Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10220, for William Stone, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Stone, William Sarah
P. 10220
CONTENTS

State of Indiana ss. On this 17 th day of Vermilion County ss. August one thousand eight hundred and forty three before the undersigned the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Stone a resident of said County aged 84 — years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 that she is the widow of William Stone who was a private in the Army of the Revolution for three periods of three months each in the Virginia Continentals — that she remembers that the first time that her said husband was drafted was at a time when she had one child that she does not know under what officer he served in the first trip as aforesaid — but he was during all these

State of Indiana ss. On this 17 th day of Vermilion County ss. August one thousand eight hundred and forty three before the Subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Stone a resident of this County aged 84 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 that she is the widow of William Stone who was a private in the Army of the Revolution for three periods of three months each in the Virginia Continentals - that she remembers that the first time that her said husband was drafted was at a time when she had one child that she then did not know under what officer he was serving the first trip as aforesaid. During all these

State of Indiana ss. On this 17 th day of November County ss. On this 17 th day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three before the undersigned one of the associate Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Stone a resident of Daviess County aged 84 — years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 that she is the widow of William Stone who was a private in the Army of the Revolution for three periods of three months each in the Virginia Continentals — that she remembers that the first time that her said husband was drafted was at a time when she had one child that she does not know under what officer he served in the first trip as aforesaid. but he was during all these

tho' out of Service she and her son has long resided in the County of Halifax in Virginia from the militia of which County he was drafted as fore said that this first trip she thinks was done in the year Seventeen hundred and twenty Seven or Eight. That the second trip of three months was performed under a Captain Calum of Halifax County Virginia and was she thinks in the year 1779 or 1780 but she is not positive as to the year. That the third trip of three months was in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one She remembers that the third time he entered the Service in the month of May after the Battle of Guilford Court House - that when he went on the third trip she had no then child whose name was John Stone and that said John her son was killed by a horse at a pond the age of twenty five years in the said County of Halifax

That she knows he was a drummer in the second tour but whether he was a drummer or soldier in the third & other tours she does not know - That she is the mother of sixteen children That she has no record of the age of her children unless it was to in a Bible left with her son David Stone in Wilkes County North Carolina that she was married in Person County near the Carolina and immediately removed into the adjoining county of Halifax Virginia. That she thinks Abram Gregory John Gray and Thomas Drummond and William Gill were with her. She remembers hearing her husband speak of Sam Grant having his horse shot under him in one of these tours. She for the time declares that she was married to the said William Stone on the 12 th day of October

in the year Seven hundred and eighty five or Seven hundred and eighty four That her husband the Reverend William Stowe died on the twenty seventh day of December Eight hundred and twenty four (1824) and that she has remained a widow ever since this period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
Known to and Rubricated on this day and year above written before me Abel James Seely A Notary Public
for her John Stowe Stowe Mark
Note the words "Eighty" in the first and second lines on this page above erased and "Seventy" inserted before signing.
Abel James Seely Notary Public

I Attilay Harris the aforesaid judge before whom the foregoing declaration of Sarah Stone was the day before to and hereinafter as being then said Sarah Stone is unable from bodily infirmity to attend said court Given under my hand the 17 day of August 1843
Attilay Harris Albany Judge
State of Indiana Vermillion County ss. Before me Attilay Harris one of the aforesaid judges of the circuit court in and for the said county personally appeared John Kelley a resident of said county who being first duly sworn upon his oath says that William Stone the husband of the above named Sarah Stone died on the twenty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty four (1824) and that the said Sarah Stone who is the mother of the deponent's wife has not intermarried since the death

of the said William Stone who said is his will and
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day of August A.D. 1823 Atty. by Harris and Associate Judge
John H. Gatley
That James Leeds
I certify that John Gatley who has the day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing before me is a credible witness
Given under my hand the 17 th day of August 1823
Atty. by Harris Associate Judge

5997 They are from Italy Aug 10 1884 P0220 at the inst.

Advised July 14 1865 and March 9 1870
102203
P. O. Sarah Stone
Service: Wid. of William Stone
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Morshaws Ill. 23 d Sept 1843
Sir. I have the honor to enclose the application of Mrs. Sarah Stone widow of William Stone under Act 4. July 1836. I am aware that the proof is not complete but as I understand that claims are examined in the order in which they reach the office I forward it in its present state in order to get an examination of it at an early period as possible. I shall forward exposition so a few days from Virginia -
Very Respectfully
Richd. Mundy
J. L. Duvall Esq.

5997.
Sarah Stone Wm Indiana act 4 July 36-

I Ashley Harris the associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Vermillion State of Indiana before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sarah Stone was sworn to and subscribed as certify that from old age the bodily infirmity of the said woman is such as to render it impracticable for her to attend said Court given under my hand this 18th day of August 1843
A. Harris Associate Judge
59 State of Indiana Vermillion County Set. I Alexander W. Horner Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do Certify that Ashley Harris is one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the official Seal of said court that said Court being a court of Record so declared by Law Establishing it & Subscribed my name this 21 st day of August Eighteen hundred and forty three Alexander W. Horner Clerk V.C.C.

State of Indiana Worm Mill Creek, ss.
I Alexander B. Hare Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Ashley Harris is one of the respected Judges of the said Court of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the official seal of said Court (the said Court being a court of Record and so declared by the law establishing it) and have sealed my name this 21 st day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Alexander B. Hare Clerk V. L. C.