Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,002, Thomas Bibee, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Bibee, Thomas.
NUMBER
S. 3,002.
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CONTENTS

26585
East Tennessee
Thomas Bice
of Cocke Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the army commanded by Captain Haggins of the reg t commanded by Col. _____ in the Shenandoah line for 1 year and 5 months
Var. Line. Records corrected. Feb y 9 th
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1834 and Hon John Blair House of Representatives
  Arrears to the 4th of March  170.00    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept e  28.33     $198.33  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan d Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 7 Page 37

State of Tennessee County of Cocke } ss.
On this 1st day of March 1834 personally appeared before Richmond Baker a Justice of the peace for Cocke County and State of Tennessee, Thomas Bibee a resident citizen of the County of Cocke and State of Tennessee, aged about  one hundred  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 4th 1832.
That the Declarant Thomas Bibee has no record of his age and does not know in what year he was born. Before the termination  of the Revolutionary War , he was too old to be subject to Military duty in Virginia. He was born in Goochland County, State of Virginia. Before the Revolutionary War, he removed to Amherst County, State of Virginia. In the month of February day not recollected in the year 1776. This Declarant volunteered for six months under Captain Higginbottom to march to Charleston, South Carolina, to aid in repelling the British who were then about to invade that State. The Company's rendezvous was at the Court House of the County - the Declarant having volunteered to serve at his own expense in that County.

ty. The Declarant was marched under his Captain Hoggins bottom in a Southerly direction - We first crossed the Fluvanna River in Virginia - the Pedee river in North Carolina - and the Santee in South Carolina. The particulars of our route are not sufficiently recollected for me to give a detail of it, through the very impaired state of my memory, which is now almost entirely destroyed. The Declarant was marched near to Charleston, where we joined the American Army under General Lee. Here Declarant served out the term of five months under Captain Higgings bottom, being employed in guarding the City of Charleston, until the British fleet and Army withdrew from before that City, having failed in the attack they made upon the Fort on Sullivan's Island. In the month of July 1776 day not recollected Declarant received a written discharge from his Captain, in the City of Charleston, which discharge he has lost, wherefor which he does not know. In this term Declarant served five months, for which he never received any pay. After receiving his discharge he returned to his home in Amherst County, Va. The Lieutenants and Ensign and Sergeants of this company are not recollected by him. Colonel Moultrie commanded the Fort on the Island and successfully resisted the attack of the British on it. General Lee commanded the American troops on the main land. In the month of February day not recollected

ted, in the year 1779 - This Declarant again Volunteered under Captain Reed (Lt and Ensigns being for- getten) to march to Charleston, South Carolina, to aid in repelling an invasion of that State. Decla- rant volunteered at this time for Six months. He volunteered at home and from Smithurst Court House in the month of February day not recollected 1779 he was again marched to the South as before, and joined the Ame- rican Army under Genl. Lincoln near Char- leston. The Lieutenants, Ensign and Sergeants of this company are not recollected. Decla- rant's company was attached to General Mason's Virginia Brigade - Colonel Washington and one of my strong regular officers were there General Moultrie of Genl. Declarant was in the attack upon the British forces under Col. Maitland at Stone - which attack was unsuccessful, a considerable number of our men being killed. In the month of August day not recollected, in the year 1779 - after serving Six months the Declarant was discharged by his Cap- tain in the City of Charleston and returned to his home in Smithurst County Va.
Shortly after his return from this tour in the month of Declarant, not being then subject to military duty, in the month of September 1779 day not recollected became a substitute for one Johnson and marched back to the South, where he served under General Pinckney until just before the taking of Charleston by the British in 1780 returning home, having received a verbal discharge from his Captain in March 1780. written

The name of this Captain is gone from his memory. From Amhurst County, Virginia, Declarant moved to North Carolina, on the Yadkin river, thence he moved to Burke County, N.C. then to Rutherford - then to Buncombe and then to Cocke County, Tennessee, where he has lived for twenty two years and where he now lives, being now , as he has been for many years, supported by his Step Son. Declarant does not recollect the number of years, which he lived in each of the places to which he moved. He was at the time at the time of the Revolution excused from Military duty in Virginia, being then just passed the age at which the Citizens of that State were exempted by law from Military Service - which, he believes, was fixed at fifty five years of age in that State. And according to an estimate from this fact he is now upwards of one hun- -dred years of age. The Declarant never received any compensation for his services. He has no documentary evidence of his services, nor does he know of any person living, by whom he can prove his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annu- ity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State. Declarant has so much lost his memory that he may be mistaken in the names of his Captains

Recd - and so much gone is his memory that he cannot recall that of his third Captain. or the particulars of his services, as he could wish. Interlined and erased before signed. his Sworn to and Subscribed Thomas Bitce before me this 1st day of March Mark
1834. Nichmond Boker P. O. B. J. Justice of the peace { for Cocke county }
Question 1st.
Where and in what year was you born?
Answer 1st. I was born in Goochland County State of Virginia; I do not know in what year I was born. From the best evidence that I have, I am upwards  about of one hun- -dred years old.
Question 2nd. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer 2nd. I have no record of my age.
Question 3rd. When were you living, when called into Service; when have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and when do you now live?
Answer 3rd. When called into Service, I was living in Amherst County, State of Vir- -ginia. Since the Revolutionary War I have lived in Virginia, North Caro- lina, and Cocke County, State of Ten- nessee, where I now live.

Question 4th. How were you called into Service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute? and if a Substitute for whom?
Answer 4th. I volunteered twice for six months each time - and I became a Substitute a third time for one Johnson for six months. I served seventeen months in South Carolina in the years 1776 and 1779-80. Question 5th. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer 5th. My memory has so very much failed that I cannot recollect the particulars of my service, as I could wish. I served as a Volunteer under Capt. Huggins bottom from February 1776 day not recollected until July 1776 day not recollected - a period of five months - This service was in South Carolina at Charles Town under General Lee - General Moultrie was one of the General Officers. Other Officers not recollected. I again served as a Volunteer under Captain Reed from February 1779 day not recollected until August 1779 day not recollected.

a period of six months — In this Service, I was in South Carolina, near Charleston upon General Pinckney. I became a Substitude for one Johnson in September 1779 upon a Captain whose name I can't recall, for six months. I was in the Battle of Stono — which was an attack upon Genl. Lincoln upon Col. Maitland, who commanded a considerable body of British at Stono — in this attack we were unsuccessful, loosing many of our men. This was in my second term — My third term was in South Carolina. I served in all seventeen months.
Question 6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Answer 6th. I received written discharges from my Captain at the end of each of the periods I served. I know not when or where I lost them. I never expected that they would be of any service to me, and I never took any care of them. Question 7th. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.

Answer 4th. I would refer to the Rev. Lon. Manning M. Joseph Onal and Major W. P. Gillett who have all known me for many years, who can be examined touching my character for veracity their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution, and concerning the belief of my neighbourhood as to my services. Interlined and names here signed. Sworn to and Subscribed Thomas, † Bibee before me this 1 st day of March 1834. Mark
Richmond Boker Justice of the Peace For Cocke County
We Joseph Manning a Clergyman residing in the County of Cocke and Joseph Onal and Major W. P. Gillett residing in the same hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with Thomas Bibee who has Subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration and annexed answers; that we believe him to be upwards of  about one hundred years of age, 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; We have been acquainted with them for

State of Tennessee } County of Cocke } ss.
On this 1st day of March 1834 personally appeared before Richmond Baker a Justice of the peace for Cocke County and State of Tennessee, Thomas Bibee a resident citizen of the County of Cocke and State of Tennessee, aged about  one hundred one hundred 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 7th 1832.
That the Declarant Thomas Bibee has no record of his age and does not know in what year he was born. Before the termination  of the Revolutionary War, he was too old to be subject to Military duty in Virginia. He was born in Goochland County, State of Virginia. Before the Revolutionary War, he removed to Amherst County, State of Virginia. In the month of February day not recollected in the year 1776. This Declarant volunteered for six months under Captain Higginbottom to march to Charleston, South Carolina, to aid in repelling the British who were then about to invade that State. The Company as undersigned was at the Court House of the County - the Declarant having volunteered to serve at his home in that County.

ty. The Declarant was marched under his Captain Higgings bottom in a Southerly direction - We first crossed the Fluvanna River in Virginia - the Pedee river in North Carolina - and the Santee in South Carolina. The particulars of our route are not sufficiently recollected for me to give a detail of it, through the very impaired state of my memory, which is now almost entirely destroyed. The Declarant was marched near to Charleston, where we joined the American Army under General Lee. Here Declarant served out the term of five months under Captain Higgings bottom, being employed in guarding the City of Charleston, until the British fleet and Army withdrew from before that City, having failed in the attack they made upon the Fort on Sullivan's Island. In the month of July 1776 Declarant day not recollected received a written discharge from his Captain, in the City of Charleston, which discharge he has lost, when for which he does not know. In this term Declarant served five months, for which he never received any pay. After receiving his discharge he returned to his home in Amherst County, Va. The Lieutenants and Ensign and Sergeants of this company are not recollected by him. General Moultrie commanded the Fort on the Island and successfully resisted the attack of the British on it. General Lee commanded the American troops on the Main land. In the month of February day not recollected

3 ted, in the year 1779. This Declarant again Volunteered under Captain Reed (Lt) and his men being for- gotten to March to Charleston, South Carolina, to aid in repelling an invasion of that State. Decla- rant volunteered at this time for Six months. He volunteered at home and from Smyth Court House in the month of February day not recollected 1779 he was again marched to the South as before, and joined the Amer- ican Army under Genl. Lincoln near Char- leston. The Lieutenants, Ensign and Sergeants of this company are not recollected. Decla- rant's company was attached to General Mason's Virginia Brigade - Colonel Washington and one of Armstrong, regular officers - General Moultrie a Genl. Declarant was in the attack upon the British forces under Col. Maitland at Stone - which attack was unsuccessful, a considerable number of our men being killed. In the month of August day not recollected, in the year 1779 - after serving Six months this Declarant was discharged by his Cap- tain in the City of Charleston and returned to his home in Smyth County Va.
Shortly after his return from this tour in the month of Declarant, not being then subject to military duty, in the month of September 1779 day not recollected became a substitute for one Johnson and marched back to the South, where he served under General Lincoln until just before the taking of Charleston by the British in 1780. Returning home, having received a verbal  written discharge from his Captain in March 1780.

The name of this Captain is gone from his memory. From Amhurst County, Virginia, Declarant moved to North Carolina, on the Yadkin river, thence he moved to Bunke County, N.C. then to Rutherford - then to Boncombe and then to Cocke County, Tennessee, where he has lived for twenty two years and where he now lives being now , as he has been for many years, supported by his Step Son. Declarant does not recollect the number of years, which he lived in each of the places to which he moved. He was at the time termination of the revolution excused from Military duty in Virginia, being then just passed the age at which the Citizens of that State were exempted by law from Military Service - which, he believes, was fixed at fifty five years of age in that State. And according to an estimate from this fact he is now upwards of one hundred -odd years of age. The Declarant never received any compensation for his services. He has no documentary evidence of his services, nor does he know of any person living, by whom he can prove his services. 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. Declarant has so much lost his memory that he may be mistaken in the name of his Captain

Recd - and so much gone is his memory that he cannot recall that of his third Captain or the particulars of his services, as he could wish. Interlined and erased before signed. his Sworn to and Subscribed Thomas Bibee before me this 1st day of March Mark 1834.
Nichmond Boker P. Co. Ky Justice of the peace for Cocke county
Question 1st
When and in what year were you born?
Answer 1st. I was born in Goochland County State of Virginia; I do not know in what year I was born. From the best evidence that I have, I am about  upwards of one hundred years old.
Question 2nd. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer 2nd. I have no record of my age.
Question 3rd. When were you living, when called into service; when have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where
do you now live?
Answer 3rd. When called into service, I was living in Amherst County, State of Virginia. Since the Revolutionary War I have lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and Cocke County, State of Tennessee, where I now live.

Question 4th. How were you called into Service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a Substitute? and if a Substitute for whom?
Answer 4th. I volunteered twice for six months each time - and I became a Substitute a third time for one Johnson for six months. I served seventeen months in South Carolina in the years 1776 and 1779-80. Question 5th. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer 5th. My memory has so very much failed that I cannot recollect the particulars of my service, as I could wish. I served as a Volunteer under Capt. Huggin Cotton from February 1776 day not recollected until July 1776 day not recollected - a period of five months - This service was in South Carolina at Charles Town under General Lee - General Moultrie was one of the General Officers. Other Officers not recollected. I again served as a Volunteer under Captain Reed from February 1779 day not recollected until August 1779 day not recollected

Question 6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Answer 6th. I received written discharges from my Captains at the end of each of the periods I served. I know not when or where I have lost them. I never expected that they would be of any service to me, and I never took any care of them. Question 7th. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for unacity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.

Answer 4th. I would refer to the Rev. Lon. Manning M. Joseph O'Neal and Major W. P. Gillett who have all known me for many years, who can be examined touching my character for veracity their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution, and concerning the belief of my neighbourhood as to my services. Interlined and erased before signed. Sworn to and Subscribed Thomas, Bibee before me this 1 st day of March 1834.
Mark
Richmond Boker Justice of The peace For Essex County

We Joseph Manning a Clergyman residing in the County of Cocke and Joseph Oneal and Major W. P. Gillett residing in the same County Certify, that we are well acquainted with Thomas Bibee who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and annexed answers; that we believe him to be upwards of  about one hundred years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion; We have been acquainted with them for

a period of six months — In this Ser- vice, I was in South Carolina, near Char- leston upon General Pineholw. I became a Subtitute for one Johnson in September 1779 upon a Captain whose name I can't recall, for six months I was in the Battle of Stone — which was an attack upon Genl Lincoln upon Col. Maitland, who command a con- siderable body of British at Stone — in this attack we were unsuccessful, loosing many of our men. This was in my second term — My third term was in South Carolina. I served in all Seventeen months.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section ILL
August 29, 1930.
Mrs. J. Cooke Grayson P.O.Box 105 Charlottesville, Virginia.
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 3002, that Thomas Bibee was born in Goochland County, Virginia, from which county he moved to Amherst County, Virginia.
While residing in Amherst County, Virginia, and being too old for military duty, he volunteered in February, 1776, and served five months as a private in Captain Higginbottom's Virginia Company; he volunteered again in February, 1779, served six months as a private in Captain Reid's Company and was in the battle of Stone under Colonel Maitland; he served from September, 1779, in the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, and was discharged there in March, 1780, length of service six months.
After the war, soldier moved from Amherst County, Virginia, to Burke County, North Carolina, thence to Rutherford and Buncombe Counties, same state, and from there to Cocke County, Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 1, 1834, while a resident of Cocke County, Tennessee, aged about one hundred years. At that time, soldier stated that he had resided in Cocke County for about twenty-two years, having made his home with a step-son for ten years. There is no further reference to a family.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.
Pleasant Bybee - W 18687 - same date

1930 - Hist. to Mrs. J. C. Grayson. her letter N. 18687 - Pleasant Bryce, same date - ELL.
Reckman
3002 INVALID.
File No. 3002
Thomas Bibee
Potomac line
Act: June 17/32
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 31
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Virginia Line. Records corrected Feb 9 '04

Thomas Reuben
Declaration
29 993
for 1776 per 17 m
$56. 66 100
Sent me by P B Anderson, to be placed on Knoxville agency
John Blair

State of Tennessee } County of Cocke }
I. G. M c . Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Cocke and State aforesaid, hereby certify that Rich- mond Baker, who has attested the signature and oath of Thomas Bibee to the foregoing declaration and annexed Answers, and who has also attested the Sig- nature and oaths of the Clergyman and Testifying Citizens to their certificate in be- half of said Bibee, and who has subscribed a certificate in behalf of said Bibee, is an acting Justice of the Peace of Cocke County duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit is due to all his acts as such; and that his signature, where- it appears in the foregoing papers, is his genuine signature. And I. hereby certify that the Certificate, which bears the signa- ture of W m Kelly, Isaac Neff, and John J. Howell, was signed by them in open Court after a full examination of the evidence in support of the application of Thomas Bibee for a pension and that these three Magistrates of Cocke, were then sitting as the Quorum Court of Cocke County - at its February Sessions - though signed by them on 1 st day of March. 1834 - the same being the last day of the term - which commenced on the 4 th Monday of February 1834. In testimony whereof

Many years, he has always been reputed to be a man of veracity and integrity he is now reputed and to be extremely old, and we con- cur in that opinion. Interline, and era- durs made before signed. Jos. Maning Clergyman Sworn to and Subscribed. before me this 1st day of Joseph O'Neal March 1834. Wm D Gillett
Richmond Boker Justice of the peace For Cocke County
And the said Justice of the peace hereby declares his opinion, after the investiga- tion 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; that the said Applicant's memory, is extremely frail from his great age, which appears to him, from the best informa- tion that he has  about had, to be seventy at one hundred years. And the said Justice further certifies, that it appears to him that Joseph Maning who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resi- dent in the County of Cocke and that W. Joseph O'Neal and Major Wm D Gillett who have also signed the same are resident

Citizens of Cocke County, and an endi- ble persons and that their Statement is entitled to credit, and that Thomas Bibb is unable to attend Court. Richmond Dobson
Justice of the peace For Cocke County
State of Tennessee } County of Cocke } February Session 1834
The Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions now Sitting for the County of Cocke and State aforesaid, having examined the evidence in support of the application of Thomas Bibb, a Citizen of Cocke County for a pension upon the act of June 17th 1833. which appears in the foregoing papers, hereby certify that the same is credible and that Said Court further certify  declare their opinion that the Said Thomas Bibb was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states - and that it appears to them that the Said Thomas Bibb is unable from old age and ina- bility is unable to attend Court.
In testimony whereof and thereunto have hereunto set our hands and seals this 10th day of February 1834.
Wm Kelley Isaac Hoff John D. Howard

I have hereunto set my hand and private Seal, having no public Seal of Office at Office New York, the 10th day of March 1834.
G. M. Porter clerk