Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11668, John Waters, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Waters, John
S. 11668
CONTENTS
carded

7511 Kentucky
Let Eliza P. Waters Sept 30/57
John Waters of Estill 60 in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Jamies of the Regt commanded by Col Girrad in the Va time for 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of April 1833 and Smith Daniel Breck Richmond
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $66.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 16.66
$83.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Pugh Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 32

State of Kentucky } S.S. Fayette County } 3
On the 17 th day of Sept — 1832 personally appeared in open court before John Wellborn Sam l Lipton & Sampson Watts Justices of the County Court in & for the County of Fayette aforesaid, now sitting John Waters, Senior, a resident of Fayette County aforesaid, aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, calls on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, described as herein stated —
That he voluntarily served a term of duty in the Militia from Stafford County in Virginia in the years 1777 or 1778 under Capt d John James, James Head Smith, Colo. Garet or Garard Command We marched down Potomac River to Creek Lord Dunmore's main station near Old Point, Md. Point, stable, Littlemore — where then Lord Dunmore, who had been higher up the River returned & burnt up Wood's Wharf Establishment — Wheat Station &

every thing of the kind - we followed them down the River - but they burned all the houses close to the River except one Harris, who was a Tory - that he was out and his farm up & about the River about 3 months - That he volunteered & served a second time in the Militia from your County he thinks in Stafford you, but cannot be positive as to date - George Burroughs was his Capt - Gaddis was Lieut. - Maj. Wm. Williams was along as an officer, we were stationed for some time about Colo John Cook's establishment - thinks he was out on this farm about 2 months - That he volunteered under some officer from your County served a third time down short time afterwards - was marched down on the Potomac River - was stationed again near Colo Cook's es- tablishment - thinks he was out on his farm twenty or thirty days - - The year commenced, surrendered he volunteered from Stafford County as a prisoner in the Militia & went out the latter part of August - he was in a company commanded by Capt. Wm. Harris - James Prim was Major Colo Phillips commanded

We were marched immediately to York. We went to Frederickshill & got our arms - Then on to York - He thinks he was in Genl. Mordaunt's Brigade - He mentions also the Genl. Demarcs the French General - He continued out this Town till the surrender of Cornwallis & then marched with the Prisoners to the Barracks above Winchester - was discharged at Elk Run Church - near home Christmas Eve - was out four months or more on this tour - He states that a few days before the surrender of Cornwallis he received a wound in the hand from a Bayonet, while the to troops, to which he belonged & the French were engaged with the British - he received the wound while an attempt was making upon some of the British works - He was born in Stafford County (he has no record of his age, but has always understood he was born in 1753 in August 25 th - he has lived in Rutland 27 or 28 years; in the now bounds of Rutland County most of the time - He has no documentary evidence to prove

his services - he had some written Discharges, but they are all lost or mislaid - he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure to establish of his services to establish to establish them. He hereby acknowledges every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity - and states the present I declare that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State - Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid, John this Meeter Marr
We Saml Kelly a clergyman residing in the County of Estill and Saml Hanis and Henry Beatty residing in Saml hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Wattus who has subscribed and sworn to the above decla- ration that we believe him to be 80 years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn & Subscribed the Saml Kelly day & year aforesaid Henry Beatty Daniel Horner

M c Waters -
Declaration

State of Kentucky Estill County } Set.
Robert Clark Clerk of the County Court in & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Waters for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19 th day of November 1832.
Robt Clark

And tho I did leave my declared their opinion after the investigation - tion of the matter & after further the investigations prescribed by the was disappointed, that the before named applicant was a Resolu- tionary Soldier & served as he states We leave further evidence that it appears to them that Samuel Riley — who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the County of Riles aforesaid & that J. Batty & Dan. Hanes — who have signed the same are also a residents of Farms County & are credible persons of good character & their state- ment is entitled to credit
John W. Moore Samuel Tipton
Sampson Walters

John Waters
" Esther Cox from 1778 partial 10 months.
$33. 33 / 100
Capt James Gerrards 1 a
D. Breck, Richmond, Tenn.

State of Kentucky } Estill County } S.S.
On this 21 st day of January 1833 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the Estill County Court aforesaid now sitting John Waters a resident of said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, states that his dates make the following declarations supplementary to his declaration made in this Court on the 17 th day of September 1830 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1830
He states that by reason of his great age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service as a soldier of the Revolution, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than one month, as a private, or volunteer, in the militia in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War - and for such service he claims a pension - That he was living in Stafford County Va when he went into the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War - He states that he resided in Virginia after the war most of the time in Stafford

County, till he removed to Kentucky more thirty years ago where he has ever since resided. He states that Samuel Riley, a clergyman, Col. Henry Beatty & Daniel Harris of Retsof County have long known him, knew his neigh- bours & can & have testified concerning his character & the belief of his services - Subscribed & sworn to { his } John F. Waters on the day & year aforesaid Mark
And the said Court declare that they concur in the opinion contained in the certificate then attached to the original declaration of said application
Sampson Walters Nicholas Merrill Patterson B Clark
I Robert Clark, Clerk of the Court of the County of Retsof aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original & Supplementary proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Waters for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 21 st day of January 1833.
Robert Clark

State of Kentucky Estill County } ss
On this 9 th day of September AD 1857 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Eliza Waters aged Seventy one years a Resident of Estill County and State of Kentucky who first being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed March the 2 d 1839. July the 7 th 1838 and August the 16 th AD 1842 That he is the Son and heir at law of John Waters Deceased who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary war and pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty or forty Eight Dollars per annum the amount not recollect by this affiant that he was paid at the Kentucky agency That Said John Waters died at his residence in Estill County State of Kentucky on the 12 th day of May AD 1838 Leaving as his widow Elizabeth Waters who died on the 3 d day of January 1841 She having never applied for nor recd the pension nor any part of the pension to which she was intitled, That there is no record of the marriage in existence but from the best information the said John and Elizabeth Waters was married in Prince William County in the State of Virginia in the year AD 1787 That the Banns of marriage was published and no record kept, That the name of the said Elizabeth Waters before her said marriage was Elizabeth Straiyer, he further states that he is unable to attend in court to her sitting to make his declaration That he makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension to which the said Elizabeth Waters was intitled for the

Exclusive use and benefit of the heirs at Law of the of said John & Elizabeth Waters deceased
The communication of pensions will please send all my check and all communications in relation to my claim to the care of Wm A Snowden of Kiddville Ky
Eliza p his Hutton mark
We Robert Adams and Delia Adams residents of Estill County and State of Kentucky do upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Eliza Waters in our presence and that we are well acquainted with him and have been for thirty years past that we were well acquainted with John & Elizabeth Waters deceased and have been for twenty five years past that they lived together and cohabited as man and wife for the space of 25 years and continued to live together as man and wife up to the time of the said John Waters death, that he died on or about the 12 th day May 1838 leaving as his widow Elizabeth Waters who died on or about the 12 th day of January 1841 leaving Eliza Waters and three other children as the heirs at law of said deceased having lived near neighbors to them for 25 or six years and that the said John Waters was a pensioner of the United States and that the said Eliza Waters is the reputed daughter of John & Elizabeth Waters and that we believe him to be the identical person who represents himself to be said
Robert his Adams mark Delia her Adams mark

The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credi- ble persons that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that he is now sick and confined to his bed so that he cannot attend court when sitting to make his declaration and that I am not interested in this claim in any way whatever J. H. Williams J. P. E. C.
State of Kentucky } ss Estill County }
I Thomas W Carson Clerk of the County Court of Said County do certify that A. Swensen is and was at the time of making the forgo- ing signatures (which I certify genuine) an acting justice of the peace in and for said County having been duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I have here- unto affixed the Seal of Said Court and subscribed my name this 18 th of September A D 1857 Thos H Carson Clerk By Robt Ridame D.C.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MRE/eel
May 11, 1929
Miss Cora Bronaugh Route # 8 Clinton, Missouri
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.11668 , it appears that John Waters, Senior , was born, August 25, 1753, in Stafford County, Virginia.
While residing there, he enlisted in 1777 or 1778, and served three months as a private in Captain John James' Company, Colonel Garrard's or Garret's Virginia Regiment.
The next year he enlisted and served two months as a private in Captain George Burroughs' Virginia Company and soon afterward twenty or thirty days under the same captain.
In the latter part of August, 1781, he enlisted, served four months or more as a private in Captain Mill Hardin's Company, Colonel Phillips' Virginia Regiment and was at the siege of Yorktown, where he received a bayonet wound in his hand, and at the surrender of Cornwallis.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1832, while a resident of Estill County, Kentucky, where he had lived for twenty-seven or twenty-eight years.
The soldier married, in 1781, in Prince William County, Virginia, Elizabeth Fraizer.
He died, May 12, 1833, at his residence in Estill County, Kentucky, and his widow, Elizabeth, died, January 3, 1841, leaving four children, the only name given being a son, Elza, who was a resident of Estill County, Kentucky, in 1857, and then aged seventy-one years.
One Sampson Watters was a Justice of the County Court of Estill County, Kentucky, in 1832, no relationship to soldier stated.
There are no further family data.
The above noted John Waters is the only soldier by that name, of Virginia, found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau and said records fail to afford any information in regard to John Bronaugh.
For information relative to land that may have been granted by the State of Virginia to a John Waters for services in the Revolutionary War, it is suggested that you

apply to the Librarian, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.
For information relative to the military record of the Revolutionary War soldier, John Bronaugh, and any other John Waters, it is suggested that you apply to the Adjutant General, War Department, this city.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Boncaugh pl by Clinton. Missouri Route 8 April 9- 1929.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
I have this record of my ancestor - John only of Va  Waters - who served in the Revolutionary war as a Corporal in Captain Henry Lee's Troop, 1st Regiment, Light- Dragoons, also designated 1st Regiment, Virginia Light Dra- goons, commanded by Col. Theo- doric Bland. The date of en- listment is not known. His name appears on the Company pay roll for November, 1777,

and is last borne on a return of men enlisted to serve during the war in the 1st Regiment of Light-Dragoons 5 th , who have been violently taken from the said regiment. This return is dated October, 18, 1778.
John Waters received land for his services - I do not know how much. his children were all living in 1835. they appeared before the County Court at Warren ton, Va. - in regard to the division of some of this land. the names of his children were - John, William, Landon, or "Landy" Mrs. Sarah Waters Farrow and Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders. Can you tell me the date of his enlistment, and from what County and where his grants of land were located. In fact every scrap of information your dept. may have of this John Waters , or where it could be found.
On my paternal side my grandfathers father was Mr. John Borrough of Stafford Co. Va. was a signer with his brother Capt. William Borrough and brother in law Yel- verton Peyton Stafford Co. Resolutions and on the Committee of Safety - he was surgeon

in the Stafford County Militia, but died very early in the War - will you give me his Regiment, where Troop, & Commander - and if he received any land grants for his services - in fact all you find in your Dept - and oh, please be careful for you find means much to me - can I derive information from any other source -
Thanking you for any trouble, I am
Very truly Miss Cora Bronaugh Clinton, Mo.

Eliza Waters Pension Claim
John Waters July 1832
Wed aftn
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 11
Commission of Pension Washington City D.C.

Sept. 30, 1857.
Sir: I have received and filed your informal application, as the son of John Waters, deceased, of Kentucky, late a pensioner under the Act of 1832, and of his widow, Elizabeth Waters, deceased, in which you claim pension money alleged to have been due her at her death.
The Secretary of the Interior has very recently decided that the children of Revolutionary soldiers, and of their widows, are not by law entitled to pension allowances. The claim you now make is, therefore, inadmissible.
To Eliza P. Waters, Esq.

1929, May 11, Hied to Miss Cora Bronaugh M. E. E.
Rev. W.
11668 INVALID.
File No. 11668
John Waters Prim. Res. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 294
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Waters, Joseph GRADE Private LINE Sheldon's Dragoons (Connecticut)
WARRANT NUMBER 6699 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Apr. 11, 1792 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.