Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8197, for James Philips, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Philips, James
Rs 197
CONTENTS

100. Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
8197
P. O. _____
James Phillips
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of Tennessee Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Giles County 3rd May term 1825.
In this 24 th day of May 1825 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the County of Giles James Phillips resident in said County aged nearly five years who being first duly sworn, according to law, with one his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said James Phillips entitled for the term of six ten months for the date not recollected in the year 1812 in the state of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain John Powell in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Blood Edmonds in the time of the state of Virginia on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of his said term of service when he was dischar- ged from the said service in Elizabeth in the state of Virginia -
That he was in no  other battles of except a Battle at the aforesaid place where he was discharged - That he was discharged by Genl John Bradford, & has had said discharge accidentally consumed by fire; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services - - -
And in pursuance of an act of the 1 st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my prop- erty, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled 'an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States'

in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th of March 1818; & that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or security contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me Subscribed.
The schedule of the property of the above declarant. I am by profession (or rather was when I was able) a cultiva- tor of the earth - I am now altogether unable to pur- sue my profession - My wife who is near eighty years of age, is the only Member of my family - She is unable to contribute anything to my support, or to my property except one bed, & an axe - I have nothing -
I have been declared on the 24th day of May 1825 in open Court -
James H. Phillips sworn to and declared on the 24th day of May 1825, in open Court -
James H. Phillips Gerrit Smith clerk

German Fisher Clerk of the court of the county of Giles.

P. O. 14,712.
James Phillips Giles Co. Tenn. German Lester. Pulaski, Tenn.
Pulaski
Recd. 29 July 1828.
197
Rejected July 30. 1828.
for letter to Agent
Washington City.
James Phillips Giles Co. Tenn. German Lester. Pulaski, Tenn.