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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01072 5767
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ABSTRACTS OF PENSIONS: SILATENS OF THE REVOLUTION: ICAN ADD
ALVIS: JESSE
CONNONACANTH OF KENTUCKY, FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT; SHELBY COUNTY MENTOCAY, CA JUNE CH, ISTY, BEFORE VE THE SUBSCRIBER OF THE CIRCUIT JUDGE OF THE SAID COMMON. EALTH, PERSONALLY APPEAR. * CESDE ALVIS, ACE CC IN RICOSY ACHT, RECICENT IN THE COUNTY OF SPELAT AND STATE AF: ESNIE, AND CCING SY NE FIRST OULY SICAN, ACCORDING TO LAN, DOTH ON HIS CATH WAKE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION IN CELER TO CATA !! THE ARC. ISTORS MADE JY ACT OF CONGRESS, SAYS THAT HE EILTS:ES IR VIRGINIA UNDER CAPTAIN NOLLAN RICE OF CAD., VIRGIN A RESIDENT, IN THE CONTINENTAL SERVICE SUSTINE IN. ACH ITAT; THAT THE REGENT 065 COMMANDES BY COL. FRANGES TAYLORS THAT HE CONTINUED TO SERVE IN THE SA SAID CORPS AND IN THE SERVICE FRE Q.S., DATIL APRIL 1726 PENNE 2.9
KISCHARGED FROM SERVICE AT MANCHESTER, YA., BY COL. FRANCIS TAYLOR, SEING OVER TWO YEARS IN CONSTANT SERVICE.
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, SHELLY COUNTY, 1820, JUNE TERM OF COURT, PERSONALLY APPEARIS THE ABOVE NAMED STUDIER, A.E 53 , SAYS TT R* HE ENLISTED IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE IN MARCH 1758 IN THE THIRD, VIRGINIA REGIMENT AND CONTINUES IN SERVICE UNTIL ABOUT MARCH 14 HE WAS DISCHARGED AT WINCHESTER, .... THE RESIDENT WAS CONWANTED RY CO ..
FRANCES TAYLOR. SAYS THAT HE WAS . WIFE AND FIVE CHANSEN LIVING WITH HIM; TWO SONS AND 3 DAUGHTERS, ONE OF HIS SONS IS ID YEARS OF AGE, ONE F. EVEN YEARS, WHO WAS BORN A CRIPPLE WITH A REEL FOOT, CHE DAUGHTER AC8 21, 045 13, ONE B. STATE OF IALIANA: COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, ON THE 13TH FEBRUARY 1397. 2
PERSONALLY APPEARED JESSE ALVIS ANG ON HIS 5 TH DECLARES THE SAME PERSON WAS FORMERLY BELONGED TO THE COMPANY CONTRADED BY LAPTATY RICE, UNDER COLD FRANCES TAYLOR, THAT HIS NOSE WAS FIRST RENTUCKY AGENCY, FEM YPENCE ME -3 _ E_
F. iS, AND WISHES HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED TO MIRO HE WANTS AND PEACEIN TRANSFERTED TO RESIDENCE WILL BE WITHIN CO MILES OF THAT PLACE" YOU CAN ADDRECE WE AT MARTINSBURG, INDIANA. HE WROTE THE ABOVE INFORMATION IN A LETTER FROM SHELBY COUNTY. CES. 18, 1935, TO THE AR DEPARTMENT. SAYING THAT HE WAS JETTING YSADY TO LOIF TO INCI-YA.
AFFIDASIT -- STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELLY COUNTY.
1. JAMES's FRANKLIN, DURING THE WINTER OF 1775 OR 1779, SO JESSE ALVIS AT THE AMERICAN BARRACKS IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, THAT SAID ALVIS WAS THEN ACTING AS A GUARD OVER THE BRITISH PRISONERS; THAT HOLMAN RICE WAS CAPTAIN; THAT COL. FRANCIS TAYLOR WAS THEN IN COMMAND AT THE BARRACKS, THAT EARLY IN THE YEAR 1731, THE SOLDIERS REPE MARCHED FROM THENVE TO WINCHESTER, THENCE TU JA ESTAIN; THAT SAID REMAINED IN THE APAY CURTRO THE PERIOD AND DAS IN THE BATTLE :T JAVES~ TOWN, THAT FROM THENCE THE ARMY WAS WAROWED TO YORKTOWN, ~~~~ SAID ALVIS SERVED IN THE SEIGE OF THAT PLACE, MICH LASTEN FROM THE FIRST TO THE 19TH OF OCTOBER 1701, AT WHICH TIVE, THE ENFAY SUFRENDERET; THIT FROM THENCE THE TY OFS WERE VARCHED AGAIN TO WINCHESTER JAD FRUN THESE THE TROASS HERE W.RO-ERAGAIN "C "IACHESTER AND FROM THENCE : DETACHMENT WITH SAID ALVIS BACK TO YOU"KOJA, IG ACT AS A GUARD TO THE MASSAGE. THAT SAID DETACHMENT ARRIVED AT FORATURA ABOUT NOVEMBER 17. IT THE TIME THE VALENSIGNED WAS DISCHARGED AND HE DID NOT AUSIA SEE SIIC
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ONE YEAR AFTERMED THE COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF SAID RICE AND TO WHICH SAID ALVIS WAS ATTACHED, BELONGED TO THE THIRD RENIVENT, CF SECTION 3 VIRGINIA REGULARS.
JAMES M. FRANKLIN
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BALLARD : BLAN W.
20655 BLANT. 13207-160-55 VIRGINIA
ALSO SERVED FROM 1751 TO 1794 AND IN THE FIRST REGIMENT KENTUCKY RIFLE. MAN HAR CF 1912.
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELLEY COUNTY: ON OCTOBER 13, 1834, THE ABOVE NAMED SO SOLDIER SING INTO OPEN COURT, ACE 75, STATES THAT HE HAS BEEN A CITIZEN OF SHELBY COUNTY FOR THE PAST 40 YENLOS, WHO USON HIS CATH MADE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION, THAT IN THE SPRING OF 1777 HE WAS A CITIZEN OF SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND THERE AT THE THE AFORESA!" ENLISTED AS A REGULAR IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION, FOR 3 YEARS IN CAFT., BENJAMIN ROBERTS COMPANY WHICH ELENGED TO GEORGE SLAUGHTER'S CORPS., !. THE SPRING OF 1779 NE, TOGETHER WITH A NUMBER OF CAPTAIN ROBERTS COMPANY CAME TO KENTUCKY AND ASSISTED IN BUILDING THE FORT AT LEXINGTON AND BRYANT'S STATION, IN THE SPRING CF 178C, CAPTAIN ROBERTS CARE ON HIMSELF WITH THE REMAINDER OF HIS COMPANY TO THE FALLS OF THE CALC ANCHE THIS AFFIANT JOINED SAID COMPANY AND HELPED BUILD THE FORT ON BEARGRASS. THIS AFFIANT CONTINUES TO GENTE AT THE FALLS IN SAID COMPANY UNTIL XWAS 1731 WHEN THIS AFFIANT VAS DI CHANGED BY GENERAL CLARK FROH THE AFORESAID ENLISTMENT, WHICH DIGOMARGE LE MIS LOST, THAT AFTER THE FORE GOING DISCHABLE GENERAL GEORGE R. CLARK, RETAINED HIM IN SERVICE AS A HUNTER AND SPY FOR MANY YEARS: THAT HE WILL NOT ENUMERATE THE NUMBER OF SKIRMISHES AND THE NUMBER OF SAVAGES THAT FELL BY THIS AFF ANTES MAN'S, BUT THAT HE WAS IN SERVICE FROM ITSI NEARLY ALL THE TIME CATIL 1794, WIEN HE WAS A CAPTAIN UNDER GENERAL WAYNE, AND AT THE BATTLE OF PA VEY RATSIN'S SECTION 3
HE WAS A CAPTAIN IN COMMAND AND WOUNDED AND THEEN PRISONER, FCP THE WOUNDS RECEIVED IN WE LATE VAR. HE IS NOW ON THE FONTICY RILL NO 785. THAT GEORGE NUCALES, JAMES MOORE, ENGIGHT FRUSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY HAVE EXAMINED THE WINDS OF BLAN '. BALLARD OF THE FIRST REGIMENT OF RIFLEHAAR OF KENTUCKY L'ILITTA, CO MANSED FV COL. JOHN ALLEN. THE BALL ENETERED ABOUT MIDWAY OF THE THECH AND
PASSED THROUGH THE SKIN ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE WHERE IT WAS CUT OUT AS HE SA SAYS, WE HAVE SEEN THE SCAR ON THE OPPOSITE SICE, THE BALL SEEMS TO HAVE WOUNDED THE -- MUSCLE? AND THE -- T TKAING IN ITS PASSAGE A SMALL PORTION OF THE THIGH BONUE FROM THE INNER AND UNDER SIOS AND PASSING JAWARC AND ETC. SAID THAT THE SOLDIER HAD A LARGE FAMILY, THAT HE RECEIVED FOUR OTHER ONES BESIDES THE ONE MENTIONED ABOVE.
DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM LEAIS, LESSIMINE COUNTY, MENTUGAY, WHO SAYS HE WAS A LT., COL. ON THE 5TH KENTUCKY MILITIA IN THE YEAR 13. 3, AND THAT HIS REGIMENT AND THE FIRST RIFLE RECTMENT, CO1414DED & MOL, JOHN ALLEN, WAS IN THE SAME BRIGADE AND THAT HE WAS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE ABOVE NAMED CAPTAIN PLAN .. SELLARE OF SAIC RIFLL ROGIVENT AND THAT THE CAPTAIN S. W. B-LLAFD WAS IN THE BATTLE RIVER BASIN, AS STATED IN BALLARD'S AFFIDAVIT ABOVE AND THAT HE SHOWS THAT SAID BALLATO WAS IN THE LINE OF HIS OUTY AND IN ACYLAL SERVICE WHEN HE RECEIVED : WOUND IN THE THIGH THO HE DID NOT SEE HIV RECEIVE THE WOUND. WILLIAM LEVIS. APPLICATION OF ELIZABETH BILLARD, AGE 7U LAST MAROP, A RESIDENT OF SPELEN COUNTY, SEITVONY, NICON OF BLAND RO BILLARD
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DECEASED? BE IT KACON THAT BEFORE HAMILTON FRAZIER, J.F . THEN AND FOR SHELBY COUNTY, PERSONALLY APPEARED ELIZABETH BALLARD, WHO IS WELL KNOWN TO ME TO BE THE IDENTICAL PERSON, SHE DESCRIBED HERSELF TO BE, THAT HER HUSBAND DIED 18:53 SEPTEMBER 5 IN SHLEBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. THAT HER NAME BEFORE MARRIAGE WAS ELIZABETH WEAVER, AND SHE STATES THAT SHE AND SLAN W. bALLARD WERE MARRIED IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY OCTOBER 28, 1841. SECTION 5
JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY- 10-13-1854, ELIZABETH BALLARD, AT THIS TIME A RESIDENT OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
AFFIDACIT OF SOL. BENJAMIN ROBERTS, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY-28-1835, TAKEN AT THE COURT HOUSE OF ASA S. PERRY IN SHELBY COUNTY, FEBRUARY 28, 1835, SAYS HE IS 85 YEARS OF GE, THAT IN THE FALL OF 1779, THIS AFFIANT ENLISTED BLAN W. BALLARD, NOW OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY FOR THE TERM OF TWO YEARS, AS A PRIVATE; THAT HF ENLISTED SAID BALLARD IN CULPERFER COUNT VIRGINIA, THAT SAID BALLARD CAME WITH MAJOR GEORGE SLAUGHTERIS ,CORP ., TO THE FALLS OF CHIO THE SPRING FOLLOWING AND LANDED AT SAID FALLS JUNE 4, 1780, THAT SAID BALLARD FAITHFULLY SERVED HIS FULL TIME AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN DECEMBER 175! . THIS AFFIANT SAYS THAT HIS COMPANY WAS ATTACHED TO MAJOR GEORGE SLAUGHTER'S CORP., WHICH WAS A PART OF COL. CROCKETT'S REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LINE, ALL UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. SIGNED EEN. ROBERTS. A CERTIFIED COPY OF T THE MARRIAGE OF ELIZABETH BALLARD, TO HAVE SEEN ELIZABETH GARNETT? WHILE SHE STATED IN HER APPLICATION, THAT HER NAME WAS ELIZABETH GARRETT? (OR ELIZABETH WEAVER) ( SHE WAS PROBABLY A WIDOW ) ALSO IN ANOTHER APPLICATION, THAT ELIZABETH GARRETT, WAS HER NAME BEFORE MARRIAGE. AFFIDAVITS OF ANDREW J. BALLARD AND BLAN BALLARD, RESIDENTS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY, LOUISVILLE, SAYS THAT THE DECLARATION OF THEIR MOTHER IS SWORN AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY THEM IN THEIR PRESENCE, THAT THEY ARE THE NEPHEWS OF BLAN W. BALLARD, DECEASED, ONE A. T. B-LEARD OF LOUISVILLE WROTE A LETTER AND SAID HE WAS A RELATIVE OF ELIZABETH BALLARD. SECTION É
BALLARD : JAMES
R.463 VIRGINIA
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY FEBRUARY 1838
SAYS HE IS AGE 76, THAT IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1750, BLAND BALLARE, THE FATHER OF SAID JAMES LANDED AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO ( NOW LOUISVILLE). KENTUCKY, THAT IN JUNE FOLLOWING HE VOLUNTEERED AS A MILITIA SOLDIER IN CAPTAIN JACOB PIATTIS COMPANY AND WAS HUNTING, SECURING AND KILLING PROVISIONS FOR THE ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF SAID CAPTAIN PIATT, UNTIL SPRING FOLLOWING, CAPTAIN FRATT WAS AN OFFICER UNDER THE COMMAND OF GEORGE AR. CLAR , THAT DURING THE TERM AFORESAID, HE WAS EMPLOYED AND ENGAGED ASIAN INDIAN SPY AND RANGED AND HUNTING FOR THE ARMY AND WAS IN NUMEROUS SKIRMISHES AND ENGAGEMENTS, WITH SMALL PARTIES OF INDIANS; THAT IN THE SPRING OF 1781, HE AGAIN JOINED THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN GEORGE OWENS, COMPANY AS A SPY AND RANGER; THAT HE CONTINUED TO SET AS A SPY IN SAID OWEN'S COMPANY OF SUMMER AND UNTIL SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR, HAVING TO DU DO CONTINUEL SERVICE AS A SPY AND HAVING HAD NUMEROUS SKIRMISHES WITH THE INDIANS; THAT IT WAS ABOUT THIS TIME , THAT AN ENGAGEMENT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE INDIANS AND COL. FLOYD IN WHICH COL. FLOYD WAS DEFEATED AND THAT HE WAS ONE AMONG THE DEFEATED ON THAT DAY AND FLED FOR SAFETY, THAT AT FLOYD DEFEAT HE RECOLLECT'S COL. SMALLWOOD WELLS WAS IN THE ENGACEMENT: THAT IN SEPTEMBER OR A GUST 1752, HE VOLUNTEERED AS A SOLDIER IN CAPTAIN WHITAKER'S COMPANY FOR 3 MONTHS OR UPWARDS AND MARCHED UNDER SAID CAPTAIN WHITAKER AND UNDER GENERAL CLARK TO MIAMI TO SHAWNEE TOWN, FROM THENCE TO . CRES'S TOWNS ON SCIOTO. RIVER HAVING TAKEN THE TOWNS AND DESTROYED THEM AND ALSO TOOK PRISONERS AND RETURNED
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BALL ARD : JAMES
HOME TO THE STATIONS IN THE MONTH CF DECEMBER FOLLOWING; THAT
WHEN HE RETURNED HE CONTINUED TO GET US A SPY FROM THAT TIVE UNTIL THE SPRING FOLLOWING, GIVING THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ALL THE INFORMATION THEY COULD PROCURE RELATIVE TO THE MOVEMENT OF THE ARMY OF INDIANS AND SUPPLYING THE ARMY THAT ALL THE PROVISIONS THAT COULD KILL AND PACK IN TH THAT ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL CLARK HAD TO BE SUPPLIED SECTION 7
WITH PROVISIONS ALMOST ENTIRELY SY HUNTING, WHICH WAS DONE MOSTLY BY SPIES. THAT HE ACTED HAT SOMETIVES UNDER SPECIAL DISCRETION OF GENERAL CLARK AS SPY AND HUNTER AND AT OTHERS IN A COMPANY REGULARLY RAISED FOR THAT PURPOSE. THAT IN THE SPRING OF 1783, PE CONTINUED TO RENDER SERVICES, IN A DETACHED PARTY UNCER SPECIAL CIRECTIONS OF GENERAL. CLARK AS A SPY NOT HAVING ANY SPECIAL COMMANDER ONLY TO RETUN AND GIVE SUCH INFORMATION AS HE HAD TO GENERAL CLARK AND SECURING THE ARMY PROVISIONS, WHICH WAS CALLED AND ATTACHED IN THAT HE CONTINUED IN SERVICE UNTIL THE FALL OF 1733, AND THAT HE WAS IN ALL OF CLARK'S EXPEDITIONS WEST AFTER 1782, TO M'IT: AT THE WABASH RIVER UNDER COL . JOHN HARDIN :786, THAT IN 1756, HE ACTED AS A SPY ON BROSHEAR'S CREEK FOR EIGHT MONTHS, THAT HE WAS IN ALL OF THE CAMPAIGNS FRON 1788 UNTIL 1793, UNDER GENERAL SCOTT. HARMER AND WAYNE'S UNTILL THE DIFFICULTIES WERE FULLY SETTLED WITH THE INDIANS IN 1794, CR THEREABOUTS. THAT IN THE SERVICE AFORESAID, HE KNEW IN 1731, ON THEREABOUTS, GENERAL CLARK COL. GEORGE SLAUGHTER, COL . CROCKET, CAPT- ROBERTS, CAPT, ROGERS, CAPT, MARK, THOMAS, CAPT, GEC, CAPT BENJAMIN FIELDS, LT. SANDERS, COL. TODD, COL. FLOYD, COL. WELLS, MAJOR HARLAN AND NEARLY ALL THE INFERIOR OFF OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT, UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL CLARK AND MONTGOMERY, WHICH WERE ON STATE ESTABLISHMENT AND NUMEROUS OTHERS OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.
SIGNED JAVES ETLLARD
-- DEPOSITION OF BLAN W. BALLARD, TAKEN AT HIS RESIDENCE IN SHELBY CO ., KENTUCKY SEPTEMBER 17, 1832, AGE 70. SAYS HE KNEW HIS BROTHER JAMES BALLARD, IN 1780 AT LOUISVILLE AS A MILITIA SOLOTER AND RENDETEU SERVICE THERE UNDER THE CONTROL OF GEO. R. CLARK, UNTIL THE FALL OF 1732, THEN WENT UNDER CAPT. AQUILLA WHITAKER AGAINST THE INDIANS AT SHAWNEE TOWN ON THE MIAMI UNDER SAID CLARK AND IN 1736, WENT AGAINST THE WASSH INDIANS AND SECTION 8 WHITAKER AGAINST THE INDIANS AT SHAWNEE TOWN ON THE MIAMI UNDER SAID CLARK AND IN 1786 WENT AGAINST THE WABASH INDIANS AND FREQUENTLY SERVICES RENDERED AS A SPY 1738. HE ACTED AS SUCH FOR ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS ON BRASHEAR'S CREEK THEN JEFFERSON COUNTY, AND ALSO HE WENT IN CAPTAIN WILLIAM STEELS COMPANY, COMMANDED BY GENERAL CHARLES SCOTT AND JOINED WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN.
--- LETTER FROM JAMES BALLARD, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MARCH 29, 1838, IN A LE . ETTER TO WILLIAM H. TODD, HE SAID; I INTENDED TO TELL YOU THAT MY FATHER, MOTHER, TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER WERE KILLED IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE AND THE HOUSE BURNED AND MY PAPERS WERE DESTROYED BY FIRE .-- IN REGARD TO THIS , YOU CAN CORRESPOND WITH JOHN ( POPE AND HENRY CLAY , MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM KENTUCKY. THIS LETTER IS WRITTEN FROM LOUISVILLE, I WILL SUCH RETURN TO SHELBYVILLE. SIGNED
JAMES BALLARD A NOTE ON THE BACK OF THE FILES SAYS THAT JAMES BALLARD DID NOT SERVE IN A REGULAR ORGANIZED CORPS, IS THE REASON HIS PENSION WAS REJECTED. -
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BLACKMORE: JOHN
BLACKMORE
S. 30871 VIRGINIA
ON THIS 13TH DAY OF AUGUST 1832, PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE SOLDIER BEFORE SAMUEL TODO, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, FOR THE COUNTY GF HENRY, STATE OF KENTUCKY, A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, AGE 70, SAYS HE SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN RICE, AS A VOLUNTEER IN VIRGINIA MILITIA IN APRIL 1781, JOINED THE ARMY AT SHACKE? HILL IN FREDERICK COUNTY, VA., THE REGIMENT WAS COMMANDED BY COL. ELIAS EDMONDS AND LAFAYETTE, HE RESIDED IN FREDERICK COUNTY, VA., THENGE MARCHED 12 MILES TO SOME SPRINGS ON JAMES RIVER, BELOW RICHMOND, THE ARMY ENCAMPED ABOUT 12 DAYS, THEN RETURNED TO RICHMOND AND THAT NIGHT AN ATTACK WAS MADE ON MANCHESTER. FROM RICHMOND, THE ARMY RETREATED FROM HANOVER COURT HOUSE AND FROM FROM THENCE TO RACCON FORD WHERE GENERAL WAYNE JOINED THE ARMY BROCK'S
SECTION 9 BRIDGE. THENCE TO RICHMOND.
FIRST NOVEMBER 1781 CRAFTED AGAIN UNDER CAPTAIN PETER HISKEL HE CAN PROVE THE FIRST TOUR BY LEWIS NEAL .
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BALLOW; CHARLES ELIZABETH
₩.2905 VIRGINIA
MAY 25, 1818, CHARLES BALLON AP EARED AND SAYS HE IS AGE 67, RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS THAT HE ENLISTED IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, AS A SERGEANT IN CRATIN CUNNINGHAM'S COMPANY IN THE REGIMENT AT THAT TIME, COMMANDED BY COL. REID, BUT AFTERWARDS BY COL. RICHARD PARKER IN THE VIRGINIA LINE UPON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR 3 YEARS, THAT HE CONTINUED TO SERVE IN SAID CORPS OR IN THE SERVICE OF THE U. S. DURING THE SAIC 3 YEARS TO WIT, FROM SEPTEMBER 1776 TO SEPT. 1779 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE SERVICE AT SMITH CLOVE IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, SAYS THAT HE WAS IN THE FOLLOWING BATTLES: WHITE PLAINS, TRENTON, PRINCETON, BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN, ; ONMOTH AND STONY POINT AND THAT HE IS IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES -- ELIZABETH BALLOW OF TTRIMBLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS SHE 19 THE WIDOW OF CHARLES BALLOW, SAYS SHE WAS FORMERLY OF SHELBY COUNTY, AGE ABOUT 76 SAID SHE WAS MARRIED TO CHARLES BALLEW, ABOUT 56 YEARS AGO, THAT SHE WAS NOT MARRIED TO HIM BEFORE HE LEFT THE SERVICES, BUT THE MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1794.
STATE OF KENTUCKY: TRIMBLE COUNTY. THE DEPOSITION OF AMERICA HAWKINS TAKEN 19TH OF JUNE 1844, AT HER HOUSE IN SAID COUNTY TO BE READ AS SECTION 10
EVIDENCE ON BEHALF OF ELIZABETH BALLOW ON AN APPLICATION FOR A PENSION AT THE PENSION DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON, THE DEPONENET BEING OF LAWFUL AGE AND FIRST DULY SWORN DEPOSES AND SAYS, THAT SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES AND ELIZABETH BALLEW, AND THAT SHE WELL RECOLLECTS THE SAID CHARLES BALLEW AND THAT THEY LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE, SOMETIME WITHIN HER RECOLLECTION AND THAT HER FATHER CHARLES BALLEW DIED ASOUT 1918 WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG AND THAT THE SAID ELIZABETH IS THE WIDOW OF THE SAID CHARLES, THE CERTIFIED COPY OF THE MARRIAGE RECORD OF THE SOLDIERS AND HIS WIFE IS FILED AS FOLLOWS :
LINCOLN COUNTY KENTUCKY : CHARLES BALLOW TO ELIZABETH MARSHALL, DATE OF BOND, SEPT. 19, 1787. THE BOND WAS SIGNED BY JOHN FRENCH. IT WOULD SEEM FROM A NOTE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, THAT THE PREACHER CR FERSON OFFICIATING WAS W, MARSHALL, BUT THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP STATED BETWEEN HE AND THE BRIDE .-- IT IS AS FOLLOWS: I DO CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE NAMED PERSONS HERE JOINED TOGETHER IN THE STATE OF MATRIMONY BY ME ON THE DAY AFFIXED TO THEIR NIMES. THIS NOVEMBER 16, 1787. WILLIAM MARSHALL,
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BASKETT: MARTIN
SECTION 10 AND 11
CR BASKET: FRANCES " 2990
1-23-1833. STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY, SAYS THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U.S. UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA, CEC. 6, 176 !. THAT HE IS NOW 71 YEARS OF AGE SINCE THE OTH OF DECEMBER LAST PAST, THAT HE HAS A RECORD OF HIS AGE IN HIS BIBLE TAKEN FROM HIS FATHER'S BIBLE. THAT ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF JUNE 1780 IN THE COUNTY OF FLUVANIA VIRGINIA TO WHICH HE, THE SAID BASKET HAD REMOVED, HE VOLUNTEERED IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY JOSEPH HAYDEN WHOSE LIEUTENANT VAS JESSE HUGHES, AND WHOSE ENSIGN WAS HOLMAN SNEED? IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. JOSEPH SPENCER, "!E MARCHED TO - THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. JOSEPH SPENCE ... WE MARCHED TO HILLSBORON N.C. THE SAID BASKET WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPT. JOSEPH MAYDEN TO THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY THOMAS LIFTWICH OF BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AFTER REMAINING AT HILLSBOROUGH ABOUT 2 OR 3 WEEKS. WE MARCHED ON TOWARD CAMDEN TO RUGELESS MILLS AND WAS ORDERED THAT NIGHT AT 9 O'CLOCK TO MARCH AND STORM THE ROGENT? GUARD ON THE ROAD TO CAMDEN WE ATTACKED THE GUARDS, DROVE THEM FROM THEIR POSITION AND STUCK WITH OUR ARMES ALL NIGHT, THE NEXT MORNING, THE 16TH DAY OF AUGUST 173C, THE BRITISH CAME ON AND ATTACKED US AND WE HAD TO RETREAT AND WENT TO HILLSBORO AT WHICH PLACE WE LAY 3 WEEKS, AND THEN MARCHED TO NEW GARDEN SETTLEMENT, HE HAVING BEEN DISCHARGED AT HILLSBORO, HAVING SERVED 3 MONTHS. IN THE SPRING, MAY 1781, THE SAID BASKET WAS DRAFTED IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND AND STATE OF VIRGINIA, IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN MEREDITH AND SERVED TWO MONTHS UNDER GENERAL LAFAYETTE, IN WHAT WAS THEN CALLED THE WILD GOOSE CHASE, CONSTANTLY PURSUED BY THE BRITISH AND WAS DISCHARTED ON THE RAPADAN RIVER. HE, THE SAID BASKET HAVING REMOVED TO N. C., WAS DRAFTED IN MAY 1782, !! !! LKS COUNTY, N. C., IN THE COMPANY CONMANDED BY A CAPTAIN, WHOSE NAME, HE THE SAID BASKET DOES NOT RECOLLECT. HE WAS DRAFTED AS A PRIVATE AND SERVED TWO MONTHS. UFON REFLERTION? THE SAID BASKET RECOLLECTS THAT HIS CAPTAIN'S NAME WAS -- LANOSH? THE NAMES OF THE COL. AND MAJOR UNDER WHOM HE SERVED IN THIS LAST TOUR, HE CANNOT RECOLLECT. HE THEN SAID, BASKET MOVED FROM N. C. TO FLUVANIA COUNTY , VA., WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL THE YEAR 1797 , WHEN HE REMOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY , WHERE HE NOW LIVES.
SECTION 11 & 12 -- FRANCES BASKET WIDOW OF THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER MADE APPLICATION FOR PENSION IN SHELSY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1833, AUGUST 19, AND SAYS HER HUSBAND DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, MAY 26, 1833, AT THE AGE OF 72.
WHEN SHE MADE APPLICATION 1838 SEPT. 20- HER AGE WAS 71, SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE SOLDIER NOV. 7, 1783, IN FLUVANIA COUNTY, VA., SAYS SHE CAN PROVE HER MARRIAGE BY HER BROTHER JOHN SHEPHERD, WHO IS NEAR AT HAND AND HER SISTER MARY PERRY WHO LIVES AT SAME DISTANCE AND PERHAPS BY SOME OTHERS.
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-- AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN SHEPHERD TAKEN IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 9-29-1838 IN BEHALF OF FRANCES BASKET TO A PENSION UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JULY 7-1838. THIS AFFIANT BEING FIRST DULY SWORN DEPCSES AS FOLLOWS: THAT HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN BASKETT, NOW DECEASED, THAT HE WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONER OF THE U.S. THAT HE AND HIS PRESENT WIDOW FRANCES BASKETT WERE MARRIED TOGETHER IN FLUVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THAT THIS AFFIANT WAS PRESENT AND SAW THEM MARRIED AND HAS BEEN WELL
ACQUAINTED WITH HER, THE SAID FRANES BASKET EVER SINCE AND KNOWS HER TO SE THE WIDOW OF THE SA. D MARTIN BAKSET, DECEASED AND KNOWS THEY WERE MARRIED
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PAGE 7 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSICHERS DECEASED AND KNOWS THEY WERE MARRIED SOMETIME IN THE YEAR :783, SIGNED JOHN SHEPHERD.
-- AFFIDAVITS OF ELISHA AND SARAH FORD, MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 8-19-1833, WHO SAYS THEY WERE PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN BASKETT, IN HIS LIFE TIME; THAT WE LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND DIED MAY 26, 1823. THEY SAY HE LEFT A WIDOW WHOSE NAME IS FRANCES BASKETT, WHO MADE HIS DECLARATION BEFORE GEORGE P. MILLER, A J. P. FOR SHELBY CO., KENTUCKY. JANUARY 23, 1833, THEY STATE THEY KNEW HE STOOD HIGH IN LIFE AND THAT HIS STATEMENTS WERE TRUC AND CORRECT AS THEY BELIEVE AND ETC., SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY: APRIL 25-1839, PERSONALLY APPEARED JESSE BASKET AND FILED THE FOLLOWING DIBLE RECORDS, WHO STATES THAT THEY ARE THE FAMILY RECORDS OF MARTIN BASKETT, DECEASED AND STATES THAT SAID RECORDS HAVE BEEN IN HIS POSSESSION EVER SINCE THE DEATH OF SAID
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MARTIN BASKET AS FOLLOWS: BIBLE RECORDS.
MARTIN BASKET WAS BORN 12-6-1751
FRANCES BASKET HIS WIFE WAS BORN 12-2-1766
WINSTON WAS BORN 11-1795 JOHN WAS BORN 2-02-1809 AUSTIN WAS BORN 13-10-1811 HARIET WAS BORN 9-4-1813 LOEISSY WAS BORN 1-4-1815 SARAH WAS BORN 1-12-1922 ? 19?
(ALLEX BOUGHT SEPT. 1813, SU SUPPOSED TO SE 25 YEARS OLD. ANNBEY? 10 YEARS ILDER WHEN BOUGHT HER IN THE YEAR 17363.
WALTER WAS BORN 3-4-1820
WASHINGTON WAS BORN SEPT. 1822
MARY WAS BORN 10-21-1825
ADDISON KING SON OF W E? KING BORN 7-10-1809
FRANCES KING, DAU. V.E. KING WAS BORN 1-12-1811
NANCY KING DAU OF W. E. KING BORN 10-3-1812
JESSE KING WAS BORN 5-21-1814 SALLY KING WAS BORN 3-21-1816
ELIZABETH KING WAS BORN 11-15-1817 WILLIAM MARTIN KING WAS BORN 9-20-1819 MILDRED KING WAS BORN 7-26-1821. MARRIAGES :
MARTIN BASKET AND FRANCES BASKET HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 11-7-1783. NANCY BASKET AND PEGGY CAUDLE WERE MARRIED 9-27-1808.
ELIZABETH BASKET AND WILLIAM E. KING WERE MARRIED 9-29-1308.
HENRY M. BASKET AND SARAH FORD WERE MARRIED 10-20-1813. SECTION 14
MARY BASKET AND DANIEL CONNELY 12-24-1818. MILDRED BASKET AND GIDDEON MICHELL WERE MARRIED 12-19-1822. BIRTHS
BASKET, JOHN BORN 1-9-1785 THOMAS BASKET 3 .- 27-1736
NANCY BASKET BORN 3-25-1789
ELIZABETH BASKET 5-7-1791
HENRY N. BASKET 10-11-1793
MARY BASKET 7-24-1796
JESSE BASKET 6-15-1799
SARAH BASKET 2-1-1802
MILDRED BASKET 6-28-1804
FRANCES BASKET 6.8-1810
JOSH NICHELL
804-19297
THOMAS HENRY BASKET
SON OF JESSE BASKETT 9-28-16
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JOHN BASKET DIED 5-1785 AGE 4 MONTHS SARAH BASKET DIED 2-18-1810- AGE 8
ELIZABETH KING BASKET 2-24-1822
THOMAS BASKET 3-19-1522
THOMAS MICHELL DIED ---??
MILDRED MICHELL DIED 3.14-1830 MARY MCCONNELLY 8-21 1834 AGE 38 AND 28 DAYS JOHN MOORE DIED JUNE 8-1838.
BREVARD ; BENJAMIN
THIS SOLDIER NEVER DID LIVE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. ACCORDING TO THE RECORDS CONTAINED IN HIS CASE, HE LIVED IN HUMPHREIS COUNTY KENTUCKY -- NO COUNTY NAMED HUMPHRIES, BUT THERE IS A HUMPHREY IN CASEY COUNTY, KENTUCKY-VOGHEE
THEREFORE IS PRINTED IN THE 1835 BOOK OF PENSIONERS HAS SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO THE ABOVE DECLARATION, THAT WE BELIEVE HIM TO BE 73 YEARS AND THAT HE IS BELIEVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE BEEN A REVOLTUIONARY WAR SOLDIER.
SECTION 16
BURK: SAMUEL MARY
₩ 2912 VIRGINIA 8-20-1832
A RESIDENT OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, AGE 73, SAYS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN 1. 1775UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM MCCLANAHAN OF CULPEPPER COUNTY VIRGINIA, WHERE HE THEN RESIDED, MARCHED TO WILLIAMSBURG, THEN HE RETURNED HOME. I WAS A VOLUNTEER SOLDIER, | VOLUNTEERED TO STAY LONGER AND ENLISTED IN CAPTAIN ABRAHAM BUFORD'S COMPANY. | SERVED TWELVE MONTHS IN ALL IN WHAT WAS WAS CALLED UNIT 7. IN THE COMPANY OF MCCLANAHAM AND BUFORD WAS MARCHEB FROM WILLIAMSBURG TO THE LONG BRIDGE. WE THEN FOUGHT A BATTLE WITH
THE ENEMY. FROM THERE WE WARCHED TO NORFOLK. MY COLONEL WAS STEPHEN. MY MAJOR WAS THOMAS HARTING WE MARCHED FROM NORFOLK TO SUFFOLK. 1 THEN MARCHED FROM THENCE TO PORTSMOUTH, UNDER NAUCH SCOTT. FROM PORTSMOUTH WE MARCHED TO CULPEPPER AND WERE DISCHARGED IN 1777. | ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A VOLUNTEER SOLCIER IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN RUCKER FROM CULPEPPER AND MARCHED FROM THERE TOWARD THE BRANDWINE AND WERE INTENDING TO GET TO THE ARMY OF WASHINGTON IN TIME FOR THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE BUT THE SAID BATTLE WAS FOUGHT AND WE JOINED THE MAIN ARMY SOON AFTER | WAS IN A SKIRMISH AT THE PLACE AS WELL AS | NOW RECOLLECT, CALLED THE MUC BANK FORT. WE SUCEEDEE IN CAPTURING SOME OF THE ENEMY. MY MAJOR AMONG THIS TOUR WAS WILLIAM ROBARDS. MY COLONEL WAS JAMES PENDLETON WHO RETURNED BEFORE SECTION 17
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