Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,201, William Daniel, Va.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Kentucky of Sett
Boone County
On this 2nd day of June in the
year 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Boone County Court now sitting William Daniel aged
Seventy three years and resident of said county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he lived in the County of Orange and State of Virginia in time of the Revolutionary war, and in the month of May in the year 1778 he as a private militia man volunteered and joined a company under Capt Burley and was
very soon thereafter marched to the Albemarle Barrick and there continued he serve and his tour of three months duty in guarding the British prisoners, and after serving
said tour of three months he returned work and early in the next spring 1779, he was called on and joined a company under Capt Richard Graves to serve a tour of three months duty as a private militia & did so in the service
marched in April of that year to  Fredericksburgh [Fredericksburg] and to the country near that place and was engaged
in guarding that part of the country and some posts not far distant from Fredericksburgh [Fredericksburg] and thus served out said tour of three months duty & returned home
and some time after that be read in latter part of the spring or bequining [beginning] of the summer of 1780 as a substitute for a relation John Daniel he entered the service as a private
militia man in a company that was  commanded by a Lieutenant Wm Thomas who acted as a Capt to serve a tour of three months & served said tour of three months
by being march to a place called Brocks bridge & was there stationed in guarding the publick [public] Stores and a kind of Magazine which was at that place, except when they were marched out on several scouts that
took place in the time-- after the tour was perform he returned home-- & in the summer of 1781 he was drafted to serve another tour of three months under a capt Richard Webb as a private militia man and was march down to Richmond & then they were joined to the Army under Genl Lafayette & was with
him when they were all forced back up the County
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by the enemy as far as Albemarle when the me
reinforcements under Genl Wayne, & drive the
every the British back down the Country
and in the said Daniel was discharged at the end of the three months at a place called the Mor hills & went home with a sick brother which was a few days before Cornwallis surrenders at York which ended his revolutionary services
Attest
that he has no documentary evidence, and that
he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure except the affidavit of Peter Daniel herewith transmitted and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year afsd 
his
William Daniel
mark
[aforesaid]
Attest Willis Graves Clk

We Lewis Conner
a Clergyman residing in the County
of Boone and State of Kentucky and John P. Gaines residing in the same county and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Daniel who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy three years of that he is reputed in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that
Opinion - Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Lewis Conner
Jno  P Gaines
And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named Applicant William Daniel was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the said further certifies that it appears to them that the said Lewis Conner who has sign the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in said County of Boone and State of Kentucky, and that John P. Gaines who has also signed the same is a
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Resident in the said County of Boone and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Willis Graves Clerk of the County Court in and for
said County of Boone do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Daniel for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of Office this 2nd day of June
1834 - and 42nd year of the Commonwealth
Willis Graves Clk