Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9357, for Christopher Isbell, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Isbell, Christopher
S. 933-7
CONTENTS
carded

Virginia 23.075
Christopher Isbell of Amherst in the State of Va who was a pr. & cap in the --- commanded by Captain --- of the --- commanded by Col. Stuart in the --- time for
2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 81 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Febr: 33 and Supt H. M. Garland Rev. Glasgow - r.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 202.50 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar: 34 40.50
$ 243 ---
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Rice - Clerk Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 20
Date of death not on list

Copy del. of Ch. Street
in application for a Pension,
27432
Adm. as.
Private 21 mo 70
corp 3 — ( 11 81
Adm. M. G. Land New Glasgow Land 6 Ga
M. G. Land
OD Resent

State of Virginia. Amherst County to wit.
On the 16th day of September 1833 personally appeared in open Court, before the justices of the Court of the said County now sitting Christopher Aspel a resident of the said County and State aforesaid aged about seventy nine years who being 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.
1 st In the latter part of the year 1775, he does not recollect the month, being a resident of the County of Rockland in the State aforesaid was enrolled for the Minute service or drafted from the Militia of the County he is not certain which, he was ordered into active service to perform a three months tour of duty as a private and placed under the command of Capt. Nathaniel Mason of said County, whose company he joined and marched to the City of Richmond and from thence to the City of Williamsburg where the Company was attached to a Regiment or Corps, said to be under the command of Colo. Patrick Henry, he does not recollect the name of any other field Officer of any other was on duty at that place from Williamsburg this Corps was marched to York Town and back to the former place and in the vicinity of these two places to the expiration of his said tour when he was discharged at Williamsburg and returned home before the commencement of Spring 1776. He was engaged in no battle but distinctly recollects the aspect of the Enemy at the Great Bridge and the burning of Norfolk by Dunmore's fleet during this service.
2 nd In the year 1777 commencing in the latter part of that year and ending at or about the close of the year 1778 he performed four consecutive tours of Militia duty as a private at the Albemarle Barracks, and guarding the Prisoners of War there stationed. The first tour he performed as the substitute of James Moore of the County of Albemarle, the second as the substitute of Jacob Mingo of the County of Louisa, the third as the substitute of William Anderson of the same County, and the fourth as the substitute of William Bane of the former County, all of whom had been regularly drilled by draft for that service respectively as above stated, and he being duly accepted performed said tours in their stead.

under the respective commands of Captains Benjamin Tinkerake and John White of the said County of Louisa. Minus Mills of the said County of Albemarle and perhaps others whose names he does not recollect. And of field Officers he recollects Colo Taylor and Colo or perhaps Major Fountain but none others. All this service he performed as a private soldier and at the close of each tour was duly and honorably discharged by the proper authorities.
3 In the fall of the year 1780 he cannot be precise as to months being still a resident of the County of Goochland he was drafted from the Militia of said County and ordered into active service to perform another tour of duty for three months and placed under the command of Capt Elisha Locke of said County where company he joined and was appointed a Corporal and served in that capacity during the tour. The Company was marched to Richmond where it joined the Regiment commanded by Colo John Woodson of the Militia and he thinks a Major Joseph Woodson was also in command and being the head quarters of General Newton the Chief in Command to whom was attached the Main Army then being organized by that Officer and under his immediate Orders - from Richmond he marched with a detachment to Charles City Court House and from thence by Hickory Neck Church, Cox and Dale and Cullin point to Machia Mire in the County of Isle of Wight and from thence back to Cullin point at which place his tour having expired he was duly discharged previous to Spring 1781. He was engaged in no battle being principally engaged in efforts to preserve the public property from the destruction and plunder of the traitor Arnold who burned and destroyed much property public and private in and about Richmond and on his route from thence to Norfolk during this service.
4 In and about the last of Winter or commencement of Spring 1781 being still a resident of the County of Goochland he was again drafted and ordered into service as a private under the aforesaid Capt Locke to guard a detachment of Prisoners of War from Richmond to Winchester in Virginia which duty he performed and was duly discharged at Winchester after the expiration of a longest least five weeks.
5 In the Spring 1781 a short time after his discharge at Winchester being still a resident of the County of Goochland

he was again drafted from the Militia of said County and ordered into active service to perform a tour of duty of three months, and placed under the command of the aforesaid Capt. Seale as a private, whose company he joined, and was marched to Richmond, and there joined the Army since under the command of the Baron Asprey, at and about which place he remained a Manx, when he was substituted by a Man of the name of Hutchinson and returned home, but in a few days thereafter, his substitute being called into service himself, he immediately repaired to his Company then commanded by Capt. Hudson, Detachment of the same County, since in the neighborhood of Richmond and completed his tour in the Army of which Genl. La Fayette has assumed the command constituting a period of three months abating the time he was substituted, which did not exceed two weeks, but at the expiration of this tour such was the distressed situation of the Country, the want of Men to supply the Army, the impracticability of the impracticability of agricultural pursuits within the range of the operations of the Enemy where he resided and there being a kind of levy en masse, he did with many others, at the request of his Officers, continue with the Army on regular duty without returning home, until the siege of York and capture of the British Army under Cornwallis, when he was duly discharged and returned home after an arduous service of more than six months, abating the time he was substituted as aforesaid. In the performance of which service, such was its desultory and harassing character, he cannot at this distance of time, being aged, infirm and illiterate without, pretend to give a correct account of the Field Officers under whom he immediately served, because mostly employed on small detachments from the main Army, he was never long at a time under the same Field Officers. Nor can he rely on his memory for a correct chronology of events as they occurred in relation to the Country through which he marched, the continental Regiments or Companies with which he served and many other matters proper for him to state. He recollects the following General and Field Officers with whom he served more or less: Generals Nelson, Steuben, La Fayette and Wayne. Colonels (Warren, Dennis Monroe, Fleming and Butler. Majors (Wootton, Cane, Wallis, and McPherson, and part of the time in a Company commanded by a Capt. Stokely or Davies he forgets which, and at another time, in a Company of Light Infantry commanded by a Capt. Richardson.

He also recollects the following stations and places embraced in the operations of the Army at which he was present to wit: Richmond, Point of Fork in Fluvanna County through Goochland and Richmond to Frazers Springs in Charles City County, Manakin Mills, Brandon on James River, Green Spring in Charles City, Burwell's Ferry, Jamestown, Wicwasic, Petersburg and York. He also recollects that the British General Phillips superseded Arnold and united his forces to the Army of Lord Cornwallis at Petersburg, that Petersburg and Manchester were burned by the British Army, the excursion of Lord Cornwallis to Charlottesville, and of Simcoe to Point of Fork, that there was an engagement at Williamsburg between the Americans under Colo. Butler and the British under Colo. Simcoe, another at York Island near the Green Spring between the Army under La Fayette and that under Cornwallis and finally the siege of York. He was near the scene of action on the first occasion engaged in the second, and employed in the guarding and transportation of supplies during the last.
And the said Christopher Siblee further on his oath saith, That he is informed and believes he was born in the County of Goochland in the year 1754, that he has no record of his age, and knows of none on the possession of any other person, that he lived in the said County of Goochland when he was called into service, and during after the War of the Revolution, he then removed to the County of Henrico where he lived four years, from thence to the County of Louisa where he lived one year, from thence to the County of Fluvanna where he lived one year, from thence to the County of Amherst, his present residence where he has lived ever since. That he believes he cannot assert the fact positively, he obtained written discharges for all or most of the years above enumerated, but does not know what has become of them, they were probably burned in his house which was consumed by fire in October 1827 when the whole of his old papers were destroyed, and these papers if he had them he had long since considered of no value, he has no recollection whatever by whom they were granted. That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service other or further than herein before stated but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades to wit: In one year ten months and seven days as a private; and for three months as a Corporal.

That he has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services, other than the testimony of William Steele, Henry Steele and Anthony Laigne of the County of Goshen and duly certified for that purpose and here with exhibited, and of Daniel Day and Daniel F. Christian of his present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services, as a Soldier of the Revolution.
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.
Christopher his Steele Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid.
We Daniel Day a Clergyman residing in the County of Amherst aforesaid and Daniel F. Christian residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Christopher Steele, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Daniel Day
Daniel F. Christian
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid.
And the said Court do hereby record their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after propounding the interrogatories prescribed for that purpose 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 Daniel Day who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman residing in the said County of Amherst, and that Daniel F. Christian who has also signed the same is a resident in the same County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

State of Virginia Amherst County Court
I Robert Tinsley Clerk of the County Court of Amherst in the State of Virginia aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Christopher Sebel for a pension. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this nineteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and thirty three in the fifty eighth year of the Commonwealth
Robert Tinsley

July 25, 1931
Mr. A.P.Brill 618 South Jefferson Street Neosho, Missouri
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section EHL
Christopher Isbell S-9357
Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.9357, that Christopher Isbell was born in 1754, in Goochland County, Virginia.
While residing in Goochland County, Virginia, he enlisted and served with the Virginia Troops as follows: from sometime late in the year 1775, three months as a private in Captain Nathaniel Massie's Company, Colonel Patrick Henry's Virginia Regiment, and marched to Williamsburg; during the year 1777, four tours of three months each as a private under Captains Benjamin Timberlake, John White and Minam Mills, Major Fontaine and Colonel Taylor, on the first tour as a substitute for James Isbell and on the last as substitute for William Isbell, no relationship shown; from sometime in the fall of 1780, three months as corporal in Captain Elisha Leake's Company, under Major Joseph Woodson and Colonel John Woodson; from about the last of the winter of 1781, five weeks as a private in Captain Leake's Company and guarded prisoners to Winchester; from sometime in the spring of 1781, three months as a private in Captains Leake and Hatcher's Company; and at the request of his officers continued in active duty from immediately after the termination of the last named tour until after the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis. He also served at one time under Captain Stokely or Stowles and at another time under Captain Richeson, no dates for these services given. He was at the battle of York Island "near the Green Springs" and at the siege of Yorktown where he was employed in "guarding and transporting supplies".
After the Revolution, he removed to Hanover County, where he remained for about four years; then moved to Louisa County, and lived one year; thence to Amherst County.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1833, while residing in Amherst County, Virginia.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
Because of the large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, only two histories are furnished each inquirer.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
Date of death not found in file

Rehman
9357
1931- July 25- Dist to A.P. Brill EEL
INVALID.
File No. 9357
Chas. L. L. L. L.
Emp. New York
Act: June 1st 89
Index:—Vol. 1 Page 188
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Virginia } Goochland County } S.S. This day personally appeared be- fore me John Underwood a Justice of the peace for Goochland County in the state aforesaid & presiding Judge of court of the county aforesaid William Isbell aged about eighty two years who being first duly sworn doth give the following affidavit in behalf of Chris- topher Isbell who considers himself intitled to a military pension under the law of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832
This affiant states. That the said Christopher Isbell served a tour of duty for him at the barracks in the county of Albemarle and State aforesaid in the year 1778 or 1779. but does not recollect the length of time precisely but knows it was several weeks. In date 1781. this affiant knows that said Christ. Isbell was again in the army and stood guard for him one night below Chickahominy swamp. But does not remember the length of the tour but knows it several weeks. He not being in the same company. And further this aff. saith not.
Goochland City Court.
William Isbell
The above affidavit sworn to before me this 24 th day of Nov. 1832
John Underwood.
I am well acquainted with William Isbell & have been for many years & can place the utmost confidence in him as a man of truth
John Underwood.

State of Virginia Goochland county 85.
This day personally appeared before me John Underwood a justice of the peace for Goochland county in the state aforesaid & presiding judge of the court of the county of said Henry Isbell aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn doth give the following affidavit in behalf of Christ Isbell who considers himself entitled to a military pension under the law of congress passed the 7 th June 1832.
This affiant states that said Christopher Isbell was call'd in to service as a militia man when Dunmore left the seat of the Government of this state at Williamsburg or about that time. This affiant further states that said Christ. was a soldier in the Militia in 1780 & 1781. but cannot say how long he continued in service, but entertains no doubt it was some months.
And further this afft. saith not Goochland Cnty to wit. The ab ve affidavit of Henry Isbell sworn to before me this 26 th Nov. 1832. John Underwood. Can well acquainted with Henry Isbell and have been for my years can place the utmost confidence in him as a man of truth. John Underwood.

State of Virginia Goochland County 359.
This day personally appeared before me John Underwood a justice of the Peace for Goochland county in the State of said and Presiding Judge of the court of the county aforesaid Anthony Layne aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn doth give the following affidavit in behalf of Christopher Isbel who considers himself intitled to a military pension under the law of congress passed the 7 th of June 1832.
This affiant states he was a soldier in the militia of the State aforesaid and well remembers that the said Christ n Isbel was also in the service with him & belonged to the same company which was commanded by Capt. Elisha Leake. Lieut. Wm. H. Callins Anderson and others. They marched from Goochland county to Richmond and from thence to Winchester as a guard of the British prisoners who were sent to that place. This aff t believes the tour lasted about four or five weeks. And further this affiant saith not.
Anthony Layne
Goochland County to wit The above affidavit sworn to before me this 26 th day of November 1832. John Underwood.
I am well acquainted with Anthony Layne and have been for many years & can place the utmost confidence in him as a man of truth.
John Underwood.

State of Virginia: 3 ss County of Goochland 3
I William Miller Clerk of the County Court of the said County, do hereby certify that John Underwood, before whom the Affidavits of William Isbell, Henry Isbell and Anthony Gayne relative to the Revolutionary Services of Christopher Isbell, appear to have been made, and which are hereto annexed, is a justice of the peace in the said County, and presiding Judge of the said Court, duly authorized to administer Oaths, and that his signatures to the said Affidavits, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office. This 26 th day of November in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Will Miller, Clk

Commissioner of Pensions,
Department of Interior,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
Will you kindly furnish me a copy of application for pension of CHRISTOPHER ISBELL, Amherst County, Virginia,
S of W 1835, Pen 2,111, War of Revolution. Other information pertaining to this appreciated.
Thanking you, I am
Very truly,
A. P. Brill
618 South Jefferson St.,
Neosho, Missouri.
July 4th, 1931.

New Glasgow: N.S. Sept: 20 th 1833.
To Col. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
I herewith send you, under envelope, the Declaration of Christopher Ishell, a soldier of the Revolution, for a Pension - under the Act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832.
Communications, if any necessary to be made, may, if you please, be addressed to me at this place, or to Major John Garland. U.S.A. of the "Clothing Bureau" Washington - to whom I have written upon the subject -
Yours very respectfully.
Section M. Garland " " "

To the
Commissioners of Pensions -
Washington City.

Commissioner of Pensions, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me a copy of Application for pension, and other information pertaining to this, of HENRY ISBELL , a Virginia soldier who went to Kentucky in 1810 and was granted a pension while residing in the State of Kentucky, after his seventy-eighth year.
Very truly,
A. P. Brill
618 So. Jefferson St., Neosho, Missouri. July 4th, 1931

Commissioner of Pensions, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
Will you kindly furnish me a copy of application for pension, and any other information pertaining to the subject, of HENRY ISBELL, a Virginia soldier of the Revolution, who was drawing a pension in South Carolina in 1820.
Very truly,
A. P. Brill
618 South Jefferson St., Neosho, Missouri, July 4th, 1931.