Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 5374, for Thomas Minor, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Minor, Thomas Elizabeth
W 5374 and B.L.Wt 1679-300 Va. Half Pay
CONTENTS
See N.A. Acc. No. 874 Pg. 050 117 Half Pay Thomas Minor

Payments to be made to the Children. viz,
Malinda Buckner wife of George W. Buckner
Sarah Ann Lewis wife of Addison M. Lewis
Elizabeth Jackson wife of William Jackson
James Minor, Jefferson Minor
Alice T. Minor, and Ann
Maria Scott wife of Francis
W. Scott and Hubbard T. Minor.
31848
16 1/4
Virginia
Thomas Minor, deceased late
of Pittsylvania in the State of Virginia who was a Captain in the Company commanded by Captain himself of the Regiment commanded by _____ in the Virginia line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 180 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of May 1841 sent to Fann y A. Dickinson Esq r Washington City D. C.
Arrears to the 21 st of July 1834 the day Pension allowance ending of his death being 3 years, 11 mos & 17 days 1622 66
1622 66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Theodore T. Moody Clerk, Book 6 — Vol. 6 — Page 20

140
Elizabeth Minor
Thomas Minor (40 65) (21 July 1834)
of Pennsylvania the State of Virginia who was a Capt in the Comp y commanded by Captain himself of the Reg t commanded by in the Virginia line for 2 years
Reputation
Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond at the rate of 480 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 21 day of March, 1834 and 7 Dec r 1836, when she died
ex W. J. A.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of July 1850 and sent to Hubbard T Minor, Pres t
64 papers
Respect to the list of Hubbard T Pension annual allowance ending Ad. for use of survey ch Elizabeth Jackson, James Minor Sarah Ann Lewis, Alice T Minor Jefferson Minor & { Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the Grace Clerk
Vol. 2 Page 378

1810.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th of May 1828 I Thomas Minor of the County of Spottsylvania in the State of Virginia do hereby declare that I was an Officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such until I was mustered under the act of 3 rd & 31 st Oct: 1780 & in consequence also of the time for which my Company was enlisted, having expired when I was appointed aid to General Stevens in which capacity I served at the battle of York Town - at which period I was a Captain and when in actual command of my company belonged to the Second Regiment of the Virginia line. -
The reason why I never received the Certificate or Commission is that then I was in affluent circumstances and not in need of any bounty from the Govt. and I never applied for the same knowing the fact that at that time, they were not worth the trouble of procuring. I always knew that I was entitled to such bounty, because I held myself ready at any time to repair to whatever post I might have been ordered; consequently and virtually was in service until the end of the war when my services were known to me not to be further required, then and not till then did I consider myself as free from my engagement to serve during the war. -
Witness my hand, this the 8. day of January 1830. -
Tho. Minor
Before me George Turner - a justice of the Peace in the County of Spottsylvania in the State of Virginia personally appeared, this day Jas. Williams & A. M. Green of the 8 th County, who did solemnly make oath that Thomas Minor by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. -
Witness my hand this the 8 th day of January 1830. -
George Turner J.P.

I William Oason of Spotsylvania County, State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Col. Thomas Minor was an Officer in the Revolutionary War, holding the rank of Captain, and acting on Continental duty, & belonged to Genl. Muhlenburg's Brigade. I enlisted under said Minor as a soldier in March 1777, and was under his command three years & that we were engaged in the battle at Monmouth.
Given under my hand & seal this 21 st day of December 1829.
William Oason
Spotsylvania County To wit:
This day William Oason personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the said County of Spotsylvania and made oath to the truth of the above certificate. - Given under my hand this 21 st day of Decr: 1829.
Am. Hutchfield J.P.

Virginia.
Spotsylvania County to wit I Richard L. Stevenson Clerk of the Court of Spotsylvania County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify, that George Turner, and A. M. Grubbs filed before them the affidavits of James Williams, A. M. Green and William Eason were made, and the power of attorney from Thomas Minor to Thomas P. Hodson was acknowledged. Were at that time and now are acting Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Spotsylvania duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all their official acts as such, in every Court or Office in the United States—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office this 9 th day of January in the year 1830 and of the Independence of the United States the 54 th
R. L. Stevenson

Thomas Minor N o 1679
See Warrant Book, and the note in Red ink thereon

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant:
District of Columbia }
States of
County of Washington }
I, Thomas Minor aged Seventy Seven years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Eight, I served in the service of the U. States as Captain and served in the regiment No. Two under the command of Colonel George Gibson of the Virginia line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was honorably discharged from the regiment, commanded by Colonel
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
I know all men by these presents, that I, aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest,
Tho. Minor
I, aged years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest,
Before me, John N. Mauldin Justice of the Peace personally appeared the above named Thomas Minor subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 11th day of October 1830 of the same
John N. Mauldin Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the abovewritten was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments &c., in the State of at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at this day of
C. Clerk, &c.
This law expires 3d March, 1827.

Dec 21 st 1806 Jefferson Station

No 7106
Elizabeth Minor wid of Thomas m act 4 July 1836
Dec '47
Send 2 years acct
Pensioned mid. acct 15 May 1828 also
/

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3 rd Section of the act of Congress of 4 th July, 1830.
State of Virginia } County of Essex } ss
On this 20 th day of Dec r 1847, personally appeared before the Court of said County Jefferson Minor a resident of said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1830. That he is one of the surviving children of Elizabeth Minor deceased, widow of Thomas Minor, of the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia, and makes this declaration for himself and in behalf of the other surviving children of the said Elizabeth Minor, for the purpose of receiving the Pension to which his Mother the said Elizabeth Minor was entitled under the aforesaid act of 4 th July, 1830, as the widow of the said Thomas Minor, on account of his services as a Captain & Staff Officer in the Army of the Revolution; this declarant has no documentary evidence of the said Thomas Minor's services, but he presumes the public records & papers, in Richmond and Washington, will show that he was in service and continued to serve to the final close of the war in 1783, and that he was the identical Thomas Minor who received a Pension under the act of 18 th May, 1828, and to whom his half pay was allowed and paid on the 18 th day of June 1837. That his Mother the said Elizabeth Minor was married to the said Thomas Minor before the expiration of his last term of service, but this declarant does not know & therefore cannot state the precise period of their marriage, as the Bible in which the marriage was recorded was carried to the State of Kentucky by some member of his Father's family, after his death. They were however married before the Siege of York in 1781, as this declarant has always

understood and believed, and as he doubts not he will be able to prove satisfactorily to the department. The declarant further states, the marriage took place in the County of Caroline, and the bonds of matrimony, as was sometimes the case at that early day, was proclaimed at what was called and known as the Rappahannock Church in said County. This declarant further states that his Father, the said Thomas Minor died on the 21 st day of July 1834, and that his Mother the said Elizabeth Minor died on the 7 th day of Decem r , 1836, within a few months after the passage of the act of 4 th July 1836, which fact will account for her not having made application herself during her life for the benefit of that act. This declarant would however state, that his Mother was aware of her right to a Pension under the aforesaid act, indeed there was some effort made to obtain the necessary evidence of her marriage from the State of Kentucky, but before that object could be effected, she died, and consequently no further effort was made; And that since her death no application has been made by any of her surviving children because they concurred to be the duty of the Administrator. This declarant being however now informed that such is not the fact, and that the surviving children or any one of them may make the application, now makes this declaration in behalf of himself & the other surviving children in order to receive the amount of Pension to which his Mother, the aforesaid Elizabeth Minor was entitled as the widow of the said Thomas Minor, she being still his widow at the time of her death.
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and Year first before mentioned Before the Court
Jefferson Davis

In Testimony that the foregoing declaration of Jefferson Minor, was made in open Court, before the Court of Essex County in this, 21 st day of December 1847. I have hereunto set my hand and annexed the seal of said County the day and date last above mentioned.
James Roye, Dixon Clerk of Essex County Court
Declaration J Minor

1837
May 139
A.
1837
1.

At a court held for Spotsylvania County, at the Court House of said County on Monday the 6 th day of May 1839
Declaration - In order to attain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th day of June 1832 - State of Virginia Spotsylvania County Set
On this 6 th day of May personally appeared Hubbard T. Minor of Spotsylvania County Virginia, in open Court, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth hereby make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832. - That he is one of the last Thomas Minor who was as he has always understood and believed, an Officer of the Virginia State Line, and who representatives have received half pay under the act of Congress of the 5 th of July 1832 in account of the said services, and for evidence of services, he refers to the papers in which that claim was allowed; That his father died on the 21 st day of July 1834, and his Mother died on the 7 th day of December 1836, and that the following are the names and residences of his Father's Children Vizt: Melinda Buckner, wife of George M. Buckner of Mississippi, Sarah Ann Lewis, wife of Addison M. Lewis of the State of Kentucky, Elizabeth Buckner, wife of William Buckner, James Minor, Jefferson Minor, Hubbard T. Minor, Alice T. Minor and cousin Maria Scott wife of Francis M. Scott all of the State of Virginia - In addition to the foregoing the late Thomas Minor had one other Daughter named Patsy T. who intermarried with Henry T. Chavis, the said Patsy died in the life time of the said Thomas, leaving the following Children Vizt: Thomas M. Chavis of Mississippi, John M. Chavis, Sarah T. Haligard, who was Sarah T. Chavis whose husband left her, since which she has obtained a divorce - Elizabeth T. wife of John Spencer, and H. wife of Burton R. Harrison, and Mary E. wife of Alfred Clarke all of the State of Kentucky -
State of Virginia
Spotsylvania County Set
I, Stephen Hutchinson Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is truly transcribed from the records of the said County Court of Spotsylvania -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of my office to be hereunto affixed this 11 th day of May 1839 and in the 63 rd year of our Lord and King
St. Hutchinson C. 9

May '48
T.
4

At a Court of Quarterly session begun and held for Essex County at the Courthouse in Tappahannock on the 13 th day of May 1848
It is ordered to be certified, that it has been satisfactorily proved to this Court, that Elizabeth Minor widow of Col. Thomas Minor who was an officer in the Virginia Line during the War of the Revolution, died in the County of Spotsylvania, on the 7 th day of December 1836, leaving Sarah Lewis, who was Sarah Minor, Malinda (Puckett) who was Malinda Minor, Elizabeth Jackson who was Elizabeth Minor, Ann M c Scott who was Ann M c Minor, James Minor, Hubbard M c Minor and Jefferson Minor her only surviving children.
A Copy Just.
James M c Mathews D.C.
State of Virginia - Essex County Court Clerk's Office
I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of an order of the said Court made on the 13 th day of May 1848, taken from the records and proceedings of the said Court.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my said Office this 18 th day of May 1848. in the 72 nd year of the Commonwealth.
James Roye Wilson Clerk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWP/eel QW
November 1, 1929
H.V.Wood 971 Kinghighway Springfield, Missouri
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.5374 , it appears that Thomas Minor entered the service in 1777, and was a Captain in Colonel George Gibson's Virginia Regiment, he was at the battle of Monmouth, and was Aide-de-Camp to General Stevens at the battle of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 8, 1830, while a resident of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, aged seventy-seven years. He died July 21, 1834.
Soldier married in 1780, in Caroline County, Virginia, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel James Taylor. She died December 7, 1836, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Children- Patsey T., married Henry T. Chivis; Malinda, married George M. Buckner; Sarah Ann, married Addison M. Lewis; Elizabeth, married William Jackson; Nancy; James; Lucy; Thomas and John (twins); Jefferson; Hubbard T., born August 1, 1795; Alice T. Ann Maria, married Francis W. Scott.

The following children were alive in 1848 and were allowed the pension due their mother- Malinda; Sarah Ann; Elizabeth; James; Jefferson; Hubbard T.; Alice T.; and Ann Maria.
Patsey T. Chivis died before her father leaving the following children- Thomas M.; John M.; Mrs. Sarah T. Hal Hay- yard; Elizabeth T., married John or James Spencer; Ann H., married Burton R. Hamm; Mary E., married Alfred Clark or Clarke.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

Know all men by these presents, that I Thomas Minor of the County of Spottsylvania in the State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas J. Harrison of Washing- ton City my true and lawful attorney with a power of substitution for me, & in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me, under the act, entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution approved the 15 th May 1828 as a Captain in the 2 d Regiment of the Virginia line of the army of the Revolution. Witness my hand and seal, this 8 th day of January 1830
Tho. Minor Seal
Before me George Turner a Justice of the Peace in the County of Spottsylvania in the State of Virginia personally appeared this day Thomas Minor whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intend- -ed to enure wholly to his personal benefit. Witness my hand this the 8 th day of January 1830.
George Turner

Minor

At what period did you last see Capt. Minor, while in the service?
To what regiment was he then attached?
At what place was he at that time stationed?
In what year do you consider the war to have terminated?
To what regiment did you suppose Capt. Minor belonged when you first made a statement in 1830 relative to his service?
Did Capt. Minor serve in more than one regiment?
If he did, will you be so good as to say to which line each regiment belonged, i. e. whether continental or State regiment?
If he served in only one regiment, did you, or did you not, suppose it to have been a continental regiment?

Miner

318.48
17 18-
Virginia
Thomas Munroe deceased late Major in the State of Virginia who was a Captain in the Comp y commanded by Captain himself of the Reg t commanded by _____ in the Virginia line for 2 years,
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of $80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of June 1841 by Genl. A. Dickins Esq r Washington D.C.
Arrears to the 4th of 21st July 1834 the day of his death Revolutionary Allowance ending being 3 years, 4 mos. 17 days
$1622.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by Mrs. T. Woody Clerk Book E. Vol. 6 1/2 Page 28
Certificate made payable to Administrator of Ely both Minion, deceased, widow of Thomas Minion died instead of children as in the certificate dated 20 th Oct which has been cancelled -
see letter to acting Sec. War, A. M. Lea Sept. 27. 1841 - do. to same Nov. 4. & 14. 1841 - do. to Sec. Melchor 12 th October 1849 -

Washington. 19 May 1841.
Sir,
Enclosed I have the honor to present to you the claim of the children of Capt Thomas Minor and of his widow. etc. for the arrears of pension due under the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832. I am very respectfully Yours &c Francis A. Dickinson.
James I. Edwards Esq. Comm: of Pensions.

Elizabeth Minor Va '36 Suspended
Thomas Minor " 32
Charged to Mr. Ingle 27 March

These papers relate to a claim under the Act of 1832, and refer to
0.

NO
ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1871.
WAR OF 1812.
3226
Thomas Minor #
Colt
On Line
Revolution
Discharged _____, 18
5026
REJECTED
N.Y. Pay _____ act 32

Will the 3 d Auditor be so kind as to say what amount was paid to the Attorney of the Executors of Thomas Minor, dec d under the act of July 5, 1832?
Respectf ly . J. L. Edwards Nov. 4. 1841
5063 \frac{10}{100} 15 June 1837.
Act May 28 4025.33 30 June 34 22100.00 6425.33

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To what time was Thomas Minor, of Virginia, last paid, under the act of May 15. 1828?
Oct. 21. 1841
J. L. Edwards
Not found on the Roll of Act 15 May 1828; but I find on the Roll of Act 7 June 1832 the name of Thomas Minor (dec'd) Capt. at $400. per an. paid to date of his decease, 21st July 1831, in 2 d yr "41.
J. H. Hill.

10.45
com
The Mun. of B. Edwards Esq. Com't of Pensions.

Washington 8 July 1844
Sir,
In the case of Thomas Shinn under the act of 5 th July 1832. You have not admitted the amount of his pension re: under the act of the 15 th May 1828. which I understand to be allowed by the decision of the Secretary of War. This part of the claim was never presented to the Department until the 23 rd March last. When the claim for half pay was originally made I did not claim this and it was consequently never prepared for the consideration of the Department until March last & if previously acted upon it must have been as a thing not claimed. On this ground I must ask of you to be so good as to investigate it.
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Pickens.
J. L. Edwards Esq Com: of Pensions.

(Copy)
Pension Office
July 20. 1844
Sir.
I have read the argument of Mr. Ellis in the case of Thomas Minor, dr. d and I have only to say in reply thereto, that he was never lawfully entitled to the benefits of the act of 1828. The amount paid him under that law, and which was deducted from the amount paid under the act of July 1832 cannot now be refunded.
I am respectfully Your obedt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
F. A. Dickinson, Esq. Present.

Pension Office Jany. 18 th 1850
It is hereby Certified, that I have examined the claim of the Executors of the late then Captain Thomas Minor deceased, who claim the amount of pension paid to the said Thomas Minor in his lifetime under the act of May 15 th 1828, from the third day of March A.D. 1826, to the fourth day of March A.D. 1831, and which was deducted out of the amount of half pay allowed to the Executors of the said Thomas Minor deceased, under the act of July 5 th 1832 - and I find that on the allowance of said claim for half pay, under the said act of July 5 th 1832, there was deducted from said claim the sum of $4,025.33, being the whole amount of pension received by the said Thomas Minor under the act of May 15 th 1828, but that so much of said pension as accrued subsequent to the fourth day of March A.D. 1831 has been refunded to the representatives of said Thomas Minor deceased, as pension under the act of July 7 th 1832. And I am of opinion, that so much of said pension as was deducted out

amt. of pension formerly deducted out of half - pay
Mrs. Mearns Dec'd
Jan 4. 18. 1850.

of the amount of said half pay as aforesaid, and has never been refunded, being $480 per annum from the 3 rd day of March 1826 to the 4 th day of March 1831, and amounting to $2,400, was erroneously deducted out of the amount of said half pay claim allowed under the act of July 5 th 1832, and should therefore be refunded to Hubbard T. Minon and William Jackson Executors of the said Thomas Minon deceased.
amt of Pension formerly deducted out of half -pay
Thos Minon Sec
Jan 4. 18. 1850.

Recd 14 May 1830. I Richd Pearock of the Town of Fred. by an Antiquary that I have been acquainted with Col. Thomas Minor (formerly Capt. in the Revolutionary War) ever since my youth and have always un- -derstood and believe that he served to the end of the war. Given under my hand this the 15 th day of April 1830 -
Richard Pearock Det. Dist. in the Question
Cop: of the d. g.
Personally appeared this day Richd. Pearock before me a Justice of the Peace for the Co. and made oath to the truth of the above certificate. Given under my hand this the 15 th day of April 1830 -
Anthony Buck
Virginia: Corporation of Fred. g. sc.
John James Chew Clerk of the Co. of Hustings of said Corporation do hereby certify that Anthony Buck Esquire whose hand is affixed to the above certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is a magistrate of the said Corporation, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to all his acts and deeds as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of my office to be hereunto affixed this 15 th day of April 1830 and of our Independence the fifty four th .
J. J. Chew C.C. & H.

I certify that I have known Richard Peacock, who subscribed & made oath to the within affidavit, about for- ty years, and that he is a man of great respectability & unquestionable veracity. John Taliaferro. M c Con- Washing: 12 th of May 1830- from Virginia

1810.
M c Original pay acct 1064
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
19 Jan 7 1830.
Thomas Minor _____ of _____ in the County of Spottsylvania in the State of Virginia has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Captain and in the aid to Genl. Stearns regiment of the Virginia line; and that he did not received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. _____ dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of _____
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary. F.A. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
21 st January 1830
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to _____ in the _____ line, amounting to _____ dollars
It further appears that Thomas Minor is now on the pension list of the _____ agency, and has been since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  per month.
The Revolutionary records in this office furnish no information whatever in relation to the services of the claimant -
John Hagner And
errand

War Dep t Bounty Land Office
Jan 7. 25 th 1830
The name of Thomas Minor does not appear on the list of Officers, of the Virginia line, on file in this office among those, entitled to Bounty Land of the U. States, or, to whom a Land Warrant has issued
Wm. Gordon
General Land Office 1 st Feby. 1830.
The name of Thomas Minor does not appear on the list of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Va. so far as they have been received.
Geo. Graham Commr
Rec d Land Warrant 6735 issued by Virginia 12 June 1830.
F.A.D.
Front & Land Office

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Washington D. C. March 27 th , 1850
Sir,
Allow me to call your attention to the case of the heirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Minor, late of Virginia widow of Capt. Thomas Minor, claiming the pension due their mother, under the act of 4 th March, 1836. This claim was rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions on the 1 st day of November, 1848, see letter to R. Saunders, Esq., upon the ground that the widow was not married to Capt. Minor  Minor prior to the termination or expiration of his service; and also upon the further ground that the evidence of her death was not sufficiently proved &c. Now, Sir, if you will take up the case yourself, or cause it to be fairly examined, I think it will be found that the objections urged against the admission of this claim are untenable. Capt. Minor was in service as late as the 19 th October, 1781, I think will be clearly established, not only by the papers on file in his widow's case, but by reference to the papers in which he was enrolled under the act of 15 th May, 1828, and also under the act of 9 th June, 1832, also to the evidence

upon which his half pay was allowed, under the Act of 5th July, 1832, now on file in the Fra Auditor's Office, in all of which it will be clearly shewn that Capt. Minor never became a supernumerary Officer until after the seizure of York; and that he was in active service at that time and place. Col. Edwards says that Capt. Minor, in one of his own statements, says that he performed no service after October, 1780. This is evidently a mistake either by Capt. Minor himself when he made that particular statement, or in the Clerk who wrote or copied the letter, because Capt. Minor in all of his other statements, says expressly that he was in actual service until after he became a supernumerary Officer, which was after the seizure of York in 1781 - And again - In his own statement he says, which is no doubt a fact, that he was acting as Aide to Genl. Stevens at the seizure of York. There are several affidavits among his own papers, which I call your attention to, shewing that his own statement is sustained; and also in examining his widow's papers a few days since I discovered that there were some two or three papers alluded to by Mr. Saunders in a letter from him to the Commissioner which are not to be found among the other papers in her case. These

are important papers in the case, as I am informed by Mr. Saunders, and if found will clearly shew, that the parties were married before the siege of York. The evidence on this point is conclusive. If therefore, Capt. Minor is admitted to have been in service at the siege of York Town the claim ought to be allowed to his heirs, for the pension due their mother under the Act of 4th July, 1836, from 4th March, 1831, to the date of her death, which occurred on the 10th of December 1836 , as will fully appear by reference to the order of Court which you will find with her papers. In Col. Edwards requisition as expressed to Mr. Saunders in his letter before alluded to, he says that the affidavit of the Coffin maker, or Physician who attended her in her last illness, must be produced to establish the date of her death. Now, Sir, I believe that it has heretofore been a rule of the Office to regard an order of Court certifying to the day of the applicants death, and names of surviving children as conclusive.
Wm. Th. Ewing Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior.
I have the honor to be Sir, Most respectfully, Your Obt Servt. Th. D. Thompson.

Will Mr. P. be pleased to have the papers?
Yours sincerely

✓ Jan 29/50 R. Saunders
Jan'y 24/52 Was the allowance of the half pay claim of heirs of Captain Thomas Mined made on his appeal or that of any other agent? -
Jan 28 th
Comm te of Pensions for
House of Commons History of the Interior Washington City
Comm te of Pensions for a Report
Dept of the Interior Jan'y 28/50

Dept of the Interior Jan 28/82
Commr of Pensions for a Return
FREE
Dear Thomas Ewing Secretary of the Interior Washington City
Yours sincerely &c

Washington City, January 24 th , 1858
Dear Sir
Will you do me the favor to say, whether the case is fresh in your memory perhaps, whether the later addition of all moneys of half pay to the heirs of the late Capt Thomas Minal, was allowed upon my appeal, or upon the appeal of any other agent.
I had the honor to address you upon the subject of this claim, on the 17 th of October last asking your attention to the decision of the Court made on the 8 th July. After waiting a reasonable time, say until the 16 th of Nov. without having any response from you, I again addressed you a short note calling your attention to my former letter. To this note you very promptly replied & stated that as soon as the case was reached I should hear from you; I accordingly waited with all becoming patience, expecting that when your report was made that it would be made to me. but on arriving here on yesterday, I learned, that the claim had been allowed, and paid to another agent.
Under the circumstances, I have been induced to ask the above favor. Very Respectfully
Yr obt Servt
W. R. Saunders
W. R. Saunders

to day if possible as I wish to leave in the mornings boat for home. Should it not be entirely convenient to do so to day, please to let me hear from at as early a day as it may be by letter address to my place of residence, Carlton Street, Ringers & Queen County. RD.

Washington March 21 st 1850
Hon T Ewing
Secretary of the Interior
Sir
I have the honor to present to your attention the inclosed letter containing an appeal from a decision of the commissioner of pensions, & to invite your favorable consideration of the claim of the appellant. After an examination of the case I have no doubt that the claim is a meritorious one & hope that it may receive a favorable decision.
Very Respectfully
Yr. obedient servant
Chas. P. Halloran

Third Auditor's Office May 7, 1857.
Sir,
(The) enclosed paper properly belongs to the Pension base of Thomas Minor or his widow.
Very respectfully Yours, J. S. Gallaher
A. S. Evans, Esq.

July 2/20
Concord
Army

What has been done in the case of Elizabeth Minor widow of Capt Thomas Minor dec? I applied on behalf of Dr. H. T. Minor the Administrator on her estate. —
Francis A. Perkins.

War Department Pension Office May 13. 1837
Sir,
On reviewing the case of Thomas Minor, dec d whose legal representatives claim the benefits of the act of 5 th July 1832, I find several objections which did not at the first and rather cursory examination I made, appear so prominent as they now do.
That the deceased was a Captain in the 2 d Virginia State Regiment is not questioned. It is very clear also that he commanded a company in that regiment till a late period in 1779; but it is not so clear that he continued in that regiment till 1781, and then became supernumerary. We have Minor's own statement, made some years since, in which he unequivocally declares that he was an officer of the continental line in 1781; that at the siege of York Town in that year he was an aide-de-camp to Gen. Stevens of the continental forces. Upon this and other proof he was by the Treasury Department allowed the benefits of the act of May 15. 1828, which provides for none but those who belonged to the continental establishment. From all that we can learn he appears to have been an intelligent man, and must consequently have known the distinction between continental and State Troops. The State of Virginia also recognized him as an officer in the continental line, and as such that State granted him bounty land. We have here the officer's own testimony, the decision of the Treasury Department, and that of the Commonwealth of Virginia, all in favor of the

belief that he was at the close of the war, or least till 1781, in the continental line. Now if the fact be so, the case does not come within the provisions of the act of July 5. 1832. It is contended, however, by the parties claiming, that the decisions of the Treasury Department and of the State of Virginia were erroneous. But before that can be shown, proof should be exhibited as to the precise period when he left the State service, and that the proof upon which the decisions were based, was not to be relied on. Upon these points more satisfactory proof is wanted. I then consider the explanation of the Hon. J. Taliaferro sufficient to remove this objection, because Mr. T. although he appears to have had a perfect knowledge of Captain Minor's person really supposed when he made his statement in 1830, that Capt. M. was in the continental army, and has only been induced to change his opinion from the examination of muster rolls, which extend to no later period than 1779. Capt. M. might have resigned in 1779, and have still been in the service as a continental officer in 1781.
I am respectfully
Your Obet. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
F. A. Dickens, Esq. Present

Elizabeth Minor, dau. widow of Thomas Mi- nor dec.
Virginia.
act 4 July '36
3 d Section.
The letter Nov. 1. 1848 to R. Saunders. of Thomas Minor papers sent to Sec. Interior Oct. 16. 1849
Let P. Sumphkin 2 d , July 1850

Minor —

July 26 '44
The Minor
H. A. Dickinson Pres.

Washington 22 d July 1844.
Sir,
In answer to yours of the 20 th inst. I beg leave to say that I understand that the Secretary of War has already decided that in the case of Thomas Minor, the pension which he received from 3 d March 1826 to the 4 March 1831 is to be refunded to his legal representatives. - If you will examine his decision you will find that he says in this very case that "no deduction should be made for any sums received by officers (or their widows or children) under the act of 15 th May 1828." The question as to whether Thomas Minor was lawfully entitled under the act of 15 th May 1828 was long since decided by the Secretary of the Treasury & no one has now the right to reverse that decision. I must therefore ask you to review your decision.
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.
J. L. Edwards Esq.

The Muncie, Ind July 5. 32 July 6 '44,
Record Vol 43, page 171.

Pension Office July 6. 1844
Sir,
It is hereby certified that I have examined the case of the Executors of the late Captain Thomas Minor, deceased, who claim the amount due on account of said Minor's revolutionary service, under the act of July 5. 1832, from the 4 th of March 1831, to which time only it was paid on the 13 th June 1837, up to the 21 st of July 1834, the day of his death; and I am of the opinion that the claim should be allowed at the rate of Two Hundred and Forty Dollars per annum, to be paid to the attorneys of said Executors Messrs Francis A Dickinson and Ves-pasian Ellis, according to the tenor of the power of attorney of said Executors, given on the 21 st of October 1843.
Comm. of Pensions

Washington 7 August 1844.
Francis A. Dickens Appeals from the action of the Comm d . of the  and taking in withholding part of the amount due Thos. Minor under the Act 15 May 1828
LL 280
10 August 1844 Pensrow Office

Washington 7 Augt. 1844.
Sir,
In the case of Thomas Skinner you decided that "no deduction should be made for any sums received by officers (or their widows or children) under the act of 15 th May 1828". The Secretary of the Treasury many years since decided that Skinner was entitled to the benefits of the act 15 th May 1828 and the claim was paid. In the original settlement of the half pay claim of Skinner, Mr. Edwards deducted the money which the Secretary of the Treasury allowed and paid under the act of May 1828. Under your decision consequently this sum should be refunded. The Commissioner of Pensions has, however, not done so because he thinks that the Secretary of the Treasury erred in allowing the claim of Skinner, & that the claim should have been allowed under the act of 7 June 1832 instead of 15 th May 1828. He has consequently paid so much only as would be due under his construction of the acts of 15 th May 1828 & 7 June 1832. Over ruling

the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury. - I claim that the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury admitting the claim under the act 15 May 1828 was correct. & that your decision that what Hiner received, under that act, should be refunded was but just and proper. That the Commission of Pensions has no right to revise the acts of a former Secretary of the Treasury. But that his decision that Hiner was entitled to the benefits of the act of 15 May 1828 is final. And that there is consequently due to the legal representatives full pay and emolument from the 2 d March 1826 to the 4 th March 1831. that amount not yet having been refunded.
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.
The Hon.
W m Wilkins
Secy. of War.

July 24 th 1848
Dear Stewartwood Academy Col. Dr. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Sir
I have the honor to enclose you the Certificate of George Thornton a Revolutionary Pensioner of the County of Green in this State in support of the claim of the Children of Mrs. Elizabeth widow of Capt. Thompson  Thornton for a Pension under the act of 4 th July 1836. You will find same in the field with the papers heretofore forwarded to your Office and Adm rs Respectfully Yr Obed t Serv t J. Saunders
What in the world have you done with the Case of Mrs. Dorothy Stewart widow of Benj m Stewart. I enclose you the affidavit of William Casin in the month of March last. Can it be possible that you have not yet reached the Papers of that month? N.S.

Certificate of the Clerk of the Court Shewing that Hubbard J. Minor is the Admin. on the Estate of his Mother Elizabeth Minor and administered in the county in which she resided & died.
Filed by J. H. Perkins.

Virginia: At a court held for Spotsylvania county on the 16th day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty seven.
"On the motion of Hubbard T. Minor, who made oath that he and "together with Robert Lordfield his Security he having testified on "oath as to his sufficiency, entered into and acknowledged a bond in "the penalty of Six thousand dollars, conditioned as the law directs "certificate is granted him for obtaining letters of Administration on "the estate of Elizabeth Minor deceased in due form of law.
State of Virginia
Spotsylvania county So. 3
I Stapleton Lordfield Clerk of the county court of Spotsylvania county in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing writing is true copy of the certificate of the qual- ification of Hubbard T. Minor as Administrator of Elizabeth Minor deceased; And that the said Hubbard T. Minor is still sole ad- -ministrator, and further that the said letters of Adminis- -tration were granted in the county in which the decedent resi- -ded and died
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said court to be hereunto affixed, this 15 th day of May A.D. 1850.
Stapleton Lordfield Clerk
(Seal Court.)

see also letter M.
Thomas Main dc.?
Act. 5 July 1832.
Filed by
J. A. Bicknell.
22 March 1890

Washington 21 March 1850
Sir,
As the attorney of B. B. Minor Esq. Attorney of D r H. T. Minor, Executor on the Estate of Thomas Minor Esq. who was a Captain in the Virginia State line and whose half pay under the act of Congress of the 5 th July 1832, has been paid, as a Captain, I have the honor to apply for half pay as Aid de Camp to Gen l Stephens, who commanded Va a State Troops and Militia at York Town Va a . You will find my Authority and that of Mr Minor, filed in the papers in the Third Auditor's Office, which fully establish all the facts, and which I have to request may be sent for and acted upon in connection with this application.
Yours respectfully James C Edwards Esq. Francis A. Dickinson. Com d of Pension

✓ Oct 4/41
T. Minor
Cassie

Washington 1 st Dec r 1849.
Sir,
As the Attorney of S r H. T. Minor, son and Executor of Capt. Thomas Minor dec d ? I applied to you for the Pension under the act of 15 th May 1828, which had been deducted from the half pay, under the act of the 5 th July 1832. I then and yet consider that under the decision of the then Secretary of War, this money should be paid. - I have just received a letter from S r Minor's son upon the subject and have to ask your decision on the 20 th July 1844. Your decided adversely to this claim (see your letter to me of that date) I think however that if you will again look into the papers and Judge Wilkins decision of the 6 th of the same month you will be satisfied that the claim should be paid. -
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions.

Near Flinton Academy, King & Queen, Va. June 26. 48 J. G. Edwards Esq. Sir
On the 26 th of last month I had the honor to enclose you the declaration of Jefferson Minor one of the surviving children of Elizabeth Minor widow of Thos Minor a Capt in the Revolution claiming the annu of Pension to which his Mother the said Elizabeth was entitled under the act of 4 th March 1836. I now enclose the order of Court, showing the number and names of all the surviving children. Should the claim be allowed the certificates can be made out separately for each ones proportion, or you can have it made out in one certificate with directions on the back to whom it must be paid.
You will find that the Clerk has made a slight impression with his Seal, so slight that I fear you will not be able to distinguish the letters. If it should however prove be sufficiently plain, you will return it to me & I will obtain another Copy.
Respectfully R. Saunders

Flintwood Ring & Dunn May 26, 1886 Col. James L. Edwards Comt. of Pensions
Sir,
You will receive enclosed the Declaration of Jefferson Minor for himself, and in behalf of the other surviving children of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Minor, widow of Col. Thos Minor, claiming the Pension to which she was entitled under the act of 4 th July 1836. Accompanying the Declaration you will find the depoi- tion of Martha Bullock and the affidavits of Mary Standly, and Mary J. Thornton which very closely I think, prove the fact of the marriage of the parties before the expiration of the last term of service of Capt Minor, as to his services I presume it is unnecessary to file any evidence upon that point, as Bank records furnish ample testimony of that fact.
Respectfully J. C. Saunders

Mar 13 Sir,
I have that the balances to the payment of the will be sufficient for pay the widows per- July 7. 1838, for wha of $253,000 will be The following paying Pensions und below:
For Invalid the the vom has

Mar 15
Sir,
I have that the balances to the payment of  of will be sufficient for pay the widows pens. July 7. 1838, for wha of $253,000 will be
The following paying Pensons und below:
For Invalids under the various Invalid Pension
For paying pensons under 18. 1818.
at d

at 1 8.
Under the
May 13
" " " June 7. 18
" " " July 4. 18
" " " July 7. 18
" " " April 6. 18

Thomas Minor, dec d
Act 7 th June 1832.
Virginia Roll.
03 I give a certificate for his children according to the enclosed form. He served 2 years. - $480 per ann.
Hand cut. to F. A. Dickins, Esq. Present

Resp? et hys July 16 th
Capt. Miner
3879-36
Salmon River July 13 th
3879-36 Cassia Idaho
Cassia Idaho Washington City
2 miles

Dear Carlton Stone, Ring & Quinn Co, Va, July 10. 1845. Sir
Your favour of the 3 d inst. in reply to mine of the 27 th ult o has been duly received and contents noted. I am really surprised Sir at the position which you have thought proper to take in regard to this Claim of the heirs of Capt e Minor. You say "that it is not the practice of your Office to review Claims which have been admitted, in order to discover errors. Now Sir, this is the first time in my life that I have ever known any Department either of the State or General Government to act upon so unjust a principle, and say because a claim has been once admitted and settled that therefore the doors are to be forever closed against a re-adjustment of that claim. But Mother how palpable & gross an error may have been, committed in the adjustment thereof, why Sir such a position if adhered to, would be a gross fraud upon the community. But Sir it cannot be so, you are certainly labouring under some strange mistake for I happen to know that the Department has on more than one, two, or three occasions, received claims for the purpose of detecting & correcting errors; and if necessary I could refer to particular cases; Besides Sir, the heirs of Capt e Minor do not ask you to review this Claim of their Father for the purpose of discovering an error, The error has

already been discovered, and they only ask you to review the claim in order to correct that error, and to deny this right to them, I should consider a high-handed and unjustifiable measure, and rather I should say transgressing the legitimate power of any of the departments of the General Government.
If you had referred to my letter of the 26 th July, (now within a fraction of twelve months, without even being able to get a reply until your note of the 3 rd inst.) you would have seen the error in this account, (a copy of which I sent you) for of Capt. Minors, you would have seen the error pointed out; and if it had so turned out, that you did not agree with me & the heirs, as to there having been an error committed in the manner & form as therein specified. You might have, (as I suggested in my letter, taken the opinion of the Secretary of War, in whose decision the heirs would have acquiesced.
Will you undertake to say that if the Department settles an account with me to day, and on tomorrow, or at any future day, I discover an error, either on the one side, or the other, that you are not bound to correct that error - It does really seem to me Sir, that such a position would be too unreasonable even for serious consideration and I will therefore abandon for the present

the subject, not however, without requesting my dear Sir, that you will take the subject under your consideration, and let me have your final decision in the case.
Very Respectfully I remain Sir Yours &c.
[Faint mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]
as per letter in envelope
Ms A. 9. 2. 10 p. 10

Jan. 11 '99. Mrs. S. B. Durnico St. Louis, Mo.
1914 Oct. 7. History to Mrs. Maria S. Snelling. Letter with cl. S. 8124. (James Bullock)
1921 May 3 Hist. to Mrs. John F. Watson
1922 Mar. 11 Hist. to Emma Eden Letter in S. 37503 John Wall
1926 Mar. 16 Hist. to Mrs. W. C. Barnes auts.
1929 Oct. Nov. 1 - Hist. H. V. Wood auts.
Virginia Line
WIDOW, &c. Reg
File No. 5374
Elizabeth Heinso
Wid.
Thomas Heinso
Capt. Va. Line
Act: July 4/86
Index: Vol. 16, Page 49

✓ M Prison Bureau
My ancestor Captain ...
I Thomas Minor was in the Revolution from Spotsylvania Co Virginia. And it is thought enjoyed a pension. Will of an plan and not has been recorded as it offers - And Obey
Miss J. B. Dymner 3928 Delmar Ave St Louis Mo.

626 Pearson St.,
Walla Walla, Wash. 3/3/21.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:— I am endeavoring to establish my descent from a Rev. ancestor thro' Capt. Thos. Minor of Spottsylvania Co., Virginia, whose name is mentioned in the Eighth Report of the Librarian of Va. Will

you be so very kind as to give me the pension record of this man, as I hope that will establish my claim.
It means some work to you, I know, to do this for me, but it means so much to me to have it done that I shall surely appreciate your ef- forts in my behalf. Trusting that it will

not be too much trouble, I am
Very truly yours, (Mrs.) John F. Watson

MRS. WALTER R. BARNES 18 OUTLOOK ROAD FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA
U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,
How may I obtain a copy of the record of a pension granted Thomas Minor in the year 1832 for services in the Revolution? He lived in Spottsylvania County Virginia was a captain in the Revolutionary war and

a colonel in the war of 1812.
He was granted back pay by congress when he received his pension in 1832. Is there a record of this?
Yours very truly,
Mrs W. R. Barrell

971 Kingshighway
Springfield, Mo.
August 30, 1929.
Bureau of Pensions
Dept. of Interior
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Please furnish me with the war records of the following soldiers of the American Revolution, together with any other available data concerning them:
1. Thomas Minor (a captain, I think), of Virginia; 2. 0 Pettus Ragland , of Virginia, (probably Hanover County)
Yours very truly,
H. V. Hood

Rev. and 1812 War Section.
March 16, 1936
Mrs. Walter R. Barnes 18 Outlook Road Fairmont, West Va.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 5374, it appears that Thomas Minor entered the service in 1777 and served to the close of the war, at which time he was Captain in Colonel George Gibson's Virginia Regiment, he was at the battle of Monmouth, and was Aide-de-camp to General Stevens at the battle of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 8, 1830, while a resident of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, aged seventy-seven years. He died July 21, 1834.
Soldier married in 1780 in Caroline County, Virginia, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel James Taylor. She

died December 7, 1836 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
Children- Patsey T., married Henry T. Chivis; Malinda, married George M. Buckner; Sarah Ann, married Addison M. Lewis; Elizabeth, married William Jackson; Nancy; James; Lucy; Thomas and John (twins); Jefferson; Hubbard T., born August 1, 1795; Alice T.; Ann Maria, married Francis W. Scott.
The following children were alive in 1848 and were allowed the pension due their mother- Malinda; Sarah Ann; Elizabeth; James; Jefferson; Hubbard T.; Alice T.; and Ann Maria.
Patsey T. Chivis died before her father, leaving the following children- Thomas M.; John M.; Ann Sarah T. Halyard; Elizabeth T., married John or James Spencer; Ann H., married Burton H. Hamm; Mary E., married Alfred Clark or Clarke.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

cont 1777
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thomas Minor a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and  heirs' (for his widow's) applications for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. N. F. 5374.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1778 Capt. George Gibson Va.   and Served to end of war.   decamp to Genl Stevens      
Battles engaged in, Monmouth, Yorktown Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated Date of application for pension, Jan. 8, 1830. His ch. was al. Residence at date of application, Spottsylvania Co. Va. Age at date of application, 77 yrs.
Remarks: He mar in 1780, in Caroline Co., Va. Elizabeth, dau. of Col. James Taylor; soldier died July 21, 1834 and she died Dec. 7, 1836 in Spottsylvania Co. Va. Children: Patsy J. mar. Henry T. Chris; Malinda mar. George M. and Buckner; Sarah Ann mar. Addison M. Lewis; Elizabeth mar. William Jackson; Nancy; James; Lucy; Thomas & John (twins); Jefferson (husband of Alice T.); Ann Maria mar. Francis W. Scott. Respectfully, L. Aug 1. 1895
before her father - leaving chld - Thomas M. James John M. Sarah I. Halyard - Elizabeth - J. mar John Spencer Ann H. mar. Burton R. 1-1 am  Hawson - Mary E. mar. Alfred Clarke
Commissioner James

The deposition of Martha Bullock, of the County of Spotsylvania and State of Virginia taken on the 26 th day of February 1848, at the House of Isaac Bullock in said County -
This deponent being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath depose and say that she is now in her eighty sixth Year of age, and that she was intimately acquainted with the late Col Thomas Minor & the late Mrs Elizabeth Minor his widow of the County of Spotsylvania. That she knew them both before they were married, and knows of her own knowledge that they were married during the period of the Revolution, and before the said Col then Capt Thomas Minor left the service. This fact is recollects distinctly because this deponent lived but a very short distance from Col James Taylors, the Father of Mrs Minn, and will remember the Circumstances of Capt Minn's Coming home - upon furlough or leave of absence of some kind to be married, and after remaining some time with his wife, he returned to the service again. This deponent is confident that their marriage took place either in Seventeen hundred, and eighty, or Seventeen hundred & eighty one, she can not fix a precise date, but this deponent was herself married in the Year 1788, and has a son now going on sixty three Years of age, and Mrs Minor had two, if not three Children before this deponent was married, and further this deponent saith not. Martha by Bullock cross

State of Virginia Spotsylvania County to wit.
The Annexed deposition of Martha Bullock was taken, subscribed & sworn to be fore me a justice of the peace for said County, the time and place mentioned in said deposition. Given under my hand & seal this 28 th day of February 1848.
M c Guire S.P.E.
State of Virginia Spotsylvania County S.S.
I Stapleton Leitchfield Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John P. Boney whose name is signed to the fore- going certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same a Magistrate in said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature aforesaid purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, at office, this 28 th day of February 1848 and 72 nd year of our Lord.
Stapleton Leitchfield Clerk of said Court.
Ms. A. 1. 1. 18

State of Virginia, Caroline County } to wit:
I, John L. Pendleton, clerk of the county Court of Caroline, in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with the late Colo. Thomas Minor of Locust Grove, in the County of Spotsylvania, with his wife who was a daughter of Colo. James Taylor, deceased, of this County, in which county I have always understood and believed that the said Colo. Minor was married. That I have examined the records of marriage in my office & find that the earliest records now extant of the returns of marriages are for the year 1786; from which it would appear that the said Minor must have been married before that year. That the records of marriages prior to that time were lost or destroyed by fire when the clerk's office of this County took fire about the year 1800. And being informed that the Hon. Francis T. Brooke, of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, has given a certificate as to the date of the marriage of the said Minor, I hereby further certify that I know the said Brooke to be entitled to the highest credit for the truth & accuracy of the statements which he may certify, & that he had good opportunity of ascertaining the facts of the case. Given under my hand this 30 th day of April, 1850.
John L. Pendleton Clerk of Caroline County Court,
Circuit Superior Court for the County of Caroline, Virginia, to wit:
This day personally appeared before me, in my court aforesaid, John L. Pendleton, who made oath that the matters stated in the foregoing certificate are true & accurate to the best of his knowledge & belief. And being thereto requested I hereby certify that I believe the Hon. Judge Brooke's certificate is entitled to full credit. Given under my hand this 30 th day of April, 1850.
J. M. Thompson Clerk

Certificate of the Hon. Francis T. Brooke, of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
I hereby certify that Col o Thomas Minor, late of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was to the best of my knowledge & belief married in the latter part of the year seventeen hun- dred eighty, (1780,) a short time before I entered the army. I do not recollect the month, or precise time, but as well as I can recollect, it was the latter part of the year aforesaid. I was Col o Minor's neighbor at the time, and was acquainted with him as early as 1774, when he was adj- utant to Col o Willis's regiment of minute men. I have always understood & believed that his wife was a daughter of Col o James Taylor of Caroline County. Francis T. Brooke Richmond, February 4 th 1880.
Teste F. T. Brooke

July 12 1864
Care of M m M m
J L Edwards Esq. Genl Pension Washington
ans d by letter 20 July 1864 to F. A. Dickens

Baltimore July 9 th 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
The most mature reflection has removed every vestige of doubt on the point you raised in the last settlement of Minors claim for half pay under act of 5 th July 1832. The question you made, after the late decision of the Secretary of War, was, whether you must not, notwithstanding that decision, accept what Minor had recd. under act 15 May 1828, because as you assume, the State line officers were not entitled to the benefits of that act, & therefore the Secretary of the Treasury improperly allowed Minors case under that law.
The late decision of the Secretary of War, is sound, just & irrefutable. His construction of the act of 5 th July 1832 no lawyer of any pretensions to legal information will you question. The point is settled now , that a half pay officer of the Virginia line, may have his debt , & receive his bounties or gratuities also. This is right, & it is understood. But you assume that in dispensing the benefits of the act of 15 May 1828 the Secretary of the

2 Treasury, whose duty I suppose it was, to construe & administer that act, allowed a State line officer what was only due to a Continental officer, That your department will look back into the claims decided by the Secretary of the Treasury, and hold back , or retain, out of a just legal sum and, what you assume the Secy of the Treasury, in error , admitted should!
Mr. Secretary Wilkins made no decision authorizing this, but on the contrary, he decided that sums of money rec d by an officer prior act 15 May 1828 should not be deducted from the half pay claim.
State line officers were not embraced in the provisions of act 15 th May 1828 in express terms . This I frankly admit. But they are clearly within the equity of that act, for they rendered the same service as Continental officers, & it was but a liberal construction of that act to place minor upon the list.

3 I presume the Secretary of War does not intend to review the action of the Secy of the Treasury upon an act of Congress which is referred to his department. If he has it will overturn a long list of cases. Besides, were he to do this, his decision, that the amt. Rec d by an officer under act 15 May 1828 should not be deducted from his half pay debt, would be a " dead letter " - it would be mandatory , recorded should have no place in his opinion . It should be stricken out of it - for it would have nothing on which to operate. The effect of your withholding the sum rec d by Minor under act 15 May 1828 is to nullify the Secretary's decision made last Saturday. For if Minor was not entitled to benefit of act of 15 th May 1828, no state line officer was so entitled, & the Secretary's decision as to this class of cases is a nullity.

Is it not plain, that you do not carry out the opinions of the Secretary of War when you deduct, what the Secretary said , should  not be deducted, from Minors half pay? Most unquestionably.
But look further into the manifest absurdity of deducting the amount Minor rec d under act 15 May 1828, in this town't, that you deduct that amount from his half pay whilst you do not deduct it from August Ruckes or from Elliott Ruckes half pay. None paid both the Ruckes without deductions & yet you insist upon making the deduction in Minor's case.
As to the decision, when Minor's half pay claim was first paid town't, that he was improperly allowed the benefit of act 15 May 1828 that was no decision of the Secretary , but was your inference drawn from

practice which improperly obtained in settling half pay cases at the Treasury which practice (of making this deduction) the Secy of War, upon a full investigation has decided to be changed . And yet you do not change this practice (of making the deduction) but you proceed to give back apart of what was improperly deducted the which had been paid his widow under act 7th June 1832 but you do not pay back what was improperly deducted as having been recd under act 15th May 1828! Thus half of the Secretary's decision is fairly carried out, the other half is nullified. You carry out his opinion so far as it regards the act of 7th June 1832 but you  do not it so far as regards

the act of 15 May 1828 ! - In what a predicament do you thus place the Secretary !
Now Mr Edwards as you manifested much candor in our late interviews (as indeed you have generally done in your intercourse with me) I beg to enquire, whether, if you refuse to restore the admeasurement in Minns case (I mean the amt. he recd. under act 15 May 1828) you do not in practice deny the correctness of the Secretary's decision last Saturday ?
I also enquire if there is not an absurdity in his recorded opinion touching the act of 15th May 1828 if you now decide that the action of the Secretary of the Treasury shall be reversed, or, in other words, that you will make Minns pay back out of his half share what the Treasury

allowed him? If Angus Rankin & Scott Rankin were entitled to benefits of act 15 May 1828 was not Thomas Minor ? If you reverse the decision of the Treasury in Minor's case, how could you permit them to so unrefunded? You not only nullify the decision of the King of war by assenting the amount Minor recd under act 15 May 1828 but you make the King of war stultify himself, most obviously. He has given a just Hospice decision . It will stand the test of judicial criticism . It is in conformity with the opinions of all the jurists in Vir- -ginia, (with the resolution of the Legislature of that state. I do most sincerely hope your action on the cases will carry out his decision, & not involve him in inconsistency & absurdity. Mr. Jenkins will attend to the case. Yr ob't serv't Percy P. Ellis

The recent statement of the Hon. John Taliaferro is a very satisfactory explanation so far as relates to his former also statement originally filed with the Treasury Dept. but it does not remove the objections I have stated, because it does not explain the grounds upon which the decisions referred to were made formed; and he does not state of his own personal knowledge that Captain Minor was last in service with his company in Brent's regt. Because it is not clearly shown that whether he became It is not clearly shown when he became supernumerary, or whether he actually was supernumerary, or whether he entered the continental service. Much uncertainty still rests on
If the decision was erroneous, some explanatory statements from the Treasury Dept. as well as the Executive of Virginia should be furnished. The statement of the Hon. John Taliaferro, explanatory of his statement in 1830 made to the Treasury Dept. in this case, in 1830, is satisfactory in regard to the error he was led into, but it does not show upon what grounds the decisions above alluded to were made. Some positive proof is also required as to the time when Capt. Minor was last in service with his regiment; for it was distinctly stated by him that at York Town in 1781 he was aid-de-camp to acting in a Staff capacity with under a continental officer.

Washington 10 May 1841.
Sir,
Enclosed are the papers in support of the claim of the representative of Mrs. Elizabeth Minor dec. d widow of Thomas Minor dec. d for his pension under the act of 7 th June 1832. to the day of his death. You will recollect that Thomas Minor was allowed half pay for life under the act of Congress of 5 th July 1832, and that his claim, under that act was paid to 4 th March 1831 the day on which the pension would commence. Complete evidence of service was filed in support of his half pay claim.
I am very respectfully
Yours &c
Francis A. Pickens.
James L. Edwards Esq Com r . of Pensions.

Pension Office, October 22. 1841.
Sir,
In 1837 Mr. Dickens, as the substitute of Vespasian Ellis, attorney of the Executors of the late Thomas Minor, deceased, was paid the amount then acknowledged to be due to them as his legal representatives, under the Act of July 5. 1832. The claim was paid at the rate of $240 per annum (the amount allowed under that law to a Captain) commencing on the 22 d . of April 1783, when the war closed, and terminating on the 4 th . of March 1831, from which period under a more liberal Act of Congress, he acquired a right to an annuity of $480 per annum. To understand the intention of Congress in passing the Act of July 1832, we must have recourse to the provisions of the law of the Virginia Legislature of May 1779, upon which that act is predicated. That Act promised half pay for life to all her Officers who served to the end of the war, or who became supernumerary, provided Congress did not make tantamount provision for them . For the Officers from the State of Virginia who belonged to the Continental Army, Congress did make tantamount provision in allowing five years

full pay in lieu of half pay for life. The Act of Congress of 1832 was intended to relieve the State of Virginia from the engagement which she had entered into with the officers who belonged to the land and naval forces raised for her own immediate defence. Captain Minor, had he applied for his half pay would unquestionably have availed himself of all that the laws of Congress gave; and what were those laws? The Act of July 5. 1832 gave him half pay for life at the rate of $240 per annum, and the Act of June 7. 1832 gave him an annuity for life of $480 per annum from the 4 th of March 1831. By the 2 d Section of the last mentioned act he would have been obliged in order to secure full pay from March 1831 to have relinquished his half pay from that period under the law of July. No reasonable man can doubt that such would have been his course. This has been the case in every instance in which the Officer has made application himself. The Department in administering justice, acted towards the parties concerned as the Officer would have done for himself had he made personal application. The claim now presented is for half pay under the Act of July 5. 1832 from 4 th of March 1831 to the 21 st of July 1834, when he died. This claim I have disallowed because under the Act of June 1832 an annuity to double the amount has already been allowed. To grant this claim would be to put a forced construction on the Act of July 5. 1832, and it would involve a most palpable absurdity.

It would be saying that Congress had passed laws which gave to the legal representatives of a man more after his death than he had a right to demand while living. The only question in the case is simply this: at what time should the half pay cease? If it be a settled principle and it certainly is, if the practice of the Treasury and War Departments, and the concurrent opinion of the attorney General are binding, that no one shall have the benefits of both laws at the same time, then Minor could have had no right to receive half pay under the Act of July after the 4 th of March 1831 when the full pay under the Act of June 1832 commenced. I cannot discover that there is any conflicting claim between the representatives of Minor, and the administrator of his widow. Great stress is laid on the words of the law which direct that the money due under the Act of July shall be paid to the legal representatives of the Officer; but that provision of the law applies solely to those cases in which the Officer was then dead, and not to the cases of surviving Officers. The amount due up to the 4 th of March 1831 was paid to the legal representatives of Minor, because no other disposition could be made of the money. The annuity under the Act of June was paid to the administrator of his widow, because the law expressly directed that what was due and unclaimed under it should after the Officer's death go to the widow, if

he left one. He did leave a widow. The amount of course belonged to her, and being unclaimed by her, it went to her administrator. Suppose payment under the Act of July had been made to Minor's legal representative, up to the day of his death, July 1834, would not Mrs. Minor's administrator have demanded full pay from March 1831, embracing the period for which half-pay is now demanded? and where is the man who will say that the Department could withhold the full pay from her administrator, without a gross violation of the letter and spirit of the Act of June? I cannot perceive that the representatives of Minor have the shadow of a claim for any thing more than they have already received.
I have the Honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Obt. Servant. J. L. Edwards
Pension Office Oct. 22. 1834 Committee of Pensions 1/2 pay case of Minor
645 June 1832 p 686 rec. 5- July - 658
Hon. John C. Spencer, Secretary of War.

Department of the Interior June 28. 1857.
Sir,
I herewith return the papers in the case of the heirs of Elizabeth Miner Widow of Captain Thomas Miner, under the Act of July 4 th 1836, and I am of the opinion that a pension should be allowed from the day of the decease of Capt e Miner, the 21 st July 1834, to that of the death of the Widow, the 7 th December 1836.
I am very respectfully, Your ob t Servant (Signed) J. Ewing Secretary
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions

Thomas Minor was entitled to a Pension under the Act of Congress of 7 th June 1832. but died, on the 21 July 1834, without ever making application for the same, leaving a widow Elizabeth Minor. - the right to the Pension consequently became vested in her under the 4 th section of the same act, and she having died 7 th Dec r 1836 without having made application for it, it became payable to her legal representative Hubbard T. Minor.
For evidence that Thomas Minor was entitled and died on the 21 st July 1834. see paper A
For evidence that Elizabeth Minor widow of the said T. Minor died 7 th Dec r 1836. see papers marked B.C. & D.
For evidence that Hubbard T. Minor is the Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Minor see paper marked C.
Respectfully &c
Francis A. Dickinson.

War Department. Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Thomas Minor deceased who was a Captain in the Virginia State troops was entitled to Four hundred and Eighty Dollars per annum to commence on the fourth of March 1831 and to continue during life but having died on the twenty first of July Eighteen hundred and thirty four, the Amount of Pension became due to his widow Elizabeth Minor. at the above rate is payable to his children viz Say widow having since died, the amount is payable to her Malinda Brachner wife of George M Brachner, Administrator. This certificate is issued in lieu of one Sarah Ann Lewis wife of Addison M Lewis, dated on the 20 th May 1841, which has been cancelled. Elizabeth Jackson wife of William Jackson, James Minor, Jefferson Minor, Hubbard Minor, Alice Minor and Ann Maria Scott wife of Francis H. Scott.
Given at the War Office of the United States this Seventieth day of May One Thousand Eight hundred and forty One.

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Being Called on to State what I know in relation to the Marriage of Col Thomas Minor deceased the husband of the late Mrs Elizabeth Minor of Spotsylvania County I can only state that I have been acquainted with him for several years before he was married & indeed up to the day of his death. I know that he was married during his services in the Revolution but I cannot remember the time. I was married myself on the first day of September nineteen hundred and eighty four, and Col Minor & his wife had been married several years.
Mary M c Standley
State of Virginia Caroline County S s
Be it known that on this first day of March 1848, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, Mary M c Standley and made oath in due form of law, that the foregoing statement to which her name & cross appears, is true; And I certify that the said Mary M c Standley is personally known to me and that she is a respectable and credible person. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Wm S. Royston J.P.

I am
Yours
very sincerely your father and friend
201 555 1242

This is to certify that I was born and raised in Caroline County in this State and continued to reside there until the Year 1782 when I removed to this County and being called on to state whether I was acquainted with Col Thomas Minor deceased of the County of Spotsylvania and what I know in reference to his marriage with his late widow, I can only say that I was very well acquainted with Col Minor both before and after the Revolution and that he was married to his late widow who was a Miss Taylor of Caroline County before the expiration of the War in 1781. The particular month and Year I am not able to say.
June 22 d 1848,
George Thornton
State of Virginia } County of Green }
Be it known that on this 22 nd day of June 1848, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County, personally appeared George Thornton, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the aforesaid County of Green and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit to which his name is subscribed. And I certify that the said Thornton is personally known to me & is a respectable & credible witness & that his statement is entitled to full faith & credit. Given under my hand this day and date last above mentioned.
Arthur G. Thornton

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June 26 1848
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State of Virginia, } Giles County ss }
I Robert Pritchett Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Anthony Hunter Gendlemen whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, at and was at the time of signing the same an Acting Justice of the Peace in said County, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and Credit are due to all his acts as such. I further certify that his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of my Office, and subscribed my name this 26th day of June 1848, in the 72nd Year of the Commonwealth.
Robt Pritchett Clerk Giles County Court

Being called upon to state whether I am acquainted with the names and ages of all the children of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Minor, widow of Col. Thomas Minor. deceased, of the County of Spotsylvania, I can say that I am perfectly familiar with with all the names, but cannot state their ages. Col. Minor & his wife had thirteen children, and they were named as follows, Patsey, Malinda, Elizabeth, Nancy, James, Lucy, Thomas & John, (twins,) Hubbard, Sarah, Alice, Jefferson and Ann. As regards their ages, I can only say, that I am myself sixty-three years of age, and that Mrs. Jackson, (who was Elizabeth Minor,) and myself are about the same age. and that Patsey, and Malinda were both older than myself, indeed I am certain that the eldest who was Patsey, was at least four years my senior. Given under my hand this 11 th day of March 1848
State of Virginia Caroline County 3 ss.
Mary J. Thornton
This day personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Mrs. Mary J. Thornton, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing statement, and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the same. And I certify that Mrs. Thornton's standing is of the most respectable character. Given under my hand this 11 th day of March 1848
Wm. S. Royson J.P.

Virginia
Clerk's office of Caroline County Court April 4 th 1848. I John. S. Pridleton Clerk of the County and State aforesaid do hereby Certify that W m S. Rayton whose name appears to the foregoing certificates is an acting Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned & qualified according to Law. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my seal of office this 4 th day of April 1848.
John. S. Pridleton Clerk of Caroline County Court

B. Louis Louis, Esperanza in Minnow's ear
R,
Prof. ... ... ..

I hereby certify that I am a Revolutionary soldier now receiving a Pension. That I was at the siege of Yorktown and saw Col. Thomas Menden of the County of Spotsylvania then who then only ranked as Captain and was also one of the aids to Genl. Stevens. I further certify that the sd Minor was at the time a married man. Given under my hand this 28 th Feby 1848. Benjamin his T. Menden Mark
State of Virginia Stafford County bound.
This day personally appeared before me a just here of peace on and for the County aforesaid Benjamin T. Tilton a Revolutionary pen- sioner and made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing Certificate are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this 28 th Feby. 1848.
State of Virginia
A. H. Mason Jr.
Stafford County to wit
I John M c Conway Clerk of the Court of Hampden County in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that A. H. Mason was at the time of signing, and still is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of my Office, at the Court House this 25 th day of March 1850, in the 74 th year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
H. H. Conway

Virginia: At a court held for Spotsylvania County on Monday the third day of June, One thousand eight hundred and fifty. Declaration: In order to obtain the benefit of the 3rd Section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836. State of Virginia Spotsylvania County } Set.
On this 3rd day of June 1850 personally appeared before the court of said County, Hubbard P. Minor, a resident of the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia, aged fifty five years the 1st of August next, who being first sworn according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, in order to obtain the ben- efit of the act of Congress passed 4 th July 1836.
That he is the son and Administrator on the Estate of Elizabeth Minor who was at the time of her death the widow of his father Thomas Minor, who he has always understood & believed was an officer in the Army of the Revolution, a Captain in the 2nd Virginia Regiment and aide to General Stevens. That he has understood and believes that his father and mother were mar- ried before the termination of the revolutionary services aforesaid of his father. That he understood they were married and believed they were married the latter part of the year 1780, that his father received a pension in his life time, that he died the 21 st July 1834, leaving his mother, his widow. That she did not afterwards marry, but remained his widow until her death which took place on the 7 th December 1836. That she left the following children viz. Malinda, who was the wife of George W. Buckner, Elizabeth wife of William Jackson, James Minor, Hubbard P. Minor, Sarah Ann, wife of Addison M. Lewis, Alice P. Minor, Jefferson Minor and Ann Maria Minor, now Mrs. Francis M. Scott. All of whom are now living except Mrs. Malinda Buckner who leaves heirs: There are living the heirs of Patsy P. who married Henry P. Lewis. She Patsy P. died before father and mother. That he has no record showing the date of his mother and father's marriage, and has not been able to find any record thereof. The Clerk's Office in the County of

of Caroline and State of Virginia was burnt down many years ago and the papers consumed. His Father and mother were married in that county. I hereby certify that the day and year above written before the court of Spottsylvania County aforesaid.
H. S. Minor.
State of Virginia
Spottsylvania County Court Clerk's office } Forsooth.
I, Stapleton Hutchinson Clerk of the County Court of said County in the State aforesaid. Do hereby certify that the foregoing writing is true copy of the Declaration of Hubbard D. Minor, I hereby and subscribed in open court, recognized and filed in my said office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, Done this 10th day of June A.D. 1850.
Stapleton Hutchinson Clerk
Similiter

May '48
O
W. Saunders
Hartwood Academy
King & Queen City
G.

Virginia,
In Caroline County Court. May 8 th 1848.
The Court doth Certify that Malinda Buckner who was Malinda Minor, Elizabeth Jackson who was Elizabeth Minor, Sarah A. Lewis who was Sarah A. Minor, Alice T. Minor, Ann M. Scott who was Ann M. Minor, James Minor, Woolbard T. Minor and Jefferson Minor are the only surviving children of Elizabeth Minor widow of Col o Thomas Minor of the County of Spotsylvania and State of Virginia who was an Officer in the Revolution, and which said Elizabeth Minor died in the aforesaid County on the 7 th day of December 1836.
In Testimony whereof I John L. Pendleton Clerk of the County Court of the County & State aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my Office this 19 th day of June 1848. John L. Pendleton Clerk of Caroline County Court.
D
Edward Jones

Certificate Thomas Minor dec d Act 5 July 1832, June 13. 1837.
Recorded Vol 43. Page 127.

Pension Office
June 13.
May 12, 1837
I certify that from an examination of the claim presented at this Office on account of the military services of the late John Thomas Minor, I am satisfied that he was a Captain in the second Regiment of Infantry in the service of the State of Virginia; that he served in that grade until he became a supernumerary officer after the surrender of York Town, Va in October 1781; that he died in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on the twenty-first of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, leaving a will, of which Hubbard T. Minor and William Jackson, are the Executors; that the case is embraced by the provisions of the act of Congress of the 5 th of July 1832, entitled "an act to provide for the liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia;" that the claim should therefore be allowed, at the rate of Two Hundred and Forty Dollars per annum from the twenty second of April, seventeen hundred and eighty three, when the war terminated, to the fourth of March eighteen hundred and thirty-one; whereby the but not after that period, as it is understood to be the intention of a claim may be made under the provisions of the act of June 7. 1832, at a higher rate per annum up to the day of his death. I also certify that Vespasian Ellis, of Accomack, Virginia, is the attorney for the Executors of said Minor, and that Francis A. Dickinson of Washington City, is his substitute, to whom the amount due is payable. The sum of Four Thousand and Twenty Five Dollars and Thirty Three Cents must, however, be deducted, as that

amount was improperly paid to said Thomas be on account of the service of said Minor, dec d under the act of May 15. 1828; and a deduction must also be made of Twenty Four Hundred Dollars, the sum paid to him under the act of Congress of the 30 th June 1834, entitled, "an act for the relief of Thomas Minor," by which he was allowed for his services as a Captain in the war of the revolution five years full pay.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Approved June 1837
Secretary of War.

Washington July 2nd, 1850.
Sir,
I have had the honor of receiving yours of this date, informing me of the allowance at the Dept. of the Interior of the claim of Mrs Elizabeth Minor, widow of Thomas Minor, Act 4th July 1836.
If you will look into these papers you will find that I appealed upon this case, and was endorsed by the Hon. Mr. Holliday, who is at present on a visit to his family in Virginia.
Rev. Saunders Egan, was employed by Dr. Jefferson Minor, the administrator upon his mother's estate, and he has power of attorney from all the children except one D. S. Hubbard Minor, who has at the instance of Mr. Dickens, after hearing that the case was allowed , interposed by the same prompter, to get this certi-

fiat out of Mr. Saunders, Mr. Holliday, or my band in this unhandsome manner. Comment is unnecessary here.
Mr. Saunders' letter I herewith enclose, and if you cannot allow me to receive the certi- ficate, have the kindness to hold it until the arrival in this City of Mr. Holliday or Mr. Saunders.
I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect Your Obed. Servt.
W. L. Chaplin.
Col. J. R. Edwards, Commr. of Pensions.

Spotsylvania County, Va. July 16. 1880 Dear Sir, that a pension has been allowed to my late mother the widow of Thomas Minor, as one of the legatees of my mother Elizabeth, widow as aforesaid, we request that the certificate may issue to my brother Hubbard T. Minor admt. of S d Elizabeth - or to his attorney - I hereby revoke any authority given to one Rev. Mr. Saunders, as I understood from S d Saunders he would prosecute for claims that the admt. know no- thing of the S d rect. been presented - I know the legatees have a very confi- dence in the admt. independent of his bonds with ample surety as he under a speedy and satisfactory return -
James Minor 3
Witness William G. Bloop.

✓ March 29/50 Th. Lumpkin
March 27: 1850
Enclosed affidavit of Benj: Frewlow, a Revolu- tionary Pensioner, which, he requests may be filed with the papers in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Minor—
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✓ Ref d to Com ee of Pension Dep t Interior March 28 1850
Elizabeth Minor and Husband's papers Charged to Mr. Triplett March 27 - 1850

Washington D.C. March 27th, 1850
Sir,
I submitted to you a few days since an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions, in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Minor, late of Virginia, widow of Capt. Thomas Minor, accompanying which was a letter from the Hon. S. R. McCallie. I now enclose an affidavit of Benjamin Truslow, a Revolutionary pensioner, which I wish filed in the case and most respectfully ask for this case an early action thereon;
I have the honor to be, Sir, With great respect, Yours & B. T. Smith. W. Lumpkin.
Wm. H. Irving
Secretary of the Dept. of the Int.

Washington D.C. July 9th 1830
Sir,
Upon my appeal to the Secretary of the Interior the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Minor, the widow of Capt. Thomas Minor, of V. A. Act 1836, was allowed.
Thomas Jefferson Minor Esq., administered on the estate of his mother, and employed Reuben Saunders who has powers of attorney from all the heirs but one. He likewise has the powers to prosecute from the Administrator.
Dr. Herbert Minor (the only heir that Mr. Saunders does not represent) has taken out a subsequent administration on the estate.
Can a subsequent administration stand good against the first without the former being revoked?
As it is not likely that the Court would revoke without the consent of the other heirs or a majority of them, I therefore beg that the certificate may be issued to Dr. Thomas J. Minor the first administrator for the benefit of the whole.
Mr. H. A. Dickinson heard Mr. French Evans state that he had examined into this case, and was present when he Mr. Evans informed me that he should recommend that the case should be allowed, for it was his clear opinion that it was just. After this Mr. Dickinson interferes to procure the certificate, by getting a subsequent administration.

traction. This he cannot deny.
I have the honor to be, Sir, Very Respectfully, your Obt. Servt. Th. Dampier.
Col. J. D. Edwards Commr. of Pensions.

Not 1828 Seated at Treasury
On & with Admiral File 5374

Rec d 13 May 1830.
1831
H. of Reps 11 th of May 1830-
Sir,
Be pleased to cause the inclosed paper to be filed with the declaration of Capt e Thomas Minor of Virg a who claims the benefit of the Act of Congress passed in May 1828, as a surviving officer of the Army of the revolution. I have known this claimant intimately all my life - He is a gentleman of the most decided patriotism, & moral integrity - I know that he entered into the military service of the U. States at the commencement of the war of the revolution, that he served thro' the whole of that trying struggle, and that he held the commission & rank of a Capt e in the continental army - (That is, in the Virg a line on continental establishment) at the end of the war - It was upon the conviction of this service that the Executive authority of Virg a issued the inclosed paper - I am Sir. most respectfully yours
John Taliaferro

Honb. T. D. Ingham
Secy of the Treasr.
Washington.

Recd 23 June 1830.
1950 Washington City 23 rd June 1830
Sir
I have been requested by Col. Thomas Minor to receive Certificates from the Treasury Dept. for the enclosed warrant, for $5333 1 / 3 . As I am and understanding that the certificates cannot now issue, I request that as soon as it can be done, his claim to it, will be taken into consideration & granted in the order in which it has been presented. The enclosed warrant is the evidence reg d that Col. Minor is entitled to the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 18 th May 1828. Col. Minor is desirous that his claim will be settled as early as practicable & the result communicated to him at { I am Very Respectfully Yrs Obedt Servt Arch d M c Green
The Hon ble The Secretary of the Treasury -

Re: 23 June 1830.
I have also seen by these presents that I Thomas Minor of the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint Arch d M c Green my true and lawful attorney with a power of substitution for me and in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the act of the 16 th May 1828 - entitled an act for the Relief of Certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution "approved the 18 th May 1828. as a capt. in the Virginia Continental line of the Army of the Revolution. And I hereby make any power of atty previously given as witness my hand and seal this 23 rd day of June 1830 -
Tho. Minor (Seal)
Forward the money to Thomas Minor near Fredericksburg Virginia - Arch d M c Green

Cop: of the d o
Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the Co: personally appeared this day Thomas Ormiston whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of Attorney & acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed & also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfers or of any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the p o of them in authority to be received, but that the p o is intended to inure solely to his personal benefit. Witness my hand and this the 22 nd day of June 1830 -
William
I John James Whittaker of the Corporation town of Frederickburg in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that William Allen before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly authorized to administer oaths. — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said town, this 22 nd day of June 1830 John James Whittaker

Francis A. Dickinson Esq. Treasury Dept.
Present.

Washington 14 th Jan'y '30
Sir, I herewith present the claim of Capt. Thomas Minor , for pay under the law of the 15 th May 1828.
Will you sir, please com- municate to me in writing the result of your determination after you shall have examined the testimony (now enclosed).
Very respectfully My friend W. O. Sewt.
Thos. J. Hodgson
F. A. Dickinson Esq. Present
Agent for claimant

Asb: Dickens usg=
Treasury Department.

Rec d 14 May 1830.
1832
H: of Rpt 12 th of May 1830-
J: Taliaferro, with his respects, asks The favor of Mr s Dickinson to have the inclosed filed with the application of Thos: Minor for the benefit of the act of Cong: passed in May 1828 - and J: Talia- ferro takes the liberty to solicit from Mr s Dickinson as ear- ly an answer on this case as his convenience will permit -
A: Dickinson 1832-

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
9 July 1830.
Sir :
In answer to your note of yesterday, I have to state that the claim under the abovementioned act of Thomas Minor late a captain of the Virginia line and of John Biggs a private of the same line have been admitted, and that the claim of Philip Slaughter was admitted under the authority of an act, passed for his relief on the 29 May last.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Francis A. Dickinson.
Clk. Treas. Dept.
William Gordon Esq r .

I, Hubbard T. Minor, admr. of Elizabeth Minor dec d , widow of the late Tho s Minor dec d - who was a Capt. in the war of the rebellion, hereby certify that I had employed agents, as admr., to prosecute pecuniary claims for the estate of my dec d mother. The apparent conflict arising arose from misstatement mistake on the part of some of the distribu- tees, thinking I had not appointed any one to attend to said claims - & that claims were due not introduced in the proceedings I was not having prosecuted - That Mr Ben- jamin Saunders applied to me for authority to prosecute these claims which I refused, on the ground of having already employed agents to attend to the same - As legal rep- resentative of my dec d mother, I represent all the distributees of my Estate - & some of the distributees have none other agent & lives in distant states, my great object is to facilitate the settlement of the business - Washington July 19 th 1850 H T Minor - admr. of Elizabeth Minor dec d

I personally know Hubbard T. Morris whom I have this day introduced to the Com- -mission of Pensions, & know that his state- -ment is entitled to all confidence & respect. I also know that the sum & distribution of his mother's annuity due him in remote parts of the United States & I feel confident that such representation on his part may be safely acted on. Given under my hand on this the 19 th day of Aug 1850.
Richd. H. Holloway

Dear Carlton Stone, Prince Town, May 23, 1858, Dear Sir
Yours of the 20 th Inst is to hand, & contents noted. The course of Doct r H. Miner, is not only illiberal, but it most was easily in the extreme. And I am inclined to think that Dickens is - great a Rascal, as the Doct r . I have never had anything to do with Doct r Hubbard Miner in regard to the Pension Claim due his Mother. Because his treatment to me from the very first in relation to the balance of half pay due his Father, forbade my having any further liberty to him on the subject. But I have contracts with all the rest of the heirs to prosecute this particular claim. And the Declaration was made by Doct r Jefferson Miner, & filed by me together with all the evidence that has ever been furnished in the case, and how Doct r Hubbard Miner can now have the hardihood to attempt to claim the Pension Certificate I cannot conceive. He is not even the Administrator, in any shape, of Mrs Elizabeth Miner, his Mother, His Son B.B. Miner is the Administrator. but no matter who the Administrator may be, The eld  heirs have the right to receive their

Portions, and I shall in due season take special care to obtain orders from all of them, to have the Certificates for their portions delivered to me. In the mean- time I will get you to ask the Commission to suspend the issuing of the Certificates until I can have a chance of filing proper authorizing for them. If necessary I can furnish the Commissioner with the original Contracts with all the liens - except as before stated, Doan & Edward Minor. Suppose you ask him, & I will forward the Contracts. You have not answered any of the enquiries made in my last in regard to the other claims.
Yrs truly Respectfully " " "
This letter will be put in the mail at Savannah after, as the mail will not pass by this office to day as usual R. G.

Washington 18 June 1850
Sir
Enclosed I have the honor to hand you the application of the administrator on the Estate of Elizabeth Riner. The case is now before you on an appeal from the commissioners of Pensions.
Yours very respectfully Francis A. Dickinson.
The Hon. J. Ewing Secy of the Interior.

47 240 7880 90 11,280

47 Years, 10 months, 12 days, from 22 April 1783 to 4 March 1831
£240 per annum \times 47 is £ 11.280 20 " month \times 10 is 200 6,66 2 / 3 days \times 12 is 8  11,488.00
deduct
5063.10  £ 6,424.90
5063.10 4025.33 2400.  11488.43

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
State of Virginia:
Spotsylvania County - ss. On this 17 th day of May in the year (1841) Eighteen hundred and forty one, personally appeared, before me a justice of the peace, in and for the County, aforesaid, Hubbard S. Minor of the said County, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed 7 th June 1832. That he is one of the sons of Thomas Minor, who was a soldier of the Revolution and whose representatives have received half pay under the act of Congress of the 5 th of July 1832; That his father died, on the 21 st day of July 1834, and his mother Elizabeth Minor died on the 7 th of December 1836, all of which facts, he believes will appear, from the papers heretofore filed in the Department at Washington. That neither his father nor his mother were ever married but the mother and that at the time of his mother's death, she left the following children living, all of whom are over the age of twenty one years, Vizt. - Malinda Buckner, wife of George M. Buckner, Sarah Ann Lewis, wife of Addison M. Lewis, Elizabeth Jackson wife of William Jackson, James Minor Jefferson Minor Hubbard S. Minor, Alice S. Minor, and Anna Maria Scott, wife of Francis W. Scott, and the following Grand children, children of her deceased daughter Patsy S. Chavis, who was Patsy S. Minor, Servant - Thomas M. Chavis, John M. Chavis, Sarah S. Halcyard, late Sarah S. Chavis, Elizabeth Spencer, wife of James Spencer, Ann

= Namely wife of Burton R. Ham, and Mary Clark wife of Alfred Clark, and no others. The Deponent further says, that he administered on his mother's estate in February 1837. —
Sworn and subscribed before me —
Hubbard T. Minor
John McCall P.
State of Virginia
Spotsylvania County ss:
I Stapleton Crutchfield Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania, County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that John McCall, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, was at the date thereof, and still is, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of my Office to be hereunto affixed this 17 th day of May in the year 1841. and of our Independence the 65 th year.
St. Crutchfield Clk. of Spotsylvania County, Va.