Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,063, for William Maffitt, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Maffitt, William

NUMBER
S. 36,063

CONTENTS
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Schedule
District of Kentucky, Nelson County Sct
On this 17th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court being a Court of record for said County of Nelson William Maffit aged Sixty five years or upwards 
resident 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 enlisted in the year 1777 for three years of the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt John Blackwell in the Regiment commanded by Col William Heath and served his time out having been taken prisoner at Charlestown in South Carolina & made his escape from the enemy & was afterwards honorably discharged by his said Captain, and 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 that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it 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 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 than what is contained in the schedule by me hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit One hundred acres of land worth twenty shillings per acre Four head of horses one sucking coalt two cows & three calves twenty head of hogs young and old eleven head of Sheep, - said Maffet is a farmer by occupation he has a wife upwards of fifty years old & four children-
I Vincent Davis presiding magistrate and William Samuels & Ignatius Hagan members of the court do
certify that the above Schedule of property is worth