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DEVOURIX : JAMES
PRIVATE CAPT. POSEY 7TH U. S. IND.
O.W. INV. FILE 8324
INDIANS TERRITORY, JULY 6, 1815- PERSONALLY CAME BEFORE ME, THE UNDERSIGN- SECTION 44 ( B. PARK) ONE WM. RUSSELL LATE A COLONEL OF THE 7TH U.S. REGIMENT, INFANTRY AND BEING DULY SWORN SAYS THAT WHILE HE COMMANDED ON THE WABASH, THE LATE CAPTAIN POSEY'S COMPANY FORMED A PRAT OF HIS COMMAND WITH THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER JAMES DECOURIZ, WAS A PRIVATE SOLAIDER IN THE SAID COMPANY; THAT IN THE MONTH OF MARCH IN THE YEAR 1813, THE SAID JAMES DEVCURIX WITH SOME OTHER SOLDIERS WAS DETACHED TO GUARD A BOAT LOADED WITH PROVISIONS FOR FORT HARRISON. THAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE SAID FORTE THE BOAT WAS ATTACKED BY A PARTY OF INDIANS AND THE SAID SOLDIER JAMES D -- WOUNDED BY A BALL PASSING THROUGH THE LEFT ARM JUST BELOW THE ELBOW BREAKING ONE OF THE BONES AND THIS DEPONENT BELIEVES THAT FROM THE SAID WOUND THE SAID SOLDIER IS NOW GREATLY INCAPACITATED.
HE RECEIVED HIS CERTIFICATE FOR PENSION AND LATER LOST IT. THE ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED ON JUNE 18, 1816 AND SENT TO JUDGE ORMSBY AND LOST AS APPEARS FROM THE AFFIDAVITS OF THE PENSIONER AND CERTIFICATE OF JUDGE ORMSBY DEC. 26, 1816. DUPLICATE CERTIFICATE OF PENSION ISSUED JANUARY 11, 1817, AND SENT TO JUDGE URMSBY, MEMBER OF CONGRESS FOR KENTUCKY, WASHINGTON CITY, TO BE RETURNED WITH THE ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE PRESNETED TO THE GENTLEMAN AT KENTUCKY ETC.
THE SOLDIER WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN POSEY'S COMPANY UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. RUSSELL, 7TH REGIMENT U. S. INFANTRY.
TRIPLICATE CERTIFICATE ISSUED OCT. 12, 1818, AND SENT TO D:NIEL MC C. PAYNE, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, SAME DAY.
W. 8652
DAVIS; JESSE SR. NANACY* NANCY VIRGINIA B.L.WT. 2325-300
APRIL 5, 1818- JESSE DAVIS OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY MADE HIS WILL ON THIS DAY. GIVES TO HIS SON PRESLEY DAVIS , GIVES HIM A TRACT OF LAND NAD HOUSEHOLD GOODS. GIVES TO HIS SON ELIJAH DAVIS SON WILSON L. DAVIS, SON V/M. M. DAVIS, SON TO JESSE DAVIS, JR., THE PLANTATION, WHERE OF HE NOW LIVES TO HOLD AN OBLIGATION ON SAID JESSE DAVIS FOR ONE HALF OF THE
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DAVIS:
. ONE HALF OF THE PLANTATION AND HALF THE ORCHARD TO INCLUDE THE MANSION HOUSE AND ETC., AND SUCH OTHER REPARIS AS IS NECESSARY TO KEEP UP REPARIS DURING HIS MOTHER'S LIFE. GIVES THE BALANCE TO HIS ESTATE TO HIS WIFE, NANCY DAVID, FOR THE SUPPORT OF HER AND HIS 3 DAUGHTERS. THE NAMES OF HIS DAUGHTERS WERE ELIZABETH DAVIS, NANCY DAVIS, JR. HARRIET DAVIS, WITNESSES TO WILL AND JOSIAH MARSHALL, FRANCIS CENNILL AND JOHN MCGLASKEY. RICHARD L. MURPHY -NIMROD SHUMATE AND ISAAC HOWMAN.
EXTRACT FROM THE REGIMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE VIRGINIA LINE CONTAINING OFFICERS IN SERVICE, THE PRSIONERS AND SUPERNUMERY AS FINALLY SETTLED OUT MIDDLEBROOK, MARCH 1779.
3 RD., REGIMENT. SUPERNUMERIES,
RECOMMENDED ; RETURNED CAPTAINS JOHN PEYTON.
JESSE DAVIS,
RETURNED LIEUTENANT RICHARD KINNON&
RECEIVED LAND AND COMMISSIONED THORNTON TAYLOR.
FOURTH REGIMENT
CAPTAIN REUBEN BRISCOE, PETER MINOR, JOHN MCADAM JOHN TIBBS -- ALL RETURNED ; LETTER TO WASHINGTON- ARMY RETURNS
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JESSE DAVIS, FIRST LIEUTENANT, Nov. 15, 1776, 11TH REGIMENT LAST ON MUSTER
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ROLL MAY 1778. JESSE DAVIS RECEIVED 4000 ACRES OF LAND FROM THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN 1804 -- FOR THE WAR. JESSE DAVIS THIS DATE IS ON No 2325). HE WAS CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY FOR L 184-0-9.
WHICH CERTIFICATE WAS GIVEN FOR SERVICE PRIOR TO 1752 TO WIT; FIRST _1 LIEUTENANT FROM THE FIRST OF JANUARY 1777 TO THE 8TH JANUARY 1778 AND FIRST CAPTAIN FROM THE 8TH JANUARY 1778 TO THE FIRST NOVEMBER FOLLOWING, DATED APRIL 4, 1833.
THE ORIGINAL ON FILE WITH THE PENSION PAPERS OF MRS. NANCY DAVIS OF KENTUCKY, WIDOW OF JESS DAVIS, DECEASED.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JOSHUA BIRD OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAID HE WAS A SOLDIER IN THE VIRGINIA LINE UPON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT , OUNING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THAT HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JESS DAVIS WHO WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT IN THE REVOLUTIONA
ARY WAR. THAT THEY LIVED MANY YEARS IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOD IN PRINCE WILLIAM CO., VIRGINIA, AND THAT WE HAVE LIVED MANY YEARS IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD IN NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. I DO FURTHER STATE THAT CAPTAIN JESSE DAVIS WAS MARRIED TO MISS NANCY MILTON OF PRINCE WM. COUNTY, VA., DURING HIS SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THAT HIS WIDOW IS STILL LIVING IN NELSON COUNTY EVER SINCE HER HUSRANO DIED 16 OR 18 YEARS AGO. THIS SEPTEMBER 1, 1836, SIGNED JOSHUA BIRD. -- ONE ELIJAH DAVIS WAS THE J.P. IN NELSON COUNTY IN 1836.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD K. CALVERT, NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY A CITIZEN OF THE TOWN OF BLOOMFIELD , SAYS THAT HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH JESS DAVIS IN PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA., DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR VHERE I WAS BORN AND RAISED AND HESIDED AT THAT TIME. CAPTAIN JEST DAVIS WAS AN OFFICER OF SAID WAR IN THE VIRGINIA LINE AND | RECOLLECT THAT SOMETIME DURING THE WAR HE MARRIED NANCY MILTON OF PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA. THAT AFTERWARDS CAPTAIN DAVIS MOVED TO KENTUCKY.
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ON DECEMBER 2, 1836, MRS. NANCY DAVIS APPEARTO IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY AMD SAID EACH WAS A RESIDENT OF NELSON COUNTY, AGE 77, SAYS THAT HER .. HUSBAND SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR UNDER THE IMMEDIATE COMMAND OF GENERAL WASHINGTON, WAS IN THE BATTLES OF BRANDYWINE, GERMAN TOWN AND MONMOTH IN THE LATTER END OF 1778. SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE SOLDIER 2-8-1780 A LITTLE OVER A YEAR FROM HIS LEAVING THE SERVICE, I RECOLLECT THE INVASION OF CORNWALLIS INTO VIRGINIA, IT WAS A GREAT ALARM AND MY HUSBAND RAISED A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS AND MARCHED DOWN THE COUNTRY FROM PRINCE WILLIAM TO MEET THE ENEMY BUT BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR POINT OF DESTINATION, THE ENEMY HAD SURRENDERED AT YORKTOWN. THEY WERE ALL TURNED BACK AND RETURNTO HOME. AFTERWARDS | RECOLLECT MY HUSBAND WAS EMPLOYED IN PROCURING WAGONS AND TEAMS AND TRANSPORTATION FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY TO GO NORTH AND | DISTINCTLY KECOLLECT THAT HE PROCUNED AN APPOINTMENT FOR MY BROTHER AS WAGON MASTER TO TRANSPORT THE FRENCH ARMY TO BOSTON.
SHE SAID THEY MARCHED FROM VIRGINIA TO KENTUCKY AND THAT HE DIED ON OCTOBER 23, 1818.
AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM M. DAVIS, A CITIZEN OF FRANFORT, KENTUCKY STATES THAT HE IS THE SON OF CAPTAIN JESS DAVIS, DECEASED AND HIS WIFE, NANCY DAVIS, I TOOK A DEEP INTEREST IN HEARING MY FATHER TELL OF THE BATTLES IN WHICH HE FOUGHT AND IS SUFFERING, HE SAID HE FIRST ENTERED THE ARMY AS A PRIVATE IN 1776 WHERE, AFTER SEEING FOR SOME MONTHS, HE RETURNED HOME AND COMMENCED RECRUITING SOLDIERS AND WAS COMMISSIONED A LT., IN ONE OF THE VIRGINIA CONTINENETAL REGIMENTS, HE RETURNED TO THE ARMY WITH FULL COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN GALLIHUE, WHO IN A SHORT TIME DIED WHEN MY FATHER GOT COMMAND OF THE COMPANY AND WAS COMMISSIONED CAPTAIN INSTEAD AND CONTINUED AS SUCH UNTIL THE LATER PART OF THE YEAR
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1778 WHEN AFTER FIGHTING THE BATTLE AT BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN, AND SPENING WINTER IN CAMP AT VALLEY FORGE AND FIGHTING THE BATTLE OF MONMOTH, THESE BATTLES HAVING THINNED THE RANKS OF TI'E ARMY, A CONSOLIDATION OF THE DIFFERENT REGIMENTS TOOK PLACE WHERE MANY OF THE OFFICERS WERE SENT HOME, AS SUPERHUMERY, SUBJECTS TO BE CALLED INTO SERVICE AGAIN, MY FATHER NEVER WAS CALLED UPON BUT WAS ALWAYS IN READ- INESS. MY FATHER RASIED A COMPANY OF VOLUNTEERS AND MARCHED TO MEET THE ENEMY. BEFORE HIS ARRIVAL THE ENEMY HAD FLED AND OTHER INCIDENTS SIMILAR TO THE ABOVE. SAID HE WAS 24 YEARS OF AGE WHEN HIS FATHER DIED. -AFFIDAVIT OF HUGH DAVIS TAKEN AT HIS OWN HOUSE IN PRINCE WILLIAM CO. VA. Nov. 18, 1837. DEPONENT STATES THAT HE IS NOW AGE 80. BEING CALLED ON TO STATE HIS RECOLLECTIONS AS TO THE SERVICE OF JESSE DAVIS, STATES AS FOLLOWS; THAT THIS DEPONENET WAS ATTACHED TO LEO'S LEGION AND WAS WOUNDED IN THE SERVICE AND OWING TO SAID WOUND WAS DETAINED IN PHILADELPHIA UNTIL BEFORE THE SURRENDER OF LORD CORNWALLIS AND RETURNED HOME TO HIS NOW RESIDENCE ABOUT THE TIME OF SAID SU .. RENDER AND WHEN HE GOT HOME DID NOT FIND JESSE DAVIS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUT WAS TOLD HE WAS GONE ON A TOUR OF DUTY IN DEFENSE OF HIS COUNTRY, OR STATES HE DOES NOT KNOW THE LENGTH OF THE TOUR PERFORMED BY SAID JESS DAVIS NOR DOES HE KNOW HE PERFORMED IT ONLY FROM HIS ABSENCE AND FROM INFORMATION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON HIS RETURN AND FROM, SAID DAVIS HIMSELF AFTER HIS RETURN AN ALL OTHEIS WHO THENE SPOKE OF IT, SAID JESS DAVIS RESIDED AT THE TIME IN 5 OR 6 MILES FROM DEPONENT, WITH HIS FAMILY, HE SAID JESS DAVIS, HAVING MARRIED IN THE LATER PART OF 1779. THIS DEPONENET KECOLLECTS DEING IN OUMPHRIES JUST AFTER THE SURRENDER OF LORD CORNWALLIS AND PARTOOK IN THE REGION? AND THERE SAW JESSE DAVIS AND HEARD OF HIS HAVING DONE SECTION 49
A TOUR OF DUTY ABOUT THE TIME OF THE SAID SURRENDER . JESSE DAVIS HAD
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JESSE DAVIS HAD TWO BROTHERS WHO DIED IN SERVICE; PRESLEY DAVIS FELL IN THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, JOHN WAVIS DIED WITH SMALL POX, AND AT AT THE SAMETIME CAPTAIN ANDREW LEETCH FELL IN BATTLE AT LONG ISLAND, SAID THAT HE WAS ACUQAINTED WITH NANCY DAVIS BEFORE HER MARRIAGE AND KNEW THEM AFTER.
-- ALSO HUGH DAVIS AGE 80 APPEARED BEFORE A J. P. IN WASHINGTON CITY, AND MADE OATH THAT HE IS THE FIRST COUSIN AND BROTHER-IN-LAW OF CAPTAIN JESSE DAVIS OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THAT HE WAS A NEIGHBOR AND PARTICULAR ACQUAINTANCE OF JESSE DAVIS UP TO THE TIME HE LEFT VA. , AND MOV MOVED TO KENTUCKY. THAT HE, THIS DEPONENET RETURNED FROM PHILADELPHIA IN 1781 WHERE HE HAD BEEN DETAINED FOR SOMETIME WITH A WOUND, HE HAD RECEIVED IN THE WAR AND THAT UPON HIS RETURN HOME, HIS BROTHER IN LAW AND COUSIN CAPT. JESSE DAVIS WAS NOT AT HOME. IN THE WINTER OF 1781 SAID JESSE DAVIS RETUNED HOME WITH HIS COMPANY AND CTC . SAYS THAT HE WAS MARRIED TO NANCY IN 1780, SAID HE WAS AT A FEAST THAT WAS GIVEN AT . F DUMFRIES TO CELEBRATION OF THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS . THE BALANCE OF THIS STATEMENT IS IDENTICAL WITH THE ONE BE MADE AT HIS IOME IN PRINCE WILLIAM CO., VA .-- IT WILL APPEAR FROM A LETTER WRITTEN 1837, BY C. A. WICKLIFFE OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY THAT NANCY MELTON AND JESSE DAVIS WERE MARRIED 2-8-1780.
NANCY REYNOLDS IS THE DAUGHTER OF CAPT. JESSE DAVIS. JAMES REYNOLDS HER HUSBAND, WHO STATES THAT THE FAMILY RECORD OF CAPT. JESSE DAVIS IS NOW IN OUR POSSESSION AND HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS AND THAT SAID RECORD SHOWS THAT SAID JESSE DAVIS AND NANCY MILTON OF PRINCE WILLIAM VIRGINIA WERE MARRIED 2-5-1780 AND THAT SAID RECORD . SHOWS THAT JESSE DAVIS FIRST REMAINED A WIDOW EVER SINCE THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND. THIS JANUARY 6, 1837, SIGNED JAMES REYNOLDS. NANCY (DAVIS) REYNOLDS: -- AFFIDAVIT OF ELIAS KINCHLOE, WHO SAYS HE HAS KNOWN JESSE AND NANCY SECTION 50
DAVIS FOR OVER 50 YEAR (THIS 1837)
-- A LETTER FROM P. DAVIS FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. 12-18-183 -? T. DR. CRUMP SAYS- WILL YOU FORWARD TO ME THE FAPERS IN THE CASE OF JESSE AND NANCY DAVIS, AS MY UNCLE HUGH DAVIS OF VIRGINIA WISHES TO SEE THE ABOVE PAPERS IN ORDER TO REFRESH HIS VOMERY.
-- OCTOBER 25, 1842, NANCY DAVIS DEEDS TO WILLIAM H. TODD AND MENRY NORTHUP ALL HER RIGHT AND ETC., IN A MILITIANY LAND WARRANT OF (HER HUSBAND JESSE DAVIS ) AND ALLSO -- THAT MY ISSUE ON SAID WARRANT. SHE MADE THE ABOVE AFFIDAVIT IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY 1842, ON THE SAME DATE SHE APPOINTED WILLIAM TODD HER LAWFUL ATTORNEY.
-- ELIJAH DAVIS MADE AFFIDAVIT IN 'WASHINTON COUNTY, KENTUKY AS FOLLOWS; SAYS HE IS THE EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF NANCY REYNOLDS WIFE OF J. REYNOLDS, APPOINT WILLIAM TODD H. NORTHUP TO RECEIVE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, THE MILITARY WARRANTS AND ETC., BELONG TO JESSE DAVIS.
-- FROM THE PENSION DEPARTMENT, AS A CIRCUIT COURT IN FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY 1843, OCTOBER 10, THE FOLLOWING LETTER FROM THE PENSION OFFICE AND EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF JESSE DAVIS, DECEASED, TOGETHER WITH THE ANNEXED AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES REYNOLDS TO WIT; PENSION DEPARTMENT 1943, SEPT 20. THE CLAIM FOR BOUNTY LAND IN WRIGHT OF CAPT. JESSE DAVIS, DECEASED OF VIRGINIA LINE IS ADMITTED AND IF DESIRED, A WARRANT FOR THE LAND DUE WILL SHE NOT FAVOR OF HARRIET H. WILLIAMS AND THE OTHER DAVISEES OF SAID JESSE DAVIS. THE -- OF THE WILL FILED IN THE CASE RENDER ISSUE OF THE WARRANT IN ANY OTHER FORM AT THIS TIME UNSAFE, NOT ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE INSTITUTED BUT FOR THIS OFFICE. IF BY THE DECISION OF A COURT OF LAW, IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, THE NAMES OF THE PARTIES LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BE DESIGNATED AND THE RECORD OF THAT DECISION BE FURNISHED TO THIS OFFICE DULY AUTHENTICATED, THE WARRANT WILL THEN
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SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS THE WARRANT WILL THEN ISSUE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH DECISION, RESPECTFUL- LY SUBMITTED. I.L. EDWARDS, PENSION ECC MISSIONER. IT WILL BE SOON FROM THE RECORDS THAT THE CHILDREN OF NANCY (DAVIS ) REYNOLDS, DECEASES, ARE CLAYTON DAVIS REYNOLDS, MILDRED W. REYNOLDS WALKER, WIFE OF WILLIAM WALKER AND HAMILTON DAVIS. THAT SAID NANCY IS ONE OF THE RESIDUARY DEVISEES OF JESSE DAVIS WILL. THAT NAS. HARRIET-WIFE OF A. WILLIAMS, IS THE OTHER ONE, THAT ELIZABETH IS DEAD, HAVING DIED WITHOUT WILL OR CHILDREN, THAT MINS. NANCY DAVIS, WIDOW OF SAID JESSE DAVIS IS STILL LIVING, THAT SAID JESSE DAVIS LEFT AT THE DEATH OF OTHER CHILDREN TO WIT PRESLEY AND ELIJAH, SONS WILLIAM N. DAVIS IS DEAD, LEAVING DAUGHTER, CATHERINE, AN INFANT WILLSON L. DAVIS DIEO LEAVING CHILDREN GEORGE AND THOMAS AND HARRIET DAVIS. THESE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF CAPTAIN JESSE DAVIS, DECEASED, SIGNED JAMES REYNOLDS. -- IT WAS A QUESTION OF LEGALITY, WHICH SHOULD BE EXPRESSED BY THE COURT AS TO THE LEGAL AFFECT OF THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH DAVIS BEFORE NANCY DAVIS HER MOTHER AND WETHER BY HER DEATH HER SHARE PASSED TO HER TWO SISTERS ..... KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENCE; THAT WE HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, AND HARRIET M. WILLIAMS OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THE LATER BEING ONE OF THE RESIDUARY DEVISEES OF JESSE DAVIS, DECEASED, WHO WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE VIRGINIA LINE, HEREBY APPOINTS, WILLIAM H. TODD, AND H. NORTHUP, OUR ATTORNEY IN FACT, TO RECEIVE FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, OUR INTEREST IN A MILITARY WARRANT DUE FROM THE STATE AND ETC ., THIS SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1843 .-- HENNY REYNOLDS OF NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY APPOINTS WILLIAM H. TODO, AS HER ATTORNEY 1843.
-- ELIJAH DAVIS, LIVED IN NELSON COUNTY, CHAPLIN, KENTUCKY 1856, AS HE HAD HIS SCHOOL MATE WHO WAS SECRETARY OF THE TREAS AT THAT TIME, MR. JAMES MCMINN? ASK HIM TO GET PAPERS ON FILE, IN THE PENSION DEPARTMENT, REGARDING HIS FATHER'S PENSION CLAIM AND LAND CLAIM AND ETC .
THE NUMBER OF THE CASE OF MAS. NANCY DAVIS (SR) WAS 1662 KENTUCKY. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THEY NEVER DID GET THE LAND )
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FARRA; SAMUEL
S 3:022
PENNSYLVANIA- NORTH CAROLINA
STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTYA ON THE 2ND., DAY OF
JANUARY 1833, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, WILLIAM THANKS, ONE OF THE COMMONWEALTH JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR SHELBY COUNTY, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AGE 34 ON THE 23RD, DAY OF MARCH LAST, WHO BEING FIRST DULY SWORN ACCORDINGLY TO LAW. SAYS HE WAS BORN IN CHESTER, PENN, 23RD., MARCH 1746 AS APPEARS BY A COPY OF HIS FATHER'S REGISTRAR NOW IN HIS POSSESSION. AT THE AGE OF SIX, HE WAS REMOVED BY HIS PARENTS TO THE COUNTY OF YORK IN THE STATE AFORESAID WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1779. IN THE YEAR 1775, HE WAS APPOINTED A CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY OF --???? IN THE 5TH BATALLION OF THE YORK CO. MILITIA, AND THIS APPLICANT NOW HAS IN HIS POSSESSION A CAPTAIN'S COMMISSION BEARING DATE MAY 25% 1776, CONCLUDING IN' THESE WORDS, VIZ; SIGNED BY ORDER OF THE ASSEMBLY. JOHN MORTON, SPEAKER. IN THE MONTH OF JULY 1776; THERE WERE FIVE COMPANIES OF COL. MATHEW MILLS BATALLION CALLED INTO SERVICE AND THAT COMMANDED BY THIS APPLICANT WAS ONE FOR THE TERM OF 3 MONTHS AND ON THE 27TH JULY 1776- THESE TROOPS COMMENCED THEIR MARCH FOR TRENTON BY WAY OF PHILADELPHIA. T HENCE TO AMBOY TO WOOD BRIDGE TO NEWARK TO HACKENSACK AND PEASACK FERRIES, THENCE TO BURGON AND POWLES HOOK, THENCE TO FORTS WASHINGTON AND LEE, AT WHICH LATER PLACE THIS BATALLION WAS DISCHARGED BY GENERAL ROBEDOE. AFTER TWO MONTHS SERVICES, THIS BATALLION HAVING FURNISHED FROM EACH COMPANY A CERTAIN QUOTS TO COMPOSE A COMPANY FOR THE SPRING CAMP SERVICE PROCURED TO IT A CREDIT FOR A FULL TOUR OF 3 MONTHS. IN THE FALL OF THE YEAR 1778 A COMMITTEE OF
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SAFETY FOR THE COUNTY OF YORK LEVIED A CONTRIBUTION ON THE CITIZENS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROCURING CLOTHING FOR THE ARMY, AND THIS APPLICANT PAID THE SUM OF J35. THERETO AND HE FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 1780, HE WAS INDUCED TO VISIT THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE NEIGHBORH HOOD OF HILLSBORO HE ENTERED THE SERVICE AS PRIVATE AND AS SUBSTITUTED FOR A CERTAIN MICHAEL SHERLOCK IN A COMPANY CON JANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHNSTON OF
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GENERAL DUTLER'S BRIGADE FOR A TERM OF 3 MONTHS, MARCHED ON THE 10TH OF AUGUST AND JOINED GENERAL GATES AT RUTLEDGE MILL ON THE 20TH, WAS ENGAGED IN THE BATTLE OF CAMDENK WAS ROUTED AND THE MILITIT DISPERSED. THIS APPLICANT RETURNED TO THE PLACE FROM WHENCE HE HAD MARCHED AND REMAINED UNTIL THE 3RD., OF SEPT. FOLLOWING WHEN FINDING FROM THE DISPERSED SITUATION OF THE MILITIA, TOGETHER WITH THE LOSS OF ARMS, ETC., AND THERE APPEARING NO PROBABILITY OF BEING AGAIN ORGANIZED, HE CONSIDERED HIMSELF DISCHARGED AND SET OUT FOR HIS NATIVE STATE. HE SAYS FURTHER THAT HE OBTAINED A NOTE OF HAND? FROM THE ABOVE NAMED SHERLOCK, PAYABLE WITHIN 3 MONTHS FROM A STIPULATED SUM, WHICH WAS NEVER PAID TO HIM. HE FURTHER STATES THAT ON THE 7TH DAY OF OCTOBER 1781 HE ENLISTED AS A MARINE ON BOARD THE SHIP POLLY? OR PATTY? A LETTER OF MARQUE CARRYING 12 GUNS BELONGING TO PHILADELPHIA AND BOUND TO HAVANNA, ON THE PACK, SHE WAS ATTACKED BY A BRISTISH PRIVATEER, WHOEVER RECEIVING THE THRRD BROADSIDE CORE? OFF AND WE PROCEEDED TO THE PLACE. OF DESTINATION RETURNED TO THE U S AND ON THE 24TH DAY OF JANUARY 1762 WAS DULY DISCHARGED AT WILLIAMSBURG VA., THE ABOVE NAMED SHIP WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN MATHEW STRONG. JOHN WILLET FIRST MATE, JOHN CAMPBELL SECOND AND JOSEPH WOOD GUNNER, DISCHARGE WAS SIGNED BY JOHN WILLET. THIS APPLICANT FURTHER STATES THAT HE DOES NOT NOW KNOW OF ANY LIVING WITNESSES BY WHICH HIS SERVICES CAN BE PROVED. STATES FURTHER THAT HE HAS LIVED SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY AND NOW RESIDES IN THE LATER NAMCO STATE AND SHELBY Co. THE OLD PENSION NUMBER IS 13538, CERTIFICATE BEGAN MAY 16, 1833.
FITZSIMMONS: THOMAS
S17952 B L WT 1635- 100 VIRGINIA
ON MAY 25, 1818, BEFORE ROBERT TRIMBLE.
JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT, PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AGE 56 RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAID THAT HE ENLISTED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN CAPTAIN WILLIAM SUNNINGHAM SECTION 54
CUNNINGHAM'S COMPANY IN COL. RICHARD PARKER'S REGIMENT IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE AND CONTINUED TOSSERVE 18 MONTHS AND WAS DISCHARGED SOON FAR WHICH HE ENLISTED IN THE OTHER CORPS IN THE SERVICE OF THE U.S. AND SERVED TO THE CLOSE OF THE WAR OR UNTIL AFTER THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, WAS DISCHARGED AT MIDDLEBROOK, NEW JERSEY AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE LAST ENLISTMENT WAS DISCHARGED AT LITTLE YORK OR YORKTOWN IN VIRGINIA, THAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF MONMOTH, WHITE PLAINS, GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, PETERSBURG AND YORKTOWN.
--- AFFIDAVIT OF CHARLES BALLEW MADE AFFIDAVIT ON SHELBY COUNTY, THAT HE WAS . SERGEANT IN A CAPTAIN CUNNINGHAM'S COMPANY IN SAID REGIMENT, IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE AND WAS ACQUAINTED WITH THOMAS FITZSIMMONS AND I UNDERSTOOD AND BELEIVE THAT HE WAS ENLISTED FOR 18 MONTHS AND THAT HE SERVED WITH ME MORE THAN 9 MONTHS. -- DECLARATION MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1820, SEPT. 19-
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-DECLARATION MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1820, SEPT. 19- THOMAS FITZSIMMONS AGE 59, SAYS HE ENLISTED 177 15 A PRIVATE IN CAPT. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. RICHARD PARKER, THAT HE WAS MARCHED FROM VIRGINIA TO VALLEY FORGE IN PENNSYLVANIA THENCE ON TO THE NORTH, WHERE HE SERVED OUT 3 YEARS, WAS DISCHARGED AT WEST POINT AND HUDSON RIVER IN THE FALL OF 1780; THAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLES OF MONMOTH, MIDDLEBROOK AND STONY POINT ON HUDSON RIVER; THAT HE RETURNED HOME TO VIRGINIA AND IN FEBRUARY 1781 ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER TO SERVE DURING THE WAR IN THE CAPTAIN MINNS COMPANY BELONGING TO THE SAID VIRGINIA FIRST REGIMENT AND WAS MARCHED OUT TO THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND WAS GUARDING SOME PRISONERS NEAR GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, AT THE TIME OF THE BATTLE AND THAT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE BATTLE WAS MARCHED BACK TO VA., AND TO LITTLE YORK AND IN THAT SEIGE AND SOON AFTER THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS WAS DISCHARGED AT YORK. SAYS THAT HE HAS NO FAMILY LIVING WITH HIM EXCEPT HIS WIFE AND A LITTLE COLORED BOY.
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HE SAID IN HIS DECLARATION IN 1828 THAT HE WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN HOLOMAN'S MINNIS OR MINOS ? COMPANY IN THE FIRST REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LINE.
-- DECLARATION -- MADE IN HENDRICK'S COUNTY, INDIAN, ON FEB. 12, 1838, IN OPEN COURT, CANVILLE, COUNTY INDIANA, ON THE 2ND., MONDAY IN FEBRUARY, THOMAS FITZSIMMONS RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY APPEARED- ACE 77- SAYS HE WAS A RESIDENT OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY NOT FAR FROM RICHMOND, IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY STRUCK OFF OF CUMBERLAND AND CALLED POWHATAN COUNTY, HE JOINED THE ARMY AGAIN IN 1780 AND WAS MARCHED UNDER THE FIRST AFORESAID OFFICERS TO CHARLESTOWN SOUTH CAROLINA WAS SICK WHEN A BATTLE WAS FOUGHT THERE BY GENERAL GATES. COL. WILLIAM PARKER WAS KILLED AT CHARLESTON AND WAS SUCEEDED BY -- MILITIA, RETREATED FROM THE BRITISH TO GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, N. C., THERE WERE MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE AFORESAID. HE WAS THEN MARCHED . BACK TO THE STATE
OF VIRGINIA, AGAIN TO LITTLE YORK. THERE HE ASSISTED .IN TAKING CORNWALLIS. THIS APPLICANT WAS DISCHARGED 1781 IN OCTOBER. 17TH.
SERVED IN ALL 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS. ".TU HE WAS BORN IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY VA., 1761, IN MARCH AND WAS 16 YEARS OLD WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE, AND WAS LIVING IN CUMBERLAND CO., WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE, I HAVE LIVED SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY AND INDIANA ., AND I NOW LIVE IN HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA AND HAVE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR ONE YEAR.
ONE NATHANIEL SAYER LIVED IN FRANKFORT IN THE YEAR 1820, AS IS APPARENT FROM A LETTER. AS FOLLOWS: FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY 10-11-1820. HONORABLE JOHN C. CALHOUN, SECRETARY OF WAR.
SIR: BE SO GOOD AS TO FORWARD ANY PAPERS WHICH YOU MAY HAVE TO SEND TO ME TO NATHANIEL SAWYER AT THIS PLACE. SIGNED THOMAS FITZSIMMONS. TO W. GORDON, ESQUIRE, HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY- JULY 19, 1830. SECTION 56 DEAR SIR: I RECEIVED IN A LETTER INCLOSED TO ME FROM BOUNTY LAND OFFICE LAND NO. 1635 FOR THOMAS FITZSIMMONS, A PRIVATE IN THE CIRGINIA LINE. I AM YOURS VERY TRULY, JOSEPH LECOMPTS.
-- IT IS ALSO SHOWN THAT HIS INVALID FILE NO. 35935
FORD: ELISHA SARAH W 882'-SOUTH CAROLINA
SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AUGUST 19, 1833- THE ABOVE SOLDIER, AGE 75, MADE DECLARATION FOR PENSION. SAYS HE ENLISTED IN APRIL 1776. SAYS HE
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SAYS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE ON A DRAFT MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIWER UPON A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN ANDREW BERRY AND SERVED AS SUCH DURING THE WHOLE OF HER SAID TOUR, THAT HE WAS ATTACHED T& A REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. WINGATE AS WELL AS HE REMEMBERS AND THAT AT THE TIME HE ENLISTED HE WAS A RESIDENT OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S. C., AND IMMEDIATELY MARCHED TO HITES? OLD STORE OR FORT AND THERE KEPT STATIONED IN A SMALL FORT UNDER LT. JOHN NESBITT, AND THAT THERE SERVICES WAS AGAINST THE INDIANS UPON THE FRONTIER AND WHEN HIS TIME EXPIRED, HE WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED HOME. SAYS THAT IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1777 AS WELL AS HE REMEMBERS BEING STILL A MEMBER OF SPARTENSBURG, S. C. HE AGAIN ENTERED SERVICE UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BERRY, THAT HE WAS AGAIN ATTACHED TO COL. WINGATE'S REGIMENT. SAYS THIS TOUR WAS FOR SIX MONTHS. THAT HE WAS MARCHED TO THE FRONTIERS AGAINST THE INDIANS AND WAS KEPT THERE DURING THE WHOLE OF HIS TOUR AND IN ORDER TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS FROM THE INCURRISONS OF THE SAVAGE, THAT DURING HIS TOUR, HE WAS ENGAGED IN SEVERAL SHORT SKIRMISHES WITH THE INDIANS AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF HIS TERM WAS DISCHARGED.
AND THAT AFTERWARDS IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1778, HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A PRIVATE, UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BERRY, WHICH WAS A COMPANY OF MOUNTED RIFLEMEN. UPON A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS; THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED
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WITH HIS COMPANY AT 3 FORKS OF TIGER, THAT HE WAS MARCHED FROM THERETOWARD AUGUSTA GEORGIA IN ORDER TO JOIN GENERAL WILLIAMSON WHO LAY WITH HIS ARMY ON THE SAVANNA RIVER, THAT ON THEIR ROUTE THEY FELL IN WITH AND WERE ATTACHED TO THE BATALLION OF MAJOR BRAHAM AND THEY THEN ALL MARCHED ON TOGETHER AND JOINED GENERAL WILLIAMSON AND WAS DISCHARGED AT THE EXPIRATION OF HIS SERVICES.
STATES AND DECLARES THAT IN THE MONTH OF MAY IN THE YEAR 1781 HE AGAN ENTERED THE SERVICE, AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER IN THE COMPANY OF CAPT. JOHN BERRY UPON A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS, THAT HIS REGIMENT WAS PLACED UNDER COMMAND OF MAJOR WELLS, THAT HE SERVED ABOUT 24 MONTHS IN ALL. SAID HE WAS BORN IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA., IN 1757 ON NOV. 24. SAID HE HAD BEEN THIS DATE IN THE BIBLE OF HIS FATHER'S. | LIVED IN SPARTANSBURG S. C. WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE UPON EACH OF MY TOURS AND CONTINUED TO LIVE THERE UNTIL SOMETIME AFTER THE WAR AND IN THE YEAR |799. I MOVED FROM S. C. TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY IN WHICH COUNTY AND STATE | STILL LIVE. -- SAID THAT HIS NEIGHBORS AT THIS TIME ARE WILLIAM W. FORD, CLERGYMAN AND HENRY BASKETT.
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