Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4719, Jesse Waller, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Waller, Jesse
S. 4719
carded
CONTENTS

Ohio. Pittsburgh. 7921.
Order to pay the widow 19. to Sept 1837.
Jesse Waller Waller
of Morgan Co in the State of Ohio. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Worthington of the Regiment commanded by Col. Morris in the Virginia line for Six months from 1778.
$20. 00 / 100 Died 27. Febry 1837.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio. at the rate of 20. Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of April 1833 and sent to P. B. Johnston Clerk at Connellsville Morgan Co. Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 10.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep r . 33. 10.00
$50.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by M c Palmer Clerk, Book 8. Vol. 8. Page 132.

Merchants & Manufacturers Bank Pittsburgh Sept 13 th 1857
Sir I have the honor to transmit for inspection Quicher in the case of Mary Waller, widow of J. B. Waller dec d , deceased under the Act of June 1834, who was last paid up to the 1 st March 1836.
Very Respectfully Yours ab d Serv t Thea d Kahl for the Pension Agent
J. P. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

10 17925. - 7921
Isaac Walker.
Done for 6 months from 1798.
P. B. Johnston Clerk Mc Connellsville Morgan County Ohio.
20 Feb. 1833.
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BRIEF in the case of Jesse Waller of Morgan County in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 78 Years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1778 from 1 st Aug. 1778 to about 1 st of Feby 1779 private Capt. Worthington, Col. Morrow Col. Campbell.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Berkeley County, Virginia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
P. F. Hensaut Examining Clerk.

The State of Ohio, on this 29 th day of October A.D. 1832 Morgan County, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, Jasper Mor- gan County aforesaid, Jesse Waller aged Seventy Three years, after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Con- gress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated he was drafted and entered into the service about the first of August A.D. 1778 reconnoizing at Martinsburgh in Berkeley County Vir- ginia five companies of us under the command of Captains Worthington Lyle Swearingen Noble Am- brose marching through Virginia crossed the Pot- omac river wading it about four miles below Old Town just below the junction of the North and South branch then to Old Town in Mary- land and thence to Cumberland thence through to foot of Allegheny Mountain where Captain Noble and Lieutenant Garrison were broke at the same place Col. Morford selected all those who had rifles in the five companies and formed them into one company calling them light infantry & placing them under the command of Captain Swearing- en and left the others under the command of Captains Worthington Lyle & Ambrose we then proceeded to the mouth of Big Beaver & there built a Fort & was there attached to the regulars calling the Fort M c Intosh & after the Fort was built and nearly finished the main body of the army went to the Susquehanna to build Fort Lawrence & my officers went with them but I was left among some others to finish and take care of Fort M c Intosh under the command of Colonel Campbell who was belonged to the regulars service I remained

at Fort McIntosh to about first of February 1779 when my term of service having expired Col Campbell gave a written furlough so that I could try home as no person could travel at that time without one telling me that when I got home to give my furlough to my captain. I got home about last of February when I immediately took my furlough to my captain who had got home before me who gave me a written discharge which I placed with my father's papers which was the last that I recollect of seeing it. I was living in Berkeley County Vir- ginia at the time I entered the service and after the war I returned there where I remained about five years from thence I removed to Hampshire County Virginia where I lived about ten years then I moved to Ohio County Virginia where I lived about two years and then I moved into the North Western territory on Caplina Creek now Belmont County State of Ohio where I lived nine years when I moved to Salt Creek in Guernsey County where I lived nine years from there when I moved to Olive Green my pre- sent residence where I have lived about fif- teen years.
Questions propounded by the Court Question 1st Where and in what year were you born Ans In Berkeley County in the State of Virginia 1759 Question 2nd Have you any record of your age Ans none any
Question Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live Ans I was living in Berkeley County Virginia my native county after I returned to Berkeley Co Va & from there I moved to Hampshire Co & from there to Ohio Co Va and from to Caplina Creek

in the North Western territory now Belmont Co. O. & from there to Williamsport in Guernsey Co. O. from there to my present residence in Morgan County Ohio Olive Green township Question 4 How were you called into the service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute & if so for whom Ans I was drafted
Question 5 State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstance of your service
Answer Genl Broadhead Genl McIntosh Col Campbell & Captain Swearingen the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment of regulars Major Scott Adjutant Genl & Quartermaster General of Va. Militia
Question 6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so from whom & what has become of it
Answer I kept it with my fathers papers and I know not what became of it I received one signed by Captain Worthington
Question 7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity & good behaviour your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ans I am known to Jacob Jordan & William John Long & Elias W. Ramey Stephens in my present neighborhood but I know of no one by whom I can prove my services
Philip Waller Mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid J. B. Johnson Clerk
We John Long Jacob Jordan and Elias W. Ramey residents of Olive Green and Center town- ships in Morgan County aforesaid do

hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse Waller who has subscribed the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is reputed and belie- ved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Richard Peasey
Jacob his mark Jordan
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid P.B. Johnson Clerk S.C.
And the Supreme Court do hereby declare their opinion af- ter the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department  annexed that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Sol- dier and served as he states And the Court fur- ther certify that it appears to them that Esq. & Kinney  Esq. Esq. and Jacob Jordan are credi- ble persons and that their statements are en- titled to credit.
The State of Ohio Morgan County V. J. Perley P.B. Johnson Clerk of the Supreme Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jesse Waller for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 3 rd day of November A.D. 1832 P.B. Johnson Clerk S.C.
17925 Jesse Waller

December 16, 1933
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am BA-J/MCS Jesse Waller, S. 4719
Mr. W. H. Waller 1335 H Street, N.W. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Jesse Waller, S. 4719.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 4719, based upon the military service of Jesse Waller.
He was born in 1759 in Berkeley County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in that county he enlisted about August 1, 1778, and served until about the first of February, 1779, as private with the Virginia troops under Captains Swearingen and Worthington and Colonel Campbell; he aided in the building of Fort McIntosh at the mouth of the "Big Beaver".
About five years after the Revolution he moved from Berkeley County, Virginia, to Hampshire County, Virginia. About ten years later he moved to Ohio County, Virginia. Two years later he moved to Captina Creek in the North Western Territory to the section that later became Belmont County, Ohio. Nine years later he moved to Wills Creek in Guernsey County, Ohio, where he lived nine more years when he moved to Olive Green Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 29, 1832, at which time he was living in Olive Green Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
He died February 27, 1837, leaving a widow, Mary. There are no further family data on file in the papers of this pension claim.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

Rev. Mar
4719 INVALID.
File No. 4719 Waller
Jesse Waller * Pitt. Va. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: Vol. A, Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Jesse Waller * Apr. 25, 1904 Records corrected. SS
Oct. 15, 1908 Hist. to Eliza Roach V.L.M. 1909 Mar. 25 Hist. to Carrie Thompson. 1911 Nov. 24 Hist. to Lyman S. Roach. 1933 Dec. 16 Hist. to Mr. W. H. Waller V.L.M.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Isaac Waller which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
No. clergyman but two witnesses.
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
no.
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes.
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? —
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? —
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? —
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeeth 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 recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ————— year ————— months, and ————— days, I served as a ————— For ————— months and ————— days, I served as a —————; and for such service I claim a pension.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Payments to be made at Pittsburgh — by Pt. U. S. Br. Bank. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Ohio. Pittsburgh.
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 8.
Page 132 by W. H. Schmutz. Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jesse Walker of the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive — Twenty — dollars and  cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this — 19 th — day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
L. C. C. [Signature]
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards [Signature]
Commissioner of Pensions.

3 May NEWCASTLE COM
Free
Mr Bevan
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Customs Wadsworth Hall,

Mc Connelsville 20 May 2 nd 1833
Sir
Enclosed I return to you a pension certificate that came here directed to R. B. Johnson (the former clk of our court)
I presume that there was a mistake made by the clerk that filled the certificate in spelling the name of the pensioner as there was no such person as Jesse Walker . made application for a pension from this section of country, but I as attorney for one Jesse Waller made application. and I suppose the enclosed was intended for him. will you cause the error to be corrected & return me the certificate forth with
Yours &c
John E. Hanna

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Jesse Waller
Service N a
Additional Service Rev. War
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190____
No claim, combination records _____, 190____
REMARKS:
No claim except I. # 4719

Dec. 14, 1933
S.4919
Jesse Waller abstract of information on -
Requested by
W. H. Waller
1335 H St. N.W.
Washington, D. C.

Letter from Lyman S. Roach, Texarkana Ark. asking for record of Louis neg. or Jesse Walker & dated Nov. 18, 1911 has been returned to him this date (Nov. 24, 1911) at his request. V.L.M.

named witnesses, _____ and _____ whom I believe to be credible persons, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing statement subscribed by them.
[If the magistrate uses a seal, this deposition and the voucher should be sealed with one impression of the seal.]
_____ (Official character.) _____
NOTE.—Magistrate must certify to any erasures or alterations.
(P. O. address.) _____
* If the claimant or either of the persons called upon to testify have information of the pensioner's death, either prior or subsequent to the date specified, this form should not be executed, but should be returned, with the accompanying voucher, to the United States Pension Agent, with a statement (not under oath) of the fact and date of the pensioner's death.
6-593

To The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir -
I am trying to locate a Revolutionary Soldier - name Jesse Waller - wife's name Mary - enlisted from Virginia - and drew a Pension - in later life lived at Olive Green Ohio. have you his record on file? if so would you kindly send copy -
Respectfully -
Mrs Carrie Thompson Bellefontaine
Ohio.
2-25-09

Bellefontaine Ohio
10. 6- 1908
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
In Reply to my letter of the 15 th you seem not to have understood the question. for you ask me to furnish the reg Dates that I had wanted to get of for my mother wants to establish her claim as daughter of the American Revolution. her Grandfather Jesse Waller was Revolution pensioner. He was Born in Ireland so was his wife Mary Farley but what state.

he enlisted from & do not know but after the war he lived and died in ohio and is Buried with his wife at alive Green ohio in
what is known as the Taylor cemetery & may be able to get the information you desire
Jesse Waller has been dead about seventy years as near as we can correct it-
can my mother being Jesse Waller's granddaughter get a pension from him - She is now eighty four this month
Very Respectfully yours Electa Roach
9 North main st Bellefontaine Ohio

sion on file in this Bureau.
Cissi Waller Sur. File # 719
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Aug. 1. 1778 July 1. 1779 Pvt. { Searing Worthington Campbell Pa                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Berkeley Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 29. 1832. Her el was al.
Residence at date of application, Ohio Green Twp. Morgan Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, { born in Berkeley Co. Va. in 1759. died July 27. 1837. * }
Remarks: Soldier's wife named Mary...
The above noted is the only soldier & c !
* from agency book