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ANDREW MITCHELL OF TRIMBLE COUNTY, WHERE SHE AT PRESENT IS AND FROM SICKNESS CANNOT ATTEND COURT. BIBLE RECORDS
GODFREY RAGSDALE, BORN 1-17-1764 ELIZABETH MITCHELL 3-14-1771 MARRIED JANUARY 13, 1789
WILLIAM RAGSDALE, BORN 9-30-1789
DANIEL RAGSDALE, BORN 12-2-1790
DANIEL RAGSDALE? BORN 12-27-1791 ROBERT M. RAGSDALE " 1-10-1794
ERED G. RAGSDALE BORN 6-7-1795 GEORGE RAGSDALE BORN 9-20-1797
TUCKER RAGSDALE BORN 5-15-1799
BENJAMIN RAGSDALE BORN 8-23-1801
JOHN RAGSDALE BORN 5-22-1803
GODFREY RAGSDALE BORN 10-5-1805
MARON? BORN JUNE 1791 JESSE BORN 2-1794
MARY BRYAN RAGSDALE BORN JUNE 29-1811
DEPOSITION OF ANDREW MITCHELL TAKEN ON THE 23RD., OF MAY 1839, WHO BEING DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW, DEPOSES AND SAYS THAT HE IS NOW A RESIDENT OF TRIMBLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND OVER 56M SAYS THAT HE IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH RAGSDALE, THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO GODFREY RAGSDALE 1789 ABOUT JANUARY. SHE WAS NOT MARRIED AT HOME BUT AT THE HOME OF REV. LEWIS CRIAG IN FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THE MARRIAGE BEING OPPOSED BY HER PARENTS AS THIS DEPONENT HAS EVER REASON TO KNOW AND BELIEVE, THIS DEPONENT WAS NOT PRESENT AT THEIR MARRIAGE BUT REMEMBERS WELL WHEN THEY CAME HOME.
SAID SOLDIER DIED FEBRUARY 16, 1835, IN SHELBY COUNTY.
DEPOSITION OF JOSHUA PREWETT, SAYS THAT HE IS A RESIDENT OF TRIMBLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND IS NOW 77 YEARS OF AGE, THAT HE HAS KNOWS THEM AS MAN AND EIFE, EVEN THO HE WAS NOT AT THEIR MARRIAGE.
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RICHARDSON: JOSHUA MARY
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STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY* AUGUST 20, 1832. WHO SAYS HE WAS BORN IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHERE HE RESIDED DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND AFTERWARDS IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY AND FOR THE LAST 29 YEARS, I HAVE LIVED IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY; THAT IN THE WINTER 1780, AND 1781, VOLUNTEERED FOR 3 MONTHS IN CAPTAIN DAVID BAIRD'S COMPANY OF COL. CHARLES LYNCH AND RENDEZVOUSED AT THE? THOS. AND LEFTWICHES? ON GOOSE CREEK, BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND MARCHED ON TOWARD GUILFORD AND JOINED GENERAL GREEN'S ARMY AFTER WE HAD CROSSED DAN RIVER. WE WERE GENERALLY CALLED THE LIGHT INFANTRY AND CAMPED WITH COL. WASHINGTON'S LIGHT HORSE AND THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD OUR COMPANY CAMPED SEVERAL MILES IN ADVANCE OF GENERAL GREEN'S ARMY WHEN OUR PICKETS FIRED UPON EACH OTHER AND WE WERE COMPELLED TO RETREAT BACK TO THE MAIN ARMY EARLY NEXT MORNING AND AFTER THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD, WE RETREATED BACK TO THE IRON WORKS AND I FAITHFULLY PERFORMEO MY DUTY AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED IT DEEP RIVER A SHORT TIME AFTER THE BATTLE AND WHEN | RETURNED HOME AND SOON AFTER IN THE MONTH OF APRIL 1781. I VOLUNTEERED IN CAPTAIN CLEMONS COMBANY OF MAJOR WARD'S BATILLION AND MARCHED TO SALISBURY WHEN I WAS DETACHED TO CAPTAIN BALES COMPANY AND MARCHED TO 96 AND JOINED GEN. GREEN'S ARMY, WHO WERE. ENGAGED IN BESEIGING THE PLACE AND AT THIS
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RICHARDSON: JOSHUA AND MARY
AT THIS POINT I WAS AGAIN SET OUT AND EMPLOYED IN COLLECTING PROVISION FOR THE ARMY UNTIL GENERAL GREEN RAISED THE SEIGE AND RETURNED AND | WAS DISCHARGED AT A PLACE CALLED CHARLOTTE, N. C. WHICH SERVICES WERE FAITHFULLY PERFORMED AND | WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED; WHICH DISCHARGE HAVE LONG SINCE BEEN LOST OR MISLAID. I HEREBY RELINQUISH ALL CLAIM WHICH I MAY HAVE TO ANY OTHER PENSION OR ANNUITY, EXCEPT THE PRESENT AND I AM NOT A PENSIONER OF THE U. S., OR ANY STATE. SECTION 170
AFFIDAVIT: MERCER COUNTY KENTUCKY. RICHARD BURCK? JOHN LAMBERT AND WILLIAM TAYLOR STATES THAT THE SAID BURCH OR BUNCH? AND LAMBERT ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH SAID JOSHUA RICHARDSON. SAY THEY MARCHED WITH HIM IN CAPT. CLEMONS COMPANY OF THE VIRGINIA MILITIA IN MAJOR WARD'S BATALLION. (THERE NOT BEING COMPANY ENOUGH FOR A REGIMENT) AS A SOLSIER WE MARCHED TOGETHER TO SALESBURY WHEN RICHARD BURCH WAS WAS DETACHED TO ANOTHER COMPANY, AND THE SAID LAMBERT AND RICHARDSON JOINED CAPTAIN PATES COMPANY AND MARCHED TO THE SEIGE CF 96 AND WE ALL GOT HOME AT THE EXPIRATION OF OUR TIME OF 3 MONTHS AND WAS PERSONALLY DISCHARGED. JOHN LAMBERT CAME HOME IN COMPANY WITH SAID RICHARDSON. AS TO THE PREVIOUS TOUR THE SAID LAMBERT AND BURCH WELL RECOLLECT THAT CAPTAIN B. BAIRD WENT OUT AND WE HAVE OFTEN HEARD SAID RICHARDSON SPEAK OF BEING IN THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD SOON AFTER IT TOOK PLACE AND WE HAVE NO DOUBT OF SAID RICHARDSON BEING AT THE SEIGE OR BATTLE AND THE SAID W WILLIAM TAYLOR STATES THAT HE WAS AT THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD, AND HAS THIS DAY CONVERSED WITH SAID RICHARDSON AND HE HAS GIVEN SAID TAYLOR SUCH A DESCRIPTION OF PLACES AND DETAILS OF FACTS THAT HE HAS NO DOUBT SAID RICHARDSON HAVING BEEN AT THE SAID BATTLE AND ENGAGED INIT, THE SAID LAMBERT AND BURCH FURTHER STATE THAT THE SAID RICHARDSON IS A MAN OF TRUTH AND ETC.
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. ON 26TH MARCH 1833, PERSONALLY APPEAREED JOSHUA RICHARDSON AGE 70 IN SAID COUNTY AND MADE AMENDED DEC; ARATION ABOUT THE NAME AS THE PREVIOUS ONE.
DECLARATION: STATE OF ILLINOIS: COUNTY OF MACOUPIN : 2-27-1839. SAID JOSHUA RICHARDSON MADE APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER OF HIS PENSION FROM THE KENTUCKY AGENCY TO THAT OF ILLINOIS.
STATE OF ILLINOIS: MACOUPIN COUNTY. ON THE 3IST., DAY OF DEC. 1853, PERSONALLY APPEARED MARY RICHARDSON, AGE 80, SHE STATES THAT SHE IS THE WIDOW OF JOSHUA RICHARDSON, WHO FORMERLY RESIDED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, ABOUT 1833, AND DREW PENSION AT THE KENTUCKY AGENCY AND WHO BEFORE HIS DEATH DREW PENSION AT THE SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS SGENCY. SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM APRIL 18, 1795 IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA; THAT HER I HUSBAND DIED MARCH 1844,
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-- AFFIDAVIT- STATE OF ILLINOIS, MACOUPIN COUNTY,
WILLIAM BURNETT RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY AND STATE, SAYS THAT HE WAS PRESENT AND SAW THE MARRIAGE OF MARY RICHARDSON AND JOSHUA RICHARDSON PERFORMED. THAT HER NAME BEFORE MARRIAGE WAS MARY BURNETT, AND IT TOOK PLACE IN WHAT WAS THEN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA AND THAT THE SAID JOSHUA AND MARY REMOVED FROM VIRGINIA TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY ABOUT 1806 AND REMOVED FROM THERE IN 1837 TO THE COUNTY OF MACOUPIN ILLINOIS WHERE HE DIED MARCH 14, 1844, THAT AFFIANT LIVED NEAR THEM EVER SINCE THEIR MARRIAGE AND THEY LIVED TOGETHER AS HUSBAND AND WIFE UNTIL HIS DEATH.
BIBLE RECORDS FILED : JOSHUA RICHARDSON WAS BORN 12-19-1762. MARY RICHARDSON WAS BORN MAY 7, 1774
BIRTHS
JAMES
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JAMES RICHADSON WAS BORN JULY 6, 1789 JANE RICHARDSON WAS BORN 9-14-1791 WILLIAM RICHARDSON WAS BORN 11-14 .- 1794 JOSHUA RICHARDSON JR., WAS BORN :1-5 -: 797 ~97 GEORGE RICHARDSON WAS BORN 2-23 :799
ELIZABETH RICHARDSON WAS BORN 2-12-1801. NANCY RICHARDSON WAS BORN WEDNESDAY 2-22-1803. CYNTHIA RICHARDSON WAS BORN O .- 5-1805
MARY G. RICHARDSON WAS BORN SATURDAY-9-12-1807.
AMELIA RICHARDSON WAS BORN 11-30-1810.
WILLIAM H. RICHARDSON WAS BORN FRIDAY - 1-15-1813.
NARCISSA RICHARDSON BORN TUESDAY 2-28-1815 MARRIAGES
JOSHUA RICHARDSON AND MARY SNOW WERE MARRIED JANUARY 15, 1789. JOSHUA RICHARDSON AND MARY BURNETT WERE MARRIED APRIL 18, 1798. JAMES RICHARDSON WERE MARRIED JULY 18, 1807.
JANE RICHARDSON MARRIED SEPTEMBER 22, 1814.
ELIZABETH RICHARDSON- 2-3-1819.
LEWIS M. BAILEY AND NANCY RICHARDSON WERE MARRIED $2-23-1823. WILLIAM B. GARDNER AND CYNTHIA RICHARDSON WERE MARRIED OCTOBER 7, 1828. WILLIAM H. RICHARDSON AND LUCINDA ROBERTSON WERE MARRIED $1-17-1837. STATE OF ILLINOIS- M.COUPIN COUNTY.
WILLIAM B. GARDNER, A PERSON OF LAWFUL AGE AND BEING SWORN STATES THAT THE BIBLE RECORDS HEREWITH ATTACHED ( ABOVE GIVEN ) IS THE LEAF FROM THE FAMILY BIBLE CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL ENTRY AND RECORD OF THE MARRIAGE OF MARY RICHARDSON AND FURTHER SAYETH NOT.
-- LETTER FROM CARLINSVILLE, ILLINOIS 12-4-1837.
FROM WILLIAM BURNETT IN WHICH HE SAYS THAT "MY FATHER IN LAW JOSHUA RICHARDSON LATE OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, A RESIDENT OF THIS COUNTY (MACOUPIN) ILLINOIS AND WHO EXPECTS TO LIVE HERE, THE REST OF HIS LIFE WANTS HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED TO ILLINOIS AND ETC., FROM KENTUCKY.
ROBERTS: BENJAMIN S 31,343 VIRGINIA AND VA. HALF PAY.
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY
24TH OF AUGUST 1832, LAST APRIL HE WAS 82 YEARS OLD. STATES THAT HE LIVED IN CULPEPPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION THAT HE WAS APPOINTED IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1779. CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY IN MAJOR GEORGEL SLAUGHTER'S CORPS ATTACHED TO CROCKETT'S REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LINE OF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION AND MARCHED EARLY IN JANUARY 1780 WITH HIS COMPANY TO THE FALLS OF THE CHIO, NOW LOUISVILLE AND WAS STATIONED AT THAT PLACE AND OTHER-POINTS, OR STATIONES UNTIL THE
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EXPIRATION OF THE TERM OF SERVICE OF HIS MEN, WITH THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1781. HIMSELF DEPONENT REMAINING FROM THAT TIME TO THE CLOSE OF THE WAR AS A SUPER --? ARMY LIABLE TO BE CALLED OUT AT ANY TIME UPEN WANTED; THAT HE HEREBY RELINQUISHES EVERY CL IM WAHTEVER TO A PENSION FROM ANY SOURCE FROM AND AFTER THE 4TH OF MARCH 1831. THAT IN
NOVEMBER 1830 HE OBTAINED A JUDGMENT AGAINST THE STATE OF VIRGINIA FOR $118.20 WHICH WAS NOT AS YET BEEN RECEIVED. SIGNED BENJAMIN ROBERTS.
A COMMISSION SIGNED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON APPOINTS SAID BENJAMIN ROBERT ROBERTS AS CAPTAIN OF CORPO OF INFANTRY WAS PRESENTED TO US IN COURT.
HENRY NORTHUP WAS APPOINTED POWER OF ATTORNEY, FORMERLY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY BUT NOW OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY -HIS ATTORNEY.
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S46,408 BL WT. 1702-200- VIRGINIA HALF PAY
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY- 12-7-1830. SAYS HE WAS AN OFFICER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND SERVED AS SUCH UNTIL THE REDUCTION AT WHICH PERIOD HE WAS ALSO IN COLD GIBSON'S REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LINE AND THAT HE RECEIVED COMPUTATION CERTIFICATES FOR THE FIVE YEARS FULL PAY GRANTED BY THE RESO: JE OF MARCH 22, 1783, AND FURTHER THAT HE HAS RECEIVED A PENSION SINCE THE THIRD OF MARCH 1826, NOTHING.
-- SAYS HE ENLISTED UNDER COL. JOHN GREEN OF CULPEPPER COUNTY, VA .. AFTER- WARDS COL. GREEN OF THE CONTINENTAL VIRGINIA LINE AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER
FOR ONE YEAR IN WHICH CAPACITY | SERVED THROUGH SAID TERM OF ENLISTMENT AFTER WHICH I WAS APPOINTED AN ENSIGN IN COL. GEORGE GIBSON'S REGIMENT RAISED MY QUOTE OF MEN AS SUCH AND MARCHED THEM TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE SO SOON AS SECTION 174
SAID REGIMENT WAS ORGANIZED MARCHED AND JOINED THE GRAND CONTINENTAL ARMY TO THE NORTH UNDER THE COMMAND OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, WHICH REGIMENT WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CONTINENTAL LINE 1777 OR 1778 IN THE PLACE OF THE 9TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT TAKEN IN THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN. WAS AFTER THAT APPOINTED TO THE RANK OF LT., IN SAID REGIMENT AND MARCHED WITH IT TO VIRGINIA IN 1780. IN THE YEAR 1781, AFTER THE REDUCTION OF THE REGULAR FORCE WAS CALLED ON BY GENERAL MUHLENBERG TO TAKE THE COMMAND OF OTHER TROOPS AS MAJOR. WAS IN THE BATTLE OF JAMESTOWN, UNDER GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE AND SERVED THROUGH THE SEIGE OF YORK IN SAID CAPACITY AND CONTINU -- ED TO HOLD MY SAID REGULAR COMMISSION AS LT., TO THE END OF THE WAR. IN THE YEAR 1826 THE ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA ALLOWED ME COMMUTATION FOR MY SERVICE AS LT., AFTERSAID, HAVING PREVIOUSDY RECEIVED A LT'S. BOUNTY LAND AS SATISFACTORY TESTIMONY OF SUCH SERVICES.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS NEWGENT, KNEW MAJOR EILLILTT RUCKER, COMMANDING AS SUCH IN 1781, AND THAT SAID RUCKER HAD CHARGE OF THE PERSONS TAKEN AT LITTLE YORK, THIS DEPONENET SAYS HE KNEW THE SAID RUCKER AS MAJOR AT THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES WELDEN WHO SAYS THAT HE KNEW ELLIOTT RUCKER COMMANDING AS CAPTAIN AT THE VALLEY FORGE.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF : I WAS AT LOUENSY? LOUISA? ON THE NACHUNK CREEK IN THE YEAR 1781, WHEN GENERAL LAFAYETTE MARCHED THROUGH VIRGINIA AND ELLIOTT RUCKER WAS TAKEN COMMANDING AS A MAJOR IN LAFAYETTE DIVISION. I HAVE ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THAT MAJOR RUCKER SERVED UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. SIGNED JAMES ROWEL ,
--- AFFIDAVIT OF JESSE ALVIS OF SHELBY COUNTY MADE AFFIDAVIT 12.5-1830. THA ? THAT DURING THE YEAR ! 781, HE IS CERTAIN THAT MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER COMMANDED BATALLION OF THE VIRGIN: A LINE, ATTACHED TO GENERAL WAYNE'S BRIGADE AND THAT HE COMMANDED IN THE CAPACITY OF MAJOR AT LITTLE YORK AND THAT THIS AFFI ANT WAS UNDER HIS COMMAND SECTION 175
ON HIS MATHER .- WINCHESTER AND WAS NOT AT THE SEIGE OF SAID RUCKER, SAYS HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF HOTWATER AND JAMESTOWN WITH HIM ..
AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN SHIPMAN MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY ; 830, SAYS HE SERIES THROUGH A CAMPAIGN OF NINE MONTHS IN THE YEAR 1781, UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. HE COMMANDED A BATALLION WHICH AT THAT PERIOD OF THE CAMPAIGN GENERAL WAYNE RECOLLECTED THE COMMANDING OFFICER TO PLACE UNDER HIS WAYNE'S CONTROL, WHICH REQUEST WAS READILY COMPLIED WITH AND IN THAT SITUATION MAJOR ROUKER ACTED UNTIL THE CAPTURE OF CORNWALLIS AT YORK. HE WAS GIVEN THE CHARGE OF THE PRISONERS TO CONDUCT THEM TO LANCASTER, PA., UNLESS RELEASED BY A SUFFICIENT FORCE ON THE ROUTE TO TAKE THEM SAFE THAT POINT.
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MAJOR RUCKER WAS EVER CONSIDERED AS STANDING AMONGST 7. MOST ENTERPRISING
OF OUR OFFICERS. HE HAD LESS REST OR GAVE HIMSELF LESS THAN ANY OFFICER OF MY WHOLE ACQUAINTANCE. HE WAS EVER ON THE SCOUT AS SOON AS HE WERE LIKELY FOR EN ENGAGEMENT. I FOUGHT UNDER HIS COMMAND AT HOT- WATER, WHERE WE HAD TO CROSS THE CYPRESS KNEE VILL DAM NEAR WHERE THE BRITISH WERE AND AFTER CROSSING THE SAME, THE TROOPS WERE AHULTED, NEAR GENERAL WAYNE AND LAFAYETTE HAD A SHORT CONSULTATION AND WAYNE REMARKED THAT IF THE BRITISH LINE OF CAVALRY BE BROKEN OR THROWN IN CONFUSION; THAT THEY, THE AMERICANS COULD SUSTAIN THE CONFLICT. MAJOR RUCKER ADVANCING TOWARD HIM REPLIED, GENERAL GIVE ME, THE COMMAND OF OUR CAVALRY AND | WILL DO IT, OR DIE, IN THE ATTEMPT. A FEW WORDS THEN PASSED BETWEEN THE GENERALS WHEN WAYNE REPLIED, "RU CKER, YOU HAVE $TU WHEREUPON RUCKER TOOK COMMAND OF OUR CAVALRY AND SUCCEEDED TO THE SITUATION OF HIS COMMANDING OFFICERS. | WAS COMMANDED BY SAID RUCKER ALSO AT JAMESTOWN AND AT THE SEIGE OF YORK. IN ALL OF WHICH CASES HE MOVED IN FRONT OF HIS TROOPS WHEN GOING INTO ACTION AND IN CASES OF RETREAT HE SECTION 176
WAS ALWAYS FOUND COVERING OUR REAR. AFFIDAVIT OF ANGUS RUCKER MADE IN MADISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1830, WHO CERTIFIES THAT MAJOR ELLIOT RUCHER OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER UNDER CAPT. GREEN OF CULPEPPER COUNTYK VIRGINIA FOR ONE YEAR AND SERVED UNTIL HIS TIME EXPIRED AND IN THE WINTER OF 76 OR 77 WAS APPOINTED ENSIGN IN
COL. GIBSON REGIMENT, RAISED HIS QUOTE OF MEN AND JOINED GIBSON'S
REGIMENT AT WILLIAMSBURG, VA., AND AS SOON AS THE REGIMENT WAS ORGANISEDM THAT GIBSON'S . WAS ORDERED WITH HIS REGIMENT TO THE NORTH TO JOIN THE GRAND ARMY COMMANDED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON AND THAT HE, THE SAID RUCKER MARCHED WITH GIBSON'S REGIMENT AND JOINED THE GRAND ARMY AND AT THE NORTH TOOK RISE TO THE COMMAND OF LT., AFTER GIBSON'S REGIMENT WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CONTINENTAL LINE AND THERE COM ANDED AS LT., AND IN THE WINTER OF 1780 THE REGIMENT WAS ORDERED TO VIRGINIA AND GOT TO ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA IN JANUARY 1780, THERE COL. GIRSON GAVE HIS REGIMENT FURLOWS TO GO TO SEE THEIR PARENTS FOR 3 MONTHS, AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF 3 MONTHS, THEY WERE TO JOIN THE REGIMENT AGAIN AND HE LT. RUCKER JOINED GIBSON S RETIMENT AT PETERSBURG AND TOOK COMMAND AS LT., IN THE SAID GIBSON'S^REGIMENT AND SO CONTINUED IN 1781, GENERAL MUHLENBERG WHO COMMANDED THE BRIGADE THAT GIBSON'S REGIMENT BELONGED TO, SENT HIS AID FOR THE SAID LT. RUCKER TO COME TO THE SEIGE OF YORK AND TAKE COMMAND AS BREVET? MAJOR WHILE AT THE SEIGE OF YORK AND THE SAID RUCKER OBEYED HIS GENERAL'S ORDERS.
SIGNED ANGUS RUCKER .
AFFIDAVIT MADE IN MADISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, CERTIFY THAT | SERVED UNDER MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER, FORMERLY OF SAID COUNTY. AS A SOLDIER HE COMMANDED THE RIFLE COMPANY AT THE BATTLE OF JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA IN 1781 AND BROUGHT ON THE ENGAGEMENT, WHICH CONTINUED FOR 2 OR 3 HOURS, WHEN THE RIFLES BEGINING TO PLAY HE WAS ON THE RIGHT OF ME. GENERALY WAYNE RODE UP IN FIVE STEPS OF ME AND SAID "MY BRAVE BOYS, GIVE THEM ONE MORE FIRE AND I WILL TAKE IT OFF YOUR HANDS, WHICH HE DID." I WAS ALSO IN ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT WITH MAJOR RUCKER AND HE WAS A BRAVE OFFICER. SIGNED JOSEPH CARPENTER, 1820- JULY 22.
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AFFIDAVIT IN MADISON COUNTY VA., I, CHURCHILL GIBBS, CERTIFY THAT MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER, FORMERLY OF SAID COUNTY, ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN GREEN OF CULPEPPER COUNTY, VA., 1775 FOR ONE YEAR AND SERVED HIS TIME OUT. THAT IN THE LATER PART OF 1776 OR FIRST PART OF 1777 HE WAS APPOINTED ENSIGN IN COL. GEORGE GIBSON'S REGIMENT AND RAISED HIS MEN AND MARCHED THEM TO WILLIAMSBURG? JOINED THE SAID GIBSON'S REGIMENT-
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MARCHED WITH SAID REGIMENT TO THE NORTH AND JOINED THE CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMANDED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON AND WHILE AT THE NORTH, TOOK RISE TO THE COMMAND AS A LIEUT AND CONTINUED IN THE NORTHERN ARMY UNTIL 1780 WHEN THE ARMY MARCHED TO VIRGINIA WHERE THE SAID RUCKER COMMANDED IN SAID GIBSON'S REGIMENT, LT., BEING TAKEN PRISONER ! 781, AND NOT BEING IN SAID REGIMENT AFTER THAT TIME, BUT FROM EVERYTHING | HAVE HEARD AND BELIEVE, HE SERVED TO THE END OF THE WAR. THIS JULY 22, 1830, -- A LETTER WRITTEN IN SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY- 11-9 .- 1830- WRITTEN TO THE
SECRETARY OF WAR, SAMUEL D, INGRAM, SIR, IN THE YEAR 1825, WHEN GENERAL LAFAYETTE PASSED THROUGH THIS COUNTY (SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY ) THE UNDERSIGNED WERE OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIS RECEPTION IN THIS PLACE AND BY ONE OF US, THE GENERAL WAS INTRODUCED TO MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER. HE RECOGNIZED MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER AS A REVLLUTIONARY WAR OFFICER IN THE WAR FOR OUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER PROCEEDED TO STATE THE PARTICULARS OF A NUMBER OF THE BATTLES IN WHICH BOTH OF THEM WERE CONVENED AND PARTICULARLY STONY POINT, WHICH STATEMENTS WERE ASSENTED TO AND AFFIRMED BY GENERAL LAFAYETTE AND HE EXPRESSED GREAT PLEASURE AT MEETING WITH MAJOR RUCKER AND GREETING HIMAS REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT -.. WE WELL P.ECOLLECT THAT THE HON. V/M. T. BARRY AND HON. GEORGE W. BIBB, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN WERE PRESENT AND ETC,, A SIGNED SAMUEL LEVIS? OR TEVIS? AND JAMES BROADHEAD .-- ONE LEGRAND RUCKER OF CHELSY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND IN A LETTER IT SAYS THAT LEGRAND RUCKER IS THE ONLY SON OF ELLIOTT RUCKER, SAID LETTER IS WRITTEN FROM THE AUDITORS OFFICE, RICHOMS .
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY -. 2-12 -: 844, MRS. MERTEL RUCKER, CENEELE, WIFE OF JOHN E, CERSILE, MAKES CATH THAT SHE IS THE ONLY SURVIVING CHILD OF MAJOR ELLIOTT RUCKER. DECEASED. SAYS HER FATHER WHO DREW A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. MARCH 19, 1832, THAT HIS WIDOW SURVIVED HIM A FEW YEARS AND DID LEAVING THIS AFFIANT HER ONLY CHILD, ELLIOTT RUCKER APPOINTED HIS SON LEGRAND F. RUCKER HIS TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEY IN 1830, 11-18TH. -- ONE LOUIS HL BASCOM, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF ELLIOTT RUCKER, DECEASED .
SMITH: S. HENRY
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BORN IN PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, MARYLAND. RESIDENT AT ENLISTMENT , FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND !N !834. RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AGE 75- SAYS THAT IN THE YEAR !777 IN AUGUST A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED IN THE SERVICE FOR A SIX MONTHS TOUR AND WAS ORDERED TO RENDEZVOUS IN FREDERICKTOWN, SAYS HE WAS MARCHED UNDER COMMAND OF LT. JOHN ALLEN, CAPTAIN ELISHA BELL, MAJOR PETER NANCE AND COLM CHANDLR GRIFFIN TO PHILADELPHIA, WHERE THEY WERE STATIONED ABOUT 3 WEEKS. SAYS THEY MARCHED FRON PHILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK WHERE THEY STAYED TWO OR THREE WEEKS AND WENT ABOUT 12 OR 15 MILES UPON YORK ISLAND, NEAR TO FORT WASHINGTON, HERE HE STATES THEY REMAINED 3 OF 4 WEEKS, HERE THEY HAD FREQUENT SKIRMISHES WITH THE BRITISH, THENCE MARCHED TO TUCKAHO HEIGHTS, THENCE TO THE WHITE PLAINS, THENICE TO FORT LEE, THENCE TO PHILADELPHIA, WHERE HE WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPTAIN BELL, THO HE ENLISTED FOR SIX MONTHS, HE WAS KEPT IN SERVICE FOR SEVEN MONTHS, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, MARYLAND. 2 .- 26- ; 759, AND WHEN HE ENLISTES HE WAS LIVING IN FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND, AND MOVED FROM THERE 1800 TO JEFFERSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA. | STAYE) EIGHT YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. OF THE MILITIA IN THE SERVICE WERE GENERAL BELL, LT, SHROCK, ADJUTANT BA: LY AND GENERAL_ WASHINGTON, FREQUENTLY VISITED OUR CAMP . I WILL STATE THE NAMES OF JOSEPH HITE AND JAMES HIGHT WHO ARE HIS NEIGHBORS WHO CAN TESTIFY TO HIS CHARACTER.
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WAR OF 1812
THE FIRST PAPER IN THE FILES IS AS FOLLOWS: BY : CAPTAIN SAMUEL CL. HOPKINS
COMMANDING TROOP AT CARLISLE PENNSYLVANIA.
ANDREW SALISBURY OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL GOOD HOPKINS, TROOP IN THE SECOND REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRACOONS :S HEREBY DISCHARGED, HIS TE-M OF SERVICE HAVING EXPIRED SAYS HE IS 20 YEARS OLD -- 5 FEET 10 INCHES, FAIR COMPLEXION, LIGHT HAIR, BLUE EYES, BORN N. G. ROWAN COUNTY AND IS A FARMER, - GIVEN AT CARLISLE PENN, MAY 15, 1814.
THE SAID SOLDIER WAS ENLISTED BY ME FOR 18 MONTHS Nov. 16, 1812, AND FAITHFULLY PERFORMED HIS DUTY AS A SOLDIER UNTIL DISABLE BY A WOUND. SIGNED SAMUEL G. HOPKINS, CAPT. LT. DRAGOONS. IT IS OBSERVED FROM A CERTIFICATE IN THE FILES, THAT HE WAS WOUNDED DECEMBER 18, 1813. WHILE ENGAGED IN A BATTLE AT MOSSAKINWAY, INDIANA, (MUST HAVE MENT MISHAWAKA-LKMC ) BY A BALL IN THE GROIN. HE WAS INSCRIBED ON THE PENSION ROLL OF KENTUCKY, JANUARY 13, 1815.
STATE OF OHIO: GREEN COUNTY. JANUARY 12, 1836. ANDREW SALISBURY- RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, AGE 38 STATES THAT NE ENLISTED AT NEWPORT, KENTUCKY 1812, IN THE 2ND., REGIMENT CF THE U. S. LIGHT DRAGOONS BELONGING TO BALL'S SQUADRON IN A COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPT. SAMUEL G. HOPKINS OF WHICH COMPANY JAMES HEDGES WAS FIRST LIEUT ANS -- CONOWAY WAS SECOND LT., THAT HE SERVED IN THE REGIMENT COMPANY AOFRESIAD AND UNDER THE OFFICERS AFORESAID, FOR THE SPACE OF 18 MONTHS; THAT SHORTLY AFTER HIS ENLISTMENT, HE WAS IN THE SKIMISH AT THE MESSIESINEWS TOWNS ON THE 17TH DECEMBER 1812, AND IN THE BATTLE ON THE MORNING OF THE SUCCEEDING DAY (BEC. 18, 1812). IN WHICH HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED SY A MUSKET BALL; THAT HE WAS SUBSEQUENT ENGAGED IN A SKIRMISH WITH THE INDIANS BETWEEN SENECA AND SANDUSKY IN THE STATE OF OHIO, IN WHICH 18 OF THE ENEMY WERE KILLED; THAT HE REMAINED IN THE ARMY UNTIL THE DECLARATION OF PEACE, THE SECTION 181
THE LATER PART OF THE TIME AS A VOLUNTEER; THAT IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE ABOVE SERVICES AND OF THE WOUND WHICH HE RECEIVED AT THE BATTLE OF MISSISSINEWS- HE WAS PLACED UPON THE LIST OF INDIVIDUAL PENSIONER, SAYS HE DREW HIS PENSION IN LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, THAT THE DREW HIS PENSION; WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 4 YEARS ) UP TO 4TH DAY OF SEPT. 1833, THAT SINCE THAT TIME, HE HAS NOT DRAWN HIS PENSION, AS HE HAS BEEN TRAVELING ABOUT FROM PLACE TO PLACE, THROUGH THE STATES OF OHIO, INDIANA AND ILLINOIS AND HAS LOST HIS PENSION CERTIFICATE, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN ROWAN COUNTY. N. C. HE SAID THE REASON HE MOVED TO THE STATE OF OHIO, WAS, THAT HIS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS LIVED IN OHIO, "| BEING AN INVALID SOLDIER, WISHED TO RESIDE AMONGST THEM. STATE OF OHIO: HAMILTON COUNTY : 2-17-1849, ANDREW SALSBURY SAYS HE LOST HIS PENSION CERTIFICATE ABOUT MARCH 1848 WHEN IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
SACREY : JAMES
35, 643 VIRGINIA
AUGUST 17, 1820 APPEARED IN OPEN COURT, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AGE 75- SAYS HE ENLISTED FOR A TERM OF TWO YEARS IN A COMPANY COMMANDED RY CAPTAIN SAMUEL HAWS, IN A REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. WOODFORD IN THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, 2ND., VIRGINIA REGIMENT, CONTINENTAL ESTABLISH- MENT, THAT HE CONTINUED TO SERVE IN SAID CORPS UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF SAID TERM OE TWO YEARS WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE SERVICE IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA; THAT HE HEREBY RELINQUISHES EVERY CLAIM WHATEVER TO A PENSION, EXCEPT THE PRESENT, THAT HIS NAME IS NOT ON THE ROLL OF ANY STATE, EXCEPT KENTUCKY, AND THAT THE FOLLOWING ARE THE REASONS FOR NOT MAKING AN EARLY APPLICATION FOR A PENSION, THAT SINCE THE 18TH OF MARCH
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SINCE THE 18TH MARCH 1818, HE HAS LOST THREE SLAVES BY DEATH AND 3 OR 4 HORSES, WHICH HAS REDUCED HIS CIRCUMSTANCES AND HE NEEDED A PENSION AND ETC., HIS FAMILY CONSISTED OF THE FOLLOWING: SECTION 182
MY SON ROBERT T. SEARCEY ABOUT 40 YEARS OLD UNABLE TO LABOR ON ACCOUNT OF AN AFFLICAT! ON.
MY SON JOHN C. SEARCY OVER 30 YEARS OF AGE, STATES STAYS AT MY HOUSE -WORKS WHEN AND WHERE HE PLEASES.
ELIZA PATTER, A CHILD 13 OR 14 YEARS OLD THAT | HAVE RAISED LIVES NOW AT MY HOUSE. THERE IS AT MY HOUSE AN OLD NEGRO WOMAN AND FIVE CHILDREN, 3 GIRLS AND TWO BOYS, BUT THESE BELONG TO MY FIRST WIFE'S CHILDREN, TWO OF WHOM ARE MARRIED AND GONE FROME ME AND THE OTHER TWO ARE NAMED ABOVE. I WAS BORN IN 1755; THAT SINCE 18TH MARCH 1818, THE FOLLOWING CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE IN MY PROPERTY "NAME OF HIS NEGROES MENTIONED ABOVE ARE DEAD. ) THE DEED MADE IN CAROLINA COUNTY VIRGINIA BY JOHN COLLINS, 9-13-1787 TO HIS CHILDREN, THE FOLLOWING SLAVES, TO MY DAUGHTER NANCY SACRES, ELIZABETH WRIGHT, FRANCES HENDERSON AND LUCY WILSON.
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