Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.16,359, John Dabbs, N.C.

SERVICE
N.6.
Dabbs, John
NUMBER
S. 16359
CONTENTS
carded.

Georgia 16.679
John Dabbs. — of DeKalb in the State of who was a pr. — in the — commanded by Captain — of the Regt commanded by Col: Wade — in the N o Car. line for Ocmulgee —
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgian at the rate of 20. Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Sept: 33. and sent to W m Eggand. Decatur, DeKalb. Co Ga
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833, 50 — Semi-ant. allowance ending 4/14/34 10. —
$60 —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by C. Rice Clerk, Book E Vol. 6 Page 88

John Dabb
17507

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Georgia On this  tenth day of October DeKalb County in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Superior court of the said State County of DeKalb now sitting. John Dabbs a resident of said County and State, aged twenty years who being first being duly sworn according to law on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832) That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. As well as he recollects about three months after Genl. Gates defeat he entered entered the service of as a volunteer under Capt. Bogan & Col Thomas Wade officers of the Militia the date not recollected, for three months and after the expiration of the his time he volunteered for another three months term under the same officers & under the command of Genl. Rutherford at he performed performance part of the service in North Carolina  North Carolina which was his place of

residence and post in South Carolina he was in a skirmish at what was called the bush house near Wilmington he recollects of no other battle he was in during the Revolutionary war. He states he has no documentary evidence of his service, never having received any discharge he further states he can prove all his service which is six months by Thomas Sly a resident of this state and county. 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.
his John D. Dabbs mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid W. Holgutt J.P.C.
We Isarah Barker a clergyman residing in the said state and county of DeKalb and James T. Barker residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Dabbs who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Isarah Barker
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid W. Holgutt J.P.C.
James T. Barker
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting

The interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Isaiah Barker who certifies has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in said County and that James T. Baker who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County of DeKalb and is a credible person & that their statements is entitled to credit
W. Colquitt J. C.
Personally appeared in open court on the day aforesaid Thomas Stay a resident of said State County and State who after being  being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with John Dabbs who has de sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration in the Revolutionary war the said Dabbs served in one company and he deponent in another and that they were frequently together and he knows of his own knowledge of the said Dabbs having served about six months which he in the army in the States of South Carolina and North Carolina under the command of Genl. Purdie and knows of the said Dabbs having been in the Swamp at the brick house near Wilmington
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
W. Colquitt J. C.
Thomas his Stay mark

I Charles Murphy Clerk of the Superior court in & for the county of De Kalb & State of Ga do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Dabbs for a pension - and I do further certify that Walter J Colquitt whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is the presiding judge of said court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & private then by no seal seal of office this 30th day of October 1832
(C Murphy (CLERK))

John Dabbs Georgia
N o 17807
Amount unpaid 6 mo $20
4.10.14.
Int 13.7.
Apl. 16. '33-
P. 339
Wm. Ezzard Decatur DeKalb Co. Ga.

BRIEF in the case of John Dabbs of DeKalb County in the State of Georgia (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     About 3 mos in vol. after Gates' defeat 3 Private Gen. Capt. Thos Bogan Col. Thos Wade.   " 3 " " Genl Rutherford  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

Out
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Dabbs a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. F. 16,359.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Late in 1780 3 mos Pri Bogan Thomas Wade N.C   Summer & Fall 1781 3 " " Bogan Thomas Wade  
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, Anson Co., N.C.  Date of application for pension, Oct. 10, 1832. His pl. was al.  Residence at date of application, DeKalb Co., Ga.  Age at date of application { B. March 22, 1762, in Charlotte Co., Va.  Remarks: { He died Oct. 5, 1833.
There is no data relative to family.
Respectfully,
Date of death taken from Agency Book.
Commissioner.

16359 INVALID.
1915, Nov. 22. History to Mrs. L. C. Heely. Br.
File No. 16359
John Dabbs Prin Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. A , Page 428
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Dabbs

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Dabbs which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? No

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? No XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 2. 3. 7 not answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
¶QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
¶QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

State of Georgia } on this Eighth day of Dekalb County } July in the Year Eighteen hundred & thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court of the said County of DeKalb now sitting John Dabbs a resi- dent of said State & County aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in addition to the one which he made at the October Term of the Superior Court in & for said County, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed on the 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the latter part of the year 1780 to the best of his recollection, as a volun- teer in Capt. Bogan's Company under the command of Col. Thomas Wade an officer of the militia, that he served at that time three months, he further states some time in the summer or fall of the year 1781 he served another term of three months under the same officers Com- manded by Genl. Rutherford this service was performed partly in South Carolina & partly in North Carolina. and he was in a skirm- ish at the Brickhouse near Wilmington He further states that he was born in Charlotte County in the State of Virginia - was on the twenty second day of March 1762 - has no record of his age. He was living in Anson County State of North Carolina when called into service - and removed from that place

to DeKalb County Georgia three years ago when he has resided ever since. He states that he is known to Thomas Grogan, Fanny Garm Alfred Hall Edwards & Jordan Webb who reside in his immediate neighborhood & who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
John his Dabbs mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thomas Ray J.P.C.
Edward Jones J.P.C.
John Dabbs J.P.C.
The Leftthak V. George (clergymen residing in the state & county aforesaid) and Silas W. Grady (residing) - the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Dabbs who has subscribed and sworn to and subscribed the foregoing) declaration that we believe him to be seventy one 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
Sworn to and subscribed the Leftthak V. George M.G.
day and year aforesaid
Thomas Ray J.P.C.
Edward Jones J.P.C.
John Dabbs J.P.C.
Silas W. Grady
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary dep & detached soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Leftthak V. George who has

signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the State and County aforesaid and that Silas McElrady who has signed the same also is a resi- dent in the State & County and is a credible person & that their testimony is entitled to credit
Thomas Ray S.S.C. Edward Jones S.S.C.
John Dobbs S.S.C.
I (Clerk) B Reynolds Clerk of the Superior Court of said County of DeKalb do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Dobbs for a pension. - I do further certify that Thomas Ray Edward Jones & John Dobbs whose names appear to the foregoing certificate are the justices of said court in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 19 th day of July 1835
E. B. Reynolds Clerk
ly

Georgia } Personally appeared before me DeKalb County } Thomas Slay who after being duly sworn deposes & declares that whilst he deponent was a soldier in the Revolutionary war he was acquainted with John Dabbs who has made the foregoing declaration - that said Dabbs served in our company & deponent in another, that he saw him frequently, He knows that he served two tours of duty but can not say how long he served known to & subscribed Mark Thomas Slay  before me this 12 th day of July 1833  William Cochran J.P.
I William Cochran an acting justice of the peace in & for said county do certify that Tho. Slay whose name appears to the foregoing af- fidavit is a person of veracity & entitled to credit - Witness my hand & seal this 12 th day of July 1833 William Cochran J.P.  for
Georgia } I Elzy B. Reynolds Clerk of the DeKalb County } Superior Court, in & for said county do hereby certify that William Cochran whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is an acting justice of the peace in & for said county and that in faith & credit ought to be given to his attestation as such Witness my hand & seal of office this 19 th July 1833 E. B. Reynolds Clerk.

Rev Sec H
Rev. War Section.
90 Centre St. Dorchester, Mass. Nov 15 '15.
Dept of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Washington. D.C.
Among the Georgia Pensioners under Act of 1832. in De Kalb Co. was a John Dobbs. who served in the North Carolina Militia as a private during the Rev. War. Kindly send me all information regarding him that is in the possession of the Bureau, and oblige.
Yours most sincerely. (Mrs) L. C. Healy 165 W 140 th St. New York City. N.Y.

Rev. War Section.
November 22, 1915.
Mrs. L. C. Heely,
165-70 140th St.
400 Centre Street,
New York City Dorchester, Mass.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the fifteenth instant, you are advised that a careful search of the list of Revolutionary War soldiers pensioned in DeKalb County, Georgia, fails to show the name, John Dobbe , but said list shows that John Dabbs was allowed pension under the Act of June 2, 1832, for services in the North Carolina militia, and a history of his claim, S. File No. 16,359, Rev. War, is enclosed herewith.
Very respectfully,
 G. M. Saltzgaber Commissioner.