Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32454, for Nicholas Brent Porter, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va.

General Wayne

Porter, Nicholas Brent
or Nicholas B.

NUMBER
S. 32454

CONTENTS
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26799
Indiana
Nicholas B Porter 
of Washington Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the com commanded by Captain James of the regt commanded by --- in the Va line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 40 Dollars ---Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of May 1834 and Hon John Carr HR

Arrears to the 4th of March  120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Septr  20.00
$140.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Danl. Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol. 7  Page 124
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30,491
Nicholas B. Porter
Indiana

from 1779 pri
1 yr - $40

Hon John Carr
H.R.
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Declaration of Nicholas B. Porter, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832.

State of Indiana Washington County SS In the Washington County Probate Court
On this 16th day of April 1834 personally appeared in open Court it being a Court of Record before the Honorable Samuel Peck the Judge thereof now sitting, Nicholas B. Porter a resident of the said County and State aforesaid aged 70 years on the 10th of May 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he first entered the service of the United States at Stafford County in the State of Virginia where he then resided, on the 12th day of January 1779 as a private in the militia, under an engagement to serve as a minute man; no definite period, but as long as his services might be needed, by then and there joining a company under the command of Capt. William Farrow. Immediately after said company was organized, Capt. Farrow was promoted, and the said company was placed under the command of Captain John James, Joseph Combs was Lieutenant and Henry Clifton was Ensign. that he marched as a private in said company under the said officers to Alexandria (in what is now the district of Columbia) said company was there attached to a Regiment the Colonel of which he cannot now recollect - remained in Alexandria until about the month of May or June 1779, was then ordered to march, and did march with said company under the same officers to the house of William Brent Esqr. near the mouth of  Aquira Creek on the Potomac. there had an engagement with the forces under Lord Dunmore in which the house of the said Wm. Brent Esqr. was burned; this was about the month of June or July 1779 - after that engagement said company was dispersed but collected again in a short time, then marched to Port Tobacco, & there the company was under the command of Col. Dade - remained at Fort Tobacco until sometime in November 1779, then marched back with said company to Fredericksburgh (Va), there gave up his arms, & was permitted by Col. Posey to return home but to hold himself in readiness to march at a moments warning - this was about the 1st of December 1779 and this declarant states that he was constantly engaged in actual service upon the tour of duty herein above described not less than ten & a half months. That in the month of March 1780 at the same place (Stafford Co Va.) he again entered said service in the same capacity of minute man in the militia in the same company, & under the same officers, but for no definite term of time; that he marched with said company to  (illegible) on the Rappahannoc, and soon after his arrival at that place he was appointed Serjeant Major by Col. William Brent, and in that capacity he afterwards served - remained at (illegible) till about the month of August 1780, then marched with a detachment to Norfolk