Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7021, for James Mathews, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Mathews, James
RR 7021
CONTENTS

State of Kentucky ss Pike County ss
Personally appeared before me Samuel Hind a Justice of the Peace mand for the County aforesaid Mrs Elizabeth Gaines aged 68 years who first being duly sworn make the following Statement. That she is the Sister of James Mathews who is an applicant for a Pension under the provision of an act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 That he the said Mathews was drafted into the service of the United States in the fall of the year 1781. and that he returned from his service in the army the following Spring Sworn and subscribed before me this December 1 st 1843. Elizabeth Gaines Samuel Hind J.P.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above deponent Mrs Eliz th Gaines and that she is entitled to full credit and confidence for her statements above Samuel Hind J.P.

State of Kentucky      Set Boone County
I. Francis G. Hamilton clerk of the Court of Boone County certify that Samuel Hind is a magistrate as aforesaid and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 4 th day of December 1843
J. G. Hamilton clerk.

35.603
4
James Matthews
Ky.
abt 7. June '32
7021
Hn. J. W. Tabbatts WDC

State of Kentucky Boone County
on the 5 th day of December 1843 personally appeared in open Court, before the County Court of Boone County, now sitting of James Matthews a resident of the County of Boone and State of Kentucky aged 79 years 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. 1832. That he was drafted into the service of the United States in the month of September 1781. in the County of Augusta State of Virginia Col Moffatt's Superior Lancer Draft, that the Company in which he served was commanded by John M c Kittrick and he was marched to the frontiers of the State of Virginia and for the term of six months he was served as a private in said Company the duty which said Company performed was in guarding the frontiers against the depredations of the savages after this he had served his term of 6 months he was discharged which discharge has been lost so that it cannot now be found, he therefore cannot procure any 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 James Matthews Sworn and subscribed on the day and date above written in open Court. J. G. Hamilton C.B.

We William Butts a clergyman residing in Boone County Kentucky and Bro. P. Gaines a citizen residing in the same County and State hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with James Matthews who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be 79 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 and subscribed the day 3 rd and year aforesaid in open Court. Wm. Butts Bro. P. Gaines J. G. Hamilton clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter since after putting the interrogatories presented 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
Butts who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a clergyman resident in the County of Boone and State of Kentucky and that Bro. P. Gaines is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to Credit all of which is ordered to be certified accordingly. In testimony whereof
I. John G. Hamilton clerk of the Court of Boone County, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Matthews for a pension In
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 4 th day of Dec r . A.D. 1873.
J. G. Hamilton clerk

February 18, 1936.
Miss Edna M. Dickey Box 165 Monticello, Arkansas.
BA-J/ILL James Mathews R. 7021 Our
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of James Mathews who was born in Virginia and died about 1844, in Kentucky.
The record of James Mathews is given herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 7021, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
James Mathews was a resident of Boone County, Kentucky, in December 1843, aged then seventy-nine years; the date and place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown. He applied then for pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. He signed his name Mathews.
He stated that he enlisted sometime in September 1781, in Augusta County, Virginia, and served six months as a private in Captain John McKittrick's company, Colonel Moffatt's regiment, engaged against the Indians on the frontier of Virginia.
His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law under which he applied.
At the time he made application in 1843, Mrs. Elizabeth Gaines, his sister, was a resident of Boone County, Kentucky, aged then sixty-eight years. One John P. Gaines of Boone County, in 1843, made affidavit in behalf of the soldier; no relationship to said Elizabeth Gaines was stated. No reference was made to wife or children.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

4 Rejected let to the Hon. J. M. Sibbald December 18 th 1843.
Copy of in my hand

Brookfield, Mo.,
Sept 8 th 1912.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington
D. C.
Recently there has been a movement in this City to organize a society of the "Daughters of the American Revolution", and I am looking up the records of William Mathews of Augusta Co. Virginia.
I have no knowledge of the company, or officers under whom he served.
The records in the War Department in Washington D. C. show

that a number of persons named Wm Mathews served in Virginia organizations during the Civil War. but I cannot furnish the data in order to identify any one of them. She said William Mathews who was my great-great- grandfather lived and raised his large family on Moffett's Branch, near Jennings Gap and near Bonds Hill and about ten miles from Stanton in Augusta Co. Va., He settled there about one hundred and eighty five or ninety years ago. I am not sure

about the date, was originally from County Armagh, Ireland, was of Protestant religion, lived to be ninety-three years of age, and is buried at the old stone Church about six or seven miles from his home.
He had sons Richard, John, Joseph, James, William and Sampson, daughters Mary, Margaret, Jane, Elizabeth and Katie. His wife's name was Mary Wright. She said W m Mathews son James was my great grandfather and it is possible that

He may have served. I have two dates of his birth 1863 and 67 I do not know which either is correct.
Have you any record of the services of neg- Le Grand Gains of Orange Co Va., who was also my great, great, grandfather?
Thank you for any information you may be able to give me
I am Respectfully (Mrs) Eva O'Daniel 220 E. Wood St Brookfield Missouri.

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
Director, Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.

Box 165 Monticello, Ark. February 8, 1936.
Will you please send me the Pension (Application) Record of James Matthews (or Mathews) born in Virginia about 1764 and died in Kentucky about 1844. Am eager to have other names of officials or next of kin that may be on same record. Purpose of inquiry: to obtain D. A. R. supple- mentals.
Yours very truly, (Miss) Edna M. Dickey

1912 Oct. 14 Mrs. Eva O'Daniel furnished list of service U.S.M. 1936. Feb. 18. Hrt to Miss Edna M. Dickey. I.L.L.
Acts of July 11, 1902, and March 3, 1903.
REJECTED
7021
O.
James Matthews
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
O. _____
Recognized. _____
Contract. _____
Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions.
Washington City
D.C.

Hon. of Rep. 13 th Dec '43
J. L. Edward Esq
Comm. of Pensions
My Dear Sir
I have the honor of enclosing to you the papers of James Man- thens asking to be placed on the pension list under the Act of 7 th June 1832 - to which I request your attention at your earliest convenience -
I am very respectfully -
your Mt. servt.
John W. L. Nichols

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of James Matthews a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept 1781 6 mos. Pvt. Johan M'Kinnon on the frontier of Va.   of service was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof.  
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, Drafted in Kentucky Co. Va.  Date of application for pension, Dec 5, 1842  Residence at date of application, Boone Co. Ky.  Age at date of application, 79 yrs.
Remarks: Soldier's wife Mrs. Elizabeth Gaines was 68 yrs. old in 1842. No other family data.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Copy.
Pension Office, Dec. 18, 1843
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of James Matthews has been examined & disallowed. He claims for one tour of service in the Virginia Militia which he estimates at 6 months, but the term was limited by law to 3 months, and rarely reached that maximum. If he was drafted as a Militia man his tour did not exceed 3 months, and if he enlisted into a corps of 6 months men, the authority for enlisting & raising said corps should be shown. It is apparent however from the facts stated, that he was a militia man in a three months tour to the frontiers which is not sufficient to entitle him to a pension.
Hon. I. W. Tibbatts, Esq.
H. R.