Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10250, for Benjamin H Munday, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Va.
Munday, Benjamin H. S. 10250
Carded
CONTENTS

Paid at the Treasury under Act of 6 April 1838 from 4 th March 1836 to 4 th Sept 1837 as notified 31. May 1838
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4. Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. as notified 16. Jany 1839.
Virginia 30,680
Benjamin H. Munday of Essex Co. in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Waring of the Regt, commanded by Col. Richardson in the Virg. mil. time for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of June 1836 and sent to Claimant Jappahannock, Va.
Arrears to the 4th of March '36, 100.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4. Sept '36, 10.00 $110.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E. Vol. 6 1/2 Page 25

33043
Munday Benjamin St o
Declaration
pa

State of Virginia Essex County to wit,
On the 10 th day of March 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Essex County now sitting Benjamin H d Munday a resident of said County aged seventy two years on the 14 th of July next 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 hereafter stated - He took the place of Robert Peverley as a substitute some time in the early part of the year 1781 the same year that the British Army surrendered at York Town Virginia and marched in a Company of Vir- ginia Militia commanded by Capt William Waring the other Officers not recollected from the County of Essex to a place called Morvan or Morvan Hills in New Kent County Virginia and the said Company was there attached to a Regiment of Militia under the command of Colo. Holt Richardson a gentle- man by the name of Payton commanded as Major the other Field Officers if there were any, not recollected. The Regiment was marched from the last named place to Richmond Virginia and was there when the Ware house was burnt by a part of the British Army commanded by Lord Cornwallis. This happened sometime in the early part of the Summer of the same year. The Regiment then retreated about forty or fifty miles above Richmond where his term of service having expired he was discharged. During his term he served two months. After joining the Regiment at Morvan or Morvan Hills as above stated he was transferred to a Company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Whithead Solomon attached to the same Regiment in which said Company Edmund Brooke commanded as Lieutenant. Im- mediately after his return home from the service above named he the said Benjamin H d Munday took the place of a man by the name of [blank] of Caroline County as a substitute in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Jamieson the then company Officers not recollected then attached

to the Regiment of Militia on duty in the County of King and Queen that Officer then in command of the Regiment was Colo. John Taylor the names of the other Officers not recol- lected the Regiment marched to different points in the County last named to wit the Point Mill old Church & to Wachapreague old field, Wachapreague Mill &c in the County of Gloucester he served during the same two months during the time that his Regiment was in duty in the Regiment last named Colo. Taylor retired from the service that Regiment was subsequently commanded as well as can be remembered by Colo. Holt Richardson
After the service last stated, he returned home & remained only a few days, when he was drafted and marched in company commanded by Capt. Thomas Allen the other company officers not recollected together with a Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Evans to some Point near James River where the two last named Companies were attached to the Regiment commanded by Colo. Holt Richard- son the other Officers not recollected & remained for some short time on and about James River & marched thence to a Point near York Town Virginia the British Army being then in York where they remained until he was discharged he served during the same two months He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Bess H. Munday
We Philip Montague a Clergyman residing in the County of Essex and Robert Bell residing in the same County hereby Certify, that they are well acquainted with Benjamin H. Munday who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age on the 14 th day of July next, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion - Sworn and subscribed the

the day and year aforesaid
Philip Montague Ro: Hill
At a Court of Quarterly Session began and held for Essex County at the Court-house in Fappahannock on the 16 th day of March 1835
Benjamin St Munday a Soldier in the Revolutionary War this day appears in Court and makes oath to the truth of the statements contained in his written declaration which is read to him by the Court and the Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named Benjamin St Munday was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Philip Montague who signed the Certificate appended to the said written declaration is a Clergyman resident in the County of Essex and that Ro: Hill who has also signed the same is also a resident in the said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - And the Court doth further Certify that Jeremiah Munday this day appeared in Court and deposed on oath that he has heard the said declaration read to him and that he knows of his own knowledge that the services therein stated to have been rendered by the said Benj St Munday were actually rendered, that during the times therein stated to the said Jeremiah Munday was on duty in the same Regiment and during one Tour was in the same Company, and that he was in the daily habit of seeing the said Benjamin St Munday on duty during the times therein specified; and that it is the opinion of the Court that the statements of the said Jeremiah Munday are entitled to credit.
A Copy Just James Roy Micou Jr. CLK
State of Virginia: Essex County Court Clerks Office
I James Roy Micou Jr Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and exact Copy of an order of the said Court in relation to the Military Services of Benjamin St Munday entered in the Proceedings thereof and taken from the records of my said Office -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my said Office this 26 th day of March 1835 in the 59 th year of the Commonwealth
James Roy Micou Jr CLK

Rev War
10.250
INVALID.
File No. 10.250
Benjamin L. Munda
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Virginia Pay d H. Munday
Suspended, see let to claim July 9. 1831
Adm t . 6 mo. per $20.
claimants
Act 7 June '32.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office, January 9 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6 th 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," Benjamin H. Munday, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va. , Agency, at the rate of Twenty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 1 st June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1837, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson H. Pattee Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 18 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;" Benjamin H. Munday a Pensioner on the Roll of the Virginia Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and -- -- -- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 4 th September 1837. —
Respectfully, yours,
Abner K. Parrish Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Payas v o } free June 2 nd } Hon ble . Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington
Claim for Pension under act of 7 th June 1832.

Tappahannock May 20. 1836
To the Honble Louis Cap Secretary of War -
Sir I forward herewith testimony intended to support my declaration for a pension filed during the last Year - Time has destroyed so much of the testimony which I might have availed myself of, that unless the inuendo already submitted be considered satisfactory I shall almost despair of being able to procure any thing further -
Let me assure you that I am pretty well intitled & that other that if I should not succeed it will not be that my claims are not as just as any other which has been submitted -
I be pleased when your decision takes place to let me hear from you -
very Respectful
Ben. H. Munday
aaans
Loyds Poffur
Egan City
Virginia
} }

State of Virginia
Efren County to wit.
I Benjamin H Munday aged seventy three Years in July next do hereby certify, that my declaration for a pension now in file in the War Department under the act of the 7th June 1832, contains as full and a detailed account of my services and the names of the Company and full officers under whom I served as I can at this time furnish, that this application for a pension was delayed because Jeremiah Munday (who was a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832) was the only individual whom he knew that could testify as to all the service rendered by him  me as a soldier of the Revolution. That the said Jeremiah lived in the State of North Carolina a distance of four hundred miles from my residence, that the said Jeremiah was old and infirmed I was apprehensive I never should be able to avail myself of the benefit of his testimony, but contrary to expec- tation, the said Jeremiah visited Efren County the place of his nativity in the Year 1835, when my declaration for a pension was prepared and forwarded to the war depart- ment. - There never was an original affidavit with his signa- ture thereto annexed made out by him. - the said Jeremiah died about the time I was informed that "the original affida- vit of the said Jeremiah Munday, with his proper signature would be required; and I have been unable owing to the great lapse of time, and death to procure testimony of my having resided more other than than of 6000 feet on hills annexed, of Boro H Munday Efren County town.
This 20th May 1836 Benjamin H Munday personally

appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the said county and made oath that the foregoing statement to which his name is subscribed contains the truth - I do certify that the said Benjamin H. Munday is generally reputed and believed by all who know him to have been a soldier of the Revolution - That he is a gentleman of strict veracity and integrity and that full credit ought to be given to his statements given under my hand at the time and year aforesaid -
Thomas C Gordon J.P. Seal
State of Virginia - Pittsylvania County Court Clerk's Office I James Hay Micon Jr Clerk of the said Court in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas C Gordon whose name is subscribed to the foregoing has to subserved in and at the time of his signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly appointed (and) qualified as such according to the laws of the said State (and) that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his (official) acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of Office this 2nd day of May 1836 and in the 60th year of the Commonwealth James Hay Micon Jr Clerk

State of Virginia
Efex County to wit
This day before me Thomas C. Girdler a Justice of the Peace for said County and being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of almighty God deposith and saith
That he is now in the 78 th Year of his age; That during the war of the Revolution, he served three Years in the Regular army and subsequently in the Militia and that he is now receiving a pension under the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832 - That in the autumn of 1781 after the expiration of his term of service in the Regular army he marched in a Company of Militia from the County of Efex Commanded by Capt Thomas Allen in which John Steele acted as Lieutenant to a place at or near James Town and then  also marched from the County of Efex another Company, under the Command of Capt Thomas Evans - when the two Companies arrived at the last named place, they were united to a Regiment under the Command of Colo Hott Richeson - the said Regiment remained in and about James Town for some short time, and marched thence to York Town Virginia, Lord Cornwallis with his army then having possession of the place, the Regiment Commanded by Colo Richeson was stationed in the neighbourhood - This Regiment was recruited that Benjamin H. Munday , performed duty for two months in the Company Commanded by Capt Allen during the

was herein before stated and that he served faithfully until he was regularly discharged. He further states that he has been acquainted with the said Benjamin H. Munday for nearly sixty Years. That he has ever been esteemed a gentleman of honesty and strict morality. That he believes him to be upwards of seventy Years of age and although he cannot state of his own knowledge , that he assumed other service than in the Company of Capt. Allen, this deponent having for the time "four Years" preceding, been absent on duty in the Regular Army, Yet it is believed by all who know him that he did, and this deponent doubts not the fact.
Carter G. Gorton
Known to and subscribed this 29 th day of May in the Year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty six, and I Thomas C. Gordon do further certify that the said Carter Gorton is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Thomas C. Gordon J.P. Seal

Claim for Pension as a soldier of the Revolution under the act of June 7. 1832.
FREE
The Honble. Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington
June 17
Ms
Will

Efex County June 10 th . 1835--
To the H ble Secretary of War -
Sir,
I send herewith a declaration which with the certificates annexed I hope may be sufficient to enable me to draw my pension as a soldier of the Revolutionary War - I have employed no agent to prepare the declaration - nor am I disposed to throw myself in the hands of such as would probably require one half of the little pittance I am entitled to, to prepare the certificates be and have all the requisitions of the department complied with - I must request that as soon as the necessary examination is made you will let me hear from you
Very Respectfully
Br. H Munday -
address to Loyds Post Office Efex County Virginia