PAGE 46 SECTION II6 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS PURCHASED THE HOUSE AND LOT ON WHICH THE SAIO WIDOW MAY LIVED, AND SHE HAS NO DOUBT, CAVE HIS WAGES IN PAYMENT AS PART PAYMENT FOR THE PLACE AS NIS MBANS WAS THEN LIMITED, AND SUPPOSED GAVE.AH ORBER FOR SAID WAGES* SHE FURTHER STATES THAT SHE RECOLLECTS HAVING FREQUENTLY SEEN HIS DIS CHARGE AND THAT IT WAS LOST OK 0ESTR0Y5D MALFY YEARS SINCE, WITH OTHER PAPERS AND RECORDS OF THE FAMILY, B'.'T SHE CANNOT STATE CERTAINLY SECTION 157 HOW IT LOST OR OESTROYED OR THE EXACT TIME WHEN, SHE REFERS TO THE (OFFICE 13F THE SECRETARY 0? V/AR WHERE SHE PERSUMES HIS NAME MAY BE FOUND REGISTERED. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER HUSBAND, JOHN MAY, DIED JANUARY 25, 1813, AND THAT SHE HVS REMAINED A WIDOW EVER SINCE AS WlCt APPEAR BY THE THE PROOF HEREWITH SUBJOINED, THAT SHE WAS MARRIEO TO HIM AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE LAST.TERM OF HIS SERVICE AT THE TIME BEFORE STATEO, AND PRIOR TO THE JANUARY I, 1794. AND SHE FURTHER STATES THAT SHE I Si SATISFIED THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE^ SERVICE 2 YEARS AND SHE HAS A DISTINCT RECOLLECTION OF FREQUENTLY HEARING HIM SPEAK OF HAVING HAO CHARCe OF THE ARTILLERY, WHETHER AS AN OFFICER OR NOT SHE HAS NO DISTINCT RECOLLECTION, SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE AGENCY OF ANY STATE, AND THAT SHE HEREBY RELINQUISHES ALL CALIMS TO ANY ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT. THE ABOVE OCLARATION WAS MADE IN P I KE COUNTY COURT OF PI KE COUNTY KENTUCKY, JOHN 0. Ml MS AS CLERIC. (. •• JOHN D. MIMS, CLERK OF THE COURT OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. CERTIFIES THE WITHIN DECLARATION OF SARAH. MAY. STATED THAT THE PROCEEDINGS WERE HELO IN OPEN COURT AND SWORN TO BY THE SAID SARAH MAY, WHO IS A WOMAN OF UNOOUBLTABLE CHARACTER FOR TRUTH AND VERACITY. MADE SEPTEMBER 15, I845, JAMES BEVINS, PRESIDING JUSTICE OF THE PIKE COUNTY COURT, CERTIFIES THE STATEMENT MADE BY JOHN D. MLMS0 JOSEPH FORD OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, AGED 97 YEARS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS PERSONALLY V/ELL ACQUAINTED WITH SALLY MAY OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WIDOW OF JOHN MAY, FOR 55 OR 56 YEARS, AND THAT BOTH WERE REPUTED TO BE M MAN AND WIFE, AND AL60 TO BE OF VERY GOOD CHARACTER AS FOR TRUTH AND VERACITY. SECTION 118 CANNOT STATE CERTAINLY HOW IT WAS LOST OR DESTROYED OR THE\EXACT TIME WHEN. SHE REFERS TO THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAT. WH^RE SHE PERSUMES HIS NAME MAY BE FOUND REGISTERED. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER HUSBANO, JOHN MAY, DIED JANUARY 25, I8|3, AND THAT SHE HAS REMAINED.A WIDOW EVER SINCE AS WILL APPEAR BY THE PROOF HEREWITH SUBJOINED. THAT SHE WAS, MARRIEO TO HIM AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE LAST TERM OF HIS SERVICES AT THE TIME BEFORE STATED, AND PRIOR TO THE JANUARY*!, 1794. AND SHE FURTHER STATES THST SHE IS SATISFIED THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE SERVICE 2 YEARS YEARS AND SHE HAS A DISTINCT RECOLLECTION OF FREQUENTLY HEARING HIM SPEAK OF HAVING HA-O^HA.RGE OF THE ARTILLERY, WHETHER AS AN OFFICER OR NOT SHE HAS NO /DISTINCT RECOLLECTION. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE AGENCY OF ANY STATE, ANO THAT SHE HEREBY RELINQUISHES ALL CIA!MS TO ANY ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT. THE ABOVE DECLARATION WAS MADE IN PIKE COUNTY COURT OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, JOHN D. !.I|MS AS CLERK. JOHN 0. MIMS, CLERK OF THE COURT OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, CERTIFIED THE WITHIN DECLARATION OF SARAH MAY. STATED THAT THE PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT ANO SWORN TO BY THE SAIO SARAH MAY, WHO IS A WOMAN OF UNDOUBTABLE CHARACTER FOR TRUTH AND VERACITYW MADE SEPTEMBER 15, 1845 JAMES BEVINS, PRESIDING JUSTICE OF THE PIKE COUNTY COURT, CERTIFIES THE STATEMENTS MADE BY JOHN D. IvilMS, ABSTRACTS OF PENSIONS, SOLDIIfiS'GF TH* REVOLUTION, 1812 & INDIAN '.MRS WHO SETTLED ON THE KENTUCKY SIOE OF THE OHIO RIVER.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (KNOWN IN OLD RECORDS AS CORN ISLAND, AND FALLS OF OHIO) HENDERSON COUNTY., KENTUCKY, HEND^SOf: OLDHAf,; COUNTY, KENTUCKY, LAGRANGE TRIMBLE, COUNTY KENTUCKY. BEDFORD
COPiPILED 8Y ANNIE WALKER BURNS f3^i~<- PO BOX 6183 APEX 3T«TIOk WASHINGTON, 0. C. PUBLISHED: BY MRS. LUCY KATE I.CGHEE Box 72i3 APEX STATIC WASHINGTON, D. C. SECTION I RECORDS OF ABSTRACTS OF PENSION PAPERS OF SOLQIIRS OF THE REVOLUTION, J812 AND INDIAN V/ARS^WHO RECEIVED PENSIONS WHILE RAIDING IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, LOUJpVlLLF, KENTUCKY HARDING, VACHEL AND I,ARY W 1601 MARYLAND SERVICE THE ABOVE NAMED SOLIDER APPLIED FOR PENSION IN JEFFERSON CO.KV APRIL 5{ 1834 AND MAOE DECLARATION
IN JEFFERSON CO; KY JULY 24, 1.850 OEFORE A JUSTICE OF THE REACT, JOHN S. SPEED WHO WAS A LARSHAL IN KY, APPEARED IN COURT AND MADE DECLARA TION THAT WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH VACHEL HARDING AND HIS WIDOW, ELIZABETH HAROING, THAT HE HAS KNOWN THEM SINCE ABOUT I820. THAT HE DIED IN LOUISVILLE. VACHEL HAROING OF JEFFERSON CO} KY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANOEO BY CAPT NICHOLAS OF THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL MOSDOCK OF THE MARYLANO LINE FOR 9 MO WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL THE KY AGENCE TO . COMMENCE ON 3-4-1831, CERTIFLCATE OF THE PENSION WAS I SSUEO JUNE |2, 1832, ANO SENT TO'HENRY NORTHING, ESQUIRE. THE WIDOW, ELIZABETH HARDING V/AS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KY IGECNCY TO COMMENCE ON r.ARCH 4,1848. CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS -' ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER I4, 1850. 2— SECTION 4- BROCK, HENRY OF VIRGINIA SERVICE S 36,431 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER, HENRY BROCK, APPLIED FOR PENSION II-I0-1820 IN JEFFERSON Co, KY. He MADE DECLARATION THAT HE WAS AGE 74 , THAT HE ENLISTED FOR 18 MO IN 1775, THEY MARCHED TO V/LLLIAMSBURG VA ANO
FROM (THF=RE TO* NORFOLK WHER
JOHN JOHNSON .V.ADE AFFIDAVIT ON :CTOBER I9, I8I9S BY LETTER TO THE PENSION COMMISSIONER THAT THE ABOVE NA.IED SOLOIER, JOHNFURY WAS AN NATIVE OF IRELAND AND SERVED IN THE u. 3. ARMY AND THAT HE IS NOW ENTIRELY INCAPABLE OF,EARNING HIS SUPPORT, THAT SAID FURY WAS LIVING AT THE HOUSE OF SA ID JOHN JOHNSON UNTIL HEKEARD FROM THE_CP;;MISSIONER OF PENSIONS. _ ISBURYT HENBY BJDWfY LAND~iTRRA. f"34544-80-'5o"" 2"0707.-80~55 PRIVATE IN CAPT "fci V/ALKER'S KY MILITIA, HENRY ASBURY ENLISTED 9-I~I8I2, AND WAS DISCHARGED i2-25rl8i2, HISNUMBERS WERE OLD WAR INVALID FILE 1630, AND t0 7-1 C 363, SOLDIER'S ORIGINAL 9703, AND CERTIFICATE 728| THE RESIDENCE OF THE OLDIER WERE IN t 1843 \w HILLBOROUGH, HIGHLA.JO Co, OHIO. I85I TO'1855 HIGHLAND CO OHIO —SECTION 7 1869 TO 187I IN Soi.ERFORD, MADISON Co, OHIO. HE APPLIED FOR PENSION IN HIGHLANO Co OHIO 2-I3-I84O ANO MADE DECLARATION THAT HE FOR ERLY BELONGED TO THE COMAPNY C0MMA..0ED BY CAPT V'ALKSR OF THE 3R0 REGIMENT OF KY I/IILITIA COUMANOCD BY COL FILLER IN THE REGIMENT OF TIE UNITED STATES, THAT HIREMOVEDS NAME. WATHAS TWPLACE HE NOD W ON.THRESIDEE LISS TI N OF4- OHITHEO ROLANDL OINTENOF KY SFRO TMO WHERREMAIE N HEI N LATELOHIOY. SECTION 7 CONTINUED SAMUEL L. P.CCARTY MADE AFFIDAVIT FOR THE SOLDIER, HENRY ASBURY,' IN JEFFERSON CO KY ON 8~-27-I8I8 HEFORE A J P AND STATED THAT HE WAS LIEUT ANO PAYMASTER IN CA?t4vrPTALKER's COMPANY OF THE 3RD REGIMENT OF KY cor.iMAoeo BY COL NICHOLAS CILLER, THAT ON OR ABOUT TH* IOTH OF SEPT I8I2, NEAR LouisvtLLE,l HAWKINS, HENRY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPT FREDERICK GEICER'S COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS IN THE BATTLE OF TlPPECANOE WA£ INSCRIBED ON THE PEiSION LST OF THE KY AGEC.ICY TO COMMENCE ON l2-l5-l8l4. CERTIFICATE OF PENSIO.. WAS ISSUED i-2-i816 AND SENT TO ROBERT CROCKETT, ESQ. AND AGENT FOR PAYING INVALID PENSIONERS, LEXINGTON KY ON DEC 20, 1820. HENRY HAWKINS . AND FREDERIC GERGIS MADE AFFIDAVIT FOR PENSION «.> JEFFERSON CO KY ON DEC. I0,I8I.4, BEFORE JAMES FERGUSON J P. THEY STAT-O THAT IN 1811 A COMPANY WAS RAISEO AND STARTED TO VlNCENNES, IND. T^AT SA10 GERGIS WAS CHOSEN BY THE COMPANY AS' THEIR CAPTAI . TO COMMANO THEM ANO WAS RECEIVEO AS SUCH BY VAi HENRY HARRISON, THEN GOVERNOR OF SAID STATE. THAT HAWKINS WAS ONE OF GERGIS* VOLUNTEERS, THEY WERE MARCHEO UNO-R THE COMANDS AND"ORDERS OF SAID HARRISON TO TIPPECANOE ON THE "/ABASH. THAT HAWKINS WAS IN ACTION ON I I-7-1811 IN THE BATTLE AT TlPPECANJOE BETWEEN THE I DINAilS ANO THE FORCE UNDER COMMAND OF SAID HARRISON, THAT SAID HAWKINS WAS BADLY.WOUNDED IN LEFT LEG ABOVE THE ANKLE ANO WAS 80 DISABLED HE COULD NOT MARCH ANO WAS C0NVEYE0 IN A WO WAGON TO VlNCENNES ANO HELPED IN AND OUT OF THE WAGON AND WAS OBLIGED TO RETURN TO HIS HOME ON HORSEBACK FROM VlNCENNES. TSAT SAID HAWKISS PROMPTLY PERFORMED HIS DUTY. 'THE ABOVE AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE JA.ES FERGUSON, J P. * - SCCTION 10 DR. JOHN L. I.URRAY MADE AFFIDAVIT OF HAVING EXAMINED THE WOUNO OF HENRY HAWKINS AND THAT HE HAD. BEER WOUMDED OY A BALLPASSING FROM OUT. THE SIDE OF HIS LEFT LEG,. TH IS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE ON DEC |4, »8|4 JEFFERSON CO KY. IN JEFFERSON CO KY ON DEC |4, |8|4, V/AROEN POPE MADE AFFIDAVIT OF BEII1G WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, HENRY HAWKINS AND TO HIS BELIEF IN HIS STATE! .E.TS, THAT THEY BECA.X ACQUAINTED LN 1783, THAT SA.10 HAWKINS IS MODERATE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND HAS A WIEE AND CHILDREN AND DEPEHOS ON LASER FOR EXISTENCE. SECTION H——5 THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS CERTIFIEO BY JA.ES FERGUSON, J P AND V/ARDEN POPE CLEE*. ISAAC^SHCLBY GOVERNOR OF KY MAOE CERTIFICATION THAT J*MES FERGUSON, ESQUIRE, WAS AN ACTIVE J P IN SAID COU TY:ANO STATE, GOV. ISAAC,. SHELBY MAOE THIS AFFIOAVIT'IN FRANKFORT KY DEC 20 181,4. HUTSON, V/M OF VIRGINIA SERVICE 3 354440, , t5ECtlON li & |2 THE ABOVE-NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION in JEFFERSON CO KY JULY I,3^ 1818 BEFORE A J IN SAID COUNTY AND MAOE DECLARATION THAT HIS AGE' is^62"' THAT HE IS A RESIDENT IN SAID COUNTY AND,STATE, F IV. T HE ENLIS/-0 IN VA IN THE COMPANY COMMA NDEO^BY, CAPT JOHN GLLLLSON OF THT IOTH VA REGIMENT A/NO CONTINUED TO SERVE IN SAID CORPS TILL THE FALL OF |77? WHE.< HE WAS DISCHAR GED FROM SERVICE IN FLORRISTOWN NEW JERSEY. HE FURTH~R STATED T^A T HE IS IN THE. BATTLES OE BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN, AI.D STONY POINT, THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE ALFRED I,ETCALF, CIRCUIT JUDGE, IN SA»D COUNTY AND STATE, AND CERTIFIED BY V/ADEN PDRPE, CLERK OF SAID COUNTY U ST.'TE. WM HUTSON MADE APPLICATION FOR PENSION AG A I.N AT THE SAME PLACE 7-12-1820, ANO ADE A SCHEOULE'OF HIS PRBBRTY. •,'.',. HUTSON OF JEFFERSON CO . KY WHO WAS A PR I BATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY COL PL.LLLSON IN THE I OTH VA REGI.ENT, F;R.3 YEARS, WAS INSCRIBED ON, THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KY-AGE.JCY TO COMMENCE ON JIULY I3 1818. CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED ON /FE3 ip ' J.e^^ANiD^SENT T,0jl0il_R_ £'_Aj£DE Rj» ON ..HOUSEjOF, REj;R^S£NTjkTltVES.._.SEj5. l2--*--- HORSELEY, JA«IES OF VIRGINIA SERVICE S 36590 JAMES HORSELEY APPLIED FOR PENSION IN JEFFERSON GO KY JULY 24, IBZI, AND MADE DECLARATION TH..T HE WAS 60 YEARS OF AGE. AND A RESIOEILT OF JEFFERSON CO KY- THAT HE SERVED IN"THE REVOLUTIONARY 7Aa BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND Th- "*> UHITED STATES. TH..T HE ei:LISTED IN THE CO PAI:Y COMMANDED BY CAPT ROBERT YANCEY AT WINCHESTER VA. IN THE REGIMENT CCIVIANDED SY COL ANTHONY V/AXTON.V/HITE WHITE", WHEN HE ARRIVED I THE SOUTHWARD IN THE FIRST VA REGIMENT OF%|GHT DRAGONS ON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, THAT HE ENLISTED ON .SEPT TBER I780 ,.,4 SEpTlON — 13 AND SOON AFTERWARD MARCHED TO THE SOUTH ANO WAS AT THE HILLSBOROUGH SANTEE,,, HE REMAINED IN TH~ SOUTH ABOUT 18 M0NTH8"j RETURNEO Ai<0" WAS TAKEN WITH _„ PRISONERS TO BLUEFORD VA. HE SERVEO Tl'lX THS CLOSC OF THE WAR. HE SERVEO ON THE VA LINE OF CONTINENTAL tSTABLISHMENT. T^E ALSO MAOE SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY ANO STAT'-D THAT HE HAS A WIFE BUT NO CHPLDREB. THAT HIS WIFE IS 50 YEARS OF-AGE. JA..ES HORSLEY OF JEFFERSO *C0 KY WHff_WAS A PRIVATE IN TH" REGI ENT COMMANDED BY COL V/HITE OF THE VA LINE FOR *3 YEARS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THON SEPT I823 AND AOE 0ECLARATIO.I THAT HE* IS' A RESIDENT OF SAID COU.NTY' ANO IS 73"YEARS OLD. THAT HE ENLISTED IN FEB I776 ABOUT FIVE CKLES BELOW CASIN POINT NEAR SUFFOLK VA IN A CO.V.PANY OF HORSE COMMANDED QY CA.T AR^ONG AR ARM LONG?/- IN THE REGIMENT COMMA. DID 3Y COL NELSON »N THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VA AND ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT. HE SERVED TILL I -1783 WHEN HE LEFT THE COMPANY ANO WITH TH" PERMISSION OF HIS C0M,7,A..DER WENT TO HAMPTON VA AND ENLIST LISTED AS A MARINE SOLDIER 01. BOARD THE VESSEL. LLOERTY, IN THE SERVICE OF THE —5 SECTION I4 CONTD. UNITED STATES,., HE CONTIN*UEO TILL SOMETIME IN 1783 WHEN HE WAS OISCHARGEO. * HE WAS IN BATTLE AT. PETERSBURG VA AND WAS AT THE SIEGE OF YORK, HE WAS ILL IN THE HOSPITAL AT HANOVER VA WHEN CORNWALLIS WAS TAKEN. HE MADE A SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY. -HE ALSO APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN DAVIOSON CO TENN, WAY I8,1825 ANO MADE STATEMENTS SIMILAR AS ABOVE A O STATED THAT HIS NAI:E WAS PLACED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF KY. FROM WHICH PLACE HE LATELY REMOVED. THAT HE NOW RESIDES IN V/ILHA.ISO CO TENN. THIS STATEMENTS WERE MADE BEFORE NATHAN EWING, CLERK OF-THE COURT AT NASHVILLE, TENN. JOHN BARTLETT O* ALLE.. Co KY WHO WASA PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY COLONEL NELS N S IN THE VA LINE FROM 1776 A- TO 1783 wAs INSCRIBED ON THE . PENSION ROLL OF THE KY v AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON ">EPT |5, l823, CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUEO £N_JiN J3J. lP2*i. 2 -. - *- - -l - J!is£cI' J2JU £*.!* CONN, SAMUEL OF VIRGINIA .SERVICE S i5384 • SAMUEL CONN A. PLIED FOR PENSION IN JEFF-RSON CO Ky 3-27-1834 BEF RE TRAMMELL CONN. J P. HE MADE STATEMENT THAT HE WAS 74, THAT HE WAS A RESIDENT OF LOUDON CO VA WHEN HE ENLISTED AND, JOHNEO CAPT THOMAS LEWIS'S COMPANY »N SEPT 1777, TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY ALONG THE POTOMAC. • HE MARCHED INTO SERVICE FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS THEN MARCHEO DOWN THE POTOMAC RIVER IN ORDER TO DETER THE BRITISH FROM LANDING AND PLUNDER-' ING THE COUNTRY AS THEY WERE IN THE HABIT OF LANDING AND "PLUNDER ING THE COUNTRY ,AND TAKING OFF THE NEGROES, WHENEVER THEY WE ;E PERMITTED TO LAND. ,HE WAS DISCHARGED AND VOLUNTEERED AGAIN L78L IN CAPT RICHARD SPUR'S COM^A.LY OF VOLUNTEERS. THEY WERE CALLED INTO SERVICE AND RENDEZVOUSED IN LouboN CO.VA HE WAS MARCHED , FROI.F SAID PLACE OF - RENDEZVOUS. T9 FREDERICKSBURG ON THE RAPPA- HANOCK RIVER "WHERE HE REWIA I NED FOR SOMETIME, THEN THEY WERE MARCTFED TO BOWLING TOWN DOWN TO RICHMOW© AND AFTER HAVING, BEEN THERE .FOR SOMETIME THEY WERE MARCHED TO.THE RIVER AND ACROSS THAT RIVET: THE'CE TO GLLOUSHESTER POINT WHERE HE WAS STATIONED TILL THE SURRENDER OF \CORNWALLLS. **SECTI0N |6**** /AFTER THIS DISCHARGE HE GUARDEO SOME OF THE PRISONERS FROM LEESBURG, TO .NOLAN'S FERRY. YHE .MILITIA FROM MORELAND TOOK CH..RGE OF SA;ID PERFORIASRS AND HIS TOUR OF 6"iiONTHS BE I NG. EXPIRED!^ HE WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPTSPUR.. THE A.PLICAITT SAMUEL CONN, FURTHER STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN FAIRFAX Co VA i760 ANO HAS A RECORO OF HIS AGE IN HIS FATHER'S BIBLE.. WHEN HE WENT INTO SERVICE HE WAS LIVING IN LOUDON GO VA AND STAYED THTRETILL 1796 WHEN HE MOVED T JEFFERSON CO KY WHERE HE HAS LIVED EVER SI .CE. HE NA.'.ED GEN - WASHINGTON ,GEN VAYNE GEN LAFAYETTE OF THE REGIMENT OFFICERS ANO^GEN V/EEDON HA D A REGIMENT OF MILITIA. ,' HE WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPT LEWIS ON HIS FIRST TOUR AND THE 2ND - TOUR HE WAS "DISCHARGED BY CARF.RICHARD SPUR, AT NOLANIS FERRY ON THE POTO.VIAC RICER. V/M PROCTOR, AND MA GO HERNDON, RESIDENTS OF THE S,AME NEIGHBORHOOD AS THE APPLICANT, MADE AFFIDABITS OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT ANO TO THEIR BELIEF,IN HIVS STATEMENTS. SAMUEL CONN, V/HG WAS A PRIVATE IN TIE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPT LEV/IS OF THE' » VA FOR 9,UQS, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KY .AGENCY TO COMMENCE 3-4-1831, CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED 4-17-1834 AND SENT TO HON V HJ'OPEJ^ HOUSE OF RE PRE SEN TAT I BM^. SECT I ON |7———— ^ ~* "COO?i~rLEVEN JDF V IIGTMTA'SERV I CY"' 3 357866 LEVEIJ COOPER APPLIED F'OR A PENSION AND WAS A PENSIONER OF THE UNITED "TAT^S BY CERTIFICATE DATED 6-9-1819 APPEARED IN COURT ALLO MADE SCHEDULE OF HIS PROOERTY, 2-l7-l82| IN JEFFERSON CO KY. HE MADE FURTH R STATEMENT THAT HE IS 68 AND A RESIDENT OF SAID COUI. COUNTY.. THAT HE ENLISTED IN CAPT JA ES -SULLIVAN'S COMPANY IN I3TH VA REGI.ENT EYFTGEOMMANDEN. E V/ASHINGTOCATAND^ANDO HEB JY LOSCOANND LT AN JOHNFRBKTHERHID SWA .EY SGIBSON E INNOCULATEESIGH TO, T PHILA12-17-177ANDD .IFO SAN RNO D6WTHE ANJOINEBLINDO SMALMARCHED .L TH FROEPOO XMAIM FRO NPHTHM I ARMELPITTSBUR AY FEVE HCOMMANDEDTJE RRETURNE GFEL TLO DI NYT HIO S —6 SECTION 17 CONTD—— PITTSBURG ANO .'.ARCHED TO MCINTOSH'S CAMPAIGN AI.D WAS COMMAHEO BY GEN. IvClNTOSH AGAINT THE INOINANS AND WAS THE STATIONED AT FT.LORANCE ON THt ToSKARSAH RIVER WHIOH FORT WAS COMMANDED BY COL Gl.SON AND HE WAS THERE DURING THE TIME IT WAS BESIEGEO BY THE INOINAN IN THE ! ONTH OF FEBRUARY SECTION 18 — 1779. THEY WERE MARCHED FRO.; THERE TO PITTSBURG AND .ARCHED ON BRDAOHEAO'S CAMPAIGN UP THE ALLEGHENY RIVER AGAINST THE INDIAN AT I. UNCSY TOWN AND DEFEATED THE INDIAN S AND BURNED THEIR TOWNS VND THEN RETURNED TO PITTSBURG WHERE HE WAS DISCHARGED 12-27 1779 BY LT COL RICHARD TAYLOR. THE NU BER OF HIS PENSION IS 11547 AND THE DATE. OF HIS ORIGINAL APPLICATION IS MAY 12,1818. HE ALSO MADE SCHEDULE OF HIS PRJPERTY AMD STATED THAT HE IS BY OCCUPATION A FARMER, THAT HE HAS A WIFE AGE 7L AD 3 CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM; 2 OAUGHTBRS ANO ONE SON* THAT THE OLOEST DAUGHTER, NAMED NELLY IS 4| YEARS OF AGE, ANO THE OTHER DAUGHTER IS" 39 YEARS OF AGE ANO HER NAME IS SALLY. THE SON IS 26 YEARS OF AGE, THIS APPLICATION WAS MADE; BEFORE V/AROE POPE>JCLERK OF THE COURT OF SA10 COUNTY AND ALFRED SMITH, CIRCUIT JUDGE. IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 12, |8|8, JOHN HARRIS MAOC DECLARATION THAT HE SERVED IN THE SAME REGIMENT WITH LEVEN COOPER DURING AL OF THE TIME GIVEN IN DOOPZR'S DECLARATION ANO MAOE DECLARATION TO THE TRUTHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS. .HE ALSO MADE APPLICATION BEFORE JOHN P. OLDHAM, CIRCUIT JUDGE, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCLY ON MAY 12, I8I9. LEVEN COOPER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY COLONEL GL SON OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR 3 YEARS, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON .MAY 12, 1818. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUEO ON JUNE f, 1819, AND SENT TO THE HONRABLE SECTION' 19— R. C. ANDERSON, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. GffAY: GEORGE $J5,989 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON APRIL 13, 1818, BEFORE ALFTED METCALFE, CIRCUIT JUDGE AND MADE AFFIOAVIT THAT HE WAS APPOINTED ENSIGN IN CPA TAIN JOHN METZER'S COMPANY OF INFANTRY TILL FEBRUARY 1777 WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED AND COMMISSIONED AS A LIEUTENANT IN CAPTAIN MOORE FONTLEROY'S TROOP OF LIGHT DEAGOONS IN THE THIRD REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS COMMANDED BY ^COLONEL STEPHEN MOYLANO IN THE SAME YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE RESIGNATION OF CAPTAIN FONTLEROY HE WAS APPOINTED BY REGIMENTAL ORDERS TO THE COMMAND OF THE TROOPS WHICH HE CONTINUED TILL JUNE 1779 WHEN HE LEFT THE ARMY BY RESIGNATION* FROM THE FIRST OF JANUARY 1776 TILL JUNE 1779 HE SERVED IN THE REVOLTUIONARY WAR ON THE CONTINENETAL ESTABLISHMENT. MAJOR WILLIAM TAYLOR MADE AFFIDAVIT OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, GEORGE GRAY AND TO THE YTITHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS, ON THE'SAME DATE, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. GEORGE GRAY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE REGIMENT SECTION 20—- COMMANOEO BY COLONEL MAYLAND OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE FOR 2 YEARS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON APRIL 30, I8I8• CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY IO. 1819. GOODWIN, AMOS ELlaBEm PAGET SECT,0N 2° JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS GOODWIN,*AMOS « *r £*£>£• MLJW 'ELIZABETH . ^vS^ AMOS GOODWIN, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER APPLIED RO A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON SEPTEMBER 1832, HE MAOE DECLARATION THAT HE IS A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY AND IS 66 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE FORMERLY RESIDED IN CULPEPPER COUNTY VIRGINIA. IN THE FALL OF I779^WHEN ABOUT 13 YEARS OF AGE, HE ENLISTED IN CAPTAIN MARK THOMAS'S COMPANY OF VIRGINIA FAR THE LINE OF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ANO A FEW DAYS AFTERWARD HE AND ANOTHER FORCE WERE SENT TO ORIVE CATTLE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS TO KENTUCKY WHERE THEY ARRIVEO A THE CRAB URCHARD ANO REMAINED TILL THE SPRIN6 OF |780 WHEN THE COMPANY ARRIVEO AND HAVING DESCENDED THE RIVER. THAT HE SERVED TILL SHE CLOSE OF THE YEAR I78I ANO WAS DISCHARGED. THE WIDOW, ELIZABETH RICHARDSON APPLIED RQ A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON FEBRUARY 26, 1834., AND THAT MADE DECLARATION THAT HER H0S6ANO DIED ON JUNE 7, I850. THAT SHE ISA RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY * AND IS 63 YEARS OF AGE. THIS APPLICATION WAS MADE BEFORE E. GAR&AND, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. SECTION 2i— AND WITNESSED BY A. F- VANCE, ANO CHRISTOPHER M. THURSTON, JR., AND CERTIFIED BY CURRAN POPE, CLERK. MATHER RAUGH MADE AFFIDAVIT ON APIRL |5, 1753 THAT HE IS ACQUAINTED. WITH THE APPLICANT, AMOS GOODWIN AND HIS WIOOW ELIZABETH GOODWIN* THAT HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THEM ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO AND WAS ACQUAINTED FROM THAT TIME UP TO THE DEATH OF AMOS GOODWIN AND IS STILL ACQUAINTED WITH ELIZABETH GOODWIN, HIS WIDOW. THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. THERE IS ON FILE, A COPY OF THE MARRIAGE LICENSE FOR THE MARRIAGE OF AMOS GOODWIN AND ELIZABETH MCCOLLISJER. THE MARRIAGE LICENSE WERE GIVEN AUGUST 18, 1834., ANO IN HARRISON COUNTY INDIANA. AMOS GOODWIN OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN THOMAS or THE REGIMENT OF MAJOR SLAUGHTER OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR TWO YEARS FROM I779 AND WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON NOVEMBER 6, 1832, AND SNE T TO HSNRY NORTHRUP, AT LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. ELIZABETH GOOOWIN, WIDOW OF AMOS GOODWIN, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON FEBRUARY 3, 1853, CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUEO ON JULY 16, 1853. GRIFFIN: REUBEN 335, 993 VIRGINIA SECTION 22 REUBEN GRIFFIN APPLIED FOR A PENSION ON APRIL'20, 1820, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, AND MADE DECLARATION THAT HE ENLISTED IN FREDER ICKSBURG VIRGINIA FOR THREE YEARS IN COLONEL GEORGE BAYLOR»S REGIMENT or LICH/HORSE OR DRAGOONS, AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN OR EIGHTEEN. HE MARCHED TO NEW JERSEY ANO WAS WITH THE REGIMENT WHEN IT WAS ATTACKEO BY THE BRITISH. MANY MEN WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED AND TAKEN PRISONERS. He REMEMBERS THAT THE 0EPONENT WAS AFTERWARD COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM WASHINGTON ANO CONTINUED WITH THE NORTHERN ARMY TILL IT WAS ORDERED TO SOUTH CAROLINA. PREVIOUSLY HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF THE MORRISTOWH AND WHILE IN THE SOUTHERN ARMY WAS IN THE ACTION OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE; Cow PENS, EUTAW SPRINGS, AND OTHERS, AND CONTINUED TILL THE END OF THE WAR. HE MADE AFFIDAVIT OF THE SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY AND STATED THAT BY OCCUPATION HE IS A FARMER AND HAS NO WIFE OR CHILDREN LIVING. PAGE 8 SECTION 22 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS REUBEN GRIFFIN: THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE JOHN P. OLDHAM. JUDGE. REUBEN GRIFFIN OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL BAYLOR OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR 3 YEARS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON NOVEMBER 20, 1820 AND SENT TO HONORABLE R. C ANDERSON. SECTION 23 GRIFFIN: WILLIAM W 24313 NANCY VIRGINIA WILLIAM GRIFFIN, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER, MADE APPLICATION POR A PENSION IN TTEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON OCTOBER |2, I820, ANO MADE DECLARATION THAT HE ENLISTED FOR 18 MONTHS AS A FR|VATE SOLDIER IN VIRGINIA IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN THOMAS HOARD IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL ABRAHAM 0UFORO IN THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT* HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE SERVEO TILLL OCTOBER |780 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED IN VfRGlNIA, HE WAS IN THE BATTLE CALLED BUF0R0»S DEFEAT AND RECEIVED 2" WOUNDS IN THE ACTION. HE NAMED FOR EVIOENCE OF THE TRUTH* FULNESS OF THE STATEMENTS, CAPTAIN THOMAS PEARSON AND JOHN HUMPHRIES* HE ALSO MADE SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY AND STATED THAT HE IS SY OCCUPATION A FARMER, AND HAS FOUR CHILDREN: TWO GIRLS WHO ARE ANCY, AGED 19 YEARS AND LUOIA, AGED |7 YEARS. HE WLSO HAS TWO BOYS WHO"ARE MORGAN, AGED 13 YEARS, ANO ANDERSON, AGED 9 YEARS. GEORGE A. CANTER OF CLARKE COUNTY INDIANA, MADE DECLARATION ON SEPTEMBER 22, |846, THAT HE IS 46 YEARS OF AGE AND HAS BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH WITH NANCY GRIFFIN OF THIS COUNTY FOR THIRTY YEARS PAST. THAT SHE IS THE WIOOW OF WILLIAM GRIFFIN WHO WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLOIER AND WAS ALSO A PENSIONER OF THE UNITED STATES FROM VIRGINIA AND DIED ABOUT 1832, IN THIS COUNTY. SECTION 24— THAT FOR FIFTEEN YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH HE LIVED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. THEY HAO A NUMBER OF CHILDREN. THE FOUR YOUNGEST WERE NANCY, LYDIA, MORGAN ANO ANDERSON. IN THE SAME PLACE, ON THE SAME DATE, BEFORE JOEL M. SMITH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, JACOB L. STILL WELL MADE AFFIDAVIT OF ACQUAINTANCE FOR FOURTEEN YEARS WITH THE APPLICANT AND MAOE STATEMENT OF THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE STATEMENTS OF THE APPLICANT. IN CLARKE COUNTY INDIANA ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1846, ALEXANDER MARS, ESQ., RESIOENT OF SAID COUNTY, AGED 57 YEARS, MADE DECLARATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, IN PUTNAM COUNTY INDIANA ON JULY 23, 1846, ANDERSON B. MATTHEWS, RESIDENT OF SA10 COUNTY, AGED 70 YEARS, MADE DECLARATION OF BEING WELL .ACQUAINTED WITH WILLIAM GRIFFIN ANO HIS WIFE, NAIICY, SOMETIME CALLED ANN, BEFORE THE YEAR 1794, IN ROWAN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA, J. ETCHERSON ALSO MAOE AFFIDAVIT OF HAVING BEEN WELL ACQUAINTED WITH WILLIAM GRIFFIN AND NANCY MORGAN, SOMETIME CALLEO ANN MORGAN BEFORE THEIR MARRIAGE, IN FAUQUIER COUNTY VA., HE ALSO KNEW THEIR CHILDREN, WILLIAM, POLLY, SALLY, JOHN, ELIIZABETH AND SOME OTHERS. THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE ANDERSON B. MATTHEWS. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND WILLIAM S, TOWNSENO, CLERK OF THAT COUNTY. MORGAN GRIFFIN, AGED 42, SON OF THE SAID WILLIAM ANO NANCY GRIFFIN MAOE APPLICATION FOR A PENSION IN CLARKE COUNTY INDIANA THAT HE IS 42 YEARS OF AGE. PAGE 9 SECTION 25 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS. THAT NANCY GRIFFIN DIED IN CLARKE COUNTY, INOIANA, ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1849. THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE seroRe JOHN W. BARLOW, JUSTICE OF THE PEAOE ANO DARIOUS PHILLIPS, CLERK. THE WIOOW, NANCY GRIFFIN APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN CLARKE COUNTY INDIANA ON AUGUST 15, 1844, AND MADE DECLARATIONS AS ABOVE* AND ALSO STATED THAT SAID WILLIAM GRIFFIN WAS WOUNDED IN -WE SHOULDERS ANO LEFT HIS IN SAID SERVICE, THAT HE DIED ON AUGUST 6, |832, IN INDIANA. THAT TNt* WERE MARRIED ON JANUARY 26, |787. IN CLARKE COUNTY INDIANA, ON AUGUST 18, 1844, BEFORE JUSTICE or THE PEACE, ELI WAOKINS MADE DECLARATION THAT HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH THE WIDOW *ND HAD BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH HER FOR FORTY C|VE YEARS. THIS DECLARATION ,WAS MADE BEFOE JOHN T. DEJORNATT, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. MORGAN GRIFFIN, SON OF WILLIAM AND NANCY GRIFFIN MADE DECLARATION FOR APENSION ON AUGUST |7* |844 IN CLARKE COUNTY INDIANA, BEFORB LEMUEL FORD, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND ELI MCCALLCY, CLERK, WILLIAM 'GRIFFIN, OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE REGIMENT COMMANOED BY COLONEL BUFORO OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON OCTOBER |2, |820. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY I, L82L. » SECTION 26 NANCY GRIFFIN, WIDOW OF WILLIAM GRIFFIN, WAS INSCRIBEO ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KEHGUTCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, 1848 CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1850. mm BATMAN: THOMAS S 35, 182 MARYLAND THOMAS BATMAN, OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUOKY, APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN THAT COUNTY ON NOVEMBER 9,.1825 ANO MADE DECLARATION THAT HE SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AS FOLLOWS: HE ENLISTED FOR THREe YEARS AS YEARS AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN JUNE 1776 IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN ADAMSON TAWNHILL AND COLONEL RAWLEY'S MARYLAND REGIMENT ANO SERVED A SHORT TIME AND WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE 6TH MARYLAND REGIMENT COMMANDEO BY COLONEL WLLLLAMS AND MARCHED TO FORT FREDERICK IN MARYLAND AND FROM THAT PLACE TO FORT PlTT, AT PITTSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA AT A PLACE AT WHICH HE WAS DISCHARGED IN AuGUST 1779. HE ALSO STATEO THAT HE HAS A WIFE AGED 67 YEARS; AND 6 CHILDREN AMONG THEM WHOM ARE FOUR DAUGHTERS* THAT THE OAUGHTERS HAVE MARRIEO AND LEFT HIM* THAT THE SONS LEFT HIM ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO AND ARE LABORING FOR THEMSELVES. THE CHILDREN ARE; POLLY JETTER AGED 43 YEARS, SALLY SHAW, AGED 39 YEARS, HANNAH GIBBINS, AGED 37 YEAR8 AND JOHN BATMAN, AGED 35, AND RACHEL. DUNAGIN, AGED 33 YEARS ANO THOMAS BATMAN, AGED 26. SECTION 27 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY I, I826, AMBROSE CAMP CAME BEFORE JUSTICE 6F THE PEACE, AND MADE DECLARATION, THAT IN 1822 HE PURCHASED A HORSE FOR WHICH HE GAVE SAID BATMAN THE SUM OF THIRTY DOLLARS, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 2, 1826- DR, RICHARO CHEW CAME BEFORE A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND MAOE DECLARATION THAT IN NOVEMBER 1825. THOMAS BATMAN PAID HIM, THE SUM OF TEN DOLLARS FOR HIS ACCOUNT AGAINST A PHYSICIAN* PAGE 10 SECTION 2T JEFFERSON COUNTY JCNTUCKY PENSIONERS THOMAS BATMAN, WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN TAWNYHILL, IN THE REIGMENT COMMANOED BY COLONEL RAWLINSS or THE "'ARYLAND LINE FOR THREE YEARS, FROM 1776 TO |779 WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MAY 2, |8&. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON MAY 18, 1826. SECTION 27 AND 28 BRISCOE: HENRY s 30» 888 MARYLAND HENRY BRISOOE, APPLIED FOR A PENSION ON DECEMBER 3, 1832, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ANO MAOE STATEMENT THAT HE IS A RESIDENT or THE COUNTY AFORESAID, THAT HE ENLISTED ON JUNE |78|, AS A DRAFTED MAN AT LEONARD TOWN, IN ST. KIARY'S COUNTY MARYLAND, FOR 6 MONTHS AND CONTINUED TILL TOE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER FOLLOWING, WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED AT ANNAPSLIS, MARYLAND, AFTER HAVING BEEN IN SERVICE AS STATED. AFTER HE WAS DRAFTED AT LEONAROTOWN, HE MARCHED TO ANNABSLIS MARYLAND TO THE SIEGE, ANO WENT THE NAME OF JOHN KINO AND WAS PUT UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN DAVIO LYNN, A REGULAR OFFICER. THEN HE WAS THEN BY THE COURT OF ANNAPOLIS REVIEWED BY GENERAL SMALLWOOD WHO ALSO REGULAR OFFICER ANO WAS MARCHED TO GEORGETOWN WHICH WAS THEN IN MARYLAND AT WHICH PLACE HE WAS PUT UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN MANGERS WHO WAS ALSO A REGULAR OFFICER WHO AFTER THE SERVICE AT LITTLE YORK WAS KILLED IN A OUEL BY CAPTAIN LOCK BETTS OF MARYLAND WHO WAS ALSO A REGULAR OFFICER FROM GEORGETOWN* THEN HE WAS MARCHED TO LITTLE YORK, IN VIRGINIA PASSING A PLCE CALLED THE GREEN SPOT AND FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA TILL THEY ARRIVED AT LITTLE YORK, IN VIRGINIA. HE REHEMBSM MAJOR ROXFORD; A FRENCHMAN, AFTER REMAINING AT LITTLE YORK TILL THE l\-.$. SIEGE OF YORK WAS OVER* AND CORNWALLIS HAD BEEN TAKEN, HE WAS EMPLOYED SOMETIME IN THE ACT OF FILLING UP INTRENCHMENTS ANO FORTS. IFTER THIS At. ALL OF THEM WHO HAD THE SAMALL POX, (HE BEING ONE OF THEM) WERE SELECTED TO* GUARD . AND CONBEY THE PRISONERS BY A PLACE CALLED TODD»S BRIDGE IN VIRGINIA. MANY OF THE PRISONERS ALSO HAD THE SHALL POX. AFTER THEY ARRIVED AT TODD'S BRIDGE, HE WAS MARCHED IN A STARVING CONDITION TO ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND WHERE HE GOT DISCHARGED. HE LOST HIS DISCHARGE. SECTION 29 HE FURTHERSTATEO THAT HE WAS BORN IN MARYLAND ON FEBRUARY 3, 1763 AND LIVED IN MARYLAND TILL HE WAS 39 YEARS OF AGE AND THEN REMOVED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE HE HAS SINCE RESIDED. HE CONTINUED TO LIVE IN LEONARD»S TOWN, IN ST. MARY'S -VIRGINIA? MARYLAND?, TILL THE YEAR OF 1802 WHEN HE MOVED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY. KENTUCKY, HE GAVE THE FOLLOWING PERSONS OF HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, AS REFERENCES AS TO HIS CHARACTER AND TO THE TRUGHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS, ETC* GEOR GEORGE HIKES, JACOB HILES, JOHN HOWARD, MAJOR SAMUEL BRAY, ABRAHAM KELLER, DR. DAVID LYNUM, COLONEL JOSEPH FUNK, CAPTAIN JOHN MURPHY AND MANY OTHERS* THERE IS ON FILE A LETTER FROM CLARKE COUNTY ILLINOIS, WRITTEN DECEMBER 2, 1837, FROM L, P. COOPER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, STATING THAT THE APPLICATION OF HENRY BRISCOE WAS INCLOSED, THAT HE WISHED A TRANSFER OF HIS PENSION PAY FROM THE ROLLOS OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO " THE ROLLS OF THE ILLINOIS AGENCY, WHERE HE NOW RESIDES. THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN TO HONORABLE J. L. EDWARDS, COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS! HENRY BRISCOE MADE APPLICATION IN CLARK COUNTY ILLINOIS ON NOVEMBER 30, 1837, FOR A PENSION TRANSFER TO THE SAID COUNTY STATINS PAGE II SECTION 29 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS v HENRY BRISCOE STATING THAT HE HAD RECENTLY REMOVED THERE FROM KENTUCKY. THAT HIS REASONS FOR REMOVING FROM KENTUCKY'" WERE THAT HE HAD NO LAND IN THAT STATE AND WAS NOT ABLE TO PURCHASE ANY LAND SUFFICIENT FOR THE SUPPORT HIMSELF ANDFAMJLY THERE AND FOR THAT REASON REMOVED TO THE STATB OT ILLINOIS TO PSRCHASE A FARM, IN OCTOBER 1835* SECTION 30 IN CLARKE COUNTY ILLINOIS, SN NOVEMBER 30, |637, HE "MADE APPLICATION FOR A PENSION BEFORE WILLIAM B* MORRIS, JUSTICE OF THB PEACE, AND DARIUS PHILLIPS, CLERK, HENRY BRISCOE, OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE OOMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN LYNN OF THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY MAJOR ROX- FORO, IN THE MARYLAND LINE, FOR 6 MONTHS, WAS INSCRIBEO ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |83|. CERTIFICATE OT THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY 27, 1833, AND SENT TO HONORABLE C*A* WICKLIFFE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THE PENSION AGENT .WAS NOTIFIED ON APRIL 15, |84|, THAT THE SAID PENSIONER WAS DEAD. HUMFRES:'JOHN S 3I |45 VIRGINIA I' JOHN HUMFRES, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON AUGUST 14, |832, BEFORE THOMAS F. CRITTENDEN, JUDGE OF THE JEFFERSON CQUNTY KENTUCKY. He MADE DECLARATION THAT HE IS 69 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE ENLISTED ON APRIL 9, 1779 IN THE CONTINENTAL SERVICE or THE UNITED STATES IN CAPTAIN AOAM WALLACE'S COMPANY IN THE ELEVENTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT AND SERVED IN THAT REGIMENT TILL BLUFORD»S DEFEAT. ^AFTER WHICH TIME HE SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN V/LLSON TILL 0CTOBER 25, 1780. WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED BY ABASLOM ^BLUPORO, COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT AT AT HILLSBOROUGH,NORTH CAROLINA AND SERVED IN THE MILITIA TILL THE END OF THE WAR. HIS NAME WAS PLACED ON THE PENSION LIST FEBRUARY 9, 1819. THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE V/AROEN POPE, CLERK* JOHN HUNFRES, WHO WAS APRIVATE IN THE COM^AHY'COMMANDEC BY CAPTAIN WALLACE OF THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL BLUFORD IN THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR 18 MONTHS FROM APRIL 1779 WAS 'INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL o> KENTUCKY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |83|, CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1832. KELLY: THOMAS S 36, 03| VIRGINIA THOMAS KELLY APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY .KENTUCKY ON FEBRUARY |5, |82|, AND MADE DECLARATION THAT HE IS ABOUT SIXTY YEARS SECTION 32 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE ENLISTED FOR THREE YEARS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN PENNSYLVANIA AT THE AGE OF 16 YEARS, HE BELONGED TO DAVID SCOTT1s COMPANY IN THE THIRTEENTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT ON THE CONTINENETAL ESTABLISHMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL JOHN GIBSON AND WAS DISCHARGED BY HIM FOR HAVING SERVED THE WHOLE PERIOD OF SERVICE WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS. PITTSBURG PENNSYLVANIA WAS HEADQUARTERS. HE WAS MARCHED IN MCINTOSH'S CAMPAIGN. HE ASSISTED IN BU?L0|NG THE FORTS OF MDNTOSH AND LAWRENCE ON THE TUSCARONA RIVER. HE ASSISTED TO BUILD A FORT ON THE ALLEGHENY RIVER CALLED THE CUTANIAN, BEING ABOUT EIGHTY MILES ABOVE PITTSBURG* PAGE |2 SECTION 32 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS PENNSYLVANIA. IN THE YEAR OF 1777 HE ENLISTED* THAT HE OBTAINED A 6ISCHARGE FROM COLONEL JOHN GIBSON, BUT THE DISCHARGE WAS DESTROYED BY A 0 CHILD. HE MAOE A SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY AND STATED THAT HE HAS A WIFE AND SEVEN CHILDREN LIVING* THOMAS KELLY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL I. GIBSON OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR THREE YEARS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE RQLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON FEBRUARY |5, i82i. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON MAY 23, 1822 SECTION 33 AND 34— LEATHERMAN: MICHAEL S 36, 684 PENNSYLVANIA MICHAEL LEATHERMAN APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 3, 1830, AND STATED THAT HE WAS 77 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN MARYLAND. THAT HE ENLISTED IN 1776 FOR ONE YEAR ANO 8 MONTHS [N THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, IN MARYLAND. JOHN GERGER, GERGIS? BROTHER OF COLONEL GREDERICK GERGER WAS ALSO RAISED IN SAID STATE, AND |N A DAY OR TWO AfTER THE ENLISTMENT OF THIS DEPONENT, HE ALSO ENLISTED IN SAID ARMY FOR THE SAME TIME. THAT HE AND JOHN GERGER WERE ENLISTED BY'CAPTAIN LEWIS FARMER, A RECRUTING OFFICER WHO LIVEO AND CAME FROM PHILADELPHIA. THAT SAIO MICHAEL LEATHERMAN ANO J JOHN 6ERGBR WERE MARCHED FROM INDIANA TO P-ENNSYLVANAIA ANO THERE WERE ENLISTED WITH THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL MILES. AFTER SAIO MICHAEL LEATHERMAN, AND JOHN GERGER-HAD REMAINED IN PENNSYLVANIA ABOUT ONE MONTH, THEY WERE MARCHED TO THE NORTH AND JOINED THE ARMY COMMANDED BY GENERAL WASH IN6T0N AND WERE IN THE ACTION AND DEFEAT OF LONG ISLAND. WHILE IN THAT ACTION SAID MILES WAS TAKEN PRISONER. THE /SAID FARMER WAS WOUNDED AND THE COMPANY EXCEPT A FEW WERE KILLED AND \SCATTERED* SAID FARMER WAS AFTERWARD f»ROMTEO TO THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT COL, , AND THE REMAINBER OF HIS COMPANY LEFT AFTER THE BATTLE OF LONG INLAND. SOON AFTERWARD, MICHAEL LEATHERMAN WAS' TRANSFERRED INTO ANOTHER cj0M>AJiY OF CAPTAIN RICE, OF THE REGIMENT OF COLONEL STEWART. MICHAEL 'iEATHERMAN WAS IN THE BATTLE OF BRANOYWINE, AND GERMANTOWN AND WAS IN r*E SKIRMISH AT THE WHITE PLAINS. HE SERVED OUT THE PERIOD OF HIS ENLISTMENT AND WAS DULY AND HONORABLY DISCHARGED, AFTER THE DISCHARGE HE AGAIN ENTERED AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE MILITIA OF THE STATE OF PENNSYL VANIA, AND WAS MARCHED TO ANNAPOLIS AS A VOLUNTEER SOLDIER IN THE MILITIA OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND, AND SERVED ABOUT FO UR OR FIVE WEEKS ANO ON LEARNING THAT CORNWALLIS WAS CAPTURED WAS DISCHARGED. HE RESIDED IN MARYLAND IN THE HEIGHBORHOOD OF SAID JOHN GERGIS ANO GREDERICK? GERGER, GERGIS? TILL ABOUT THE YEAR OF 1791 WHEN HE REMOVED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY AND SETTLED ABOUT TWLEVE MILES FROM LOUISVILLE, WHERE HE HAS RESIDED EVER SINCE. JOHN GERGER, MENTIONED ABOVE is NOW DEAD. THAT ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO HE CAME TO KENTUCKY AND PURCHASED ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES OF LAND IN JEFFERSON COUNTY AND SETTLED THEREON. THAT HE IS THE FATHER OF SIX CHILDREN, AMONG WHOM ARE FOUR SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. THAT TWO OF THE SONS ARE NOW DEAD, |HAT'AS THE CHILDREN CAME OF AGE THEY MARRIED AND LEFT HIM. THAT HIS SON JACOB, WHEN STILL A MI^OR AND ABOUT THE YEAR OF |8|8, AGREED TO LIVE WITH HIM ANO TAKE CARE OF HIS FATHER FOR HALF OF THE LANO, TILL JACOB WAS or AGE AND NOT GO OUT FOR A TRADE, AS HIS BROTHERS HAD DONE. THAT SAID JACOB LIVEO WITH HIS FATHER AND MOTHER FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS AFTER HE ATTAINED FULL AGE, ANO ASSISTED MICHAEL LEATHERMAU TO CULTIVATE THE FARM, AND JACOB OBTAINED ONE HALF OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SWTY ACRES SECTION 35 OF LAND. PAGE ,3 SECTION 35 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS THAT HIS WIFE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR ABOUT 6 YEARS ANO HE LIVES WITH HIS SON-IN-LAW. JACOB BLANKENBECKER, WHO HAS A LARGER FAMILY. THAT HE HAS BEEN LIVING WITH HIM FOR SIX YEARS. IN JEFFERSON"COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 3, |830, COLONEL FREDERICK GERGER MADE DECLARATION OF ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE APPLIOANT, SINCE THEY, WER THEY WERE TEN OR TWELVE YEARS OF AGE, THAT SAID GERGER WILL BE SEVENTY- SIX YEARS OF AGE ON JUNE 8, NEXT. THAT HIS BROTHER JOHN GERGER, WHO WAS MENTIONED IN THE APPLICATION OFMLCHAEL LEATHERMAN, IS NOW OEAD, THAT JOHN GERGER ENLISTED IN 1776 AND SERVED AS STATED. IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 3, |830, SEMEON, SIMEON N. KALFUS MADE DECLARATION OF ACQUAINTACE WITH THE APPLICANT, MICHALE AND TO HIS 6ELIEF IN HIS STATEMENTS, THESE AFFIDAVITS WERE MADE BEFOE WRDEN POPE, CLERK OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY* IN MAY 1815, MICHAEL LEATHERMAN, AND HIS WIFE MARGARET MADE DECLARATION OF HAVING BEQUEATHED A TRACT BF LAND TO JACOB, THEIR SON, AND HIS HEIRS, A LETTER WRITTEN FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON JULY 7, |83|. TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS THAT MICHAEL LEATHERMAN DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THIS MORNING* MICHAEL LEATHERMAN OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CPATAIN RICE, IN THE REGIMENT COMMANOEO BY COLONEL STEWART WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON JUNE 28, 1830, CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON JUNE 29, 1830* *- SECTION 36— LEITHER OR LEIGHTNER: JOSEPH THERE IS ON FILE, A CERTIFICATE FROM ROBERT MCMILLAN WHO WAS LIEUTENANAT OF THE 5TH INFANTRY AND ACTING ENSIGN, THAT IN FEBRUARY |82l AT A PLACE NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE Rl VER ST. PETER, ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI, JOSEPH LEIGHTNER WAS A PRIVATE SOLDIER OF CAMP |6, OF THE 5TH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY AND WAS EMPLOYED ON EXTRA DUTY UNDER THE COMMANC OF SAID ROBERT MCMILLAN, AND RECEIVED A WOUND WHILE ON EXTRA DUTY WHICH PRODUCEO "HERNEA." S|NCE THAT TIME HE HAS BEEN UNFIT FOR MUITARY DUTY* THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE ON AUGUST t2, 1821* , JOSEPH LEIGHTNER WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN GEORGE GOODING'S COMPANY OF THE-5TH REGIMENT OF TRE UNITED STATES INFANTRY, WAS INSCRIBED ON'THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON AUGUST L2, |82|. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1822, SECTION 37 MERRJTT: ARUHfcLAUt> S36|24 VIRGINIA ARCHELUS MERRITT, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER, APPLIED FOR A PENSION ON JULY 13, |82|, in JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ANO MADE DECLARATION THAT HE IS 6| YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE ENLISTED IN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE SPRING OF |78|, AND SOON AFTERWARD MARCHED TOWARD THE POINT Or FORK AND MARCHED INTO VIRGINIA, TILL THS FALL WHEN THE COMPANY TOOK ur QUARTERS AT CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE, SOON AFTERWARD. HE ENTEREO THE COMPANY, CAPTAIN LONELY LEFT IT WHEN CAPTAIN (AFTERWARD COLONEL) SAMUEL FINLEY TOOK COMMAND ANO IN A SHORT TIME CAPTAIN ABRAHAM KLRKPATRICK TOOK COMMAND OF THE COMPANY AND OOMMANDED TILL THE DEPONENET WAS DISCHARGED AT CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE IN THE FALL OF |782, HE SERVED PAGE 14 SECTION 3T JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HE SERVED EIGHTEEN MONTHS, THE FIELD OFFICERS WERE MAJOR POULSON, COLONEL CASKIN, COLONEL PASLEY, AND COLONEL,,CHRISTIAN TBISERTER WHS COMMANDED ATTHAT TIME OF TH I S 0EP0NENET»8 8ISCHARGE. THE SERVICE WAS ON THE VIRGINIA LINE, OF THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT. He RECEIVEO A DISCHARGE SISNED BY GENERAL PETER MUHLENBURG. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE IS BY OCCUPATION, A FARMER AND HAS DONE A LITTLE WORK AS A WAGONQMAKER. THE WOMAN WITH WHOM HE HAS BEEN LIVING FOR TWENTY-ElGHT YEARS, IS STILL LIVING ANO SHE IS ABOUT FORTY-EIGHT YEARS, OF AGE. HE HAS HAD SEVEN CHILDREN AMONG WHOM ARE-THREE SONS, AND FOUR DAUGHTERS, NONE OF WHOM ARE NOW LIVING W| WITH HIHI NOR HAVE LIVED WITH HIM FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS. HE WAS NEVER MARRIED TO THE WOMAN* SECTION 3a ARCHELAUS MERRITT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, WHO WAS A PRIVATE :..- -IN THE REGIMENT OOMMANDED BY COLONEL GARKIN OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR 18 MONTHS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON JULY |3, |82|. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON NOVEMBER 27, I82U, ANO SENT TO R* C* ANOERSON, ESQUIRE, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. _„ SECTION 39 MERIWETHER OR MEREWETHER: V/ILLIAM S 47954 VIRGINIA VIRGINIA AMOS GOODWIN MADE AFFIDAVIT IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY THAT IN THE YEAR 1779 IN AUGUST, OR SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR, CAPTAIN JOHN ROGERS WAS A RECRUITING OFFICER FOR A TROOP OF HORSE IN CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE ^ OF VIRGINIA. THE TROOPS OF HORSE WAS ATTACHED TO THE ILLINOIS REGIMENT UN UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARKE WHO ACTEO IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY. SAID TROOP OF HORSE WERE ENLISTED FOR THE FERM OF TWO YEARS AND THIS AFFIANT HAD A BROTHER, W»LLLAM^GOODWIN WHO ENLISTED IN SAID TROOP ON THE SAID REGIMENTAL ROLL IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1779. THE TROOP WAS"SENT TO ILLINOIS WHERE THE AFFIANT UNDERSTOOD THAT THE TROOPS TOGETHER WITH OTHER TROOPS WERE SENT TO CARRY ON AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE NORTHWEST INDIANS AND THAT IN THE FALL OF |780 OR THE SPRING OR 1781 THE TROOPS OF HORSE, WERE ORDERED TO ILLINOIS TO THE WATERS OF THE OHIO, WHERE THIS AFFIANT BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH*CAPTAIN WILLIAM MFIRRIWEATHER WHO WAS STATIONEO THERE FOFT A WHILE IN THE SAME FORT WITH THE AFFIANT ANO OTHEB AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO AND THAT THE SAID MERRIWEATHER WAS THEN ACTING AS A LlEUTENANAT IN SAID TROOP OF HORSE, THIS AFFIANT CANNOT STATB POSITIVELY BUT IS SATISFIED THAT SAID MERRIWEATHER SERVED OUT HIS TERM OF TWO YEARS IN SAID TROOP OF HORSE. THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE JOHN JONES, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, ANO WARDEN POPE, CLERK OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, IN JBFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON AUGUST |3,. |832, WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER MADE APPLICATION AND STATED THAT HE IS A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY OF JEFFERSON IN'THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. THAT HE IS SEVENTY FOUR YEARS or AGE. THAT HE ENLISTED IN 1776 AS A CADET IN CAPTAIN BENJAMIN POLLARO'S COMPANY OF THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE AND WAS WITH THE GRAND WING TO THE NORTH OF POLLARD'S COMPANIES TILL SOMETIME AFTER THE-BATTLE or MONMOUTH ON JUNE 28, 1778 IN WHICH THE DEPONENET WAS ENGAGED. ArreR THIS RETURNED TO CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA 4s A.GUARD TO THE PRISONERS. SOMETIME IN THE YEAR or 1779 HE ENLISTED AS FIRST SERGEANT IN THE ILLINOIS TROOPS OF LIGHT DRAGOONS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHN ROBERS OF WHICH HIS BROTHER, JAMES WAS LLEUTENANAT. THAT HERE HE SERVED WITH THE SAID TROOP'S TILL THEIR SERVICES EXPIRED WITH THE YEAR OF l78l. THAT SOMETIME IN THE SUMMER OF THAT YEAR, HIS BROTHER J AMES MERRIWEATHER, RETURNED TO VIRGINIA FROM THE WEST, AND PAGE .5 e «™" «° JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS iBBAlBWft 4_ AND JOINED THE DABNEYM Leo ION. THE DEFONENET WAS APPOINTED AS LlEUTENANAT IN HIS BROTHER'S PLACE* IENJAMIN ROBERTS MAD6 DECLARATION IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY ON JANUARY 4. 1833, THAT IN THE YEAR OF |789, HE WAS COMMISSIONED A CARTA N IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AND FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN GEORGE SLAUGHTER'S COMPANY WHICH SAID SLAUGHTER COMMISSIONED AS MAJOR* THIS AFFIANT WSS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH CAPTAIN ROGERS WHO COMMANDED THE CSMFAJY OF LIGHT DRAGONS OF THIRTY TWO PRIVATES, CATAIN, LteUTENANAT AND CORONET. THE COMPANY WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHN ROGERS* LIEUTENANAT MERRIWEATHER, AND CORONET THURSTON. SAID TROOP OF HORSE «•£»"» J» ANO SEND A PORTION OF CLARKE'S ILLINOIS REGIMENT. THIS AFFI*"T "ATES THAT THAT WHEN HE FIRST LEFT THE FALLS OF.THE OHIO WENT UNDER THE ORDERS or GBNERAL CLARK TO FORT JEFFERSON AND KASKASIAS. HE APPOINTED ^M6$ MeRRIWEATHER, A BROTHER OF WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER, THEN TO ACT AS LlEUTENANAT IN ROGER'S COMPANY OF DRAGOONS, BUT WHEN THIS AFFIANT RETURNED TO THE rALLS Or THE OHIO IN THE SPRING OF «78l SAID W|LL|AM'MERRIWEATNER WAS ACTING AS LlEUTENANAT IN SAID ^^ ^ JOHN ROSBR'S TROOP OF LIGHT DRAGOONS IN THE PLACE OF JAMES MERRIWEATHER WHO HAO RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION IN SAID TROOP OF HORSE, AND ACCEPTED A LlEUTENANAT COMMISSION IN COLONEL DABNEY'S LEGION, AS THIS AFFIANT UNDERSTOOD AND BELIEVES THAT SAID WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER WHILE ACTlNS LIEUTENANT AS AFORESAID WAS IN THE SUMMER OF |78l, BY ORDERS OF GENERAL CLA CLARKE, ORDERED TO TAKE A PORTION OF SAID JOHN ROGER'S TROOPS or HORSE WITH SAID HORSES TO GUARD ANO PROTECT THE FONTIER FORT OR STATION CALLED "LOGANS STATION" IN LINCOLN COUNTY BY AND UNOER SAID ORDER, -LIEUTENANAT WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER TOOK A PORTION OF SAID MEN AND HORSES AND MARCHEO TO SAID STATION AND CONTINUEO THERE TO COMMAND AS LLEUTENANAT AFORESAID* IN THE FALL OF 1781 WHEN' HE WAS RECALLED BY GENERAL CLARKE AND SAIO TROOP V WAS DISCHARGED SOON AFTER THE SURRENDER OF LORD CoRNWALLlS. SAIO WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER AND HIMSELF WERE SUPERNUMEROUS, EACH OF THEM WERE SUPPOSEO TO BE READY TO GO AT ANY TIME, BECAUSE EACH OF THEM WERE LIABLE TO BE CALLED AT ANY TIME. THIS AFFIANT WAS INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED WITH WILLIAM MERRI WEATHER FROM THE TIME OF SAID ROBERT'S RETURN TO THE FALLS OF OHIO, «N |78!. THAT EHE SAID MERRIWEATHER WAS DISBANDED IN rAU. OF 1781 AND WHEN THEY WERE DISBANDED; THE SAID WlLLlAM MERRIWEATHER IS THE SAME MAN WHO NOW LIVES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE OHIO RIVER A FEW MILES BELOW LOUISVILLE. THIS AFFIANT IS NOW 83 YEARS OF AGe AND BELIEVES HE IS THE OLDEST SETTLER IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, HAVING SETTLED HERE IN 1775. SECTION 42 THE ABOVE AFFIDAVIT WAS MAOE BEFORE GEORGE BERGER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER AGAIN MADE AFFIDAVIT IN SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY ON JANUARY |5, 1833, BEFORE GEORGE P. MILLER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, FOR A PENSION CERTIFICATE. UAMES S. WHTTTAKER, CLERK OF THE COURT, MADE CERTIFICATION OF THE AFFIDVIT MADE BY ANTHONY CROCKETT IN FRANKFORT KENTUCKY ON JANUARY «, 1833, AND STATEO THAT IN THE YEAR OF |778 OR 1779 THE OEPONENET RECEIVED AN AN APPLICATION OF LlEUTENANAT WITH RECRUTINC INSTRUCTIONS AND GIVEN FROM THE LIEUTENANAT-COLONEL, JOHN MONTGOMERY Or THE ILLINOIS REGIMENT COMMANOED BY GENERAL GEORGE R. CLARKE. THAT THEY AFTERWARD MARCHED TO LONG ISLAND ON THE HOLSTON RIVER. THEY RENDEZVOUSED WITH FIVE OTHER OOMPANIES. AFTER AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CHICKAMAUGA INDIANS WAS COMPLETED THE FIVE COMPANIES SAILED OOWN THE TENNESSEE RlVER TO THE OHIO RIVER, SECT, N 42 AHD PAGE |6 ? ** JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS «...,..,.., T. THEND DOWN TrE OHIO RIVER TO .THB\MlSS|S8|FPI, THEN UP THE MISSISSIPPI TO KASKASKfAS, THE ILLINOIS TOWNS WE>E THE AFORESAIO FIVE COMPANIES JONEO GENERAL CLARKE'S REGTMETTCOMPOSEO or A m OFFICERS ANO A FEW SOBERS"N THE MONTH OF MAY .779. WHEN THE AFFIANT COT THERE THEY REMAINED TILL THE MONTH OF AUGUST, WHEN A PORTION OF SAID REGIMENT WAS ORDERED TO VINCENNES. THAT SOMETIME BEFORE THIS, IN THE WINTER OF THE MONTH or FEBRUARY 1779 GENERAL CLARKE HAO TAKEN SEVERAL POSTS OF THE BRITISH IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY. THAT HE HAS ON THIS OAY, EXAMINED A REPORT MADE BY A COMPANY OF FlELO OFFICERS CONVEMED AT RICHMOND VIRGINIA IN 1782 OR 178 1784 TO REPORT TO THE EXECUTIVES IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AS TO WHO «*» ENTITLED TO THE BENEFITS OF HALF PAY OR COMMUTATION PROMISED TO THE OFriCERS OF THE STATE AND CONTINENTAL LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA PASSED BY AN ACT IN VIRGINIA, IN 1779 UPON WHICH HE FINOS THE FOLLOWING, PERSONS NAMED AND BELONGING TO THE SAIO REGIMENT OF GENERAL GEORGE CLARKE, ENTITLED TO HALF PAY, AS FOLLOWS: GEORGE R. CLARKE, COL., JOHN GERAULT, CAPT. THOMAS QUIRK, MAJ. MICHAEL PERAULT, CAPT., ROBERT TODD, CAPT JOSEPH CALVER, LIEUT. ISAAC TAYLBR, CAPT., JAMES MONTGOMERY JOHN BAILEY, CAPT., ABRAHAM CHABLAIN RICHARD BRASKING, CAPT, RICHARD CLASKE, AND JARRETT WILLIAMS THE AFFIOANT STATES THAT THESE NAMED OFFICERS ARE ENTITLED TO LAND WARRANT ANO THERE ARE ALSO OTHERS WHO ARE NOT NAMED ENTITLED, AMONG WHOM ARE EDWARD V/pRTHlNGTON, CAPTAIN JAMES SHELBY, CAPTAIN, JESSE EVANS, SECTION 44 CAPTAIN ABRAHAM KELLER, MAJOR JOSEPH BOWMAN, CAPTAIN GEORGE TOOO, JOSEPH RAMSEY, LIEUTENANAT, LIEUTENANAT JOHN ROBERTS AND THIS AFFIANT. THIS AFFIANT, ANTHONY CROCKETT ALSO KNOWS OF OTHERS BEING IN A TROOP OF LIGHT DRAGOONS BELONGING TO THE REGIMENT AS GIVEN BY THE APPLICANTCMERRIWEATHER' BUT HE DOES NOT RECOLLECT ANY OF THE OFFICERS WHO COMMANDED EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE CALLED 'ROGERS • HORSE TROOPS8 THERE IS ON FILE, A BOUNTY LAND WARRANT NUMBER |3B2 FOR 2666 2/3 ACRES OF LAND TO JAMES MERRIWEATHER ANO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOR HIS SERVICES IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, BY A CERTIFICATE FROM GOVERNOR O'CONNELL WAS RECORDED IN THE LAND OFFICE. ANTHONY CROCKETT AGA^N MADE AFFIDAVIT FOR THE APPLICANT. WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER, IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY BEFORE ALEXANDER H* RENNICK, CLERK OF THAT COUNTY AT THAT TIME* HE MADE DECLARATION SIMILAR AS ABOVE. BENJAMIN ROBERTS AGAIN MADE AFFIDAVIT FOR THE APPLICANT, WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER ON JANUARY 14, 1833* HE STATES THAT HE HAD COME TO KENTUCKY TO RESIDE IN 1775. HIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE GEORGE BERGER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, ANO JAMES S. WHITTAKER, CLERK or THE COUNTY AT THAT TIME. SECTION 45 THOMAS YOUNG MAOE AFFIBAVIT IN MAYSVILLE, MASON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON JANUARY |8, |832, OF BEING ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT. ALSO THAT HE IS 82 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE WAS COMMISSIONED A CAPTAIN IN THE REGIMENT OF COLONEL CROCKETT, AND STATIONED AI THE FALLS OF THE OHIO AT LAWRENCE, THAT HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH ^WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER, THE APPLICANT IN |78|. THAT IN DECEMBER 1781 THE AFFISNT LEFT LOUISVILLE, AND RETURNED TO VIRGINIA AS A SUPERNUMERARY OFFICER AND PAGE 17 SECTION 45 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS AND AT THAT TIME HE LEFT WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER AT LOUISVILLE, Hi THE SERVICE* JOHN HUGHES MADE AFFIDAVIT FOR JAMES MERRIWEATHER IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY IN FEBRUARY 1833, AND STATED THAT HE BECAME AOQUAINTBD WITH SAID JAMES MERRIWEATHER-IN LOUISA COUNTY VIRGINIA IN 1783. THAT SAID MERRIWEATHER, LIEUTENANAT COLONEL IN CHARLES DABNEY'S LEGION AND CONTINUED AS SUCH TILL THE END OF THE WAR. HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH SAID JAMES MERRIWEATHER THEN AND THAT THEY MARRIED TWO SISTERS, WHO WERB DAUGHTERS OF CAPTAIN V/LLLLAM MERRIWEATHER OF LOUISA COUNTY VIRGINIA AND MARCHED FROM THERE TO KENTUCKY. HE CONTINUED THERE TILL HI S'DEATH WHIOH •CCUREO IN THE FALL OF 1781. THAT HE HAD HEARD SAID JAMES MERRIWEATHER ANO JOHN ROBERS SBEAK OF THEIR SERVICES TOGETHER IN ILLINOIS. THAT JAMES MERR-WEATHER "WAS A LIEUTENANAT IN SAID ROGERS COMPANY AND THAT WILLIAM MERRMPATHER, BROTHER OF THE AFORESAID JAMES MERRIWEATHER ALSO SELONGEO TO ROGER'S COMPANY ANO SERVED IN ILLINOIS. SECTION 46 .THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MAOE BEFORE ROBERT H* GRAYSON, JUSTICE OF THE PeAeE AND WARDEN POPE, CLERK, OF THAT COUNTY AT THAT TIME. BLAN W. BALLARD MADE DECLARATION IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY ON OCTOBER 29, |833, THAT HE IS 74 YEARS OF AGE, AND THAT HE CAME TO KENTUCKY IN |779 AND WAS IN ALL OF THE INDIAN HOSTILITIES THAT INFESTED THE WESTERN COUNTRY FROM 1779 TO THE TERMINATION IN 1795 OR ABOUT THAT TIME, THAT HE SERVED UNDER GENERAL WAYNE IN 1780 AND IN I78I LIVED AT TI FALLS OF THE OHIO |N SLAUGHTER'S CORPOS AND FREQUENTLY WAS DISPATCHED TO SEAR EXPRESS FROM GENERAL CLARKE'S STATION TO THE PLACES FROM THE FALLS OF THE OHIO, BECSUSE HE KNEW THE WOODS AND PLACES GIVEN TO HIM TO BE 8C0UTE0, THUS HE ACTED AS A SPY AT ALL TIMES, IN SAID REGIMENT* IN THE SPRING OF 1781 HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH WILLIAM MERRIWEATW. WHO WAS THEN ACTING AS LLEUTENANAT IN CAPTAIN ROGER'S TROOPS OF LIGHT DRAGONS OF THE ILLINOIS REGIMENT. WILLIAM ROGERS, WAS AT THAT TIME, ABSENT FROM THE COMMAND AND WlLLlAM MERRIWEATHER HAO THE SOLE COMMAND AN AS SUCH WAS ORDERED BY GENERAL CLARK TO THE COMMAND OF SAID TROOPS TO LOGAN'S PORT OR STATION AT WHICH PLACE IS NOW IN LINCOLN 'COUNTY KENTUCKY ABOUT ONE HUNDRED MILES FROM THE FALLS OF THE OHIO. WHILE HB WAS THERE IN THE SUMMER OF SAID YEAR, GENERAL OR COLONEL CLATJK SENT THIS AFFISNT WITH AN EXPRESS TO WLLLLAM SECTION 47 MERRIWEATHER IN WHICH HE, SAIO GENERAL CLARKE, STYLED HIM LIEUTENANAT MERRIWEATHER AND BO ADDRESSED HIM IN WRITINO, HE TOOK SAID EXPRESS ANO SAIO MERRIWEATHER RECOGNIZED' HIM AND GAVE HIM A RECEIPT FOR THE PAPERS SO SAFELYJI^OUGHT TO HIM. SAID MERRIWEATHER TOOK OTHER PAPERS TO GENERAL CLAKI|||LIEUTENANAT. WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER WAS A GALLANT OFFICER AND GUARDED AND PROTECTED THE FOFTTS OF SAIO L06AN*S FORT TILL LATE IN THE FALL'OF I78I WHEN HE WAS ORDERED TO RETURN TO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO* THIS,AFFIDAVIT WAS MAOE BEFORE WILLIAM KINKADE, JUSTICE or THE PEACE AND JAMES S. WHITTAKER, CLERK OF SHELBY'COUNTY COURT. WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER WAS ALLOWED A BOUNTY LAND WARRANT FOR HIS SERVIOES IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ON FEBRUARY 20, 1834, ATTESTED BY JOHN FLOYD, ANO JOHN B. RICHARDSON, AND ALSO ATTESTED BY S. H. PARKER. REGULAR LAND OFFICER* WILLIAM MERRI WEATHER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A 8ER0EANT IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHN ROGERS OF THE REGIMENT COMMANDED 8Y COLONEL DABNEY IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE FOR ONE PAGE 18 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS COLONEL DABNEY IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE FOR ONE YEAR ANO NINETEEN OAYS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE; ON MARCH 4^ |83|. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY I2, 1833, AND SENT TO HONORABLE R. M. JOHNSON. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SECTION 48 DAVID MERRIWEATHER AND EBENEZER WILLIAMS APPEARED IN COURT IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON FEBRUARY 22, 1857, AND MAOE DECLARATION THAT DAVID MERRIWEATHER, SON ANO HEIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM ' MERRIWEATHER, DECEASED, LATE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, IS ADMINISTRATOR OF WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER, OECEASED AND THAT SAID DAVID MERRIWEATHER WHO RESIDED IN THAT COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, LEFT THE FOLLOWING HEIRS: CATHARINE R. DAVIS, WHO INTERMARRIED WITH WILLIAM R. DAVIS, WAS A OAUGHTER OF SAID WlLLlAM MERRIWEATHER AND THE ONLY DAUGHTER, WHO RESIDES IN MISSOURI IN NEW MADRID, IN THAT STATE. MILDRED E. MERRI WEATHER, WHO INTERMARRIED WITH MARTIN D. MCHENRY BOTH OF WHOM RESIDE IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. EMERY A. MERRIWEATHER, WHO INTERMARRIED WITH WILLIAM H. MERRIWEATHER AND BOTH OF WHOM RESIDE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. THAT THESE ARE THE ..ONLY DAUCHERS OF SAID WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER, AND THESE DAUCHERS AND THE BEPONENET, DAVIO MERRIWEATHER, A SON OF SAID WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER, ARE THE ONLY HEIRS AND CHILDREN OF SAID WILLIAM MERRIWEATHER* THE ABOVE AFFIOAVIT WAS CERTIFIED BY CURRAN POPE, CLERK OF SAID COUNTY AT THAT TIME* SECTION 49 . 50 MALONEY* ROBERT S 3|2 40 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER, ROBERT MALONEY, APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON FEBRUARY THE 7TH DAY, IN THE YEAR 1833, AND STATEO THAT HE WAS 67 YEARS OF AGE AT THAT TIME, THAT HE WAS BORN IN LANCASTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND THAT WHEN HE WAS ABOUT FOUR YEARS OF AGE, HIS FATHER MOVED TO FREDERICK COUNTY VIRGINIA; IN JANUARY |78|, HE BEING AT THAT TIME A SCHOOL BOY, VOLUNTEERED TO GO UN0ER JAMES COCHRAN IN A TROOP OF HORSE AND MARCHED TOWARD CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA FOR THE PURPOSE OF OPPOSING TARLT0N WHO WAS SAID TO BE THEN APPROACHING THAT PLACE. THAT WHEN THEY WERE WITHIN A FEW MILES OF SAIO PLACE, THEY WERE MET BY AN EXPRESS AND ADVISED THAT TARLTON HAD HIS COURSE CHANGED* THAT HEY HAD THEN MARCHED TO FREDERICKSBURG AND FALMOUTH VIRGINIA WHERE THEY WERE DETRINED ANO MUSTERED FOR THREE WEEKS BY DAVID HOLMES WHEN THEY WERE DISCHARGED ANO PERMITTED TO RETURN HOME. HE WAS OCCUPIED IN THE SERVICE FOR NOT LESS THAN ONE MONTH; IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR OF |78| HE WAS DRAFTEO TO MARCH TO YORK TOWN VIRGINIA UNDER SAMUEL GLLKINSON AND MARCHED WITHIN A FEW MILES WHEN THEY WERE MET BY AN EXPRESS AND TOLD THE NEWS OF THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS AND THEY RETURNED TO WINCHESTER AND -HE SERVED THREE MONTHS MORE, GUARDING THE PRISONERS AFTER HIS DISCHARGE. ALSO IN 1782 HE WAS DRAFTEO TO GUARD PR ISONERS SURRENDERED BY YORKTOWN, AND WAS UNDER THE COMMANO OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL GLASS. AFTER HAVING SERVED ABOUT TWO MONTHS THE PRISONERS WERE MARCHED FROM THAT COUNTY TO THE MOUTH OF CONOCOCHEAGUE, THENCE TO HAGERSTOWN, AND WHEN THEY WERE RECEIVED BY THE OTHER TROOPS AND HE RETURNED TO WINCHESTER, HE WAS DISCHARGED. HE WAS IN THIS LAST SERVICE NOT LESS THAN THREE MONTHS* HE-FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAS LIVED IN KENTUCKY FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS AND THAT FOR THE LAST THIRTY FIVE OR THIRTY SIX YEARS, HE HAS LIVED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY OR IN THE ADJOOING COUNTY or PAGE 19 SECTION 50 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS IN THE ADJOINING COUNTY OF BULLITT. HE NAMED AS REFERENCES IN REGAR0 TO HIS CHARACTER, FOR TRUTHrULNBSS, RELIABILITY AND ACQUAINTANCE, THOMAS W.ILSON, PRESENT JUOGE, RND JOHN TINCKEY. THERE IS A LETTER ON FILE FROM THE NORTHERN BANK, OF LEXINGTON KENTUCKY, WRITTEN ON APRIL 22, 183 (&?) THAT APPLICATION WAS MAOE ON THAT OAY FOR ARREARS OF PENSION DUE TO NANCY MALONEY, WIDOW OF ROBERT MALONEY. THERE IS A NOTE ON THE BACK OF THE PENSION CERTIFICATE, WHICH WAS AWAROEO TO ROBERT MALONEY, FOR HIS SERVICES IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, WHICH NOTE READS AS FOLLOWS: "DIED KIARCH 18, |636*U-SECTI0N 5| — ROBERT MALONEY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN COMPANY OF THE VIRGINIA MILITIA WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, 1831 • CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION" WAS ISSUED ON JANUARY 20, 1834. PEARSON: THOMAS * S 5910 B L WT 352-200 THERE IS ON FILE/ IN THE PENSION BUREAU, A RECORD DATED, NOVEMBER |5 ILBIS STATING THAT THOMAS PEARSON ENLISTED IN VIRGINIA IN THE SERVICE IN 1777 AS AN ENSIGN ANO SOON AFTERWARO WAS PROMOTED TO THE OFFICE OF LIEUTENANT IN WHICH CAPACITY HE ACTED DURING THE WAR. THAT WHILE IN ACTION WITH THE BRITISH ON MAY 29, 1801, AT WAXHAWS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, HE RECEIVED A WOUND FROM WHICH HE HAS EVER SINCE BEEN GREATLY DISABLED FROM LABOR. SECTION "51-52 ON MARCH 16, |807, THOMAS PEA"RSON APPOINTED JOHN SMITH, or WASHINGTON, D. C. HIS ATTORNEY TO PROSECUTE HIS CLAIM FOR A PENSION FOR HAVING SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AS A LIEUTENANAT IN THE TENTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTALBISHMENT. THE APPLICANT, THOMAS PEARSON ALSO STATED THAT HE HAO BEEN ON THE PENSION ROLL SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR OF »803, THAT HE SERVEO TILL THE ENO OF THE WAR. THE ABOVE AFFIOAVIT WAS MADE IN CAMPBELL COUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE OATE GIVEN ABOVE* IN CAMPBELL COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MARCH |6, 1807, WILLIAM TAYLOR MADE AFFIOAVIT OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, THOMAS PEARSON AND TO THE TRUTHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS, HE MADE THIS AFFIDAVIT BEFORE ^AMES TAYLOR, CLERK OF CAMPBELL COUNTY KENTUCKY^ THOMAS PEARSON AGAIN MADE APPLICATION FOR A PENSION, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON DECEMBER 22, 1820, HE MADE DECLARATION SIMILAR AS ABOVE, AND FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN ON THE PENSION ROLL AND BEEN PA 10 SINCE JANUARY I, 1803, TO MARCH |8|9, BUT HAD ^NOT RECEIVED ANY PAY SINCE THE LATTER OATE. HE ASKEO FOR INFORMATION AS TO WHY HE HAD NOT BEEN PAID* THE-ABOVE AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE BENJAMIN LAWRENCE; JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. •' _« SECTION 53 PENN: BENJAMIN REBECCA V/ 85t0 -MARYLAND THE ABOVE SOLOIER, BENJAMIN PENN APPLIED FOR A PENSION, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON AUGUST 17, 1819 AND MAOE DECLARATION THAT HE IS 66 YEARS OF AGE AND A RESIOENT OF HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY. THAT HE ENLISTED INTO THE WAR o PAGE 20 SECTION 53 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS PENN: BENJAMIN THAT HE ENLISTED INTO THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTIONARY V/AR AT ELK RIDGE IN AN ARNOLO- ANARUNDEL COUNTY"MARYLAND, IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY JOSEPH BURGESS OF THE FIRST REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL SMALLWOOD IN THE CONTINENETAL ARMY, THAT HE ENLISTED IN MAY |777 ANO COIWHNUED TO SERVE III THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION FOR FOURTEEN OR FIFTEEN MONTHS AND WAS AT THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND AND WHITE PLAINS AND BRANDYWINE* THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE DAVID HILLS, JUDGE, AND RICHARD C. TALBOTT, CLERK. BENJAMIN PENN APPLIED FOR A PENSION AGAIN ON OCTOBER 26, 1820, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA, AND MADE DECLARATION SIMILAR AS ABOVE., WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY* HE ALSO FURTHER STATED THAT HE WAS BY OCCUPATION, A FARMER* HE ALSO MADE-A SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY ANO STATED THAT HE HAO NO FAMILY EXCEPT A WIFE WHO WAS 56 YEARS OF AGE. SECTION 54 BENJAMIN PENN APPLIED FOR A TRANSFER OF PENSION TO HARRISON COUNTY INDIANA AND FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY TO OR ON SEPTEMBER 26, |825. REBECCA PENN, WIDOW OF BENJAMIN PENN APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY, BEFORE ROBERT C MCKEE, JUSTICE OP THE PEACE, ON DECEMBER IO. |836, AND MADE DECLARATION THAT SHE IS A RESIDENT OF THAT COUNTY. THAT SHE AND BENJAMIN PENN WEKE MARRIED IN THE SUMMER OF THE YEAR OF 1774, IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND. THAT THE I R FIRST CHILD, A DAUGHTER, WAS BORN'TWO YEARS LATER. THAT HER "HUSBAND OIED ON MAY 7, |G27 1827. MARGARET PENN MADE DECLARATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, REBECCA PENN, WIDOW OF BENJAMIN PENN, IN SCOTT COUNTY KENTUCKY, ON JANUARY II, 1837. SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH REBECCA PENN SINCE THE YEAR OF I787 IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLANO, THAT SHE AND BENJAMIN PENN MARRIED AND WERE THE PARENTS OF SEVERAL CHILDREN, THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE ALEXANDER CANNON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, ON THE DATE AFORESAID* IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY ON DECEMBER |6, |836, ALSY MARSHALL, MADE DECLARATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT REBECCA PENN, THE DEPONENET FURTHER STATED THAT SHE WAS BETWEEN FIFTY FIVE AND SIXTY YEARS OF AGE AND WAS A DUAGHTER OF BENJAMIN PENN AND HIS WIFE REBECCA PENN V/HO IS NOW HIS WIDOW. ' SECTION 55 IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY'ON OECEMBER |6, 1836, DAVID WARTS MADE DECLARATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE DEPONENET AND WITH THE ENTIRE FAMILY OF THE APPLICANT, REBECCA PENN FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY ON DECEMBER |6,-|836, CHARLES PENN APPEARED IN COURT ANO MADE DECLARATION THAT HE L« A SON OF THE AFORESAID BENJAMIN PENN ANO REBECCA PENN. THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE YEAR OF I788 AND IS THE 6TH CHILD OF HIS PARENTS. -THAT HE IS NOW ABOUT SIXTY YEARS, OF AGE, AND HIS MOTHER IS 76 YEARS QF AGE. THAT SHE MARRIED AT THE AGE 00 FOURTEEN. SHE NOW LIVES IN FRANKLIN.COUNTY KENTUCKY* CHARLES PENN, SON OF BENJAMIN AND'-REBEC-CA PENN MADE DECLARATION FOR FOR THE ARREARS OF PENSION, ON.AUGUST 28, 1852. IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY. HE STATED THAT REBECCA PENN,HIS MOTHER, AND WIDOW OF BENJAMIN PENN, DIED ON JANUARY »0, J840 AND LEFT OXBY. MARSHALL, EPHRAIM PENN, CHARLES PENN, BETSEY KRANN, NOAH PENN, JOSEPH PENH (THE LAST TV/O NAMED HAVE SINCE 0IEO ALSO) AND THE OTHERS ARE THE ONLY SURVIVING HEIRS HEIRS* PAGE 21 SECTION 56 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1852 DAVIO WAITS? AGED 76 YEARS, MADE AFFIDAVIT THAT HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLOIER, BENJAMIN PENN DURING HIS LIFE TIME ANO WAS ALSO WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIS FAMILY* IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY ON SEPTEMBER 27, I852, HENRY HARP MADE DECLARATION OF HAVING BEEN WELL ACQUAINTED WITH BENJAMIN PENN. AND BEING WELL. ACQUA |NTED WITH HIS FAMILY AND OF THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THEIR STATEMENTS. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IN THE YEAR OF |8l7* THE ABOVE TWO STATEMENTS WERE CERTIFIED BY ALEXANDER HENNICK, CLERK OF SAID COUNTY* THE WIDOW'S PENSION WAS REJECTED BECAUSE SHE OID NOT GIVE SUFFICIENT PROOF OF HER MARRIAGE. BENJAMIN PENN OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY COLONEL SMALLWOOD, IN THE MARYLAND LINE FOR 15 MONTHS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON AUGUST 23, |8I9. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON APRIL 3, 1820, AND SENT TO HONORABLE W. HENRICK, AT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES* PAGE 57 PIKE: ROBERT AND ANNIE VIRGINIA ON JULY 29 OF THE YEAR 1818 IN UEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAIO PENSIONER APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY OF THE YEAR 1778 TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN WOOD AND IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL ABRAHAM BUFORD IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA FOR A TOUR OF ELEVEN MONTHS DURATION. THE SAID PENSIONER ALSO RESIOED IN WOODFORD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.' THE AFFIDAVIT OF ISAAC CRUTGHER WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAIO 0EPONENET STATEO AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAID COUNTY ANO STATE HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLE ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER ANO THE SAID DEPONENET ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER, ROBERT PLKE WAS REALLY IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES AND DID NEED THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS COUNTRY FOR HIS SUPPORT* ON JULY 30 OF THE YEAR |8|9 IN FAYETTE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM SMITH WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL ANO FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER BOTH BEFORE HIS ENLISTMENT AND ALSO IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY TEN YEARS LATER, SECTION 58 ON JUNE 18 OF THE YEAR i82l IN ESTELL COUNTY IN THE STATE or KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER AT THC AGE OF 70 YCARS APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HA0 FIRST ENLISTED FOR A TOUR OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS DURATION IN THE YEAR 1777 AND THAT HE HAD BEEN HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. HE ALSO STATEO THAT HIS PROPERTY WAS WORTH ONLY $74.00 ANO THAT HE OWED ^50,00. HE SAID THAT HE HAO A WIFE AT THE AGE OF 66 YEARS AND A SON AT THE AGE OF |7 YEARS ALSO RESIDING WITH HIM* ON FEBRUARY 19 OF THE YEAR 1822 IN ESTILL COUNTY IN THE STATE THOPEOFE N KENTUCKYCAPACIT COURT YFO, RTHO FTHE HIESAI SPURPOS DATTORNEY PENSIONEE OF. RAPPOINTIN AT THE GAC COLONEE OF 76L JOHYEARN SSMIT APPEAREH TOO AC INT IN pAQE 22 SECTION 58 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOSEPH HONK WAS ALSO SIVEN AT THE SAME TIME ANO IN THE SAME PLAOE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAIO DEPONENET STATED AND 8W0RE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAID COUNTY AND STATE HE NAD SEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER AND HE ALSO SWORE THAT THE PENSIONER HAD SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION ON THe SIDE OP* THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANO THAT HE WAS THE IDENTICAL PERSON THAT HE CLAIMED HIMSELF TO BE* SECTION 58-59 ON NOVEMBER 29 OF THE YEAR 1841 IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, ANNY PIKE, BEING THE WIDOW OF THE SAID PENSIONER ANO BEING AT THEACE OF 84 YEARS, APPEARED IN OPEN COURT ANO STATED THAT IHEY HAD BEEN MARRIEO AT WlLKERSONS FORT ON THE MSNONCAHALA RlVEl IN THE STATS OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE LATTER PART OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST OF THE YEAR 1781 BY A MAN BY THE NAME OF JAMES ANOERSON ANO SHE ALSO STATEO THAT HER HUSBAND HAD DIED ON DECEMBER 7 OF THE YEAR 1834. SECTION 59 ON NOVEMBER 30 or THE YEAN I84I IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN THE STATE or KENTUOKY, THE AODIBAVIT OF THOMAS POWELL WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET BEING AT THE AGE OF 62 YEARS STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD SBEN BOTHW WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH BOTH THE SAIO PENSIONER. ROBERT PIKE, AND HIS PRESENT WIDOW, ANNY PIKE, FOR A PERIOD OF FORTY YEARS. THIS OEPONENET ALSO STATEO THAT ROVERT PIKE HAD RECEIVED A PENSION AND HE HAD DIED AS HAD BEEN STATEO AND THAT ANNY PlKB 8TILL REMAINED THE RELIO ANO WIDOW OF THE SAIO PENSIONER, ANO THIS DEPONENT ALSO STATED AND WWORE THAT HIS WIFE, HANNAH POWELL PLKB WAS THE OAUGHTBR AND ELDEST CHILD OF THE SAID PENSIONER, THE SAID DEPONENT AL80 STATED THAT THE FOLLOWING RECORD WAS FROM HIS OWN FAMILY BLBLE:- HANNAH POWELL WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 2 OF THE YEAR I782, ON MAY 3, OF THE YEAR 1843 IN ESTILL COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, ANNIE PIKE AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT FOR THE PURPOSE OF CHANGING THE DATE OF HER MARRIAGE TO THE LATER PART OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST OF THE YEAR |782 INSTEAD OF THE YEAR |78|. SECTION 60 THE AFFIDAVIT or JOHN KINDRELL, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PUCE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY FIVE YEARS WITH BOTH THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS WIDOW, ANNY PIKE. THE AFFIOAVIT OF EPHRAIM HEATTON WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID 0EP0NENT STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAIO PENSIONER AND HIS WIDOW AS WELL FROM HIS EARLIEST RECOLLECTION OR ABOUT THE YEAR 1788 AND HE ALSO STATED THAT THEY HAD LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE ANO THAT THE PENSIONER HAD DIED AS STATED* ON MARCH 26 OF THE YEAR 1842 IN FAYETTE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIOAVIT OF MRS. SALLY MCNIELD WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATEO ANO SWORE THAT SHE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH BOTH THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS WIDOW SINCE THE FALL OF THE YEAR |789. SHE ALSO STATED THAT THEY HAD LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN ANO WIFE AND THAT THEC SAID PENSIONER HAD DIED AS HAD BEEN STATED* THE AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM CURRY WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. PAGE 23 SECTION 61 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH BOTH THE SAID PENSIONER ANO HIS WIDOW BEFORE THE YEAR 1790 AND HE ALSO STATEO THAT THEY HAD LIVEO TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE AND THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD DIED AS HAD BEEN STATED. ON MAY 3 OF THE YEAR 1843 IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN THE STATE or KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF HANNAH POWELL WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENT BEING AT THE AGE OF 59 YEARS STATED AND SWORE THAT SHE.WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE SAIO PENSIONER ROBERT P|KE AND SHE SWORE THAT HER * R PARENTS HAD LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN ANO WIFE AND THAT HER FATHER HAD RECEIVED A PENSION AND THAT HE HAO DIED AS HAP BEEN STATED AND .THAT HER MOTHER ANNY PIKE STILL REMAINEO THE WIDOW AND RELIC OF HER FATHER, THE SAIO PENSIONER, ROBERT PIKE. THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, ROBERT PIKE WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $8,00 PER MONTH TO COMMENCE ON JULY 30 OF THE YEAR |8|9 ANO HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 7 OF THE YEAR 1819 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO THE PENSIONER HIMSELF AT LEXINGTON IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. — SECTION 61-62 SLAUGHTER: JAMES VIRGINIA #S,3|370 AND VA.HALF-PAY ON JULY 8 OF THE YEAR |83| IN SHELBY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN ROBERT WAS GIVEN. THE SAIO DEPNENET STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAIO PENSIONER HAD SERVEO IN THE CAPACITY OF A LIEUTENANAT IN HIS, THE OEPNENTS, COMPANY IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL GEORGE SLAUGHTER AND THE DEPNENET ALSO STATED THAT HE ANO THE SAID PENSIONER HAO ENLISTEO TOGETHER. ON AUGUST 9 OF THE YEAR 1832 IN LOGAN.COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAIO PENSIONER AT THE AGE OF 78' YEARS APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATEO THAT HE HAD FIRST VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE IN THE FIRST COMPANY OF MINUTE MEN FROM CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMANO OF CAPTAIN ROBERT PATTON FOR A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS DURATION. HE STATED THAT IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1779 HE WAS APPOINTED TO SERVE' IN-THE CAPACITY OF A LIEUTENANAT IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN ROBERTS AND UNDER THE COMMANO OR MAJOR GEORGE SLAUGHTER AND IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL CROCKETT. HE STATED THAT THEY HAD MARCHEO FROM CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA TO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO RIVER. THE SAID PENSION ER ALSO STATED THAT HE HAD AGAIN VOLUNTEERED IN THE YEAR |780 TO SERVE IN THE CAMPAIGN AND UNDER THE COMMANO OF COLONEL GOERGE ROGERS CLARK AND HE STATED THAT ON THAT TOUR HE WAS APPOINTED TO SERVE IN THE CAPACITY OF A CAPTAIN AND HE SERVED FOR FIVE WEEKS. THEN IN THE LATTER PART OF THE YEAR I780 THE SAID PENSIONER BECAME SICK AND HE WAS FURLOUGH* EO BY HIS UNCLE, COLONEL GEORGE SLAUGHTER AS AFORESAID. SECTION 63 ON MAY 4 OF THE YEAR 1847 IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIOAVIT OF JOHN F. BELL ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT MRS. MILDRED SLAUGHTER, THE WIOOW OF THE SAID PENSIONER, HAD DIED ON AUGUST I OF THE YEAR I842 AND HE STATED A THAT SHE WAS TRULY THE WIDOW ANO RELIC OF LlEUTENANAT J.AMES S. SLAUGHTER* THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, JAMES S. SwAUGHffBN , WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF #100.00 PER ANNUM AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON TFULY |5,' OF THE YEAR 1833 ANO IT WAS THEN SENT TO HENRY NORTHUP AT LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY* PAGE 24 SECTION 63 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS SLAUGHTER: GEORGE AND MARY VIRGINIA #7.8729 ON AUGUST 17, OF THE YEAR 1830 IN GALLATIN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, MARY SLAUGHTER, BEING THE WIDOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND BEING AT THE AGE OF 85 YEARS* APPEARED-|N OPBN COURT AND STATEO AND SWORE THAT HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN A COLONEL IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE* SHE ALSO STATED THAT THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED IN THE MONTH or FEBRUARY OF THE YEAR 1771 AND THAT HER HUSBAND HAD DIED ON JUNE |7, OF THE YEAR |8L8 AT CHARLESTON IN CLARKE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF INOIANA AND SHE STATED THAT THEY HAO BEEN MARRIEO IN CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE 0 OF VIRGINIA. SECTION 64 ON SEPTEMBER 3 OF THE YEAR |836 IN OWENTON IN OWEN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM ROBERTS WAS ALSO'GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENT STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME ANO IN THE SAID COUNTY AND STATE HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAIO PENSIONER AND THE OEPNENT ALSO STATED THAT HE HAO BEEN CALLED A COLONEL ANO THAT HE HAD DIED IN THE YEAR I8L8 AND THAT MARY SLAUGHTER STILL REMAINED HIS WIDOW AND RELIS* ON AUGUST 30 OF THE YEAR 1836 IN SHELBY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIOAVIT OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN ROBERTS WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HIMSELF HAD SERVEO AS A CAPTAIN IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION ANO HE STATED THAT HE WAS BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE WIDOW MARY SLAUGHTER. THE SAID DEPONENET ALSO STATEO THAT THE SAID PENSIONER, GEORGE SLAUGHTER, HAD SERVEDA AS A LIEUTENANAT COLONEL AND HE STATED THAT THEY HAD SERVED TOGETHER IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL CROCKETT AND THAT THEY WERE AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO RIVER TOGETHER IN THE YEAR |780* THIS OEPNENET ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS- PRESENT WIDOW HAD BEEN MARRIEO AND HE STATEO THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLE ACQUAINTED WITH THEM BOTH IN CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA* THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, GEORGE SLAUGHTER, SECTION 65 WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $600.00 PER AND HE THEN JOINED HIS COMPANY AT Ml CKLIN8URG COURT HOUSE IK THE ST*TE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO GRANVILLE COURTHOUSE IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA WHERE THEY THEN REMMNED FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE OR SIX WEEKS AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO ST0N0 ON THE ST. JAMES RlVER AND IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THERE HE THEN JOINED A COMPANY OF : IGHT INFANTRY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN EDMONDS ANO*N THE REGIMENT UND-P THE COMMAND OF COLONEL HENDERSON* THEY WERE THEN IN A SKIRMISH WITH,THE BRITISH ON JUNE 20.OF THE YEAR 1779 AND THE SAID PENSIONER WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED ON AUGUST '.?. OF, THE YEAR 1779 AT STONO BY HIS C0L0N*L. HE THEN AGAIN ENTERED THE-SERVICE IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 0' THE YEAR 1781 TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN MAKSH..LL ANO THEY THEN MARCHED TO TAYLORS FERRY ON THE DEEP RlVER IN THE RFGIMENT UNDER THE COMMANO OF COLONEL &EADMAN. +|E ENTERED THE SERVICE AGIN IN THE MONTH OF-SEPTEMBER OF THE YEAR 1781 TO SERVE IN THE- COMPANY UNDER ..SECTION 68 THE COMMANO OF CAPTAIN JOHN BRIGG FOR A TOUR OF SIX WEEKS DURATION ' AND HE WAS THEN HONORABLY DISCHARGED, IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF THE YEAR 1781. THE SAID PENSIONER STATED THAT HE WAS BORN ON HULY 25 OF THE YEAH 1752 IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY :N THE STATS OF VIRGINIA AND HE SAID THAT AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE WAR OF THE DEVOLUTION HE HAD REMOVED TO MERC^K COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND THE."I HE HAD REMOVCD TO GARRARD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND THEN FOUR YEARS AGO HE REMOVED TO HENRY COUNTY IN .THE STATE OF KENTUCKY .AND PART OF THAT FOUR YEARS HE HAD BEEN RESIDING |N JEFFERSON CO.UUTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. THE AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM LADD AND ELIAS MCDANIEL WAS ALSO GIVEN AT --HE ' SAME TIME ANO IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOfNG,. THE S AI 0 DEPONENTS STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAID COUNTY PAGE 26 SECTION 68 JEFFERS0N COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSTlONERS. THE SAID DEPONENETS STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SI A D COUNTY AND STATE THEY HAD BEEN BOTH WELL ANO FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER AND THEY ALSO ST\TED ANO SWORE THAT IN THE NEIGH* BORHOOD IN WHICH*THE SAID PENSIONER R£S!DED HE WAS REPUTEO TO HAVE SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTEON ON THE S DE OF THE UNITED SjATgS---- OF AMERICA, J^^"^ THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, JAMES PENNINGTON, WAS OIL-TRE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $44*77 VER ANNUM ANO KTS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON DECEMBER |4 OF THE YEAR |833 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO THE HONORABLE F. H. OPE. H.R. SECTION 69 BOOKSBERRY OR BOOKSBURYi JACOB AND. ELEANOR. GEORGIA NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, 0 W.3043 ON JUNE 19 OF THE -VEAR 1818 MI JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER AT THE AGE OF 60 YEARS APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENLISTED WHEN HE WAS AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS AND BY LlEUTENANAT FRANCIS TENNEL ON SEPTEMBER 30 OF THE YEAR 5776 OR 1777 FOR A TOUR OF THREE YEARS DURATION IN THE IECOND VIRGINIA REGIMENT AND THATTH,EY THEN MARCHED TO PRINCE EDWARD COURT HOUSE IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND THERE HE CAME UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAiN ELISHA MlLLER AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO SAVANNAH I N THE. STATE OF ..GEORGIA AND 'THERE THEY THEN JOINED THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL WHITE AND THE .^ BRIGADE UNOER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL SAMUEL ELBERT IN THE SECOND GEORGIA REGIMENT, THEY THEN MARCHEO TO FLORIDA AND TO THE ALLAMAHA RIVER AND THEN, TO SA N S BE RRY'iNYHEp STATE OF GEORGIA AND THERE THEY WERE COMMANDED BY MAJOR JOSEPH LAYNE. THE SAID PENSIONER SERVED IN THE BATTLE OF GDILDORD COURT HQUSE. SECTION 70 ON AUGUST I OF THE" YEAR 1843 IN,JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, ELEANOR BOOKS BERRY, BEING THE WIDOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER A-ND BEING AT THE AGE, OF 84 YEARS, APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND .STATEO AND SWORE THATSHE WAS THE WIDOW ALLP THE RELIC OF THE SAID PENSION ER AND SHE "ALSO SWORE THAT HER HUSBAND HAD RECEIVED A PENSION, AND SHE ASKED THAT SHE HERSELF ML GHT RECEI VE A PENSION* ON JANUARY 17 OF THE Y£AR' 1820 IN. THE DISTRICT OF 'COLUMB-A, THS AFFIDAVIT OF REUBEN BOOKSBERRY WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET'STATED AND SWORE THAT HE WAS A BROTHER OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND HE 3V.'0RE THAT HIS BROTHER, THE SAID PENSIONER, HAD ENLISTED AND SERVED AS HE HAD SAID. ON JULY'I OF THE YEAR 1830 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE DF KENTUCKY, ELEANOR BOOKSBERRY, BEING THE RELIC AND WIDOW OF TH-:'.SMD PENSIONER AND BEING AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS, APPEARED: IN OPZU COURT AND G.V SWORE THAT SHE WAS THE WIDOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND THAT THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED,IN THE YEAR l>785? AND THAT HER KUSPAND H/.D DIED ON MAY 15, OF THE YEAR 1823, ON OCTOBER 4 OF THE YEAR 1839 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY-IN -HE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF MRS. SARAH MAYFIELD WAS ALSO GIVEN., THE SAIO OEPNENET STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SA.r- COUNTY AND STATE SHE HAD BEEN -BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY AjSOJJA J N (70 WITH T1'5 PA II ELEANOR BOOKSBERRY AND THIS DEPNEUET ALSO STATED THAT THE/SA'C ^A^OR SECT!CM 7" REALLY WAS THE WIDOW AMD RELI.C OF THE SA ID PENSI ONER AND S'lE TTAVSC THAT JACOB BOOKSBERRY HAD RECEIVED A PENSION AND THAT !IE HAD C\*3 A3 HAD BEEN STATED. THE SA ID. DEPONENET A LSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT THE ELDEST CHILD OF THE SAID PENSIONER ANO HIS PAGE 27 SECTION 7: JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY BENSIONERS THE SAID DEPONENETS STATED AND SWORE THAT THEY HAD BEEN'BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER IN FAIRFAX COUNTY IN THE* STATE OF VIRGINIA FROM THE INFANCY OF THE SAID ROCKSBERRY UNTIL THE YEAR 1776. THEY ALSO .STATED THAT HE HAD,SERVED AS HAD BEEN STATED AND THAT THEY HAD BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH HJM FOR F'.FT.' F'VE OR SIXTY YEARS. ON JULY 18 OF THE YE?.:: S025 IN JEFFE?SON . COUNTY KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF ALEXANDER C.S3BS AND DAVID COOHRAN WAS ALS6 GFVEN, TFLE SAID DEPONENTS STATEO AND SWOXE THAT THE SAIO PENSIONER, JAC03 B00KSBE3RY, HAD DIED ON MAY 15, OF THE YEAR £823* ON JUNE 13 OF THE YEAR S839 ,?w JEFFEBSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,, THE AFFIDAVIT OF SAMUEL CONN ns ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE WAS BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH ELEANOR BOOKSBERRY AND HE STATED THAT HE- HAD "BEEN.PRESENT...AT H?R MARRIAGE TO .SECTION 72 THE SAID PENSIONER WHICH TOOK PLACE FOUR YEARS AFTER THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION WAS FINISHED IN LOUDON COUNTY1 IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND HE STATED JTHAT THEY WERE MARRIED BY MR, JERRY MOORE* THIS DEPONENT ALSO STATED AND.SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD DIED AS HAD BEEN STATED AND THAT ELEANOR BOOKSBERRY STILL REMAINED THE WIDOW A_ND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER, JACOB RO'OSBERR'.\. ON JULY I 2 OF THE YEAR 1839 CN FLGYDCOUNTY IN THE-.STATE OF INDIANA, THE AFFIDAVIT OF MARY V.'LLCCLER WAS N.SO GIVEN, THE SAID DEPNENET STATEO AND SWORE THAT SHE WAS BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED W! TH BOTH THE PENSIONER AND H!S PRESENT WIDOW- AND SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD 8ESN PRESENT AT THEIR MARRIAGE AND THAT'THEY K4Q LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN AND WL FE AND THAT HE HAD DIED AS HAD BEEN STATED AND THAT ELEANOR STJLL REMAINED THE WIOOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENGS ONER, JACOB ROOSBERRY. , THE wnow OF THE fA?r PVNS«ONF.P, ELEANOR BOOKSBERRYJ WAS SN THE KENTUCKY ROL«. OF PPNS'ONS AT T.HS R.\TS' CF '•iBO.OO PER ANNUM AND HER « CERTIFICATE OF PENSJCfJ P"OR THAT AMOUNT WH'S 'CSUFTD CN-DECEMBER 27 OF THE. YE, YEAR 1639 AMI* IT w,f. -.-H:-:N ZK.HT TO BO R* \'MICE, AT MIDDLETOWN :N THE"' STATE OF KENTUCKY* GHE AS.SO ; AGAIN ENTERED THE MONTH OF AUGUST OF THE SAME YEAR L777FC SECTION 77 THE SAID PENSIONER THEN AGAIN ENETERED THE SERVICE FOR A TOUR OF ONE MONTHS DURATION IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF/THE YEAR |777 TO AIO IN DEFENDING THE FRONTIERE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY ANO HE WAS THEN STATIONED AT BUZABETHTOWN IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY ANO HE LEFT THE SERVICE ON THIS TOUR OF DUTY IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER OF THE YEAR |777» HE THEN AGAI.N ENTERED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ONE JOHN GROSS IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER OR JANUARY OF THE YEAR 1777 OR 1778 AND HE ENTERED ABOUT THE FIRST OF MARCH OF.THE YEAR I78I AND LEFT ABOUT THE FIRST OF THE MONTH OF JULY OF THE SAME YEAR AND HE SERVED FOR A TOUR OF FOUR MONTHS DURATION IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM BRUNT. HE WAS ALSO UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTENANAT WILLIAM HOE AND THEY THEN MARCHED FROM PRINCE WILLIAM TO FREDERICKSBURG AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO KING WILLIAM COURT HOUSE AND FROM THERE TO RICHMOND IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL ARMOR. THE AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM HARRETT, ACLERGYMAN, GEORGE MARKWELL AND GEORGE HEATON WAS ALSO GICEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPNENTS STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAID COUNTY AND STATE THEY HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER AND THEY ALSO SWORE TH T IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH THE SAID PENSIONER RESIDED, HE WAS REPUTED TO HABE SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION ON THE SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. SECTION 78 THE SAIO PENSIONER, HEZEKIAH POUND, WAS BORN IN SOMERSET COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY ON JULY 3 OF THE YEAR |76| AND HE REMOVED TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY IN THE YEAR 1787 OR 1788. HE STATED THAT HE SUBSTITUTED FOR ONE JOHN GROSE AND THAT HE HAD VOLUNTEERED ON THE OTHER TOURS AND HE ALSO STATED THAT HE REMEMBERED GENERAL ANTHONY V/AYNE AND COLONEL ARMER« THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, HEZEKIAH POUND, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF ^33.33 PER ANNUM AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON APRIL |8 OF THE YEAR 1833 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO JAMES POMEROY AT LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. PILKINTON: LARKlN VIRGINIA ftS.32443 ON OCTOBER K OF THE YEAR 1832 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER AT THE AGE OF 70 YEARS APPEARED IN OPEN OOURT AND STATEO THAT HE HAD BEEN BORN IN ESSES COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON JULY 30 OF THE YEAR 1762 AND HE STATED THAT HE .HAD THEN REMOVED TO CHESTERFIELD COUNTY IN THE SAIO STATE OF VIRGINIA. HE ALSO SAIO THAT HE'HAD REMOVED TO BULLITT COUNTY |N*THE STATE OF KENTUCKY IN THE YEAR 1787 AND HE SAID THAT SIX YEARS AGO HE HAD REMOVED TO PAGE 30 SECT,0M 79 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. THE SAID PENSIONER STATED THAT1 IN THE MONTH OF *USUST Of THE YEAR 1788 HE HAD VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN CREED HASKINS TO SERVE IN THE,CAPACITY OF A PRIVATE SOLDIER FOR A TOUR OF SK WEEKS DURATION AND THEY THEN MARCHES TO WILLIAMSBURG *ANO THEN FROM THERE THEY MARCHED TO SURRY COURT HOUSE IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL FRANCIS GOODS. HE STATED THAT HE HAD SLSO VOLUNTEERED IN THE YEAR |T*9 TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY UNDBR THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN EZEK.AL OANVB AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO SURRY COUNTY ANO FROM THERE TO WARWICK COUNTY ON THE WARWICK RlVER IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL ROBERT GOOOB TO SERVE IN THE OAPACITY OF A PRIVATE FOR A TOUR OF TWO MONTHS DURATION. THE SAID' PENSIONER ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD VOINEO THE LIOHT INFANTRY IN THE YEAR |780 IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY TO SERVE IN THE REGIMENT UNOER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL DlCK AND IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS ANO THEY THEN CROSSED THE JAMES RlVER AND FROM THERE THEY THEN MARCHEO TO MOBSIN HILLS AND THEN TO SHIRLY HUNDRED FERRY FOR TWO AND ONE HALF OR THREE WEEKS. THEN IN THE MONTH OF AUAUCST OF THE YEAR 1580, THE SAID PENSIONER WAS DRAFTED TO SERVE IN THE OAPAOITY OF A PRIVATE SOLOIER IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE OOMMANO OF CAPTAIN GEORGE MARKHAM AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO PETERSBURG AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO SURRY COURT HOUSE AND THBY CROSSED THE JAMES RUER AT SWANS POINT AND THEY THEN MARCHED TO WILLIAMSBURG ANO THEN IN THE BRAG, BRA6A0E UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL LAWSON, THEY MARCHED TO LITTLE YORK IN THE SECOND VIRGINIA REGIMENT. THE AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM CHAPPELLL WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER ..T CHESTERFIELD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AT A TIME FIFTY ONE YEARS AGO AND HE ALSO SWORE THAT THE" SAID PENSIONER HAO SERVEO IN THE W.\R OF THE REVOLUTION AS HE HAO STATED. THE AFFIDAVIT OF JESSE CHAPPELL WAS ALSO GIVEN AT WE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PUCE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE ALSO HAD BEEN BOTH WELL ANO FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAIO PENSIONER IN CHESTER I FLED COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND THIS DEPONENET ALSO SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD SERVEO AS HE ON MAY 27 OF THE YEAR 1333 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST OF THE YEAR 1778 HE HAD SERVED FOR A TOUR OF SIX WEEKS DURATION IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COI^IMANO OF SECTION 81 CAPTAIN CREED HASKINS AND ALSO UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTENANAT WILLIAM GOOD. HE ALSO SAID THAT HE HAO SERVED FOR A TOUR OF SEVEN WEEKS IN THE COMPANY UNOER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN EZEKIEL DANCE IN THE YEAR 1779 AND THAT IN T.IE YEAR 1780 AND HE HAD SERVED IN THE LIGHT INFANTRY UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTENANAT DAILEY, MAJOR BOYN AND MAJOR HOFLER AND SERGEA.JT HUMBLE COLE. ON FEBRUARY 8 OF THE YEAR 1844 Ifl MADISON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SAID PENSIONER AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD LATELY REMOVED TO THE ABOVE PLACE, NAMELY, MADISON COUHTY IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS ANO HK ASKED THAT HIS PENSIOrOE PAYABLE THERE IN THE FUTURE, HE STATED THAT HE HAO REMOVED AS ABOSf STATED IN ORDER TO RESIOE WITH HIS SON ROBERT C. PlLKlNTON AT EDWAROSVlLLE IN pAGE 31 SECTION 8| JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS IN MAOISON COUNTY ILLINOIS. THE AFFIDAVIT OF ROBERT C. P,IKKINTON WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER. LARKIN PLLKINTON, WAS THE IOENT|OAL PERSON T3HAT HE CLAIMED HIMSELF TO BE, THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, LARK IN PIKKINTON, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS ST THE RATE OF ^40.00 PER ANNUM AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS I-SSUEO ON AUGUST 21 OF THE YEAR |833 SECTION 82 ANO IT WAS THEN SENT TO J. S. DANA AT FRANKFORT IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. STEWART: JAMES AND POLLY OLD WAR INVALID FILE |284|8 WIDOWS ORIGINAL #19157 WIDOWS CCERTIFICATE 3II808 ON OCTOBER 30 OF THE YEAR I8I7 IN LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENISONER APPEARED IN OPEN COURT FOR THE PURPPSE OF APPOINTING THE HONORABLE RICHARD C. ANDERSON TO ACT IN THE CAPACITY OF HIS ATTORNEY. THE SAIO PENSIONER ALSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT HE HAD" RECEIVED A SWORD Y/OUNO DURING THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS-ON JANUARY 8 OF THE YEAR |8|5. QN OCTOBER 8 OF THE YEAR 1816 IN LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY THE AFFIDAVIT OF CRAVEN T. LU-CKETT WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATEO AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER WAS A SHOEMAKER BY TRADR'AND THAT HE RESIDED IN GALIOPOLIS AND THAT HE HAO SERVED IN THE C APA CI TY, OF A MILITIA MAN IN THE OOMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN THOMAS JOYCE, AND MAJOR GENERAL THOMAS' AND THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATED AND SWOKE JTHAT THE SAID PENSIONER WAS WOUNDED ON THE MISSISSIPPI RLVER. THE AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS JOYCE WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME 0LACE AST THE FOREGO^ NGE rW SECTION 83 THE SAID DEPONENET STATECAND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER WAS A RESIDENT OF GALLLOPOLLS AND THAT HE WAS A SHOEMAKER BY TRADE AND THAT HE HAD SERVED IN THE COMPANY UNDER HIS, THE SAID DEPONENETS, COMMAND AND TH. THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD 3EEH WOUNDED WHILEXLN THE SAID SERVICE. ON SEPTEMBER»24 OF THE YEAR "817 IN LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN M. TALBOT, A PRACTICING PHYSICIAN WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PSJNSIONER HAO A WANT OF STRENGTH AND ALSO A LACK OF MOTION DUE TO THE WOUND RECEIVED WHILE IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ON MARCH |2 OF THE YEAR 1840, THE AFFIDAVIT OF J. J. COLLINS, ALSO A PRACTISING PHYSICIAN WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPBNENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN A SURGEON OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND HE STATED AND SWORE, THAT THE SAID PENSIONER DESERVED $4„00 MORE PENSION THAT HE WAS RSOE| V^SJGJ AND HE ALSO SWORE THAT HE WAS OISABLED BY THE WOUND RECEIVED |K THE SERVICE. HE STATED THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD BEEN A PRIVATL-STLDLER IN THE THIRTEENTH REG'MENT OF THE KENTUCKY DETACHED MILITJIA AND THAT HE HAD RECEIVD A WOUND ON6JANUARY 8 OF THE YEAR I8|5 WHILE TAKING PART IN THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA* ON APRIL 3 OF THE YEAR 1815, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN DAVIS, WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATinr^NO^SAHORE THAT HE WAS OR HAD X SECTION 84 BEEN A LIEUTENANAT COLONEL OF THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT OF KENTUCKY p-6E 32 SECTION 84 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONER KENTUCKY DETACHED MILITIA AND HE SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD SERVED AND HAD ENLISTED AS HE HAO STATED AND ALSO 'THAT HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED AS HAD BEEN STATED IN OPEN COURT. THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN THOMAS AND GEORGE H. HILL WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID. DEP\NENETS S STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAO SERVED AND HAD BEEN WOUNDED AS HE HAD STATED AFORESAJD IN AN OPEN COURT* ON FEBRUARY 2'OF THE YEAR 1838 IN HAMILTON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF OHIO, THE SAID PENSIONER AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE WANTED HIS PENSION PAYABLE IN FUTURE AT THE ABOVE PLACE. HE $TATEO THAT HE HAD REMOVED AS AFORESAID IN ORDER TO BETTER HIS SITUATION A NO IN ORDER TO RESIOE WITH HIS CHILDREN. THE AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLES H-. COOPER WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING, THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER, JAMES STEWART, WAS THE IDENTICAL PERSON THAT HE CLAIMED HIMSELF TO BE. IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF THE YEARJ8I7 J N LOU ISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE FFIDAVIT OF JOHN CREGHAN, M. D„ WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE WAS A BRACTlClNG PHYSICIAN AND HE ALSO SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD BEEN* WOUNDED IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER DURING THE SlEGE OF NEW ORLEANS,. ., SECTION 85 ON JANUARY |8 OF .THE YEAR I8i7 IN GALLIA COUNTY IN THE • STA^E OF OHIO, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JONAS LAFFON, M. D., AND JACOB KITHRIDGE, M. Dl, WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENTS STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAIO ^PENSIONER HAO BEEN WOUNDED AS AFORESAID AND THAT HE WAS INCAPABLE AS A RESULT OF THE SAID WOUND,-, . w ON JANUARY 18 OF THE YEAR I8.57 IN GALLIOPOCIS IN GALLIA COUUTY IN THE STATE' OF OHIO, THE SAID PENSIONER AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPOINTING THE HOf!ORAb,E WlLLlAM CRElGHTON AND THE HONORABLE-ORMSBY TO ACT AS H*S ATTORNEYS. IT WAS ALSO STATED IN OPEN COURT THAT THE SAIO PENSIONER;, JAMES STEWART, HAD MARRIED ON MARCH 3 OF THE YEAR 1816 POLLY PHILLSPS BY THE REVEREND MR, GOULD AND 'IT WAS ALSO STATED THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAD DIED ON SEPTEMBER 22 OF THE YEAR-|8420 ON OCTOBER J6 OF THE YEAR- :878 IN HAMILTON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF OHIO, THE AFFIDAVIT OF MRS. MARY GRABLEY WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID. DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT SHE. WAS AT THE AGE 0F(45 YEARS AND SHE SWORE THAT SHE WAS. THE DAUGHTER OF JAMES STEV/ARTJ SHE ALSO STATED AND SWORE / —SECTION 86 THAT SHE HAO BEEN PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL OF HER FATHER", THE SAID PENSIONER, JAMESSTSWART, AND SHE SWORE AND STATED THAT HE HAD DIED ON SEPTEMBER 22 OF THE YEAR 5842 AT CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF OHIO. ON JULY 24 OF THE YEAR ?678 IN HAMILTON COUNTY EN THE STATE OF. OHIO, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOSIAH BUNNELL AND SAMUEL RUNK? WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENETS STATED AND SWORE THAT THEY HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND. FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID POLLY STEWART, THE WIDOW OF THE PENS I ONERj IN THE SI AD COUNTY AND STATE FROM THE YEAR 1842 AND THEY ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID POLLY STEWART STILL REMAINED THE WIOOW, AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER, JAMES STEWART, AS AFORESAID. QN OCTOBER :5 OF THE "YEAR ?878-IN HAMILTON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF OHIO,ITHE AFFIDAVIT OF MRS. ELIZABETH JONES? JONTE WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET. STATED AND SWORE THAT SHE WAS AT THE AGE OF 49 YEARS. PAGE 33 SECTION 86 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS AND SHE SWORE THAT SHE WAS A DUAGHTER OF THE SAID PENSIONER JAMES STEWART, ANO SHE ALSO SWORE THAT SHE WAS PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL OF HER FATHER, THE SAID PENSIONER AND THAT SHE HAD RESIDED NEAR HIM AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH IN SEPTEMBER 22 OF THE YEAR 1842 IN CINCINNATI IN THE STATE 'OF OHIO. POLLY STEWART, THE WIDOW OF THE PENSIONER, WAS ON THE COLUMBUS AGENCY OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF ^8*00 PER MONTH TO' COMMENCE ON MARCH 9 OF THE YEAR 1.878 AND HER CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS.ISSUED ON NOVEMBER |6 OF THE YEAR I878 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO HER PENSION AGENT* SHAW: JOSEPH OLD'WAR INVALID FILE #|444| SERVED IN CAPTAIN WELLS COMPANY" IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. ON AUGUST 3K OF THE YEAR I833 IN CLARK COUNTY IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SAID PENSIONER APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE IFR&O SERVED IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL WELLS AND IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL WLLLLAM OLDHAM AND' HE STATED'THAT HE WANTED HIS PENSION PAYABLE IN THE FUTURE IN THE ABOVE LOCALITY, THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,' THE SAID PENSIONER, JOSEPH SHAW STATE^ AND SWORE. THAT HE HAD REMOVED FROM THE STATE OF KENTUCKY TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN ORDER TO GET CHEAPER LAND ON WHICH TO SETTLE. THE AFFIDAVIT OF STEPHEN ARCHER WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THTJH^HE SAID PENSIONER WAS THE IDENTICAL PERSON THAT HE CLAIMED HIMSELF/TO SE^ ON NOVEMBER 2| OF THE YEAR |832 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER, JOSEPH SHAW, AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF AGAIN ASKING OR APPLYING FOR A PENSION. THE FFIDAVIT OF JOHN SHAW WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET SFATED AND SWORE THAT HE WAS A BROTHER OF THE SAID PENSIONER, JOSEPH SHAW, AND THIS SAID DEPONENET ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER, HIS BROTHER JOSEPH SHAW, WAS THE IDENTICAL PERSON THAT HE CLAIMED HIMSELF TO BE AS AFORESAIDb '' THE AFFIDAVIT OF WARDEN POPE WAS ALSO-GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE A3 THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED ANO SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAID, COUNTY AND STATE HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH') THE SAID PENS|ONER, JOSEP'H SHAW, ANO TRFLS SAID DEPONENET ALSO STATED THAT HE H.IMSEL7,' THE SAJD DEPONENT, HAD ASRSTED THE SAID PENSIONER JOSEPH $H$W !N GETTING THE. PENSJON THAT WAS DUE HIM BECAUSE OF HIS SERVICES ON THE PART OF THE UNITED STATE* .. OF AMERICA• •'•'"• t *• „ ; ;' ' v /THERE WAS ALSO-WITH THIS PENSION RECORD THE USUAL JACKET STATING THAT TH, THE PERSON HAD* RECEIVED^ A CERTAIN AMOUNT AND THAT HIS CERTIFICATE HAD BEEN ISSUED A CERTAIN TIME BUT THIS WAS NOT>ILLED OUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OF THE NAME OF THE PENSIONER- AND IT"ALS'6 SAID THAT HE RECEIVED ONLY $320/ WILSONYEARSTATESCOURH10E - SERVEPESROBERT R :,OIF NMONTH D ROBERB JEFFERSOAGTY"'JAN I"EWILSCNNCERTIFICAT E. THANT DE N,REVOLUTIONARA RESIDENCOUNTTHE BATEABOVY TKENTUCK ED OYFONAME NWA THMARYDE Y ABOVANSOLDIER9O,D EENTEREMAO181. NAME8E, DECLARATIOAD T PENSIONECOUNT!p20IN ,TH EYPE SECTION6TRAN OHMONTTHAO WFPENNSYLVANI STATEPENNSYLVANINTHT901 H EH EAPPEARE80 ,9UNITE : I S THA6AD6 AD T IN PAGE 34 •, SECTION 89 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONER THAT HE SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY -#/AR AND ENTERED IN THE 6TH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL WlLLlAM |RV|N, IRWIN? ABOUT NOVEMBER I, 1775 |B TGE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT; WHEN THE COMPANY WAS FILLED IN APRIL 1775 HE MARCHED TO NEW YORK AND FROM THERE TO LOWER . 'CANADA ANO MET THE BRITISH AJ A PLACE CALLED 'THREE RIVERS'' WHERE THE AMERICANS WERE DEFEATED AND RETREATED BACK TO TICONOERAGO. FROM THERE HE RETURNED TO PHILADELPHIA TO RECRUITING ORDERS AND THERE FILLED TH6 REGIMENT AND RETURNED TO PHILADELPHIA AND RECEIVED A CAPTAIN'S COMMISSION IN THE SPRING OF 1777 AND MARCHED TO THE , STATE OF NEW JERSEY ANO JOINED THE MA IN ARMY* AND FROM THERE MARCHED TO THE HEAD OF ELK BUT MET THE BRITISH AT BRANDYWINE AND WAS IN THE ENGAGEMENT ON THE ELEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER |777 CALLED THE BATTLE OF BRANOWINE AND SOON AFTERWARDS HE WAS IN THE MASSACRE AT PEOLl UNDER THE COMMANO OF GENERAL WAYNE AND RECEIVED SEVERAL WOUNDS IN THAT BATTLE THOROUGH THE BODY WITH THE BUTT OF MUSKET AND HIS HAND WAS OUT WITH, A BLOW FROM A BAYONETAND A ALL OF THE WOUNDS WERE RECEIVED IN THE BATTLE OR MASSACRE AT PAOLl AND HE REMAINED UNDER THE CARE OF THE SURGEONS UNTIL DECEMBER AND THEN MATCHED TO CAMP AT VALLEY FORGE AND CONTINUED IN THE SERVICE TILL MARCH 1778 AND THEN RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION AND IN NOVEMBER 1778 HE ACCEPTED AND RECE1VEO AN APPOINTMENT IN THE STAFF DEPARTMENT UNDER COLONEL JOHN DAV|S WH0WAS SECTION 90 DEPUTY QUARTER-MASTER-GENERAL FOR THE WESTERN ARMY AND CONINUED IN THAT CAPACITY UNTIL |78|. THE DATE OF HIS ORIGINAL APPLICATION WWS MAY 9, |8|8 HE MADE A SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY AND ALSO STATED THAT HE IS BY OCCUPATION A FARMER. THAT HIS WIFE IS 59 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE HAS LIVING WITH HIM ONLY ONE CHILD, A DAUGHTER NAMED JANE, AGED |8. THIS APPLICATION WAS MADE BEFORE ALFRED .METCALF, JUDGE AND WARDEN POPE, CLERK. ROBERT WILSON AGAIN MADE DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A PENSION FOR HIS SERVICES IN THE REVOLUIONARY WAR, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON OCTOBER 28, 1833, AND JAMES F* PENDERGRAST, RESIDENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY MADE CERTIFICATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM AND TO THE TRUTHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS. IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 17, |836, JANE WILSON RROVED IN COURT THAT SHE IS THE" WIDOW OF ROBERT WILSON, DECEASED WHO WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, AND THAT HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY,ON SEPTEMBER lO, |835 AND THAT SHE IS NOW A WIDOW ANP HAS NOT BEEN MARRIED SINCE THE DEATH OF SAID ROBERT WILSON. THAT SHE HAS NOT MARRIED SINCE THfe'DEATH OF SAID ROBERT WILSON.JTHAT THEY WERE MARRIED IN |777 IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA AND SAID WILSON WAS AT THAT TIME AN OFFICER IN THE SERVICES OF THE UNITED STATES ANO WAS ENGA6E0 IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. .,„„..„„ OTTO HOLLAND WILLIAMS, CLERK OF WASHINGTON COUNTY COURT OF MARYLAND MADE DECLARATION THAT IT APPEARED FROM THE RECORD BOOK OF MARRIAGES LICENSES WANTED IN THAT COUNTY THAT ON NOVEMBER 4, 1777 LICENSE WAS ISSUEO DIRECTING THAT REVEREND MR. YOUNG SOLEMNIZE THE RIGHTS OF MARRIAGE GRANTED NOVEMBER 4, 1777. , THE WIDOW, JANE WILSON, ALSO MADE DECLARATION ON JUDY 19, msr FOR A PENSION AND .STATEO THAT SHE WAS AGEO 74. THAT SHE ANO ROBERT WILSON WERE MARRIED ON NOVEMBER 20, 1777 AND THAT HE DIED ON SEPTEMBER 18* 1833. THA-T HE DIEO^LEAVING EMZER WILSON, WHO RESIDES IN THE STATE or ARKANSAS; SECTUON 91 THAT HE DIED LEAVING EMZER WILSON, WHO RESI6ES IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; ELLIOTT WILSON, PATIENCE WHQ INTERMARRIED WITH JOSEPH BLUNK, DAVID WILSON PAGE 35 SECTION 91 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS ELLIOTT Y/ILSON; PATIENCE WHO INTERMARRIED WITH JOSEPH BLUNK, DAVID V/ILSON; AND DNNIEL WLLSON HIS H.2ERS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND WHO AT THAT TIME OF THE DEATH OF SAID ROBERT WLLSON WERE OVER THE AGE OF 2L• THAT SAIO JOSEPH BLUNK AND PATIENCE:, HIS WIFE, DANIEL WILSON AND SAID WILSON, NOW RESIDE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. ELLIOTT WILSON WHO MOVED TO LOU I SANA IS NOW DEAD LEAVING FOUR CHILDREN WHOSE NAM..ES ARE UNKNOWN TO HER EXCEPT JANE AND INDIA WLLSON. THIS DECLARATION WAS MAOE BEFORE ALEXANDER EN GAILBRSATH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND ON JULY 19, 1837, BENJAMIN SUMMERS MADE DECLARATION THAT HE HAD BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH BOTH ROBERT AND JANE WILSCN SINOE 1805, AND THAT HE WAS ALSO ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHILCREN, LEVIN COOPER, RESIDENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ALSO MADE DE CURAT I ON OF ACQUAINTANCE WITH BOTH ROBERT AND JANE WLLSON SINCE 1792, 1793, OR 1794 AND THAT HE HAS LIVED IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SINCE THAT TIME Ot> TO THE DEATH OF SAIO ROBERT WlLSON, THIS AFFIDAVIT WA8 MADE BEFORE ALEXANOER H. GAILBREATH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND CERTIFIED BY WARDEN POPE CLARK OF THE COUNTY COURT AND EDMUND POOE CLERK OF THE CITY COURT OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MARCH |9, |844, DAVID WILSON, RESIDENT OF THAT COUNTY APPEARED AND MADE DECLARATION THAT HE IS A SON OF ROBERT WILSON AND WHO WAS A PENSIONER OF THE UNITED STATES. HE APPLIED FOR THE ARREARS OF THE PENSION ALLOWANCES FROM HIS MOTHER»S DEATH WHICH OCCURRED ON AUGUST 19, {843, A LETTER WRITTEN FROM THE AUDITOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE, HARRISBURG, ON SECTION 92 JUNE 4, 1849 THAT THERE ARE NO RECORDS ON FILE TO SHOW THAT ROBERT WEEDEN WAS A DEPUTY-QUARTER-MASTER GENERAL IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION* THAT THE RECORDS SHOW THAT ROBERT WILSON WAS A LIEUTENANAT IN CHESTER ~" COUNTY DURING THE TIME MENTIONED AND THAT THAT OFFICE WAS A MILITARY ONE* THIS WAS SIGNED BY JOHN M* PURNANCE," AUDI TO?* ROBERT WILSON OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL IRVINE IN THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE FOR 2 YEARS WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PET.'SLON ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO CO".: "COMMENCE ON MARCH I?, 1818, CERTIBICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUES ON JUNE 8, 1819 AND SENT TO HONORABLE R. C ANDERSON, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY* JANE WILSON, WIDOW OF ROBERT WILSON, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH |0, 1835. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON JULY3, 1849, '' WELSH: JAMES S 14,819 PENNSYLVANIA JAMES WELSH, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON'COUNTY KTNTUCKY ON SEPTEMBER I, 1832; AND STATED THAT HE IS 77 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE WAS BORN IN CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. IN 1776 ANO RESIDED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA IN THAT YEAR WHEN HE VOLUNTEERED FOR 9 MONTHS IN A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS COMMANDED BY CAPTAI.N WILLIAM HORTON, JOHN HOLLADAY AND WILLIAM ELLIOTT, FIRST AND SECOND LIEUTENANATS AND ROBERT MCQOWELL, ENSIGN. THE DEPNENET WAS SECOND SERGEANT AND SERVED AS SUCH TILL NOVEMBER |6, OF THAT YEAR WHEN HE WAS CAPTURED AT FORT WASHINGTON IN NEW YORK, AND KEPT IN CLOSE SECTION 93 CONFINEMENT TILL ABOUT THE FIRST OF MARCH t777 ANO WAS THEN %A KEN WITH THE OTHER PRISONERS AND MARCHED FROM SAID FORT UNDER BR I Tl SH GUARD, AND DELIVERED ANO COLONEL—*-? OF THE AMERICAN ARMY AND PAROLED IN ORDER TO BEAR ARMS TILL EXCHANGED SOMETIME IN THE MONTH OF fv'.AY PAGE 36 SECTION 93 JEFBERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS OF THE ARMY AMERICAN ARMY AND PAROLED IN ORDER TO BEAR ARMS T^LL ESCHANGED SOMETIME IN THE MONTH OF I.'.AY OF THAT YEAR. HE ORDERED AS A WAGGONER IN THE 8TH PENNSYLVANIA REG IMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL DAN I EL BROADHEAO AND SERVED IN THAT CAPACITY TILL SOMETIME IN THE MOUTH OF AUGUST OF THE SAME, YEAR WHEN HE LEST THE .SERVICE. SOMETIME ASOUT THE FIRST OF KIAY |779 HE VOLUNTEERED IN A COMPANY COMMANOED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM HARROD IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY COLONEL JOHN BOWMAN AGAINST THE INDIANS ON THE WATERS OF ™E LITTLE MIAMI V/AS IN TWO ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE INDIDANS IN THAT CAMPAIGN. HIS SERVICES UNDER CAPTAIN HARROD WAS FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS. IN JULY |780 HE VOLUNTEERED AS A LIEUTENANAT IN, THE COMPANY OF VOUNTEERS OF WHICH HARDY MILL VMS CAPTAIN ANO MARCHED IN AN EXPEDITION UNDER COLONEL GEORGE R. CLARKE AGAINST THE INDIANS AT CHILLOCOTHE ANO PIQUA TOWNS ON THE WATERS OF THE BIG OR LITTLE MIAMI RIVER IN SAID EXPEDITION. THEY HAD A SEVERE BATTLE AND TOOK THE AND DESTORYED THE INDIAN TOWNS AT WHICH EXPEDITION HE SERVED AS A LLEUTENANAT AFORESAID FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS, ON HIS RETURN FROM THE EXPEDITION HE AND THE SAID CAPTAIN HILL AND JOHN OLATON ENETERED AS SPIES BEING ENGAGED AS SUCH BY COLONEL FLOYD SLAUGHTER AND SERVED AS SUCH FROM ABOUT THE FIRST OF AUGUST 1780 TILL SOMETIME IN DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR, BEING ABOUT THREE MONTHS. * IN MARCH 1781 HE. AGAIN ENTERED AS A SPY BEING EHMBLOYBD OR ENGAGED BY COLONEL TODD AND PATTERSON AND SERVED AS SUCH TILL NOVEMBER 4, OR ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS. THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE ALEXANDER H. GAILBREATH JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. SECTION 94 ROBERT H. GAILBREATH, CLERGYMAN, RESIDENT ON THE AFORESAID COUNTY, AND LEV LEVIN COOPER, RESIDENT IN THE SAME COUNTY, MADE CERTIFICATIONS OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, JAMES.'..WELSH, ON DECEMBER 27, 1832 A^ND TO THEIR BELIEF IN THE STATEMENTS OF THE OLD SOLDIER. ) JAMES WELSH OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDEO BY CAPTAIN HARBOR O*- THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL BROADHEAD, IN THE PENNSYLVANAIA. LINE FOR NINE MONTHS, AS PRIVATE, AND 8 MONTHS, AS SERGEANT AND TWO MONTHS AS LIEUTENANAT, WA/S INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |82|. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON MARCH 27, I833,.AND SENT TO HENRY NORTHUP, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. VJEINNAND: PHILLIP S I2&7 /MATYLAND PHILLIP WEINNAND APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 6, 1833 AND STATED THAT HE IS 79 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE ENLISTEO IN THE REGIMENT COMMANOED BY COLONEL SCHR?OCK, OF HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, UNDER CAPTAIN RUNNELL OR RUNDELL AND LIEUTENANAT ORENDOFF. THAT HE ENJTERED SOMETIME IN THE SUMMER OF 1776 AND MARCHED TO PHILADELPHIA AND AFTER HAVING REMAINED THERE FOR EIGHT OR TEN DAYS IN PHI LADELPHI A,»HE MARCHED TO;.NEW YORK AND REMAINED IN THE CITY A FEW DAYS; AND LEFT THE CITY AND WENT UP THE RIVER AND REACHED THE WHITE PLAINS AND JOINED THE ARMY OFGENERAL WASHINGTON AND HAD A FIGHT WITH THE BRITISH NEAR THE WHITE PLAINS. THEN HE MARCHED DOWN TO FT. LEE AND WAS AT FT. LEE WHEN THE BRITISH TOOK PBRT WASH;NGTON. AFTERWARDS HE RETURNED HOME AFTER HA-VING BEEN OUT FOR EIGHT MONTHS. SECTION 95 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 6, 1833, MICHAEL MILLER, CLERGYMAN, RESIDENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY AND JAMES POMEROY, RESIDENT OF THE SAME PLACE MADE CERTIFICATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED JMTH PHILLIP WEINNAND AND TO THEIR BELIEF IN "HIS STATEMENTS. PAGE ^" 3T SECTION 95 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS. THESE STATEMENTS WERE MADE BEFORE WARDEN POPE, CLERK. IN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS GIVEN 3Y THE COURT TO THE APPLICANT, HE MADE ANSWERS THAT HE WAS BORN IN [LE\OL NG PENNSYLVANIA ON MARCH |0, 1754 THAT SINCE THE REVOLUTIO^CY 'V/.R HE HAT LIUIED IN LITTLE YORK PENNSYLVANIA THAT HE JOINED THE ?L,V-M CSS AT HAG-F.STOV.'M MARYLAND AND HAS LIVED NEAR LITTLE YORK, THAT HE MOVED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUSKY ABOUT THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO WHERE H^S LIVED EVER SINCE, PHILLIP WEINNAND OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN RUNDELL OF THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL SCHIROCK OF THE MARYLAND MILITIA FOR EIGHT MONTHS, FROM 1776, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION LIST OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |83|. CERTIFICATE -OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON MAY 30, 1833, AND SENT TO JAMES POMEROY, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. SECTION 95 & 96 WHITE: DANIEL S ia68 VIRGINIA DANIEL WHITE, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON JUNE 6, |833, AND STATED THAT HE V/AS A RESIDENT OF THAT COUNTY AND WAS 80 YEARS OF AGE ON MARCH |6, 1832, THA T HE ENTERED THE SERVICE -OF THE UNITED STATES IN K| NG GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA AS A MINUTE MAN FOR THE TERM OF |2 MONTHS IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR IN WHICH NORFOLK VIRGINIA WAS BURNED BY THE BRITISH, UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN TALLIAFERRO; LIEUTENANAT WAS NAMED THOMAS GRANT, AND THE ENSIGN WAS NAMED STEPHEN HANSFORD. THEY RENDEZVOUSED AT A PLACE CALLED THE RANGERFIELOS OLD FIELDS AND AFTER TWENTY OAYS WERE DISMISSED TO HOLD THEMSELVES IN READINESS FOR FURTHER ORDERS. IN THE EARLY PART OF THE FOLLOWING SPRING HE RECEIVED ORDERS TO RENDEZVOUS AT FREDERICKSBURG VIRGINIA WHERE THEY RECEIVED ORDERS TO DRAW HUNTING SHIRTS AND AR.IS AND MARCHED FROM THAT PLACE TO WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA UNDER CAPTAIN FRANCIS CONOWAY, HIS FORMER CAPTAIN, AND REMAINED SOME SIX OR II WEEKS AND DID A GREAT DEAL OF HARD WORK MAKING BREAST WORKS UNDER THE ORDERS OF COLONEL SKINKER AND* UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERINTENDENCE OF A MAJOR ANDREW BOHANNON BOHANNON OR BUCKHANNON AND THEN RECEIVED ORDERS ABOUT DARK BY EXPRESS FROM GENERAL GEORGE WEEDNE TO MARCH TO HAMPTON, A SMALL TOWN ON THE CHESAPEAKE AT A PLACE THE BRITISH WERE THEN COMMANDING AT WHICH PLACE THEY REMAINED TILL THEIR TERM EXPIRED AND WERE THEN DISCHARGED IN WRITING SIGNED BY MAJOR BUCKIHANNON ( AS HE NOW BELIEVES) AMD WAS IN ACTURAL SERVICE IN THAT YEAR FOR NOT LESS THAN NINE MONTHS. THAT HE LIVED IN THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA AND FROM THE PECULIAR SITUATION OF THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY, THE BRITISH SHIPPING CAME UP FREQUENTLY AND COMPLETEO DEPREDATIONS BY BURNING THE WAREHOUSES AND TOBACCO ETC,. AMD HE FREQUENTLY AND COMPLETED DEPREDATIONS BY BURNING THE WAREHOUSES AND TOBACCO ETC, AND HE FREQUENTLY SERVED AS A MILITIA MAN. AT ONE TIME HE WAS WITH TROOPS ENCAMPED AT A PLACE CALLED "BOYD'S HOLE FORT 7 OR 8 WEEKS AND AT ANOTHER PLACE CALLED "HUNTER'S HEIGHTS" FOR 6 OR 7 WE.EKS»4. THEY WERE ENCAMPED FOR 3 OF 4 WEEKS AT A PUCE CALLED JARRET*S FER-?Y ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. THE CAPTAIN'S NAME WAS BENJAMIN JOHNSON, THEY WERE CALLED OUT IN SERVICE BY ORDERS OF SECTION 97 GENERAL GEORGE WEEDEN, THROUGH COLONEL JOHN SKENKER AND MAJOR ANDREW BUCKBANNON AND WOULD CONTINUE IN SERVICE UNTIL THE BRITLSH SHIPPING WOULD DISAPPEAR FROM THEIR WATERS. THEIR SERVICE WAS REQUIRED EVER TIME DURING THE WHOLE TIME OF THE WAR. THEY WERE IN ACTUAL SERVICE NEARLY TWO- THIRDS OF THE TIME. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN KING GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA IN I75I. THAT HE FORMERLY LIVED IN KING GEORGE COUNTY PAGE 38 SECTION 97 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS THAT HE FORMERLY LIVED IN KING GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA AND 43 YEARS AGO, REMOVED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE HAS LIVED EVER SINCE. DANIEL WHITE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPATAIN TALLIAFERRO OF THE REGIMENT ANO COMMANDED BY COLONEL SKINNER OF THE VIRGINIA LINE FOR ONE YEAR, AND 22 DAYS, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY COUNTY TO COMMENCE -ON MARCH 4, |83|. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1833, AND SENT TO WARDEN POPE, AT LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. YEAGER: ELISHA Si6. 587 VIRGINIA ELISHA YEAGER, THE ABOVE-NAMED SOLDIER APPLIEO FOR A PENSION ON AUGUST 23, 1832, IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, IN THE" STATE OF KENTUCKY, AND STATED THAT HE WAS THEN 71 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 30, 1780 IN CULPEPPER COUNTY VIRGINIA WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL HE ENTERED SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES AS A MILITIA MAN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN SECTION 98 1777 AND SERVED IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY COLONEL FRANCIS TAYLOR, THAT HE MARCHED WITH HIS COMPANY TO ALBEMARLE BARRACKS |N VIRGINIA AND WAS .THERE 60 DAYS ASSISTING IN GUARDING THE PRISONERS WHO WERE TAKEN AT THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL BURGOYNE. AFTER HIS DISCHARGE HE ENLISTED AGAIN IN CULPEPPER COUNTY VIRGINIA uNDEr: THE COMMAND OF REUBEN BCALL IN THE FALL OF 1778 OR 1778 AND WAS MARCHED WITH A DETACHMENT SENT TO GUARD-THE RAPPAHANNOCK" AND APPOMATO RIVER FROM THE BRITISH, FLEET AND SERVED FOR THE TERM OF SIXTY DAYS ANO WAS DISCHARGED AT THE BND OF HIS TERM OF SERVICE IN SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA. HE AGAIN ENTERED SERVICE IN LOUISA COUNTY VIRGINIA UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN ELIJAH HARTLEY IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL JACK WILLIS IN THE DIVISION OR BRIGADE COMMANDER BY GENERAL MUHLENBURG, AFTERWARD BY GENERAL WLLLL S IN THR SERVICE FOR SOMETIME UNDER COLONEL WALLIS. HE WAS DETACHED WITH HIS COMHANY AND ACTED AS A RIFLE MAN AND WAS IN THE ENGAGEMENT AT HOT WATER CREEK IN,THE COUNTY OF NFW HUNT? VIRGINIA AND IN THE LATTER PART OF 178: FROM WHICH PLACE THE BRITISH MARCHED T TO JAMESTOWN AND FROM THERE TO NORFOLK ANO THAT THE DETACHMENT TO WHICH HE BELONGED WAS IN PURSUIT OF THE BRITISH WHEN THEY ENTERED JAMESTOWN, WHICH THE BRITISH BURNED* THE WHOLE TIME HE WAS IN THE SERVICE FROM TIME H? ENTERED TILL HE QUIT THE SERVICE WAS FOR SIX MONTHS. BENJAMIN ALLLEN, CLERGYMAN, RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, AND GEORGE W. GRIFFYS RESIDENT '?I THE SAME COUNTY MADE CERTIFICATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT, ELISHA YEAGER, AND TO THEIR BELIEF IN HIS STATEMENTS. THE^E AFFIDAVITS WERE MADE BEFORE JOHN WILLIAMS, JUSTICE OF THE PEAC:* IN OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY ON DECEMBER :0, 1832, SAMUEL YEAGER APPEARED AND MADE DECLARATION OF BEING OF RELATION TO ELISHA YEAGER AND THAT HE KNEW HIM IN VIRGINIA* THAT SAID ELISHA WAS ON TH.^EE TOURS OF MILITIA DUTY OK SECTION 99 SIXTY DAYS EACH TOUR. THAT HE SERVED WITH HIM ON ONE OF THE TOUR UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN EH SHA KlRTLEY IN THE BRIGADE OF D ! VI S I ON" COMMA NDED BY GENERAL MUHLENBURG* ELISHA YEAGER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN KlRTLEY IN THE VIRGINIA MlLlTlA FOR. 6 MONTHS FROM 1777 WAS INSCRIBED ON THE ROLL OF THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |83|. CERTIFICATE OF THE PENSION WAS ISSUED ON FEBRUARY 2, 1833, AND SENT TO HONORABLE C. A. WICKLIFFE, House OF REPRESENTATIVES, "PAGE 39 . SECTION 99 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS DORSEY: LEAVEN R. 3026 MARYLAND LEAVEN DORSEY, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED ON MAY— 1833, FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY AND STATED THAT HE WAS 78 YEARS OF AGE ON MAY 25TH., THATW ENLISTED AS A REGULAR SOLDIER IN THE COMRANY COMMANDED BY CAPTA |N\ NATHAN Wl LLIAMS, ANO REMAINED WITH HIS COMPANY IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE TILL THE FALL OF THE YEAR OF |777.. THERE WAS ANOTHER COMPANY OF REGULAR RECRUITED AT THE SAME TIME IN BALTIMORE*, COMMANOED BY CAPTAIN JONATHAN LEEMAN. THAT THE COMPANY TO WHICH SAID DORSEY BELONGED, TOGETHER WITH CAPTAIN SEAMAN'S COMPANY MARCHED IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1777 TO BUSH TOWN IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND', ON THEIR WAY TO PHILADELPHIA, AT WHICH PLACE BOTH COMPANIES REMAINED DURING THE WINTER OF |777 AND |778. IN THE SUMMER OF 1778 THE SAIO TWO COMPANIES MARCHED TOGETHER FROM BUSH TOWN THROUGH WILMINGTON, BEIIOW WEST POINT, WITH CAPTAIN WILLIAMS' COMPANY ATTACHED TO THE *TH MARYLAND REGIMENT* THAT THE SECTION 100 REGIMENT TO WHICH SAID DORSEY BELONGED, WAS STATIONED IN GARRISON FOR THE DEFENSE OF WEST POINT. ITHAT 8AID DORSEY WAS NEAR WEST POINT AT THE TIME OF THE THE CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF MAJOR ANDRE AND REMAINEO IN THAT STATION UNTIL ABOUT JULY l78t, W^EN HE OBTAINED HIS FURLOUGH FORM GENERAL OTTO H. WILLIAMS, THE OBJECT OF WHICH WAS TO ENABLE SAID DORSEY TO VISIT HIS :R MOTHER IN'MARYLAND AND WHfON HE WAS INFORMED, WAS SERIOUSLY ILL AT THE TIME* THAT SAIO DORSEY WENT" HOME ON THE FURLOUGH -AND SJNCE HIS MOTHER WAS VERY ILL, HE REMAINED WITH HER TILL\AFTER THE SURRENDER OF.LORO CORNWALL!* AND, WAS NOT WANTED IN THE AR'MY AFTER THAT TIME, AND DIO NOT RECEIVE NOTICE AFTERWARD TO JOIN THE ARMY. HE KNEW GENERAL SMALLWOOO AND WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH COLONEL JOHN E. HOWAR^ OF MARYLAND. HE WAS ALSO ACQUAINTED WITH MORDIOAI GIST BUT OOES NOT REMEMBER WHETHER HE WAS A MAJOR -COLONEL OR MAJOR-GENERAL. THATMORDECAI GIST WENT TO SOUTH CAROLINA SOON AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARYW/AR, AND MARRIED THERE. DANIEL C BANKS, CLERGYMAN, IN LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY AND LEAVEN LAWRENCE, RESIDENT OF THE SAME PLACE, MADE CERTIFICATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH LEAVEN LAWRENCE AND TO THEIR BELIEF IN THE. TRUTHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS. LEAVEN LAWRENCE ALSO MADE CERTIFICATI ON^THAT HE IS SIXTY YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE \lKS BORN IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND. THAT FOR FORTY-FIVE YEARS, HE HAS KNOWN LEAVEN DORSEY. THAT THE DEPONENET, LEAVEN LAWRENCE LIVED IN MARYLAND TILL HE WAS 2l YEARS OF AGE, ANO WITHIN TWLEVE WILL?, MILES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR\ SOLO IER, ..LEAVEN DORSEY. THAT LEAVEN-DORSEY HAO ALWAYS BEEN REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THERE IS A RECORD ON FILE IN\ THE PENSION BUREAU, FROM THE LANO OFFICE -OF ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND, OATED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1833, THAT IT APPEARED FROM THE MUSTER ROLL OF THE OFFICE, THAT\IN 1833, THAT LEAVEN DORSEY, ENLISTED SECTION 101 AS A PRIVATE IN THE 6TH MARYLAND \REGIMENT COMMANDED BY THE OFFICERS OF THAT REGIMENT, ON AUGUST 3|, |779 AND \ON OCTOBER- |7, |779, DESERTED AND THAT HIS NAME DID NOT APPEAR AGAIN ON ANY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PAY ROLLS, TO HAVE RECEIVED PAY FOR ANY OF HIS REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICES. IT WAS- SINGED BY GEORGE G. BREWER, RESITR\AT OF THE LAND OFFICE OF MARYLAND. PHILLIPS: BAMUEL R 8210 VIRGINIA-PENNSYLVANIA SAMUEL PHILLIPS, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLIDER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON OCTOBER 2, 1830, BEFORE JOHN WILLISMQN? WJCLIAMSON? JUSTICE OF THC Peace OF \SAIO COUNTY, ANDS STATED THAT HE IS 79 v-«r«s YEARS OF AGE. PAGE 40 SECTION lOt JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS AND STATEO? THAT HE IS 79YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE YEAR OF |778 AGAINST THE BRITISH ANO INDIANS UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL McCLEANNER AND MARCHED TO ANANGO TOWN ON THE ALLEGHENY RlVER AND REMAINED IN SERVICE AT THAT PLACE ABOUT TWO MONTHS. THAT HE SERVED A SECOND TERM OF 6 MOUTHS IN THE SAME YEAR UNDER CAPTA IN, THOMAS -STOKELY AT A STATION ABOUT 25 M!LES FROM PlTSSURG, ON THE ALLEGHENY RlVER, DEFEND I tJ ING THE FRONTIERS AGA.jN.iT THE BRITISH AND INOIANS. IN THE YEA* |779 OR 1780, HE SERVED SEVEN MONTHS AS A VOLUNTEER IN A PACK KORSE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN MARK HARDING, IU TRANS PORTI NG PROVISIONS FROM WINCHESTER IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA TO THE ARMY STATIONED AT PITTSBURG PENNSYLVANIA. IN THE YEAR OF I781 HE VOLUNTEERED IN THE MILITIA AT WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA. HE ENLISTED IN THE SERVICE IN THE MONTH OF MARCH |78|, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN CORNELIUS SKINNER AND CONTINUED IN THAT SERVICE TILL JANUARY 1782, AND WAS DISCHARGED AT BALTIMORE. SECTION 102 HE DOES NOT RECOLLECT OF HAVING BEEN WITH ANY TROOPS ACCEPT THOSE AT LITTLE YORK AND PITTSBURG. THAT HE WAS BORN IN LOUDON COUNTY VIRGINIA IN 1775 ON(OCTOBER I!. THAT HE RESIDED A SHORT TIME THERE, AFTER THE CLOSL OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ANO RESIDED FOR A SHORT TIME ON THE MONOGAHALA RIVER IN PENNSYLVANIA AND FOR THE LAST FORTY YEARS HAS RESIDES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. THIS STATEMENT WAS CERTIFIED BY WARDEN POPE, CLERK OF THE COUNTY AT THAT TIME. MILLS: WILLIAM R. 7,251 MARYLAND WILLIAM MILLS, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON OCTOBER 29,,.'833, AND MADE DECLARATION THAT HE is A RESIDENT OF LOUISVILLE. THAT HE IS EIGHTY TWO YEARS OF AGE* THAT HE ENROLLED IN.CAPTAIN JAMES PATTERSJ1W^S_C0MPANY ON THE SNOW HILL BATTALLLON IN WORCESTER COUNTY MARYLAND OF SELECT MILITITA, ON JULY |5, :780, THAT HE SERVED FOR NINE MONTHS JN COLONEL JOHN D*N|ELFS? REGIMENT AS A SOLOIER UNDER COLONEL JO^HN DONE, MAJOR HOLLAND AND CAPTAIN JAMES. PATTERSON. THAT HE RESIDED IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER MARYLAND AT THE TIME HE ENLISTED IN THE SERVICE AND MARCHED THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF SOMERSET AND WURCHESTER MARYLANO AND SUSSEX COUNTY'DELAWARE, DANIEL C, BURKS, CLERGYMAN, OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, MADE CERTIFICATION OF BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH WILLIAM MILLS FOR |8 YEARS AND TO HIS BELIEF IN THE STATEMENTS OF THE APPLICANT. % f . SECTION 103 jACOfl W. KAi.FOS, RECIOEMT OF LOUISVILLE, -ALSO MAOE CERTIFICATION OF 3 BEING WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT. WlLLlAM MlLLS, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON OCTOBER 29P 1838. THERE WAS A LETTER ON FILE, FROM G. G. BREWER OF THE LAND OFFICE, OF ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND, ON MAY 30, :838, STATING THAT IT APPEAREO FROM THE MLLLTIARY ROLLD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, OF THAT OFFICE, THAT WILLIAMS MILLS WAS ENROLLED IN CPATIAN JAMES PATTERSON'S COMPANY OF THE SNO-WSHILL BATTALLION ON JULY I5? :780, -N WORCHESTER COUNTY, THAT SELECT MILITIA MAN WERE ONLY, OCCASIONALLY CALLED OUT AND DIDN'T PERFORM CONTINOUS DUTY-) THAT FOR THAT REASON SAID BREWER COULD NOT FURNISH ANY EVIDENCE AS TO THE LENGTH V THE TIME HE WAS IN SERVICE. THAT THE ROLLS OID NOT SHOW ST. THAT HE THOUGHT THAT THE SELECT MILITIA MAN WERE NOT ENTITLEO TO A PENSION UNDER THE PENSION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, WHICH REQUIRED NOT LESS THAT SIX'MONTHS CONTINOUS SERVICE TO ENABLE A SOLDIER TO OBTAIN A PENSION; G. G. BREWER'ALSO REFERRED TO PAGE 41 PAGE 42 SECTION 105 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS TNAT IN THE FALL OF THE. YEAR OF 1775, AND BELIEVES IN THE MONTHS OF OCTOBER, HE GUARDED THE VOLUNTEER COMPANY RAISED BY THE STATE OF DELAWARE IN DEFENSE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES ANC IN THE CAPCITY OF DRILL SERGEANT ANO BUGLEMAN, TO GUNNING BEDFORD, CAPTAIN OF'THE'SAID- .COMPANY AND GUNNA? AUDRIDGE, AND ROBERT BRYANT, LIEUTENANAT OF THE ^ REGIMENT UNDER WHICH SAID COMPANY SERVED, AND WAS ORGANIZED UNDER MAJOR DUFF AND BELONGED TO COLONEL CRAIGHEAD UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE SAME. THAT HE SERVED ABOUT ONE YEAR UNDER CAPTAIN BEDFORD AS DRILL SERGEANT ANO BUGLEMAN, OF THE SAID COMPANYL HAVING LEARNED THE DRILL AND MANUEL EXERCISE, HE LEFT ENGLAND, THAT AT THE TIME OF ORGANIZING SAID COMPANY IN ORDER AS STATEO ABOVE, HE WAS URGED TO ACCEPT THE APPOINTMENT AND OF LLBUTENANAT OF THE SAID OOMPANY WHICH HE REF.USEO FOR REASONS HE BELLEVEO HE COULD NOT BE OF AS MUCH USE IN THAT CAPACITY AS IN SERVING AS DRILL SERGEANT AND BUGLEMAN, AND ALSO BECAUSE HE WAS AN ENGLISHMAN BY BIRTH AND MAD ' SECTION 106 ONLY RECENTLY COME TO AMERICA AND WAS PERSONALLY KNOWN TO SOME OF HIS COUNTRYMAN^ WHO WERE TORIES AND WELL KNOW THAT IF V NECK AND SINCE THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FV/AR HAS LIVED IN WILMINGTON, AND IN THE VICINITY OF V/| LMINGTON, UNTIL ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, WHEN HE CAME TO LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY TO RESIDE WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND AT WHICH TIME HE WENT BACK TO WILMINGTON ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO WITH VIEW TO ESTABLISH A CLAIM TO A PENSION, / WILLIAM ANDERSON WHO V/AS A COLONEL IN THE FIRST REGIMENT OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, STATED.THAT HE WAS BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1790 AND MOVED FROM THERE WITH HIS PRRENTS TO WILMINGTON DELAWARE IN "THE YEAR i80i AND NOW RESIDES\JN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. HE ALSO STATED THAT,HE WAS PERSONALLY'ACQUIINTED WITH ARCHIBALD CROXTON FROM THE TIME SAID ANDERSON WAS S2 YEARS OF AGE. THAT HE WAS REPUTED TO BE MAN OF TRUTH AND INEGR'TY AND TO.HAVE BEE!'; A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THAT HE, SAID ANDERSON HAS HEARD STATEMENTS IN REFERENCE TO SAID CROXTON SERVICE, MACE BY HONORABLE RICHARD BENNETT, FORMERLY GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE; COLONEL GUNNING BEOFORD, MAJOR, PETER JUGETTE, JR. CAPTAIN SIMMONS ALDRIDGE, CAPTAIN AND JOSEPH STAEDHAM, CAPTAIN, DANIEL KIRKPATRICK, MONRO:: THOMAS 3ARR AND OTHERS. HE ALSO STATES THAT GOVERNOR BENNETT, COLONEL BEDFORD, MAJOR JUGUETTE, AND CAPTAIN ALDRIDGE MADE STATEMENTS OF HIS. SERVICES. THAT CR0X0N JOTNED THE FIRST VOLUNTEER COMPANY RAISED IN DELAWARE. THAT THE PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS WAS AT CROXO'N'S HOUSE WHERE GREAT PROGRESS WAS MADE IN 'HE DRILL AND MANUEL EXERCISE OF SAID COMPANY. THAT SAID CROXON WAS ACTIVE &ND ACCURATE INXTHE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. SECTION 107 THI6 AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY |4, 1839. GEORGE SPOTTS? RESIDENT OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, WHO STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1783 AND MOVED FROM THERE WITH HIS PARENTS TO WILMINGTON IN I795, WHERE HE RESIDED TILL THE YEAR 1829 WHFN HE MOVED TO KENTUCKY, MADE DECLARATION ALSO IN OPEN- COURT IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY I4, 1839, THAT HE HAD KNOWN ARCHIBALD CROXON FOR; MANY YEARS FROM FROM THE TIME HE WAS A MI NCR PEFORE SAID SPOTTS WAS 2 J YEARS OF AGE. THAT WHILE SAID SPOTTS RESIDED IN WILMINGTON, SAID CROXON WAS KNOWN AS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER. IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY I4, !839, DANIEL, C. BROOKS.. ALSOSTATCLERGYMAN,E MADOF E,KENTUCKY CERTIFICATIONOF THE , PRESBYTERIAN'CHURCAND WILLIAS OF MBEIN COYLEG WELH, LANRESIDEN DACQUAINTE RESIDENT INDT LOUISVILLEWITOF HLOUISVILLE THE ,APPLICANT KFNTUCK, IN THY, E PAGE 43 SECTION 107 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS PAST AND TO THEIR BELIEF IN THE TRUTHFULNESS OF HIS STATEMENTS, BEFORE IURRAN POPE, CLERK OF THB COUNTY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY AT THAT DATE. THE PENSION CLALM OF ARCHIBALD CROXON WAS REJECTED ON GROUNDS THAT HE 01D NOT SERVE FORNIX MONTHS IN ACTUAL SERVICE. LAW: JESSE R 6^8 MARY OR POLLY VIRGINIA SECTION 108 JESSE LAW, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN OLOHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY ON AUGUST 19, 1833 AND STATED THAT HE WAS 76 YEARS or AGE. THAT HE ENLISTES INTO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES ON APRIL 17.77. THAT HE ENLISTED INTO THE MILITIA-OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER CAPTAIN THOMAS DILLARD IN THE COUNTY OF PITTSYLVANIA IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA WHERE HE LIVED AT THE-TIME. THAT HE MARCHED UNDER CAPTAIN DLLLARD»S DOWN T« GIVIN'S ISLAND WHICH WAS THEN INFESTED BY DUNMORE? THAT HE AND DILLARD'S COMPANY REMAINED ENCAMPED NEAR GIVING ISLAND GUARDING THAT SECTION OF THE COUNTRY AND UNDER PROTECTION TO-KEEP THE BRITISH FROM LANDING ON THE VIRGINIA SIDE. THAT WHILE ENCAMPED THERE, CAPTAIN DLLLARD LEFT THE COMPANY AFFO RETURNED HOME. AFTER HIS DEPARTURE, THE COMPANY WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JESSE HEARD WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN LIEUTENANAT IN THE SAME COMPANY. THAT AFTER HAVING BEEN AT GIVING ISLAND THREE MONTHS HE AND THE COMPANY TO WHICH HE BELONGED WERE SENT TO GO OUT AGAINST THE CHEROKEE INDIANS, ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER. AS SOON AS THE MESSAGE ARRIVED IN IN HE IMEDIATELY LEFT GLV|NF8 ISLAND UNDER CAPTAIN HEARD AND MARCHED ON THROUGH BOTETOURT TO HOLSTON AND OWN HOLSTON TO THE TENNESSEE RIVER. THAT UPON THEIR ARRIVAL ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER, THE INDIANS HAD DESERTED THE LITTLE TOWNS. HE THEN RETURNED HOME AND V/AS DISCHARGED. TERLY? CHOICE WAS THE LIEUTENANAT AFTER THE PROMOTION OF HEARD.( IN APRIL 1778 HE VOLUNTEERED IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA AND WENT OUT IN SERVICES OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER MAJOR WICKER AND CAPTAIN PETER HEMSTONE AND WAS OUT OUT ON THAT TOUR FOR THREE MONTHS. IN AUGUST |778 HE VOLUNTEERED IN PLTTSYLVANAI COUNTY VIRGINIA AND WENT OUT IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER MAJOR WICKER AND WENT OUT IN MCINTOSH'S COMPANY AGAINST THE INDIANS," FROM THAT TOUR HE WAS MARCHED FROM PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA WHERE HE ENLISTED THROUGH VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA TO THE MONONGAUALA RLVER THEN CJWN THE RIVER TO THE MONTH OF BEAVER CREEK AT WHICH PLACE THEY BUILT A FORT. SECTION 109 BRIDGES: BENJAMIN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON MAY 27, 1834 PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT BEFORE JOHN HEWETT, JUDGE OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT. BENJAMIN BRIDGES, AGED 75 YEARS VHO BEING ONLY SWOAN ACCORDING TO LAW, MADE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF CONGRESS. THE DECLARANT STATEO THAT HE WAS LIVING IN JAMES CITY IN THE VIRGINIA STATE WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE UNITEO STATES AND SERVED IN THE LINE AS STATEO. THAT IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1778 HE VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN DAMES FOR A TOUR OF THREE MONTHS AND WAS PUT ABOARD OF A CONQUEREO SHIP WHICH WAS LYING IN A PUBLIC OOCK YARD IN THE JAMES RLVER. H HE STATES THAT SAID SH!P WAS LADENED WSTH STORE SUPPLIES ANO THAT UNDER T THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN DAMES THEY PROCEEDED IN THAT SHIP UP THE JAMES PAGE 44 SECTION 109 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS JAMES RIVER AND LANDED AT A PUCE ANO SUPPLIED SEVERAL FORCES ACCOROING T TO THEIR NEEDS. THAT IN THIS KIND OF SERVICE HE WAS ACTIVELY AND USEFULLY EMPLOYED AS A SEAMAN UNTIL HIS THREE MONTHS EXPIRED WHEN HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED. THAT IN THE .MONTH OF MAY 1778 HE VOLUNTEERED FOR A TOUR OF TWELVE MONTHS FOR THE PURPOSE OF GUARDING AND PROTECTING WLLLIAMSBURO THEN THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA. THAT HE WAS MARCHED FROM JAMES CITY AND STATIONED AS A GUARD IN SAID TOWN OF WILLIAMSBURG ANO WAS UNOER THE COMMAND OF THARLES DAVIO MASON WHO WAS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE GARRISTFN}. THAT WHILE HE WAS THERE STATIONEO HE RECEIVED THE APPOINT MENT OF ISSUING COMMANDS? FROM ^HE COMPANY GENERAL AND IN THAT CAPACITY HE STATES THAT HE ACTED FOR 12 MONTHS GIVING SATISFACTION BOTH TO THE COMMISSIONER GENERAL AND HIS SOLDIERS. THAT IN THE MONTH OF MAY AT WHICH TIME HIS TWELVE MONTHS BEING EXPIRED, HE RESIGNED HIS OFFICE AND RETURNED HOME. THE DECLARBNT FURTHER STATED s SECTION 110 THAT IN THE YEAR. |78| GENERAL ARNOLD INVAOEO VIRGINIA AND THAT IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1781 THE MILITIA WAS CALLED OUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPELLING THE TWO AS ONE. V/HEN HE THE SAID BENJAMIN BRIDGES WAS AGAIN CALLED INTO THE SERV|E, HE WAS MARCHED FROM SAIO COUNTY OF JAMES CLTY UNOER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN ANDREW BARKES ANO REMAINED IN, THE RANKS AS A PRIVATE FOR FIFTEEN DAYS, AFTER MARCHING TO THE RIVER, HE STATES, THEY HAO TO RETREAT UP UNTIL THEY MET GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S ARMY AT RLCHMONO, AND WAS WITH HIS ARMY DURING THEIR RETREAT UP INTO THE COUNTY HE STATES THAT HE RECEIVED THE APPOINTMENTS OF WAGONMASTER IN. THEY RETREAT ED AND ADVANCED UNTIL THE 22N0., OF JUNE 1731 • THIS DECLARENT STATES THAT, INDEPENDENT OF SERVICE SPECIFIED IN ABOVE DECLARATION OF WHICH HE HAS A PERFECT AND DISTINCT RECOLLECTION THAT HE DID PERFORM OTHER SERVICES, CALLED OUT FOR SHORT PERIODS TO ANSWER CERTAIN EMMERGENCIES WHICH WILL APPEAR IN AN AMENDMENTS TO THE FOREGOING DECLARATION. HE STATES THAT HE HAS NO .DOCUMENTARY EVIOENCE OF HIS SERVICE BUT INDEPENDANTS OF RESPECTABLY TRADITIONARY EVIOENCE WHICH NOW APPEARS TO THE COURT. HE REBEBY RELINQUISHES EVERY CLAIM WHATSOEVER TO A PENSION OR ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT, ANO DECLARES THAT HIS NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OF ANY STATE. THIS DECLARATION WAS MADE ON THE OATE AFORESAID. HE FURTHER STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN JAMES CITY COUNTY OF VIRGINIA IN THE YEAR 1739? 59? AND HAVE A RECORD OF MY AGE AS TAKEN ON FATHERS FAMILY REGISTER. WHEN HE ENTEREO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITEO STATES HE WAS RESIDING IN JA|1ES CL TY COUNTY VL RG| NL A, WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL THE YEAR 1795. HE THEN MOVED TO KENTUCKY IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. WHEN I ENTEREO THE SERVICE CAPTAIN JOHN DOMES WAS COMMANDER, AND WAS LATER UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL MASON AND CNAS. NELSON DURING ARNOLD'S INVASION. SECTION III AFTERWARDS I SERVED'GENERAL LAFAYETTE AND GENERAL WAYNE OF THE BRICAOE, I NEVER RECEIVED A WRITTEN DISCHARGE BUT WAS ALWAYS HONORABLY DISCHARGED* I NEVER RECEIVED A COMPENSATION BUT HAD SEVERAL APPOINTMENTS AS STATED IN THIS DECLARATION AND I WILL NAME PETER CHARLES CAREY, CLERGYMAN. AND JAMES REICHETT, WHO CAN TESTIFY TO MY CHARACTER FOR /VERACITY AND - ti REPUTATION SS A SOLDIER* WE PETER, CAREY, CLERGYMAN, ANO JAMES REICHETT, RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, SAY WE ARE ACQUAINTED WITH BENJAMIN BRIDGES WHO HAS SWORN TO THE ABOVE STATEMENT, HE IS REPUTED ANO BELIEVED IN HIS NEIGH BORHOOD TO HAVE BEEN A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER* PA6E 45 * ^ SECTION III JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS ON THE 27TH DAY OF MAY |834 PERSONALLY APPEARED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT, ISHAM BRIDGES, AND MADE OATH THAT HE WAS LIVING IN JAMES CITY COUNTY VIRGINIA DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND HAD A PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF A PART OF THE SERVICE OF BENJAMIN BRIDGES, THE ABBVE NAMED APPLICANT* HE STATES THAT HE KNEW THAT SAID SENuAMIN BRIDGES WAS STATIONED AT WILLIAMSBURG AS A PRIVATE FOR |2 MONTHS, AS HE WAS FREQUENTLY AT THAT PLACE. HE STATES THAT HE SAW HIM AT NUMEROUD OTHER TIMES WITH THE ARMY ENGAGED IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES, PARTIDULARLY AT ARNOLD'S INVASION. ON THE 26TH OAY SF AUGUST A. D. 1853, HARRISON BRIDGES APPEARED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT, AND MADE OATH TO THE.,FOLLOWINGI KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT S THAT I, HARRISON BRIDGES, DO HEREBY CONSJTITUTE AND APPOINT CALEB WHITE AND D. D. ADDISON MY TRUE AND LAWFUL AGENTS AND ATTORNEY TO PROSOUTE MY CLAIM FOR ANY AMOUNT OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION OR INCREASE OF PENSION THAT MAY BE FOUND DUE ME ON ACCOUNT OF AND FOR THE SERVICE OF MY DECEASED FATHER, BENJAMIN BRIOGES, IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AND I HEREBY AUTHORIZE MY SAID AGENT TO EXAMINE ALL THE THE PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS IN RELATION TO SAID CLAIM ON FILE IN THE SECTION 112 CLAIM ON FILE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY AT WASH INGTON. ANO MY SAID ATTORNEYS TO HAVE FULL POWER TO APPOINT ONE OR MORE SUBSTITUTES UNDER THEM FOR THE PURPOSE HEREIN EXPRESSED AND TO UO ALL THINGS THAT I MIGHT OR COULD DO WERE I PERSONALLY PRESENT. IN THE COUNTY COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE 26TH DAY OF AUGUST 1833, CUNANA POPE, CLERK OF SAIB COURT CERTIFIES THAT HARRISON BRIDGES WHOSE NAME |S SIGNED TO THE FOREGOING CERTIFICATE IS ON A RESPECTED AND WELL THOUGHT OF MAN IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT FULL FAITH AND CREDIT ARE DUE HIM. PEN JTJHN ROSE "29006 JOHN ROSE, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER, APPLIED FOR A PENSION IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT OF KENTUCKY ON JANUARY 7, 1833 AND STATED THAT HE-IS 72 YEARS OF ACE LAST JANUARY. THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE SERVICE OF TH THE UNITED STATES ON THE 3RD., DAY OF MAY I7G3, AND LEFT THE SERVICE THE THIRD DECEMBER FOLLOWING AND SERVEO 7 MONTHS, DURING WHICH TIME HE SERVED AS A GUARD TO THE FRONTIER ON THE MlONONGAHALA RlVER AND HAB HIS HEADQUARTERS FOR SOME TIME AT HANNAH TOWN AND AFTERWARDS ON TURTLE CREEK AND -WAS EMPLOYED IN RANGING THROUGH THE FRONTIERS OF PENNSYLVANIA BUT FROM THE L0NU> LAPSE HE CANNOT NOW RECOLLECT THE NAMES OF THE1 OFFICERS UN3ER WHOM HE SERVES. THAT HE AFTERWARDS MOVED TO KENTUCKY ANB AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL GEORGE R. CLARK ON THE 6TH DAY OF OCTOBER I786 ANO WAS COMI.ANDED BY CAPTAIN JAMES PATTON, LIEUTENANAT BLAND W. BALLARD, AND JOSEPH HURSTS, ENSIGN, AND CONTINUED IN THE SERVICE THIS TIME FORTY DAYS, LEAVING THE SERVICE THE |6 OR |7TH OF NOVEMBER |78'6.** |.N THIS COMPANY WE MARCHEO FROM THE FALLS OF OHIO, NOW LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY THROUGH THE NOW STATE OF SECTION 113 •INDIANA SOME DISTANCE ABOVE VINCENNES, WHERE THE ARMY TURNED BACK. THAT ON REACHING VINVENNES OR A FEW OAYS AFTER, TOWIT: ON THE 20TH OR 2|ST., OF NOVEMBER .1786 HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE SOLOIER UNDER THOMAS MASON, CAPTAIN, LIEUTENANAT JENNINGS, AND ENSIGN LAVENDER, FOR THE TERM OF ONE YEAR BUT WAS DISCHARGED SOME TIME IN THE LAST OF AUGUST |787, SERVING ONLY NINE MONTHS, AND WAS ENGAGED ON BUILDING A FORT AT PAGE 46 SECTION "3 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS FORT AT VINCENNES, AND GUARDING THE SAME ANO THE TOWN OF VINCENNES. THAT HE AFTERWARDS ON THE 2ND., OF MAY |787 ENLISTED ANO SERVEO SIX MONTHS AS PRIVATE RANGER UNDER CAPTAIN BALLARD SMITH, LlEUTENEANT REUBIN EATON ANO ANO ENSIGN WILLIAM CRISTY AND WAS STATIONED ON GOOSE CREEK IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON AND,STATE OF KENTUCKY AND WAS EMPLOYED IN RANGING THROUGH THE FRONTIER OF THIS STATE ANO SOMETIMES IN THE TERRITORY OF INDIANA AS ' FAR AS THE WATERS OF WHITE RIVER. THAT HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIOENCE OF HIS DISCHARGE AND NEVER HAD SNY AND THAT HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICE IN PART BY WILLIAM TYLER AND EDWARD TYLER, AND SUCH PART AS HE CANNOT PROVE BY THEM, HE DOES NOT NOW KNOW RNY ONE BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE IT. HE BEREBY RELINQUISHES EVERY CLAIM WHATSOEVER TO A PENSION OR ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT AND OECLARES THAT HIS NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OR AGENCY OF ANY STATE. EOWARD TYLER, AGED SIXTY YEARS, ANB WILLIAM TYLER, AGED SEVENTY SEVEN..! BOTH RESIOENTS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, UNDER OATH, MAKE CERTIFICATIONS THAT THEY WERE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH''THE APPLICANT, JOHN ROSE, AND THAT HIS STATEMENTS, COULD BE RELIED UPON. EDWARD TYLER ALSO STATES THAT HE WAS A MESS MATE OF JOHN ROSE, AND SERVES WITH HIM AT VINCENNES AND ON THE MoNONGAHALA RlVER. A LETTER WAS RECEIVED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT APRIL l3, 1833 THAT THE REVOLUTION TERMINATED ON THE 3RD., DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1783, MAKING THE SERVICE OF JOHN ROSE, UP TO THAT TIME ONLY FOUR MONTHS. HIS CLAIM HAS THEREFORE BEEN REJECTED, SECTION 114 JOSEPH SMITH. ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE PERSONALLY APPEARED^IN JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, JOSEPH SMITH, f RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, WHO BEING DULY SWORN ON THE EVANGLIST OF THE AIMICHT GOD, MAKES THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION. THAT IN THE YEAR SEVENTEEN HUNDRED ANO SEVENTY EIGHT HE WAS THEN A RESIOENT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY AND STATE OF VIRGINIA AND IN THE SAME YEAR HE RECEIVED A COMMISSION AS FIRST LIEUTENANAT OF THE MlLlTITA SIGNED BY HIS EXCELECY THE GOVERNOR PATRICK HENRY AND WAS SWORN INTO THE OFFICE BY THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF SAID COUNTY, WHICH COMMISSION HE HAS SAFELY KEPT AND THIS DAY PRODUCED IN OPEN COURT AND IS DATED MAY 2! , |778, SIGNED P. HENRY. HE, JOSEPH SMITH, WENT INTO THE ARMY A VOLUNTEER HOLDING HIS COMMISSION ANO OFFICE AS LLEUTENANAT AND WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL WLLLLAM DARK UP TO THE DATE OF HIS DISCHARGE. HE QI.SO PS&OUCED THE DISCHARGE IN COURT, ANO ALSO HIS DISCHARGE WHICH HE RECEIVED F&OM THE HANDS OF HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, COLONEL Wl LLI AM V/ARK, BY ORDER OF GENERAL STEPHENS, BEING DISCHARGED AT CAMP NEAR WEST POINT AUGUST |7, |78l. HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY ONE YEAR AND EIGHT MONTHS ANO HELD THE COMMISSION ANO OFFICE OF FIRST LlEUTENANAT DURING THE WHOLE TIME. HIS MIND IS SO MUCH IMPAIRED THAT HE CANNOT REMEMBER A SINGLE MAN NOW LIVING WHO SERVED WITH HIM AND BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICES. THE ABOVE DECLARATION WAS MADE BEFORE J. M.*MERR I LL l.'.ARCH l7, 1835. . JOHN L. WILLSON, A CLERGYMAN AND PHILLIP JOHNSTON, CITIZENS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY MADE^CERTIFICATIONS OF WELL STANOING ACQUAINTANCE WITH LlEUTENANAT JOSEPH SMITH, AND STATE THAT HE IS A MAN WELL RESPECTED IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD FOR HIS TRUTH AND VERACITY, AND BELIEVE HIS STATEMENTS WORTHY OF CREDIT. J. M. MERRILL CERTIFIED THE STATEMENTS OF THE ABOVE DECLARENTS. PAGE 47 SECTION 115 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS UPON FURTHER QUESTIONING JOSEPH SMITH MASS THE FOLLOWING, TOWIEl THAT HE WAS BORN IN ORANGE COUNTY XNO STATE or VIRGINIA IN THE YEAR 1754 OR 1756, AND THAT THE RECORDS OF HIS FATHER, IN WHICH HIS AGE WAS PERSERVBD WAS LOST OR BURNED. HE WAS RESIOINC IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY VIRGINIA AT THE TIME OF HIS ENLISTMENT, AND LIVED THERE UNTIL 1794 WHEN HE MOVED TO FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY. HE THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL FEBRUARY 1835, AND SINCE THEN HAS LIVED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. HE WAS CALLED INTO THE SERVICE SY OROERS OF COLONEL HALL WHO COMMANDED THE MILITIA OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY OF WHICH I BELONGED. EDMUND'POPE, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT CERTIFIES THE FOREGOING, STATE* MENTS, ANO FURTHER DECLARED THAT THEY HAD BEEN MAOE IN THE OPEN COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. MAY: SARAH VIRGINIA R 7056 SARAH MAY, ABOVE MENTIONEO, A RESIDENT.OF PIKE COUNTY ANO STATE or KENTUCKY AGED 86 YEARS, WHO BEING FIRST DULY SWORN MAKES THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION. THAT SHE IS THE WIDOW OF JOHN MAY WHO WAS IN THE ARTILLERY SERVICE IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THAT SHE IS NOT ABLE TO STATE THB EXACT YEAR THAT HE ENTERED BUT THEV MAY ( SE INFORMEO FROM THE STATEMENTS HEREIN AFTER CONTAINED. THAT HE ENTEREO^ THE SERVICE IN THE COUNTY OF BERKLEY ANO IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ANO RECOLLECTION IS THAT HIS CAPTAINS NAME WAS CHERRY, ANO A PORTION OF THE TIME SHE THINKS HE WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL LEE ANO SHE HAS A RECOLLECTION OF HEARING HIM FREQUENTLY SPEAK OF BEING ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER FROM THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND AND ALSO OF GENERAL.' WASHINGTON'S RETREAT OVER THE RIVER. SHE RECOLLECTS BEING IN MARTINSSURB BERKLEY COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN HE RETURNEO FROM THE ARMY, AND SHE SAW TWO YOUNG MEN ONE BY THE NAME OF JACOB ORR, THE OTHER BY THE NAME OF JACOB x SECTION 116 PIKE, WITH MANY OTHERS, TAKE HIM INTO SKINNEY TAVERN IN MARTIN8BUR0 ANO TREAT HIM To' SOMETHING TO DRINK AND THEY SEEMED TO BE REJOICING TOGETHER, ANO ON INQUIRING WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS JOHN MAY WHO HAO JUST RETURNEO FROM THE ARMY. OF THIS SHE IS CERTAIN. THIS WAS IN THE MONTH or APRIL AND TO THE BEST OF HER RECOLLECTION WAS IN THE YEAR 1779 OR 1780. AND IN THE MARCH OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR, JOHN MAY AND THIS APPLICANT WERE MARRIED. HER HUSBAND FREQUENTLY TOLO HER THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN HIS SEVENTEENTH YEAR, ANO HE WAS IN HIS TWENTIETH YEA It WHEN HE AND THE APPLICANT MARRIED, HE HAVING RETURNEO FROM THE ARMY IN APRIL AND WE BEING MARRIEO IN THE MARCH FOLLOWING, WHICH WAS IN THE YEAR 1779 OR 1780, AS BEFORE STATEO. THE CERTIFICATE GIVEN HER BY THE PREACHER THAT MARRIED THEM WAS LOST WITH OTHE.i RECORDS OF THE FAMIDY. SHE DOES NOT RECOL.LEOT FROM ANY INFORMATION THAT SERVICES HE RENDERED FURTHER THAN THAT ABOVE STATED OR WHETHER HE WAS IN ANY ENGAGEMENTS OR NOT. THE REASON OF H!? HER NOT RECOLLECTING MORE FULLY AS TO HIS SERVICES IS THAT SHE WAS NOT IN THAT SECTION OF THE COUNTRY WHEN HE ENLISTEO IN THE SERVICE BUT OAME THERE (TO BERKLEY COUNTY) WHILE HE WAS IN THE SERVICE. SHE HEREWITH SENDS A CERTIFICATE FROM THE AUDITION OFFICE IN VIRGINIA AS EVIDENCE OF HIS SERVICE ANO SHE THINKS SHE CAN EXPLAIN WHY THE EXPRESSION IS MADE USB OF IN SAIO CERTIFICATE ''DELIVERED TO WlOOtfV THAT SAID JOHN MAY LIVEO WITH A WIDOW MAY IN MARTINSBUR6 VA., AT THE TIME HE ENTEREO THE SBRVlCEM WHO WAS HIS AUNT AS, SHE UNDERSTOOD, AND RETURNED TO LIVE THERE. ON HIS RETURN FROM THE ARMY ANO SOON AFTER HIS RETURN, PUS CHASED THE HOUSE P..GE 9 SECTION 16 OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY sf AMHERST, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1763* HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF AMHERST, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN OCTOBER |779* HE RESIDED IN AMHERST COUNTY, SOME YEARS AFTER THE TERMINATION or THE WAR AND THEN MOVED TO GREEN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WHERE HE LIVED 10 YEARS. IN 1916 HE MOVED TO HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TO THE PART WHICH WAS LATER STRICKEN OFF TO OLDHAM COUNTY, PAGE 48 SECTION II6 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS PURCHASED THE HOUSE AND LOT ON WHICH THE SAIO WIDOW MAY LIVED, AND SHE HAS NO DOUBT, GAVE HIS WAGES IN PAYMENT AS PART PAYMENT FOR THE PLACE AS HIS MBANS WAS THEN LIMITED, AND SUPPOSED GAVE.AH ORBER FOR SAID WAGES. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT SHE RECOLLECTS HAVING FREQUENTLY SEEN HIS DIS CHARGE AND THAT IT WAS LOST OK 0ESTR0Y5D MAlfY YEARS SINCE, WITH OTHER PAPERS AND RECORDS OF THE FAMILY, B'.'T SHE CANNOT STATE CERTAINLY SECTION 157 HOW IT LOST OR OESTROYED OR THE EXACT TIME WHEN, SHE REFERS TO THE (OFFICE 13F THE SECRETARY 0? V/AR WHERE SHE PERSUMES HIS NAME MAY BE FOUND REGISTERED. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER HUSBAND, JOHN MAY, DIED JANUARY 25, 1813, ANO THAT SHE HAS REMAINED A WIDOW EVER SINCE AS WILl APPEAR BY THE THE PROOF HEREWITH SUBJOINED, THAT SHE WAS MARRIEO TO HIM AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE LAST.TERM OF HIS SERVICE AT THE TIME BEFORE STATEO, AND PRIOR TO THE JANUARY l, 1794. AND SHE FURTHER STATES THAT SHE IS SATISFIED THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE^ SERVICE 2 YEARS ANO SHE HAS A DISTINCT RECOLLECTION OF FREQUENTLY HEARING HIM SPEAK OF HAVING HAO CHARGE OF THE ARTILLERY, WHETHER AS AN OFFICER OR NOT SHE HAS NO DISTINCT RECOLLECTION. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE AGEHCY OF ANY STATE, ANO THAT SHE HEREBY RELINQUISHES ALL CALIMS TO ANY ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT. THE ABOVE OCLARATION WAS MADE IN P IKE COUNTY COURT OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, JOHN D. MlMS AS CLERK. t •• JOHN D. MIMS, CLERK OF THE COURT OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. CERTIFIES THE WITHIN DECLARATION OF SARAH. MAY. STATED THAT THE PROCEEDINGS WERE HELO IN OPEN COURT AND SWORN TO BY THE SAID SARAH MAY, WHO IS A WOMAN OF UNOOUBLTABLE CHARACTER FOR TRUTH AND VERACITY. MADE SEPTEMBER 15, I845, JAMES BEVINS, PRESIDING JUSTICE OF THE PIKE COUNTY COURT, CERTIFIER THE STATEMENT MADE BY JOHN D. MLMS* JOSEPH FORD OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, AGED 97 YEARS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS PERSONALLY WELL ACQUAINTED WITH SALLY MAY OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WIDOW OF JOHN MAY, FOR 55 OR 56 YEARS, AND THAT BOTH WERE REPUTED TO BE M MAN ANO WIFE, AND AL60 TO BE OF VERY GOOD CHARACTER AS FOR TRUTH AND VERACITY. SECTION 118 CANNOT STATE CERTAINLY HOW IT WAS LOST OR DESTROYED OR THE\EXACT TIME WHEN. SHE REFERS TO THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAT. WH^RE SHE PERSUMEB HIS NAME MAY BE FOUND REGISTERED. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER HUSBAND;, JOHN MAY, DIED JANUARY 25, I8|3, AND THAT SHE HAS REMAINED.A WIDOW EVER SINCE AS WILL APPEAR BY THE PROOF HEREWITH SUBJOINED. THAT SHE WAS, MARRIEO TO HIM AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE LAST TERM OF HIS SERVICES AT THE TIME BEFORE STATED, ANO PRIOR TO THE JANUARY*!, 1794. AND SHE FURTHER STATES THST SHE IS SATISFIED THAT HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE SERVICE 2 YEARS YEARS AND SHE HAS A DISTINCT RECOLLECTION OF FREQUENTLY HEARING HIM SPEAK OF HAVING HA-0^HA.R6E OF THE ARTILLERY, WHETHER AS AN OFFICER OR NOT SHE HAS NO /0ISTINCT RECOLLECTION. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT HER NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL OF THE AGENCY OF ANY STATE, ANO THAT SHE HEREBY RELINQUISHES ALL CI,A!MS TO ANY ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT. THE ABOVE DECLARATION WAS MADE IN PIKE COUNTY COURT OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, JOHN D. !.I|MS AS CLERK. JOHN 0. MIMS, CLERK OF THE COURT OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, CERTIFIED THE WITHIN DECLARATION OF SARAH MAY. STATED THAT THE PROCEEDINGS WERE HELD IN OPEN COURT AND SWORN TO BY THE SAIO SARAH MAY, WHO IS A WOMAN OF UNDOUBTABLE CHARACTER FOR TRUTH AND VERACITY, MADE SEPTEMBER 15, 1845 JAMES BEVINS, PRESIDING JUSTICE OF THE PIKE COUNTY COURT, CERTIFIES THE STATEMENTS MADE BY JOHN D. Iv'ilMS. PAGE 49 SECTION 117 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS JOSEPH FORD OF PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY, AGED, 97 YEARS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS.PERSONALLY WELL ACQUAINTED WITH SALLY MAY OF PlKE COUNTY KENTUCKY WIDOW OF JOHN MAY, DECEASED. THAT HE HAD BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH SHE AND H HER HUSBAND; JOHN MAY FOFJ 55 OR 56 YEARS, AND THAT BOTH WERE REPUTED TO BE MAN AND WIFE, AMD ALRO TO BE OF VERY GOOO CHARACTER AS FOR TRUTH AND VERACITY. SECTION H8 IN THE CLERKS OFFICE AT PRSSTONBURG, ON THE |9TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER SAMUEL WAY MADE THE FOLLOV/JFLG 'DEPOSITION* HE RECOLLECTS HAVING FREQUENTLY SEEN IN THE LIFE TIME OF HIS FATHER, JOHN MAY, WHAT HE CALLED HIS DISCHARGE. THIS WAS PRIOR TO THE TIME I WAS DARGE ENOUGH TO TAKE NCTI ( NOTICE OF SUCH THINGS. UNTIL ABOUT MY NINETEENTH YEAR HE KEPT HIS PAPERS IN A SACK OR SMALL BAG AND WHEN HE WISHED TO EXAMINE THEM HE POURED THE PAPERS OUTAND IT WAS ON SUCH OCCASIONS THAT I NOTICED THE PAPER CALLED BY HIM HIS DISCHARGE. IT HAS BEEN 4| YEAR8 SINCE I WA6 IN THE COMPANY OF MY FATHER ANY OF A NOTICE AND IT HAS BEEN ABOUT 32 YEARS SINCE HIS DEATH. I RECOLLECT OF HAVING HEARD HIM SPEAK OF HAVING SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR* -THOMAS C. BROWN, OF FLOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY STATED THAT WHILE SHERIFF OF SAIO COUNTY HE SERVED A UNIT ON SARAH AND JOHN MAY FOR SLANDER ANO THAT JOHN MAY TREATED THE SUBJECT AS A MAN WOULD A CASE AGAINST HIS WIFE. AND THAT THEY WERE LIVING TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE ANO WERE REPUTED AS OUCH IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. THEOPOLARD MAY, THE SON OF JOHN MAY AND SARAH. MAY, BORN IN THE YEAR OF OUR LoRO ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUONRED AND FIVE,TFULY THE TWENTY-SIXTH HIS NAME WAS TAKEN FROM HOMER. THEPOLARD, THE SON OF HERCULES AND KINQ RODIAH OR RODES. THE ABOVE WAS TAKEN FROM A BIRTH CERTIFICATE. THE DISCHARGE PAPERS DELIVED TO HON. RICHARD FRENCH, JANUARY 12, 1848 WERE RETURNED MAY 1848. CASE OF SUSPENSION GIVEN AS "SERVICE AND MARRIAGE NOT FULLY PROVED; CLAIM WITHDRAWN." AUSTIN: JOHN AND ELIZABETH VIRGINIA R 316 JOHN AUSTIN DECLARED THAT HE%ENTERED IN THE CONTINENETAL LINE OF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION FOR AND DURING THE WAR AND CONTINED IN ITS SERVICE UNTIL ITS TERMINATION AT WHICH PERIOD I WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN PORTERFIELDS. COMPANY UNTIL THE RENOEVOUS AT MIDDLEBROOK IN * THE JERSEYS, f WAS TRANSFERRED TO CAPTAIN GABRIEL LONO»S COMPANY WHO WAS ARRANGED TO COLONEL DANIEL MORGAN'S REGIMENT. I WAS SOMETIME UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL SLAUGHTER, LIETUTENANAT COLONEL BUTLER AND MAJOR MORRIS, WHO WAS KILLED AT WHITE.PLAINS. BENJAMIN ASHBY WAS PART OF THE TIME OUR PAYMASTER. I WAS ACQUAINTED WITH CAPTAIN JOHN MARSHLL WHO IS NOW CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES ANO SENT MY DISCHARGE TO HIM IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA TO EFFECT A SETTLEMENT FOR ME AND IT WAS LOST BY M. PICKET. I ALSO DECLARE THAT AFTER MY DISCHARGE I RECEIVED A TICKET FOR THE REWARD OF EIGHTY DOLLAT.S AND I FURTHER DECLARE THAT ON THE 15TH OF MARCH 1826 I WAS NOT ON THE PENSION LIST OF THE UNITED STATES. AVINGTON PHELPS CAME BEFORE THE JUSITCE OF-THE PEACE IN OLDHAM COUNTY IN THE-STATE OF KENTUCKY AND MADE CERTIFICATION THAT JOHN AUSTIN IS REPUTED TO BE AMAN OF HIS WORD, AND TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION. THIS DECLARATION WAS MADE SEPTEMBER I9TH 1828 IN OLDHAM COUNTY COURT BEFORE SMITH PHELPS, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. • JOHN ALLEN SAID THAT HE WAS A SOLOIER OF THE REVOLUTION, A PRIVATE IN THE MORGAN'S REGIMENT, AND BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH JOHN AUSTIN, ANO THAT HE AND AUSTIN WERE BOTK>AT THE BATTLE OF BUR GAIN AND SERVED TO- PAGE 50 SECTION 119 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS BATTLE OF BURGIN ANO SERVED TOGETHER UNTIL HIS TERM EXPIRED. MADE BEFORE 8. GAINES, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF WOOOFORO COUNTY KENTUCKY, WHERE THE STATEMENT WAS MADE. ON NOVEMBER 18,' 1846, HENRY BROWNING, A RESIDENT OF HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY, APPEARED BSFQ.E THE SAID COURT OF HEMRY COUNTY AND MADE OATH THAT SOMETIME IN THE YT/.R |784 JOHN AUSTIN AND. ELIZABETH LLNDSEY, BROWN'S HALF SISTER, LKFT THE HOME OF HENRY BROWN1 S MOTHER FOR THE PURPOSE OF GETTING MARRIT6} «AND THAT THEY RETURNED THE SAME EVENING AS MAN AND WIFE. AND THAT THEY REMAINED SO UNTIL OCTOBER, 1845 SECTION 120 THE DATE OF JOHN JUSTIN'S DEATH. THIS DECLARATION WAS MAOE BEFOE THOMAS 8. POSEY, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY ON THE DATE AFORESAID. .. 'ELIZABETH AUSTIN MADE THE DECLARATION IN HENRY COUNTY ON NOVEMBER 20, 1846 THAT SHE WAS MARRIEO TO JOHN AUSTIN NOVEMBER 2, 1784, ANO THAT HER MAIDEN NAME WAS LLNDSEY, AND THAT SHE LIVED WITH UNTIL LCTOBER 1845, THE DAY OF HIS DEATH. STATEMENT CERTIFIED BY G. J. JOHNSTON, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF HENRY COUNTY. ON FEBRUARY 25, 1850, DANIEL AUSTIN MADE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION IN THE COURT OF OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY! THAT HE IS THE SON OF JOHN NO ELIZABETH AUSTIN. THAT HE WILL BE FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD THE 24TH OF NEXT MAY, THAT HE HAS 3 BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER OLOER THAN HIMSELF. VIZI WILLIAM, LUCY, JAMES AND JOHN. THAT HIS BROTHER JOHN IS BETTER THAN 2 YEARS OLOER THAN HIMSELF. THAT HIS BROTHER JAMES* IS ABOUT FOUR YEARS YEARS OLDER THAN HIMSELF, THAT HIS SISTER LUCY IS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLOER, AND THAT HIS BROTHER WILLIAM, THE OLDEST OF HIS FATHERS AND MOTHERS CHILDREN, WAS ABOUT NINE YEARS OLDER THAN HIMSELF. THAT HE HAS OFTEN HEARD THEM-SAY, AND THE AGES OF THE CHILDREN, HE THINKS THEY WERE MARRIED ABOUT THE YEAR 1787, AND THAT HIS FATHER AND MOTHER LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE UNTIL THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE I4TH OF OCTOBER 1845. ON FEBRUARY 25, 1850 DANIEL AUSTIN APPOINTED ISAAC \7. GRABUE HIS LAWFUL ATTORNEY, IN THE PRESENCE OF G. KNIGHTTY. ., JOHN AUSTIN WAS PENSIONED NOVEMBER II, 1832 IN OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY FOR THE SERVICE IN THE VIRGINIA LINE OF 2 YEARS. PAGE 5l SECTION 125 8EFFER.SON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS JOHN 8ARTLETT PENSION NO S 39, 158 JULY 23, 182 IT-STATE OF KENTUCKY, 5TH JQOICIAL OiSTRICT* HE PERSONALLY APPEARED IN THE JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT AS HE WAS A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, AGED 57. DECLARES THAT HE SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITTAIN AND* .THE U. S. THAT HE ENLISTEO IN THE VIRGINIA LINE, ON CONTINENETAL ESTABLISHMENT AT WINCHESTER, VA., HINDER CAPT* ROBERT YANCEY AND COL. BLAND OF THE FIRST REGIMENT OF CAVALRY. THAT HE WAS THEN PUT IN THE* 3RD., TROOP COMMANOED BY.CAPT. WATTS, THAT HE ENLISTED FOR AND DURING THE WAR, THAT ' HE WAS ENLISTED IN THE SUMMER OF 1780, ANO WHILE IN THE SOUTH WAS UN(DER THE COL. WALTON WHITE,, AND WHILE IN THE SOUTH WAS AT CHARLESTON, SAVANNAH, GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, AND CAMDEN. THAT HE WAS ONE OF THOSE SENT BACK TO VIRGINIA, UNDER A LLEUTENANAT TO MESS HORSES FOR THE REGIMENT— THAT WHILE IN VIRGINIA, IN OCTOBER |78|, HE WAS , AT THE SEIGE OF YORK. THAT SOON AFTERWARDS, HE WENT. BACK TO THE SOUTH ANO WAS DISCHARGED AT RUFFLNB FERRY, S. C, ANO THAT SAID OISCHARGE HAS LONG SINCE BEEN LOST OR,DISCHARGED? „ THAT HE SERVED FROM THE SUMMER OF 1780 TO THE SUMMER OF 1783 >KD HE SOUEMNLY SWEARS THAT HE WAS A RESIDENT CITIZEN OF THE U. S. ON MARCH I8, I8l8, ANO THAT HE HAP NOT SINCE THAT TIME OISPOSEO OF ANY OF HIS PROPERTY. THAT HE HAS A WIFE AND W CHILDREN. HIS WIFE IS AGE 54, HIS FIRST SON JOHN BARTLETT, JR., |S MARRIED. THE 2N0., SON IS NAMED LAVENDER' BARTLETT, AGE 19, THE OTHER SON JEFFERSON BARTLETT AGE 12. THAT THE WHOLE! FAMILY LIVES WITH THE SON V/HO IS MARRIED ANO HAS ONE CHILD. THE SOLDIER'S PENSION WAS TRANSFBRREO TO'.VEST TENNESSEE, JUNE 3, 1828. ( ON A PREVIOUS PAGE IN THIS COUNTY' RECORD, YOU WILL FINO THAT ANOTHER SECTION 126 JOHN BARLTETT, APPLIED FOR PENSION WHILE RESIDING IN ALLEN COUNTY KENTUCKY, AND HE ALSO LATER MOVED TO TENNESSEE, BUT HIS PENSION NUMBER IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED "JOHN BARTLETTV —— a- McKSNNEY: THOMAS VIRGINIA S 36,088 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY- JULY 18, I8l8. . THE ABOVE NAMEO SOLOIER DEPOSES; THAT HE ENLISTED' IN VIRGINIA IN COMPANY OF CAPTIN OPE, OF IST*, VIRGINIA REGIMENT OF STATE TROOPS IN MARCH 1777. THAT HE SERVED 12 MONTHS, RE-ENLISTED IN THE FALL OF 1780, IN COMPANY OF CAPTAIN JOHN X) VERTERS, IN IST., VIRGINIA REGIMENT, ^C*:' CONTINENTAL LINE, AND SERVED |3 MONTHS WHEN HE ENLISTED IN LIGHT DRAGOONS BY PERMISSION OF HIS COL. IN THE COMPANY OF CAPT., JAMES CRUMP, SERVED TILL SAID TROOPS WAS DISBANDED IN I782 NEAR EUTAW SPRINGS, S. C. WAS IN BATTLE OF GUILFORD C. H. OCTOBER 27TH 1809, MATHEW CUMMINGS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, MAOE OAJHTHAT HE KNEW THOS MCKINNEY IN CAPT* OVERTON'S COMPANY IN IST., VIRGINIA REGIMENT OF THE CONTINENETAL LINE, SAID. SERVICE BEING AT LEAST 19 MONTHS* MARCH 15, |823, JEFFERSON OOUNTY. THOMAS MCKINNEY, AGEO 62 MAKES OATH CONCERNING HIS PROPERTY ANO SAYS THAT HE HAS A WIFE WHO IS AGE 46, YEARS OLD ANO TROUBLED WITH A PAIN IN HER BREAST, AND IS VERY FEEBLE, THAT THEY HAVE 4 CHILDREN, LIVING WITH HIM, VIZ; WILLIAM AGED 16, LUCINDA 13, SARAH-ANN 7 (NOTE HE DEFINITELY SAYS FOUR CHILDREN BUT NAMES ONLY THREE). JEFFERSON. COUNTY INDIANA, JULY 3|, 1822, JOHN SMITH, DEPOSES; HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THOS MCKINNEY^ DURING THE REVOLUTION. PAG? M SECTION 126 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS ENROLLED AT $8*00 PER MONTH TO BEGIN MARCH 15, |823. MILLER: SECTION |27 FREDERICK MILLER AIU MARGARET W 8460 NORTH CAROLINA STATE OF KENTUCKY: JEFFERSON COUNTY. MAY 6 1833, RESIDING IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN ROWAN COUNTY, N. C», ON THE I ITH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1756 AND NOW AGE 77 YEARS OF AGE. STATES THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U. S. |773 AND SERVEO IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY GOL. RUTHERFORO OF THE MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA, HIS CAPTAIN WAS GEORGE H, BOROER AND WlNDLE MILLER, HIS LIEUT, THAT HE SERVED ON THE CAMPAIGN 3 MONTHS. THIS CAMPAIGN WAS KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME AS THE SNOW CAMPAIGN AND THAT THEY TRAVELED THROUGH PART OF NORTH CAROLINA ANO PART OF S. C, ANO HAO AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TORIES AT A •PLACE CALLEO 96 AND WAS DISCHARGED AT A PLACE CALLED THE SHALLOW FORD ON THE YADKIN RIVER* SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS DISCHARGED HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE A SECOND TIME UNDER SOME OFFICERS ANO MARCHED TO FAYETTEVLLLE, N*C* IN PURSUIT OF THE TORIES, THEN CALLED THE SOOTCH TORIES, THAT HE SERVED 3 MONTHS AND WAS DISCHARGED AT FAYETTEVILLE* THAT HE VOLUNTEERED A 3RD., TIME IN i78l, UNDER COL. BORDES AND CAPT WINDLE MILLER, AND SERVED A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS TRAVELING THROUGH THE TERRIRORY OF N. C, IN PURSUIT OF THE TORIES AND IN DEFENSE OF THOSE PERSONS WHO WERE FRIENDLY TO THE COUNTRY. HE STATES HE SERVED A 4TH TOUR UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. LOCK ANO CAPT DAVID BOYERS, THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE AT SALISBURY N. C, AND SHORTLY AFTER JOINED COL. BOYO? FROM VA., ANO COL. ISAAC OF N. C. THEY MARCHED TO DEEP RIVER TO A PLACE CALLEO COX'S MILL IN PURSUIT OF THE TORIES AND AFTER SERVING 3 MONTHS WAS DISCHARGED. ' SECTION 128 AND THAT HE SERVED ONE MONTH UNDER CAPTAIN BORDER AS A SCOUTING PARTY TO DEFEND THE COUNTRY FROM THE CRUELTY OF THE TORIES ONE MONTH UNOER GENERAL RUTHERFORD AND CA'PTAIN BOROER AFTER THE CHEROKEE INOIANS, SIGNED' FREDERICK MILLER. MICHAEL MILLER CLERGYMAN ANO JAMES CPOMEROY MAKE AFFIOAVITS THAT THEY ARE ACQUAINT-D WITH SAID FREDERICK MILLER, THAT THEY LIVED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY ALSO« THE SOLDIER SAID IN ANSWER TO SOME QUESTIONS. I WAS BORN IN ROWAN COUNTY, N. C, NEAR SALISBURY li-li-l756. HAVE A MEMORANDUM KEPT FROM TIE BI BLE RECORDS OF MY FATHER,OF MY AGE. I WAS LIVING WHERE I'WAS BORN WHEN CALLEO INTO SERVICE AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL 1806 WHEN I REMOVED TO KENTUCKY, JEFFERSON COUNTY1 WHERE I NOW LIVE. HE WAS KNWON A;ID ACQUAINTED WITH HERMAN MILLER* OF JEFFERSON COUNTY BUT OID NOT STATE ANY REL.ANTI OMSHIP TO EITHER HERMAN OR MICHAEL MILLER ALSO ACQUAINTED WITH WILLIAM GOOSE, WM. ^CONRAD, V/ARCIK LINN? 7/M, BROWN, WM. BRYAN, JAMES KELLY, ,/I'NDLE MILLER, PHILLIP ZILHART, SON GEO. ZILHART, PHILIP WINARO? JACOB HOBIE? PETER HOBIE? CHARLES DUNCAN. WAROEN POPE WAS CUERK OF JEFFERSON COUNTY AT THAT TIME. ;' STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA: COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. Vto. I CLARK, COMPTROLLER, O- OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS FOR W. C CERTIFIES THAT FREDERICK MILLER WAS WRITTEN ON THE OLD SERIES BOOK N. 2, PAGE 26 FOR SERVICE IN CAPT. GEO. HENRY BERGER'S COMPANY. COL. GRIFFITH RUTHERFORD*S 6TH OR 1ST., REGT., ROWAN CO. MILLER 34 DAYS AT 4| L 6 S »6 PECIE FXPED»T»ON TO MOORE'S CREEK AGAINST FEBRUARTHE.SCOTCY H28 ,TORIES 1776 , ANTHEO ETCBATTL* E OF MOORE:S CREEK BRIDGE WAS FOUGHT ON p,\GE * SECTION 128 4 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS 129 THE RATTLE OF MORE>S CREEK BRIDGE WAS FOUGHT ON FEBRUARY 28-1776 AND ETC* A.LETTER IN THE FILES FROM JEFFEHSONTOWN, KENTUCKY APRIL 27TH |84|,V ADORESSED TO THE PENSION DEPT., SAYS. DEAR\SIR: FREDEDICK MILLER WHO A PENSION FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE IN THE ROLL OF INDEPENDENCE,'' 01 ED FES, 1840 AGE 83, LEAVING A WIDOW- TO WHOM HE HAD BEEN WRRIEO OVER 60 .YEARS. HE WAS MAP.."?! ED OVER 60 YEARS. HE WAS MMARRIE0 TO THIS WL OOW IN THE YEAR 1779 IN NO C, HER MMOSN NAME WAS MA.IGARET BROWN, FREDERICK MILL MILLER, DREW ^46*66 PER YEAR, HI- CAME TO KENTUKV IN THE YEAR :807, HIS WIDOW BREW THE BALANCE OF PENSION UP TO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH AND ETC* SIGNED L. M. KALFEES, OR KALFUS? A CERTIFIED COPY OF THEIR MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE IS FILED WITH THE PEPERS, SHOWING AS FOLLOWS; THAT FREDERICK MILLER AND MARGARET BROWN WERE MARRIED IN ROWAN COUNTY. N. C. MAY LO, 1779 AND THAT ONE JOHN BROWN WAS ON THE BOND) AND IT IS LIKELY THAT HE WAS THE PARENT OR A NEAR RELATIVE OF THE BRIDE. * AFFIDAVIT IN THE FILES MAOC BY MICHAEL MILLER, JAN. 9, 1854, SAYING THAT HE IS THE SON AND HEIR AT LAW OF MARGARET MILLER, DECEASED, LATE OF SAID COUNTY, WHO WAS THE WIDOW OF FREDRICK, MILLER, DECEASED, WHO IN HIS LIFETIME WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONER, ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL ON ACCOUNT OF HIS SERVICES AS WAGON MASTER AND ETC., HE STATES THAT HIS SAID FATHER DIED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, BEFORE FEB. I, 1840, LEAVING SAID MARGARET MILLER, HIS WIDOW, WHO REMAINED HIS WIDOW NEVER HAVING REMARRIED UNTIL SHE OIEO APRIL 6, 1845, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, LEAVING SAID DEPONEKT ANO HIS SISTER ANNA BOWMAN, HER OHILOREN ANO HER ONLY SURVIVING CHILDREN, BOTH OF WHOM ARE STILL LIVING, WITH HIS PARENTS RESI01NG NEAR HIMSELF UNTIL THE TIME OF H«S FATHER»S DEATH AFTER WHICH HIS MOTHER RES I DEO IN HIS OWN FAMILY AND DIED AT HIS HOUSE, ANO THAT HIS MOTHER NEVER APPLIEO FOR PENSION AND HE IS NOW MAKING THIS APPLICATION ON BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND SISTER, FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING THE PENSION WHICH WAS OUC HIS SAIB MOTHER. AFFIDAVIT OF J. P. FUNK AND G. F. MILLZR OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, REGAROING ABOE. BIBLE, ECORDS AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 130 MICHAEL MILLER, MARRIED ELIZABETH STICKY OR STUCKY, 6*27-18;2 To SUSANNA RICKEVS 3-8-.*804 To CRUTHIA KELLY 6-5... 1826 mm MICHAEL MILLER BORN 6-29-".783 SUSANNA MILLER, BORN 2-2-.6-1/86 DIED 2-24-18»2 ELIZABETH MILLER- 7-t5^:792 BIED 3-:4-:825 CINTHIA MILLER, 8-l0-!793 FAMILY RECORD OF M. MILLER CHILDREN'S MARRIAGES: JANE CHENOWITH I2-1826 MARIAH STUCKY I2-1826 SUSAN FLOOSE 5-20-1829 MARY DAVIS 4-|829 MURPHY: JOHN VIRGINIA jjjS. 13998 ON OCTOBER 3 OF THE YEAR 1832 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,THE SAID PENSIONER AT THE AGE OF 69 YEARS APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE YEAR 1779 TO SERVLE IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JOHN THAYER TO SERVE IN HIS TROOP PAGE SECTION 130 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS TO SERVE IN RIS TROOPS OF HORSE IN THE ILLINOIS REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE. HE ALSO STATEO THAT HE HAO SERVED IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY AND AROUNO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO RLVER AND WAS AT LOUISVILLE AND' INTHE STATE OF KENTUCKY UNTIL THE YEAR 1781 AT WHICH TIME HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED^ IN ALL HE SERVED FOR A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS IN THE COMPANY UNOER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN THAYER. SECTION 13| THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, JOHN MURPHY, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $100.00 PER ANNUM AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON MAY 6 OF THE YEAR 1833 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO HENRY NORTHUP AT LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. LANGSDON OR LANGSOALE OR LANDALE; CHARLES AND EDITH VIRGINIA #0.44l ON SEPTEMBER 24 OF THE YEAR 1819 IN BULLITT POUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SALD^PEJSIONER APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE YEAR 1779 OR 1780 TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JOHN WATTS IN HIS CORPS OF DRAGOONS AND ALSO IN THE REGIMENT UNOER THE OOMMAND OF COLONEL JOHN WHITE AND HE WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMANO OF COLONEL WASHINGTON AND THEN CAME UNOER THE COMMANO OF MAJOR SWAN. HE STATED THAT HE HAO SERVED FOR THREE OR FOUR YEARS UNTIL THE YEAR |783 AND THAT HE HAO RECEIVED NO WRITTEN HONORABLY DISCHARGE FROM HIS OFFICERS. ON SEPTEMBER :8 OF THE YEAR 1820 IN BULLITT COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER AT THE AGE.OF 58 YEARS AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT ANO STATEO THAT SECTION 132 HE HAD FIRST BEEN ENLISTED BY A MAN BY THE NAME OF LLEUTENANAT GUNN AT HILLSBOROUGH IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND HE STATED THAT HE HAD THEN BEEN.SENT TO HALIFAX AND THAT HE HAD SERVED IN THE TROOP OF HORSE UNOER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JOHN Y/ATTS IN THE YEAR J78.0* HE STATED THAT HE WAS THEN SENT FROM HALIFAX TO STAUNTON !N THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND FROM THERE TO THE THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND HE SAID THAT HE HAD SERVEO IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL Y/ASHINGTON AS AFORE SAID, THE SAID PENSIONER ALSO STATED TH.AT HE HAD SERVED DURING THE SIEGE OF YORK AND THAT HE HAD BEEN HONOR;BLY DISCHARGED AT CHARLESTOWN IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. HE STATED THAT HIS PENSION WAS NUMf?RED 16858 AND HE SAID THAT H& HAD FIRST APPLIED FOR HIS PENSION ON SEPTEMBER 24 OF THE YEAR J8I9, THE SAID PENSIONER ALSO STATEO THAT HE WAS BY OCCUPATION A FARMER ANO HE ALSO SAIO THAT HIS WIFE WAS AT THE AGE OF 68 YEARS ANO HAD BEEN LAME FOR/THIRTY YEARS. HE HAD TWO CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM;- A OAUGHTER AT THE AGE OF TWENTY THREE >EARS AND A SON AT THE AGE OF |6 YEARS. ON AUGUST 2,OF THE YEAR 1837 :N JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,,ED* LANGSDON, BEING THE WIDOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND BEING AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS, APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT THEY HAD BEEN MARRIEO IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON DECEMBER,15 OF THE YEAR I78I. SHE ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THEY HAD REMOVED FROM PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA TO MERCER COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND FROM THERE THEY HA*O REMOVED TO SECTION 133 VULLITT COUNTY IN THE SAME STATE AND THEN FROM THERE TO JEFFERSON COUNTY ALSO IN THE STATE OP KENTUOKY. SHE STATED.THAT IN THIS LATTER PLACE HER HUSBAND HAD DIEO ON OCTOBER KK OF THE YEAR' |83|, LEAVING HERSELF AND MAROTHFE Y KENTUCKY FOLLOWINLANGSDON,G ELIZABET, CHILDREN;WILLIAMH LANGSDO- JOHN NLANGSDO WHOF O JEFFERSOWAN S OTHEF BULLITN MARRIECOUNTYT COUNTD ITNO YTH ROYAEI NSTAT LTH ELANGSDON E STATOF E , PAGE 55 SECTION 133 JEFFERSON COUNTY .KENTUCKY PENSIONERS IN THE STATt OF KENTUCKY AND CHARLES LANGSDON OF EITHER THE STATE OF OHIO OR THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, i THE. SAID WIDOW ALSO STATEO THAT ALL THESE CHILDREN WERE OVER THE AGE OF TWNENTY ONE AT THE TIME OF THE OEATH OF THE SA I 0- PENSI ONER* , ON AUGUST I7 OF fHE YEAR 1837 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF GEORGE F. OPE WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAIO OEPONENETSWSTATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH BOTH THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS WIDOW FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY YEARS AND THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN Wri KH THEY RESIDED THE SAID PENSIONER AND HJS WIFE WERE REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN PROPERLY MARRIED. THE SAID GEORGE F. OPE ALSO STATED ANO SWORE THAT THE ABOVE LIST OF THE SURVIVING CHILDREN OF THE SAIO PENSIONER HAO DIED AS HAS BEEN STATED AND THAT THE SAIO EOA LANGSDON STILL REMAINED THE WIDOW AND RELIC OF THE SAIO PENSIONER, CHARLES LANGSDON* SECTION 134 ON OCTOBER 23 OF THE YEAR' 1838 IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, THE AFFIOAVIT OF BRANCH I. WORSHAM WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DPONENET BEIN THE CLERK OF THE PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY COURT STATED AND - DWORE THAT THERE WAS NEITHER A REGISTER OF THE MARRIAGE OR A CERTIFICATE OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE SAID PENSIONER. BUT THE SAIO DEPONENET PRODUCED THE FOLLOWING;- "SLR;- YOU MAY GRANT TO CHARLES LANDALE A MARRIAGE LICENSE TO MARRY MY DAUGHTER EDIATH BURKS. AS WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL THIS NINETEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER OF THE YEAR SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT. SIGNED: RICHARD BURKS, WITNESSED BY;- BENJAMIN HAWKINS ANO ELIZABETH BURKS." THE SAIO DEPONENET ALSO STATED AND SWORE AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE MARRIAGE BOND OF THE SAID PENSIONER HAD BEEN SIGNE0 BY CHARLES LANDALE AND ROBERT HAWKINS* ON DECEMBER II OF THE YEAR 1838 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, ESITH LANGSDON AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT SHE V/AS THE DAUGHTER OF RICHARD BURKS OF BURKS OLO STORE IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. SHE ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE FOLLOWING PERSONS WERE PRESENT AT HER MARRIAGE;- HER SISTERS ELIZABETH BURKS AND AMELIA RAIN, NANCY JACKSON, STARTING SMITH, ROBERT.HAWKINS, GEORGE CAROWELL AND DABNEY MORRIS. SECTION 135 ON JANUARY 16 OF THE YEAR ibJ9 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF. GEORGE F. POPE WAS AGAIN GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENT STATED ANO SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAIO PENSIONER MANY YEARS AGO ANO THAT HE HAD ALSO AT A SLIGHTLY OATE BECOME ACQUAINTED WLTH THE WIFE OF THE SAID PENSIONER* THE SAIO DEPONENT ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS WIFE HAD LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN ANO WIFE EVER SINCE HE KNEW THEM. THE AFFIDAVIT OF ELIZABETH WALTHALL WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME ANO IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED ANO SWORE THAT AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS PRESENT WIDOW, SHE THE SA ID. DEPONENET, WAS A SMALL GIRL LIVING IN THE VICINITY OF BURKS OLD STORE IN P..INCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. BUT SHE STATED THAT BHE HERSELF WAS NOT PRESENT AT THE MARRIAGE BUT HEARD IT MUCH SPOKEN OF. SHE ALSO SAID THAT THE* SAID PENSIONER ANO HIS WIFE HAD RESIDED IN THAT COUNTY FOR SIX OR SEVEN YEARS AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE ANO THAT THEY HAO THEN REMOVED TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. SHE ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT SHE HERSELF LASER REMOVED PAGE * SECTION .35 .JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS SHE ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT SHE HERSELF LATR REMOVEO TO JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY ANO THERE BECAME AGAIN ACQUAINTED WITH THE FACT THAT THE PENSIONER, CHARLES LANCS00N, HAD OIED AS HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY STATEO* SECTION 136 ON MAY 4 OF THE YEAR 1843 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN JONES, A JUSICE OF THE PEACE, WAS ALSO GIVEN. THESAIO DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WISH THE SAID PENSIONER FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY^YEARS. THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATED AND' SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAO OIED AS HAS BEEN STATEO AND THAT THE SAID EDA LANGSDON STILL REMAINED THE WIOOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER, RHARLES LANGSDON. IT WAS STATED ON ONE PEPER THAT THE PENSION CLAIM OF THE SAIO EOA LANGSDON WAS REJECTED BECAUSE BY A LETTER FROM GEORGE F. POPE ,SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE PERLOO OF HER HUSBANDS SERVICES* EDITH LANGSDON, THE WIDOW OF THE PENSIONER, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF ?I00.00 PER ANNUM AND HER CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON JULY JO OF THE YEAR 1843 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO G. W* MEREWITHER, THE PENSION AGENT AT LOUISVILLE IN KENRUCKY. THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, CHARLES LANGSOON, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT TEE RATE OF ^8.00 PER MONTH TO COMMENCE ON SEPTEMBER 24 OF THE YEAR 1819 AND SECTION 137 AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON MAY 6, OF THE YEAR I820 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO THE HONORABLE. R. C. ANDERSON TYLER: WILLIAM VIRGINIA #S.|4742 ON JANUARY 7 OF THE YEAR 1833 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER AT THE AGE o^n YEARS APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENTERED THE SERVICE UNDER THE COMMANDS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS;- COLONEL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. COLONEL MONTGOMERY, MAJOR THOMAS £U»RK, CAPTAIN WILLIAM HARROD, CAPTAIN JOHN BAILEY, LIEUTENANAT JAMES MONTGOMERY, LIEUTENANAT R'CHARD CLARK, HE STATED THAT HE HAD THUS ENTERED INTO THE ILLINOIS REGIMENT TO SERVE IN THE CAPACITY OF A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH OF DECEMBER OF THE YEAR I777 AND HE STATED THAT HE REMAINED IN THE SAID SERVICE UNTIL A FEW DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS OF THE YEAR I779 AND THUS SERVE* A TOUR OF TWO YEARS AND SOME FEW DAYS* HE STATEO THAT HE VOLUNTEEREO ON THE MONONGAHALA RlVER AT A PLACE THIRTY MILES ABOVE REDSTONE FORT IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. HE STATED THAT HE HAD SERVED AT THE TAKINB OF POST V|NCENT WHICH LATER WAS CALLED VlNCENNES ANO ALSO AT THE TAKING OF FORT KASKASKIA. HE STATEO THAT HE THEN WENT DOWN THE OHIO RIVER TO THE MOUTH OF THE SALINE CREEK AND HE THEN MARCHED THROUGH THE STATE OF INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. SECTION 138 THE AFFIDAVIJT OF EDWARD TYLER WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLAGE AS, THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE WAS BOTH WELL ANO FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAIO PENSIONER AT THE TIME OF HIS ENLISTMENT AND HE STATEO THAT HE WAS AN ELOER BROTHER OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND HE SAID THAT HE REMEMBERED HIS BROTHERS ENLISTMENT BECAUSE HE, THE DEPONENT, AT THAT TIME OBJECTED TO HIS BROTHERS INLISTING* PAGE 57 MOTION 138 UEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS THE IFFIDAVIT OF MICHAEL MILLER, A CLERGYMAN, AND JAMES POMEROY WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING* THE SAIO OEOONENETS STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAIO coi'ti COUNTY AND STATE THEY HAO BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER AND THE SAIO DEPONENETS STATEO AIJD 8W0RE ALSO THAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH THE SAID PENSIONER RESIDED HE WAS REPUTED TO HAVE SERVEO IN THE V/AR OF THE REVOLUTION ON THE SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ' THE SAID PENSIONER GAVE THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION POSED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WARJ- HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN BARCLAY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA NEAR SHEPHEROSTOWN ON JUNE 24 OR 25 OF THE YEAR I755 AND HE SAID THAT HE HAD ENLISTED ON THE MONONGAHALA RLVER IN THE STATE OF VA. HE STATEO THAT IN THE YEAR |780 HE HAD REMOVED TO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO RIVER ANO HE SAIO THAT HE HAO RESIDED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, EVER SINCE THAT TIME. SECTION 138 HE STATEO THAT IN ALL HIS TOURS OF DUTY HE HAD VOLUNTEERED HIS SERVICES AN AND THAT HE HAD NEVER ACTED IN THE CAPACITY OF A SUBSTITUTE. HE SAID THAT HE HAO SERVED UNOER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, ' COLONEL MONTGOMERY, CAPTAIN WILLIAM HARROO, CAPTAIN EDWARO WORTHINOTON, LLEUTENANAT JOHN SWANN, ENSIGN JACOB VANMETER ANO CAPTAIN JOHN BAILEY* THE SAID PENSIONER ALSO STATEOAND SWORE THAT HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED BY THE AFORESAID GENERAL GE^RGE^OGERS CLARK, BUT THAT HIS DISCHARGE WAS LATER BUfi&T WHEN HIS FATHERS HOUSE/WAS BURNED. THE SAID PENSIONER ENLISTEO IN THE YEAR 1779 FOR A TOUR OF TWO YEARS DURATION TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY HINDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN BAILEY AS A PRIVATE SOLOIER AND IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL CLARK. HE STATED THAT THEY HAD MARCHED'THROUGH THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND THAT AT THE TIME OF THIS APPLICATION HE WB AT THE AGE OF 77 YEARS ANO HE SAID THAT HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON THE MONONGAHALA RIVER. THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, WILLIAM TYLER, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF ^80,00 PER ANNUM AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON APRIL |6 OF THE YEAR 1833 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO JAUGS POMEROY AT LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. SECTION 140 URTON: JAMES VIRGINIA ^S.15690 ON-FEBRUARY I7 OF THE YEAR !834 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID -PENSIONER'AT THE AGE OF 82 YEAKS APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENTERED THESERVICE IN LONOON COUNTY- LOUOON GOUNTY JN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND THAT HE HAD BEEN DRAFTED IN THE MONTH JPF SEPTEMBER OF THE YEAR |777 TO SERVE FOR A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS DURATION ALND HE STATED THAT THEY HAD RENDEZVOUSED AT LEE68URG IN LOUDON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND THAT AT THAT TIME HE CAME INTO THE COMPANY UNOER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN SIMEON HANCOCK, AND MAJOR GEORGE WEST. HE STATED THAT THEY THEN MARCHED ACROSS NOLANS FERRY ON THE POTOMAC RIVER AND TO FREDER»CKTCWN IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND ANO THEN FROM THERE TO MCALISTERTOWN AND TO SWEEOS FORD ON THE SCHUYLKILL RLVER, THEY THEN MARCHED TO THREE OR FOUR MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA AND THERE HE WAS STATIONED UNTIL HE V/AS VERBALLY ANO HONORABLY DISCHARGED BY THE SAID CAPTAIN SIMEON HANCOCK, IN THE MONTH OF MARCH OF THE YEAR I778. THE SAIO PENSIONER ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT HE,WAS DRAFTED IN THE MONTH OF JULY OF THE YEAR L78L TO SERVE FOR A TOUR OF THREE MONTHS DURATION AND HE STATED THAT ON THAT TOUR HE WAS APPOINTED PRESS MGE * SECTION l4tf DURATION ANO HE STATED THAT ON THAT TOUR HE WAS APPOINTEO PRESS MA8TER TO PROCURE REEVES FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF THE ARMY. HE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN BORN IN FREDERICK COUNTY !N THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN THE YEAR I752 AND THAT HE THEN RESIDED IN JEFFSRSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. HE STATED THAT HE WAS VERBALLY AMU HONORABLY DISCHARGED BY SECTION 141 CAPTAIN CANNON. THE AFFIOAVIT OF JOHN GROVE AND STANFIELO JONES WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAIO DEPONENTS STATEO AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAID COUNTY ANO STATE THEY HA HAD SEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER ANO TH? THESE OOCUMENTS ALSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH THE SAIO 0EP0NENET8 STATEO THAT THE PENSIONER RESIOED HE WAS REPUTED TO HAVE SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOOUTION ON THE SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, JAMES URTON, WAS ON THE *-NTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $20.00 PER ANNUM AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON APRIL |7 OF THE YEAR I834 ANO IT WAS THEN SENT TO THE HONORABLY P. H. POPE. H. R. WILKERSON OR WILKINSON: BENJAMIN AND EVA. VIRGINIA frW. lOOOl BOUNTY LAND WARRANT NUMBEREO #36543-!60-55. ON.MAY I6 OF THE YEAR 1818 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE SPRING>0F THE YEAR |777 TO SERVE FOR A TOUR OF THREE YEARS DURATION IN THE COMPANY UNOER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN DUDLEY IN THE SECOND VIRGINIA REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE. HE WAS IN SECTION 142 THE REGIMENT UNOER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL TSMITH AND ALSO UNOER THE COMMANO OF LIEUTENANTT COLONEL BRENT. HE STATED THAT HE HAD SERVED IN THE BATTLE OF STONEY POINT AND ALSO IN THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH AND HE STATED THAT HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED AT FREDERICKSBURG IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA BY THE AFORESAID LIEUTENANT COLOUEI. BRENT AT THE END OF THREE YEARS OF SERVICE. THE AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM WHITE WAST ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BORN AND RAISED IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD IN KING GEORGE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA WITH THE SAID PENSIONER ANO THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATEO THAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH THE SAID PENSIONER RESIDED HE V/AS REPUTED TO HAVE ENLISTED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. THIS DEPONENET ALSO SWORE THAT HIS BROTHER, JOHN WHITE, STATED THAT HE HAD SERVED WITH THE SA 10 PENSIONER AND THAT THE PENSIONER WAS A FINE SOLOIER* ON JUNE |2 OF THE YEAR I821 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAIO PENSIONER AT THE ACE OF 67 YEARS AGAIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAO ENLISTE0 IN CAROLINE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1776 OR 1777 TO SERVE.IN THE COMPANY UNOER THE COMMANJ OF CAPTAIN AMBROSE DUDLEY FOR A TOUR OF THREE YEARS AND HE ALSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT THEY HAO RENDEZVOUSED AT WILLIAMSBURG AND THAT THERE.HE CAME UNDER THE COMMAND OF SECTION 143. CAPTAIN HARRY DUDLEY ANO THEY THEN MARCHED NORTH IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL GREGORY SMITH ANO HE ALSO CAME UNOER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL JOHN GIBSON AND IN HIS REGIMENT IN THE FOURTEENTH REGIMENT PAGE 59 SECTION 143 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONER COLONEL JOHN GIBSON AND IN HIS REGIMENT IN THE FOURTEENTH REGIMENT* THE SAID PENSIONER ALSO STATED THAT HE HAO SERVED AT THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH AND ALSO AT THE BATTLE OF STONEY POINT. HE STATEO THAT HE WAR HONRABLY DISCHARGED AT FUEOSRICKSBURG JN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA BY THE AFORESAID COLONEL BRENT AFTER HAVING SERVEO FOR A TOUR OF THREE YEARS. T THE SAID PERSON ALSO STATEO THAT HE HAD A WIFE AT THE AGE F OF FORTY- FIVE YEARS ANO THREE CHILDREN, ANNIE, BETSEY AND JOHN, THE ELDEST OF WHOM WAS AT THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE HIMSELF WAS A FARMER BY OCCUPATION* ON SEPTEMBER 8 OF THE YEAR |85| IN MARION COUNTY IN THE STATE OF INDIANA, EVA WICKCRSON, BEING AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS ANO BEING THE WIOOW AND RELIC OF THE SAID PENSIONER, APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND STATED THAT THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 24 OF THE YEAR 1792 ANO THAT HER HUSBAND HAD DIED ON MARCH I OF THE YEAR 1840 AND SHE STATEO THAT SHE STILL REMAINED HIS WIDOW AND RELIC. AT THE SAME TIME THE SAID WIDOW APPOINTED JOHN M. JEWELL OF WASHINGTON IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO BE HER LAWFUL ATTORNEY* ON OCTOBER 2 OF THE YEAR I85| IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF CURRAN POPE WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENT, BEING THE CLERK OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK, PRODUCED THE SECTION 144 THE FOLLOWING;- "I DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I MARRIEO THE WITHIN NAMED BENJAMIN WLLKERSON ANO EVA RUSSELL ON THE TWENTY FOURTH OAY OF SEPTEMBER OF THE YEAR 1792, SAMUEL REAVER, M. GOSPEL. STATE OF KENTUCKY JEFFERSON SOUNTY." IT WAS ALSO DISCOVERED IN THE SAME GROUP OF OOCUMENTS THAT ON SEPTEMBER 23 OF THE YEAR 1792 HENRY B. COLE, THE THEN CLERK OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT, HAO AUTHORIZED THE MARRIAGE OF THE SAID PENSIONER ANO HIS WIFE. IN A LETTER DATED ON APRIL I7 OF THE YEAR 1818 FROM FAYETTE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, CAPTAIN AMBROSE DUDLEY STATEO AND WROTE THAT THE PENSIONER ABOVE NAMED HAO INDEED ENLISTED TO SERVE IN THE COMPANY UNDER HIS THE WRITERS COMMAND DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. ON SEPTEMBER |2 OF THE YEAR |85| IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATS OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF PLEASANT BALEY AND MRS. JANE BALEY WAS AL SO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENETS STATED AND SWORE THAT THEY HAD BEEN PRESENT AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE SAID PENSIONER AND THEY ALSO SWORE THAT HE AND HIS WIFE HAO LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE ANO THAT HE HAD DIED AS HIS WIDOW HAD STATED BEFORE IN HER DECLARATION* ON SEPTEMBER II OF THE YEAR 1851 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF NATHAN MARDIS WAS ALSO GIVEN* THE SAID DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL AND FAVOR ABLY ACQUAINTED WITH BOTH THE SAIO PENSIONED AND HIS WIDOW BEFORE SECTION 145 THE DEATH OF THE SAIO PENSIONER. THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER AND HIS WIOOW HAO RESIDED TOGETHER AS MAN ANO WIFE ANO THAT THE SAID PENSIONER HAO DIED AS HAD BEEN STATED. ON AUGUST 2I OF THE YEAR 1855 IN MARION COUNTY IN THE STATE OF INDIANA, EVA WILKERSON, BEING AT THE AGE OF 76 YEARS ANO BEING THE RELIC AND WIOOW AND SO FORTH OF THE SAIO PENSIOENER, AGAIN APPEAREO IN OPEN COURT AS STATEO THEY HAD BEEN MARRIED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY ON FEBRUARY |2 OF THE YEAR |8|5 BY DAVID L. WARO. PAGE 60 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS SECTION |45 DAVID L. WARD, A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AND SHE ALSO STATED THAT HER MAIDEN NAME HAD BEEN EVA BROCK. SHE MADE THIS DECLARATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPLYING FOR THE BOUNTY LAND THAT WAS DUE TO HER BECAUSE OF HER HUSBANDS SERVICES, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOSEPH MCCONNELL ANO THOMAS WHITESIDE WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TM..E AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING* THE SAID DEPONENETS STATED AND SWORE THAT THE ABOVE DECLARATION WAS MAOE ANO SIGNED IN THE J A PRESENCE AND THEY ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT THE SAID EVA WILKERSON WAS THE IDENTICAL PERSON THAT SHE CLAIMED HERSELF TO BE. ON SEPTEMBER M OF THE YEAR f855 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF CH. H. THENSTON WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE AID DEPONENET, BEING THE CLERK OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT, STATED ANO SWORE THAT THE SAIO PENSIONER HAD BEEN MARRIED BY HIS RECORDS AND PROPERLY SO. SECTION 146 EVA WILKERSON, THE WIDOW OF THE PENSIONER, WAS ON THE ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $80.00 PER ANNUM ANO HERCERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON DECEMBER 20 OF THE YEAR |85| ANO IT WA8 THEN SENT TO J. H. JEWELL, ESQUIRE. SHE WAS ALSO ON THE ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $80*00. PER ANNUM AND HER CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON DECEMBER 20 OF THE YEAR L85| ANO IT WAS THEN SENT TO J. M. JEWEL,.ESQUIRE. THE SAID WIDOW EVA'.'/ILKERSON, WAS ALSO ON THE •ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $96.OO PERANNUM AND HER CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUEO ON DECEMBER 20 OF THE YEAR |85| AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO J* M. JEWELL, ESQUBRE. THE SAID NENSIONER HIMSELF, BENJAMIN WILKERSON, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF $8.00 PER MONTH!TO COMMENCE ON MAY 16, OF THE YEAR |8|8 ANO H|S CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON MAY 23 OF THE YEAR 1822 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO R. C. ANDERSON JUNIRR, ESQUIRE, AT LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. TAYLOR: WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH VIRGINIA #.6233 BOUNTY LAND WARRANT NUMBERED #2501-400 MAJOR ISSUED ON DECEMBER 8 OF THE YEAR 1797. No PAPERS. ON MAY I OF THE YEAR ;8:8 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE or KENTUCKY, THE SAID PENSIONER APPEARED IN OPEN*COURT AND STATED THAT HE HAD FIRST ENTERED THE SERVICE SECTION |47 IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR |776 TO SERVE IN THE CAPACITY OF A FIRST LLEUTENANAT IN THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMANO OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS TAYLOR IN THE SECOND VIRGINIA REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL WLLLLAM WOODFORD. HE ALSO STATED THAT IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1780 HE WAS THEN APPOINTED TO SERVE IN THE CAPACITY OF A MAJOR AND HE THEN JOINED THE NINTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT AT PITTSBURG IN THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL JOHN GjBSCN. HE ALSO STATEO THAT HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED THEN IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR |76|* THE AFFIDAVIT OF MAJOR JOHN HARRISON WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAID DEPONENET STATEO AND SWORE THAT THE SAID PENSIONER, WILLIAM TAYLOR HAD REALLY SERVED DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION ON THE SIDE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE CAPACITY OF'AN OFFICER. ON SEPTEMBER 12 OF THE YEAR 1820 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE SAIO PENSIONER AT THE AGE OF 67 YEARS APPEAREO IN OPEN THACOURT T HEAN OHA OSTATE FIRSD TTHA ENTERET HE DWA STHE B YSERVIC TRADEE A BTAVERY VOLUNTEEREN KEEPED R IANN DTH EHE YEASWORR EI775 . PAGE 6j SECTION 147 & |48 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HE STATED THAT'HE HAO SERVED AT THE BATTLE OF LONG BRIDGE IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND HE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED A FIRST LIEUTENANAT AND THEN HAO BEEN PROMOTE0 TO A CAPTAIN ANO THEN TO A MAJOR IN THE REGIMENT UNOER THE COMMANO OF COLONEL JOHN GIBSON. THE SAID PENSIONER, WILLIAM TAYLOR, ALSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT HE HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN STILL LIVING WITH HIM AT THAT TIME:- ROBERT H. C. TAYLOR, AGED EIGHTEEN YEARS. ELEANOR M. TAYLOR, AGED FOURTEEN YEARS. CAROLINE 1. TAYLOR, .AGED TWELVE YEARS, LOUISA W. TAYLOR, AGEO NINE YEARS. ELIZA 0. TAYLOR, AGEO FOUR YEARS. RICHARD. W, F. TAYLOR, AGEO FOUR WEEKS* HE ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT HIS WIFE WAS AT THAT TIME AT THE AGE OF 46 YEARS. ON NOVEMBER 15, OF THE YEAR 1824 IN OLDHAM COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES S.CRUTCHFIELD WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAIO OEPONENET, BEING THE SHERIFF OF THE SAID OLDHAM COUNTY, STATEO* AND SWORE THAT HE HAO SOLO A URGE PIECE OF THE PROPERTY AND ALSO SOMC SLAVES OF THE SAIO PENSIONER AT A PUBLIC AUCTION BECAUSE, OF SOME OEBTS WHICH THE SAID PENSIONER HAD BEEN UNABLE TO PAY. ON APRIL-4 OF,THE YEAR 1859 IN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE AFFIDAVIT OF, CUR RAN POPE WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID DEPONENET, BEING THE CLERK OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY COURT, PROOUCED THE FOLLOWING RECORD;-. "1796, JUDY 16, WILLIAM TAYLOR AND ELIZA COURTS, WERE MARRIED ON JULY 25 OFL THE YEAR I796 BY HENRY POTTORF." \ SECTION 149 ON AUGUST 5 OF THE YEAR I85I IN HENRY COUNTY IN THE STATE BF MISSOURI, THE AFFIOAVIT OF RICHARO F. TAYLOR WAS ALSO GIVEN. THE SAID OEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT HE WAS A SON OF THE AFORESAID WILLIAM TAYLOR. THIS DEPONENET ALSO SWORE THAT HIS SAID FATHER HAO RECEIVED A PENSION THAT HE HAO BLED IN OLDHAM COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY ON MARCH 29 OF THE YEAR |830 ANO THAT HE LEFT ELIZABETH TAYLOR HIS RELIO AND WIDOW. THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATEO AND SWORE THAT THE SAID WIDOW OF THE SAIO PENSIONER ALSO THEN DIED ON MARCH 29 OF THE YEAR 1849 AND SHE AT THAT TIME LEFT AS HER HEIRS THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN;- RI CHARD F. TAYLOR, THIS DEPONENET* ELEANOR M. BERRY ELIZABETH 0. HORNING* THE SAIO DEPNENET, RICHARO F. TAYLOR ALSO STATED AND SWORE THAT HE ALSO ALWAYS HEARD IT STATED THAT.HIS PARENTS HAD BEEN PROPERLY MARRIEO AND HE SWORE THAT AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, THE SAID PENSIONER, HIS MOTHER HAO REMAINED HIS WIDOW ANO RELIC UNTIL THE TIME OF HER OWN OEATH* THE AFFIDAVIT OF FITZNUGH THORNTON WAS ALSO GIVEN AT THE SAME TIME AND IN THE SAME PLACE AS THE FOREGOING. THE SAIO DEPONENET STATED AND SWORE THAT AT ONE TIME AND IN THE SAIO COUNTY AND STATE HE HAD BEEN BOTH WELL ANO FAVORABLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PENSIONER, WILLIAM TAYLOR, AND THIS DEPONENET ALSO STATED ANO SWORE THAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN SECTION 150. WHICH THE SAID PENSIONER RESIOEO HE WAS REPUTED TO HAVE SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION ON THE SIOE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANO IN THE CAPACITY OF AN OFFICER* PENSIONELIZABETS AT THH ETAYLOR RATE ,O FTH $600.0E WIDO0W PEORF ANNUTHE MPENSIONER AND HER, CERTIFICAT WAS ON THEE ROLOF LPENSIO or N PAGE 62 SECTION 150 JEFFERSON COUNTY KEtGftJCKY; PENSIONERS ELIZABETH TAYLOR, THE V/IOOW OF THE PENSIONER, WAS ON THE ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE SATE OF IP60C»0C PER ANNUM AND HER CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT F/AS ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 2 OF THE YEAR L85| AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO O H. G. TANT, PENSION AGENT. ' THE SAID PENSIONER HIMSELF, WILLIAM TAYLOR, WAS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL OF PENSIONS AT THE RATE OF y20*00 BUR MONTH«TO COMMENCE ON MAY.! OF THE YEAR I8i8 AND HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION FOR THAT AMOUNT WAS ISSUED ON NOVEMBER b OF THE YEAR |8|9 AND IT WAS THEN SENT TO STEPHEN ORMSBY ESQUIRE AT LOUISVILLE IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY* PASE 63 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY SECTION NAME SECTION NAME PAGE BARTLETT, JEFFERSON 125 |25 ABBOTT, M. T. Ml BARTLETT, LAVENDER 125 AODIBON, D. D.~ H5 BATMAN, JOHN 26 ALORIOGE, GUNNE 105 BATMAN, THOMAS 26 ALDRIDGE, SIMMONS 106 BATMAN, THOMAS 25 ALLEN, BENJAMIN 98 BAYLOR, GEORGE 22 ALLEN, JOHN 123 BEALL, REUBEN- 98 BEAVER, SAMUEL ALRICH, LUCAS 102 144 ANDERSON, JAMES 59 BEDFORD, CAPTAIN BEDFORD, CAPTAIN 105 ANDERSON, R. C. 19-22-13- 38 BEDFORD, COLONEL 104 74- 73-66-137-146-9I- BEDFORO, GUNNING 106 ANDERSON, RICHARD C. 82 BEDFORD, GUNNING 106 ANDERSON, WILLIAM 106 BELL, JOHN 105 ANDRE, MAJOR 100 BELL, JOHN 8 ANNAN, WILLIAM 76 BELL, JOHN 63 ARMLONG>, CAPTAIN 13 BENNETT, GOVERNOR 110 BENNETT, RICHARD ARMONQ, CAPTAIN 13 106 ARMOR, COLONEL 77-78 78 BERBER, GEQP.CE BERGER, GEORGE 106 ARNOLD, GENERAL M4 BERRY, ELEANOR M. 44 ACBURY, HENRY *6-7- 8 BETTS, LOCKE 42 , ASHBY, BENJAMIN 123 BEVINS, JAMES 149 AUSTIN, ELIZABETH-122- 124 BLAND, COLONEL 28 AUSTIN, JOHN -|23-|24- 122 BLANKENBECKER, JACOB . 121 AUSTIN, DANIEL 124 BLUEFORO, ABSOLOM 125 AUSTIN, JOHN 124 BLUEFOROS, DEFEAT 35 BLUFORDS, DEFEAT AUSTIN, ELIZABETH I24 31 AUSTIN, WILLIAM 124 BLUNK, JOSEPH BLUNK, PATIENCE 31 AUSTIN, LUCY 124 BOHANNON, ANDREW 23 AUSTIN, JAMES 124 BORDER, CAPTAIN 91 AUSTIN, JOHN 124 BORDER, GEORGE H. 91 BAILEY, JOHN 139 BORDER, COLONEL 96 BAILEY, JOHN 137 BOWMAN, ANN 127 BAILEY, JOHN 43 BOWMAN, JOHN 127 BOWMAN, JOSEPH BAILEY, WILLIAM I 127 BALEY, JAMES 144 BOYD, COLONEL BOYDS, HOLE 129 BALEY, PLEASANT^ 144 BOYERS, DAVID 93 ,BALLARO, BLAND W. 46 BOYN, MAJOR 44 BALLARO, JOHN 66 BRASKING, RICHARD 127 BALLARD, BLAND W. 116 BRATTON, JACOB 96 BANKS, DANIEL C. 100 BRAY, SAMUEL 127 BARGER, HENRY 128 BRENT, LT. COLONEL -\42- 81 BARKES, ANDREW M4 BREWER, G. 43 BARLOW, JOHN W. 25 BREWER, GEORGE G. 104 BARNES, FRANOES IIO BRIAR, LIEUT. 29 BARNES, JOHN ill BRIAR, ROBERT BRIDGES, BENJAMIN 143 BARNES, SALLY MI BRIDGES, BENJAMIN 102 BARR, JOHN (05 BRIDGES, HARRISON 100 BARR, THOMAS 106 BRIDGES, ISHAM 104 BARRET, WILLIAM 77 102 BARTLETT, JOHN 13 112 BARTLETT, JOHN 125 115 8 PAGE 64 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY NAME SECTION NAIvE SECTION BRIGG, JOHN 68 CURRY, DABNEY 60 CURRY, WILLIAM BRISCOE, HENRY 27 60 , 18 CLARK, WILLIAM 1. BROADHEADS, CAMPAIGN 128 94 CLARKE, CAPTAIN t 4 BROADHEAD, COLONEL 93 CLARKE, GENERAL 40 BR O DUE AD, DANIEL {45 CLARKE, GEORGE R, 93 PRO:K, EVA 4 CLARKE,, RICHARD 43 Eiacn-K., HENRY 107 COCHNA.'J, JAMES 48 b^ooKs, DANIEL C 129 COCHRAN, DAVJD 7| BROWN, JOHN 123 COLE, HENRY B5 144 BROWM, HENRY 129 COLE, HUMBLE 81 129 COLLIER, JOHN BROWN, I^GT.? 76 128 COLL.'NS, J0 J, BROWN, MARGARET 63 122 CONN, SAMUEL 71 BROWN-, WILLIAM 123 CONN, SAMUEL 16 BROWN, THOMAS C. 77 CONN, SAMUEL 15 BROWNING, HENRY 105 CONN, TR/..V.MEL 15 BRUNT, WILLIAM 128 CONOWAY, FRANC'S 96 BRYANT, ROBERT 97 CONRAD, WILLIAM 128 BRYAN, WILLIAM 96 COOPER, CHARLES H. 84 COOPER, LEVIN BUCKHANNON, ANDREW 96 94 67 COOPER, LEVIN BUCKHAUNON, ANDREW 91 67 COOPER., LEVEN BUCKHANNON, MAJOR 17 23 COOPER$ L.,P0 .BUFFIN, COLONEL 29 25 COOPER, LTEUTEANT BUFORD, ABRAHAM 57? 76 86 COOPER, NELLY 18 BUFORD, ABRAHAM 53 COOPER.; SALLY 18 BUFORD, COLONEL 98 CORNWALL'S, LORD 49 100 BUNNELL, JOSIAH 123 CORNWALL;s, LORD .34-41- BURGSSS, JOSEPH I0J COURTS. ELIZA 148 BURGOYNE, GENERAL !34 yC0X, M'L! 127 BURGOYNE^ GENERAL 134 COYLE, WILLIAM 107 BURKS, DANIEL C. 134 CRA:GHE*D, COLONEL 103 CRAIGHEAD, COLONEL BURKS, EDITH 134 105 109 CRA.3LEY., f'.ARY BURKS, LLIZABETH 85 #23 CREiGHruK, V/iLLlAM 85 BURKS. RICHARD 27 CR;STY; W?LL»AM 117 BURKS, OLDS STORE 54 CROCKETTJ ANTHONY 42-44-45- 64 BURWELI., COLONEL 14! .RANTER. GEORGE A. 23 BUTL<;R, IT. COLONEL 73 CAREY, PETER C, 115 CAMP, AMBROSE 62 CALw.c.'i, JOSEPH 43 CANNON, ALEXANDER 9 CHADWCK, JOHN 55 CANNON, CAPTAIN 84 .CHAMBERS, JOHN CANNON, THOMAS 104 CHA•»•...»:N, ABRAHAM CROCKETT, COLONEL 76 43 CHAPPE:. . JESSE CROCKETT, ROBERT 76 } 80 CROGHAM, JOHN 31 CHAP PELL5 WILL!AM 80 CROSS, JOHN 102 CHERRY, CAPTAIN 1(9 CROSS, JOHN 105 CHEW, Ri CHARD 27 CRITTENDEN, THOMAS F 102 CHOICE., TERLY 108 CROXON, ARCHIBALD 126 CHOI OK:, TERLY !09 CKOXON, ARCHIBALD 57 CLARK.. COS.ONEL 139- 46' CROXTON, ARCHIBALD 148 CLARK, GE;IE;J«L 46 CRUMP, JAMES CLARK, GEO.'JGE CRUTCHER, ISAAC 43 Ye CLARK, GEO, ROGERS -62- CRUTCHFIELD, JAMES S. 38 126 CLARK, GEO« ROGERS II6- 137 I i-25-1824- SHERIFF OF OLDHACUMMINGSM COUNTY, MATTHE, KENTUCKW Y PAGE 65 JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY INDEX TO PENS 1ONERS NAME SECTION NAME SECTION CLARK, GEORGE R. 43- 42 FORD, JOSEPH 121 CLARK, RICHARD 137 FORD, LEMUEL 25 FRENCH, RICHARD 122 DABNEY, CHARLES 45 FUNK, JOSPEH H, 29 DABNEY, COLONEL 41 9 w 129 DABNEY, COLONEL FUNK," J. P. 47 FURY, JOHN 5 DAMES, JOHN 113 DAMES, CAPTAIN 113 GAILBREATH, ALEXANDER H. 91 DANCE, EZEKIEL 79 GAILBREATH,* ALEXANDER H. 93 DANCE, EZEKIEL 81 GAILBREATH, ROBERT H, 91 BUFF, MAJOR 105 GAINES, B. 123 DUNN, CHARLES 128 GARKIN, COLONEL 38 DUNNIGAN, RACHEL 26 GARLAND, E. 20 DANIEL, JOHN 101 GASKINS, COLONEL 37 ¥ DANNA, J. G. 82 GEIGER, FREDERICK 9 DARK, WILLIAM 18 GERAULT, JOHN 43 DAVIS, CATHERINE R. 48 GERGER, FREDERICK 33 DAVIS, WILLIAM R. 48 GERGER, JOHN 34 DAVIS, JOHN 89 GERGER, FREDERICK 34 DAVIS, JOHN ¥ 83 GERGER, JOHN 33 DAVIS, MARY |30 GERGIS, FREDERICK 9 DAY, JAMES 2 GIBBINS, HANNAH 26 BEAOMAN, COLONEL 67 GUBS, * ALEXANDER 71 DEJOURNATT, JOHN T. 25 GIBSON, COLONEL 17 DEPUT, JOSHUA MO GIBSON, JOHN 32 DICK, COLONEL 9 79 GIBSON, JOHN 17 DILLARDIN, CAPTAIN 112 GIBSON, JOHN 143 DILLARO, THOMAS lOB GIBSON, JOHN 147 DOMES, JOHN 114 GILLISON, JOHN II DONE, JOHN 101 GILLISON, COLONEL 12 DORSEY, LEAVNEN 100 GIST, MORDICAI 100 BORSEY, LEAVEN 99 GIVINS, ISLAND |08 DUDLEY, CAPTAIN 141 GLASS, SAMUEL 50 DUDLEY, AMBROSE 142 GOODE, FRANCIS 78 DUDLEY, HARRY 143 GOOOE, ROBERT 79 DUFF, MAJOR 103 GOODE, WILL I AM 81 EASTON, GILES 1 GOODING, -GEORGE 36* EATON, REUBEN 117 GCOCWIN, AMOS 38 EDMONDS, CAPTAIN 67 GOODWIN, AMOS 1 EDWARDS, J. L. 102 GOOOWIN, AMOS 20 EDWAROS, J. L. 2 GOODY/IN, ELIZABETH 20 EDWARDS,, J. a* 29 GOODWIN, ELIZABETH 21 ELBERT, SAMUEL 69 GOOSE, WILL!AM 128 ELLIOTT, WILLIAM 92 GOULD, REVEREND 85 ETCHERSON, J. m 24 GRABUE, ISAAC W. 124 EVANS, JESSE 43 GRANT, THOMAS 96 EWING, NATHAN ¥ 14 GRAY, GEQ.'.GE 19 FARMER, CAPTAIN 33 GRAYSON, ROBERT H. 46 FARMER, LEWIS 33 GRIER, CAPTAIN 65 FERGUSON, JAMES 10 GRIFFIN, ANN 24 FINLEY, SAMUEL 37 GRIFFIN, NANCY 23 FLOOSE, SUSAN 130 GRIFFIN, LYDIA 23 .FLOYO, JOHN 47 GRIFFIN, MORGAN 23 FONTLEROY, MOORE 19 GRIFFIN, AODERSON 22 FORCE, JESSE 109 0 PAGE 66 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME SECTION NAME SECTION GRIFFIN, MORGAN 24 •HILL, DAVID 53 GRIFFIN, REUBEN 21 HILL, GEORGE H. 84 GRIFFIN, WILLIAM 23 HOARD, THOMAS 23 GRIFFIN, NANOY 23 HOBIE, JACOB 128 GRIFFINS, WILLIAM 24 HOE, WILLIAM 77 GRIFFINS, POLLY 24 •HOFLER, MAJOR 61 GRIFFINS, SALLY 24 HOLLA DAY, JOHN 91 GRIFFINS, JOHN 24 HOLLAND, MAJOR 101 GRIFFINS, ELIZABETH 24 • HOLMES, DAVID 49 GRIFFY, GEORGE W. 98 HONK, JOSEPH 58 GROVE, JOHN 141 HORNING, ELIZABETH 149 GUNNING, CAPTAIN 102 UORSELEY, JAMES 12 GUNN, LlEUTENANAT 132 HORTON, WILLIAM 91 GWATHMENY, JESSE 110 HOWARO, JOHN 29 HOWARD, JOHN £• 100 HAMSTONE, PETER 108 HUGHES, JOHN 45 HANCOCK, SIMEON 140 HUME, S. A. 8 HANSFORD, STEPHEN 96 HUMFREES, JOHN 30 HARBOR, CAPTAIN 94 HUMPHRES, JOHN 31 HARDIN, HENRY 2 HUMPHRIES, JOHN 23 HAROING, MARY 2 HUNTERS, HEIGHTS 97 HARDING, ELIZABETH 3 HRETA, JOSEPH no HARDING, MARK 101 HRLEY, SARAH 3 3 HARDING, MARY 1 HURLEY, THOMAS A 3 HARDING, '.VACHEL 1 HUTSON, WILLIAM II HARQWELO, GEORGE 134 HUTS0N,#W|LL1AM 12 HARP, HENRY 36 HYOMAN, JOHN \ 105 HARRIS, JOHN 18 JACKSON, NANCY 134 HARRISON, JOHN 147 JAR«ETS, FERRY 97 HARRISON, WM. HENRY •10 JENNINGS, LIEUT M7 HARROO,-CAPTAIN 93 JETTER, POLLY 26 HARROD, WIDLIAM 137 JEWELL, JOHN M* |43 HARROO, WILLIAM 139 JEWELL, J. M« 146 HARROD, WILLIAM 93 JOHNSON, BENJAMIN 97 HARTLEY, ELIJAH 98 JOHNSON, JOHN 6 HARTLEY, THOMAS 65 JOHNSON, R. M. 48 HASKELL, DAVID 8 JOHNSTON, G. J. 124 HASKINS, CREED 78 JOHNSTON, PHILLIP 118 HASKINS, CREED 81 JONES, JOHN 136 HAWES, CAPTAIN 75 JONES, JOHN 38 HAWKINS, BENJAMIN 134 JONES, STANFIELD I4| HAWKINS, ROBERT 134 JONES, ELIZABETH 86 HEARD, JESSE 108 JOCYCE, CAPTAIN -JOYCE- 82 HELAD, CAPTAIN N. 5 JOYCE, THOMAS ' 82 CHEATTON, EPHRAIM 60 JUGUETT, PETER 106 HENDERSON, COLONEL 67 KALFEES, U. M* 129 HENDRICKSO ALEXANDER 56 KALFUS, JACOB \7* 102 HENDRICKS, HONORABLE 56 KALFUS, L. N* 129 HENRY, PATRICK 118 KALFUS, SIMEON 35 HERNDON, MANGO 16 KEIGERGER, CHRISTIAN 37 HEWETT, JOHN 113 KELLAR, ABRAWM 29 HIKES, GEORGE 29 KELLER, ABRAHAM 44 HIKES, JACOB 29 KELLY, JAMES 128 •HILL, CAPTAIN 93 KELLY, THOMAS 31 PAGE 67 INREX TO JEFFIRSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS' NAME SECTION NAk£ SECTION KENNEDY, JOHN H* 8 LEIGHTNER, JOSEPH 36 KINDRELL, JOHN 60 LEN'iA STE R , EL 1 ZA BE TH III KINKAOE, WILLIAM 47 LEMASTER, DICK III KING, JOHN 28 LEWIS, CAPTAIN 16 KIRKPATRICK, ABRAHAM 37 LEWIS, THOMAS 15 KIRKPATRICK; DANIEL 106 LICHERIAL, COLONEL 67 KIRTLEY, CAPTAIN 99 LINCOLN, GENERAL 109 KIRTLEY, ELISHA 99 LINDSAY, ELIZABETH 124 KITHRIDGE, JACOB 85 LINN, DAVID 28 KRANN, BETSY 55 LOCKE, COLONEL 127 LADD, WILLIAM 68 LOGAN, BENJAMIN III LAFAYETTE, GENERAL 16 LOGANS, STATION 41 LEWIS, CAPTAIN 16 LONELY, CAPTAIN 37 LEWIS, THOMAS 15 LONG,- GABRIEL 123 LAFAYETTE; GENERAL 114 LONG, WILLIAM 105 LAGAVETTE, GENRAL 115 LONG, WILLIAM 105 LAFFORD, JONAS 85 LUCKETT, CRAVEN T, 82 LAMB, COLONEL 73 LYNUM, DAVID 29 LANGSBON, EOITH 132 LANGseON, ELIZABETH 133 MEREDITH, COLONEL 67 LANGSDON, JOHN 133 MERREWETHER, DABNEY 40. LANGSDON, ROYAL 133 MEREWETHER, WILLIAM 38 LANGSDON, MARY 133 MERREWETHER, JAMES 40 LANGSBON, WILLIAM 133 MERRILL, J, M. 116 LANGSDON, CHARLES 133 MERRITT, ARCHIBALD 36 - LANGSTON, CHARLES 131 MERRIWETHER, DAVID 48 LANGSTON, EDITH 131 IviE R R 1 WE A TH ER , W1 LL 1 AM I LANGSOALE, CHARLES 131 MERR;WETHER, G. W. 136 LANGSOALE, EDITH 131 MERRI WETHER,. JAMES 41 LAVENDER, ENSIGN (17 MALONEY, NANCY 50 LAW, AVER ILLER NO MALONEY, ROBERT -5| LAW, ANDERSON Ml MALONEY,, ROBERT 43 LAW, JOEL Ml MANGERS, CAPTAIN 23 LAW, JOHN Ml MARDIS, NATHAN 144 LAW, WJLLIE Ml MARS, ALEXANDER 24 LAW, AVIRILLER lit MARSHALL, ALSY 54 LAW, MARY 110 MARSHALL, CAPTAIN 67 LAW, JOEL III MARSHALL, JOHN 123 LAW, JESSE 107 MORGAN, DANIEL 123 LAW, WARY 107 MORGAN, GENERAL |23 LAW, POLLY 107 MORRJS, DABNEY 134 LAW, SUSANNA MI MORR;"S, !.;A.JOR 123 LAWRENCE, BENJAMIN 52 MORRIS, WJLLIAM 0. ' 30 LAWRENCE, LEAVEN 100 MOSDOCK, COLONEL 3 LAWSON, GENERAL 80 MOYLAND, STEPHEN 19 LAWSON, GENERAL 109 MUHLEN'B'JRG;: PETER 37 LAYNE, JOSEPH 69 MUHLENBURG, GENRAL 99 LEATHERMAN, JACOB 34 MUHLENBURG, GENERAL 98 LEATHERMANN, MICHAEL •32 MURPHY, JOHN 131 LEATHERMAN, MARGARET 35 MURHPHY, JOHN 130 LEE, GENERAL Ii9 MURHPY, JOHN 29 LEEMAN, JONATHAN 99 MURRAY, JOHN L. 10 LEFEVRES, FARM 104 MERRIWETHER, JAMES 45 LEITNER, JOSEPH 56 MERRJWETHER, LIEUT 47 PAGE 68 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY NAME SECTION MERRIWETHER, MILDRED 48 MERRIWETHER', EMERY A.. « 48 ORENOOFF, LIEUT. 94 MERRIWETHER, EM. H. 48 ORMSBY, STPHEN 150 MERRIWETHER, DAVID 48 ORMSBEY, HONORABLE 85 MERRIWETHER, WILLIAM 48 ORR, JACOB 119 METCALF, ALFRED 19 OVERTON, CAPTAIN 126 METCALF, ALFRED 90 00 OWENS, JOHM 71 OWENS, THOMAS METZER, JOHN ,19 71 NICHOLS, WILLIAM 65 MILES, GODONEL 33 NOLANDS, FERRY 16 MILLER, COLONEL 7 NORTHING, HENRY 3 MlLLlER, ELlSHA 69 NORTHRUP, HENRY 94 MILLER, GEORGE P/ 42 NORTHRUP, HENRY 2| " MILLER, FREDERICK 127 NORTHRUP, HENRY -63- 131 MILLER, MARGARET 127 PARKER, i.iARY 2 MILLER, WINDLE 127 PARKER,«gS. H. 47 MILLER, NIOHOLAS 7 , PARKER, THOMAS 74 MILLER, MICHAEL 128 PASLEY, COLONEL 37 MILLER, HERMAN 128 PATTEN, JAMES 116 MILLER, MICHAEL 130 PATTERSON, CAPTAIN 101 MILLER, SUSANNA 130 PATTERSON, COLONEL 93 MILLER, ELIZABETH 130 PATTERSON, JAMES 101 MILLER, CIBTIA 130 PATTON, ROBERT 62 MILLER, MICHAEL 129 PEARSON, THOMAS 23 MILLER-, MARGARET 129 PENDERGRAST, JAMES F. 90 MILLER, FREDERIC^ 129 PEIIN, BENJAMIN 53 MILLER, FRED 43 129 PENN, BENJAMIN 53 MILLER, G. F. 129 PENN, REBECCA 53 MILLER, MICHAEL. 138 PENN, MARGARET 54 MILLER, MICHAEL 95 PENN, CHARLES 55 MILLS, WILLIAM 101 PENN, EPHRAIM 55 MIMS, JOHN G. I2| PENH, HOAH 55 MITCHER, CAPTAIN 109 PENN, JOSEPH 55 MONTGOMERY, COLONEL -139i-|3 7 PENNINGTON, JAMES 66 MONTGOMERY, JAMES -|37- 43 PENNINGTON, JAMES 66 MONTGOMERY, JOHN 42 PERAULT, i-ICHAEL 43 MOORES CREEK *?? PEHLPS, AVINGTON 123 MOORE, JERY 72 PHELPS, SMITH |23 MOROOCK, JOHN 1 PHILLIPS, DARRIOUS 25 MOREHEAO, C. S, 73 PHILLIPS, DARRIUS MORGAN, NANCY 24 30 PHILLIPS, POLLY 85 MORGAN, ANN 24 PHILLIPS, SAMUEL 100 PICKETT, M* 123 NALL, COLONEL 119 PIERCE, AMOS 105 NEALL, DANIEL 73 PIERSON, THOMAS 51 • NEIGHBORNS, HENRY 109 PIKE,' AMOS 58 ,. NELSON, CHARLES 114 PIKE, HANNAH 59 NELSON, COLONEL 14 PIKE, ANNY 58 NICHOLAS, CAPTAIN 3 P|KE, ROBERT 57 NICHOLAS, CAPTAIN 79 P|KE, ANN 57 NICHOLAS, OHN H. 1 PlLKIHTON, LARKIN 78 O'CONNELL, -(GOVERNOR 44 PILKINTON, LARKIN 81 OLDHAM, JOHN P. 22 PILINTON, ROBERT C. 81 OLDHAM, JOHN P. 18 PINDELL, P. «• 8 OLOH.M, V/ILLIAM 87 PDNK, JACO-PINK 120 OLSTON, JOHN 93 ORENOOFF, LIEUTENANT 95 PAGE 69 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONS NAME* SECTION NAME POLLARD, BENJAMIN 39 RODGERS, WILLIAM I POME ROY, GENERAL 128 ROOKSBERRY, JACOB POMEROY, JAMES 95 RqCKSBEURY, ELENOR POMEROY, JAMES -78- 138-96 ROO''.SBERR%', REUBEN POMEROY, JAMES 139 ROSS, Jonn PjpPE, CAPTAIN 126 Ross, NATHANIEL 0OPE, CUNNAN 116 POPE, CURRAN 2! ROSFORD, MAJOR POPE, CURRAN -48-148- 21 ROXFCRD, MAJOR POPE, R'AW 143- RUFFINS, FERRY POPE, ND 91 RUNDELL, GAPTAIN POPE, EDMUND M9 RUNDELL, CAPTAIN POPE, GEORGE F. RUNK, SAMUEL POPE, 133 GEORGE F. RUIJNELL, CAPTAIN' POPE, 135 P* H. -69-141- RUSSELL, EVA POPE, 16 WAROEN OPE, 35 RUTHERFORD, GENERAL WARDEN 39 RUTHERFORD, GRIFFITH POPE, WAROEN RAILEY, LIEUTENANAT POPE, VARDEN -11-88-90- 31 97 RAIN, AMELIA POPE, WARDEN -I&8-95- - ,101 - 46 POPE, WOOOROW 8 RAMSEY, JOSEPH PORTERFIELD, CAPTAIN 123 RAUGH, LATHER' POSEY, THOMAS B. 124 SAMUEL, MR. POTTQRF, HENRY 148 SCHIROCK, COLONEL POULSON, MAJOR 37 SCOTT, DWID POUND, HEZEKIAH POWELL, HANNAH 75 SCHRICOCK, COLONEL POWELL, THOMAS 59 SEATON, GEORGE POYAN, JACK 59 SWEMAN, CAPTAIN PRITCHAROS, W. H* Ml SHAW, JOHN PROCTOR, WILLIAM 8 SHAW, JOS.:PH PURNANCE, JOHN H* 16 SHAW, JOSEPH- PUTNAM, GENERAL 91 STEWART, CLLONEL 75 STEWART, JAMES CiuiRK, THOMAS 43- 137 STEWART, JAMES -82- RAWLEY, COLONEL 6- 27 ! STEWART, POLLY' 86- REICHETT, JAMES 115 STEWAKT, MAJOR RENNICK, ALEANDER H. 44 STEWART, SAMUEL RICE, CAPTAIN 33 STICKY, ELIZABETH RICARDSON, ELIZABETH 20 STIDHAM, CAPTAIN RICHARDSON, JOHN B. 47 ST(LV/ELL:, JACOB L* STOKELY, THOMAS RICKETTS, SUSANNA -62- 130 STUCKY, MAR»AH < ROBERTS, BENJAMIN 44-40 61 ROBERTS, BENJAMIN 44 SULLIVAN, JAMES ROBERTS, JOHN 64 SUU:;ERS, BENJAMIN ROBERTS, BENJAMIN 64 SWAN, JOHN SWAf!, I'/IAJOR ROBERTS, WILLIAM 8 SHAW, SALLY RODES, JAMES C. 38 SHELBY, JAMES RODGERS, JOHN 45' SHKI.P. "IGAC SHELBY ROGERS, JOHN 40 SKENKER, JOHN ROGERS, JOHN 40 SKiNKER, .poLOfjEL -97- JROGERS, JAMES 8KINNER, "CORNELIUS /ROGERS, WILL SLUGHTER, COLONEL SLAUGHTER, FLOYO PAGE 70 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME SECTION NAME SECTION SLAUGHTER, GEORGE 40 TOOD, COLONEL 93 SLAUGHTER, GENERAL 46 TOOD, GSORGE 44 SLAUGHTER, JAMES 6'. TOOD, ROBERT 43 SLAUGHTER, GEORGE 62 TOOD, SAMUEL 65 . SLAUGHTER, MAJOR 62 TOWNSEND, WILLIAM S. 24 SLAUGHTER, MILDRED 63 TRIPLETT, F. T. C. III SLAUGHTER, GEORGE -,63 TYLER, EDWARD 138 v4. SLAUGHTER, MARY 63 TANT, H. G. 150 SLAUGHTER, JAMES 63 TARLTON, GENERAL 49 SLAUGHTER, MAJOR 21 TAYLOR, FRANIS 147 SMALLWOOD, GOLONEL 56 TAYLOR, FRANCIS 98 SMALLWOOD, COLONEL 53 TAYLORS, FERRY 67 SMALLWOOD, GE ERAL 100 TAYLOR, ISAAC 43 SMALLWOOD, GENERAL 28 TAYLOR. JOHN H. III SMITH, ALFRED 18 TAYLOR, RICHARD 18 SMITH, BALLARD 117 TAYLOR, ROBERT H. C. 148 SMITH, COLONEL 142 TAYLOR, ELINOR M. 148 SMITH, GREGORY 143 TAYLOR, LOUISA W. 148 SMITH, JOEL E. 24 TAYLOR, ELIZA 0. 148 SMITH, JOHN 126 TAYLOR, ELIZABETH 146 •SMITH, JOHN -58- 51 TAYLOR, WILLIAM 146 SMITH, JOSEPH 118 TAYLOR, RICHARD 149 SMITH, JOSEPH 117 TAYLOR, WILLIAM 148 SMITH, STARTING 134 TAYLOR, JAMES* 52 SMITH, THOMAS 109 TAYLOR, WILLIAM 52 SMITH, WILLIAM 57 TAYLOR, WILLIAM 19 SPEED, JONES S. 3 TAWNHHILL, ADMASON 26 SPOTTS, GEORGE 107 TAWNYHILL; CAPTAIN 27 SPOTTSWOOD, ALEXANDER 75 TALBOT, JCHN 63 SPUR, CAPTAIN 16 TALBOTT, RICHARD C. 53 SPUR, RICHARD 15 TALL:AFSRRO, CAPTAIN 97 STEADHAM, JOSEPH 106 TALUAFERRO, JOHN 96 STEADHAM, CAPTAIN 106 STEPHENS, GENERAL lie VANCE, A. F, 2| STEVENSON, JAMES 65 VANCE, SAMUEL D. 75 STEWART, COLONEL 35 VANCE, WILLIAM R, 2 TENNEL, FRANCIS 69 VANCE, W, R. 72 THALO, NATHAN 5 VANCE, WILLIAM R. 72 THAYER, CAPTAIN 131 VANMETER, JACOB 139 THAYER, JOHN :30 VAUGH, REUBEN 67 THAYER, VERTE'RS, JOHN 0. 126 TNESTON, C'. H* ?? THOMAS, JOHN 84 V/AOKINS, ELI 25 THOMAS, CAPTAIN 21 WAITS, DAVID 56 THOMAS, MARK 20 WALKER, CAPTAIN 7 THOMAS, MAJ. GEN. 82 WALKER, WILLIAM 6 THORNTON, FITSHUGH 14? WALLACE,"ADAM 31 THREKILL, THRELKILL WALLACE, CAPTAIN 31 THOMAS 73 WALL IS, COLONEL 98 THRUSTON, CHRISTOPHER 21 THURSTON, CORNONET 40 TYLER, i.i. B. 2 r,n TYIFRC WILLIAM 117 7 PAGE 71 INDEX TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME SECT! ON NAR£ C. A. TYLER, EDWARD II? WlCKUFFE, ANNIE TYLER, WILLIAM WILKERSON, !37 WiLKERSON, BETSY WILKERSON, JOHN URTON, JAMES 140 WJLKERSON, BENJAMIN WfLKINSON, V/ALTHALL, ELIZABETH 135 EVA W:LKJNSON, WALTON, ANTOHONY 12 FORT WILLIAMS, j WARD, DAVID L. CA PTAIN 145 WILLIAMS, SARDS, DAVID 55 COLONEL . WILLIAMS, EBENEZER .WARWICK, LINN 128 .WILLIAMS, JARRETT WASHINGTON, COLONEL 131 WILLIAMS, JOHN WASHINGTON, COLONEL 132 WILLIAMS, NATAHN WASHINGTON, GENERAL 94 ./ILL I A MS,OTT O H* WASHINGTON, GENERAL WILLIAMS, OTTO H, WASHINGTON, GEORGE 119 WILLIAMSON, JOHN WASHINGTON, GENERAL 75 WASHINGTON, GENERAL 16- 17 WILLIS, GENERAL WASHINGTON, GENERAL WM. 33 WILLIS, JACK WATTS, CAPTAIN 22 WILLI,S MARY WATTS, JOHN 125 WILLIS WATTS, JOHN 132 WILLSON, JOHN L. V/ATTS, GENERAL I3| WILSON, DAVID V/AYNE, GENERAL 115 WILSON, EMZER WAYNE, ANTHONY 46 WILSON, ELLIOT WAYNE, GENERAL WILSON, DAVID WAYNE, GENERAL 78 89 WILSON, DANIEL WEEOEN, BRIG. GEN WILSON, JANE WEEDEN, GENERAL 16 WILSON, INDIA WEEDEN, GEORGE -97- 75 WILSON, oANE WEEDEN, R.OBERT 16 WILSON, ROBERT WEINNNARD, PHiLlP 96 W:LSON, JANE WE INNAND, PHlLiP 9! WILSON, ROBERT WELDON, JACOB 95 .VILSON, THOMAS WELLS, SAMUEL 94 WILSON, JANE WELSH, JAMES «05 WILSON, ROBERT WEST, GEORGE WILSON, WILLIAM 87 WHEELER, MARY W'N.MRD? PHILIP WHITE, CALEB 94 WOOD, CAPTAIN WHITE, COLONEL 140 WOOOFORD, WILLIAM WHITE, COLONEL 72 WORSHAM, BRANCH I. WHITE, DANIEL M5 WORTHINGTON, EDWARD IVHITE, DANIEL 69 WORTHINGTON, EDWARD WHITE, MR. !5 WHITE, JOHN 97 YEAGER, ELISHA WHITE, JOHN 96 YEAGER, ELISHA WHITE, WILLIAM 12 YEAGER, SAMUEL WHITE, 'WALTON YOUNG, REV. MR. WHITESIDE, THOMAS 131 YOUNG, THOMAS WELSH, JAMES 142 YANCEY, ROBERT WHITTAKER, JAMES S. 142 YANCEY, ROBERT WHITTAKER, JAMES S. 125 WHITTAKER JAMES S, 145 ZILHART, PHILIP 92 42 44 47 ABSTRACTS OF PENSIONS PAPERS PERTAINING TO SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION, 1812, AND INDIAN WARS WHO SETTLED IN HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. EDWARDS} JAMES H. INVALID PENSIONER ^8396 PRIVATE IN THE O.W.S. ARMY AND ALSO IN THE INDIAN WAR IN 1811 ACT OF JULY 7, 1838. THAT THE PETITONER CLEARLY PROVED BY TESTIMONY THAT HE WAS A SOLDIER IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 1811I ANO FTHAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF TIPPIOANOE ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 7 IN THAT YEAR; AND THAT WHILE IN THE LINE OF DUTY IN THAT BATTLE HE RECEIVED TWO GUN-SHOES. TWO DOCTORS STATE THAT THOSE WOUNDS 01 ABLE HIM. WAR DEPARTMENT, PENSION OFFICE DECEMBER 19, 1833.' AFFIDAVITS IN THE CASE OF JAMES M. EDWAROS I HERE RETURN. ON COMPARING THESE PAPERS WITH THE ENCLOSED RRINTED RULES OF EVIOENCS YOU WILL AT ONCE PERCEIVE WHAT IS LACKING. NO ONE HAS TESTIFIED AS TO THE FACT OF THE APPLICATION HAVING RECEIVED THE 1NJRY ALLECEO EXCEPT EOWARDS HIMSELF, AND THE ACT OF CONGRESS REQUIRES THE AFFIDAVIT OF A COMPANY OFFICER OR OF TWO OTHER WITNESSES* SECTION I ANO 2 COBMONk'JEALTH OF KENTUCKY. COLONEL JOSEPH FUNK, MAJOR PETER FUNK, ANO WORDEN POPE SAY THAT THEY ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JAMES M. EDWARDS; THAT HE IS ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OF AGE AND NOW LIVES IN HENDERSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY, AND THAT HE WAS BORN AND REARED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. JOSEPH AND PETER FUNK STATE THAT THEY WERE IN THE BATTLE OF TIPPICANOE ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 7, l8n UNDER THE COMMAND C OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON; THAT PETER FUNK COMMANDED A COMPANY OF CAVALRY AND THAT JOSEPH FUNK AND JAMES M. EDWARDS WERE PRIVATES IN THE COMPANY OF THE LATE COLONEL FREDERICK GEIGER; THAT EDWARDS FOUGHT IN BATTLE WITH DISTINGUISHED BRAVERY AND RECEIVED TWO WOUNDS FROM RIFLE AND MUSKET BALLS. DOCTOR JOHN L. MURRAY WAS AN ACQUAINTANCE OF EDWARDS ANO TENDED HIS WOUNDS RECEIVED IN BATTLE. EDWARDS WAS BORN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY VIRGINIA AND WAS.REARED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA. ON DECEMBER 20, 1836 EDWARDS PETITION WAS REFERRED TO THE COMMITEE ON INVALID PENSIONS. CALHOUN OF KENTUCKY, 2I5- INVALIO PENSIONS, JANURAY I9, 1827, AN BILL ^27* ON DECEMBER M, 1837 IT WAS AGAIN REFERRED TO, THE COMMITTEE ON INVALID PENSIONS. MADISONVILLE, KENTUCKY AUGUST I, 1859, COI.'MISSIONER OF PENSIONS, DEAR SIR:- ENCLOSED IF THE AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES EOWAROS WHO LOST HIS PENSION CERTIFICATE. PLEASE INSTRUCT ME HOW E0WAR0S IS TO DRAW HIS PENSION WHICH WAS UNPAID FROM SEPTEMBER 14, 1857. BE IT-ENACTED IN BOTH THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATEO OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS, ASSEMBLED THAT THE SECRETARY OF WAR BE SECTION 3 REQUIRED TO PLACE THE NAME OF THE SOLOIER OF HEN0ERS0N COUNTY, KENTUCKY ON THE ROLLS OF THE INVALID PENSIONS AND TO PAY HIM SIX OOLLARS A MONTH DURING ALL HIS NATURAL LIFE. ON MARCH 4, 1858 THE SOLDIER WENT TO DINTON COUNTY IN TEXAS AND LOST HIS PENSION CERTIFICATE. KENTUCKY 2260. JAMES M. EDWARDS WAS A PRICATE IN THE COMPANY COMMANOED BY CAPTAIN FUNK. HE WAS DISCHARGED IN NOVEMBER |7, 1786, AND WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLLS OF PCGE 2 SECTION S HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS KENTUCKY AT SIX DOLLARS A MONTH TO COMMENCE OR JANUARY I, 1837. GIBSON: JOEL S35968 NORTH.CAROLINA DECLARATION WAS MADE IN HENDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY ON APRIL 25, 1825 WHILE THE SOLDIER WAS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE. HE ENLISTED FOR SIX MONTHS IN 1775 IN NORTH CAROLINA UNOER CAPTAIN HENRY OLXON WHO WAS UNOER COLONEL JAMES MOORE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA CONTINENTAL. HE WAS DISCHARGED IN WILMINGTON, N. G., AND WAS THREE MONTHS AT THE SIEGE OF I 11967WITH A FORAGE WAGON UNOER GENERAL MCCASTLE* HE DEPRNDS FOR SUPPORT ON HIS SON, BAILEY GIBSON. SINCE MARCH 18, I8L8 HE HAS HAD NO CHANGE IN PROPERTY. HE SERVEO IN THE REVOLUTION IN THE FIRST N. C. REGIMENT. WILLIAM HILL, SECRETARY OF STATE IN N. C, SAYS|THAT HE DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE MUSTER ROLL. VOLUME 2, PAGE 154, 19444- KENTUCKY* THE SOLDIER OF HENDERSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY SECTION 4 COMMANOEO BY CAPTAIN OlXON OF THE REGIMENTAL UNOER COLONEL JAMES MOORE IN THE N. C. CONTINENTAL FOR SEVEN YEARS FROM 1776 TO THE END or THE WAR IN 1783* HE WAS INSCRIBED ON THE ROLL OF KENTUCKY AT FIVE OOLLARS A MONTH BEGINNING ON APRIL 25, 1825* THE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED ON MAY 19, 1825. AND SENT TO JOHN GREEN,, JUNIOR, ESQUIRE OF HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY. SECTION 5 BAKER} THOMAS. GEORGIA SEA SERVICE. HENDERSON COUNTY SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE. ON OCTOBER THE SIXTEENTH SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX HE ENLISTED AS A SOLOIER IN VIRGINIA FOR GEORGIA UNDER CAPTA JOHN CLARK, AND HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO CAPTAIN JOHN MOSLEY IN GENERAL LAMUEL ELBERTS. COMPANY, WHERE HE SERVEO FOR TWO YEARS ANO A DAY* HE ENLISTED DURING THE WAR UNDER CAPTAIN HANCOCK, AT AUGUSTA IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA. HE WAS IN THE BATTLES AT SAVANNAH, STONA, STOMAKIY, FORT TONEY, ST. MARYS RIVER, AMELIA ISLANO, AND CARNEYS COWPENS AND CHENEGER* HE WAS WOUNDED AT ZOLPHINS OLD FORT ON THE SAVANNAH RIVER. BY TRADE HE WAS A SHOEMAKER. HE WAS GIVEN A DISCHARGE BY JOHN CLARKE. ROBERT TERRY A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE TELLS OF HAL UN WALDONS OATH OF ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE SAIO BAKER, JOHN GREEN, JR. ESC.., ON APRIL THE TWENTIETH EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX TELLS US THAT SAMUEL MOORE WAS HIS MAJOR AND SAMUEL SLINK HIS COLONEL ANO THAT HE WAS COMMANOEO BY GENERAL ROBERT HOWE. A CARNEYS COWPENS THEY HAD A BATTLE WITH THE BRITISH, TORIES AND INDIANS UNDER COLONEL SLINK AND GENERAL SAMUEL ELBERT. AT PURYSBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA HE WAS UNDER .GENERAL LINCOLN. 283857. FROM |776 HE RECEIVED $80. PER YEAR ACCORDING TO THE HONORABLE . A. G. HAWES. LEVI JONES, HORACE GAITHER, ANO OWEN GLASS PRACTISING PHYSICIANS SWEAR CONCERNING HIS WOUNDS. AT THIS TIME HIS PROPERTY WAS ONLY WORTH $19.162/3 SECTION 6 HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF THE MARINES NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE ST. MARYS RIVER IN GEORGIA. JOHN J. HART ENGAGED WITH HIM IN BATTLE AT THE SIEGE OF'CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA. ISAAC PARKER KNEW BAKER. THERE IS A LETTER FROM THE SON OF CAPTAIN. MOSELY 6!TAT(N6 THAT HIS FATHER IS DEAD BUT THAT HE HAD SEEN ISAAC PARKER, NATHAN WALDON SWEARS THAT CLARK ENLISTED BAKER, FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT THE CHILDREN RECEIVE A PENSION FROM MARCH 4, |838 TO FEBRUARY |2, 1839. JOHN TLLFORO ' THE PRES«OENT OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF KENTUCKY SENT VOUCHERS TO PAGE 3 SECTION 6 HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS To J, L. EDWARDS THE COMMISSIONER OF^PENSIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO GET BACK THE PENSION, J.*$.-EDWARDS REPLY SAVE THAT HE HAS NO . PROOF. THE HONORABLE W. L, YOUNG, H. R.,'WILLIAM ERNST SENT'PAPERS TO J. L, EDWARDS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. B, OF PJM- T. R. VIRGINIA SERVICE AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR HAS NO CLAIM EXCEPT INVALID #15299, KENTUCKY 25,607, RECSIVSS s£OeOO A YEAR ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL, ISSUED FEBRUARY |2, 1834, IT WAS SENT TO THE HONORABLE A. G. HAWES. H. R, ARREARS WERE ^>2Q0, AND THE SEMI-A NUAL ALLOWANCE ENDING MARCH 4, 1838 WAS $240. AND THEREFORE THE SUM TOT^L WAS £240* DEAD.PAID AT THE' TREASURY UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE TWELFTH OF APRIL EIGHTEEN- HUNDREO AND FORTY. FROM MARCH 4, 1838 TO FEBRUARY |2, 1839 WHICH WAS THE OAY OF HIS DEATH* THE AGENT WAS NOTIFIED, ON SEPTEMBER 8, i840w iMVAfciD FILE ^5299 T. 0. PRIVATE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832* VOLUME I. PAGE 2l, SECTION 7 BALDWIN OF BALDWIN} EDWARD. NORTH CAROLINA* R.445, WIFE WAS BRUSILLA HE WAS 65 YEARS OF AGE, AND HE ENLISTED IN 1782 UNDER CAPTAIN RHOOEAN IN THE THIRD NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT UNDER COLONEL LILLE. HE WAS SORN IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, IN VIRGINIA ON OCTOBER 2|, 1700? THE HONORABLE C LYON OF EDDYVILLE, KENTUCKY AND SAMUEL WOODSON WRITE FOR A PENSIONS FOR BALOWIN* THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE WILLIAM HILL SAYS HIS NAME IS ON THE MUSTER OLL OF NORTH CAROLINA, HIS WIDOW RECEIVED $80, PER ANNUM, FROM MARCH 4, 1640 TO SEPTEMBER |7, 184-1. HENRY'BALDWIN SAYS THAT THEY ARE BROTHERS, ISQUIN SPILL COLEMAN A MAGISTRATE IN CASWELL COUNTY CARRIED THEM. HER MAIDEN NAME WAS TWIGG. THEY HAD SIX CHILDREN. JOHN BOYLE ATTORNEY FOR DRUSILLA BALDWIN SENO S TO THE THE SECRETARY OF WAR FOR A CHECK, J. L, EDWARDS WAS THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS AT WASHINGTON 0. C. DRUSILLA BALDWIN CAN NOT COME TO COURT BUT SHE APPEARED IN HOPKINS COUNTY KBNTUOKY, SHE IS 77,AND WAS MARRIED AT HER MOTHERS, NARY TWIGGS, HOUSE ON AUGUST 27, 1786/ EDWARD BALOWIN DIED ON SEPT* 18, 134-1 * JOHN AND DRUSILLA MADE PETER T. BOYLE HER ATTORNEY. 9003 ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE SEVENTH OF JULY 1838 GAVE HER $40. PER ANNUM. HENRY BALDWIN AND JOSHUA TWIGG WERE AT THE. WEDDING. HIRAM BAULDWIN THE SON AUTHORIZES AN ATTORNEY. THE'CHILDREN WERE MARY'HILL, HIRAM, PARKER AND NANCY BALDWIN. THE HEIRS WERE NOT ENTITLED TO THE PENSION SECTION 8 BECAUSE DRUSILLA WAS NOT A WIDOW AT THE OATE OF THE PASSAGE OF THE ACT .AND SHE DID NOT SURVIVE THE JOL NT RESOLUTI ON OF MARCH 3, ,|85«, ^9003 D. B. AND E, B,, OF KENTUCKY SUSPENDED BY TH"E ACT OF JULY 7, 1838. EDWARD BALDWIN APPEARED IN OPEN COURT WHEN 65 YEARS OF AGE. HE HAD BEEN A PRIVATE UNDER. CAPTAIN RHODES AND COLONEL LYTTLE IN AUGUST 1782 FOR ONE YEAR. HE LIVED IN CASWELL. COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WHEN HE ENTERED. HIS STATEMENT WAS SUPPORTED BY HIS OWN DECLARATION. ALL PAPERS •ARE. CORRECT. HIS CERTIFICATE OF, PENSION WAS ISSUED JULY |5, 1833 BY C. LYON OF EDDYVILLE, ARREARS TO THE FOURTH OF,MARCH WERE ^>80, AND THE SEMI-ANNUAL ALLOWANCE ENDING SEPTEMBER 4 WAS ;,&0, MAKING A TOTAL OF $100. RECORDED BY DANIEL BOYD, BOOK C. VOLUME 7, ^ BAGE 4. CANNON} FURNA AND SARAH ' R.I663. NORTH CAROLINA THOMAS, SON OF JOHN AND MARY CANNON WAS BORN JANUARY 8, 1752. JUTERCY, 0AUGHTER OF J, AND M, CANNON WAS BORN JANUARY 2, 1754. (ROCKEY ) JANUARY |2, 1756* CALIB, SON OF JOHN AND WARY CANNON WAS BORN APRIL 5, 1759, FURNEFOLD* SON OF JOHN ANO L'.ARY CANNON WAS BORN DECEMBER 3, i86l. "PAGE 4 SECTION 8"9"10 HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS M ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MARY C* WAS BORN FEBRUARY 22, 1767 JOHN CANNON THE FATHER OF ALL WAS BORN APRIL it* l7n, MARY CANNON HIS WIFE WAS BORN IN THE YEAR OF I7I9. HENNERY C* SON OF J« ANO M. C. WAS BORN IN MARCH 24, 1737. 1 MARY, DAUGHTER OF J. AND M. C. WAS BORN NOVEMBER II, 1739, SARY, DAUGHTER OF J. AND M. C, WAS BORN DECEMBER I7, 1746. CATRON, OAMGHTER OF J. ANO M, C. WAS BORN ARPIL 15, 1750, NEGRO BOY OICK WAS BORN OCTOBER 10, 17M. NEGRO BOY LUCZAR WAS BORN APRIL 2I, |7|3? NEGRO ABRAM WAS BORN APRIL 8, i8i4. NEGRO BENN WAS BORN APRIL 8, l6i4. FURNA CANNON, OCTOBER 20, 1824, NEBRO LEWIS V/AS BORN JANUARY 10, 1806. NEGRESS RACHEL WAS BORN JANUARY 27, 1808* NEGRESS LETTIE WAS BORN JANUARY 8, 1808/ ARSENY WAS BORN MARCH 2, |8II. NEGRO BOY YEONGE WAS BORN OCTOBER 22, |8|5, NEGRO BOY DANIELLE WAS BORN JULY 24, |8|6. NEGRESS JANE V/AS BORN DECEMBER I, 1816, NEGRO BBY JAMES WAS BORN JANUARY 29, I8|7. NEGRO BOY SIMON WAS BORN MAROH 3, 1817. NlOKLES WAS BORN JANUARY 5, |8l9. ANDERSON WAS BORN SEPTEMBER,I9, I8I9*NEGRO BOY HAROEC WAS BORN MARCH 2, I8i7. NEGRO BOY DANIEL WAS BORN JULY 19, 1823. NEGRO BOY REOOON WAS BORN JANUARY 9, 1825. NEGRO BOY LEONARD WAS BORN MARCH I4, 1825, NEGRO BOY HAYwoggwAS BORN DECEMBER |6* 1825* NEGRO BOY WILLIAM WAS. BORN FEBRUARY |77^B2&» NEGRESS HANNAH WAS BORN MARCH 22, 1828. NEGRESS LOTY WAS BORN APRIL »0, 1827. NEGRESS LETTSHY WAS BORN APRIL 1827. NEGRI BOY RICHARO WAS BORN MAY 26, 1-829. NEGRO BOY REUBEN WAS BORN NOVEMBER 4, 1832. NEGRESS JANR WAS BORN DECEMBER 24, 1831. WIOLIAM C. SON or FURNA AND SALLY C, WAS BORN JANUARY 27, 1793. FURNA C. SON OF FURMA AND SALLY &., WAS BORN OCTOBER II, »806, EURNA C, V/AS 18 ON THE ELEVENTH OF OCTOBER |824, NEGRO PACHENSE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 24, |742, NEGRO CHARLES WAS BORN JANUARY 6, 1795, NEGRO ALLY WAS. BORN MARCH 7, 1799. NEGRO £AIN WAS BORN AUGUST 9, 1799* NEGRO REOOICK WAS BORN JULY 9, 1800. NEGRESS DIANNER WAS BORN FEBRUARY 3, 1803* NEGRO VISSE WAS BORN AUGUST 4, 1806, NEGRO RACHIEL WAS BORN JANUARY 27, 1608* NEGRO LETTE WAS BORN JANUARY 1809, NEGRO ARSENEY WAS BORN MARCH 2, lOll, FURNA CANNON WAS 72 YEARS OLD. HE ENTERED THE NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA IN 1778 UNDER CAPTAIN BARROW AND GENERAL JONES OF HALIFAX COUNTY, HE SERVED THREE MONTHS AND WAS DISCHARGED AND SENT HOME FOR TEN MONTHS, HE SERVED THREE MONTHS UNDER COLONEL LUDGRAVES AND MAJOR HOGG. HE WAS NEXT ENGAGEO UNOER CAPTAIN GEORGE FAULKNER UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL GORAM. HE V/AS NEXT UNDER GENERAL JOHN SIMPSON, HE VOLUNTEERED FOR FOR THREE WEEKS UNDER COLONEL'JOHN SALTER, HTS DISCHARGES ARE ALL LOST, HUGH CANNON WHO IS TWO HUNDRED MILES AV/AY IN MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO COULO TESTIFY* HENRY DISON AND LEVIN W, ARNETT TESTIFY FOR FURNA. HE WAS BORN IN P|TT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. IN DECEMBER 3, |76|. THIS RECORD IS IN THE BOOK. ALWAYS IN HENDERSON COUNTY FROM ???•- ~ ON. HE WAS ORAFTEO ALL THE TIME EXCEPT* ONCE WHEN H~ SUBSTITUTED FOR ISAAC BLOUNT. HE SAYS THAT COLONEL WLLLIAM WASHINGTON COMMANDED THE BLACK TROOPS OF VIRGINIA. HE WAS OTSCHARGEO BY COLONEL JONES. LORAM SIMPSON AND SEOGRAVES. HE HAS APPOINTED JOHN BOYLE HIS ATTORNEY. THE HONORABLE LEWIS CASS, SECREATARY OF WAR OF D• C. #305APPEARBY LEWI6 SFRO S TMOCANNO GE177TN 8 A A WIDOWJUSTICPRIVATS EPENSION FOOFR TH EIGHE, PEACTHET MONTHYE WEROFS E CRAVE ^26.66MARRIEN COUNT.O SARAONY OCTOBEHNORT CANNOHR ^CAROLINA3N, A1792T 83,* PAGE 5 SECTION II HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS FURNA AS BORN DECEMBER 3, j76l AND OIEO JUNE |7, 1837. SARAH CANNON WAS BORN FEBRUARY 24, |77|* WILLIE LUGG CERTIFIED THEIR MARRIAGE AND HER MAIDEN NAME WAS SARAH BUNREY. SECTION l2 ELIZABETH L. BARNETT AT THE AGE OF 5I SWEARS THAT SHE WAS.AOQUAINTED WITH FURNA AND SARAH CANNON, V/ILLIAM LUGO AND PATIENCE FRY CERTIFIED FOR THEM. WILLIAM CANNON THE SON OF FURNA.AND SARAH CANNAN WAS BORN JANRBRY 27, 1793, THIS IS THE REOORD WHICH WAS READ IN COURT. ALL THE BIRTHS ARE RECOROED AS FAR BACK AS |7II. THEY WERE MARRIED IN PITT COUNTY NORTH CAROIINA ANO WILLIAM, JOHN, MARY AND ELIZABETH ARE THEIR CHILDREN. FURNA CANNON CERTIFIES FOR THEM. MAJOR WILLIAM LUGG ANO PATIENCE FRY ALSO DO THE SAME. JEFF BROWN WROTE EIGHT LETTERS IN THE BEHALF OF SARAH CANNON. J. G. STANLEY WRITES MR. JOHN BARNETT THAT HE CAN NOT FINO THE RECORDS AND SHEPPARD REPLIES * SWEARING THAT THE COURT HOUSE CONTAINING THE RECORDS OF THE MARRIAGE WERE DESTROYED BY FIRE. JOHN BARNETT HER SON IN LAW WRITES TO THE HONORABLE 8.8, GRAY IN HER BEHALF «ND SAYS THAT SHE IS LIVING WITH HIM. THE HONORABLE B« E, GRAY THEN WRITES TO THE HONORABLE HEATH, F. C, ACT OF THE SEVENTH OF JUNE 1832. AT $2666 PER ANNUM PAID TO SEPTEMBER 4, 1835. ^5069 S.C. WIDOW OF FURNA CANNON OF KENTUCKY, J, BROWN, DECEMBER 20/53. JUNE 6, 54, FEBRUARY 21, 1856, AUGUST 3, 1857, NOVEMBER 3, 1857. JULY 13, 1858 APRIL R, 1859* JULY 7, 1858, APRIL I6,S1850, HE IS ON THE ROLL OF KENTUCKY AT THE RATE OF $26, PER ANNUM TO COMMENCE ON MADCH 4, |83|, THE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED NOVEMBER 10. 1832, ',AND SENT TO WILLIAM ALLISON OF HENDERSON KENTUCKY. THE ARREARS TO SEPTEMBER 4, 1832 WERE 489.99 AND THE SEMI-ANNUAL ALLOWANCE ENDING MARCH 4, |833, V/AS $|3.33, ,AK|NG THE SUM TOTAL $52.32, RECORDED BY NATHAN PRIOE, APPLICATION FILED DECEMBER |853 BY SARAH CANNON THE WIDOW OF FURNA CANNON. BOOK D, VOLUME 9, PAGE 3I. — SECTION 13 & 14 HUGHES : JOHN AND ZSTHER. N. C, JW 8954, THEY WERE IN 1776 IN NORMAN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA, HE WAS ENLISTED FOR THREE YEARS A8 AN ORDERLY SERGEANT BY CAPTAIN BOLES OF THE NLNEH REGIMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA ^.UOTA UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL MOBEN, HE WAS DIS CHARGED FROM CAPTAIN LOMICS COMPANY INTO COLONEL THOMAS CLANHEES REGIMENT HIS AGE IS NOW 73, HE TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN THE. BATTLE FO MONMOUTH. HIS SOLE POSSESSION AT THAT TIME WAS ONE LAME MARE WHICH WAS ESTIMATED TO BE WORTH $20. FOR THREE YEARS HE WAS IN THE FOURTH REGIMENT OF THW NORTH CAROLINA' LINE UNDER COLONEL TH9MAS CLARK, HE WAS ALSO LATER IN CAPTAIN JOHN SOMERA COMPANY. HE RECEIVED ^(20.00 ON HIS PENSION. ESTHER HUGHES AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY FIVE APPEARED IN OPEN COURT. SHE SWORE THAT THEY WERE MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 8, L78L. IN THE TOWN OF CARLISLE IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA BY PARSON HOGG, CHARLES COTTINGHAM AND ANN RAWLEY TESTIFY TO THEIR PROPER MARRIAGE, THOMAS TOWLES IS CERTAIN THAT A CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED TO JOHN HUGHES, E. H. HOPKINS WRITES CONCERNING ESTHER HUGHES PENSION THROUGH HER HUSBAND JOHN HUGHES TO THE HONORABLE ALNEY MCLEON AT WASHINGTON IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. CHARLES COTTINGHAM CERTIFIES THAT THEY WERE DEGALLY MARRIED, WILLIAM GREER CERTIFIES THEIR COMPLETE CREDIBILITY, ANN RAWLEY STATES THAT 6HE KNEW THEM BOTH IN THE YEAR 1778 WHEN THEY WERE ALL IN PENNSYLVANIA* THOMAS TOWLES THAT HE ISSUED THE ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF PENSDON BY SENDING IT TO A'MR. COONEY OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, IN RUB YEAR I8I9<> ESTHER GETS $I20. PER ANNUM ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JULY 7, 1838 FROM SEPTEMBER 4, 1840 UNTIL MARCH 4, |84| • JOHN HUGHES COT $8.00 PER MONTH FROM JUNE 29, 18|8 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 4, 1830, HE OIEO ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1830, JULIA GILCHRIST IS HIS GREAT-GRAND DAUGHTER, HIS p,\GE 6 SECTION |4 HEWERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONS His CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED ON JULY 7, 1840 AND SENT TO THE HONORABLE PHILIP TRJPLETT, HE RECEIVED A TOTOAL OF $550. BOOK A. VOLUME 2. 2 PAGE 24, $8. PER MONTH FROM JUNE 29, |8|8. HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED ON Apr;'. 23, :8i9e., AND ENT TO HENRY PW BROADNASE A JUDGE OF HENDERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY $I13.50. MOSS: JOHN NOHTH CAROLINA ENLISTED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY ON SEPTEMBER |6.|7?? PRIVATE IN :LL GRANVELLES COMPANY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA LINE UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARD >H HARRISON IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM HOWE UNDER BRIGADIER GENERAL BUTLER WHO WAS UNDER COLONEL LISCOM, LYTTLE AND MCBONE. SAMUEL J. W. WILLIAMS KNEW MOSS FROM BOYHOOD AS WELL AS HENRY DIXON. SECTION 15 'MANY LETTERS WERE ADDRESSED TO THE HONORABLE LEWIS CASS. HE WAS ALSO A PRIVATE IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COLONEL MOORE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA LINE FOR SEVEN AND A HALF MONTHS.FROM 1780 , HE WAS ON THE ROLL OF KENTUCKY AT THE RATE OF $25. PER ANNUM TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |83|. THE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED ON NOVEMBER IO. 1832 ANO WAS SENT TO W. D, ALLISON OF THE COUNTY HENDERSON IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE TOTAL THAT HE EOEIVED WAS $50. RECORDED BY NATHAN RICE. VOLUME 9, PAGE 51. RAMSEY: JOHN S.C1; #S. 3|3l8 AGED SEVENTY-THREE YEARS OF AGE. HE ENLISTED FOR SIX WEEKS IN 1774 IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COMMAND OF JOHN BARCLAIN IN THE REGIMENT OF COLONEL ELI KERSHAW AND HE WAS DISCHARGED IN i78l IN SOUTH CAROLINA HIS SOLE POSSESSIONS WERE ONE MARE VALUED AT $40/ ONE BED VALUED AT' $25* JAMES NISBETT SWEARS THAT HE WAS IN THE SERVICE AT THE SAME TIME AS JOHN RAMSEY, HE WAS UNDER HENRY GOFF AS LIEUTENANT. HE WAS ALSO A SUBSTITUTE FOR JOHN MOORE HIS UNCLE. HE WAS FOR A TIME ENCAMPED ON REPBURNS CREEK WHILE THE ENEMY WAS AT READY RIVER AT WHICH TIME HE SERVED FOR THREE MONTHS AND HELPED TO TAKE THE TORIES UNDER CU. NIMGHAM. GENERAL RICHARDSON COMMANDED AND SUMPTER WAS THE AOJUTANT. HE WAS DRAFTED UNOER JAMES MONTGOMERY. HE MARCHED TO CHASTON AND SECTION I6 TO PUNINSTOWN ABOVE SAVANNAH. HE HEARD THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE AMERICANS A. ANO T E BRITISH AT SAVA. NAH AND SERVEO SIX WEEKS WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED IN AUGUSTA, ^GEORGIA UNDR CAPTAIN HENRY COFEE AND ELI KERSHAW AS THE COLONEL, AND ELI KERSHAW AS THE COLONEL, MAJOR WAS THERE KILLEO BY THE INOIAN. HE WAS THEN DRAFTED AGA IIS UNDER SUMPTER HE WAS AT THE SIEGE OF A FORT AT CONGARES, AT THAT BATTLE UNDER COLONEL THOMSON HE WAS SHOT* THROFFG!J THE LEFT THIGH* THEY TOOK SI XYEEN'WAGONS AND SIXTY BRITISH BETWEEN CHARLESTON AND CAMDEN, IN TWO BATTLES ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE PATSWASA. JACOB NEWMAN AND THOMAS MCMULLEN CERTIFY HIM AS BEING NEIGHBORS. HE WAS BO N IN LANCASTER COUNTY 8N SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1750, BUT THE RECORD O* HIS ATE IS LOST* HE ENTERED THE SERVICE WHILE IN LANCASTER COUNT/ IN TENNESSEE AND HE SPENT SOME TIME IN UNION AND HOPKINS COUNTIES BUT HE IS NOW RESIDING IN HENDERSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY. HE SERVEO UNTIL 1787, GENERAL WINSOM COMMANDED THE EGIMENT NEAR AUGUSTA IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE SAVANNAH RIVES. HE WAS WELL KNOWN TO V/INSON CRUISE AND GEORGE N. RING. HE NOMINBTEDD JOHN BOYLE HIS LAWFUL ATTORNEY AND SAYS THAT THE PAY IS TO BE SENT TO THE LOUISVILLE UNITED STATES BRANCH BANK. ALEXANDER RAMSEY IS HIS BROTHER, HE SERVED FOUR WEEKS UNDER GENERAL SUMPTER AT THE S&TTLE OF HANGING ROCKS© PAGE T SECTI0N 17 HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONS HE SERVEO FIVE WEEKS UNDER GEMERAL DAVtOWON IN NORTH CAROLINA WHEN FERGUSON WAS DEFEATED ON KINGS MOUNTAIN* HE ALSO SPENT FOUR wEEKSu?:r.E UNDER COLONEL DAVEY ON WARSAW CREEK, HE SAYS THAT GENERAL JACKSON MAY REMEM REMBER HIS FATHER ROBERT RAMSEY AND HIMSELF WHEN THEY ALL WERE ON RAMSEY CR CREEK IN CAMDEN IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, WH'ILE PRESIDENT JACKSON WAS LIVING AT THE HOME OF MAJOR ROBERT CRAWFORD, HE AND HIS FATHER >. TRAVELED WITH THEM BOTH ON THEIR WAY TO CHARLESTON, WHEN HI 8 BROTHER ALEXANDER AND HE LAY AT GUM SWAMP. LETTERS ARE ADORESSED TO THE HONORABLE Lewis CASS, THE SECRETARY OF WAR AT V/ASHINGTON IN THE DISTRICT OF.COLUMBIA. HE RECEIVED $35. PER MONTH AND SERVED TRN AND A HALT MONTHS AS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN MONTGOMERY IN SOUTH CAROLINA,MILIIA. HE IS ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL AT THE RATE OF $35, PER ANNUM TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, L83L. HIS CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAR ISSUED MAY 30, 1835., AND IT WAS SENT TO JOHN BOYLE. THE TOTAL DUE HIB WAS $84.50. RECORDED BY WILLIAM S. ALLISON, BOOK E. VOLUME 7, PAGE 25 ROUSE: LEWIS AID ELIZABETH. VIRGINIA #/,9259. ##25787 IT IS ADVISED THAT JOHN V/RIGHT ANO LEWIS ROUSE BE PUT ON THE PENSION LIST AGGREEABLT TO THE AOTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN THEIR FAVOUR* SIGNED BY H, R, RICHARDSON, HE IS TO RECEIVE EIGHT POBNDB A YEAR TO OOMMENCE ON JANUARY I, 1795 BY JAMES WOOD, GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA AT RICHMOND. SECTION 18 HE WAS WOUNDED IN ACTION NEAR PETERSBURG IN I78I. HE RECEIVED EIGHT POUNDS, HE GOT A MUSKET BALL THROUGH THE TH|CH. H. HILL WAS A MAGISTRATE IN THE SAME REGIMENT, WLLLLAM W. "SOUTHGATE WROTE TO U. L* EDWARDS THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS IN ORDER TO GET THE CERTIFICATE OP LEWIS Rouse. HE ALSO WROTE THE HONORABLE ROBERT M, HATTON, H. R., AS WELL AS JAMES JOHNSON, H. R., AND HE WAS L/TER IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN FINKS IN THE REGIMENT OF COLONEL JOHN HA.JGTITER UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL PETER MUHLENBURG, JACOB RAND SWEARS THAT HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH KEWUS R]0USE AND E* BENNETT THE ACTING SURGEON OF THE UNITED STATES GARRISON AT NEWPORT SWEARS THAT HE IS DISABLED. HE WAS THEN AT THE AGE OF 74* HE SERVED FOR THREE MONTHS WHEN THE HESSIANS RAIDED TH~ BARRACKS AT ALBEMARLE? UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN WAVER, HE SUBSTITUTED FOR RICE UNDER CAPTAIN FISHER AND ALSO FOR MOSES BROILES ANO WENT TO PETERRBURG UNDER CAPTAIN MARK FINKS AND COLONEL JAMES SLAUGHTER WHO WAS ONE OF GENERAL MUHLENBURGS LIFE GUARDS WHEN HE ENGAGED WITH THE BRITISH AT PETERSBURG AND WAS V/OUNDEO. HE WAS THEN ATTENDED BY OOCTOR BOOKER, JOSEPH ROUSE HIS BROTHER IS THE ONLY LIVING WITNESS OF ALL THIS. JOHN GREEN A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND JOEL LAMBERT A PRESBYTERIAN * MINISTER SWEAR THAT THEY ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM. HE WAS BORN IN 1758 IN CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND HE STILL LISTED THERE WHEN HE ENLISTED. LATER HE MOVED INTO BONE AND HENDERSON COUNTIES SECTION I9n IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. ONCE HE WAS DRAFTE0 AND TWICE HE SERVED AS A SUBSTITUTE DOCTOR TALBOT, JAMES HILLYER, JOHN SPEEN, AND EDMUND H. HOPKINS 'ARE ALL WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM. HE MADE JOHN BOYLE nh LAWFUL ATTORNEY. ELIZABETH ROUSE AT THE AGE OF 63 APPEARED IN OPEN COURT TO GET A PENSION BY THE ACT OF. CONGRESS OF JULY 7, 1838. SHE RECEIVED $30. PER ANNUM FROM MAROH 4, |83| UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE PENSION. THEY WERE MARRIED ON MAY 23, I783 AND HER HUSBAND LEWIS ROUSE OIED ON NOV., 8, 1835. JOSEPH D. GOB|N SWEARS THAT He is ACQUAINTED WITH LEWIS ROUSE AND THAT THEIR OLDEST CHILD IS AT PRESENT PAST THE AGE OF 8IRTYL PAGE 8 SECTION 19 HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS JOSEPH D. GOBIN SWEARS THAT HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH LEWIS ROUSE AND THAT THEIR OLDESTMCHILD IS AT PRESENT PAST THE AGE OF SIXTY. WILLIAM F- SMITH SWEARS THAT HE ALSO IS ACQUAINTED WITH THEI.; AND THAT THEY CAME TO HENDERSON COUNTY H; THE ISTATE OF KENTUCKY ABOUT THE YEAR |82|/ JAMES SLARMS AND Josrp; D» Goal if SWEAR CONCERING THE DATE OF THE DEATH OF LEWIS ROUSE, TKr-:v WERE MARRIED IN VIRGINIA AND A. M. ALLISON EXPLAINS THE LACK OF THE MARRIAGE RECORD, THEY RECEIVED $30,00 DOLLARS AT FIRST WHICH V/AS LATER INCREASES TO $78, THEY WERE MARRIED IN CULPEPPER IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA BY THE REVEREND MR, SMITH, THEY HAVE EIGHT CHILDREN WHICH ARE STILL ALIVE ANO THEY HAD FOUR MORE WHO HAVE SINCE DIEO. MRS, LUCY ROUSE WAS BORN ON 1786; JAMES ROUSE WAS BORN 1792; ELIZABETH ROUSE'WAS BORN 1790; JULIA SMITH WAS BORN 1798; LEWIS R. ROUSE WAS BORN IN MAY OF THE YEAR 1800; FRANCES WILLIAMSON WAS BORN IN THE YEAR OF |802»SEPTEMBER. ROBERT G, ROUSE WAS BORN ON THE SECTION 20 TWENTY-SEVENTH OF iV.ARCH IN THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNORED ANO FIVE- MARY MILLER WAS BORN MARCH 14, 1807, WILLIAM D, ALLISON SWEARS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE ROUSES, THE WHOLE FAMILY. JAMES ROUSE WHO IS THE ELDEST SON ANA IS SIXTY YEARS OF AGE WAS BORN IN I792, THEY WERE MARRIED IN MADISON COUNTY |N THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ANO IN THE YEAR OF |7 83, NANCY WEBSTER WHO IS THE ELDEST SISTER AND DECEASED WAS BORN IN 1784. HER SISTER LUCY V/AS BORN IN |780. HE IS THE FIFTH IN AGE OF ALL EIGHT CHILOREN. THEY MOVED FROM CAMPBELL COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY TO HENDERSON COUNTY IN THE SRME STATE ABOUT THE YEAR I8|'7 WHEN HE HAD TWO CHILDREN AND HIS SISTER LUCY HAD TWO CHILDREN BY A COUSIN OF THE SAME NAME, HE HIMSELF WAS IN THE WAR OF |8|2 AGAINST GREAT BRITTAIN. L, E, ALLISON SWEARS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THEM AND THE REVEREND JOEL LAMBERT SWEARS THAT HE HAS BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH THEM FOF FIFTEEN YEARS. HE DIED I IN HENDERSON COUNTY ON NOVEMBER 8, 1835. E. H. HOPKINS AT THE AGE OF 52 BECAMS^ACQUAINTED WITH THE FAMILY OF LEWIS ROUSE ABOUT THE YEAR !8L7. SAMUEL STITES AGED 60 RESIDED IN HENDERSON COUNTY SINCE 1816 AND KNEW THEM IN 1817. WILLIAM E, SMITH-OR WILLIAM F* SMITH, AGED 64 LIVED IN HENDERSON COUNTY FOR 62 YEARS AND ALSO KNEW THE FAMILY OF LEWIS ROUSE IN THE THE YEAR |8|7. THE YOUNGEST ROSE WAS ONLY 12 YEARS OF AGE WHEN THE FAMILY CAME TO THE COUNTY OF HENDERSON,'' ELIZABETH ROUSE APPOINTS GEORGE HR MOUSOR RRAT HER LEGAL ATTORNEY. THOMAS J. JOHNSON SECTION ?.: A PRACTISING PHYSICIAN SWEARS' THAT HE WAS ACO.UAITJTED WITH THE ROUSE FAMILY. LEWIS ROUSE RECEIVED $300 PER ANNUL; AND HE WENT ON FILE TOR AN INCREASE. SHE SAID THAT HER HUSBAND^WAS PENSIONED UNDER THE AGE OF 32 A AND THAT HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 35, THE EVIDENCE IS FROM THE I I! MA RRI AGE, PAROLE AND THE AGES OF THE CHILDREN. INVALID IN KENTUCKY* HIS PENSION COMMENCED ON FEBRUARY 13, :832C, AT THE RATE OF $4. PER MONTH BV THE ACT OF APRIL 25, I8089 #!3348. HE RECEIVED $30, PER AIJNUM TO COMMCNCE of: FOURTH FO MARCH :N THE YEAR :843e THE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS JSSUSD JULY 22, 1852, AND IT WAS SENT TO J. J. COMBS. BOOK A. VOLUME 2, PAGE 20. HE WAS NINE MONTHS IN THE SERVICE ON THE ROLL OF LOUISVILLE AT THE RATE OF $30 PER..ANNUM TO COMMENCE ON MARCH 4, |8360 THE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED JULY 22, 1852. BOOK D. VOLUME P* PAGE 377r HE WAS SAID TO HAVE A ONE HALF RATIO OF DISABILITY. FEBRUARY |3, |827 VMS THE TIME OF HIS CLOSING TESTIMONY. HE V/AS ON THE ROLL OF KENTUCKY AT THE RAT* OF $4. PER MONTH. TO COMMENCE FEBRUARY !3, 1827. THE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED FEBRUARY 20, 1827 AND WAS SENT TO THE HONORABLE R. M. HATTON. H. R» THE TOTAL DUE TO HIM WAS $26.80 BU THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF APRIL 25, PAGE 9 SECTION 2| HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS. THE TOTAL DUE TO HIM WAS $26.80 BY ACT OF CONGRESS OF APRIL 25, 1808. #25440. HE WAS UNDER COLONEL DAUGHERT/ IN THE'VIRGINIA LINE FOR NINE MONTHS. THE WAS ON THE ROLL OF KENTUCKY AT THE RATE OF $30, PER ANNUM TO COMMENCE ON SECTtON 22 MAROH 4, 1830, His CERTIFICATE OF PENSION WAS ISSUED ON JANUARY 9, 1833 AND WAS SENT TO JAMES BOYLE, THE TOTAL DUE TO HIM WAS $90i RECORDED BY DANIEL BOYD. BOOK E, VOLUME.7, PAGE ? SELLERS; I SHAM OR ISAM NORTH CAROLINA S.14428 HE WAS 78 YEARS OF AGE. HE SERVED SIX MONTHS AS A MINUTE MAN IN I776 UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARD CLINTON WHO WAS UNDER COLONEL ALEXANDER LIVINGSTON ANO THEY ALL MARCHED TO WILMINGTON IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THENCE TO MOORES CREEK AND FROM THERE TO LACKITTS FOLLY BRIDGE NEAR THE EDGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THEY FOUGHT SOME TORIES AT . MOORES CREEK, HE SERVED SIX MONTHS AND WAS DISCHARGED BY COLONEL LULNGSTON ANO WAS THEN AGAIN DRAFTED UNDER CAPTAIN HOLMES AND WENT TO JUMPING CREEK RUN BELOW WILMINGTON AND SERVED THREE MONTHS AND WAS ORDERED HOME BY COLONEL JAMES KINNLON. HE THEN SUBSTITUTED FOR'A MAN BY THE NAME OF COOFERS, FOR THREE MONTHS .THEY MARCHED TO PESOEE, SOUTH CAROLINA DNT HE THEN VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM MANNER HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, THEY MARCHED FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND JOINED GENERAL GREENE AT GUILFORD AND FOUGHT THERE AGAINST LORD CORNWALL IS AND MARCHED TO THE NORTH EAST BRIDGE WHICH WAS ABOUT TEII MILES ABOVE WILMINGTON ANO FOUGHT UNDER LIVINGSTON AGAINST THE BRITISH GENERAL CRAIG, HE THEN SERVED FOR THREE MONTHS WHEN THEY MARCHED FROM NORTH EAST BRIDGE TO RUTHERFORD MILUAND THENCE TO KINGSTON ON THE ^ SECTION 23 & 24 NEWS RIVER. HE WAS WOUNDED* ON THE SAVANNAH RIVER IN NORTH CAROLINA BY A TORY. HE WAS THEN IN THE ARTILLERY UNDE;. COLONEL ALLEN AND A FRENCH CAPTAIN OF THE NAME OF THOROUGHGOOD (?) HE STOOD GUARD FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS ABOUT SIX MILES ABOVE BLETCHERS1' LEEK IN TENNESSEE. JACOB NEWMAN AND THOMAS MCMULLER SWEARS ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE FAMILY. HE WAS BORN IN DUPLIN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE YEAR 1754 AND HE WAS CALLEO INTO THE SERVICE FROM THE COUNTY. HE ALSO LIVED FOR THREE YEARS|N LAMPSON COUNTY, MORTH CAROLINA AND FOR FOUR IN TENNESSEE, BUT HAD LIVED IN HENDERSON COUNTY EVER SINCE THAT TIME. HE WAS DRAFTED, VOLUNTEERED,'AND SUBSTITUTED FOR ROBERT RODGERS. HE SERVED UNDER THE FOLLOWING CAPTAINS}- HOLMES, ALLEN, THOROUGHGOOD(?) AND RHODES AND ENSIGN CURTIS IVY. HE SAID THAT HE RECEIVED A VERBAL DISCHARGE* JOHN GREEN, "GEORGE W. KING, AND REUBEN DENTON SWEAR THAT THEY WERE ACQUAINTED WITH ALL OF THE FAMILY. HE ALSO VOLUNTEERED^!N THE YEAR THAT CORNWALLLS WAS DEFEATED. AND THEN HE WENT TO ROCKFIR'ST^BRLOCE IN NORTH CAROLINA AND HE ENTRENCHED AGAINST COLONEL GRAY, FW^ABOUT TWO WEEKS UNDER CAPTAIN SHADROCK STALLION AND HE WAS UNDER GENERAL KINNION. HE APPOINTED JOHN BOYLE HIS LAWFUL"ATTORNEY. LETTERS WERE SENT TO THE HONORABLE LEV/IS CASS WHO WAS A SECRETARY OF WAR* AT WASHINGTON IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA*. FOR EIGHT MONTHS AND TWO WEEKS HE VOLUNTEERED AND FOR THREE MONTHS HE ACTED AS A DRAFTED MILITIA MAN, F AND FOR THREE MONTHS HE SUBSTITJ^IEXKFOR JOEL RODGERS. FOR SIX MONTHS HE ACTED AS A MINUTE MAN. THEREFORETITVPENT A TOTAL OF TWENTY MONTHS AND TWOWEEKS IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, JOHN DORRIN A BAPTSLT PREACHER HAO HIM ACT AS ..SUBSTITUTE FOR CAPTAIN MCMULLEN AND JACOB NEWMAN* SECTION 24 PAGE 10 SECTION 24 HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HE WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN CLINTONS COMPANY OF COLONEL SUMMINGTONS REGIMENT IN THE NORTH CAROLINA LINE FOR ONE YEAR, EICHTMONTHS, ANO FOUR TEEN DAYS. HE, WAS TO RECEIVE $68,22 PER ANNUM TO COMMENCE MARCH 4, |83| ON THE KENTUCKY ROLL* H|S CERTIFICATE OF. PENSION WAS ISSUED ON APRIL 20, |833 AND WAS SENT TO WILLIAM D. ALLISON. THE TOTAL HE WAS TO RECEIVE WAS $170*55/ RECORDED GY DANIEL B0Y0. BOOK E. VOLUME 7, PAGE 27 27. WILLIAMS: SAMUEL F. NORTH CAROLINA R. 116|8 HE WAS SEVENTY-FOUR YEARS OF AGE. IN THE YEAR l780 HE WAS IN A DRAGOON REGIMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA AS A VOLUNTEER UNDER CAPTAIN SAMUEL SNCAD IN THE REGIMENT OF COLONEL WILL IAM*RICHARDSON DAVY AND COLONEL PHILIP TAYLOR FOR THE TERM OF T.WO MONTHS. THEY MARCHED FROM GRANVILLE COURT HOUSE THROUGH HKLLESBOROUGH AND SALISBURY TO CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE, HE ALSO SUBSTITUTED FOR THE TERM OF THREE MONTHS FOR A MAN AND AGAIN FOR WILLIAM ROCHESTER IN HIS RECOLLECTION. SECTION 25 HE WAS THEN UNDER COLONEL DANIEL MORGAN, AND COLONEL WASHINGTON OF THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE. MR. MOSS IS THE ONLY LIVING WITNESS* JOHN MOSS AND JOHN WILLIAMS SWEAR THAT THEY ARE ACQUAINTED WITH HIM ANR THAT HE WAS IN TRUTH IN THE SERVICE. HE WAS BORN .IN GRANVILLE COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN THE YEAR 1759V HE WAS THERE UNTIL 1805 AND FROM THEN ON HE WAS |N HENDERSON COUNTY, HE VOLUNTEERED FOR THREE MONTHS ANO,HAD TWO SUBSTITUTES FOR FIFTEEN MONTHS. HE RECEIVED A CERTIFI CATE OF DISCHARGE WHICH HE ,LATER LOST, SAMUEL DENTON, JOSHUA MOSS, WILLIAM JONES AND EDMUND H. VACEGHN ARE ALL NEIGHBORS AND ACQUAINTANCES or HIS. HE APPOINTED JOHN BOYLE TO BE HIS LAWFUL ATTORNEY. ALFRED AND SUSAN WILLIAMS AND JANE D. HARDING APPEAR CONCERNING HIS PENSION. IN 1780 FOR TWO MONTHS HE WAS A PRIVATE IN THE CAVARY UNDER CAPTAIN SNEAD. PROOF OF ALLT THIS IS TRADITIONARY. IN |780 FOR THREE MONTHS HE SERVED AS A PRIVATE UNDER COLONELS TAYLORY ANO DAVY* HIS A4JE AT APPLICATION WAS SEVENTY-FOUR* HE WAS REJECTED BECAUSE HE DID NQT SERVE FOR SIX MONTHS, * SECTION 25-26-27 GREEN: GABRIEL AID SARAH ANNE VIRGINIA ALSO SERVED IN ' 1797 #W.23|36. VIRGINIA HALF PAY. B.L.WT, 872-200- LIEUT, ISSUED JANUARY 17, 1800. No PAPERS. HE GIVES A NEGRO CHARLES TO HIS SON JOHN G. GREEN, HE LENDS HIS ESTATE — GABRIEL GREEN SON OF MAJOR JAMES GREEN DIED JANUARY 18, |820 AT TWO P. M. AT THE AGE OF 60. ALL THIS 18 ACCORDING TO THEIR UNCLE AUGUSTINE. SARAH ANNE GREEN DIED IN THE FALL OF 1638 ANO HER MAIDEN ANEM WAS SARAH ANNE GRANT. THEY WERE MARRIED AT THE HOME OF HER GRANDFATHER CAPTAIN WILLIAM GRANT. ELIZABETH GREEN HAD THREE CHILDREN, GABRIEL JONES GREEN, CASSANDRA GREEN ANO JAMES GREEN* ANNE GREEN, DIXON GREEN AND GRANT'GREEN WERE THE CHILDREN OF MARY BAILEY THE FORMER WIDOW OF GABRIEL GRANT.GREEN. ELIZABETH MANRY WHOSE MA|DEN NAME WAS GRANT WAS A SISTER OF SARAH ANNE GREEN AND SHE WAS PRESENT AT THEIR MARRIAGE. HE RECEIVEO $320. PER ANNUM. SHE DIED SEPTEMBER I, 1838. JOHN BOYLE WROTE TO PRESIDENT POLK CONCERNING HER PENSION*. SHE WAS REJECTED BECAUSE THEY WERE MARRIED AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR* A UNITED STATES BOUNTY LAND GRANT WAS GIVEN TO LLEUTENANAT GABRIEL GRANT OF THE VIRGINIA* CONTINENTAL LINE ON JANUARY 17, 1800*, JAME S WOOD A COLONEL CERTIFIES LIEUTENANAT GREEN OF THE HIGH VIRGINIA REGIMENT AND SAYS THAT HE SERVED FOR THREE YEARS IN THE PAGE M SECTION 27 HENOERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY" PENSIONERS HIGH VIRGINIA REGIMENT AND SAYS THAT HE SERVED FOR THREE YEARS IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY* SEPTEMBER 22, 1783 THERE WAS A LICENSE ISSUED FROM FAUQUIER COUNTY COURT AUTHORIZING THE MARRIAGE OF GABRIEL ANO SARAH ANNE GREEN.- THE CERTIFICATE BOOK D. VOLUME l. PAGE 439. PAGE 12 INDEX TO HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME SECTION NAME SECTION ALLEN, COLONEL 23 CLARK, JOHN 5 ALLISON, A. M* 19 CLINTON, CAPTAIN 24 ALLISON, L. E, 20 CLINTON, RICHARD 22 ALLSION, W. 0, 15 COOFERS, tu, R, 22 ALLISON, WILLIAM 12 COFF, HENRY 15 ALLISON, WILLIAM D. 26 COFFEE, HEHRY 15 ALLISON, \7M« S, 17 COLEMAN, ESO.UIN 7 ARNITT, LEVIN H. II CONNEY, M. R, 14 BAILEY, MARY 27 COOMBS, J. J, 21 BAKER, THOMAS 5 CORNWALLIS, LORD 22 BALDWIN, DRUSJLLA 7 COTTINGHAM, CHARLES 13 BALDWIN, EDWARD 8 CRAIG, GENERAL 22 BALDWIN, EDWARD 7 CRAIG, PATSON- 26 BALDWIN., HENRY 7 CRAWFORD, ROBERT 17 BALDWIN,,. HI RAM 7 CRUISE, WinsON 16 BALDWIN, NANCY 7 CUNNINGHAM, COLONEL 15 BALDWIN, PARKER 7 DAUGHERTYJI COLONEL 21 BOYLE, PETER T. 7 DAVEY, COLONEL 17 BARCLAN, JOHN 15 DAVIDSON, GENRAL 17 BARNETT, ELIZABETH 12 DAVY, WILLIAM R. 24 BARNETT, JOHN 12 DEMTON, REUBEN 23 BAULDWIII, EDWARD 7 DE'HTOII, SAMUEL 25 BENNETT. E 18 DIXON, HENRY 3 BLOUNT, ISAAC II DIXON, H;NRY II BOLES, CAPTAIN 13 DORRIN, JOHN 24 BOOKER, DOCTOR 18 EDWARDS, J, L, 18 BOYO, DANIEL 8 EDWARDS, J, L, 6 BOYLE," JAMES 20 EDWARC, JAME3«H, I BOYLE, JOHN II ELBERTS, SAMUEL 5 BOYLE, JOHN 7 ERNST, WILLIAM 6 BOYLE, JOHN 16 FAULKNER, GEORGE II BOYLE, SALLY 2? FERGUSON, COLONEL 17 BROWN, JEFF FINKS, CAFTAIN 18 BUNFREY, SARAH 12 FINK 5, !,.rK 18 BUTLER, GCNERAL 11 FISHER, CAPTAIN 18 CANNON, ELIZABETH 14 FRY, PATIENCE 12 CANNON, GALIE 8 FUNK, JOSEPH I CANNON, F.JRNA 8 FUNK, PETER I CANNON, HE«IRY C. 6 GAITHE::, HORACE 5 CANNON, FURNEFOLD 8 GEIGGR, FREDERICK 2 CANNON, HUGH 8 GIBSON, BAILEY 3 CANNON, JOHN II GIBSON, JOEL 3 CANNON, JUTERCY? 8 GILCHRIST,.JULIA 21 CANNON, LEWIS 8 GLASS, CWEN 5 CANNON, WARY II GOBIN, JOSEPH D. 19 CANNON, ROCKEY 6 GORAM, COLONEL II CANNON, SARAH 8 GRAY, rJ, 13, 12 CANNON, 3ARY II GREEN, AMELIA 26 GANNON, THOMAS 8 GREEN, ANNA 27 CASS, LEWIS 8 GREEN, ASHTON 26 CLANHEES, THOMAS 11 GREEN, AUGUSTINE 27 CLARKECLARK, .JOH THOMAJOHN M S 513 GREENGRAY,, COLONEDIXOCASSANORN L A 237 INDEX TO HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME SECTION GREEN, DIXON 27 NAIC SECTION GREEN, ELIZABETH 27 LILLE, COLONEL 7 GREEN, GABRIEL -25- 27 LINCOLN, GENERAL 5 GREENE, GENERAL 22 LYTTLE, COLONEL 14 GREEN, GRANT 27 MAIJBY, ELIZABETH 27 GREEN, JAMES 27 MILLER, MARY 20 GREEN, JOHN 18 MCBONE, COLONEL 14 GREEN, JOHN 23 MCCASTLE, GENERAL 3 GREEN, JOHN G. 25 MCLEAN, ALNEY 14 GREEN, JOHN 4 MCMULLEN, THOMAS 16 GREEN, JUO.ITH 26 MOBEN, COLONEL 13 GREEN, RICHARD N, 26 MONTGOMERY, JAMES 15 GREEN, SARAH ANNE 25 MONTGOMERY, CAPTAIN 17 GREEN, WILLIAM 26 MOORE, COLONEL 15 GREER, WILLIAM 14 MOORE, JAMES 3 GRANT, SARAH AIJNE 27 MOORE, JOHN 15 GRANT, WILLIAM 27 MOORE, SAMUEL 5 HARDING, JOHN D/ 25 MORGAN, DANIEL 25 HARGTITER, JOHN 18 MOSLEY, JOHN 5 HARRISON, RICHARD 14 MUHLENBERG, PETER 18 HARRISON, W. HENRY 2 MURRAY, JOHN L. 1 HART, JOHN J. 6 NEWMAN, JACOB 16 HATTON, R. M. 21 NESBETT, JAMES 15 HATTON, ROBERT M. 18 PARKER, ISAAC 6 HAV/ES, A. G, 5 POLK, PRESIDENT 27 HEATH, H. R. 12 POPE, WARDEN 1 HILL. H. 18 PRICE, NATHAN 15 HILL, MARY 7 RAMSEY, ALEXANDER 17 HILL, WILLIAM 7 RAMSEY, ALEXANOER 16 HILL, WILLIAM 3 RAMSAY, JOHN 15 HILLYER, JAMES 19 RAMSAY, ROBERT — 17 HOGG, MAJOR II RAND, JACOB 18 HOGG, PARSON 13 RAWLEY, ANNE 13 HOLMES, CAPTAIN 22 RHODES, CAPTAIN 23 HOPKINS, E. H, -20- 13 RHODESAN, CAPTAIN 7 HOPKINSON, EDMUNO 19 RICE, U.R. 18 HOWE, ROBERT 5 RICHARDSA1N, GENERAL 15 HOWE, WILLIAM 14 RICHARDSON, H. R, 17 HUGHEAM, ESTHER 13 RING, GEORGE H, 16 HUGHES, JOHN 13 ROCHESTER, WILLIAM 24 HANCOCK, CAPTAIN 5 RODGERS, ROBERT 23 IVY, CURT|SS 23 ROUSE, ELIZABETH 19 JACKSON, GENERAL 17 ROUSE, ELIZABETH 17 JOHNSON, JAMES 18 ROUSE, JAMES -19- 20 JOHNSON, THOMAS J, 20 ROUSE, JOSEPH 18 JONES', GENERAL 10- ROUSE, LEWIS I7- 19 JONES, LEVI 5 ROUSE, LUCY 19 JONES, WILLIAM 25 ROUSE, ROBERT G. 19 KERSHAW, ELI 15 SALTERS, JOHN II KING, GEORGE N, 23 SELLERS, ISHAM 22 KINNION, JAMES 22 SIMPSON, JOHN II LAMBERT, JOEL 18 SLARMS, JAMES 19 LAMBERT, JOEL 20 SLAUGHTER, JAMES 18 LEWIS, CASS 15 SLINK, SAMUEL 5 SMITH, JULIA 19 INDEX TO HENDERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME SECTION SMITH, JULIA 19 SMITH, REVEREND 19 SMITH, WILLIAM 20 SNEAD, SAMUEL 24 SOMERS, JOHN 13 SOUTHGATE, WlLLiAM iar SPEEN, JOHN 19 STALLION, SHADRQCK 23 STANLEY, J. G. 12 STITES, SAMUEL 20 SUMMINGTON, COLONEL 24 SUMPTER, ADJUTANAT 15 TALBOT, DOCTOR 19 TAYLOR, PHILLIP 24 TERRY, ROBERT 5 THOMPSON, COLONEL 16 THOROUGHGOOD, CAPT 23 TILFORD, JOHN 6 TOWLES, THOMAS 13 TRIPLETT,I PHILLIP 14 TWIGGS, MARY 6 VANNER, WILLIAM 22 WALDON, NATAHN 6 WASHINGTON, GEORGE 25 WASHINGTON, WILLIAM II WAVER, JOHN 18 WEBSTER, LUCY 20 WEBSTER, NANCY 20 WILLIAM, ALFTED 25 WILLIAM, JOHN 25 WILLIAM, SAMUEL F* 24 WILLIAMS, SAMUEL J. W, 14 WILLIAMS, SARAH 26 WILLIAMS, SUSAN 25 WILLIAMSON, FRANCES 19 WINSON, GENERAL 16 WOOD, JAMES 17 WOOD, JAMES 27 WOODSON, SAMUEL 7 WRIGHT, JOHN 17 YOUNG, W, L. 6 END ABSTRACTS OF PENSION PAPERS OF SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WR OF 1812, AND INDIAN WARS, RESIDING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM KENTUCKY ARCHER} EDMUND S.I2936 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY BF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION BN THE DATE OF OCTOBER |5, 1832, AGEO 73 YEARS. t HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF CULPEPPER, STATE OF VIRGINIA, DATE OF APRIL 27, 1759, HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF CULPEPPER, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1777* " HE WAS BORN AND RAISEO IN THE COUNTY OF CULPEPPER, VIRGINIA, ANO LIVEO THERE UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1795, WHEN HE REMOVED TO KENTUCKY AND RESIDED THERE EVER AFTER. GABRIEL BARBOUR MADE AFFIDAVIT IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF OCTOBER lO, |832, HE AND ARCHER WERE BORN AND RAISED IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD IN CULPEPPER COUNTY. BARBOUR DID NOT SERVE IN THE WAR BUT HIS OLDER BROTHER DID* ONE OF ARCHER'S CHILOREN WAS A JESSE W. ARCHER, WHO LIVED IN ORANGE COUNTY, INOIANA, IN 1859* No OTHER DATA GIVEN. — SECTION 2 ASHBY, FIELDING S.30249 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WAS UTVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KTNTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF AUGUST 19, 1833, AGED 70 YEARS. HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF FREOERIGK, STATE OF VIRGINIA,.IN 1763. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF FREDERICK, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1779* HE LEFT VIRGINIA, IN FEBRUARY, 1784, TO GO TO JEFFERSON CITY, TENNESSEE. IN 1798 HE MOVED TO KENTUCKY ABOUT 23 MILES FROM LOUISVILLE TO A PLACE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AFTERWARO SHELBY, NOW OLDHAM* THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLOIER WHO SERVED WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF ROBERT TYLER, WAS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF A-GUST |3, 1832, AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS, HE STATED THAT HE HAD KNOWN ASHSY MORE THAN 60 TEARS, No OTHER DATA GIVEN. PAGE 2 SECTION 2 OLDHAM COUNTY-PENSIONERS-KENTUCKY AUSTIN, JAMES, R.I38 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLOHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE, OF, SEPT., 19, 1828* HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF FAUQUIER, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN |775. SECTION 3 HE LIVED IN LACRANGE, KENTUCKY. HE DIED OCTOBER 19., |845? HIS WIDOW, ELIZABETH AUSTLN, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS ELIZABETH LI NOSEY APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATR OF Nov. 20, t8460 THEY WERE MARRIED IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF FAUQUIER., DATE OF NOVEMBER 3, |784. THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLDIER WHO SERVED WITH AUSTIN, BY THE NAME OF JOHN ALLEN, V/AS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF WOOOFORD, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF AUGUST M, 1829, HE WAS WITH AUSTIN IN MORGAN'S RIFLE REGIMENT. RICHARD BARBOUR MADE AFFIDAVIT IN 1839 IN OLDHAM COUNTY, THAT JES8C WLLHOYTE CAME TO HIS HOUSE SOMETIME IN 1*822 AND MADE AFFIDAVIT AS TO AUSTIN'S SERVICES IN THE WAR, BARBOUR BEING AT THE-TIME A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF JERRERSON, KENTUCKY. HENRY BROWNING MADE AFFIDAVIT IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, NOVEMBER 18, 1846, THAT IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 5784 JOHN AUSTIN AND ELIZABETH LINOSEY (WHO V/AS BROWNING'S HAL^-SISTER} LEFT THE HOUSE OF THE MOTHER OF BROWNIMG IN ORDER TO CE.MARRJEO AT THE NEIGHBORING CCURCH. NAMES OF CHILDREN OF AUSTIN, DANIEL AUSTIN, AGED 52 IN MAY I850. WILLIAM AUSTIN J NINE YEARS OLDER THAN DA,.IEL, LUCY AUSTIN," SEVEN AUSTIN, SEVEN YSARS OLDER THAN DANIEL, JAMES AUSTIN, FOUR AND ONE- HALF YEARS OLDER THAN DANIELe JOHN AUSTIN, TV/0 YEARS OLDER THAN DANIEL* NO OTHER DATA GfVEN. SECTION A COONS: BENJAMIN . O.W.INV. 9216 KENTUCKY MILITIA BOUNTYLAND WARRANT I6934-40..50 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER ENL'STED AT NEWCASTLE,-STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF AUGUST 29, ;3|3, THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLDIER WHO SERVED, WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF EDWAR0 GEORGE, WAS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF MARCH [3, !830c JOHN STEVENS MADE AFFIDAVIT IN OLDHAM COUNTY, MARCH 19, 1830, THAT HE SERVED WITH COONS IN THE WAR OF |8|2, COONS WAS 75 YEARS OLD IN |850 AND STILL A RESIDENT OF OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY. P 'GE 3 SECTION 4 OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS FORRE OR FORCE: JESSE S.31039 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM. STATE OF KENTUCKY, V/HEN HE APPLIED FO PENSION ON THE OATE OF SEPT*, |7, 1832, AGED 70 YEARS. HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF PRINCE EOWARD, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN I76i. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF PRINCE EOWARD, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AFTER THE WAR HE LIVED ABOUT EIGHT YEARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THEN WENT TO KENTUCKY, TO SHBLBY COUNTY, NOW OLDHAM COUNTY, SECTION 5 THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLDIER WHO SERVED WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF JOSEPH FORE OR FORCE, NO RELATIONSHIP STATED, WAS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF SHELBY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF SEPTEMBER II, 1832, AT THE AGE OF 92 YEARS, GEORGE: THOMAS S.I6821 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE .OF SEPTEMBER 18, 1832, AGED 72 YEARS, - HE STATED THAT HE WAS BOR* IN THE OOUNTY OF AMELIA, STATE OF VIRGINIA, DATE OF OCTOBER 17, 1759, HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF LUNENBERG, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN THE SUMMER OF AUTUMN OF 1776. HE MOVED FROM AMELIA ON NOVEMBER I, 1776, TO LUNENBERG COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HE MOVED TO KENTUCKY IN 1822, t ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1839, HE HAD HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA. JOHN HOWELL AND JOHN •ROWLETT MADE AFFIDAVIT IN 1832, IN OLOHAM CojmrY THAT THEY HAD KNOWN THOMAS Gcoaae "OR 30 YEARS^ THAT THEY HAO MOVED TO KENTUCKY IN |B22 .WHOM VIRGINIA, AND THAT THEY HAD LIVED IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD IN VIRGINIA. SECTION 6 THOMAS GAINS, OR GAINES, MADE AFFIDAVIT IN GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY AUGUST 23, 1832, THAT HE SERVEO WITH GEORGE IN THE WAR. BOTH LIVED IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD IN VIRGINIA OURING THE REVOLUTION. PAGE 4 SECTION 6 OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HOSKINS: .JAMES S.I2I9 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WASAIVING IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF APRIL 2, 1833, AGED 75 YEARS* HE WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA, HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX, STATE OF VIRGINIA IN I779* t HE STATEO THAT HE WAS 22 YEARS OLD WHEN HE MARRIED* ONE OF HIS HEIRS WAS BAYLOR HOSKINS—NO RELATIONSHIP STATED* AN ACHILLES HOSKINS MENTIONED BUT NO REALTIONSHIP STATED. HUMPHREY: HERB IT OR HERRITT W.5303 VIRGINIA BOUNTY UNO WARRANT 2696-160-55 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF FEB* 2l 1834, AGED 74 YEARS* HE STATEO THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF LOUISA, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1759. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF LOUISA, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN APRIL 1779. ^ SECTION 7 IN 1780 HE REMOVED FROM LOUISA COUNTY TO THE COUNTY OF FLAVANNA STATE OF VIRGINIA* HE LIVED IN FLUVANNA COUNTY UNTIL 1785, ANO THEN MOVED TO WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE: HE LIVED 9 YEARS AND THEN WENT TO SHELBY COUNTY AND STAYED THERE 5 YEARS, THEN LIVED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FOR 6 YEARS, AND FINALLY MOVED" TO OLOHAM* HE OIEO DEC. 8, 1840* His WIDOW, MARY HUMPHREY, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS MARY CRIM, APPLIEO FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OR OCTOBER |, 1853, AGED 74 YEARS. THEY WESE^MARRIED IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, OOUNTY OF JEFFERSON, DATE OF OCTOBER I, |802, BY WLLLLAM KELLAR. A LEWIS HUMPHREY AND A JAMES 8. HUMPHREY MADE AFFIDAVIT AS TO THE IDENTITY OF MRS, HUMPHREY, IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN 1855,... WHERE SHE WAS APPARENTLY LIVING AT THAT TIME, No RELATIONSHIP STATED. HUNDLEY} JOHN S.31I52 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF OCTOBER 2», 1833, AGED 70 YEARS, «• HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF HANOVER, STATE OF VIRGINIA, DATE OF 1763* PAGE 5 SECTION 8 OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF HANOVER, STATE BF VIRGINIA, IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR IN WHICH THE 8ATTLE OF JAMESTOWN WAS FOUGHT* HE LIVEO IN HANOVER COUNTY 2 YEARS AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE WAR AND THEN MOVED TO WLLKES COUNTY, GEORGE WHERE HE LIVEO ABOUT 2 YEARS ANO ' THEN MOVED TO KENTUCKY, LAW} JESSE R.6I88 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE-OF AUGUST 19, 1833, AGEO 76 YEARS. HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, DATE OF JANUARY 9, 1750. a He ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF PITTSYLVANIA , STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN APRIL 1777. A HE RESIDED IN THE COUNTY OF PITTSYLVANIA, UNTIL ABOUT 1800, WHEN HE MOVEO TO KENTUCKY AND SETTLED IN SHELBY COUNTY WHICH LATER BECAME OLOHAM. HE DIEo NOVEMBER 14, 1839, IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SECTION 9 HIS WIDOW, MARY OR POLLY LAW, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS MARY WlLLlS, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF INDIANA, OATE OF NOVEMBER 30, 1843, AGED 84 YEARS. SHE WAS LIVING WITH A SONQIN- LAW, FRANCIS BARNS* SHE WAS MARRIED TO JESSE LAW IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF PITTSYLVANIA, DATE OF DEC. I, 1780, SHE OIEO APRIL 23, 1845. v FRANCIS BARNS MADE AFFIDAVIT IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA, NOV. 3|, 1843, THAT HE MARRIED AVARILLER LAW, OAUGHTER OF JESSE AND MARY LAW ON MARCH 29, 1806, AND THAT HIS WIFE WAS ABOUT 54 YEARS OLF IN 1843, AND THAT MARY LAW HAO BEEN LIVING AT HIS HOUSE FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS, AND THAT THE OLDEST CHILD, JOEL LAW, OIED ABOUT 3 YEARS PREVIOUS, ANO THAT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS ABOUT 54 YEARS OLD. JOHN BELL, AGED 77 YEARS, MAOE DEPOSITION IN TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY, OECEMBER I, 1843, THAT MARY LAW WAS HIS AUNT, ANO THAT HE WAS PRESENT AT HER WEDDING. ANOERSON LAW, NO RELATIONSHIP STATED, MADE AFFIDAVIT DEC. 15, 1652 THAT HE WAS THE EXECUTOR OF JESSE LAW AND THAT MARY LAW DIED APRIL 23, 1845. DANIEL S. LAW, NO RELATIONSHIP STATED, MADE AFFIDAVIT IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY DEC. 4, 1852, THAT HE HAD*BEEN A CQUAINTED WLJH JESSE AND PLLLY LAW'SINCE THE YEAR |807, ANO THAT HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEIR CHILDREN, EIGHT IN NUMBER, JOEL LAW, WLLLLS LAW, ELIZABETH LAW, SALLY LAW, AVERILLA LAW, JOHN LAW, DANIEL LAW, PAGE 6 SECTION |0 .OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS LAW} JESSE AND ANDERSON LAW, SAID ANDERSON OEING THE YOUNGEST CHILO ANO THE EXECUTOR OF HIS FATHER'S ESTATE. SUSANNAH LAW, MAOE AFFIDAVIT IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA, JUNE 6, 1850, THAT SHE WAS THE WIDOW OF JOEL L/4W, ANO THAT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 68 YEARS OLF IN 1850, BUT HAD BEEN DEAD ABOUT |5 YEARS, SHE FURTHER STATED THAT SHE WAS AT THE^ DEATH OF POLLY (MARY)LAW IN |843, AND V THAT POLLY LAW LEFT 5 CHILOREN, ELIZABETH LANCASTER, WIFE OF DICK LANCARTER SALLY BARNES, WIFE OF JOHN BARNES, AVYRILLER BARNES, WIFE OF FRANCIS IBARNES, DANIEL LAW AND ANOERSON LAW. THE CHILDREN WHO WERE DEAD WERE, JOEL LAW, WILLIS LAW AND JOHN LAW, JACK PRYOR MADE AFFIDAVIT IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY DECEMBER 2* 1852, THAT HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JESSE AND POLLY LAW SINCE ABOUT TIC YEAR 1797 OR 1798* LINGENFELTER} MICHAEL S 32379 MARYLAND «> THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF GALLATIN, TOWN OF P PORT WILLIAM, STATE OF K:NTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF DECEMBER 10, 1832, AGED 70 YEARS. HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF FREOERICK, CITY OF FREDERICKSTOWN, STATE OF MARYLAND, DATE OF NOVEMBER |7, 1762, SECTION II HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF FREDERICK, STATE OF MARYLAND, IN THE SUMMER OF 1779* AFTER THE WAR HE LIVED IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, ANO KEN* TUCKY, AND HAD LIVED IN KENTUCKY, ABOUT 20 YEARS IN 1832, ON MAY 26, |835, HE HAD H4S PENSION TRANSFERRED TO MARION COUNTY, INDIANA, HE HAD 2 SONS RESIDING IN INDIANAPOLIS WITH WHOM HE WAS GOING TO LIVE, MORGAN} JOHN Si238 MARYLAND THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE or KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED'FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF SEPTEMBER 2|, 1832, AG AGED 71 YEARS, HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF ST, MARY'S STATE OF MARYLAND, DATE OF SEPTEMBER 22, |76|. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF DORCHESTER, STATE OF MARYLANO, IN 1780* WHEN YOUNG HE REMOVED FROM ST, MARYS* COUNTY TO DORCHESTER COUNTY MARYLAND, AND RESIDED IN DORCHESTER COUNTY UNTIL HE WAS 33 YEARS OLD AND THEN WENT TO KENTUCKY. HE HAO A TWIN BROTHER THOMAS MORGAN (SEE NEXT ABSTRACT.) PAGE 7 SECTION 12 ABSTRACTS OF PENSIONERS WHO SETTLEO IN OLOHAM COUNTY KEBTCUCKY MORGAN} THOMAS S.2659 MARYLAND THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER 30, 18 28, AGED 67 YEARS* HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF ST, MARY'S STATE OF MARYLAND, OATE OF SEPTEMBER 22, i76i. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF DORCHESTER, STATE OF MARYLAND, IN 1776 OR 1777. HE LIVED IN DORCHESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND, UNTIL HE WAS 45 YEARS OLD AND THEN MOVED TO KENTUCKY* i HIS TWIN BROTHER JOHN MORGAN (SEE PREVIOUS ABSTRACT) MAOE AFFIDAVIT AS TO HIS. SERVICE IN THE WAR.— NETHERTON: JOHN W.54I6 VIRGINIA BOUNTY LAND WARRANT 43519-160-55 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF SHELBY. STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF BULY 26, |832, AGED 85 YEARS. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF SHENANDOAH, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN I776 OR 1777. ABOUT 1790 NETHERTON MOVED FROM VIRGINIA TO THE STATE OF TENNESSEE AND LIVED THERE ABOUT 5 YEARS. HE THEN MOVED TO JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL A FEW YEARS BEFORE 1832 WHEN HE MOVED +o SHELBY COUNTY. gEfiT|0N ,2 His WIDOW, WHOSE NAME WAS REBECCA NETHERTON, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF — -7 STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF MULY 20, 1835, AGED 62 ? YEARS. THEY WERE MARRIED IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY COUNTY OF JEFEERSON OATE OF MAY 5, 1808, BY WILLIAM KELLAR. HER NAME BEFORE HER MARRIAGE WAS MRS. REBECCA FRAZIER, WIDOW OF JOHN FRAZIER, HENRY NETHERTON AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, JOHN N'THERTON, MADE AFFIOAVIT THAT THEY REMEMBERED THEIR FATHER SERVING IN THE ARMY 0URING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR* HENRY MATHES (MATTHEWS? ) MADE AFFIDAVIT IN AUGUST, 1832, IN OLOHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THAT HIS FATHER JAMES MATHES SERVEO IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR UNDER THE COMMAND OF JOHN NETHERTON, REUBEN ROSS MAOE AFFIDAVIT THAT COL. JOHN NETHERTON"S REGIMENT CAMPED ON HIS FATHER'S FARM IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, ABOUT 5 MILES FROM PITTSBURGH, DURING THE REVOLUTION* JOHN NETHERTON DIED OCTOBER 3I, 1634, IN OLOHAM COUNTY, P..GE 8 OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS SECTION |4 REEO: JOHN S 11260 VIRGINIA , THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIYINC IN THE COUNTY 4F OLOHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF AUGUST 20, 1832, A CED 75 YEARS* HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF "CULPEPPER, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1775, HERMAN BOWMAN, AGEO 63 YEARS, MADE AFFIDAVIT IN WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AUGUST 20, I832, THAT HE HAD BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH JOHN REED EVER SINCE ABOUT (790. REED MOVEO FROM VIRGINIA BOUT THE YEAR L79P ANO HAO MARRIED A COUSIN OF H. BOWMAN, AND BOWMAN BOARDED*ANO RESIDEO WITH THE REEDS IN THE SUMMER OF 1791 IN WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SINGER} GEORGE S.14462 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLOHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER 20, 1832, AGED 70 YEARS. '/- HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN JAN, 30, 1762, HE WAS RAISED IN THE COUNTY OF FAUQUIER BUT HAD BEEN BORN IN ANOTHER PART OF THE STATE* HE RESIDED IN VIRGINIA ABOUT 36 YEARS PRIOR TO 1832, ANO''THEN HE MOVED TO SHEDBY COUNTY ANO LIVED THERE ABOUT |6 YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO TO OLOHAM COUNTY* SECTION 15 TRUE} JOHN S. 30746 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY BF OLOHAM; STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF NOV. 19, 1832, AGED 79 YEARS. HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF CULPEPPER, STATE OF VIRGINIA. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF SPOTTSYLVANIA STATE OF VIRGINIA IN THE SPRING OF I780, ANN EPPERSON MADE AFFIDAVIT NOV. 8, 1832, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, THAT SHE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH JOHN TRUE, IN SPOOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND THAT SHE KNEW HE SERVED IN THE ARMY* TRUE OIEO APRIL 2, 1835, ANO HIS WIOOW, MARGARET TRUE, DIED ON APRIL 22, I855. HE HAD A BROTHER, LARKIN TRUE, WHO WAS A RESIOENT OF HARROOSBURO MERCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY IN 1832, HE HAD A SON, JOHN TRUE, JR., WHOSE WIFE WAS NAMEO»iv]ARIA W. TRUE. WRIGHT; GEORGE S 3l50l > VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF OLDHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF DECEMBER 4, 1833, AGEO 70 YEARS. P..GE 9 SECTION 16 OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY Of' AMHERST, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1763. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF AMHERST, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN OCTOBER 1779. HE RESIDED IN AMHERST COUNTY, SOME YEARS AFTER THE TERMINATION or THE WAR AND THEN MOVED TO GREEN COUNTY, TENNESSEE, WHERE HE LIVED 10 YEARS. IN 1916 HE MOVED TO HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TO THE PART WHICH WAS LATER STRICKEN OFF TO OLDHAM COUNTY. PAGE .10 INDEX TO OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS NAME '•»<* NAME 3 LAW,'JESSE ALLEN, JOHN ARCHER, JcSSC W, I LAW, JOEL ASHBY, FIELDING Z LAW, JOHN LAW,, MARY .'vRCHER, EOMUNO I 3 LAW, POLLY AUSTIN, DANIEL . LAW, SALLY, SUSANNAH AUSTIN, ELIZABETH 3 LAW, WILLIS AUSTIN, JAMES 2 AUSTIN, JOHN MATHES, HENRY AUSTIN, LUCY 3 MATHES, JAMES AUSTIN, WILLIAM 3 MATTHEWS, JAMES BARBOUR, JGABR i EL 3 MATTHEWS, HENRY BARBOUR, RVBHARO I MORGAN, JOHN BARNES, AVYRILLER 31 0 MORGAN, THOMAS BARNES, FRANIS-FRANCIS io NETHERTON, HENRY . BARNES, JOHN 1I0O NETHERTON, JOHN |2 BARNES, SALLY i>/aV NETHERTON, REOEOOA BARNS, FRANCIS 9 PRYOR, JACK BELL* JOHN 9 REED, JOHN BOWMAN, HERMAN 14 ROSS, REUBEN BROWNING, HENRY ROWLETT N, JOHN COONS, BENJAMIN 3 SINGER, GEORGE SINGER 0RIM, MARY 4 STEVENS, JOHN EPPERSON, ANN 7 TRUE, JOHN FORCE, JESSE 15 TRUE, LARKIN FORCE, JOSEPH - 4 TRUE, MARGARET FORE, Jesse 5 TYLER, ROBERT FORE, JOSEPH 4 WILHOVTE, JESSE FARRE, JESSE 5 WILLIS, VARY WRIGHT, GEORGE FERRE, JOSEPH 4 FRAZIER, JOSH FRAZIER, REBECCA 5 GAINES, THOMAS OR GAINS- 61 3 GEORGE, EDWARD 414 3 GEORGE, THOMAS 5£ HOSKINS, ACHILLES 6 HOSKINS, BAYLOR 6 HOSKINS, JAMES 6 HUMPHREY, JAMES B 7 HUMPHREY, LEWIS HUMPHREY, MARY 7 HUMPHREY, MERRITT 7 HuHOLEY, JOHN 6 KELLAR, WILLIAM 7- 7 LANCASTER, DICK 13 LANCASTER, ELIZABETH 10 LA NCASTER, RIC HA RO 10 LINCENFELTER, MICHAEL Itf LI NOSEY, ELIZABETH 10 LAW, ANOERSON 9- LAW, AVERILLA 3 LAW, AVAR ILL A 10 LAW, DANIEL 10 LAW, DANIEL St 9 LAW, ELIZABETH 10 9 10 •REVOLUTIONARY y/AR SOLDIERS OF TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PAGE I SECTION I FAULKNER t JAf.CS FAULCONER S. 3I02I VIRGINIA WIFE CATHERINE FAULKNER. LEAVE OF ABSENOE RECORD IS .IN THE FILES AW FOLLOWS: "THE SOLDIER HAS LEAVE TO STAY AT H.OME UNTIL HE RECOVERS HIS HEALTH, THIS I8TH OCTOBER, 1780, SIGNED, SAM, HAWES, ? LIEUT." TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY^ JULY 14, 1845, THIS SOLOIER, AGEO.82 BEING A RESIONET OF SP0TT8YLVANIA COUNTY, VA., WAS 0RAFTE0 INTO SERVICE, in MARCH, 1780, FOR 8 MONTHS AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE REGIMENT Of COL* MERRIY/BTHER* STATED THAT HE RESUMED AT THE, TIME IN SPOTTSYLVANIA CO*, THAT WHEN HE WAS", DRAFTED TO GO TO S. C*, HE WAS .TAKEN SICK AT FREDERICKSBURG A NO WAS FURL0U6HED AS ABOVE SHOWS; THAT AFTER HIS ILLNESS HE WAS AGAIN D8A FTEO IN |78|, HE WAS AGAIN ORAFTEO IN 1783, FOR 3 MONTHS AS A PRIVATE SOLOIER ONOER CAPTAIN DUO LEY, ANO WAS DRAFTED TO GO TO REDSTONE, OLD FORO, AND THAT HE WIRED JAMES HALL TO GO IN HIS PLACE AND THAT HE PAID HIM A SILVER WATCH WORTH #30* AND A GUINEA. HE WAS BORN IH SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY, APRIL |7, |763, AND CGNTINUEO TO RESIDE THERE UNTIL 1799, IN THE FALL OF THAT YEA* HE MOVEO TO FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, LIVED THERE | YEAR, MOVE* TQ FRANKLIN COUNTY, KY., LIVED THRRE I YEAR ANO THEN MOVED TO HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY, THAT PART NOW KNOWN AS (TRIMBLE COUNTY, WHERE HE LIVED AFTERWARD* TWO OF HIS ACQUAINTACES WERE GEORGE STROTHER AND JACK PRYOR, THE SOLDIER SENT IN ANOTHER APPLICATION |850, JUNE 8, FROM TRIMULE.COUNTY AT THE AGE OF 87. SECTION 2 ONE DANIEL S. LANE WAS A JUSTICE OF PEACE IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, IN 1850 (A CERTIFICATE FROM THE CLERK OF TRIMBLE COUNTY SHOWS THAT DANIEL S. LANE'S COMMISSION WAS OATED APRIL 27, 1843.) REUBEN GATEWOOO STATEO THAT/HE HAO^EEN INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT OVER 60 YEARS AND WAS ACQUAINTED WITH HIM III SPOTTSVLVAN+ IA COUNTY, VA,, AND HAO ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD HE WAS IN THE WARI ALSO "GEORGE STROTHER ANO ARCHIBALO BAIN STATED THAT THEY HAD ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD AND BELIEVE0 HIM TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER* ONE R, N. LANE, OF TRIMBLE COUNTY WAS ATTENDING TO THIS PENSION CLAIM IN 1850. MRS. CATHERINE FAULKNER APPLIEO FOR PENSION SEPTEMBER 2, 1850, AND STATED THAT HER HUSOAND WAS IN THE COMPANY COMMANOEO BY CAP* A. W* BARTLETT, IN THE SERVICE OF THE U. S. IN (/,ED ICO. A PART OF THE PAPERS HAVE BEEN COMPARED SINCE JULY 8, BUT HAVE BEEN OBTAINED IN ORDER TO GET THE CERTIFICATE OF THE C A PA TIN OF THE COMPANY WHICH IS NOW HEREIWTH ENCLOSED. / «AS SENT Ti BY R. M* LANE. PAGE 2 SECTION 3 TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS GRAYi ISAAC OLD WAR INB, 8511 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER A PLIEO FOR PENSION IN THE .COUNTY OF BATH, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF AUGUST I8I4. AGED 40 YEARS. He SERVED IN THE INDIAN V/AR, OR THE WAR OF I8l2. SiROE THE SAID WAR HE LIVED IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES; BATH COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TUMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY* • THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLOIER.WHO SERVEO WITH HIM,, BY THE NAME OF WILLIAM H. FLEMING, WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF BATH, STATE OF KENTUCKY, BATE OF SEPTEMBER-22, I8I4* HE KNEW HIM IN #8t3* THE AFFIDAVIT OF ANOTHER FELLOW SOLDIER WHO SERVED WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF JAMES BUSBEY, WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF BATH, SEPTEMBER 22, 1814, 'HE KNEW HIM IN KENTUCKY I*,I8I3* HARDINi THOMAS W. 8916 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF GALLATIN, STATE.OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF AUGUST 26, I8i9, AGED 57 OR 59 YEARS* HE ENLISTED' IN THE COUNTY OF HANOVER, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN JAN. OR.FEB. I779 OR 1778. IN 1820 HE HAD A A7IFE, AGED 54 YEARS, AND 6 CHILOREN—THE OLDER A FEMALE, AGED 1.9 YEARS, A LUNATIC; A SON |7 YEARS, A GIRL 4<- YEARS, A BOY 12, A GIRL 10, SUBJECT TO FITS; A SON 5 YEARS OLO, . . '.. • •* . SECTION 4 His wioow, ANN HARDIN, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF TRIMBLE, KENTUCKY, DATE OF JULY 24, i843* THEY WERE MARRIED NOV. 22, 1788.. SHE WAS 73 YEARS'OLD WHEN SHE APPLIED FOR PENSION* * •* ' BIBLE RECORDS: THOftiVS AND ANN HARDIN MARRIED NOVEMBER 22, !78ft* JUDITH, DAU OF THOS, AND ANN HARDIN, BOR MA,Y 3>, . 1789. ELIZABETH HARDIN* BORN MARCH 23, i79.:. .NANCY HARDIN, BORN JAN. 3I--7, POLLY HARDIN, BORN MAY 3, 1797—KITTY HAROIN, BORN JULY |4, 77 J „ ' - , * THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLDIER WHO SERVED WITH HARDIN, BY THE NAME OF MARTIN HAWKINS, WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF GALLATIN, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF AUGUST 26, I8I9. He KNEW HIM IN.VIRGINIA, 2 YEARS DURING THE WAR, AND AFTERWARD. HE DIED JANUARY 27, 1842* KELLY: SnMUEL OLD W.JMND. 25611 ^ KENTUCKY THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF CLARKE, (OR HENRY) WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF MAY 20, I834 AGEO 47 YEARS* PAGE 3. SECTION 4 TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS KELLY: SAMUEL HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF CLARKI, STATE OF KENTUCKY, IN AUGUST I8I2, HE SERVED* IN LMurr* JOSEPH KELLY'S COMPANY* (NO RELATIONSHIP STATEO.) 9ECTION 5 THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLOIER WHO SERVED WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF LIEUT. JOSEPH KELLY, WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF DAVIESS, STATE OF KENTUCKY, APRIL 27, 1868, AT THE AGE OF 69. ( ALSO MADE AFFIOAVIT IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MAY 23, 1834*) THE AFFIOAVIT OF ANOTHER FELLOW SOLDIER WHO SERVED WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF JAMES T* KELLY, WAS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF TRIMBLE, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF JUNE 2l, 1867* HE KNEW HIM IN KENTUCKY IN l8l2 IN WAR* LOGAN I J0H«T V* 1788 NEW JERSEY .THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE DATE OF OCT, 8, 1833, AGEO 76 YEARS* HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF MORRIS, STATE OF NEW JERSEY,'IN 1757* N . HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF MORRIS, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, IN OCTOBER, 1776* IN 1785 HE MOVEO TO ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, ANO IN '. 1803 HE CAME TO JESSAMINE COUNTY KENTUCKY* FROM THERE MOMER TO FAYETTE COUNTY, AND ABOUT 1818, HE MOVEO TO HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY. SECTION %\ His.WIDOW, CHRISTIANA OR CHRISTINA LOGAN, WHOSE M.IDEN NAME WAS CHRISTINA BA'RRiNGER, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF JANUARY 23, I85Q, AGED 74 YEARS. THEY WERE MARRIED IN I793, MARCH |0* • • ' THE AFFIDAVIT or * FELLOW SOLOIER WHO SERVED WITH HIM, (WHO WAS HIS BROTHER)* WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, TOWN OF"NEW CASTLE, STATE OF KENTUOKY, DATE OF OCTOBER 8, |833* HE KNEW HIM OUR INC THE WAR ANO AFTER, IN NEW JERSEY* • ." THE AFFIDAVIT OF PETER HARTMAN, WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF AUGUST 26, 1844* HE KNEW THE LOGANS IN ROWAUCINTOSHN COUNTYJ THOMA, NORTS H CAROLINA IN S1796 3057, 3 VIRGINIA, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN WASHINGTON, D* C, WHEN HE APPtlED FOR PENSION ON THE DATS.OF JANUARY 18, I836, HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, STATE OF VIRGINIA* HE ENLISTEO IN THE COUNTY OF PRINCE WILLIAM, STATE OF VAR,* IN 1776. THE AFFIOAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLOIER WHO SERVEO WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF GEORGE MILLS, WAS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF PRINCE WILLIAM, STATE OF VIRGINIA, DATE OF AUGUST 3l,1835." HE KNEW HIM IN VIRGINIA, IN THE WAR. SECTION 7 MCINTOSH NAD HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED.TO KENTUOKY, MARCH 6, J 837* p"a •• SECTION 7, TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS t/DRGANi THOMAS 32*5* MARYLAND ' THE ABOVE NAMES SOLOIER WAS LIVIRG An THE COUNTY OF OLOHAM, STATE II F KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR pits ilR ON THE-OATE OF SEPTEMBER 2l, v 1832, AGED 7l YEARS* > >v HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORM IN THE COUNTY OF ST; MARY*S, STATE OF MARYLANO, OATE OF SEPTEMBER 22* i76l. HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF JJORCHESTER, STATE OF MARYLAND, IN J776 OR IT77*, y- " " ' - .. * HE RESIDED IN DORCHESTER COUNTY, MARYLANO, UNTIL HE WAS 45 YEARS OLO AND THEN MOVED TO KENTUCKY* THEA AFFIDAVIT OF A FELLOW SOLD IEII WHO SERVER WITH KIM, BY THE RAN* OF JOHN MORGAN, (THOMAS MORGAN'S TWIN BROTHER), WAS MADE IN THE COUNTY OF OLOHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY. DATE OF AUGUST 19, 1833. PRBKTR4J0SHUA -W* 27643 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMEO.SOLOIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE; DATE OF MAY 5, 1834, AGED 69 YEARS. „' SECTION 8 HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1765. HE ENLISTED IN VIRGINIA, IN 5779. , \ HE LIVED IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, UNTIL HE WA>S 13 YEARS OLO HEN HIS FATHER MARRIED A 2ND., TIME, AND BEING UNWILLING TO LIVE THERE ANY ONCER BECAUSE OF THIS HE" WENT TO KENTUCKY, WITH ANTOHER FAMILY, AND 6 0NTH8 LATER HE ENLISTEO IN HENRY^COUNTY, KENTUCKY (THEN IN VIRGINIA) His WIDOW, MARIA BERKSHIRE,•HOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS MARIA YAGER, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNT^PT TRIMBLE, STATE OF KENTUCKY, OATE OF NOVEMBER 8, 1869, AGED 6S YEARS* THEY WERE MARRIED IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, COUNTY 07 HENRY, OATE OF JULY |2, |829* SHE WAS A'DAUGHTER OF Lewis YAGER", A cknTiFreo COPY OFTHSIR MARRIAGE* IS IN THE RECORD* JOSHUA PREWETT DIED, JAN, 27, 1843, ANO MARIA MARRIED JEREMIAH BERKSHIRE*' SEPTEMBER- 11 ,„ 1845. HE DIED WAY 9, 1868, IN TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY* , THE AFFIDAVIT OF A FEL-LOW SOLOIER WHO SERVEO WITH HIM, BY THE NAME OF BENJAMIN HAYOAN (?) V.A? MADE MAY 5, 1834, AT THE AGE.OF 75 YEARS* THr AFFIDAVIT OF-.ANOTHSR' FELLOW SOLDIER, «Y THE NAME OF BLAH (?) W, BALLARD, WAS MAOE IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF MAY 1834, AT THE AGE OF 75 YEARS. .i * , - SECTION 9 VANHORNOR yANHORNE: SAMUEL S* 31449 ^ - PENNSYLVANIA THE ABOVE NAMED •SOLDIER WAS LI.VING IN THE COUNTY of HENRY STATE OF KENTUCKY'§ WHEN .HE APPLIED FOR BENSION ON THE. DATE OF OCTOBER 7, 1833. A6S0 80 YEARS* .-«•' * HE STATED THAT H,E WAS CRN IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKS, STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, DATE OF 1753* HE2ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF NORTH HAMPTON, STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA IlN OCTOBER J776. IN 1805 HE MOVED TO THE MoNONGAHALA RlVER. PENNSYLVANIA. FOR |8 MONTHS, THEN CAME TO HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY* PAGE 5 SECTION 9 TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS WRIGHT: GEORGE S3|50| VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF QLOHAM, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE RATE OF DECEMBEP 4 1833. ••••;• HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF AMHERST, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN 1763* HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF AMHERST, STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN OCTOBER . l779* ' » IN I*I4 HE MOVED TO GREENE COUNTY, TENNESSEE, AND IN 1816 HE MOVEO TO HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHICH LATER BECAME OLDHAM* SECTION 10 YOUNGER: KANARO MARYLAND THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WA8 LI VI NO IN THE COUNTY OF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF SEPTEMBER 2|, 1833, AGED 73 YEARS* HE STATED THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE COUNTY OF FREDERICK, STATE OF MARYLAND, IN1760* HE ENLISTED IN THE COUNTY OF FREDERICK, STATE OF MARYLANO, IN FEBRUARY 1778* V DLRECTILY AFTER THE WAR HE WENT TO LOUJBVILLE AND THENCE TO BULLITT COUNTY, AND THENCE TQ HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY* HE HAD His PENSION TRANSFERRED TO RIPLEY COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 30, 1850, BECAUSE HE WISHED TO LIVE WITH HIS STEP-SON-IN-LAW. CREWS; JOHN OLD WAR W ID. 12797 7TH U.S. INFANTRY, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER ENLISTEO AT NEWCASTLE, HENRY COUNTY, STATE OF KENTUCKY IN I8I2, OR AT WESTPORT, JEFFERSON COUNTY* KENTUCKY (CONFLICTING TESTIMONY*) SECTION 10-n HIS WIDOW, LUCY CREWS; WHOSE MAIOEN NAME WAS LUCY HAROWICK, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN, THE COUNTY OF TRIMOLE, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF JUNE 13, 1853, AGED 74 YEARS. THEY WERE MA.RIED IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF BEDFORD, IN I794 OR1795., BY BATCHER, WHEN SHE WAS 46 YEARS OLD OR THEREABOUTS, I SHE STATED THAT SOON AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE. THEY MOVEO TO MADISON COUNTY, KE'NTUCKYI WHERE HER HUSBAND'S FATHER LIVED AND LIVED FOR SOME TIME. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ROBERT HAROWICK, IN 1859 SHE WAS LIVING IN OLDHAM COUNTY , AND GAVE HER AGE AS 8|. SHE STATED THAT SHE WAS BORN BEFORE HER FATHER WAS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.- ' '?: URSULA WYMON( AVIOOW OF AOAM WYMON, OEC*) MADE AFFIDAVIT IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, APRIL 9* 1853, THAT SHE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH LUCY CREWS ^BDTH BEFORE AND AFTER HER MARRIAGE WITH JOHN CREWS* AND THAT SHE WAS PRESENT AT THE MARRIAGE IN VIRGINIA. A FELLOW SOLOIER OF JOHN CREWS, BY THE NAME OF AN0REW MITCHELL, LIVED PART OF HIS TIME IN MADISON COUNTY, ANO PART OF HIS TIME IN TRIMBLE COUNTY IN 1853, ANO ONE BF HIS CHILDREN WAS NAMED ADDISON MITCHELL. •„ • CHILDREN OF JOHN AND LUCY CREWS MENTIONED BUT NO NAME GIVEN. PAGE 6 SECTION II TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS DODOi THOMAS R.2990 VIRGINIA THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER DIED IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN I828* HE HAD REMOVED FROM CAROLINE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, TO KENTUCKY, ABOUT 1809, ANO THEY SETTLED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, IN 1843, MRS., DODO STATED THAT SHE HAO LIVED IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, WHICH WAS FORMED FROM HENRY-COUNTY AND OLDHAM COUNTIES, ABOUT I7 YEARS. SECTION |2 HIS WIDOW, ANNA DOOD, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS ANNA DILLION,OR DELLON, ARPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY 03 TRIMBLE, STATE OF KENTUCKY, DATE OF JULY 20, 1843, AGED 97. YEARS; TLLEY WERE MARRIEO IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF CAROLINE, DATE OF OCTOBER 27, 1768, BY PARSON MoATON(?f. SHE WAS ABOUT 18 YEARS OLD. PETER OLIVER, AGED 60 YEARS, MADE AFFIDAVIT IN TRIMBLE COUNTY 1843, THAT REHIRES I DEO IN CAROLINE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND KNOW THOMAS AND ANNA DOOD IN CAROLINE COUNTY. HE HIMSELF MOVED TO KENTUCKY ABOUT •816, . HENRY RAINS, AGED 3t YEARS, MADE AFFIDAVIT IN TRIMBLE COUNTY, ^ 1843, THAT HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF MR8. ANNA DODO. HE WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA AND MOVED TO KENTUOKY WHEN VERY YOUNG. BIOLE RECORDS; THOMAS Q000 AND ANNA, HIS WIFE, WERE, MARRIEO OCTOBER 27, I768. HENRE (HENRY?) DOOD WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 12, I769. MOLLE (MOLLY) DOOD WAS BORN DEBRUARY I8, 1774. SALLE (SALLY) DODO WAS BORN JANUARY OR FEB. 15, i776.— DOOD WAS BORN I78I. —ABET, SON OF JOSEPH ABET, WAS BORN JUNE 22, 1793. MARY ABBOTT OR ABETT, WAS BORN OCTOBER I I , 1795. SECTION 13 ELSTON OR ELLSTON: BENJAMIN W* 9425 - BOUNTY LAND WARRANT 29032-160-55 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLOIER WAS LIVING IN THE COUNTY OF TRIMBLE, STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHEN HE APPLIED FOR PENSION ON THE OATE OF APRIL 25, 1844, AGED 84 YEARS. HE STATED THAT HE WAS, BORN IN THE BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH, STATE OF NEW JERSEY; OATE OF DECEMBER 25, 1759* HE ENLISTED IN THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF ELIZABETH, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, IN OCTOBER 1777* HE OIEO JANUARY 5, 1845. IN I780 HIS FATHER MOVED TO NORTH CAROLINA AND ELSTON WENT WITH HIM, REMAINING THERE ABOUT 8 YEARS, AND THEN MOVEO TO WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHICH LATER BECAME TRIMBLE. HIS WIOOW, ELIZABETH ELSTON, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS ELIZABETH LONG, APPLIED FOR PENSION IN THE COUNTY OF TRIBMEL, STATE OF KENTUCKY DATE OF OCTOBER 23, 1845, AGED'75 YEARS. SHE WAS BORN NOV. 9, 1770* THEY WERE,MARRIED IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF BURKC OATE OF NOV. 18, 1791, OR ABOUT 1786 OR 1787. (CONFLICTING DATES GIVENS) IN 1852 SHE WAS LIVING IN HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY. WILLIAM ELSTON, (NO RELATIONSHIP STATEDO. MADE AFFIDAVIT AS TO THE MARRIAGE IN TRIMBLE COUNTY OCTOBER 23, 1845. JOSEPH ELSTON (NO RELATIONSHIP, STATED), MADE AFFIDAVIT IN HENRY COUNV KENTUCKY, MARCH i) 1854, THAT HE HAD KNOWN BENJAMIN ANO ELIZABETH ELSTON EVER SINCE THE YEAR I790. IN THE YEAR I790 HE WENT TO LIVE WITH THEM AND C0NTINUE0 TO LIVE WL TH THEM A NUMBER OF YEARS, ANO WHEN HE FINALLY LEFT THE FAMILY.HE LIVED CLOSE BY. A BENJAMIN AND NANCY ELSTON, OR NANCY ANTLE, (NO RELATIONSHIP STATEDO MAOE AFFIOAVIT AS TO THE OEATH OF BENJAMIN ELSTON IN HENRY COUNTY. PAGE 7 SECTION M TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS ELSTON i ELLSTONi JOHN ARTLE MADE AFFIDAVIT, IN TRIMBLE COUNTY IN 1854, ANO THAT HE HAO BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH THE ELSTONS 54 YEARS. BIBLE RECORDt BENJAMIN ELSTON BORN DEC* 25, 1759* ELIZABETH ELSTON BORN NOV. 9, 1770, CHILDREN SARAH ELSTON BORN APRIL 23, 1790. MARY ELSTON BORN MARCH 2, 1792. JOHN ELSTON BORN FEB. 26, 1795. ANNA ELSTON BORN.JUNE24, 1797* MARTHA ELSTON BORN JULY |4, 1790-99 JONAH ELSTON SORM OCT. 14* 1800. JONATHAN ELSTON BORN OCT. 24, 1803. ELIZABETH ELSTON BORN I.AR. 7, 1806* CAROLINE ELSTON BORN. AUG. 28, 1809 BENJAMIN ELSTON (JR) BORN MAY 23, <8i0. FERNITS ELSTON BORN APRIL |5, I8i3 I8i3, MARTHA ELSTON BORN JULY I4, 1799. END PAGE a TRIMBLE COUNTY KENTUCKY INDEX NAME PAGE NAME ABBOTT, MARY 12 HARDIN, THOMAS HAROWIOK, LUCY ABET, JOSEPH 12 HAROWIOK, ROBERT MARY Asorr, .12 HARTMAN, PETER ABBOTT, JOHN- 14 HATCHER,—— ARTLE, NANCY |4 HAWES, SAM BAIN, ARCHIBALD 2 HANK:NS, MARTIN BALLARO, BLAN \V. 2 HAYDEN, BENJAMIN BARRINOER, CHRISTINA 4 KELLY, JAMES BARTLETT, CAPT* A* \7* 2 KELLY, LIEUT, JOSEPH BERKSHIRE, JEREMIAH 8 KELLY, SAMUEL LANE, DANIEL BERKSHIRE, MARIA 8 LANE, R. N* BAOBEY, JAMES 3 LOGAN, CHRISTINE CRRVR, JOHN 10 LOGAN, JOHN CREWS, LUCY 10 LONG, ELIZABETH DELLON, ANNE |2 MCINTOSH, THOMAS DILLON, ANNA 12 MASTON, PARSON DODO, ANNA 12 MERRIWETHER COL. DOOD, HENRY , |2 MILLS, GEORGE MITCHELL, ADDISON DOOD, MOLLY 12 MITCHELL, ANDREW DOOD, SALLY I2 MORGAN, JOHN DODO, THOMAS II MORGAN, THOMAS DUDLEY, CAPTAIN I OLIVER, PETER ELSTON, ANNA 14 PREWETT, JOSHUA ELSTON, BENJAMIN 14 PREWETT, MARIA ELSTON, BENJAMIN JR. |4 PRYOR, JACK ELSTON, BENJAMIN |3 RAINS, HE-.RY ELSTON, CAROLINA |4 STROTHER, GEORGE ELSTON, ELIZABETH 13 |4 VNNMQRNS, SAMUEL ELSTON, RERMITA |4 VANHERN, SAMUEL WRIGHT, GEORGE ELSTON, JONAH 14 WYMAN, URAULA ELSTON, JONATHAN |4 WYMAN, AOAM ELSTON, JOHN |4 YAGER, LEWIS ELSTON, JOSEPH 13 YAGER, MARIA ELSTON, MARTHA 14 YOUNGER, KANARO ELSTON, MARY I4 ELSTON, NANCY 14 ELSTON, SARAH 14 ELSTON, WILLIAM 13 FAULCONER, CATHARINE t FAULCONER, JAMES I FAULCRRR FAULKNER, CATHARINE I FAULKNER* JAMES i FLEMING, WILLIAM H. 3 GATEWOOD, REUBEN 2 GRAY, ISAAO 3 HALL, JAMES I HARDIN, ANN 4 HARDIN, ELIZABETH 4 HARDIN, JUDITH 4 HARDINHAROIN, THOMANANCPOLLKITTYS 43