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WCODFORD COUNTY KENTUCKY 1-18-1634
DEAR SIR: IN COMPLIANCE WITH YOUR DIRECTIONS, | FORWARDED THE CERTIFICATE
OF MY FATHER . HOPKING YOU WILL DO THE BEST YOUNG AN AT THIS TIME.
WISH YOU TO SEND ME A LETTER TO GEORGETWON SOON, SO THAT I MAY KNOW WHEN TO ATTEND TO THE CASE. SIGNED E. KNOX. (THIS WAS ELIJAH KNOX. )
KELSO# THOMAS
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KELSO: PENELOPE
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY
ON THE 19TH SEPTEMBER 1832, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER APPEARED BEFORE THE
SHELBY COUNTY COURT, SAID THAT HE WAS BORN MARCH 7, 1765? IN BALTIMORE . MARYLAND. HE PRESENTS TO THE COURT THE RECORD OF HIS AGE AS GIVEN HIM BY HIS FATHER. IN MARCH 1780, HE ENTERED THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION AS A VOLUNTEER UNDER CAPTAIN CANTEL SHAW OF THE SAME COUNTY. JOHN
SHARP WAS OUR LT. JOSHUA GIST WAS OUR COLONEL. | DO NOT RECOLLECT ANY OF THE OTHER OFFICERS. WE VOLUNTEERED FOR A 3 MONTHS TOUR WHICH | SERVED IN
BALTIMORE AND ABOUT THAT PLACE. | AFTERWARDS SERVED 2 MORE DRAFTS OF DUTY AS A VOLUNTEER AND FOR 3 MONTHS EACH UNDER THE SAME CAPTAIN SHAW. THE TOTAL TOUR OF DUTY | SERVED WAS TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE WAR, WHETHER BOTH OF THE LAST TOURS WAS IN THE YEAR 1781 OR A PART OF THEM IN THE BATTLE OF 1781. 1 DO NOT NOW RECOLLECT. ALL THE SERVICE | SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER UNDER CAPTAIN SHAW WAS ABOUT BALTIMORE. | PERFORMED ONE TOUR OF DUTY AS A WAGONER TO DRIVE A TEAM TO MOVE THE MILITARY STORES FROM A MAGAZINE NEAR BALTIMORE TO LANCASTER IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. | DO NOT RECOLLECT WHAT LENGTH OF TIME | WAS ENGAGED IN THE SERVICE. | CANNOT RECOLLECT WHO WAS THE OFFICER OF THE GUARD; THAT GUARDED THE WAGONS. I THINK HE WAS A VIRGINIAN AND APPEARED TO ME HIS NAME WAS JOHNSON OR REID, BUT I COULD NOT STATE THAT WITH ANY CERTAINTY. | DONE MILITARY SERVICE UNDER CAPTAIN STANDIFORD WHO WAS MY BROTHER IN LAW BEFORE I WAS 15 YEARS OLD . AT THE SAMETIME OF THE BATTLE OF GENERAL MANTOWN, CAPTAIN STANDIFORD MARCHED FROM BALTIMORE COUNTY TO GERMANTOWN. PART OF THE SERVICES WHICH | SURRENDERED AS A VOLUNTEER UNDER CAPTAIN SHAW WAS AT THE TIME CORNWALLIS TAKEN AT YORKTOWN, BUT I WAS NOT THERE MYSELF. | CONSIDERED MYSELF A SOLDIER FROM THE TIME | JOINED SHAW'S COMPANY UNTIL THE WAR, ENDED BEING CALLED OUT FREQUENTLY. | KNOW THAT | SERVED 3 TOURS OF 3 MONTHS EACH, THE NUMBER AND LENGTH OF THE SMALL TOURS I DO NOT RECOLLECT. THIS APPLICANT STATES THAT HE KNOWS OF NO PERSON IN THIS STATE BY WHOM HE COULD PROVE THE FACTS ABOVE STATED. HE HAS BEEN LIVING IN THE STATE 30 YEARS AND IS TOO POOR TO SEACH FOR TESTIMONY IN MARYLAND NEAR HIS RELATIONS AND THOSE WHO KNOW HIM IN HIS EARLY DAUS LIVED.
-AFFIDAVITS OF DAVID STANDIFORD AND JOEL HANSBURRY, SAYS THEY HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR 30 YEARS AND BELIEVE HE IS A SOLDIER AS HE STATES. SECTION 101
HIS WIDOW PENELOPE KELSO AGE 62 SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO THOMAS KELSO JANUARY 25, 1799 AND THAT HER HUSBAND DIED JAN. 29, 1847.
-- PUTNAM COUNTY, INDIANA. DEPOSITION OF EDWARD TALBOTT TAKEN BEFORE PATER DAGGY, J.P., 8-13-1847. TAKEN ON BEHALF OF MAS. PENELOPE KELSO WIDOW OF THOMAS KELSO AND LATE OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. HE SAYS HE WAS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE A GREAT NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND FROM THE BEST OF HIS RECOLLECTION THEY WERE MARRIED TWO OR THREE YEARS PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1794. THIS AFFIANT FURTHER SAYS HE WAS BORN IN 1784 AND THAT HE HIMSELF WAS MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 21, WHICH MADE IT IN THE YEAR 1785, AT THAT TIME THE SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED BECAUSE THOMAS KELSO WIATED ON HIM AT HIS OWN WEDDING. THIS HE THINKS HAPPENED 1785 AND HE RECOLLECTS THAT THOMAS KELSO ANC HIS WIFE, PENELOPE WERE MANNIED 4 ON 5 YEARS AFTERWARDS. SIGNED EDWARD TALBOTT.
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** A LETTER IN THE FILES FROM GEORGE W. JOHNSTON OF SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY WRITTEN 1847 SAYS THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THEY WERE MARRIED BEFORE 1794 AS SHE HAS A DAUGHTER LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHO WAS BORN PREVIOUS TO THAT YEAR AND I WOULD HAVE OBTAINED HER AFFIDAVIT BUT SHE LIVES A LONG WAYS FROM TOWN- SHE HAVING BEEN MARRIED IN MARYLAND ANO SO REMOTE A DATE, -- IT IS NOW DIFFICULT TO SECURE THE RECORDS.
- AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN TODD OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MADE 1851 FEB. 25TH., SAYS HE WAS PRESENT AT THE BURIAL OF PENELOPE KELSO, WIDOW OF THOMAS KELSO. SHE DIED MAY 21, 1850.
---- A.P. NORTON, . WROTE A LETTER FROM PITTSBURG, PA. 1851, SAID "WHILST | AGREE WITH THAT SHE JUSTLY EXCLUDED FROM THE PROVISIONS CF THE ACT OF JUNE 17, 1844, | CLAIM THAT HER HEIRS ARE JUSTLY ' ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT JULY 29, 1848 OF FEBRUARY 2, 1848.
-- SHELBYVILLE: KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. IN OPEN COURT JAN. 13, 1851 , PERSONALLY APPEARED RUTH E. KELSO, AGE 46, THIS DECLARANT STATES T THAT SHE IS THE LAWFUL CHILD OF THOMAS KELSO, DECEASED, LATE OF SAID COUNTY- A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONER LEAVING A WIDOW, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS PENELOPE RUTLEDGE AND WHO WAS THE MOTHER OF THE DECLARANT SECTION :02
NAME WAS PENELOPE RUTLEDGE AND WHO WAS THE MOTHER OF THE DECLARANT AND WHO DIED WAY 24, 1850. SHE THINKS HER FATHER AND MOTHER WERE MARRIED IN BALTIMORE MARYLAND BY A MINISTER BY THE NAME OF DAVIS, JANUARY 1, 1789, WHEN HER MOTHER DIED SHE LEFT SURVIVING . HER FOURT CHILDREN, NANCY MILLER? THOMAS KELSO, RUTH E. KELSO, JAMES KELSO. BIBLE RECORDS:
THOMAS KELSO BORN 3-7-1764? 63?
PENELOPE KELSO BORN 9-5-1765
JANE NELSO BORN 2-25-1790
ELIJAH KELSO BORN 11-13-1791
ANN KELSO BORN 6-14-1793 WILLIAM KELSO BORN 9-8-1795
ABRAHAM KELSO BORN 5-31-1797.
PENELOPE KELSO BORN 3-4-1799
RUTH KELSON BORN 1-17-1802 THOMAS KELSO BORN 2-18-1804
RUSSELL KELSO BORN 4-8-1806
ELIZABETH KELSO BORN 9-28-18077
JAMES KELSO BORN 7-19-1811.
KENDRICKS: WILLIAM
KENRICK:
VIRGINIA S31152
SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY 11-19-1832 AGE 85, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 19, 1747 OLD STYLE, WHICH WOULD BE OCTOBER 30TH NEW STYLE. I HAVE SEEN MY AGE RECORDED IN THE FAMILY BIBLE OWNED BY MY FATHER FROM WHENCE | KEPT COPIED IT AND BROUGHT THE COPY WITH ME TO THIS COUNTRY. | ENTERED THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE U. S. IN MECKLENBERG COUNTY VIRGINIA AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER SOMETIME IN FEBRUARY 1779. I WAS A DRAFTEED MILITIAMAN. SECTION 103
MY CAPTAIN WAS NAMED CHARLES CLAY OF THE SAME COUNTY OF MECKLENBERG WHERE WE BOTH THEN LIVED. THE LT., OF MY COMPANY WAS NAMED RICHARD V/HITTON. THE ENSIGN WAS NAMED THOMAS PETTIS. | CANNOT NOW RECOLLECT THE NUMBER OF THE REGIMENT TO WHICH MY COMPANY BELONGED, BUT IT WAS
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BUT IT WAS COMMANDED, | THINK BY COL. LEWIS BURRELL. I KNOW HE WAS AN OFFICER OF HIGH GRADE IN THE REGIMENT , HAVING THE RANK OF A COLONEL, GENERAL DAVIS MASON WAS OUR GENERAL OR BRIGADIER: WE WERE MARCHED FROM MECKLENBERG COUNTY TO THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINE AND JOINED GENERAL LINCOLN- I THINK IN THE MONTH OF MAY : 779. WE WERE DRAFTED TO SERVE A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS BUT WHEN WE GOT TO SOUTH CAROLINA, THE BRITISH DIRECT- ING THEIR MAIN MOVEMENTE AGAINST THAT STATE; WE WERE PREVAILED UPON BY THE SOLICITSTIONS OF GENERAL MASON, COL. LEW BURRELL, AND GENERAL LINCOLN TO CONTINUE IN THE SERVIE ANOTHER TOUR AS IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE THAT 1ROOFS TO SUPPLY OUR PLACES COULD BE HAD IN TIME TO MEET THE PRESSING CONTINENCIES OF THE OCCASION. GENERAL MASON PROMISE S THAT IF WE WOULD SERVE ONE MORE TOUR BESIDES THE ONE FOR WHICH WE WERE DRAFTED, THAT HE WOULD SEE THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD MAKE US COMPENSATIVE ACCORDINGLY THE STATE DID GIVE US EACH LOO ACRES OF LAND AND WHEN | RECEIVED MY CERTIFICATE | TORE IT UP, BEING EXCITED BY THE WANT OF MY FAMILY, HAVING FAILED TO RAISE A CROP AND THE CERTIFICATE BEING NO USE TO ME AND AFFORDING NO RELIEF TO THE CONDITION IN WHICH | WAS PLACED, ON THIS TOUR WE JOINED THE FORCE UNDER GENERAL LINCOLN IN TIME IC BE AT THE BATTLE OF STONE , WHERE WE MET AND FOUGHT A PART OF COWERT'S ARMY IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, FROM STONE WE MOVED BACK TO HEADQUARTERS AND WERE FINALLY DISCHARGED FROM THE SERVICE -AGAIN IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1781, I WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE AS A DRAFTED MILITIAMAN FROM THE COUNTY OF MECKLENBERG UNDER CAPTAIN ROBERT SMITH, THE OTHER SUBORDINATE OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY | HAVE FREQUENTLY MENTIONED, WE WERE MARCHED DIRECTLY TO THE AID OF GENERAL GREEN WHOM WE
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AT THE HIGH ROCK FORD ON HAW RIVER ABOUT 20 MILES FROM GUILFORD COURT HOUSE. I THINK IN THE MONTH OF MARCH 1781 A FEW DAYS AFTER WE MOVED TOWARD GUILFORD TO MEET THE BRITISH FORCES UNDER CORNWALLIS GENERAL GREEN REQUIRED THE MILITIA TO STAND 3 FIRES, THE MILITIA COMPOSED THE FIRST LINES FOR THE ORDER OF BATTLE AND WE WERE TOLD THAT IF WE WOULD ONLY STAND 3 FIRES, THAT W MIGHT RETREAT, WE STOOD, I THOUGHT MORE THAN 3 FIRES WHEN THE WORD WAS GIVEN TO RETREAT AND RENDEZVOUS AT TROUBLESOME IRON WORKS ON TROUBLESOME CREEK, | WAS DISCHARGED AT RAMSEY'S MILLS ON DEEP RIVER IN THE USUAL MANNER OF DISCHARGE MILITIA WHICH WAS BY NOW IN THE SAME MONTH, I THINK AFTER SERVING 3 MONTHS, GENERAL STEVENS COMMANDED ONE VIRGINIA BRIGADE, AT GUILFORD AND GENERAL SUTON? COMMANDED. THIS APPLICANT STATES THAT HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF THE FACTS UPON WHICH HE RESTS HIS CLAIMS FOR A PENSION UNDER THE SAID ACT OF CONGRESS. HE REFERS TO NEIGHBORS; OBADIAH CLARK, JOSIAH CLARK, JESSE ALVIS. - HE STATES THAT AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR HE LIVED UNTIL THE YEAR 1776 IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, THAT HE NOW LIVES IN THIS COUNTY AND STATE AND HAS I LIVED HERE EVER SINCE THE YEAR 1797. HE SAYS HE THINKS THE REV. JOHN HOLLAND SHOULD APPEAR IN COURT AND CERTIFY AS TO HIS CHARACTER, WHICH HE DID.
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LEMASTER: HUGH MARY MARYLAND ₩2951
STATE OF KENTUCKY; SHELBY COUNTY. JANUARY 16, 1834, AGE 83, HE STATES THAT HE WAS RESIDING IN WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES; THAT IN THE MONTH CF DECEMBER 1777, HE VOLUNTEERED FOR A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS AND SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN BAZIL WILLIAMS, MAJOR CHARLES SWEARINGIN AND T. COL. RICHARD DAVID AND COLL JOSEPH SMITH. HE SAYS THEY RENDEZVOUSED AT HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, THENCE
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LEMASTER: HUGH AND MARY
THENCE MARCHED UNDER COMMAND OF THE OFFICERS AFOREAID TO LITTLE YORK, PA. THENCE TO LANCASTER, THENCE TO ABBOTTSTOWN, A SMALL VILLAGE ABOUT SECTION 105
14 MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA, THENCE THEY MARCHED TO PHILADELPHIA, WHERE THEY REMAINED FOR ABOUT ONE WEEK; THENCE MARCHED TO CARROLL'S FERRY ABOUT 30 MILES UP THE RIVER FROM PHILADELPHIA, THENCE MARCHED INTO THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO A SMALL PLACE CALLED FLAMONTOWN? ON THE HEAD WATERS OF BARITON RIVER, THENCE MARCHED TO A PLACE CALLED PUCKENMIN-THENCE MARCHED TO BASKIN RIDGE WHERE THEY WERE STATIONED UNTIL HIS TIME EXPIRED, WHEN HE AND ALL OF HIS REGIMENT WAS DISCHARGED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON, SAYS THEY DEPOSITED THEIR GUNS AND BLANKETS AT WHITE TAVERN, NEAR THE ENCAMPEMENT , ANE AND HE WAS DISCHARGED JUNE 1778. SAYS IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1779 THAT A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN THE COUNTY OF WASHINTON WHEN HE WAS DRAFTED FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN MARTIN BILLMIN AND RENDEZVOUSED AT THE GREEN SPRING FURNACE OR FORT FREDERICK AND WAS THEN STATIONED AS A GUARD OVER SOME PRISONERS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM BURGOYNE AND DID GUARD SAID PRISONERS UNTIL HIS TOUR EXPIRED AND WAS DISCHARGED BY CAPTAIN MARTIN BELLMINE IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1779. SAYS HE WAS WAS BORN CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND, MAY 27, 1750. SAYS HE WAS LIVING IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL 1796 WHEN HE MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY WHERE HE HAS LIVED EVER SINCE.
-- SAID GENERAL WASHINGTON WAS BOARDING WITHIN TWO MILES OF THEIR ENCAMPMANET AT BASKIN RIDGE, GENERAL GREEN WAS AT LORD STERLING 'S OF THE MILITIA. COL. JOSEPH SMITH'S REGIMENT, COL. RICHARD DAVIS, MAJOR CHARLES SWEARENGIN, MAJOR CHRSITAIN BINDORF, CAPT. BASIL WILLIAMS, ZACHARIAH AND JESSE CARPENTER, WERE HIS NEIGHBORS.
CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE
STATE OF MARYLAND, WASHINGTON COUNTY; I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT IT APPEARS FROM THE RECORDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY COURT THAT HUGH LEMESTER AND MARY JUPIN ON FEBRUARY 20, 1792 OBTAINED FROM THE CLERK OF SAID COURT, A LICENSE TO BE JOINED IN WHOLY BONDS OF MATRIMONY AND THAT SAID LICENSE WAS ADDRESSED TO THE REV. MR. CAHOE AUTHORIZING HIM TO SOLEMNIZE THE RIGHT OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE SAID PERSONS, ACCORDING TO LAW. SECTION 106
THIS JUNE 13, 1845. SIGNED ISAAC NESBITT, CLERK.
-- A LETTER FROM THIS COUNTY COURT CLERK WRITTEN FROM HAGERSTOWN SAYS A LETTER i. R. CAHOE AFTERWARDS REMOVED TO YOUR COUNTY AND THERE DIED SO I AM TOLD.
-- HIS WIDOW MARY LEMASTER, A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY AGE 78, SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO HIM FEB. 20, 1792 AND THAT HE DIED MAY 13, 1837, THAT SHE WAS NOT MARRIED TO HIM PRIOR TO HIS LEAVING THE SERVICE.
MADDOX: WILSON DELILAH VIRGINIA W 8413 STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY: SEPTEMBER 17, 1832, AGE 77, SAYS HE ENLISTED IN THE SERVICE IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 1776, UNDER THOAMAS DILLARD. THE LT., IN CAPTAIN CONALDSON'W COMPANY FOR THE TERM OF 3 MONTHS AND SERVED IN THE REGIMENT OF COL. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, WHO AT THAT TIME COMMANDED THE TROOPS IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY, THAT HE WAS IN THE STATE LINE OF VIRGINIA, THAT HE LIVED IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VA. , BEFCRF IN PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA. UNDER THE AFORESAID OFFCIE'
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UNDER THE AFORESAID OFFICERS, THAT HE WAS IN CAPTAIN DONALDSON'S COMPANY, ALTHOUGH NOT ENLISTED BY HIM BUT BY HIS LT., THOMAS DILLARD; THAT THERE WAS BUT ONE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. CLARK, AS AOFRESAID, THAT AFTER HE ENLISTED, HE MARCHED UNDER THE COMMAND CF LT. THOMAS DILLARD THROUGH THE WILDNESS FROM PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA TO KENTUCKY COUNTY, AND LANDED AT BOONESBOROUGH ON THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH 1778, THAT CAPTAIN DONALDSON'S COMPANY REMAINED SOMETIME UNDER THE COMMAND OF DILLARD AT BOONESBOROUGH UNTIL ABOUT TEN DAYS BEFORE HIS TIME OF SERVICE EXPIREO WHEN GENERAL CLARK SENT AN EXPRESS FROM THE FALLS OF THE OHIO (NOW LOUISVILLE) TO BOONESBOROUGH FOR CAPT. DONALDSON'S COMPANY TO GO ON TO THE FALLS CF THE OHIO, THAT THE COMPANY WENT ACCORDING TO SAID COMMAND FORTH TO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO, THAT THE CAPTAIN DONALDSON'S COMPANY JOINED FOR THE FIRST TIME COL. CLARK THAT AT THE FALLS OF THE OHIO HIS TERM OF 3 MONTHS EN- LISTMENT EXPIRED; THAT FROM THIS TERM OF 3 MONTHS HE WAS NOT DISCHARGED- HE LIVENG IN A FOREGIN AND WILDERNESS COUNTY, HE COULD NOT RETURN WITH SAFETY, IF HE HAD DESIRED THE SAME. SECTION 107
THAT HE AT HARRISBURG AGAIN ENLISTED UNDER CAPTAIN JAMES HARROD WHO FOUND ONE OF THE COMPANIES OF SAID CLARK'S REGIMENT, THAT THE SAID HARROD'S COMPANY REMAINED AT THE FORT AT HARRODSBURG UNTIL MAY 1779, WHEN HE WAS DETAILED OR ORDERED TO MARCH FROM SAID HARRODSBURG, UNDER CAPTAIN LIGH HARLAND TO CHILLICOTHE, ON THE LITTLE MIAMI RIVER; THAT AT THIS TIME, THE REGIMENT WAS COMMAND ED BY COL. JOHN BOWMAN, HE THINKS IN THE REGIMENT THERE WAS ABOUT 280 MEN AND OFFICERS, THAT AT THIS PLACE, THE INDIANS GAVE COL. BOWMANAN ACTION WHEN COL. BOWMAN HAD TO RETREAT TO HARRODSBURG. THAT COL. BOWMAN WAS THEN ACTING UNDER COL. CLARK WHO ON THIS AFFIANT UNDERSTOOD WAS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES IN THE WESTERN COUNTRY; THAT HE REMAINED AT HARRODSBURG OR THE FORT IN IT'S VACINITY UNDER COL. BOWMAN UNTIL SOMETIME IN 1780 WHEN HE WAS BY THE ORDER OF OF COL. BOWMAN UNTIL SOMETIME IN 1780 WHEN HE WAS BY THE ORDER OF COL. BOWMAN BLACED UNDER THE COMMAND OF CATPAIN THOMAS DENTON AND ORDERED TO MARCH TO THE MOUTH OF LICIKING. WHEN CAPTAIN DENTON'S JOINED COL. CLARK'S ARMY OF SOMETHING LIKE A THOUSAND MEN AND OFFICERS, THAT FROM THE MOUTH
OF LICKING, NOW CINCINNATI, COL. CLARK'S REGIMENT MARCHED TO THE PICKAWAY PLAINS WHERE COL. CLARK GAVE THE INDIANS AN ENGAGEMENT AND DEFEATED THEM AND BURNED THEIR HUTS AND DESTROYED THEIR CORN. THAT IN THIS ENGAGEMENT SOME INDIANS WERE KILLED. THAT FROM THIS PLACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT RETURNED TO THE OHIO RIVER. WHEN COL. CLARK DESCENDED THE RIVER, OHIO AND THE COMPANY OF CAPTAIN DANTON, CAME TO HARRODSBURG; THAT THIS AFFIANT WAS STILL UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. POWMAN AND UNDER HIS ORDER WAS GUARDING AND BUILDING THE NEW FORTS IN KENTUCKY COUNTY UNTIL U782 WHEN THIS AFFIANT WAS PLACED UNDER THE COMMAND OF JOHN DAUGHERTY CAPTAIN AND ORDERED BY COLL BOWMAN TO MARCH TO BIG MIAMI RIVER UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLL. CLARK, WHO THEY JOINED AT THE MOUTH SECTION 108 OF LICKING NOW CINCINNATI AGAIN, THAT COL. CLARK'S REGIMENT
WHIPPED THE INDIANS AND TOOK SOME INDIANS PRISONERS AND RETOOK SOME WHITE PRISONERS IN CAPTURING THE INDIANS, OR WOMEN BY THE NAME OF MCFALL? THAT TH' REGIMENT 06 COL. CLARK THEN RETURNED TO CINCINNATI, COL. CLARK RETURNED TO THE FALLS OF THE OHIO AND THIS AFFIANT RETURNED HOME TO HARRODSBURG. THAT ALL THIS SERVICE WAS DONE FROM THE TIME OF HIS FIRST ENLISTMENT AS AFORESAID AS A REGULAR SOLDIER, SUBJECT TO ORDER AND DUTY AT ALL TIMES; THAT HE FAITHFULLY SERVED OUT ALL THE DUTY THAT WAS REQUIRED OF HIM, WHICH WAS ALL THE TIME THAT FROM THIS SERVICE HE NEVER RECEIVED A REGULAR DIS- CHARGE BUT WAS PLACED UNDER SOME COMMANDERS, THAT NONE FELT IT THEIR DUTY TO GIVE DISCHARGES, THAT HE KNOWS OF NO ONE BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE THE
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THAT HE KNOWS OF NO ONE BY WHOM HE CAN PROVE THE AFORESAID SERVICES; THAT HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF SAID SERVICES.
SIGNED WILSON MADDOX (HIS MARK)
.- C WITNESSES: JAMES BALLOU, JAMES BRADSHAW, THOMAS MADDOX.
-- AFFIDAVIT DELILA MADDOX, HIS WIDOW; BY OATH OF DAVID MADDOX AND KYLES MADDOX, STATE THAT THE SOLDIER WILSON MADDOX DIED JUNE 30, 1834. -- DAVID AND THOMAS G. MADDOX WERE APPOINTED BY THE COURT TO TAKE CARE OF THE ESTATE TO DOROTHY MADDOX OF UNSOUND MIND .
BIBLE RECORDS
WILSON MADDOX, SR., BORN 9-30-1757
DELILAH MADDOX,
DAVID MADDOX
4-13-1770 1-9-1787 1-24~1789
JOHN MADDOX
ELIJAH MADDOX
1-24-1791
WILSON MADDOX
2-15-1793
THOMAS MADDOX
6-18-1795
JENNY MADDOX 2-10-1797
SALLY MADDOX 4-17-1800
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BETSY MADDOX 9-5-1802
PATSY MADDOX BORN 12-20-1804
MILES MADDOX 8-7-1807
POLLY MADDOX 6-14-1810
DELILAH MADDOX 8-23-1813
ELIAH MADDOX SON OF DAVID MADDOX 1-11-1812
LIMA MADDOX, DAUGHTER OF WILSON MADDOX 12-20-1812
HENRY MADDOX, SON OF DAVID MADDOX 8-25-1813
LEVI MADDOX , SON OF ELIJAH MADDOX, BORN 4-23-1815 PRESTON MADDOX, SON OF WILSON MADDOX, 7-20-1815
GUINN MADDOX, SON OF DAVID ---?
LENEUR?
7-1815
7-24-1817.
DAUGHTER OF WILSON MARRIAGES
WILSON MADDOX AND DELILA HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 7-13-1785 DAVID MADDOX AND POLLY HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 11-1-1810 WILSON MADDOX, JR., AND PRUDENCE HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 3-2-1812 ELIJAH MADDOX AND SALLY HIS WIFE, WERE MARRIED 3-9-18K5 THOMAS C. MADDOX AND CYNTHIA HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED MAY 7, 1822? HIRAM IKERLIN AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 3-23-1822 JOHN S. C. MADDOX AND MEATHY BRITE MARRIED JULY 25, 1822 MELVILL MCCANN AND EPOLLY HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 4-9-1829 SILVESTER MCCANN WAS BORN 3-17-1830
KYLES MADDOX AND ELLEN FRANCIS HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED OCTOBER 1, 1833. BENJAMIN WARFORD AND DELILA HIS WIFE WERE MARRIED 13-13-1834.
-AFFIDAVIT OF HIRMA -HIRAM KARLIN WHO SAYS HE IS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE FAMILY RECORDS OF WILSON MADDOX DECEASED FOR ABOUT 16 YEARS, THAT EVER SINCE HIS DEATH HE HAS LIVED IN ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE OF THE LATE RESIDENCE OF THE SAID WILSON MADDOX DECEASED AND KNOWS IT AS ABOVE STATED SECTION 110
TO BE HIS FAMILY RECORD BUT CANNOT SAY, BEING A SON IN LAW WHO MADE THE RECORD. -- AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS G. MADDOX, CAME BEFORE ME AT THE SAMETIME AND HIS OATH SAYS THAT THE RECORD HERETO ANNEXED, IS THE RECORD OF WILSON MADDOX DECEASED AND THAT IT WAS WRITTEN BY JAMES MCCANN WHO NOW LIVES IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. HE ALSO SAYS THAT HIS BROTHER MILES MADDOX
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HAD THE SAID RECORD IN POSSESSION A PART OF THE TIME SINCE THE DECEASED OF SAID WILSON MADDOX AND THAT IT HAS BEEN IN THE POSSESSION OF A YOUNG MAN MAN BY THE NAME OF JAMES MCCAN, THE BALANCE OF THE TIME, WHO NOW LIVES ON THE PLACE IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE OF THE WIDOW AS SHE IS IN A STATE OF INSANTITY.
DAVID MADDOX MADE AFFIDAVIT AND SAID THAT HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS DELILA AND NOT DOROTHA.
-- AFFIDAVIT OF BRAN W. BALLARD, WHO SAYS HE KNOWS THAT HE WAS A MARRIED MAN IN 1790 AND THAT THE WIFE HE THEN HAD IS NOW A WIDOW, LIVING IN SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. | WAS THEN A PRIVATE SOLDIER BUT IN THE YEAR 1794, | WAS PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN UNDER GENERAL WAYNE. THIS JULY 1829. (39) -- A LETTER IN THE FILES WRITTE IN 1914 JULY 30 FROM MAS. F. C. SMITH 519-N. 12 ST. EAST ST. LOUIS
ASKING FOR THE RECORD OF MADDOX ALSO OF SHELTON EIDSON.
MORGAN: WILLIAM
S18, 985 BL WT 1944-100 VIRGINIA
JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY
ON NOVEMBER 1, 1819, THE ABOVE SOLDIER APPEARED BEFORE JUDGE SAMUEL MCKEE, AGE 60, A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHO SAYS HE ENLISTED FOR THE TERM OF DURING THE WAR ON JANUARY 1, 1778 AT FREDERICKSBURG, VA., UNDER CAPTAIN HOLMAN MINNIS OF THE SAID VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. BELL IN THE LINE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ON THE CONTINENTAL ESTABLISHMENT
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IN WHICH SITUATION HE CONTINUED TO SERVE IN SAID CORPS IN THE SERVICE OF THE U. S. UNTIL THE WAR WAS OVER WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED IN THE ISLAND OF JAMICA, THAT HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER' AT CHARLESTON, CHARLESTOWN S.C., WHEN GENERAL LINCOLN SURRENDERED HIS ARMY AND WAS SENT TO BOARD A PRISON SHIP TO JAMICA WHERE HE WAS RELEASED AS ABOVE STATED, AFTER THE RATIFICATION OF THE DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE AND THAT HE IS IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES AT THIS TIME.
-ONE HENRY MCKINNEY MADE AFFIDAVIT THAT HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH SAID SOLDIER IN CULPEPPER COUNTY, VA., FROM THE TIME THAT HE WAS A SMALL BOY UNTIL THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BROKE OUT AND THE SAID WILLIAM MORGAN ABOUT THE YEAR 1777 OR 1778 LEFT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT WAS SAID AND BELIEVED THAT HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE SERVICE AS HE WAS ABSENT FOR SIX OR SEVEN YEARS AND AFTER THE PEACE BETWEEN THE U. S., AND GREAT BRITTAIN, THE SAID WILLIAM GREEN RETURNED TO CULPEPPER COUNTY AND HE SAID HE WAS TAKEN AT THE SURRENDER OF CHARLESTOWN IN MAY 1780 AND RETAINED A PRISONER AT JAMICA BY TH THE ENEMY UNTIL PEACE.
-- THE SOLDIER WILLIAM MORGAN MADE HIS DECLARATION IN 1820, AND SAID THAT HE SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AS FOLLOWS; THAT HE ENLISTED INA COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN HOLMAN MINNESS IN THE FIRST VA., REGT., COMMANDED BY GENERAL WOODFORD; THAT HE CONTINUED IN THAT REGIMENT UNTIL HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER AT THE "CAPTURECY OF CHARLESTOWN AND WAS CONTINUED PRISONER UNTIL THE END OF THE' WAR. SAYS THAT HE IS OLD AND VERY INFIRM, HE HAS A WIFE AND 5 CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM, WHO ARE ALL DAUGHTERS, THE OLD OLDEWT ABOUT 10. HE ALSO HAS A DAUGHTER WITH 3 SMALL CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIM, WHO WAS MARRIED AND HER HUSBAND TURNED OUT TRIFLING, BUT THE SOLDIER RESIDED IN KENTUCKY WHEN HE FIRST DREW PENSION LATER MOVED TO INDIANA, BUT STILL LATER CAME BACK TO KENTUCKY.
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AT A COURT HELD FOR SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MAY 16, 1818, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER STATES THAT NE ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY
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MULLIKIN: JOHN VIRGINIA S35529
AT A COURT HELD FOR SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY MAY 18, 1818, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER STATES THAT HE ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FOR TWO YEARS IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1776 AND SERVED AS STATED UNTIL FEBRUARY 1778 IN CAPTAIN OLIVER TOWLES COMPANY IN THE 6TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. MORDICA BUCKNER, WHEN HE WAS REGULARLY DISCHARGED BY BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE WEEDEN, BUT HE HAS LOST HIS DISCHARGE OR IT IS WORN OUT OR DESTROYED; THAT HE IS 67 YEARS OF AGE, FEEBLE AND INFIRM, SIGNED 8-11-182 !.
HE WAS AGE 70 IN THE YEAR 1820. STATES THAT HE ENTERED SERVICE IN SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA IN A COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN OLLIVER TOLLS? IN THE 6TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE, COMMANDED BY COL. MORDICA BUCKNER FOR THE TERM OF TWO YEARS- THAT HE CONTINUED IN THE SAID CORPS UNTIL THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1778 WHEN HE WAS BISCHARGEO AT VALLEY FORGE IN PA., THAT HE WAS IN THE BATTLE OF GERMANTOWN SEIGE OF MERVISLAND? FORT, THE TAKING OF THE HESSIANS AT TRENTON AND BATTLE OF PRINCETOWN . HE HAS NO ONE LIVING WITH HIM IN 1820 EXCEPT HIS WIFE, WHO WAS AT THAT TIME VERY OLD, HE HAD SIX SONS LIVING AT THE ENLISTMENT OF THE LATE WAR ALL OF WHOM ENTERED THE SERVICE, ONE WAS KILLED AT THE RIVER RAISEIN, FIVE OUT OF THE 6 WAS WOUNDED DURING THE WAR AND HE IS NOT CERTAIN OF MORE THAN 3 NOW LIVING, NONE OF WHOM CAN SUPPORT HIM AND HIS WIFE.
A-AFFIDAVIT AS FOLLOWS; ROBERT TRUE SR., MADE IN JESSAMINE COUNTY, MAY 24, 1821, SAYS HE IS AGE 70, ENTERED SERVICE IN SPOTTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VAL, IN THE SPRING OF 1776 UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN OLIVER TOWLES IN THE 6TH REGIMENT AND THAT HE SERVED OUT THE TWO YEARS THE TIME FOR WHICH HE ENLISTED AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN THE SPRING CF THE YEAR 1778- SIGNED ROBERT TRUE, SR .?
THIS AFFIDAVIT WAS MADE BEFORE JOEL TURHAM, BP. JP . SECTION 113
FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY- 3-19-1821 ONE HENRY BROOKS.
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