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-- HE WROTE A LETTER FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY AT BOSTON 12-13-1837 TO MR. W. J. GRAVES OF WASHINGTON.
-- FROM YOUR KIND NOTE THAT MY PAPERS WHICH WERE RETUNED, | AM ENCOURAGED TO TROUBLE YOU AGAIN UPON EXAMINATION YOU WILL FIND | HAVE OBTAINED SOME AFFIDACITS ( ABOVE REFFERED TO)
THE SOLDIER BELONGED TO THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN RICHARD HIGHTOWER UNDER COL. SAMUEL WELLS, 17TH REGIMENT.
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IN 1842, HE WROTE FROM SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAID HE WAS INTENDING TO MOVE TO ADAMS COUNTY, ILLINOIS, NEAR QUINCY, AND WANTED TO FIND OUT ABOUT HAVING HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED.
-- HIS WIDOW AMERLIA MAYFIELD MADE DECLARATION FOR PENSION WHICH WAS CLAIMANT No. 23795.
-- SHE MADE HER DECLARATION IN LEWISPORT, HANCOCK COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SHE MADE HER DECLARATION MAY 29, 1878, SHE SAYS HER HUSBAND ENLISTED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY UNDER CAPTAIN HOLDER'S COMPANY 17TH REGIMENT, U. S. INFANTRY WAR OF 1812, FOR THE TERM OF THE WAR AND WAS DISCHARGED 1815, SERVED 685 DAYS.
PROOF OF IDENTIY JAMES MAYFIELD AND MARY A. DORSEY CLAIMANT'S FORWARD SOLDIER'S PENSION CERTIFICATE No. 2135?
-- MARRIAGE : 11-30-1824, SOUTHERLAND MAYFIELD AND AMELIA STORY ALLEGED BY CLAIMANT AND COHABITATION SHOWN BY JAMES T. MAYFIELD, MARY ANN DORSEY, CLASBY? J. MAYFIELD? FIELDING LUTRELL AND W/M. H. MORRIS,
SOLDIER DIED 8-31-1862.
MARY ANN DORSEY SAYS SHE NOW RESIDED IN DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY THOUGH HER MAIDEN NAME WAS MARY ANN MAYFIELD, SHE ISA AGE 49 BORN ON THE 19TH OF AUGUST 1829, IN CANADA WEST, SHE THINKS MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO THE STATE OF MICHIGAN? AND LIVED TWO YEARS; THENCE TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY; THENCE TO DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SHE WAS MARRIED TO HENRY DORSEY IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND DID NOT MOVED WITH HER PARENTS SUTHERLAND AND AMELIA MAYFIELD, BUT CAME IN 1857 AND THEY REMOVED WITH THE BALANCE OF THE FAMILY TO DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1861 AND IN AUGUST 1862, MY FATHER DIED AT MY HOME, HER MOTHER WAS NOW LIVING WITH HER AND VERY HELPLESS.
AFFIDAVIT OF CLASBY? J. MAYFIELD SAID HE WAS THE SON OF THE SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE. SAID AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE IN HANCOCK COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THAT HE NOW LIVES IN HANCOK COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND SHE IS NOW AGE 42. SECTION 141
THAT HIS FIRST RECOLLECTION IS THAT RIS PARENTS LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL HE WAS AGE 24. (ALL THAT TIME MY PARENTS LIVED TOGETHER AS MAN AND WIFE , IN 1801, THE FAMILY; MY FATHER'S FAMILY MOVED TO DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND IN 1862 MY FATHER DIED AND MY MOTHER HAS NEVER RE-MARRIED.
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-- AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES T. MAYFIELD SAID HE WAS THE GON OF THE SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE, THAT HE IS NOW 38, (1879) THAT HE WAS BORN IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1840, AND IN 1861, CAME TO DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND IN 1861 HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND THE BALANCE OF THE FAMILY- THERE BEING IN ALL SEVEN CHILDREN, REMOVED TO DAVIESS COUNTY 1862 AND IN AUGUST HIS FATHER DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER IN SAID COUNTY. -- THE NAME OF THE TOWNSHIP IN CANADA WEST IN WHICH THE SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED WAS NAMED MERCER?
-- MY SAID HUSBAND WAS 24 YEARS OLDER THAN I. HE WAS NEVER PREVIOUSLY MARRIED- WE MOVED FROM MICHIGAN WHERE WE HAD BEEN LIVING TWO YEARS TO THE COUNTY OF SHELBY COUNTY, IN 1833 OR 1834, AND IN 1861, WE MOVED TO DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF FIELDING LUTTRELL, AGE 71, (IN 1878 OF HANCOCK COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THAT IN 1834 OR 1835, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE WITH 3 SMALL CHILDREN MOVED INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE HE LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUKY, AND I WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM UNTIL 1861 WHEN THEY MOVED FROM THERE TO DAVIESS COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND THIS AFFIANT MOVED TO HANCOCK COUNTY 1866 WITHIN FIVE MILES FROM THE MAYFIELD FAMILY. THE SOLDIER HIMSELF WAS THEN DEAD; HIS WIDOW WAS LIVING THERE WITH HER DAUGHTER NAMED MARY WHO FORMERLY WENT TO SCHOOL WITH ME IN SHELBY COUNTY. AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM MORRIS STATES THAT IN 1835 OR 1836, HE WAS LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH SUTHERLAND MAYFIELD AND HIS WIFE AND SOME 3 CHILDREN. WHEN | LEFT SHELBY COUNTY THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN, THIS AFFIDAVITS WERE MADE IN HANCOCK COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
- RIELY : RILY VIRGINIA S31 331
HE DIED JANUARY 18, 1847
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY 9-17-1832, AGE 75
THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER STATES THAT HE WAS DRAFTED ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1778, UNDER CAPTAIN EPHRAIM WORTHINGTON, LT., WAS GEORGE WHITE OR HITE? WAS AND WHOSE ENSIGN WAS CHARLES NOURSE? WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED; THAT HE MUSTERED INTO SERVICE AT MARTINSBURG IN THE COUNTY OF BERKLEY. THAT HE MARCHED FROM THENCE TO BIGBONE CREEK AT WHICH PLACE FORT MCINTOSH WAS BUILT, THAT HE REMAINED AT THAT PLACE UNTIL JANUARY 1779 WHEN HE RETURNED HOME AND WAS DISCHARGED AT MARTINSBURG, BERKLEY COUNTY, VA., HAVING SERVED 3 MONTHS WHICH DISCHARGE IS LOST. HE WAS AGAIN DRAFTED 1781, IN BERKLEY COUNTY, VA., UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN MCCORMICK OF WHICH COMPANY HE WAS ELECTED, LT., AND JOHN INGLE WAS ENSIGN IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. WILLIAM MORGAN. HE WAS MUSTERED INTO SERVICE AT MARTINSBURG AND MARCHED FROM THAT PLACE TO YORK AFTER BEING TWO MONTHS IN SERVICE. INGLEBURG, THE OLDEST OFFICER AT HOME WAS APPOINTED LT., AND HE THE SAID RILEY WAS APPOINTED ENSIGN. HE REMAINED AT YORK UNTIL AFTER THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS. HE THEN MARCHED FROM YORK WITH THE PRISONERS ON TO KNOWLAND'S FERRY ON THE POTOMAC AT WHICH PLACE HE, THE SAID RILEY GOT THE DISCHARGE AND RETURNED HOME, WHICH DISCHARGE IS HEREIN ENCLOSED, HAVING SERVED 3 MONTHS, THE LAST TOUR,
-- KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENCE, THAT WE HENRI F. MIDDLETON AND MARY F. MIDDLETON LATE MARY F. RIELY, JOHN A. RILEY, GEORGE W. RILEY, RACHEL G. RILEY, HEREBY CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT JOHN S. GALLAGHER, JR ., OF WASHINGTON CITY, AS THEIR TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEY, TO PROSECUTE THE CLAIM OF JOHN RIDLEY DECEASED FOR REVOLUTIONARY VAR PENSION CR INCREASE OF PENSION AND ETC. ALL OF THE ABOVE OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY-
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PAGE 77 78 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS
: JOHN RIELY DECEASED FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION OR INCREASE OF PENSION AND ETC. ALL OF THE ABOVE OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHEN THEY MADE THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY, APRIL 26, 1852.
ROWE: JAMES VIRGIN!A S31 345 SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY ~9. 9. 823. STATES THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE EF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, FOR THE TERM OF 3 YEARS AND CONTINUED IN THE SERVICE FOR THE SAID TERM OF THREE YEARS AT WHICH PERIOD ! WAS A SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN GIDEON JOHNSTON'S COMPANY IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. THOMAS MARSHALL IN THE VIRGINIA LINE,
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY- 9-17-1832. JAMES ROWE, AGE 73, SAYS HE ENLISTED AUGUST 1777 IN LOUISA COUNTY, VA., UNDER CAPTAIN GEDEON JOHNSTON, WHOSE LT., WAS ROBERT DANDRIDGE IN THE SECOND VIRGINIA. REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. THOMAS MARSHALL, LT., COL. GEORGE MOOTER? AND MATHEWS MAJOR- ENLISTED FOR 3 YEARS, MARCHED FROM HANOVER TO WILLIAMSBURG, FROM WILLIAMSBURG TO HAMPTON, AT WHICH PLACE THE COMPANY'S WERE ORGANIZED AS HE WAS AS ABOVE STATED PLACED UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. GIDEON JOHNSTON . FROM HAMPTON, HE MARCHED TO LITTLE YORK AND AFTER REMAINING AT THAT PLACE THE GREATER PART OF TWO YEARS THEY WERE ORDERED TO NORTH CAROLINA UNDER COMMAND OF COL. PORTERFIELD, GEN. GATES ARRIVED, AND TOOK THE COMMAND OF THE ARMY IN THAT QUARTER. HE CONTINUED UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL GATES UNTIL THE BATTLE OF CAMDEN IN WHICH BATTLE, HE, THE SA! D ROWE WAS ENGAGED, MARCHED FROM CAROLINA TO RICHMOND, VIRGINIA BY COMPANIES, WHEN HIS TIME EXPIRED AND HE RECEIVED HIS DISCHARGE, WHICH DISCHARGE IS LOST. HE WAS DISCHARGED 178 1780. HE WAS A CORPORAL DURING THE WHOLE 3 YEARS.
-- AFFIDAVITS OF SAMUEL STEADMAN AND GEORGE BAYNE SAYS THEY ARE ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID SOLDIER.
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-A LETTER IN THE FILES AS FOLLOWS PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY- 12-1-1837
TO JOHN WHITE, WASHINGTON CITY .
DEAR WHITE! WE ARE ALL WELL, OLD HENRY AND WM. WEDDINGTON AND JAMES WEDDINGTON ARE INDICTED IN THE FEDERAL COURT , ON THE OLD SCRAPEL MY EVIDENCE WAS REJECTED BY THAT COURT. MR. JAMES ROWE WAS DRAWN NOTHING AS YET FROM THE PO DEPARTMENT SINCE JUNE 1836. WE HAVE SENT AND SET FROM TIME TO TIME WITH ALL RECEIPTS AND ETC., AS FAR AS COULD. WE WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY DID NOT SEND THE MONEY,
SIGNED JOHN HARGIS, BY REQUEST OF JAMES ROWE, SRO
-- AFFIDAVIT OF ... MADE !# HANOVER COUNTY, VA., SEPT. 17, 1832. BY ONE THOMAS BOULESW MADE OATH THAT HE SERVED A S A SOLDIER DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN A REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. THOMAS MARSHALL IN A COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN GIDEON JOHNSON AND THAT HE KNOWS THAT JEMES ROWE NOW OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY DID ALSO BELONG TO THE SAID REGIMENT AND COMPANY.
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF JAMES ROWE DECEASED 12-23-1842, PAPERS SHOWS ASMINISTRATOR BUT NOT BY NAME, A LETTER SHOWS THEY HAD CHILDREN, NAMES NOT SHOWN HOWEVER, THEY MIGHT PROBABLY BE OBTAINED BY WRITING TO THE SE OND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, TREASURY DEPT., WASHINGTON AND QUOTE THE FOLLOWING; "JAMES ROWE, SHELBY COUNTY, INSCRIBED ON THE ROLLS OF KENTUCKY AT $100, 3-4-1831, CERTIFICATE OF PENSION ISSUED, OCT. 24, 1832, SENT TO GEORGE P. MILLER, SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY- ARREARS TO SEPTEMBER 4K 1832, p150. SEMI ANNUAL- ALLOWANCE, ENDING 4TH MARCH 1833. $50.00.
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PAGE : ; 79 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS REEVES: JOSEPH
OWEN COUNTY KENTUCKY- 10-15-1831
PRIVATE; CAPT. FUNK. 38TW KY. MILI P.W. INV. 25767
I DO CERTIFY THAT JOSEPH REEVES OF HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WAS , IN THE YEAR 1813 A RESIDENT CITIZEN OF SAID COUNTY AND STATE; THAT HE THEN RESIDED IN BOUNDS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE ROBERTS MILITIA COMPANY AND THAT UNDER AN ORDER OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT CALLING ON THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY TO FURNISH TROOPS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFENDING THE NORTHWESTER ERONTIER FROM BRITISH AND SAVEGE INVASIONS; THAT SAID JOSEPH REEVES WAS DRAFTED IN THE U.S. SERVICE IN JANUARY 1813, AND THAT IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY SAME YEAR, HE WAS REGULARLY INSPECTED, ENROLLED AND MUSTERED INTO SAID SERVICE, THAT ON THE 23TH APRIL 1883, THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOSEPH FUNK AND ATTACHED TO THE 38TH REGIMENT, KENTUCKY, TOOK MILITIA UP THE LINE OF MARCH TO JOIN THE NORTHWESTERN ARMY; THAT I WAS A SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN FUNK.'S COMPANY. THAT THE SAID JOSEPH
REEVES WAS A PRIVATE IN SAID COMPANY AND ON THE 2ND ., OF MARCH, THE SAID JOSEPH REEVES, GOT WOUNDED IN THE LEG BY MEANS OF A SNAG AND WAS DIS- CHARGED BY THE GOVERNOR OF ^ENTUCKY. MAY 3, 1813. THAT I HAVE SEEN SAID WOUND SINCE AND CONSIDER IT SERIOUS, -SIGNED -RAYL SIDEBOTTOM. ..- WHEN HE WAS ENLISTED HE MARCHED FROM BUTTON'S MILL IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY TO MATHEW CLARKE'S IN FRANKLIN COUNTY .
-- HE WAS WOUNDED NEAR HACKET'S TAVERN IN KENTUCKY.
"ISIGNED C. M. NUCKOLS, 18TH REGIMENT, K. MILITIA-ENSIGN. ONAR? BROWN? - | DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT IN THE MONTH OF MARCH 1813, THAT [ WAS CALLED ON, BEING LIEUTENANT IN THE 38TH REGIMENT OF KENTUCKY MILITIA TO MEET AT BUTTIN'S MILL IN HENRY COUNTY AND HAVE WITH ME THE SOLDIER AND THAT WAS SETAILED FROM HENRY COUNTY (JOHN CALLOWAY WAS OUR MAJOR, JOSEPH FUNK OF JEFFERSON COUNTY WAS OUR CAPTAIN) [ MET AGREEABLE TO ORDERS AND THEN AND THERE RECEIVED ORDERS TO RENDEZVOUS AT MATHEW CLARK'S IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, MAY 2, ENSUING, WHICH ORDERS | COMPILED WITH.
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JOSEPH REEVES WAS ONE OF MY SOLDIERS AND WE WERE DISCHARGED THE THIRD DAY OF THE SAME MONTH BY THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY, THE SAID JOSEPH REEVES SBOVE NAMED, ON HIS MARCH TO FRANKLIN COUNTY, GOT ONE OF HIS LEGS HURT WITH A PIECE OF TIMEBER AND BEFORE WE GOT TO OUR DESTINATION HE BECAME VERY LAME . | GAVE HIM MY TEAMS A GREAT PART OF THE TIME OR HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN THERE BY THE TIME APPOINTED THE MORNING AFTER REACHING MR. CLARK'S MAJOR CALLOWAY AND MYSELF SENT TO REEVES TENT TO SEE HOW AR WAS AND TOOK HIM SOME FOOD. WE FOUND HIM STILL VERY LAME. SIGNED. W.P. FOREE 11-8-1830 LIEUTENANAT.
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SAID SOLDIER WAS A PRIVATE IN THE COMPANY OF JOSEPH FUNK, 38TH REGIMENT JAMES CLAYTON, SURGEON MATE 18TH REGIMENT, KENTUCKY MILITIA SIGNED SIMILAR STATEMENTS. THE SOLDIER WAS LIVING IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE. HE HAD AN AGED WIFE AND SOME HELPLESS DAUGHTERS; THAT IS THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES. HE SEEMED TO BE LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY, 1879.
IN 1833, TWO DOCTORS EXAMINED HIS WOUNDS IN HENRY COUNTY. EDWARD C. DRANE AND LEWIS F. OWENS.
THOMPSON: JOSEPH SUSANNAH
W. 9853 VIRGINIA B L WT. 93585-160-55 HARMER'S INDIAN WAR
SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY NOVEMBER 30, 1833, THE ABOVE SOLDIER APPEARED IN COURT AGE 70, AND STATES THAT HE ENLISTED IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN
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OCTOBER 1780 AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER ULLER CAPTAIN KINCAID UPON A TOUR OF FOUR MONTHS, THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED WITH HIS COMPANY SECTION ,47
AT THE MUSTER GROUND IN SAID COUNTY AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE REGIMENT OF COL. MATHEWS; HE WAS MATCHED TO PORTSMOUTH VIRGINIA OF WHICH PLACE THE BRITISH HAD POSSESSION AND WAS THERE : KEPS. STATIONED FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING IN KEEPING THE BRITISH FROM COMMITTING DEPREDATIONS AND FORAGING UPON THE COUNTRY, DURING THE WHOLE OF HIS TOUR, AFTER HAVING FULLY AND FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT THE SAME, HE WAS DISCHARGED AND WENT HOME, SAYS THAT THE TOUR WAS A SEVERE ONE. HIS TOUR WAS FOUR MONTHS. IN APRIL 1781
SA
1781, HE AGAIN ENETERED THE SERVICE AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER UNDER CAPTAIN BROWN, FOR TWO MONTHS, THAT HE AGAIN RENDEZVOUSED AT AUG AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHERE HE STILL RESIDED AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. BOWYERS REGIMENT, THAT HE WAS MARCHED THROGUH THE COUNTRY AND JOINED THE ARMY OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE AND KEPT WITH IT IN PURSUIT OF THE BRITISH ARMY UNDER CORNWALLIS, THAT A BATTLE WAS FOUGHT NEAR JAMESTOWN ON JAMES RIVER, THAT THIS DECLARANT WAS NOT PERSONALLY ENGAGED IN IT, SAYS
HE SERVED OUT HIS TOUR FULLY AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS THEN DISCHARGED AND RETURNED HOME. SAYS HE WAS BORN IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA., 1763., THAT HE MOVED TO FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY FROM AUGUSTA COUNTY WHERE HE REMAINED BUT A SHORT TIME AND WENT BACK TO AUGUSTA WHERE HE CONTINUED A FEW YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO CLARK COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE | CONTINUED TO LIVE UNTIL ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO AND | THEN MOVED TO WHERE I NOW LIVE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KY. WHERE | HAVE LIVED EVER SINCE.
-- ONE OF HIS NEIGHBORS IN SHELBY COUNTY WAS JESSE BASKET.
-DEPOSITION OF MARGARET YOUNG, TAKEN IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AT THE HOUSE OF JOHN CROCKETT ON THE 30TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1833, WHO BEING FIRST DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW, STATES AND DEPOSES THAT SHE IS THE SISTER OF JOSEPH THOMPSON OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHO IS MAKING APPLICATION FOR PENSION, SAYS THEY LIVED IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DURING THELWAR AND THAT HER SAID BROTHER JOSEPH THOMPSON SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION WHILE BEFORE CORNWALLIS WAS TAKEN. SAYS
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SHE THINKS HIS SERVICES WERE PERFORMED IN 1780 OR 1781 AND THAT SHE KNOWS HE SERVED AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT TOURS. AND THAT HIS SERVICES DID NOT AMOUNT TO LESS THAN SIX MONTHS. SAYS HER SAID BROTHER LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND IS ABOUT 70 YEARS OF AGE AND IS SO FEEBLE THAT HE CANOT ATTEND COURT. SAYS THAT SHE IS AGE 76.
SIGNED MARGARET YOUNG.
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. 1, GIDEON MITCHELL, A J. P. IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY AND STATE HEREBY CERTIFY THE FOREGOING DEPOSITION OF MARGARET YOUNG WAS THIS DAY TAKEN, SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME AT THE HOUSE OF JOHN CROCKETT IN SAID COUNTY, AND I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT SAID OPONENET IS A RESPECTABLE AND CREDITABLE PERSON.
THIS NOVEMBER 30, 1833. SIGNED. GIDEON MITCHELL.
SUSANNAH THOMPSON: WIDOW OF JOSEPH THOMPSON: DECEASED,
STATES HER HUSBAND WAS A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF GENERAL HARMER AGAINST THE INDIANS IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND WAS IN THE DISASTRIOUS DEFEAT OF THAT ARMY, THAT I WAS MARRIED TO HIM JANUARY 3, 1803, IN FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY HE DIED APRIL 1843, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
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SUSANNAH THOMPSON: WIDO" OF JOSEPH THOMPSON.
-- AFFIDAVIT O- MARGARET CROCKETT, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, STATES
THAT SHE WAS PRESENT 'N FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY ABOUT 57 YEARS SINCE AT THE WEDDING AND MARPIACE OF JOSEPH AND SUSAN THOMPSON AND FURTHER STATES THAT SHE HAS BEEN PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE FAMILY EVER SINCE AND KNOWS THEY WERE MARR, ZO AND RECOGNIZED AS SUCH UNTIL HIS DEATH, APRIL 1843.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF MAY MODOANALD, STATES THAT SHE WAS PRESENT IN FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY SECTION :49
KENTUCKY ABOUT 57 YEARS SINCE AT THE WEDDING AND MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH BND SUSAN THOMPSON AND THAT SHE LIVES IN THE FAMILY ABOUT TEN YEARS AFTERWARDS #NO HAS BEEN PERSONAL !. Y ACQUAINTED WITH THE FAMILY &VER SINCE AND KNEW THAT THEY LIVED TOGETHER AND WAS RECONGIZED AS MAN AND W! F WIFE UNTIL HIS DEATH APRIL :843-
-THE WIDOW APPLIED FOR BOUNTY LAND .JANUARY-30-1860, BY HENRY JOHANNSON. -- AFFIDAVIT FROM THE CLERK OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY MADE IN 1860, SAID HE HAD EXAMINED THE RECORDS FROM :796 TO 1820 AND SHOULD?FIND NO RECORD OF THE MARRIAGEUREFERRED TO OF JOSEPH AND SUSANNAH THOMPSON. (THE FAYETTE COUNTY COURT HOUSE BURNED : N 1803.)
-- AFFIDAVIT OF MARY CROCKETT, SAYS SHE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JOSEPH THOMPSON FOR OVER 60 YEARS AND EXCEPT ONE YEAR, THAT THEY LIVED IN LESS THAN 3 MILES TO EACH OTHER. HER FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WAS SHORT- LY AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE CAME FROM VIRGINIA TO HER FATHER (S IN CLARK COUNTYK KENTUCKY, AND LIVED WITH THE FAMILY UNTIL HE MARRIED. HE MARRIED SUSAN THOMPSON OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, HE THEN SETTLED IN CLARK COUNTY, ABOUT TWO MILES FROM HER FATHER'S AND THEN REMAINED UNTIL 1829 OR 1830 AT WHICH TIME, SHE MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND THE YEAR AFTERWARDS JOSEPH THOMPSON ALSO MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY AND SETTLED IN ABOUT 3 MILES OF THE AFORESAID CROCKETT'S AND THERE REMAINED UNTIL HIS DEATH, WHICH WAS IN APRIL 1843, AND HIS WIDOW SUSAN THOMSPN YET LIVES AT THE SAME PLACE AND HAS FOR HER PENSION, I CAN ONLY SAY SOME FEW YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH, JOSEPH THOMPSON AND OTHERS WAS AT MY HOUSE PREPARING AND FIXING UP HIS PAPERS, FOR THAT PURPOSE, WHETHER HE EVER DREW A PENSION OR HOW MUCH, OR THE PRECISE TIME, IT WAS SHE COULD NOT STATE. AND SHE THINK HE WAS ABOUT 80 YEARS OF
AGE AT HIS DEATH. SIGNED LARY CROCKETT, THIS 1860-2-25 ?.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF MAY MCDANIEL SAID SHE HAD KNOWN JOSEPH THOMPSON 45 YEARS, THAT SHE KNEW HIM CLARK COUNTY, KENTUCKY ABOUT 30 YEARS AND IN 183 30- HE MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND IN 1833, I MOVED ALSO TO SHELBY COUNTY AND SETTLED ABOUT THREE MILES FROM THEM. SECTION 150 -- ONE JOSEPH M. THOMPSON WAS A WTISNESS TO SOME OF THE AFFIDAVITS, AND HE MAY PROBABLY HAVE BEEN HER SON.
-- ONE BERRY THOMSON, A GRAND SON OF SUSANNAH THOMPSON, WIDOW OF JOSEPH MADE OATH THAT HIS GRAND FATHER DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, APRIL 1, 1864. HIS POST OFFI E WAS HENRY COUNTY AT PLEASUREVILLE, KENTUCKY .-- ONE BERRY THOMSON EXECUTOR OF CLARK THOMPSON DECEASED SIGNED THIS CERTIFICATE.
THAT SUSANNAH THOMPSON DIED APRIL !, 1864., AND THAT SHE LEFT NO CHILDREN SURVIVING HER EXCEPT CLERK THOMSON AND WILLIAM THOMPSON BOTH S. M. SINCE DEAD AND HER DAUGHTER SEPILDA THOMSPON WEBBER, MARY J. DUVAL, ELIZABETH WEBB, WHO ARE YET LIVING WITH BERRY THOMSPON, THE CLAIMANT, IS THE EXECUTOR OF CLARK THOMPSON DECEASED AND HIS AGE 21? AND THAT HER ARREARS OF PENSIONS ARE DEVISED TO CLARK THOMSON AND ELIZABETH NABB?
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PAGE 83 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS CALDWELL COUNTY KENTUCKY : AFFIDAVIT -- KNOW WE, THAT ELIZABETH NABB, DAUGHTER OF SUSANNAH THOMPSON AND JOSEPH THOMPSON DO APPOINT BERRY THOMPSON AS ATTORNEY .
THE ABOVE AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE IN CALDWELL COUNTY, KENTUCKY .-- BERRY THOMPSON SSMED TO HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1877, AND HE SAID THAT SUSANNAH THOMPSON RESIDED FOR MANY YEARS WITH HER SON WILLIAM THOMPSON. SAID SHE, BY HER WILL, GAVE CLARK THOMPSON NOW DECEASED AND IN PART TO ELIZABETH NABBO THAT HER SON WILLIAM WAS ILL HEALTH WHEN SHE LIVED WITH HIM. SUSANNAH THOMPSON STATES IN A DECLARATION, MADE IN 1855 IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY THAT THE MINISTER WHO MARRIED THEN WAS A REP. CRAWFORD, A PRESBYTERIAN AND THAT HER NAME BEFORE SAID MARRIAGE WAS SUSANNAH THOMPSON AND THAT HER HUSBAND DIED IN SHELBY CO., KENTUCKY 4-19-1843.
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SWEARINGAN: VAN
S 31, 401- MARYLAND AND PENN.
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY 9-17-1832
THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE STATEN, THEN COLONY OF MARYLAND ABOUT TEN MILES FROM HAGERSTOWN, ON NOVEMBER 30JI754. I WAS REMOVED TO THE STATE ( THEN COLONY) OF PENNSYLVANIA ABOUT 1770 TO THE PART THEN KNOWN AS THE MONONGAHALA COUNTY, NOW FAYETTE COUNTY, AT WHICH PLACE | RESDIED WHEN HOSITILITIES BEGAN WITH GREAT BRITTAIN. IN THE SPRING OF 1777. | ENTERED THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN DANIEL STULL, A REGULAR OFFICER, BELONGING TO THE MARYLAND LINE IN WHICH | ACTED IN THE CAPACITY OF FIRST LIEUTENANAT FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS AND ASSISTED IN RECRUITING 30 OR 40 MEN, MY COMMISSION-NOT ARRIVING. I QUIT THE SERVICE IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE INSURRECTION OF THE TORIES IN THE VESTERN PART OF PENNSYLBANIA WHERE MY FATHER RESIDED, RETURNED AND ASSISTED IN QUELLING THEM THEM IN THE FALL OF THE SAME YEAR, | VOLUNTEERED IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN JAMES NEILL AND SERVED 3 MONTHS ON STATION AT YELLOW CREEK ON THE OHIO RIVER, IN SUPPORT OF THE ABOVE SERVICE. I KNOW OF NO PERSON LIVING WHO CAN GIVE HIS TESTIMONY AND IF | EVER HAD ANY DISCHARGE THEY ARE NOW LOST. IN THE SPRING OF 1778. | VOLUNTEERED IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM HARROD TO THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION. HE RENDEAVOUSED AT A PLACE CALLED MUDDY CREEK IN THE WESTERN PART OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE MONTH OF APRIL. WE MARCHED FROM THENCE UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, IN THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ILLINOIS. COL. WM. LYNN SECOND IN COMMAND. I WAS AT. LT. PICARER KASKEASKIA AND COMPANY WHEN SURRENDERED. ON THE RETURN | REMAINED AT LOUISVILLE THEN THE FALLS OF THE OHIO) TWO MONTHS AND ASSISTED IN BUILDING A FORT AND AS A SPY COMPRISING ABOUT TEN MONTHS FROM THE TIME | LEFT THE MONONGAHALA TILL RETURNED. IN THE SPRING OF 1779 | AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE COMPANY OF THE ABOVE NAMED CAPTAIN HARROD. VIE RENDEZVOUSED AT LOUISVILLE, "ENTUCKY AND MARCHED FROM THEONE AGAINST THE SHEWANEE INDIANS. SECTION 152
ON THE LITTLE MIAMI RIVER, NOW IN THE STATE OF OHIO, COMMANDED BY COL. BOWMAN, AND WAS IN THE BATTLE. I WAS ON 3 MONTHS BOWMAN'S CAMPAIGN, THE INCLOSED DISCHARGE WILL BE EVIDENCE OF MY SERVICES IN THE TWO LAST NAMED EXPEDITIONS, | AGAIN RETURNED TO THE MONONGAHALA WHERE | JOINED A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS AND RENDERED THE MISCELLANEOUS SERVICE AS SCOUT UPON THE FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS UNTIL THE FALL OF 1783, EXCEPT TWO MONTHS SERVICE WHICH | RENDERED IN 1782, AT TWO FORTS, ONE CALLED PRICEETTS AND THE OTHER EVANS. | KNOW OF NO PERSON WHO CAN TESTIFY. IN CONSIDERATION OF ALL MY SERVICES, TO MY CONTRY. I HAVE REVER RECEIVED AANY COMPENSATION EXCEPT A LOT OF 100 ACRES OF LAND LYING NEAR THE FALLS OF THE OHIO, WHICH WAS GRANTED IN CONSIDERATION OF SERVICES RENDERED ON THE ILLINOIS EXPEDITION .
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PAGE 83 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS
-ONE H. C. LOCKNEY WROTE A LETTER FROM ARNOLDSBURG, CALHOUN COUNTY, W. VA., 7-16-1882, TO THE PENSION COMMISSIONER, AS TOLL AS; DEAR SIR; MRS. SARAH SWEAREGEN, WIDOW OF VAN., IS NEAR 85 YEARS OF AGE AND WISHED TO SECURE A PENSION AND ETC. HE SAID THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE SOLDIER 1829 OR 1830 IN BATH COUNTY VIRGINIA. HE HAD A FORMER WIFE AND FAMILY BUT THE PRESENT WIDOW IS NOT THE MOTHER OF ANY CHILDREN BY HIM. APPLICATION MADE IN WIDOW'S INTEREST AND NO OTHER.
THE DISCHARGE OF THE SOLDIER WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN THE HANDS OF ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS BUT SHE IS NOW DECEASED. HE SAID THAT THE MARRIAGE CAN BE RROVEN.
SAID THAT HIS FORMER WIFE WAS DEAD BUT HE MARRIED HIS PRESENT . WIDOW, THAT THE SOLDIER RESIDED IN BATH COUNTY, VA., FROM THE TIME OF HIS MARRIAGE TO CLAIMANT UP TO HIS DEATH.
HIS LAST WIDOW, THE CLAIMANT DIED IN CARE OF HER ONLY LIVING CHILD ( (A SON) AND CIS HEALTH BEING IN SUCH A STATE DESIRES TO CLAIM THE P PENSI ON BELONGING TO HIS MOTHER, HIS MOTHER'S HEALTH AND MIND HAF FAILED BEFORE HE RECEIVED THE NECESSARY BLANKS TO FILL OUT, FOR PENSION BY HER ATTORNEY. SECTION 153
A COPY OF THE DISCHARGE OF VAN SWEARCGAN, 3-16-1780.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT CAN SWEARINGEN, THAT HE WAS THE COMPANY OF COL. GEO. ROGERS CLARK AND RETURNED BACK TO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO AND ASSISTED IN BUILDING AA GARRISON THEN LIKEWISE I JOINED IN MY COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS AGAINST SHANY TOWN? IN 1779 AND BEHAVED HIMSELF AS A BRAVE SOLDIER. SIGNED WM. HERROD, CAPTAIN.
~~ A LETTER IN THE FILES FROM PRINCETON, IND. JULY 18, 1912 STATES; SHE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANY ONE FROM FAYETTE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA GAVE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE. HER NAME WAS M&S. JAMES BUCHANAN, 619 GIBSON ST .-- A PAPER IN THE FILES SHOWS THAT THE ARREARS WERE PAID TO THE CHILDREN OF VAN SWEARINGEN. JUNE 7, 1832, 4-9-1838 TO JULY 18, 1839 1839, THE DATE OF HIS DEATH.
SAMP SON : ISAAC S35640 NORTH CAROLINA
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1821, PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT HELD IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKYL HE WAS AGE 61, SAID HE ENLISTED FOR 18 MONTHS ABOUT FEBRUARY 1, 1778 IN HENRY COUNTY. UNDER CAPTAIN MICAJAH LEWIS AND THE 6TH REGIMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA, REGUAARS, THEN CALLED THE NEW LIVES IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE AND CONTINUED UNTIL HIS TIME HAD EXPIRED WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED ON THE 13TH DAY OF AUGUST 1779, BY COL. WM. LITTLE, THE COMMANDE OF THE SAID REGIMENT AS BY HIS ORIGINAL DISCHARGE HEREBY ACCOMPANY THIS DECLARATION WILL SHOW FURTHER STATES THAT HE AGAIN ENLISTED BEFORE HE RETURNED HOME TO HIS PLACE OF RESIDENCE ABOUT AUGUST 20, 1779. IN CAPT. RAMSEY'S COMPANY IN THE SECOND REGIMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA REGULARS, IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE COMMANDED BY COL. MASON FOR THE TERM OF AND DURING THE WAR, THAT HE WAS WITH HIS REGIMENT AT THE SEIGE OF CHARLESTON AND WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL LINCOLN IN CHARLESTON IN MAY 1730, THAT HE CONTINUED A PRISONER WITH THE BRITISH ABOUT TWO MONTHS.
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