But I know he was called out twice during the war. When he was first called out he went to the North, and after he returned from the North, he went, together with my brother Jonathan, to Sandy Point. I have often heard my brother John Davis talk a great deal about the Revolutionary War, but can't now remember much he said. He has been dead upwards of thirty years. The date I don't remember. He was about sixty years old when he died. John Davis married Mary Arnall. They had four children. The oldest died. The others there are still living. Their names are Mary or Polly, as she is generally called. Edmund and Richard. Mary married Joseph Pattenson and lives in the County of Goochland, Va. Edmund and Michael live in (?) Va. Richard the youngest I will remember was born in October 1804. The ages of the other two I don't remember. Mary Davis, the widow of John Davis, never married a second time. She died his widow. She has been dead but a short time.

Susan Davis
(her mark)

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State of Virginia 
County of Cumberland ● to wit 

This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid and State of Virginia Susan Davis and qualified to the within affidavit Given under my hand This 23rd day of September 1852 
J. H. Davis J. P.

 State of Virginia 
Cumberland County to wit. ⎬ B. B Woodson Clerk of the County seat of Cumberland in the State of Virginia, to hereby certify that J. H. Davis whose name is subscribed to the above certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of this said Court at office this 27th day of September 1852, 

B.B. Woodson, C.

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1,210

Dec 4/52

Declaration 

Joseph Patterson [illegible] of Mary Davis widow of John, of Virginia for [illegible] of Pension.

Act July 29th 1848. 

Richard M. Young,
Present

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State of Virginia 
County of Goochland

L.L. 

In the County Court of said County and state Nov Term A D 1852. 

Be it remembered that on this 16th day of November in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty two personally 
appeared before the Justices of the said Court in & for the County
of Goochland & State of Virginia, the same being a Court of record
 & having a clerk & seal & sitting for the dispatch of business 
Joseph Patterson  administrator of the estate of Mary Davis deceased
 who was the widow of John Davis also deceased, the said Patterson
being  a resident of the County of Goochland & State of Virginia 
aged fifty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to 
law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain
 the pension which is due to the children of the said Mary Davis deceased
 in right of their said mother who was the widow of the said John Davis 
deceased & who was at the time of her death entitled to the said pension 
money on account of the military service of her said husband John Davis 
during the revolutionary war under the act of Congress of July 29th 
1848 & the other acts of Congress making further provision in such cases 
previous to the time of his death. That the said John Davis entered the 
service of the United States & served in the Virginia State Line for two 
or more tours, during the war of the Revolution & served in all upwards 
of two years. He left his native county of Hanover in the state 
of Virginia & entered as a volunteer, or militia man first in Capt 
William O. Collis' company was afterwards under Capt or Colonel

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Burnley & was finally discharged from the service by Beverley Stublefield, who was at that time, either a Colonel or a General. The names of the officers under whom he served & the battles in which he was engaged cannot now be ascertained as nearly if not quite all of his revolutionary associates, are now dead & he himself has been dead  for more than twenty years. It is supposed however from the recollections of his conversations frequently before his death as well as from the conversations of his widow, who is now also dead that the most  if not all of his service, was rendered  as a militia man or volunteer in the Virginia State line. That he was encamped for much of the time he was in service near Philadelphia & was in the battles of Brandywine + Monmouth. In one of which engagements he was wounded, That said services were rendered between the years 1777 & 1781. That he was married to Mary Arnall in Hanover County Virginia the 2d of January 1797 by Henry H. Mallory That he first went from Hanover County & entered the service in Louisa County Virginia & died in Hanover County Virginia the 12th day of February 1817. That his widow Mary Davis whose maiden name was Mary Arnold as aforesaid alon died in the County of Goochland & State of Virginia on the 7 day of July A.D. 1852 leaving the following named surviving children who were the lawful children of herself (the said Mary Arnall) & the said John Davis, to wit Edmund Davis, Mary Davis (Mary Patterson & Richard Davis. That said children now reside in Hanover &  Goochland counties State of Virginia - Said Edmund & Richard Davis

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in Hanover & the said Mary in Goochland. That said pension money is due to the said children in right of their said Mother is more particularly claimed, under the act of Congress of July 29th 1848. That neither the said John Davis or Mary Davis his widow ever applied for or received a pension & that their said marriage as aforesaid took place before the year 1800. In Testimony whereof the said Joseph Patterson has hereunto subscribed his hand this day & year before written - 

Joseph Patterson

In Testimony whereof I, Narcissus W. Miller, Clerk of the Court of the said County of Goochland in the State of Virginia, have hereunto set my hand and annexed the Seal of the said Court this 25th day of November in the year 1852. 

NarW. Miller, ⌨

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[Typewritten letter]

September 19, 1930

Mrs. Raymond M. Evans 
Mayflower Apartments 
Louisville, Kentucky. 

Dear Madam:  

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 2746, that John Davis was born in Hanover County, Virginia, date not stated. 

He married January 2, 1797, in Hanover County, Virginia, Mary Arnall. 

He died February 12, 1817 or January, 1818, in Hanover County, Virginia. 

His widow, Mary Davis, died July 7, 1852, in Goochland County, Virginia, aged seventy-seven years.

She was survived by the following named children: Mary, or Polly, wife of Joseph Patterson, Edmond W. and Richard H., aged fifty two, fifty and forty-six years respectively in 1852. 

On November 16, 1852, Joseph Patterson, a resident of Gooch land County, Virginia, Administrator of the estate of Mary Davis, applied for pension due the children of said Mary Davis, deceased. He alleged that soldier went from Hanover County, Virginia, volunteered in Louisa County, Virginia, between 1777 and 1781, first in Captain William O'Callis' Company and afterwards under Captain Burnley, and that he was in the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth, in one of which he was wounded. 

The claim was not allowed as there was no satisfactory proof of six months military service as required by the pension laws. 

Very truly yours, 

E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

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1920 May 6 
to Lillie M. Dunn [possibly Donald]
 1920 Nov. 24. Hist. to W. H. Gordon 
1930 - Sept. 19. Hist. to Mrs. Raymond Evans

REJECTED [Stamp]

2746

Mary Davis

Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank] , 18
Discharged: [blank] , 18
Application filed: [blank]
[illegible]: Claim filed too late to be on printed list of 1852 rejections.

Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized.  [blank] Contract.
[blank] Cert. of Dis.    Searched for [blank], 18

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1,210

Mary Davis dce'd [deceased] of Va.

Rev [Revolution]

Suspended

Let [letter?] to R.M. Young  May 6,1853  
                                           May 14, 1853

2746

Act 29 July 1848

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[Continuation of previous file]


Dec. 14, 1852

Addl. [additional] evi. [evidence] in case of Mary Davis dced. [deceased], widow of John



Richard M. Young       Present

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Hon. J. E. Heath
Court of Pensions
Washington City


[The rest is on the next file]

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[This is the same as the previous file except turned sideways]

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1210   Dec. 4, 1852

Appl [application] of Mary Davis
decd. [deceased] wid. [widow] of John Davis

Va.
Act 29th July 1848

Richard M. Young    Present


Hon. J. E. Heath
Court of Pensions
Washington City

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That it appears from a list in this office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line as settled their accounts and received certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an act of assembly, passed by the November session 1781, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st January 1777 to 31st December 1781, (see Hening's Statutes at Large, vol. 10, p, 462,) that a settlement was made on the 7th day of May 1783 in the name of John Davis as Sol [soldier] Inf [infantry] and evidence of the indebtedness of the State to him for 80.1.9 [pounds] delivered to Henry Anderson but as the original settlements or copies thereof are not to be found in this office, the term of service embraced therein cannot be stated.
Given under my hand at the First Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 15th day of May 1652.
[signed]   Ro Johnston   First Auditor

[in brackets]  No Seal of Office.

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SERVICE|    | NUMBER

Va. | Davis, John | R. 2746
       |            Mary |

CONTENTS
[blank]

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State of Virginia,
  In Goochland County Court, 16th August 1852

Joseph Patterson qualified as [administrator]] of Mary Davis deceased and gave bond in the penalty of $500 with Thomas R Argyle his security, which bond was acknowledged by both the subscribing obliges thereto, and ordered to be recorded.

I Narcissus W Miller, Clerk of the said County of Goochland in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript from the Minutes containing the Original proceedings of the said Court on the 16th day of August 1852; and that the said Joseph Patterson was duly sworn as administrator of the said Mary Davis dec. [deceased] and is duly authorized to act in that capacity on the estate of the said decedent.
 In testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 25th day of November in the year 1852
[signed]  Nar.W.Miller    Clerk

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Afft [affidavit] of decease of Mary Davis
and of surviving children
Rich [Richard] H. Davis
Edmund W. Davis
& Mary Patterson

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Personally appeared before me, Benjamin Anderson, a justice of the peace in & for the County of Goochland aforesaid, Mr Tempe Stanley, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that Mrs Mary Davis who was the widow of John Davis a revolutionary soldier, who died in the County of Hanover, died in the County of Goochland on the 7th day of July in the year 1852, in the 77th year of her age, as appears by her register:  that the said Mary Davis at the time of her death had three children then living, to wit: Richard H. Davis aged forty-six years, Edmund  W. Davis aged fifty years & Polly [Mary} Patterson aged fifty-two years.
[signed] Tempe Stanley

Subscribed and sworn before me a justice of the peace in the county aforesaid this 22 of Nov. 1852  [signed]   Benj. Anderson J.P.

State of Virginia  County of Goochland
I Narcissus W. Miller Clerk of the County Court in and for the County above mentioned, do hereby certify that Benjamin Anderson whose genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit
Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Goochland Court House this 25th day of November, AD 1852
[signed]   Nar W Miller   Clerk

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Wm D Taylor
Afft [affidavit]  [?]vition and statements of contemporaries
--Death & children

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Affidavit of Wm. D. Taylor
Hanover Co. Va.


The 37 [illegible]  J D Taylor

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The affidavit of Wm. D. Taylor of Hanover County & State of Virginia, taken before me, who was duly sworn, saith-- I was well acquainted with John Davis and frequently heard him speak of his being in the revolutionary war, and likewise heard of several old neighbors of the said Davis speak of being in service with him during the revolutionary war, and and have no reason to doubt that the statms [statements] of the services of the said Mr Davis as taken in my presence I believe were true.  As regards the time of Jno [John] Davis' death, I am clearly of opinion that he died in the year 1818, in the County of Hanover & State of Virginia, and left his wife Mary Davis a widow in the County of Hanover, and after his death, his widow Mary Davis removed from the County of Hanover to the County of Goochland, Virginia, where she died, and the said Mary Davis left three children, to wit Mary Davis, who is now Mary Patterson, and now lives in the County of Goochland, Va.,  Edmund W. Davis and Richard H. Davis, both of whom reside in the County of Hanover Va. and Richard H Davis is the youngest of the three children, and the last mentioned is over the age of 45.  And further this affiant saith not.
[signed]  Wm D Taylor
octr [October] 27, 1852

Hanover County: State of Virginia, to wit
The foregoing affiant Wm D Taylor was this day sworn & subscribed to before me, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid.  Given under my hand & seal this 27th day of October 1852.
[signed] P H Price  JP  {seal}

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Virginia
Hanover [?] County, to wit
I William O. Winston, Clerk of the County [seat?] of Hanover[?] in the State of Virginia, Certify that J. H. Price who has given the within Certificate before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, was at the time said affidavit was made, and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and sworn.  That due faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is his genuine Signature.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 26th day of October 1852
[signed]  Wm. O. Winston  H.C.

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Va State Roll 

"John Davis [illegible] Cary 13. Feby 1783  [symbol for pound currency] 25 

Do [illegible] Henry Anderson 2 May 1783 [pound symbol]80.1.9 
Do [illegible] I Hawkins 31 May 1783 [pound symbol] 56.14.7
Do [illegible] Wm Reynolds 13 July 1784 [pound symbol] 68.8
Do 68.8 Moses Hunter 30 Apl 84 [pound symbol] 25.11 
Do [illegible] 3 Aug 84 [pound symbol] 84.0.11 

                                                                230.154 

[pound symbol] 25.11 is 1 year 23 das

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R. M. Young
May 14/53

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Pension Office   May 14, 1853
Sir   Your letter of 13th of Dec. last is filed.  The certificate of the Audition of Virginia, which you enclose, gives no strength to the claim.  
The Virginia rolls in this office show payments to "John Davis", private of Infantry, amounting, in the aggregate, to 230.15.4 [pounds], to same name, Serg't [sergeant] of Infantry, of 84.0.11 [pounds].  The lowest item of these payments is 25 [pounds].
It is impossible to determine, from the proofs in this case and rolls together, which of the persons to whom these payments were made is the person whose children you represent.

R. M. Young  Esq
Present

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Hon. R. M. Young
May 6/53

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May 6, 1853
Sir   The papers in support of the claim of the children of Mary Davis, deceased, of Virginia, accompanying your letter of Dec. 3, 1852, have been examined.
There is no satisfactory proof of the length of service performed by John Davis, the husband of Mary.

R M Young  Esq
Present

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Washington City  Dec 13, 1852
Hon. J. E, Heath   Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, Enclosed I send you the official certificate of Robert Johnston, First Comptroller of the State of Virginia,  showing that evidence of indebtedness of the State of Virginia was granted to John Davis for 80.1.9 [pounds] for services as a soldier of the Virginia State Line rendered by him in the Revolutionary war -- which you will please file as evidence of the service of the said John Davis in the case of Joseph Patterson [administrator] of Mary Davis the widow of John Davis, for [arrears wages?] of Revolutionary Pension due in right of the said Mary Davis under the act of Congress of July 29, 1848.

The Declaration and papers were filed in the Pension office December 3rd or 4th, 1852 -- You will please send the Pension Certificate to me, when ready for delivery --
Very respectfully 
Richard M Young
Atty for Joseph Patterson [administrator] of Mary Davis  {seal}

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Letter of RM Young
Dec 3, 1852
Mary Davis dies

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Washington City Dec. 3, 1852.
Hon. [honorable] I E Heath
Review of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed I send you the Declaration of Joseph Patterson administrator of the Estate of Mary Davis decd [deceased], who was the widow of John Davis a soldier from Virginia in the Revolutionary war, for arrearages of the Pension of Mary Davis under the act of Congress of July 29, 1848. The accompanying proofs are supposed to be sufficient. You will also find Letters of Administration in due form to Joseph Patterson the [administrator] who resides in Goochland County Virginia. 
You will please send the certificate of Pension to my care when ready for delivery-
Very Respectfully
Richard M Young
Att'y for Joseph Patterson
Admin of Mary Davis decd

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Henry Arnold
Afft Tradition,
death & children

Affidavit of
Henry Arnold
Hanover County

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Affidavit of
Henry Amall
Hannover County
In 37. J.D. Taylor

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The affidavit of Henry Arnold of Hanover County
& State of Virginia taken before me who was duly sworn deposeth & saith I was well acquainted with John Davis the present applicant for Pension Services, and frequently heard him in conversation speak of his revolutionary services, and heard him speak of being at Molmonth, and other places to the north not recollected and have no reason to doubt that the statements of his services made in my presence were otherwise than said. I distinctly recollect the time of his death. He died in the County of Hanover, State of Va in the month of
January 1818, and left his wife Mary Davis a widow in the County of Hanover, and after his death, his widow Mary Davis removed from the County of Hanover to the County of Goochland, Virginia, and she left three children to wit Mary Davis who is now Mary Patterson, who now lives in the County of Goochland Va.
Edmund W. Davis & Richard H. Davis both of whom reside in the County of Hanover VA. and  Richard A the youngest of the three is over the age of 45 and further this affiant saith not-
Henry Arnall
23 Oct 1852
Harro Co. & State of Virginia to wit
The foregoing affidavit of Henry Arnall was this day sworn & subscribed to before me a Justice of the Peace for the County & State aforesaid. Given under my hand & seal this 23 day of October 1852
[unknown] Price [unknown]

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State of Virginia
Hanover County [unknown]
William O Winston Clerk of the County Court of
Honor in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that P S. Price, who has given the written certificates and before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time said affidavit was made, and still is an acting Justice of the
Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn. that due faith and credit and to all his official acts as such and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is his genuine
signature
In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the
26th day of October 1852
---
W. O. Winston C.

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Rev War
Ear

1405 N Lincoln St
Spokane Washington;
March 14th 1920
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir, will you kindly tell me if JOHN DAVIS of Va, drew a pension? He died about 1823, and may have drew a pension for Revolutionary service.
I am very anxious to get record of his war service;
and will greatly appreciate an early reply.
Very sincerely,
Mrs ) Lillie Massie Duvall

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8-049.
EX AW Div. Rev War Section
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Apr 6, 1920
The attached letter is respectfully returned
with the information that the data furnished is
not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below
as the information in your possession will permit.
and return to this Bureau.

Name of widow Think she died about 1789 not certain
Name of soldier John Davis Sr. 1730
(he married Mary Glazebrork.

Pro. address of claimant at enlistment think he died about 1828 and after service
Company was from Hanover Co Va
Regiment-
State where enlisted don't know
approximate dates of birth & death
If unable to furnish company and regiment
give names of commanding officers.
Have not learned but am told its on record in Richmond State Library.
Return attached letter with reply.
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner
U-2469

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Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Information of Revolutionary Army service (if any) of the three men herein described.
John Davis, Born in Hanover Co. Va. 1730, Died 1828. He was a son of Nathaniel & Mildred Hardin
Davis. John Davis married Mary Glazebrook.
John Winn or Wynne Jr. was born in Hanover Co. Va. in 1757. He was a son of John Winn Sr.

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who was form in Middlesex Co. Va.
1905 John Winn Jr married Mary Bowles, daughter of Thomas Bowler.
Also information of army service of John Hyde of York Co. Va. He married Lucy Hansford also of
York Co. His father was Col. Robert Hyde.
Please send to
Mrs W. H. Gordon
507 South Washington St.
Butte, Montana

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Mayflower Apta.
Louisville, KY
Aug. 24, 1930.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C

Dear Sir:
If you have any records of John Davis the son of Nathaniel Davis and Hardin, probably of Albermarle County Virginia will you kindly copy these for me?  John Davis married Mary Glazebrook. His will was written in Hanover

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county Virginia but it was presented and proved in the quarterly session court held in Goochland County Tuesday the sixteenth of November 1824. 
Do you have any records of Nathaniel Davis? He might have been too old to have fought in the Revolution.
Thanking you for any information you might send.
I am
Yours Truly
Virginia S Evans
Mrs Raymond M Evans

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V.L.W.
Rev. War Section 
May 6, 1920.
Mrs. Lillie Massie Duvall,
1405 N. Lincoln Street,
Spokane, Washington.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 14tn ultimo,
you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. File No. 2,746 it appears that John Davis was born in Hanover County, Virginia, date not stated, and married January 2, 1797, in Hanover County, Virginia, Mary Arnall. He died February 18, 1817 or January 1818 in Hanover County, Virginia.

She died July 7, 1852, in Goochland County, Virginia, aged seventy-seven years, leaving the following named children: Mary or Polly wife of Joseph Patterson, aged fifty-two years,
Edmond W. aged fifty years, and Richard H. aged forty-six years.

On November 16, 1852, Joseph Patterson, not of Goochland County, Virginia. Administrator
of the estate of Mary Davis, applied for pension due the children of said Mary deceased, alleged that soldier went from Hanover County, Virginia, and Volunteered in Louisa County, Virginia between 1777 and 1781, first in Captain William
O'Callis' Company and afterwards under Captain Burnley, and that he was in the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth, in one of which

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he was wounded. The claim was not allowed as there was no satisfactory proof of six months military service as required by the pension laws.
The above noted is the only soldier of this name of Hanover County, Virginia, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.