Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9156, Leroy Canaday, Va.
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Service - Va.


Canaday, Leroy
or Caneday



Number - S. 9156



Carded
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Virginia 16196


Leroy Canaday (star)

of Madison in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the company commanded
by Capt. Watts of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Barbour in the Virginia
line for 9 months

Leroy Canaday (star)
Records corrected Dec. 12/04

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of July 
and sent to B. Cave
Madison C.H. Va.

Arrears to the 4th of  March 1833     $60.00
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833   $15.00


$75.00


{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by William Miller Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 6 Page 5
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832
State of Virginia Madison County ss.

On this 8th day of March 1839 personally appeared before Charles R. Gibbs a Magistrate in and for the County of Madison (Virginia) now sitting (to take down the declaration of Leroy Canaday who is unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity) Leroy Canaday a resident of Madison County in the State of Virginia aged Seventy five years the 25th of March 1833 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 the 7th 1832.
In the months of June or July 1778 I was drafted in the County of Essex where I then resided to perform a tour in the militia the length of which I am at some loss to say I marched under the command of Capt. John Henshaw I marched to the village on the Rappahannock called Hobb's Hole for the purpose of protecting the place against the depredation of a Piratical  vessel under the command of a man named Goodridge who had been the means of depriving their owners of several hundred negroes and had taken a vessel then lying at Hobb's Hole loaded with wheat. This vessel we succeeded in re-taking with loss
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of only one man killed, The vessel we took to a place of greater security in the River near Hobb's Hole and protected from the Pirate Goodridge, In the course of the next year I was again detached in a regular way to perform a tour the length of which I can't say with any thing like certainty nor can I remember the name of the Captain but this I can say with certainty that the object of the Tour was to defend the plantations on the Rappahannock against the Enemies' marauding vessels - and though I speak of but two tours in these years yet in fact I was held to march at a moments warning and often had to make short tours of observation some times four or five days and at other times not more than one or two, I claim only three months for all the above believing it to be more than the double of it; that I was actually from my home and business .
In the year 1781 I removed from the County of Essex (Va.) to the County of Culpeper and in the months of April or May, I was drafted for a Tour of three months under Capt. Elijah Kirtley and march to tide water Country and joined that part of the American Army under the command of General LaFayette at that time near the Ground square Bridge in the County of Hanover and after various marches
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and counter marches The American Army had to retreat to the direction of Raccoon Ford in the County of Culpeper where the troops under General Wayne formed a junction with the Army under LaFayette.
The Army then marched in the same direction it had so lately retreated from by cutting a new road observing the motions of the Enemy and finally the British army declined to give battle. In the making the above Road my strength enabled me fell the forest trees with great success, I was finally discharged from this tour at a place called Malbin Hills something like thirty miles below Richmond.
In the months of July or August 1781 and in a short time after reaching home from the performance of the above Tour I was again drafted for a Tour of three months under the Command of Capt. William Watts I marched to the neighborhood of Williamsburg and attached to the Regiment under the command of Col. James Barbour from thence to Yorktown and reached just in time to hear the firing from the first cannon, on the next day my business was in the trenches with Spade
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shovel and pick axe, I have the consolation of believing that in the siege of Yorktown my bodily labour was as severe; and as cheerfully exerted in the cause of my Country; as any soldier belonging to the Army, I claim a Soldiers compensation for nine months services - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

*I have no documentary evidence except Humphrey major and Adam Rouse, Certificates who were both in service with me a part of the time and the discharges from Years in the militia long since lost
I would refer to the following gentlemen
To wit my nearest neighbour Capt. Churchill Gibbs, Capt. Angus Rucker, Col. Lenn Banks, and General William Madison, Given under my hand this 8th day of March 1833.

Leroy Canaday

Sworn to and subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid

# It is known at the War Department that I am a Magistrate in and for the County of Madison

C.H. Gibbs #
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No. 24075

Leroy Canady
Madison Co.
Virginia

Admitted private
9 mos.  - $30



C.H. Gibbs
Madison Co.
Virginia
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WAR DEPARTMENT,

Pension Office,


Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margins with a brace, (thus:  } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.


A Statement, showing the Service of Leroy Canaday, Madison Co. Va.


Period when the service was rendered - 

drafted June or July 1778
drafted 2nd tour April or May 1781
? July 
3rd tour drafted


Duration of the claimant's service - 
3 months
3 months
3 months

Rank of the claimant  - 

Private
Private 
Private


Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served - 

Capt. Henshaw
Capt, Kirtley/General LaFayette
General Wayne/Capt. Watts, Col. Barbour


Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.

75 years
Essex Co.
Virginia

Proof by which the declaration is supported. - 

living witness and traditional evidence



I am, respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

J.L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1838
The following regulations have been adopted: 
This law has been construed to extend, as well as to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops," "militia," and "volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military services. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 1. The Regular Troops. 2.
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signed John N. Ashton
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9136
Rev War INVALID.

File No. 9156
Leroy Caneday*
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th "32
Index:-Vol. 1st, Page 59
[Arrangement of 1870.]
*Leroy Canaday
Dec. 12/04
Records corrected.
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Virginia Madison County To wit

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Leroy Canaday  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 under the officers and at the periods stated in my declaration to which this is amendatory that is nine months and for such service I claim a pension.

Given under my hand and seal this 14th day of June 1833 - and ? before signed

Leroy Canaday

C. R. Gibbs

I hereby certify that Humphrey Major and Adam Pease who have given certificates of Leroy Canaday servicess, hereto annexed are well known to me  - I believe them both to be men of veracity.

Given under my hand this 14th day of June 1833

C.R. Gibbs
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State of Virginia Madison County ss.

I Belfield Cave clerk of the County court of said County, do hereby certify that Charles R. Gibbs, before whom the foregoing declaration of Leroy Canaday has been taken and sworn to, and also before whom the foregoing affidavits, viz. of Archibald H. Lamon, and Adam Reese, Adam Rouse, Humphrey Major, have been taken and sworn to, and the supplemental declaration of said Leeroy Canaday also taken and sworn to before said Charles R. Gibbs, is and was at the time of the acts aforesaid, an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to administer oaths. And that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.  
In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name this 14th day of June 1833.

Belfield Cave Clerk
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I Adam Rouse of the County of Madison in the State of Virginia aged Seventy years do hereby certify that I was drafted from the County of Culpeper in the year 1781 It was the only tour I performed I well remember that Leroy Canaday was in the same ? with me at the Siege of Yorktown in Virginia.
I take pleasure in saying that I have been well acquainted with Leroy Canaday ever since the year 1781 and that he is a man of great respectability.
Given under my hand this 7th day of March 1833

Adam Rouse


Virginia Madison County To Wit,
This day the above certificate was sworn to before me by Adam Rouse

Given under my hand this 7th day of March 1833

C.R. Gibbs
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24075
Leroy Canaday

Declaration
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5.

We Archibald H. Lamon a Clergyman residing in the County of Madison (Virginia) and Adam Rouse  residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Leroy Canaday who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be nearly seventy five years of age
that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Given under our hands.

Archibald H. Lamon
Adam Rouse

Sworn and subscribed the 
day and year aforesaid

C.R. Gibbs


I the above named Charles R. Gibbs, do hereby certify that Leroy Canaday is unable to attend a Court of Record by reason of bodily infirmity and hereby declare it to be my opinion, after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant Leroy Canaday was  a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, I further certify that it appears to me that A.H. Lamon is a Clergyman residing in this County and Adam Rouse who has also signed the same is a resident of this County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Given under my hand and Seal March the 8th 1833

C.R. Gibbs
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Humphrey Majors
Certificate 
for 
Leroy Canaday
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I Humphrey Majors of the County of Madison in the State of Virginia aged Seventy Six years do hereby certify that I was drafted in the year 1781 from the County of Culpeper (Virginia) for a Tour of three months, and I well remember that Leroy Canaday of this County was in the same draft, from this tour we were discharged at the Malbin Hills below Richmond, he was likewise drafted again the same year for the same length of time, and was at the Siege of Yorktown towards the end of the Tour, at the same time I was discharged with others to drive cattle in various directions; for the purpose of keeping them out of the reach of the enemy, I take pleasure in saying that Leroy Canaday is a man of highly respectable character in the estimation of all that know him, I have reason to believe he was in service before 1781 from the County of Essex where we both raised.

Given under my hand this 7th day of March 1833

Humphrey Majors
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Virginia Madison County To Wit

This day Humphrey Majors personally appeared before me Charles R. Gibbs a Magistrate in for the County aforesaid and made oath to the facts stated in the within certificate.

Given under my hand and Seal this 7th day of March 1833.

C.R. Gibbs