Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5768, for Henry Mitchell, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
★ Mitchell, Henry
S. 5768
CONTENTS
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Virginia
Henry Mitchell of Franklin Co. in the State of Virginia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain James Marshall of the Regt. commanded by _____ in the Virginia Line for Militia for eight months from 1779.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Feb y 1833. and Seal No. 16. Clanton A.R.
  Arrears to 4th of September 1832  39.99    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 1833  13.33  
Sub l 53.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Henry H. Stephens Clerk Book 20. Vol. 7 Page 126

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5768
INVALID.
File No. 5768
Henry Mitchell
Prov. Beer War
Act: June 4 th /32
Index:—Vol. M , Page 257
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Virginia
Franklin County
On this 7 th day of January 1833 personally appeared in Open Court before Moses Green & Henry Cooper Josiah W. Dickerson & John H. Alford justices of this Court of Franklin County and sitting Henry Mitchell a Resident in the County of Franklin and State of Virginia aged about seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law with an oath make the following declaration in order to obtain to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 1832
That he entered the Service under the following names Officers and served as here in stated that he was drafted some time in the month of September 1779 as soon as he arrived at the age of sixteen (the precise day not recollecting) in the County of Brunswick and put under the Command of Capt James Marshall and marched to Cobbs Point below Petersburg where he found the Army, he being very young the Field or general Officers he does not recollect where he served Three months and was honorably discharged he again entered the Service in the Militia about the first day of April 1780 from the County of Brunswick and was put under the Command of Capt Wilkins and marched to McRies Mills and formed a Battalion Commanded by

May. Boyce where we were generally stationed but frequently sent to Sleepy Hole Ferry on Waccamaw River as a guard of the two places where we had to do duty every night and at the end of three months was again honorably discharged. He again entered the service from the same County and put under the command of Capt James Harrison some time in the month of July 1781 and marched to the point of Fork where General Greene was posted with his Army. He was in the rear of his Army and marched to Charlotte Court House from there to the foot of Shady below Richmond after serving seven weeks was taken by a Company of Militia from the same County of Brunswick and he returned home, and about the first of September following he entered the service as a volunteer in the capacity of a horseman of Col. Callie, and furnished his own horse, under the command of Commissary Charles Edmunds (as he was then known) they collected a drove and drove them to Cobbin Point and from there to Petersburg Virginia where they were delivered, he was a useful employee in collecting another drove which was delivered about seven miles above York Town on James River for the General Army. about the time Genl Cornwallis surrendered his Army. in which service he was kept seven weeks. In addition to the officers under which he served he also knew General Lawson Col. George Tucker

Henry Mitchell Debt for a pension
Mrs. Mitchell

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 certify that it appears to them that Joseph Pedigo who has deposed and sworn to the affidavit is a Clergyman Resident in the County of Henry near the County line of Franklin and is the nearest Resident Clergyman to Henry Mitchell and that B H Cook & John Puckett who has deposed the preceding Certificate is Resident in the County of Franklin and is Creditable persons and their Statement is entitled to Credit
Virginia To all Cit.
Henry Mitchell
I Caleb Sale Clerk of the County Court of Franklin do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Mitchell for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this January 1833 Caleb Sale Esq
claiborne
Joseph Pedigo A Minister of the Gospel do certify on oath that Henry Mitchell the Applicant for a pension is generally reputed

proceedings of the Supr Court in the matter of the application of Henry Mitchell for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this January 1833 Caleb T. Lake Esq
Clatskanie
San Diego A certificate of the Hospital do certify all that Henry Mitchell an applicant for a pension is hereby reported served in the a soldier in the Revolutionary war and that I concur in that opinion and that I for some reason would believe any statement he would make on oath under my hand this 11th January 1833
San Diego
Sworn to before me Geo Bravely a justice of the peace for the County of Henry this 11th day of January 1833 Geo Bravely

May. I was and many others of Superior Rank. which was in service at the Court of Fork at the same time he further states that his documentary evidence is either lost or mislaid and can therefore have no reference to it. after the war. Came he moved from the County of Brunswick to Mecklenburg. County from thence to Franklin County in the year 1797. Where he has lived ever since he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his service having seen none of the persons with whom he served for upwards of thirty years. 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 service Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Henry Mitchell
We John Pinkard & Benjamin Flook Residing in the County of Franklin do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Mitchell who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration that we believe him to be about seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and we concur in that opinion sworn and subscribed the year aforesaid Benjamin Flook John Pinkard