Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,326, Zachariah Briant, Va.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Kentucky
Daviess]sic] County Set
On this 11 day personally appeared before the Honorable
Alney McLean, Judge of the Daviess Circuit
Court now sitting Zachariah Briant a resident of said County
aged about Sixty Seven 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 provision made by the acts
Congress granting pensions
Early In the year 1779 this applicant then
a resident of Amherst County, Virginia
was enlisted for the Term of two years by
Captain Jesse Allen a recruiting officer in said County,
and immediately marched to the Albemarle Barracks, 
where he remained in service until 1781. guarding
British prisoners, - he marched to Winchester ┃
in Virginia with said prisoners and soon after our return to Barracks
were honorably discharged having
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served out the term of two years for which
we were enlisted - the Col who remained and
commanded at the Barracks was named Francis Taylor -
a short period after his aforesaid discharge this applicant
substituted in the room of James Stewart
a militia man drafted to go to the Seige
of Cornwallis, and in New Kent County
on the road he was enlisted for and
during the war by a Captain ---- Mecky[?]
and was a regular soldier - under furlough
at the cessation of hostilities. (this
applicant has lost his discharge, and
will annex hereto the affidavit of John
Briant in proof of the two years Service
aforesaid the said John Briant having been
a fellow Soldier in the said Service
and being now dead)
This applicant relinquishes every
Claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declares that his
name is not on the pension roll of any
agency in any State - the applicant resided in Amherst County 
during his aforesaid Services and continued to reside there until
about the year 1800 when he removed to Ky
& resided in the Counties of Mercer Washington