Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,889, Benjamin Briggs, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Briggs, Benjamin S. 30,889

CONTENTS
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13659
Kentucky
Benjamin Briggs
of Lincoln Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Logan - of the regt. commanded
by Col Logan in the Virga Mila
for 2 years from 1778.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May
1833 - and sent to J. L. Ballinger
Stanford

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $60-
Semi-anl. allowance end 4 Sep 33. 40-
$200-
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm Allison Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 3

Let. Agt: Augt 19, 35 Suspd
Let 5 May 1836 Hon.
J. Harlan. do to Hon.
L. Lea HR. May 28 1836. do to
same, Jan. 16 1837.
Hon J. F. Bell 25 Feby 1846.
Let Wm. R. Vance 15th June 1850
Let Hon G. A. Caldwell
July 19/50

Death not on A.B.
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Benjamin Briggs
Pension Declaration
24991
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Kentucky Lincoln
County Sct
On this 22nd Day of April 1833 personally
appeared in open Court before the County
Court of Lincoln County now Sitting Benjamin Briggs aged sixty eight years 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 7th 1832
He states that he entered the service of the
United States under the following named
Officers and served as hereinafter stated
That he enlisted as a volunteer in the
Virginia Militia in the Month of January
1778 under the Command of Capt Benjamin
Logan. he does not recollect the name of the Lieutenant. Azariah Doty was Orderly Sergeant he was in the infantry, that he enlisted for the Term of Two years and performed duty during that time in and about Logan's Fort, then situated upon the Southern frontier of Virginia, Now a part of the State of Kentucky in Lincoln County, that he regularly drew his rations of powder & ammunition & provisions during that period as a soldier, that the Shawnee & other Indians were very troublesome, frequently breaking
[illegible] Settlers & massacreing the
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Battle but that the fort was often beleagured by the indians and Garrisons Confined to the Fort for weeks at a time, that he also performed the Duty of a Scout or spy ranging upon the Southern frontiers of the state of Virginia to give information of any sudden inroads of the Indians. there was no officer of a higher grade than Benjamin Logan. who was Captain Daniel Trabue was assistant Commissary all the above named officers was Commissioned by the governor of Virginia. he served his above Term or Tour of Two years & was regularly discharged by his Capt Benjamin Logan at Logan's fort
That in the year 1781 in the month of April he again entered the service as a draft and served a Tour of One Month at Samuel Briggs Station in Lincoln County under the Command of Capt Robert Barnett William Casey was Lieutenant, Benjamin Logan was Col & John Logan was Lieutenant Colonel, and after guarding the said station for one month was verbally discharged there by Capt. Robert Barnett-
That in the year 1782 in the
Month of May he was ordered by Benjamin Logan the Col of Lincoln County to Estills fort to which place he was marched and placed under the Command of Capt John Woods he does not recollect the name of the other officers the Country had been thrown into great alarm by the defeat of Capt Estill, John Woods Commanded
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That in the month of August 1782 he again
enlisted as a Volunteer under Col Benjamin Logan to repel an invasion of the Shawnee Indians that the Militia of the Country was Called out, en Masse and there was no organization of the Militia into Companies as the indians had defeated Cols Tod & Trigg before they arrived at the scene of action & left the Country they went on & buried the Dead he served a Tour of One Month & was verbally discharged by Col Benjamin Logan
That in the Month of September 1782
he again entered the Service as a Draft under the Command of Capt Robert Barnett William Casey was Lieutenant, John Logan was Colonel & Benjamin Logan was the general
I marched from Lincoln County to the mouth of Licking River where they were Joined by Genl George R Clarke with some regular troops & other Militia Genl Clarke assumed the Command and they marched up the Miami River as high as the Pickaway Towns, which were taken after a Battle with the indians he served a Tour of Two months and was verbally discharged at the mouth of Licking River by Capt Robert Barnett
That in the month of November he thinks 1782 he again entered the service as a volunteer Militiaman under Capt John Woods John Logan was the Col Benjamin Logan was Genl - he does not recollect the other officers, for the purpose of guarding the Emigrants to the Western Country through the Wilderness into the interior of Kentucky
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which was very much infested by the Indians he served a Tour of one Month & was verbally discharged by Capt John Woods
That he was born on the 3d Day of April
1765 in Augusta County State of Virginia. that on Christmas Eve 1777 he moved to Lincoln County in the then district of Kentucky, where he has resided ever since, his father had a record of his age in his family Bible, he does not know what has become of it - That in the time of his Services he performed his duties in and about the Forts in the district of Kentucky & scouting & spying from one Fort to another & up the Kentucky River, at the Blue Licks & Louisville & as far as the Pickaway Town on the Miami River - that he has service in the whole the period of Twenty nine Months 
He states that he has no written or documentary evidence of his Services but can prove the same by DAniel Trabue of Adair County Kentucky & Abraham Estes & James P Barnett of Lincoln County Ky
He hereby relinquishes every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the agency roll of any State
Sworn & subscribed to the Day &
year aforesaid - B Briggs
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to the above Declaration that we believe him to be sixty eighty years of age & that he served as he has stated above
And the Deponent Daniel Trabue further states that he the said Trabue is Seventy Three years old, that he came to Logan's Fort in the spring of 1778 and became acquainted with the Declarant Benjamin Briggs who was then enrolled in the Company of Capt Benjamin Logan which enrollment took place on the first Day of January 1778 as appeared by the Books of the Commissary. this fact I Know by being assistant Commissary & that Said Benjamin Briggs Did the Duty of a private Soldier until the End of 1779 making Two years Said Briggs did his duty as a soldier faithfully During that period, & I know the applicant to be the same Benjamin Briggs who served as above & who has lived within the seven miles of Logan's Fort ever since - in Lincoln County Kentucky

A Braham Estes a resident of Lincoln
County Kentucky on his oath states that he is in his Sixty Ninth year and that he Knows of the Declarant Benjamin Briggs above named to have served a Tour of one month at Samuel Briggs Station in 1781 as Briggs has stated in his declaration, That in the Month of August 1782 he again Served a Tour of Duty with the Declarant Benjamin Briggs, of one month, when they marched to the Blue Licks to Bury the Dead as
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stated by Briggs in his above Declaration & under the Command of Benjamin Logan who was Col, also in the same year said Benjamin Briggs served a Tour of Duty of Two Months on the Miami River under the Command Genl George R Clarke Genl Logan & as stated by Briggs in his Declaration which was called Clarkes Eighty Two Campaign in Col Benjamin Logans regiment of Virginia Militia 
He states that he has a personal knowledge
of all the above named services as he served with Benjamin Briggs & has obtained a pension therefore so far as this Deponent served, he further states that he Knows said Benjamin Briggs is the Identical Benjamin Briggs who served as this Deponent has proved -

And also the Deponent James P Barnett aged seventy one years states on his oath that he knows the Declarant Benjamin Briggs & that he served a Tour of One Month in May 1782 at Estills Fort as Briggs has above stated & that this Deponent & said Briggs spyed & scouted for the Indians, John Woods was Capt - that he served a Tour of One Month with Briggs in August 1782 at the Blue Licks Defeat as the Declarant Briggs has above stated in his Declaration - That he served a Tour of Two Months in September and October he thinks in 1782 as a volunteer under General George R Clarke & Genl Logan as Briggs has stated above - and in the same year as Briggs has stated they served a Tour of One Month under
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Capt John Woods to guard the Emigrants to the interior of Kentucky
Sworn & subscribed the Day &
year aforesaid Daniel Trabue
Abraham Estes
James P Barnett
And the said Court do hereby declare
their opinion after the investigation of the whole matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & Served as herein above stated & that the Declarant further Certifies that it appears to them that Daniel Trabue is a resident of Adair County that he is of seventy three years of age, that he is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to full credit & that James P Barnett & Abraham Estes are residents of Lincoln of the ages respectively stated by them that they are credible persons & their statements are entitled to full credit
Elijah Bailey
C. Engleman
John Wright
State of Kentucky Lincoln County towit.
I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Court of Lincoln County do hereby certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings o f the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Briggs for a pension that the above named persons my [illegible] Signatures genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 23rd ay of April 1833. Thomas Helm Clerk
Interlined
Thos. Helm Clk Lincoln County Court.
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No. 24,991
Benjn Briggs
Lincoln Co
Kentucky

from 1778 private
2 years $80.

J L Ballinger
Stanford 
Lincoln Co
Kentucky