KENTUCKY

REVOLUTION WAR PENSION APPLICATION

William Patterson, S35545, Virginia Line, applied for his pension on 25 Jan 1825 in Knox County, KY, aged 75; soldier enlisted in Augusta County, VA. William stated that he was a prisoner of war during this conflict.

State of Kentucky
Knox County Court 5 Circuit, January Term 1825

William Patterson an applicant for a pension proved in court a statement of the services performed by him during the Revolutionary War in order to obtain the provisions of several acts of Congress relating to persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War which statement being sworn to in open court in due form of law is ordered to be entered of record copied and certified to the Secretary of War and is in the words and figures following (to wit).

State of Kentucky, Knox County 5 Circuit
On the 10th day of January 1825 personally appeared in open court (it being a court of record by law and having the power to fine and imprison) William Patterson a resident in said county aged seventy five years who being first duely sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818 the 1st of May 1820 and the 1st of March 1823 that he the said William Patterson enlisted for the sum of two years in March 1775 in the County Augusta and the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt John Hays in the Regiment commanded by Col. George Matthews in the line of the State of Virginia on continental establishment and called the ninth Virginia Regiment that he continued to serve in the corps until the Battle of Germantown when and where he was taken prisoner until the time of enlistment expired whe he was discharged at Elizbethtown Point in the state of New Jersey by an officer whose name is not recollected that when he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Germantown the British marched him to Philadelphia there he was kept nine months then sent to the city of New York and there remained about one month and then sent with about seven hundred man to Elizbethtown Point in New Jersey and there discharged as before stated that he was in the Battle of Brandywine and several other skirmishes before the Battle of Germantown that he served more than one year before he was taken prisoner that he served more than two yeears on the continental line and in the service of the United States that shortly after his enlistment he was promoted to the rank of sergeant that he was under his Capt. Col. and in the same regiment he enlisted when he was taken prisoner. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress initiated an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any other person for me intrust any property on securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I amy income other than what is contained the schedule hereto entered and by me subscribed.
1 old horse $10.00
5 head cattle $22.00
13 head of hogs $12.35
I have a wife and three children and am a farmer by occupation from infirmity and past labour.

William Patterson

Knox County 5ct
We the undersigned housekeepers for the County of Knox have valued the property of William Patterson and find his schedule to be correct amounting in the sum of $44.35 sworn to in open court.
James Stewart
David Baker
Abraham Dean

William Patterson makes oath that he is indebted as follows:
Wm Gale $34.50
Jack Chick $12.00
Joseph Mills $9.00
Thomas Gregory $5.00
William Williams $6.00
and that there is due him about $9.00. We do certify that William Patterson is a creditable witness given under our hands as Justices of said county this 10th day of January 1825.
Jarvis Jackson
Randolph Adams
Wesley Garnett
Gale Cox

Also appeared in open court Christopher Horn a creditable witness and made oath that he enlisted in service too, on Augusta County, Virginia with William Patterson who now applies for a pension in Capt John Hays ninth Virginia Regiment commanded by Col George Matthews and well knows that he served as stated in his declaration and that they lived neighbors for many years in said county.

11th Kentucky Volunteers

Patterson, James W., Sergeant Major, 23 yrs, 11 Sep 61 at Calhoun, KY. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant of B Co (vice Hudson Brown, resigned) on 29 Mar 62. Detached service recruiting duty in KY Apr-Oct 62. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant (vice William F. Ward, promoted) on 9 Jan 63. Discharged 16 Dec 64 at Bowling Green, KY.

PENSION APPLICATION: PATTESON 1878 Adair Co.

Civil War Pension application of Captain Oliver Bomar Patteson, Company B, 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Gen. Hobson's Unit.

Invalid. CLAIM FOR PENSION Original O.B. Patterson, Applicant, Captain Co., B 13th Reg't, Ky Vol Infantry Enlisted September 23, 1861. Discharged Jan. 12, 1865.

Filed By Gilbert Moyers, Atty., Washington, D.C

DECLARATION FOR ORIGINAL INVALID PENSION To Be Executed Before a Court of Records or Some Officer Thereof Having Custody of Its Seal.

State of Kentucky Russell County,

On this 20th day of October, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, personally appeared before me, A.C. Wells, Clk. of the Russell County Court, a court of record within and for the County and State aforesaid, O.B. Patteson aged 46 years, a resident of the County of Adair, State of Kentucky,, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical person who enrolled on the 23rd day of September, 1861, in Company B of the 13th Regiment of Ky Vol Inf commanded by Col. Hobson and was honorably discharged at Louisville, Ky on the 12th day of January, 1865; that his personal description is as follows: Age, 46 years; height 5 feet 11 3/4 inches; complexion, fair; hair, light; eyes, blue

That since leaving the service this applicant has resided in the County of Adair in the State of Kentucky, and his occupation has been that of a farmer. That prior to his entry into the service above named he was a man of good, sound, physical health, being when enrolled as a farmer. That he is now wholly disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor by reason of his injuries, above described, received in the service of the United States; and he therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the invalid pension roll of the United States.

He hereby appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, Gilbert Moyers of Washington City, his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim. That he has never received nor applied for a Pension. That his Post Office address is Columbia, county of Adair, State of

Claimant's signature, O.B. Patteson Lat Capt. Co. (B) 13th Ky Vol Inf

Attest: J.B. Chamberlain W.W. Nelson

Also personally appeared A.C. Strange, residing at Russell County and Allen Perry man, residing at Russell County, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say they were present and say they saw, the claimant, sign his name (or make his mark) to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with him, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be; and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

A.C.A. Strange Allen Perryman (Signatures of Witnesses

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of October, A.D. 1879, and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration, &c., were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing, including the words ....................... erased, and the words............added; and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.

A.C. Wells, Clerk (Signature)

Russell County Court (Official Character)

Pulaski County, Kentucky Marriages, 1851-1900

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