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- Benjamin fought in the Revolutionary War. Pension application follows:
(W 5,539: S.C. & VA)
Grayson County, VA
On the 24th day of September 1832 personally apprearing in open court, before the Justice of the court of Grayson County now sitting Benjamin Phipps, a resident of Grayson County in the state of Virginia aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed Jun 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States after the happening of the following circumstances. He was living at the house of Capt. John Cox on New River in Montgomery County, Virginia, now Grayson County, VA about the year 1779 or 80 engaged in making a crop of corn, when Col. Roberts at the head of a company of Tories, came there and made prisoners of himself, William Craig and Beverly Matkins. The said Tories took the declarant and carried him to the British army commanded by Lord Rawden. He remained with the said army, sick at the time of the battle of the Hanging rock, when the said army marched to Camden,
After this the Declarent returned to New River in Grayson County after an absence of three years, as near as can now be recalled. He was afterward in an excursion against the Tories in the mountains, under James Cox, who acted as Capt. in the place of his father, Capt. John Cox, who was absent on a tour against the Indians. In this excursion they came up with the Tories, killed and wounded the whole party, except one who was the brother of Green, their commander, and who afterwards joind the American Army as a regular soldier.
The Declarant will not say how long he was engaged in the US service in the whole, for fear he might err as to the precise time, but he is confident it was not less than six months.
The declarant was born in Guilford County in the State of NC in the year 1761 or 2 as he believes, but has no record of his age.
He was in SC when he entered the service, and since the Revolutionary Was he has lived in Grayson County where he now lives. He has no documentary evidence to prove his service, and never received any discharge from the service. He is known to James Cox, a contemporary survivor, and to Lewis Hail and Stephen Hail, who can testify as to the character for honesty and as to the belief of his service in the Revolutionary War. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever 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. Sworn to, and subscribed, this day and year aforesaid.
Signed with his mark
Benjamin Phipps
Mr. Stephen Hail, a clergyman, residing in the County of Grayson, and Lewis Hail, residing in the same county hereby certify that we are acquainted with Benjamin Phipps, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 70 years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution: and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the ay and year aforesaid.
Stephen Hair, Jr.
Lewis Hail
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them, Stephen Hail, Jr. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Grayson and that Lewis Hail who also signed the same is a resident in the County of Grayson and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Martin Deckerson, Clerk of the Court of Grayson County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Phipps for a pension.
In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Office this 15th day of October 1832.
M. Deckerson
Note: The Col. Washington in the above document was the brother of General George Washington.
Additional Note: St. John's Parish, SC In the Court of Ordinary, 9 June 1769
Ann Phipps of St. John's Parish qualified as Ex. to Joseph Phipps' Will.
Note by Mrs. Williford: Where Benjamin Phipps must have visited when he escaped to visit relatives in SC, 1780-1781.
The application for pension by Jean Phipps, widow of Benjamin Phipps
State of Virginia
County of Grayson
On this 5th day of July 1844 personally appeared before me one of the acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county Jean Phipps a resident of the County of Grayson and state aforesaid, aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the provision made by act of congress passed 7th July 1838. That she is the widow of Benjamin Phipps who was a Revolutionary soldier, and late a United States pensioner at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum. For proof of service reference may be had to his declaration on file in the pension office at the war department of the United States.
She further declared that she was married to the aforesaid Benjamin Phipps by One Robert Baker a Magistrate on the 5th Day of July in the year 1782, and the aforesaid Benjamin Phipps died on the 3rd of May 1838 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period and she further declared that owing to her very old age and decrepitudesof body, she is not able to go to the court house to make this declaration all of which will more appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned.
Before me Signed with her mark
William Young Jean Phipps
William Young, John Phipps and David Cox all swore to the accurace of the above statement of Jean Phipps.
Benjamin Phipps died on May 3, 1838. His remains, along with those of his wife, Jean, were moved from an abandoned cemetery to the Captain Joseph Phipps cemetery on the farm of Miss Celene Phipps by members of the New River Pioneer Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Benjamin is buried with his wife Jean, their son Captain Joseph Phipps, a grandson, Joseph Alexander Phipps, a great-grandson, Franklin Con Phipps, on property owned by a great, great, granddaughter, Cynthia Celene Phipps, and originally given to his son, Joseph Phipps. A number of their descendants are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution and children of the American Revolution.
In an ancestry chart for ancestors of Noah Hampton that discusses the migration patterns of families from PA and West NJ to VA, there is the following note:
Another name that follows the same pattern is that of Phipps. The 1751 map of Virginia by Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry shows the Phipps home site in the same general area where Noah Hampton lived. In Granville, NC, in 1760, Isiah Phipps wills to son Isiah a plantation in Hampshire County, Virginia and in Granville, to wife Ann the 200 acres bought by Andrew Hampton in Granville the day before. The name Benjamin Phipps is also found in the Frederick/Hampshire area of VA in 1760, then in Granville, NC, Rowan, NC, and then into Grayson County, VA on the New River.
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1761 - 1838 (77 years)