Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5933, for John Pierce, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Pierce, John
S 5933
Carded
CONTENTS

Deat
Let. to Hon. Wm. T. Hamilton March 14 th , 1850
12.128
Virginia
John Pierce
of Spotsylvania in the State of Va who was a poor in the  commanded by Captain  of the Reg't commanded by Scott  in the  line for  10 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 24 ts Dollars 43 cs Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of March 1833 and sent to R. L. Stevenson. Fredericksburg
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1833 48.86 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept - 12.21 61.07
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by William Rice Clerk Book E Vol. 6 Page 27

57/5
John Pierce Declaration
Account for 1775 and let. exp. 24.43 24.43 from 1775. Lev. Scot. 75.
A. L. Stevenson Old Stone Bridge Pa.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Virginia } County of Spotsylvania } 33
On this third day of September 1832 personally appeared before open Court before the Justices of the Court of Spotsylvania County , now sitting John Pierce a resident of and in the county of Spotsylvania the State of Virginia aged seventy nine 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
He volunteered in Spotsylvania County where he was born & has always lived, in August 1775, the particular day he does not recollect, in Colonel Joseph Bracks Company, who volunteered there as a Captain, he marched through Caroline County and the James River Country down to Williamsburg where he was put under the command of Genl Charles Scott, & guarded the Capitol & College during he remained there about fifty days & then returned home. Again, in August 1777 the day he does not remember, he volunteered in Spotsylvania County under the command of Cpt Thomas Bartlett marched to Williamsburg & was placed under the command of Colonel Thomas Nelson who there commanded the forces under Patrick Henry the then Governor of Virginia, he remained in service at Williamsburg about two months, returned home & on July 10 th 1781, he was called out as a militia man under Captain John Barber, marched as his orderly Sargeant to Hanover Court House, where General George Weedon, ordered the company to Fredericksburg, he remained there more than two months & was then discharged, he returned home

and was called out in September 1781 by Captain Nicholas Payne, collected Bures all over the County & drove them with the company to Williamsburg, where they were delivered to Comissary Pierce in this service he was engaged about fifty days. He was discharged two days before the surrender of Yorktown
He was born 20 th December 1752, He has no record of his age with him, He has no discharges or original papers He well recollects Colonel Towles, Coln McWilliams, Coln Amere, Colonel Stubblefield & Capt. M c Gankersley
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
I Harry Shaw (aged 74 years) do hereby John Pierce certify that I was in service with John Pierce during his three first tours & declare his statements thereof to be true & believe his his statements in relation to his subsequent services to be correct
Harry Shaw We Philip Bendleton a Clergyman of the County of Spotsylvania and Robert Cannmack of the County of residing in the same county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Pierce who has subscribed & sworn to the above  following declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed & well believed in his neighbourhood for which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Philip Bendleton Robert Cannmack
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 Philip Bendleton who has signed the preceding certificate is a

Chesapeake resident in the County of Spotsylvania and that Robert Carnahan who has signed the same is a resident of the same county and that their statement is entitled to credit. I R Stevenson Clerk of the Court of Spotsylvania County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the applica- tion of John Pierce for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this third day of September 1832 R. L. Stevenson.
Declaration of the aforesaid John Pierce continued and amended
State of Virginia
County of Spotsylvania
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid the foregoing applicant John Pierce who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the con- sequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following order. For fifty days I served as a volunteer in my first tour, for two months I served as a volunteer in my second tour, for two months I served as a militia man in my third tour for fifty days I served as a militia man in my last tour and in all I served eight months and ten days and for such service I claim a pension and he can no further and more particularly specify his said service than he has done in his aforesaid declaration and in this amendment - and he herewith sends the testimony of the said Harry Chew as to his credibility. Given under my hand this 2nd day of December 1832 John Pierce A. M. Cutchfield
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid the foregoing applicant Harry Chew as to his affidavit in the foregoing declaration of John Pierce who made

oath to the truth of his said affidavit and I do certify that said Harry Chen is a person of credit and his said affidavit entitled to all credit.
O. M. Southfield
State of Virginia, Spotsylvania County to wit,
I Richard L. Stevenson Clerk of Spotsylvania County Court in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that O. M. Southfield who has signed the foregoing and millard certificates annexed to the declaration of John Pierce was at the time of signing the same and now is an acting justice of the peace in and for the County of Spotsylvania duly commissioned and qualified to the said office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 4th day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty two R. L. Stevenson
John Pierce 57/15
Account for the year 1832 24.48 per 175 - 1.40 per 100
R. L. Stevenson Clerk of Spotsylvania County Court

Richmond Va Roll Act 7 June 1832 John Pierce, Yrs p 24:43. per annum. To what time last paid? Ans. Sep. 4, 1846.

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5933
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File No. 5933
John Pierce 8 Mi New Kas
Act: June 1th 82
Index: Vol. M , Page 297
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Price
heard
Arrears not claimed
Payments to be made at Richmond. by the Presd. U.S. Br. Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Virginia
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 6 Page 21 - by Rice Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Pierce — of the State of Virginia who was a private in the Army of the Revolution —
is entitled to receive Twenty Four — dollars and Forty Three — cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 26 — day of March — one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

John Price
heir
Arrears not claimed
Payments to be made at Richmond. by the Presd: U.S. Br: Banks Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Virginia
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 6 Page 21- by Rice
Clerk.
John Price heir

John Pierce (died)
W. P. Hamilton dec
Col Edwards
Mohrington J.C.
1891/10/2

Dear Sir.
Be pleased to inform me whether there is any pension due John Peirce a revolutionary soldier. He is dead; but it is supposed that he had not received his pension to his death or near it.
H. J. P.
Feb 21 50
Yours &c William T. Hamilton