Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5449, for Jonathan Hutchens, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Wa.
Hutchens, Jonathan or Hutchins
R. 5449
CONTENTS

April 27, 1934
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Mr. E. C. Grider 1213 West Monroe Street Kokomo, Indiana
JONATHAN HUTCHENS R. 5449 BA-J/MLB Bar
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jonathan Hutchins, who resided in Goochland County, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War, and in 1830 was living in Surry County, North Carolina.
You are furnished herein the record of Jonathan Hutchens, as he signed (the name also appears Hutchins), the data of which were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 5449, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
He was born in January or February, 1785; the place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown.
Jonathan Hutchens, while residing in Goochland County, Virginia, volunteered about June 1, in the year of the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, served as private in Colonel Darke's Virginia regiment, was at the siege of Yorktown, present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and after serving not less than four months was discharged and returned home.
Jonathan Hutchens applied for pension November 15, 1836, while residing in Surry County, North Carolina. His claim was not allowed as he did not serve six months which was the requirement of the pension law.
There are no family data in the claim.
No residence of this soldier is shown subsequent to his application for pension. He did not give his post office address in Surry County, North Carolina.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

33664 Jonathan Hutchins N.O.
Hon L. Williams B.K.

State of North Carolina
Guilford County } On this 15 th day of November A.D. 1836.
personally appeared in open court, before the court now sitting Jonathan Hutchens a resident citizen of the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy two years in January or February next (the exact date not recollecting) 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 leniency passed June 7 th 1832; That he the said Hutchens entered the service of the United States in the latter part of May or the first of June the year Lord Cornwallis was captured at York Town in Virginia as a volunteer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dabbs and Major White; the name of the Captain he has forgotten; That he joined the Regiment as aforesaid at Williamsburg Virginia, that he marched from Williamsburg to York Town, where he remained during the siege and was present at the capture of Lord Cornwallis; That after the capture as aforesaid, he was discharged & permitted to return home, having been  not less than been in service for four months according to the best of his recollection — And he the said Jonathan Hutchens hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State —
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid —
Jonathan H. Hutchens

State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Furny County } quarter Session Nov Term A.D. 1883-86.
We Pleasant Leachman, a clergyman residing in the County of Surry, and Joseph Williams, & James Gadsden residing in the same County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Butcher, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is respected and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution; & that we concur in that Opinion
J. B. Blockerham
Subscribed & sworn to the day and year aforesaid
J. Williams
James Gadsden
And the 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 in State. And the Court further certifies

that it appears to them that Pleasant Buckman is a Clergyman resident in Smyrna County, & that Joseph Williams & James Hadley who have also signed the same, are residents in said County and are Credible persons, & that their Statement is entitled to Credit
Wm. DeBrew
Hampton
James
State of North Carolina
Smyrna County
I Francis H. Armstrong Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Smyrna County, do hereby Certify that the foregoing Certificates the Original proceedings, of said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Hutchins for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand And Seal as Officer this 15th day of November AD 1836
F. H. Armstrong Clerk

5449
P. O. _____
Jonathan Hutchinson
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
1934 Apr. 27 - Hest. to Ed. Brider - M.L.B.

Von a Hutchins N 6.
5449
Rejected, did not serve 6 months. See let to Hon. L. Williams.
Act. 7 1836
Act 6 29 Dec 38
Hon. J. Rariden
Paper copied sent to Hon. A. H. Harlan House of Reps. Jan 23, 1850 (letter Mr. French)
Act 7 June 26

Ha Williams
nc
Dec 7 1826
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Rec Vol 39 Page 321

Dept of War Pension Office D te of Mch 1836
Sir
I have m d the declaration of John Hatchea, and upon examination of the allegations in relation to her services, I find that he did not serve beneath. The claim is therefore disallowed. The papers are placed upon the file.
I am like Honor &c
Asa Lewis William H. Rep

Hon. J. Wariden
Dec 29 1838
86

War Dept. Pen Offic Dec 29, 1888
Sir
In reply to that part of your letter to me of the 18 th inst. respecting the case of Jonathan Hutchinson of North Carolina, I have to inform you that the objections to the admissibility of his claim are stated in a letter from this office to Hon. L. Williams of the 17 th Dec r . 1836, a copy of which is herewith enclosed.
Hon. James Raper N. R.
N. 33.664 at 7 June 1832

House of Reps. W. Va. January 17 th 1850
Dear Sir
I trust you will be kind enough to furnish me with a copy of the declaration and other papers therewith connected which were filed in your office some time prior to the year 1836 by Jonathan Hutchinson for a Pension for services in the Revolutionary War, and which was disallowed on account of some defect in the same. To what company or Regiment Mr. Hutchinson belonged, I am unable to say. He lived in the State of North Carolina at the time he made application for the Pension, and it is quite probable, that the services were rendered in that State.
I am truly
Your Off. Secy.
A. S. Marland
Col. J. H. Edwards Comdt of Division.

On this 24 th of October 1836 before me Lewis Williams one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Perry and State of North Carolina, personally appeared Elizabeth Cain who being first duly sworn according to Law, deposes and saith that she the said Elizabeth Cain is well acquainted with Jonathan Hutchinson of the County of Perry and State aforesaid, and who is about to make application for admission under the Laws of the United States; that she resided in the County of Gachland Virginia at the time the said Hutchinson entered the service of the United States; that she well remembers the fact of his entering the service and returning home about the time Lee's Creek was captured at York Town in Virginia; that she has no distinct recollection exactly of the length of time the said Jonathan Hutchinson remained in service, but remembers well the facts as above stated of his entering the service and returning home -
I mean to send subscribers before the day and year first above written - Elizabeth F. Cain in witness whereof

Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sirs:-
Will you please inform me if
Jonathan Hutchins
was a Revolutionary War Pensioner?
During the War he was resident of Goochland County, Virginia, or adjoining county.
In 1830 when the general pension law went into effect, he was living in Surry County, N. C.
If he were a pensioner, I would like to have his record. Also whether he changed his residence from Surry County, N. C. after 1837.
Yours Truly,
E. C. Crider
Kokomo, Ind. 1213-W. Monreo St.
Apr. 16- 34.