Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4565, for Richard Long, Virginia

THE SERVICE
NUMBER _____
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Long, Richard
S. 4565
CONTENTS
signed

West Tennessee. J. 4.
Letter to Pen Agent and on to Ray. 20 Sept 1837.
Richard Long of Bedford Co in the State of Tennessee who was a Cor & Priv in the Company commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col Sollivan in the Virginia line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 84 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Sept 1837 and sent to Hon J. H. Pork House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837 — 545.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 1838 42.00
$ 587 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by H. J. Evans Book E. 2. Vol. 7. Page 96.

24756
Richard Long
Tennessee.
for 1776 prints. 2 years. $80. 13.16
on Roll as Confed OP 24 prints info
See lib Nov 7 th 32 J. McElrick Shebbysville Tenn

BRIEF in the case of Richard Long  of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee.  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 74 years  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 the latter part of the year 1775 or the first of the year 1776 - 6 Private Gen. Col. Toliver Capt. John Jimmison Capt. Gabriel Jones   Summer of 1776 - entered as a Marine for 2 years & served about 15 Corporal (Va. State Regt) Col. George Gipson Major Lee & Meriwether   about the last of the year 1777 - re-enlisted for 3 years 3 2  served 3 or 4 mo. as a private but was discharged as Sergt. for 3 yrs  town 2 drafts substituted for Mt. burying at the siege of Little York  Sergt. Genl. Washington Maj. Genl. Putnam Genl. La Fayette Col. Burke's Regt.  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Monmouth - engage. at Germantown. and at the taking of Stony Point -
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Culpepper Co. to Virginia.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional evidence.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

4756.
Reckonings declared
1811

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 state of Tennessee Bedford County
On thirteenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Samuel Phelps John B. Armstrong and John E. Vail Esquires
I meting of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for the County of Bedford in the State of Tennessee aforesaid Richard Long a resident of said County aged seventy four 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 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated In the latter part of the year 1825 or the first of the year 1826 In the County of Culpeper in the State of Virginia he entered the service as a volunteer for the term of six months and was attached to the Company commanded by Captain John Simmison which Company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Solliver That after serving the above term of six months he again in the summer of 1826 entered the service as a Marine for the term of two years he was attached to a Company commanded by

Captain Gabriel Lony in immediately after in- rolling himself in the above company he received the appointment of a Corporal that after having served in the marine service as well as he can recollect about fifteen months he re- -enlisted for three years being about the last of the year 1777 that he enrolled himself in a company commanded by Capt. Lony his for- mer officer that after having served as a private three or four months he was made a ser- jeant in said company which office he filled to the end of the above enlistment said company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. George Gibson & was known by the name of the 1st Virginia State Regiment The majors commanding in said Regiment were John Lee and Mundy Mather We were marched from Williamsburgh to Alexandria in Virginia at which place we were all encamped with the small Pox We then marched on and found General Washingtons head Quarters near Philadelphia & shortly af- terwards we had an engagement with the British at Germantown we then went into Winter Quarters at Valley Forge The second cam- paign we served mostly in the Jerseys that he was engaged in the famous battle of Monmouth from Monmouth he was marched to Brunswick & there celebrated the Anniversary of Amer- -ican Independence from there they marched into the state of New York to a place called the White Plains from there we proceeded to Red- Point where we assisted in building a Fort we were there under the command of Maj. General Putnam From there we marched to Middlebrook in the Jerseys

and then took up Winter quarters the 2 nd & last campaign of said three years service I served in the Service & in the State of New York I was at the taking of Stony Point from thence we marched to Philadelphia where I received my discharge from Brigadier General Muhlenburgh about the first of the year 1780 for the service of the above term of three years as a sergeant although I had only served about two years & eight or nine months as sergeant as before stated said discharge is either lost or mislaid
I then returned to Virginia Culpepper County my former residence and during that summer when I was drafted & served a 2 months tour but I cannot now recollect my company or Regimental officers I was under General La- fayette as commander in chief I was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Little York about the commencement of the siege I substituted in the place of a 1 st During of Orange County in Col Darks Regiment I then assisted in guarding the prisoners taken at Little York to the barracks above Winchester in Virginia I then returned home having being the end of my services
I served between the years 1775 - and 1781 inclu- sive according to the best of my recollection about five years as a Revolutionary soldier and I hereby relinquish every claim what- ever to a pension or annuity except the present and that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of my estate

The within Declaration sworn to and subscribed before us this day & year above written Richard Long
Questions by the Court
1st Where & what year were you born
Ans r . I was born in Culpepper County in the state of Virginia on 22nd September 1788
and have you any record of your age & if so where is it
Ans r . My age is recorded in a book which I have at home and according to that record I was born on the 22nd of September A.D. 1788
2nd where did you live when you entered the service of the United States where have you lived since since the Revolution and where do you now live
Ans r . Shortly after close of the Revolution I removed from Virginia Culpepper County to the state of Kentucky Fayette County I lived in that County five years I then moved to Franklin County and lived there seven years from there I removed to Warren County & lived there nine years in all I lived in the state of Kentucky twenty one years I then (1818) removed to the state of Tennessee Bedford County where I have lived for the last twenty three years & where I now live
4th Did you ever receive a discharge if so from whom & what has become of it

Ans w . I do not recollect to have recd any but the one mentioned in my Declaration which I recd from General M c Clintock at Phil a del ph ia about the first of the year 1881. for the performance of the 3 years enlistment mentioned in my declaration as Serjeant. But said discharge is either lost or mislaid so that at this remote period I cannot find it
5 th State the names of Persons of your neighbourhood and County to whom you are known and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a Revolutionary soldier Ans w . I am well known to the Rev d Thomas L Hall of my neighbourhood who is a regularly ordained preacher of the Presbyterian order. To Col. John Warner late the high sheriff of this County To Col. John S c Neill To Col. John Orr. To Col. James M c Cracken Clerk of our Court of pleas & quarter sessions and To Mr. D. Orr. the present high sheriff of our County. I am known to many of the members of this County & to the most of the citizens of my neighbourhood having resided amongst them upwards of twenty years
Richard Long
We the undersigned residing in Bradford County in the state of Pensylvania being referred to by Richard Long in the above declaration do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with him and that from the general character which he sustains in his neighbourhood for veracity that his statements are entitled to credit and that he is reputed by his neighbours and acquaintance to have been a soldier in the American Revolution & we concur in that opinion
Given to us your least 16 th August 1832
John Warner William D. Orr
J. M c Cracken
J. S c Neill

5 We Thomas J. Wallack acknowledging residing in the County of Bedford & & William Orr residing in the same hereby certify that we are acquainted with Richard Long who has sub- scribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about thirty four years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Given to subscribers the day &
& year aforesaid
Thos J. Wallack
Thos J. Wallack
William D. Orr
And the said board do hereby declare their opi- nion after the inquisitorial of the matter & after putting the interrogations presented by the war department that the above named appli- cant was a revolutionary & lived in the States. And the board further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas J. Wallack who has signed the preceding certificate as acknowledging man resident in the said County of Bedford & William D. Orr who has also signed the same is a resident in said County & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit
J. O'Neill
Samuel Phillips
John B. Armstrong

I James McKittrick Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Bedford County do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Laird for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Shelbyville August 13 th 1832
J. H. McKittrick

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
HAD div
April 7, 1927
Honorable James A. Reed United States Senate
My dear Senator:
In response to your letter of April the fifth, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 4565, it appears that RICHARD LONG was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, September 22, 1758.
While living in said place he enlisted late in 1775 or early in 1776 and served six months as a private in Captain John Jamesson's Company in Colonel Taliaferro's Virginia Regiment.
He enlisted in the summer of 1776 and served fifteen months as a corporal in Captain Gabriel Jones' Virginia Company.
He enlisted late in 1777 and served until January, 1780, as a private and sergeant in Captain Gabriel Jones' Company in Colonel George Gibson's Virginia Regiment; he was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth and Stony Point.
In the summer of 1780 he served two months in the Virginia Troops.
In 1781 he was at the siege of Yorktown and served under Colonel Darke.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee. He died May 30, 1848.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
Thes is the only soldier named Richard Long that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

June 26, 1924
Mrs. T. E. Perry Merigold Miss.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4565, it appears that Richard Long was born September 22, 1758, in Culpeper County, Virginia.
While living in said place he enlisted late in 1775 or early in 1776 and served six months as a private in Captain John Jameson's Company, Colonel Taliaferro's Virginia Regiment.
He enlisted in the summer of 1776 and served fifteen months as a Corporal in Captain Gabriel Jones' Virginia Company.
He enlisted late in 1777 and served until January 1780 as a private and Sergeant in Captain Gabriel Jones' Company, Colonel George Gibson's Virginia Regiment; was in the battles at Germantown, Monmouth, and Stony Point.
In the summer of 1780 he served two months in the Virginia Troops.
In 1781 he was at the siege of Yorktown and served under Colonel Darke.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, while a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee. He died May 30, 1848.
There is no data on file as to his family.
The above noted is the only Richard Long found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
Commissioner

Oct. 26, 1905.
Hon. Gordon Russell, House of Representatives.
Sir:
In response to the letter of Mrs. Mary B. Pegues of Tyler, Texas, dated October 17, 1905, forwarded by you, and received in this Bureau October 25, 1905, herewith is enclosed a statement of the military history of Richard Long, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Very respectfully,
First Deputy Commissioner.

State of Tennessee } Personally appeared before the Bedford County } subscribing Justice of the peace in and for the County of Bedford in the state aforesaid Richard Long who being first duly sworn makes the following statement and explanation to his Original Declaration presented for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832
That by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he can not 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 follow- ing Grads For the term of Nine months I served as a private for the term of Twelve months I served as a Corporal For the term of two years and six months I served as a sergeant and for such service I claim a pension And the deponent further stateth that he knows of no person at this time that he could procure who could testify to the above services
Subscribed and sworn
Richard Long
To before me this 17th June
January 1833
John Ellison J.P.
State of Tennessee
I James M. Kisicki Clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions for Bedford County in said state do certify that John Ellison before whom the above affidavit was sworn to is now and was on the date thereof an acting justice of the peace for said County duly com- missioned & qualified as such and that his signature thereto is genuine
My Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at office in Shelbyville the 20th day of January 1833.
James M. Kisicki Clk

7466 West Tennessee
Richard Long
of Bedford in the State of Miss who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Simmons of the Regt commanded by Col. Solliver in the line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of W Tenn at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of April 1833 and sent to M c Kinney Shelbyville
Arrears to the 4th of March 160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Wk 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Davis Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 87
See letter to Hon. J. K. Polk Aug 27. 1833
See letter to Hon. J. K. Polk 29 Apr 1834
do: 3 Jan 35 See letter to J. M. B. Sept. 23. 1835
If Mr. Polk should so intend increase to $84 per an. with letter to Mr. P.
on roll as Capt. of Co. Order to pay No Sep. 1837.-

1905 Oct. 26. His to Mrs M. B. Peque thru Hon. Gordon Russell 1924 June 26. His to Mrs. D. E. Derry, Wes 1907 Apr. 7. His to Hon. Jas. C. Peque
Penman
4565
INVALID.
File No. 4565
Richard Long Cospl. War. line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: — Vol. A , Page 226
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Merigold, Miss 5/26/24
Dept. of Interior Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Please send me at once statement from Pension Office showing that Richard Long, Rev. soldier, born 1758, died Maury Co. Tenn. 1853, did receive a pension for his services.
In the Dept. of Archives & History State of Tenn. Richard Long's name appears as receiving a pension, but the National Society

Daughters Amer. Revolution want a statement from the Washington Bureau, so please send it to me if you can by June 15 th , so it can be passed on in Washington D.A.R. assembly at that time -
Thanking You for past favors,
I am,
Very Truly
Mrs. T. E. Perry.

19/69
Sylvia Lopez Oct 17th 1915
Dear Hon. Gordon Russell Washington D.C.
Attention and reply through Dick - First Deputy Commissioner
Too much trouble I wish you would please secure some information for me from the "Record and Pension" office in the War Department.
I want to get a copy of the military record of my great grandfather, Richard Long .

Culpeper County, Virginia who was born in North Carolina in 1756. I understand that he joined the Continental army when he was nineteen years of age and served during the whole of the Revolu- tionary war, being at York- town when Cornwallis surren- dered. I have heard that Richard Long was drawing a pension when he died in 1848, and so if I can get a copy of his application for pension I can learn more definitely about his military service in the Revolution and I can probably gather other

personal information concerning him that I want.
I will appreciate it if you will secure for me a copy of his application for pension, his mili- tary record, etc., from record and pension office of War department.
Yours Respectfully Mrs Mary Boren Pegues.
I think Richard Long joined the army from Cypress Co. Virginia North Carolina, but he was a resident of Tennessee when he died 1848.

United States Senate,
Washington, April 5, 1927
Hon. Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I have the honor to submit the following com- munication for your consid- eration, and to ask that the request made therein be com- plied with if possible.
When the matter is dis- posed of, will you kindly have the letter returned to my office, and oblige.
Yours truly,
A handwritten signature in cursive, reading "Jas. A. Reed", written in dark ink.
U. S. S.

BOARD
H. W. REUTER, PRESIDENT 300 GRAVEN AVE., ST. LOUIS, MO.
W. C. BENDER, VICE-PRESIDENT ST. JOSEPH, MO.
E. H. RISKE, SECRETARY INDEPENDENCE, MO.
R. A. DOYLE, MEMBER EAST PRAIRIE, MO.
T. B. SHERER, MEMBER BETHANY, MO.
REGULAR MEETINGS
ST. JOSEPH, MO.
Second Monday in October
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
Second Monday in January
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Second Monday in April
SPRINGFIELD, MO.
In June When M. P. A. Meets
BOARD OF PHARMACY
OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI OFFICE OF R. A. DOYLE, MEMBER
EAST PRAIRIE, MO.
April 1st 1927
Hon. James A Reed
Washington D C.
My dear Senator Reed:- I wish you would kindly ask the Pension office to look up the record of Richard Long, A Revolutionary War Pensioner of Marshall County Tennessee. (His native state, however, was Virginia)
Thanking you for your kindnesses to me, heretofore, as well as for this
I am Respectfully yours
R. A. Doyle

Payments to be made at Nashville by the Pres't of N S B Bonds Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of West Tennessee
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E 915 Page 87 by Daniel G. Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Richard Long of the State of West Tennessee who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. } Pension Records
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Free Hon. James K. Polk Washington City D. C.

Nashville Sept 7 th 1837
Mr James K Polk
Dr Sir enc
losed you have my certificate & affidavit before J Norvell Esq together with your letter to me dated Jan'y 11 th 1835.
I this day applied to the Pension agent at Nashville & learnt I could not draw my pension due 4 th March & 4 th Sept in consequence of not being here on the 4 th inst.
I am therefore instructed to send the above named papers to you to request you will obtain from Mr Edwards commission of Pensions an order to have my claims paid.
You name in your letter now enclosed you had discovered I was entitled to an increase of Pension. I request you will examine & if I am entitled to more I hope you will send me such evidence as will enable me to draw the amt. when all the papers are put in proper form you will oblige me if you will send them to Robert Bellare Nashville who will inform me Yrs Theodore Long
there is one year pay due to Mr Long up to the 4 th inst. is why he can't collect

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Long, Richard S 4565
Jan 15
Separate Annuity to
Wm - p.
James E. Edwards Esq
Com. Pensions
War Dept -
Washington City
Gen J. K. Polk

Washington City Aug 11 th 1835
Sir
By your letter of the 10 th Inst n I am in- -formed that Richard Long a pensioner under the act of June 7 th 1832 - is entitled to have his annual pension increased from $80 to $84 - per annum. Will you give the necessary directions to the agency at Starkville Miss. to have the increased payment made to him. —
Yours Respectfully James M. [unclear] [unclear]
J. L. Edwards. Esq s Com. Pensions. —
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Inverness N. H. Scott
Essex
after Richard Long Stamington Bedford County Lincs
19561 Long Lane

Washington City
Aug 11 th 1833 -
Dear Sir
I have made the examination you requested at the Pension office. By the enclosed letter you will learn that the best I have been enabled to effect is a small increase of your pension from $80. to $84 per annum. This increase I have requested shall be made. I am sorry that I have been enabled to do no more for you. -
I am Very Respectfully
Your friend &c.
James H. Jackson
Mr Richard Lang

Washington Apr 18. 1837. —
Sir
Enclosed I send you a letter from Richard Lang - accompanied by his pension certificates and deposition. It appears that in consequence of having failed to apply for his pension for more than a year, that the Pension Agent at Starkville has refused to pay the pension due him. — From my person- al knowledge of him, I am sure, that he is the same person to whom the Pension certifi- -cates was issued. Upon my application at your office in Sept 1835 - his pension was increased from $80 - to $84. per annum. Will you cause a Pension certificate to be issued to him for the latter sum per annum to be issued to him, and cause an order to be issued to the agent at Starkville - to pay him his last year's pension, - and also the balance of $4. per annum for previous

years, as from the date of issue. —
I am Very Respectfully
L. S. Edmonds Esq.
Yrs the Secy
Com. of Pensions
James M. [unclear] Secy
War Dept.
Washington City. " "
S. F. 4565.
Richard Long. Va.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Long, Robert GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 6102 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Nov. 15, 1792 to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.