Pension Application of Thomas and Lavina Jones: W7901
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Virginia Greenbrier County to wit
on this 24th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Justices of the Court of Greenbrier County now sitting Thomas Jones, a resident of said County of Greenbrier in the State of Virginia [now West Virginia], aged eighty four 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 7th 1832 That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven or seventy eight that he does not recollect the name of the regiment in which he served, but recollects that it was a regiment of light horse, that he enlisted under Captain Samuel Scott, in the County of Henry, State of Virginia, where he then resided and that he marched under this command through the states of North and South Carolina, to the town of Savanna [sic: Savannah] in the State of Georgia, where he continued about one year, when his company, with several other companies marched under the command of Major Tailor to the frontier of Georgia On the frontier he served under Captain John Dooling who was killed in a battle with the Indians, that this deponent was in said battle, which was fought about three miles from the Ochung River, & which was the only battle this deponent was engaged in during the war. [See note below.] That he enlisted for the term of three years, and served his time out when he was regularly discharged, and received a certificate of discharge from Major Tailor which certificate has long since been lost
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Thomas hisXmark Jones
NOTE:
The battle referred to by Jones may have been the skirmish that occurred near the Oconee River in Wilkes County GA on 22 July 1777. Captain Thomas Dooly’s company of the First Georgia Continental Regiment and a company of Virginia Militia had some of their horses stolen by a band of Creek Indians. Dooley and nine of his company pursued the Indians, who ambushed and killed Dooly and six others.
In Greenbrier County on 26 April 1843 Lavina Jones, “aged seventy years and upwards,” applied for a pension stating that she married Thomas Jones in Greenbrier County in 1789 and that he died 26 Aug 1839.