Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8514, for Curtis Pendleton, Virginia
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                              NUMBER
Va     Pendleton, Curtis       W 8514
Nancy

CONTENTS
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Reported
2 Certificates Act 7 July
1838 & March 3rd 1843

Date of widow's death not on AB

5828
Kentucky
Nancy Pendleton
widow of Curtis Pendleton
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 in the Virginia Militia for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of July 1844 and sent to Thomas Green Esq Richmond Va
[Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 172
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Kentucky 27644
Curtis Pendleton of  Todd in the state of Ky
who was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Sattlefield of the Regt commanded by Col in the Virginia line for Militia
7 Mo P $23.33
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Sept and Sent to
'34 F C McLean,  [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '34 81.66
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mch '35  11.66
$93.32
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J T Sprague Clerk, 
Book C 2 Vol 7 Page 38
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832

State of Kentucky
County of Todd

On this day of  1834 personally appeared me Joseph Fraser a Justice of the peace in & for Todd county & one of the justices of the Todd county court Curtis Pendleton a resident of Todd county and state of Kentucky aged 71 years the 9th of May 1834 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 under the following named officers and served as therein states  On the 12th day of May 1779 I was drafted as a private into the  malitia under captain Henry Stublefield Lieut Robert Stublefield, ensign Thomas Clayton, field officers Major Quarles, who held the highest rank at the time, and I resided at the time of the above draft in Spotsylvania County Virginia and when I entered the services, I was drafted for the term and  entered the service for the term of two months under the the above named officers and which term of two months I did serve out under the command of the above named officers and at the end thereof towit on the 12th day July 1779 I left the service and was discharged  at Petersburg Va, we met at Holydays Tavern in Spotsylvania county & marched from there to Richmond there we continued about two weeks engaged in guarding some prisoners, we then marched from there down James River on the North side until we came opposite Fort Hood and we crossed, and marched to [illegible] 
point, there we stayed a short time and marched to Petersburg where we were discharged, during the whole of the above two months I was constantly in the field and followed no civil pursuit and was bound to military duty I was in no engagement during the above
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above time, and did not see or become acquainted with any regulars not having during that time belonged to the main army. I served the above two months as a private in the malitia

2nd Tour  The first of August 1780 as near as I can recollect, not positive it the first of the month but it was very near that time I was again drafted into and entered the service as a private in the malitia for another term of two months under Captain Basel White, lieutenant Branham ensign not remembered, and five officers Major McWilliams who was the highest in command I served under the above named officers two months as a private in the malitia we met at Mount  Pleasant and marched from there to Richmond where we stayed some time guarding the prison in which there were about 90 Tories we then marched down James River and back to Richmond where we remained until we were discharged the first of October 1780  I was during this time of two months constantly bound to military duty in the field and furthered no civil pursuit, I was in no engagement nor with any regulars during this tour

3rd Tour  The first or second day of July 1781 I was again drafted into the malitia and entered as a private therein for an other two months under Captain Frank Colemon Lieutenant Conner ensign Broack field officers major Hardyman Col Thor Meriweather General Lafayette commander in chief and several under the last mentioned officers for the term of three months not being permitted to return home at the end of the time for which we were drafted we met the army at Merchents Creek here I was with the regulars under the command of General Lafayette General Greene General Wayne
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General Stuband, General Weeden & I did not become particularly acquainted with any of the regulars but served with them this whole tour of three months until the commence of the siege of York  I was with the main army upon all its marches until we overtook the British at James town and there we had a skirmish with them, we followed them on to York and at the commencement of the siege of York we were discharged the drafts having come on to our relief I served this tour as a private three months and started home the 1st of October 1781 I was constantly bound to military duty the above period of three months in the field, I served atogether in the above three tours seven months as a private in the malitia and resided the whole time in Spotsylvania County State of Virginia I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pension I declare my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state 
1st Answer to 1st Interrogations} I was born in Spotsylvania County Va in the year 1763
2nd Ans to 2nd} I have a record of my age in my Bible now in my possession Taken by myself from my fathers Bible
An 3rd} I was living in Spotsylvania Va when called with the service, from whence I moved to Kentuck about 45 years ago the Bourbon then I moved to that part of Fayette afterwards made Clarke county there I lived until about 16 years ago I moved to Todd county where I now live
4th Ans} I was drafted into the service and never a volunteer or substitute
5th Ans} I have already stated the names of some of the regular officers I was with to  [illegible] Green, Wayne, Stuband Weeden & LaFayette & c
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and was not but little acquainted with the men that belonged to any regiment of regulars
6th An} I received a written discharge at Petersburg being the only written discharge I ever did receive given by Maj Quarles
7th Ans} I am acquainted in my present nighbourhood with the following persons who can testify to my character for veracity and their and their belief of my military services, Overton Harris Joseph Frazer Finis McLean William G Logan Jame Manning Eli Scaggs, Daniel White, Ponney Anderson William Harlan & many others sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Curtis Pendleton
Mr William Brisendine a clergy man residing in the county of Todd and William Rice residing in the same nearby certify that we are well acquainted with Curtis Pendleton who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 71 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the nighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution; and there we concur in that opinion, sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid William Brizendine
And I the said Joseph C Frazer justice of the Todd county court do hereby certify and declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after hearing the interrogtorys prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I further certify that it appear to me the sd court that William Brizendine who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Todd and that William Rice who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Todd Ky and is a credible person & their statement is entitled to credit and I further certify that Curtis Pendleton is such & much debilitated & is not and will not probably ever he able to go to court at the court house.
H Frazier Justice of the Peace JP
County Court
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And I Joseph C Frazer presiding justice of the Todd County court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had before me in the matter of the application of Curtis Pendleton for a pension I further certify that Curtis Pendleton with whom I am well acquainted of is a man of good character [illegible] for truth & probity and is reputed & believed in the nighbourhood where he reside to have been a soldier of the revolution in testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & seal the day and year aforesaid
J C Frazer
Presiding Justice 
for the Todd County Court

I Willis L Reeves clerk of the Todd county court hereby certifying that Joseph C Frazer who has signed the foregoing certificates is the presiding justice of Todd County and the signatures purporting to his are genuine in testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of my office this 13th day of September 1834 and in the 43d year of the commonwealth
Willis L Reeves
Clerk Todd County Court
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"Know all men by there presents, that we Curtis Pendleton and Jeremiah Wilson are held and firmly bound into P Henry Esq Governor of this state and his successors in the sum of fifty pounds to the payment of which well and truly to be made we bind ourselves jointly and severally firmly by these presents Sealed this 24th day of Nov 1785
The cond is such that whereas John Chew Jr Dy lels of the city co of Spota hath this day issued a license for the marriage of the above named Curtis Pendleton into Nancy Wilson of the said County Now if there be no lawful counsel to obstruct said marge or that no damage do occur by means of the license being issued as aforesaid, then the above to be void"

Curtis Pendleton seal
Jeremiah Wilson seal
State of Virginia
Spotsylvania County 
I Stapleton Crutchfield Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify [illegible] above is a true copy from the records of my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 4th day of May A D 1843 and of our Independence the 67th year
Sta Crutchfield clk
Spota County Court
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and 23rd August 1842
State of Kentucky, Todd County Court
On this 11th day of November 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid Mrs Nancy Pendleton a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed the 7th July 1835 and 23rd August 1842, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of Curtis Pendleton who was a private in the     in the war of the Revolution and was a pensioner in Todd County Kentucky under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 at the rate of $26 per year as she is informed and verily believes, but she has no personal knowledge of the services of the said Curtis Pendleton, and must refer to the public records and the evidence on which his said pension was allowed him for the proof of his services, She also declares that she was married to the said Curtis Pendleton in Spottsylvania County in the State of Virginia on the 1st day of December Seventeen Hundred and Eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Curtis Pendleton died on the 19th day of January 1836 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninty four being at the time above stated and that she is
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Still a widow = now residing in Todd County.
Nancy Pendleton
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I further certify that from bodily infirmity the affidavit could not attend court
Wm M Terry JP
Kentucky
Todd County Court November Pen 1843
The Declaration of Mrs Nancy Pendleton for a pension under the act of Congress of 7th July 1838 certified by William M Terry a justice of the peace on the 11th day of November 1843 being submitted to the court it doth appear his acts and proceedings and directs the approval to be endorsed in the papers
The above is an order made by the Todd County Court aforesaid and Y  f clerk of said court I do certify that William M Terry is a magistrate ay above and his signature is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county this 14th day of November 1843 Willis L Reeves clerk of the county court of Todd County
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mailed without review

March 2, 1936
Mrs. Frank G Harris
605 West Broadway
Columbia, Missouri

CURTIS PENDLETON
W. 8514
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Curtis Pendleton, born about 1762 and served in the Revolution from Caroline or Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

You are furnished herein the record of the only soldier named Curtis Pendleton found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.  The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 8514, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Curtis Pendleton was born May 9, 1763, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia; names of his parents are not given. 

While residing in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Curtis Pendleton enlisted May 12, 1779, served as private in Captain Henry Stubblefield's company, under Major Quarles, in the Virginia troops, a part of the time engaged in guarding prisoners at Richmond and was discharged July 12, 1779.  He enlisted about August 1, 1780, served as private in Captain Basil White's company, under Major McWilliams, in the Virginia troops, again engaged in guarding prisoners at Richmond and was discharged October 1, 1780.  He enlisted July 1 or 2, 1781, served as private in Captain Frank Coleman's company, Colonel Thomas Merriwether's Virginia regiment, was in a skirmish with the enemy at Jamestown, marched to Yorktown but was discharged at the commencement of the siege there and started for home October 1, 1781.

The soldier moved from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, about 1789, to Bourbon County, Kentucky; from there to the part of Fayette County which was afterwards Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived about sixteen years, then moved to Todd County, Kentucky.
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Curtis Pendleton was allowed pension on his application executed September 13, 1834, while a resident of Todd County, Kentucky.  He died January 19, 1836.

Curtis Pendleton married December 1, 1785, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Nancy Wilson, a resident of that county.  Their marriage bond dated November 24, 1785, and signed by the soldier and one Jeremiah Wilson, whose relationship to Nancy was not shown, was recorded in the County Clerk's Office of Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

Soldier's widow, Nancy Pendleton, was allowed pension on her application executed November 11, 1843, at which time she was aged seventy-four years and a resident of Todd County, Kentucky.

No reference was made in the claim to children.

In 1843, one Stapleton Crutchfield was Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, no relationship to the soldier's family shown.

Very truly yours

A D Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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S R 037
Curtis Pendleton
Kentucky
f 1775 per yr
$23.33

F E McLean
Clkto
Ke

Decd War return to
Finis E McLean Esq
Fanis E McLean [illegible]
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[stamped]
RICHMOND
NOV 23

Colo J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington

Nov 25 1843
10281
Nancy Pendleton
July 7 1838
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Richmond 23 nov 1843
Col J L Edwards
Magistrate
Sir:
Enclosed is the application of Mrs. Nancy Pendleton (widow of Curtis Pendleton as pensioner at $24 pr an: in Todd Co Ky under act 7 June 1832) for a pension under act of 7 July 1838. She was married 1 Dec 1785 issued a copy of the marrage bond He died 19 January 1836
I am very Respectfully
Thomas Green
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8530
Kentucky
Nancy Pendleton widow of Curtis who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the nineteenth day of Jany 1836 in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Stubblefield of the commanded by the Va Militia line for 7 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of July 1844 and sent to Thomas Green Esq Richmond, Va

Total amount,  $
[Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by H S Evans Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 375
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State of Kentucky
Todd County Scl
Be it known that on the 11th day of September 1843 personally appeared before the subscribed a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid Reubin Grady a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged sixty years who being duly sworn according to law saith on this oath that he was well acquainted with Curtis Pendleton dced a pensioner of Todd County Kentucky and Nancey Pendleton his wife and that he believes them to have been man & wife lawfully married and that it was the universal opinion of the whole neighborhood and that she is still his widow now residing in this county
Reubin Grady
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me a justice of the peace for said county and I further certify that the applicant is a Gentleman of unquestionable credibility G H Sullivan JP
Kentucky Todd County Sct
Willis L Reeves clerk of the county court for the county of Todd aforesaid do certify that G H Sullivan is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
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In testimony whereof I have here3unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county this 14th day of September 1843 and the 52nd year of the commonwealth
Willis L Reeves Clerk
of the Court of
Todd County.
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State of Kentucky
Todd County  Sct
Be it known that on the 11th day of September 1843 personally appeared before the subscribed a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid William M Terry a resident of the county and states aforesaid aged fifty seven years who being duly sworn according to law saith on his oath that he was well acquainted with Curtis Pendleton decd a pensioner of Todd County Kentucky and Nancy Pendleton his wife and that he believes them to have been man & wife lawfully married and that it was the universal opinion of the whole neighborhood and that she is still his widow now residing in this county
William M Terry

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me a justice of the peace for said county and I further certify that the applicant is a Gentleman of unquestionable credibility
James Black J P 
Kentucky Todd county Sect
I Willis L Reeves clerk of the county courts for the county of Todd aforesaid do certify that James Black is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the 14th day of September 1843 and affixed the seal of said county Willis L Reeves Clerk of the Courts of  Todd County.
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1936 Mar 2 Hist to Mrs [illegible]
G Harris MLB
Revolution
Virginia
WIDOW, &c.
8514
Nancy Pendleton
Wid of
Curtis Pendleton
Pvt Va Mila
Act: Mch 3rd/43
Index - Vol M, Page 120

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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[ILLEGIBLE]
where rec in
Revt 1812
War Rect

MISSOURI SENATE
58TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

FRANK G HARRIS
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
COLUMBIA, MO. 

February 17, 1935

War Department
Director of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:  Will you please send me

of the pensions and military service

Curtis Pendleton, born 1762 a Revolutionary soldier, from Caroline or Spotsylvania Co Va

Thanking you very much, and hoping that I may hear from you soon

I am,
very truly
Mrs. Frank G. Harris 
605 West Broadway
Columbia, Mo

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RECEIVED
FEB 19 1936
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VETS ADM
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