Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8560, for Presley Raines, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Raines, Presley
R 8560
CONTENTS

Virginia
( 1 ) In the County Court of Augusta 27. Jany 1824
On the application of Presley Ramey, who is an applicant for a Pension from the United States. It is ordered that the statement drawn up in conformity to the directions of the Secretary of War of the 8 th March last and to which the Ramey made oath in open Court together with the schedule of property and debts annexed be admitted to Record which statement & schedule are in the following words & figures viz.
Virginia. Augusta County ss. On this 27 th day of January in the year 1824, in open Court being a Court of Records for said County (in which proceedings are had according to the course of the common Law, which has unlimited jurisdiction in civil cases in point of amount, has the power of fine and imprisonment and has all its proceedings duly registered personally appeared Presley Ramey aged a little upwards of sixty years, a resident citizen of the County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn.

sworn according to law doth on his oath declare. That in the month of May in the year 1779 at the Bowling Green in the County of Caroline, he enlisted for & during the War with Loyalists, then a recruiting sergeant belonging to the company of artillery commanded by Captain Christopher Roane which was attached to the Regiment commanded by Charles Dabney of the County of Hanover. - That he was at the siege of Yorktown and continued in service until the 9. th day of April next thereafter when he was honorably discharged at Yorktown by Loyalists and Abner Crump - That many years since he gave his discharge to Col. Daniel Cole man of Caroline County to enable him as his friend, to obtain for him his Land Warrant, who lost the same as he after wards informed this Declarant and that said Coleman is now dead, so that his evidence of this fact can not now be obtained.
And in pursuance of the act of Congress

of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that, I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by sale, gift, or in any other manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby, so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress passed the 18 March 1818 entitled "An act for the relief of persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" - and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any money, contracts, securities, or debts due me, nor have I any other personal property except what is set forth in the annexed schedule by me subscribed and no real estate whatever except an interest of one third in a small lot containing one quarter of an acre on the back street in the Town of Waynesborough on which is a small house in which I reside - My family consists of only my wife and myself and she is now about sixty years of age and labouring under the infir- =mities

miseries incident to old age - I was a Wag- goner by profession and have followed that business for a support since the close of the Revolution until June last when from severe sickness (which reduced me near to the grave and from which my Physician gives me little reason to hope I can ever so far recover as to be enabled to labour) I was compelled to give it over.
I regret that my necessities compell me to make this application. I refused any aid from Country as long as I could labour but now that I can labour no longer and have no income whatever for sup- port, I can truly say, the aid of the Pension provided by law for the relief of the indigent and infirm survivors of the Revolution is indispensable to my support.
Presley Rainey
schedule of the property above referred to. one bureau and Table - 7n doz chairs - one Cow - one sow & Pigs - one chest - a few articles of Kitchen & Cupboard furniture valued together at five dollars -
Presley Rainey

I owe the following debts which I am unable to pay. To John Wyatt about $30. To Doct. Coulter $38.25. To Indes & Mays in Richmond $10. To Cartwright & Dunn $2. To David Foutz & about $6. making in all to $86.25.
Presley Rainey.
Whereupon it is ordered to be certified that it is the opinion of this court that the interest of the said Rainey in the real estate mentioned in said declaration is worth one hundred dollars two more and that the personal property enumerated in said schedule is worth thirty five dollars two more.
And it is further ordered to be certified that it is in evidence before this court by respectable testimony, that the said Presley Rainey is a man of exemplary good character, remarkable for strict integrity, honesty and industry - that he is unable to labour and has no income, whatever for support. It is also in testimony before this court by Doct. Thomas Coulter who has for some time,

Time attended the said Raines, that his complaint is a liver complaint, deeply seated, and of considerable continuance, and that from his symptoms & advanced age there is no probability he can ever so far recover as to be enabled to gain a support by labour
In testimony whereof I Erasmus Stirling Clarke of the said County of Augusta have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of My Office to be affixed this 29. day of January 1824 and in the 48 th year of the Commonwealth Erasmus Stirling

REJECTED
8560
P. O.
Presley Raines
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

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Presley Raines,
Virginia
J. Edwards
Re
Feb 2. 1824
Rev. J. B. Conk
Rev Feb 2. 1824
Rev. Mr. McCoy
Rep
8560

Washington Jan. y 31. 1824
Dr Sir enclosed. I send you Presley Brines application for a Pension
Very Respect
Wm Mills
J. P. Edwards Esq.

FREE
Genl. Wm. McLeod
House of Representatives
Washington City

Stanton 29. January. 1824
Sir
I enclose you a Declaration for a Pension in favour of Presley Rainy a very poor very respectable old man of our County. The bond by their certificate have sustained him in every material statement & I hope you will have no difficulty in procuring his Pension. He requests me to refer you to William Clerves of your house for his character if it should be necessary.
I am very respectfully Your ob t serv t
Erasmus Sturtevant