Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6188, for Vincent Tapp, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Tapp, Vincent
S. 6188
CONTENTS
carded

3066 Virginia
Vincent Tapp of Guilford - in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the ----- commanded by Captain ----- of the Regt commanded by Stearns - in the Virginia line for 6 months from 1780-
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 - Dollars - Cents per Annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Dec r and Henrietta Edm d Providence -
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 70- Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th March 33  10-- $80--
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk Book LE Vol. 7 Page 121-

Order to pay 21. Nov 1837. Letter to Hagu 3 rd Dec 1837
Paids at this Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1837. from 4 th Sept 1837 to 4 March 1839. Age Notified 23 rd May 1840
Paids as above from 4 Sep 1839 to 4 March 1840. age Notified 26 th March 1840
Paids as above from 4 Sep 1840 to 4 March 1841. age Notified 2 nd Dec 1841.
Died Jan 11, 1841 Agency book.

Vincent Tapp
Culpepper Co
pa
Ad 5 6. m o private from 1780 $20 p ann
Edm c Brodery Culpeper Co. Va

BRIEF in the case of Vincent Tapp.  pa of Culpepper Co in the State of pa (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Courts  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 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, As a Gen.     Sep. In 1780 sub. little more than 6 m o pr. Gen. Edw d Stevens  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? —  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Culpepper Co Pa  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Witnesse  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.
H. H. B.
Examining Clerk.

Vincent Stapp's Declaration

State of Virginia
Giles County p. 3
On this 16th day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the justice of the Court of Giles County near setting Vincent Tapp a resident in said County & State aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath making the following (Declaration) in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as here in stated.
That he was born in the County of Giles, in the year 1762 April the 22nd as he understood from his Father.
That he entered the service as a substitute for Peter Kemper in September 1780 and marched to Hillsborough in North Carolina and there to Salisbury, thence to Guilford Court House near Doan's Mill in Carolina under General R. Green. That the Brigade was commanded by General Edward Stevens, That same time in the spring 1781 he was discharged and returned home making a term of enlistment more than six months - And was not again in service. That he can prove the above service by the discharge of General David Farnsworth who was in Lieutenant with Company he belonged to.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not in the pension roll of the agency of any State or Territory.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this day and date aforesaid J. K. Lightfoot
Vincent Tapp
I David Jamieson a resident in the County of Giles State of Virginia hereby certify that I have examined the within (Declaration) subscribed by Vincent Tapp that he was first justly entitled to the same, in the Revolutionary war, as known to me from observations as above mentioned as Lieutenant in the Company he belonged to.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this day and date aforesaid J. K. Lightfoot
David Jamieson
And the first then presented before me the following interrogations to the applicant, he being under oath, and which he answered, as is hereinafter recorded viz:

Question 12! When and what year were you born?
Answer In the County of Georgia in the 22 nd June 1762,
Question Have you any parents of your age and if so where are they?
Answer My name was formerly in the Church Book, but that book has been burned.
Question When were you living when you were called into service when had you been born, the war and when do you now live?
Answer I was then living in Georgia, have since moved and now live in the exception of one year and now live there.
Question When were you called into service, were you drafted and you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom.
Answer I went as a substitute for Peter Kimpel, he having been drafted.
Question State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops when you served such battalions and United Regiment as you can recollect, and the several circumstances of your service?
Answer I have stated in my Declaration the names of my officers and the circumstances of my service.
Question Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, when was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer I do not recollect that I ever did. I was discharged at Malabar (Old Fort House), when the Company was discharged.
Question State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify a good character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer I named names (Ezekiel Thomas, Spence, John Amis and Philip Amis, I served the war by Col. Rains) I served who was my Lieutenant.

And she said being do hereby declare her opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And she further further believes that it appears to her that David Garrison who has signed the foregoing certificate is a president of (Gwynedd County), a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
I Thomas H. Lightfoot clerk of the Court of Gwynedd County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Widow Fanny Garrison.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 6th day of September in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth.
T. H. Lightfoot

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
mmh am
March 30, 1925
Marion E. Tapp 746 Richmond Ave., Morgantown, West Va.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 6188 it appears that Vincent Tapp was born April 22, 1762 in Culpeper County, Virginia.
While a resident of said county he enlisted in September 1780 and served a little over six months with Lieutenant David Jamison in General Edward Stevens' Brigade of Virginia Troops.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 16, 1832 while living in Culpeper County, Virginia. He died February 11, 1841.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Date of death from Agency Book which says "Feb. 11-1841" as reported by letter. It was so near "pay day" that perhaps the papers were made and sent to Acting Commissioner. was why the payment extended beyond death date.

Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World A Fraternal Beneficiary Order Omaha, Neb.
A. D. CLOYD, M. D. SOVEREIGN PHYSICIAN W. W. BUILDING
May 20, 1908.
V. Warner, Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:--
Under date of August 2d, 1907, you wrote Hon. Morris Sheppard, M. C., Texarkana, Texas, giving some information of the pension record of Vincent Tapp of Culpeper County, Va., a soldier in the Revolutionary War. This information was secured by Mr. Sheppard for my benefit and at my request.
You referred to file #6188 as showing an application of Vincent Tapp, filed August 16, 1832. You also referred to file #41231 as showing that Vincent Tapp was allowed service pension on an application executed Jan. 19, 1820.
Please advise me if these papers refer to different soldiers. There were two Vincent Tapps who served in the Revolutionary War and were entitled to pension.
Please give me any information contained in the papers which may indicate any family connection of the parties named and if there were more than one Vincent Tapp who received a pension.
Sincerely,
A. D. Cloyd
9 41231 9 6188
Rev

Rev. M.
6188
INVALID.
1907 Aug. 2. Visit to Hon. Morris Sheppard, letter in m file 8755c 1908 June 3. Letter to A. D. Cloud m.d. 1919 Dec. 5. To Mrs. J. H. West. P 1935 - Mch 30 - Visit to Marion C. Info - m.m. 1935
File No. 6188
Vincent Stapp Rev War
Act: June 1st 52
Index: Vol. M , Page 368
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Newberry, S.C., Nov. 21, 1919.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
My dear Sir,
Have you any records of pensions for Revolutionary service for the following men -
Samuel Scott, Culpeper Co., Va. Cornelius Scott, " " " James Mason " " " Edward Shirley of Va. or N.C. (Shirley may be spelled "Sherley", "Shurley" or "Shearley.")
Please also give me the data you have for the two Vincent Tapps of Virginia { S. File 6,188 S. File 41,231
I shall be very much
obliged.
Yours truly, Mrs. J. H. West.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
Miss Marion E. Tapp 746 Richwood Avenue Morgantown, W. Va. March 27, 1925.
Mr. Hays Haymaker, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am in receipt of your letter of March 23rd, in which you so kindly offer to furnish me with the data concerning the Revolutionary Record of Vincent Tapp, S.. 6188, born in 1762 in Culpeper County, Virginia. You will please find inclosed all of the correspondence we have had in regard to this matter, as you have requested.
Thanking you for your promptness and courtesy in this matter, I am
Yours respectfully,
Marion E. Tapp

Miss Marion E. Tapp 746 Richwood Avenue Morgantown, W. Va. February 18, 1925.
Pension Department, Colonial Records, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen;
Internal I am enclosing a war record of my ancestors which I should like to have verified. I know that Vincent Tapp served in the Revolutionary War and it is reasonably certain that his son, William Tapp, also served and I am anxious to get the facts in his case.
Thanking you for your attention to this matter, I am
Yours respectfully,
Marion E. Tapp

Record Division.
June 3, 1908.
A. D. Cloyd, M. D.
c/o Sovereign Camp of
Woodmen of the World,
Omaha, Nebraska.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 20 th and received the 23 rd ultimo, you are advised that from the statements already furnished you it would not appear that Vincent Tapp, Sur. File 41,881, who died in March 1884, could be the same Vincent Tapp, Sur. File 6188, who was alive and applied for pension August 16, 1888 .
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Vincent Tapp a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. File 6188
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept. 1780 6 mos. ✓ { not stated Lt. David Jameson Genl. John Stevens Va   discharged at   Staunton Old Ct. Ho.          
Battles engaged in, ✓ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Culpeper Co., Va. Date of application for pension, Aug. 16, 1832. His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Culpeper Co. Va. Age at date of application, born Culpeper Co. Va. Apr. 22, 1762 Remarks: he died Feb. 11, 1841. (Agency book).  There is no family data on file.
Very respectfully,

Lebanon
Nov 28 Amiteville La Nov 18 paid 30
Mr Evans
To The Auditor of the Genl Pension Office Washington City D.C.

Guineville Nov 18 th 1837
To Sir
Enclosed you will receive my Pension Certificate & which was sent to Richmond to Mr. Robinson Jr, who sent it back owing to some omission - and further said that when the papers were properly arranged they must be sent to the Pension Office at Washington for authority to have it paid (without any deduction) how to proceed or whom to apply as I had neglected to attend last year 1836 Mr. which time required that I should go to Washington for a hearing I neglected it in consequence of the sickness of the sum (not knowing the impropriety of it) and thought I would let it get to 1837 - I hope your Honor will make the arrangement necessary and forward it to Richmond to Anthony Robinson Jr or do with it as you deem most proper - as I suppose you are acquainted with such matters.
Capt. Walder tells me that I must prove before the Court of Requests that I was still alive I went for that purpose but the Court said it was not necessary - I also enclose to you the former papers which will give you a good light on the matter and which you will please return to me at this office as I want it for a form in future.
Yours truly J. R. Nelson
Respectfully J. R. Nelson
Rev. H. Spindler
When I came to examine I found that the instructions of Mr. Robinson was to turn over the papers and I only send that which you may desire to copy or like and I keep the form here for V. Sapp
Vincent Sapp
J. R. Nelson

Amipulks (Nov 1837) Mr Anthony Robinson Jr will please draw my pension as per England authority (and forward it in a letter to J. S. Nelson at Amipulks (Va) from 4 th March 1835 to 24 th Sept 1837 being 18 mos. (Duties) Yrs Obedient Servt J. S. Nelson Respndee
Vincent Tapp

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office, February 4 th , 1841.
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," Vincent Tapp , — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832; has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1839, to the 4 th March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
William B. Harris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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Mr James R. Nelson
Amesville
— No.

Amipville Sept 30 th 1837
Mr Anthony Robinson Jr. Will please ann ce my Pension as per enclosed authority for 18 months from 4 th March 1835 to 4 th Sept 1837, and enclose the same in a letter adre ssed to James R Nelson at this office with my
Vincent St. John
William Scott
Errors in the oath of identity -
2 in the Clerk's Certificate - see both related.
When the pension is properly requested, it will have to be sent to the Pension Office at Washington for proper authority to have it paid - if it had been therefor be paid? thence directly J.R.V.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 29 th 1841.
Sir:
Under the date 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," Vincent Tassip , — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. Agency, at the rate of Twenty — Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 , has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1840, to the 4 th March 1841 .
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Harris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 10 th 1881.
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," Vincent Tapp, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va., Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1837, to the 1 st March, 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
William E. Parr Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.