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MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE DECLARATION, SAY THAT HE SAW HIS FATHER, THE SAID APPLICANT IG THE MILITIA SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THAT HE ON WEDNESDAY WENT TO OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY, REQUEST OF SAID APPLICANT TO OBTAIN THE CERTIFICATE OF SAID VALENTINE MERIWETHER 'HAD DIED TWO DAYS BEFORE HE GOT HTERE.
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HOLLAND: JONAS N. AND THEODOCIA VIRGINIA ¥/8944 DECLARATION MADE IN SHELBY COUNTY, RENTUCKY JUNE 7, 1832, AUGUST 14, 1832, AGE 76, SAYS HE WAS DRAFTED UNDER COL . . CHARLES BALUE AND WM. BALVE? BEING LT., AND JOHN HOWEL ENSIGN AND MAJOR SUSTUBBLEFIELD WAS HIS MAJOR FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY VIRGINIA WHERE HE WAS BORN 1756. SECTION 85
HE STARTED IN MAY BEFORE GATE'S DEFEAT AND MARCHED TO HILLSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE JOINED THE MAIN ARMY UNDER GENERAL GATES, THENCE CROSSED PEDEE RIVER, NEAR YANCEY OLD COURT HOUSE WHERE HE BECAME SICK AND HELPLESS WITH THE CAMP FEVOR AND WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE LAY HELPLESS UNTIL AFTER THE BATTLE OF GATES DEFEAT, HE WAS CORPORAL AND RETURNED HOME TO CUMBERLAND COUNTY, .SOMETIME THAT FALL. FURTHER STATES THAT HE WAS CRAFTED THE SECOND TIME AND ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES IN MARCH BEFORE THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE, UNDER CAPTAIN ROBERT HARRISON AND HATCHER, LT .. GENERAL LAWSON AND COL. NELSON WAS FIELD OFFICERS. HE STARTED FROM CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE, VIRGINIA AND MARCHED TO TROUBLECOME IRON WORKS, NORTH CAROLINA AND THENCE JOINED THE MAIN ARMY A FEW DAYS AFTER THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD WHERE HE WAS SENT BY GENERAL LAWSON AND COL. WELSON TO PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VIRGINIA WITH PICKET OF PAPERS AND GOT HOME AGAIN SOMETIME THAT SPRING, FURTHER STATES THAT HE WAS DRAFTED A 3RD., TIME IN THE SPRING BEFORE THE CORNWALLIS WAS TAKEN AND MARCHED AGAIN FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND MARCHED TO RICHMOND VIRGINIA AND WHERE DREW ARMS AND JOINED HEAD- QUARTERS AT THE FALL CREEK CHURCH UNDER CAPTAIN WILLIAM MERRADY, GENERAL STEPHENS AND MAJOR DECLUMEN ( A FRENCHMAN ) WAS FIELD OFFICERS AND THE MARQUIS LAFAYETTE. THERE VIEWED THE ARMY AND MARCHED THEM TO PETERS- BURG, THEN BACK TO WARWICK, THENCE TO THE GROUND SQUIREL CHURCH IN CULPEPPER COUNTY, THENCE TO RACCOON FORD ON RAPIDDON? WHERE HE GOT HIS DISCHARGE. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT THIS TOUR. ALSO SIAD HOLLAND FURTHER STATES THAT HE WAS DRAFTED A FOURTH TIME IN SEPTEMBER OF THE SAME YEAR AND ENTERED SERVICE UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARD ALLEN AND COL. SKIPPER WAS ONE OF HIS FIELD OFFICERS AND HE MARCHED IMMEDIATELY TO THE SEIGE OF YORK AND WAS THERE WHEN LORD CORNWALLIS SURRENDERED AND SERVED UNTIL THE LAST
CANNON WAS FIED, THAT HE SERVED FAITHFULLY THE FOUR TOURS OF DUTY EACH 3 MONTHS EXCEPT THE LAST ONE WHEN HE WAS SOONER DISCHARGED IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE WAR BEING ENDED HE HAD DISCHARGED BUT HAS LOST THEM.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF THEODIOCEA HOLLAND TAKEN SEPTEMBER 14, 1838, IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY AGE 72. SAYS SHE IS THE WIDOW OF JONAS M. HOLLAND
WHO WAS A PENSIONER. SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM IN DECEMBER 1783 IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY VIRGINIA, AND THAT HE DIED SEPTEMBER 29, 1835, THAT SHE HAS A RECORD OF THE AGES OF HER CHILDREN, WHICH IS HEREWITH FILED. THAT SHE WAS MARRIED ABOU THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, -THAT HER OLDEST DAUGHTER WAS BORN ABOUT 1784.
BIBLE RECORDS
MARRIAGE
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MARRIAGES:
JUDY HOLLAND AND JANET JONAS, MARRIED APRIL 4, 1809. POLLY HOLLAND AND ANDREW KOBINSI- OCTOBER 1803. ANNY HOLLAND AND DAVID GRAVES, OCTOBER 29, 1815. NANCY HOLLAND AND R. JONES WAS MARRIED 3-13~1817. BIRTHS
JAMES JONAS WAS BORN 1-29-1818 8. POLLY ANN JONAS WAS BORN 26 FEBRUARY 1820. JOHN HOLLAND JONES WAS BORN 11-7-1822 THOMAS I. M. JONES WAS BORN: 4-1-1825 ZERILDA GRAVES WAS BORN 8-29-1816. JOHN WASHINGTON GRAVES WAS BORN 12-25-1817. RICHARD EVERMON GRAVES APRIL 16. 1819. HARRISON ANDERVILLE GRAVES- 10-24-1820 BLOTTED OUT AND GRAVES, 11-15-1824
/ IS THE LAST PART OF THE NAMES THE FIRST PART IS NOT LEGIBLE. ELIZABETH HOLLAND GRAVES, SEPT. 15, -- TORN OFF. JONAS M. HOLLAND WAS BORN 02-20-1756
THEODOCIA / MOTHER HOLLAND WAS BORN &~20-1761 .
CHILDREN'S AGES. JUDY HOLLAND 12-9-1784. POLLY HOLLAND -11-27-1786
NANCY HOLLAND- 1-20-1791 ANNEY HOLLAND-12-9-1794
JOHN HOLLAND- 11-3-1796
PATSY ANNE? WAS BORN 2-8-1800
SUSANNA HOLLAND BORN 11-15-1806 THE SOLDIER DIED !835
-- IN THE PAPERS OF JOSEPH AND EFFY WINLOOK; NO. W. 3060 IS THE AFFIDAVIT OF JUDITH BURNETT TAKEN IN HENRY COUNTY, KENTUCKY- SEPTEMBER 22, 1838. SAYS SHE IS AGE 63 YEARS OF AGE, THAT SHE IS A SISTER OF WIRS. THEODOCIA HOLLAND, WIDOW OF VONAS N. HOLLAND, WHO DIED IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY A FEW DAYS AGO. THIS AFFIANT SAYS SHE FORMERLY LIVED IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA, THAT SHE IS SEVERAL YEARS YOUNGER THAN HER SISTER MRS. THEODOCIA HOLLAND, THAT SHE, THIS AFFIANT WAS AT THEIR WEDDING IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA., ABOUT 1783. THAT THEY WERE MARRIED ABOUT THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
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JOHNSTON: ARCHIBALD VIRGINIA .S 38091
STATE OF KENTUCKY; SHELBY COUNTY- APRIL 17, 1834, AGE 83 ON THE 17TH JANUARY LAST, SAYS HE WAS RESIDING IN LOUDON COUNTY VIRGINIA THEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE. THAT SOMETIME IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 177, HE VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN JACOB REED FOR A THREE MONTHS TOUR AND WAS COMMISSIONED LT. SAYS THEY RENDEZVOUSED AT LEESBURG IN SAID COUNTY AND WAS ATTACHED TO JOSIAH CLAPHAMS REGIMENT. THEY THEN PROCEEDED ACROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER AT NOLANS FERRY, THENCE THROUGH MARYLAND AND
PENNSYLVANIA, PASSED THROUGH TORNEY TOWN, THENCE THROUGH YORKTOWN, THENCE THROUGH LANCASTER AND AT A PLACE CALLED THE TWIN FAVORS. STATES THEY
FELL IN WITH THE CONTINENTAL ARVY, THEN PROCEEDED TO A PLACE CALLED THE WEST ENCAMPMENT, OR TAN YARD AND JOINED THE ARMY COMMANDED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON, THAT THEY REMAINED WITH SAID ARMY UNTIL THE THREE MONTHS WERE OUT. THEY THEN MARCHED TO NOLAN'S FERRY WHERE THEY WERE DISCHARGED IN DECEMBER 1777. FURTHER STATES- AFTER ENTERING LONDON COUNTY, LOUDON COUNTY, THAT HE REMOVED TO FAIRFAX COUNTY AND THAT IN THE MONTH OF APRIL 1781, THAT HE AGAIN
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THAT HE AGAIN VOLUNTEERED FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS UNDF .. PTAIN ROBERT SANDFORD, SAYS THEY RENDEZVOUSED IN THE TOWN OF ALEXANDRIA AND THAT CAPTAIN SANDFORD IN CHASSING HIS ---- OFFICERS GAVE TO SAID DECLARANT THE APPOINTMENT OF ORDERLY SERGEANT, HE FURTHER STATES THAT UPON TAKING UP THE LINE OF MARCH, THAT THE TWO COMPANIES FROM FAIRFAX, THE ONE COMMAND- ED BY CAPTAIN SANFORD, THE OTHER BY CAPT. CHARLES LITTLE, WERE UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR DENNIS RAMSAY, THEY MARCHED TO FREDRICKSBURG, THENCE TO WILLIAMSBURG, THENGE TO YORKTOWN, THENCE THEY MARCHED TO A PLACE CALLED HALF-WAY FROM YORK TO HAMPTON, THENCE TO WILLIAMSBURG. AGAIN HE . STATES THAT GENERAL PHILIPIS WAS PURSUING THE AMERICAN ARMY AND THAT THEY HAD TO RETREAT FROM PLACE TO PLACE UNTIL 3 MONTHS FOR WHICH HE HAD VOLUNTEERED BEING EXPIRED. HE AND THE BALANCE OF CAPTAIN SANECRO'S COMPANY WAS DISCHARGED IN THE TOWN OF FREDERICKSBURG SOMETIME IN JULY 1781, SAID HE WAS BORN IN FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1750. HE
WAS LIVING IN LOUNDON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHEN HE ENTERED SERVICE THE FIRST TI TIME, THE SECOND TIME, HE WAS LIVING IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA., WHERE HE : . REMAINED UNTIL 1815. THEN REMOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE NOW LIVE AND IN THE YEAR 1777, I VOLUNTEERED UNDER CAPTAIN READ FOR SECTION 89
FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND ON THE TOUR THERE WERE OF THE REGULAR OFFICERS, GENERAL WASHINGTON AND LORD STERLING, OF THE MILITIA THERE WERE GENERAL STEPHENS, COL. COLEMAN, CLAPHAN OF VIRGINIA. ON MY SECOND TOUR THERE WERE OF THE CONTINENTAL OFFICERS, COL. RICHARDSON OF THE MILITIA . COL. INNIS AND PRINTZ? | DID RECEIVE A COMMISSION SIGNED BY A COMMITTEE FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING THE COMMISSIONS AND I RECEIVED A DISCHARGE . SIGNED BY CAPTAIN SANDFORD BOTH OF WHICH FROM THE GREAT LENGTH OF TIME HAVE BEEN LOST. I WILL STATE THE NAMES OF JOHN METCALF CLERGYMAN AND GEORGE BURGIN RESIDENTS OF HIS PRESENT NEIGHBORHOOD WHO CAN TESTIFY TO HIS CHARACTER.
-- NOWLS: THOMAS KNOWLES? THOMAS
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CAPTAINS HOPKINS, 2" U. S. LIGHT DRAGOONS, CINCINNATI, OHIO, JULY 28, 1814 I CERTIFY THAT THOMAS NOWLSN BELONGED TO THE 2ND., REGIMENT, LIGHT DRAGOONS, AND TO THE TROOOPS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN SAMUEL C. HOPKINS, CF SAIO REGIMENT, AND THAT ON THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST 1813, THE SAID T. NOWLS WAS WOUNDED IN THE BACK BY THE BALL OF AN INDIAN BETWEEN SENECA AND ALSO SANDUSKY WHILE IN ACTION AND DURING THE TIME (TTO DIM TO READ ) WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR 8 OR 10 DAYS ON ACCOUNT OF SAID WOUND. SIGNED JOHN HECK-LATE OF LIEUTENANT OF THE 7TH REGIMENT-INFANTRY. -- HIS DISCHARGE IS DATED JANUARY 28, 1814, HE SERVED THE TIME FOR WHICH HE ENLISTED 18 MONTHS, FROM JULY $2, 1812, -HE WAS 24 YEARS OLD- 6 FEET AND 2 "_FAIR COMPLEXION- DARK HAIR, BLUE EYES, AND SHOULD RECEIVE TRAVELING ALLOWANCE, AND SUBSISTENCE FROM CINCINNATI TO NEW CASTLE, THE PLACE OF ENLISTMENT. I CERTIFY ON OATH THAT THOMAS KNOWLES, A PRIVATE DRAGOON ENLISTED BY ME FOR THE SERVICE SECTION 90
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OF THE U. S. WAS SEVERLY WOUNDED BY RIFLE BALL, RECEIVED IN THE LOWER FART OF HIS BACK WHILE UNDER MY COMMAND AND ENGAGED IN BATTLE WITH THE ENEMY AT A PLACE ON THE RIVER MURPHY OR SANDUSKY? BETWEEN THE CAMP AT SENECA AND THE FORT OR LOWER SANDUSKY ON JULY 20, 1813., AND THAT HE WAS A GALLANT SOLDIER AND ETC., SIGNED JAN. 20-1815.
SAMUEL GOODE HOPKINS.
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-- AFFIDAVIT OF A.J. MITCHELL AND JOSEPH SCOTT, 2 ECCOTRS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY, SAY THEY EXAMINED HIS WOUNDS, DATE. 1820, 2028- HENDRICK COUNTY, DANVILLE, INDIANA, Nov. 20, 1837.
THOMAS KNOWLES, DESIRED HIS PENSION TRANSFERRED FROM KENTUCKY. -- SAID HIS REASONS FOR MOVING TO INDIANA, HE HAD A VIFE AND CHILDREN TO SUPPORT AND BELIEVED HE COULD DO GO CHEEPER IN INDIANA, THAN IN KENTUCKY -- STATE OF MISSOURI, POLK COUNTY. OCTOBER 25, 1850. APPLICANT FOR INCREASE OF PENSION. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED THAT THOMAS KNOWLES FORMERLY A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN SAMUEL C. HOPKINS COMPANY IN THE SECOND REGIMENT OF U.S. LIGHT DRAGOONS WAS FIRST PLACED ON THE KENTUCKY PENSION LIST, AND LATER RECEIVED HIS PENSION IN MADISON, INDIANA AGENCY, THAT HE NOW RESIDES IN POLK COUNTY, MO. DEC. 16, 1854. AND HAS RESIDED THERE FOR 7 YEARS PAST.
WINLOCK: JOSEPH EFFY W. 3060 VIRGINIA BL WT. 2433- 200 LT. ISSUED 2-10-1800 TO LUCAS SULLIVANT ASSIGNEE NO PAPERS.
THE ABOVE SOLDIER SAYS HE WAS A LT., IN THE 7TH REGIMENT OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE, HE WAS LT., OF GIBSON'S DETACHMENT IN THE VIRGINIA LINE, AMOUNTING TO P1600. SECTION 91
-- STATE OF KENTUCKY, SHELBY COUNTY JUNE 17, 1828, SAYS HE SERVED AS LT., TO THE END OF THE WAR, AND RECEIVED CERTIFICATE FOR A MAN EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT OF FIVE YEARS FULL PAY, WHICH WAS OFFERED TO THE RESOLVE OF CONGRESS, MARCH 22, 1783, INSTEAD OF HALF PAY FOR LIFE TO WHICH | WAS ENTITLED UNDER THE RESOLCE OF 22N., OCT. ! 780.
JOHN KNIGHT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY SAY THAT | ACTED AS A SURGEON MATE AND WAS ACQUAINTED WITH JOSEPH WINLOCK AND SERVED WITH HIM IN SAID ARMY ABOUT 7 YEARS AND WHEN WE WERE MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE AT THE END OF THE WAR, HE- WINLOCK, BORE THE RANK CF LT., IN THE 7TH REGIMENT IN THE CONTINENTAL LINE. . THIS JUNE 17, 1828. SIGNED JOHN KNIGHT. EFFEY WINLOOK MADE DECLARATION FOR WIDOW'S PENSION IN SHELBY COUNTY, KY. SEPT. 13, 1838, AGE 68, WHO SAYS SHE IS THE WIDOW OF JOSEPH VINDOCK LT., IN THE VIRGINIA LINE. SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM JANUARY 4, 1787 IN FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, THAT HER HUSBAND DIED MARCH 28, 1831. SAYS THAT THE RECORDS OF THE CHILDREN'S AGES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN POSSESSION OF HER HUSBAND UNTIL HIS DEATH AND ARE NOW IN HER POSSESSION.
BIBLE RECORDS AS FOLLOWS:
JOSEPH WINLOCK WAS MARRIED TO EFFY STEPHENSON IN PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 4TH 1787. BIRTHS :
JOSEPH WINLOCK, JR., SON OF JOSEPH AND MARGARET WINLOCK BORN IN STAFFORD COUNTY, VA., MAY 11, 1758.
EFFY (STEPHENSON) WINLOCK, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD AND ELIZABETH STEPHENSON WAS BORN IN BERKLEY COUNTY, VA., MARCH 22, 1770.
1. FIELDING WINLOOK, IST., SON OF JOSEPH AND EFFY WINLOCK, BORN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY- MAY 4, 1789.
2. JOSEPH FRANKLIN WINLOCK, SON OF JOSEPH AND EFFEY WINLOOK, BORN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY 1-8-1791. 1 1793 ) 3. BETSY SUMMERS WINLOCK, DAU. JOSEPH AND EFFEY WINLOCK, SHELBY CO. 1-8-
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4. SALLY LANE WINLOCK WAS BORN 2-2-1795.
5. MARGARET WINLOCK WAS BIRB DEC. 31ST., 1796
6. WILLIAM CRAWFORD WINLOCK MARCH 15, 1799.
7. JOHN KNIGHT WINLOCK 2-19-1801 .
-- AFFIDAVIT MADE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY OCT. 4, 1838, BY ELIZABETH BEARD, SAYS SHE IS THE SISTER OF URS. EFFEY WINLOCK OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THAT SHE IS ABOUT 65 YEARS OF AGE, THAT ACCORDING TO HER FAMILY RECORD SHE WAS BORN 1773, THAT SHE FORMERLY LIVED IN FAYETTE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AND WAS PRESENT AT THE WEDDING OF JOSEPH WINLOCK, WITH HER SISTER EFFY STEPHENSON, IN SAID COUNTY AND STATE AND SAY THEY MARRIED BY JOHN MASON JUSTICE. CF THE PEACE IN THE WINTER OF 1787.
COPIES OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS ON FILE IN THE VIRGINIA LAND OFFICE. AS FOLLOWS; I DO CERTIFY THAT LT. JOSEPH WINLOCK IS ENTITLED TO THE APPROPRIATION OF LAND ALLOWED A LT., OF THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE FOR 3 YEARS SERVICE ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1780. SIGNED THOMAS MERRIWEATHER, COUNCIL CHAMBER, 3-31-1783. SIGNED BENJAMIN HARRISON- JOSEPH WINLOCK, IS ENTITLED TO THE ADDITIONAL PROPOSITION OF LAND ALLOWED A LT. OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE FOR HIS 7TH YEARS SERVICE. SIGNED SAMUEL COLEMAN, 3-11-1800. | PENDLETON.
JOHNSON: JAMES JOHNSTON?
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DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY. ON MAY 20, 1818, FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AGE 58 APPEARED, SAID HE WAS A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY,, THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE SPRING OF 1762, IN VIRGINIA FOR ONE YEAR AND SIX MONTHS UNDER LT. JOHN HARRIS OF VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE UNDER GENERAL STEUBEN AT POINT FORK ON JAMES RIVER. IN THE SAME YEAR HE RE- ENLISTED IN THE LIGHT DRAGOONS SERVICE UNDER COL. WHITE AND STAYED IN THE SERVICE UNTIL ABOUT THE YEAR 1764 . HE TOGEHTER WITH ABOUT 100 MORE OF SAID LIGHT DRAGOONS SERVED CAME AWAY FROM THE STATE OF GEORGIA WITHOUT PERMISSION IN DESIGNING TO DESERT, BUT OTHER TIMES TO HAVE EXPIRED | ACCORDING TO THE TERM OF THEIR ENLISTMENT AND PROCEEDED TO PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, VA. AT WHICH PLACE THEY SURRENDERED TO GENERAL MORGAN AND WAS MARCHED FROM THERE TO WINCHESTER WHERE HE RECEIVED A FURLOUGH FROM CAPTAIN MURROW TO RETURN HOME AND REMAIN AT HOME TWO OR 3 YEARS AND THEN RECEIVED AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE SIGNED BY. LT. HARRIS, ABOUT 1756, AND HE FURTHER SAYS THAT HE SECURED PROOF ABOUT 1814 AND RECEIVED HIS LAND WARRANT FOR HIS REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE AND WAS IN SEVERAL SKIRMISHES, ONE WHERE COL. LAWRENCE WAS KILLED, ANOTHER WITH GENERAL WAYNE AGAINST THE CREEK INDIANS.
-- THIS INDENTRUE MADE 8-4-1819 BETWEEN JAMES JOHNSON OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IST., PART AND WILLIAM JOHNSON OF THE SME COUNTY AND SIAD PARTY OF THE SECOND PART WITNESSES, THAT THE SAID WILLIAM JOHNSON HAVING LENT TO THE SAID JEMS JOHNSON DOO. THE RECEIPT WHEREOF IS HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE SAID JAMES JOHNSON, FOR AND INCONSIDERATION OF THE SAME AND TO MAKE THE SAID WILLIAM JOHNSON SECURE IN THE PAYEMENT OF THE SAID MONEY AND BARGAINED AND SOLD AND ETC., UNTO SAID WILLIAM JOHNSON, SECTION 94
THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY; HORSE AND COWS AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE WERE MORTGAGED . JAMES JOHNSON SAID HE ENLISTED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AT POINT FORK. PIONTIPH? VA., IN THE REGIMENT AND CORPS3.
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REGIMENT AND CORPS COMMANDED BY THE BARON DE STUBEN AFTER WHICH HE RE-ENLISTED IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. WWHITE IN THE VIRGINIA LINE AFTER WHICH HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CORPOCOF LIGHT HORSE OF DRAGOONS, COMMANDED BY COL. WILLIAM WASHINGTON, IN WHICH SERVICE HE. CONTINUED UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR IN THE SERVICE IN ALL, ABOUT 3 YEARS, ON THE 20TH MAY 1818, HE MADE APPLICATION BY HIS DECLARATION FOR A PENSION UNDER THE AT ACT OF CONGRESS ON THE 18TH MARCH 1812, AND SECURED HIS PENSION, CERTIFICATE, DATED JANUARY 6, 1819, No. 5203. SAYS . HE HAS A WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM-ONE SON ABOUT . AGE 12 ONE DAUGHTER ABOUT 32, ONE 19, CRIPPLED, IN HER ARM, AND ONE ABOUT 17 AND ONE . GRAND DAUGHTER WHO IS AN ORPHAN, AGE 15.
NONE OF HIS CHILDREN BEING WITH HIM CAN AID HIM TO SUPPORT HIMSELF AND THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT HIM ARE NOT ABLE TO HELP. -- HE SAYS IN HIS DECLARATION IN 1825, THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE AT POINT FORK, IN VA., IN REGIMENT OF COL. WHITE OF THE VA LINE AFTER WHICH HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CORP OF LT. HURSE , LT. DRAGOONS COMMANDED BY COL . WASHINGTON IN WHICH SERVICE HE CONTINUED AS A PRIVATE UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR, THE NAMES OF HIS CHILDREN WERE MARY JOHNSON 22, SARAH JOHNSON, 35, NA NANCY JOHNSON, 19, ABBE 15, GRAND DAUGHTER LUCY JOHNSON, 4. SAID DAUGHTER MARY WAS A CRIPPLE HIS WIFE WAS LIVING YET, AGE 59.
-- LETTER TO COL. RICHARD H. JOHNSTON FROM SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY. DEC. 3, 1825, WRITTEN TO HIM BY SAMUEL TEVIS, SAYS "THAT HE LEFT A PETITION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY WITH YOUR BROTHER AMES, (JOHNSTON) WHO IS DISPOSED TO AID HIM IN THE APPLICATION (I SUPPOSE THIS IS A DIFFERENT PERSON THAN THE PENSIONER HEREIN MENTIONED) .
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OCTOBER 10-1837. HE BY HIS REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE W. JOHNSTON, SAID THAT JAMES JOHNSTON DESIRED THE PENSION DEPARTMENT TO KNOW THAT HE EXPECTED TO MOVE TO CLARK COUNTY, INDIANA IN MONTH OF DECEMBER 1837. SAID THAT HIS CHILDREN HAVE-MOST OF THEM GONE TO INDIANA AND HE WISHES TO BE NEAR THEM; THAT HE MAY RECEIVE THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS CHILDREN IN HIS PRESENT OLD AGE, SIGNED JAMES JOHNSON 1837.
STATE OF INDIANA-RIPLEY COUNTY, JAN. 2, 1843, JAMES JOHNSTON SAYS THAT HE NOW LIVES IN RIPLEY COUNTY INDIANA.
JOHNSON: JAMES VIRGINIA S35471
(THE SOLDIER DIED 8-11-1839. )
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY- 9-20-1820, PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT, AGE 74, MAKES THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION; SAYS HE ENLISTED FOR ONE YEAR IN MARCH 1778 AT LUNENBURG COURT HOUSE IN VIRGINIA UNDER COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JOHN STOKES IN THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. FIBERGER IN THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT, THAT HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM SAID SERVICE AT BOUND HOOK, IN NEW JERSEY; THAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF MONMOTH AND SEVERAL SKIRMISHES.
SAYS HE HAS A WIFE AND ONE .CHILD, NAMED EDMOND JOHNSON, AGE 17, THOMAS MONTGOMERY WAS A JUDGE.
-- A STATEMENT IS MADE ABOUT THESE TWO VANES JOHNSONS LIVING IN THE SAME COUNTY OF HELBY AND DRAWING APENSION ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE, AND THEY STATE THAT THEY ARE NOT IN ANY WAY RELATED, NOR DID THEY SERVE IN THE SAME COMPANY OR REGIMENT, TOGETHER, THE STATEMENT OF ONE- SAID HIS PENSION WAS NO. 5203, DATED JANUARY 6, 1819, - A LETTER IN THE FILES- AS FOLLOWS; MAY PROVE OF INTEREST;
H. L. PENDLETON; JEWELERY- PIANOS: PRAIRIE DUCHEIN, WIS.
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TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS: DEAR SIR; YOURS OF THE 8TH -11-1917 INSTANT AT HAND AND WILL ENDEAVOR TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS REQUESTED. SECTION: 96
TO ATTEST CLAIM THAT JAMES JOHNSON WAS A PENSIONER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WHICH A FACT | HAVE FROM EDWARD POLK JOHNSON OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY (MANAGING EDITOR OF THE COURIER JOURNAL ) JAMES JOHNSON . OLDEST SON WM. SANFORD JOHNSON (MY GREAT, GREAT, GRAND FATHER ) WAS BORN IN 1791 AND DIED AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS AT BRODTVILLE, GRANT COUNTY, WISCONSIN. ANOTHER SON JOHN DEJARNET JOHNSON WAS BORN 1799 AND DIED IN KENTUCKY AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS.
JAMES JOHNSON WAS BORN IN FAUQUIRE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, ENLISTED AND SERVED IN VIRGINIA LINE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, CAME AFTER THE WAR TO BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY- LATER REMOVING TO SHELBY COUNTY WHERE HE DIED. | THINK THE OLDEST SON WAS NAMED AFTER HIS MOTER MARY SANFORD. HOWEVER, I AM NOT ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT THIS WAS THE WIFE'S NAME. AS TO THE APPROXIMATE DATE OF JAMES JOHNSON, BIRTH AND DEATH, | WOULD SAY ABOUT 1755 AND 1830, RESPECTIVELY. I AM NOT POSITIVE OF THESE FACTS AND WISH YOU TO HELP ME VERIFY THEM. SIGNED MRS. H. L. PENDLETON.
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KNOX: JOHN DELAWARE- S. 16439 CONTINENTAL STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY: SEPTEMBER 1832, AGE 73,
THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER STATES THAT HE ENLISTED IN 1776 UNDER CAPTAIN ROWAN AND SERVED IN THE FIRST REGIMENT OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS; THAT HE WAS DRAFTED FOR THE TERM OF SIX MONTHS IN DELAWARE, SUSSEX COUNTY, SHORTLY BEFORE THE DECLARATION OF INDEENDENCE; THAT WHEN HE WAS THUS DRAFTED, HIS CAPTAIN'S COMPANY OF (PAPER TORN HERE) THAT HE WAS AT THE SEIGE OF YORK, 1781, SAID HE SAW CORNWALLIS
SURRENDER HIS SWORD TO LAFAYETTE, AFTER HAVING OFFERED IT TO WASHINGTON; THAT FROM THIS PLACE, HE WAS IN A SHORT TIME, AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT, CI SO CHARGED FROM THE SERVICE BY CAPTAIN ROWAN, THE COMMANDANT OF A COMPANY OF HORSE BY AND UNDER THE ORDER OF GENERAL GREEN AND COL . WM . WASHINGTON, BOTH OF WHOM WERE ON THE GROUND AT THE TIME OF SAID DISCHARGE AND CAPTAIN ROWAN'S NAME WAS SIGNED TO SAID DISCHARGE.
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THAT HE, TWO YEARS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN WAS APPOINTED ORDERLY OR FIRST SERGEANT, AND LOCATED IN CAPTAIN ROWAN'S COMPANY UNTIL HIS DISCHARGE 1781, THAT HE HAD SAID DISCHARGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE HE AFTERWARDS LIVED IN THE BURNING OF HIS HOUSE. IT WAS AMONG MANY OF HIS OTHER PAPERS AND THINGS BURNED. THAT HE FAITHFULLY SERVED DURING THE . 1
WHOLE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, FROM AND BEFORE THE DECLARATION CF INDEPENDENCE UNTIL 1780 ? 1781? THAT HE NEVER SAW HOME UNTIL 1781, FROM THE TIME HE WAS DRAFTED FOR SIX MONTHS TOUR AS AFORESAID, THAT ALL HE DID RECEIVE WAS ONE 25¢ PIECE.
SEVERAL REGIMENTS OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA. THAT SOMETIME EARLY IN 1781 THERE WAS A COMPANY OF TORIES OF ABOUT 300 MEN UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. RIDGEBY AT SAID RIDGEBY'S MILL IN SOUTH CAROLINA, THAT COL .WASHINGTON'S REGIMENT ATTACKED THEM AND TOOK THEM ABOUT 200 AND 50 WAGONS LOADED WITH FLOUR FOR CORNWALLIS ARMY; THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE ARMY THAT TOOK THEM AND SET FIRE TO THE MILL, THE PROVISIONS WERE SENT AWAY- THAT ON THIS OCCASION COL, WASHINGTON FELL ABOUT TO MAKE THE ATTACK ON THE TORIES- PLANTED THE TRUNK OF A PINE RESEMBLING A CANNON AND THEN DEMOUNTED, AND SURRENDERED ALL THE FABRICATION WHICH WAS DONE WITHOUT THE LOSS OF BLOOD OR THE FIRE OF A GUN; THAT FROM THIS PLACE THEY MARCHED IN THE DIRECTION OF GUILFORD
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PAGE 53 SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS GUILFORD COURT HOUSE. WE THINK THERE HAD AN ENGAGEMENT WITH LORD CORNWALLIS FOR THE SPACE OF 3 HOURS AND OVER. THAT THE AMERICAN ARMY RETREATED TO REEDY FORK ABOUT 3 MILES FROM GUILFORD COURT HOUSE. FROM THIS PLACE TO SPEEDWELL IRON WORKS IO MILES DISTANCE FROM SAID COURT HOUSE WHERE THEY REMAINED ALL NIGHT. THE NEXT DAY A PARTY WENT BACK TO BURY THE DEAD; THAT HE WAS HERE WOUNDED BY A SWORD STRIKING HIM OVER THE HEAD AND CUTTING TO THE SCULL BONE OVER THE LEFT EYE, WHICH OCCASSIONED A RUNNING SORE JUST OVER THE LEFT EYE FOR OVER 20 YEARS- THAT HIS HORSE WAS KILLED FROM UNDER HIM ON THIS OCCASION. THAT FROM THE TIME OF HIS ENLISTMENT AS AFORESAID UNTIL THIS TIME, AND DURING ALL THE TIME, HE WAS A MOUNTED HORSEMAN OF CAPTAIN ROWAN'S COMPANY; THAT FROM GUILFORD SECTION 98 COURT HOUSE, HE MARCHED IN PURSUIT OF LORD CORNWALLIS WHO WAS RETREATING TOWARD VIRGINIA AS FAR AS RAMSEY'S MILLS ON DEEP RIVER, WHEN GENERAL GREEN DETERMINED TO RETURN TO THE SOUTH; THAT HE WAS IN SEVERAL LITTLE ENGAGEMENTS, THE PLACE NOT NOW RECOLLECTED; THAT HE WAS STILL IN THE REGIMENTÉ THAT HE LANDED AT CHARLESTON AND JOINED GENERAL GATES ABOUT 3 MILES FROM TOWN; THAT FROM THIS PLACE THEY MARCHED FIVE MILES THE OTHER SIDE OF CAMDEN, BEING FIVE MILES FROM CHARLESTOWN, THAT THEY LAY THERE SOMETIME IN THE MEANTIME AFTER THE TAKING OF CHARLESTON BY CORNWALLIS. HE MARCHED TO MEET GENERAL GATES; THAT THEY MET AND THERE ENTERED INTO THE ENGAGMENT, THAT IN THIS BATTLE THE AMMUNITION AND ALL THE CANNON, BAGGAGE WAGONS WERE TAKEN BY LORD CORNWALLIS; THAT IN THIS ENGAGEMENT GENERAL SUMPTER WAS A COMMANDER. GENERAL BUFORD WAS ALSO A COMMANDER THAT AFTER THIS DEFEAT THE NEXT DAY, GENERAL SUMPTER WAS DEFEATED BY COL. WALLACE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THAT FROM THIS PLACE AND DEFEAT THE REMANT OF THE ARMY RENDEZVOUSED AT CHARLESTON, IN NORTH CAROLINA. . FROM THERE TO SALLISBURY HE RECOLLECTS THAT WITH CAPTAIN ROWAN AND COL. WASHINGTON WAS AMONG THOSE THAT REMAINED UNHURT AND WERE AT CHARLOTTE. THAT THEY LAY AT THIS POINT UNTIL GENERAL GREEN ARRIVED AND TOOK COMMAND OF THE REMANT OF GAT'S AR ARMY OF REGULARS.
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*AFFIDAVIT OF BERNARD CLEMENT'S TAKEN OCTOBER 1, 1838, BEING NOW AGE 75, SAYS THAT HE WAS A REVOLUTIONARY .WAR SOLDIER; THAT HE ENTERED THE SERVICE 1776 AS SUCH IN CAPTAIN ISAAC REED'S COMPANY AND BELONGED TO COL. WILLIAM WASHINGTON' REGIMENT ; THAT WHILE IN THE SERVICE AFORESAID HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH JOHN KNOX WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN COL. WASHINGTON'S REGIMENT- THAT WHILE IN THE SERVICE AFORESAID HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH JOHN KNOX WHO WAS A PRIVATE AND IN CAPTAIN'S NOWAN'S COMPANY;
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THAT ROWAN DID NOT COMMAND SAID COMPANY LONG; SOME OTHERS CAME TO THE COMMAND BUT WHO HE CANNOT RECOLLECT, BUT HE IS CERTAIN THAT SAID KNOX WAS IN THE REGIMENT OF COL. WASHINGTON; THAT HE DID NOT BELONG TO THE SAME COMPANY TO WHICH THIS AFFIANT BELONGED; THAT THIS AFFIANT STATES THAT HE SAW HIM IN THE SERVICE IN 1776, FREQUENTLY HE SAW HIM AT HILLSBOROUGH, HE SAW HIM AT RUGLES MILLS, WHEN THE MILLS WAS TAKEN BY PUTTING THE TRUNK OF A PINE ON A STUMP AND BLACKING THE SAME TO RESEMBLE A CANNON, HE SAW HIM IN THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT HOUSE AND SAW HIM ON OTHER OCCASIONS, BUT THE TIME HAVING BEEN SO LONG, HE CANNOT AT THIS DISTANCE RECOLLECT DISTINCTLY THE TIME AND PLACE. AFFIDANT STATES THAT THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD WAS IN MARCH 1781 TO THE BEST OF HIS RECOLLECTION BUT IS OF OPINION THAT SAID KNOX WSS WOUNDED AND TAKEN OFF THE FIELD AT GUILFORD; SAYS THAT SAID KNOX WAS IN THE SERVICE FROM SOMETIME IN THE FALL OF 1776 UP TO THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD BUY AFFIANT CANNOT RECOLLECT HIM AFTER THAT TIME IN THE SERVICE THAT HE LIVED IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY SINCE.
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