Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,117, for William Lee, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE    Va

Lee,  William
Drusilla

NUMBER   W. 9. 117
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1592
Kentucky
William Lee
of Green in the State of Kentucky
who was a Pt & Sgt in the Comp
commanded by Captain Cannon of the Reg't commanded by Maj. Jones in the Virginia
line for 9½ months from 1778

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 39 Dollars 16 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Nov. 1832 - - and sent to Wm T. Willis Greenburgh, Ky

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  ****    58.74
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833.  
 *****************************19.58
******************************$78.32 

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nathan Rice   Clerk,
Book D   Vol. 9   Page 47
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5.921
Kentucky
Drucilla Lee
widow of William Lee
Va

who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private & Sgt

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 39 Dollars   16 Cents 
per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued
the 18th day of May 1852
and sent to 
Jos. H. Sherwin
Columbia
Ky
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 243 Vol. 3
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8757

Wm Lee


from 1778,  9½
month, private & Srgt
$39. 16/100



W. T. Willis
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Typed form with handwritten answers

8757
BRIEF in the case of William Lee
of Green County in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?      Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 78

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
Summer In 1778 time not precisely stated
fall 1778 volt.. about one month
1781 draft'd
again 1781
again
served from M 2 to  1 - 15

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
******2

****3 months
*****2

Rank.
As a 
Priv

2nd  Serg't

Serg't

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Cap Wm Benning
Wm Cannon Capt
Gen Lawson
Cap. T. Leftrige
Maj Wood Jones

5. In what battles was he engaged? Guilford House & Little York

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Buckingham Cty -Va

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   Traditionary & his Discharge

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The
papers are not attached to the seal as required

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
T Waugh   Examining Clerk
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Virginia Buckingham County Sc:
I Rolfe Eldridge Clerk of the County
Court of Buckingham in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that after a
careful examination of the records of my office I can find no certificate returned to this office of the marriage of William Lee & Drusillah Staples but have found a certificate authorizing the Clerk to issue license for
such a marriage and a bond executed by the said William Lee on obtaining said license, which certificate and bond are in the words &
figures following viz:
Sir. These are to authorise you to grant to
William Lee a license to marry with my daughter Drusillah Staples as witness my hand and seal this thirteenth (13th) day of January
One thousand seven hundred and eighty three (1783)
To Mr Rolfe Eldridge  Samuel Staples [seal]
Clk Bm Ct 
Tester Peter Patteson
Josias Jones

(Bond ) Know all men by these presents that we William Lee and Josias 
Jones are held and firmly bound unto the Governor and Council of
the Commonwealth of Virginia and their successors in the sum of Fifty pounds current money. To which payment well and truly to be
made, we bind ourselves our heirs, [illegible] & admis jointly and severally firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated this thirteenth (13th) day of January One thousand seven hundred & eighty three (1783)
Whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be had & solemnized between the above bound William Lee & Drusillah Staples (Spinster)
Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue
sealed & delivered    ----  Wm Lee (seal)
in the presence of    ----Josias Jones  (seal)
And I do certify that the foregoing are true copies from the original filed in my office, with the exception of the date, which in the copies is expressed both in letters & in figures, and in the original expressed in fair legible figures
Given under my hand this 2d March 1839. Rolfe Eldridge Clerk of
Buckingham County Court Va
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I, Rolfe Eldridge above named, depose and say, that I hold the office
of Clerk of the County Court of Buckingham in the State of Virginia aforesaid and that the foregoing are true copies from the original remaining on file in the said Court with the exception above named as certified by me
Rolfe Eldridge Clerk of the County Court of Buckingham Va

Sworn before me
John Morris
a Justice of the peace for the County of Buckingham

I Rolfe Eldridge Clerk of the Court of Buckingham County, certify that
John Morris is a justice of the peace of the said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is [covered by stamp]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 2d day of March in the year eighteen hundred & thirty nine -
Rolfe Eldridge Clerk of the
Court of Buckingham County.
-
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5213

Drusilla Lee
of Wm
Kentucky
Admitted
Paid & Sent   $39 16/100
                   
died Feb 1835


Hon J. Harlow
Harrodsburg
Ken
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State of Kent by
Green County Sct
On this the 2nd day of February 1839
Personally appeared before John P. White a Justice of the peace for the County of Green and State aforesaid Mrs. Drusilla Lee, a resident of the County of Green and State aforesaid aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of William Lee who was a soldier in the revolution and a pensioner on the roll of the Kentucky agency at his death. She further
declares that she was married to the said William Lee in the County of Buckingham and State of Virginia by the Revd Mr McIlroy on the Twenty fourth day of January Seven
teen hundred and Eighty three (1783) That her husband the aforesaid William Lee died on the twelfth day Febuary Eighteen hundred and thirty five that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four Viz at the time above stated
her
Drusilla x  Lee
mark
State of Kentucky
Green County Set

The above declaration of Mrs Drusilla Lee was this day subscribed and sworn to before me
the undersigned Justice of the peace for the County of Green and State aforesaid, And I certify that she is a woman of good moral character and a person of truth and veracity and that in consequence old age and bodily infirmity, she is unable to attend Court

Given under my hand the 2nd day February 1839
I do certify the word Lee was interlined in the tenth
before signed
John P White J P G C
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Kentucky Green County Set
I, John Barret Clerk of the Green County Court do certify that John P White whose name is to the foregoing certificate, is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Green, and was at the time of doing the same, a justice
of the peace for said County, and that his certificate is in due form of law, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be placed in all his official acts as such

Given under my hand as Clerk
of the Green County Court at the
Clerks office in Greensburg this 11th
day of April 1839
John Barret Clerk of
The Green County Court
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William Lee

Declaration
8757
certified

[written sideways at bottom]   
does not know
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State of Kentucky Green County Sct

On this 27th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court in the Green Circuit Court before the Judge of the said Court, holden for Green County Kentucky, William Lee a resident citizen of said county aged 78 years on the 24th day of January last past, who being first duly sworn according according to law doth an his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress of the 7th of June 1832 who makes the following declaration to wit. That he was drafted and served in the militia of the State of Virginia from the county of Buckingham as a soldier of the United States in the Revoutionary war, under a captain who marched with a company to the Albemarle Barracks who returned home & when he reached the Barracks at Albermarle, he thinks the company he was attached to was commanded by Capt William Benning, then he does not recollect whether there was any officer from his own county who commanded them nor does he recollect the name of one, it was in the summer of the year 1778 that he performed this service, the service was rendered in guarding Burgoines prisoners as they were then called at the Albermarle Barracks a short distance above Charlottsville in Albermarle County Virginia the precise length of time he served in this tour he could not state, but was of opinion it was two months- whatever time it was he served the tour out & was discharged, & has lost or mislaid it. - He served as a volunteer, from Buckingham county in the fall 1778 as he thinks, tho of this he is not certain. The company with which he marched in this tour was without officers from the said the County, they started out with a view to join Genl Steuben, and at some place on their tour drew arms & ammunition. their first place of destination was, to Point of Fork on James River in Virginia, but before
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reached that place, their march was changed and they marched in a direction to Old James Town, tho they did not go to that place, he in connection with the balance of the volunteers from Buckingham, joined a large body of troops in that section of country some where tho, he cannot say where, as it was to him then & now a strange part of the country, when they joind the troops named before, they were put under officers, tho he does not recollect the officers names for they were strangers to him, he presumes they were Steubens troops he recollects on this tour that on a certain occasion while he
was marching with the army to have seen a field officer, whose name he inquired and was told it was Marquis De La Fayette _ this tour was a short one, about one month, he was discharged, tho his discharge is lost, and he cannot say where he was discharged. He served as a militia man being drafted from the same county the year 1781 under Captain William Cannon who commanded a rifle company which he served in, This company was attached to General Lawson's Brigade, in this company he served as second Sargent, he recollect, Cols Holcomb _ B. Randolph & Tucker who commanded regiments in Lawsons brigade, in this service, the Company he belonged to marched to the South, and he with them was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina where he discharged about six rounds of fireing in his company, he recollects that in that engagement there were three captains killed from Bedford County with all of whom he was well acquainted - Jacob Miron, Wm Jones & Thos Helms,  in this tour he served to the best of his recollection three more months -  he served the whole time out, he thinks he was discharged at
Ramsours Mill in North Carolina, the battle was fought the March 1781 - he was discharged after this but how long he does not recollect.
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The discharge he obtained he has lost, if he obtained one tho he thinks the company was discharged by the Captain without written discharges. He served a fourth tour from his county aforesaid in 1781 under Captain Thomas Leftrich or Leftrige, in this tour he thinks he was called out for three months but most of the men ran away. he served he thinks two months and was discharged August 10, 1781 by the Major Thomas Watkins commander of the 2nd Battalion as will appear by his discharge herewith filed which is the only discharge he has preserved. This discharge was at Camp [illegible] old field. The colonels name of the Regiment he has forgotten. He served a fifth tour in the Virginia Militia in the company commanded by Peter Garren, in the Battalion commanded by Major Wood Jones from Amelia in this tour he served also as a  Sergeant and marched to the siege of Little York, where he was engaged till the surrender, this tour was for three months, but he was taken sick & did not serve the tour fully out, he thinks he served from 1 and a half to two months of the time, he was discharged from the service by a Lieutenant for at time the company had no officer of higher rank. this discharge he has also lost. He has no other documentary testimony of his service as above stated -
He was born in Albermarle County Virginia, but in the part of it now included in Buckingham, he resided there wholly except a very short time in Prince Edward County till he removed to Kentucky in the fall of the year 1788, and settled first in Mercer County Kentucky & from there he removed to Green County Kentucky in the year 1794 in December and has continued to reside in Green County
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ever since he has never drawn or applied for
a pension before and he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or an annuity whatever except the present and he declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State whatever
Sworn to & subscribed the day and
year aforesaid 
said Lee also stated that he did not now
know of any living witness by whom he could prove his service as above stated unless he can by Wm McKinney, formerly of Adair County Ky, but where he is now he does not know

William Lee
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We, Thomas Gains clergyman residing in Green County and state of Kentucky and Samuel White residing in the said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted William Lee who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 78 years of age on the 24th day of January last. that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed this 28th
day of August 1832

Thos James
Sam'l White

At a circuit court held for the Green circuit at the courthouse in Greensburgh on the 27th of August 1832
---
On the application of William Lee to be placed on the Pension list roll under the act of Congress of the of June 1832 who filed his declaration and made oath to the same for that purpose. Thomas Gains and Samuel White whose affidavits also accompany this declaration being present in Court made oath to the same. Whereupon it is ordered to be certified as the opinion of this Court that the said William Lee was an American Revolutionary soldier and served as stated in his said Declaration. All which is ordered to be certified to the secretary of War.

I John Barnt clerk of the Green circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains an original proceedings in the matter of the application of William for A Pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of my said
office this 6th day of September 1832
John Barnt  CGC
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This deposition of Gresham Lee of Adair County Ky taken at the house of John Handwerkin & said County and State aforesaid to be used as evidence in favour of the application of Drusilla Lee for a pension in under the act of July 7th 1838

Deponent being thirty seven years on the 30th July 1839 Deposeth and Saith that he was well acquainted with William Lee, deceased, and Drusilla Lee his widow, he the Deponent being their
Son. He further States he knew his Father the aforesaid William was a pensioner on the roll of the Kentucky agency and that the aforesaid William died on the twelfth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty five and that his mother the aforesaid Drusilla Lee has remain a widow ever since the death
of her Husband the aforesaid William to the present period. And the deponent further states that the family Bible which contains the record of his Father Marriage death and birth of his children is now and has been in his possession from a few days after his Fathers death untill this time. And the Deponent sees stated in this register which now lies before him under the Head of Marriages in plain legable
Letters and figuers, in the following words Viz  Wm Lee and Drusilla Lee Married Jany 24th in the year 1783 (January the Twenty fourth in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three). On the same register he sees it entered Wm Lee Born Jany 24th 1754 and immediately under this is entered Drusiller Born in the close of December 1764. And immediately below the entry is another viz The day married I was twenty nine years old She Druseller was 18 years and about one month old. And the Deponent further states that in the same family Bible and register under the head of births he sees entered in the
following words viz Maryan Gresham Lee Born January the 10 1784 Saturday 1 or 2 after night.
Samuel Lee Born Friday the 12th May 1786 Abt 8 in
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the afternoon, William Lee Jun'r Born Wednesday at 8 or 9 in the afternoon the 17 February 1789. And so continues the register untill all the childrens ages of William & Druseller are registered all of which registering is in the hand writing of his Father the aforesaid William, he being familiar and knowing the said hand writing of his Father the aforesaid William Lee. And the Deponent has know doubt his Father the aforesaid William Lee did write and make all the aforesaid entrees correctly
And the deponent further saith not
                                                  Gresham Lee
State of Kentucky
Adair County    Sct
The above deposition was this day subscribed and sworn to by Gresham Lee before me John Harwick, a Justice of the peace for the County of Adair and State aforesaid. And I certify the said Gresham Lee is man of good moral character and a person of truth and Veracity
Given under my hand this 6th Febuary 1839
John Hardwick  J peace

State of Kentucky Adair County Sct
I, William Caldwell Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that John Hardwick whose Signature appears to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of making the same an acting
Justice of the peace in and for the County of Adair and that said Signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed the Seal of the said
County Court this 10th day of May 1839
Wm Caldwell C.C.C.
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9. 215 
Kentucky
Drucilla Lee
widow of William
who was a Priv & Sgt
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of  39 Dollars   16  
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.


Certificate of Pension issued
the 18  day of May '57
and sent to
Jos H. Sherwin
Columbia  Ky
Acts of March 3, 1843, & June
17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A
Vol  2   Page 183
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Harrodsburg, Ky
May 20th 1839.

Sir

I enclose you the papers in the cases
of Mrs Drusilla Lee and Mrs Susannah
Curtis for examination and adjudication

The agent at Lexington refuses to
make any payments on the Certificates
issued for Mrs Nancy Adams Widow
of Francis Adams, and Sally Bryant
widow of John Bryant ($60 Cash) alleging
as a reason, I am informed, that the
names of those women are not on
the list furnished by your Office

Very Respectfully
Go obt Sert  
   James Harlan

Col  J. L. Edwards
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Typed form with handwritten answers

Brief in the case of Drucilla Lee, widow of Wm
County and State of Kentucky
and of Wm
act 3 March 43; 17 June 44 & 2 Feby 48
(If for increase.)

Claim ("original" or [scratched out]"for increase")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)
is it documentary, or supported by the rolls
If either, state the substance

Has been pensioned under Act 7 July 38
now continued under the above mentioned acts

(If for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
Jos H. Sherwin
Columbia
Ky

Kirby
Examining Clerk.
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William Lee Ken: Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen Office
May 28, 1839

Died 12th Feb 1835 to that period
JH
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Feb 2 1852
Appl of Dru
silla 31 /52  See
evid:  of Wm

Joseph H. Sherwin
Columbia
Adair Co
Ky

[written sideways]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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[Left hand side]

Sept 17 '96 sold
period to J Williams
Int  Dept
for
See Ins 38910 

July 25, 1905 History to E. E. Scheig
S. Mcalester  I T

1923 May 14. Hist. to Mrs Chas  W.
Folks-awf
 
[right hand side]
Rey  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9117
Drucilla Lee
Wid of
William Lee
Sergt. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2nd 48
---
Index:--Vol. A, Page 427
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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[Typed form and handwritten answers]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Wm Lee which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?    yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? --
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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[Typed form and handwritten answers]

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a[Typed form and handwritten answers] clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?   ~~
XIII.If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she or they are persons of credibility?  ~~
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  ~~
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered  2. & 7th

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ---years  ---months, and---days, I served as a ---
For -- months,  and --- days, I served as a----
and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer
the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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141 East 25th Street
New York City, May 7, 1923
Bureau of Pensions
Rev. War Section
Washington D.C
attention Washington Gardner Commissioner:
Accept my sincere thanks for your reply. I give
below the data necessary for you to trace the information I desire:
Name William Lee
Born  January 24, 1754
Died November 7. 1832
Wife's Maiden name Drusilla Staples
He was a private and sergeant in the Virginia
Militia during the Revolution.

Will you please give me all the information available in your files.

very truly yours
(Mrs) Chas. W. Folks
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(M-27 )   MMHF


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Rev. War Section
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON     May 4, 1922

Mrs. Charles W Folks
14 East 25 th St. 
New York City

Dear Madam

In reply to your letter dated the Feb 21 1923
you are advised that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to William Lee of Va. who was born Nov. 7, 1832. If, however, you have any further data in your possession
as to date of birth or death, or given
name of widow, please furnish same, and another search will be made in your behalf
Very respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner
(over)
[U S Pension stamp]   May1923
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O.W. & N
South McAlester I T
July 9, 1905
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir

I wish the pension application of William Lee for Revolution Service. The pension was granted Oct. 7, 1832.  At that time he resided in Green Co. Ky. He served in the Virginia line.
Also of
John Lee who served in same war and in same
line. his pension was granted Dec. 14. 1819. He
resided in Pulaski Co. Ky.
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I desire this for genealogical purpose and especially do I wish date and place of birth and all mention made of family should there be any

Yours Very Respt
E. E. Scheig
South McAlester
IT

(Pension office stamp  Jul 12 1905)
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221 Sherman Avenue
New York City,   Apr 20 1923
Bureau of Pensions
Rev. War Record Dept
Washington, D.C.
    (pension office stamp  May 2 1923

My dear Sirs:

I have been informed that you cheerfully
give any information desired.  Will you please
give me the Rev. War record of Wm. Lee who was a pensioner of Green County Kentucky, who died
November
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1832, who fought in the Virginia Militia
Thanking you very kindly for the above information I remain
very truly  yours
(Mrs.) Chas. W. Folks
 
Ans,:  May 14, 1923
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Drucilla Lee
wid  Wm
Ky
Act 3 March 43
17 June 44 &
2 Feby 48.
$39.16 per an:


Jos H. Sherwin
Columbia
Adair Co
Ky
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State of Kentucky
County of Green    S.S.
Be it known that before me a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Drucilla Lee and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical person who drew a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her husband, the late William Lee, a private who drew a pension at the rate of thirty nine Dollars and sixteen cents per annum, and whose pension certificate bears date the 7th day of November 1832. that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of drawing a Pension under the act of Congress passed on the 17th of June 1844 entitled "an act to continue the Pensions of certain widows", that she has not intermarried, but continues to be a widow; that she now resides in the County of Green and State of Kentucky and has resided there for the space of more than fifty years past, and that previous thereto the resided in the County of Mercer and State of Kentucky. She further states that her Pension certificate is lost, or has been disposed of in some way unknown to her, that in the absence of that certificate she cannot state positively the act under which she drew a Pension, but believes it was the Act of the 7th of July 1838. She also states that she made declaration in January 1839 in order to obtain the Pension which she drew, that her declaration together with the evidence of her identity as the widow of the aforesaid William Lee was forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions by Christopher Chen her agent

her
Drucilla  x Lee
mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 12th day of January 1852
In presence of
Wm E Gains
Before me John A. Hudson  JP GC
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State of Kentucky
County of Green    SS

On this 19th day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Francis Gaines and William E. Gaines who being duly Sworn according to law, declare, that they are now, and have been for many years intimately acquainted with Drucilla Lee who has made the foregoing declaration, and that they know her to be the identical person who drew a pension on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid William Lee
Frances Gaines
William E Gaines

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that the said Francis Gaines and William E Gaines are disinterested and credible witnesses, and that they are entitled to full
Credit
John Hudson J.PGC.

State of Kentucky
Green County     Sct

I, Robert Marshall Clerk of the Green County Court certify that John P. Hudson whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a duly qualified and acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Green & State aforesaid, and that due faith and credit is and should be given to all his official acts
In Testimony of all which I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of my office the 15th
day of January 1852
Robert Marshall
C.G.C.C.
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Hon J. E. Heath
Dear Sir, I have been unable to decide
whether Drucilla Lee was considered by your Department as entitled to a Pension for life, or for five years only. As the evidence in relation to her claim is in the Archives of
your Department. It is believed that it will be disposed of according to its merits.
Hon. J.E. Heath

Yours respectfully

Joseph H. Sherwin
Agent.

Columbia
Adair County
K Y.
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Deschag

10
20
6.7
5.1
1.1
2.2.6
125.01
1.10

159.10
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Camp [illegible]  Old Field Augt 10th '81
The two companyes from Bedford Commanded by
Capt. Leftwitch & Easly having deserted except three, William Lee being one of them, the Com'd. Thinks proper to Discharge him although his time of service has not yet expired

Tho. Watkins Maj Com'd

Second Brg'd [illegible]
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[typed form with handwritten information]

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION   ** 3-525
AWF  **    DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
W. 9117**   BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,  ----   --192 --

In reply to your request of ---------for the history of
William Lee a soldier of the Revolutionary War,
the following is taken from the soldier's widows claim for pension.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Summer 1778
Fall  1778
   1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE
2 mos
10 mos
3mos
Aug 1881 2 mos
2 mos

RANK.
2nd sgt
*
Sgt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
  Wm Benning
**
Wm Cannon or Cameron
Thomas Leftwich
Peter Garren

COLONEL.
Maj Wood Jones

STATE.
Va.

Battles engaged in, Guilford;  Siege of Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted Buckingham Co. Va
Date of application for pension, Aug 27 1832 
 claim allowed
Residence at date of application, Green County Kentucky
Age at date of application, Born Jan 24 1754; Albermarle Co. Va.
Remarks: He died Feb 12-1835.  Soldier married in Buckingham Co, Va Jan. 24-1783 Drusilla (born Dec:16, 1764); daughter of Samuel Staples, she was al pen. on her ap. ex. Feb 2 1839, residing in Green Co. Ky. Children
Mary Ann Gresham Lee. b. Jan 10,1784: Samuel b. May 12,1786. William Jr.b. Feb. 17-1789, Gresham b. July 30. 1802.  only names stated
Respectfully,

Commissioner,
GOVERNMENT PENSION OFFICE
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[typed form with handwritten responses]

3017   Repo

Kentucky
Drusilla Lee
widow of William Lee, Decd:
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832
and who died on the 12th February, 1835
of Green Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a priv: Sergt. in the Compy commanded
by Captain Cannon of the Regt. commanded
by Major Jones in the Virginia
line for 9 months-
-
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 36 Dollars 16 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of May
1839 & sent to Hon. J. Harlan
Harrodsburg Ky
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839  $117.48
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sept 19.58
$137.06
----
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by Wm [illegible] Clerk,
Book A   Vol.  2  Page 211
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[typed Form with Handwritten info]

12,122
Ohio
William C Lee
of Richland in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Parker of the Maryland line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 16 of January 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of June 1819
and sent to Honble Benjamin
Ruggles, St Clairsville, Belmont
County Ohio
Arrears to 4th of March 1819    20/31  13. 16
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819  ***48-
******************$61.16
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Lett  L C. Hand 13 Mch 1832

 [right side, sideways}
Sent to J Parker Sept [illegible] 1820
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187.
William C Lee

Declaration
12, 122. 
22. June, 1819.

Jacob Parket
E Hedges [scratched out]
Mansfield, Ohio
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Be it remembered that at a Court of Common Pleas begun & held at the Court house in & for the County of Richland and State of Ohio on the 18th day of September A.D. 1820. Before the honorable William Wilson President of our said Court and James M. Clure, Robert Bentley and William Patterson, Esquires, associate Judges of said
Court  William C. Lee came into open Court and filed his declaration which is in the words and figures following to wit
State of Ohio
Richland County       this Court of Common Pleas September Term AD 1820
on this twenty second day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court it being a Court of Record for said County and State and having the power of fine and imprisonment and common law Jurisdiction, William C. Lee aged about Sixty five years, resident in Mansfield in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he belonged to the second Maryland Regiment commanded by Col Parker in the Company of Capt Porter of the Continental establishment and that the date of the original declaration which was sent back for informality and defect, and a new one of a date not recollected forwarded is of the first day of June A.D. 1818, and that the number of his pension Certificate is 12,122 and bears date 22nd day of June A.D. 1819. and
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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 the same
by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my
property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it, so as to bring myself
within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled 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 person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts
due to me nor have I any income other that which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me
Subscribed-
Schedule of property belonging to this declarant
1 -18 gallon Kettle Cracked at    $3.00  
1 - bake oven   2.00****   Old bible       $0.12½
1 - Tea Kettle   1.00  *** 1 Prayer Book $0.12½
1- two year old heifer  not paid for  10. 00
 *******      *******    * 2 Hymn Books $0.12½
1 Snuff Box  0.06¼   ******* 1  Small pot  .25
1 pair of old Cotton cards  .25
******** ****** * 1  pair Steel yeards  2.00
6 Pewter Plates .75 *****   1 Chamber pot 0.00
1 Pewter Dish .37  ******* 1 wooden pail  .12½
4 Pewter Basons  .50 **** 1 pair male Bings .50
3   Old tin cups .12½ ***
1 Old Chest .50     *******    No real property
1 Meal tub .12½  *******  necessary clothing
1 Wooden bowl .37½**** and bedding 
1 Meat  tub .37½  *******  excepted and this 
 2 Chairs .37½     *******     declarant further  
 swears that he has no real property whatever subscribed and sworn to in open Court this 22nd day of September 1820
                                              his
     William C.  X   Lee
                                            Mark
Ellzey Hedges Clk 
This declarant William C Lee further States on
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on oath that his occupation is farming that he is unable from poverty and ill health to pursue it that his family residing with him consists of his wife aged sixty eight years his daughter aged about twenty three years, and his grandson aged ten years that his wife is feeble and in ill health and unable to support herself that his daughter is able to support herself and that his grandson is healthy but
from his age is not able to contribute much
to his support and further this declarant saith
not
Sworn to and declared this
22nd day of September AD
1820 in open Court
his
William C X Lee
Mark
Ellzey Hedges Clk
The State of Ohio
Richland County
-
I Ellzey Hedges Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas of Richland County Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule here to annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court
And I do further Certify that it is the Opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty three Dollars and five and three fourth Cents,
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at [illegible] in said County this 25th day of Sept 1820
Ellzey Hedges  Clk
Richland County
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Admitted
  by  M E

sent for proof of service



Hon  W Ruggles  Senate
Feb 19 1819
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The State of Ohio
Richland County
Before me James McCluer, a private judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County afforesaid Personally appeared
William C. Lee of the County of Richland and
State of Ohio aforesaid who being duly sworn,
deposeth and declares that he served three years or thereabouts as a private Soldier against the common enemy of these United States, in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment the first year of which time this deponent declares that he served under Captain A. Ramsay and afterwards in the company commanded
by Captain Robert Porter during the remainder
of said service and in the Regiment commanded by Col John Parker which this deponent verily believes was the second Regiment of the Maryland line on Continental
establishment and he further declares that he
belonged to the Brigade or Division of General
John Smallwood during the whole time which
he served in said war and that he enlisted into
said service in or about the month of September one thousand seven hundred and Seventy six and continued in said service until about the month of September Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine when he, the said Deponent, quit the said service by being regularly and honorably discharged from said
service by the said Captain Robert Porter which said discharge together with the certificate of enlistment, this deponent deposeth and declares that the
had the misfortune to loose by unavoidable
accident upwards of thirty years ago
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And this Deponent further deposeth and saith that he has ever been and yet is a resident Citizen of the United States and that he never has had a pension allowed him by the United States, and he further declares that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and he relinquishes all claims to a pension
under any Law of the US [illegible]previous to the act of the 18th March 1818 and further this deponent saith not.
his
William C   X    Lee
mark
Witnesses present
[illegible]
David Stevens

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this sixteenth
day of January AD 1819
James McCluer  AJ
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The State of Ohio
Richland County
I James McCluer an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the afforesaid William C. Lee served in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy of the United States for a term exceeding nine months on the
Continental establishment and that he has ever since been a resident Citizen of the United States and has never heretofore obtained a Pension.
And I further certify from my own personal knowledge of the said William C Lee that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life and bodily debility, he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and I believe him to be fairly entitled to a Pension of Eight Dollars per month agreeably to an act of Congress entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the
Revolutionary war" passed 18th March AD 1818
Ss
Given under my hand and seal at Mansfield
in the County and State afforesaid this
Sixteenth day of January AD 1819
-
James McCluer  AJ
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State of Ohio
Richland County

I, Winn Winship Clerk of the Court
of Common pleas in & for said
County do hereby certify that James
McClure Esquire before whom the
within deposition appears to have been taken
+ who has subscribed his Name thereto was at that time & now is one of the acting Judges of
County & State aforesaid & that all due faith
and credit is + ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Court of Justices
thereout. In testimony whereof I have hereinto
set my hand & seal of said County this
21st day of January Anno Domini 1819

[attached note, typed and handwritten]
Auditor's Office, Annapolis, April 28th 1819
I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that William Lee enlisted as a private in the second Maryland Regiment, on the Tenth day of June and was discharged on the of Nov 1780

Tho. Karney
Aud. S. M.
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State of Ohio
Richland County

I, Winn Winship Clerk of the Court
of Common pleas in & for said
County do hereby certify that James
McClure Esquire before whom the
within deposition appears to have been taken
 + who has subscribed his Name thereto was at that time & now is one of the acting Judges of
County & State aforesaid & that all due faith
and credit is  + ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Court of Justices
thereout.  In testimony whereof I have hereinto
set my hand & seal of said County this
21st day of January Anno Domini 1819
Winn Winship  Clk
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41757
INVALID.
Revy
File No.   41757
William  C. Lee
Pri  Rev War---
Act: 18 March 18


Index: -- Vol. 3    Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ohio Roll same [illegible]
Wm C Lee  for $8.00 per month

            pd to 4th Sept  1822
[illegible]
Pension Office

To what time last paid


Maj [illegible]
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(sideways)
Wm C Lee
 Ohio  18 m

                            FREE

J E Heath
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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                                Kenton Dec 12th 1857
J E Heath
I wish to ascertain whether there is not a ballance
of Pension due the Heirs of William C. Lee a Private soldier in the Maryland Continental Revolutionary war and who was placed
on the Pension Rolls June 22d 1819 at $96
per years in Richland Co Ohio [illegible] not an unclaimed Balance due the Heirs
I also wish to know how Long he served and in what company & Regt & under what officers
Your Truly
Lyman Hurd
I write for the Heirs