Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,899, for Thomas Ives, North Carolina

SERVICE
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Ines, Thomas
S 20,899
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North Carolina 16138
Thomas Ives
at Carrifuck in the State of North Carolina who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Davis of the Regt commanded by Col. Dozier in the North Carolina line for 18 months
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina: at the rate of 60 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of July '35 and sent Hon: W.P. Shepard and Edenton N.C.
Arrears to the 4th of March '33 — 120 Semestral allowance ending 4 Sept " — 30 $150
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm Miller Clerk, Book E Vol. 6. Page 44

State of North Carolina Linn County ss
On the 29 th day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court before Capt. Ethridge, John B. Jones, Benjamin T. Simmons and William Bray Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Linn and State of North Carolina - Thomas Ives a Resident of Linn County and State aged seventy nine Years who being first sworn according to Law doth on his oath on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7 th of June 1832. He saith that he entered into the Military service of the State of North Carolina on the 20 th of May 1776 under Captain John Jarvis and served one Year and eight months & was then discharged - that he was then stationed on Linn County Banks to Guard the Coast and Indebted that he has no documentary evidence but can prove the service by Hosea Ball and Ipe Perry - He further says that he enlisted in November 1780 in Captain Thomas Jarvis Company and served six months near North Carolina and Virginia Line North West being most of the time head Quarters - Peter Dozier was Colonel and Isaac Gregory General at the time - He has no documentary evidence but can prove the service herein last stated by Thomas Jarvis who was their Captain -
He hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State -
Sworn & subscribed this day & Year aforesaid.
(Signed) Thomas Ives

We Edward Hardy a Clergyman residing in the County of Currituck and State of North Carolina and Foster Larvis of the same place do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Ives who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy Nine Years of Age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and Year aforesaid (signed) Edward Hardy (signed) Foster Larvis
Hosea Ball and Lepe Perry make oath that they are well acquainted with Thomas Ives who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and that they know that he performed stated to be in the knowledge of their affiants (signed) Hosea Ball (signed) Lepe Perry
Thomas Larvis maketh oath that he is well acquainted with Thomas Ives who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and that he knows he performed the service stated to be in the knowledge of his affiant (signed) Thomas Larvis
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states And the Court further Certify that it appears

to them that Edward Hardy and Austin Brooks are both Dignified and Creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit
I Spencer Hall Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Currituck and State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Ross for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the 12 th day of September A. D. 1832.
S. H. Hall

Amended Declaration of Thomas Ives State of North Carolina Carrick County
On this 6 th day of May 1833. personally appeared in open Court before John D. Jones, Benjamin T. Simmons and William Boay Edg Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Carrick & State of North Carolina Thomas Ives who made the following Amended Declaration, to a Declaration filed in this office on the 29 th day of August 1832 for the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the act of June the 7 th 1832
Thomas Ives being duly sworn, says that he was born in Carrick County in Oct. 1752. has his age recorded at home in a bible, has always lived in Carrick, that he enlisted for two Years but served only eighteen Months, having been discharged prior to the expiration of his time, but that he has lost or mislaid the evidence of his dis- charge. This affiant further saith that he has stated the manner of his service in his former Declaration as particularly as he can now do- Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Signed, Thos Ives
And the said Court do hereby certify that Hosea Ball and Depe Perry and Thomas Parvis the witnesses who proved the service of Thomas Ives as stated in his former Declaration, are credible persons and entitled to full faith and credit
I Spruce Hall Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Carrick and State

aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing contain a copy of the original amended proceedings of the said Court in the matter of an Application of Thomas Doss for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office This the 6 th day of May 1833
J. M. [unclear]

October 31, 1934.
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Mrs. E. L. Oberly 1412 Hess Avenue Lansing, Michigan
BA-J/ady Thomas Ives S.20899
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Thomas Ives, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.20899, based upon his military service in that war.
Thomas Ives was born in October 1752 in Currituck County, North Carolina. No reference is made to his parents.
He enlisted May 20, 1776 and served one year and eight months in Captain John Jarvis' Company, Colonel Samuel Jarvis' North Carolina Regiment. He enlisted in November 1780 and served six months in Captain Thomas Jarvis' Company, Colonel Peter Dozier's North Carolina Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 29, 1832 while a resident of Currituck County, North Carolina, where he had always lived.
There are no family data.
Very truly yours
Date of death not on a B.
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

LPJ
1412 Hess Avenue Lansing, Michigan October 18, 1934
Pension Bureau Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I have found the name of Thomas Ives in the State Record of the North Carolina Revolutionary Pensioners, Vol. XXII.
He applied for a pension at the age of 81 years, and received the same.
Do you have any further information regarding his family and so forth, which I could use to complete D.A.R. papers?
Do you have a record of the battles he fought in, or any other information of any kind whatever?
Very truly yours,
Mrs. E. L. Oberly

1934 Oct. 31 Hist. to Mrs. C. L. Oberly: A.N.Y.
Rev Y INVALID.
File No. 20.899
Thomas Ives
Private N.C. Regt
Act: June 7 1832
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Admit as private 18 mo $10
Mrs B Shepard Elizabeth N.C.

The amended Declaration of Thomas Ives of Carrick County made in addition to his Decla- ration made on the 29 th of August 1832 & his Amended Declaration made on the 26 th of May 1833. In amendment he says he can only state that at the time he performed his service in the Militia as mentioned in his Declaration of the 29 th of August 1832, Colonel Samuel Ives was Colonel of Carrick County and General Isaac Gregory of Camden was either Major General or Brigadier General, but which of the two the Declarant does not know. This Declarant further says that he was stationed in Carrick on the Banks along the sea shore, & was placed there with the Company to guard the Coast, that the Company of which he was a member was the only Company in that vicinity and that he seldom saw any officers but those belonging to his Company. He further says, that he knows not how to make a more particular statement and that he has already proved his service by Hosea Hall and Levi Perry two credible Witnesses. He further says that as to the last service mentioned in his Declaration of the 29 th of August 1832, he can not be more particular than he has been and that he has proved this service by Thomas Ives who was his Captain at the time and that the said Ives is a credible & respectable man.
Signed, Thomas Ives
Personally appeared in open court Thomas Ives and subscribed and sworn to the above state- ment.
J. Mills, 666,

I Spencer Hall Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Cumberland and State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original minutes proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Ives for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 28 th day of May 1833.
J. H. H. H. H. H. H.