North Carolina 16.138

Thomas Ives
of Currituck in the State of North Carolina who was a Pri. in the company commanded by Captain Jarvis of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dozier  in the North Car. line for 18 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 60 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4^th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10^th day of July '33 and sent [to] Hon. W.B. Shepard - Edenton, N.C.

Arrears to the 4^th of March 1833       $120.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep.          30.00
                                                          $150.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm. Miller, Clerk
Book E, Vol. 6; Page 44

     On this 29^th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Caleb Etheridge, John B. Jones, Benjamin T. Simmons, and William Bray, Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Currituck and state of North Carolina - Thomas Ives a resident of said county and State aged seventy nine 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 7^th of June 1832.  He saith that he entered into the militia service of the State of North Carolina on the 20^th of May 1776 under Captain John Jarvis and served one year and eight months & was then discharged--that he was then stationed on Currituck Banks to Guard the Coast and Indlet--that he has no documentary evidence but can prove the service by Hosea Ball and Jesse Perry.  He further says that he enlisted in November 1780 in Captain Thomas Jarvis' Company and served six months near North Carolina and Virginia Line North West being most of the time at head Quarters.  Peter Dozier was Colonel and Isaac Gregory General at the time.  He had no documentary evidence but can prove the service herein last stated by Thomas Jarvis who was their Captain.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
                                         (signed) Thomas Ives

On the 6^th day of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court before John B. Jones, Benjamin T. Simmons, and William Bray, Esqrs., Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Currituck & state of North Carolina Thomas Ives who made the following amended Declaration to a Declaration filed in this office on the 29^th day of August 1832 for the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the Act of June the 7^th 1832.

Thomas Ives being duly sworn says that he was born in Currituck County in Oct. 1752, has his age recorded at home in a bible, has always lived in Currituck, that he enlisted for two years but served only eighteen months of his time, having been discharged prior to the expiration of his time, but that he has lost or mislaid the evidence of his discharge.  This affiant further saith that he has stated the manner of his service in his former Declaration as particularly as he can now do.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                                           (signed) Thomas Ives

And the said Court do hereby certify that Hosea Ball and Jesse Perry and Thomas Jarvis the witnesses who proved the service of Thomas Ives as stated in his former Declaration are credible persons and entitled to full faith and credit.

     I Spence Hall Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Currituck and State

Mrs. E.L. Oberly
1412 Hess Avenue
Lansing, Michigan

Dear Madam,
     Reference is made to your letter relative to Thomas Ives, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
     The date contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.20899, based upon his military service in that war.
     Thomas Ives was born in October 1752 in Currituck County, North Carolina.  No reference is made to his parents.
     He enlisted May 20, 1776 and served one year and eight months in Captain John Jarvis' Company, Colonel Samuel Jarvis' North Carolina Regiment.  He enlisted in November 1780 and served six months in Captain Thomas Jarvis' Company, Colonel Peter Dozier's North Carolina Regiment.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed August 29, 1832 while a resident of Currituck County, North Carolina where he had always lived.
     There is no family data.

Very truly yours
     A.D. Hiller
          Assistant to Administrator