Pension Application of Newsom and Mary Nunn Pace: W5496
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Virginia Henry County Sct.
On this tenth day of October 1831 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for the county of Henry Newsom Pace, resident in said county aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820; that he the said Newsom Pace enlisted for the term of two years on the [blank] day of February in the year 1776 in the State of Virginia, in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Hutchins in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Buckner in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said troops until February 1778 when he was discharged from the service at Valley forge in the State of Pennsylvania; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present; that his name has been placed on the pension list; that the number of his certificate of pension is 16.781. and that he never before exhibited a Schedule of his property because he was uninformed as to the provision of the acts of Congress relative to such matters. And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other that what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. that since the 18th of March 1818, the following changes have been made in my property
80 acres of Land sold to Thomas Pace in the year 1829 for Eighty dollars, which was received in money
Schedule of property now owned and held by me
178 acres of Land . . . . . $178.00
1 Home worth . . . . . 40.00
11 Head Cattle . . . . . 66.00
11 Head of Hogs . . . . . 11.00
3 beds & furniture & 1 Oven . . 30.00
1 Table & ?oll, 6 chairs & 6 pewter plates . . 5.00
2 dishes & 1 set knives and forks . . . 1.00
Newsom Pace
State of Virginia}
Henry County to wit}
On this 10th day of September 1832. personally appeared in open court before the county court of Henry now sitting Newsom Pace, a resident of said County of Henry in the State of Virginia aged seventy eight years who being first 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States on the [blank] day of February 1776 in the State of Virginia for two years, in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Huthchins and Regiment commanded by Colo ___ Buckner in the Virginia State line on Continental service. that he continued to serve in said Corps until February 1778. when he was discharged from the service (having served out his term of enlistment) at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania. That he was placed on the pension list in conformity with the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and inscribed on the Roll of the Virginia Agency. that his pension certificate bears date 27th January 1820 and took effect from 11th January 1819. 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, except that of the agency of the State of Virginia – nor does he believe his name is now upon the Roll of agency of Virginia his pension under his certificate of the 27 January 1820. having been stoped for the last five or six years.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [signed] Newsom Pace
NOTES: On 22 March 1847 in Henry County, Mary Pace, 81, applied for a pension stating that she married Newsom Pace in the spring of 1790, and that he died 19 Aug 1845. The file contains letters from two of Newsom Pace’s grandsons requesting copies of his war record. One was from Thomas N. Pace, formerly Colonel of the 10th Indiana Cavalry in the Civil War, and the other was from William S. Pace, son of Newsom Pace born in 1809. A typed summary states that Newsom Pace was in the battles of Brandywine (11 Sep 1777), Germantown (4 Oct 1777), and Fort Mifflin (15 Nov 1777), that he married Mary Nunn in Henry County VA, and that she died 4 June 1853.