Lewellin Jones, summary of Revolutionary War Pension Application
Roll: 481 Image: 39 File: W7906 Total Pages: 12
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Catherine - In 1820 aged 60 years & residing in Campbell Co. VA.
d. Oct. 30, 1821
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Private on Col. Parkers regiment of Virginia for 18 months
$8 per month to commence 4 Nov. 1818
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widow Catherine Jones, $60/year starting 4 Mar 1843
certificate sent to Charlotte CH, VA.
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Declaration of Lewellen Jones, age 60 of Campbell Co. 11 July 1820
Entered service as soldier of the Virginia Line in June 1779 for 18 months.
Capt. Boyer's company, Col. Buford, Genl. Scott's Brigade as appears on the original declaration dated 4 Nov. 1818.
Has received a pension. He has not disposed of or hidden any of his property in order to qualify for support.
Schedule of Property Held:
- Real Estate: 100 acres of poor land, 50 of which together with the following personal Estate conveyed in Trust to secure the payment of a just and lawful debt to the amt. of $166.67 and was executed in the year of 1817.
- 6 head of cattle worth $30. one small horse $10. 7 heads of hogs $7.
- minimal household and farming equipment - skillet, shot gun, plows, etc., spinning wheel and cotton reel, churn, jugs, 1 table, 2 chairs, cupboard.
Occupation: a planter afflicted with a rupture
Children living with him and Catherine, aged 50, listed
- Richard, 22 yo afflicted with a ? knee
- Nancy Jones, 23 year old
- Joseph, 19
- Elizabeth 16
- Chatherine 12, afflicted with gets(?)
- Polly 8
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Declaration of Lewellen Jones of Campbell Co. 4 Nov. 1818
Enlisted in 1779, served 18 months
Col. Parker regiment at Petersburg, sometime after attached to Col. Hoth?, later Col. Abraham Buford and was present at "Buford's Defeat."
Was discharged at Hillsborough in North Carolina
Discharge now lost, and has no proof of service except the sworn certificate of Hozeheat Morton
"Lewellen Jones now aged 58 years old is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of the county for support"
Addendum 21 May 1819, Lynchburg VA:
Enlisted at Charlotte Courthouse in Capt. Taliaferro's company, was attache to Col. Richard Parkers Regiment in General Charles Scott's Brigade.
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Marriage record from Charlotte Co., 26th day of February 1789.
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Declaration of Catherine Jones of Campbell Co., 19 Feb. 1839
widow of Lewellen Jones who was a Private and a pensioner under the act of Congress of March 18, 1818.
She "knows but little, if anything" of his service but heard him say often during his life that he was in active service a good deal, and was engaged in many battles. That he suffered many hardships and privations - that she "heard the same repeated by others." She remembered him preparing his declaration when applying for the pension, and refers to those proofs.
He died Oct. 30, 1821.
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Letter responding to request for Revolutionary Record of Lewellen Jones from 1930
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