Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 10000, James Wilson, Va.
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Certificate of Marriage of
James Wilson and Sarah brown
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State of Indiana ⎬ Lawrence County Probate Court
Lawrence County ⎬
November Term 1832
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of an act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
On this 12th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open court before Rollin C Dewey
Judge of the probate court of the County of Laurence aforesaid the same being a court of Record James Wilson resident of Indiana township in the County aforesaid aged 66 years of age last -28th- August 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 act of congress of the 7th June 1832.
That he was born in Frederick County Virginia some time in the summer of 1780 but on what month or day - that he entered the army of the United States
in the Revolutionary War in Winchester County of
Frederick in the State of Virginia a volunteer for one month to guard some prisoner in Winchester under the command of Henry Brinker who commanded the guard-- after which he returned home where he remained but a short time, - when in the
fall of the year 1780 he again entered the army of the United States as a volunteer to guard some prisoner from Albemarle to For[t?] Fredrick in Maryland the [illegible] of said engagement- this declarant does not remember but thinks it was about a month - that he does not remember under whom he served in said regiment- 
That after he returned home from the last engagement he was drafted as a militia man
from the county of Fredrick aforesaid some time [illegible] the first day June 1781 for the time of three months the company commanded by Capt William Frost and and lieutenant Lindsey in the Regiment commanded Col Edmunds and Maj.
Blackwell - that in said  last mentioned tour
he retreated from Lord Cornwalles from 12 mils below Richmond Virginia, to the line of Albemarle County
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Virginia, where we were met by General Athony Wayne's
Brigade and the Bottetourt, and the Augusta forces: after which we pursued the Lord Cornwallis and his forces to Williamsburg Virginia and from there to Little York - about what time this deponent his discharge from Capt William Frost having served in said tour something more than four
months, This deponent further states that after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis that he volunteered to guard the Winchester barracks for the Term of two month
which was some time in the year 1781 under Capt 
Barkley and Maj John Gillkason, - that during the
the last time of service as [illegible] stated that this declarant acted as orderly Sargent, that he was discharged [at]the expiration of two months in his last engagement as him stated. That he has a word of his age at home in
a book entitled Ambrose Looking to Jesus which Record he was born on the 28th day of August 1761. - That he has no written evidence of his service nor can be prove the same  other than by his neighbors and Abraham Mitchell a clergyman of said County of Lawrence which he prays may be made a part of this record-- that he has lost his
discharges supposing therein to be of no value and for
that reason did not take any care of them, - that
since he left the any of the Revolution as herein
stated that he lived, about four years in Pennsylvania
[illegible] Pittsburgh from there he removed to Nelson
County Kentucky where he resided two years
from thence to Washington County Kentucky where he
lived about fifteen years, from them to Jefferson County Kentucky [?]twenty years, from there to Lawrence County Indiana where he has resided for the last two years
Sworn to and subscribed in open
Court
day & year first above written.
James Wilson