Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6543, for Richard Lyles, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
Lyles, Richard

Number
R.6543
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State of Kentucky }
Logan County } ss
On this 14th day of October 1835 personally appeared before the Hon the Judge of the Logan Circuit Court now in session Richard Lyles a resident of the County of Logan & State of Kentucky aged seventy seven years on the 29th of September last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he volunteered in the army of the United States in the early part of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one under the following named officers and served in the manner & capacity as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say - as the Regiment of Gen. Anthony Wayne was moving from the City of Anapolis Maryland thru the County of Prince Georges of sd State & in which County, this declarent then resided, he volunteered his services, United himself with sd regiment and accompanied it to the town of Williamsburg in the State of Virginia. Here this declarent remained from the time aforsd until the capturing of Cornwallis at Yorktown on the 19th October in said year acting in the character & capacity of Surgeons mate in the Hospital at that place. Doct. Treat was surgeon of the Hospital. Doct Benjamin Boyd was associate mate of this declarant. There were two Hospitals in Williamsburg, the one for the sick-- the other for the wounded-- Doct Treat was Surgeon of the first. Doct Litton the second, Litton was without any associate or mate & this declarant, tho belonging more particularly to the Hospital of the sick, likewise discharged the duties of mate in the Hospital of the wounded. The the latter Hospital was not established till after the commencement of the siege of York The  wounded from that place being brought to the Hospital at Williamsburg. The duties of his station were therefore responsible & arduous. It is manifest from the above dates that he continued in this service about nine months. Previous however to the foregoing services
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of yr declarant as surgeon in the Hospitals at Williamsburg. he volentared [volunteered] as a private in the company of Capt Marine or Mash Marine Duvall from the County of Prince George. Capt Duvall Joined the Regiment of Gen Smallwood in sd County We intended in our march from Prince Georges to have joined Gen. Wayne at Peola but one of our baggage waggons broke down which detained us in repairing it so that we did not reach him till after Wayne had left Peola at which place he was attacked by the British at night while Waynes troops were asleep The enemy it is said were conducted into his encampment by certain Tories, who had ascertained the precise position of his pickets & C We Joined him the morning after this attack at a place called the Red Lion & should have joined him the night before but for the accident afoesd. Shortly after this yr declarent was taken sick & was out on furlough when his term of service expired This tour was a two months’ one and embraced that period in the fall & winter of 1780, as well as this declarent recollects- This latter tour of two months in which this declarent acted as a private added to the nine months service in the Hospital as surgeons mate makes up the whole period of Revolutionary service for which he claims a pension. In answer to the questions directed to be propounded to him. he answers 1st He was born on the 29th Sept 1757 in Prince Georges County Maryland (2d) he has a record of his age in his possession (3) He lived in the County of Prince Georges Maryland in which he was born as afored, when called into the service. From Prince Georges he removed to Montgomery County Maryland where he lived till about 18 months past, when he removed to Logan County Kentucky, his present residence (4) He volunteered into the service not as a substitute (5) as he was principally confined to the Hospital
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department he did not become much acquainted with the Regular officers & continental & Militia Regiments. He can not now call to his recollection any other than Capt Devall and Genl Smallwood & Wayne. (6)He obtained a Certificate of his services in the Hospital from Surgeon Treat, who only paid him $24 of his pay. While the Congress sat in Philadelphia he placed his certificate in the hands of a Mr Boyd who put it in the hands of a Mr Tarlton & who promised to procure him his pay from Congress Tarlton died before this was done and the Certificate became lost so that this declarant has never recd a cent for his services as surgeons mate except the $24 as aford and for which sd services he now asks pay He never recd any other discharge nor pay for his two months Militia service than his furlogh aforsd
(7) He states that he is known in his present neighbourhood to Wm E Warren Wm J Morton Marmaduke Morton Tho M. Smith & C who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state. He would add that having recently removed to his present place of residence which is very distant from his former one he is unable to procure the testimony of any living witness, who has personal knowledge of his services, or the certificate of any Clergyman to establish the reputation of them 
Richd Lyles 
Commonwealth of Kentucky } 
Logan County & Circuit } sct 
This day Walter Jones and John Frichter personally appeared before the Judge of the Logan Circuit Court the said Court being in session and made oath the sd Jones that between forty & fifty years
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ago he lived in the neighborhood of the sd Richd Lyles in the State of Maryland County of Montgomery and that there as well as in this County & neighborhood he was well acquainted with the character & standing of the sd Lyles & that he had heard it frequently stated in the neighborhood where he had known that he was in the United States service during the Revolutionary War in the army of the union. And the sd Fichter that he has known the sd  R Lyles about fifteen years in sd County & State of Maryland and in this County & that he has often heard it said in the neighborhood where sd Lyles was known that he was in the army of the Revolution & in the service of the country at that time 
Walter Jones 
John Fichter 

Commonwealth of Kentucky } 
Logan County & Circuit   } Sct 
This day John Littlejohn personally appeared before the Judge of the Logan Circuit Court being in session & made oath that he is a minister of the Gospel resides in the neighborhood of the sd Richd Lyles whose statement is above subjoined, that he has known him forty years or more to be a man to whom full credit should be given when on oath and that he believes fully his statements above made in relation to his Revolutionary services 
John Littlejohn 

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Littlejohn who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergiman resident in the County of Logan and State of Kentucky and that Walter Jones who has signed the above certificate is a resident in the said County of Logan and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement
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is entitled to credit. Given under my hand as Judge of the said Logan Circuit Court this 14th day of October 1835
Asher W. Graham 
Circuit Judge of the 6th Judicial district of Ky 

State of Kentucky }
Logan Circuit Sct ⎬
I Marmaduke B Morton Clerk of the [crossed out: Logan] Circuit Court of Logan County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Lyles for a pension. 
[handwritten] seal
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14th day of October 1835 and in the 44th year of the Commonwealth 
Marmaduke B Morton 

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Richard Lyles

Lyles  
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White do
power of Attorney 




D. D. Addison
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Know all men by these presents that I Archibald 
M. Lyles, only heir of Richard Lyles deceased, of the County of McCracken, and State of Kentucky, have nominated constituted and appointed, and by these presents do nominate constitute and appoint Caleb White of Maysville Kentucky & D D Addison of Washington City my true and lawful attorneys to present the claim of Richard Lyles for any amount of Revolutionary pension, or increase of pension that may be due him, or to me as his heir, and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or argument, and to receive for my exclusive benefit the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the pension agency of this State, to appoint one or more substitutes under them for the purpose herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorneys and agents shall lawfully do in the premises.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29th day of April 1854 Archibald M Lyles [handwritten] Seal

State of Kentucky }
McCracken County Sct }
I George Smedly a Justice of the peace in & for the County State aforesaid, do Certify b that Archibald M. Lyles, who is personally known to me to be the person whose signature is affixed to the above power of attorney this day personally appeared before me & acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand this 29th day of April 1854. 
Geo Smedly J P
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State of Kentucky
McCracken County Set

I Braxton Small Clerk of the county court of the county aforesaid do certify that Geo Sundley whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making his said certificate a Justice of the Peace in for the county & state aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified and that full faith & credit are due and ought to be given to all his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at my office in Paducah this 29th day of April 1854.

B. Small - CMCS
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Copied from AWF

December 14, 1931

BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Jennie W. Fryar
1211 Dauphin Street
Apartment J
Mobile, Alabama

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of November 24, 1931, relative to Richard Lyles, a soldier of the Revolutionary war.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim R.6543, based upon his military service in that war.

Richard Lyles was born September 29, 1757, in Prince Georges County, Maryland and while residing there enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served two months as a private in Captain Mark Marine Duvall's company.

From early in 1781 he served as surgeon's mate i a hospital at Williamsburg Virginia for nine months ending October 19, 1781.

He applied for pension October 14, 1835, while a resident of Logan County, Kentucky but the claim was not allowed as he did not render six months service in a military corps, as required by the pension laws. He acted in a civil capacity while surgeon's mate.

It is not stated whether he was married.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington D.C. April 24, 1875

Sir

Agreeable to your request, you are informed that Richard Lyles, of Logan County, Ky made application in October 1835 for a pension on account of military services in the war of the revolution, alleging that he served two months as a private in 1780 and that in 1781 he accompanied a regiment of Gen. Smallwood's to Williamsburg, VA where serving as a surgeon's mate in the hospital at that place, until the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.

No evidence was furnished by him to sustain his claim, and apparently made no effort to do so, at least none appears in his case and his claim was rejected - An endorsement has been made on the case "Did not serve in a military capacity."

Col J D Perryman
Box 759
Paducah
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Half words not fully copied
30 Dec 1835

Record Vol 28 B 43
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War Dept. Pen Office Dec. 30, 1835 
Sir
In the case of Dr Richd Lyles of Kentucky whose papers were transmitted to the War Dept. by Hon J. R. Underwood, I have the honor to report that he alleges to have volunteered as an assistant Surgeon early in 1781, and that he served as such nine months. He was not commissioned as a surgeon, but acted in a civil capacity. [crossed out: and was not subject to military discipline service is not ]Such ^employment not being considered as military service, it is not provided for by the act of 7 June 1832. He also alleges service in 1780 as a militia man for two months. The act under which he claims provides for none who did not serve six months. The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office. Enclosed is M. Underwoods letter 
Hon Lewis Cass 
Sec of War

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Hon. Jacob Try, Jr
May 21, 1836
O.C.
Ken Case

Record 731 Page 468
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War Dept 
Pension Office 
May 21. 1836

Sir,
In compliance with your request I have the honor to enclose herewith certified copies of the papers in the case of Richard Lyles, of Ken.
I have the honor &c.



Hon Jacob Fry Jr.
H R
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Rev and 1812
Wars Section

November 6, 1923

Elizabeth Crutcher
1105 Seventeenth Ave. So.
Nashville, Tenn.

Madam;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary war pension claim R.6543 it appears that Richard Lyles was born September 29, 1757, in Prince Georges County Maryland while residing there enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served two months as a private in Captain Mark Marine Duvall's company.

From early in 1781 he served as Surgeon's Mate in a hospital at Williamsburg, Virginia, for nine months ending October 19, 1781.

He applied for pension October 14, 1835, while a resident of Logan County, Kentucky but the claim was not allowed as he did not render six months service in a military corps as required by the pension laws. He acted in a civil capacity while Surgeon's Mate.

It is not stated whether he was married.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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Please being
 this claim 
to my desk 
if it is inquired 
for
AW
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Rev and 1812 Wars Section

April 4, 1924

M.L. Lyles
250 Michigan St
Elmhurst, Ill.

Sir:

You are herewith furnished two sets of certified copies of papers from the revolutionary war pension claim of Richard Lyles, rejected File No 6543.

Owing to a clerical error you were overcharged for the same and three dollars will be refunded to you after the settlement of the Bureau accounts for the month of April.

Respectfully, 

Washington Gardner

Commissioner

See memorandum relative to papers that should not have been charged for on paper with receipt for payment
AW
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M. L. Lyles 
250. Michigan St. 
Elmhurst Illinois
[note: should have been 18 pages]
Wants photostat copies of 38 pages 2 sets of 19 pages each, both sets certified, from Revolutionary War pension claim R. of 6543, Richard Lyles, Maryland Troops, 

$6.20 
______________________
This payment & error.$3. to be refunded and $3 20/100 retained for two certifications + 18 photostats 
AW 
[stamp] REV. WAR SECTI
__________________________
 Received payment 
M. M. H. Frisch
W E Wilson 

[stamp] FINANCE DIVISION 
MAR 19 1924 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS 

[bleed through from reverse side, upside down illegible]

[stamp] REVOLUTIONARY WAR
MAR 19 1924
SECTION
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M 233
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division

Mar 19, 1924

Chief Rev Section

Sir:

I have this day received from M.L. Lyles Cash for $6.20 requestion copy as per letter herewith.

Apr 3, 1924
Copies Mailed
& finance Div notified to retain $3.20 in payment for 18 photostats & two certifications and to refund $3.00 to M.L. Lyles
A.E. Wilson - Chief
Rev War Section
Respectfully

O J Randall
Chief Finance Div.
N.C.L.
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Request for Photostating
(to be prepared in duplicate)

M^

Ex. AW

Office of the Chief Clerk

Job No 714 
Date Mar 31, '24

Subject Richard Lyles, Rev R.6543
2 copies of 4 pieces consisting of 9 pages to be
forwarded when completed to the Rev War Section Division

Remarks: Pleas make 2 negatives of each page

Approved

A E Wilson
Chief Div
Rev war Section
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I consulted Mr. Proctor, Law Div, relative to this matter before acting upon it - A E Wilson

Memorandum - 

M.L. Lyles was charged for 2 sets

Pages
1 copy of old wrapper marked rejected & with file no on it
1 for scrap of brown paper with dates of correspondence on it
1 for copy of a letter dated Apr 24, 1875, with a lead pencil address
1 for copy of a letter dated May 21, 1836, transmitting copies
5 for each copies of five pages of declaration of Oct 14, 1835
1 for memorandum on back of declaration

10
2
20x15 = $3 to be returned
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Elizabeth Crutcher
1105 Seventeenth Avenue, So
Nashville, Tenn

September 25th 1923

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Plese send me revolutionary war record with any dates and family data you may have concerning Dr. Richard Lyle who was a surgeon in the Revolutionary war.

Respectfully,

Elizabeth Crutcher

US PENSION OFFICE STAMP - Sept 27, 1923
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Mobile, Ala 
Jun. 24./‘31
Director of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir- 
Can you give me any information regarding the Revolutionary War record of Dr. Richard Lyles? I have been given Tower's (?) Medical Mem of the Revolution as reference.
Assuring you that I will appreciate any information you may give me I am 
[Stamp]
RECEIVED NOV 27 1931 
PENSION FILES [Illegible] DIVISION RECEIPT SECTION 
Sincerely yours 
(Mrs) Jennie W. Fryar
1211 Dauphin St.
Apt. J. Mobile, Ala
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Left Side Page

1923 Nov 6 - Hist to Elizabeth Crutcher
1924 Apr 4 - Copies mailed to ML Lyles and he was also advised that three dollars were to be refunded to him
1931 - History to Mrs. Jennie W Fryar

Right Side Page

REJECTED

6543
Richard Lyles

The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension - Not Military Service
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Rejected
See letter 
Dec 25 Hon. Lee Cass

Revolutionary
did not serve in a military capacity
Let to Hon J Fry Jr H.R.
May 21, 1836

1832
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33486
Dr. Richard Lyles
Kentucky
Pension Papers

Sworn to [illegible] 14th October 1835
letter to M B Morton 

6543
Revy Files
1832
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Sd. R. Lyles about fifteen years in sd County & State of Maryland and in this County & that he had often heard it [sa]id in the neighborhood where sd Lyles was known that he was in the army of the Revolution & in the service of the Country at that time 
Walter Jones 
John Fichter 

Commonwealth of Kentucky 
Logan County & Circuit } Sct 
This day John Littlejohn personally appeared before the Judge of the Logan Circuit Court being in session & made oath that he is a minister of the Gospel, resides in the neighborhood of the sd Richd Lyle whose statement is above subjoined, that he has known him forty years or more [illegible] man to whom full credit should be given when [illegible] oath and that he believes fully his statements above made in relation to his Revolutionary services 
John Lettlejohn 

And the Said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matters and after setting 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 Certifies that it appears to them that John Littlejohn who has Signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergeman resident in the County of Logan and State of Kentucky and that Walter Jones who has Signed the above Certificate is a resident in the Said county of Logan and State of Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand as Judge of the said Logan Circuit Court this 14th day of October 1835 
Asher W Graham 
Circuit Judge of the 6th Judicial district of Ky

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State of Kentucky }
Logan Circuit Sct. }
I Marmaduke P. Morton Clerk of the Circuit Court of Logan County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Lyles for a pention [pension] 
Seal
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 14th day of October 1835 and in the 44th year of the Commonwealth Marmaduke P Morton
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State of Kentucky ⎬ 
Logan County } S.S.
On this 14th day of October 1835 personally 
appeared before the Hon. the Judge of the 
Logan Circuit Court now in session Richard 
Lyles a Resident of the County of 
Logan & State of Kentucky aged Seventy Seven 
years on the 29th of September last [?] 
being first duly sworn according to law 
doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provision made by act of Congress passed 
June 7th 1832. that he [crossed out: enlisted] volunteered in the army 
of the United States [?]
in the early part of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one 1781. Under the 
following named officers and served in the 
manner & capacity as hereinafter mentioned, 
that is to say, As the Regiment 
of Gen. Anthony Wayne was moveing 
from the City of Anapolis Maryland 
thro the County of Prince Georges of 
sd State & in which County, this declarent 
then resided, he volenteered his 
services, united himself with sd regiment 
and accompanied it to the 
town of Williamsburg in the State 
of Virginia. Here this declarent 
remained from the time aforsd until 
the capturing of Cornwallis at 
Yorktown on the 19th October in said 
year acting in the character & capacity 
of Surgeons mate in the Hospital 
at that place. Doct. Treat was Surgeon of the Hospital. Doct Benjamin
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[Benja]min Boyd was associate mate of this declarent . 
There were two Hospitals in Williamsburg,
the one for the sick, the other for  
the wounded. Doct. Treat was surgeon 
of the first, Doct Tilton of the second. 
Tilton was without any associate or mate 
& this declarant tho belonging more particularly 
to the Hospital of the sick, so he 
has discharged the duties of Mate in 
the Hospital of the wounded. Tho the 
latter Hospital was not established till 
after the commencement of the siege 
of York. The wounded from that place 
being brought to the Hospital at Williamsburg. 
The duties of his station were 
therefore responsible & arduous It is manifest 
from the above dates that he continued 
in this service, about nine months.
Previous, however to the foregoing 
service of yr declarent as surgeon 
in the Hospital at Williamsburg, he volunteered 
as a private in the Company of Capt. 
Warene or Wash Warene Duvall [?] from 
the County of Prince Georges Capt Duvall  
joined the Regiment of Gen. Smallwood in sd county. We intended in our march from Prince Georges 
to have joined Gen. Wayne at Peola 
but one of our baggage waggons broke
down which detained us in repairing 
it, so that we did not reach him till 
after Wayne had left Peola at which 
place he was attacked by the British at 
night while Waynes troops were asleep 
The enemy it is said were conducted 
into his encampment by certain 
Tories, who had ascertained the [?]

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[?] position of his pickets &c. We joined 
him the morning after this attack at a 
place called the Red Lion, & should have 
joined him the night before but for 
the accident aforsd. Shortly after this 
yr declarent was taken sick & was out 
on furlough when his term of service 
expired This tour was a two months 
one and embraced that period in the 
fall & winter of 1780, as well as the 
declarent recollects. This latter tour
of two months in which this declarent 
acted as a private added to the nine
months service in the Hospital, as surgeons mate makes up the whole period of Revolutionary 
service for which he claims 
a pension. In answer to the questions 
directed to be propounded to him, he answers 1st He was born on the 29th Sept 1757 (2d) he has a record of his age in his possession 
(3)He lived in the County of Prince Georges Maryland
in which he was born as afored, when 
called into the service. From Prince Georges he
removed to Montgomery County, Maryland where 
he lived till about 18 months past, when he 
removed to Logan County Kentucky his present 
residence (4) He volunteered into the
service -not- as a substitute. (5) as he was 
principally confined to the Hospital department he did not become much acquainted with 
the Regular officers & Continental & Militia 
Regiments. He cannot now call to his recollection 
any others than Capt Devall and 
Gens Smallwood & Wayne. (6) He obtained 
a certificate of his service in the 
hospital from Surgeon Treat who only 
paid him $24 of his pay. While the Congress
sat in Philadelphia, he placed his Certificate
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[certifi]cate in the hands of a Mr Boyd who put it in the 
hands of a Mr Tarlton who promised to procure
him his pay from Congress. Tarlton died 
before this was done and the certificate became 
lost. So that this declarent has never
recd a cent for his services as surgeons mate 
except the $24 as afosd, And for which sd
services he now asks pay. He never recd any 
other discharge-- nor pay-- for his two months 
militia service than his furlogh aforsd.
(7) He states that he is known in his present 
neighborhood to Wm E Warren, Wm J Morton,
Marmaduke Morton. The M Smith [?] who 
can testify as to his character for veracity and their
belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 
to a pension or an annuity except the present
& he  declares that his name is not on the 
Pension Roll of any agency in my State 
He would add that having recently removed 
to his present place of residence, which is very distant from his former one, he is unable 
to procure the testimony of any living witness, 
who has personal knowledge of his 
services, or the certificate of any Clergyman to establish the reputation of them.
Richd Lyles 

Commonwealth of Kentucky 
Logan County & Circuit   } Sct.
This day Walter [?]
and John Fichter personally appeared before the [?] judge
of the Logan Circuit Court the said Court being in 
Session and made oath the sd Jones that between 
forty & fifty years ago he lived in the neighborhood 
of the sd Richd Lyles in the State of Maryland & county of Montgomery and that 
there as well as in this County & neighborhood he was 
well acquainted with the character & standing of the 
sd Lyle & that he had heard it frequently stated in the 
neighbood where he had known that he was in the united 
States service during the Revolutionary war and in the army 
of the union. And the sd Fichter that he has known the