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-- SARAH FORD HIS WIDOW NADE DECLARATION FOR PENSION IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, SEPT. 10-1838, AGE 73, SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM, MARCH 9-1774 -1774- IN NEWBERRY COUNTY, S. C. AND THAT HER HUSBAND DIED SEPT. 29, 1833, SAYS THAT THE RECORD OF HER MARRIAGE WAS MADE AND WRITTEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND HAS BEEN KEPT IN THE POSSESSION OF HER AND HER HUSBAND UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME.
BIBLE RECORDS.
ELISHA FORD, BORN NOV. 24, 1757- AND DIED SEPT. 29, 1833.
ELISHA FORD AND SARAH HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED MARCH 9-1784.
WILLIAM FORD, SON OF ELISHA FORD AND HIS WIFE WAS BORN APRIL 26, 1785 AND MARRIED JANUARY 5, 1811.
JOHN FORD, SON OF ELISHA FORD AND HIS WIFE WAS BORN OCTOBER 3, 1787, AND WAS MARRIED JUNE 28, 1808.
SECTION 58 NANCY FORD, DAUGHTER OF ELISHA AND SARAH HIS WIFE, BORN MAY 30, 1789 AND MARRIED APRIL 3, 1804.
MARY FORD, DAUGHTER OF ELISHA AND SARAH HIS WIFE, BORN DECEMBER 18, 1799
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MARY FORD, DAUGHTER OF ELISHA AND SARAH HIS WIFE BORN DECEMBER 13, 1799 . AND DIED MAY 30-FOLLOWING .
POLLY FORD, DAUGHTER OF ELISHA AND SARAH HIS WIFE, BORN JANUARY 2, 1795, MARRIED SEPTEMBER 23, 1812.
SALLY FORD, DAUGHTER OF ELISHA FORD AND SARAH HIS WIFE, BORN SEPT. 16, 1797 WAS MARRIED OCTOBER 16, 1813.
FRANKLIN: JAMES M- ALIAS CANTERNBURY: SID CANTERBURY :
$ 31,040 VIRGINIA
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY- DECEMBER 10, 1833, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNTY COURT OF SAID COUNTY, JAMES H. FRANKLIN A RESIDENT CF SPENCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AGE 70 SAYS THAT HE WAS BORN ON LAST DAY OF OCTOBER 1763, AS INDROMED BY HIS PARENTS IN ORANGE COUNTY, VA. THAT HE WAS BOUND AS AN APPRENTICE TO A CERTAIN THOMAS STAPLE OF SAID COUNTY LAST NAMED. THAT HE RAN OFF FROM SAID STAPLE AND ENLISTED IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1779 AT THE BARRACKS SEVEN MILES FROM CHARLOTTSVILLE IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA., AS A PRIVATE TO SERVE IN THE ARMY OF THE U. S., FOR THE PERIOD OF THREE YEARS. HE ENLISTED UNDER THE ASSUMED NAME OF SID CANTERBURY AND SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARD WHITE, ATTACHED TO THE THIRD VIRGINIA REGIMENT UNDER COMMAND OF COL. FRANCIS TAYLOR, RICHARD POLLARD WAS THE LT., OF HIS COMPANY. HE REMEMBERS GENERAL WOODS WHO KEPT HIS HEADQUARTERS AT CHARLOTTSVILLE. CAPTIN GARLAND BURLY, CAPTAIN COLEMAN RICE, CAPTAIN KIMBERLAKE, COMMANDED COMPANIES AT THE SAME PLACE AND IN THE SAME SERVICE WHICH WAS TO GUARD THE PRISONERS TAKEN WITH BURGOYNE, -HE WAS STATIONED AT THE BARRACKS MORE THAN TWO YEARS. THE PRISONERS IN THE FALL OF 1771, WERE MOVED NEAR TO WINCHESTER IN VIRGINIA. HE MARCHED CAPTAIN WHITE TO GUARD THE PRISONERS AFTER THE PRISONERS REACHED THEIR NEW PLACE OF DESTINATION. WE WERE MARCHED FROM WIPCHESTER THROUGH THE LOWER END ROCKY HILL- PENNSYLVANIA? SECTION 59
THENCE THROUGH THE LOWER END OF HENRICO BELOW WILLIAMSBURG, AND BETWEEN THAT PLACE AND JAMESTOWN WE MET A CORPS - IN THE BRITISH TROOPS AND HAD A SKIRMISH WITH THEM AND WERE BEATEN- WAS SLIGHLY WOUNDED IN THE ARM WITH A SHOT AND ALSO WITH A BAYONET IN THE LEFT ELBOW. GENERAL WAYNE WAS THEN COMMANDING THE DETACHMENT OF THE ARMY TO WHICH | THEN BELONGED FROM THE POINT LAST NAMEDO WAS MARCHED TO YORK WHERE CAPTAIN DAVENPORT TOOK COMMAND OF THE COMANY, WHITE BEING ABSENT AFTER THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS HE WAS DETACHED WITH THE TROOPS TO GUARD THE PRISONERS AND WAS MARCHED ON THAT SERVICE TO WINCHESTER VA .- HE SERVED AS SECOND SERGEANT IN -CAPTAIN WHITE'S COMPANY. FROM THE TIME OF HIS ENLISTMENT UNTIL HE WAS DISCHARGED. HE RECEIVED HIS DISCHARGE IN JANUARY 1782, AND PLACED IT IN THE HANDS OF HIS OLDER BROTHER ABSOLOM FRANKLIN, WHO WAS AN ENLISTED SOLDIER AND DISCHARGED ED AT THE SAMETIME. HE AND HIS BROTHER SEPARATED SOON AFTER THIS TIME A AND HE HAS NEVER SEEN HIM SINCE ( DID NOT SAY WHETHER THE BROTHER ENLISTED AS FRANKLIN OR BY THE NAME CANTERBERRY ?- THIS APPLICANT SAYS HE SERVED THREE YEARS. COMMENCING. JANUARY 1779 AND ENDING JANUARY 1782 AND HENCE KNOWS OF NO ONE BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE HIS SERVICE, EXCEPT JAMES ALVIS OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. SAYS ON ACCOUNT OF THE AGE OF ALVIS HE IS MAKING HIS DECLARATION IN SHELBY COUNTY. SAYS HAT HE HAS RESIDED IN KENTUCKY FOR 43 YEARS PAST AND BEFORE THAT HE RESIDED IN VIRGINIA, HENRICO COUNTY. HE SIGNED HIS NAME JAMES FRANKLIN.
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AFFIDAVIT OF JESSE ALVIS, RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY SAIL JAMES ALDIS BEING A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONER, WHO STATES THAT HE KNOWS JAMES FRANKLIN AND KNOWS HIM TO BE THE SAME MAN WHO SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN WHITE IN THE YEAR 1779 AT THE BARRACKS NEAR CHARLOTTSVILLE IN VIRGINIA, THAT HE KNOWS THAT SAID FRANKLIN ENLISTED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AT THE SAID BARRACKS BY THE NAME OF SAID CANTERBUY AND SERVED AS A 3LL HIER UNDER CAPTAIN WHITE'S COMPANY UNDER THIS NAME,
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THIS AFFIANT WAS AN ENLISTED SOLDIER AT THE SAMETIME AND WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF HOLMAN RICE AND ATTACHED TO THE SAME REGIMENT AND VAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE APPLICANT FOR A PENSION.
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FRENCH: WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH S 37,943 VIRGINIA SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY: JANUARY 20-1834. THE SOLDIER PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE JUDE JESS METCALF, JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURT FOR SAID COUNTY, AGE 73, HE STATES HE WAS RESIDING I : HENRY COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE, THAT IN THE YEAR 1779 IN MAY IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PROCLAMATION FROM COL. PATRICK HENRY, HE VOLUNTEERED FOR A TOUR 0 OF THREE MONTHS UNDER CAPTAIN JAMES SHELTON HIS LT., AND HE STATES WAS BY THE NAME OF ROSS- ENSIGN WELLS. SAYS THAT UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF COL. ANCHELOUS HUGHES; THAT CAPTAIN SHELTON'S COMPANY WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE, SAYS THAT HE DID RENDEZVOUSED WITH THE BALANCE OF CAPTAIN SHELTON'S COMPANY AT THE HOUSE OF JAMES SPENCE IN SAID COUNTY OF HENRY AND THEN UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JAMES SHELTON, MARCHED FROM SAID PLACE TO THE HOUSE OF COLL LYON WHERE THE COMPANY ENCAMPED UNTIL COL. HUGHES CAME UPL COL. HUGHES .THEN ORDERED THAT THE COMPANY SHOULD MARCH TO FLOWER GAP IN THE BLUE RIDGE ACCORDINGLY- . HE STATES THAT THEY OID MARCH TO FLOWER GAP AND WAS THERE STATIONED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING THE INHABITANTS FROM ENCROSCHMENTS BY THE TORIES. HE STATES THAT DURING THEIR STAY AT FLOWER GAP, THAT THEY EMPLOYED IN SCOUTING AND SPYING THE COUNTRY IN ORDER TO OVERRUN, THE TORIES AND RENDER THAT SECTION OF THE COUNTRY SECURE. HE SAYS THAT HE DID REMAIN AT SAID ENCAMPMENT UNTIL HIS SAID TOUR OF 3 MONTHS EXPIRED WHEN CAPTAIN SHELTON MARCHED HIS COMPANY BACK IN SAID COUNTY TO HENRY WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPTAIN SHELTON IN 1779, HE FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1779, THAT COL. PENN RECEIVED INTELLIGENTS TY AN EXPRESS THAT THE TORIES IN NORTH CAROLINA WERE ABOUT TO OVERRUN THE STATE AND WERE REQUESTED TO AFFORD SUCH ASSISTANCE AS WAS IN HIS PO POWER ACCORDINGLY COL. PENN INFORMED ALL OF THE CAPTAINS BELONG TO HIS REGIMENT TO RAISE AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS THEY COULD TO AID THE ARMY SECTION 61
AND WHIGS IN NORTH CAROLINA, WHEN HE THE SAID DECLARANT DID VOLUNTEER FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BILLARD AND RENDEZVOUSED AT THE HOUSE OF HENRY FRANCIS ON THE SOUTH M ?? RIVER. HE STATES AS IT
WAS AN EMERGENCY EXPEXITION, THEY WERE ALL REQUIRED TO ATTEND ON
HORSE FROM THE PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS. HE STATES THAT UNDER THE COMMAI.D OF COL. ABRAHAM PENN AND MAJOR PRICE MASTIN OR MARTIN THEY MARCHED TO MOROVIAN TOWN IN N. C., AND ON ARRIVING AT THE MOROVIAN TOWN HE STATES THAT THEY ENCAMPED FOR A SHORT TIME, THEN THEY WENT UP THE YADKIN RIVER AND CROSSED AT THE SHALLOW FORD AND WENT TO THE HOUSE OF A WEALTHY OLD TORY WHERE WE STAYED ABOUT ONE WEEK. WHILST COLONEL
PENN'S REGIMENT WAS HERE STATIONED IT SEEMED TO HAVE GIVEN MUCH SECURITY TO THE WHIGS AND HAD A TENDENCY TO QUELL THE TORIES IN THAT QUARTER, HE STATES THAT THENCE PROCEEDED UP THE YADKIN RIVER TH PURSUIT OF TORIES AT HIGH AS THE BLUE RIDGE WHERE THE TORIES USUALLY RESORTED FOR SAFETY. HE SAYS THEY SECURED THE MOUNTAINS IN SEARCH OF TORIES AND AFTER AN
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AFTER AN UNSCCESSFUL EXCURSION IN SAID MOUNTAINS, HE STATES THAT THEY WENT TO SALSBURY WHERE THEY STAYED A FEW DAYS, THENCE TO THE LOWER MOROVIAN TOWNS WHERE THEY REMAINED A FEW DAYS, THENCE UNDER COMMAND OF COL. PENN, MARCHED TO HENRY COUNTY, VA., WHERE HE WAS DISCHARGED AFTER HAVING SERVED 3 MONTHS, IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1780. SAYS THAT
IN APRIL 1780 THAT HE WAS DRAFTED IN HENRY COUNTY, VA., FOR 3 MONTHS AND RENDEZVOUSED AT HENRY FRANCE'S IN HENRY COUNTY AND WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JONATHAN HANBY OF HENRY COUNTY AND MAJOR WARD OF BEDFORD COUNTY, AND MAJOR ROSE OF AMHURST COUNTY AND MARCHED TO SALEM IN N. C. THENCE THEY MARCHED TO SALSBURY AND AFTER REMAINING THERE A FEW DAYS, HE STATED THAT THEY MARCHED TO THE SEIGE OF 96 AND SAYS WE JOINED THE REGIMENT OF GENERAL GREEN AND AFTER REMAINING THERE 16 DAYS AT THE SEIGE LORD ROWAN CAME WITH HIS ARMY TO THE SIGHT OF THE SEIGE WHEN GENERAL GREEN WHO HAD THE COMMAND ORDERED THAT THE SEIGE SHOULD BE RAISED AND THE AMERICAN ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL GREEN RETREATED ACROSS THE SABINA ABOUT 14 MILES THENCE.
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THEY MARCHED TO THE FISH DAN FORD ON BROAD RIVER, SAYS THAT DURING THEIR RETREAT THAT THEY WERE PERSUED BY LORD BOUDEN AS FAR AS THE E ?? MILE. AFTER CROSSING THE RIVER AT THE FISH DAN FORD, HE STATES THAT HE AND OTHERS OF THE MILITIA WAS STATIONED AT THE BANK OF THE RIVER, EXPECTING THAT BOWDEN WAS STILL IN PURSUIT, -SAYS THAT THE MILITIA WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. LEE. AFTER ASCERTAINING THAT BOUDEN HAD GIVEN UP THE PURSUIT. HE STATES THAT COLN LEE RECROSSED THE RIVER AND MARCHED DOWN UPON THE CONGRESS RIVER ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE DAYS MARCH FROM FISH DAM FORD, AFTER TAKING UP AN ENCAMPEMENT. SAYS THAT HE, WITH 27 OTHERS WAS DETAILED AS A GUARD OVER A BRIDGE. ACROSS A SMALL CREEK, WHAT EMPTIED INTO THE CONGORAR RIVER, THAT IN A FEW YEARS AFTER HE WAS STATIONED AT THE BRIDGE, AN ENGAGEMENT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE ENEMY AND COL. LEE'S INFANTRY. COL. LEE
SENT HIS ADJUTANTS TO THE BRIDGE AND ORDERED A RETREAT-SAYS THIS WAS ABOUT MID NIGHT AND THE GUARD DESPERSED. HIS 3 MONTHS EXPIRED- HE WENT TO CAMDEN DELIVERED UP HIS ARMS TOOK A RECEIPT FROM THE OFFICERS OF THE GUARD AND RETURNED HOME TO HENRY CO., VA., WHICH DISCHARGE WAS JULY 1780. SAYS THAT IN OCTOBER 1780, THAT HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE FOR 12 MONTHS FROM THE HENRY CO., VA., UNDER CAPTAIN MARTIN, AND REDEZVOUSED AT THE HOUSE OF HENRY FRANCES IN HENRY CO. AND THEY WERE MARCHED INTO N. C., AND MARCHED FROM N. C. INTO S. C., AT ) WENT TO CHARLESTON AND JOINED THE COMMAND OF GENERAL SUMPTER, THENCE TO CONGARES, THENCE TO EUTAW SPRINGS. HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THIS TOUR 1:31. THAT IN 1782 COL. WADE HAMPTON OF S. C. WAS PASSING THROUGH VIRGINIA WITH A BRIGADE OF BAGGAGE WAGONS LOADED WITH MILITIA STORES FOR THE USE OF THE ARMY AND WAS VERY MUCH ANNOYED BY THE ENEMY AND TORIES TO SECURE THE WAGONS AND STORES. HE THE SAID HAMPTON CALLED UPON THE COL. ABRAHAM PENN OF HENRY CO., FOR A GUARD TO PROTECT THE WAGONS AND LOADING COL. PENN WHO ISSUED AN ORDER FOR A GUARD WHEN HE THE SAID WILLIAM FRENCH DID VOLUNTEER AS A GUARD TO SAID BRIGADE WAGONS AND WENT WITH THEM FROM HENRY COUNTY TO MCANELLY FORD ON DAN. RIVER. HERE HE 1
HERE HE STATES THAT JOHN HAMPTON WAS INFORMED THAT THE TORIES HAD EMOBDIE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING A WAGAN AND STORES. COL HAMPTON THEN ORDERED A RETREAT AND THE WAGONS RETURNED TO HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA
ALSO SAYS THAT IN 1782, JOHN RED A WAGON MASTER WAS TRANSPORTING MILITIA SUPPLIES FROM HALIFAX OLD TOWN IN VIRGINIA, TO A GARRISON ON CATAWBA RIVER AND WHEN PASSING THROUGH HENRY COUNTY, HE CALLED UPON
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ALSO SAYS THAT IN 1782, JOHN RED A WAGON MASTER WAS TRANSPORTING MILITIA SUPPLIES FROM HALIFAX OLD TOWN IN VIRGINIA' TO A GARRISON ON CATAWBA RIVER AND WHEN PASSING THROUGH HENRY COUNTY, HE CALLED UPON COL. PENN, FOR A GUARD TO PROTECT THE BAGGAGE. COL PENN ISSUED AN ORDER FOR A GUARD TO SAID WAGONS, WHEN HE, THIE SAID WILLIAM FRENCH DID VOLUNTEER AS A GUARD AND STARTED WITH SAID WAGON FROM HENRY COUNTY AND PASSED THROUGH MOROVIAN TOWNS IN N. C. THENCE THEY CROSSED THE YADKIN RIVER AT THE SHALLOW FORD. THENCE TO THE GARRISON WHERE THE BAGGAGE THERE DEPOSITED, SAYS THAT IN THE CAPACITY OF A GUARD, HE CONTINUED UNTIL THE WAGONS MADE FOUR TRIPS FROM HALIFAX COUNTY TO THE AFORESAID GARRISON CONSUMING A PERIOD OF TWO MONTHS WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPT. RED IN DECEMBER 1782, WHEN HE RETURNED : HOME TO HENRY COUNTY.
HE SAID HE WAS BORN IN GOOCHALAND COUNTY VIRGINIA 1761, SAID THAT HE WAS LIVING IN HENRY COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE AND LIVED THERE UNTIL 1807. 1 THEN MOVED TO SHELVY COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE ! HAVE LIVED EVER SINCE.
--- A. MIDAVIT OF SAMUEL C. FRENCH AND WILLIAM H. FRENCH HEIRS AT LAW OF WILLIAM FRENCH, DECEASED AND WHO DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. FEBRUARY 14, 1851, AND ALSO HEIRS AT LAW OF ELIZABETH FRENCH, WIDOW OF SAID WILLIAM FRENCH. SHE DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 27, 1851, WITHOUT OBTAINING HER PENSION.
FOREE: JOSEPH OR
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VIRGIN A S 37939 FORCE: JOSEPH
STATE OF ENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY, APRIL 17, 1834, AGE 92, SAYS THAT HE WAS RESIDING IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE. THAT IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1779, A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED FOR A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS AND WAS MARCHED UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS, (VIZ CAPTAIN HENRY WALKER,
MAJOR OVERSTREET AID COL. FLURNEY. SAYS THEY RENDEZVOUSED AT PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY COURT HOUSE AND WAS MARCHED INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND CROSSED THE DAN RIVER AT ALLEN'S FORD, THENCE TO SALESBURY, WHERE HE STATES THEY WERE STATIONED FOR SOMETIME AND UNTIL HIS SAID TIME OF DRAFT WAS OUT WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1779. HE FURTHER
STATES THAT UPON LEAVING SALISBURY, THAT HE WAS ENTRUSTED WITH SOME LETTERS DIRECTED TO GENERAL WASHINGTON WHICH HE DELIVERED TO COL' . KELSO AS DIRECTED. THIS DECLARENT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1781. ANOTHER DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY TO PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY AND TOURS OF SIX MONTHS CHEN THE SAID DECLARANT WAS AGAIN DRAFTED FOR THE ABOVE STATED PERIOD AND MARCHED FROM SAID COUNTY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN CUNNINGHAM, MAJOR OVERSTREET, COL. NELSON, AND GENERAL PROBER LAWSON- SAYS THEY PROCEEDED INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND REACHED GUILFORD COURT HOUSE WHEN THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT, SAYS HE WAS DETAILED AS A GUARD AND BAGGAGE WAGON, THEREFORE WAS NOT IN SAID BATTLE, SAYS THAT THEY THEN RETREATED TO PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY WHERE THEY REMAINED THREE WEEKS AND THEN MARCHED AGAIN INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND STATIONED AT SALEBURY UNTIL HIS TOUR WAS OUT, WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED, HAVING SERVED SIE MONTHS. SAYS HE WAS BORN IN POWHATAN COUNTY, VA. IN 1742. THAT HE HAS NO RECORD CF HIS AGE, THAT THE INDIANS BROKE IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSE IN 1780 AT MARTINS STATION AND DESTROYED HIS FAMILY RECORD. HE WAS LIVING IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VIRGINIA WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL 1803, THEN MOVED TO RENTUCKY, SHELBYCOUNTY, WHERE NOW LIVE. SAID THAT HE LOST HIS DISCHARGE WHILE MOVING TO KENTUCKY.
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NORTH CAROLINA $37,955
SECTION 65 SAYS HE WAS RESIDING IN SURRY COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE THAT IN THE MONTH OF MARCH 1779, A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY FOR A TERM OF SIX MONTHS WHEN SAID GRAVES WAS DRAFTED .. ND RENDEZVOUSED AT SAID COUNTY COURT HOUSE, 1779, IN APRIL AND MARCHED FROM SAID COURT HOUSE UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN SCOTT, AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. CLEVELAND REGIMENT AND BY OPDER OF GENERAL NACH WAS MARCHED TO JOIN GENERAL LINCOLN IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHICH JUNCTION THEY FORMED WHEN SAVANNAH, THIS MARCH WAS BY ORDER OF GENERAL LINCOLN, DIRECTE ED TOWARDS CHARLESTOWN AND NEAR TO CHARLESTOWN, THE ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL LINCOLN HAD A SMALL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE BRITISH IN WHICH ENGAGEMENT HE STATES HE WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGED, SAYS THEY THEN WENT ON TO CHARLESTOWN AND AFTER REMAINING THERE A SHORT TIME, GENERAL LINCOLN ORDERED A MARCH THROUGH THE COUNTRY, TOWARDS SAVANNAH, WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL AFTER THE BATTLE OF SAID PEACE, IN OCTOBER WHEN HIS SIX MONTHS WAS EXPIRED, HE WAS DISCHARGED BY HIS SAID CAPTAIN SCOTT, IN OCTOBER AND THEN RETURNED HOME WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL AFTER GENERAL LINCOLN SURRENDERED SAVANNAH TO THE BRITISH. HE FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF JUNE 1780, A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY OF SURRY FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS. WHEN HE, THEF SAID DECLARANT WAS DRAFTED FOR THAT PERIOD AND WA WAS MARCHED FROM SAID COUNTY OF SURRY, UNDER HIS FORMER CAPTAIN SCOTT AND UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN GREGORY. THEY MARCHED NEAR THE LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA AND AFTER JOINING GENERAL GATES, THEY WERE MARCHED TOWARDS CAMDEN S. C., WHERE HE STATES THEY HAD A HARD FOUGHT BATTLE, BUT THAT WERE COMPELLED TO RETREAT AS FAR AS SALSBURY AND THENCE TO HILLSBORO, WHERE HE STATES HE WAS DISCHARGED BY HIS CAPTAIN SCOTT IN THE MOTH OF SEPTEMBER 1780. HE FURTHER STATES THAT AT THE TIME OF HIS RECEI ING HIS DISCHARGE, THAT IT WAS REPORTED THAT GENERAL GREEN WAS TO TAKE COMMAND OF THE SOUTHERN ARMY.
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SAID DECLARANT ENLISTED UNDER CAPTAIN "/ILLIAMS FOR 3 MONTHS, WHICH TOUR NEXT OCTOBER 17007907 WAS DISCHARGED BY SAID CAPTAIN WILLIAMS EARLY IN JANUARY 1781. AND IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 178! HE AGAIN VOLUNTEERED FOR 3 MONTHS UNDER CAPT. JAMESON AND WAS ATTACHED TO GENERAL DAVIDSON'S BRIGADE. SAYS HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE. SAYS HE WAS
BORN IN SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA IN 1762 -- | WAS LIVING IN SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL 1785 THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE I NOW LIVE. -- FURGUSSON WAS A SON IN LAW OF EDMUND GRAVES, WHO APPLIED TO WILLIAM | GRAVES, CF NEWCASTLE, KENTUCKY, WHO WAS A IPRACTICING LAWYER WHO MADE OUT THE CLAIN FOR EDMUND GRAVES, WHO IT IS CLAIMED AT THE TIME WAS NOT IN HIS RIGHT MIND. SAID SOLDIER HAD BEEN MARRIED TWICE, AND BY HIS FIRST WIFE HAD A DAUGHTER, THE WIFE OF FURGUSON HAS SPENT NEARLY ALL OF HIS PROPERTY AND TO ADD TO THIS, THE SECOND WIFE OF MR. GRAVES HAS NOT USED HER INFLUENCE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WISHES OF FURGUSON.
GALE: ROBERT F. VIRGINIA S31,053
STATE OF KENTUCKY, FRANKLIN COUNTY. IN JULY 1833, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPEARED IN PERSON. AT THAT TIME A RESIDENT OF HELB " COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AGE 65 SAYS THAT HE ENTERED SERVICE IN OCTOBER 1781. THIS AFFIANT CAME THROUGH THE WILDERNESS FROM ORANGE COUNTY VIRGINIA TO BRYANT'S STATION IN KENTUCKY, THAT WHEN HE, TOGETHER WITH HIS FATHER'S FAMILY CAME TO SAID STATION, HE FOUND IT IN A STATE OF WAR FARE WITH THE
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HE FOUND IT IN A STATE OF WAR FARE WITH THE INDIANS, THAT ON HIS ARRIVING IN OCTOBER 1781 HE WAS PLACED ON THE MUSTER FOOLS ALTHOUGH YOUNS, THAT HE WAS IMMEDIATELY CALLED INTO ACTUAL SERVICE BY DRAFT AND WAS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN ROBERT JOHNSON'S COMPANY AND SERVED IN SAID COMPANY GUARDING THE PROTECTING AND DEFENDING SAID FORT FROM OCTOBER 1781 UNTIL 1785; THAT CAPTAIN ROBERT JOHNSON'S COMPANY BELONGED TO COL. JOHN TODD'S REGIMENT, WHO FELL AT THE BLUE LICKS IN AUGUST 1782- THIS AFFIANT CONTINUED IN ACTUAL SERVICE IN SAID FORT DURING ALL THE TIME EXCEPT WHEN HE WAS OUT SECTION 67
EXCEPT WHEN HE WAS OUT SPYING AGAINST THE INDIANS UNDER THE COMMAND OF SAID JOHNSON. THIS AFFIANT WAS NOT IN THE BLUE LICK DEFEAT BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE GUARDS AT THE STATION LEFT BY SPECIAL ORDER AT THE TIME THIS AFFIANT WAS VERY YOUNG, BUT WAS ALITTLE TOO BEAR ARMS IN OCTOBER 1781 AS ABOVE STATED. THIS AFFIANT SAYS HE HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY FOR A FEW BEARS AND THAT THE REASON! HE DOES NOT MAKE HIS DECLARATION IN SHELBY COUNTY, INSTEAD OF FRANKLIN, IS THAT HE IS SOMEWHAT OLD AND SOMETIME SICK AND IT IS A GREAT DISTANCE FROM HIS HOME.
SAYS HE WAS BORN IN CAROLINE COUNTY VIRGINIA 1769 APRIL 3, SAYS HE WAS LIVING IN BRYANT'S STATION WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE AND SINCE THEN HE HAS LIVED IN SCOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WOODFORD AND NOW LIVES IN SHELBY COUNTY.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD M. JOHNSON, SAYS THAT HE HAS KNOWN SAID SOLDIER EVER SINCE HE WAS A CHILD AND HAS LIVED NEIGHBOR TO MY FATHER, AND THAT HE KNOWS THAT HE WAS IN BRYAN'T STATION WHEN IT WAS BESEIGED AND REMAINED UNTIL 1785 AS STATED BY HIM AND THAT HE WAS IN MY FATHER 'S COMPANY OF MILITIA AND SERVED AS STATED BY HIM. I WAS A CHILD OF ONE YEAR OLD IN THE FORT OF BRYANT'S STATION AND WHAT | HAVE SAID ABOVE IS FROM INFORMATION WHICH | DERIVED FROM HAVING KNOWN SAID SOLDIER ALL MY LIFE AND HEARING THESE THINGS PO SPOKEN OF .
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN W. GALE, HEIR AT LAW OF ROBERT F. GALE AND WHO DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY KE. TUCKY, DECEMBER 21, 1848, LEAVING NO WIDOW, SHE HAVING DIED BEFORE ME. APPOINTS A POWER OF ATTORNEY.
THE WITNESSES TO THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY WAS ELIZABETH GALE AND FRANCE AVERY .
-- AFFIDAVIT MADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1844, BY ROBERT GALE, WHO WAS ON HIS WAY TO MISSOURI WITH HIS FAMILY AND HE NOW WISH WISHES HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED AND PLACED ON THE MISSOURI PENSION ROLL SECTION 69
AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN FROM KING GEORGE COUNTY, UNDER CAPTAIN. WILLIAM BAMBRES. THIS WAS THE NAME OF MY CAPTAIN. I WAS PRESENT AT THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS | THINK | SERVED SIX MONTHS. | CAME OUT TO KENTUCKY IN 1008 WHERE I HAVE LIVED EVER SINCE. FOR WITNESSES AS TO HIS CHARACTER HE REFERS TO WILLIAM AND JAMES FORD, REUBEN REDDING AND JOHN MADDOX. HE FIRST MOVED TO BOURBON COUNTY KENTUCKY AGE OF 25 AND HAS SINCE LIVED IN CLARK, MONTGOMERY, AND NOW LIVES IN SHELBY COUNTY.
HAWKINS OR HANKINS: GEORGE VIRGINIA S 31,102 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY : HE ENLISTED AND SERVED TWO YEARS UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BRENT IN THE 4TH REGIMENT OF VIRGINIA LINE. .
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JOSHUA RICHARDSON AND PETER RIGGS OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY "SAYS HE IS GENERALLY REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD; THAT THEY HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR OVER 40 YEARS. THIS JULY 15, 1829- ONE JAMES L. WHITAKER WAS THE COUNTY COURT CLERK OF SHELBY COUNTY AT THIS DATE.
... STATE OF KENTUCKY, SPENCER COUNTY, PERSONALLY APPEARED SAMUEL C. LUNDERMAN -- THE UNDERSIGNED AND MADE OATH, THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE COMPANY
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STATE OF KENTUCKY: SPENCER COUNTY, PERSONALLY APPEARED SANVEL C. LUNDERMAN- THE UNDERSIGNED AND MADE OATH, THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JOHN BRENT ACF . THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISH- MENT OF THE 4TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. ISAA READ AND THAT HE KNEW GEORGE HANKINS AND THAT THE SAID GEORGE HANKINS WAS THE SAID COMPANY AND THAT HE SERVED IN CAPTAIN BRENT'S COMPANY AS A SOLDIER OF IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR THE PERIOD OF TWO YEARS.
SIGNED SAMUEL LUNDERMAN.
SWORN TO BEFORE A V. P. STILWELL HEADY, JP AND RALPH D. LANCASTER WAS COUNTY COURT CLERK. STATE OF KENTUCKY
SHELBY COUNTY. ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1832, PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT BEFORE THE V. P. OF SHELBY COUNTY, THE ABOVE NAMED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, GEORGE HANKINS, AGE 82. SECTION 70 SAYS HE WAS ENLISTED- SAYS HE WAS ENLISTED IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY VIRGINIA, SOON AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FOR TWO YEARS UNDER CA. TAIN JOHN SRENT OR BRIANT, WHOSE LT., WAS -- SPENCER, IN THE 4TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. READ. HE MARCHED FROM CHARLOTTE COURT HOUSE TO NORFOLK, FROM NORFOLK . TO PHILABLEPHIA HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF BRANDYWINTE, GERMANTOWN, THE PLAINS AND THE LONG BRIDGES AND MANY OTHER SKIRMISHES. HE SERVED TWO YEARS.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES C. BURNETT AND BENONI L. NEWLAND, LIVING IN THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT WE ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH GEORGE HANKINS.
-- MERCER COUNTY, KENTUCKY- PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFOE THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, J.P . ONE HUMPHREY MAY AND SAYS HE WAS ONE OF THE COMPANY UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN BRENT, OF THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE 4TH REGIMENT, COMMANDED BY COL. ISAAC REED AND SAYS HE KNEW GEORGE HANKINS AND KNEW HE WAS OF THE SAME COMPANY AS A PRIVATE-CORPORAL AND THAT HE SERVED TWO YEARS IN THE SAME COMPANY AND REGIMENT WITH HIMGELET. SIGNED HUMPHREY MAY. THIS MAY 23, 1829.
GIBSON: ELISHA S 31,062 VIRGINIA
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. MAY 24, 1834, AGE 87. A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, WHO SAYS HE WAS DRAFTED IN THE YEAR 1780 FOR 3 MONTHS. HE THEN RESIDED IN HALIFAX COUNTY VIRGINIA AND IMMEDIATELY MARCHED TO SALISBURY NORTH CAROLINA, FROM THERE Te 95. DOES NOT REMEMBER ANY OFFICERS EXCEPT MAJOR ROSE AND SERVED AS A DRIVER OF HORSE WAGON, WHICH SERVICE WAS RENDERED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. AFTER THE SEIGE OF 96 GENERAL GREEN MARCHED THE ARMY TO THE HIGH MILLS OF SANTEE, WHERE THIS DECLARANT WAS DISCHARGED. THAT IN THIS TOUR, HE WAS COMPELLED TO SERVE FIVE MONTHS, WHICH HE DID AND FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT AS A DRIVER OF A TEAM AS AFORESAID.
SECTION 71 THAT IN THE YEAR 1731 THIS DECLARANT WAS AGAIN DRAFTED IN HALIFAX COUNTY , VIRGINIA FOR 3 MONTHS AND ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A PRIVATE AND SERVED IN CAPTAIN FOUNTAIN'S COMPANY OF MILITIA. HE MARCHEG IMMEDIATELYY TO HILLSBORO N. C. THENCE TO PEEDEE RIVER WHERE THEY MARCHED AND STAYED UNTIL THE MILITIA COULD BE GATHERED TOGETHER. THIS DECLARANT STATES THAT HE WAS IN GATES DEFEAT AND SUFFERED GREAT HARDSHIP. THAT AFTER THE ARMY WAS SCATTED . GENERAL STEPHENS TOOK THE COMMAND OF THE REMAINDER OF THE ARMY- THAT WAS LEFT AND MARCHED TO HILLSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THEN TO GUILFORD COURT HOUSE WHERE HE WAS DISCHARGED; THAT HE WAS COMPELLED TO SERVE FIVE MONTHS THIS TOUR; THIS DECLARANT STATES THAT HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM THE AFORESAID
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