Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6686, for Francis Mc Durmid, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va

McDurmid, Francis
or McDermid, Margaret

NUMBER
R. 6686

CONTENTS
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CLAIM FOR PENSION.
May 23/53.
Act of July 7 1838

Mrs. Margaret McDermid
Widow of Francis McDermid
DECLARATION.

Revy.
No papers in the 
Regt. files 1818
CHAS. C. TUCKER, Attorney
Present.
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State of Kentucky Fleming County Sct
On this third day of September 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of record expressly made so by the laws of the state creating and establishing the same for the County of Fleming aforesaid Francis McDurmid residing in the said County of Fleming aged sixty six years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Francis McDurmid enlisted for the term of three years or during the war in the month of April or May in the year 1780 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt Isaac Taylor in the Regiment commanded by Colonel (blank) in the line of the state of Virginia on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the latter part of the summer or fall of the year 1783 when he was discharged from the said service at the falls of Ohio in the then State of Virginia but now State of Kentucky. That at the time he was enlisted he was told he would be marched to the lower part of the State to join the Regiment but instead of that
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that he was kept under Capt Taylor and employed with his company through the year 1780 principally in the upper part of North Carolina and mostly against the Tories in that State. That he was not in any regular faught battle during the revolutionary war but was in many scurmishes with both the British and Tories. The most regular of which was at a place called the Hollows of North Carolina where several of the Tories were taken prisoners and hanged on the spot. That in the fall of the year 1780 a major of the regular army took command of the company to which he belonged with some Virginia Militia and directed our march to Kentucky, and continued with us a few days then leaving the detachment returned the majors name he cannot recollect And that is the only field officer he was under the immediate command of through the year 1780. That about the last of December 1780 or early in January 1781 Capt. Taylor arrived with his company he this deponent still being one of the same at the falls of Ohio when they were attached to the command of Genl. George Rogers Clarke and he thinks in the fall of 1781 or in the spring of 1782 Col Crockett came down the Ohio river with some Virginia troops when he was placed under the command of Col. Crockett. That in the year 1781 Capt Taylor resigned his command at which time he the said McDurmid was placed under the command of Capt Abraham Chaplain - after joining Genl. Clarke he was employed against the Indians north west of the Ohio river, had