Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2711, David Davis, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Davis, David
R. 2711
Brown in 2nd
CONTENTS
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Reinstated Resuspended do
See letter to Rev. G. L. Kinnaird
20. Jan. 1835
do. 7 April 1835 to P. S. Dunning do 18 July 1835, let 18 Jan 36 to G. L. Kinnaird.
2711

State of Indiana                      Declaration                      Pension
On this day the fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and and thirty four personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Agilla Rogers, Sole Judge of the Probate Court of Monroe County aforesaid in the State aforesaid (being a Court of Record with a permanently dended Official Seal) Now sitting, David Davis a resident of said County in said State of Indiana 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 7th 1832. He was born in the County of Washington in the State of Maryland. He has no record of his age nor was there ever any, he not being able to read and write. His friends inform him that he must have been born in the Year 1767, his own impression is that he is near said age but not quite so old. He removed with his father to Wythe County Virginia when a boy.
1st Tour He states that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the date of the commencement of his services, but can state precisely the length of his services and the season of the year when commenced. He was drafted in the Militia of the State of Virginia and entered the service of the United States, in the War of the Revolution as a private soldier in a Company of Foot of said Militia commanded by Captain James Newell, he can not state for how long precisely. At the time of the said draft the Officers conducting it stated that it would be for between two & five months. He rendezvoused on the Frontiers of Virginia. He thinks Colonel Lewis commanded the Frontier at this time. He lived in the County of Wythe in said State of Virginia at the time of entering this service. He can not state the Year in which he entered this service by its date, but he will recollect that it was the same year in which Lord Cornwallis was captured at York Town Virginia. He will recollect also that he entered this service in the fall season of the year. He was with said Company employed in scouting the country in various directions within and about forty miles east from the fort hereinafter mentioned. At the end of two months from the time of entering this service (a very heavy snow falling) the Officers dismissed this applicant & comrades in the frontier country. He served in said town faithfully and to the acceptance of his Officers fully three and at least two months. All the services which are herein before or after stated were in the War

of the Revolution in regularly embodied troops raised by authority. 2 nd Tour He again entered the service, and enlisted as a private soldier in the State troops of the State of Virginia then living in Wythe County in said State in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in a Company of Foot in the Month of March in the Year after that in which he served in his said first tour said Year in which this tour was made being the Year after the Year of the Capture of Lord Cornwallis by the French & Americans. He entered this service and enlisted for nine months in a Company of Foot commanded by Captain Robin Crockett in the Regiment commanded by Col l Lewis, whose first name he has forgotten, or never knew it. Immediately after such enlistment he was mustered into the service and rendezvoused in what he thinks is now Tazewell County in the State of Virginia. From this place of rendezvous, he was marched in said Regiment and Company to the Frontier of Virginia, crossing East River Wolf Creek & other streams, and stationed at a place where a fort was partly built (one side being erected). He and said troops completed said fort. The name of this place and fort he has forgotten although it appears like on his tongue's end. At this fort he was appointed first Corporal and continued to serve as such Corporal during the whole of his service under said enlistment which was nine months. He thinks said Fort was in what is now Wythe County Virginia. We had been stationed only a few days when the Shawnee Indians having sto- len about 30 head of horses, this declarant was ordered to take the com- mand of 28 men including himself and scout the neighborhood which was done, but the Indians not being overtaken, after pursuing them some distance this declarant returned with his command to said fort. Scouts were frequently marched out from said station in various directions. In this manner in said fort and about it six fifteen days on a furlough to see his father, he was employed until about the end of his said engagement. He was employed constantly & laboriously, when he was at the end of his time marched to Head Quarters in what he thinks is now Tazewell County Virgin- ia and was there dismissed and received a written discharge. James Taylor was the Lieutenant, and William Adams Ensign, of said Company. During a short time of said nine months he acted as Sub Commissary weighing out rations, &c. He served in said engagement at least nine months faithfully and to the satisfaction of his Officers. He was constantly in with said troops in an embodied Corps called into service by competent authority.

infield a garrison and was not employed in any civil or other pursuit. In answer to the interrogations presented by the War department he states: in answer to the
first - His friends inform him that he must have been born in the year 1767. he thinks himself a little later.
2 d He never had any record of his age.
3 d He was living as before mentioned when called into service in said town in Wythe County Virginia; since the Revolution and War he has lived for  near forty or upwards years in Wythe County Virginia, then twenty two years in Lee County in said state, then he removed to Monroe County Indiana where he has lived now upwards of forty years, and now resides.
4 th He was called into service in said first town by a draft. He was called into service in said second town by an enlistment and was, then  in part a volunteer.
5 th He has no recollection of the names of any officers besides those mentioned in the body of this his declaration except Joseph Kent said Commissary, who being an acquaintance, employed him as a Sub commissary aforesaid.
6 th He received a written discharge from Captain Robin Crockett and many years ago left it in the possession of Daniel Sheffy Esq of Virginia and the paymaster for said Sheffy paid him for his nine months service. He received no further pay for his said services. He has no documentary evidence that he knows of, or knows of no person who has evidence he can procure of a personal discharge of 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.
7 th He is known to James Alexander Esq. Chff. Atty D r our Esq. George Fitzhugh, Esq. William Rogers the Judge of this Court and others in the neighborhood who can testify to his veracity and reputation of having been a Revolutionary soldier.
He states that one of the judges of the Court in Virginia advised him to apply for a pension, and finding upon examination that the Act of Congress then in force did not embrace him, he never knew of the existence of the present act until recently.
his Aland H. Davis mark
sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in open Court.

We James Alexander Jacob Davis Agnella Rogers and George Fitz, residing in the neighborhood with David Davis who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with him that we believe him to be about sixty seven years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
James Alexander Davis
A. Rogers
The said George Fitz, State, that he has known the said David Davis fifteen years, that he was well acquainted with George Britton of Virginia who was old enough from his appearance to have been and had notoriously the reputation of a revolutionary soldier and that in frequent conversations said Britton informed him that said Davis then was in the same to gether and in the same mess, and that such was the reputation of said Davis in Virginia as to be and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
George Fitz
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Court Department having personally known the applicant for several years that he was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears that James Alexander Jacob Davis and George Fitz who have signed the above Certificate are residents in the same neighborhood with said Applicant, and are credible persons, and their statements entitled to full credit. That no clergyman resides, consent to the applicant as he could conveniently procure to testify.
A. Rogers S. J.
I David Davis Clerk of the Probate Court of Spencerville County Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Davis for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office (of said Court) this same being a Court of Record this Seventeenth day of November A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty four.
David Davis Clerk Probate Court of Spencerville County Indiana
Mr. Geo. Fitz
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Coloington Is.      Free N o 14 5 1/2 J. L. Edwards Esqr Comm d Pensions Washington City D. C.
Ans r

Bloomington July 3 d 1835-
Sir
I do not wish to be considered troublesome (although such a charge would not be altogether unfounded) but the old gentleman for whom I am writing is very desirous of having a pension believing as he does that he is entitled to it he has a brother by the name of John Davis of Georgia who is drawing and who informs him he is 71 or 72 years of age instead of 67 as he David Davis is 4 years younger than his brother John who is 75 - The old gentleman desires me to say to you that he was discharged by Col Lewis instead of Capt Crockett that he Crockett only handed out the discharges to the soldiers officers he desires me to say that David Johnson of Virginia is cognizant of his services and is now drawing he desires the Department to reconsider his case & if necessary write him what additional evidence is required in his case an answer to this may settle the matter with the old man finally (if ever unfavourable) please write
Yours respectfully
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm d of Pensions
Dan C. Dunning

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
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David Davis
Service:
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Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18