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THE VIRGINIA MILITIA RETREATED THROUGHT THE SWAMPS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THAT IN THIS BATTLE GENERAL BRON DECALF FELL A DAY OR TWO AFTER THIS FOLLOWED THE DEFEAT OF GET_RAL SUMPTER, THAT FOR THIS SERVICE, HE WAS DISCHARGED IN JUDY BY HIS CAPTAIN THAT SOMETIME BEFORE THE AFORESAID BATTLE, THE TIME FOR WHICH HE WAS DRAFTED EXPIRED AND WHILST IN SOUTH CAROLINA, HE AGAIN VOLUNTEERED FOR FIVE MONTHS, THE AFORESAID BATTLE OF CAMDEN WAS FOUGHT, THAT THIS LAST TERM OF SERVICE ENDED IN THE WINTER AFTER THE BATTLE OF CAMDEN AFORESAID. THAT HE FAITHFULLY SERVED THE TWO LAST TOURS OF DUTY AND WAS IN THE LAST UNDER THE SAME OFFICERS OF THE THIRD TOUR; THAT FROM BOTH OF THE AFORESIAD TOURS OF DUTY, HE WAS DISCHARGED BY A WRITING AND PROOF OF WHICH PAPERS, HE HAS A PROOF OF EACH, BEING LOST OR TORN OFF . AS WILL APPEAR BY EXAMINATION, WHICH PIECES OF PAPER ARE HEREWITH AINEXED, THAT HE DID NOT GO WITH THE BALACE OF THE ARMY TO CHARLOTTE AND SALSBURY IN THEIR RETREAT FROM CAMDEN, BUT WENT A DIFFERENT DIRECTION THROUGH THE SWAMPS, THAT HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE, EXCEPTING THAT WHICH HE HE WEREWITH ANNEXED AND A CERTIFICATE OF EDWARD GWINN, STATING THAT HE HAD SERVED OUT ALL THE DRAFTS, THAT CAME AGAINST HIM, BUT THAT GVINN WAS NOT AT THIS TIME OR ANY TIME WITH CAPTAIN OF HIM, JAMES CHRISTIE, SAID HE WAS BORN IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PA, 1758 AGUST 16, AT 3 O'CLOCK N. SAID HE WAS LIVING IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE, REMOVED TO NORTH CAROLINA, FROM THERE TO FRANKLIN COUNTY, VIRGINIS, FROM THERE TO LINCOLN COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND MOVED IN SAID COUNTY TO LINCOLN, ONE YEAR AND I HAVE EVER SINCE AND NOW RESIDED IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY.
-- ABRAHAM COCK, JAMES FORD, AND JOHN JOHNSTON SAY THEY ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLDIER.
-- SARAH CHRISTIE MADE APPLICATION FOR WIDOW'S PENSION, SEPTEMBER 10. 1838, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AGE 76, SAYS SHE IS THE WIDOW OF OF JAMES CHRISTIE, AND THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM, 20TH DAY OF MARCH 1781. IN ORANGE COUNTY, VA., AND THAT HER HUSBAND DIED MARCH 8, 1837, SAYS THAT THE BIBLE RECORDS OF HER FAMILY HAVE BEEN BURNED. -- A RECORD LEAF IS FILED WITH THE FOLLOWING: JAMES CHRISTIE WAS BORN ON AUGUST 16, 1756, SARAH CHRISTIE WAS BORN APRIL 19, 1762. -- AFFIDAVIT OF ISRAEL CHRISTIE SON OF VALES AND SARAH CHRISTIE TAKEN IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1833. THAT HE IS NOW AGE 48 (1833) THAT ACCORDING TO HIS AGE, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN MARRIED 1781, THAT THEY HAD RIVE CHILDREN WHO ARE OLDER THAN THIS AFFIANT, THAT THE OLDEST ARE ABOUT 55 OR 56.
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-- AFFIDAVIT OF JOWWW MILES,, WHO STATES HE HAS KNOWN THEM FOR 50 YEARS. HE FIRST KENW THEM IN FRANKLIN COUNTY VIRGINIA, AND THAT SCVETIME AFTER HE BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THEM, THIS AFFI ANT MOVED TO KENTUCKY, AND SOMETIME AFTER THIS, THEY FOLLOWED AND FOR THE SPACE OF 55 YEARS, OR THEREABOUTS-HE HAS LIVED A NEIGHBOR# TO THEM IN SHELBY COUNTY, ENTUCKY AND UNTIL THE DEATH OF SAID VAMES CHRISTIAN WHICH TOOK PLACE TWO OR 3 YEARS AGO. -- JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA, UNDER DATE OF JANUARY 13, 1844, A RESIDENT OF RIPLEY COUNTY, INDIANA SARAH CHRISTIE MADE DECLARATION FOR PENSION AT THAT TIME, AGE 62. IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE JAMES CHRISTIE, PROBABLY HER SON ) STATE OF INDIA INDIANA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, PERSONALLY APPEARED ABRAHAM CHRISTIE, A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHO SAYS THAT THE WITHIN NAMED SARAH CHRISTIE IS THE WIDOW OF JAMES CHRISTIE WHO WAS FORMERLY, A WIDOW OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THAT SHE FORMERLY DREW A PENSION, WHICH WAS RECEIVED AT LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY IN THE AMOUNT OF $56. ANNUALLY.
-- DEPOSITION OF ISRAEL CHRISTIE TAKEN IN FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, SEPT. 4, 1832, TO BE SENT TO THE WAK DEPARTMENT ON BEHALF OF JAMES CHRISTIE FOR PENSION, SAYS THAT HE IS NOW AGE 39, THAT HE IS THE SON OF JAMES CHRISTIE, AND THAT HE HAS ALWAYS SEEN IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FATHER, PAGE 33
-THE PAPERS MARKED ABC AND D, THAT HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN INFORMED BY HIS FATHER, THAT THEY WERE HIS DISCHARGES FROM MILITARY SERVICE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
-- JAMES CHRISTIE, JR., HEIR OF JAMES CHRISTIE, SR., DECEASED, AND WHO DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY , KENTUCKY, MARCH 9, 1835, ALSO SARAH CHRISTIE, HIS WIFE, WHO DIED IN RIPLEY COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 27, 1844, AND WHO WAS UNTIL DEATH A PENSIONER ON THE ROLLS OF THE INDIANA AGENCY AT THE RATE OF 228. PER ANNUM, HE HEREBY APPOINTS, GEO. H. MONARRAT, AS HIS POWER OF ATTORNEY, ONE PRESTON CHRISTIE AND WILLIAM K. WILSON, WERE THE WITNESSES TO THE ABOVE AFFIDAVIT. -- IT IS MENE STATED ON A SMALL SCRAP OF PAPER THAT THEY WERE MARRIED IN NORTH CAROLINA ABOUT 1782, THAT THEY HAD FIVE HEIRS LIVING VIZ; JAMES CHRISTIE, BRYANTSBURG POST OFFICE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, INDIANA, LIVES IN RIPLEY.
-- WILLIAM CHRISTIE, HENDRICKSON COUNTY, DANVILLE, POST OFFICE. JOHN CHRISTIE, SWITZERLAND COUNTY INDIANA. ISAAC CHRISTIE. RIPLEY COUNTY, MARION POST OFFICE. THREE SISTERS OF THE ABOVE HEIRS ARE ALSO LIVING IN VARIOUS STATES, COMMUNICATION ON THE SUBJECT MAY BE ADDRESSED TO JUDGE JAMES CHRISTIE, THE SAME WHO SIGNS THE POWER OF ATTORNE.
-- DISCHARGES ARE FILED WITH THE PAPERS AS FOLLOWS; ONE FROM EDWARD GIVIN CAPTAIN, SAYS THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT JAMES CHRISTIE, HAS LIVED IN MY COMPANY FOUR YEARS AND HAS COMPLIED WITH THE DRAF ". DISCHARGED CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY --??
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT JAMES -- SERVED FROM PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, TO THE CAROLINE UNDER THE COMMAND OF DAVID, CAPTAIN HAS SERVED OUT HIS TIME AND IS -- OUR HAND, -- WILSON C. LT., PART OF THIS LAST DISCHARGE IS GONE.
CHIPMAN? CHAPMAN: AMOS
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CHAPMAN: AMOS S35,828 PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, SHELLY COUNTY ?: MAY 18, 1818, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER CAME INTO OPEN COURT AND MADE OATH THAT HE WAS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND A RESIDENT OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN
THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1776 AND SERVED FIVE YEARS IN THE 7TH REGIMENT OF T THE PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS COMMANDED BY COL. WILLIAM ERVINE IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN ADAMS BRATTON AND MILLER AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND WAS DISCHARGED IN JANUARY 24, 1761 BY BRIGADIER GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE, THAT HE IS NEAR AGE 72, THAT HE SERVED THE 4 LAST YEARS AS A SARGEANT. SAYS THAT HE RESIDES IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1819, WITH HIS SON IN LAW. IT IS FOUND IN A LETTER FROM THE CONGRESSMAN, 1849, THAT SAID AMOS CHAPMAN DIED 2-17-1820, LEAVING A WIDOW WHO CERTIFIED HIM TO BE ?? YEARS AND AS S THE PENSION DEPARTMENT IF THE WIDOW OR HEIRS ARE ENTITLED TO A PENSION. HIS PENSION CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED APRIL 20TH 1820, AND SENT TO HONORABLE WILLIA" LOGAN, HIS OLD PENSION NUMBER WAS 16,730.
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CLARKE: OBADIAH
CLARK
NANCY · 1 8609 VIRGINIA
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. ON MAY 8, 183:, AGE 78.
THIS DECLARANT STATES THAT HE WAS RESIDING IN RICHMOND, HENRICO COUNTY, VA. WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE AND SERVED AS HEREIN STATED. THAT IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1776, EDWARD MILLER OF SAID COUNTY OF HENRICO
JOINED CAPT. WILLIAM DUVALL, COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS AND THAT IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1776 CAPTAIN DUVALL'S COMPANY, WAS CALLED INTO THE SERVICE EOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS, WHEN HE, THE SAID DECLARANT DID SUBSTITUTE IN THE ARMY IN THE ROOM AND STEAD OF THE AFORESAID EDWARD MILLER AND WAS RECEIVED BY THE SAID SUCTION 35
CAPTAIN DUVALL INTO HIS COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS. HE STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, THAT SAID COMPANY DID MARCH FROM THE CITY OF RICHMOND UNDER THE COMMAND OF JOHN POPE (LT), CAPTAIN WILLIAM DUVALL, AND COL. CHRISTIAN THE NAME OF THE MAJOR, HE STATES HE HAS FORGOTTEN, TO WILLIAMSBURG, THENTO YORK, AND THENGE TO HAMPTON. HE STATES THAT GOVERNOR DUNMORE WITH HIS FLEET WAS LYING IN THE HAMPTON BAY AND THE OBJECT OF THE ARMY WAS TO PREVENT DUNMORE FROM LANDING AND PLUNDERING
THE INHABITANTS NEAR THE BAY SHORE. HE STATES THAT CURING HIS SIX MONTHS FOR WHICH HE HAD SUBSTITUTED, THAT HE DISCHARGED HIS DUTY AS A FAITHFUL SOLOIER AND WAS DISCHARGED BY SAID CAPTIN DUVALL IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1777. THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1777, A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID HENRICO COUNTY AND HE BEING IN THE 8TH CLASS OF OF MILITIA WAS DRAFTED INTO THE SERVICE FOR A TOUR OF TWO MONTHS AND SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN SAMUEL PRICE AND LT. BARRET PRICE. HE STATES THAT THEY RENDEZVOUSED AT RICHMOND AND MARCHED FROM THAT PLACE TO WILLIAMSBURG, WHERE HE STATES THAT THEY WERE STATIONED A SHORT TIME. LT. PRICE WITH HIS QUOTO OF MEN PROCEEDED TO PICKNECK AND THIS DEPONENET HAVING BEEN APPOINTED CORPORAL WHEN THEY STARTED UPON THIS TOUR WENT W WITH SAID LT. PRICE TO RICHNECK. HERE HE STATES THEY REMAINED ABOUR F FOUR WEEKS, THEY THEN RETURNED TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE THEY STAYED A SHORT TIME. THEY THEN PROCEEDED TO RICHMOND WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED IN NOVEMBER 1777 HAVING SERVED OUT HIS TWO MONTHS IN THE CAPACITY OF
CORPORAL. THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT SOMETIME IN THE FALL OF 1778 GENERAL LISLEY, A BRITISH OFF ' CER INVADED VIRGINIA WHEN HE, THE SAID OBADIAH CLARK WAS AGAIN CALLED INTO THE SERVICE.
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HE STATES THAT HE THINKS THE CALL WAS MADE WITHOUT SALCIFYING THE LENGTH OF TIME, THAT THEY WERE CALLED OUT FOR. HE SAYS HE MARCHED FROM RICHMOND IN THE MONTH UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN VANDERVALL TO WILLIAMSBURG AND WAS STATIONED AT THE CAPITOL. HE STATES THAT WHILST THEY WERE THEN STATTIONED, THAT THEY FREQUENTLY WENT OUT IN SPYING COMPANIES TO SEE WHAT MISCHIEF THE ENEMY WAS DOING IN THIS KIND OF SERVICE. SAYS HE WAS ENGAGED SIX WEEKS AND WAS DISCHARGED IN THE SECTION 35
WONTH OF NOVEMBER WHEN HE RETURNED HOME, THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 1781, THAT VIRGINIA WAS INVADED BY AR OLD WHEN HE WAS AGAIN CALLED INTO THE SERVICE AND MARCHED FROM RICHMOND TO WILLIAMSBURG UNDER THE COMMAND OF CONSEGNBROUCH? HE STATES THAT HE THINKS THEY WRE CALLED OUT WITHOUT REGARD TO TIME BUT FOR THE SPECIAL PURPOSE O. OPPOSING THE PROGRESS OF ARNOLD, HE STATES THAT UPON THIS EXPEDITION, HE WAS ACTIVELY EMPLOYED FROM THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1781, UNTIL FEB. 15, 1781. THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT DURING THE SUMMER, 1781, THAT HE DID SERVE 30 DAYS AS A MINUTE MAN IN GUARDING THE SHORES OF THE RIVER TO PREVENT THE BRITISH FROM LANDING UNDER CAPTAIN SAMUEL PRICE. HE STATES THAT HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF HIS SERVICES BUT INDEPENDENT OF RESPECTABLE TRADITIONARY EVIDENCE WHICH HE WILL NOW OFFER. HE STATES THAT HE CAN PROVE. SAYS HE WAS BORN IN HENRICO COUNTY, VA. 1755 AND HAS A RECORD OF HIS AGE IN HIS SIBLE TAKEN FROM PARISH REGISTRAR AND WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE WAS LIVING IN RICHMOND VA., AND SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR REMAINED IN RICHMOND UNTIL 1795. ! THEN MOVED TO KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY WHERE I NOW LIVE. SAID THE FIRST TOUR OF HIS SERVICE, HE WAS A SUBSTITUTE FOR EDWARD MILLER. I WAS DRAFTED TWICE AND SERVED SIX WEEKS EACH TIME AND ONCE | WAS DRAFTED FOR TWO MONTHS AND ONE TOUR OF MINUTE SERVICE.
"-AFFIDAVITS OF JOHN HOLLAND CLERGY AN AND . ROBERT MILLER AS TO HIS CHARACTER . -- AFFIDAVIT OF BENJAMIN CLARK, AGE 72, WHO SAYS HE WAS A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ALSO MY SERVICE WAS PERFORMED IN THE LOWER PART OF VIRGINIA AND I CERTIFY THAT OBEDIAH CLARK WAS WITH ME ONE TRIP TO RICHNECK AND THAT HE ACTED AS CORPORAL, AND WAS ALSO WITH HIM WHILE AT WILLAIMSBURG. SECTION 37 HIS WIDOW WANCY CLARK, WOULD DECLARE FOR PENSION IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1838, AGE 72. SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM IN JUNE 1785 IN HENRICO COUNTY, VA, AND THAT HE DIED FEB. 27, 1838. SAYS THAT SHE HAS NO RECORD OF HER MARRIAGE BUT THAT HER BROTHER EDWARD MILLER WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE MARRIAGE WITH T'E SAID OBADIAH CLARK.
HER MAIDEN NAK_ WAS NANCY MILLER .-- HER BROTHER EDWARD MILLER SAID HE WAS 86-SEPT 1838, THAT HE IS THE BROTHER OF NANCY CLARK. THIS AFFIANT STATES THAT HE FORMERLY LIVED IN HENRICO COUNTY, VA., THAT HE WAS AT THEIR WEDDING, THAT HE GOW THEM MARRIED IN THE YEAR 1785.
COLLETT: JOHN SR AND ELIZABETH VIRGINIA V1.3003 STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1813, CAME BEFORE ME SILAS M. NOEL, ON E OF THE JUDGES FOR SAID STATE, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AND SAYS THAT HE ENTERED SERVICE UB THE LITH VIRGINIA REGIMENT IN MARCH 1777 UNDER CAPTAIN CHARLES POTTERFIELD AND SERVED MORE THAN TWO YEARS, WHEN HE WAS REGULARLY AND HONORABLY DISCHARGED BY DANIEL MORGAN, COL.
COMMANDING SAID REGIMENT. THAT HE HAS A LARGE FAMILY OF CHILDREN. -- ISAAC COLLETT, MADE AFFIDAVIT, BUT SAID JUDGE WHO SAYS HE KNOWS THAT THE ABOVE SOLDI ER SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR MORE THAN 9 MONTHS AND THAT HE SAW AND READ HIS DISCHARGE. A NOTE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE SAYS MR. COLLETT, LIVES CLOSER TO FRANKFORT THAN TO SHELBYVILLE,
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THE SOLDIER WAS AGE NEAR 63 IN 1820. HE SAYS IN THIS DECLARATION THAT HE WAS DISCHARGED 1779. WAS IN THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN, AND MONMOTH SAYS HE RECEIVED PENSION CERTIFICATE JUNE 2, 1819, NO 11294 -- SAYS HE HAS A WIFE AND TEN CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM, 3 SONS AND SEVEN DAUGHTERS, HIS OLDEST SON IS OVER 2K, HIS NEXT SON ABOUT TEN AND OTHER SON ABOUT 4, HIS DAUGHTER AGE ABOUT 24, NEXT ABOUT 23, NEXT AGE 20, NEXT AGE 18 .. AND DAUGHTER ABOUT 17 NEXT ABOUT 12, NEXT AGE U. SECTION 38
ELIZABETH COLLETT PERSONALLY APPEARED IN THE SHELBY COUNTY COURT 1833 NOVEMBER 12, AGE 69, ON THE 18TH OF NOVEMBER, SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE SAID JOHN COLLETT, AUGUST 3, 1790 IN BERKLEY COUNTY, VA., AND THAT HER HUSBAND DIED SEPTEMBER 21, 1830, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. -- AFFIDAVIT OF ONE CHARLES BAIRD, WHO SAYS HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ELIZABETH COLLETT, AND KNOW HER STATEMENTS ARE TRUE;
-- AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM MCCORMACK OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, MADE AFFIDAVIT, THAT HE KNOWS JOHN AND ELIZABETH COLLETT, IN VIRGINIA. MRS. ELIZABETH COLLETT WAS REARED BY DANIEL COLLETT, IN BERKLEY COUNTY, VA. WITHIN ONE MILE OF WHERE I WAS BORN AND THEY WERE MARRIED AT DANIEL COLLETTS IN SAID BERKLEY COUNTY, VA: 1790. | FURTHER STATE THAT | AM NOW AGE 71 AND WILL BE 72 FEB. 22, 1840.
-- ALSO DEPOSITION OF JOSEPH HITE MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1840., SAID HE KNEW JOHN AND ELIZABETH COLLETT IN BERKELEY COI, VA. KNEW THEM BEFORE THEY WERE MARRIED AND KNOWS THEY WERE MARRIED AT DANIEL COLLETT'S IN BERKLEY CO., VAL, 1790. FURTHER SAYS HE IS AGE 69 IN MAY 1840, SIGNED JOSEPH HITE. SHE SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1794 .- @CHN COLLETT WAS ENIOR WHO RECEIVED THE PENSIONS
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-- A LETTER IN THE FILES AS FOLLOWS: STATE OF RENTUCKY, FAYETTE COUNTY; THOMAS BODLEY, AGE 53, BEING DULY SWORN, SAYS THAT HE RECEIVED A FEW DAYS SINCE A LETTER FROM JOHN COLLETT, SR., REQUESTING INFORMATION WHETHER ROBERT CAMPBELL, WHO RESIDED ON OHIO STREET, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY AND WHO SAID COLLETT DESCRIBES AS A MAN WHO WAS NOT TALL BUT HEAVY MADE AND HAD MARRIED A WIDOW WHO HAD BUT ONE SON AND ETC., IS LIVING ORDEAD?
THIS DEPONENET WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ROBERT CAMPBELL FORMERLY OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, WHO RESIDED IN SAID TOYN FROM 1788 UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, WHO ANSWERED THE ABODE DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY MR. COLLETT; AND WAS THE ONLY MAN OF THAT NAME WHO RESIDED IN LEXINGTON IN 1799. THE SAID ROBERT CAMPBELL TO THE BEST OF THIS DEPONENET'S RECOLLECTION AND AS APPEARS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE FAYETTE COUNTY COURT, DIED ABOUT 1812. SECTION 39
AND HIS WIDOW IS ALSO NOW DEAD MANY YEARS SINCE. SIGNED THOMAS BODLEY, JAM. 20-1825
AFFIDAVITS OF B. BENNETT, MADE SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY 1825. SAYS THAT ! ! "IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1823, ! WAS FROM HOME ON BUSINESS AT THE K KENTUCKY SALT WORKS, I RECOLLECT RETURNING HOME ABOUT THE 22ND ., CF SEPTEMBER TO MY OLDER BROTHER RICHARD BENNETT IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, KY. AND NEAR JOHN COLLETT'S RESIDENCE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY ON THE 24TH SEPTEMBER, MY BROTHER "RICHARD, WHO HAD SOMETIME BEEN SICK, DIED AND
ADMINISTRATOR'S AND ASSISTED I AFTERWARDS WAS APPOINTED ONE OF THE
IN SETTLING THE BUSINESS OF HIS ESTATE. I UNDERSTOOD IN THE INTERVIEW THAT RICHARD, MY BROTHER HAD PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED A MARE FROM JOHN COLLETT, SR., FOR 045. THROUGH THE AGENCY OF HIS SON, JOHN JR., BUT WAS THE PROPERTY OF THE OLDER AND SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIM AND FAMILY AND ETC ., "-AFFIDAVIT OF DANIEL KETCHAM, A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAYS THAT HE THINKS ABOUT THE YEAR 1805, eR 1806, THIS DEPONENET AND
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WILLIAM WALTZ, BECAME SECURITY FOR JOHN COLLETT, TO THE AMOUNT OF ABOUT $400. EXCULUSIVE OF INTEREST AND COSTS AN . THAT HE AN, THE SAID WATTS, DID PAY SAID DEST, FOR WHICH THEY WERE SECURITY AND ABOUT THE YEAR 180.), THE SAID COLLETT TRANSFERRED A BOND FOR 400 ACRES OF LAND, LYING ON MUDDY RIVER IN HOPKINS COUNTY, KENTUCKY TO THIS DEPONENET AND SAID WATTS AND AFTERWARDS THIS DEPONENET SOLD ONE-HALF OF SAID LAND WHICH FELL FOR SHORT OF REFUNDING HIM HIS MONEY AND THERE WAS NO FRAUD OR COLLUSSION IN SAID TRANSFER AND BELIEVES THAT THE SAID COLLETT IS IS STILL INDEBTED TO HIM. SIGNED DANIEL KETCHUM. THERE WAS SOME DIFFICULTY ABOUT A TRACT OF LAND IN THIS CASE, WHICH IS VERY INTERESTING AND VERY INDEFINITE AS TO WHETHER IT WAS EVER SETTLED. THE NAMES IN THE PAPERS ABOUT THE LAND ARE AS FOLLOWS : DANIEL JONES, SAMUEL MCCRAY, JOHN T. HALL, DAVID HILL, OR DILL, JOHN H. HANNA, WITNESSES; ROBERT C. HATTON. THE NAMES OF THE CHILDREN OF JOHN COLLETT, SAID THEY WERE NINE PUT THE FOLLOWING IS THE ONLY ONE GIVEN ARE MOSES COLLETT, WHO IS NOW DEAD (1826) HE SAID ONE OF HIS SONS WORKED FOR JOHN MARSHALL ON HIS FARM NEAR FRANKFO FORT, AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN COLLETT, JR., RESIDENT WITH MY FATHER JOHN COLLETT, SR.
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CONYERS: BENJAMIN ·. VIRGINIA S 36625 STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. ON DECEMBER 5, 1833, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE MATHEW HERSHAWMAN, J.P. THE ABOVE SOLDIER APPEARED AGE 74, WHO SAYS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN 1776 ABOUT AUGUST, HE WAS LIVING IN FAUQUIER COUNTY RAISED A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS FOR A TERM OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS WHEN THIS DECLARANT ENLISTED FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS UNDER CAPTAIN BLACKRELL AND RENDEZVOUSED WITH HIS COMPANY AT FAUQUIER COURT HOUSE, SAID THEY WERE THEN MARCHED FROM SAID COUNTY THROUGH STAFFORD TO FALMOUTH, THENCE THROUGH SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY TO BOWLING GREEN. THEY WERE THENCE ORDERED ON FORCE MARCH TO WILLIAMSBURG, THENCE UP THE RAPPAHANNOCH RIVER TO CARTER'S FERRY, THENCE THEY WERE MARCHED IN GREAT HASTE TO A PLACE CALLED THE LONG BRIDGE, ON ARRIVING AT THE LONG BRIDGE, THE BRITISH ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN FOREDICE ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE PROGRESS OF THE AMERICANS WHEN ENGAGEMENT ENSUED DURING THIS BATTLE, CAPTAIN FOREDECE RECEIVED A SHOT FROM THE AMERICAN ARMY AND IMMEDIATELY DIED THERE. THE ARMY RETREATED TO THEIR SHIPPING WHICH WAS LYING IN THE BAY AT NORFOLK, THE AMERICAN ARMY THEN TOOK POSSESS- ION OF THE BATTLE GROUND AND WERE STATIONED THERE FOR SOMETIME IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PEOPERTY OF CITIZENS AS THE OBJECT OF THE BRITISH SEEMED TO BE THAT OF PLUNDERING AND CARRYING OFF THE NEGROES WHEREVER THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY OF LANDING, DURING THE TIME THAT THE ARMY WAS STATIONED AT LONG BRIDGE. HE STATES THEY WERE EMPLOYED IN TRAVERSING THE POTOMAC AND RAPPANNECK RIVERS TO PREVENT THE BRITISH FROM LANDING AND DESTROYED THE PROPERTY OF THE INHABITANTS DURING THIS CAMPAIGN, SAYS HE RENDERED ALL THE SERVICE OF A SOLDIER AND FROM
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CAMP LONG BRIDGE HE WAS MARCHED BACK BY HI'S SAID CAPTAIN JOHN BLACKWELL TO FAUQUIER COURT HOUSE, WHEN HE AND THE BALANCE OF CAPTAIN BLACKWALL 'S MEN WERE DISCHARGED, HAVING SERVED OUT HIS EIGHTEEN MONTHS TOUR . SAYS THAT AS SOON AS HE WAS DISCHARGED HIS FATHER REMOVED TO THE BACK PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND SETTLED IN THE MONONGAHALA RIVER AND SOMETIME IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1776, HE ENLISTED UNDER CAPTAIN CROW FOR A PERIOD OF 3 YEARS AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. BROADHEAD'S REGIMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA REGULARS. HE STATES THAT COL. BROADHEAD'S REGIMENT CONSISTED OF ELEVEN HUNDRED ENLISTED SOLDIERS AND THAT THE REGIMENT RENDEZVOUSED AT FORT PITT, SAYS THAT THE SPIES WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO RECONNOITER THE COUNTRY, RE- TURNED AND REPORTED THAT THE INDIANS WERE COMMITTING SOME DEPREDATIONS
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UPON THE SETTLERS NEAR CATAVIA ?-- COL. BR ADPEAB THEN ORDERED A
COMPANY TO BE FORMED AND PUT UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN THOMAS PRATAR. HE STATES THAT HE, IN THAT COMPANY COMMANED BY CAPTAIN PRATOR MARCHED FROM FORT PITT TO CALONES. DURING THIS MARCH, HE STATES THAT WERE EMPLOYED IN MAKING A FREQUENT EXCURSIONS IN ORDER TO OVERHAUL THE INDIANS THAT THEY HAD BEEN COMMITTING OUTRAGES UPON THE SETTLERS. UPON ARRIVING AT CATAVIA?, AND RESTORING PEACE AND QUIETNESS TO THE ALARMED INHABITANST, CAPTAIN PRATER MARCHED HIS MEN BACK TO FORT PITT, WHERE THEY REMAINED, BUT A SHORT TIME BEFORE THEY WERE AWAIN ORDERED DOWN THE OHIO RIVER TO PREVENT THE INDIANS FROM MAKING AN ATTACK UPON A SMALL SETTLEMENT AT WHEELING AND FOR ACCOMPLISHING THAT OBJECT, CAPTAIN PRATER MARCHED RIS MEN BACK TO FORT PITT. HE STATES THAT WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT FORT PITT, THAT COL. BROADHEAD'S REGIMENT WAS ORDERED TO CROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND GO TO THE LOWER CAMPAIGN. HE SAYS THAT COL. BROADHEADES MARCHED HIS MEN ACROSS THE ALLEGAHNEY MOUNTAINS TO LANCASTER ON THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER; THEN THENCE TO QUIBBLETOWN NEW JERSEY WHERE THEY ENCAMPED FOR THE WINTER. AND WHEN THEY LEFT THIS PLACE, THEY WERE THEN ORDERED AND MARCHED TO VALLEY FORGE. THE AMERICAN ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERALY WAYNE WAS BROUGHT IN BATTLE AWAY AND AFTER MAKING A SPIRITED RESISTANCE SECTION 42
AGAINST THE ENEMY, THE AMERICANS FOR WANT OF AMMUNITION WERE COMPELLED TO RETREAT WITH A CONSIDERABLE LOSS OF MEN, FROM THIS PLACE A COMPANY OF COLONEL BROADHEAD REGULARS WAS ORDERED TO BRANDYWINE AND HE BELONG- ING TO CAPTAIN PRATOR'S COMPANY MARCHED UNDER HIS CAPTAIN TO BRANDYWINE AND SOMETIME IN THE FALL OF THAT YEAR, HE STATES THAT EARLY IN THE MORNING, THE BATTLE COMMENCED AND ALTHOUGH THEY MADE A DISPLAY OF GALLANTRY, BECOMING SOLDIER THEY HAD TO RETREAT WITH GREAT LOSS TO THE AMERICANS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRANDWINE, SAYS THAT CAPTAIN PRATOR MARCHED HIS MEN TO NEW JERSEY AND JOINED COL. BRAODHEAD'S REGIMENT, THE REGIMENT'S THEN MARCHED ACROSS THE SUSEQUAHHANNA RIVER, THROUGH THE JENNES COUNTY TO FORT PITT, WHERE THEY WERE STATIONED DURING THE WINTER AS SOON AS AS THE WINTER BROKE GENERAL MCINTOSH ORDERED THE REGIMENTS TO MARCH TO A PLACE NOW CALLED FORT MCINTOSH. ON ARRIVING THERE, HE STATES THAT THEY WERE EMPLOYED IN BUILDING THAT FORT, THENCE THEY WERE MARCHED TO THE TUSKRAI ?RIVER WHERE THEY WERE EMPLOYED IN BUILDING FORT LAWRENCE. HE SAYS THAT AFTER THEY HAD BUILT THE FORT AND WAS THEN FORTED WITH WYNADOTTE TRIBE OF INDIANS, BESEIGED THE FORT AND AFTER SOME ELAPSE OF TIME, THEY EVACUATED THE FORT WITH THE LOSS OF 19 MEN AND MARCHED BACK TO FORT PITT WHERE HE WAS DISCHARGED IN WRITING BY CAPTAIN THOMAS PRATER, HAVING SERVED OUT HIS 3 YEARS FOR WHICH HE ENLIST- FD. SAYS THAT FROM BODILY INFIRMITY AND AGE IS UNABLE TO APPEAR IN COURT, SAYS THAT HE WAS BORN JULY 12, 1759, WHICH DATE HE COPIED FROM HIS FATHER'S REGISTAR THE FIRST TIME HE ENTERED SERVICE, HE WAS LIVING IN FAUQUIER COUNTY, VA., THE SECOND TIME HE WAS LIVING ON THE MONGAHALA RIVA, PENNSYLVANIA, SINCE THAT TIME, HE HAS LIVED IN STAFFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA, AND HAS BEEN LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY, KY., ABOUT 30 YEARS.
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SAYS HIS DISCHARGE . R EIGHTEEN MONTHS WAS SIGNED BY CAPTAIN JOHN BLACKWELL OF FAWUIRE CO., VA., AND ANOTHER GIVEN BY CAPTAIN PRATOR FOR 3 YEARS, WHICH DISCHARGE | HAD IN MY BROTHER'S HOUSE IN STAFFORD COUNTY, VA., AND HIS SAID HOUSE WAS BURNED 1783 AND NY DISCHARGE AND MANY OTHER PAPERS WERE DESTROYED.
JOHN DALE AND WILLIAM APPLEGATE TESTIFY TO HIS. CHARACTER.
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SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, JUNE TERM 1820, AGE 64, RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, SAYS HE ENLISTED FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN JUNE 1776, IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, UNDER CAPTAIN STEPHEN ASHLEY IN THE 12TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. JAMES WOODMAN IN THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT; THAT HE CONTINUED TO SERVE IN THE SAID CORPS UNTIL THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1776 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM SAID SERVICE AT VALLEY FORGE IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. THAT HE WAS IN
IN THE BATTLE OF SHORT HILLS IN JERSEY, THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN AND BRANDYWINE AND THAT HE HAS NO OTHER EVIDENCE TO SHOW IN HIS FAVOR OF HIS SAID SERVICE EXCEPT PERSONS BEING AT A GREAT DISTANCE AND NOT IN THIS STATE AND IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF MAY 1820.
HE HAS A WIFE WHO IS VERY OLD, KNOWN OF HIS CHILDREN ARE LIVING WITH HIM, BUT HAS 3 GRAND CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM WHO ARE SMALL AND A HEAVY EXPENCE TO HIM, THEIR MOTHER BEING DEAD, THEIR AGES ARE ABOUT 12 -9- AND 8. NONE OF HIS CHILDREN LIVE NEAR HIM.
SAID SOLDIER DIED 1835 IN SEPT., ONE JOSEPH C. SPRIGG WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE. HE SAID HE WAS ALSO APPOINTED THE ADMINISTR T RATOR OF JONES FITZGERALD ESTETE.
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