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THE SOLDIER FILED A SCHEDULE OF HIS PROPERTY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT, 12-4-1830, AT THAT TIME HE WAS A RESIDENT OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, AGE 76, SAYS THE NUMBER OF HIS PENSION CERTIFICATE IS 12566. IN HIS SCHEDULE HE MENTIONS ONE JOHN PEARSON BUT DID NOT SAY WHAT RELATIONSHIP HE WAS.
AFFIDAVIT -- FRANKLIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY- MARCH 16, 1832, MADE BY A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDEER, THOMAS FITZIMON, WHO SAYS THAT HE KNEW MESHACK PEARSON SERVED AS HE HAS STATED AND THAT THEY NOW LIVE NEIGHBORS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
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SECTION 200 WHITE: DAVID (SR) SUSANNA AGE 86
.. .. 997 VIRGINIA
SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, NOVEMBER 14, 1836, THAT HE WNLISTED ABOUT THE THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ABOUT THE TIME DUNMORE MADE A DECENT ON VIRGINIA, HE -- THIS APPLICANT THEN A RESIDENT OF AMELIA CO., VA. WAS DRAFTED AS A MILITIAMAN FOR A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS, HE SERVED AS A GUARD ON THE COAST. HE WAS MARCHED UNDER CAPTAIN BOOKNER WHO WAS DISTINGUISHED BY THE NAME WINTERHAM NED ) CROSSED JAMES RIVER AT WHAT WAS THEN CALLED SIDNERY FERRY, AND MARCHED INTO DIRECTION TO WILLIAMSBURG AND WAS THEN MARCHED FROM PLACE TO PLACE BUT BEFORE THE TERM OF SIX MONTHS, HAD EXPIRED, WAS DIS- CHARGED FROM THAT SERVICE AND IN CONSEQUENCE OF IMPAIRED MEMORY THIS APPLICANT CANNOT STATE THE EXACT TIME, ENGAGED IN THIS SERVICE.
HE F JR THER STATES THAT AFTERWARDS, IN OR ABOUT THE YEAR 1775, ACCORDING TO THE BEST
OF HIS RECOLLECTION, HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE IN A COMPANY COMMANDED BY ANOTHER CAPTAIN BOOKER, WHO SERVED IN THE STATE OF REGULAR TROOPS AND WHOSE COMPANY WAS ATTACHED TO THE REGIMENT OF A COL. MEADE FOR THE TERM OF 3 YEARS AND ALSO THAT THE SERVICE AT THIS TIME REQUIRED OF THIS APP APPLICANT WAS SIMILAR IN THEIR NAME TO THOSE SPOKEN OF IN THE FOREGOING TOUR OF DUTY, TO WIT, TO GUARD THE COURTS. HE THINKS THE COMPANY WAS MARCHED IN THE SPRING OF 1776, CROSSED JAMES RIVER, EITHER ABOVE OR BELOW RICHMOND AND MARCHED THERE IN THE DIRECTION OF HAMPTON WHERE HE THINKS HIS COMPANY JOINED THE REGIMENT OF THE SAID COL. MEADE AND FOR SOME TIME REMAINED AT THAT PLACE BUT FROM THE TIME OF HIS ENLISTMENT UNTIL DIS- CHARGED, IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1778, HE THIS AFFIANT WAS KEPT ON THE COAST OF VIRGINIA SOMETIME NEAR THE BRITISH LINE, WAS ENGAGED IN SKIRMISHES BUT NEVER IN ANYTHING LIKE A GENERAL BATTLE, HE WAS AT ONE TIME MARCHED TO YORKTOWN UNDER THE APPREHENSION- THAT THE ENEMY INTENDED TO LAND THERE. ME FURTHER STATES THAT DURING THIS TERM OF SERVICEW HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO SOME OTHER COMPANY OR AT LEAST SERVED UNDER SOME OTHER CAPTAIN. HE STATES THAT HE RECEIVED A REGULAR DISCHARGE, BUT HAVING LOST IT, HE CANNOT SAY BY WHOM IT WAS SIGNED. SECTION 201
HE STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN COUNTY OF AMELIA IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION HE RECEIVED FROM HIS FATHER ON THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR 1749, AND FURTHER MORE IN THE YEAR 1779, HE REMOVED TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. SETTLED ON LICKING RIVER AT WHAT WAS CALLED MARTINS STATION AND ON THE 22ND., DAY OF JUNE IN THE YEAR 1780, THIS STATION WAS ATTACKED BY A STRONG FORCE OF BRITISH AND INDIANS UNDER COMMAND OF CAPTAIN BIRD, AND A BRITISH OFFICER OF THE KINGS EIGHT REGIMENT AND THE STATION WAS COMPELLED TO CAPITULATE? AND THIS APPLICANT WITH HIS FAMILY WAS MADE PRISONERS OF WAR, THEREBY LOOSING ALL HIS PROPERTY, HIS PAPERS AND ONE OF HIS FAMILY, PREVIOUS TO WHICH TIME HE HAD BEEN ENROLLED AS A SPY AGAINST THE INDIANS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN DUNCAN, BY THE ORDER OF GENERAL GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND RENDERED SERVICE IN THAT CAPACITY UNTIL TAKEN AS ABOVE STATED, HE WITH THE OTHER PRISONERS TAKENB BY THE INDIANS WERE MARCHED TO THE FORKS OF LICKING RIVER, EMBARKED IN CANOES AND IN THE DEGENT, THE CANOE IN WHICH THIS APPLICANT AND HIS FAMILY WERE OVERSET, AND THE FEW ARTICULES HE WAS PERMITTED TO BRING AWAY WITH HIM, INCLUDING THE REMANT OF HIS PAPERS, AND ONE CHILD WERE LOST. WE WERE CARRIED TO DETROIT WHERE WE ARRIVED ON THE THIRD DAY OF AUGUST AFTER ENDURING GREAT HARSHIP AND PRIVATIONS AND REMAINED AT THAT PLACE A PRISONER UNTIL OCTOBER 1783, THIS APPLICANT THEN RETURNED TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND HAS CONTINUED EVER SINCE, FIRST RESIDING IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND AT THIS TIME AND FOR MANY YEARS PAST IN SHEBLY COUNTY, HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE EXCEPT THE AFFIDAVIT OF ELI ELIZABETH CLARK HEREWITH INCLOSED DATED MARCH 3, 183!, AND SHE IS SINCE DEA DEAB.
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SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS DECLARATION OF SUSAN WHITE, AGE 87, A RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF SIMPSON- VILLE, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS SHE IS THE WIDOW OF DAVID WHITE, SR. SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM, SEPTEMBER 6, 1774, BY PARSON BROMSKILL, OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THAT AT THAT TIME THEY RESIDED IN AMELIA COUNTY, VA., WHERE THEY CONTINUED TO RESIDE UNTIL 1778 WHEN SHE MOVED TO KENTUCKY AND SETTLED AT MARTIN'S STATION ON LICKING RIVER, WHERE SAID DAVID SR., ENLISTED UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT DUNCAN AND IN THIS CAPACITY WAS TAKEN PRISONER BY THE INDIANS AND BRITISH UNDER COL. BIRD OF THE BRITISH ARMY OF THE 22ND., JUNE 1780 AND THE SAID DAVID SR., AND MYSELF
-TOGETHER WITH ALL THE PRISONERS IN THE FORT WERE CONVEYED TO DETROIT WHERE THEY WERE DETAINED> AS PRSIONERS IN THE FORT WERE CONVEYED TO DET- DETROIT WHERE THEY WERE DETAINED AS PRISONERS UNTIL THE 16TH OF OCTOBER 1783, WHEN THEY WERE PERMITTED TO RETURN HOME, AND THAT THEY ARRIVED AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO , ABOUT XMAS OF THAT YEAR, AND HAVE EVER SINCE R RESIDED IN JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY; THAT THE SAID DAVID WHITE, SR., DIED 27TH OF JULY $838, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
AFFIDAVIT OF BLANN W. BALLARD, AGE 78, OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS HE FIRST BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH DAVID WHITE, SR., AND SUSANNAH HIS WIFE ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE WINTER 1779; THAT THEY HAD JUST MOVED FROM VIRGINIA TO KENTUCKY AND WHEN HE FIRST SAW THEM, THEY WERE ON THEIR W WAY TO MARTINS STATION ON HTE LICKING RIVER WHERE THEY SETTLED; THAT THE S SAID DAVID AND SUSANNAH WERE THEN MAN AND WIFE AND HAD ONE OR TWO CHILDREN, THAT AT MARTINS STATION, THEY WERE TAKEN PRISONERS IN 1780 AND TAKEN TO THE NORTH AS THE SAID BALLARD BELIEVES, TO DETROIT, THAT THIS AFFIANT, BALLARD AGAIN SAW THE SAID DAVID AND SUSANNA AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO, WHERE LOUISVILLE NOW STANDS IN 1783, ABOUT XMAS WHERE THEY LANDED ON THEIR RETURN FROM DETROIT; THAT THEY HAVE EVER SINCE THAT TIME RESIDED IN JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTIES.
SUSANNAH WHITE, MADE AFFIDAVIT THAT HER HUSBAND DIED JULY 27, 1836. SECTION 203
AFFIDAVIT, MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY 1831, BY ELIZABETH CLARK, SAYS SHE WAS A RESIDENT OF AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA BOUT THE COMMENCEMENT OF OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. DAVID WHITE THEN A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER AS HE THEN INFORMED HIS FRIENDS UNDER CAPTAIN BOOKER, UNDER CO. D. MEADE OF SAID COUNTY. HIS FRIENDS EXHIBITED SOME --- AT HIS HAVING ENLISTED. HE SAID ONE OF HIS BROTHERS HAD ENTERED AND THAT HE WOULD GO INTO THE SERVICE HIMSELF OR TO THAT AFFECT. IN SHORT, TIME HE WAS MARCHED OFF BUT HOW LONG HE WAS GONE, SHE HAS AT THIS TIME NO DISTINCT RECOLLECTION, BUT THINKS IT WAS NOT QUITE TWO YEARS. THIS AFFIANT FURTHER STATES THAT JOHN WHITE, THE BROTHER MENTIONED ABOVE ) ENLISTED UNDER A CAPATIN HANOWAY MARCHED AMONGST THE FIRST TROOPS WENT FROM THE COUNTY, REMAINED SOMETIME 3 OR 4 MONTHS --- RETURNED HOME ON FURLOUGH SICK AND DURING HIS SICKNESS HIS CAPTAIN WAS TO SEE HIM AND TOLD HIM IN THE PRESENCE OF THIS AFFIANT THAT WHEN HE SHOULD AGAIN JOIN THE ARMY HE SHOULD HAVE HIS MONEY. HE DIED OF HIS
SICKNESS WITHOUT JOINING THE ARMY AGAIN. , THIS AFFIANT FURTHER STATES
THAT BENJAMIN WHITE, ANOTHER BROTHER OF THE ABOVE NAMED DAVID WHITE, ALSO ENLISTED IN THE REGULAR SERVICE, WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL CHARLES SCOTT AND WAS IN A COMPANY SAID TO BE COMMANDED BY ANOTHER CAPTAIN BOOKER AND THAT ON THE RETURN OF HIS CAPTAIN, INFORMATION WAS GIVEN TO HIS FATHER, THAT HE HAD DIED AFTER SERVING ABOUT IS YEAR . AND THAT ROBERT WHITE, ANOTHER BROTHER, SOME SHORT TIME AFTER DAVID ENLISTED DID HIMSELF ENLIST IN THE REGULAR SERVICE FOR THE TERM OF FIVE YEARS. IN THE SAME COMPANY, WITH BENJAMIN AND SERVED UNDER THE SAME
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EMME GENERALe HE RETURNED A SHORT TIME ABOUT THE EXPIRATION OF THE FIVE YEARS, INFORMED HIS FRIENDS THAT HE HAD OBTAINED A FURLOUGH AND HAD AGAIN ENLISTED DURING THE WAR, SPOKE OF MANY HARDSHIPS ENDURED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES, PARTIALLY THE WANT OF CHOUCK FOOD AND CLOTHING AND MANY DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS IN BATTLES, HE SOON AFTER THIS MARCHED OFF TO AGAIN. JOIN THE ARMY AT YORKTOWN AND THIS AFFIANT NEVER HEARD CF HIM SECTION 204
HE STATED WHILE WITH HIS FRIENDS HE HAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY OF HIS WAGES AND WAS MUCH IN NEED OF NEW CLOTHES. THIS AFFIANT WILL FURTHER ADD THAT THE ABOVE DAVID WHITE WAS SAID TO BE THE OLDEST OF THE ABOVE NAMED BROTHERS, AND THAT HE IS LEGAL HEIR TO ANY COMPENSATION, WHICH THEIR SERVICE MAY BE ENTITLED TO. SICHED. ELIZABETH CLARK.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF SUSANNA WHITE, MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY NADE OATH THAT THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVIT, SAYS SHE IS ABOUT 86 YEARS OLD, THAT SHE KNOWS DAVID WHITE, SR., HOW LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, THAT SHE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH HIM MANY YEARS SINCE AND KNOWS OF HIS HAVING ENLISTED WHILE IN AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, TO FIGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THAT HE LEFT HIS FAMILY AND RELATIVES ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR AND THEN STATED THAT HE MAD ENLISTED AND HE WENT OFF Y WITH THE SERGEANT AND WITH THE SERGEANT AND MAS ALWAYS HEARD HIMS SAY HE SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN BOOKER IN COL. MADIS BATALLION. SHE CANNOT SAY WHAT LENGTH OF TIME HE SERVED BUT IT WAS A LONG WHILE.
-- THAT SHE MOVED TO KENTUCKY IN COMPANY WITH DAVID WHITE, SR. K IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1779 AND SETTLED AT MARTINS STATION, ON LOCKING RIVER, THAT DAVID WHITE WAS ENROLLED AS SHE UNDERSTOOD BY THE ORDER OF GENERAL CLARK, UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. DUNCAN, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFENDING THE SETTLEMENTS FROM THE BRITISH AND INDIANS AND THAT IN THE MONTH OF JUNE 1780, THE STATION WAS TAKEN BY THE BRITISH AND INDIANS UNDER CAPTAIN OF COL, BIRD OF THE BRITISH ARMY WHO COMMANDED THE FORCES OF THE ENEMY -- THEY WERE ALL TAKEN TO DETROIT. DAVID WHITE, SR., AND HERSELF WITH THE REST AND WERE THERE DETAINED PRISONERS UNTIL 1783, WHEN THEY WERE PERMITTED TO COME HOME. THEY LEFT DETROIT ON THE 16TH OF OCTOBER 1783, AND CAME SAFELY THRO THE INDIAN COUNTRY BY MEANS OF A PASS GIVEN TO THEM BY COL. DEPOSTER, THE BRITISH OFFICER, WHO COMMANDED AT DETROIT, THE STATES; THAT THEY ARRIVED AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO ABOUT XMAS AND SHE HAS SINCE RESIDED IN SHELBY COUNTY AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, KENTUCKY; THAT THE DAVID WHITE, SR., WHO IS NAMED IN THE FOREGOING IS THE SAME, WHO HAS LATELY MADE APPLICATION TO THE WIAR DEPARTMENT OF THE U.S. SECTION 205
THIS 3RD., DAY OF AUGUST 1837. SIGNED SUSAN WHITE.
AFFIDAVIT -- SHELBY COUNTY. SANDERS SHANKS, (MADE SERT 22, 1838. THIS DAY PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE WILLIAM KINKADE, A J P."SAYS HE HAS KNOWN DAVID WHITE, SR., AND SUSANNAH WHITE FOR 18 OR 20 YEARS; THAT THE SAID DAVID WHITE, SR., WAS A PENSIONER OF THE U.S. THAT HIS CERTIFICATE WAS DATED ON THE 5TH OF JANUARY 18381 THAT SAID DAVID DIED ON THE 27TH JULY 1838 AND THAT SAID SUSANNAH IS HIS WIDOW; THAT SHE IS NOW LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND HAS NOT AGAIN MARRIED; THAT SHE HAS
LIVED THERE EVER SINCE HE'KNEW HER AND THAT THE SAID DAVID WHITE, SR- IS THE IDENTICAL PERSON NAMED IN SAID CERTIFICATE GRANTING HIM A PENSION, DATED AS AFORESAID ON THE 5TH OF JANUARY 1838, THAT HE BELIEVES THE SAID SUSANNAH TO DE 87 OR 88 YEARS OLD, AND FROM STATEMENTS MADE BY BOTH, THE SAID DAVID AND SUSANNAH THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1774 AS THEY HAVE CHILDREN NOW LIVING, WHO ARE NEAR 60 YEARS OLD.
AFFIDAVIT MADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTYY RENTUCKY, BY EDWARD TYLER, SR., AGE 71 THAT HE HAS LIVED IN JEFFERSON COUNTY SINCE THE SPRING OF 1780, AMD THAT HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH DAVID WHITE OVER 50 YEARS PAST IN SAID COUNTY AND STATE, THAT HE RECOLLECTS WELL, THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE
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CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE INDIANS UNDER CAPTAIN BIRD, TAKING MARTINS STATION AND FROM THE REPORT THEN COMMONLY MADE, SAID DAVID WHITE WASTAKEN BY THE INDIANS AND CARRIED TO DETROIT AND SAID TYLER STATES THAT HE HAD A SISTER WHO WAS AFTERWARDS TAKEN BY THE INDIANS AND ALSO CARRIED TO DETROIT AND REMEMBERS WELL WHEN SHE RETURNED; SHE SAID SHE WAS PUT TO LIVE IN THE HOUSE THAT SAID WHITE AND HIS WIFE, THEN RPSIONERS IN DETROIT AND THAT WHEN SAID TYLER'S SISTER RETURNED TO LYNN'S STATION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY SAID WHITE AND WIFE RETURNED WITH THEM AND T THAT SAID WHITE IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE PARTY THAT IS NOW LIVING SO FAR AS H HE KNOWS. SIGNED
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EDWARD TYLER .
-- AFFIDAVIT OF BALN W. BALLARD, MADE AFFIDAVIT IN SHELBE COUNTY, 1837 -SAYS HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH DAVID WHITE, SR., AND THINKS HE MUST BE AGE 86; THAT HE HAS KNOWN HIM SINCE THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1779, WHEN HE SAW HIM AT BOONESBORO IN THIS STATE, WHERE THIS DEPONENET WAS THEN STATIONED IN THE U.S. SERVICE; THAT SAID WHITE WAS THEN MOVING TO MARTINS STATION ON LICKING RIVER FROM VIRGINIA; THAT HE WENT ON TO MCGEE'S STATION AND THEN RETURNED TO BOONESBORO FOR CORN; AFTER WHICH HE WENT ON TO MARTINS STATION WITH HIS FAMILY. THIS DEPONENET AFTERWARDS SAW DAVID WHITE AT BOONESBORO THE DAY BEFORE COL. CALLOWAY WAS KILLED AND THINKS HE CAME TO BOONESBORO FOR CORN AND THAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN EARLY IN THE SPRING OF 1780. HE FURTHER STATES THAT MARTINS STATION WAS ATTACK ED AND TAKEN BY THE BRITISH AND INDIANS UNDER CAPTAIN BIRD, OF THE BRITISH ARMY SOMETIME IN THE EARLY PART OF THE SUMMER OF 1780. AND THAT HE (CEPONENET HAD SOME RELATIONS IN THIS PART AND KNOWS THAT DAVID WHITE WAS ALSO THERE AT THE TIME IT WAS TAKEN AND THAT HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER AND CARRIED TO DETROIT. DEPONENET AFTERWARDS SAW DAVID WHITE, AT LYNN'S STATION IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, EARLY IN THE WINTER OF 1783 OR 1784, AND THAT HE HAD THEN JUST RETURNED FROM DETROIT. DEPONENET HAS SINCE KNWON DAVID WHITE AND KNOWS HIM TO BE A MAN OF ERCELLENT CHARACTER. DEPONENET SAYS HE IS 77 YEARS OF AGE. -- AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM M. CLARK, AGE 46, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SAYS HE KNOWS ELIZABETH CLARK, WHO DIED IN THE YEAR 1831, THAT SHE WAS FORMERLY ELIZABETH WHITE, WHO DIED IN THE YEAR 1831, THAT , WHO HAS MADE APPLICATION FOR PENSION; THAT THIS AFFIANT IS THE SON OF ELIZABETH ("/HITE ) CLARK AND THAT HE HAS OFTEN HEARD HER SPEAK OF THE SERVICES OF SECTION 208
OF DAVID WHITE, SR., AND HER OTHER BROTHERS, BENJAMIN AND ROBERT WHITE IN THE ARMY AND HAS ALWAYS HEARD HER FREQUENTLY SPEAK OF AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AS THE PLACE OF HER BIRTH AND THAT SHE WAS ABOUT 4 YEARS YOUNGER, THAN DAVID WHITE WHO MOVED TO KENTUCKY DURING IT'S EARLY SETTLEMENTS. THIS AFFIDAVIT MADE JUNE 1837, ON THE SECOND DAY. -- AFFIDAVIT OF SANDERS SHANKS WHO SAYS HE KNOWS DAVID WHITE AND HIS WIFE SUSANNAH WERE MARRIED 1774, AND WAS A PRISONER WITH HIM DURING THE SEVERAL YEARS.
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WILEY : HENRY WILY?
S 38471 VIRGINIA
MAY 8-1834, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, JAMES BURNETT, JP FOR SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, ONE HENRY WILEY THE ABOVE SOLDIER AGE 80. SAYS HE WAS RESIDING IN CAROLINE COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE, THAT IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1777, THAT HE VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN MARSHALL OF SAID COUNTY OF CAROLINA FOR 3 MONTHS. THEY RENDEZVOUSEC AT THE OLD COURT HOUSE IN CAROLINA COUNTY UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE SAID CAPTAIN, MARCHED FROM THE PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS, THROUGH WILLIAMSBURG TO YORKTOWN, HERE HE SAYS THEY WERE STATIONED FOR THE PURPOSE OF
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OF PREVENTING THE BRITISH FROM LANDING. HE STATES THAT DURING THE TIME THEY WERE STATIONED AT YORKTOWN, THAT THEY WERE EMPLOYED IN RECONOITERING THE SHORES OF THE RIVER, UNTIL HIS THREE MONTHS HAD EXPIRED. HE AND THE BALANCE OF CAPTAIN MARSHALL'S COMPANY WE RE DISCHARGED IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1777 AND HE RETURNED HOME . THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 1775 IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE BRITISH WOULD LAND AND DO SOME MISCHEIF IN THE LOWER PART OF VIRGINIA. SECTION 203
WHERE CAPTAIN JAMMESON OF SAID COUNTY OF CAROLINA RAISED A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. MATHEWS REGIMENT AND MARCHED FROM SAID COUNTY OF CAROLINA UNDER THE COMMAND OF OF COL. MATHEWS TO WILLIAMSBURG AND WAS THERE STATIONED IN THE ' CAPITOL AT WILLIAMSBURG, THIS DECLARANT STATES THEY WERE FREQUENTLY SENT IN DETACHMENTS UP AND DOWN THE RIVERS TO SEE IF THE BRITISH WERE LIKELY TO LAND. HE STATES THAT HE DID REMAIN IN WILLIAMSBURG DISCHARGING HIS DUTY AS A FAITHFUL SOLDIER UNTIL THE 3 MONTHS FOR WHICH HE HAD VOLUNTEERED BEING EXPIRED. HE WAS DISCHARGED BY HIS SAID CAPTAIN JAMMESON, LATE IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1778 HAVING LEFT CAROLINA IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1778 AND THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 1780, ABOUT THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER, A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID
INTO THE COUNTY OF CAROLINA WHEN HE, THE SAID HENRY WILEY WAS CRAFTED SERVICE FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUSED AT CAROLINA, OLD COURT HOUSE AND UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JOHN LONG, WAS MARCHED FROM SAID PLACE TOWARD WILLIAMSBURG AND ON THEIR WAY THEY WERE MET BY AN EXPRESS DIRECTING CAPTAIN LONG TO MARCH HIS COMPANY TO PORT ROYAL ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER AND WAIT FOR FURTHER ORDERS. CAPTAIN LONG, THEN MARCHED HIS COMPANY TO PORT ROYAL WHERE THIS DECLARANT STATES THEY REMAINED UNTIL THE TIME FOR WHICH THEY HAD BEEN DRAFTED BEING EXPIRED, THEY WERE DISCHARGED BY SAID CAPTAIN LONG IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1781 . THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT DURING THE SUMMER OF 1781, THAT ANOTHER DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY OF CAROLINA AND THAT IN THE MONTH OF JULY, HE WAS DRAFTED FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUSED AT THE BOWLING GREEN AND UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN BARNETT. WAS MARCHED FROM SAID PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS TO CAMP MOBIN HILLS AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. MATHEWS REGIMENT AND AFTER REMAINING THERE SOME SHORT TIME, THAT THE BRITISH LANDED AND TOOK POSSESSION OF WILLIAMSBURG. COL. MATHEWS THEN
ORDERED THE REGIMENT TO A PLACE CALLED THE NICKORY NUT CHURCH THEN 12 MILES OF THE BRITISH THEN IN WILLIAMSBURG. COL.MATHEWS THEN TOOK THE
PART OF HIS REGIMENT AND MARCHED IN FULL VIEW OF THE BRITISH IN THE WILLIAMSBURG AND THEN MARCHED THAT PART OF REGIMENT SUO BACON'S ARMONY. AT THIS TIME, THE DECLARANT STATES HIS 3 MONTHS EXPIRED, BUT BEFORE CAPTAIN
TOOD HAD DISCHARGED HIS COMPANY , AND WHILE AT & BACON'S ONERY , THAT
ONE MORNING ABOUT DAY BREAK, THE BRITISH MADE AN ATTACK UPON THE REGIMENT AND THAT 15 OF THE REGIMENT S WERE TAKEN PRESIONERS AND THAT HE BEING ONE OF THAT NUMBER WAS SENT ABOARD OF THE KINGS SHIPS, THIS HE STATES WAS ABOUT THE FIRST OF OCTOBER AND HE REMAINED A PRISONER ABOARD OF SIAD SHIPS ENDURING GREAT HARDSHIPS AND SUFFERING MUCH FROM THE SMALLPOX UNTIL THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS WHEN HE AND THE 14 OTHERS THAT HAD TE BE TAKEN WAS SET AT LIBERTY BY THE OFFICERS. HE STATES THAT WHEN HE WAS TAKEN ABOARD THE KING'S SHIP, THAT THEY HAD ABOUT 200 AMERICAN PRIOSNERS THAT THEY HAD TAKEN.
SAYS HE WAS BORN IN CAROLINA COUNTY, VA., 1750 AND WAS LIVING IN CAROLINA COUNTY, WHEN | ENTERED THE SERVICE AND SINCE THE REVOLUTION | LIVED IN CAROLINA COUNTY, UNTIL THE YEAR 1792. | THEN MOVED TO KENTUCKY AND | LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY AT THIS TIME. I VOLUNTEERED TWO
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I VOLUNTEERED TWO TOURS FOR 3 MONTHS CACR AND | WAS DRAFTED TWICE FOR THE 3 MONTHS EACH DRAST CAPTAIN MARSHALL AND LONG WERE THE OFFICERS ON MY SECOND TOUR. MY SERVICES WAS WITH A MILITIAMAN GUARDING THE SHORES OF THE RIVER A PART OF MY TIME AND AT ONE TIME GUARDING THE CAPITOL OF VIRGINIA AT WILLIAMSBURG.
JOHN HALLAND, CLERGYMAN AND JOHN RICHARDSON TESTIFY TO HIS CHARACTER.
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YEAGER: SAMUEL YAGER
SHELBY COUNTY: KENTUCKY 1820, JUNE TERM COURT, ON THE 30TH JUNE 1820 THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AGE 68, RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY AND STATE, SAYS HE ENLISTED 1776 UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN JAMESON IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. GLAND OF THE VIRGINIA LINE AND CONTINUED IN SAID CORPS UNTIL THE FALL OF 1778 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED , FURTHER STATES. THAT HE MADE APPLICATION BY HIS DECLARATION DATED JULY IST., 1819 FOR A PENSION AND RECEIVED HIS PENSION CERTIFICATION DATED APRIL 20, 1820, NUMBER 16741/ SAYS HE HAS NO WIFE OR FAMILY. IN ANOTHER DECLARATION, HE SAID HIS COMPANY WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHN JAMESON OF THE REGIMENT CF LYHT HORN COMMANDED BY COL. BLAND. THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE SUMMER OF 1776 AND CONTINUED TO SERVE UNTIL 1778, WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE AT WINCHESTER IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA BY COL. TEMPLE, THEN THE COMMANDANT, SAYS HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN AND MONMOTH BESIDES SEVERAL SKIRMISHES. ELISHA YAGER ALSO APPEARED BEFORE ME WHO HAVING BEEN FIRST SWORN- STATES THAT SAMUEL YAGER AND HIMSELF ARE RELATED- THAT HE WELL KNOWS OF SAMUEL YAGER ENTERING THE SERVICE AS STATED BY HIM IN HIS DECLARATION AND THAT HIS STATEMENTS ARE TRUE AS MADE BY HIM.
SIGNED . SAMUEL MCKEE
THE NAME OF THE COLONEL WHO COMMANDED HIS COMPANY WAS THEODORICK BLANN. SECTION 211
SUPPLEMENT OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY-ABSTRACTS OF PENSION PAPERS REVOLUTION: WAR CF 1812 AND INDIAN WARS.
BLACKWELL: JOHN
VIRGINIA S30873
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. DECEMBER 6, 1833, JOHN BLACKWELL, AGE 75 DEPOSES IN 1760 WAS LIVING IN CULPEPPER COUNTY, VA., AND HIS FATHER, JAMES BLACKWELL WAS DRAFTED FOR 3 MONTHS AND THE DEPONENET SERVED AS SUBSTITUTE FOR HIS FATHER, SERVED UNDER CAPT. JOHN WARR, AND COL. SLAUGHTER. IN SEPT. 1780, WENT AS SUBSTITUTE FOR 3 MONTHS AFOR HENRY COONS. UNDER CAPT. BROWN, MAJ WELCH AND COL. GREEN. IN MARCH 1781, WAS DRAFTED AND SERVED 3 MONTHS UNDER CAPT. GABRIEL GREEN. IN JUNE 1781, VOLUNTEERED FOR SIX MONTHS UNDER CAPT. EDMUNDS, OF FAUQUIER COUNTY, WAS AT SURRENDER AT VORKTOWN. WAS BORN 25 JULY 1758. MOVED TO KENTUCKY 1794.
INSCRIBED AT $46.66 PER YEAR TO BEGIN 44TH MARCH 1831.
WAYLAND : JOSHUA VIRGINIA S37502
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY.
PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, THE SUBSCRIBER, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR THE SAID DISTRICT, JOSHUA WAYLAND, AGE 69 YEARS, RESIDENT IN S-E SHELBY COUNTY IN SAID DISTRICT, WHO BEING BY ME FIRST DULY SWORN, STATES A AS FOLLOWS; THAT THE SAID JOSHUA WAYLAND ENLISTED IN THE WINTER OF
1777 IN CULPEPPER COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPT. JOHN GILLISON OF THE LOTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT, COL. EDWARD STEPHENS ( AFTERWARDS GENERAL STEPHENS ) OF THE VIRGINIA LINE AND THAT HE CONTINUED
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EDWARD STEPHENS (AFTERWARDS GENERAL STEPHENE ) OF THE VIRGINIA LINE AND THAT HE CONTINUED TOSERVE IN SAID CORPS ON IN THE SERVICE OF OF THE U.S. UNTIL THE WINTER 1780-HE AFTERWARDS SERVED 3 TOURS.
IN MILITIA SERVICE. THIS APPLICANT WAS IN NO BATTLES, WHILE INTHE REGULAR SERVICE, HE BEING A FIFER. HE WAS AT
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THE SEIGE OF CORNEALLIS IN YORKTOWN, WHILE IN THE MILITIA SERVICEO HE WAS DISCHARGED AT PHILADELPHIA BY GOL. FREBAKER AND HE FURTHER STATES THAT HE IS IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES, AND STANDS IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE OF HIS COUNTRY FOR SUPPORT AND HAS NO OTHER EVIDENCE. THEN ACCOMPANIES THIS DECLARATION OF HIS SAID SERVICE.
SWORN TO AND DECLARED BEFORE ME THIS 5TH DAY OF APRIL 1819- THOMAS MONTGOMERY-CIRCUIT JUDGE.
-JOHN MILES MADE OATH THAT HE WAS IN THE SAME COMPANY WITH JOSHUA WAYLAND AND THAT HE DID SERVE AS HE HAS STATED AS FIFER OF CAPT. JOHN GILLISON'S COMPANY, BELONGING TO THE VA. LINE. THIS APRIL 5, 1819.
SIGNED BEFORE THOMAS MONTGOMERY-JUDGE.
HENRY CARTER MADE AFFIDAVIT IN HENRY COUNTY THAT HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH SAID JOSHUA WAYLAND WHO HAS MADE THE DECLARATION, AND THAT HE SERVED IN THE SAME COMPANY WITH KIN. SIGNED SAMUEL MCKEE CIRCUIT JUDGE.
JOHN MILES MADE AFFIDAVIT AS TO CHARACTER 1819.
ONE SAMUEL MCKEE WAS CIRCUIT JUDGE 1819.
JOSHUA WAYLAND, VIRGINIA LINE, IO REGIMENT COL H. STEPHENS. WINTER 1777-WINTER 1780 -1 YEAR.
-- HENRY CARTER STATES THAT HE AND JOSHUA WAYLAND ENLISTED IN THE SAME COUNTY (TO WIT) CULEEPPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPT JOHN GILLISON AND THAT SAID WAYLAND SERVED THREE YEARS IN SAID COMPANY AS A FIFER TO WIT: FROM 1777 TO 1780, AND WAS DISCHARGED BY COL. EBEBAKER? FEEBAKER? AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA AND THAT HE NEVER DESERTED DURING THE TIME.
JOSHUA WAYLAND WAS INSCRIBED ON THE ROLL OF KENTUCKY AT THE RATE OF $8.00 PER MONTH TO COMMENCE ON THE 5TH OF APRIL 1819, SENT TO HENRY GREGG ESQ. NEW CASTLE, KENTUCKY. PAPERS COPIED AND SENT TO LEWIS WAYLAND, FISHERVILLE, VIRGINIA. 11-1-1834.
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WOOLFOLK? ROBERT
THE ABOVE SOLDIER STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN 1756, IN CAROLINA COUNTY, VAS WHILE A RESIDENT OF THAT COUNTY, HE ENLISTED AND SERVED WITH THE VIRGINIA TROOPS, AS FOLLOWS, FROM MAY 1, 1780, SIX MONTHS AS CRDERLY SERGEANT, UNDER CAPT. EDMUND PENDLETON, JAMES JOHNSON AND GOODALL AND COL. RICHARDSON AND FAULKNER AND WAS IN THE BATTLE OF CAMDEN, IN THE SPRING OF 1781, THREE MONTHS AS ORDERLY SERGEANT IN CAPTION DAVID JAMESON'S COMPANY IN GOL. MATHEWS'S REGIMENT; SOON AFTER HE SERVED 3 MONTHS AS ORDERLY SARGEANT AND WAGON MASTER UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN LONG AND COLONEL MATHEWS.
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