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Theophilus Weeks Vs Application for a Pension

The United States now on this day came the said Theophilus Weeks, in his own proper person and made the following

Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed on the pension List under the Act of the 18th March 1818. County of Alachua [Florida]: SS On this 20th day of April in the year of our Lord 1830 appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the district of East Florida, Theophilus Weeks, resident in said County, aged 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, that he the said Theophilus Weeks enlisted for the term of two and one half years on or about the 20th day of May in the year of our Lord 1776 as well as this deponent can now recollect but having lost all his papers connected with this case, he cannot state with certainty the time of his said enlistment or of his discharge, in the State of North Carolina, in the company commanded by Captain George Mitchell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lytle (or Colonel Taylor one of whom was Colonel the other Lieutenant Colonel but this deponent cannot now say with certainty which commanded at the time of his enlistment as aforesaid in the line of the State of North Carolina on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps about one year when he was transferred to the company commanded by Captain Griffin John McCraea [sic, Griffith John McRae or McRee] in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Clarke & that he continued to serve in the late mentioned corps until about the 20th day of November in the year of our Lord 1778, that of the exact time he cannot be certain, for the reasons aforesaid, when he was honorably discharged from the service in the state of New York (the period of his said enlistment having expired) and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any State except 1 At the time this file was viewed on Footnote.com, the page numbers assigned by Footnote.com to the digital images of each of the pages in the file were nonsensical. North Carolina and that the following all the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, to wit that he had been informed and believed that he could not obtain a pension without making oath that he could not support himself without a pension and that he was not willing to make such oath, and in pursuance of the act 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 whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 than 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 (to wit) I have lost two horses by death, and have sold a tract of land which I owned in the State of Georgia, for the sum of $100 which sum has been expanded, in the necessary support of my family, the members of which now residing with me are my wife aged about sixty-eight years, who is quite feeble, a granddaughter eleven years of age a son aged twenty-five years a farmer by profession, who supports himself by his own labor having no property except a horse and 5 cows & calves, besides these I have living with me one Negro woman a slave, who however does not belong to me, I am by trade a Cooper but am unable to do much work =

………………………………… Signed S/ Theophilus Weeks

Sworn to and declared on this 20th day of April 1831 in open Court Schedule above referred to (viz.) 20 head of hogs 4 iron pots one oven one tea kettle 5 chairs 2 tables one old chest one old cart and a set of Coopers tools.

……………………………….. Signed S/ Theophilus Weeks

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Theophilus Weeks was born October 21st 1760

Ann Weeks was born October 25th 1763

Theophilus Weeks died July 21st 1839

[fn p. 172: on April 18, 1844 in Columbia County, territory of Florida, Ann Weeks, 80, filed for a widow's pension under the 1838 act stating that she is the widow of Theophilus Weeks, a pensioner of the United States for his services in the revolution; that her husband died on July 20, 1839; that she married him on __ day of __ in the year 17__; that she did not marry him prior to his leaving the service but married him prior to January one, 1794.]

[fn p. 307: on April 18, 1844 in Columbia County, Territory of Florida, Mrs. Hester Weeks, testified that she is the sister of Ann Weeks, the widow of Theophilus Weeks, late a pensioner of the United States for his services in the revolution; that her sister and Theophilus Weeks were married in North Carolina before the end of the Revolutionary war; "That the record read to her from an old Bible of the births of the children of the said Ann and Theophilus, beginning with Mary and ending with John, is a true list of the children and in their succession, and that the first child, Mary, was born in less than a years time after marriage, that deponent does not read writing."]

[fn p. 323: on April 22, 1844 in Columbia County Florida, Ezekiel Weeks testified "that the record of the births of the children of Ann and Theophilus Weeks the latter now deceased and late a pensioner of the Army of the revolution (and the said record hereto annexed) is in the hand writing of James Brooks and was written by him; & that it has been (the said record) in the possession of the said Ann Weeks for 30 years last past."]

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Mary Weeks was [indecipherable] 4 1782

Silas Weeks born Sept 17 1784

Betsy Weeks was born Sept. 3 1786

Rebecca Weeeks [sic] was born June 178[last digit illegible, cold be "8"]

Alsey Weeks was born April 6, 1790

Sarah Weeks was born March 7, 1792

Ezibla Weeks was born Jany 2 1795

Ezekiel Weeks was born March 18 1797

Theophilus Weeks was born July 29 1800

John Weeks was Born June 9, 1804

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Ann Williams was born September 4th 1802

Isaac Williams was bron November 30th 1809

Jacob Williams was born September 7th 1811

Alex Williams was born April 9th 1813

Lucy Williams was born December 15th 1814

Mary Williams born March 15 1818 [fn p. 121]

Silas Weeks Junior was born December 23rd 1811

James Weeks was born March 25th 1814

Leonard Weeks was born September 21st 1815

Marryann Weeks was born November 28 1816

Betse Weeks was Born February 22 1819

Zachariah Weeks was born October the 20 1820

Theophilus Weeks was born September the 30th: 1822

David Weeks was born November the 26th 1824

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John Weeks the sun of Ezekiel Weeks and Cotene his Wife was born January the 5 1820

Reuben Weeks was born January 17th 1827

Hester Ann Weeks was Born 7th May 1829

George W. Weeks was born April the 30th: 1831

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Phebe Weeks was born February 22nd 1785

Ruebon Osteen was born April 15th 1722 [?]

Cassa Osteen was born May 18th 1799

Ezekiel Osteen was born November 27th 1791

Leonard Osteen was born October 14th 1793

Bartholomew Osteen was born April 15th 1795

Nancy Osteen was born [illegible] ber 7th 1797

Argent Osteen was born [illegible] 23rd 1798

Esther Osteen was born [illegible] 12th 1801 [fn p. 181]

John Smith was born October 20th 1801

Lewis Smith was born January 16th 1803

James Gadsden Weeks the son of Ezekiel and Mary his wife Born December the 20 1831

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Theophilus Weeks was born October 21st 1760

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Mary Weeks was born June the 21 [illegible]

Silas Weeks was born September

[fn p. 220: on April 18, 1844 in Columbia County, Territory of Florida, Ada Osteen testified that she is the sister of Theophilus Weeks deceased late a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States; that he married Ann Osteen before the close of the Revolutionary War; that the marriage took place in North Carolina; "that the record read to her from an old Bible (& which is hereto annexed) of the births of the children of said Theophilus and Ann, beginning with Mary Ann Indian with John, is a true and perfect list of the children and given in their succession, and that the first child, Mary, was born in less than a years time after marriage."]

[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $8 per month commencing February 18, 1831 for 2 years 6 months service in the North Carolina Continental line as a private during the revolution.]