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Facts and Events
Military
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 4, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Province, Joseph Y. - born 3/31/1764 in Frederick County, Virginia; entered service 1789, resided that part of Virginia that later became Fayette County, Virginia, in Virginia regiment; granted Pension 1833 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania; died there 5/16/1842-32; married 9/22/1818 to Rachel Spencer at German Township; widow granted Pension age 71 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 1854; large family of children: John Province (no kinship given) made affidavit then there; soldier's widow granted Bounty Land Warrant #92026 Bureau County, Illinois, resided in Milo, 1855; resided 1865 in Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois, 1865; surname also spelled Provance; query letter in file says soldier's middle name was Yard; query letter in file states soldier's daughter Selina P. Rich resided in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, then to Bureau County, Illinois, thence to Atcheson County, Maryland & died in 1904. F-W26341, R1982.
Notes
The northeast corner of Monongalia County, (West) Virginia became Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1783. He died two and a half miles north of New Geneva, Pennsylvania
References
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension application of Joseph Y. Province (Provance)1W26341 Rachel f64PA/VA
Transcribed by Will Graves 12/3/12
Fayette County Pennsylvania: SS
On this 12th day of March A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in & for said County now sitting Joseph Y Provance a resident of Fayette County Pennsylvania aged sixty-nine 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 the 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That the first of May 1780 he volunteered and descended the Monongahela River to the State of Kentucky for the purpose of defending the frontiers settlements against the Indians. That he served in Captain John Patton's Company of Virginia militia and performed his services principally at two forts near the falls of Ohio. That Colonel Clark [George Rogers Clark] commanded the troops stationed at these two forts. That this deponent continued from the last of May 1780 till August 1780. Sometimes in the forts and sometimes upon the scout off a distance from the Station. That in August 1780 he was drafted to go on a regular Campaign under Captain John Atkins,2 Major Holland and Colonel Clark. That the troops ascended the Ohio River from the falls to opposite the Licking River. Landed where Cincinnati now stands and marched from thence through the state of Ohio to a place on Mud River called Piqua and their had an engagement with the Indians who were commanded by Simon Girty – killed a number of Indians and took one prisoner, and lossed [lost] 15 of our men. After this Engagement he returned home, where he arrived sometime in December 1780 making a period of eight months which service he performed at and near two forts at the falls of the Ohio River, and on the campaign to Piqua in the State of Ohio.
That in August 1782 he was drafted in Captain Philip Peisce's [Philip Pierce's?]3 Company of Pennsylvania militia and was marched from Fayette County Pennsylvania to a station on Whiteley Creek [?]4 in what is now Greene County. That he was drafted for one month and performed his entire tour at that station. The object of this service was to protect the settlements against the Indians. That the entire period of his service is nine months as he to be certain he will state his whole [?]
5 services at eight months and twenty-four days. He has no documentary evidence of his services nor does he know of any person at present by whom he can prove them, but that the Honorable Andrew Stewart and Samuel Gantt will testify as to his reputation. This deponent is not sufficiently acquainted with a clergyman to get one to certify for him now residing in his neighborhood.
1st He was born in Frederick County Virginia on the 31st Day of March 1764
2nd He has a record of his age in his Bible
3. He lived when he entered the service near where he now lives then Virginia now Pennsylvania the line having been run so as to place him in Pennsylvania where he has resided ever since & still resides.
4. He was drafted & also volunteered as before stated –
5. He repeats in answer to this the names of his officers & the circumstances of his services as set forth.
6. He received no discharge nor has he any documentary evidence
7. The names of persons who will certify to my character are the Honorable Andrew's tour & Samuel Gantt as above mentioned
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
S/ Joseph Y. Prov????
[Andrew Stewart of Union town Fayette County Pennsylvania and Samuel Gantt gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[f p. 9: On January 23, 1854 in Fayette County Pennsylvania, Rachel Province, 71, filed for a widow's pension as the widow of Joseph Y Province, a revolutionary war pensioner; that her husband died in Fayette County May 16, 1842; that she married him September 22, 1818 and continued to live as man and wife until his death raising a large family; and that she remains his widow. She stated there is no public or private record of their marriage. She signed her application with her mark.]
[f p. 15: On August 8, 1855 in Bureau County Illinois, the widow, then a resident of Milo in said County, filed for her bounty land entitlement stating that her name prior to her marriage to the veteran was Rachel Spencer. She signed this application with her mark. In this document she gave her age as 72.]
[Facts in file: in 1865 the widow was living in Tiskilwa, Bureau County Illinois; although there are references in the file to the veteran and his wife having a large family of children none of their names are given.
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $29.29 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for service as a private for 8 months and 24 days in the Pennsylvania and Virginia militia.]
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