Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,127, for Benjamin Pendleton, Virginia
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                  NUMBER
Va      Pendleton, Benjamin     S14127

carded

CONTENTS

This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Office of the Bank of the United States, Lexington
22 Sept 1835

RECEIVED of WM RICHARDSON, Agent for paying Pensions, Twenty
Dollars  Cents, being for 6 month  days Pension, due to Benjamin Pendleton from the 4 day of March 1835, to the 4 day of Sept 1835, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.

$28  Joseph Ficklin Atty

[written on left side]
Under Act of 7th June, 1832
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7627
Kentucky
Benjamin Pendleton of Warren Co in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Chambers of the Reg 1 commanded by Col  in the Virginia line for 1 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 40 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of May 1833 and sent to Philip O Morehead Bowling Green 

arrears to the 4th of March $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending  [illegible] 20.00
$100.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Danice Boyd Clerk
Book 6 Vol 7 Page 22

[written on left side]
Date of death not on AB
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Know all men by these presents, That I, Benjamin Pendleton of Warren Couonty Ky Revolutionary [a] Pensioner of the United Stated do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph Ficklin my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States, for paying pensions in Lexington, State of Kentucky, my pension from the 4th day of March 1835 to the 4th day of September 1835.  Witness my hand and sel, this 12th day of September 1835.

Benjamin X Pendleton his mark

Sealed and delivered in presence of 
Isaac Smith

State of Kentucky,
Warren County} SS.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the 12th day of September 1835 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Benjamin Pendleton above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
Isaac Smith J.P. 

State of Kentucky, Warren County, Set. I, Jonathan Colson Clerk of the Court of Warren County, certify, that Isaac Smith is a Magistrate as above; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this 12 day of September in the year 1835.
Jon Holson
Clerk of the Court of Warren County,
By A G Holson  JC

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHGER
Received from GAO

State of Kentucky,
Fayett County} SS

BE IT KNOWN, That on the 21 day of September 1835 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Joseph Ficklin the Attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension, or arrears of pension, therein authorized to be received by him
Joseph Ficklin
Atty
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned, before me, 

Sam Shivel J.P. 

NOTE This affidavit must be signed by the Attorney.
[a] In this blank insert the word Invalid or Revolutionary, as the case may be.
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State of Kentucky
Warren County Sct
On this 5th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before Asher W Graham Judge of the Warren Circuit Court now sitting Benjamin Pendleton as a resident of said county and state aforesaid aged eighty one years the third day of this month 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 passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1781 as a volunteer under Captain John C Chambers it being a call made for the purpose of marching to Guilford where there was a battle fought but this applicant and the company of Captain John Chambers did not reach Guilford till the battle w over and had to return without being in any engagement with the enemy after the battle of Guilford it was understood that Lord Cornwallis was directing his course to original & was then that this applicant after having returned home again entered the service of his country as a volunteer for the term of three months under the command of Captain William Perkins This was in Buckingham County Virginia where this applicant then received as [illegible] also Captain Perkins  Captain Perkins did not remain very long in command not longer than a month when Captain Caldwell whose given name this applicant thinks was John took command of the company  This Captain Caldwell was a brave and worthy man and in whom they all placed the most implicit confidence  The British with Lord
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Cornwallis it was said were aiming to get to Clinton and it was understood that General Washington was to send a reinforcement to counteract their progress in Virginia which was done General Wayne was sent to pursue the Brittish [British]  by General Washington Captain Caldwell marched with us till we came up with General Wayne at a bridge in Culpeper County, we were then in the pursuit of the Brittish [British]  under General Wayne along time sometimes we were at the places they had just left and we were hastened in our marches under the expectation of coming up with them hearing frequently that they were but a little ahead of us  We continued this in brisk pursuit of them till we came up with them at Jamestown not far from Williamsburg a little above which place we had a battle on our side there was but one killed and not far from this we had another skirmish with them From Jamestown the principal part of the Brittish [British]  embarked in their vessels which were waiting here for them some went by land  This was about the five of August this applicant thinks when they were all disbanded and went home About the first of September he again entered the service under the command of Captain Peter Garon to go to York where the Brittish [British] had gone  There were two companies went from Buckingham on this trip the other was under the command of Captain Watkins  We then marched on to York and joined the main body under General Washington and aided in taking and besieging Yorktown  The Brittish [British] surrendered and gave up their guns and Lord Cornwallis was permitted to go home and [illegible] was the end of the war  we were engaged in service above five months on this trip
This applicant further states that there were various other times when he served as a soldier in the revolution when sudden calls were made but from infirmity and the frailness of his memory he cannot now designate them but thinks he must have been engaged in the service of his
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Country as a solder upward of one year He states that his discharges are lost or mislaid he also states that Nathan Neighbors was often with him at James town
I Benjamin Pendleton do hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state  sworn to and subscribed the day & year afd
Benjamin Pendleton
I Nathan Neighbors of the county and state afd do certify that I am now drawing a pension for my revolutionary services that I was in in the battle at James town under General Washington and Wayne and was one of the mounted infantry commanded by Captain Stewart and that I saw Mr Benjamin Pendleton the present applicant for a pension in the service at James town and that we were both under General Wayne and we both frequently together
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year afd
Nathan Neighbors  L his mark 

We David L Mansfield a clergyman residing in the county of Warren and state afd and James W Tiller residing in the same county and state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Pendleton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that are believe him to be eighty one years old that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
sworn to and subscribed the day & year afd
D L Mansfield
J W Tiller
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories  prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he  states, and the court further certified that it appears to him that David L Mansfield who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residence in Warren County and that James W Tiller who has also signed the same is a resident of sd county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Asher W Graham
Judge of Warren County 

I Jonathan Hobson, clerk of the court of Warren County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Pendleton for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 8 day of September 1832
Jon n Hobson

The applicant in the within declaration would state as an amendment thereto that he knows he served five months under Peter Garson as mentioned in his sd declaration and that he could state with certainty that he served one month at the various times alluded to in sd declaration he is convinced he served more but is willing to put it at one month which is certain and that in all he served twelve months
Benjamin X Pendleton his mark

At a county court began and held for the county of Warren, state of Kentucky on the 24th day of December 1832
Benjamin Pendleton appeared in court and subscribed his name to the preceding amendment of his declaration for a pension, and service to the facts therein detailed
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand as clerk of said court and affix the seal of  my office the day and date aforesaid
Jon Hobson
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June 14, 1937

RA-J/EEL
Benjamin Pendleton S.14127

Miss A Grace Jenkins
211 So 8th Street
Ironton, Ohio

Dear Madam:

The date furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim S.14127. based upon the military services of Benjamin Pendleton in that war.

Benjamin Pendleton was born August 3, 1751.  The place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

While residing in Buckingham County, Virginia, he volunteered in 1781, for the purpose of marching to Guilford, served as a private in Captain John Chambers' Virginia Company, but did not reach Guilford until after the battle at that place had been fought, length of this service not stated after his return home, he again volunteered, date not given, served three months as a private in Captains William Perkins and John Caldwell's Virginia Company and was in the battle of Jamestown and in a skirmish near that place; he enlisted about September 1, 1781, and served five months in Captain Peter Garon's Virginia Company:  was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Lord Cornwallis:  he stated that he served, also at various other times but did not give dates of these services or names of officers:  the entire length of his service was one year.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 5, 1832 while residing in Warren County, Kentucky.

There are no date as to soldier's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, and the name and address of the person paid in the case of the Revolutionary War soldier, Benjamin Pendleton (S.14127), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
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Benjamin Pendleton, Certificate No. 7637, issued May 6, 1833, rate $40 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency.

Very truly yours

A D HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator.
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777
Benjamin Pendleton
$20
Warren
Act 7 June 1832

Lexington Ky
39,1835
Box 47
C20
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State of Kentucky
Warren County } SCT

BE IT KNOWN, That before me, Isaac Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Benjamin Pendleton and made oath in due form of law, that he is the identical person named in an original certificate in his possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:

War Department - Revolutionary Claim.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th of June 1832, Benjamin Pendleton of the State of Kentucky, who was Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty Dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War-Office of the United States, 
this Sixth day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty three
John Robb
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

that he now resides in Warren and has resided there for the space of twelve years past, and that previous thereto, he resided in Virginia
Sworn and subscribed 12th day of September 1835 before me,
Isaac Smith J.P.}

Benjamin X Pendleton his mark

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

NOTE - The above deposition must be signed by the deponent.  When the pension has been increased, since the certificate has been given, the Magistrate will note that face- and in all cases of erasures, blotting, altering or interlining a single word or figure, the same must be fully explained by the Clerk or Magistrate in whose certificate the defect occurs, by a note on the same page signed by the Clerk or Magistrate, as the case may be- or it would be better to make out a new paper free from defects.
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Kentucky
fro  Private
1 year
$40

Philip O Morehead
Bowling Green
V [illegible]
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Bowling green Jany 5th 1832
Dear Sir
The written declaration was returned to me with instructions for him to state pointedly how long he served in the revolution in accordance with your instructions he has amended his declaration as you will perceive upon his declaration  I hope Mr. Pendleton will be pleased with the pension sole as I am convinced he is deserving & needy.
Respectfully,
Your obt sert
Phillip O Morehead
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1914 Mch 9 Hist to Mr. D Pendleton
Nicklin  M B H
1916 Feb 25: history to Mrs. A R Lyles  MRC
Letter in W F 18504 Henry Menefee
1932 Nov 4 Hist to Mrs. C H Wine EEL
1937 June 14 Hist to Miss A Grace Jenkins EH
1938 Oct 24 Miss Ada Griggs Jenkins 
no further data S Misc file made
McKnight Pendleton {crossed out} IRR
Jenkins

Rev War
14127
INVALID
File No 14 127
Benjamin Pendleton
Priv Rev War
Act:  June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol 1, Page 293

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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516 Poplar St., 
Chattanooga,
Tennessee
Feb., 25, 1914.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D.C.
My dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me the Reveloutionary War record of Benjamin Pendleton of Virginia, who was mentioned in the Report of the Secretary of War for 1835, Pension ons Roll 3?
And oblige,
Yours very truly
D. Pendleton Nicklin.
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Mrs. A R Lyles
Virginia,
Illinois} letter dates Feb 15, 1916
letter rec'd Feb 17, 1916

Letter in W File 18504 Henry Menefee
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[STAMPED]
RECEIVED
JUN 8 1932
MAIL SUB DIV
VETS ADM 15

[Post marked]
IRONTON
JUN 2
11 AM
1937
OHIO

[THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS stamped]

Veterans Administration
Washington
D.C.

BA-J/MCS
Pension Dept
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#211 So 8" St. Ironton Oh
Letter EU  June 1st '37
BA-J/MCS  Replying to your letter of May 27th the information you ask is exactly that I am trying to ascertain. I would appreciate if you will give me the Revolutionary War records of pension the named Benjamin Pendleton and two Philip Pendletons One of the latter was from Culpepper County and the other from Berkley Co Va very truly
(Miss) A Grace Jenkins
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no claim 10/24/32
wh

Culpeper Va
October 18/32
Dept of Interior:
Washington D.C.
My dear sirs:
Will you kindly give me at your earlierst the record of Pension of "Benjamin Pendleton" of Ky (S.W. 1835 - Pen y, Ky 141.)
with any reference to his wife and children.
Thanking you, I am 
Very Sincerely,
Mrs. C H Wine
Box 167

[below are stamped]

DEPT OF THE INTERIOR
FORWARDED 
OCT 19 1932
SECYS OFFICE APPTS MAILS AND FILES

RECEIVED OCT 12 1932 
PENSION FILES SUB DIVISION
RECORD SECTION

RECEIVED OCT 20 1932
RECORD SECTION 
PENSION FILES SUB DIVISION
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION  3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAR OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C.,   19

In reply to your request of     , received     for a statement of the military history of Benjamin Pendleton, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau.  S14127

 [Columns separated by / ]

DATES OF ENLISTEMENT OR APPOINTMENT / LENGTHE OF SERVICE / RANK / OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED / CAPTAIN / COLONEL / Va

/ 1781 / check mark / / John Chambers / check mark / Va
/ 1871 / 3 mos / / William Perkins / check mark / /
/ / / / John Caldwell / check mark / /
Sept 1, 1781 / 5 mos / / Peter Garon / check mark / / 

Battles engaged in, Jamestown & at seige of Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Buckingham Co Va
Date of application for pension, Aug 5, 1832 His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Warren Co Ky
Age at date of application, born Aug 3. 1751.
Remarks:  there is no family data on file.
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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November 4, 1932

BA-J/EEL
Benjamin Pendleton S.14127

Mrs. C H Wine
Box 167
Culpeper, Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of pension of Benjamin Pendleton, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The date furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.14127, based upon the military service of Banjamin Pendleton in that war.

Benjamin Pendleton was born August 3, 1751, place not stated.

While residing in Buckingham County, Virginia, he volunteered in 1781 for the purpose of marching to Guilford, served as a private in Captain John Chambers' Virginia Company, but they did not reach Guilford until after the battle at that place had been fought, length of this service not stated:  after his return home, he again volunteered, date not given, served three months as a private in Captains William Perkins and John Caldwell's Virginia Company and was in the battle of Jamestown and in a skirmish near that place:  he enlisted about September 1, 1781, and served five months in Captain Peter Garon's Virginia Company:  was at the siege of Yorktown and surrender of Lord Cornwallis:  he stated that he also served at various other times but did not give dates of these services or officers' names:  the entire length of his service was one year.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 5, 1832, while residing in Warren Couonty, Kentucky.

There are no data as to his family,

Very truly yours

A D Hiller
Assistant to Administrator

[hand written in left margin]
Date of Death
not on A B 


[hand written in right margin]
could not identiry any of these officers
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June 14, 1937

HA-J/AWF

[handwritten]
See Misc file
under Jenkins
for punctre corres
Oct 24, 1938

our Benj Pendleton
$ 14127

[remainder of typed letter below]

Miss A Grace Jenkins
211 South Eighth Street
Ironton, Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for teh Revolutionary War records of Benjamin Pendleton of Virginia, Philip Pendleton of Culpeper County, Virginia, and Philip Pendleton of Berkeley County, Virginia.

You are furnished herewith the records of Benjamin and Philip Pendleton, as found in claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.  These are the records of the only Benjamin and Philip Pendleton, found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours
A D HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator