Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,630, for Thomas Jones, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Jones, Thomas
S. 5630
carded.
CONTENTS
to Sept 10, 1755, Caroline Co. Va. + res there at end. in 1823 res Spottsylvania Co. Va. d. Dec 16, 1824

Virginia 16.401.
Thomas Jones.
Spottsylvania in the State of Va who was a Pri. — in the Compy. commanded by Captain T. Bitting of the — commanded by — in the Va line for 17 months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 56. Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of Aug. 33 and sent to Thos. H. Botts. Fredericksburg — Va
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 113.32 Pension allowance ending 1st Sept. — 28.33
141.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. Rice — Clerk. Book E Vol. 6 Page 13.
Paid at Treasury, under act 6, April, 1838, from 1 st Sept. 1844 to 16 Dec. 1844. Agent notified 24 th April 1845.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
March 28 th 1846.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The adm n : of Thomas Jones, dec d . a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond Va Agency, at the rate of Fifty Six Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1842 has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1844, to the 16 th Dec. 1844.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Gass
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

26.122
Adm l as a Private $ 17 mo - $ 56.66
Thos H Botts Fred t  Fry Fry

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed 7th of June 1832 State of Virginia - County of Spotsylvania to wit: On this the 1 st day of July 1853 personally appeared in open Court, before the Sur- tizing of the County Court of Spotsylvania in open Court sitting, Thomas Jones a resident of the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia aged Seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declara- tion, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832. - viz That he enlisted in the Army of the United States early in the month of Sept 1776 or 1777 as a private under Capt Charles Bibb and served under the following named officers, viz: the said Capt Charles Bib- b, Captain Samuel Hance, Lt James Upshaw Lt Woolfolk and afterwards in the Militia service under Capt Anthony New and Capt Philip Buckner the names of their subordinate officers not recollectable. He states that at the time of his enlistment he resided in the County of Caroline in the State of Virginia and enlisted as a private under Capt Chas Bibb for twelve months, for the purpose of performing any duty that might be required of the Company of which he was a member, and understands at the time of his enlistment that the Company was not to be attached to any regiment, but was to be kept in readiness and embodied to render actual service whenever it should receive marching orders - within a few days after his enlistment, he was marched to Bells Church in the County of Caroline by Capt Chas Bibb where he remained twelve days, after which he was permitted with the rest of the Company to return home, but with order to hold themselves in readiness to rendezvous at any moment they might be called upon. About ten days thereafter, he was again called into service and was put under the com- mand of Capt Samuel Hance Lt James Upshaw and Lt Woolfolk and acted under these officers in the County of Caroline for two months, marching to and fro in the said County and never stationed for any length of time at any one place and waiting for further orders, during all this time he was in actual service and was not employed in any civil pursuit; after the expiration of the two months he was again permitted to return home, to be again called into service for his unexpired term of enlistment should occasion require it; very shortly after his return home he was married and within a few days thereafter was again ordered into service, when he hired one George Hampton as his substitute who performed the balance of his enlistment term. He further states that about the first of Sept (the precise day not recollectable) in 1780, he was drafted in Caroline (where he still resided) and marched as a private under Capt Anthony New from the said County below Williamsburg, he passed through Richmond and went to a garrison on the south side of James River below Richmond, from the garrison he was marched to Cabin Point, and from thence below Williamsburg and there stationed; after some time he was mar- ched with about 170 others to Colo Darnell's buildings and there stationed as a guard, he remained there as cook or messman, from thence he was marched back to Cabin Point and from thence to Petersburg where he was dischar- ged about the middle or near the close of Dec following viz Dec 1780. making a term of three months and a half. In the following spring and as early as he recollects early in the month of March 1781, he was again drafted from the County of Caroline and marched from thence as a private under Captain Philip Buckner and was again marched below Williams- burg, passing through Richmond during this term he was kept constantly

in motion, scouring the Country below Williamsburg and thinking he was again discharged at Petersburg. He states that he was discharged about the middle of May 1781 making a term of rather more than three months. This term being in all a series of one year and five months fully, during all of which time he was either in Camp or marching and rendering actual service and not employed in any civil pursuit. He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of no one now alive whose testimony he can obtain to prove his service. He also states that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot give the precise dates of the several times of going into, and leaving the service, but feels no hesitation in saying that he served as a private during the revolutionary war as above set forth fully one year and five months. He further states that during the war he lived in the County of Caroline, and shortly after its termination removed to the County of Spotsylvania, since which he has resided ever since. He states further that he has never received any compensation whatsoever for his revolutionary 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. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
The following questions were then proposed: Thomas Jones -ded by the Court-
1. Where and in what year were you born? Ans. In the County of Caroline and on the 10. Sept 1765.
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? Ans. I had, but it is now lost, I do not know what has become of it.
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? Ans. In my declaration I have already stated that I lived in the County of Caroline in the State of Virginia when called into service, and that shortly after it was I removed to this County - the County of Spotsylvania and have resided here ever since.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom?
Ans. I was first enlisted, we called it enlisting, it might have been volunteering and served 10 Mo. & 12 days. was afterwards drafted and served three months and a half and was again drafted and served rather more than 3 months.
State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
I do not recollect having been with any regular officers. The Company of which I was a member on each occasion was never attached to any regiment, consequently I know none of the regiments then in service, if I did I have forgotten them, my memory has almost entirely failed me since a violent spell of sickness with which I was afflicted a few years since and from which I have not yet entirely recovered. I have given the names of the only officers I know except the Subaltern of Capt. Bibb, Capt. New and Capt. Brock and their names I have forgotten. It has been a long time since I was with them and was with them only a short time. For the general circumstances of my service I refer you to the foregoing declaration.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?

Also I received discharges, but have lost them, I did not think worth preserving, never expecting to have any occasion for them. I suppose they were given to me by my Captain. States the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for honesty and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Possible refer to any one who is acquainted with me, say the Rev. Jeremiah Chandler, John A. Billingsley, one of your neighbors, Robert Butchfield, and Lewis Rawlings. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Thomas Jones
We Jeremiah Chandler a clergyman residing in the County of Spotsylvania and Robert Butchfield and Lewis Rawlings residing in the County of Spotsylvania, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Jones, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 77 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.
Jeremiah Chandler Lewis Rawlings Robt. Butchfield
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Jeremiah Chandler who has signed the foregoing certificate as a clergyman residing in the County of Spotsylvania (State of Va.) and that Robert Butchfield and Lewis Rawlings who have also signed the same are residents in the said County of Spotsylvania and are credible persons and that the statement is entitled to credit.
I Richard L. Stevenson, Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania, do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Jones for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office this the 1 day of July 1833.
R. L. Stevenson cc
State of Virginia, County of Spotsylvania, to wit:
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, Thomas Jones, who being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that by reason of old age and the arrangement of his affairs

life of service, he cannot answer to the pecuniary  clays on which he has autographs. I left the service, but according to the list of his collections he received more of them than the pecuniary  mentioned below. I in the following grants . For one year and  five  months I served as a private  and  full  months service I claim a pension .
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5630
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Jan. 22 1877 - His Miss Sarah E. Dr. p. 3041
File No. 5630
Thomas Jones
St. Louis
Act: Jan 22 1877
Index - Vol. 12 Page 195
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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At a Court held for Spotsylvania County the 1st day of July 1833.
Declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832. State of Virginia County of Spotsylvania to wit: that on the 1st day of July 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the justices of the County Court of Spotsylvania in open Court sitting. Thomas Jones a resident of Spotsylvania County in the state of Virginia aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, states on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States early in the month of Sept. 1776 or 1777 as a private under Capt Charles Bibb and served under the following named officers viz the said Capt Charles Bibb Captain Samuel Hanes Lt James Woolfolk and afterwards in the Militia service under Capt Anthony Ferrand Capt Philip Buckner the names of their subaltern officers not recollected. He states that at the time of his enlistment he resided in the County of Caroline in the state of Virginia and enlisted as a private under Capt Elias Bibb for twelve months for the purpose of performing any duty that might be required of the Company of which he was a member and understood at the time of his enlistment, that the Company was not to be attached to any regiment, but was to be kept in readiness and embodied to render actual service whenever it should receive marching orders; within a few days after his enlistment he was marched to Brice churches in the County of Caroline by Capt Elias Bibb, where he remained twelve days after which he was permitted with the rest of the Company to

return home, but will draw to head themselves in readiness to re-entering at any moment. They might be called upon about ten days thereafter he was again called into service, and was put under the command of Capt Samuel Hanes, Lt James Upshaw and Lt Woodfolk and served under these officers in the County of Caroline for ten months, marched to and fro in the said County and never stationed for any length of time at any one place, and waiting for further orders during all this time he was in actual service, and was not employed in any civil pursuit. After the expiration of the ten months he was again permitted to return home, to be again called into service for his unexpired term of enlistment should occasion require it. Very shortly after his return home he was married, and within a few days thereafter, was again called into service, when he hired one George Hampton as his substitute, who performed the balance of his enlistment term. He further states that about the first of Sept the precise day not recollected, in 1780 he was drafted in Caroline where he still resides, and marched as a private under Capt Anthony Sturtevant from the said County, below Williams burg; he passed through Richmond and went to a garrison on the south side of James river below Richmond, from the garrison he was marched to Cabin point, and from thence below Williamsburg, and there stationed, after some time he was marched with about 170 others to Colo. Burnside's buildings and there stationed as a guard, he remained there a week or more, from thence he was marched back to Cabin point and from thence to Petersburg, when he was discharged about the middle or near the close of Dec following. He was 1780, making a term of three months and a half. In the following spring and as well as he recollects early in the

month of March 1781, he was again drafted from the County of Caroline and marched from thence as a private under Capt. Philip Buckner and was again marched below Williamsburg passing the Richmond, during this tour he was kept constantly in motion, scouring the country below Williamsburg and until he was again discharged at Petersburg. He states that he was discharged about the middle of May 1781 making a tour of rather more than three months. Thus making in all a service of one year and five months fully, during all of which time he was either in camp or marching and rendering actual service, and not employed in any civil pursuit. He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of no one now alive whose testimony he can obtain to prove his service. He also states that by means of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot give the precise dates after several times of going into and leaving the service, but feels no hesitation in saying that he served as a private during the revolutionary war as above set forth fully one year and five months. He further states that during the war he lived in the County of Caroline and shortly after its termination, removed to the County of Spottsylvania, where he has resided ever since. He states further that he has never received any compensation whatever for his revolutionary services. 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 after agency of any state. Known to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Thomas Jones
The following questions were then propounded

by the Court.
1st Where and in what year was you born
Ans. In the County of Caroline in the 10th Sept 1755.
2. I have your birth record of your age, and place, where as it.
Ans. I have but it is now lost, I do not know what has become of it.
3. Where were you living when called into service, where lived you
lived since the Revolutionary war, and when do you now live
Ans. In my description I have already stated, that I lived in the
County of Caroline in the state of Virginia, when called into service,
and that shortly after the war. I removed to this County, the County
of Spottsylvania and have resided here ever since.
4. When were you called into service, were you drafted, and your
volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom.
Ans. I was first enlisted. We called it enlisting, it might have
been volunteering and served 10 months & 12 days, was afterwards
drafted, and served three months and a half and was again
drafted and served rather more than three months. I state the
manner of some of the regular officers who were with the troops
where you served, such Continental and militia regiments
as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your
service. I do not recollect having been with any regular officers
The company of which I was a member on each occasion
was never attached to any regiment. Consequently I know none
of the regiments then in service. If I did I have forgotten them,
my memory has almost entirely failed me, since a violent
spell of sickness, with which I was afflicted a few years
since, and from which I have not yet entirely recovered. I have
given the names of the only officers I know except the subal-
terns, of Capt. Babbing, Capt. Kerr and Capt. Buckner and their
names I have forgotten, it has been a long time since I was
with them, and was with them only a short time. For the general
circumstances of my service, I refer you to the foregoing declarations.
Did you ever receive a dis-

certificates as a long time resident in the County of Spotsylvania state of Virginia and that Lemus Rawlings Robert Crutchfield who has also signed the same are residents in the said County of Spotsylvania and are credible persons and that their state- ment is entitled to credit. —
I Richard L. Stevenson Clerk of the Court of Spotsylvania County do hereby certify that the foregoing con- tains a duplicate of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Jones for a pension as appears by the records of the said Court. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office this seventh day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty three R. L. Stevenson

charge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. Also I received discharges, but have lost them, I did not think them worth preserving, never expecting to have any occasion for them. I suppose they were given to me by my Captain. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. I would refer to any one who is acquainted with me, say the Rev Jeremiah Chandler, Jr. A. Billingsley, Colo. Robert Critchfield, Mr Lewis Rawlings and John Partlow. I believe the most of those are here to day. Known to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Thomas Jones
We Jeremiah Chandler affirm that in the County of Spotsylvania and Lewis Rawlings & Robt Critchfield residing in the County of Spotsylvania hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Jones, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 77 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. Known and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jeremiah Chandler
Jeremiah Chandler
Lewis Rawlings
Robt. Critchfield
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogato- ries prescribed by the war department, that the above named application was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Jeremiah Chandler who has signed the preceding

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