Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,652, for Joseph Jones, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C. Va.
Jones, Joseph
52,652
CONTENTS
July 6, 1758 or 1759 in New Jersey res. during Rev. Burke Rev. N.C. & Wolfpeper Co. Va. res. in 1826 Giles Co. Tenn.

West Tennessee 7546
But Daniel left 8-18-53
Joseph Jones
of this Co in the State of W Tenn who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Darnell of the Rgt commanded by Col Campbell in the S. W. C. time for 4 months private of Infy 4 " " " " Cav
Mo. and Va. Line Records corrected Feb'y 23 '02
Inscribed on the Roll of Wm Larmer at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of April 1833 and Leutts German Lester Pulaski
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 60.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 15.00
$75.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Lassie Boyd Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 85

9469
Joseph Jones
giles 6 th Tennessee
West
from 1780 private
Inf t Cavalry
Inf. 4 mo. — 13.33 \frac{1}{3}
Can 4 " — 16.66 \frac{2}{3}
$30.00
Dawell
Campbell
No. 6.
Gorman Lester
Pulaski
Tenn

BRIEF in the case of Joseph Jones County of Giles in the State of Tennessee (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 74 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     15 June In 1780 (Light Horse) 4 - Private Gen. Covington Col McDonell Col McDonell   April 1781 2 " Col Campbell Col Finley Col Haughton   June 1781 2 " Col Wall Col Green Col Allcock  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? King's Mountain  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Backe Co. North Carolina  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attached as reg. 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Nathan Scott Examining Clerk.

State of Tennessee } Declaration in order to obtain the benefit Giles County } of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832
On this 22 nd day of August 1832, Personally appeared in open court before Edward D Jones, Sampson H White and Thomas S Webb Esq rs of the Court of Pleas & Quarters General now sitting Joseph Jones, a President of the  county of Giles & State of Tennessee aged either 73 or 74, the sixth day of July 1832, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated (Viz) Col Charles M Dowel, and in the company of Capt Joseph M Dowel of light Horse with rifles in the County of Burke & State of North Carolina on the 15 th day of June 1780, as a Volunteer and was discharged from said engagement on the 16 th of October 1780, by said Col M Dowel at  at  the  the  time of  the  engagement  engagement . Under this engagement, he was in a Skirmish with the party of British & Tories in the upper part of South Carolina near Waynes Old Iron Works, He was also at the taking of Andersons Fort, which surrendered without a fire as reported there was 99 men & 100 guns, the men were paroled. He was also in a small Skirmish with some British & Tories in Rutherford County North Carolina, in which a British Horse man Battery were taken prisoners, He was also in the battle of Kings Mountain, when Ferguson was defeated, which is in South Carolina, during this engagement, he was several times marched to & through the upper parts of North & South Carolina he was at one time almost as low down as Ninety Six at the Battle of Kings Mountain, there was no regular or Continental Officer that he knows of, Col Campbell, he remembers was the Commander in Chief on that occasion, & in a few days after the Battle he was discharged from his said Engagement, as aforesaid
That some time in April 1781, he enlisted as a

substitute for John Strother, under Captain Mark Finkes in the County of Culpepper & State of Virginia under the Command of Col. James Slaughter, and was discharged by Col. Slaughter in June 1781, making the term two months under this engagement, he was marched down near to Portsmouth & was discharged about 18 or 20 miles below Richmond on James River, in this tour he was joined to the troops of Genl. Muhlenburg, & was in no battle
That in the latter part of June 1781, in the County of Culpepper & State of Virginia he again entered the service of the United States as a Militia man, his number being called on for a tour of duty, the Captain of his com- pany Francis Hall marched with us but a few days as he got sick & returned home then Capt. William Green took command of us, under Col. Alcock & marched us down James River near by as low as Williamsburg we were attached to Gen. De Marquis of the French soldiery, Gen. Wayne was also with us, but whether under this or the preceding engagement he can't now be positive, that he was discharged in two months from the beginning of this engagement in the latter part of August on Shockoe Hill at Richmond Virginia on James River. That he was in no battle he has no documentary evidence of service at this day his discharges being lost, & no witnesses to prove any but his first engagement
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Joseph Jones Sworn to in Open Court 22 d August 1832 Gerrit Lester, Clk

Questions propounded by the court
1 st Where & in what year were you born
Answer, I was born in New Jersey, the County I don't know as I learned that my Father first moved to Loudoun County Virginia when I was two or three years old & remained there six or 7 years, & then moved to Culpepper County Va. I remained there till 1779. I then moved to Burke County N. Carolina, & removed back to Culpepper in the close of the year 1780 - I was born on the 6 th of July 1758  1758 or 1759. 1759 as I have learned from my parents
2 Have you any Record of your age, & if so where is it and? I have none
2 Wh where were you living when called in to service? where have you lived since the revolutionary War, & where do you live now
A. When I was first called into service I lived in Burke County N. Carolina, secondly & thirdly in Culpepper County Virginia - I lived in Culpepper County about four years after the close of the war, I then moved to Caswell County N. Carolina, & staid about 3 years, then moved to Burke County N. Carolina & staid about 31 years, I then moved to Giles County Tennessee where I now live
2 How were you called into service? were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans r I first volunteered in Burke County N. Carolina secondly I was a substitute in Culpepper County Virginia for John Strother, and thirdly I was drafted, or had to serve in consequence of the number I drew in parcelling the militia, in Culpepper Va.
2. State the names of some of the regular officers, who were with the troops, where you served? such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general

Circumstances of your Service
Ans r In my first term there was no regular Troops, there was Col l M c Dowel, Col l Campbell, Col l Serier, & Col l Shelby & Col l Williams who was killed at Kings Mountain. In my second & third engagement, Gen l Muhlenburg Col l Slaughter - Gen l Demaree & Gen l Wayne, & Major Welch brigade major Col l Adcock - my services were in the upper parts of N & S Carolina & from Culpepper V.a. as low as Portsmouth & Williamsburg V.a.
Q Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given, & what has become of it? I rec d three one from Col l M c Dowel one from Col l Slaughter & one from Col l Adcock they have all been lost through neglect or length of time.
Q State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ans r Martin Browning & John Browning, Gilbert H White, Robert Deavenport, James Hammond, & many others.
We John W Yeats a clergyman residing in the County of Giles aforesaid and James Hammond, of said County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Joseph Jones, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three or four years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn & subscribed this 24 th August 1832. John W Yeats James Hammond German Lester Clerk

Rev. and 1812 War Section. aw
April 21, 1926
L. W. Rigaby Cairo Ga.
Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 3658, it appears that Joseph Jones was born July 6, 1758 or 1759 in New Jersey.
When about two or three years old, he moved with his father (whose name is not given) to Loudoun County, Virginia, where they lived about six years when he moved to Culpeper County, Virginia, and in 1779 moved to Burke County, North Carolina, where he was living, when he enlisted June 15, 1780 and served in Captain Joseph McDowell's Company, Colonel Charles McDowell's North Carolina Regiment, he was in several skirmishes, was at the taking of Anderson's Fort, and the battle of Kings Mountain, and served until October 16, 1780.
He returned to Culpeper County, Virginia, where

he was living, when he enlisted in April 1781 and served two months in Captain Mark Fink's Company, Colonel James Slaughter's Virginia Regiment; and later in June 1781, he enlisted and served two months in Captains Francis Wall and William Green's Company, Colonel Alcock's Virginia Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1832, while a resident of Giles County, Tennessee.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any data in regard to John Jones, who served in the North Carolina Troops and was pensioned while living in Giles County, Tennessee.
The Census of Pensioners of 1840 has one John Jones as a pensioner of Giles County, Tennessee, as this volume was compiled from the census of the marshalls of the several judicial districts under the Act for taking the sixth census and without reference to the records of this Bureau, it is not always possible to verify the data contained therein.
If you will furnish as much as possible of the

following data, concerning John Jones, another search will be made in your behalf- approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and first name of widow.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

1926- Apr. 21 - Hist. to P.W. Rigelby
Rev. Wm
2652 INVALID.
File No. 2652
Joseph Jones Prof. N.C. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: —Vol. 4 , Page 194
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* N.C. Va. Line. Records corrected. Feb'y 23/04.

Joseph Jones

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

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

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

Col. Jones
declaration for a Pension
1552

State of Tennessee Giles County
Personally appeared in open court Martin Browning & John Browning who being first duly sworn according to law, states that They were well acquainted with Joseph Jones in the year 1780, who then lived at the house of their Father, Said Jones, Bought a horse from their Father who lived in Burke County N. Carolina and entered as a soldier in the army, as a horse horse man Martin Browning was then about 12 years old & John Browning about 10 years, they now live in the neighbourhood of said Joseph Jones & believe his age to be 73 or 74 years as he states, and that he did serve in the army of the Revolution as he states and that it is the opinion of his neighbours as far as they know it, that he did serve Sworn to in Open Court. Martin Browning 23 d August 1832 John Browning
German Lester Clerk
Gilbert H White makes Oath that he is a neighbour of Joseph Jones, that he has known him thirty or thirty five years, that since his first acquaintance with him it has been the belief of his neighbours that he was a soldier of the revolution, that he knows his general character & would believe any statement that he would make on Oath Sworn to in Open Court H. White 23 d August 1832 German Lester Clk

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 certifies that it appears to them, that John W. Yeats, who has signed one of the preceding certificates is a clergyman resident in the County of Giles, and that James Hammond, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the the county aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement, is entitled to credit
9469
E. D. Jones
Simpson, W. White Thos. S. Webb
State of Tennessee Giles County } set
I Herman Lester clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Giles, do hereby certify, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Joseph Jones for a pension. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my Office, this twenty fourth day of August 1832
Herman Lester Clerk

State of Tennessee Giles County
I A. M. Upshaw Presiding Justice for the County of Giles, aforesaid, do hereby certify, that German Lester whose name is signed to the foregoing Certificates & affidavits, is now & was at the time of signing the same Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Giles aforesaid, and that his attestation is in due form of Law
Given under my hand & Seal this 27 th day of August 1832
A. M. Upshaw
Presiding Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.

JUDGE CITY COURTS OF CAIRO AND WHIGHAM
L. W. RIGSBY LAWYER
PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR AND APPELLATE COURTS, COURT OF ORDINARY AND FEDERAL COURTS
CAIRO, GA.
March 4, 1926.
Pension Department, Washington D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you please give me the pension record of Joseph Jones and John Jones, who were in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary war, and who were probably in the Battle of Kings Mountain, and pensioned in Giles County Tennessee.
I am anxious for this information for some of my relatives who want to join a patriotic organization on the record of one of these two.
Yours truly,
L. W. Rigsby
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BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Jones, Joseph GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9703 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 24, 1792 To Jesus Humphrys, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.