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FOR ERREARS OF PENSION.
-- HE ALSO ASKS WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE CLAIM OF THOMAS BRITOON FOR BOUNTY LAND NUMBER 234049.
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MCCLELLAND: DANIEL SR. NORTH CAROLINA- PENNSYLVANIA S 31246 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY: SEPTEMBER 17, 1832. PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AGE 80, SAYS THAT IN THE SPRING OF 1776 IN GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. HE VOLUNTEERED IN A COMPANY OF HORSE UNDER CAPTAIN MAHAN ATTACHED TO THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL . MONTGOMERY AND THAT THIS COMPANY ACTED PRINC+D IPALLY AGAINST THE TORIES AND WAS ENGAGED AT THE BATTLE OF BLACKWATER BRIDGE WHEN THE TORIES AND SCOTCH AND MANY OF THEM TAKEN PRISONER WERE SEN' SENT UNDER GUARD OF CAPTAIN MAHAN'S COMPANY TO HILLSBOROUGH WHERE WE WERE DISCHARGED. IN THE FALL OF 1776 HE, THE SAID MCCLELLAND, REMOVED FROM GUILFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA TO MIFFLIN COUNTY, PENN., ASOUT AGUST 1, 1777, THERE WAS A COMPANY DRAFTED IN MIFFLIN COUNTY OF WHICH COMPANY HE HAD THE COMMAND AS CAPTAIN AND WAS ORDERED UNDER COL. IRWIN HE BELIEVES AND GUARDED ROTTER TO JOIN THE MAIN ARMY NEAR THE HEAD OF ELK. HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF BRANDWINE AND GERMANTOWN. WHEN WINTER CAME ON WASHINGTON'S ARMY ENCAMPED AT THE VALLEY FORGE AND HE WAS DIS-
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WHEN WINTER CAME ON WASHINGTON'S ARMY ENCAMPED AT THE ILLEY FORCE AND HE WAS DISCHARGED AND WENT HOME IN THE SPRING OF 1778. THERE WAS ANOTHER COMPANY, DRAFTED IN MIFFLIN COUNTY, PA., THE COMMAND OF WHICH WAS GIVEN TO HIM, THE SAID MCCLELLAND, AS CAPTAIN, WHICH JOINED THE MAIN ARMY UNDER COL. WATTS AND GENERAL LACY AND WAS DISCHARGED IN THE FOLLOWING JUNE, HE, THE SAID MCCLELLAND THEN RAISED A COMPANY OF RANGERS IN THE FALL OF 1778, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COLONEL OF THE COUNTY. HE RECEIVED HIS COMMISSION AS CAPTAIN OF SAID COMPANY AS HE BELIEVES FROM GOVERNOR MIFFLIN. HE SERVED AS CAPTAIN OF THE RANGERS FROM THE FALL OF 1778 UNTIL THE YEAR 1781, HE BELIEVES NEARLY 3 YEARS, BUT SMALL PART OF WHICH TIME, HE WAS NOT IN ACTIVE SERVICE.
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THE WHOLE FRONTIER OF PENNSYLVANIA WAS AT THE TIME SUBJECT TO THE INCURS! ON OF THE INDIANS. THE OFFICERS WHO COMMANDED WERE VARIOUS. SOME OF WHOM WERE COLONELS FURDY AND TURBELT AND MAJOR ELLIOTT. HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF THE CROCKED BATTLE AND MANY OTHER SKIRMISHES AND WAS ACTUALLY ENGAGED DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR STRUGGLE OVER FOUR YEARS. IN THE FALL OF 1781 HE WAS DISCHRGED AND IN THE YEAR 1786 HE REMOVED TO KENTUCKY AND NOW LIVES IN SHELBY COUNTY. IN THE YEAR 1793 OR 1794, HE HAD HIS HOME BURNED IN SHELBY COUNTY, IN WHICH ALL OF HIS PAPERS TOGETHER WITH THE COMMISSION AND DISCHARGE WAS CONSUMED, WHICH FACT COULD BE PROVED BY MANY WITNESSES, SOME OF WHOSE CERTIFICATES ARE HEREWITH ENCLOSED. THE SAID DANIEL MCCLELLAND SR. , HEREBY RELINQUISHES EVERY CLAIM WHATEVER TO A PENSION OR ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT . JEAN TEVIS CLERGYMAN AND BENONI L. NEWLAND, WERE HIS CHARACTER WITNESSES. -AN AMENDMENT TO THE DECLARATION WAS MADE BY THE SOLDIER IN 1833 FEB. 13, RELATIVE TO HIS 3 YEARS SERVICE AS A CAPTAIN RENDERED IN MEFFIN COUNTY PENN, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, SAYS THAT WHAT HE MEANT IN HIS FORMER DECLARATION WHEN HE SAID HE WAS NOT IN ACTIVE SERVIE WAS THAT HE WAS AT HOME FOUR MONTHS DURING THE WINTER OF 1778 AND SPRING OF 1779 BUT SUBJECT TO A MINUTE'S WARNING TO BE CALLED INTO SERVICE.
-- AFFIDAVIT: STATE OF KENTUCKY- SHELBY COUNTY. PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE GEORGE P. MILLS A JP . ONE SARAH CLAYTON , AGE 73, WHO BEING DULY SWORN SAID THAT SHE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH CAPTAIN DANIEL MCCLELLAND IN MIFFLIN COUNTY, PENN, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND FROM THE REPORTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SHE BELIEVES HE DID SERVE AS A SOLDIER AND THAT HER HUSBAND DAVID CLAYTON PREVIOUS TO HER MARRIAGE WITH HIM WAS AN ENSIGN IN THE SAID MCCLELLAND COMPANY AS SHE HAS OF TEN HEARD, BOTH HER HUSBAND AND CAPTAIN DANIEL MCCLELLAND SAY. SHE FURTHER STATES THAT SHE KNEW COL. THOMAS TARBULL AND MAJOR ELLIOTT OF WHOM CAPTAIN MCCLELLAND SPEAKS IN HIS DECLARATION AND ALSO COL. PURDY.
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THIS FEBRUARY 13, 1833- SIGNED SARAH CLAYTON
AFFIDAVITL STATE OF INDIANA? JEFFERSON COUNTY
PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE THE SUBSCRIBER, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, ONE WILLIAM WILSON, AGE 67, SAYS THAT HE HAS BEEN PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH CAPTAIN DANIEL MCCLAND FROM HIS INFANCY, THAT HE KNEW SAID MCCLAUD DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN MIFFLIN COUNTY, PENN, AND I BELIVE HE WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE SAID WAR AND THAT HE PERFORMED THE CARIOUS SERVICES AS A CAPTAIN CF A COMPANY OF RANGERS FROM 1778 TO 1781. THIS INFORMATION | GAINED NOT
FROM ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE BUT FROM COMMON REPORT AND GENERAL BELIEF THROUGH THE COMMUNITY AND | HAVE NO HESITATION IN STATING MY BELIEF THAT HE PERFORMED THE SERVICES MENTIONED IN HIS LECLARATION, I DO NOT SAY THIS FROM A KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACTS AS HAVING SEEN THEM BUT AS | HEARD OF THEM.
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THE TIME THEY PERFORMED BEING TOO YOUNG TO BE ON THE MUSTER ROLL. THIS FEBRUARY 9-1833- SIGNED WILLIAM WILSON.
** AFFIDAVIT- STATE OF INDIANA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. ONE JOHN MCCLELLAND, SAYS THAT IN 1793, OR 1794, HE WAS A BOY LIVING WITH HIS FATHER, DANIEL MCCLELLAND SR., OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND WHEN HIS FATHER WAS AWAY FROM HOME, HIS HOUSE GOT ON FIRE AND BURNED AND NOTHING SAVED, EXCEPT WHAT I, A BOY OF 10, WAS ABLE TO SAVE BY THROWING OUT OF WINDOW, WHICH CONSISTED OF CLOTHING AND BEDDING AND SOME MONEY. -- AFFIDAVIT OF MARY WILSON, AMADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIAN, AGE 78, IN 1833, STATES THAT SHE HAS BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH CAPTAIN DANIEL MC VLELLAND FROM HER INFANCY; THAT SHE KNEW HIM WELL DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN MIFFLIN COUNTY, PENN; THAT HE WAS A CAPTAIN IN THAT WAR AND COMMANDED A COMPANY OF RANGERS AND THAT HE SERVED A TOUR AFTER THE INDIANS IN JACKS VALLEY, ALSO ANOTHER IN PENNSYLVANIA, ALL OF WHICH SERVICE SHE BELIEVES WAS PERFORMED BETWEEN THE DATES OF 1778 AND 1781 AND BELIEVES HE PERFORMED THE SERVICES STATED IN HIS DECLARATION.
SECTION 129 -- GEORGE P. MILLER IN A LETTER FROM SHELBYVILLE, IN 1833, ASKS . ABOUT THE CLAIMS OF THE FOLLOWING SOLDIERS; DANIEL WILSON, PETER WATTS, WILLIAM FRENCH, JAMES LINDSEY, JOSHUA RICHARDSON, JAMES HICKMAN, AND ALEXANDER MAZES, WHICH EACH HAS SENT.
MILLER: EDWARD
AND REVECCA VIRGINIA W 9571
THIS SOLDIER DID NOT EVER LIVE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY .
BUT INSTEAD HE LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY, INDIAN. HE ENLISTED 1779 AGUSTA COUNTY, VA. SAID HE WAS BORN IN SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VIRGINIA. AND AFTER HE LEFT THE SERVICE WAS RESIDING SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VA., BETWEEN 20 AND 25 YEARS, FROM THERE HE MOVED TO WHAT IS NOW LAWRENCE C COUNTY, OHIO, WHERE HE RESIDED MORE THAN 20 YEARS AND FROM THENCE HE REMOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, INDIANA. HIS WIFE APPLIED FOR PENSION SAME COUNTY AND STATE AGE 68- SAID HER HUSBAND DIED-JANUARY 26, 1836, SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM SEPTEMBER K, 1757 AT A PLACE CALLED STONERSTOWN? MILLERSTOWN, OTHERWISE CALLED WOODSTOCK IN SHENANDOAH VIRGINIA BY REV. SIMON HAW PREACHER, SAID HER HUSBAND DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, INDIANA.
BIBLE RECORDS WERE RECORDED IN GERMAN HANDWRITING OF
EDWARD MILLER AND FAMILY AND TRANSCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
1787- 9-1- MARRIED --
1788- JULY 12- WILLIAM
1790-1-12- CATHARINE.
1791- OCT. CHRISTIANA
1793- 3-1-POLLY
1795-FEBRUARY-JOHN
1796-Nov. JACOB
1798- JULY 24,-REBECCA
1801- 31- HENRY
1803- 5-19-ALEXANDER
1805- 3-4- ANDREW
1807- 7-14~ |SAAC
1809- 8-28~ ELIZABETH
1813- APRIL 2- EDWARD, JR. THE ABOVE RECORDS DO NOT BELONG IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY- BUT I HAVE LISTED THE BIBLE RECORDS ABOVE, AS IT WAS CONVENIENT TO DO SO. AB.
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VIRGINIA 016,484 MILLER: EDWARD
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SPENCER COUNTY: ON NOVEMBER 12, 1832. PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT, IN SAID COUNTY, WHO IS A RESIDENT OF . SPENCER COUNTY, AGE 81, ON THE 3RD., DAY OF JANUARY NEXT.
SAYS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN AUGUST 1775 UNDER CAPTAIN THOMAS PROSSER, LT. WILLIAM MOSBY, AND REMAINED IN THE SERVICE ONE MONTH. HIS COLONEL WAS HOLT RICHARDSON. HE WAS STATIONED . AT WILLIAMSBURG, DURING THE TIME AFORESA!D. HE WAS THEN A RESIDENT OF HENRICO COUNTY. VIRGINIA AND WAS A VOLUNTEER. SAYS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE AGAIN 1776 IN THE MONTH OF APRIL UNDER CAPTAIN PRICE, LT. JOHN WOOD AND COL. SOUTHALL ONE MONTH. WAS STATIONED AT RICHMOND PART OF THE TIME WHERE WE GUARDED THE PRISONERS TAKEN AT LONG BRIDGE NEAR THE WISMAL SWAMPS, WHEN WE LEFT RICHMOND WE WENT TO CHARLOTTSVILLE, WHICH WE LEFT THE PRISONERS OVER WHOM WE WERE DISMISSED. SAID HE SERVED ANOTHER TOUR NOVEMBER 1776 UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BROOKS, LT. DANIEL VANDIVAL AND ENSIGN WILLIAM RICHARDSON, - HE WAS IN SERVICE ONE MONTH AT WILLIAMSBURG- SERVED ANOTHER TOUR IN 1778 UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM DUVALL, LT. JOHN POPE, HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN JANUARY AND LEFT THE SERVICE IN MARCH. HE SERVED TWO MONTHS AT WILLIAMSBURG. HE SERVED ANOTHER TOUR UNDER CAPTAIN DUVALL OF ONE MONTH AN ENSIGN APRIL 1778. WE WERE ENGAGED IN GUARDING THE PRISONERS WHO WERE TAKEN AT BURGOIN'S DEFEAT. WE WERE STATIONED AT RICHMOND, THE PRINCIRAL PART OF THE TIME AND THEN DISMISSED. SAYS HE SERVED ONE MONTH UNDER CAPTAIN BROOKS IN GUARDING THE MAGAZINE IN RICHMOND, 1779, IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER DURING THE AFORE MENTIONED TOURS, HE WAS A RESIDENT OF HENRICO COUNTY. SAYS IN THE YEAR 1781, HE WAS DRAFTED IN SERVICE A TOUR UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM MOSBY OF ONE MONTH. HE ENTERED THE SERVICE ON THE 4TH OF JANUARY AT RICHMOND SECTION 131
AND ON THE 5TH ARNOLD BURNED THE FOUNDRY NEAR RICHMOND AND FIRED UPON OUR COMPANY AND WE HAD TO RETREAT TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE WE WERE DISMISSED IN FEBRUARY. THAT HE WAS IN ANOTHER TOUR IN APRIL UNDER CAPTAIN SAMUEL PRICE OF ONE MONTH IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF RICHMOND. SAYS THAT HE SERVED ANOTHER TOUR UNDER JOHN PRICE AS CAPTAIN TWO MONTHS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN AUGUST 1781, THAT DURING THAT TIME HE WAS AT THE SEIGE OF YORK WHILE CORNWALLIS WAS TAKEN IN OCTOBER OF THE SAME YEAR; THAT HE WAS A RESIDENT IN THE STATE AND COUNTY AS AFORESAID, THAT IN 1782, IN FEB. HE SERVED A TOUR OF ONE MONTH IN GUARDING THE MAGAZINE NEAR RICHMOND AT A PLACE CALLED REST HAN?
AL HEAL: MICAJAH MILDRED WILLY
R. 7579 VIRGINIA
HIS OLD PENSION NUMBER WAS 4383
THE DECLARATION OF MICAJAH NEAL MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1832, AT THE AGE OF 79, STATES THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE 1778 OR 1779 UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM KIRTLY SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS PLACED UNDER CAPTAIN THOMAS PORTER, THE MAJOR WAS JACK ROBERTS, UNDER COMMAND OF COL. FRANCIS TAYLOR, THAT. HE GUARDED THE ALBEMARLE BARRACKS. HE EN- LISTED TO GUARD THE PRISONERS OF BURGOYNE'S ARMY. SERVED BETWEEN TWO AND THREE YEARS IN THE SERVICE AS GUARD, HE RECEIVED HIS DISCHARGE FROM MAJOR ROBERTS. AFTER HE WAS DISCHARGED, HE JOINED THE REVOLUTIONARY AND WAS AT THE TAKING OF CORNWALLIS. WHEN HE ENTERED HE RESIDED IN CULPEPPER COUNTY, VA., THE GOVERNOR OWED ME PAY AND | SOLD TO A MR. AUGUSTIN BUCKER, MY DISCHARGE FOR A HORSE,
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STATE OF KENTUCKY: HENRY COUNTY : APRIL 7, 1840- AGNESS SIDEBOTTOM
CAME BEFORE THE UNDERSIGNED, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND STATES THAT THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER MARRIED MILLY BEASLEY ABOUT 1780 OR !783, IN ORANGE COUNTY, VA. THAT HE MOVED TO KENTUCKY AND SETTLED IN SHENBY COUNTY AS
SHE HAS BEEN INFORMED WHERE HE CONTINUED TO LIVE UNTIL HIS DEATH WHICH SHE IS INFORMED HAPPENED 1835 AND UNDERSTANDS THAT HIS WIDOW STILL .:
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+ RECOGNIZED AND LIVED AS MAN AND WIFE FROM THEIR MARRIAGE 1780 AND 1783 UNTIL THE DEATH OF SAID MICAJAH . THAT THEY RAISED A FAMILY OF CHILDREN AND THE LEGALITY OF THEIR MARRIAGE THIS AFFIANT HAS NEVER HEARD QUESTIONED. -- MILLY HEAL MADE HER APPLICATION FOR PENSION IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1840-MAY 30TH, AGE 75, SAYS HER HUSBAND DIED 2-26-1835.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLES BAIRD, SAID HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH MICAJAH HEAL, DECEASED, THAT HE FIRST BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH HIM 1796 IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY; THAT HE WAS THEN LIVING WITH HIS WIFE MILLY WHEN HE FIRST KNEW THEM THEY HAD 4 OR 5 CHILDREN, THE OLDEST OF WHOM WAS ABOUT 12. HE ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THEY WERE MARRIED IN VIRGINIA BEFORE COMING TO KENTUCKY. -- AFFIDAVIT OF PETER MARTIN SAYS HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLDIER NOW DECEASED THAT HE FIRST BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH HIM 1796 OR 1797, IN SHELBY COUNTY AND HE WAS FIRST LIVING WITH HIS PRESENT WIDOW MILLY HEIL, THAT WHEN HE FIRST KNEW THEM THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN, THE OLDEST OF WHOM WAS ABOUT 12.
POWER OF ATTORNEY WAS MADE BY ROBERT S. SAUNDERS AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF MILLY HEAL DECEASED WIDOW OF MICAJAH HEAL, DECEASED, WHO WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONER ON THE KENTUCKY AGENCY. THIS MARCH 16, :853.
--- OGE PETER MARTIN OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AGE 72, SAYS HE IS A SON IN IN LAW OF MILDRED HEAL, SOMETIMES CALLED MILLY HEAL, WHO WAS THE WIDOW OF MICAJAH HEAL, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER PENSIONER.
-- SAYS THAT HAS WIDOW DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, JULY 16, 1840, SAYS THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN ARE THE SURVIVING CHILDREN AND ONLY SURVIRING CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE;
1. SARAH NEAL, WIFE OF PETER MARTIN, THIS DECLARANT WHO IS NOW NEARLY 69.
2, CHARLES HEAL .
3. JAMES NEAL .
4. NENCY NEAL, WIFE OF JAMES MAY.
5. JOHN HEAL
6. EZEKIEL HEAL
7. THOMAS HEAL.
8. DUDLEY HEAL . REBECCA HEAL DIED MAY 5, 1846.
MILLY HEAL DIED JULY 16, 1840.
-- ONE JAMES MIDDLETON AGE 50, SAYS HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLDIER AND WIFE MILDRED.
-- AS CERTIFICATE OR CERTIFIED COPY OF THE MARRIAGE RECORD IS FILED AS FOLLOWS: VIRGINIA: 1. PHILIP S. FRY, CLERK. OF THE ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA COURT, CERTIFY THAT ON THE 3RD., DAY OF AUGUST 1792, A LICENSE AUTHORIZING THE MARRIAGE OF MICAJAH HEAL AND MILLY BEASLEY, BUT IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THE PREACHER EVER MADE THE RETURN OF SAID MARRIAGE. THIS CERTIFICATION WAS MADE 1853,
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S 31. 287 PARIS: ROBERT
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY DECEMBER 1, 1833, AGE 83, STATES THAT HE WAS A RESIDENT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY VIRGINIA, WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER IN SEPTEMBER :774, AS WELL AS HE REMEMBERS AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN CAMPBELL; THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED WITH HIS COMPANY AT THE HOUSE OF CAPTAIN CAMPBELL IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA; THAT THE TOUR WAS FOR 3 MONTHS UNDER COMMAND OF COL. LEWIS WHO DESIGNED SECTION 134 THEY
AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE INDIANS SETTLEMENTS ON THE KENHAWA RIVER. HAVING COMMITTED SOME DEPREDATIONS UPON THE FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS AND HAVING ENGAGED IN OPEN HOSTILITIES; THAT HE WAS MARCHED WITH THE REST OF SAID MEN FROM THEIR PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS UPON SAID EXPEDITION AND UPON THEIR MARCH ON THE WATERS OF NEW RIVER. HE, THIS DECLARANT RECEIVED A SEVERE INJURY TO HIS RIGHT LEG BY A FALL AND COULD IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF PROCEED WITH THE TROOPS NO FURTHER BUT WAS COMPELLED TO REMAIN BEHIND AND WAIT THE RETURN OF THE PARTY THAT THEY HAD AFTERWARDS AS HE WAS INFORMED A SKIRMISH WITH THE INDIANS ON THE KENHAWA RIVER WHEN SAID LEWIS, THE COMANDER WAS KILLED; THAT THE DETACHMENT AT LAST RETURNED AND WITH IT'S ASSIATANCE HE WAS ENABLE TO RETURN; THAT HE CONTINUED AFTERWARDS WITH NIS COMPANY UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF HIS TOUR BUT WAS UNABLE TO PERFORM ANY ACTIVE MILITARY DUTY DURING IT'S CONTINUANCE AFTER HE RECEIVED THE AFORESAID INJURY. QQ SAYS THAT IN MARCH 1775 AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A VOLUNTEER FOR 3 MONTHS IN A COMPANY OF CAPTAIN THOMPSON; THAT HE STILL RESIBED IN THE SAID COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY; THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED WITH THE COMPANY AT A PLACE CALLED TOWN HOUSE ON HILSTON; THAT HE WAS MARCHED WITH HIS COMPANY TO NEW RIVER AND WAS STATIONED AT A SMALL FORT OR STATION NEAR A PLACE CALLED LONG ISLAND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF GUARDING AND DEFENDING THE FRONTIERS FROM THE INDIANS WHO WERE EXCEEDINGLY TROUBLESCME; THAT WHILE HE WAS AT SAID POINT, HE WAS ENGAGED UPON VARIOUS SCOUTING PARTIES DIRECTED AGAINST THE INDIANS AND WAS INDEED ACTIVELY EMPLOYED IN THAT KIND OF WARFARE AGAINST THEM DURING THE MAIN AND PRINCIPAL PART OF HIS TERM OF SERVICE AND WHEN HIS TOUR HAD EXPIRED HAVING FULLY AND FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT THE SAME, HE WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED TO HIS HOME. SAYS THAT ON JULY 2 , 1775. HE ENTERED UPON AN EXPEDITION TO KENTUCKY .UNDER DANIEL BOONE; THAT THERE WERE ONLY TEN EFFECTIVE MEN IN COMPANY AND THEY LEFT THE SAID COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY ON THE SAID DAY AND MARCHED SECTION 135
THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND FINALLY LANDED AT BOONESBORO ON THE KENTUCKY RIVER AT WHICH PLACE THERE WAS AT THAT TIME A SMALL FORT, THAT HE CONTINUED ED AT SAID PLACE GUARDING IT EXCEPT WHEN ABSENT ON SCOUTING AND SPYING PARTIES, WHICH WAS FREQUENTLY THE CASE FOR ABOUT THE PERIOD OF FOUR MONTHS AND THEN RETURNED TO HIS HOME IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA. SAYS THAT HIS SERVICES UPON THIS TRIP OR EXPEDITION WERE THOSE OF A VOLUNTEER.
STATES THAT EARLY IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1776, HE THINKS IN MARCH OR APRIL OF THAT YEAR THE INDIANS AGAIN BECAME VERY TROUBLESOME UPON THE FRONTIER COMPRISING THE SECTION OF COUNTRY WHERE HE LIVED- HIS RESIDENCE STILL BEING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND THAT HE VOLUNTEERED AGAINST THEM AND ACCORDINGLY RETURNED THE SERVICE AND WAS ENGAGED ALMOST CONSTANTLY DURING THE RESIDUE OF THE SPRING OF SAIL YEAR AND THE FOLLOWING SUMMER AND FALL IN SCOUTING PARTIES AGAINST; THE, WHICH WERE LARGELY HEADED BY CAPTAIN CAMPBELL AND ALSO A SPY, SAYS HE SERVED ABOUT 5 MONTHS THAT HIS SERVICES WERE ALMOST CONSTANT, THE SITUTATION OF THE FRONTIER AND DISPOSITION ON THE INDIANS REQUIRED UNREMITTING ATTENTION.
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-- FURTHER STATES THAT IN 1777 IN THE SPRING, THE SITUATION OF THE SETTLEMENTS IN HIS QUARTERS OF THE COUNTRY WAS NO BETTER THAN IT WAS IN THE YEAR PROCEEDING THAT THE INDIANS WERE STILL HOSTILE AND FREQUENTLY COMMITTED DEPREDATION UPON THEM, SOMETIMES STEALING THEIR HORSES AND EVER ONCE IN A WHILE BUTCHERING SOME OF THE INHABITANST, THAT IN CONSEQUENCE THEREOF , THE SERVICE OF THE ABLE BODIED MEN WERE ALMOST CONSTANT REQUISTION FROM THE LATER PART OF THE WINTER OF FIRST OF THE SPRING UNTIL THE LATER PART OF THE FALL OF THAT YEAR COMPRISING A PERIOD OF NEARLY OR QUITE NINE MONTHS AND THAT HE, THIS DECLARANT BEING YOUNG MAN INTERMISSION DURING THE WHOLE OF SAID PERIOD IN SPYING AND SCOUTING PARTIES AGAINST THEM. SECTION 1 36
HE IS SURE THAT HE IS WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF TRUTH WHEN HE SAYS THAT HE WAS ENGAGED IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS IN ACTIVE AND ACTUAL SERVICE AGAINST THEM AS A SPY AND UPON SCOUTING PARTIES DURING THE SPRING- SUMMER AND FALL OF THE SAID YEAR 1777, SAYS CAPTAIN CAMPBELL WAS AN ACTIVE INDIAN FIGHTER AND COMMANDED THE SCOUTING PARTIES UPON SEVERAL OCCASSIONS IN WHICH THIS DECLARANT WAS ENGAGED. SAYS FURTHER THAT A BROTHER OF HIS (THIS DECLARANT ) WAS ALSO A CAPTAIN AND THAT HIS SAID BROTHER WAS ALSO VERY ACTIVE EXERTIONS TO PROTECT THE SETTLEMENTS AND THAT HE WAS OFTEN THE LEADER OF PARTIES OF WHICH THE DECLARANT WAS ONE, HE STATES THAT DURING THE WINTER SEASON THE INDIANS COMONLY GAVE THEM LITTLE OR NO INTERRUPTION, THAT IT WAS ONLY. THE OPEN SEASON OF THE YEAR GENERALLY THAT THEY WERE TO BE FREADED AND GUARDED AGAINST. SAYS THAT IN 1778 HE WAS ENGAGED AS IN THE PROCEEDING YEARS IN ENDEAVORING TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY FROM DEPRESTIONS OF THE INDIANS, THAT HE WAS ALSO MUCH ENGAGED THAT YEAR TO WIT; 1778 IN ACTIVE SERVICE AGAINS THE INDIANS AS A SPY AND SCOUT, THAT HIS SERVICES WERE PERFORMED IN THE SPRING, SUMMER AND FALL OF THE YEAR; THAT HE IS CONFIENT THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE PERFOMRED LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS ACTIVE SERVICE AS SUCH DURING SAID YEAR; THAT HIS SAID SERVICES AS A SPY AND SCOUT OR RANGER AGAINST THE INDIANS DURING THE SAID YEAR 1778 WERE PERFORMES UNDER CAPTAIN CAMPBELL AND CAPTAIN PARIS.
THAT IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1779 AS WELL AS HE NOW REMEMBERS HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U.S., AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER UNDER CAPTAIN CAMPBELL UPON A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS; THAT THE COMPANY MET AT THE HOUSE OF CAMPBELL AND HE WAS MARCHED BY HIM TO THE VECINTTY OF NEW RIVER WHERE THE INDIANS HAD BEEN COMMITING SOME DEPREDATIONS; THAT HE CONTINUED IN THE SERVICE AGAINST THE INDIANS INDEAVORING TO REPL AND PUNISH THEIR DEPREDATIONS, DURING THE WHOLE OF HIS SAID TOUR AND WHEN THE SAME WAS FULL ENDED, HE RETURNED HOM TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA WHERE HE STILL RESIDED.
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STATES THAT EARLY IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1780 HE MOVED FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VA., TO GREEN COUNTY, N. C., WHICH NOW COMPOSES PART OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE; THAT IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER IN THAT YEAR TO WIT; 1790, HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U.S. AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN YOUNG UPON A TOUR OF THREE MONTHS, TTHAT HIS SAID COMPANY RENDEZVOUSED AT THE MUSTER GUARD AND CAME UNDER COMMAND OF COL. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, WHO HAD ALSO UNDER HIS COMMAND VARIOUS OTHER MILITIA COMPANIES; THAT THEY WERE MARCHED FROM THEIR SAID PLACES OF RENDEZVOUS UP THE COUNTRY AND IN A FEW DAYS WERE JOINED BY OTHER MEN UNDER COMMAND OF COL. SEVIER AND COL. SHELBY AND COL. CLEVELAND; THAT THEY THEN MARCHED IN PURSUIT OF THE BRITISH AND TORIES UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. OR. GENERAL FERGUSON AND FINALLY CAME UP WITH HIM AT KING'S MOUNTAIN WHERE & SERERE ENGAGEMENT TOOK
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PLACE IN WHICH FERGUSON MEN AND MANY OF THE MEN WERE KILLED AND A GOOD MANY PRISONERS TAKEN; THAT HE CONTINUED IN SERVICE AFTER THIS ACTION UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF HIS SAID TOUR OF DUTY AND WAS THEN DISCHARGED AND RE- TURNED TO HIS HOME IN SAID GREEN COUNTY, N. C.
- SAYS THAT IN :78!, IN JUNE HE AGAIN ENTERED SERVICE AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER IN A TROOP OF CAVALRY, UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARDSON UPON A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS, THAT HIS COMPANY RENDEZVOUSED AT A PLACE CALLED ON HOLSTON AND THERE CAME UNDER COMMAND OF COL. MARTIN AND WERE . MARCHED AGAINST THE INDIANS AT WHAT WAS THEN CALLED THE LOWER CHOKAMAGUA TOWNS. THAT THEY DESTROYED THEIR HUTS AND CORN AND UPON THE ROUTE 3 OF THE AMERICAN KILLED AND FIVE WOUNDED, THAT AFTER DESTROYING THEIR CORN, THEY WERE MARCHED BACK AGAIN AND THE INDIANS FLED ON AT A DISTANCE AND A FEW DAYS AFTER THE RETURN OF THE PARTY THE INDIANS COMMENCED A SERIES OF DEPREDATION UPON THE SETTLEMENTS AND BY MEANS THERE OF KEPT THIS DECLARANT CONSTANTLY ENGAGED IN ACTIVE SERVICE DURING THE WHOLE PERIOD OF HIS SAID TOURS AND WHEN THE SAME WAS FULLY AND COMPLETELY ENDED AND HE WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED HOME .
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STATES THAT DURING THE YEAR 1782, AND 1783, HE WAS FREQUENTLY ENGAGED IN PARTIES AGAINST THE INDIANS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN RICHARDSON AND SAWYER, THAT HE ALSO ACTED A PART OF EACH ONE OF THESE YEARS AS AN INDIAN SPY, HE THINKSNOT LESS THAN TWO MONTHS IN EACH YEAR, AND HE THINKS HE DID NOT SERVE ON THE PARTIES ABOVE NAMED LESS THAN WWO MONTHS IN EACH OF SAID YEARS, MAKING A SERVICE OF NOT LESS THAN TWO MONTHS, AS A SPY AND TWO MONTHS UPON SCOUTING PARTIES, IN 1782 AND A SIMILAR SERVICES IN 1783, AMOUNTING IN ALL, FOR BOTH SAID YEARS TO 8 MONTHS.
STATES THAT IT HAS BEEN HIS FORTUNE FROM HIS FIRST ARRIVAL AT MANHOOD UNTIL 1793 TO BE A RESIDENT IN THE FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS AND AMONGST THOSE WHO WERE EXPOSED TO THE INDIANS; THAT HIS SAFETY AND A THAT OF HIS FAMILY AND HIS NEIGHBORS REQUIRED OF HIM THE MOST ACTIVE EXERTION DURING A GREAT PART OF THE TIME. SAID THAT HE WAS BORN IN BOTETOURT COUNTY, VA., OCTOBER 3, 1750, HE REMAINED IN GREEN COUNTY, N. C., UNTIL 1793, WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1780 UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR 1793, | MOVED FROM THAT COUNTY AND STATE TO MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, NOW GARRARD COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND ABOUT TEN YEARS AFTERWARDS MOVED TO WHERE | NOW LIVE, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
I RECOLLECT THAT GOL. SHELBY WAS WITH US UPON THE TOUR AGAINST THE BRITISH AND TORIES AND UPON THAT TOUR THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN WAS FOUGHT.
MAYFIELD: SOUTHERLAND
'N. 67984- PRIVATE AMELIA
PRIVATE CAPTIAN C. H. HOLDER COMPANY
160-55
17TH U.S. INFANTRY AND CAPTAIN ROBERT EDWARDS? KENTUCKY MILITIA. WAR OF 1812, 0.W. 23795- W.C.22380 . OLD WAR INVALID FILE 25646
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THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER LOST ONE FOOT DURING THE WAR OF 18!2, TO THE HEEL AND ALL OF HIS TOES ON THE OTHER FOOT, SIGNED -DR. JOHN H. WOOD . & DR. S. WILLIS -- IT APPEARS ON THE ROLLS OF CAPTAIN HOLDER'S COMPANY 17TH REGIMENT INFANTRY FROM THE 3IST., DECEMBER 1813, TO THE 30TH APRIL 1815, THAT SUTHERLAND MAYFIELD A PRIVATE ENLISTED JULY 16, 1812, FOR THE PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS AND IS MUSTERED PRESENT WITHOUT REMAKR.
SIGNED JOHN HOGAN.
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-- AFFIDAVIT OF BLAN W. BALLARD- SAID THAT HE WAS IN THE 1812 WAR IN UPPER CANADA AND WAS ACQUAINTED WITH SAID SOLDIER A PRIVATE ATTACHED TO THE COMPANY OF U. S. REGULARS AND COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN RICHARD HIGHTOWER OF T THE 17TH REGIMENT, HAVING BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN EDWARDS, THIS AFFIANT WAS IN THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER RAISIN AND STATES THAT THE SAID SOLDIER WAS ALSO IN SAID BATTLE AND SAID THEY WERE BOTH TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE BRITISH AND INDIANS, AND WERE BOTH MARCHED TO FORT GEORGE. THIS AFFIANT STATES THAT IN THE MARCH TO FORT GEORGE AND PREVIOUS SERVICES TO SAID SUTHERLAND MAYFIELD WAS SO INJURED IN HIS FOOT AS TO PRODUCE A PERMANT LAMENESS.
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