Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,349, Thomas West, Penn
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                          NUMBER

Penn.          West, Thomas             R.11.349

CONTENTS
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Thomas West, deceased,

Ohio

Let. P.J. Donham, Nov 12/55.

11349

Act June 7, 1832
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11,349
P.O.
Thomas West

Service:           REJECTED
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.

________Recognized.   ___________Co
________Cert of Dis.    Searched for _________.
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New Richmond [illegible]Oct 29th/55

Commissioner of Pensions
Dr. Sir
I inclose [enclose] to you an old paper handed to me to day [today] and ask for your indulgence in giving a reply
One Thomas West now deceased made the foregoing informal affidavit in his lifetime and has since died and his widow is also dead, and leaves one heir now an old man
[illegible] Can this[?] the living heir be entitled to any pay for the services of the father if so how shall he proceed Please send to me any of the Pension Laws in your possession & if charge is made I will remit that [illegible]
Yours c&
P.J. Donham
New Richmond 
Ohio
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State of Kentucky
County of Campbell

    On this 23 day of May 1833 personally appeared before me Johnathan Carmack, one of of the Commonwealth justices of the peace for the county aforesaid and one of the judges of the County Court, Thomas West a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged eighty four years an infirm man unable to go to the place of holding court, 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 7, 1832.
     He entered the service of the United States under the following officers & served as herein stated. Taylor whose christened name he does not now remember was the major commanding the forces with whom this declarant was Captain Beck commanded the company to which he belonged.
    He entered the service as a volunteer to act as an Indian Spy early in the spring of 1777 at Holliday's Cove then in the state of Pennsylvania, now in Virginia , that he was stationed at the place aforesaid & served as a spy aforesaid between that place and  and Bakers fort on the Ohio river, that he served between Eight and nine months. that he resided in
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the State of Pennsylvania at the mouth of Harmans Creek at the time he entered the service that there was no regular or continental soldiers stationed at the fort at Holliday's Cove until after the term for which this declarant volunteered had expired  & a short time afterwards a guard consisting of a small number of soldiers under a sergeant by the name of Joshua McQueen were stationed at Holiday's Cove - that at this time this declarant was then Moses Holliday was the Commissary that there were no other officers that this declarant remembers at the fort during his time of service but Major Taylor who came there and (reviewed) the volunteers & Capt. Beck who commanded them that this declarant was no in any engagements.  He went once with (the) few soldiers at Holliday's Cove in pursuit of the Indians who had massacred a man by the name of Campbell and had taken away Campbell's children. He was also in pursuit of the Indians who took Cavender and carried him to the Moravian Towns a short time before William Low took & massacred the Moravian Indians, but these pursuits after the Indians were after his services (??) as a volunteer that he is now eighty four years of age.  He has no documentary evidence in his possessions by which he can prove his service aforesaid nor does he know anyone whose testimony be can prove
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to prove his service. That Joshua McQueen & John McQueen & Thomas McQueen if living  could prove this declarant's service, but where they live, if living this declarant does not know, and if he did from his infirmity, he would be unable to get their evidence and from his infirmity he is unable to go to Newport the nearest place at which a court is held. 
    He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever 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.  That he has a written discharge but lost the same many years since.

    Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

                                               his
                                  Thomas   X   West
                                              Mark 

[illegible]  __________  a clergyman residing in the county of Campbell and state of Kentucky and ________ residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas West who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 84 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 the opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid

Elijah Herndon [possibly Heringdon]

and the said ____ the justice of the peace aforesaid who hereby certifies as his opinion that the declarant afsd is infirm & unable to go to where a court is held, hereby declares his opinion after
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the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated and the said justice certifies further that it appears to him that ____________ who has signed he preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Campbell & state of Kentucky and that Elijah Heringdon who has also signed the same is a resident in the same state and is a credible person and that this is entitled to credit.  Given under my hand and seal as a justice of the peace aforesaid this _____ day of _____ 1833.

 
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