Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2175, Jeremiah Collins, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Collins Jeremiah Collings or
R 2175
CONTENTS

Stokes county State of North Carolina
On the Sixteenth day of August One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Three, Personally appeared George Collins, Before Me Floyd Webb, a Justice of the Peace of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the county aforesaid aged Fifty Five 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 Provision made by the act of congress Passed June the 7 th 1832.
That he this Applicant is the Only Surviving heir of Jeremiah Collins dec d Who was a Soldier of the Revolution, that he the said Jeremiah Collins, Was born and Raised in the county of Albemarle State of Virginia, as this Applicant has been informed by his Father,
That he was drafted as a Militiaman, dont know Who he marched under, though served three months guarding Prisoners in the county of Albemarle, and was at the expiration of said term was honorably discharged and returned home, he was again called into the service, dont know the Affirm name he marched under Nor whether he was drafted or Volunteered, and served another term of three months after the Army in York Settlement towards the mountain in North Carolina, making in the two terms Six months service, and after having rec d his last discharge, he then removed to the State of N. C. Stokes county where he lived and died at the age of Ninety four. The 27 th Sept 1836 in which county he married and lived in union with his Wife until the year One thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty Eight, at which time she died, (they was married in the year 1787) this Applicant further says that he has no documentary Evidence of his Father's service, as his discharge has long since been lost or mislaid, there being no family record this declarant cannot with more precision state.

This Applicant further states that from affliction he is not able to travel to court to make this declaration without great inconvenience to his health, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension, of an Annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State or only that of the Agency of the State of N. C. and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier Applications for a Pension that the Applicant did not know, that he was entitled to a Pension until very recently sworn to and subscribed the day and date first written.
Sworn to & subscribed his George F. Collins Mark Floyd Webb J.P.
State of North Carolina Stokes County.
I John Hill Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Stokes County certify that Floyd Webb is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this 11 th Sept. 1843.
John Hill clerk

No 35594 Jeremiah Collins dec. N. 6.
Act 7 June '32 Rejected
George Collins
2175

State of N. Carolina } Stokes County }
Sept 12 th 1843
I do hereby certify that George Collins whose name is subscribed to this declaration is a man of probity whose testimony can be relied on
J. Webb J.P.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
March 21, 1924.
Hon. Henry R. Rathbone, House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Rathbone:
In response to your letter of the twentieth instant, I have the honor to furnish you with the history of the only soldier of the Revolution named Jeremiah Collins, found on the records of this Bureau.
From the papers in the pension claim, R. 2175, it appears that on August 16, 1843, one George Collins, or Collings aged fifty-five years and a resident of Stokes County, N. C. applied for pension, stating that he was the only surviving heir of his father Jeremiah Collins, or Collings, who was born and raised in Albemarle County, Va. and who served as a militia-man in the Virginia Troops, for six months during the Revolution. Dates of service and names of officers not stated.
That his father was married in 1787, and that his mother died in 1828, her name is not given, also that his father died September 27, 1836, aged ninety-four years, in Surry (later called Stokes) County, N. C.
The claim was not allowed as the child had no title to pension.

480 35594 Jeremiah Collins
Decl a
States N 16
Rejected
Set to F Mts Mr 20 1843
Act June 7 th 33

1924 Mar. 21. Visit to Hon. Henry M. Nathan.
2175-
P. O. Jeremiah Collins
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED , 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: The printed list of 1852 gives cause of
Re-enlisted: rejection as "Died before the passage of the act"
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Com
Out of Dis. Searched for _____

F Webb
Nov. 20 1843

Pension Office
Novemb. 20 1843.
Sir.
The papers in the cases of John Fry and Jeremiah Collins deceased have been respectively examined and the claims disallowed. Children as such have no claim under the pension laws, and it is therefore incompetent for them to assert any.
H Webb Esq
No. - -
Germantown N.Y.
Act June 7 th 32

HENRY R. RATHBONE CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE FOR ILLINOIS
Congress of the United States House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. March 20, 1924
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly advise me if you have any record of a Captain Jeremiah Collins who served during the Revolutionary War.
The Adjutant General has been unable to locate these records and suggested that your records may have this information.
Very truly yours,
Henry Rathbone

W Germantown Pa Sept 12 th
for
Samuel L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
77 State St
Sept 18. 1843
Geo. Holkin
3
5 State
Beaufort N.C.

Stokes Bay N B Sept 12 th 1843
Enclosed you will find the declaration of Benjamin Fry & George Rollings, you will please examine the same & inform me of the results and drop to Bolesville Stokes Bay N B
Yrs respectfully J. H. Webb

State of N. Carolina } August 29 th 1843. Stokes County }
This day Mildred Lawson personally appeared before me H. Webb one of the acting Justices of the peace of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in & for the County aforesaid, and after being duly sworn according to Law, deposeth and saith as follows,
That she was personally acquainted with Jeremiah Collings in the time of the Revolutionary War, and that the said Collings served two Terms of three months each, the first was guarding prisoners in the County of Albermarle in Virginia, the other on a scouting party after Tories in Long Settlements towards the Mountains in N. Carolina, said that the said Collings was drafted the first Term, the second she does not recollect whether he was drafted, or, volunteered, does not recollect the names of the officers he marched under either term the said Collings died in the year of 1836. in the County of Stokes N.C. formerly Lunny N.C. and this  that Affiant lived near the Barracks, and on a visit there to see some of her Relations that she saw the said Collings in actual service, & that after the War he removed to Lunny N.C. where he resided until his death, where this Affiant then lived and has ever since, and was personally acquainted with George Collings & have been ever since his birth and know him to be the son, & the only surviving heir of Jeremiah Collings deceased & she believes him the said Jeremiah to be about ninety four, or, five, years of age and that she has no register of her own age but thinks she is about ninety one years of age, & further saith not sworn to & subscribed the state aforesaid
H. Webb J.P.
Mildred Lawson her mark

State of North Carolina
Stokes County } August 27 th 1843.
I do hereby certify that Mildred Lawson whose name is annexed to the within affidavit is a woman of probity whose testimony can be relied on, given under my hand & seal the date above written
Floyd Webb (S)
State of North Carolina
Stokes County
I John Hill clerk of the court of pleas & sessions for Stokes County certify that Floyd Webb is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this 11 th Sept. 1843.
John Hill. cc