Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,430, for Presley Terril, Virginia
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Continental Va
Terril, Presley or Terrill
S 38,430
CONTENTS
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Notification sent Nov 2 1920 to Leslie Combs, Pesington N.Y.
died Aug 23 1825
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Kentucky.
Presley Terril Terrill (Agency Book)
of Woodford Coty in the state of Kentucky. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wm Washington of the Virginia line for the term of two years NAV
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky _ at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 6th of June, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of February 1819 and sent to Hon. Clay Speaker of the H. of Rep.
Arrears to 4th Setp: 1818 $ 23 " 73
emi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819 48 " 00
$17 " 73
[Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Presley Terrills, Affidavit and Schedule.
6,993. mar 19 Con
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State of Kentucky, Fayette Circuit, June term 1820.
Be it remembered that Presley Terrill, made oath in open court and produced a schedule of his property amounting to one hundred and Sixty one dollars, according to an act of Congress, passed 1st of May 1820, concerning pensioners, which is ordered to be entered of Record in the words and figures following, to wit: District of Kentucky, Fayette circuit SS.
On this 3rd day of July 1820, personally appeared in open court, begin a court of record for the said district, and circuit of Fayette county, Presley Terrill aged 58 years resident in Woodford County, in said district, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: He enlisted in Captain James Gunn's company of light horse, being the first Virginia regiment under Col White, At Holts forge in Va. in the same year that Cornwallis was taken, three or four months previous to serve for during the War; having been previously in the 18 months service in the Regiment from Virginia. He served till the end of the war and was discharged in South Carolina from Col Washington's Regiment to which he had been attached was at the seige of York and at Savannah, And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by fit, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or my part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in
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the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 
One horse and saddle worth $60: one cow and calf $13: twenty four head of hogs, including pigs $30. Poultry #2: Farming utensils $2. Kitchen furniture $4. house furniture besides one bed #20 Amount $131. I am indebted forty dollars a year for my rent payable next Christmas _ Also about 14 or 15 dollars to other persons. I have sixty Dollars owing to me, begin a part of my pension money and $13 besides from an indifferent paymaster My occupation is farming on rented land, which I can follow not more than half my time, throughout the year owing to pains in my back and limbs; my family consists of my wife aged about 60 years, my daughter Nancy aged about fifteen years and a white boy named William Clark aged ten years no income.
Presley his + mark Terrill
Sworn to and declared this third day of July 1820 before me.
W. Warren, circuit judge.
I, Thomas Bodley, clerk of the Fayette Circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule therto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and thirty one dollars.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at the Court house in Lexington on this 1st day of August. 1820
Thos Bodley clerk
of the Fayette Circuit Court
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6 June 1818
Presley Terrills Cert
Enld in 1781 in Lighthorse
Col Whites Regt.
transferred to Coll Wm. Washington and served to the end of the War.
Admitted
Henry [illegible] Esq Judge
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County [illegible]
Be it Remembered that this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord [illegible] Eighteen hundred and Eighteen personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Circuit judges in and for the Commonwealth Presley Terrel and made oath on the Holy Evangelist of almighty god that he was Drafted During the Revolutionary War for Eighteen months that before the 18 months expired in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty one he [illegible] on  the Lyght horse service during the War under Capt James Gun who belonged to Colo Whites Regiment he was then transfered to Col William Washingtons regiment who had been taken before that time at [illegible] springs and continued in the service to the End of the war when he was Honorably discharged at Jamestown in 1783 after peace was proclaimed: That from the [illegible] of Time he has lost his discharge he is now in Reduced Circumstances and
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stands in need of the aid of his Country that he is about fiftyseven years oald and has been much afflicted for about twenty years [illegible] or week [illegible] in his back that he has never received any pension for his services he is a Resident of the county of Woodford State of Kentucky
signed Presley + his mark Terrill
Also Archibald Terril at the same time and place made oath before me the undersigned one of the Circuit Judges for the State of Kentucky that the above named Presley Terrel served as a Regular soldier during the Revolutionary War for Eighteen months & confirmed in the service [illegible] peace was proclaimed
signed Archibald Terrill
I Henry Davidge Judge as a foresaid Do hereby Certify to the Secretary at War of the United States of America that Presley Terrell the above deponent is entitled to a pension agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and naval Services of the United States in the revolutionary
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war In testimony whereof and of the above Statements I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the Courthouse in the County of Woodford and Common Wealth aforesaid this Sixth day June in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen _ 1818_ Henry Davidge Judge
State of Kentucky Woodfore Circuit Sct
I John M Kinny [illegible] clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry Davidge whose name is annexed to the above certificate is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and Credit is and aught to be given to his official acts
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and officed the seal of my office this 12th day of June 1818 [illegible] in the 27th year of the Commonwealth
John MKinny [illegible]
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May 27, 1937
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Ada M. Scott
Monmouth
Illinois
Presley Terrill, S.38430
BA-J/MCS
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Thomas Cully, William Fleming, Edward McDaniel, William Scott, John and Presley Terrell and Jacob Weiss.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of this war.
The record of Presley Terrill or Terrell is furnished you herein, as found in papers on file in his pension claim, S. 39430, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Presley Terrill or Terrell were not given.
He enlisted in 1781, three or four months before the surrender of Cornwallis, and served until peace was declared in 1783, as private in Captain James Gunn's Company of Light Horse in Colonels White's and William Washington's Regiments. Previous to said service he had been in the eighteen months service in a Virginia regiment, names of officers not given. He was in the siege of Savannah and the siege of Yorktown. He enlisted in Virginia but the exact place was not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 6, 1818, at which time he was living in Woodford County, Kentucky.
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in 1820 Presley Terrill of Terrell was living in Woodford County, Kentucky, aged fifty-eight years, and he then referred to his wife (her name not given) as being sixty years of age and to his daughter, Nancy,
aged about fifteen years.
In 1813 one Archibald Terrell testified in regard to the Revolutionary War service of Presley Terrill or Terrell, relationship not shown.
The papers in said claim contain no further data relative to the family of the soldier.
Presley Terrill or Terrell died August 23, 1835,
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator