Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,113, for George Perkins, North Carolina
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United States of America, Lower County State of Kentucky
one 1st day of March 1834 personally appeared before me one of the best
of the peace in & for the County aforesaid and State of Kentucky, George Perkins resi
of the said County of Lauriston who being same before me
and being so infirm that he cannot attend the part of the county for
the purpose of taking application for a pension under the act of Congress of the
June 1832, doth on his oath make the claim in or to the
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a pension under said act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
That he entered into the sence of the United States under the uneral
and and in manner as herein after Ated. He entered the will
private sale, under Capt James Gray, a substitute for William H
one one Month by Millite at Charleston in South Carolina and
of of 1776, at the command of Col Oree his Moses he has been
entered the service as a private Soldier, under Capt Eli Lebo inthe
month of June 1776 a abstitute for James Johnson, at Hardwell part of
post fort Martha. He think that at the was his commander in this service,
which was for one month in the Militia, which he served.
he and their under Captain in the month of July 1776
& for a tour as a Militia man & private elder, and
five months. Then he entered the service of a private soldier in the Mill
distant with some time in February of the year 1777 as a
volunteer as served three at
enlisted the service in August 1777 as a volunteer private
the Militia at Ann Grig in North Carolina, having remove to this state,
under Capt John Carle and was stationed at sd place and that
three
enlisted the service under Capt Peter Robison in the yr 1778 in the
month of March and was stationed near Wilmington. He thinks that
his commanded there; served two miles on a private soldier
entered the service under Capt William Moore as a private soldier
under the command of the Brown and served as a horseman in
ing the county against the tories. He first and five weeks and blind is
charge for that time from Capt William Moore, which discharge is here in
. After regiving discharge any one, before the troops left the army
for home, that the tories were plundering the citizen of the country,
Moore then requested us not to leave him. This apparent then contine with
mounted
Wood untill the tree, together with the above said five weeks to
three months. This service was performed in the year 1781
He then entered the service in the month of May 1780 as a private soldier in
the Militia under Capt Mary Pearson in the Constind at Runks
Will and ever placed under Genl Francis Marion and served six
when he served in the Militia under Lieutenant Richard Whittington
four tours of ten days each against outlying betrale one in the