Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5726, for Joshua Jones, Virginia

SERVICE
Va.
Jones, Joshua Mary
R. 5726
CONTENTS
b. Apr. 25, 1761 res at eul. Northumberland Co. Va. res in 1803 District Col. Ry - d. Jan. 6, 1844

22.007 Kentucky
Joshua Jones of Grant Co in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Beanehart of the regt commanded by Col Jones on the Va mile line for 18 months from 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 60 Dollars — Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Septem- ber 1833 and sent to Hon R. M. Johnson Gt + ing. Ken.
Arrears to the 4th of September 1833 150. Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 mth 34 30 180.
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm Allison Clerk Book E. Vol. 7 Page 18
30 Ad. Nov. 22/54

State of Kentucky } } Grant County } }
On this 22 nd day of August 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the Hon. Henry O Brown sole Judge of the Grant Circuit Court now sitting, being a court of record, Joshua Jones, a resident of the said County of Grant and State aforesaid aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 6 th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - He volunteered in the company of Captain Abraham Beauchamp, of the Virginia Militia about the time Lord Dammore sailed up the Potomac in the year 17 — , to Saint Georges Island which year he doth not now recollect and is therefore not able to name it, nor does he recollect the period of time for which he volunteered, he was attached

to the Regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas Jones, his Major was Thomas Jones Jr. the son of said Colonel - he entered the said service as aforesaid in the County of Northumberland Virginia. was employed as Minuteman and stationed on the Coast of the Potomac just above the mouth thereof both on the Virginia several shores, at different points & places as the service required - but mostly  at  points located particularly at Smith's Point on the Virginia Shore, where he was stationed where he was , was almost constantly employed in watching the motions of the Tories, and the approaches and movements of the enemy. In this service he continued as a volunteer under the same Captain for a period largely upward of two years; and his recollection and memory is, that it was full three years, whether he volunteered more than once he does not recollect; but knows he served more than two years of actual service in manner as aforesaid. He lived in the said County of Northumberland Virginia, when he entered the service. He was in no battle or engagement, other than the

pursuit of small parties of Tories or forays he was discharged at the close of the war after the surrender of Cornwallis at Little York. Whether he got a discharge or not he does not recollect. he was discharged in the same manner at the same time of the residue of the Company in which he served. He knew but few regular officers not having been engaged in any large body of troops in the service, and has forgotten the names of most of those he did know - He however saw & knew the Marquis La Fayette who staid about two weeks or on a occasion at the said Col n Jones who then resided at the head of what was then called "Cherry point" at which time he (the applicant) was in the service on duty - He knew Col n Gaskins and Col n Hull of the Virginia Militia. Colonel Hull was killed in an insurrection of the Militia who had refused to stand a draft at Northumberland Court House where this applicant was in the said service he has no documentary evidence, and that he is known to no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service - His name is not on any pension agency. He hereby relinquishes

any claim, whatever to a pension or annuity except the present - Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Joshua Jones
we John Bryce a clergyman residing at Covington Kentucky and Abraham Jones Charles Riddle. Nathan B Smith and Lewis Myers residing in the said County of Grant and State of Kentucky hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Jones, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 73 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 to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Bryce. Abraham Jones C. Riddle N. B. Smith Lewis Myers
The And the said Court do hereby declare its opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after perusing the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department. The answers to which are substantially contained in the foregoing declar- ation, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and serves as he states and the Court further certifies that it ap- -ears to the Court that the said Joshua

Jones, the applicant, as also the said John Bryce who has signed the preceding certificate are both clergymen, the first resident in the said County of Grant the other at Corryton in Campbell County, and that the said Abraham Jonas, Charles Ruddell, Hubbard B. Smith and Lewis Myers, who have also signed the same are residents of said Grant County, and are all credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
State of Kentucky Grant Circuit
August Court 1833.
I Hubbard B. Smith clerk to the Court of Grant Circuit do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Jones for a Pardon.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Circuit Court office this 22 d day of August 1833 and in the 41 st year of our Commonwealth.
H. B. Smith.

Jones, Joshua No. 673
Declaration to obtain Pension
Filed Aug. 27, 1833.
The applicant is a most worthy Presbyterian Methodist Preacher I have been personally acquainted with Mr Jones for many years & the most perfect reliance may be placed on his statement.
Rev. Johnson
The Persons who testify as to the worth Credit in
of Joshua Jones are all known to me as gentlemen of the highest character. Hearing.
Rev. Johnson

Burials
Joshua Jones was born April the 25 th 1761
Mary Jones Wife of Joshua Jones was born February 1767
Jane Jones was born October the 22 nd 1786
Rebecca Jones was born August the 16 th 1788
Elizabeth Jones was born February the 5 th 1792
Sarah Jones was Born July the 11 th 1795
William Jones was born July 23 rd 1797
Mary Jones was born December 13 th 1799
Mariah Jones was born February the 10 th 1807

Power of Attorney of William W. Jones son of Mary Jones deceased
[Large cursive signature]
Isaac N Coffin of Washington D.C. Attorney.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
STATE OF Kentucky _____ } ss : COUNTY OF Grant _____ }
Be it known that before me, a Justice
of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared
* William W Jones resident of Kentucky in the county of Grant in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according
to law, states that he is † son of Mary Jones deceased of said County & State widow of Joshua Jones _____ of the county of Grant _____ and State of Kentucky
who was a revolutionary ‡ soldier _____ and that he is directly interested as a
claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore made by said Mary Jones under the Act of July 7. 1838 and constitutes and appoints ISAAC N. BOFFIN, of Washington, D. C., his
true and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into, investigate, and establish the claim for said pension, and do all acts necessary thereto.
In witness whereof, he the said William W. Jones _____ has on this 10 th day of Nov. 1852 hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal.
Witness: Asa A Johnson ✓ John Brooks ✓
William W Jones Mark
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me, on this 1 st day of November 1852, and I hereby certify that the words "and Seth Doud of Williamstown Kentucky" were interlined in the fourth line of the foregoing Power of Attorney, prior to the execution thereof.
G.W. Salyers ✓ J.P.gc
STATE OF Kentucky _____ } to wit: COUNTY OF Grant _____ }
I, H. Woodyard clerk of the Country court, of the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, That G.W. Salyers before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged and affidavit made, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this 3 rd day of November 1852.
H. Woodyard Clerk.
* Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name; if he is dead, and the widow is living, insert her name; if both dead, insert one of the living children's names; if the children are all dead, and either of them survived the former unsuccessful applicant, insert the name of the administrator of that former applicant.
† Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name again; if the widow is living, insert the words, "widow of," and the name of her husband; if both dead, insert the words, "son or daughter of," and the name of the former LAST unsuccessful applicant.
‡ Here insert the word "soldier," or "officer," whichever he was.
NOTE.—When a female is the person who executes this paper, please put the letter s before the word he in every place where it occurs.

Declaration
In order to obtain the the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitle an act granting half pay and pensions to Certain widows
State of Kentucky County of Grant
Be It Known That on this Eighth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty four Personally appeared before me the under sign a justice of the Peace in and for said County and State Mary Jones a resident of Grant County and State of Kentucky age seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress July 7, 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows that she is the widow of Joshua Jones who was a pensioner in the County of Grant and State of Kentucky and at his death there was several months pension due him his pension Certificate was given up to the Honorable Seth Dowd for the purpose of getting what was due her husband at his death she refers to him for evidence and from the loss of her memory and great age she is unable to state the names of the officers her husband the afore said Joshua Jones served under she refers you to the evidence on file for this services she further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Jones in Fredrick County State of Virginia by James Ireland a Preacher of the Baptis Denomination in April Seventeen hundred and ninety-one and she has no Family record of her marriage but she has a Family record of the ages of her Children in the hand writing of James Burk on a leaf of her new bible which is a true copy from the old bible the old leaf being worn out and torn up The aforesaid Joshua Jones her husband and she was married previous to the birth of any of their Children

the foregoing leaf shows that there Daughter Elizabeth Jones was born on the fifth day of February Seventeen hundred and ninety two that her husband the said Joshua Jones died on the sixth day of January Eighteen hundred and forty four and she has remained his widow ever since and that she was not married to him prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before Mary her Jones Donah
We the undersigned neighbours state that we have examined the Declaration made by Mary Jones and believe it contains the truth we have examined the foregoing leaf which was taken from the bible in our presence we have examined it and believe it is a true copy from the old bible we know that her husband the aforesaid Joshua Jones died at or about the time stated by her and she has remained his widow ever since his death and that she was a pensioner as stated by her and we believe that she and the aforesaid Joshua Jones was lawfully married they lived together as man and wife until his death Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written
State of Kentucky County of Grant
John his Riffel Seabed his Ashcraft mark  mark
Be It known that on this Eighth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Jones an age and infirm woman who cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend Court and from appearance she is the age stated by her and she is well known to me

To be a lady of truth and respectability I have examined the Declaration made by her and do most truly concur in the belief of it and I certify that her husband the aforesaid Joshua Jones was a pensioner as stated by her and believe they was lawfully married the foregoing leaf was taken from the bible in my presents and I believe it is a true copy from the old original Bible and she subscribed and makes oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration before me also personally appeared Isabella Ashcraft and John Rippel both well known to me to be men of truth and respectability and subscribed and make oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me I certify that name of Joshua in the Declaration was erased and interline (before signing and in the neighbours certificate also you will see) the same which was done before signing given from under my hand this day and year last above mentioned Martin Draper S.P.H.
State of Kentucky } County of Grant }
I William Smith Clerk of the County Court of Grant County do certify that Martin Draper is a Magistrate before whom the foregoing Declaration and affidavit reports to have been taken and made was at the time of taking the same and is a now one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. "of Grant County interline before signing by me"
In Testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Grant County Court. this 8 th day of April 1844, and in the 58 th year of our Commonwealth William Smith Clerk of the Grant County Court

Elizabeth Jones was born Feb 5 th 1792 Sarah Jones was born July the 11 th 1795 Offie Jones was born July the 23 rd 1797 Mary Jones was born Dec r 13 th 1799 Mariah Jones was born Feb the 10 th 1807

January 12, 1938
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BA-J/EL Joshua Jones-R.5726
Mrs. Vera Trantor 448 East Madison Street Franklin, Indiana
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Joshua Jones, a pensioner, also, record concerning the rejected claim of his wife, Mary.
You are furnished herein the record of Joshua Jones, as shown in his claim for pension and that of the rejected claim of his widow, Mary, on file under R.5726; based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Joshua Jones was born April 25, 1761, place of birth and names of his parents not shown.
While residing in Northumberland County, Virginia, Joshua Jones volunteered "about the time Lord Dunmore sailed up the Potomac to Saint George's Island" and served two years or more in Captain Abraham Beauchamp's Company, Colonel Thomas Jones' Virginia Regiment, of which regiment Thomas Jones, Junior, son of Colonel Thomas Jones, was major; no relationship of either the colonel or his son to Joshua Jones shown; the regiment was stationed near the mouth of the Potomac on the Virginia shore and at other points along the bank of the river, the most of the time at Smith's Point, Virginia, and was engaged in watching the movements of the British and Tories.
After the Revolution, Joshua Jones moved from Virginia to Kentucky, lived in Bourbon and Pendleton Counties, that state, and later in Grant County, Kentucky.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1833, while residing in said Grant County.
He died January 6, 1844, place not shown. It was stated that he was a minister of the Methodist Church.

Joshua Jones married in April, 1791, in Frederick County, Virginia, Mary, born in February, 1767, place of birth and names of parents not shown. They were married by the Reverend James Ireland, a Baptist minister. The date of marriage was stated by her.
April 8, 1844, Mary Jones applied for pension on account of the service of her husband, Joshua Jones, in the Revolutionary War. Her claim for pension was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of her marriage to Joshua Jones as required by the pension law.
The following names of children of Joshua and Mary Jones are shown:
Elizabeth Jones . . . . . Born February 5, 1792. Sarah Jones. . . . . " July 11, 1795. William W. Jones. . . . . " " 23, 1797. Mary Jones. . . . . " December 13, 1799. Mariah Jones. . . . . " February 10, 1807.
In 1855, William W. Jones was the only surviving child. He was then residing in Grant County, Kentucky.
The following names are shown, also:
Jane Jones . . . . . born October 22, 1786. Rebecca Jones. . . . . " August 16, 1788.
In 1833, the name Abraham Jones appears: no relationship to the soldier and his family was shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

See letters to L. C. Suggett 16 July 1844; to W. S. Allison 15 April 1845; L. C. Suggett 2 July 1845; W. S. Allison Oct. 7. 1845; to same Dec. 2-1846 To S. H. Bond May 12 47 do. to L. C. Suggett Aug. 22 1847 M. C. Kim W. M. Stone August 12 48.
Isaac N. Coffin Oct. 12/53 3 d Dec Nov. 28/54 J. W. Boffin Nov. 2/54 Same Dec. 7/54 " March 17/1855
All above letters are the claim.

2/26.
P. O.
Mary Jones
Service: widow of Joshua
Enlisted: _____, 18_____
Discharged: _____, 18____.
Application filed: _____, 18_____
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspicion as, "Objections removed by Act July 1, 1848. service admitted - service service Attorney: requires proof."
Attorney: admit admitted - marriage requires proof.
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18_____.
卷二
五
REFCTED

1938-Mch. 28-Mrs. Vera Traulien adv. coat of photos. MMS

Pension Office
Nov. 22. 1857.
Sir,
I herewith submit the papers on which Joshua Jones was inscribed on the Kentucky Roll under the Act of June 7. 1832, at the rate of $60 per annum, and will be obliged if you will state to what time his pension has been paid.
I am, respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
L P Waller
Commissioned.

Joshua Jones died 6 January 1844 paid in full.
Robt Garrison
An actor

Pension Office August 12 1848
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the application in the case of Jane Margaret Smith widow of James Smith under the Joint resolution of the 1st ulto has been examined and filed.
That resolution provides, "that in all cases where a pension may have been granted to any Officer or Soldier of the Revolutionary in his life time, the evidence upon which such pension was granted shall be conclusive of the service of said Officer or Soldier." James Smith, the husband of Applicant, did not receive a pension during his life, his name was placed upon the roll under the act of 18 March 1818, in 1819, but it having been discovered that his pension was improperly granted it was  it was immediately dropped. before any payment was made That resolution does not therefore cover the case of Mrs Smith and before she can be allowed a pension she must

care, and as the produce satisfactory evidence of her husband's service has been discredited by the way of the Company in which he alleged he served we cannot grant her a pension upon the proof now filed
The objection in the case of Mary Jones, widow of Solomon Jones is removed but before she can be allowed a pension she must produce some showing satisfactory the date evidence of her marriage
Dr R. M. Henson Aug 12-48
Dear R. M. Johnson Present

Col J. L. Edwards
As the friend & agent of Mary Jones widow of Joshua Jones I apply for a Pension for her under the resolution of Congress of March Session allowing Pensions to widows of revolutionary officers & soldiers who have not Pensions without any proof of service from the Widow
Your friend & agent Rhen Johnson 10 July 1844

Small
Nov. 22/87.

Pension Office, Nov. 22, 1854.
Sir:
I herewith submit the papers on which Joshua Jones was mounted on the Kentucky Roll under the act of June 7, 1832, at the rate of $60 per annum, and now be obliged if you will order to that time his pension has been paid.
R. J. Atkinson Esq 3 d Auditor

10826
1844 Jan 1 1838 Feb 7 Mary Ky
Free
James J. Edwards Comm. from of Person Washington City D.C.
Alut

Long Litch Scote Co Thg April 12. 1844
Dear Sir
The enclosed is the Declaration of Mrs Mary Jones Widow of the lat Joshua Jones for the benefit of the Act of July 4. 1838
I am yours with Great Respect Lewis C Suggitt
J L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Long Dick No 3 March 19. 1845
Free
Mar 25
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Recd Jan 25 o 1845
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Proof
Edward
claim
under
Col James L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
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Long Litch Scott 60 Yr March 19 1845
Dear Sir
Mr Jones made a Declaration under the Act of July 9. 1838 and the enclosed is forward to obtain the benefit of the act of April 30 1844 of Genl. January 22 1845
I am yours O B Lewis & Suggm.
J. Edwards Esq. Camp near of day Washington D.C. O B Lewis

10.826
Mary Jones
Ken:
Act 7 July 1838

Washington. Feb: 1. 1845.
Sir,
In the case of Mary Jones widow of Joshua Jones, dec. the claim was barred by the act of 44, her husband having died in that year. I would request that her claim be now examined, under the Joint Resolution of Congress of 23 Jan 1845.
I am sir,
Your obt. Servt.
Wm Lloyd Allison
J. S. Edwards Esq Com of Pensions

16. July 1844
L. B. Suggett

259 Pension Office July 16 th 1844
Sir, I have examined the papers of Mary Jones, widow of Joshua Jones, who was a pensioner under the Act of June 7 th 1832.
Mrs. Jones, applies for a pension under the Act of July 7 th 1838, but she is precluded the provisions, and also the Act of March 3 rd 1843, by the Act of April 30 th 1844.
The question in this case is not as to the fact of her marriage, but, as to the precise time that it took place. When it shall be clearly established that she was married prior to the 1 st January 1794, a pension will be granted under the Act of June 17 th 1844. The papers have been placed in our files.
I am Sir
Lewis Suggett Esq. Long Creek Scott County Ky.

Pension Office April 13 1845
Sir,
In reply to your letter of 1 st Feby last respecting the Claim of Mary Jones, I have to inform you that at the time her husband's forsook Jones's, Claim was admitted, the information in possession of this Department of the Revolutionary Service of the State of Virginia was very limited, and he was allowed a pension upon his own statement for service, which is now known to be inconsistent with either the Militia, or Regular Service of that State. We alleged that he served upon the 2 nd of April in the Militia under Capt. Beauchamp and Col. Jones as a Volunteer in the County of Northumberland as a Minute Man , and was stationed on the coast of the Potomac, particularly at Smith's Point. Unless it can be shown that Claimant's husband served in the regularly organized Militia (whose terms of service were limited by law to three months) or in the Continental, or State Line, evidence of which should be found at Richmond, her claim will not be admitted. If Mrs. Jones asserts a claim for her husband's service in the Militia, each war, with period, length and grade.

with the names of the Company and filed Officers, under whom he served, must be selfish and satisfactorily established. You will see by the enclosed printed instructions, that no "Claim, whatever, can be sustained without positive proof of Service."
The date of the marriage should be established by a certified Copy of the Marriage bond or license from the Clerk's office in Frederick Co Va or by some other record or documentary evidence, if attamable, the paper purporting to be a family register bears the appearance of having been too recently made to be received as proof on this point.
Mr Jones must produce evidence that she was living on the 23 d January last before she can be entitled to the benefit of the joint resolution of that date.
W. A. Wilson Apr 15 '83
W. S. Allison Esq Near George Town D.C.

W. G. Wilson
Oct 7 th '45

95 Pension Office October 7th 1845
i, The declaration of Mary Jones widow of Joshua Jones under the act of March 1843 has been received and filed with her other papers, to await the reception of the proof of the date of her marriage, and of her husband's service heretofore required to establish her claim under the act of 7 May 1838
W. S. Allison Esq Present

Albany N.Y. July 3rd '45

29 Pension Office, July 3. 1845.
Sir,
In reply to your letter, asking whether or not the resolution of January 23 d 1845, applies to widows under the act of July 14. 1836, I have to state that said resolution was passed for the benefit of widows under act of July 7. 1838, only .
The declaration of Mary Jones under the above named resolution has been examined and placed on file. No further action can be had  made in this claim until the proof of marriage and service required in my former letter, has been furnished.
Lewis C. Suggett, Esq. Long-Lick, Scott County, Kentucky.

W. P. Garrison
2. Dec. 1846.

Pension Office / 9 Dec. 2 o 1846
Sir,
The paper which you handed to me a few days ago in the case of Mary Jones, widow of Joshua Jones, has been filed. This paper purports to be a family record; but it has no mark of genuineness, and cannot be admitted as evidence. Proof of marriage at the time alleged in the applicant's declaration must be produced, and proof of the husband's service also. The proof required by my letter to you of the 15 th of April 1845 has not yet been produced. I enclose a copy of that letter, and have further to remark that unless the proof required can be procured, it will be wholly unavailing to pursue the case any further.
E
W m William S. Allison, Present
N o 10826 Kentucky case act 7 July '38

Washington Nov: 18 th 1852.
Sir:
In compliance with your letter of October 12 th 1853, I herewith transmit in the Revolutionary Pension case under the Act of July 7. 1838 of Mrs. Mary Jones widow of Joshua, the following papers
Official Certificate of H. A. Tidball Clerk of Frederick County Court, proving there is no Record of Joshua Jones's Marriage! Affidavit of John H. Fugate Affidavit of William Lucket.
The following facts proved by the Oath of John H. Fugate are respectfully presented to your consideration. He is proved by the Official Certificate of William A. Brown Esq. the Justice of the Peace before whom sworn to be a man of veracity and he swears — That — Some time about the year 1790 his father Edward Fugate moved from Virginia to Kentucky, this affiant was then about eight years old, his father went within a few years back to Virginia and Joshua Jones and Mary his wife came with him to Kentucky. He does not recollect the year: he knew them ever since they came to Kentucky as man and wife until the death of Joshua Jones: he states that in 1794 a mulatto man that his father had sold to a man in Virginia ran away and got with the Army and passed for a freeman. Some time after the return of the troops the mulatto man was found in Lexington and his father got Joshua Jones to go to Lexington to prove that he was a slave. This was about 1796 or 1797. Joshua Jones and Mary his wife had been some one or

"two years in the State before this took place. They were always reputed "to be man and wife from the time they came to Kentucky with his "father as above stated and were respectable citizens." Thus he proves that it was in 1796 or 1797 that Joshua Jones went to Lexington and that they [Joshua & Mary Jones] had been one or two years in this State before this took place" which would shew it to be 1794 or 1795 that they were living in Kentucky "as man and wife from the time they came from Kentucky" (besides the time that they were man and wife before they came.) These facts corroborate with those of which William Lucket makes Oath — and also corroborate with the Family Records above alluded to.
2nd He Swears, and Emphatically Repeats he "distinctly recollects the fact of the mulatto man above mentioned being found in Lexington some short time after Wayne's troops returned from the Campaign of 1794 and that Joshua Jones then lived a neighbor to his father and went with his father to Lexington to prove that he was a "slave." Thus he states two striking incidents which impress the time on his mind that they were living as man and wife" and were "respectable citizens", viz. return of Wayne's troops & his father's journey to Lexington in regard to the slave.
The following facts proved by the Oath of William Lucket are respectfully presented to your consideration. He is proved by the Official Certificate of the Justice before whom sworn to be a man of veracity & Swears — that he became [acquainted] with Joshua Jones and Mary his reputed wife about the year 1800 or some short time before or after that date — his first ac- -quaintance with Mary Jones wife of Joshua Jones took place by moving the family of Joshua Jones from Bourbon County, to Pendleton County which was a little before or after the year 1800. He had some acquaintance

"with Joshua Jones while he lived in Bourbon County but had none "with any of the other members of the family until the time he moved "the family from Bourbon to Pendleton County as above stated. At "the time he moved the family from Bourbon to Pendleton County they had "several children how many he cannot now recollect, he thinks the "eldest child was between eight and ten years old." Thus he swears he moved them in 1800 or some short time before or after" — or "a little before or after" and at that time they had several children" and "the eldest was between eight and ten years old." 1 st Even taking the smallest age of the two ages, eight years and deducting it from the year 1800 and it gives the year as 1792 which corroborates with the year of the birth of her daughter Elizabeth which was Feb 5. 1792 as shown by the Family Record annexed to Mrs Jones Declaration under Act July 7. 1838. 2 d The fact of his moving a neighbor a whole Family from one County to another County is a striking event in the history of his life and made a strong impression on his memory and that is probably the reason that he states so positive- -ly point in repetitions that it was closely connected with the year 1800 a "short time before or after" — "a little before or after." 3 d He further Swears They were "always reputed to be man and wife from the time he first knew them and were "respectable citizens from that time until their death as far as he knew or ever heard, "that he was intimately acquainted with Joshua Jones from the time he helped "him to move from Bourbon to Pendleton County and the family also until the "death of Joshua Jones." 4 th He Swears "That at the time he helped Joshua "Jones to move from Bourbon to Pendleton County, he Joshua Jones lived in "the neighborhood of Edward Fugate in Bourbon County and had lived "there several years before." As it is proved by the Death of John H Fugate that Joshua Jones and Mary his wife came with him [Edward Fugate] to Kentucky" he of course "had lived there several years before" that time "1800" — and thus this Testimony of William Lockett corroborated by the

by the Evidence of John H. Fugate is Evidence that he lived there several years before 1800 in the married state — this carrying the marriage back several years before 1800 even while they were in Kentucky , added to the fact that they came there married — and added to the fact of the age of the children abovementioned. He He swears, — Joshua Jones had many years before his death been a Methodist Preacher and as such much respected. The facts that he had been a Methodist Preacher for many years before his death which fact is corroborated by the Affidavit of John H. Fugate — the fact of his living with Mary Jones as man and wife and always reputed to be man and wife and were respectable citizens show that they were married persons.
The following facts in relation to the Family Record are respectfully presented to your consideration. The facts abovementioned proved by the Oaths of John H. Fugate and William Sucket corroborate the Family Record which Mrs. Jones has annexed to her Declaration and this leaf is proved by the Official Certificate of the Officer before whom the Declaration is sworn to have been to have been "taken from the Bible in my presence" — and by the Oaths of Ichabod Alneraft and John Riffell both Officially Certified by the Justice to be well known to me to be men of truth and respectability that "the foregoing leaf was taken from the Bible in our presence." Mrs. Jones is proved by the Official Certificate of the Officer before whom the Declaration is sworn that she is well known to him to be a lady of truth and respectability — she is also proved by the Affidavits of William Sucket and John H. Fugate to be the wife of a person who was many years a Minister of the Gospel who was "highly respected" and being so she was doubtless a Member of the Church as Ministers wives usually are and their Ministers are required

my own Members to be by the Rules of their Church Government as will be seen by reference to the book called "Methodist Discipline" — and she was always under the influence of his most exalted example and incessant teachings to the purest thoughts, words and deeds, — and this Lady thus proved of "truth", Solemnly Swears before the God whom she fears and Reverences with the utmost strength of her soul, and which she knows has in that very Bible fiercely denounced lying and false swearing — She she was married by James Ireland a Preacher of the Baptist Denomination in April 1790 and she has no Family Record of her marriage, but she has a Family Record of the ages of her children in the handwriting of James Burk on a leaf of her new bible which is "a true copy from the old bible, the old leaf being worn out and torn up" and that this leaf shows that their daughter "Elizabeth Jones was born on the fifth day of February seven- -teen hundred and ninety two." Now it is respectfully represented to you the utter — the extreme improbability of a Lady proved as above to be a Real Lady — "a lady of truth and respectability" the Lady of a Minister of the Gospel for many years who was "highly respected" would have so stinking and damnable a stain resting upon her soul as to have that Bible so inaffably dear to her — and from which she derived such Rapturous enjoyment from perusal of its pages to have its pages Blackened with Base Falsehood, and thus ruined  uselessly and without purpose ruined herself in this world and in the next! — the utter, — the extreme — the immeasurable improbability is respectfully represented to you.

The following facts having a bearing on the case are respectfully presented to your consideration. I claim for the case  the claimant the benefit of the Law of May 7 th 1846 which Law was made for this case as much as any other whatever. This Law quoted at page 437 Mayo & Moulton Pension Law, is as follows "Nor shall any evidence in any case be required to entitle the widow to a pension" "other than such proof as would be sufficient to establish the marriage between the applicant and the deceased pensioner in civil personal actions in a Court of Justice". Then to know her rights under this Law the question arises what would be sufficient to establish the marriage between the applicant and the deceased in civil personal actions in a Court of Justice". This is Authoritatively shown by the Opinion of the Officer appointed by the Law of the Land to, after profoundest examination, Decide, what that Law is, and he Decides, page 438 Mayo & Moulton the Rule is "that in all civil personal actions, except that for criminal conversation, general reputation and cohabitation are sufficient evidence of marriage. 2 Starkie on Evidence, part 4 p 939, and authorities cited; and especially 4 Burr, 2057 and Ferton v Reed 4 John N. Y. Reports 52-3. Under this Section therefore, to establish the relation of widow, proof of a marriage in fact cannot be required, that is, by witnesses present at the ceremony, or by official records; general reputation and cohabitation are sufficient prima facie ". And he also Decides, "And as the marriage may by virtue of this Section, be established by presumptive testimony, its date , as an incident may be established by evidence of the same character, which in civil personal actions, would establish births, pedigrees &c". Then the question occurs, what would establish births, pedigrees &c. The Answer is given by the very same Great Legal Authority quoted in the Opinion a few lines above the remarks last quoted, viz Starkie, at page 57, as follows "Reputation and traditional declarations are evidence to prove a pedigree, including the state of a family as far as regards the relationship of its different members, their births, marriages and deaths ."

Although in this case there is evidence of facts and vastly more than is required by the above quoted Law and the above quoted Attorney General's Decision, still they are quoted to show that even if there was much less evidence than there is in this case, it would as is respectfully represented to your consideration justify its allowance.
I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obed Servt
Isaac N. Coffin
Loren D. Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington. D. C.

Dear N. Coffin Nov. 7, 1852

Washington Nov. 30 th 1854.
Sir:
Your letter of Nov r 22 d is received, and I urgently solicit your personal attention to the following facts in relation to the Revolutionary Pension case of Mary Jones widow of Joshua. It mentions that "Perhaps one of M rs Jones children, alledged to have been born prior to July 11. 1795 "may have a Record of her own age made more than twenty "years ago." The children of M rs Jones born prior to July 11. 1795 are all dead as shown by the following extract of a letter from Seth Doud Esq. PostMaster of the town of Williamstown Ky. the original having been compared before you with it — but it being a long letter to me on business and desiring to preserve it, I have not filed it. It states as follows: "I now forward you the Power of Attorney made by W m W Jones the only surviving son or heir of "Joshua and Mary Jones deceased."
And I know there is no Record of of the kind mentioned in your letter quoted above, as I have repeatedly requested any further Record of any kind whatever of their ages to be forwarded to me.
Therefore they being dead and so cannot appear before the Court — and they (not) having possessed any Record of their ages, it is impossible for your suggestion to be complied with. The loss of the Original Family Record is proved by the Solemn Oath of this Much Respected Minister of the Gospel's Wife, and that it was copied from the Original Family Record by James Burk is proved by her Solemn Oath. Suppose it be said that she is an interested witness, —

the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Wayloe vs Riggs 1 Peters 591, is, that the Affidavit of a party to a cause "may be received, to establish the loss or destruction of a written instrument, and thus lay the foundation of introducing secondary evidence of its contents."
This "secondary evidence of its contents," is, the Violent Presumption , that being a Minister's Wife she would not swear to a Downright Lie and that about the Bible ! — she would not dare to swear Falsely about the Bible , she being doubtless a devoted Member of the Church, with Hell's Utmost Torments for so Extremely Hideous a Crime , staring her in the face as the penalty for so doing! It then follows that there is a Very Strong and Violent Presumption that she has sworn truly.
In addition to this Very Strong and Violent Presumption that the facts stated by her as follows — "she has no Family Record of her marriage, but she has a Family Record of the ages of her children in the handwriting of James Burk on a leaf of her new bible which is a true copy from the old bible, the old leaf being worn out and torn up" — are true, — are Three Strong Corroborations , as follows,
Strong Corroboration No 1. Evidence of John H. Fugate stating in 1796 or 1797 "Joshua Jones went to Lexington for his (John H Fugate's) father to prove that a runaway mulatto was a slave and that they Joshua Jones and Mary his wife had been one or two years in this State before this took place," thus proving them as he swears they came there married, to have been married persons in 1794 or 1795. Added to the fact of their having been married & resided married in Virginia before they came.
Strong Corroboration No 2. Evidence of William Lucket stating that he moved them from Bourbon to Pendleton

County in or about the year 1800 and at that time they had several children" and "the eldest was between eight and ten years old." He proves they had then been living in Bourbon County some time in the married state and even before that had been living in Virginia in the married state — but even deducting the lowest age mentioned, 8 years from year 1800, it leaves year 1792 as the year of birth of the first child, thus corroborating the date sworn to by M rs Jones as the date of birth of Elizabeth Jones.
Strong Corroboration No. 3. William Childers, on whose Evidence I said nothing in my last letter, and who is proved to be a man of veracity Swears, "he was well acquainted with both of them from the time of his first knowledge acquaintance of them until their deaths :" "his first acquaintance with them was about the year 1800 or perhaps before;" "they settled near to him." They were always, since his acquaintance with them reputed to be man and wife and bore a good reputation so long as they lived. He never heard their marriage questioned nor anything immoral or incorrect charged to either of them. Joshua Jones father of the applicants was a Preacher of the Gospel for many years before his death and as such well esteemed." Although this last goes prove only so far back as 1800, still it corroborates the Testimony of John H. Hugate & William Locket back up to that time — and this Evidence of near Fifty Years of being "well acquainted" with her & living "near" proves that she — "bore a Good Reputation so long as they lived" that there was never anything immoral or incorrect charged to either of them — proves her Most Excellent and Spotless character — proves that she was not a Degraded Liar, Perjured Scoundrel and Villainous Forger, all which she was if her evidence as quoted above is not true — and thus this evidence adds to the Very Strong and Violent Presumption before mentioned, that her evidence is true.

The following facts show, that not only does a Violent Presumption exist, (which is by universal usage in Law, ample evidence) but an Intensely Violent Presumption exists. As the Evidence on file, contains the Official Certificate of the Officer before whom the Declaration was made that the leaf as follows, "the foregoing leaf was taken from the Bible in my presence" — and as the Oaths of Deborah Ashcraft and John Riffel both Officially certified by the Officer to be "well known to me to be men of truth and respectability" are as follows "the foregoing leaf was taken from the Bible in our presence." As this leaf is thus proved to have been in her new Family Bible as her Sacred Family Record , and the Great Excellence of her character proved as quoted above — this fact existing — which cannot be denied by you without Oppression on us of the deepest dye — the fact existing of it being her Sacred Family Record is a Very Strong and Intensely Violent Presumption that that Sacred Family Record is a true Record . forms an Intensely Violent Presumption and also that the Solemn Oath of this proved Worthy Lady who Reverenced the very name of Bible, and who dared not Ruin herself by Polluting this Revelation to her of that God whom she Feared & Adored — and 2 d Committing the Foul and Degrading Forgery and 3 d Committing the Black & Damnable Perjury, — that the Solemn Oath of this Worthy Lady that she "has a Family Record of the ages of her children in the handwriting of James Burk on a leaf of her new Bible which is a true copy from the old Bible the old leaf being worn out and torn up" — is the truth.
Your letter of the 22 d ult o states that "they are not deemed satisfactory". But the Congress of the United States knew what Evidence of Marriage had heretofore been required,

when they passed the Law of May 7 th 1846 quoted at page 438 of Mays & Moulton page 30 and the Digest of Pension Laws, by H. H. Triplet, the Regulations of July 17 th 1838 had been printed by them several times in a Document of Pension Laws & Regulations and did not pass a NEW law without intending to alter the old. made up for proof. Then whatever extent of evidence may be required in regard to proof of service, we have a right to the benefit of the Act of May 7 th 1846 — and you cannot refuse us the application of this law in this case without Despotic Oppression — Oppression which we can justly complain of to the Higher Authorities the Secretary of the Interior and the President — And which last functionary in his former Message Solemnly Declared that "the rights of every citizen as well at home as abroad shall be sacredly regarded," — forever honored be his name for this determination.
Now, what rights does this Law (May 7 th 1846) give this claimant and directly give to me as his Attorney the right to demand. Its words as at Triplet's Pension Laws page 30 give us the right to this pension claim; — and one as follows "And be it further enacted, "Nor shall any evidence in any case be required to entitle the "widow to a pension" "other than such proof as would be sufficient "to establish the marriage between the applicant and the deceased pensioner, "in civil personal actions in a Court of justice." To understand what these words, which are enacted into the Law of the Land, are, it becomes necessary to know — The Fact — of "what is "sufficient" "in civil personal actions in a Court of Justice" and the Counsel of the United States gives his Evidence as to this Fact under his general Official Oath. And his evidence is as follows; "proof of a marriage in fact "cannot be required, that is by witnesses present at the ceremony,

"or by official records ; general reputation and cohabitation are sufficient "prima facie." To be sure the Attorney General States , "it is incumbent on her to produce satisfactory proof to the Commissioner" — but what immediately follows. He immediately defines what is satisfactory evidence as follows, viz "And as the marriage may by virtue "of this Section be established by presumptive "testimony, its date as an incident may be established by evidence "of the same character, which, in civil personal actions, would establish pedigree, &c." Here is the Authoritative Decision, that not only that satisfactory evidence is presumptive evidence , — but that "this section" that is that this Law requires that presumptive evidence shall be taken . 2 d In addition to this positive Decision by the Attorney General it accords with common sense that when it was known by Congress that the words "satisfactory evidence" were in the Regulations of July 17. 1838, as they had published all the Pension Laws & Regulations several times by thousands and thereupon this Law with the express object of ameliorating the difficulties of proving marriage from the lapse of time, that they intended that presumptive evidence should be received as sufficient, as it is in civil personal actions in cases where Millions of Dollars are involved. 3 d The Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Crane vs Morris Peters Reports Vol 6, also shows Presumptive Evidence to be Legal Evidence, as follows: "Whenever evidence is offered to the jury which is in its nature prima facie, or presump- "tive proof, its character as such ought not to be disregarded: and no Court has "a right to direct the jury to disregard it or to view it under a different aspect "from that in which it is actually presented to them. Whatever just influences "it may derive from that character the jury have a right to give it." Also in the case of Kelly vs Jackson 6 Vol Peters Reports page 622. "Prima

"facie evidence of a fact, is such evidence as in judgement of law is sufficient to establish the fact; and if not rebutted remains sufficient for the purpose "The jury are bound to consider it in that light; unless they are invested "with authority to disregard the rules of evidence by which the liberty and "estate of every citizen are guarded and supported. No judge would hesitate "to set aside their verdict and grant a new trial, if, under such circumstance, "without any rebutting evidence, they disregard it."
There is thus as above Very Strong and Violently Presumptive Evidence, which Presumptive Evidence is proved by the Attorney General's Decision and the Decisions of the Supreme Court is Legal Evidence, and which evidence is also corroborated by the three Affidavits containing facts of the most striking character which fortify this presumption that the copy of the Family Bible Record was not a Forgery, — and if not a Forgery was the truth. — And the whole force of the evidence in this case does amount to all that is required by the Law of 7 th May 1846.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obed Servt Isaac N. Coffin
Loren P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Nov. 29/67

Quincy
260
Tenure Office Nov. 22, 1854.
Sir,
I have considered the affidavits of William Lockett and John H. Fugate filed to show that Joshua & Mary Jones were married prior to 1884, and you are informed that they are now deceased satisfactory at further effort should be made to establish the marriage by Record proof. Perhaps one of Mrs. Jones' children, alleged to have been born prior to July 11, 1885, may have a Record of her own age, made more than twenty years ago. If so, it should be sent to this office. It was one of them that did appear before the with the records  being Judge of the county court, and the Marshal, after due inquiry be, express his opinion as to age, under the official seal of his court.
The request as to the period at which Mary Jones died and the names and ages of her surviving children, has not been captured with.
J. N. Coffin, Esq. Respect

Unas 11 B5.

Pension Office March 17 1835
Sir
I cannot accede to your proposition to grant a pension to the children of Mary Jones, dec'd widow of John of Ky." notwithstanding the decision that she was never entitled. Pensions have been granted to her under the Act of 1838 to widows who were not such at the passage of that act, but the office was acting under a mistake as to what was the law, and I confess I cannot see the propriety of perpetuating a mistake,
J. N. Coffin Esq Present

10.280
Mary Jones wid of Joshua - Kentucky act of July 7. 1838 5526
[Faint, illegible cursive signature or mark]
[Faint, illegible cursive mark or stamp]

Washington March 15. 1855.
Sir:
I herewith transmit in the case of M rs Mary Jones widow of Joshua a suspended Revolutionary pension case, — the evidence required by your letter of the 22 d Nov r 1854 being Certificate of Court after due investigation in relation to the birth of Elizabeth Jones daughter of said Mary.
By this Certificate I learn what I was not before aware of that M rs Mary Jones did not survive until the passage of the Act of March 3. 1851, — and therefore according to present construction of your Office is not entitled under the Act of July 7. 1838. But as the Pension Office on July 16. 1844 made a Decision that "when it shall be clearly established that she was married prior to the 1 st Jan y 1794 a pension will be granted under the Act of June 17. 1844" and as the evidence of marriage is now established even according to the precise way in which the Pension Office has designated, — this Decision above quoted ought to be carried out in her case on the ground that it was an adjudicated case before the decision was made in regard to the Act of March 3. 1851 — and which Decision I therefore quoted above, I therefore request may be carried out in her case by granting the pension — and as the amount is very small.

I am Very Respectfully Your Obed Servt Isaac N Coffin.
Loren P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington. D. C.

Isaac Coffin
Dec 8/51,

Pension Office Dec. 7, 1854
Sir
I have at your request personally examined the evidence filed with the case of Mary Jones widow of Forster Jones dec d of the state of Kentucky under the act of July 7, 1838. —
I am not, from this evidence, able to fix definitely the date of the marriage of the parties. Some testimony more certain should be furnished. But the most important defect in the evidence is the absence of all proof as to the date of Mary Jones death. It seems that her son gave you a power of attorney to prosecute her claim in Nov r 1852 in which it is assumed that she has deceased but the time is not stated. The day of her death and the names and number of her surviving children must be established by the testimony of credible witnesses who are cognizant of the facts. The certificates of private persons will not be sufficient. — The case must remain suspended until this evidence is furnished. —
I remain Yours &c
Isaac Coffin Esq Washington
D.C.

Washington Sept 26. 1852.
Sir:
In the case of W m Mary Jones (widow of Joshua Jones late pensioner of the United States) whose application for Revolutionary pension was made some time since — I herewith transmit Affidavit of William Childers in relation to her marriage to said Joshua Jones which I request may be filed with the other papers in her case.
I respectfully solicit that as the enclosed evidence (said Affidavit) combined with the evidence on file is sufficient to establish her marriage within the period prescribed by law, that the case may be allowed.
I am
With the Highest Respect Your Obed Servt Isaac N. Coffin
Lorin P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington. D.C.

Nov 30 46
Dear Mary Jones Run
Edwards Esq born of Pensions
W.S. Allion
Ami -

Washington. Novr 30 1846
Sir
Enclosed herewith is a family record in the case of Mr. May Jones of Kentucky. The Dept. required merely a declaration of the widow, but after it was produced required further evidence. As the attys in the case I have to request that the claim may be allowed for such service, as the Dept. may consider proper.
I am resps
Your Obedt. Servt
Wm Allison
J. S. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions.

Winchester Va Nov. 2 d 1853.
Sir
Yours of the 19 th Ult o has been rec d and had it not been for the difficulty of making the investigation would have been attended to at an earlier date. You wish evidence of the marriage of "Mary Jones widow of Joshua" or a certificate that there is no evidence on record in Frederick County of the marriage. You do not state the maiden name of Mary Jones nor do you make any reference to the time of the marriage. I think it probable you may have heretofore written to me on the subject and been more particular but as I do not preserve the numberless letters for similar examinations I have no means of ascertaining.
I have carefully examined the record of marriages in my Office from the commencement of the record 1782 to the present time and find but two cases that could possibly be the one you are inquired of, the first - John Jones & Mary Shackelford by the Rev d Alexander Dalman 29 th Oct. 1784. The other Joshua Jones and Mary Martha Campbell by Rev d John Grove 5 th Nov 1844. I do not think it probable that either of these is the proper one. It will however be necessary to have the maiden name of the widow before I can give the certificate you ask for.
I am respectfully
J. V. Coffin Rev d Washington City D. C.
Your Obl d Serv t J. S. Fieldell C.K.O. Frederick County Court

Isaac N. Coffin Oct 12/53

Pension Office Oct 12 1853
Sir
The proof of the date of marriage in the case of Mary Jones widow of Joshua is not sufficient, It must be shown that there is no record of the marriage in Frederick County Virginia, before parol testimony will be considered, — In the event that no record can be procured, the witnesses adduced to prove the date of the marriage must be able to show how they are enabled to fix the time, — A certificate of court must be furnished showing the date of her death and the number and names of the children now living, The court must show upon what evidence it bases its certificate
Isaac N Coffin Esq Present

Keith Bond
May 10-67

Sir
I'm off
May 10. 47
Your enquiries in your g 17 ult are not properly within the rules but you are informed that Mary Jones's claim has not been allowed & the reasons assign- -ed in a consider protracted cor- respondence with her attorney Mr. Suggell of Ky & Mr. Allison of this City Joseph Spencer was a pensioner under act of 1878 as a Capt. & no further claim has been asserted - What is the character of the claim of "the Heirs of Capt. Saml. Cox" does not appear from your letter & consequently no answer can be given to your enquiry - The papers in the case of Ichabod Ash- -croft can not be withdrawn except by a co.ordinate branch of the Government with Doard Exp.
Williamstown Ky.

Long Lick Ky } August 20 1847 }
Free
Col James M c Edward Pension Office Washington City & C. O. Schuylkill
Ames

Long Sick Scott 60 3/4 August 20 1847
Dear Sir
The enclosed letter is just received and I hope you will have the kindness to give me some information in relation to these Claims. Mr Ishabod Ashcraft has filed two declarations and evidence with each declaration for a Pension as an Invalid of the late war. I think if all the Papers are examined together the evidence will be sufficient to establish his claim. It may be possible that the respectability of some of the witnesses are not testified to which he may be able to have done if notified of the facts. Joshua Jones the husband of Mary Jones who applied for a Pension under the act of July 7. 1838 and the other acts of Congress extending Pensions to Widows of the Revolution was a Pensioner and her marriage is satisfactory. I presume to the Department does not the later acts of Congress embrace her case. I have forwarded evidence in her case to which no answer has been received. I hope you will extend all the liberality in these two cases that the rules of your office will admit of. I remain your most obedient Servant Col J. J. Edwards Lewis C. Luggitt

Aug. 28/07
Gen. Correspondence

Pension Office 250 August 28. 1847
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 20 th inst. I have to inform you that the proof that Mary Jones was married to Joshua Jones at the time mentioned in her declaration, is not satisfactory; nor is the proof of her husband's service sufficient. The particulars on this can have been so often mentioned, that it is not necessary now to repeat them.
We cannot admit the claim of Ichabod Ashcraft without such proof as has heretofore been required.
Lewis C. Suggett Esq Long Lick Ky.
Enter M. Jones act July 7. 38 20.8118 no. 10826 also Ashcraft on Reg. Invalid

Memorandum
To accompany power of attorney of W. W. Jones child of Mary Jones of Grant Co. Ky. who in her lifetime applied for a pension as the widow of Joshua Jones under Act July 7 th 1838
Joshua Jones was a pensioner on the Kentucky Agency under act June 7 th 1832 at rate of about $60 - a year, and died on the 6 th day of January 1844 Widow died on the 16 th day of August 1847 or 1848 (not certain which but it can be determined) (I believe Mr. Jones has a record of) and I think it was 1847
Marriage within the limits of the Act can be established (V 3 ) before 1794
If she died in 1847 on 16 th August, her husband having lived until January 6 th 1844, was she entitled to a pension?
Please answer me the above named questions

and oblige me
Yours Respectfully
C. H. Barkley
Rev. J. Minor Commissioner Washington D. C.

Mary Jones d r Revolutionary Claim Act July 7 th 1838
[Faint, illegible cursive signature or mark]
Attorney C. H. Barkley Louisville Kentucky

Know all men by these presents that I William W. Jones of Grant County Kentucky one of the children of Mary Jones deceased late of said County, do hereby with full power of substitution appoint Col. Barkley of Louisville Kentucky my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to make full investigation of, and receive report on, the present condition of, an application which the said Mary in her lifetime made for a Revolutionary pension as the widow of Joshua Jones deceased And I hereby ratify and confirm all the lawful acts and deeds of my said Attorney in this behalf — Witness my name and seal in Grant County Kentucky on this 17 day of August 1855.
Two Witnesses
A. Lawrence
J. L. Owen
Wm. W. Jones mark

Grant County State of Kentucky 3 ss
Acknowledged and signed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County on this 17 day of August 1855. And I certify that I am disinterested.
J. R. Lawrence, J.P. G.C.
State of Kentucky
Grant County 3 ss I ss. M. Carter clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that J. R. Lawrence whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified.
Witness my name and official seal at my office in Williamstown on this 12 th day of September 1855.
M. Carter, Clerk.

Wm
26.693
Jahna and Griffiths
1786 Pension
John Pension City of Washington
Loc
on R. R. Johnson
27.11.186
27.11.186
27.11.186

Please decide this case speedily no man is more entitled to your favourable consideration I think you may with safety give the full pension if you think otherwise give him for 12 months. your friend
Chas. Johnson 28 th August 1883

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 22 d January 1845
Whereas the act of the 30 th April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner I now make the following statement under oath to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned I am the widow of Joshua Jones who was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution I have made a Declaration but have never received any pension from it. my husband Joshua Jones drew a pension at the rate of sixty Dollars per annum from the 4 day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty one and now ask for the amount due me from the fourth day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty six to the day when my pension should have commenced under the act of July 7. 1838
I sworn to and subscribed before me on this Eighth day of March Eighteen hundred and forty five
Martin Draper } Mary his Jones. Justice of the Peace }
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit Martin Draper J.P.G. Justice of the Peace
J Williams Smith Clerk of the Grant County do hereby certify that Martin Draper who has signed the foregoing is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Grant in the state of Kentucky and that the above is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal office this 18 th day of March at Williamstown in the State of Kentucky 1845
W m Smith Clerk Per James K. Parker do

M rs Louisa Ky. June 15 th 43
4
Rev. Mr. L. C. Suggett Long Lick Scott County Ky
8110 July 10. 1845. May 30 th Kentucky at 38 & 43 March 20 1843
Aug 7

Declaration
In order to obtain the Benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 27 1834
State of Kentucky County of Grant
on this Twelfth day of June Eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before me and state aforesaid Mary Jones a resident of Grant County and state of Kentucky aged sixty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843 and June 17 1844 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolution - say that she is the widow of Joshua Jones who was a Private Soldier and pensioner She refers to her statements on file for a statement of his services
Mary Jones Mark
Sworn to and subscribed the date and year above written before me Martin Draper J.P.G.C
State of Kentucky Grant County } ss
I William Smith Clerk of the Grant County Court certify that Martin Draper is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting genuine
In Testimony, Whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this 14 th day of June in the year 1845 William Smith Clerk of the Court of Grant County

Long Lick Scote body June 20 1845
Dear Sir
I enclose this agreeable to your request
I am yours of L B Guffett
Wm S Allison Esq Washington C. D. D.C.
who brings with make the benefits of paper printing the Revolution some who refers to his sons
Long Lick Ky June 20. 1845
Albany Ky
Wm S Allison Esq Washington City D.C.

Affidavit of John Fugate Who states on oath that in the year 1790 his father Edward Fugate moved from Virginia to Kentucky this affiant was then about eight years old, his father went within a few years afterwards back to Virginia and Joshua Jones and Mary his wife came with him to Kentucky, he does not recollect the years, he knew them ever since they came to Kentucky as man and wife until the death of Joshua Jones, he states that in 1794 a mulatto man that his father had sold to a man in Virginia was always a get with the army and passed for a free man some time after the return of the troops the mulatto man was found in Lexington, and his father got Joshua Jones to go to Lexington to prove that he was a slave, this was about 1796 or 1797, Joshua Jones and Mary his wife had been some one or two years in this state before this took place, they were always reputed to be man and wife from the time they came to Kentucky with his father as above stated and were respectable citizens, Joshua Jones was many years before his death a minister of the Gospel and as such highly respected, he states that he was so young when Joshua Jones and Mary his reputed wife came to Kentucky that he can not tell the year but distinctly recollects the fact of the mulatto man above named being found in Lex- ington some short time after Wayne's troops returned from the campaign of 1794 and that Joshua Jones then lived a neighbor to his father and went with his father to Lexington to prove that he was a slave.
John H Fugate

State of Kentucky Pendleton county B S S The foregoing affidavit of John H. Prugle was this day taken, subscribed and sworn to before me, and I certify that the affiant John H. Prugle is personally known to me, as a citizen of Pendleton county and a man of veracity given under my hand this 17 th day of July 1837 Wm A Brannin Jr P.B.
State of Kentucky Pendleton County B Set
I Matthew Mullins, Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that William A Brannin is and was at the time of signing the above Certificate an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and sworn and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court this 23 rd day of October 1834
M. Mullins ch

Apr 23. 1847 New York Ky Sept 17th Receivd of James C. ... for ...
Free Jethro Doud
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Ans

Post Office Williamstown Grant Co Ky April 17th 1843
Feeling an interest in the drawing of the following Pension Cases. viz For the Heirs of Capt Samuel Case Louden Co Virginia for Services in the Army of the Revolution being requested to inform myself by their Agent James I Lillard of Monticello, Louis County Mo also as one of the Heirs of Joseph Spencer Capt. (of Gallatin & Grant, County Ky.) for Services in the Revolutionary War also the Widow of Joshua Jones, undated by L.C. Suggett Long Lick Ky. I take the liberty which You will please excuse to address a Letter to You for information and if its not asking to much I would request on receipt of this You would inform me what has, or can be done in the above Cases, of - Pension. 1 st Will You please inform me in Capt Case Case what will be coming to the Heirs, the Amount TO TO TO 2 d in the Case of Capt Joseph Spencer. (Mr Todd noted as Agent) what disposition has been made in this Case, the Amount allowed, if any, coming to his Heirs, if paid over, what Amount, and to whom, and what time, if not drawn, what steps would be necessary for the Heirs to take, in order to obtain it. 3 d In the Case of Joshua Jones Grant Co Ky He drew at the rate of $80 per Annum the last Pension I think in Sept 1843. His widow Mary Jones has applied since his Death for a Pension thro her Agent L.C. Suggett Long Lick Ky and requested me to make inquiry of You whether it has been allowed or paid over, if allowed and if paid over the Amount, and what time, if not yet allowed she wishes to know if there is a prospect of her getting it, what is necessary about it if any objection etc.
Your prompt answer for which I return You my thanks to a Letter of inquiry in the Case of Deborah Ashcroft of the 5 th ultimo was rec d . Will You please inform me in this Case whether the Papers could be returned by Ashcroft giving a sending an order for them to be forward to him, in order to make out further
In haste I am most Respectfully J L Edwards Esq. Washington D.C.
Your Ob t Servt J M Wood Boro

7 th Floor Ky Aug. 15 th
Free John Doud P.M.
Deacon Coffin Bg Washington City, D.C.
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the paper, likely bleed-through from the original letter.]

State of Kentucky county of Grant 3rd On this 25 th day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Williams H Childers aged sixty nine years, who being duly sworn according to law states that he has been acquainted with Mrs Mary Jones widow of Joshua Jones late person -or of the United States between fifty and sixty years he was well acquainted with both of them from the time of his first knowledge of them until their deaths he thinks his first acquaintance with them was about the year 1800, or perhaps before, he became acquainted with them in Pendleton county Ky, they settled near to him in said county when they first came to Kentucky and soon after his removal to his now residence in Grant they also moved and settled near to him in Grant county where they remained until their deaths, they were always since his acquaintance one with the reputed to be man and wife and bore a good reputation so long as they lived, he never heard their marriage questioned nor any thing immoral or incorrect charged to either of them Joshua Jones father  husband of the applicants was a preacher of the gospel for many years before his death and as such well esteemed
William H Childers the word husband erased and father inserted in 3rd line from the bottom before signing B H Emory J P G L Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that the affiant Wm H Childers is a man of veracity B H Emory J P G L

State of Tennessee county of Grant Sec
I Henry Woodyard clerk of Grant county court certify that Bennett B Evans before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is an acting justice of the peace within and for the county of Grant duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature thereto purport- ing to be his is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 15 th day of August 1853
H Woodyard Clerk Grant Co. Court

Affidavit of William T Lecket Who states on oath that he came to the state of Kentucky in the year 1795 or 1796 he can not be positive which, that he came with Joshua Jones and Mary his reputed wife he thinks about the year 1800 or some short time before or after that date, his first acquaintance with Mary Jones wife of Joshua Jones took place by moving the family of Joshua Jones from Bourbon county to Pendleton county, which was a little before or after the year 1800, he had some acquaintance with Joshua Jones while he lived in Bourbon county but had none with any of the other members of the family until the time he moved the family from Bourbon to Pendle- -ton county as above stated, at the time he moved the family from Bourbon to Pendleton county, they had several children how many he can not now recollect he thinks the eldest child was between eight and ten years old - that at the time he helped Joshua Jones to move from Bourbon to Pendleton county, he Joshua Jones lived in the neighborhood of Edward Fargate in Bourbon county and had lived there several years before they were always reputed to be man and wife from the time he first knew them and were respect- -able citizens from that time until their death insofar as he he knew or ever heard, that he was intimately acquainted with Joshua Jones from the time he helped him to move from Bourbon to Pendleton county and the family also until the death of Joshua Jones Joshua Jones had many years before his death been a Methodist preacher and as such much respected William his Lecket mark

State of Kentucky Pendleton county } ss The foregoing affidavit of William Lusket was this day taken sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the affiant William Lusket, that he resides in Pendleton county state of Kentucky and is a man of veracity given under my hand at the county aforesaid this 15 th day of August 1854 Jeremiah C. Wells J.P.P.C.
State of Kentucky Pendleton county } ss I Matthew Williams clerk of Pendleton county court certify that Jeremiah C. Wells before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time it was taken and still is an acting justice of the peace within and for sd county of Pendleton and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is his genuine signature In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 25 th day of October 1854 M Williams clk

State of Kentucky Grant County Set.
I Thomas Clark presiding Judge of the Grant County Court, holden at the Court House in Williamstown in the County and State aforesaid on the 12 th day of February. 1855 do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court by the evidence on oath of William Jones a resident of Grant County and State aforesaid Son of Mary Jones & County and State aforesaid Widow of Joshua Jones who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and by the evidence on Oath of W. P. Thomas resident of the County and State aforesaid whom I certify to be respectible and entitled to credit and after in- vestigation of the matter and after duly questioning them I am of opinion that Elizabeth Jones Daugh- ter of the said Mary and Joshua Jones was born in the Year of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety two or 1793. I certify that Satisfactory evidence was at the same time exhibited at that time to said Court by the evidence on oath of W. P. Thomas Esq. of Thomas residence of the County & State aforesaid Person who are hereby certified to be respectable and entitled to credit, that Mary Jones Widow of Joshua Jones was a resident of Grant County in the State of Kentucky and died in the County of Grant & State of Kentucky in the Year of Eight- een Hundred and Forty Seven on the 10 th day of August and that Her only surviving child is William Jones. Thos Clark S.D.G.C.C.
The figures 1793 inserted as above was done by order of the Court Thos Clark S.D.G.C.C.

State of Kentucky Grant County ss —
J. H. Woody and Clerk of the Grant County Court do Certify that Thomas Clark is the presiding Judge of the Grant County Court and that the Signature to the foregoing Certificate is his genuine Signature and that the proof therein stated was taken in open Court.
In Testimony Whereof I have Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court this 12th day of February 1855 J. H. Woodyard Clerk

January 17-1938
448 EAST MADISON STREET FRANKLIN, INDIANA
Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Attention of BA-J-EE
Referring to Joshua Jones R. 15726.
Dear Sir -
Will you please tell me the cost of having photo stats of all papers concerning the pension claims of both Joshua Jones and his wife Mary?
Thanking you for this information I am,
Yours truly
Mrs. Vera Tranter.

Dec. 8. 1937.
448 EAST MADISON STREET FRANKLIN, INDIANA
Commissioner of Pensions Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Dear Sir -
Will you please tell me what it will cost to have photo-stat copies of all records concerning the pension claim of Joshua Jones , Revolutionary War pensioner, claim, Joshua Jones R. 5726. Also any records concerning the rejected claim of the wife Mary, or of the children.
Thanking you I am Yours truly Mrs. Vera Tranter.

R. E. SLOAN, PRESIDENT A. W. AYRES, VICE PRESIDENT
R. E. SLOAN, SECRETARY AND TREASURER
THE GRADEN MERCANTILE COMPANY 745 TO 777 FIRST AVENUE
Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Durango, Colo., Nov 6 th 1924 P.O. Box 984
Gentlemen
Will you kindly give me what information you can concerning Joshua Jones who served in the Continental Army in Virginia and later applied for pension from Grant Co Kentucky
Very Truly Joshua J. Musser.

Portland, Indiana. March 6, 1935.
Commissioner Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me any information you may have concerning the Revolutionary War soldier, Joshua Jones , listed on page 96 of the Kentucky section of the Senate Docu- ment known as the Pension Roll.
Joshua Jones served in the Virginia Militia and was living in Grant County, Kentucky in 1831.
Thanking you for this information, I am,
Yours very respectfully,
E. J. Tranter.
P.O. Box 610, Portland, Indiana.

March 28, 1938
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Mrs. Vera Tranter 448 East Madison Street Franklin, Indiana
JOSHUA JONES R. 5726 BA-J/MWHF:MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request photostatic copies of papers on file in the Revolutionary War claims for pension of Joshua Jones and his widow, Mary, W. 5726, which record was furnished you January 12, 1938.
At the time the record of Joshua Jones was furnished you, a very careful examination of all papers in the claims for pension, cited above, was made and all data in regard to service, residences, family, etc., were incorporated in that official report. It is regretted that that report is insufficient, as the papers in this case are very frail and extra handling for photostatic copies is necessarily injurious to them.
If you feel that you must have the copies, the cost is twenty-five cents a page. The number of pages to be copied is fifty-six. Remittance should be made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States and mailed to The Veterans Administration, Arlington Building, this city, when the photostatic copies will be prepared and mailed to you.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

April 16, 1935
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RA-J/EEL Joshua Jones-R.5726
Mr. E. I Trantor P.O. Box #610 Portland, Indiana
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Joshua Jones, who served in the Virginia Troops, was living in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1831 and received a pension for his services in the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.5726, based upon the military service of Joshua Jones in that war.
Joshua Jones was born April 25, 1761. The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Northumberland County, Virginia, Joshua Jones enlisted "about the time Lord Dunmore sailed up the Potomac to Saint George's Island", and served two years or more in Captain Abraham Beauchamp's Company, Colonel Thomas Jones' Virginia Regiment; he was stationed near the mouth of the Potomac on the Virginia shore and at other points along the bank of the river, the most of the time at Smith's Point, Virginia, and was engaged in watching the movements of the Tories and British. No relationship of Colonel Jones to soldier was shown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1833, while residing in Grant County, Kentucky. It was stated that he was a minister of the Methodist denomination.
He died January 6, 1844, place not shown.
The soldier married in April, 1791, in Frederick County, Virginia, Mary(maiden name not given), who was born in February, 1767.
The widow died August 10, 1847, in Grant County, Kentucky.
He said he enlisted at time of Lord Dunmore's expedition to Saint George's Island, and served 3 years, was discharged after surrender of Cornwallis according to lossing it was '96 when Dunmore came up the Pat. & if he served 3 years, it would have been '79 when he was discharged, so I omitted "served until after Cornwallis surrendered!"

rel. The names of the following children of Joshua and Mary Jones are shown:
Elizabeth Jones born February 5, 1792. Sarah Jones " July 11, 1795. William W. Jones " July 23, 1797. Mary Jones " December 13, 1799. Mariah Jones " February 10, 1807.
In 1855, William W. Jones was the only surviving child and was residing in Grant County, Kentucky.
The following names are also shown: relationship
These two names Jane Jones born October 22, 1786. Rebecca Jones " August 16, 1788.
appeared on the family record. but as they were born before Joshua & Mary married, I think it likely, they are children of a previous marriage - As they appeared on our family record, did not say anything about relationship. In 1833, the name Abraham Jones appears; no relationship to the family shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
December 2, 1924.
Joshua J. Musser, 745-777 First Ave., Durango, COLO.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.5726, it appears that Joshua Jones was born April 25, 1761.
While a resident of Northumberland County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1776 as a minute man in Captain Abraham Beauchamp's Company, Colonel Thomas Jones' Virginia Regiment, and served at various times, amounting in all to more than two years, and was discharged at the close of the Revolution.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1833, while a resident of Grant County, Kentucky, at which time it was stated that he was a Methodist clergyman. He died January 6, 1844.
Soldier married in Frederick County, Virginia, in April 1791, Mary (maiden name not stated) who was born in February 1767. She died August 10, 1847, in Grant County, Kentucky.
They had the following children:

Elizabeth born February 5, 1792. Sarah " July 11, 1795. William W. " July 23, 1797. Mary " December 13, 1799. Mariah " February 10, 1807.
In 1855, William, the only surviving child, was a resident of Grant County, Kentucky.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Note:
Lord Dunmore sailed up the Potomac in 1776, See Lassing.
Two names from family Bible omitted, Jane + Rebecca Jones. If marriage took place in 1791, they could not have been children, unless by a previous marriage, therefore omitted. Wm.