Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3087, John Drinkard, Va.
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Service 
Drinkard, John 
Lucy 
Number 
R3087 
Contents
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No 14.347 
Lucy Drinkard
widow of John 
[illegible] 
Act of 4th July 1838
to L. F. Churchill June 17th 1787
3087
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [crossed out]
3087
P.O. Lucy Drinkard
Service: wid. of John
REJECTED
Enlisted: , 18
Discharged: , 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for , 18
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Oath of Identity
The State of Alabama
Chamber County
S.S. Be it known, that before me Benjamin F Harrist, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeares Lucy Drinkard, widow of John Drinkard (deceased and made oath in [illegible] due force of law, that she is the widow of John Drinkard (deceased, the identified person, who was a private in the company commanded by captain Jacob Moon. He volunteered in the age of the revolution in Amelia County. State of Virginia, viz., [illegible] the War of the Revolution and fought at the Battle at Guildford Court House, North Carolina, and is now dead. He died in the year 1817 in the month of March in said year. He resided in Edgefield [illegible], South Carolina, five years, then he moved to Abbeville District, S.C., and lived there untill his death, which was about seventy seven years.
her mark Lucy Drinkard
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me this 7th day of November, 1838
B. F. Harris pR
The State of Alabama
Chamber County
S.S.
On the seventh day of November, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me, Benjamin F. Harrist, a justice of the peace in and for the county & state aforesaid, Lucy Drinkard, a resident of Alabama in the county of Chambers, aged eighty one years. Who being just duly diverse, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1838 - entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows that she is the widow of John Drinkard (Deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, who was a private in the company commanded by captain Jacob Moon of Amelia County State of Virginia, said John Drinkard fought at the Battle fought at Guildford Court House, North Carolina. She further declares that she was married to the said John Drinkard in the year A.D. 1785 (in the month of March, not recollected, there being no family record of the marriage. That her husband, the aforesaid John Drinkard died in the year A.D. one thousand eight
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Hundred and seventeen in the month of March (the day of that not recollected, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to [illegible] of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, Viz. at the [illegible] above [illegible]
Lucy Drinkard
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
B F Harris J.P.