Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File for William Peake
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Continental Peake, William Dis. No papers
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B. Z. Bartholomew Undersheriff
John Irvin, Deputy
L. G. Brisbin, Deputy

J.M. Hyndman Sheriff
Crawford County, Kansas
Girard, Kansas

February 11, 1930

Bureau of Pensions,

Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: 
Att: Mr. Earl D. Church
File--Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MMHF/eel

I thank you very kindly for your letter of February 7, but the war record of the papers you quote does not correspond with the man about whom I am inquiring.
I shall quote the war record of one William Peak as follows and perhaps this will help you.
"Served in the Revolutionary war as quartermaster, sargent and cornet in Capt. Henry Lee Troop, also designated the 5th Troop First Regiment Light Dragoons from Virginia. Continental Troops commanded by Col. Theadore Blond and Lee Leagon same troops.
This name appears without remarks on a pay roll for November 1777. 
He enlisted in Lees Legion Continental Troops April 7th, 1778; was appointed cornet July 1, 1778 and resigned February 28, 1779."
He is supposed to have lived in Pennsylvania County Virginia and to have moved from there to Henry or Lincoln County Kentucky- and was granted pension there.
I am so anxious to get the names of his children his wife and any dates concerning them.
The above war record was obtained by a relative in Washington D. C. but he does not state where. 
I shall thank you very kindly for any information you may be able to give. 

Yours very truly, 
Mrs. Hazel Peak Hyndman
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Girard, Kansas, 
227 South Ozark,
February 25, 1930.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir:

I am very anxious to get any information that I may concerning the pension papers (which might give the names of his wife or children) of one William Peake who had the following war record 
This is any exact copy of a letter I received on February 10,1930, from the War Department, The Adjutant General's Office, Washington:

"The records of this office show that one William Peake served in the Revolutionary War as a quarter master sergeant in Captain Henry Lee's Troop, also designated 5th Troops 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons, commanded by Colonel Theodorick Bland. The date of enlistment is not shown. His name appears on the pay rolls of that organization on file in this office from November, 1777 to February 28, 1778, inclusive. His name also appears on a return dated October 18, 1778, "of men enlisted to serve during the war in the 1st Regiment of light Dragoons, 5th Troop, which been violently taken from said regiment." No further record has been found.
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 "These lists do no show the organization to which be belonged."
I realize the name William Peak or Peake may occur many ties in the war records, but I might state this man about I am inquiring had three brothers in the Revolutionary War, named Able, Jesse and Aron.
He is also known to have had on some named Jacob. In our family records I have been unable to find the name of his wife. 
I have been hoping that in the pension records we might be able to find this information. 
If it is not possible for you to find this pension record, will you please advise. 

Yours very truly, 
Mrs. Hazel Peak Hyndman.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars  Section

March 8, 1930.
Mrs. Hazel Peak Hyndman
Girard Kansas. 

Dear Madam:

I advise you that in the report from the Secretary 
of War in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States printed in 1835, the name William Peake appears as a sergent 1st Regiment Light Dragoons, pensioned as an invalid from January 1, 1786, under the Act of June 7, 1785; pension increased under the act of April 24, 1816.
He is shown as of Spottsylvania County, Virginia, and that he died August 16, 1816. 
There are no papers on file in his claim for pension, due to the destruction of such papers when the War Office was burned in 1800, or when the British burned the city in 1814; hence no further data relative to  his service, and none whatever in regard to his family. 
His pension was automatically increased under the act last named, therefore he was not required to file further application. 
The records of this bureau do not show that this William Peake ever lived in Kentucky. 

Very truly yours, 

Earl D. Church Commissioner.