Person:John Jones (419)

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Jones, John - born 1762 in St. Mary's County, Maryland; entered service 1780 in Botetourt County, Virginia, resided there; received Pension 1834 Claiborne County, Tennessee; died 2/14/1842; married 9/15/1792 Mary, daughter of James Fitzpatrick, Bath County, Virginia, where was born & raised; widow received Pension age 69 in Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1843; children's births: Nancy 12/31/1794, Elizabeth 11/11/1796, John 12/20/1798 (resided 1843 in Claiborne County, TN), Moses 10/19/1800 & Thomas Fitzpatrick 10/29/1802; other births: Joseph Sampson 9/3/1753, Matilda Clementina Jones 9/27/1840 & Nancy Jones 10/2/1842; marriages: Hezekiah Jones & Anna Cesterson 6/9/1829, Eleanor Jones & Abraham Gobble 1/1/1824, Jane Jones & Covington Collinsworth 2/17/1839. F-W372, R1441.

Revolutionary War Pension Application

Pension Application of John Jones: W372 (Ancestry)

Affidavit of John's wife Mary

STATE OF TENNESSEE CLAIBORNE COUNTY

On this fourth day of September, One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty-Three, personally appeared before me John Reeker, Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State of said Mary Jones, a resident of said County, age sixty-nine years, who first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 7th day of July, 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of John Jones, a pensioner of the United States, and who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, a private in the army. She states she has no knowledge of the nature of his service, under whom he served, or when the service was performed, of the length of time in service or battles he was in if any, as they were all performed before her acquaintance with her said husband, but for the fact of his service, would refer the department to the testimony on the files of the department of which her said husband was pensioned He received his certificate of pension about the 28th of September, 1834, as well as she recollects, was pensioned at twenty dollars per annum under act of June 7th, 1834, and enrolled on the pension role at Knoxville in East Tennessee and was paid then until his death which took place the 14th day of February, 1842 _ Some time after his death, -she made necessary proof and drew the average of the pension that was due her husband on the day of his death at which time the certificate of pension was surrendered and her receipt by her attorney and other papers she supposes had been returned to the department, all of which documents and papers she would refer to the department. She would state that she was born and raised in Bath County, Virginia. Her name before her marriage was Mary Fitzpatrick, daughter of James Fitzpatrick, and that she was married to said John Jones, identically the same that was pensioned and referred to above, on the 15th day of September, 1792, as will more fully appear by reference to the accompanying records properly certified by the clerk of the county court of Bath County, Virginia under the seal of the office and hereto affixed and as to her identity. She would refer the department to the family record taken from her family Bible and part of the old record from which the last was transcribed by the direction of her husband some years before his death and accompanying disposition of John Jones, Jr. She states that she and her husband settled within three miles of the place she now lives, when this state was a territory of North Carolina, and has never lived anywhere else since. Now lives in Claiborne County where they lived at the time her husband was pensioned and most positively avers that she is the identical Mary Fitzpatrick and her deceased husband John Jones, deceased petitioner, is the identical person referred to in the records from Bath County, Virginia. She further declares that she was married to the said John Jones by Christopher Black, Presbyterian minister, on the 15th day of September, Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-Two. That her said husband John Jones died on the fourteenth day of February, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Two. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-Four at the time and place stated.

Given to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me. She also states that she is still the widow of John Jones, deceased pensioner referred to above.

Justice of the Peace Claiborne County State of Tennessee Claiborne County

John Ritchie

her mark Mary X Jones

I hereby certify that Mary Jones is the declarant who has this day sworn and subscribed to the foregoing.