Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2182, Ralph C Collins, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Collins Ralph C.
R 2182.
CONTENTS

Suspended
See letter to
Hon. R. M. Johnson
26. Feb. 1835
2182

Sir,
Yours of the 18 th inst is rec d relative to pension & bounty land supposed to be due on account of the military services of R Collins of Va who it is alleged to have served "thru' the entire war" of the Rebel -
There is on record the name of R Collins who was a member of the Va Militia & he applied for a pension from Grant Co Ky but as he could not establish the minimum service of 6 mos as required by law, he was not entitled to pension
Although the acts of Congress authorized pensions to be paid to Rev d Soldiers & their widows during their lifetime, yet they do not contain any provision for the benefit of their children, and there is no law existing which will give to them the right to claim a pension or as heir to an arrearage of pension
Prior to March 3 1853 Rev d Soldiers were not entitled to bounty land without they had served on the Continental Establishment to the end of the war in 1783, and the only persons now entitled for a shorter period, are a surviving widow and in case of her death, a child who was a minor on the 5 day of March 1853

BEN M. TERRELL, WITH HENRY M. PURMAN, Attorney at Law and Collection Agent PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS.
Fort Worth, Texas, July 15, 1885
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Will you please be kind enough to ascertain for me whether or not there is a pension due to one R. Collins.
It is a Revolutionary Claim , said Col- lins having enlisted from the State of Virginia, & serving through that entire war.
If there be a pension due said Collins, there will be found also due him, as I construe the law, a land warrant of 160 acres for each year he served.
He died at Williamson, Grant Co., Ky. & so far as I know has only one heir living.
Please reply at your very earliest convenience & ob- lige me Yours Very truly Ben M. Terrell

1888
July 27 B M Teller (Texas) the soldier did not establish service to entitle him to pension or bounty land - also who were entitled to land under act March 3 1855 Prior
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
P. O.
1882 R. C. Collins
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

31,839
R. B. Collins Kentucky Declaration for a Pension
Filed in open court August term 1834.
suspect
E. B. Bartlett
E. B. Bartlett
E. B. Bartlett
H. R. Johnson

State of Kentucky } 3 rd Grant County } 3 rd
On this 11 th  21 st day of August in the year 1834. personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Justices of the Grant County Court, now sitting, being a court of record, Ralph C. Collins , a resident of Grant County and State of Kentucky, aged seventy two 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.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. —
That in the Spring of the year 1781. he was drafted for three months in the company of Captain Colliers in King and Queen County, State of Virginia, was not in any engagement with the enemy during that time but was part of the time at Hubbards old field, and part at Abingdon Church and from those places was marched to Gloucester and there discharged. after having served out the whole time. The only field Officers he now recollects were Colonel Roan and Major Roe. — they had barely got home before they were again called out by the same officers, and from the same County, during this tour, which was more than three months, he was marched from Abingdon Church to Gloucester point and was present, fighting in the American ranks during the siege of York, and after the surrender of the British he was one of those who guarded them or some of them up to a place called Todd's bridge, and there he received his discharge but from the great length of time it has long since been lost. during this service he was under the same officers to wit Colonel Roan, (Major Roe) and Captain Colliers. — Afterwards he was out in what is generally known as St. Clairs campaign he was under Captain Dark for nine months, and with him at the defeat of St. Clair, his Colonel's name was Dark, and his Major was Bedin-

=ger. - Some short time after the defeat of St. Clair he moved to Kentucky and has been living in what is now Grant county, ever since its formation as a county.
He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his services; neither is he known to any one who has a personal knowledge of his services.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
his Ralph B. Collins mark
We Joseph Lump, H. B. Smith & James Williams residing in the county of Grant hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ralph B. Collins who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
his Joseph X Lump mark
H. B. Smith
James Williams
And the said board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter.

and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, (the answers to which are embodied in the declaration.) 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 Joseph Lumpkin H. B. Smith & James Williams who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Grant county, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Hubbard B. Smith, clerk to the court of Grant county, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ralph C. Collins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the county court office this 11th day of August 1834.
H. B. Smith C. C. C.