Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8080, Jacob Bonnett, Va.
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State of Virgina
County of Lewis

On this 6th day of day of August personally appeared before the Justices of Lewis County Court at the August Term 1833 of said Court in open Court now sitting Jacob Bonnett a resident of Lewis County in the said State of Virginia. aged 72 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 pased June 7, 1832. That in the month of March 1780 (as he now believes) he was drafted in what is now Harrison County to serve a town of eighteen months in the Virginia militia for the defence of the Western Waters. That he was marched from home in March of that year under Captain Jonathan Coburn and Major William Lowther. The troops descended the New ford of the Monongalea river in boats to its mouth, thince down the main Mongalia river to what was then "Red Stone" now Brownsville therice to Pittsburg and there at a place called Sewell's Store