Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5897, for John Peters, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va. _____
Peters John _____
S 5897 _____
Carded
CONTENTS

deed Feby 6 1836 12,009
Virginia
John Peters —
File — in the State of Va who was a pr. & En — in the Compny by Captain Rush — of the Regt by Roll — in the Va: line for 8 mo: 14 days —
commanded commanded
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 63 — Dollars 33 — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 — day of March 1833 — and sent to David French, File 618. Va
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 126.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept — 31.66
158.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk book 6 — Vol. 6 Page 21
Dead
Paid at the Treasury the Act of the 6th from 4 March 1834 to the 16 Feby 1836, the day of his death. Age now filed 3 Feb 1839.
Col. A. G. Pay Master for Virginia

John Peters Virginia No 3433
Adm't for 5 mo 10 Ensign 53 33 3 " private 10 from 1777 Page 70 $ 63 33 Copy Rank Vol Roll & N o Miller H.
See list Nov 20-1832
David French Giles Co. Va.

BRIEF in the case of  John Peters  of Giles County in the State of Virginia  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 3. How old is he? 77 Years 4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1777 & served two years & 3 mo. each 6 20 As a Ensign Genl Washington Lafayette Muenchenburg Warner & Stephenson Col John Hall Capt John Rush   1781 In the capacity of Ensign but was discharged by Genl Stephenson for losing his baggage before the three months expired 5 10 Pirate Genl Stephenson Col William Hall Col Duke Capt Ryan   3 4   8 10  
5. In what battles was he engaged? — 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rockingham County Virginia
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? One living witness in part & traditional evidence 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Ashe Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 29 th 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of John Peters, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Virginia, Agency, at the rate of Sixty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March 1834, to the 6 th February, 1836, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
William E. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

N o 3433
John Peters
declaration in order to obtain a pension
P.B.

State of Virginia: County of Giles to wit:
On this thirty first day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the peace for the County Court of Giles now sitting John Peters a resident of Giles County State of Virginia aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he received the commission of ensign and performed the duties of said office for two terms of duty of three months each. The first Capt o to whose company he belonged was Capt o John Rush under the command of Col o Noll in the year 1779 as he believes or at all events just a short time before Gates defeat at Camden. He was in no General engagement with the enemy that he enlisted in the State of Virginia. Rockingham County and was ordered into service from said County & State on his first term and was marched from said County to Richmond in Virginia and was engaged during the time in the vicinity of said place having performed the term of service he returned home.
The second term was also in the character of an ensign for three months but was discharged by Genl l Stephenson from an accident before the end of the term (to wit for having lost his baggage and clothing on the march) under Capt o Razem and under Col o William Wall of Rockingham until they reached the low country where they were transferred to Col o Danks and Matthews. The second service was in the year of 1781 and he was discharged just before the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and was engaged in the marches & manoeuvres which preceded his capture. He resided in the County of Rockingham.

and State aforesaid during both those periods he was in connection with the regular troops of Genl Lafayette and Muhlburg Wayne and Harrison and with Genl Washington on his march to Yorktown he had a discharge for the Second Term but has lost the same but for the first term of service he had no discharge or other well evidenced of the same he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State whatsoever
Sworn to in open court John Peters
Jacob Meadows a witness was produced before the court who upon oath declared that he was in the service of the United States at the time the said John Peters was and saw and knew him well and that he always understood he was an ensign in the same that they both resided in the same county and were my neighbours and acquaintances
We John H Rutter a clergyman residing in the County of Giles and John M'Clougherty residing in the same county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Peters who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed to this 30 th day of February 1839
and the court do hereby John H. Rutter John M'Clougherty
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above

Named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that John M Rutter who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Giles and that David French who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Giles and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I David French Clerk of the County Court of Giles County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John M Rutter for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office the 2 nd day of June 1832 of the Commonwealth the 57 th Year.
David French Clerk of Giles County

January 8, 1938
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Mr. O. E. Peters Calvert City Kentucky
John Peters, S.5897 BA-J/MCS Car
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, John Peters, who enlisted from Rockingham County, Virginia.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.5897, based upon the military service of John Peters.
The date of birth, place of birth and names of the parents of this soldier were not given.
While living in Rockingham County, Virginia, he entered the service in 1780, shortly before the battle of Camden, and served three months as ensign in Captain John Rush's company in Colonel Noll's Virginia regiment. He also served from July 19, 1781, for about three months as ensign with the Virginia troops under Captain Ragen and Colonels William Nall, Dark and Mathews.
John Peters was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, at which time he was seventy-seven years of age and was living in Giles County, Virginia.
He died February 6, 1836, leaving children. The names of his children and that of his wife were not given.
In 1832 one Christian Peters stated that he knew John Peters during the Revolution, relationship not shown.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rowan
5897
INVALID.
File No. 5897
John Peters
Ensign Roer War
Act: June 9 th /32
Index:—Vol. M , Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1936 Feb. 4. hist. to Hon. John Kee W.C.S. 1938 Jan. 8, hist. to Hon. O.E. Peters W.C.S.
Enlist Rockingham Co Va - 1832 in Giles County

Friend
Peters Town Va Dec 10 th
There is an old & infirm Man in My Neighbourhood in Giles County Virginia. by Name John Peters who Was a Revolutionary Soldier. and Who Was rewarded by a Pension for his services until about 2 years back When there was a suspension placed upon all Pensions. due to persons residing in said County of Giles & about 3 months since that suspen- =sion was taken off. but it appears upon application at the Pension agency in Virginia that Mr Peters is not on the books and cannot be paid unless directed by you Now this is to request you to inform myself in behalf of John Peters the Cause (if any) why said Pension can = not be paid. & also inform me What Course can be pursued to gain it. Mr. Peters I imagine can furnish Satisfactory proof of having served

in the Revolutionary War and in addition to that Mr Peter is truly in want of the assistance of Government being in low circumstances & very old & infirm
If you would be good enough to inform me in what way he shall proceed to get his money
You will much oblige
Yours Respectfully
J. L. Edwards
J. M. Byrneside
Washington
D. G.

hills county to wit of the state of Virginia Also on this 31. st day of December 1832. personally appeared in open court. Thomas Walker and Christian Peters who being first duly sworn doth make the following deponent : The said Christian Peters was acquainted with the said applicant John Peters and that he knew he was an enlisted in the company and regiment stated in the declaration and that he saw him in the actual discharge of his duty as stated, but he knows it was in the year that the first lower referred to in the declar- ation hereunto annexed was in the year 1780: and that the time which he served was three entire months. The said Christian Peters also knows that the second lower was for three months as stated in the annexed declaration and under the officers referred to. and that it was in the char- acter of an enlisted as stated. and knows that it was for three months, which he recollects was in the year 1781 as stated in the declaration. and also recollects that he was discharged a few days before the time of his service expired. The said Thomas Walker states that he saw and knows that the said John Peters was an enlisted as stated in his declaration in the regiment of Colo. Miller and Mole and Captain Rogers, and that it was in the year 1781. he was and has been acquainted with the applicant. from the year 1774 until this time and he knows that his second lower was for three months and recollects. that he left the company a short time before

the tower terminated he distinctly recollects that the second tower was commenced on the 19th day of July 1781. Swore to and sub- scribed in open court this day & year above written
Christian Peters Thomas Walker
And the court doth certify that the above Christian Peters, & Thomas Walker are men of respectability and veracity and entitled to full credit on oath.
Giles county to wit:
This 28 day of January 1832 personally appeared in open court John Peters who on his oath after being duly sworn saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of the time he left the service before the second term of service expired but he states positively that the two terms was for three months each and that he believes he quit about 19 or 20 days before the second term expired that the first term was in the capacity of an enlisted and for three months. The second was for the like time and in the same capacity.
John Peters

Virginia town
This amended Declaration of
I David French Clerk of Giles County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the of the application of John Peters for a pension and also his amended declaration together with the evidence of Christian Peters and Thomas Walker given in open Court in support of the application for a pension by the said John Peters and the Court do certify that the said Christian Peters and Thomas Walker are men of respectability and veracity and are entitled to full credit when on oath and the Court do hereby declare their opinion that the said John Peters was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of February 1833
David French Clerk

JOHN KEE 5TH DIST. WEST VIRGINIA
Very Old
MEMBER OF COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Congress of the United States House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
January 30th,
1 9 3 6.
Mr. A. D. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator, Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Hiller:
I shall appreciate it very much if you will kindly furnish me with a written report in regard to the Revolutionary War record of John Peters , of Giles County, Virginia, Pen. 2, 140.
Thanking you for your attention to this request, and assuring you of my sincere appreciation of your many courtesies, I am
Sincerely yours,
John Kee
K-b

Calvert City, Ky. Jan. 2, 1938.
Veterans Admr. Washington, D.C.
Sirs:
Thanking you most sincerely, for your letter of last August, which you number-BA-J/ILL- Christian Peters - S 5898.
In this letter you refer to a brother John of the soldier
His brother John was also a soldier of the Revolution and enlisted from Rockingham County.
War records show that a John Peters was in the 6th Va Regiment, transferred about Oct. 1778 to the 2nd Va. Regiment commanded by Col. Christian Febiger.
Would you please send me what you can of this soldier John , it will probably show the information I am seeking, or will give further information than I now have.
His Company Captains, were Nicholas Hobson, Capt John Stokes.
I shall very much appreciate it.
Yours
O.H.Peters
m.c.S.

February 4, 1936
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BA-J/MCS John Peters, S. 5897
Honorable John Kee House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
My dear Mr. Kee:
Reference is made to your letter of January 30, 1936, requesting the Revolutionary War record of John Peters of Giles County, Virginia.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 5897, based upon the military service of John Peters.
The date of birth, place of birth and names of parents of this soldier were not given.
While living in Rockingham County, Virginia, he entered the service in 1780, shortly before the battle of Camden, and served three months as ensign in Captain John Rush's company in Colonel Moll's Virginia regiment. He also served from July 19, 1781, for about three months as ensign with the Virginia troops under Captain Ragen and Colonels William Wall, Dark and Mathews.
John Peters was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, at which time he was seventy-seven years of age and was living in Giles County, Virginia.
He died February 6, 1836, leaving children. The names of his children and that of his wife were not given.
In 1832 one Christian Peters stated that he knew John Peters during the Revolution, relationship not shown.
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator