Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7032, for Thomas Matthews, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Matthews, Thomas
R 7032
CONTENTS

No. 828 Thomas Mathews 75
Henry C. Dromgoole ADR

State of Virginia Brunswick County. Set.
On this Twenty Second day of May 1837 personally appeared in open court before Thomas Matthews the justices now sitting, Thomas Matthews a resident in the said said county aged seventy four years last December, 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 service as herein stated. In January 1781 he in the County of Charles City where he was born was drafted into the service under Capt David Minns of said County that he was next commanded by Capt. H. Wilson next by J. Harewood & then by Capt Thos. Moore Major Wm Boyd commanded the Battalion & Col. Deck commanded the Regt & Genl Munderberg & Genl La Fayette the comman- der in chief of the corps to which he belonged that he remained under the said command until the capitulation on the siege of York- town in Virginia that he was in and

party in an engagement at a place called Hot water in James City County with a party of Lartons Cavalry where he received a wound on the left hand the scar of which is now visible that he was present when the army formed for an engagement at Bottoms Bridge in New Kent County & the enemy retired after making a faint for battle that he marched up to the Mountain to Albemarle County soon after the battle of Guilford where Cornwallis has come over to Virginia that he has lost his discharge in the vicissitudes of life & the lapse of time & that he has no documentary evidence that he knows no person now living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present one declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State whatever I swear to and subscribe the day & year aforesaid
1 st Question by the Court Matthews
? Where & in what year were you born Answer I was born in Charles City County on James River on the 30 th December 1763
2 d Do you have any record of your age & if so where is it
Answer I have none but it was registered in the Episcopal Church in Charles City County & in my Father's family bible but I have not that nor do I know where

3 Q Where were you living when called into service; Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live.
Ans I was living in Charles City County Va - since when called into service. I afterwards lived there until 1798. Then went over to Edgecomb County North Carolina where I lived there twenty years & in 1818 I came to the County of Brunswick I have lived there ever since live in Brunswick. I have been occasionally at my brother's in the County of Nottoway Virginia.
2. 6 th 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 & the several circumstances of your service.
Am Major Wm Boyd Col Deth Col Henson Major Haffner The Regiment was commanded by Deth The Brigade by Genl Mendenbury & La Fayette the general circumstances are before detached up to the surrender at Little York.
Question 6. Did you receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it. Answer I did & it was given by M c Cook & Halloway to me & I have lost it in the lapse of time because of life but it & have no hope I can find it again.

7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood & who can testify as to your Character for Veracity & their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution Answer To The Revd Thos Adams & Isakus Feathers ton Capt Jas Fisher Mr Nicholson Isaac Trotter Mr Biggs I am known & I hope can testify to my character for veracity & of their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution
Thomas Matthews
Commonwealth County Set 1 — We Thomas Adams a licensed clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church residing in the the County of Cumberland Virginia in the neighbourhood where Thomas Matthews has resided for many years & Rich d Biggs a resident of the County of Brunswick & the neighbourhood of the said Thomas Matthews now at applicant for a pension hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Thomas Matthews who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be in his seventy fifth year of age: that he is respected & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Thomas Matthews Richard Biggs Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

And the said Board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories pre- scribed by the War Department that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier; and served as in States. And the Board doth further certify that it appears to them that that Thomas Adams who has signed the preceding certificate is a competent resident in the County of Linn County & that Richard Biggs who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Pottawattamie & is a credible person & that their statement entitled to credit.
I Robert Turnbull Clerk of the County Board of Pottawattamie do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Board in the application of Thomas Matthews for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 27 th day of June one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven R Turnbull

Copy Act. of War Bonds Adm
Hugh C. Drumgoole NTR

W m B Matthews of the County of Prince George do hereby certify that my brother Thomas Matthews born in Charles City County and now a citizen of the County of Brunswick, was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and that he served in the Army at least nine months. As witness my hand this 12 th day of August 1837. William B Matthews
Prince George County to wit Personally appeared before us William Gilliam and Thomas B. Bryant Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid, the above named William B Matthews (whom we know to be respectable and entitled to credit as a witness) and swore the foregoing certificate as his act and deed and true in all respects. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 12 th day of August 1837
Marion Gilliam J.P. Thomas B. Bryant J.P.
State of Virginia County of Prince George ss
Robert Gilliam Clerk of the County Court aforesaid in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that Marion Gilliam and Thomas B. Bryant whose certificate is hereto annexed, are and were at the time of the signing the same Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified to the said office according to the Constitution and laws of the said

state; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court this 14 th day of August A.D. 1837 and of the Independence of the United States the sixty second
Rob t Williams Clerk

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 30 th day of April, 1785 , in the name of Thomas Mathews as a Soldier of Infantry for £18. 5. 4, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Colo Groopier — and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
{ No Seal of Office. }
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this
4 th day of January 1838.
J. R. Heath AUDITOR.

W 20 May 14
The Matthew
1834
The Pension Office Washington City

Sauencerville 10 th May 1838
Thos
My claim (Declaration) with Wm B. Matthews affidavit were sent on to the Pension Office last September. In a letter addressed to Genl Geo. C. Druryoke H. Rep. from you I have mentioned that they were on file in your office - You'll oblige me by returning them to me at this office with any others that may have been forwarded with them -
Your Mo. Abt.
Thos. Matthews "-

J. L. Edwards Commr. of Pensions
R. Twinbull Esq. Brunswick Co. Va. Virginia
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War Department
Prison Office
Sir,
July 14 1836.
The declaration of Thomas Matthews has been examined and placed up on our files.
He alleges that he was drafted in January 1861, in Brunswick County, Virginia and discharged soon after the battle at Little York, in October following. The affidavit will be required to proof of his alleged service; also to assign some satisfactory reason for his not having made an earlier application.
The papers in this case were sent here under an envelope, without any name appearing from whom they came; and as I suppose it probable, from your official station, that you might know the claimant, I have addressed this letter.
I am, respectfully, your obt. Servt J L Edwards
R. Turnbull Esq Brunswick Co. Va. Virginia.

H. of R. 15 th Sept. 1837.
Sir, I enclose you an additional affidavit in reference to an application for a pension by Thomas Matthews. I also send the letter of Mr. Turnbull Clerk of Brunswick, giving some explanation of the delay in the application. —
Very Respectfully Sir,
Your H ble Servant.
George C. Dromgoole

The Mathews recd.
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Conner Office Washington City D.C.

Lawrenceville Va. 15 Feb: 1839
Sir
In June or July last I forwarded to Genl. Geo. L. Brownlee my declaration for a pension, accompanying which was some other papers, and some perhaps had been forwarded before to your department - If they are still on file, be pleased to enclose the whole of them to me at this Post Office oblige Sir -
Your Mo. Ob.
Thos: Matthews

No. 828
13 July 1837. Pension Office.
Pa.
Washington City
The Secretary of the War Department
Office
Memorandum No. July 10.

LAUREL MD JUN 11 1883 C. M. [unclear]
1883
The Pension Office Mail 3 Washington City D.C.

announced on 28. Feb: 1839
Dear Sir
Your letter to M c Mr. Matthews of the 23 rd Inst. was received in his absence and opened by me at his request - M c Matthews wished the papers to be returned - that he might ask a pension of the Legislature of Virginia - as it is contrary to the rules of your office to return them original papers, you'll oblige him by furnishing him with a copy of them; if consistent with property -
Your Mo Ob l
J. D. Watkins

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Matthews, William GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 6154 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 21, 1789. to — not shown —
*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.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Matthews, William GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11487 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED January 25, 1790 to not shown
*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.