Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,296, Theodosius Welch, Va.

NUMBER
SERVICE
Va.
Welch, Theodosius Sarah.
R. 11.296
CONTENTS

No 6749
Sarah Welch widow of Theodotias North Carolina.
Lt. Col. Banner June 2/51 Isaac N. Coffin June 4/54 Same 2nd copy 2/57
11296
Ad Feb. 3. 1853.

State of North Carolina } S.S. County of Forsyth }
Be it known that on this 10 th day of July A.D. 1837 before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared James Ziglar aged sixty. Sixty years last January a respectable citizen of said County and highly respected as a person of credibility & truth. Who being sworn according to law to declare what he may know concerning the service of Theodotus Welch as a soldier in time of the War of the Revolution Deposeth & saith that he was acquainted with the said Theodotus Welch in Culpepper County in the State of Virginia in time of the Revolutionary War and when he enlisted with several others his neighbors in said County viz Wm Pinnegar or Binnegar as some spell it, one of the Pinchams and several others that went in the service of the U States & served their time out & upon their return it was the term of eighteen months or two years. James Ziglar on a visit of this Deponent enlisted about the same time, Welch, Pinnegar, & Pincham or Pincham returned home & enlisted again he thinks the first enlisted in the year 1775 or 76. & served to the end of the war. Theodotus Welch not recruited after the war ended. returned to Culpepper Co Va. & remained there about ten or a dozen years. Then took his identical son Sarah Welch who has made application for County led N. 276.034. under the act of S. March 1855 her former name was Sarah Jones and removed to Stokes County N. Carolina where Deponent was informed they were married about the year 1807. by one John Evans again he thinks they enlisted the said Welch & others in the Virginia continental line or United States Regiments he don't which but they were gone several years in the service when none but Welch Pinnegar & Pincham & Leonard Ziglar returned home; the others having died or were killed in battle as they reported that they had been in many battles & sworn to & submitted the date first above mentioned before.
James Ziglar think
John A. Styers (JP)

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted & have been for many years with James Ziglar who has been to be subscribed the within Deposition that he is a person of high reputation as a person of Respectability & truth. & that I am not interested in the prosecution of the within mentioned claim of Sarah Welch for Bounty land or a Pension for money given under my hand. This 10 th day of July A. D. 1857-
John A. Styers (P)
State of North Carolina } I A. J. Stafford Forrest County } Clerk of the court of July 11 th 1857. } Pleas and Quarter Sessions For the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John A. Styers Esq. is a native of the state of and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at office
A. J. Stafford Clerk
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]

State of North Carolina County of Stokes
On this 7 th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred & fifty seven personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within & for the County & State aforesaid Sarah Welch aged Ninety seven years a resident of the County & State aforesaid. But from the infirmities of old age together with a hurt she recently received by a fall, she is unable to travel to Court, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress, the 3 d of March 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolution. sayeth that she is the Widow of Theodosius Welch, who was a private enlisted soldier in the War of the Revolution against Great Britain as her said husband related to her & others that he first enlisted for the term of two years, about the commencement of said War under the command of a Captain Beckerson or Capt John Gravis in Guilford County in the Virginia Continental line, and that a man by the name of Thornwell enlisted at the same time with him, and after having served faithfully the two years, he re-enlisted for during the war & said he fought many battles & made mention of the Battle at Union Springs, Camden, Guilford & last of all at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, where he stated he rec d an honorable discharge as she cannot prove the service of her said husband by witnesses, they all being dead. She begs the pension Department to have refer- ence to the Rolls when she expects he can be identified from his uncommon name. Theodosius, and the name of Thornwell & one Leonard Ziglar served with him, she further declares that she was married to the said Theodosius Welch on the 20 th day of May Eighteen hundred & seven in Stokes Co. N.C. by John Evans a Justice of the peace that her name before the marriage was Sarah Jones that her said died on the 6 th day of January A.D. 1821 at his residence in Stokes Co. N.C. That she was not married to him prior to Eighteen hundred January the second, but that the over

The marriage took place at the time above stated, she further declares that she is still his widow. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned. Sarah for Welch before me C. M. M'Anally J. P.
We Chas. Beattie of Forsyth & David Welch a resident of Stokes Co. & State of N. Carolina upon our oaths declare that the Declaration affidavit was signed & acknowledged by Sarah Welch in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance & statements of the applicant that she is the identical person that she represents herself to be that she has good recollection & retains her memory, and is now a widow. Sworn to & subscribed the date above written before me.
C. Banner David Welch
The foregoing Declaration & affidavit was sworn to & signed before me on the date above written & I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, and the claimant is the identical person she says she is & still a widow, & that I have no interest whatever in her claim given under my hand the date above mentioned.
C. M. M'Anally J. P.
State of North Carolina Stokes County
I John Hill clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for Stokes County do hereby certify that C. M. M'Anally whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for the County of Stokes duly commissioned and qualified, and the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of our said Court and subscribed my name at office in Danbury this 8 th day of May A.D. 1857.
John Hill By David Taylor D.C.

Sarah Welch
Miss B...
...of...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...

State of North Carolina } Stokes County }
I John Hill clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Stokes County do hereby certify that there is on file in my office a blank marriage bond signed by Theodotus Welch (and) and David Poindexter (and) as security, and on the back of said blank marriage bond is the following endorsement (to wit) "Marriage Bond Theodotus Welch to Sarah Jones May 19 th 1807" And I further certify that there are many blank marriage bonds on file in my office which have been signed by the parties, but never filled up.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of our said court and subscribed my name at office in Danbury this 26 th day of May A.D. 1857.
John Hill By David H. Taylor D.C.

Washington July 14 th 1857.
Sir:
In the case of Sarah Welch widow of Theodorus of North Carolina Revolutionary Pension case under the Act of Feb y 23 d 1853, I herewith transmit Affidavit of James Liglar, who swears as to what he knows in regard to his enlistment and return. He states important facts which must have impressed the circumstances on his mind, which are that his Uncle Leonard Liglar enlisted at the same time that Theodorus Welch did and I d that when the four, Welch, Pinnegan, Hinichman, & Leonard Liglar returned home, "the others having died or were killed in battle" these returning without the others "his neighbors" who he knew enlisted and went into service some of whom were killed in battle , — must naturally have made an unerasable impression on his mind. His Uncle Leonard Liglar was a pensioner of the United States , which corroborates his testimony.
I respectfully request that the Virginia Rolls in the Pension Office may be examined for his service.
George C. Whiting Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington. D. C.
I am, Very Respectfully Your Obed t Serv t Isaac N. Coffin.

Acted July 11, 1862, and March 9, 1870.
11,296  ann
P. O.
Sarah Welch
Service: wid. of Theodosius
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City D.C.
Bethania Forsyth County N Carolina 22 nd May 1857
You must excuse me for not addressing you as I have not learned what it is. I herewith transmit the Claims of an old Widow Sarah Welch which you will please put on file. Isaac N. Coffin Esq. will attend to prosecute her claims as her attorney. I act as her agent here and when you address me a letter send it to Bethania Forsyth Co. N.C. - altho I mail this at McAdry N.C.
Very Respectfully yours &c
Charles Banners
I cannot sign this
C. Banners
Land claim taken out Adams

Washington June 1 st 1857
Sir:
In the case of Sarah Welch widow of Theodocius of North Carolina a Revolutionary Pension case under the Act of July 7. 1838 or February 3 d 1853, — Original Claim, I have just received a letter from Hon ble Charles Banner of Bethania Forsyth Co. North Carolina dated 22 d May 1857 in which he states "I just now inclosed the claims of Sarah Welch to the Commissioner of Pensions and wrote him that you would prosecute the business as her Attorney". I would enclose his letter but it contains many things on other topics — and I respectfully request that this my letter may be filed with the papers in the case and that all communications from the Pension Office in relation to the case may be addressed to me.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obed t Serv t Isaac N Coffin.
George C. Whiting Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.