Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38067, for West Hurt, Virginia
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Hurt, West    S
or Hurtt
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SCHEDULE.
District of  ____ 88.
On this 23rd day of April, 1821, personally appeared in open
court, being a court record for the family of
West Hurtt, age sixty five years, a resident in ____
of King William, in said district, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth,
on his oath declare, that, he served in the revolutionary war as follows:(c) ___________
and I do solemnly _____ 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, dis-
posed 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 per-
sons engaged in the land an naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war,"
passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and I have not, not has any person in trust for 
me, any property, or securities, contracts of debts, due to me; nor have I any income other
that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed (d) What in
time no real estate, not that in personal what is in following
mostly clothing and bedding ....about three
......

Sworn to, and declared, on the 23rd day of  April 1821 before

I, Robert Rolland,, clerk of _________ County
do by certify, that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed,
of the said that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule
is seventh dollars and ______ cents.  In testimony whereof,  
I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court on the 24th day of April 1821. 
Robert R9lland
Clerk of the Court for the county
in the state of Virginia
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The Honorable 
John C. Calhoun, Esq.
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Virginia to Hurt
This day personally appeared before me
William Brockenbrough, one of the judges of the General Court of Virginia, West Hurtt, late of the county of  King William, but now of the City of Richmond, in the said State, and made Oath that he enlisted as a Private Soldier in the Company of Capt. Holt Richeson (afterward,  Col. Richeson) in the early part of the American Revolution, the Company aforesaid was a part of the 7th Virginia Regt. on Continental Establishment.  The Reg. was at first commanded by Col.  Daingerfield (he believes) and William Nelson, the Major: that the officer fought as a soldier in the Battle of Brandywine and Germantown.  I served two years in the said regiment; that the affidavit then enlisted, whilst in Pennsylvania in a troop of Light Dragoons commanded by Capt. John Belfield from the northern part of  Virginia, I served in that Troop three years- it was the 6th Troop, 7th Reg. of LIght Dragoons, commanded  at the time by Theodore Bland with the troop he joined the Southern Army in South Carolina with the Command of that reg. devoted to Col Anthony Walton White-  This officer was honorably discharged at Halifax in No. Carolina, by Capt. Belfield or Col. White (he does not recall which) after having served  aforesaid five years in all.
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36067
INVALID.

File No. 3
West Hurtt
Priv.  Rev. War

Act 18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 2, Page DHS
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Richmond May 16, 1818
Sir,
The affidavit of West Hurtt, a revolutionary war soldier, which was made before me on the 13th 
day was duly transmitted to your Department, has been returned to me with an endorsement as  follows "The seal of the Court is wanting."  When that affidavit was made, I did not hold a Court, it was made before me in the review. 
On reading the Act of Congress (which I then had before me) I supposed that the oath might be made either before a Court.or before a Judge during the review  of his Courts, as there is no Judge in this state (or perhaps any other) who as such has a Seal.  I supposed the Certificate would be good without one.  The paper is therefore again enclosed with an additional certificate from me.  If I was wrong in the construction which I gave to the Act (of which I have not now a copy) and you should again return the affidavit to me, I will re-deliver it to the applicant with directions to make the affidavit before a Court. 
I now remember another case in which an affidavit was made before me in the cecefs, to which the same