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OUR TOUR EXPIRED AND ROBARDS WAS PROMOTED TO COLONEL. | SERVED 3 MONTHS AT THIS TIME IN THE YEAR 1781. | WAS DRAFTED TO SERVE A TOUR CF 3 MONTHS FROM FAUQUIER COUNTY WHERE HE THEN RESIDED UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BAUL? AND MARCHED FROM THENCE TO YORK. WE WERE LIKING THE MOVEMENTS CF CORNWALLIS IN HIS PURPOSE FROM THE CAROLINE TO YORK. MY TERM OF SERVICE EXPIRED BEFORE THE SEIGE OF YORK AND I WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED HOME. MY COL. WAS OBANNON? SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, PERSONALLY SERVICE 'S ABOVE STATED 10 MONTHS IN ALL. I HAVE NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND HE KNOWS OF NO ONE EXCEPT COL. ABRHAM BUFORD OF SCOTT COUNTY, IN IF LIVING BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICE OF 12 MONTHS.
STATE OF KENTUCKY : SHELBY COUNTY. MARCH 27-1844. ONE MARY BURK, RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY MADE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION, WHO SAYS SHE IS THE WIDOW OF SAMUEL BURK, DECEASED. THAT AT THE TIME HE MADE APPLICATION FOR PENSION WAS RESIDING IN JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
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THAT HER HUSBAND RESIDED IN CULPEPPER COUNTY , VA., AT THE TIME OF HIS SERVICES, THAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE. SAYS HER HUSBAND DIED 1841. MARCH 16, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HE HAD LIVED ABOUT 3 YEARS PREVIOUS. THAT SHE AND THE SAID SOLDIER WERE MARRIED IN FAUQUIER COUNTY, VA., SEPT 2, 1785, AND THAT HER NAME BEFORE MARRIAGE WAS MARY HURLEY, DAUGHTER OF THOMAS HURLEY, OF CULPEPPER CO, VA., AND THAT THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED AT RECOTRTOWN BY PARSON THOMPSON AT THE TIME ABOVE STATED, AND THAT THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE AFTER THE LAST TOUR OF SAID BURK BUT PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1724, TO WIT; AT THE TIME ABOVE STATED.
-- SHE STATES THAT THEY HAVE HAD 3 BIBLES, THAT THE FIRST AND SECOND WERE DESTROYED BUT THAT SHE IS FILING THE FAMILY RECORDS AND WHICH IS IN THE HAND WRITING OF JEROME B. BURK, AND STATES THAT THEIR MARRIAGE IS RECORDED THEREIN AND THAT SHE RECEIVED A LETTER OF DISVISSION FROM THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF FAUQUIRE CO, VA., CALLED FERRY RUN, WHICH IS LIKEWISE SENT SENT WITH TWO SHERIFF'S. ¿SECTION 18
WHICH IS LIKEWISE SENT WITH THE TWO SHERIFF'S RECEIPTS WHICH I PAID WITH MY OWN HANDS TO ESTABLISH THE MARRIAGE AS THE CLERK OF SAID COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE THE RECORD. SIGNED MARY BURK. SR. -- AFFIDAVIT OF SALLY BURK WHO SAYS SHE 'PECOLLECT S WELL WHEN THEY STARTED TO MOVE TO KENTUCKY THE NEXT SPRING FOLLOWING, THAT SHE HAS BEEN A MEMBER IN THE FAMILY EVER SINCE AND THE LEAF HEREWITH SENT SHE HAS BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH FOR MANY YEARS AND THAT RECORD OF MY OWN AGE AND BIRTH AT THE HEAD OF THE LEAF WITH 7 OTHER CHILDREN OF THE SAID SAMUEL BURK AND MARY BURK, IS HEREWITH SENT, THE BIBLE CONTAINING THE RECORD OR MEMORANDUM OF THE RECORD OF THE MARRIAGE OF SAMUEL BURK AND WARY HURLY, HAS BEEN IN OUR FAMILY BUT ABOUT 9 YEARS, IT BEING THE THIRD SIBLE IN THE FAMILY, SHOWING THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE OF SAID SANDEL BURK AND MARY HURLEY AND THAT SHE SAN THE LEAF TORN FROM THE BOCK AND ATTACHED TO THE ABOVE DEPOSITION AND THAT THE SAME IS IN THE HANDWRITING OF MY YOUNGER BROTHER, JEROME B, BURK MY YOUNGER BROTHER, THAT MY FATHER SAMUEL BURK AND MY MOTHER MARY BURK LIVED TOGETHER IN THE STATE OF MATRIMONY FROM THE TIME OF MY FIRST RECOLLECTION UNTIL HIS DEATH.
AFFIDAVIT CF CHARLES WARE : MAGISTRATE: BIBLE RECORDS. SILLAY BURK, BORN 7-7-1788
SUSSY BURK, BORN 9-11-1791? 1794 OR 1790? ILLEGIBLE
JAMES BURK, BORN 10-22-1792 POLLEY BURK, DORN 2-4-1794
DEVORSE BURK, BORN 11-9-1796
JEAN BURK 5-29-1799 SECTION 19
( ILLEGIBLE NAME) WILLIAM BURK WAS BORN 11-9-1802.
HOSANNAH? BURK WAS BORN 9-10-1804. BIRTHS:
WILLIS, BURK WAS BORN 11-9-1802 PRISCILLA ANN BURK 2-12-1815
A NOTE IS POSTED TO THE RECORDS AS FOLLOWS: 6TH MARCH 1795, THEN RECEIVED OF M? BURK, ONE SHILLING AS THE BALANCE OF NR. SAMUEL BURK TAX DUE FOR 1793, SIGNED JAMES MORGAN. MARRIAGES -
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WILLIS BURK WAS MARRIED TO PRISCILLA A. SOLMONS 4-4-1833 SAMUEL BURK TO MARY HURLEY
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JEROME BURK TO MARY ELIZABETH CAMPBELL ELLISTON 10-10-1842 AT & O'CLOCK. "FOLLOWING NOTE IS PASTED TO THE LEAF. THE U.S. BAPTIST, CHURCH OF CHRIST IN VIRGINIA, FAUQUIRE CO.
FIRE RUN, BOTH DISMISS MANY BURK AS AN ORDERLY MEMBER AND WHEN JOINED TO ANOTHER CHURCH OF THE SAME FAITH AND ORDER NO LONGER UNDER OUR CARE SIGNED BY BY ORDER AND IN BEHALF OF THE WHOLE. THIS APRIL 4, 1795. SIGNED
JOHN CORDER CLERK.
-- SHE CLERK OF THE. FAUQUIRE COUNTY COLAT, SAID THAT HE COULD NOT FIND ANY RECORD OF THEIR MARRIAGE WHEN HE MADE THE SEARCH IN 1844., BUT SAID THAT THEY HAD BEEN IRREGULARLY KEPT.
-- JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY I DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT SAMUEL. BURK OF THIS COUNTY DIED SOME YEARS AGO PROVE BEFORE ME THE UNDERSIGNED A J.P. OF SAID COUNTY BY THE CATH OF JOHN TAPP OF THE COUNTY THAT HE THE SAID BURK DID SERVE AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND GOT A CERTIFICATE OF IT, BUT THE LENGTH OF TIME HE SERVED AND OTHER PARTICULARS | DO NOT RECOLLECT, HAVING MADE NO RECORD OF IT. THIS 8-20-1932.
SIGNED GECRGE T. CHRISTIAN. J.P.
BROWN !: WILLIAM S. 14995 VIRGINIA BONN 176ON IN HENRICO COUNTY VIRGINIA, AND RESIDENT THERE AT ENLISEMENT 10 1832, RESIDENTS , CF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, . SEPTEMBER 17, 1832; PERSON- ALLY APPEARED-IN OPEN COURT THE ABOVE SOLDIER RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY AGE 73, SAYS THAT. HE ENTERED THE SERVICE BY VOLUNTEERING IN SEPTEMBERI AM 1776 IN HENRICO COUNTY VIRGINIA IN.A COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN . CAVID . BOYLES, AND KT. V. HOLMAN. IN THE 33ED., VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. N? RICHARDSON. HE SERVED IN SAID COMPANY SIX WEEKS AND AFTER MARCHING TO LITTLE YORK FROM THE WILLIAMSBURG WAS DISCHARGED WHICH J! : CA DISCHARGE IS LOST. HE , THE SAID WILLIAM BROWN AGAIN VOLUNTEERED IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN MICHAEL JOHNSTON IN THE SAID 33AD., REGIMENT, AND SERVED TWO MONTHS AT WILLIAMSBURG, VA., AND NEAT VOLUNTEERED IN THE COMPANY COVHANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHN PRICE AND LT. JOHN SPEARS IN THE SAVE REGIMENT AND SERVED FOUR MONTHS AND UNTIL THE SURRENDER OF LORD CORNWALLIS AND WAS DISCHARGED AT LITTLE YORK, ALL OF WHICH DISCHARGE ARE LOST. HE, THE SAID BROWN FURTHER STATES THAT HE SERVED FOR SHORT PERIODS AT DIFFERENT TIMES, WHICH ARE NOT GIVEN ABOVE.
-SAID HE WAS BORN IN HENRICO COUNTY VIRGINIA, 1760 AND RESIDED THERE UNT !! HE NOVEO TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE HE NOW LIVES. -- A PAPER IN THE FILES AS FOLLOWS :
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENCE, THAT VILLIAM BROWN, SA., APPOINTS WILLIAM BROWN Jr., OF SPENCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY HIS TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEY TO COLLECT HIS PENSION MONEY.
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BRYANT: PETER $30, 290 VA. SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. JUNE TERM 1820, ON THE 30TH DAY OF JUNE 1820, AGE 61, SAYS THAT HE ENLISTED FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN JANUARY 1776 IN VIRGINIS IN COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN HARRY FANTLEROY IN THE 5TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT, COMMANDED BY COL. BELL IN THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, THAT HE CONTINUED TO SERVE IN THE SAID CORPS UNTIL THE FALL OF 1779 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE SAID SERVICE IN MIDDLEBOOK IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, THAT HE WAS THE BATTLE OF MONMOTH AND WHITE PLAINS AND THAT HE HAS NO OTHER
EVIDENCE NOW IN HIS FAVOR OF HIS SAID SERVICES EXCEPT BY PERSONS LIVING AT A GREST DISTANCE. HE FURTHER STATES THAT HE IS OLD AND INFIPM.
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HE FOLLOWS THE OCCUPATION OF FARMING BUT IS UNABLE TO FOLLOW IT, OR DO HARD LABOR - HE HAS 3 CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM, ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS, THE SON ABOUT 13, ONE OF HIS DAUGHTERS WAS 21, AND ONE ABOUT 16, THEY CAN RENDER HIM BUT LITTLE SERVICE TOWARDS A SUPFORT.
-IN OCTOBER 14, 1833, SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, HE MADE ANOTHER - DECLARATION AND HE WAS AT THAT TIME, AGE 73, AND SAYS HE WAS BORN 1760 MARCH 4, AS HE HAS BEEN INFORMED BY PERSONS INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED WITH HIS FATHER'S FAMILY THAT HIS AGE IS SO REGISTERED IN A BIBLE NOW IN HIS POSSESSION AND THE RECORD HAS BEEN THERE FOR MANY YEARS; THAT HE WAS BORN IN RICHMOND COUNTY, WHICH WAS BETWEEN THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND THE POTOMAC IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. HE STATES THAT HE IS THE SAVE PETER BRYANT, TO WHOM THE ENCLOSED LETTER FROM D. INGHAM THEN SECRETARY OF THE TREASURER, ARE DIRECTED ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENDORSEMENT ON ONE OF THEM, SUBSCRIBED BY THE HONORABLE RICHARD M. JOHNSON, WHICH SHOWS THAT HE HAS BEEN AN UN- SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT FOR A PENSION FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN SURVIVING OFFICERS, AND SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE REVO JTION, APPROVED MAY 15, 1823. SAYS THAT HE INLISTED IN RICHMOND, VA., 1775 UNDER CAPTAIN HARRY FOUNTLEROY F FOR 18 MONTHS AS A PRIVATE IN A COMPANY OF LIGHT INFANTRY
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OUR COMPANY WAS RECRUITED VERY RAPIDLY AND WE MARCHED THAT SAME FALL TO VALLEY FORGE IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA WHERE WE JOINED THE MAIN ARET UNDER GENERAL WASHINGTON AND OUR COMPANY WAS THEN ATTACHED TO THE 5TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. BELL. FROM VALLEY FORGE, THE ARMY MOVED TO MONMOTH WHERE OUR ARMY ENGAGED THE ENEMY. MY CAPTAIN HARRY FOUNTLEROY WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH. AFTER THE BATTLE OF MONMOTH, I WAS DETAILED AGAINST CAPTAIN WILLIAM BENTLEY WHO WAS PAY- MASTER TO THE REGIMENT TO WHICH | BELONGED, | RECEIVED MY DISCHARGE FROM COL. BALL IN PENNSYLVANIA. ABRAHAM DALE WHOSE DEPOSTITION WILL BE FOUND, I SUPPOSE AMONG THE PAPERS | SENT TO WASHINGTON, WHERE | APPLIED FOR A PENSION WAS MY ORDERLY SERGEANT. AFTER ! WAS DISCHARGED | RE- TURNED TO VIRGINIA AND MY UNCLE JAMES NEELY ADVISED MYSELF AND HIS SON WHO MA HAD ALSO BEEN IN THE ARMY TO SEND IN CUR DISCHARGE, THAT IT WAS REQUIRED OF US TO DO SO. WE ACCORDINGLY PLACED OUR DISCHARGES IN HIS HANDS TO BE SENT SOME WHERE, WHICH HE D'D NAD THAT WAS THE LAST I SAW OF MY DISCHARGE, I RECEIVED MY LAST PAY FROM CAPTAIN WILLIAM BENTLEY. I CANNOT STATE EXACT DATE I WAS DISCHARGED, BUT I KNOW | SERVED OUT MY TERM OF ENLISTMENT, WHICH WAS FOR 18 MONTHS. AGAIN IN THE FALL OF 1779, THE MONTH | CANNOT RECOLLECT, I ENTERED THE MILITARY SERVICE AS A PRIVATE IN NORHTUMBERLAND COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN A VOLUNTEER COMPANY OF CAVALRY
RAISED BY CAPTAIN JOHN MCADAMS, CAPTAIN UPSHAW RAISED ANOTHER COMPANY AT THE SAMETIME. VE VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE FOR NO PARTICULAR PERIOD. THE BRITISH TROOPS WERE THEN LIGHTING IN THE RIVER AND FREQUENTLY COMMITTING VIOLENCE UPON THE PROPERTY OF THE PEOPLE. WE WERE CALLED MINUTE MEN. WE WERE ATTACHED TO A REGIMENT OF VIRGINIA MILITIA UNDER COMMAND OF CUL. GORDON. WHEN THE BRITISH SAILED UP YORK RIVER, WE WERE MOVED TOWARD YORK ON THE GLOSTER SICE OF THE RIVER. THE BRITISH HAD POSESSION OF BOTH YORK AND GLOSTER. GENERAL WASHINGTON WAS ON THE YORK SIDE OF THE RIVER WITH HIS TROOPS. I CONTINUED IN THE SERVICE UNTIL AFTER THE SURRENDER OF SECTION 23
CORNWALLIS. | RECEIVED MY DISCHARGE FROM COL. GORDON IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1781. ABRAHAM DALE THE ORDERLY SERGEANT WHO SERVED WITH HIM DIED SOMETIME IN THE YEAR 1829 OR 1830. SAID BRYANT REFERS TO SAID BRYANT REFERS TO SAID DALE'S DEPOSITION LODGED HE SUPPOSES THE EITHER IN THE TREASURY OR WAR DEPARTMENT AND RESPECTFULLY ASKS OF THE PRESENT HEA
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HEARD OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, IF THE REASON ASSIGNED BY MR. INGHAM IN HIS LETTER TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT 1829 IF NOT RESPECTING THE DEPOSITION OF DALE BECAUSE HE AND THIS APPLICANT HAD TESTIFIED FOR EACH OTHER OTHER IN SUFFICIENT TO DEPRIVE THIS APPLICANT CF ALL BENEFIT FROM SAID DÉPOSITION? HE STATES THAT HE HEARD THAT A CERTAIN JOHN BRYANT WAS THEN LIVING IN GARRARD COUNTY KENTUCKY AND S'OPPOSES THAT HE MIGHT BE A BROTHER OF HIS OF WHOM HE HAD NOT HEARD FOR MANY YEARS AND WHO IF HE WAS SUCH PERSON HAD SERVED ALSO WITH HIM IN THE REVOLUTION. HE PROCURED JAMES C. SPRIG^ OF SHELBYVILLE TO WRITE TO THE HONORABLE R. P. LETCHER AND REQUEST THAT GENTLEMAN TO INQUIRE OF SAID JOMI. BRYANT, WHERE IE WAS FROM AND ETC., AN AND SAID LETCHER WROTE A LETTER STATING THAT SAID JOHN BRYANT HAD DIED WITH T THE CHOLERA SOME WEEKS BEFORE -- SAYS THAT HE SERVED MORE THAN THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, SAYS FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS OR MORE HE HAS RESIDED IN KENTUCKY AND PREVIOUS THETETO IN VIRGINIA.
AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM ALLOWAY MADE AFFIDAVIT IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 11-15-1829, WHO SAYS HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH PETER BRYANT, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THAT THE SAID PETER BRYANT ENLISTED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, REGULAR SERVICE AND REMAINED THERE IN SEVERAL YEARS, THAT HE, THE SAID BRYANT THEN RETURNED HOME AND AFTER REMAINING A SHORT TIME, HE THEN RE-ENLISTED, A SECOND TIME AS THIS AFFIDANT FC EVEY FORMERLY BELIEVES DURING THE WAR IN THE 5TH VIRGINIA, REGIMENT AND THAT HE; SECTION 24
THE SAID BRYANT, CONTINUED IN THE SERVICE UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE, THESE AFFIANT THEN LIVED IN THE IMMEDIATE VAOINITY OF THE SAID BRYANT AND HAS KNOWN HIM EVER SINCE AND HE HAS NO HESITATION IN STATING THAT HE IS THE IDENTICAL PETER BRYANT, WHO RECENTLY FORWARDED HIS PENSION FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY .
-- AFFIDAVIT MADE IN NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY BY ELIZABETH CLARK WHO STATES THE THAT PETER BRYANT DID ENLIST IN THE REGULAR SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR UNDER CAPTAIN HENRY PANTALROY? AS | UNDERSTOOD AS | WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM AND DID KNOW THAT HE WENT INTO THE SERVICE FOR | MADE SOME CLOTHES FOR HIM, WHICH HE WORE AWAY AND I HAVE FREQUENTLY SEEN HIN SINCE HE RETURNED HOME AND KNOW HIM TO BE THE SAME MAN . THIS OCT. 26, 1830. SIGNED BY ELIZABETH CLARK.
AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM CLARK- NELSON COUNTY, SAYS THAT PETER BRYANT DID ENLIST IN THE REGULAR SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTION UNDER CAPT HENRY PANTLAROY? AND I AM WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID PETER BRYANT AND KNOW HIM TO BE THE SAME MAN. I WAS NOT IN THE SERVICE WITH HIM BUT DO KNOW CF HIS GOING INTO THE SERVICE UNDER THE SAID PANTLEROY AND I SAW HIM WHEN HE RETURNED AND INOW HIM TO BE THE SAME MAN FOR HE IA NOW IN MY PRESENCE. THIS 26TH OCTOBER 1830, SIGNED WILLIAM CLARK.
NELSON COUNTY KENTUCKY
** AFFIDAVIT OF WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY MADE BY ABRAHAM DALE, JUNE 2$, 1829. STATES THAT HE WELL KNOWS PETER BRYANT AN OLE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, WHO NOW LIVES IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND HAS APPLIED FOR A PENSION. SAYS THAT HE WELL KNEW HIM THE ARMY IN 1778 WHEN HE ENLISTED AND SAID BRYANT WAS ATTACHED TO THE COMPANY THIS DEPONENET WAS IN, WHICH THIS DEPONENET WAS ORDERLY SERGEANT IN THE 5H VIRGINIA REGIMENT
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COMMANDED BY COL. FALL IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. THE COMPANY WAS COMMANDED BY HARRY FANTLEROY THE CAPTAIN. SAYS THAT PETER BRYANT ENLISTED AND SERVED DURING THE WAR AND CONTINUED IN SERVICE TO THE END OF THE WAR AND OBTAINED A DISCHARGE. THIS 2IST., DAY JUNE 1829 SIGNED ABRAHAM DALE.
-- ALSO AFFIDAVITS MADE BY WILLIAM DALE AND PETER DALE, OF WOODFORD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MARCH 22 1821, SAYS THAT THEY WERE PERSONALLY ACQAUINTED WITH PETER BRYANT OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEY KNOW KE ENLISTED IN THE REGULAR SERVICE UNDER CAPTAIN FAUNTLEROY OF VIRGINIA IN THE YEAR 1778 FOR 12 MONTHS AND SERVED HIS TIME, CUT. THIS MARCH 22, 1821. SIGNED WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, J.P. HIS OLD PENSION RE OORD WAS No. 25151. CERTIFICATE OF PENSION ISSUED 29TH NOV. 1833.
CANINE: PETER CARNING S: 182 NEW JERSEY
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. J-1832, AGE 80, VOLUNTEERED IN THE FALL OF 1776 IN SOMERSET COUNTY NEW JERSEY IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM VERBERYCK IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED -- HE BELIEVES BY COL. QUICK AND MAJOR BAIRD. THEY MARCHED TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO BURGEN, FROM THENCE TO PENNYSTOWN? IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, THENCE TO SPRINGFIELD, THENGE TO ELIZABETHTOWN, THENCE TO NEW- BRUNSWICK THEN CE TO MILLSTOWN, THENCE TO PENNSYLVANIA. SAID SOLDIER BELIEVES THAT HE SERVED UNDER THE OFFICER ABOVE NAMED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 YEARS WITH SOME SHORT INTERMISSION. THAT HE ACTED AS QUARTERMASTER AT LEAST ONE YEAR OF SAID TIME AND A PART OF THE TIME AS FIRST SEARGE- ANDT OF SAID COMPANY BUT IN CONSEQUENCE OF HIS AGE AND THE GREAT LENGTH OF TIME WHICH HAS ELAPSED SINCE THOSE ACTIONS, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO RECOLLECT DETAILS. SAYS HE AGAIN VOLUNTEERED IN THE COMPANY SECTION 26
COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN R. STARTS WHOSE LIEUTENANT, HE THINKS WAS NAMED RICE, IX WHICH COMPANY, HE THE SAID CORWINE SERVED ABOUT ONE YEAR, TIE PRECISE LENGTH OF TIME HE CANNOT RECOLLECT. HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN.
AFFIDAVITS OF CORNELIOUS CANINE AND JOHN VANNICE WHO CERTIFY TO HIS GOOD CHARACTER.
THE SOLDEIR SAID HE WAS BORN NOV. 16, 1752 IN SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THAT HE HAS NO RECORD OF HIS AGE. HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE W WAS AN INFANT. HE LEARNED HIS AGE FROM HIS MOTHER, SAYS THAT IN THE YEAR 1776 IN THE MONTH OF JULY, HE MARCHED AS A SERGEANT OF A COMPANY COMMAND-> ED BY CAPTAIN VERBRYCK FROM THE SAID COUNTY OF SOMERSET TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK. HE AND HIS COMPANY WERE VOLUNTEERS. HE JOINED JOHN QUICK'S REGIMENT IN THE SAME COUNTY, BEFORE WE PROCEEDED TO NEW YORK. WE WERE CALLED INTO SERVICE ON SHORT TOURS OF TWO MONTHS FROM THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION | SERVED TWO MONTHS AS SERGEANT OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM VERBRYCK'S COMPANY BEFORE I WAS DISCHARGED.
AFTER WE WERE DISCHARGED I RETURNED HOME, IN THE FALL OF THE SAME YEAR | AGAIN WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE IN THE SAME CAPACITY OF ORDERLY SERGEANT , ATTACHED TO THE SAME COMPANY. WE MARCHED TO VARIOUS PLACES AND AFTER HAVING PERFORMED A SHORT TERM OF DUTY WERL RELIEVED AND RETURNED HOME IN THE YEAR 1777, I AGAIN MARCHED FROM THE SAME COUNTY AS ORDERLY SERGEANT, IN THE SAME COMPANY AND ATTACHED TO THE SAME REGIMENT, WE WERE MARCHED TO MILLSTONE WHERE WE WERE STATIONED FOR A SHORT TIME, THENCE TO ELIZABETHTOWN, THENCE TO NEWARK, ONE NIGHT WE MARCHED FROM MILLSTONE TO BRUNSWICK, TO TAKE A GUARD OF HESSIANS, THE SNOW WAS KNEEW DEEP - WE TOOK ONLY 3 HESSIANS. THERE WERE ABOUT 200OF US COMMANDED | THINK BY CAPTAIN VERBRICK. I WAS AT THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN UNDER STOLLS, OR STUTTS?
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ATTACHED TO COL. QUICK'S REGIMENT.
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HE MOVED TO KENTUCKY ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO AND HAS LIVED HERE EVER SINCE. SAYS THAT HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICES BY JOHN TUWEY WHOSE AFFIDAVIT IS ATTACHED. THE DEPOSITION OF JOHN TUNEY? TUME, ? OF MERCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY NOW AGE 83, AFFIDAVIT TAKEN APRIL 5. 1833 WHO SAYS THAT IN THE YEAR 1776, THE SAID SOLDIER NOW A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND HIMSELF ENTERED THE MILITIA SERVICE IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION FROM THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND STATE OF NEW JERSEY IN THE COMPANY OF CA. TPAIN VERBRYOK AND JOINED COL .. QUICK'S REGIMENT AND MARCHED TO NEW YORK AND SERVED OUT THIS TOUR. THIS DEPONENET BELIEVES THEY SERVED THREE TOURS AND THAT IN THE YEAR 1777 THEY ENTERED THE MILITIA SERVICE UNDER THE SAME OFFICERS AND MARCHED TO MILLSTONE, THIS DEPONENET THINKS HE SERVED OFF AND ON WITH THAT SAID SOLDIER FOR ABOUT 4 OR 5 YEARS. ALSO PAYS THEY WERE SCHOOL
BOYS TOGETHER. IN A LETTER DATED 1833, PETER CANINE SAID HE WAS BORN 1752 Nov. 15, SAID HE WAS BORN AT BONN BROCK NEW JERSEY, SOMERSET COUNTY. THE WIDOW WAS PLACED ON THE ROLL FROM 4TH OF SEPTEMBER 1840 TO FEBRUARY 2, 1841, NOTIFIED 10-25-1844.
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CASEY: CHARLES
CAYCE.
S. 16067
STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHEGBY COUNTY. ON JANUARY 16, 1834 AJE 85, SAYS HE WAS LIVING IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VIRGINIA WHEN DRAFTED, WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY IN JUNE 1730 UNDER WHICH HE WAS DRAFTED FOR A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUSED AT PETERSBURG AND WAS COMMAND ED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM SNEED. STATES THAT BEFORE HE LEET PETERSBERG, IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WAS A WHEELWRIGHT OR WAGON MAKER BY TRADE AND AS THE WAGON THAT TRANSPORTED THE BAGGAGE WAS OUT OF REPAIR, THE OFFICERS AGREED AND DECIDED THAT HE SHOULD RETURN TO CHESTERFIELD COUNTY AND BRING ALL OF HIS TOOLS PERTAINING TO HIS TRADE.
ACCORDINGLY HE, THE SAID DECLARANT DID RETURN HOME IN SAID COUNTY AND GOT ALL TOOLS NECESSARY FOR MAKING WAGONS.
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DECLARANT DID RETURN HOME IN SAID COUNTY AND GELL TOOLS NECESSARY FOR MAKING AND MENDING WAGSONS, HE RETURNED THE SECOND DAY AFTER HE LEET PETERSBURG WITH HIS TOOLS WHEN THEY WERE SAPPRAISED BY MEN APPOINTED FOR THET PURPOSED AND THE SUM OF 25. WITH THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT IF SAID TOOLS WERE LOST, THAT HE, THE SAID CHALRES CASEY SHOULD RECEIVED THE AMOUNT OF THESE AFORESID APFRAISEMENTM SAYS HE DID RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE CONTAING THE PRECISE AMOUNT OF SAID TOOLS, CERTIFICATE HE STATES HE DID FOR SAKE KEEPING PUT IN THE HANDS OF CAPT. RECORD BOOKS, WHICH APPRAISEMENT, HE STATES THAT HE LOST. AFTER RENDEZVOUSING AT PETERSBURG, THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL EDWARD STEVENS, AND COL. WILLIAM HAYS AND COL. FAULKNER WAS MARCHED FROM SAID TOW !! OF PETERSBURG TO HILLSBOROUGH IN N. C., WHERE THE REGIMENT REMAINED ABOUT TWO WEEKS DURING THE TIME HE STATES THAT HE WAS FURNISHED WITH THSHOP AND WAS EMPLOYED IN MENDING WAGONS AND WHAT WORK WAS ORDERED BY HIS OFFICERS. AFTER LEAVING THIS EN- CAMPMENT, HE STATES THEY WERE MARCHED TO MASSES FERRY ON BIG BEEDE; THENCE THEY MARCHED TO COWPEN? WHERE THE DREADFUL AND UNSCUEESFUL BATTLE WAS FOUGHT IN WHICH GENERAL GATES. HAVING THE COMMAND WAS DEFEATED. AFTER THE DEFEAT THE REGIMENT TO WHICH HE BELONGED SQUANDERED AND MET AGAIN AT HILLSBOROUGH WHERE THEY WERE AGAIN ORGANIZED. HE STATES THAT DURING THEIR STAY AT HILLSBOROUGH, THAT THE ARMY HAD TAKEN A
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A PARCEL OF HORSES FROM THE TORIES AND HAD CARRIED THEM TO THE TOW OF COLD TINMAN NEAR HILLSBOROUGH. IT WAS ORDERED BY THE OFFICERS THAT HE, THE SAID CHARLES CASEY SHOULD TAKE THE HORSES, 33 IN NUMBER AND CARRY SAID HORSES TO THE HOUSE OF COL .. GEORGE MOULTRIE NEAR RICHMOND, IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. ACCORDINGLY HE, TH_ SAID CHARLES CASEY, AIDED BY SOME MORE OF MEN BELONGING TO GENERAL STEVENS REGIMENT RECEIVED AN ORDER DIRECTING THEM TO TAKE SAID HORSES TO COLONEL MOULTRES, WHICH ORDER HE STATES THAT HE DID THAT
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FIDELITY EXECUTE AND DELIVERED SAID HORSES AS DIRECTED AND BEFORE HE HAD TIME TO RETURN THE REGIMENT WAS DISCHARGEDL HE STATES THAT FROM OLD AGE AND BODILY INFIRMITY, THAT HE IS UNABLE TO APPEAR IN OPEN COURT, TO MAKE HIS DECLARATION. SAID HE WAS LIVING IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN CALLED ONTO SERVICE, AND LIVED THERE UNTIL 1795 WHEN HE MOVED TO CLARK COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HE LIVED ONE YEAR, THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, WHERE HE NOW LIVES.
--- AFFIDAVIT OF ONE RILY CASEY, CERTIFIED THAT HE WAS LIVING IN Y CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHEN CHARLES CASEY, THE ABOVE NAMED REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER WAS DRAFTED IN THE SAID SERVICE AND | WELL REMEMBER THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED IN PETERSBURG ON THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE 1780, AND THAT HE WAS IN THE SERVICE SIX MONTHS, BEFORE HE RETURNED.
-- AFFIDAVIT, JOHN ALLEN, JP, MADE AFFIDAVIT, THAT THE SAID RILEY AND CHARLES CASEY WERE OF GOOD CHARACTER AND ETC.
-- GEORGE F. CASEY, HEER AT LAW OF CHARLES CASEY, DECEASED, APPOINTED G.H. NONSORRAT AS HIS POWER OF ATTORNEY.
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CHRISTIE; JAMES SARAH VIRGIN!A V/ 9732 VIRGIN
THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER MADE HIS DECLARATION IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AGE 74 SAYS THAT IN THE S. RING OF THE YEAR IN MAY OR THEREABOUT IN THE YEAR 1777, HE VOLUNTEERED AS A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN VIRGINIA, STATE LINE, IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA., FOR THE TERM OF 3 MONTHS; THAT HIS CAPTAIN'S NAME WAS DONALDSON. HIS LIEUTENANAT'S NAME WAS LUCAS, THAT DURING THIS TOUR OF 3 MONTHS, HE WAS NOT IN THE REGIMENT OF ANY COLONEL,
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THERE BEING NONE, THIS COMPANY OF 68 YOUNG MEN WAS ALL THAT HE WAS WITH. THAT DURING THIS TOUR OF DUTY, HE MARCHED FROM PITTSYLVANIA TO BETTETOUR COUNTY IN SAID STATE OVER THE MOUNTAINS FROM THIS POINT THEY MARCHED UP THE ROANOAK RIVER TO COLD MADISON'S FORT IN THE COUNTY AFORESIAD FROM THIS POINT TO COL. PRESTON'S FORT; THAT FROM THIS PLACE THEY MARCHED FROM LUCAS FORT ON NEW RIVER, FROM THIS PLACE, HE WITH 22 MOTHERS MARCHED DOWN NEW RIVER TO HARFIELD'S FORT AND THERE REMAINED UNTIL HIS TERM OF 3 FULL MONTHS EXPIRED. THAT AT SAID FORT NO COMMANDING OFFICERS WERE LIVING. THAT AT MANY OF THEM, CAPTAIN MCDALCOSN LEFT A FEW OF HIS MEN-HAVING REDUCED THE COMPANY FROM 68 TO 22 MEN. THAT AT THIS PLACE HE WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPTAIN DONALDSON. THAT IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1779 IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HE W WAS DRAFTED AS A SOLDIER FOR THE TERM OF SIX MONTHS. THAT DURING THIS TOUR OF DUTY HIS CAPTAIN'S NAME WAS "VILLIAM WITHCER. HIS LT., NAME WAS DALTON. THAT FROM PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY THEY MARCHED TO SALISBURY, N.C. FROM THIS PLACE HE MARCHED TO CAMDEN, THE NUMBER OF THE REGIMENT NOT RECOLLECTED . THAT ON THE 23RD., DAY OF JULY 1779, HE WAS DISCHARGED
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FROM THE SERVICE BY HIS CAPTAIN, WHICH DISCHARGE IS HEREWITH ENCLOSED AS HE RECEIVED THE SAME, THAT IN THE WONTH OF MARCH, OR APRIL 1780, HE ENTERED SERVICE AS A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLTUIOU IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA FOR FIVE MONTHS; THAT HE WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN CLEMENT, AND LT., BEN DUNCAN. THAT HIS COMPANY MARCHED FROM PITTSYLVANIA TO HILLSBOROUGH, N. C. THAT WHEN HE GOT TO HILLSBOROUGH, HE WAS COMMANDED BY COL. FAULKNER -MAJOR CONWAY, AND ADJUTANT HUBBARD, CIRCON STEPHENS COMMANDED THE BRIGADE OF MILITIA FROM VIRGINIA GENERAL SMALLWOOD WAS THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARYLAND TROOPS. THAT FROM THIS PLACE THEY MARCHED TO CAMDEN IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1780 AND THERE ATTACKED LORO CORNWALLIS AND IN THAT BATTLE GENERAL GATES WAS DEFEATED AND THE VIRGINIA MILITIA GATES WAS DEFEATED AND SECTION 31
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