Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10220, for William Stone, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Stone, William Sarah
TR. 10220
CONTENTS

State of Indiana ss. On the 17 th day of November County ss. On the 17 th day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three before the Subscribers one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Stone a resident of this County aged 84 — years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 that she is the widow of William Stone who was a private in the Army of the Revolution for three periods of three months each in the Virginia Continentals — that she remembers that the first time that her said husband was drafted was at a time when she had one child that she does not know under what officers he served in the first trip as aforesaid. but he was during all these

the stories of Service she and her said has band resided in the County of Halifax in Virginia from the militia of which County he was drafted as of said that this first trip she thinks was done in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven or Eight. That the second trip of three months was performed under a Captain Coleman of Halifax County Virginia and was she thinks in the year 1779 or 1780 but she is not positive as to the year. That the third trip of three months was in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty one She remembers that the third time he entered the Service in the month of May after the Battle of Guilford Court House - that when he went on this third trip she had her third child whose name was Joh. Stone and that said Joh. Stone was killed by a horse as soon as the age of twenty four five years in the said County of Halifax

That she knew he was a drummer in the Second Regt but whether he was a drummer or soldier in the two other trops she does not know - That she is the mother of sixteen children That she has no record of the ages of her children unless it was to in a Bible left with her son David Stone in Wilkes County North Carolina that she was married in Person County across the Carolina and immediately removed into the adjoining County of Halifax Virginia. That she thinks Abram Gregory John Gray and Thomas Franklin and William Gill were with her she remembers hearing her husband speak of Sam Gill having his horse shot under him in one of these tours. She further declares that she was married to the late William Stone on the 12 th day of October

in the year Seven hundred and Eighty  Seventy fives or Seven hundred and Eighty  Seventy  24 That her husband the aforesaid William Stone died on the twenty Seventh day of December Eight hundred and twenty four (1824) and that she has remained a widow ever since the period as wife more fully appears by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written before me Attest James Seely + Tobias Moorat Clerk.
for John Stone Moorat
Note the words "Eighty" in the first and second lines on this page as one erased and "Seventy" inserted before signing.
William Hodges Associate Judge

I Attilay Harris the aforesaid Judge before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Stone was this day sworn to and subscribed as being that said Sarah Stone is unable from bodily infirmity to attend said Court Given under my hand this 17 day of August 1843 Attilay Harris Attorney at Law
State of Indiana Vermillion County ss Before me Attilay Harris one of the aforesaid judges of the circuit court in and for the said County personally appeared Joh. Hellely a resident of said County who being first duly sworn upon his oath says that William Stone the husband of the above named Sarah Stone died on the twenty seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty four (1824) and that the said Sarah Stone who is the mother of the deponent's wife has not intermarried since the death

of the said William Stone his share in his said share.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of August A.D. 1823
John H. Hatley
Atty. at Law Associate Judge
West of James Leeds
I certify that John Hatley who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition before me is a credible witness.
Given under my hand the 17 th day of August 1823
Atty. at Law Associate Judge

5997
March Stone
Indiana
lot to Mr. Manley July 31. 1844
10220
at 4 July 1836.

10,220
P. O. Sarah Stone
Service: Wid. of William Stone
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Morristown Tenn. 23 Sept 1843
Sir. I have the honor to enclose the application of Mrs. Sarah Stone widow of William Stone since deceased July 1836. I am aware that the proof is not complete but as I understand that claims are examined in the order in which they reach the office I formed it is in present state in order to get an examination of it at as early a period as possible. I shall forward deposition &c few days from Virginia -
Payle R. Spedden
Richmond
Richmond Va.

5994
Sarah Stone W m Indiana
act 4 July 36-

I Ashley Harris the associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Vermillion State of Indiana before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sarah Stone was sworn to and subscribed as certify that from old age the bodily infirmity of the said woman is such as to render it impracticable for her to attend said Court given under my this 18th day of August 1843
A. Harris Associate Judge
594 State of Indiana Vermillion County 3 Set, I Alexander W. Horner Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do Certify that Wiley Keating is one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is Genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the official Seal of said court that said Court being a court of Record So declared by the Law Establishing it & Subscribed my name this 21 st day of August Eighteen hundred and forty three. Alexander W. Horner Clerk W. C.

State of Indiana Warrick County ss.
I Alexander D. Hare Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Ashley Morris is one of the approved Judges of the Circuit Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the official seal of said Court (the said Court being a Court of Record and so declared by the law establishing it) and dated under my hand this 21 st day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Alexander D. Hare Clerk T.M.C.C.