Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,245, Benjamin Webb, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Webb, Benjamin
VR. 11.245
CONTENTS

At a Court held at the Court house for the County of Botetourt on Monday the 13 th day of March 1837 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of the Court of Botetourt County now sitting the same being a Court of Records Benjamin Webb a resident of Botetourt County in the State of Virginia aged Seventy Six years the 10 th day of December last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he enlisted in the army of the United States the year he cannot recollect his memory being very much impaired; he thinks he enlisted with a Captain Buchanan the regiment he does not recollect perhaps the 5 th or eighth that he served under Buchanan in the recruiting service perhaps six months when he joined the Main Army Commanded by Genl Washington after joining the Main Army. Buchanan's men were divided he thinks between Captains William, Wilson and White and this Declarant was transferred to Captain William Wilson's Company. the regiment to which he belongs was Commanded he thinks by Col Taylor or Stewart. this Declarant enlisted during the War but did not serve until its close, in the battle of Brandy wine in which he was engaged he received several severe wounds which are particularly described in the affidavit of Wm A McDowell MD and eminent Physician to which he respectfully refers the War Department, In consequence of those wounds he was left among the slain on the field of battle invisible and when he came to his senses he found himself lying with a number of the wounded in a barn

about five miles from the battle ground how he got there, this Declarant is unconscious but he was removed thence by his Father who lived in the immediate neighbourhood five miles from Chadsford that he did not regain his strength while the war lasted and never afterwards joined the army. He says he never received a discharge in consequence of the facts above stated and supposes he was unnumbered among the Stain He enlisted in the County of Chester & State of Pennsylvania where he resided, he was in several skirmishes and in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, & Brandywine. He has a vivid recollection of lighting up the fires before the army left Trenton and he recollects that the engagement at Trenton commenced about sunrise. He marched with Washington's army through the Jerseys he was very young when he entered the service and knew very little about what was transpiring around him at the time and has but a very imperfect recollection now of but few of the circumstances, he was in actual service two years in the field during which time he was not employed in any civil pursuit. He knows no one living by whom he can prove his service and has no documentary evidence unless his name should be on the rolls in the Department, he was born in the year 1760 but has no record of his age in his profession, he had the leaf upon which his age was recorded and which he tore from his Father's Bible and carried in his pocket book until within a few years back when it was same how or other misplaced and he has not seen it since, he remained in Pennsylvania for several years after the war when he removed to Virginia where he has been living ever since following the business of Milling, he refers to the names

of the following persons to whom he is known in his present Neighbourhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the revolution to wit Jonathan Lee Thomas H Burns and Robert Anderson and Daniel Sainley he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State Sworn to and Subscribed the day and Year aforesaid) Signed Benj Webb
We Jonathan Lee a clergyman residing in the County of Bolton and Thomas H Burns & Robert Anderson residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Webb who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion, Sworn and Subscribed the day and Year aforesaid) Signed Jonathan Lee Thos H Burns
Robert Anderson
I William A McDowell a practicing Physician residing in the County of Bolton have examined the scars of Benjamin Webb who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and do hereby certify that he has a scar of what I conceive to be a gun shot wound on the left arm which seems to have produced at the time an exfoliation of the bone

two inches above the joint also a Sabre wound across the left wrist which seems to have produced a division of two thirds of the extensor tendons of the fingers also a dislocation of the elbow joint which he says was from the trampling of Cavalry which still remains unhealed also two Sabre wounds in the head the one detaching the scalp from the parietal bone from with- in an half inch of the sagittal suture to the middle of the temporal bone showing a semicircular scar of the superficial extent of about ten inches the other showing a scar of about five inches on the right of the occipital bone. The wounds of the head are of such an appearance as clearly to show the kind of Weapon with which they were inflicted Given to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Wm. A. McDowell
Volunteer Cavalry to War
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for the said County Benjamin Webb who being duly sworn deposes 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 recollec- tion he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades For two years I served as a private and for such service I claim a pension" Benjamin Webb
Sworn to & Subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in the said County the 13 th of March 1837
Wm. Anderson

And the Said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the rear department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Jonathan See who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Boltons and that Thomas M. Burns and Robert Anderson who have also signed the same are residents in the Said County and are Credible persons and that this Statement is entitled to Credit and also Certify that William A. McDowell whom affidavit has been filed with the papers in this proceeding is a regular bred Physician and Surgeon of high Standing and a resident of this County.
I Henry W. Bowyer Clerk of the Court of Boltons County do hereby Certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Webb for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 20 th day of March 1837
H. W. Bowyer Clk

Washington, Feb. 28 th , 1838.
Sir,
For the purpose of laying them before the House, I wish you to send me the papers in the case of Benjamin Webb, an applicant for a pension from Va (I believe, Botetourt county) - or copies, if you wish to retain the papers.
Very respectfully, yours, Robert Breene

3 papers handed to Mr. Addison to copy for Hon. R. Craig, 5 March 1838
Henry Webb Va.
See tel. No. 14.
Bowyer March
28 1837
do do June 13. 1837
do do Hon. R. Craig 14
Sept 1837. Copies of papers sent to same, March 8. 1838. Lt Hon. McCar-
July 6. 1840
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Act 7 June 32

State of Virginia
Wolcott County To Wit
This day Jacob Danner personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace for the County of State of said and made oath that Benjamin Webb was in the service of the United States during the revolutionary War. The time he entered the service he does not recollect. He does well recollect the said Benjamin Webb was with the army when Genl. Washington retreated thro. the Jerseys. He has a distinct recollection that he was in the battle of Brandywine.
But this affiant never saw him afterwards during the War. He was personally acquainted with him in the army & saw him after. This affiant believes that the said Benjamin Webb belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Buchanan of the 7 th regiment of the Pennsylvania line which he thinks was commanded by Col. Taylor. This affiant thinks that the said Benjamin Webb served in the War at least two years. He has not seen him but once since the battle of Brandywine until 15 th Inst. They have been together for the last 2 or 3 days & this affiant has no doubt that he is the same person with whom he was acquainted in the revolutionary war as above stated.
I do hereby further certify that the said Jacob Danner is a credible person and that I hesitate not in believing the above statements to be correct. He has a certificate for a pension commencing on the 12 th day of May 1848 in the name of Jacob Danner alias Danner - Given under my hand & seal this 17 th day of April 1857 -

I Henry W Bowyer Clerk of the Court of Botetourt county Certify that Samuel J Fox is a Magistrate as within and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office & Subscribed my name this 1 st day of June in the year 1837
H W Bowyer Clerk of the Court of Botetourt County.

Augusta County } State of Virginia } to wit
I William a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid do hereby certify That Smith Thompson personally appeared before me & made oath that he has been acquainted with Benjamin Webb from his early boyhood, & has a personal knowledge of his having been a soldier in the war of the revolution. The time he entered & left the service he cannot say, & has no accurate knowledge or recollection, or the means now of ascertaining the exact time he was engaged in the service. But from the means he has of forming a correct estimate, and from the best of his recollection, he thinks he must have served at least 3 or 4 years. He does not recollect the regi- ment to which he belonged or the name of his Colonel. But he well remembers he was in the army com- manded by Washington, & was at the battle of Brandy- wine. I do further certify that I am acquainted with the above named Smith Thompson; that I believe him to be a credible witness, & that his foregoing statement is true. Given under my hand this 5 th day of September 1837
William Young
State of Virginia, Augusta County, to wit. I, Jefferson Kinney, Clerk of the County Court of Augus- ta in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Young Esq. whose name is also subscribed

is a true copy of the peace for the ministry aforesaid, and that the said signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 5th day of Sept. in the year 1887.
Jefferson Murray, C.C.R.

REJECTED over
11,245
P. O. B Enj. Webb
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .