Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,930, John Clinckenbeard, N.C.
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service                                    number
N C                                     S.30.930
Clinckenbeard, John
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Kentucky 27.626
 John Clinkenbeard
of Bourbon Co. in the State of
Ky
who was a Pr. in the Company commanded
by Captain Lucas of the Righ commanded
by Col Sevrin in the No Carolina
line for
10 ½ Mo $35.00
Inscribed on the Roll of KY
at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April
'34  Thos P Smith, Clerk, Paris Ky.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '32 - 122.50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma '35 12.50
$1400
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded I. T. Sp{illegible}
Book  6.2 Vol. 7 Page 95
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Kentucky
27.6.25
John
Clinkenbeard
of Bourbon Co. the State of Ky

who was a Private in the Company command
by Captain Lucas of the Regh commanded
by Col Sevein in the No Carolina
line for
10 ½ Month $35.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of KY
at the rate of 35 Dollars -- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Apr
'34 Thos.  P. Smith, clerk, Paris, KY.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 32 - 122.50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March '35 12.50
$1400
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. J. Sprague, Clerk
Book 6.2 Vol. 7.1 Page 9
ly.
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State of Kentucky Bourbon County Set} On this day being the 25th day of August
1834 Personally appeared before Robert Serogin One of the
Commoners wealthy Justices of the Peace in and for Bourbon County
and state aforesaid, at his own Residence in said county
John Clinchenbeard a citizen of said county, and state
aged Seventy Eight years on the ninth day of July last. who
being first diely sworn according to law. doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the 
Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he is 78 years of age
and that from his advance of age, andaffliction with pains in
his limbs and being otherwise greatly debillitated that
he is unable to attend the Court of his County in order to
make his declaration in this case, altho he resides within
two miles of Paris his County seat. He states that in March
1774 He volunteered as a spy under the orders of Colonel 
Sevior of North Carolina, at the frontier post, on the nolicheecky 
River commanded by Robert Lucas, this affiliant left the station
with Archi Coody a halfbreed Indian, who lived in 
Cohilhouse, an Indian Town, on Tennifee River affiant event
with Coody in disguise as a pretended Trader. When they
arrived at the Indian Town affiant was our freeter as a spy
and as the Indians had killed an American on Clinch
River a few days before, they had a war dance over the scalp
and an old Square gave their affiant information that the 
Indians would kill him if he did not escape
the same night. which he died. but before he reached French
Broad River on his way back, their affiant was pursued by
the Indians and fired on near French Broad River, and
lost his horse and had to swim the River and carry his shirt
and hunting shirt on his head, and then had C O Uile to travel
to the other station. with nothing on as clothes best his hat shirt
                                              The time of their service two weeks
and Hunting shirt. This was on the 4th day of April 1774,
his next service was under Col. Seveir and Capt. Nathaniel
Evans as a volunteer private soldier with his horse Rifle and
Provifsions to get to the Indian Towns on the Tennifree River 
The detachment Marched from Seveirs Station on Nolichucky River.
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River under Col Sevier crossed the higher (?) river and burnt three Indian towns to wit Chilhowee Tilhausee (Tallasee) and Coosawatte on Coosa River in 1775 and took 28 Indian prisoners and one white man named Torman who lived with the Indians and brought them into Sevier Station and after some time they were exchanged for 40 American prisoners who had been taken prisoners sometime before at Little River. This service was completed in one month. This affiant also entered the service under Captain Price and served under Col. Christian on his campaign against the Cherokee Indians in 1776, and that during this service a battle was fought between Bedsoes (Bledsoes) Fort and the Long Island on Holstien between the Indians and  Christian's army in which 32 Indians were killed. This service was entered for three months but was performed in six or eight week. This service was performed as a private soldier with horse rifle and provision furnished by himself in the fall of 1776 this affiant was drafted for three months but the order of Col. Sevier to guard Blacks Station and performed the said service and received his discharge from Cold Sevier but has lost it. This service was as a private soldier but he furnished his own rifle. Captain John Williams commanded the fort at Blacks during this service. This affiant then returned to Berkley County and state of Virginia and entered the service again for a tour of three months as a private soldier under Captain Josiah Swerengen and served on the campaign under Gen. McIntosh on the Ohio River. That this service was performed in the year 1778 and altho the tour was nomily (normally) for three months yet this affiant had to serve from about the last part of August until the evening of the 24th of December when he arrived at home in Berkley County. All this time affiant discharged the duties of a private soldier in said detachment. Our march was from Berkley to Fort Cumberland then to Fort Pitt. then down the Ohio to the mouth of Beaver where we built Fort McIntosh thence to the forks of the Muskingum and Tuscarawas where we built Fort Laurana (Loramie) in the year 1780. This affiant was drafted as a private soldier for eighteen months in the Virginia Militia of minute men of Berkley County under Captain Josiah Swerengen
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and received from Capt Sweringen a discharge for the said
tour but has lost it. That in the year 1781 an Express arrived
in Berkley County giving the Information that the Torys had
embodied on the South branch of Potomac, under General Claypole, Colonel
Woolsye and Brake and that Hagers Town was to be sacked
and burnt. this news produced great alarm and, the old wagonner,
General Morgan,
Collected a detachment of volunteers for a tour
of three months to march against them 
(the Torys) that the affiant
Marched with said detachment with his horse, Rifle and provisions 
 under General Morgan, against the Torys. A skirmish took place, Col. Brake the second in command, was killed and his son wounded. And Claypole and Woolsey defeated and their Tory partisans dispersed.  
 This service being performed, General Morgan gave the affiant a discharge for a three months tour (but he lost it)
 altho the service did not actually
amount to more than half that time. That in the year 1782
this affiant volunteered as a private soldier with his horse and rifle under Major Hugh Baird and Captain Nathaniel
Evans for a three months tour to go to the fort at French lick
and relieve the fort then besieged by the Indians near where
Nashville now stands, a part of this service was also a station Camp.
 this service was performed in about two months, altho
the the enlistment was for three months.  this affiant states
further in answer to Interrogatories put by the Magistrate, suggested 
by the war department, that from Information of his parents he was
born on the 9th day of July 1755 near Conollaway in Pennsylvania
near the line of Maryland. when a boy affiant, father removed
to Berkley County & State of Virginia from thence affiant went
to Lucases station on Watauga  waters of Holsten where he remained
about 4 years and then returned to Berkley County, and thence returned to
Knoxville Tennesee, thence to Kentucky Bourbon County in
the year 1816 where he has Resided ever since. that he has no
Documentary Evidence of his service and cannot prove by testimony any of his  
 services only that under General McIntosh as a private from
August to 24th December, and this by two of his brothers who served
with him in the same Company. He hereby relinquishes every
claim to a pension or annuity whatever except the present
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and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the
agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed John Clinkinbeard
day and year aforesaid
Robert Scrogin J.P.
We James M Coggswell & William McClure residing in the
County of Bourbon and state of Kentucky hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with John Clinckenbeard who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration in our presents at his own
Residence, that he is lame from pain in his limbs and unable
to go to his county seat. From his appearance that we believe him to be 78 years old as
he states, is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur
in that opinion, and that no Clergyman resides in his immediate neighborhood that we know of, that is well acquainted with
him.
Sworn to and subscribed
S.M Cogswell
the day and year aforesaid.

(signed)Wm. B. McClure
Robert Scrogin J P

And the said Justice of the peace before whom the foregoing declaration
and certificate was taken subscribed and sworn to do hereby
declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after
putting the Interrogatories prescribed the war department that the
above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
and I further certify that James M. Cogswell and William McClure
who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in the
Immediate neighborhood of the applicant and that they are both
men in good credit and that their statement is entitled to
Credit. I further certify that John Clinkenbeard is in my
opinion unable to attend at his County Court and that no
Clergyman resides in the immediate neighborhood of the
applicant that is well acquainted with him known to me
Given under my hand and seal and Justice of the peace
for Bourbon County this 25th day of August 1834
Robert Scrogin J.P.
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State of Kentucky
Bourbon County
Personally appeared before me
 Robert Scrogin a Justice of
the peace in and for said County, William
Clickenbeard aged 73 years and made oath
according to Law, that he was with John
Clinkenbeard, whose declaration has now been
read to him and who is now present in the
year 1778 when he served as a private soldier
under Josiah Sweringen and this deponent states
that the said John Clinckinbeard beard served during
Genl McIntosh's campaign from the last of
August until the 24th of December 1778 when
he got home the evening before Christmas in
Berkley County Virginia, and that he has always
heard his brother John Clinkenbeard mention
his other services against the Indians and Torys,  but
this affiant only served with said John Under
Capt. Sweringen & Genl McIntosh
Subscribed and sworn
to this 6th day of September
1834
Robert Scrogin J.P.
William Clindckenbeard X his mark

also
personally appeared at the same time and
Place and before me Robert Scrogin a Justice
of the peace for Bourbon County & State of
Kentucky. Isaac Clinkenbeard, who being duly
sworn according to Law on his Oath states that
he served as a soldier with his brother John
Clinckenbeard whose declaration has been read to
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him this day and who is now present before
him, and that the said John Clinkenbeard served
as he states in his declaration under Capt Josiah
Sweringen on the Campaign under Genl McIntosh
that he was with the said John the whole tour
that they, that is this affiant the said John and
William Clinckenbeard, (three brothers), started for
a three months tour about the last of August 1778

and returned to their home on the evening of the
24th December 1778 in Berkley County and State of
Virginia that he has always heard his
brother John Speak of his services as detailed in
his declaration against the Indians, Torys 
but that this affiant only served with his brother
John during his service under Genl McIntosh
Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 6th day of
Isaac Clinkinbeard
September 1834
Robert Scrogin J.P.
I certify that the foregoing depositions of William
Clinckenbeard and Isaac Clinkenbeard were taken
subscribed and sworn to according to law, on this
6th day of September 1834 and that they are both
men of good credit. that I have been acquainted with
them both for 30 years, given under my hand
and seal as a Justice of the peace for Bourbon
County and state of Kentucky the date above
Robert Scrogin
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State of Kentucky, Bourbon County Set,
I Thomas P Smith Clerk of the Court of Bourbon County
certify that Robert Scrogin is a magistrate as
above, and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have here
unto affixed my seal of Office
and subscribed my name this
Sixth day
of September 1834
Tho. P. Smith
Clerk of the Court of Bourbon
County
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31.938
John Clinchenbeard
Kentucky
from 1776 Jr 10 ½
M
$35.
32
105
17.50
122.50

35
4
140
Thos P. Smith
Clk
Paris 
Tea
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30930
Revy
INVALID.
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File No.
No.  30.930
John Clinckenbeard
Rev War
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Act: June 7th '32
Index:--Vol. 2
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Arrangement of 1870.