Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32341, for Gowin Jeffries, Virginia

SERVICE
Pa-
Jeffries, Gowan or Jeffers, Gowan
NUMBER
S 32341
CONTENTS

See letter to Hon E. A. Hannegan V.T. P. ex. P. Agt. Apr. 30. 1834 do. to P. Agt. 13 June 1834
Letter to Hon R. H. Thompson 26 March 1842.
Letter to Agt. and 3 d Auditor May 30 th 1842. June 6. 1842 to 3 d Auditor.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6 th 1838 from 4 th March to 9 th Aug st 1837. Report of 2 nd June 25 th 1842
25326 Indiana
Gawin Peffries of Vigo in the State of Indiana who was a private in the com dy commanded by Captain Spiller of the reg t commanded by Col. Marshall in the Virginia line for 2 years Prof. Artiller.
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 200 Dollars  Cents per annum, commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Dec r 1831 and Hon R. H. Thompson Johnson H. Re
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept 930.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 16 March 50.00
$300
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk. Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 117

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 8 th 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
Two of the three children of Gowin Jeffries, deceased, late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison, Indiana Agency, at the rate of One Hundred — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March, to the 9 th August 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Parris
COMPTROLLER.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Gowen Jaffrey Negro Co. Ind
Indiana
From - print of Artiller R y Be Mils Rpts diff 100
on Roll for a copy
Sent by Stephen Beard
Rh Johnson

State of Indiana County of Vigo. ss. On this 18 th day of November in the year thousand Eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before me. Robert Wackett - Protestant
Composing the Court of Protestant for said County Sitting, it being a Court of Record for said County. Gowin Jeffries of the County of Vigo and State of Indiana aged Seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his to make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service the United States under the following named Officers and served as in stated. That he the said Gowin Jeffries enlisted for the term of three years in King & Queen County in the State of Virginia (the month I year he cannot remember) in the Virginia State Line of the my of the army of the Revolution and was a fifer in the company commanded by Captain William Spicer in the Regiment commanded Colonel Thomas Mearshall, it being called the State Artillery Regiment. He states he joined said Regiment at Little York Virginia and that he continued to serve in said Corps which was with General Gates, and General Greene at different periods until the January February after Gates's Defeat. When he was discharged from the service aforesaid at the city of Richmond in the State of Virginia, he states, that in consequence of old age and the consequent loss of memory cannot give a precise history of his services as to what battles or campaigns was in, nor can he state with accuracy whether he remained under the commands of Capt. William Spicer during the whole time of his three years services as aforesaid. He thinks he was alternately under the commands of Captain Wm. Thompson, Captain Wm. Spicer, and Captain Christopher Lane, thinks they were all Captains in the said Regiment of State Artillery. He states that the Battalion in said Regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Major John Meazare. He states that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows

of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his Service. He states he was born in the County of King & Queen in the State of Virginia in the year 1736. the month nor day of the month he does not recollect. Has no record of his age nor never had. He states that when he was called into Service he lived in the County of King and Queen in the State of Virginia. that since the Revolutionary war he moved to the State of Indiana in the year 1827. that he now lives in the County of Vigo & State of Indiana that he has lived there for Six years past.
He states that he enlisted in the Virginia State line in the Regiment of State Artillery as before set forth. Recollects that General Greene General Morgan Heard were continental Officers and who were with the troops where he served. He states that he received a written discharge from the Service given by his Captain, but it has been long since destroyed. He states that he had a poor chance to take care of papers. He states that he is known to William Stansil a Clergyman, and John Carr residents in his present neighbourhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his Services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
He 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.
Gowin his X Sefferis
We William Stansil a Clergyman residing in the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, and John Carr residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Gowin Sefferis who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven 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 and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
William Stansil John Carr

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 William Stansil who had signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Vigo, and that John Carr who had signed the same is a resident in the same County of Vigo, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. —
Robert Hoggatt Probate Judge
State of Indiana County of Vigo. - 3. 10 I, Curtis Gilbert Clerk of the Probate Court of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gorvin Jeffries for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 18 th day of November 1833. and the year of the Commonwealth.
C. Gilbert Clerk

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act intitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on the 15th day of May 1828 I Gavin Jeffers of North East Laurenskill in the County of Orange in the state of Indiana do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Virginia Line in the Continental of the army of the Rev- olution for the term of Three years that I enlisted in the County of King's Queen in the state of Virginia under Capt Thomas Bellard whose company belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col. Marshall whose Christian name I do not recollect nor do I recollect the number of the Regiment and served in said company as a Musician for the full term of three years during which time I was in the Battle near Camden where Genl Gates was defeated and at the end of the term for which I was enlisted I was discharged at Richmond in Virginia by Capt Christopher Rean and Received a full and complete discharge from him which has long since been worn to pieces and last I further declare that I served a term of Two months in

The militia after I was discharged from my enlistment in which said term I was at the surrender of Lord Wallace at York Town
and I further declare that I was not on the 15 th day of May 1828 on the pen- -sion list of the United States nor was I at any other time
Witness my hand this 4 th day of February in the year A D 1829
Gavin Jeffers
State of Indiana } Orange County }
Before me Benjamin Evans in the County of Orange In the State of Indiana Personally appeared this day William Romine Samuel Romine and Gavin Jeffers In of the said County who did severally swear oath that Gavin Jeffers by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this 4 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine
Sworn to and
William Romine
Subscribed before me this 11 th day of Feby 1829
Samuel Romine
Gavin Jeffers
Benjamin Justice of the peace

I William Hoggatt Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that Benjamin Craven before whom the foregoing Affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at office in Paeoli this 4 th day of February 1829
W H Hoggatt Clerk

32 341
Ray INVALID.
File No. 32, 341
Edwin Jeffries Dis Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 209
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Paoli Pa February 10th 1829
Wend Richard Rush
Dear Sir
Inclosed you have a declar- ation of Gervase Jeffries and the affidavits of three men on the subject of his Revolutionary services. Please to communicate the result to me if I have not learned the result of Andrew Demp's application made some time since to your office.
Respectfully I am obedient &c
W. Lloyd

Gavin or Gaudin Jeffers - Musician Va. line -
Rejected Oct 18 25 Indiana
Ref. File No. 5566
#32.341 Dec
OK

Park In Tree Feb 12 th Revolutionary claims
Wend Richmond Rush Secretary of the Treasury U S
Feb 23 7 06 PM 1829

State of Indiana } ss. Pike County } 3
Be it known, that before me, Charles S. Sotter a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared John C. Jeffries and made oath, in due form of law, that he is the identical person named in an original certificate in Beard, of said County of Pike Indiana; that said Beard was the person he employed to assist him in making out and forwarding his papers to enable him to obtain his pension under the act of congress of June 7 th 1832. That the pension was granted him on his application, and the certificate forwarded to said Beard for him, that he has seen the certificate in the possession of said Beard, and has heard it read by said Beard; that at the time he employed said Beard to prepare and forward his papers to get his pension that he agreed to satisfy said Beard for his trouble and services; and if they could not agree as to the compensation that it should be left to any two of their neighbours, and if they could not agree, they should choose a third person to determine it; that after getting said certificate said Beard insisted upon his making a power of attorney to said Beard authorising said Beard to draw the money on his pension from the Pension Office, which he was not willing said Beard should do, but offered to pay said Beard any liberal and reasonable compensation charge he would make for his services, or if that was not satisfactory to leave it to be settled by any two disinterested persons, who should choose a third one to determine if they could not agree, but neither of these offers he would accept; but said Beard after-ward, and which was the last proposition he said Beard made, was this, that if he (Jeffries) would authorise John Carr to draw his pension, and appropriate $40 to the payment of said Beard's services, to giving Jeffries his $65. to William Romaine $65. to John Carr for giving to draw his pension money $25. and to William Stansel $5 and would sign a paper to this effect - that he (said Beard) would give up said certificate, or otherwise would burn it; that he said Jeffries declined and making any such agreement, and said Beard has ever since refused to give up said certificate.

Although he has been repeatedly requested to do so by him, and that he (said Duffie) has offered to be opened and tendered to said Beard as a compensation for his said services the sum of twenty five dollars in the presence of witnesses, and requested the said certificate to be delivered up, which money said Beard refused to receive, and also refused to give up said certificate — That he is entitled to a pension, as he is informed and believes, of two hundred and forty dollars on the 4 th day of March last, and from that time he is entitled to receive eighty dollars a year, which would be six dollars and sixty six and two third cents per month — (and says that he has no other information as to the amount of the pay, he is entitled to than what he gained from hearing said certificate read) which is on account of services rendered to the United States, during the Revolutionary War; that he served in Captain a company of Artillery of the 2 d Regiment of Artillery of the Virginia State Troops, that said company was first commanded by Capt. Pollard, then Thompson, then Valentine, then Capt. William Spiller, and last by Capt. Christopher Roan that he was a private in said company, and but for employed principally as a fifer to said company; that he now resides in the county of Vigo, Indiana, and has resided there for the space of two years and a half past, and that previous to that time he resided in the county of Orange Indiana about six years, and for several years before that time he resided in Warren, Shelby and Jefferson counties, Kentucky, having removed from King & Queen county Virginia first to Mercer county, Kentucky, and for other said not.
Witness
C. T. Noble
Given his mark Officer
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 3rd day of April 1834
C. T. Noble J. P. Gault

State of Indiana Vigo County ss 3
Conformably to the Regulations of the War De- partment of the 27th of October 1832
I C. T. Noble a Magistrate in the County above named do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory Evidence the same being the affidavits of Thomas S Pounds William Pounds & Curtis Gilbert who are persons of respectability in the city of personally known to me that Gavin Jeffries who this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity is the iden- tical pensioner he declares himself to be in the annexed affidavits and I am also satisfied that the statement made by him in relation to the pension Certificate is true
Given under my hand at Terre Haute Vigo County Indiana this 3rd day of April 1834
C. T. Noble (Seal)

Immediate Attention
Hon. E. A. Hamegan

State of Indiana } Vigo County ss }
Personally Came before me C. Noble a justice of the peace in & for the County of Vigo William Pound who being duly sworn says that he is acquainted with Gowin Jeffries that he knows of his having resided in the County of Vigo for some the two years & a half last past this deponent having been a near neighbor to the said Jeffries during that time - that he believes him to be the identical pensioner he has de- clared himself to be in his affidavit this day made & that he has no doubt but that the statement made by him in relation to the pension certificate is true - William
Subscribed & sworn to before me Pound this 3rd day of April 1834 C. Noble J. Peace
State of Indiana County of Vigo ss
Before me C. S. Noble a justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Curtis Gilbert and made oath that he is clerk of the probate court of said county that he is acquainted with Gowin Jeffries named in the above affida- vit and believes him to be the identical person who lately appeared in said court and made his declaration in order to obtain a pension from the United States for services rendered by him in the revolutionary war.
Sworn to & subscribed this 3rd day of April A.D. 1834.
C. Gilbert
C. Noble J. Peace

State of Indiana Vigo County ss
Personally appeared before me Charles T. Noble a justice of the peace of said County Thomas Pound a citizen of said County who being duly sworn deposed & says that he was present this day April 3rd 1834 when Governor Jeffries caused to be tendered Stephen Beard at his residence in Vigo County Indiana twenty five dol- lars in specie as a compensation for said Beard's services in making out and forwarding said Jeffries papers for a pension & demanded the certificate which had been forwarded said Beard for said Jeffries pension which money said Beard refused to receive and also refused to deliver up said certificate & further says that he has known said Jeffries for about two years & a half that he is a near neighbor to him in the County of Vigo that he is the identical pensioner he has declared himself to be in his affidavit this day made & that he has no doubt but that the state- ment made by him in relation to the pension certificate is true Thomas S. Pound
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 3rd day of April 1834
C. T. Noble J.P. Lead

State of Indiana county of Vigo Ss.
I Charles Gilbert clerk of the circuit court of said county do hereby certify that Charles S. Noble before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavits were made was at the time thereof a magistrate as therein described and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name the fifth day of April A.D. 1834.
C. Gilbert
Clerk of the circuit court of the county of Vigo Indiana