Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 32342, for Philip Jones, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Jones, Philip
S 32342
CONTENTS
end at Amelia Co. Va.
in 1832 aged about 70 yrs. res Logan Co. Ky.

Arkansas. 4742
Kentucky.
Philip Jones -
of Logan in the State of Ky. who was a Pvt. in the Compy commanded by Captain Booker of the Regt commanded by Col: Jenkins in the Va. line for 2 years from 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 - Dollars — Cents per annu to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Jan y 33 and sent Hon. Col. Pompekins, House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 120- Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mar 33 40 $160-
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk. Book D Vol. 9 Page 44
As to Pension after May 1831 to Arkansas from 4 Sept 1831 30 May 1838

Philip Jones
from print 2 years.
$80
for ... minutes

BRIEF in the case of  Philip Sons  County of Logan  in the State of Kentucky  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? _____  3. How old is he? 70  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.     In 17 1 6 — Private Gen. Capt. J. Booker Major Hudson,   1780 or 81 1 6 — " Col. Jenkins Gen. Greene   Sub. about 2 — — " Capt. Wm. Finney Major Dunstall,   " Col. Holt Richardson   " Same officers & Lafayette.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Savannah, Waxhaw Hills, Ramson's Mills, Eutaw Springs S.C., Cowpens, Lamastown, Yorktown.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Anne Arundel City V.A.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh
Examining Clerk.

State of Kentucky Logan County Feb 3 I have when  Decr 1832 Philips Jones personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the court of Logan County State of Kentucky now sitting a resident of the County of Logan and State of Kentucky aged about seventy years as near as he can ascertain his family record having been destroyed 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 That he rendezvoused at Amelia Courthouse in the State of Virginia and entered the service of the United States under the command of Col. Jenkins Major Hudson Capt. Scull Booker and Lieutenant Walter as well as I now recollect (My memory is frail and I cannot state with certainty the date at which I entered the service I then marched from Amelia Courthouse to Millington Road from thence to the old trading ford on the Adkins River from thence to Salisbury North Carolina from thence to Charlottesville N.C. from thence to Camden South Carolina from thence to the battle ground near to Savannah I was engaged in said Battle Genl. Green was our Commander and Cornwallis commanded the British forces on said occasion. From thence we marched to the place where the Battle was fought near the Waver saw hill I was in said engagement. Thence we proceeded to Parrisburg Mill at which place we had a battle with the British from thence we marched to the Eutaw Springs in S.C. where we had another engagement with the British after which we were marched to the Cowpens and I was at the Battle of the Cowpens commanded by Genl. Green as aforesaid. Shortly after the battle of the Cowpens I was

ended we were discharged having served out a term of eighteen months. I recd a Milton discharge which I have lost or it has been destroyed.
I again entered the Service of the United States as well as I can now recollect in the year 1780 or 1781 under the command of Col. Hotchkiss. Major Tunstall Capt. Wm. Finney Lieutenants Dick or Richard Booker we met at the Courthouse in Amelia county and rendezvoused at Bolling's Creek. From thence we marched to Manchester from thence we beat up the River to Syle's Ford and there crossed the River and thence marched on the Richmond Side to the Bloody Run from thence to New Castle on the Mattaponi from thence to Muncy's Mills from thence to Johnson's Old Fields from thence to the Hobbs or Hobbs hills from thence to the Hickory Neck Church from thence to Scott's Forge from thence thence to Misses Ferry from thence to Milton from thence to Richmond from thence to Prince William Courthouse from thence to Senkirk on the Mattaponi from thence to Fauquier Courthouse or town thence to Bloody Run near to Richmond where I was again discharged having served out my Eighteen months term again. I recd from Col. Richardson a Milton discharge which was lost or destroyed as before stated. I was in the Battle at James Town After which my brother Gabriel Finney was taken sick and it was his turn to go into the army and I got home on Monday from the town alone named and on the next day I entered the Service of the United States in the place of my sick brother under the same officers.

and was at the siege of York under the command of Genl. Lafayette when Cornwallis & Tarlton were surrendered. I served about two months on this last occasion and was discharged.
He further 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 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 or territory whatever.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Philip Jones
We John P. Dunn a clergyman residing in the county of Logan and State of Kentucky and Littlebury Robinson residing in the county and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Philip Jones who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be about seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid J. P. Dunn
Littlebury Robinson
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 P. Dunn who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Logan and State of Kentucky and that Littlebury Robinson who has also signed the same is a resident in the county and state aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John J. Machall presd of the Logan County Court
State of Kentucky Logan County Set
I Samuel B. Lend clerk of the court of Logan County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing

contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Philip Jones for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 5 day of November 1832 David H. Burd Clerk
Philip Jones. Application for a Pension

Application for a transfer
State of Arkansas } ss County of Johnson } ss
On this 3 rd day of April A D 1838 before me Thomas Powers the subscriber an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Philip Jones who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Booker ——— in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Holt Richardson in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Kentucky from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of Arkansas where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of Kentucky to the State of Arkansas (to wit) that his children had been moved to the State of Arkansas and he wished to be with them.
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Thos Powers J.P.
Philip Jones

State of Arkansas, ss County of Johnson 3
On this 3 rd day of April A D 1838 before me Thomas Powers the subscriber a Jus- tice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared John Sowell who on his oath, declares and says that Philip Jones whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is the same prisoner who formerly recurred and made a pension in the State of Kentucky sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid Thos. Powers J.P. John Sowell
State of Arkansas, ss Johnson County 3 I Thomas Powers a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John Sowell whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is a man whose character and veracity is undoubted and that his oath ought to be looked on with as much respect as any citizen of our County Given under my hand and seal the day and year foresaid Thos. Powers J.P.

State of Arkansas } ss Johnson County } I Augustus M Ward Clerk of the Circuit Court and Ex-officio Recorder for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that Thomas Powers whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavits and certificate is and was at the date of these writings an acting Justice of the peace and that all his official acts as such are and ought to be entitled to full faith and credit
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the Seal of my office at Clarksville the 22 nd day of April A D 1838 and of the Independence of the United States the sixty second year and of the State the second year
Augustus M Ward Clk " " (Signature)
Phillip Jones, Dwight, Pope Co. A.M.

32 342 INVALID.
File No. 89,849
Philip Jones Rev Rev
Act: June 1 st 1891
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 215
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Philip Jones which require 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? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? yes 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 has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? 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? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 1. 7.
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 the 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.
†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 authenticated 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 end 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.

Northern Bank of Kyts Lexington May 8 th 1838
Sir
Your favor of 1 st Inst. has been received. Philip Jones, a pensioner under act 7 June 1832 at the rate of $80 per annum, has been paid to the 4 th Sept r 1837. He will not be paid in future at this Agency
very respectfully
Your Obedt Servant
John Kilford
Pres
per J. Ernst
Pen. Clerk
J. L. Edwards Esq r Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

Pension Agency Office, Little Rock, Arkansas, 7 April, 1838.
Sir,
I herewith enclose you the Application of Phillip Jones, late of Kentucky, for a transfer of his Pension to this Agency. - Please enclose the Transfer to me.
Respectfully,
Yr. ob't.
Wm. Woodruff.
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Comt. of Pensions, Washington City.