Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 981, Joseph Bobo, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Bobo, Joseph
NUMBER
R. 981
CONTENTS

(1) Virginia Brice William County To wit At a Court held for said County on Monday being the 6 th day of April 1846 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of said County now sitting Joseph Robb a Resident of said County aged about eighty six 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 the seventh 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in after stated being altogether in the Militia of the State of Virginia, That his first tour was one of six months which he can prove by two witnesses to wit Daniel Boles of Culpepper County Virginia a now but formerly of the aforesaid County of Brice William and Daniel O'Neal of the said County of Brice William Virginia both of whom are now alive and were in service with him during the aforesaid tour of six months and under the same officers and from the same County, That the particulars of said tour which was raised to go south

are as follows, that in the month of September in the year 1780 Captain John Britt of Prince William County Va raised a Company and marched to North Carolina. That of said Company he remembers one William Farris was Lieutenant. That Solomon Ewell was orderly sergeant of said Company and he thinks one Andrew Clayton was Ensign. That one Philip Conner held some office in said Company but that he cannot positively say what it was-thinks however that he had something to do with dealing out provisions. That in respect to these officers he cannot be mistaken because he knew the aforesaid Captain Britt before this war and remembers to have been at his home house on several occasions before the same. That at that time said Britt resided in Prince William County at a place now called Millford and owned by William Mier Esq. at which place there has been within some years past a Mill built on Bull Run. That he was acquainted with Lieutenant Farris also before this war and remembers that at the time he was Inspector of Tobacco in Dumfries which was at that early day raised in great quantities in his native County of Prince William

but that said Farris was a resident in the vicinity of Dumfries and not of the Town itself That he also knew Solomon Ewell before said tour and that he did not live far from his residence at the time of said tour under him - That Col. Geo. Dutton an officer of said company he did not know until said tour, but that during the same he became well acquainted with him - That as before said the draft was made the last of September in the year 1780 as well as he can recollect and that the first of October his company took up their line of march at Dumfries for the South That his company marched to Fredericksburg and he thinks quartered there a few days and then marched on by where Richmond now stands and was then a small place - That at or in the neighborhood of Richmond his company was stationed about a week and then marched by Chesterfield C.H. at which place they did not make any stop that he now remembers of - and that at Petersburg beyond Chesterfield C.H. his company was quartered for some time he cannot be positive as to the exact time and

(4) from Petersburg his company marched direct on to Roanoke in Virginia and at that place his company was stationed for several weeks awaiting orders as he heard whether to go on to the South or to return back to Williamsburg That before reaching said place his company was joined by another Militia company from Fair Fax County under the Command of Captain William Mason and that he found one of his old acquaintances Frank Sanford a private under Mason. he being from from Fairfax County which adjoins Prince William. That said Masons company kept with his own during the entire tour and according to his memory was not separated a single day. That from Roanoke his company marched to Hillsborough in N. C and that place was called head quarters at that time and from this went on to a place called Chesaw Hills in South Carolinas and from Chesaw Hills to 96 and from to various other places which he cannot refer to for he never knew. That of said company he knew all the men from his part of the county and remembers that

(5) according to the rule six soldiers would tuted a mess and that himself the said Joseph Bobo Benjamin Reves William Reves his brother Clayton Southerland John Hays and Henry Coosen were the mess during said tour of six months. In addition to this he remembers Daniel Cole Daniel O'Neal both of whom are now alive enlisted of the Mt. Andersons William Legg John Steel John Stewart and Triplett mess privates from his part of the County. That no battle occurred during their stay in the south and although his company was at times associated with a great many other troops he cannot say they were regulars. They might have been for aught he knew the Militia. That his tour having expired four of his fellow soldiers together with himself applied for a discharge which was given them in one and placed in the hands of John Henderson who came with him home. That of said discharge he knows nothing and supposes Henderson himself took no care of it. That his time expired near Hillsborough in North Caro- lina and he came home. Others of his company

(6) joined a Volunteer Company to carry prisoners to Charlottesville in Virginia - That he has no documentary evidence in support of his Claim and that he reached home from said tour in 1781 in the month of April. That nothing of a remarkable Character occurred during said tour worth while to be mentioned here. That his Company was poorly provided with tents and that during the winter their shelters were made of Pine brush. The suffering from colds however was not very severe That for said tour of six months in the Militia he Claims a Pension, and hopes the same will be allowed him being very poor and dependent upon his Country for a support. That he always considered himself entitled to pay for said service and requested his neighbour William Wirt Esq. some years ago to attend to it for him and promised so to do but that he has heard nothing from him in refer- to its issue and supposes he gave it up That the said Wirt is a farmer by profession and might have been at a loss for informa- tion as to the mode of proceeding in such cases - by his reasons however what it may be has not been informed of it himself, That

(1) he has always resided in Prince William County Virginia where he was born and raised and that the above facts so far as relates to Mr. Wiers understanding can be verified by his own affidavit being yet alive and a respectable citizen of the said County of Prince William. That Mr. Daniel O'Neal by whom he expects to prove the services herein before mentioned is now a very old man and is brother to Major Enoch O'Neal of the last war also of Prince William and now in his 84 year, both of whom are men of the highest respectability and standing in society. That Mr. Daniel Cole now of Culpepper was raised in Prince William and was brother to Richard Cole who was also a private in Captain South's Com- pany herein before specified in the tour to the South. That he has no record of his age but always understood from his father who died when he was quite young that his birth year was in 1760 in addition to which his old neighbour Mr. Richard Cole and himself were boys together and they counted their ages about the same

(8) That said neighbour has been dead about two years and was 84 at his decease. That said tour to the South was known to be a six months tour before the drafts were issued and that his Compa- ny under Britt numbered about one hundred men, and believes that Masons was about the same in number. That he has never made any declaration before on account of said service and he supposed he was not entitled from the fact of Mr. Weir never succeeding in getting him something, he knew nothing of the law himself and has not seen any one until recently whom he could get to prepare his papers for him. That whatever amount may be coming to him he will most cheerfully receive for his neighbours know him to be poor but honest and in need of some of the necessaries of life. That a great many other circum- stances occurred during his tour to the south which he considers it useless to mention. He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to an annuity or pension except the present and declares his name

(9) is not on the pension rolls of any agency in the United States of America.
Joseph his Bobo mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid Test J. Williams clerk
We William Brawner S n & Benj o Johnson citizens of the County of Prince William and State of Virginia and neighbours to and acquaintances of Mr. Daniel O'Keer Joseph Bobo a citizen of the aforesaid County who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe he is as he states eighty six years of age that he is reputed and believed in his neighbourhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed this 6 th day of April 1840 W m Brawner S n William Brawner & Benj o Johnson Benjamin Johnson as his mark only
and the said Court doth certify to the War Department that it appears to them after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing deponent Joseph Bobo was a Revolutionary

(10) soldier and served as he states. And further certify that it appears to them that William Brownner and Benjamin Johnson who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing certificate are citizens of this County and men of respecta- bility and this statement is entitled to credi- bilitity and this statement is entitled to credi-
Test J. Williams clerk
Testimony of Daniel O'Rear
State of Virginia County of Prince William to wit I Daniel O'Rear of the County and state aforesaid certify under oath on this 6 th day of April 1848 in open Court before the Court of Prince William County now sitting to the following facts in relation to the services of Mr Joseph Bobo, a citizen of this County in the war of the Revolution I know that the said Joseph Bobo did serve with me a six months tour in the south under John Britt Captain Ewell Payton and Canner were subordinate officers under Captain John Britt from the said County of Prince William Va which tour of six months began in the fall of the year 1780 continued throughout the entire winter of 1780 and ended in the spring of the year 1781 in the south and we returned home to Prince William. I knew Mr Bobo before this term of six months to

(11) the South. he was then a citizen of said County of Prince William and conceived him about my age at the time and I am now in my eighty sixth year of age and I know that he has lived in the said County of Prince William ever since the Proclamation and I know that he did enter the service with me under Captain John Britt and served a six months tour to the South said tour was known to be for six months before the drafts were drawn. and I know that Mr. Bobo was in said Company under Britt at Dumfries at Fredericksburg at Rich- mond at Petersburg and at Roanoke in Virginia and at Hillsborough Salisbury and Guilford in North Carolina and at Cheraw hills in South Carolina and I know that he served out the entire term of six months in the South faithfully. For further particulars of this tour to the South under Capt Britt I would respectfully refer the Department to my declaration for a pension made in open Court this 6 th day of April 1846
Darel Dean
Sworn to and subscribed this 6 th day of April 1846
Test J. Williams clerk

State of Virginia County of Prince William to wit I John Williams Clerk of the Court of Prince William County Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proce- edings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Bobo for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 6 th day of April 1840 J. Williams clerk
The following questions and answers were this 1 st day of April 1845 taken in open Court in the matter of Joseph Bobo's application for a pension under act of 1832 Question 1 st where and in what year were you born Answer I was born in Prince William

(13) County in the year 1760 as I always understood.
Quis. 2 nd Have you any record of your age. Answer: I have no record of my age that I know of my father died when I was quite young and I have never heard of any record of age.
Quis. 3 rd Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live. Answer I was living in the County of Prince William where I was born and raised, when called into service and returned to the said County after the six months tour to the south and have ever since lived in the same.
Quis. 4 th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom. Answer I was drafted and served a six months tour to the south and was never a substitute for any one
Quis. 5 th State some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiments

as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. Answer during this term of six months to the south our Company met frequently with some of the regular troops but did not remain any length of time with them and I do not now recollect the names of their officers as it has been a great while ago. I remember that General Greens Army was with his Companies at several places and as to the Militia regiments I remember the Company of Captain Mason from Fairfax County Virginia and said Company from Fairfax was with his Company during this term to the south, and as to the general circumstances of his service he begs leave to refer the Department to his declaration hereto attached for all the particulars and important circumstances in relation to his services in the Revolution.  Ques. 6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom it given and what has become of it. Answer. I recollect that at the expiration of the term in the south that four of my fellow

(15) Soldiers Together with myself received a discharge from the service and John Henderson took charge of said discharge as we were all included in the same and Henderson came on home with me but I do not now know what became of said discharge.
Ans. 7 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 in the Revolution Answer I have always lived in my native County Brine William and my neighbours all know me and can testify of me as to my character for veracity I refer to Major Enock O'Neal Colonel John Hoon John H. Mayfield Benjamin Johnson Joseph Johnson William Branner Redman Branner William Wirt Sanford Harmon and Vincent City Joseph his Bobo mark Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
Test J. Williams clerk.

Virginia Prince William County to wit I John Williams Clerk of the Court of the aforesaid County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Bobo for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office This 6 th day of April 1840 J. Williams clerk
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Joseph Bobo.
Acting Clerk
H. S. Waller
Narrator
for

December 17, 1931
BA-J/MCS aw
Gertrude Smith Clarksburg, Box 747 West Virginia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of November 21, 1931, requesting information in regard to Joseph Bobo, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data furnished herein are obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 981, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Bobo.
He was born in 1760 in Prince William County, Virginia, and his father, name not given, died when he (the soldier) was quite young.
While a resident of Prince William County, Virginia, where he had always lived, Joseph Bobo applied for pension April 6, 1846, and alleged that he enlisted in September, 1780, and served six months as private in Captain John Britt's Virginia Company.
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish satisfactory proof of the alleged service.
There are no data relative to wife or children of this soldier.
Very truly yours,
A. D. MILLER Assistant to Administrator

1931 Dec. 17, hist. to Gertrude Smith med
Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
981
P. O. Joseph Dorr
Service:
List of 1852 gives fol. reason for suspension. "Did not serve six mos."
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

80. Capt Britt - Wife of D. O'Keane - (S. 6) 6 mo.
Joseph Bobo. Act 7 June 1832. Virginia.
See letters to M. N. Walton Nov. 14 and 10 Dec. 1846.
981
Joseph Bobo - rejected Set to M. N. Walton 19 May '46 returned in Oct -
Bad Case see letter Nov 14 '46 to M. N. Walton

57,235 April 28, 1896.
Recd 6, case 32
Joseph Bolo.
by Mr. Legg, etc.
June 7, 1832.
Commissions of Deacons Washington, Va.
Woman's Dept.
PAID
1-1/4
1-1/4

M. Walton
14 Nov. 1846.

Pension Office
November 14. 1846
Sir,
The papers in the case of Daniel O'Rear have been examined and filed. He alleges that he served three months, in the year 1777 at the north. The probability is that he might have performed such service. But we cannot admit the alleged service in 1778 under Col. George R. Clark without more satisfactory proof. He should give the names and rank of the company officers, in order that we may enter into an examination of the rolls; and he must also give such particulars respecting the service under Clarke as the rules require. We cannot admit the alleged service of six months at the salt in 1780. No men were ordered from Prince William, where he resided, to go to the salt, and none of them served more than four and an half months.
The claim of Joseph Bobo cannot be allowed, as he did not serve six months, the time which the law requires.
W. N. Walton, Esq. Barnett's Mills Fauquier County Virg a
See Va Index act 32
O'Rear, No 37216 Bobo, 37215

Daniel Coles
testimony in
Bobo's
Affidavit of Daniel Coles to be filed with Joseph Bobo's Declaration for a Pension for- awarded from Bount Vice Divine Milli- am County Va on the 6 th April 1840 H. N. Walton

Virginian Cavalry Cavalry Unit:
I Daniel Role of said Cavalry Unit under order to the hands of the fol- lowing facts respecting the Revolutionary career of Joseph Babb of Prince William County Virginia - The said Babb and myself were raised in a neighborhood in Prince Wm near Dog field the residence of Col. Parson Scott the ancestor of Judge Scott of Virginia and I knew the said Babb served with me in six months prior to the battle under Colonel John Briscoe of Prince William County Virginia - Said Babb and myself were together and were drafted in said company together with many others from our neighborhood - our company marched from Dumfries in Prince William on the Fredericksburg road from that place to Richmond and at that place came under order for the station under Briscoe - from Richmond his company marched on to Petersburg in Virginia then a small village - and from that place to a place called Bransford somewhere in lower Virginia - from Bransford his company went on to Hillsborough and Guilford C. H. in A. C. and thence down into South Carolina to a place known as the Chowan Hills on the Pedu River in said State of S. Carolina - from which in South Carolina his company was at various places the names of which do now occur and cannot say - But to say Babb died during that time and they were disbanded & discharged

at the same time and place in North Carolina. The six months, during which for which his company had been called I joined a volunteer company to guard the prisoners to the Albemarle Sound and the said Bobs together with a few others who were assigned to go home did not go with the prisoners but went on home to Pocosin Williams County - After we de- feated the prisoners at the turnpike I went to my father in Pocosin Williams and saw Bobs there in the neighborhood. I understood from him his wife was in the in getting home on their return. Shortly af- terward I married and settled in Culpeper where I have always since resided and have not seen the said Bobs since and supposed he was dead. The war began in the fall of 1860 and ended in the spring of 1865. I knew Mr. Bobs very well - we were as neighbors and in some neighbor- hood. and I am positive of his name under which is the truth. Daniel Cole
I am to and subscribed before me this 5th of March 1840. and I certify that said officer Daniel Cole is a man of respectable standing my hand and seal the day and date above. being a justice of the peace for Culpeper County Virginia. Gabriel Gray J.P.
Culpeper County Court I Fayette Mancy Clerk of the county court of Culpeper do hereby certify that Gabriel Gray who has been

the foregoing certificate is true at the time of making the same & an acting justice of the peace in & for said county. I have his signa- ture in my hand. Witness my hand & the seal of said county this 5th day of March 1846 J Maynard

Sir
Genl H. : May 19, 46
The claims of Joseph Bobo Daniel O'Kear & Daniel Cole have  depending upon Military service of which they are mutually witnesses for each other, have been presented at so late a date, that the Dept t is warranted in giving them a distrustful scrutiny — Daniel O'Kear, of 1 st has no other papers in file except those presented by you herewith returned for the clerk's authentication — The service in Clarke's expedition should be duly set forth & established, — and proof adduced as to the steps heretofore taken to assert his claim — His brother's deposition with the family registers did not accompany his papers Joseph Bobo's papers are also returned for authentication who is required

to show what steps he has heretofore taken to assert his claim & furnish satisfactory evidence of his age
M c N. Walton Esq. May 19 th 1846,
M c N. Walton Esq. Warrenton Va

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Joseph Bobo Esq.
Revolutionary Soldier
Primo William Creek-
Bristersburg P.O.
Franklin Co.- Va.
Pension Case.
Affidavit of
Daniel who of Culpeper County - O. sayne.

Wachapreague Virginia
March 10 th 1846.
Sir:
I was recently at Mr. Daniel Ledlie's in Culpeper and he said that a few days before he had received a message from you indicating him to say when he recollected of your services in the War - And as we had to go before a magis to take in order to prepare his papers to get his per annum allowance he requested me to draw up a statement of what he knew of your services and he qualified to it in the enclosed form - As his request I sent it to you hoping it may be of some account in getting your pension.
Yours Respectfully.
Colin M. Payson
Not knowing your P. O. he directed me to send it to Miss Lucy Payson in a near the neighborhood in which he supposed you lived.
C. Payson

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Fauquier County Virginia 20 th April 1845 Sir,
I received a few days since the accompanying affidavit of Mr Samuel Cole in the case of Joseph Bobo for a pension under act of June 1832 which was sent to you the 6 th of this month from Brant- ville in Prince William County Virginia
Yrs truly
M. W. Walcutt

Pension Office Dec. 10. 1846
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 27 th ult o . in the cases of Daniel O'Rear and Joseph Bobo. This Department adheres to its decision in these cases.
The pension of Daniel Cole has been stopped.
H. N. Walton, Esq. Barnett's Mills, Virg a
Ent d this m g Index of Virg a act 7 June 32 Bobo No. 37215 O'Rear " 37216

Box 747, Clarksburg, W. Va. November 21, 1931.
U. S. Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Would you please advise if you have a record of the services of Joseph Bobo, who served in the Revolutionary War, and who made application for pension from Prince William County, Virginia, but was refused a pension because he only served six months?
Very truly yours,
Gertrude Smith