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SMITH: HENRY S 38, 384 VIRGINIA
BORN AUGUST 1753, RESIDENCE AT ENLISTMENT, HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA. RESIDENCE IN 1834, WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
ON THIS 3RD., DAY OF FEBRUARY 1834, PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT BEFORE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY- HENRY SMITH, A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, AGE 80 LAST AUGUST, THAT IN THE FALL OF 1780, WHILE A RESIDENT OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA; WAS DRAFTED IN THE COMPANY OF MILITIA UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN THOMPSON FOR TWO MONTHS. WILLIAM THOMPSON WAS THE LT., AND WILLIAM BARRETT ENSIGN. WE RENDEZVOUSED AT HANOVER COURT HOUSE AND WAS MARCHED FROM THENCE TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE WE REMAINED THE WHOLE TOUR, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CO L. WILLIAM DANDRIDGE AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED. A SHORT TIME AFTER HIS RETURN HOME, HE WAS DRAFTED TO SERVE ANOTHER TOUR OF TWO MONTHS, IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN FRANCIS UNDERWOOD, DUDLEY RICHARDSON WAS THE LT., MAJOR CECLUMAN WAS IN COMMAND. WE WERE MARCHED RO WILLIAMSBURG, THENCE TO YORK WHERE WE WERE STATIONED UNTIL THE END OF THE TOUR. SECTION 183
SOON AFTER HIS DISCHARGE, HE WAS CALLED AGAIN TO SERVE FOR A TOUR OF TWO MONTHS UNDER CAPTAIN EDWARD BULLOCK, JAMES BULLOCK WAS LT., AND EDWARD NELSON ENSIGN. HE WAS AGAIN UNDER COMMAND OF MAJOR DECLUMAN. WE WERE MARCHED TO SANDY POINT WHERE WE REMAINED SOMETIME. WE WERE THEN MARCHED TO CABIN POINT WHERE WE REMAINED THE REST OF THE TOUR AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOON AFTER HIS RETURN HOME. HE WAS AGAIN DRAFTED FOR A TOUR OF TWO MONTHS IN COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JAMES BOSWELL FROM WHICH HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN FRANCIS UNDERWOOD, RICHARDSON WAS LT., AND BELIEVES PERRIER? WAS ENSIGN. HE WAS IN A REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. ALLCOCK, OF CULPEPPER AND MAJOR WELCH WAS ALSO IN COMMAND. WE WERE MARCHED FOUR MILES BELOW RICHMOND AND JOINED THE TROOPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF LAFAYETTE. WE WERE THEN MARCHED INTO CULPEPPER TO COIN GENERAL WAYNE AND MARCHED TO JAMESTOWN AND HAD AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE BRITISH; THENCE WE WERE MARCHED TO MAWBIN HILLS WHERE HE WAS DISCHARGED AND WENT HOME. THREE OR FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS RETURN. HE WAS AGAIN ORDERED OUT FOR A TOUR OF TWO MONTHS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN THOMAS BOSWELL, JAMES BULLOCK WAS LT., AND HE BELIEVES EDWARD NELSON WAS ENSIGN. WE WERE MARCHED OUT TO REPAIR THE ROADS IN HANOVER FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY IN WHICH SERVICE WE RELAMINED UNTIL A FEW DAYS PREVIOUS TO THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS WHEN WE WERE DIS-
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CHARGED BY COL. SIMMS. ALL OF HIS SERVICES WAS IN THE VILITIA AS A PRIVATE HE WAS IN THE BRIGADE UNDER GENERAL MUHLENBERGB. HE WAS DRAFTED ON THE 5TH TOUR OF TWO MONTHS EACH. HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN EACH ONE. AFFIDAVIT OF ABNER RUCKER CLERGYMAN OF WOODFORD COUNTY AND T. W. SELLERS, SAY THEY ARE ACQUAINTED WITH HIM.
, A LETTER FROM : , W. STEVENS, HO REPRESENTATIVES. SECTION 184 1880 MAY 1ITH. SAYS | ENCLOSE THE WITHIN LETTER OF DUDLEY SMITH CF OWEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MAKING CERTAIN INQUIRIES AS TO HIS GRAND FATHER HENRY SMITH, WHO HE SAYS WAS A PENSIONER AND SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. SAID PENSION BEGAN MAY 23, 1834.
THOMPSON: JOHN
TOMPSON
ANNIS R 10524 NORTH CAROLINA STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY, ON JANUARY 15, 1834, PERSONALLY APPEARED BERORE BENONI NELWNA, D J.P. WAS ABOVE SOLDIER AGE 79, SAYS THAT HE WAS RESIDING IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY , N. C., WHEN HE ENTERED THE . SERVICE AND SERVED AS HEREIN STATED AND UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAME D OFFICERS IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1778, VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARD SINGLETON FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUSED AT LINCOLN COURT HOUSE IN RUTHER .- FORD COUNTY AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. WILLIAM GRIMES REGIMENT OF MILITIA AND DID MARCH WITH SAID REGIMENT FROM LINCOLN COURT HOUSE TO CROSS CREEK IN THE LOWER PART OF THE STATE OF N. C. - THENCE TO CAMPBELLTOWN WHERE THEY REMAINED THREE MONTHS WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED ABUT THE FIRST OF APRIL 1775. THAT IN OCTOBER 1778 VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN PETER SIDEST FOR 3 MONTHS AND WAS ATTACHED TO HIS TROOP OF HORSE; THENCE MARCHED TO SALSBURY FROM LINCOLN COURT HOUSE, HE WAS STATIONED AS A GUARD OVER SOME TORIES, THAT HE GUARDED AND UNTIL HE WAS DISCHARGED JANUARY 1779, AND THAT HE RETURNED HOME AND REMAINED UNTIL JUNE 1779, WHEN HE AGAIN VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN ABRAHAM KIRKENDALL FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE TROOPS OF HORSE -- HE AGAIN RENDEZVOUSED AT SAID GILBERTSTOWN AND MARCHED UPON THE FRONTIERS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, AGAINST THE INDIANS AND TORIES, WHO WERE EMPLOYED IN DESTROYING THE PROPERTY OF THE WHIGS. HE STATES THAT DURING THE CAMPAIGN HE WAS EMPLOYED IN RECONINOITERING SECTION 185
THE FRONTIERS IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS, SOMETIME IN NORTH AND SOUTH UNTIL HIS THREE MONTHS EXPIRED WHEN HE AND HIS COMPANY RETURNED TO RUTHERFORD COUNTY AND WERE DISCHARGED !779 IN SEPTEMBER. THAT IN THE FALL OF 1780 VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN MCCLEAN FOR THREE MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUSED AT GILBERTSTOWN, IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY AND WAS ATTACHED TO CAPTAIN MCLEAN'S COMPANY OF HORSE AND FROM HIS HAVING DISCHARGED HIS DUTY FAITHFULLY, HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE OFFICE OF SERGEANT IN WHICH CAPACITY HE CONTINUED DISCHARGING THE DUTIES OF THAT OFFICE, UNTIL HIS 3 MONTHS EXPIRED AFTER HAVING RENDEZVOUSED AT GILBERTOWN THAT HE WAS DISCHARGED IN OCTOBER 1780. VOLUNTEERED AGAIN 1781 UNDER CAPTAIN WHITESIDES FOR 3 MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUS ED IN WHITESIDES NEIGHBORHOOD IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY AND JOINED COL. SINGLETON'S REGIMENT COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN WHITESIDES. MAJOR WHITESIDES
AND COL SINGLETON FROM SAID GILBERTSTOWN TO CHARLESTOWN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. HE STATES THAT THE REGIMENT WAS DISMISSED IN SEPTEMBER 1781. HE STATES THAT FROM OLD AGE AND BLINDNESS THAT HE IS UNABLE TO APPEAR IN OPEN COURT TO MAKE HIS DECLARATION, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA., 1752 SAYS HE REMAINED IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N. C., UNTIL 1796, THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE | NOW LIVE. SAID HE VOLUNTEERED FOR FIVE TOURS OF 3 MONTHS EACH. EPHRAIM DAVIS AND CAPTAIN UMA WALL WERE HIS NEIGHBORS.
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BAFFIDAVIT OF JANE MOORE, WIDOW OF SHADRACK MOORE, MAY 13, 1844. SAYS THAT THAT &S SHE IS INFORMED AND BELIEVES THAT HER FATHER WAS A SOLDIER, OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, SERVED AS SUCH IN THE MILITIA OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, SAYS HER FATHER JOHN THOMPSON WAS ALLOWED A PENSION OF $82.50 PER ANNUM ON FEB. 7, :834 AND WHOSE CERTIFICATE WAS NUMBER 25594, WHICH APPLICATION WAS MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY; THAT HER FATHER DIED MAY 13, 1835, LEAVING A WIDOW ANNIS THOMPSON, FORMERLY ANNIS SHEPHERD, INTERMARRIED WITH HER FATHER JOHN THOMPSON, SOON AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND CONTINUED TO LIVE TOGETHER UNTIL HE DIED AND THAT HER SAID MOTHER DIED APRIL 14, 1840 BEING STILL THE WIDOW OF SAID
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JOHN THOMPSON, THAT SAID ANNIE THOMPSON LEFT THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, WHO NOW LIVE. THIS AFFIANT JANE (THOMPSON ) MOORE, WIFE OF SHADRACK MOORE, SALLY (THOMPSON ) WIDOW OF WOODSON ARRINGTON, WILLIAM THOMPSON, JAMES THOMPSON. THAT FROM THE BEST OF HER INFROMATION, HER MOTHER AND FATHER WERE MARRIED BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, BUT PRIOR TO THE FIRST JANUARY 1794, ONE JOSEPH STRATTON AND SHADRICK A. MOORE, SWORE TO THE ABOVE STATEMENTS AS BEING TRUE. IT WAS PROVEN THAT JOHN THOMPSON, DIED SINCE THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER ANNIS THOMPSON, THAT THE REST WERE YET LIVING ON THE DATE OF MAY 15, 1844- THE DEPOSITION OF DAVID SHEPHERD, TAKEN AT HIS HOUSE IN THE COUNTY OF RIPLEY INDIANA, DEPONENT BEING 75 YEARS OF AGE, SAYS THAT HE LIVED IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N. C., IN THE YEAR 1784; THAT HE WAS A BROTHER OF ANNIS THOMPSON, FORMERLY ANNIS SHEPHERD OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N. C., AND THAT ANNIS THOMPSON, INTERMARRIED WITH JOHN THOMPSON IN SAID COUNTY 1784, THAT SAID JOHN THOMPSON AND WIFE MOVED FROM N. C., TO KENTUCKY AND BOTH DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY AND HE KNOWS THEY LIVED TOGETHER UNTIL 1835 WHEN JOHN THOMPSON DIED, THAT THEY LEFT SEVERAL CHILDREN MOST OF THEM LIVE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
-- ONE WILLIAM H. TODD WROTE A LETTER TO THE PENSION COMMISSION FROM PHILADELPHIA, 1844 AND SAID THAT HE DID NOT FILE THE ORIGINAL CLAIM OF THE SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE, BUT WAS FILING CLAIMS FOR THE CHILDREN, BUT STATES THAT THE APPLICATION WAS FILED BY HIS BROTHER.
-- A LETTER FROM RALEIGH, N. C., SECRETARY OF STATE AND WILLIAM HILL, 1844 SAYS THAT HE FINDS THE NAME OF JOHN THOMPSON ON THE MUSTER ROLL OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE OF N. C. FIVE TIMES, AS A PRIVATE UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON(S COMPANY, 4TH REGIMENT, 1777, ONE YEAR, DISCHARGE 8-1777, JOHN THOMPSON, PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN SECTION 187
COLE'S COMPANY, 4TH REGIMENT, ONE YEAR 177, DISCHARGED 8-10-1777, JOHN THOMPSON, A SERGEANT IN CAPTAIN BREVARD'S COMPANY OF THE ICTH REGIMENT, 1781, FOR 12 MONTHS, LEFT THE SERVICE, JULY 21, 1762, JOHN THOMPSON, A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN SHARPE'S COMPANY 10TH REGIMENT, 1782 FOR 18 MONTHS JOHN THOMPSON, A PRIVATE, IN CAPTAIN BREVARD'S COMPANY, 10TH REGIMENT, 1782, FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THOMAS POLK WAS COLONEL OF THE 4TH REGIMENT AND ABRAHAM SHEPHERD OF THE IOTH REGIMENT.
A LETTER FORM THE PENSION COMMISSION, 1840, TO THE REPRESENTATIVE W. J. GRAVES AS FOLLOWS! I HEREWITH RETURN THE LETTER OF JOHN LANE, ESQUIRE IN THE CASE OF MRS. EFFY WINLOCK, WIDOW OF JOSEPH WINLOCK AND OF MRS. POLLY KNIGHT, WIDOW OF JOHN KNIGHT, DECEASED. /HO WERE ALLOWED PENSION UNDER THE ACT OF JULY 7, 1838. MRS. VINLOCH'S HUSBAND, WHO WAS A PENSIONER, DIED MARCH 26, 1831, HER CLAIM WAS ALLOWED 8-19-1839, AND THE AMOUNT DUE FROM THE 4TH OF MARCH 1836, TO MARCH 4 DIED PERHAPS 4TH OF SEPTEMSER 1839, WAS PAID HERE AND NOT THE FULL FIVE YEARS PENSION AS ASSERTED BY MRS. LANE. MAS. KNIGHTS HUSBAND WHO WAS ALSO A PENSIONER, DIED MARCH 12, 1838. HER PENSION WAS ALLOWED APRIL 1839.
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BER PENSION WAS ALLOWED APRIL 1839. HER FIRST PAYMENT WOULD EMBRACE THE PERIOD FROM HER HUSBAND'S DEATH TO MAR H 4TH 1839.
THOMPSON: EVAN CHOLOE
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STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY- MARCH 27TH 1833, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE SAMUEL TODD, JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE, AGE 70, SAYS HE ENTERES SERVICE IN JUDY 1780, AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER IN COMPANY OF CAPTAIN RICHMOND PEARSON UPON A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND SERVED AS SUCH ACCORDINGLY; THAT THE NAME OF HIS LIEUTENANT OF HIS SAID COMPANY WAS WILLIS COPELEY: THAT HE RENDEXVOUSED WITH HIS SAID COMPANY IN SALES- BURY ROWAMN COUNTY, N. C., IN WHICH COUNTY HE RESIDED AT THE TIME; THAT HIS COMPANY WAS ATTACHED TO COL. LOCKE UNDER COMMAND OF GENERAL RUTHERFORD; THAT HE WAS MARCHED FROM HIS SAID PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS TOGETH- ER WITH THE BALANCE OF THE TROOPS, WHO WERE THERE ASSEMBLED TOWARDS CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA, WHO WERE DESTINED TO REINFORCE THE ARMY OF GEN. GATES AND UPON THE MARCH THEY MET A PART OF THE ARMY OF GATES UPON IT'S RETREAT AND LEARNED FROM IT, THE DEFEAT OF GATES ARMY UPON WHICH, THE TROOPS WERE MARCHED BACK AND THIS DECLARANT AND HIS COMPANY WERE AFTER- WARDS KEPT AT SALESBURY UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF HIS TOUR AND HAVING FULLY AND FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT THE SAME, HE WAS DISCHARGED AND PERMITTED TO RETURN HOME. SAYS THAT AFTERWARDS IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1781, HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U. S. AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN, UNDER CAPTAIN PEARSON, UPON A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND WAS IMMEDIATELY APPOINTED ORDERLY, SERGEANT OF HIS SAID COMPANY AND SERVED AS SUCH DURING THE WHOLE PERIOD OF THIS TOUR; THAT THE NAME OF THE LT., OF HIS COMPANY WAS PATTERSON; THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED WITH HIS SAID COMPANY AT THE TOWN OF SALESBURY IN ROWAN COUNTY, N. C., IN WHICH COUNTY HE STILL LIVED AND HE WAS MARCHED WITH HIS SAID COMPANY FROM THEIR SAID PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS WITH SOME PRISONERS WHICH WERE GIVEN IN THEIR CHARGE TO HALIFAX. OLD COURT HOUSE IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, THAT THEY WERE KEPT EMPLOYED WITH SAID PRISONERS IN GUARDING THEM UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THEIR SAID TOUR OF DUTY AND WHEN THE SAME TERMINATED HE WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED TO HIS RESIDENCE IN ROWAN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
SAYS THAT IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1783, HE CAME TO KENTUCKY AND CAME TO KENTUCKY AND SITUATED HIMSELF AT HARRODSBURG AND THAT HIMSELF AND ONE DANIEL ASHLEY DIRECTLY THEREAFTER WERE APPOINTED BY COL. MADISON SECTION 189
COL. MADISON AS INDIAN ,SPIES AND HAD FOR THEIR BOUNDARY TO SPY IN ALL THAT TRACT OF COUNTRY NOW KNOWN AS THE COUNTIES OF FRANKLIN, ANDERSON AND MERCER AND PORTIONS OF SOME OF THE ADJOINING COUNTIES; THAT HE CONTINUED DILLIGENTLY ENGAGED IN HIS CAPACITY OF INDIAN SPY FOR FULL PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS .
SAYS HE WAS BORN IN ORANGE COUNTY, N. C. 8-27-1765- THAT HE LIVED IN ROWAN COUNTY. N. C., WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE UPON HIS TWO FIRST TOURS AND WHEN HE ACTED AS AN INDIAN SPY, HE LIVED IN KENTUCKY AT HARRODSBURG, MERCER COUNTY AND WHICH SECTION HE CONTINUED TO LIVE ABOUT 14 YEARS AGO, WHEN HE REMOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY.
NEIGHBORS WERE ROBERT L. SANDERS AND DAVID HARTY? HAGERTY? ~- CLOE THOMPSON MADE DECLARATION FOR A PENSION 1839 IN SHELBY COUNTY, KY. AGE 62, SAYS SHE MARRIED EVAN THOMPSON, MAY 29, 1792, SEE CERTIFICATE OF THE CLERK OF MERCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND THAT EVAN THOMSON DIED 28TH MAY 1834, WHICH SHOWS THAT EVAN THOMBSON AND CLO BENNETT WERE MARRIED 25TH A ARPIL 1792, WERE MARRIED IN MERCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
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RICE THOMPSON HEIR AT LAW OF CHLOE THOMPSON, DECEASED WHO WAS A PENSIONER ON THE ROLLS OF KENTUCKY AGENCY AS THE WIDOW OF EVAN THOMPSON, DECEASED APPOINTED A POWER OF ATTORNEY GEORGE H. MONSARRAT-MARCH 16, 1653.
TINSLEY : WILLIAM SARAH
W8789 BL WT. 53, 745 160-55 VIRGINIA
STATE OF KENTUCKY :S HELBY COUNTY -- 311-1833 AGE 70
THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER SAYS HE WAS BORN IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA COUNTY OF CAROLINA ON THE WATERS OF THE RAPAHANNOCK RIVER IN THE YEAR 1763.
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THE RECORD OF HIS AGE HE LEFT IN VIRGINIA. HE LIVED FROM THE SAY OF
HIS BIRTH UNTIL HE WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE IN THE COUNY AND STATE AFORESIAD AND CONTINUED TO LIVE IN THE SAID COUNTY UNTIL 1796 WHEN HE MOVED TO KENTUCKY AND SETTLED IN SHELBY COUNTY WHERE HE NOW LIVES AND FIRST CONTINUED TO LIVE SINCE HIS MIGRATION FROM VIRGINIA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SIX OR EIGHT MONTHS, WHICH HE SPENT TIN FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY SHORTLY AFTER HIS COMING TO THIS STATE, HE WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE BY DRAFT. HE DID NOT VOLUNTEER NOR WAS HE A SUBSITUTE FOR ANY ONE . HE WAS DRAFTED IN THE YEAR 1779 BUT DOES NOT RECOLLECT THE MONTH THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE. THE CAPATIN OF THE COMPANY TO WHICH CLAIMANT WAS ATTACHED WAS DAVID JAMISON, THOMAS ARMSTEAD WAS THE MAJOR AND SAMUEL MATHEWS THE COLONEL AND WILLIAM ELLIOTT OR ELLIT WAS FORAGE MASTER. HE WAS DRAFTED FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS. THE COMPANY RENDEZVOUSED AT H. LYNDRES TAVERN AND MARCHED FROM THENCE TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE THERE WAS A LARGE BODY OF TROOPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CO. ? ATHEWS WHERE THEY REMAINED UNTIL THE BRITISH LANDED, AT BUTWELL'S FERRY, ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM WILLIAMSBURG AT WHICH TIME THIS CLAIMANT WAS OUT ON GUARD AND WAS AT THE FERRY AND SLIGHT RESISTENCE WAS OFFERED TO THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH SOLDIERS EXCHANGED SEVERAL FIRES AND THEN THE AMERICAN RETREATED TO WILLIAMSBURG AND WHEN HE ARRIVED THERE, THE MAIN BODY HAD RETREATED SEVEN OR EIGHT MILES OUT DOWN TO WHICH PLACE WE FOLLOWED THEM WHERE THEY REMAINED A DAY OR TWO -- THIS CLAIM WITH OTHER SOLDIERS WERE CALLED OUT AT NIGHT TO STORM THE BRITISH PICKET ERECTED NEAR WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE IN WILLIAMBURG WHERE THEY HAD A GOOD DEAL OF FIRENG, BUT IT BEING VERY DARK AND RAINY, THE AMERICANS WERE FORCED TO RETREAT TO THE MAIN ARMY BEFORE THE AMERICAN ARMY LEFT THEIR LAST POSITION, THE BRITISH ARMY LEFT WILLIAMSBURG AND WENT AROUND TO RICHMOND, THIS CLAIMANT STARTED WITH THE, BUT WAS TAKEN SICK WITH SEVERAL OTHER INCALIDS WAS LEFT IN THE TOWN OF HANOVER, IN HANOVER COUNTY WHERE HE REMAINED ONLY A FEW DAYS WHEN HIS TIME FOR WHICH TIME AND HIS COMPANY WERE DRAFTED HAD EXPIRED. SECTION 191
AND THEY WERE DISCHARGED- ANOTHER COMPANY FROM CAROLINA TO OUR RELIEF HE RECEIVED NO WRITTEN DISCHARGE.
THIS CLAIMANT WAS AGAIN DRAFTED IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR, HE THINKS 1780. HE DID NOT VOLUNTEER NOR WAS HE A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANY ONE. HE DOES NOT RECOLLECT THE MONTH THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE. HE WAS DRAFTED IN THE SAID COUNTY OF CAROLINA IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS. THIS CLAIMANT IS OLD AND FRAIL AND HIS MEMORY HE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE IS GREATLY WEAKENED, HE THEREFORE CANNOT DISTINCTLY STATE WHO WERE THE OFFICERS IN THIS LAST TOUR. HIS CAPTAIN HE THINKS WAS JERRY UPSHER. THE COMPANY WAS MARCHED FROM CAROLINA DIRECT TO RICHMOND WHERE HE REMAINED A GOOD WHILE, MAKING DURING OUR STAY THERE SEVERAL
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EXCURSIONS, FROM RICHMOND WE WERE MARCHED TO PETERSBURG WHERE WE REMAINED A FEW DAYS AND WERE DISCHARGED, OTHER SOLDIERS COMING TO OUR RELIEF. HE NEVER RECEIVED A WRITTEN DISCHARGE. HE WAS ENGAGED IN NO BATTLE DURING THIS LAST TOUR. -- AFFIDAVITS OF JOHN HOLLAND CLERGYMAN AND ANOTHER WILLIAM TINSLEY RESIDED IN SHELBY COUNTY, SAID THEY WERE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH V/M. TINSLEY THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER. -AFFIDAVIT OF REUBEN SAUNDERS, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY SAYS THAT HE SERVED AS MESSMATE WITH WILLIAM TINSLEY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. BELIEVE HE SERVED ON THE SECOND TOUR, THO I DO NOT KNOW IT. A SMALL BOOK IS FILED WITH THE RECORDS CONTAINING DATES AS FOLLOWS; SAID BOOK IS YELLOW WITH AGE, ON THE FIRST LEAF IS WRITTEN: "ANTHONY TINSLEY'S BACK" SECOND PAGE. "
WILLIAM TINSLEY WAS BORN 3010-1807 ABNER TINSLEY WAS BORN 5-10-1815
MARY TINSLEY WAS BORN 6-17-1809 JOHN TINSLEY WAS BORN 5-1-1817 SPENCER TINSLEY WAS BORN 5-10-1811 LEVICEY JANE TAINSLEY WAS BORN 5-1-1835
HARRISON TINSLEY WAS BORN 5-8-1813 1
ANTHONY TINSLEY AND LEVISEY HIS SECOND WIFE WERE MARRIED 8-24-1837 SARAH TINSLEY WIFE OF ANTHONY TINSLEY DIED 1-14-1836
ISABELLA TINSLEY WAS BORN 12-7-1838
JOHN HENRY TINSLEY WAS BORN 4-8-1841
ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE BOOK IS THIS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1838 VERY DEEP SNOW ON THE GROUND.
IN HIS AMENDED DECLARATION, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN CAROLINA COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1763, WAS LIVING IN CAROLINA COUNTY, VIRGINIA WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE WHERE I RECEIVED OR RESIDED UNTIL 1796, AT WHICH TIME I MOVED TO KENTUCKY SHELBY COUNTY, WHERE I HAVE LIVED SINCE 1796, EXCEPT ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS SHORTLY AFTER | CAME TO KENTUCKY.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF ANOTHONY TINSLEY, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AGE 50. THAT THE AGES OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE CAREFULLY COPIED BY HIM FROM HIS FATHER'S FAMILY RECORD BETWEEN 25 AND 30 YEARS COPIED BY HIMSELF WRITTEN IN THE LITTLE BOOK, KEPT BY HER FATHER WILLIAM TINSLEY AND HER FATHER WILLIAM TINSLEY HAS BEEN DEAD MORE THAN NINE YEARS. SAYS HE IS THE OLDEST CHILD OF WILLIAM AND SALLY? OK SARAH. THAT HE WAS BORN AS HE BELIEVES AUGUST 25, 1794, AS APPEARED IN THE FAMILY RECORD, WHICH HE SENT HIS HOME MEMBER OF CONGRESS HON. WM. P. THOMASSON IN 1844, THAT SAID RECORD CONTAINS THE NAMES OF ALL OF THE CHILDREN AND HE FEELS SURE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WERE MARRIED ABOUT 1793-THAT THEY RAISED A LARGE FAMILY TEN IN NUMBER.
-- A CERTIFICATE FROM THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF CAROLINA VIRGINIA COUNTY SAYS THAT HE CANOT FIND THEIR MARRIAGE RECORD BUT THAT THE OFFICE OF SAID COUNTY WAS BURNED ABOUT THE YEAR 1820 AND MANY OF THE PAPERS WERE LOST AND DESTROYED.
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-- AN AFFIDAVIT MADE IN SCOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY BY JOHN SAMUEL WHO SAYS THAT HE KNOWS THAT WILLIAM TINSLEY AND SALLY (SAMUEL ) TINSLEY WERE MARRIED IN CAROLINA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1793, HER NAME BEFORE MARRIAGE BEING SALLY SAMUEL. SARAH TINSLEY MADE APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND 1855, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
TRAVIS: JAMES S38445 VIRGINIA
THIS SOLDIER HAS MADE APPLICATION FOR PENSION 1828, SEPTEMBER
22ND., SAID HE WAS A PRIVATE IN GABRIEL LONG'S COMPANY UNDER COL. MORGAN PENN LINE (PROBABLY MEANT VIRGINIA LINE) .
A LETTER IN THE FILES WRITTE IN LAWRENCEBURG, KENTUCKY 6-30-1830, =.. Ir ..! WRITTEN BY CHARLES BALLANCES.
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DEAR SIR :
THERE IS AN OLD REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD BY THE NAME OF JAMES TRAVIS WHO SHOULD RECEIVE A PENSION AND ETC. SAYS HE HAS APPLIED SEVERAL TIMES BUT WITH HO AVAIL.
A LETTER WRITTEN TO HON. RICHARD M. JOHNSTON, BY DAVID WHITE OF ANDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS HE IS A GOOD FREIND TO JAMES TRAVIS. --- BLUE SPRINGS, 6-29-1830- IN A LETTER FROM R. M. JOHNSON HE SAYS THAT JAMES TRAVIS LIVES 40 MILES FROM HIM.
-- DECLARATION MADE BY JAMES TRAVIS MAY 13, 1834, AGE 84, THAT IN THE YEAR 1777 HE WAS A CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, CULPEPPER COUNTY; THAT IN THE FALL OF THE AFORESAID YEAR, HE EHLISTED AS A REGULAR IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION FOR 3 YEARS IN CAPTAIN GABRIEL LOGNG'S COMPANY OF COL. MORGAN'S REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LINE; THAT GENERAL GATES. COMMANEED THE BRIGADE; THAT HE SERVED THAT OUT OF THE TIME FOR WHICH HE ENLISTED AND RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE AFORESAID 3 YEARS SERVICES; SECTION 194
THAT HE HAS RECEIVED FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA A LAND WARRANT FOR 100 ACRES, FOR SIMILAR SERVICESE ; , SAYS HE KNOWS OF NO LIVING WITNESSES BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICES, EXCEPT ,DANIEL HARTLEY, ON WHOSE TESTIMONY AND OATH HE GOT HIS LAND WARRANT; THAT HE HAS LOST THE DISCHARGE. -- AFFIDAVIT OF DANIEL HARTLEY, SAYS HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN GENERAL MORGAN'S RIFLE REGIMENT IN A COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN GABRIEL LONG AND THAT JAMES TRAVIS WAS AN ENLISTED SOLDIER FOR AND DURING THE WAR IN THE SAME COMPANY AND THAT HE, SAID TRAVIS SERVICED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO HIS, THE SAID HARTLEY'S PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT 3 YEARS. THIS AUGUST 12, 1829.
SAYS HE RECEIVED FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA A LAND WARRANT FOR 100 ACTES FOR SIMILAR SERVICE. SAYS HE KNOWS OF NO LIVING WITNESS BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICES, EXCEPT SANIEL HARTLEY UPON WHOSE TESTIMONY AND OTHER OATHS, HE GOT HIS LAND WARRANT; THAT HE HAS LOST SAID DISCHARGE.
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PEARSON: MESHECKE
PIERSON: MESHAC
S35555 VIRGINIA
MARCH 1, 1819, SAYS HE WAS IN THE VIRGINIA LINE, CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR TWO YEARS, SAYS HE ENLISTED IN CULPEPPER COUNTY, VA., REGIMENT ON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, COMMANDED BY CO. MUHLENBERG, MARCHED UNDER THE COMMAND OF HIS CAPTAIN FROM CULPEPPER ON THE 9TH OF MARCH 1776, TO JOIN THE REGIMENT AND JOINED IT A FEW DAYS AFTERWARDS AND CONTINUED TO IN THE REGIMENT UNTIL THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN IN OCT. 1777 IN WHICH BATTLE HE WAS A COMBATANT, AND HAD THE MISFORTUNE ON THAT OCCASION TO BE TAKEN PRISONER BY THE BRITISH WHO DETAINED HIM AS A PRISONER ABOUT ELEVEN MONTHS WHEN HE ESCAPED AND RETURNED TO THE AMERICAN ARMY AND AFTER HIS RETURN HE CONTINUED IN THE ARMY AS A WAGONER, UNTIL AFTER THE CAPTURE OF CORNWALLIS.
-- LARKIN FIELDS ALSO CAME BEFORE ROBERT TRIMBEL (D J. H. D) AT THE SAME TIME AND BEING BY HIM FIRST DULY SWORN DEPOSES THAT HAVING SERVED HIMSELF AS A SOLDIER IN THE 8TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT, COMMANDED BY COL. PETER MUHLENBERG, HE KNOWS THAT THE ABOVE MESHACK PEARSON ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER OF THE U. S. IN SAID REGIMENT, ABOUT THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1776 IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN GEORGE SLAUGHTER AND THAT HE FAITHFULLY , SERVED AS A SOLDIER IN THAT REGIMENT UNTIL HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE ENEMY AT THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN AND THAT THE OEPONENET SAW THE SAID APPLICANT IN THE ARMY AFTER THE RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY OF A WAGON DRIVER; THAT THE DEPONENT HAS BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT EVER SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THAT THE SAND APPLICANT IS IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES SIGNED L. FFELES.
AND ETC.
-- AFFIDAVIT -SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MADE BY SHARACK PEARSON, WHO SAYS HE IS A BROTHER OF MESHACK PEARSON, AFFIDAVIT MADE BEFORE GEORGE P. MILLS.
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ENLISTED AS A REGULAR SOLDIER IN THE 8TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT FOR THE TERM OF 3 YEARS COMMENCING IN 1776, AND THAT AT THE XPIRATION OF THE 3 YEARS HE ENLISTED IN 1780, AT MIDDLEBROOK, NEW JERSEY, DURING THE WAR IN SAME 8TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT AND THAT HE SERVED FAITHFULLY AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF THE YEAR, THAT HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN AND CONFINED IN JAIL AT PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK FOR ELEVEN MONTHS AND FOUR DAYS. THESE FACTS HE STATES FROM HIS OWN PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE AS HE WAS A REGULAR SOLDIER AT THE SAMETIME WHICH WILL APPEAR FROM THE RECORDS IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND HE SAW HIM IN THE SERVICE DURING EVERY WEEK OR TWO DURING THE WHOLE TIME . 1829.
THIS MARCH 2, SECTION . (98-199
A LETTER FROM MESHAC PEARSON, WRITTEIN IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY . 3-2-1829.
SAYS THAT HIS BROTHER SERVED WITH HIM AND WAS AN EYE WITNESS TO HIS SUFFERINGS AND PRIVATIONS DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
-- AFFIDAVIT BY MESHACK PIERSON, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 5-18-1829, SAYS HE ENLISTED IN NEW JERSEY 1780, UNDER CAPTAIN GEORGE SLAUGHTER IN A REGIMENT COMMANDED BY CO. PETER BOMAN, COMMANDANT OF THE 8TH VA., REGIMENT AND FURTHER STATES THAT HE WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE SAID COMPANAY AND REGIMENT TO GENERAL WASHINGTON'S LIFE GUARD COMMANDED BY MAJOR GIBBS AND WAS EMPLOYED IN DRIVING A WAGON UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR. -- HE BELONGED TO THE 8TH VA., REGIMENT ON THE CONTINENTAL LINE. HE SAYS HE ENLISTED 1775 IN THE FALL AND WENT INTO ACTUAL SERVICE 1776# IN CAPTAIN GEORGE SLAUGHTER'S COMPANY, WITH THE 8TH VA., REGIMENT IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE COMMANDED BY COL. MUHLENBERG AND SERVED OUT HIS TIME IN ACTUAL SERVICE; EXCEPT WHILE HE WAS A PRIVATE, BEING TAKEN AT GERMANTOWN ON OCTOBER 4, 1777, AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF HIS TERM, HE ENLISTES AGAIN IN CAPTAIN SLAUGHTERS COMPANY FOR AND FDURING THE WAR AND WAS TAKEN FROM THENCE TO WASHINGTON'S LIFE GUARD AND SERVED OUT HIS TIME UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR, THAT IN WASHINGTON'S LIFE GUARD HE WAS FIRST COMMANDED BY MAJOR GIBB, AND THEN' COMMANDED BY LT. COALFAX. THAT HE IS NOW AGED AND INFRIM AND HAS A WFIE, WHICH IS ALL THE FAMILY HE HAS. 1, THOMAS METCALF, GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY (OCTOBER 20-1820} SAYS THAT WM. P. PAPER, WHOSE SIGNATURE IS AFFIXED TO THE FIRST OF THE FOREGOING CERTIFICATE WAS AT THE TIME OF THE WRITING THEREOF ONE OF THE CIRCUIT JUDGES, OF THIS COMMONWEALTH AND THAT HAMES SHANNON WHO HAS AFFIXED HIS SIGNATURE TO THE LAST OF THE FOREGOING CERTIFICATE WAS AT THE TIME OF THE WRITING THEREOF AN ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF FRANKLIN.
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