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MADE AFFIDAVIT THAT JOHN MULLICAN ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER IN CAPTAIN OLIVER TOWEL 'S COMPANY OF CONTINENTAL TROOPS FOR TWO YEARS IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1776 AND THAT HE SERVED OUT HIS TIME AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED WITH MYSELF AND OTHERS AT VALLEY FORGE CAMP, PENN, SOMETIME IN FEBRUARY 1778. HE MADE THIS STATEMENT BEFORE A J.P. THOMAS WILSON IN 1821 .
CROSBY: JOHN VIRGINIA R. 2509
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. MAY 12, 1845. PERSONALLY APPEARED IN OPEN COURT, THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER, AND STATES THAT HE WAS AGE 90 THE 10TH DAY OF MAY 1845; THAT HE ENLISTED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND DURING SAID WAR, AT THAT TIME HE WAS A RESIDENT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY VIRGINIA. THOMAS KEITH WAS HIS LT., WILLIAM BLACKWELL HIS CAPTAIN, THOMAS MARSHALL, HIS MAJOR AND MARTIN PICKETT WAS HIS COLONEL, IN THE MINUTE SERVICE, THEY RENDEZVOUSED AT CULPEPPER COURT HOUSE, VA., THENCE MARCHED TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE HE WAS STATIONED SOMETIME IN THE CAPITOL THENCE MARCHED TO HAMPTON AND THERE REPULSED AN ATTACK MADE BY THE ENEMY ON THE TOUR IN WHICH THEY CAPTURED THE ENGLISH BRIG WHICH WAS EMPLOYED BY THE ENEMY AS A TENDER TO THEIR SHIP OF THE LINE CALLED THE KING FISHEN; FROM THENCE HE WAS MARCHED BACK TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL COAL WEATHER, SAY SIX MONTHS FROM THE DAY OF HIS ENLISTMENT.
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HE WAS THENCE RETAKEN TO CULPEPPER COURT HOUSE, NOT DISCHARGED BUT WITH OREORDERS TO HOLD MATTERS IN READINESS AT ANY TIME TO OBEY WHATEVER ORDER MIGHT BE GIVEN HIM. IN HIS SECOND TOUR, HE WAS MARCHED WITH . HIS COMPANY WITH ORDERS TO JOIN THE ARMY UNDER THE IMMEDIATE COMMAND OF GENERAL WASHINGTON AT GERMANTOWN WHERE HE ARRIVED TWO DAYS AFTER BATTLE TOOK PLACE, HAVING BEEN DELAYED ON THE ROUTE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN PROVISIONS, HE REMAINED EXCAMPED THERE A GOOD WHILE, SEVERAL MONTHS; THO HE DOES SECTION 114
NOT KNOW FROM THE GREAT LAPSE OF TIME RECOLLECT HOW LONG AND THENCE RETURNED TO VIRGINIA, HE WAS NEXT, IT BEING THE 3RD., TIME ALL UNDER THE SAME OFFICER'S MARCHED TO A POINT ON THE POTOMAC RIVER WHERE THE ENEMY HAD BURNED AND DESTROYED BRENT'S HOUSES .. THERE HE REMAINED FOR SOMETIME. FROM THIS LAST MENTIONED PERIOD UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR BY THE CAPTURE OF CORNWALLIS AT LITTLE YORK . UNDER ARMS AND IN READINESS TO OBEY ANY ORDERS AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUISITIONS OF HIS OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT. HE FURNISHED HIS OWN ARMES AND EQUIPMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED THE PROVISIONS BUT FOR HIS CORPS.
HE WAS PAID AT DIFFERENT TIMES IN WHAT WAS THEN CALLED CONTINENTAL MONEY, WHICH WAS OF LITTLE OR NO VALUE, THE AMOUNT HE DOES NOT KNOW RECOLLECT. HE NEVER RECEIVED A WRITTEN DISCHARGE FROM THE SERVICE.
HE WROTE TO HIS FRIEND COL. R. M. JOHNSON REGARDING HIS PENSION S SOMETIME AGO, HE STATES.
MOORE: ABRAHAM VIRGINIA* MARYLAND S2856 STATE OF .KENTUCKY : SHELBY COUNTY JUNE 10-1833
PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE NAMED SOLDIER AGE 76, WHO STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PA., ON SEPT. 1, 1756~ | HAVE SEEN MY BIRTH RECORD IN THE FAMILY BIBLE. | ENLISTED JAN. 1, 1776 FOR A TERM OF ONE YEAR AT SHEPHERDSTOWN IN BERKLEY COUNTY , VA. , IN A COMPANY OF RIFLEMIEN, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DARK, A MAN NAMED ISAAC IRVELO BEING THE FIRST LT., OF THE COMPANY. CUR COMPANY JOINED THE 8TH REGIMENT OF THE VIRGINIA LINE COMMANDED BY CODL EATON MUHLENBERG AT SUFFOLK IN WHICH REGIMENT | SERVED. FROM SUFFOLK, WE MARCHED TO NORFOLK, AFTER LYING AT NORFOLK SOMETIME WE MARCHED TOWARD WILMINGTON BUT DID NOT REACH IT, ON CYPRESS HAVING MET US INFORMING US THAT THE BRITISH HAD GONE TO CHARLESTON AFTER WHICH PLACE WE WERE THEN MARCHED- AFTER HAVING PASSED CROSS CREEK AND THROUGH CAMDEN ON TO CHARLESTON, SECTION 115
WHICH PLACE WE REACHED THE 25TH OF JUNE 1776. HE BATTLE OF SULLIVAN'S ISLAND WAS FOUGHT THAT DAY . HISTORY SAYS IT WAS THE 29TH JUNE. 1 STOOD SENTINAL ON THE PICKET GUARD TWO WEEKS ON SULLIVAN'S |SLAND. I KNEW GENERAL LEE WHO COMMANDED US AND MOULTRIE WHO COMMANDED THE GARRISON. ALSO CAPT., SLAUGHTER, CAPT., CAMPBELL AND CAPT. STINSON. FROM SULLIVAN'S ISLAND WE MOVED TO CHARLESTON, THE BRITISH HAVING ALL GONE OFF TO NEW YORK. GENERAL LEE MADE A SPEECH TO US IN WHICH HE TOLD US WE HAD COME A GREAT WAY AND THAT OUR WAGES WERE LOW, THAT THERE WERE A GOOD MANY TORIES ON ST. AUGUSTINE WHO HAD PLUNDERED AND THAT WE WERE AT LIBERTY TO GO THERE IF WE CHOSE, OUR COL. TOLD US THAT IF ANY OF US CHOSE TO HAVE FURLOUGHS TO GO HOME THAT HE WOULD GRAN THEM, I TOOK A FURLOUGH FOR 40 DAYS AND STARTED HOME, ON MY WAY HOME, I WAS TAKEN SICK AND CONTINUED SICK SOMETIME ON THE ROAD. MY FURLOUGH HAD NEARLY EXPIRED WHEN | REACHED MY FATHER'S HOUSE. | CONTINUED SICK AFTER | GOT TO MY FATHER'S UNTIL MARCH 1777. IN WHICH MONTH | WENT TO SHEPHERDSTOWN AND GOT MY DISCHARGE FROM ISAAC ISMELO BEFORE NAMED.
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MY DISCHARGE WAS IN WRITING AND RECOGNIZED ME TO HAVE SERVED OUT MY TIME OF ENLISTMENT. IT IS NOT NOW IN MY POSSESSION. I . HAVE LOST IT OR MISLAID IT, NOT HAVING ANY INTEREST BUT THIS IN PURSUING IT.
FOR MY NAME IS NOT ON THE ROLLS, LODGED IN THE WAR OFFICE OR WHEREVER SAID DOCUMENTS ARE KEPT. I SUPPOSE IT MUST BE IN CONSEQUENCE OF MY NOT NOT RETURNING AFTER MY FURLOUGH HAD EXPIRED, THE REASON OF WHICH I HAVE BEFORE XPLAINED. IF THE ROLLS OF THE COMPANY AT THE TIME | EN- LISTED ARE EXAMINED UP TO THE TIME WHEN I GOT MY FURLOUGH. | THINK MY NAME WILL BE FOUND . IN THE MONTH OF JULY 1777, I THINK THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, I ENTERED THE MILITIA SERVICE OF THE U.S., AS A VOLUNTEER PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE COUNTY OF FREDERICK IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND IN A VOLUNTEER COMPANY, COMMANDED BY CAPT. DAVID MOORE TO SERVE FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR MONTHS. WE MARCHED FROM FREDERICK COUNTY TO BEECH BOTOM FERRY, FROM THENCE TO OSFORD MEETING HOUSE WHEN WE JOINED SMALLWOOD'S BRIGADE, THEN | THOOK FEVER AND AGER AND LAY IN THE HOSPITAL SECTION 116
THREE OR FOUR WEEKS, THE DR. REPORTED ME NOT FIT FOR DUTY AND I WAS DISCHARGED SOMETIME IN OCTOBER, THE PARTICULAR DAY | CANNOT RECOLLECT. BEING SICK ALL THE TIME | LAY AT OXFORD. | WAS PREVENTED FROM KNOWING ONE OF THE OFFICERS OTHER THEN I HAVE STATED. I TOOK NO CARE OF MY DISCHARGE AND CAN GIVE NO FURTHER ACCOUNT OF IT. | DID NOT REACH HOME U UNTIL THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1777, HAVING BEEN DETAILED ALONG THE ROAD WITH THE SICKNESS WHICH CONTINUED AFTER MY DISCHARGE FROM THE SAID LAST MENTIONED SERVICE. MY FATHER MET ME ON THE ROAD 20 MILES THIS SIDE OF BALTIMORE WITH A HORSE AND TOOK ME HOME. THIS DECLARANT STATES THAT FROM THE 6TH OF JANUARY 1776, WHEN HE ENTERED THE MILITIARY SERVICE OF THE U.S. AS AN ENLISTED SOLDIER BOUND TO SERVICE AS BEFORE STATED UP TO THE TIME WHEN HIS FURLOUGH AS AFORESAID HAD EXPIRED WOULD AMOUNT TO THE TO THE TERM OF TEN MONTHS, WHICH HE HERE STATES WAS THEN MONTHS OF ACTUAL SERVICE DONE BY HIM AT THAT PERIOD AND CONSCIENTIOUS AS HE IS THAT HIS CONTINUING SICK AFTER HIS FURLOUGH HAD EXPIRED AS BEFORE STATED EVEN UNTIL AFTER HIS TERM OF ENLISTMENT HAD ALSO EXPIRED BEING THE SOLE CAUSE THAT HE DID NOT RETURN AND REPORT HIMSELF TO HIS COMMANDING OFFICER IS DUE TIME, HE FEELS HIMSELF JUSTIFIED IN SETTING DOWN THE REMAINING TIME OF HIS PERIOD OF ENLISTEMENT AFTER HIS FURLOUGH HAD EXPIRED AS TWO MONTHS MORE OF ACTUAL SERVICE, THAT FROM THE 6TH JANUARY 1776 UNTIL JAN. 6, 177, HE WAS NOT AT ANY TIME EMPLOYED IN ANY CIVIC PURUSIT, BUT DURING ALL THAT TIME HELD HIMSELF BOUND TO SERVE THE U. S., AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN MANNER AS BEFORE STATED. IN REGARD TO THE SECOND TERM OF SERVICE PERFORMED BY HIM IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AS A VOLUNTEER PRIVATE FRI FROM FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND AS HEREIN BEFORE MENTIONED. SAYS THAT FROM FIRST JULY 1777, UP TO THE TIME HE WAS SEPARATED BY REASON OF SICK- NESS
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AS BEING UNFIT FOR DUTY AND BISCHARGED AT OXFORD MEETING HOUSE AS BEFORE STATED WAS FOR MONTHS WHICH HE. SETS DOWN AS ACTUAL SERVICE OVER THE U.S., AT THE PERIOD OF THE TERM AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER, THAT THE TIME OF HIS SAID LAST MENTIONED DISCHARGE WAS AFTER THE TERMINATION OF FOUR MONTHS FROM THE SAID FIRST DAY OF JULY 1777 UNDER THE FACTS STATED BY HIM. HE IS ENTITLED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. THE REFERENCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, AFTERWARDS IN THE MONTH OF SEPT. 1:779 THE DAY | CANNOT RECOLLECT., | AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U.S. AS A PRIVATE IN CAPTAIN POOR'S COMPANY TO SERVE TWO MONTHS. | ENTERED THE SAID LAST NAMED SERVICE IN FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND. I CANNOT RECOLLECT THE NAME OF THE MAN FOR WHOM | SO ENTERED AS A SUBSTITUTE. HE HAD BEEN DRAFTED AND HE GAVE ME PICO. CONTINENTAL MONEY TO TAKE HIS PLACE.
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SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY PENSIONERS WE MARCHED FROM FREDERICK COUNTY THROUGH HAGERSTOWN UP TO FORT FREDERICK ON THE POTOMAC RIVER FOR THE PURPOSE OF GUARDING SCHE PRISONERS. THE PRISONERS NOT BEING SENT THERE AND ONE CAPTAIN . HEARING THAT THEY HAD BEEN SENT UP TO WINCHESTER IN VIRGINIA, WE WERE IDSCHARGED AFTER HAVING PERFORMED SIX WEEKS OF ACTUAL SERVICE, THE COMPANY WAS DRAFTED. TO SERVE TWO MONTHS WHICH WAS THE PERIOD | ENTERED TO SERVE, WE WERE DISCHARGED IN HAGERSTOWN. | RECEIVED A WRITTEN DISCHARGE BUT CAN NOT GIVE NO ACCOUNT OF-4T. THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN APRIL IN THE YEAR 1775, KE SHROLLED HIMSELF AMONG THE. MINUTE MEN IN BERKLEY COUNTY, VIRGINIA UNDER CAPT. WASHINGTON, WE MUSTERED OVER TWO WEEKS AT WORTHINGTON'S MARSH AT THE WHITE HOUSE TAVERN' AT THE HEAD OF BULL SKIN. WE WERE COMPELTELY ARMED AND EQUIPPED AND HELD READY TO MARCH ยท AT A MINUTES WARNING AND WERE DAILY EXPECTED TO BE ORDERED TO BOSTON, MASS.
WE CONTINUED UNDER THE STATE OF WIILITIARY PREPARATION AND BISCYPLINE FROM APRIL 1775 UNTIL THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER FOLLOWING DURING ALL WHICH TIME, | IN THE MANNER ABOVE STATED DID MILITARY SERVICE WITH AN EMBODIED? CORPS CALLED INTO SAID SERVICE BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN VIRGINIA WHICH I SET FAR DOWN AS SEVEN MONTHS MORE OF ACTUAL SERVICE RENDERED THE U.S. BY ME DURING THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION,
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I HAVE NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF THE SERVICE PERFORMED BY ME IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, NOR DO | KNOW OF ANY LIVING WITNESS BY WHOM | CAN PROVE THEM. I CAME OUT TO KENTUCKY IN THE YEAR 1785 WHERE I HAVE LIVED EVER SINCE. I REFER TO REV. ANDREW A. SHANNON AND FIELDING SMITHEY AND DANIEL CAPLINGER WHO WILL STATE THE BELIEF IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIVE TO MY REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE.
MITCHELL! CHARLES VIRGINIA S3126[
STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY: NOVEMBER 30, 1833. PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE SOLDIER BEFORE GIDEON MITCHELL, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AGE 74, SAYS THE ENTERED THE SERVICE AS FOLLOWS; BEING A CITIZEN OF NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN THE LATER PART OF NOVEMBER 1780 ENTERED AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER ON BOARD THE SCHOONER BETSEY & PEGGY TO WHICH LETTER OF ??? DOWN GRANTED BY THE U.S .; THAT THE VESSEL WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN BROWN AND INTENDED TO MAKE A VOLYAGE TO' THE WEST INDIAS AND CRUSING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD BUT BEFCE SHE COULD PASS OUT OF THE BAY A PART OF THE BRITISH NAVY WITH TROOPS ON BOARD UNDER ARNOLD MADE IT'S APPEARONE AT HAMPTON ROADS, AND THE ENTERPRISE WAS CONSEQUENTLY ABANDONED. THIS HAPPENED THE LATER PART OF DECEMBER AND WAS ENGAGED IN THIS SERVICE
ABOUT ONE MONTH AND RETURNED HOME.
AND ABOUT JANUARY 1, 1731, ENTERED SERVICE AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER UNDER CAPTAIN BACON UPON A TOUR OF SIX MONTHS ; THAT HE RENDEZVOUSED AT HOLT'S FORG IN NEW KENT COUNTY WHERE HE STILL CONTINUED TO LIVE AND WAS ATTACHED TO THE REGIMENT COMMANDED BY COL. INNIS; THAT GENERAL NELSON HAD THE COMMAND OF TROOPS WITH WHICH HE SERVED, THAT THEY WERE KEPT IN THE COUNTRY TO PROTECT THE BRITISH;
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THAT HE WAS MARCHED PLACE TO PLACE IN NEW KENT CO., FIRST THEN TO WILLIAM- BURG, THAT HE WAS ONCE AT YORK DURING THIS TERM OF SERVICE; THAT THE WHOLE OF THE OTUR HE WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGED UNDER THE ORDER OF HIS OFFICERS IN RANGING THE COUNTRY ALONG JAMES RIVER AND A PART OF THE BAY COAST AFTER HAVING FULLY AND FAITHFULLY PERFOMED HIS TOUR OF SIX MONTHS, HE WAS DISCHARGED AND WENT HOME. THAT IN THE MONTH OF JUNE 1781, HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE AS A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER UNDER CAPTAIN
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HOPKINS WUPON A TOUR OF ONE MONTH, THE OBJECT BEING TO AID IN REMOVING SOME PUBLIC STORES FROM ALBEMARLE COURT HOUSE IN NEW LONDON, A DISTANCE OF 60 OR 70 MILES, PERHAPS MORE -- ACCORDING TO HIS PRESENT IMPRESSIONS THAT HE DID ENGAGE IN SAID SERVICE AND IN GUARDING SAID STORES DURING THE WHOLE PERIOD OF HIS SAID ENGAGEMENT AND AT THE TERMINATION
THEREOF HE WAS DISCHARGED AND RETURNED HOME. HE SAYS HE WAS UNDER AN OFFICER OF NO HIGHER GRADE THAN CAPTAIN DURING THIS TOUR. SAYS HE WAS BORN IN GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1759. THAT HE HAS A RECORD OF HIS AGE IN HIS BIBLE BUT WAS LIVING IN NEW KENT COUNTY WHEN CALLED INTO THE SERVICE. AFTER HE LEFT THE SERVICE, HE WENT TO FLUVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND THERE CONTINUED TO HAVE HIS RESIDENCE UNTIL 1795 WHEN I MOVED TO FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FROM THENCE, THE YEAR FOLLOWING I MOVED TO FRANKFORT, THENCE TO WOODFORD COUNTY, WHERE | LIVED UNTIL 1803 AND THEN MOVED TO SHELBY WHERE | HAVE LIVED UP TO THE PRESENT TIME.
MORSE: MORS: ALEXANDER VIRGINIA S38240 STATE OF KENTUCKY: SHELBY COUNTY. ON FEBRUARY 5, 1834, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE WILLIAM SHANKS, J.P. FOR SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JUDGE OF THE COUNTY CLURT, ALEXANDER MORS, AGE 83 ON THE 22ND., DAY OF LAST FEBRUARY- SAYS HE WAS RESIDING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHEN HE ENTERED THE SERVICE, THAT IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1777, HE ENTERED SECTION 120
SERVICE OF THE U. S. AND AS A LT., IN CAPTAIN HENRY PATTONS COMPANY AND UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN P.TTON AND COLL JAMES ROBERTS. SAYS HE RENDEZVOUSED IN CULBERSON'S BOTTOM ON THE BANKS OF NOW RIVER AND BY HIS SAID OFFICER WAS MARCHED ON THE FRONTIERS OF BIRGINIA AGAINST THE SHERMAN TRIBE (SHEWANEE ) OF INDIANS WHO WERE COMMITTING MANY OUTRAGES UPON THE FRONTIER SETTLERS, FREQUENTLY KILLING THE SETTLERS ON THE FRONTIERS AND AT OTHER TIMES STEALING AND PLUNDERING DURING THE CAMPAIGN. HE STATES THAT CAPTAIN PATTON'S COMPANY WERE EMPLOYED IN SPYING THE FRONTIERS IN EVERY DIRECTION AND USING EVERY EXERTION TO DRIVE THESE SAVAGES OUT OF REACH TO THE SETTLEMENTS. SAYS THAT DURING THIS CAMPAIGN WHILE SCOUTING AND SPYING THAT THE INDIANS FELL ON A SCOUTING PARTY AND KILLED ONE OF THE SPIES BY THE NAME OF WILLIAM SHOCKLEY AFTER HAVING REMAINED ONE MONTH ON THE FRONTIERS AND SEEMINGLY TO OVER-AWE THE INDIANS. HE STATES THAT BY ORDE. OF COL. ROBERTSON, THEY WERE DIS- CHARGED AND RETURNED HOME HAVING BEEN ABOUT SIX WEEKS FROM HOME. THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF JULY 1776 A DRAFT WAS ORDERED IN SAID COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY FOR A TOUR OF 3 MONTHS WHEN HE AGAIN ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE U.S., AS A LT., AND WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN JAMES MONTGOMERY AND COL. ARTHUR CAMPBELL, SAYS THEY WERE ORDERED TO RENDEZVOUS AT THE MIDDLE OF MORAVIAN TOWN IN N. C., WHICH ORDER HE STATES HE OBEYED AFTER THEY HAD RENDEZVOUSED AT SAID MORAVIAN TOWN, SAYS THAT THE REGIMENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COL. ARTHUR C .MPBELL WAS MARCHED ACROSS THE YADKIN RIVER AT THE SHALLOW FORD IN PURSUIT OF TORIES WHO WERE CONSTANTLY ANNOYING THE WHIG SETTLERS IN CAROLINA, SAYS THAT THE TORIES WERE DURING THEIR MARCH GAVE BACK TO THEIR
REGIMENTS AND DISPERSED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THEY WERE NEVER ABLE TO OVERTAKE THEM EXCEPT IN ONE INSTANCE WHEN SOME OF THE MEN UNDER HIS COMMAND AS LT., TOOK ONE WHICH THEY SEVERLY WHIPPED WITHOUT BRINGING SECTION 121
HIM TO CONYS? SAYS THEY PURSUED THEIR COURSE UP TO DEEP RIVER
AND FINDING THAT THE TORIES HAD DISPERSED THEM THEN RETURNED TO THE
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THE MIDDLE MORAVIAN TOWN WHERE HE STATES HE REMAINED UNTIL HIS SAID THREE MONTHS WERE OUT. WHEN COL. CAMPBELL DISCHARGED THE REGIMENTS IN TRE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1778. HE FURTHER STATES THAT FROM HIS FIDELITY ASSIQUITY AND PATRIOTISM THAT HE WAS UPON HIS RETURN FROM THE MORAVIAN TOWNS PROMOTED TO THE CAPTAINCY OF A COMPANY COMMISSIONED AND SWORN IN AS A CAPTAIN; THAT IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE TORIES AND INDIANS HAD EMBODIED FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAKING POSSESSION OF CHISOLA LEAD MINES. FROM WHICH THE ARMY IN THAT QUARTER WERE SUPPLIED WITH LEAD. SAYS THAT COL. DANIEL TRIGG OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY DIRECTED AN ORDER TO HIM TO TAKE HIS COMPANY AND MARCH TO SAID LEAD MINES AND GUARD AND PROTECT SAID MINES, BUT ACCORDINGLY HE, THE SAID DECLARANT DID, WITH HIS COMPANY IN THE LATER END OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1778 MARCH TO SAID LEAD MINES WHERE HE STATIONED HIS MEN AS DIRECTED BY COL. TRIGG AND WAS AT ALL TIMES READY TO DEFEND SAID MINES. AFTER REMAINING THERE FOR ONE MONTH AND FINDING THAT NO ATTACT WAS LIKELY TO BE MADE, HE DISCHARGED HIS COMPANY AND RETURNED HOME. HE FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 1778, THAT THE CHREGOKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS, COMMITTING SOME ACTS OF VIOLENCE UPON THE FRONTIERS WHEN COL. CHRISTY ISSUED AN GADER FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF MARCHING AGAINST THAT TRIBE OF INDIANS, WHEN THE SAID DECLARANT (ALTHOUGH COMMANDING AS A CAPTAIN ) DID VOLUNTEER FOR THIS EXPEDITION AS A PRIVATE AND MARCH WITH COL. CHRISTY FROM SAID COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY THROUGH THE INDIAN COUNTY IN PURSUIT OF THE SAVAGES. SAYS THAT WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT TENNESSEE RIVER, THE INDIANS WERE EMBODIED UPON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SAID RIVER, SAYS THAT THE VOLUNTEERS UNDER COL .. CHRISTY WERE IN NUMBER 2,000; THAT THEY MET WITH THE DIFFICULTY IH CROSSING SAIO RIVER.
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AFTER SOMETIME THE SPIES FOUND A SHALLOW PLACE IN THE RIVER, THE ARMY THEN PROCEEDED TO CROSS THE RIVER AND EXPECTED AN ENGAGEMENT, BUT THE INDIANS HAD RETREATED, SAYS THEY THEN PROCEEDED TO THE CHEROKEE TOWNS, FOUND THEM DESERTED, THEIR CORN THEY HAD CRIBBED AND POTATOES THEY HAD PUT AWAY WERE USED BY THE ARMY. THAT AS THE INDIANS HAD DISPERSED, THAT COL. CHRISTY DISCHARGED A PART OF THE ARMY AND THAT HEWAS DISCHARGED BY COL. CHRISTY AFTER HAVING SERVED 47 DAYS AND HE THEN RETURNED HOME. THIS DELCARANT FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE MONTH OF JUNE 1779, THAT THE TORIES HAD ASSEMBLED AND WERE TROUBLESOME TO THE WHIGS. COL. TRIGG ISSUED AN ORDER CALLING UPON HIM TO TAKE HIS COMPANY AND GO IN PURSUIT AND SEARCH FOR SAID TORIES. ACCORDINGLY HE, THE SAID DECLARANT, DID NOTIFY HISMEN, THEY, NOT AGREEABLE TO NOTICE, WHEN HE AND HIS COMPANY DID GO DOWN NEW RIVER, SEARCHING THE CLIFTS AND SECRET PLACES IN THE KNOBS DURING HIS SEARCH, SAYS THAT HE AND HIS COMPANY DID TAKE ABOUT TEN TORIES AND CARRIED THEM IN WHERE A COURT MARTIAL WAS HELD FOR THE TRIAL OF SAID TORIES AND SOME OF THEM WAS BY THE COURT MARTIAL WAS FOUND ANOLWAS SENT TO STANTON DAILY, SAYS THAT OWING TO THE EXPEDITION HE WAS EMPLOYED 20 DAYS. SAYS THAT IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1779, COL. TRIGG SENT HIM AN ORDER DIRECTING . HIM TO TAKE HIS COMPANY AND MARCH TO A PLACE CALLED THE BLUE STONE TO DEFEND THE COUNTRY . AGAINST THE SHAWANEE TRIBE OF INDIANS. ACCORDINGLY HE GAVE NOTICE TO HIS MEN. THEY MET FOR THE CAMPAIGN AND MARCHED TO SAID PLACE. ON ARRIVING AT THE PLACE ABOVE NAMED, SAYS THEY ENCAM;ED AND DURING THEIR STAY AT THIS ENCAMPMENT, SAYS HE FREQUENTLY SENT HIS MEN IN PARTIES SCOUTING AND SPYING UNTIL HE ASCERTAINED THAT THE INDI ANS HAD LEFT THE COUNTRY WHEN HE MARCHEO HIS MEN BACK TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY WHERE HE DISCHARGED THEM HAVING BEEN IN SERVICE 35 DAYS. FURTHER STATES THAT IN THE YEAR 1780 THE SHAWNEE TRIBES OF INDIANS RETURNED TO NEW RIVER AND WERE VERY TROUBLESOME,
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SOMETIME MURDERING THE INHABITANTS AND AT OTHER TIMES STEALING AND CARRYING AWAY THE HORSES AND CATTLE, SAYS HE RECEIVED AN ORDER FROM MAJOR HENRY PATTON, DIRECTING HIM TO WARN ANY HIS COMPANY FOR A CAMPAIGN AGAINST SAID INDIANS, ACCORDINGLY HE, THE SAID DECLARANT DID NOTIFY THE MAN, BELONGING TO HIS COMPANY TO MEET HIM IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1780 AT JOHN DAVIDSON, ACCORDINGLY THEY MET SAID DECLARANT AND THEN HE STATES, THEY MARCHED TO THE NEW RIVER CLIFTSAND STATIONED HIS COMPANY FOR BLUE STONE, WHERE HE HAD ENCAMPBED ON THE YEAR PROCEEDING. DURING THEIR STAY AT CAMP BLUE STONE, SAYS HE SENT HIS MEN IN PARTIES TO SCOUT AND SPY. FINDING THE FRONTIER SECURED BY THE INDIANS LEAVING THAT QUARTER, SAYS HE MARCHED HIS MEN BACK TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY WHERE HE DISCHARGED HIS MEN, HAVING BEEN IN THE SERVICE 20 DAYS, SAYS THAT NOW HE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF HIS SERVICES; THAT ABOUT 18 MONTHS SINCE HE APPLIED TO GEO.P. MILLER, ESQUIRE TO PREPARE HIS DECLARATION, WHICH HE DID AND HE, THE SAID DECLARANT, DID QUALIFY TO SAID DECLARANT AS PROPOSED BY SAID MILLER, SAYS THAT HE THEN HAC IN HIS POSSESSION AN ORDER FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE REGIMENT CALLING UPON HIM AS CAPTAIN TO WARN HIS MEN AND MEET AT THE PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS, WHICH ORDER HE SAYS HE GAVE TO THE SAID
MILITIA AND THAT THE DECLARANT WAS STARTED TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT. WHETHER IT WAS BY THE MAIL MISCARRIED OR WHETHER ALL THE PAPERS RELATING TO HIS CLAIM WAS KEPT IN THE DEPARTMENT . HE DOES NOT KNOW BUT STATES THAT HE HAS NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF HIS PAPERS, SINCE HE STATES THAT SHORTLY AFTER MIR. MILLER HAD PREPARED HIS PAPERS THAT SAID MILLER WAS TAKEN SICK AND DIED. -- SAID HE WAS BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA 1750. SAID HE TOOK THE RECORD OF HIS AGE FROM HIS FATHER'S BIBLE. WHEN HE ENTERED SERVICE HE WAS LIVING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VA., WHERE HE LIVED UNTIL 1817, THEN MOVED TO SHELBY COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE ! NOW LIVE. -- HIS NEIGHBORS IN SHELBY COUNTY WERE JOHN DALE, SAMUEL F. WHITE, MARTIN CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM SHANKS, J.P. (THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REPORTER BY TELEPHONE, THAT NO PAYMENT OF PENSION WAS EVER MADE IN THIS CASE, SEC THEREFORE THEY HAD NO RECORD EXCEPT THAT NOTATION ON A BOOK. HE WAS 1 24 INSCRIBED ON THE ROLLS OF KENTUCKY AT $30.22 PER ANNUM TO COMMENCE
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MCALLESTER : DANIEL
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STATE OF KENTUCKY. ON APRIL 1833- PERSONALLY APPEARED THE ABOVE SOLDIER AGE 73, NOVEMBER 13, NEXT ACCORDING TO THE FAMIDY RECORD KEP BY HIS FATHER ALEXANDER MCCALLISTER, SHOWING THE AGE OF ALL HIS CHILDREN. THIS DECLARANT STATES THAT HE WAS BORN IN KING WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA, BUT WHEN HE WAS QUITE YOUNG , HIS FATHER MOVED TO HANOVER COUNTY , THAT IN THE SUMMER OF 1776, BEING THEN IN HIS 70TH YEAR, HE VOLUNTEERS HIS SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR UNDER CAPTAIN WHITE IN THE COUNTY OF HANOVER AFORESAID IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. MY LT. WAS NAMED TULLY, I THINK, HIS CHRISTIAN NAME, I DO NOT RECOLLECT. | RECOLLECT THAT GENERAL NELSON COMMANDED THE TROOPS TO WHICH HE BELONGED . WE WERE MARCHED FROM HANOVER COUNTY TO WILLAIMSBURG WHERE WE WERE STATIONED AT LEAT ONE MONTH AND FROM THENCE WE WERE MARCHED TO LITTLE YORK WHERE WE REMAINED THE BALONE OF THE TOUR WHICH LASTED TWO MONTHS AND WE WERE THEN DISCHARGED. IN THE YEAR FOLLOWING, I WAS DRAFTED IN NANOVER COUNTY AND WAS MARCHED AS A DRAFTED MILITA PRIVATE TO WILLIAMS- BURG AND WAS STATIONED THERE IN THE BARRACKS TWO MONTHS. | CO NOT RECOLLECT THE NAME OF THE OFFICERS OF MY COMPANY ON THIS TOUR .
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| RECOLLECT THAT DR. HONEYMAN OF CAROLINA COUNTY WAS THE SURGEON WHO ATTENDED UPON ME WHIST | LAY SICK IN THE HOSPITAL. I WAS DISCHARGED AT THE END OF TWO MONTHS, FROM THE TIME | ENTERED UPON SERVICE. THE NEXT YEAR | AGAIN ENTERED THE MILITIA AS A DRAFTED PRIVATE, IN THE MILITIA FROM THE SAME COUNTY | WAS MARCHED TO WILLISMBBURG, SECTION 125
AND WAS STATIONED THERE IN THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE, TWO MONTHS AT THE END OF WHICH TIME | WAS DISCHARGED. I DO NOT RECOLLECT THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS OF MY COMPANY OR THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS BY WHOM WE WERE COMMANDED ON THIS TOUR THE PARTIAL TIMES WHEN | ENTERED SAID SERVICE AND WHEN DISCHARGED | CANNOT RECOLLECT. | WAS AGAIN DRAFTED IN KING WILLIAM COUNTY AND MARCHED AS A PRIVATE IN THE MILITIA FROM SAID COUNTY TO RICHMOND WHERE WE REMAINED UNTIL WE WERE DISCHARGED HAVING SER~ VED OUT TWO MONTHS. | AFTERWARDS VOLUNTEERED IN HANOVER COUNTY UNDER CAPTAIN HENRY TIMBERLAKE. SOME RICHARDSON WAS LT., WITH BOTH OF WHOM I THINK THIS WAS IN JANUARY 1780. ON I WAS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED.
THIS TOUR | SERVED TWO MONTHS. WE WERE MARCHED FROM HANOVER COUNTY TO RICHMOND WHERE THE BRITISH HAD BEEN AND HAD BURNED THE PUBLIC PROPERTY THERE. WE WERE MARCHED FROM RICHMOND TO THE MAUBIN? HILLS AND FROM THENCE TO WILLIAMSBURG WHERE WE WERE DISCHARGED. I WAS ORDERED INTO SERVICE UNDER COL. JOHN STARKE FROM HANOVER COUNTY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREVENTING THE BRITISH FROM COMING OVER THE -? " SWAMPS TO DESTROY THE PUBLIC PROPERTY, WHICH WAS PLACE IN HANOVER, WHICH SERVICE CONTINUED ABOUT ONE MONTH IN THE YEAR 1781. I THINK | SERVED ELEVEN MONTHS AS A PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION AND IN THE MANNER AS BEFORE STATED, I CAME TO KENTUCKY, IN THE FALL OF 1785 AND HAVE LIVED HERE EVER SINCE. WHEN I PREPARED MY DECLARATION
i BEFORE, | WAS A RESIDENT OF OLDHAM COUNTY, "EN TUCKY, BUT BY AN ACT MADE BY THE LEGI LATURE SINCE MADE | AM NOW A RESIDENT OF SHELBY COUNTY. -- JOEL HULSY-HULSEY CLERGYMAN OF OLDHAM COUNTY KENTUCKY AND STEPHEN H. MADDOX AND SAMUEL ELLIS RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY SAY THEY ARE WELL ACQUAINTED AND THAT HE IS OF GOOD CHARACTER AND ETC. -- A LETTER IN THE FILES; AS FOLLOWS; THE PARTY DESIRING TO KNOW IF THERE IS AN APPLICATION HAS BEEN FILED IN THE NAME OF LUCY GARSON AND NANCY HARRIS, HEIRS OF DANIEL MCCALLISTER, DECEASED SOLDIER OF THE SECTION 126 REVOLUTION-
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