Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,248, Henry Armstrong, Va.
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Va.      Armstrong, Henry       S. 30248
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Kentucky 25036
Henry Armstrong
Adair county in the state of Kentucky, who was a private in the come, commanded by Captain Goodson of the regt’s commanded by Col Smith in the Virginia line for 9 months.
Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of $30 dollars — cents per annum to commence on the 4th of March 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of November 1833 
William Caldwell Columbia 
And Arrears to the 4th of sept.                75.00
SemiAnnual allowance ending 4 March 15.00
                                                                          ———-
                                                                         $90.00

(Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.)
Recorded by Sam Boyd Clerk,
Book 6 Vol. & Page 1
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Henry Armstrong 
Declarations
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Adair County State of Kentucky SS
On this 2nd day of October 1833 personally appeared to me Mathew Morrison as acting justice of the peace in and for who the county  of Adair . Henry Armstrong a resident of said County and State of Kentucky aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth. On his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1778 on the first day of January under Captain Craven and on the 2nd day of January we rendezvoused at Col. Daniel Smith in Rockingham County, state of Virginia where this applicant then lived that he marched from the aforesaid county through Greenbrier over the Allegheny Mountains to Tigers valley and was there kept during the balance of the tour under Captain Cravens guarding the Frontiers and rendering any and every other kind of service that was required to make
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The expiration of the tour which was three months 3, from the commencement at the 1st of January also that he was discharged in writing by Captain Cravens, but has lost his discharge and all other papers since he has the misfortune to be blind is now in that condition and is a pauper of the aforesaid county now in the poorhouse under the overseer thereof and would have applied sooner had he been able to have been at court or to have procured any person to have attended to the business for him. That in the aforesaid tour he was a volunteer and served on his own account and not as a substitute that he was engaged in no civil pursuit during the aforesaid service. That in the month of September in the same year he again went under Captain Cravens from Rockingham County rendezvousing at the same place as the first tour. Then march across the Allegheny Mountains, crossed the Monongahela River above Fort Pitt, marched onto the Ohio River crossed and built a fort called McIntosh that he
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Was under the command of Captain Crawford and Maj. Palmeter the foregoing service after we had built the fort we marched on about seventy miles crossed another small river called he thinks Tuscaroring River and built a small fort, that he remained ther some time then he received a written discharge from Captain Cravens but owing to misfortune had lost it that general McIntosh was head commander during this tour which was three months, 3 he was a drafted militiamen on this tour and served on his own account and not as a substitute that he was engaged in no civil pursuit during the service of the aforesaid tour. That about two years after the performance of the aforesaid service as well as he recollects he was again drafted, in Botetourto County where he had removed to from Rockingham since the two tour’s aforesaid under Captain John Lewis of the aforesaid tour for three months, 3 Capt. Lewis and his company was under the command of General Mulenburg then we marched
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From Botetourto to Jamestown on James River and there remained under Mulingburg until Washington come marched from there to York where Cornwallis was taken that after the surrender of Cornwallis he was discharged by Captain Cravens. Goodson who had taken command of the company owing to Lewis having resigned, which discharge is lost, that he was not a substitute but served on his own account that he was engaged in no civil pursuit during the aforesaid service of three months and which now ended being in all nine months as is specified in the foregoing tours. He states he knows of no person living who can testify to his service and that if there even was he is so old and infirm together with being blind that he would not be able to procure hem that there is no clergyman immediately in the neighborhood nor not one as he knows of nearer than 6 or 8 miles
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And that it is a matter of perfect impossibility for him to procure one himself and he is so poor that he is not enabled to get any person to procure one to certify as required by the regulations of the War Department that he was born in the year 1734 the last day of February. That he has no record of his age that he resided in Virginia until 1807 than removed to the State of Ky. Adair County and lived and has slived here ever since that he is known in the neighborhood nor to John Scott’s Robert King and Others.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any state 

His X mark 
Henry Armstrong 
Mr John Scott’s and Upton Miller residing in the county of Adair hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Armstrong who has been subscribed and sworn tot he above declarations that we believe him to be 79
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Years of age ; that he is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid 
John Stotts
Upton Miller 

State of Kentucky Adair County 2749, From 1778 private 9 months $30.

I Walton Morison a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do herby declare my opinion after the investigations of the matter and after putting the interrogations of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated And I further Certify that he is blind old infirm and is not able to attend court from the aforesaid causes -and I further Certify that it appears tome that John Stotts and Upton Miller who had signed the pre-
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Ceding  certificate are residents of Adair County that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit 

                       Walton Morrison 
                      Justice of the Peace for County 
                       aforesaid 


Adair County Set
      I William Caldwell clerk of court of the aforesaid county do certify that it appears to me that Walton Morrison has signed the preceding certificate that Walton Morrison is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid and that full faith.               And credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine 
       
In Testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 9th day of October 1833 
       Wm Caldwell CACC
       By Wm B Caldwell DC
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30248 
Rev’y Invalid 

File no. 30248
Henry Armstrong 
Private Rev War
Act June 7th 32”
Vol 2 Pg 11
Arrangement of 1870
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Oct.
Ky 27491                      From 1778 
Henry Armstrong.      Private 9 months #30
Kentucky 

James L. Edward’s Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City 


Upton Miller 
Columbia Ken 



Columbia Ky Oct 11
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Upton Miller Agent for Applicant ________