Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,818, Tapley Webb, Va. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va. Sea Service
Webb, Tapley
8. 14. 818
CONTENTS
Carded

33.371
District of Columbia
Tapley Webb dec d ,
in the State of
who was a Seaman, in the 118 commanded
For Captain Oga of the commanded
by in the Revolution,
time for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Washington
at the rate of 74. Dollars 00 Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831, and end
1 st March 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of November
1836 and sent to
Arrears to the 4th of Dr. R. W. Young,
Semi-annual allowance ending Present.

Evidence of the date at which Japheth Webb & Elizabeth his wife deported this life.
R. M. Boykin is the U. S. Naval Store Keeper, at the Gosport Navy Yard. And William Brooks, is an Elder of the Baptist- Church.

State of Virginia } County of Norfolk } ss
Be it known that on this 4 th day of August  September A.D. 1836, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & state, personally appeared Robert M. Benkin and William Brooks Citizens of the Town of Portsmouth in the County aforesaid who made oath in due form of law, that they had visited the tomb of Tapley Webb and Eli- zabeth his wife, situated in the Yard of the Baptist Church in said Town, and read the inscription thereon, which shows that Tapley Webb died on the second day of March 1836, and that Elizabeth his wife died on the 7 th day of May 1836. And they further depose that Mrs. Ann P. Young the wife of Dr. R. W. Young - now a resi- dent of Washington D.C. is the only surviving child of said Tapley & Elizabeth Webb deceased. Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year last- mentioned.
Robert Dickson, J.P.
R. M. Benkin W m Brooks,

State of Virginia, Norfolk County to wit-
I Arthur Emmerson Clerk of the County Court of Norfolk County in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that Robert Hickson J.P. who has given the preceding certificate is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature thereto is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 4 th day of September 1856 in the 87 th Year of the Commonwealth
Arthur Emmerson (se)

Certified Copy of Scrip
Heights Vol. 9 p 36 " " 10 " 297 " " " " " 23 " " " " "

Acres 20.
Revolutionary Bounty Land Scrip
Dollars 25.
N o  7848.
Act of the 31 st of August 1852.
Whereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress, approved on the 31 st day of August 1852, entitled "An act making further provisions for the satisfaction of Virginia Land Warrants," there has been surrendered to this Department an Original Military Bounty Land Warrant granted by the State of Virginia to Ann P. Young, formerly Ann P. Webb his at law of Tapsley Webb etc. for services performed by Tapsley Webb, a Seaman in the State Navy during the Revolutionary War, numbered 9766 and dated the thirteenth day of August 1856 for 100 acres; And it appearing to the satisfaction of this Department that 100 acres thereof remain unsatisfied and that Ann P. Young is the present proprietor of said Warrant. Therefore be it known that this Certificate is issued in satisfaction of said Warrant, and is receivable from her or her assigns for the sum of Twenty five Dollars, being the value of Twenty acres in payment of any lands owned by the United States subject to sale at private entry.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Department of the Interior the Sixteenth day of October A.D. 1856 and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty first.
Thos. A. Hendricks Commissioner of the General Land Office
R. M c Clelland Secretary of the Interior
District of Columbia County of Washington
This is to certify that I have compared the foregoing with the original, and that it is a true copy of the same. October 30. 1856. W. T. Allam Jr.
2c. Acres.
25. D. War.

Declaration

District of Columbia County of Washington } ss.
Be it known that on this the 1 st day of November 1836, before me in Open Court personally appeared Ann P (Young) - formerly Ann P Webb now a resident of the City of Washington, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that she is the only surviving child of Ishley Webb dec d late of the Town of Portsmouth - State of Virginia, & that he the said Webb was a seaman in the State Navy of Va a during the War of the Revolution, and departed this life on the 2 nd day of March 1836.
That her mother the widow of said Webb survived him but a short time & died on the 7 th day of May 1836. That she makes this Declaration to obtain the arrears of Pension due the said Webb under the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832.
Anne P. Young
Sworn to in open court,
Test, Ed. N. Roach Reg. Clerk
November 1. 1836.

Brief in the case of Tapley Webb dec d . L. Co under the Act of June 7 1832 =
The records of this Office show him to have been a seaman for 3 years .
The State of Virginia allowed his heirs, last for the said service - And under the Act of 31 August 1852, The General Land Office, after ex- amination, issued Script for the same to his daughter Mrs Anne P Young the present ap- plicant for Pension -
His death in 1836 March 2 - and the fact the Mrs Young is the only child surviving him found agreeably to our Regulations,
D. R. Young (agent for his wife) Thornton, Mississ Present Examiners

Washington Nov. 3 rd 1856.
Hon George C Whiting Com r of Pensions
Sir
Here with, I have the honor to enclose the declaration of my Sa d , who asks for the payment of the Arrears of Pension due her father Saph r Webb, under the Act of the 7 th June 1832, at the time of his death.
Mr Webb was a seaman in the State navy of Virginia And Mrs Young has within a few days received from the Genl Land Office, 100 acres of "Scrip" issued to her in lieu of her Bounty Land Warrant, granted her by the state of Virginia for the services of said Webb, in the Revolutionary War. a certified copy of an order of which is also herewith enclosed.
The Affidavit of two disinterested residents of the town of Portsmouth, Va., and properly authenticated will show the time said Webb died.
I am Sir Very Respectfully Your Obedient R. W. Young.

Taplay Webb dec d J. C
adm d : June 7 1832
24 th Seaman #96
Ayer from Hilled 1831 to 2 nd March 1836
When he died
pay to Anne P Young only child -
be it to
D r R m Young
Present

Record Division.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
June 16, 1908
Searched by A.O.T.
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Tapley Webb
Service, Rev. War
Remarks: To Bountly Land
Chief of Division.

Rev Invalid WIDOWS
May 14818 File No.
Mapley Webb dec. Seaman U.S. Navy Revolution
Act _____
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]