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TOURS OF DUTY IN WRITING, WHICH DISCHARGE HAS LONG SINCE BEEN LOST, SAYS ME WAS BORN 1747 IN KING WILLIAM COUNTY VIRGINIA. THAT HE HAS A RECORD OF HIS AGE IN HIS HOUSE, THAT HE WAS LIVING IN HALIFAX COUNTY VIRGINIA WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE. SINCE THAT TIME HE LIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA, THEN IN VIRGINIA, PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY AND MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE HE NOW LIVES. T AT HE WAS DRAFTED BOTH TOURS. THAT BY REASON OF OLD AGE, HE CAN RFCOLLECT FEW OF THE OFFICERS, BUT WELL RECOLLECTS STEPHENS, GENERAL GATES GREEN AND MAJOR ROSE. JOHN HOLLAND AND JOHN SHEPHERD RESIDENTS OF SHELBY- SAID HE WAS REPUTED TO. HAVE BEEN A SOI SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION AND THAT HE WAS AGE 87. J. A. C. BURNETT, JUSTICE OF PEACE.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JONES M. HOLLAND, AGE 79, CERTIFY THAT I WAS IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AT THE TIME OF GATE'S DEFEAT AND I KNOW THAT ELISHA GIBSON WAS THEN THERE IN THE ARMY. I HAVE SINCE BEEN INTIMA TELY ACQUAINTED WITH HIM FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS AND HAVE OF TEN HEARD HIM RELATE OVER HIS LONG SERVICE AND SUFFERINGS IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION. SIGNED JANES M, HOLLAND .-- DECLARANT MADE APPLICATION FORPENSION IN 1833, AGE AGE 36, WHICH IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE COPIED ABOVE, SAYS THAT IN THE WINTER OF 1776 AND 1777, HE WAS A CITIZEN OF HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE UNDER CAPTAIN NATHANIEL TERRY'S COMPANY, WHICH SECTION 72
WAS ARRANGED TO THE 14TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT ON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT . . ) UNDER COMMAND OF WILLIAM DAVIS. MAJOR WAS BY THE NAME OF CARROLL, THE LT., IN THE COMPANY WAS WILLIAM POINTER. THIS AFFIANT FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT HIS THREE YEARS FOR WHICH HE ENLISTED AND WAS DISCHARGED IN THE WINTER OF 1779 OR 1780 BY WILLIAM DAVID. THIS AFFIANT WAS MARCHED TO THE BATTLE GROUND OF GERMANTOWN AND GOT THERE JUST AFTER THE BATTLE WAS OVER, BUT WAS IN THE BATTLE AT MOMOTH NEW JERSEY, THIS AFFIANT THEN MARCHED TO THE BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS, THENCE TO WEST POINT, TO NORTH RIVER TINTO WINTER QUARTERS. THAT IN 1780, THIS AFFIANT RETURNED HOME TO HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, FROM THE AFORESAID ENLISTMENT WAS DRAFTED FOR 3 MONTHS AS PRIVATE SOLDIER OF THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, THAT HE ACCORDINGLY LY SERVED THIS TOUR AS A DRIVER OF A TEAM.
SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR HE HAS LIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA AND MOVED FROM THERE TO KENTUCKY, WHERE HE NOW LIVES, THE FIRST TOUR HE WAS A REGULAR, THE TWO LAST TOURS WAS MILITIA DUTY.
AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN AND JONAS M. HOLLAND OF SHELBY COUNTY, SAY THAT HE IS REPUTED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR .
- AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM CORNWELL, MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, SATES THAT ON THE 5TH OF SEPTEMBER, IN 1835, THAT HE IS A CITIZEN OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY AGE 74, A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, SAYS HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ELISHA GIPSON IN THE COUNTY OF SHELBY, SAYS HE KNEW HIM IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION AND THAT SAID ELISHA GIPSON WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN NATHANIEL TERRY AND ATTACHED TO THE 14TH REGIMENT OF RHY VIRGINIA LINE UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. WILLIAM DAVIS AND THAT SAID GIBSON W WAS AN ENLISTED SOLDIER FOR THE TERM OF 3 YEARS AND THAT SAID SECTION 73 GIBSON WAS DISCHARGED IN 1779 AT MIDDLEBROOK, NEW JERSEY. SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY: OCTOBER 10-1835, BEFORE J.A.C. BURNETT JP APPEARED JAMES TRAVIS, AGE 85, WHO WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER, SAYS HE HAS LONG BEEN ACQUAINTED WITH ELISHA GISSON AND THAT FROM VARIC. S CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM AND HEARING HIM RELATE MANY CIRCUMSTANCES AND EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION, THAT SAID TRAVIS WELL RECL. . ECTS, HE KNOWS THAT GIBSON WAS THERE, THAT NO MAN COULD STATE
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SAID TRAVIS WELL RECOLLECTS, HE KNOWS THAT SAID GIBSON WAS THERE
THAT NO MAN COULD STATE MINUELY THE PARTICULARS THAT HE HAS TO WITHOUT BEING AN EYE WITNESS TO SAME, SIGNED V.T. TRAVIS, (HIS MARK ) --- THE ADDITIONAL AFFIDAVIT OF ELISHA GIBSON TAKEN AT HIS HOUSE IN " SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, AGE 95 CR 96, WHO IS VERY INFIRM AND UNABLE TO TRAVEL, SAYS THAT HE WAS A SOLDIER IN CAPTAIN TERRY'S COMPANY, UNDER COL. WILLIAM DAVIS AND SO FAR AS HE RECOLLECTS, THERE WAS NO OTHER PERSON BY THAT NAME OR THE NAME OF GIBSON, WHO SERVED IN SAID COMPANY AND RECOLLECTS THAT THE ORDERLY SERGEANT, FREQUENTLY CALLED HIM ON THE ROLL "ELIJAH" AND AT OTHER TIMES ELISHA AND THAT SIAD GIBSON ALWAYS ANSWERED TO THE NAME OF GISSON WHEVER CALLED. ยทยท- AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIAM CORNWELL TAKEN IN 1841- AGE 82. AFFIDAVIT STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 1777 AT THE COUNTY OF DUTCHESS NEW YORK, HE SAW ELISHA GIBSON IN SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN CAPT. NATHANIEL TERRY'S COMPANY AND COL. WILLIAM DAVIS. REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LINE, THAT SAID GIBSON CONTINUED TO SERVE UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1779 WHEN SAID GIBSON WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED TO THE STATE OF VIRGINIA AND KNOW HIM WELL AS SAID GIBSON WAS APPOINTED VERY OFTEN TO KEEP THE CANY? AND WHILE I WAS SCOUTING AS A PILOT UNDER THE QUARTER- MASTERS GENERAL'S ORDERS, | FREQUENTLY SAW HIM IN CAMP AND | NOW DISTINCTLY RECOGNIZE THIS MAN LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY TO BE THE S SAME PERSON.
THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY BY J.P. HESSE- SECTION 74
WISH POUND 1841.
-AFFIDAVIT OF ONE JOHN GIBSON AND JAMES TRAVIS OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SAY THEY BELEIVE HE WAS A SOLDIER AS HAS STATED.
-- A LETTER IN THIS FILE AS FOLLOWS; DATE SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY, NOVEMBER 15, 1842. TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
DEAR SIR :- WISHES ELIANA GIBSON CAME. TO BE PASSED UFON AND TO LET HIM KNOW THE PENSION HE SHOULD RECEIVE.
SAYS BENJAMIN VAN CLEAVE IS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN ELAN BALLARD'S COMPANY, COL. JOHN ALLEN'S REGIMENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER RAISEN 1812. HIS WIDOW IS YET ALIVE AND AN ONLY CHILO, A SON ABOUT 25 YEARS OF AGE. SINCE AN ALLOWANCE WAS MADE BUT NEVER HAS BEEN DELIVERED BY THE WIDOW OR ANY ONE FOR HER USE AND NOW NEED! HER PENSION.
C.J. M. BULLOCK.
-AFFIDAVIT- STATE OF INDIANA, PUTNAM COUNTY, BE IT REMEMBERED THAT ON THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE 1840, PERSONALLY CAME BEFORE ME THE UNDERSIGNED ONE OF THE J.P. WILLIAM CORNWELL, WHO SAYS HE KNOWS ELISHA GIBSON VERY WELL OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY; THAT HE STAYED A DAY OR TWO AT HIS HOUSE IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1839; THAT HE KNEW HIM VERY WELL WHEN IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION. THAT HE, SAID GIBSON BELONGED TO A REGIMENT NO. 14, VIRGINIA LINE COMMANDED BY COL . . WILLIAM DAVID, COMMANDED BY TERRY . THAT HE FOUND HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH HIM IN TE FALL OF 1778 WHILE STATIONED IN THE LOWER PART OF DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW YORK AT ROBISON'S FARM IN SIGHT OF WEST POINT. THENCE MARCHED TO MIDDLEBRECK, NEW JERSEY WHERE HE SAID GIBSON CONTINUED UNTIL SOME- TIME IN THE SPRING OF 1779 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED, HIS TERM OF SERVICE BEING THREE YEARS, . SIGNED JOHN W. COWGILL, JE.
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BOHANNON: JOHN AND HELEN VIRGINIA R989
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STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. HELEN BOHANNON APPEARED, AND SAYS SHE IS A WIDOW OF JOHN BOHANNON, DECEASED, A RESIDENT OF THE SAID COUNTY, AGE 77, THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM JANUARY 7, 1774 IN PITTSYLVANIA.
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THAT IN THE FALL OF 1779 SHE AND HER SAID HUSBAND MOVED TO KENTUCKY, THAT PART NOW KNOWN AS COUNTY OF MERCER, THAT THEY IMMEDIATELY JOINED THE LITTLE GARRISON IN THE FORT AT WILSON'S STATION WHICH HAS BEEN ERECTED TO ASSIST IN THE PROTECTION AND DEFENSE OF THE FRONTIER SETTLE- MENTS; THAT HER SAID HUSBAND REMAINED IN THE SAID FORT AS A PART OF THE GARRISON THEREOF FOR TWO WHOLE YEARS, EXCEPT WHEN HE WAS ABSENT THERE FROM A SCOUTING PARTIES AND UPON REGULAR TOURS OD DUTY, SEVERAL OF WHICH HE PAFFE PERFORMED DURING THAT PERIOD; THAT SHE ALSO REMAINED IN THE FORT DURING THE WHOLE OF SAID PERIOD. SHE STATES AND DECLARES THAT SHE DISTINCTLY RECOLLECTS THAT HER SAID HUSBAND PERFORMED A SIX WEEKS TOUR OF DUTY AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN JOHN ELLISON D DURING WHICH TOUR HE WENT WITH GENERAL CLARK UPON THE EXPEDITION AGAINST PICCAWAY, WHICH SHE THINKS WAS IN THE YEAR 1780; IN THE MONTH OF JULY OF THAT YEAR. FURTHER STATES THAT SHE DISTINCTLY REMEMEBERS THAT HE WENT ON ANOTHER TOUR OF ONE MONTH IN THE YEAR 1781, TO LEESTOWN, WHERE HE WAS ENGAGED AS SHE UNDERSTOOD FROM HIM AND OTHERS IN MAKING A CANOE FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE; THAT HE WAS A VOLUNTEER SOLDIER ALSO UPON THIS TOUR
AND SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN -- AS WELL AS SHE REMEMBERS .. STATES ALSO THAT
SHE RECOLLECTS DISTINCTLY OF HIS AGAIN ENTERING THE SERVICE OF THE U.S. AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER IN THE MONTH OF APRIL 1782 UPON A TOUR OF 0 ONE MONTH IN COMPANY OF CAPTAIN -- AND THAT HE WAS MARCHED TO THE WIDOW HARBESON'S WHERE HE SERVED OUT HIS TOUR BY HIS SUBSTITUTE JOHN WILLIS. SHE RECOLLECTS OF VARIOUS OTHER SMALL TOURS WHICH HE PERFORMED UNDER CAPTAIN -- BUT CANNOT NOW STATE THE NUMBER OF THEM NOR THE POINT TO WHICH TH THEY WERE DIRECTED IN CONSEQUENCE.
SECTION 76 LOSS OF MEMORY AND IN CONFIDENT THAT HE SERVED NOT LESS THAN 3 TOURS OF ONE MONTH EACH BY SUBSTITUTE OVER AND ABOVE THIS MONTH, THAT ALL OF HIS DUTY FROM OCTOBER 1779 AND THE FALL OF 1783, DID NOT AMOUNT TO LESS THAN 3 MONTHS AND THAT THE PERIOD OF OCTOBER 1779 UP TO THE FALL OF 17 1783, HE WAS ENGAGED IN A NUMBER OF SCOUTING PARTIES AGAINST THE INDIANS -- HOW LONG- OR HOW MANY OR WHAT PARTICULAR TIME SHE CANNOT SAY BUT FROM HER PRESENT BEST RECOLLECTION, SHE STATES THAT HE MUST HAVE SERVED NOT LESS DURING THAT PERIOD THAT 3 MONTHS IN THE MAY AND DURINING THE BALANCE OF SAID PERIOD AND WHILST HE WAS NOT ENGAGED IN ACTIVE SERVICE UPON REGULAR TOURS OD DUTY AND SCOUTING PARTIES, HE WAS STATIONED IN THE FORT AND CONSTITUTED A PART OF IT'S GARRISON. STATES THAT THE WHOLE OF HIS SERVICE RENDERED IN THE MANNER ABOVE NAMED DID NOT FALL SHORT OF NINE MONTHS ON TOURS AND SCOUTS AND ACCORDING TO HER PRESENT BEST RECOLLECTION- THEY WERE ALL PERFORMED AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER, SAYS THAT ALL OF THE THE SERVICE WERE PERFORMED AGAINST THE INDIANS. AND DECLARES THAT HER SIAD HUSBAND DIED JULY 10, 1832. IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE HE THEN RESIDED THAT SHE HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN SAID COUNTY, THAT HE WAS 77 YEAR YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE DIED.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF ABRAHAM COOK, CLERGYMAN AND ROBERT F. COLE, SAYS THEY ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HELEN BOHANNON.
-- ONE HENRY BOHANNON WAS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF SAID COUNTY OF SHELBY COUNTY, BEFORE WHOM THE AFFIDAVITS WERE MADE IN 1833.
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HARTLEY : CANIEL HARTLE? VIRGINIA S36571
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY. ON THE 21ST., OF JUNE 1818, PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE SOLDIER BERORE JUDGE HENRY DAVIDGE, CIRCUIT JUDGE. SAYS HE ENLISTED AS A REGULAR IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AUGUST 9, 1776, UNDER
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CAPTAIN GABRIEL LONG, IN THE LITH VIRGINIA VEGIVENT UND WAS TRANSFERRED TO VIRGINIA RIFLE REGIMENT, COMMANDED BY COL. DANIEL MORGAN; THAT HE WAS AT THE BATTLE OF STILWATER ON THE 18TH OCTOBER 1777, AT THE SURRENDER OF BURGOIN AND REMAINED IN THE SERVICE UNTIL THE 26TH OR 27TH OF DECEMBER 1779 AND OBTAINED A DISCHARGE FROM MAJOR THOMAS POSEY AT PHILADELPHIA. THAT HE IS NOW IN HIS 64TH YEAR AND IS IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES AND. NEEDS HIS PENSIONG-SAMUEL MCKEE WAS JUDGE OF THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. HE WAS AGE 65 IN 1820; THAT HE ENLISTED ON THE 9TH AUGUST 1776 IN BERKLEY COUNTY, VIRGINIA UNDER SPATAIN GABRIEL LONG ON THE SITH VIRGINIA REGIMENT. HE RECEIVED PENSION CERTIFICATE DECEMBER 24, 1819, No 16,275 AND DREW HIS PENSION UP TO MARCH 4, 1820. HIS WIFE WAS OVER 50 YEARS OF AGE, IN 1820. HE HD 3 CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM, ONE DAUGHTER ABOUT 14, SON 12, ONE SON 6-DISTRICT OF INDIANA -- ON NOVEMBER 10, 1819, JAMES TAFFE SIAD THAT IN THE YEAR 1777, HE WAS IN THE SAME REGIMENT WITH DANIEL HARTLEY BUT SAID HARLTEY WAS IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN LONG AND THAT HE BELONGED TO THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN KNOX IN MORGAN'S RIFLE CORPSS; HE FEELS CONFIDENT THAT SAID DANIEL HARTLEY SERVED IN THE REGULAR SERVICE OVER 9 MONTHS AT ONE TIME ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT IN THE VA ., LINE, THIS NOVEMBER 10. 18!9. SIGNED JAMES TAFFE, WITNESS DAVID FLOYD-ONE JOHN SHELBY WAS COUNTY COURT CLERK OF CLARK COUNTY, INDIANA COURT, 1819 .-- DECLARATION OF DANIEL HARTLEY MADE IN CLARK COUNTY, INDIANA WHERE HE HAS LATELY REMOVED FROM KENTUCKY AND DESIRED HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED TO SAID COUNTY AND STATE, THIS DECLARATION WAS MADE DECEMBER 7, 1837, SAID THAT HIS REASON FOR MOVING RIS CHILDREN WERE LIVING IN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA AND WAS AT THAT TIME RESIDING WITH HIS SON THEN A FEW MILES OF THE TOWN OF NEW ALBANY IN FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA WHERE A BRANCH OF THE STATE BANK IS LOCATED AND WHERE HE WISHES HIS PENSION MADE PAYABLE.
STHAT
SECTION 78 -- AFFIDAVIT OF HUGH HARTLEY, MADE IN CLARK COUNTY, INDIAN, SAYS THAT DANIEL HARTLEY IS OF GOOD CHARACTER AND ETC ,, BUT DID NOT STATE ANY RELATIONSHIP .
-- IT IS APPRANT FROM A LETTER IN THE FILES DATED ROCKVILLE, INDIANA WRITTEN BY JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, THAT THE SOLDIER DIED IN 1837.
IT IS APPARENT THAT THE UNPAID PENSION MONEY WAS SENT TO SAID WRIGHT FROM MARCH 26, 1838, TO JULY 1, 1847. .
HEPPARD : WILLIAM
HIPPARD? NEW JERSEY S:3370
STATE OF KENTUCKY : SHELBY COUNTY. ON MARCH 27, 1833, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE SAMUEL TODD, JUSTICE OF THE SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT, A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, AGE 72. SAYS HE ENTERED THE SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN AUGUST 1777 AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER UPON A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN BENJAMIN HEARTLEY? THAT HE WAS A RESIDENT OF GLOUCESTER, NEW JERSEY AND RENDEZVOUSED AT HADDENFIELD, IN SAID COUNTY AND WAS ATTACHED TO COL. HEAD'S REGIMENT, THAT LATER WAS ATTACHED WITH ABOUT 30 OTHERS UNDER HIS CAPTAIN TO THE MOUTH OF COOPER'S CREEK ON THE DELAWARE RIVER IN THE SAID GLOUCESTER COUNTY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACTING AS A GUARD UPON THAT POINT C THE RIVER TO PREVENT PARTIES OF THE BRITISH WHO THEN HAD POSSESSION OF PHILADELPHIA FROM CROSSING THE RIVE AND FORAGING IN THE COUNTRY AND DESTROYING AND DESTRESSING THE INHABITANTS; THAT HE REMAINED STATIONED V WITH HIS SAID PARTY AT SAID POINT FOR SOME WEEKS, PERHAPS, FIVE OR SIX PERFORMING THE DUTY ASSIGNED TO THEM AND THAT THEY WERE THEN SURPRISED BY A PARTY OF THE BRITISH CONSISTING OF ABOUT 400 MEN, WHO HAD CROSSED
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THE RIVER UNOBSERVED BY THEM SOME INSTANCE ABOVE THE POINT AT WHICH THEY WERE STATIONED AND HE AND HIS WHOLE PARTY WERE TAKEN PRISONERS AND CARRIED TO THE BRITISH ENCAMPMENT, AND WAS THERE DETAINED IN ABOUT PHILADELPHIA AS A PRISONER FOR SOME MONTHS AND UNTIL AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF HIS SAID TOUR OF DUTY AND HE WAS THEN RELEASED AND PERMITTED TO RETURN TO HIS HOME, HAVING AS HE WAS INFORMED BEEN EXCHANGED. SAYS THAT HE WAS WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS SO SHORT A TIME ON THIS TOUR, IT IS NOT RECOLLECTED ANY OF THE OFFICERS EXCEPT HIS OWN AND GENERAL WASHINGTON AND WAYNE. SAYS HE AGAIN ENTERED SERVICE JUNE 1778 AS DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER UPON A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS IN THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN BRADY: THAT HIS SAID COMPANY AND HIMSELF WITH IT, RENDEZVOUSED AT HADDENFIELD IN THE SAID COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER IN WHICH COUNTY HE STILL RESIDED. THAT HE EITHER CAME UNDER COMMAND OF COL. CLARK AND GENERAL DICKINSON; THAT SOON AFTER THE BRITISH ARMY EVACUATED PHILADELPHIA AND WHO COMMENCED TI'S MARCH THROUGH NEW JERSEY TOWARD NEW YORK, SAYS THAT WHILE THE BRITISH ARMY WAS ON IT'S MARCH THROUGH NEW JERSEY THERE WAS ALMOST CONSTANT SKIRMISHING AND AT MONMOUTH COURT HOUSE AN ACTION TOOK PLACE, THAT HE WAS WITH THE ARMY AT THE TIME , BUT WAS NOT BROUGHT INTO THE ACTION; SAYS THAT AFTER THIS ENGAGEMENT, THE BRITISH MOSTLY CROSSED OVER INTO NEW YORK, SAYS THAT HE WAS KEPT IN THE SERVICE DURING THE WHOLE PERIOD OF HIS TOUR BY HIS CAPTAIN, WHO ACTED FOR THE MOST PART AFTER THE BATTLE OF MONMOTH, SEPARATELY, THAT HIS SERVICES AND THAT OF HIS COMPANY WERE AFTER THAT PERIOD PRINCIPALLY AT MORRISTOWN AND IT'S VACINITY AND WERE DIRECTED TO THE PROTECTION OF THE COUNTRY FROM BRITISH PARTIES, STATES THAT AFTER HIS TERM OF SERVICE BEING THREE MONTHS HAD FULLY EXPIRED, HE HAVING FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT THE SAME- WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED TO HIS HOME IN THE SAID COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER . HE RECOLLECTS UPON THIS TOUR TO HAVE SEEN-BESIDES THE OFFICERS, WHO COMMANDED HIM, GENERAL WASHINGTON, WAYNE, GREEN, MAXWELL, SAYS HE AGAIN ENTERED SERVICE 1780 AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER THAT HIS COMPANY WAS COMMANDED BY THE SAME CAPTAIN MENTIONED IN THE LAST NAMED TOUR, TO WIT; CAPTAIN BRADLEY; THAT THIS TOURWAS ALSO FOR 3 MONTHS. SECTION 80
AND HE AGAIN RENDESVOUSED WITH HIS COMPANY AT HEDDONFIELD IN GLOUCESTER IN WHICH COUNTY HE STILL RESIDED; THENCE MARCHED TO CAPE MAY AND PUT UNDER COMMAND OF COL. ROBERT. SAID HE WAS BORN DECEMBER 2, 1761, IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSY; SAYS HE HAS HIS AGE RECORDED IN HIS BIBLE. (SOME PART OF THIS PAPER IS TORN, AS FOLLOWS; CONTINUED TO LIVE IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AFTER THE TERMINATION -- THEN | MOVED TO CALPY ?---
REMAINED UNTIL ABOUT THE YEAR 1803, AND THEN MUVED TO GARRARD COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE I LIVED SOME YEARS AND THEN I MOVED TO FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE | REMAINED UNTIL ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO AND THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY WHERE I NOW LIVE. SAID THAT HE WAS KNOWN IN HIS PRESENT NEIGHBORHOOD TO DAVID HAGERTY AND EVAN THOMPSON.
HERRING: GEORGE
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY: JUNE 7, 1832, SAYS HE WAS DRAFTED 1776 WITH CAPTAIN WWILLIAM DORTON (THE DORTON FROM SICKNESS DID NOT PERFORM THE TOUR ) AND SERVED BY HIS SUBSTITUTE UNDER CAPTAIN ROBERT HARRIS, THE SAID GEORGE HERRING DID NOT PERFORM THIS TOUR OF DUTY IN PERSON BUT HEREBY HIS BROTHER JAMES HERRING TO PERFORM IT FOR WHICH THE SAID GEORGE GOT CREDIT FOR A TOUR OF DUTY. AS THE SAID GEORGE DID NOT PERFORM THIS TOUR OF DUTY IN PERSON , HE CANNOT TELL WHO THE COLONEL AND OTHER OFFICERS WERE AT THE TIME OF SAID GEORGE WAS DRAFTED.
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AS AFORESAID HE LIVED IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THEY MARCHED TO NORFOLK AND AFTER SERVING THEE MONTHS AS A PRIVATE, HIS BROTHER JAMES WAS DISCHARGED. AGAIN IN 1775 IN THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE VIRGINIA, HE WAS DRAFTED FOR TWELVE MONTHS UNDER CAPTAIN ISAAC DAVIS. IT NOT BEING CONVENIENT FOR HIM TO GO HE HIRED RICHARD GULLY AS SUBSTITUTE, FOR WHICH THE H SAID GEORGE "ERRING RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FOR 12 MONTHS SERVICE, FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON, WHICH DISCHARGE IS LOST, AS THE SAID GEORGE HERRING PERFORMED THIS TOUR OF 12 MONTHS BY HIS SUBSTITUTE- HE CANNOT GIVE THE PARTICULARS AS TO THE OFFICER OR THE MARCHES WHICH THEY PERFORMED. AGAIN IN 1779 AND 1780- HE WAS DRAFTED AND SERVED A 3 TOURS OF ONE MONTH EACH IN GUARDING THE PRISONERS IN THE BARRACKS IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY, WHICH PRISONERS WERE A PART OF BURGOINS'S SOLDIERS. THESE LAST TOURS WERE SERVED UNDER VARIOUS OFFICER; CAPTAIN BROWN, CAPTIAN RHODES AND COL, BUCKER. IN MAY OR JUNE 1781 IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA., HE WAS AGAIN DRAFTED FOR 3 MONTHS AS A PRIVATE, HIS CAPTAIN'S NAME, HE DOES NOT RECOLLECT, BUT HIS COLONEL'S NAME WAS DICK, AND MAJOR'S NAME WAS BOSS. HE WAS DISCHARGED IN LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. IN ABOUT 1795 HE MOVED FROM ALBEMARLE COUNTY VIRGINIA, TO SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE YEAR 1814, MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE HE NOW RESIDES. SAYS HE WAS BORN IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA. 1759. HE RESIDED IN ALBEMARLE UNTIL 1795 AND MOVED TO NORTH CAROLINA AND LIVED UNTIL 1814 THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, THENCE TO HENRY COUNTY KENTUCKY, THENCE TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY, WHERE HE NOW RESIDES. HIS NEIGBORS WERE COLONEL JAMES FORD, REV. WILLIAM W. FORD, AND MR. ISAAC LEWIS, SR., AND BENJAMIN BONDURANK, AND HENRY BOHANNON.
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HICKMAN JAMES SR. VIRGINIA S31150
STATE OF KENTUCKY :
SHELBY COUNTY : SEPTEMBER 17, 1832, AGE 71. SAYS HE VOLUNTEERED OCTOBER 1777 FOR 3 MONTHS, IN FREDERICK COUNTY, VA., AND WAS MUSTERED INTO SERVICE AT WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA COMMANDED BY ERASMUS GILL, WHOSE LT. WAS THOMAS STRIBLING, THE ENSIGNS NAME NOT RECOLLECTED. THE COMPANY IN WHICH SAID HICKMAN, SERVED BELONGED TO THE TROOP. HE MARCHED FROM WINCHESTER TO RICHMOND VIRGINIA, AT WHICH PLACE HE WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED HOME, WHICH DISCHARGE HE HAS LOST. AGAIN ENTERED SERVICE -SEC. 82 AUGUST 1779 FOR THE TERM OF 3 MONTHS IN FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND WAS ENTERED INTO SERVICE AT WINCHESTER UNDER CAPTAIN LONG. THIS LT., WAS CARTMILL, THE ENSIGNS NAME NOT RECOLLECTED, HE WAS ATTACHED TO THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. SAMUEL GILKISON. HE MARCHED FROM WINCHESTER T O LANCASTER, PENSYLVANIA AS A GUARD TO SAME PRSIONERS WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN- SENT BACK TO WINCHESTER FOR SAFE KEEPING. SECTION 82
-- AFFIDAVIT OF JOHNATHAN STAMPER, CLERGYMAN, RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND J. H. MOGRUDER WERE HIS NEIGHBORS AND TESTIFIES TO HIS CHARACTER. SAID THAT HE WAS BORN OCTOBER 1761 CALVERT COUNTY MARYLAND, -- SAID THAT HE LIVED IN FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA UNTIL HE MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HE NOW. LIVES.
-- ONE EUGLID HICKMAN APPOINTED A POWER OF ATTORNEY, MARCH 17, 1853 TO TRY TO SECURE UNPAID PART OF PENSION. SAYS JAMES HICKMAN DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, APRIL 7, 1843, AND ON THE BACK OF THE PAGE IT SHOWS THAT HE IS HEIR OF SAID JAMES HICKMAN.
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HIGGASON: THOMAS
VVIRGINIA
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DECLARATION; STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY, ON JANUARY 11, 1833, PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER, STEPHEN H. MADDOX J .P. AT HIS RESIDENCE AGE 72 AND 8 MONTHS. SAYS HE WAS 72 YEARS OF AGE ON THE 21ST., OF APRIL LAST, THAT HE WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA AND EMIGRATED TO KENTUCKY 1796 AND FROM THAT TIME HAS RESIDED IN THIS STATE. SERVED. FOR FOUR MONTHS AS ORDERLY SERGEANT IN THE MILITIA AND TEN MONTHS .AS PRIVATE IN THE MILITIA AND MINUTE SERVICE -- THIS SERVICE WAS IN VIRGINIA. COL. THOMAS MATHEWS COMMANDED IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE UNDER WHOM HE SERVED A PART OF THE TIME.
SECTION 82 & 83 -- AFFIDAVITS OF JOEL HULSEY CLERGYMAN AND WARREN DAVIS ANY THEY ARE ACQUAINTED WITH HIM. STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY, ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST 1832. THOMAS HIGGESON, A RESIDENT OF SAID COUNTY, SAYS THAT HE WAS BORN IN HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, APRIL 21, 1760~ SAYS THAT HE SAW HIS BIRTH RECORDED IN A BIBLE KEPT BY HIS FATHER JOHN HIGGASON AND AFTERWARDS CAME INTO THE POSSESSION OF THIS DEPONENET AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, AND THAT THE TRANSCRIBED THE SAID RECORD INTO A BIBLE , WHICH AF NOW HAS, SAYS HE WAS A LITTLE OVER 17 YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE ENTERED AS A SUBSTITUTE IN THE MINUTE SERVICE FOR BARTLET ANDERSON AND SERVED ONE MONTH FOR HIM AND THEN SERVED ONE MONTH MORE FOR JOHN DICKSON AND WAS THEN DISMISSED AND RETURNED HOME. MY CAPTAIN DURING THE TIME OF THE ABOVE NAMED SERVICE, WHICH WAS IN THE YEAR [776 WAS CAPTAIN JAMES DABNEY AND | BELEEVE JOHN CRUTCHFIELD WAS HIS LT. COL. SAMUEL MERIDITH WHO WAS A BROTHER IN LAW, I THINK TO PATRICK HENRY, COMMANDED THE MINUTE MEN, WITH WHOM | SERVED. THE DATE OF MY NEXT SERVICE, I CANNOT RECOLLECT. | WAS DRAFTED IN THE MILITIA UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN STARKS AND MARCHED TO WILLIAMSBURG. AND WAS STATIONED THERE ABOUT TWO MONTHS. RETURNED HOME SOMETIME AFTER THIS, I. MARCHED UNDER CAPTAIN ELISHA WHITE SENT TO WILLIAMSBURG AND FROM THERE TO YORK AND BACK TO WILLIAM SBURG AND WAS DISMISSED NOUNTING TWO MONTHS. IN THE NEXT TOUR | MARCHED UNDER CAPTAIN JACK THOMPSON UNDER COL. WILLIAM DANDRIDGE TO WILLIAMSBURG. COL. ENNIS WAS IN COMPANY. WE MARCHED FROM THIS PLACE TO YORK, FROM THECE TO RICH NECK AND BACK. THEN MARCHED UNDER CAPTAIN EDWARD BULLOCK AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MY BROTHER AND ACTED AS ORDERLY SERGEANT. IN THIS TOUR WE WERE DETAILED FOR NINE WEEKS, UNDER MAJOR THORNTON, THEN WENT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR DAVID CRANSHAW, UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM HUGHES AND SERVED ONE TOUR BY MARCH INGFROM POINT TO POINT AS ORDERED. | THEN MARCHED AS A SUBSTITUTE UNDER CAPTAIN SAMUEL RICHARDSON OF FLUVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA AND SERVED A TOUR AS SECTION 84 ORDERED. | THEN MARCHED AS A SUBSTITUTE UNDER CAPTAIN SAMUEL RICHARDSON OF FLUVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA AND SERVED A TOUR AS ORDERLY SERGEANT AT THE ALBEMARLE BARRACKS. COL. WILLIAM FOUNTAIN COMMANDED THE REGULARS AT THE TIME. WHEN THE PERIOD OF OUR SERVIE TERMINATED, THE MEN WERE JUST CALLED INTO LINE, WHEELED TO THE RIGHT ABOUT AND DISMISSED. THE ONLY MAN THAT | KNEW OF IN THIS STATE WHO KNEW THAT | RENDERED ANY SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAS VALENTINE MERRIWEATHER, WHO LIVED IN OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY. ON LAST WEDNESDAY | SENT MY SON THOMAS G. HIGGASON, OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY TO SEE HIM AND GET HIM TO COME TO. SHELBY COUNTY COURT HOUSE TO MAKE HIS AFFIDAVIT, HE TO GET HIM TO GIVE IT IN OLDHAM COUNTY, BUT WHEN MY SON GOT THERE HE HAD JUST DIED AND WAS BURIED TWO DAYS BEFORE MY SON GOT THERE. SAID VALENTINE MERRIWEATHER TOLD ME HE WAS COMMISSARY IN THE SAME SERVICE WITH ME. SERVED 14
MONTHS IN MILITIA AND MINUTE SERVICE.
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-- AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS C. VIGGASON, SAYS HE IS THE SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED APPLICANT AND THAT HE HEARD VALENTINE MERRIWEATHER WHO IS
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