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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Orderly Sergeant
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Author: Chad Steven Henson
Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of John Jones at *S31171:
The said John Jones states that in the month of December 1779 he was drafted for the term of two months and entered the service under Captain Richard Ballinger of Amherst County Virginia (he the said Jones being a resident of the said County of Amherst and that he being the Orderly Sergeant of said Ballinger’s Company immediately proceeded with said Company to Albemarle Barracks Virginia where they were ordered to take charge of some prisoners which were taken by the capture of Burgoyne. Here he remained till the end of his term where he was discharged and returned home. Towards the end of May 1781, he volunteered in a horse company under Captain James Barnett and Lieutenant John Gilmore. This company was raised for the purpose of opposing Colonel Tarleton, a British Officer, who was then making an approach upon Charlottesville, but he was too late to fall in with Tarleton he having left that place and neighborhood. He together with his company proceeded on towards Richmond and that he was in a skirmish with a party of British at a place called the Burnt Tavern.
About 1st August 1781 he volunteered again under Captain John Loving and rendezvoused at the mouth of Rockfish River on James River where he joined a regiment under command of Colonel Sampson Matthews and Major Duvall.
Major Duvall and Colonel Matthews who were under General Losson at this time of the line of General Lafayette, whom this applicant knew well during the Siege of York.
He was in service during all the Siege laboring most of the time in the entrenchments and after the surrender of Cornwallis. He proceeded under his Captain and to guard or conduct the prisoners to Winchester Barracks, a distance of 184 miles he believes from Yorkshire he remained sometime when he was discharged about two weeks before the expiration of his time of service having served six weeks under Captain Stuart. He entered each term of service for two months but that his actual service in the horse company under Captain Barnett amounted only to six weeks, he being discharged before the expiration of his time as was the case in his last time of service under Captain Stuart. He always received regular written discharges but paying no regard to them, they are gone, and he knows not how they were lost. He never received any pay for his services except perhaps a few dollars for serving as a substitute which then was good to light a pipe with. He states that from his father’s record of his age he was born 1st February 1760 at Albemarle County, Virginia, that he moved from Virginia to Kentucky in the year 1787 in which state he has resided ever since.
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