Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35942, Isaac Fleetwood, Va.
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(3 - 1776)
Va.
SERVICE
CONTENTS
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of
Fleetwood, Isaac
NUMBER
S.35942
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19.184 
R
Kentucky
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Isaac Fleetwood

Floyd Co. in the state of Kentucky who was a Private in the company commanded [by] Captain Smith of the regiment commanded [by] Colonel Febiger in the Virginia [page is torn - word is missing], for the term of 1776 - 3 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of October 1823.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Jan'y 1824 and sent to R. Walker Esq. Prestonsburg, Ky.
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[page is torn and missing a few words] years to 4th of Part R.
[words are missing] anl. all'ce ending
6 March 1824 $40.51.
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32: [followed by illegible numbers  in an equation]$40:51.
[Total =] $40.51

{Revolutionary claim Acts March 18, 1818, }{and May 1, 1820 & March 1, 1823.}

Transferred to Indiana 7th March 1828 from and after 20th March, 1820 and Notification sent to H. L. Livingston, Esq. Bedford, Indiana.
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Floyd County, State of Kentucky, Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary soldier seventy five years of age states that he enlisted in the service of the United States in the year 1776 for the time of three years as induring [enduring] the war and he states that he was in the Battle of Brandywine and the Battle of Whitemarsh and continued in the service for the term of four years in the Eleventh Virginia Ridgemont commanded by Col. Fabaker [Certificate of Pension lists him as Col. Febiger] in Captain William Smith's Company and was honorably discharged in the year 1780 and he states that he has lost his discharge and know not whear nor when and also states that it is from his age and infirmetics [? infirm] that indigment [? indigent] circumstances in property that he claims the assistance of this country agreeable to the act of congress  approved the 18th day of March 1818. [signed] Isaac Fleetwood.

{Sworn to & subr'd in open court the 16th of {June 1818. Attest Wm. J. Mayo at C.F.C.L.
Floyd County Court June Seven 1818
Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary soldier professes an oath in open court the above statement off facts relative to his services.  Praying to be placed on the Pension list of the United States with an affidavit of his being in indigent circumstances accompanying the same all which is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of War agreeable to this provision of the act of congress approved the 18th day of March 1818.  
A copy [illegible] Wm. Mayo C.F.C.C.
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Floyd County State of Kentucky, Thomas Mallett being of lawfull [lawful] age appeared in open court and after being duly sworn disposed and sayath that he has lived a neighbour [neighbor] to the witness applicant Isaac Fleetwood for five or six years and states that he is a poor man and needs the assistance of his country for the support of himself and family agreeable to the Active of Congress approved the 18th day of March 1818.
Sworn to and ascribed in open court the 16th June 1818. Attest Wm. J. Mayo C.F.C.C.
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Isaac Fleetwood's Petition June 1818
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State of Kentucky Floyd County to wit I, James Brown agree and do hereby subscribe the copy statement & affixed as acting clerk the said presiding justice of the peace for the county certify that William James Mayo who of the order of the court  annexed to the preceding is and was at the time of subscribing the same county court duly appointed by law given under my hand & seal the 31st day of December 1818.
[signed] James Brown [illegible initials]

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State of Kentucky Floyd County to wit I, Wm. James Mayo clerk of the court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that, James Brown who subscribed the foregoing certificate is acting & prescribing justice of the peace for the said county duly commissioned and qualified according to law to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit is due saught to be given as well in courts of justice as there [illegible]. 

{ Seal}

{Given under my hand and private seal (having as [illegible] as seal of office) this 31st day of December 1818 and in the XXvii year of the commonwealth. 
Signed William J. Mayo CFCC
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[left margin] Isaac Fleetwood. 18.944
[right margin] Robert Walker Prestonsburg Ky

State of Kentucky Floyd  County Set I

At a court held for Floyd county at the courthouse in Prestonsburg Monday the 27th day of January 1823 Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary soldier produced in open court a schedule of his property which is in the following words and figures to wit.

State of Kentucky Floyd County Set
January year 1823 this day personally appeared in open court this being a court of record by the laws of this state being Solumly 
adjudged to be such by the other tribunals of this state with power to fine and imprison always keeping a record of its proceedings Isaac Fleetwood aged about 78 years a resident citizen of the county aforesaid.

and in persuance of an act of congress approved the 18th day of March 1818 providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States
in the revolutionary war. and also in persuance  to an act of Congress approved the 1st of May 1820 "entitiled an act in addition to an act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United states in  the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 

upon his oath doth Solumly declare that he enlisted in the service of the united in the army of the revolutionary war against the common enemy in the year 1776 for the term of three years or enduring the war and that he was entered in Lawden [Loudoun] county in 
the state of Virginia in the Virginia line in a company commanded by Capt. Wm Smith in a Regiment commanded at that time by Col Morgan and afterwards by Col. Faliaker in virginia line and continental establishment. 

that he continued to serve in the army of the revolutionary war in the service of the united States four years at the end of which time he was honorably discharged. Which was the 1780 at the Valley Forge [Pennsylvania] which discharge he has lost or mislaid and that he was in the following Battels [Battles] to wit.

The battle at German town [Germantown, Pennsylvania] the battle of Monmouth [New Jersey] that he has
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II
Has no other evidence of his service except the deposition of John Smith an 
old revolutionary Soldier and the other depositions herein filed and transcribed to be made his original declaration and application for a pension on the 16th day of June 1818 but has not as yet received his pension certificate. 

Which declaration is refered [referred] to marked A which is herewith transcribed and he also doth declare on oath that he was a resident citizen of the united states  on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of his property or any part thereof with an intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself in [illegible] provisions of an act of congress entitlled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel 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 securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto [illegible] by me
Subscribed Viz. 

one little mare worth $25 
two little heffers worth seven dollars each $14.
Seven heads of hogs worth $20
one pot worth $1.50 ds
one oven worth 300 cts [cents]
two acres worth one dollar each $2
three old hoes worth $1 

and that he has no other property either real or personal his occupation is that of a farmer but he is two old and inferm [infirm] to persue it.

his family consists in a wife aged about forty five years and three small children which is enable to contribute any thing for his support and it is from his reduced circumstances in life and inabilities to labour that he claims the assistance of his country
Isaac Fleetwood [hand drawn seal]

Taken Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the 27th day of January 1823
in the presents of the court. We Harry Stratton James Lacey and  John Hatcher Justices of the peace for Floyd County 
[Virginia] and who by virtue of our said offices have a right to and do constitute this court do hereby certify that it is the opinion of this court that the property contained in the within Schedule is of the value of $66.50 and that this court are of opinion that from
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gthe indigent and reduced circumstance of the applicant he stands in need of the assistance of hs country for his support  this court being fully satisfied from the evidence before them that the said Isaac Fleetwood did render the services on behalf of the United States in the revolutionary war.  In his declaration and application all of which is ordered to be recorded and cetified to tht  Secretary of War
James Lacey
Harry Stratten
Julius Hatcher
John Smith an old revolutionary soldier aged eighty three years stated that he is well acquainted with said Isaac Fleetwood an old revolutionary soldier who made his original declaration for a pension on the 16th day of June 1818 and now makes an additional application that he knew him  as an enlisted soldier in the army of the Revolutionary war.  That he served with him in the army that he knows that he was in the battle of Marmouth he knew ()? after months in the service of the United states and [?] left the said Isaac Fleetwood in the army whre is [?] was  taken in a detachment and put under the commandance of an other regiment commaned by Gen'l Gates  Once further this [?]
John X Smith (His Mark)
Kentucky Floyd Count 
J. Willim Jone? clerk of  the court for the count aforesaid do hereby certify that the 
foregoing is a true copy taken from the records in my office by me given under my hand this 8th day of August 1823
Will J Mayo clk
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Kentucky Floyd County SCT
I James W. Brown one of the commonwealth Justice of the peace in and for the county of [illegible] do hereby certify that William James Mayo whose signature appear to the within certificate is and was at the time of signing the same acting clerk of the court for the county afs'd duly appointed and qualified  according to law to all whose official acts as such due faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice  or thereout.  Given under my hand this 8th day of August 1823
James W. Brown J.P.

Kentucky Floyd County SCT
I William James Mayo clerk of the court for the county aforesaid do hereby that James W. Brown whose signature appears to the above certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same acting Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to law.  Also James Lacy Harry Stratten and John Hatcher whose signature appears to the within oath as affirmation is and was also acting Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to law to all whose official acts as such due faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as thereout out.  And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of property contained in the within schedules does not exceed the amount of Sixty six dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand and private seal [obscured] having yet no seal of office this [obscured[ day of August 1823
William J. Mayo Clerk of Floyd County Court
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35,942
Revy
INVALID.

No. 35942
Isaac Fleetwood
Pri. Rev. War


Act: 18th March 18
Vol. 2, Page 469

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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[The only notation is the year at the bottom of the page.]

1818
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Isaac Fleetwood's Schedule to be [illegible] escalated by the Secretary of War and sent to Robert Walker at Prestonsburg  Floyd County, Kentucky.

Service must be proved by two credible witnesses & &c
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Smiths
affidavit
Fleetwood
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Kentucky Floyd County to wit at a court held for Floyd County at the court house in Prestonsburg on Monday the 24th day of February 1823.  On the matter of Isaac Fleetwood an old revolutionary solder ordered that the clerk of this court certify to the Secretary of War that John Smith who made affidavit t to his said Fleetwood services is a crediable [credible] witness and whose evidence the court believe to be relied on. 

[illegible]
Jacob Mayo CC
for
Will J Mayo


Sworn and declared on in open court.
[signed] Jacob Mayo, LCCFE [? initials]
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John Smith an old Revolutionary soldier aged about eighty three years states that he was well acquainted with the said Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary soldier who made his original declaration for a pension on the 18th day of June 1818 and now makes an additional application that he knew him as an enlisted soldier in the army of the Revolutionary war that he served with him in the army that he knows that he was in the Battle of Monmouth he knew him upwards of ten months in the service of the United States and then this deponent left the said Isaac Fleetwood in the army when this deponent was taken off an a detachment and put under the Command of an other regiment commanded by Gen Gates and further this deponent saith not.

John Smith  X his mark
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[illegible number]
Isaac Fleetwood.
The claimant must prove nine months service under one enlistment on Continental establishment by two Witnesses certified to be credible by the Magistrate who administers the oath-
The official character & signature of the Magistrate should be certified by the County Clerk
War Dept Pen Office
Sept 10, 1823

The time of entering, & the time & manner of leaving the service, must be particularly set forth-
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In the within is enclosed the Original affidavit or depositions of John Smith and Joseph Bonney;  The said Boney was taken in Pike County Kentucky since the [illegible] of these papers, Smith's having been heretofore filed in my office is also enclosed
[illegible] Jacob Mayo LIC
for Will J Mayo Clk
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Boney
Deposition
for Fleetwood
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State of Kentucky     county wit

here follows the  Deposition  of Joseph Boney an old Revolutionary soldier about seventy two years of age States that upon oath after being duly sworn before the subscriber one of the Commonwealths Justices of the peace of said county that he knew Isaac Fleetwood the present applicant to be an enlisted soldier for the term of three years or in during the war this deponent knows that the said Isaac Fleetwood did serve under said enlistment for upward of two years in the army of the Revolutionary war on continental establishment during which time this deponent was well acquainted with the said Isaac Fleetwood

this deponent further states that he knows that the said Isaac Fleetwood
did serve during the said term of two years or upwards that this deponent knew him in the army of the Revolutionary under enlistment 

this deponent and the said Isaac Fleetwood had their winter quarters together at Valley Forge [Pennsylvania] and then they marched marched from there in pursuance of the British army and overtook them at Monmouth Court house in Jersey State and had a battle there [Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey, June 1778] and the fall after the Battle this deponent
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marched with the Army to the south and left the said Fleetwood and at that time this deponent got parte4d from the said Fleetwood and never seen him any more untill after the close of the war.
Joseph Bonney B his mark

State of Kentucky Pike County SCT
I John Bevins a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of Joseph Bonney was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me and that the said Joseph Bonney is a credable witness whose evidence is to be relied upon and a man of good character
Given under my hand this 3rd day of October 1823
John Bevins JPPC
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State of Kentucky Pike County SCT
I Spencer Adkins Clerk for the Court for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that John Bevins whose certificate is herewith [illegible] and his hand thereunto subscribed is a Justice of the peace for said county court duly commissioned and qualified according to law to whose official acts as such due faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.  Given under my hand and private seal at office have as yet no seal of office this 24th day of November 1823
Spencer Adkins Clk.
[handwritten seal]
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State of Indiana
Lawrence County SCT
On this the second day of Febuary in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight personally appeared before me the subscriber Rolin C. Dewey a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid at my office in the Town of Bedford, Lawrence county and State aforesaid, Isaac Fleetwood resident in said county, aged ninety six years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, that he is the bone-fide holder of a certain Revolutionary pension certificate, which he now holds in his possession and which reads in the words and figures following /to wit/

War Department.
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March 1818. May 1st 1820 & March 1st 1823. Isaac Fleetwood late a private, in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the pension list roll of the Kentucky Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Given at the war office of the United States this twenty seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Which said pension certificate has the following endorsements written on the back thereof. in the words and figures following /to wit/

Payable on the 4th
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March and 4th September every year by the President of the U.S.B. Bank of Lexington.  The first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th March, 1824.

Recorded by J.F. Henshaw Clerk
in Book B. vol. 10. page 12
Examined and countersigned by
J.L. Edwards

This declarant further deposeth and saith that he resides in Floyd County in State of Kentucky at the time he made application for his pension, and that by virtue of the said certificate that he has regularly drawn his pension ever since the 4th of March 1824 untill the 4th September 1827 at which time or shortly thereafter he removed to the county of Lawrence in the State of Indiana with an intention of permanently residing in said county, and that he is the same Isaac Fleetwood named in said pension certificate (who has drawn his pension as above stated) and that he is old and unable to ride to Lexington Kentucky (without much inconvenience to himself) in consequence of pains rheumatism and bodily infirmity, and that he is solisitous of having his pension transfered from the Kentucky Agency to the Indiana Agency, where he can with greater convenience receive his pension
Isaac Fleetwood
Sworn and subscribed before me the day & year first above written.
T. Rollin C. Dewey J.P. seal

State of Indiana
Lawrence County  SCT
On this the second day of Febuary in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight personally appeared before me the subscriber Rolin C. Dewey a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid at my office in the Town of Bedford, Lawrence County and State of Indiana Jessee Brown, Robert
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Porter, James Fleetwood and John Fleetwood who being first duly sworn according to law, on their oath, do make the following declaration, that they resided in the county of Floyd in the State of Kentucky for twenty years last past except Robert Porter who only resided in Floyd County Ky ten years, that they from their infancy have been acquainted with the above named Isaac Fleetwood, that said Isaac Fleetwood for the term of twenty years last past resided in the county of Floyd and State of Kentucky, that some time in October eighteen hundred and twenty three, that said Isaac Fleetwood made application for a pension in the circuit court of the County of Floyd in State of Kentucky, that said Isaac Fleetwood obtained a pension certificate which he now holds in his possession, and which is inserted in the foregoing deposition, that said Isaac Fleetwood has drawn a pension ever since in March 1824 to the knowledge of these deponants and that said Isaac Fleetwood in the month of September last drawed his pension in Lexington, and early in the month of October 1827 he removed to Lawrence County in the State of Indiana, and that the said Isaac Fleetwood herein named is the same person who made application for a pension in the Floyd circuit court in the State of Kentucky as above named, that said Isaac Fleetwood is the same identical person named in said pension certificate and is at this time the bona fide holder of the same.
Jesse Brown  X his mark
Robert Porter X his mark
James Fleetwood  X his mark
John Fleetwood X his mark
Sworn & subscribed before me the day and year first aforesaid.
Rollin C. Dewey  J.P.  [handwritten seal]

State of Indiana, Laurence County SS:
I Rollin C. Dewey a Justice of the peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, do certify that the above named Jesse Brown, Robert Porter, James Fleetwood and John Fleetwood are now residents of said county are considered reputable and credible witnesses.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 16th day of February 1828
Rollin C. Dewey J.P. [handwritten seal}
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State of Indiana
Lawrence County Sct

I John Lourey clerk of the circuit court in and for the county of Lawrence and state aforesaid do herby certify; that Rollin C Dewey; before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, now is  and was at the time of taking the same, acting Justice of the peace in and for said county, duly qualified to administer oath; and that the signature purporting to his, is genuine.

In  Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on this the 16" of Febuary 1828.
Jn. Lourey
Clerk of the circuit court of Lawrence County aforesaid

[illegible round seal attached]
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Bedford In.
Feby. 16.                    Free
                                  100

J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
War Department
Washington City


Rec'd March [illegible number] 1828
Isaac Fleetwood
for transfer

H.l. Livingston
Bedford Indiana
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Bedford Indiana. February. 16"-1828.

Dear Sir
I Transmit to you the application of Isaac Fleetwood; who wishes to have his pension transfered from the Kentucky Agency; to Indiana; Mr. Fleetwood is at this time a resident in this county, + a person of respectability; I may not have proceeded strictly legal in the manner of making application such ansers - But if I have Erred I will be under obligation should you return the papers with such directories as will enable me to affect a transfer for him
I am Sir
Respectfully
Your RC
H. L. Livingston

J. L. Edwards
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Free
The Secretary of War
War department
Washington City
(DC)
Mail

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18,944
Walker
Isaac Fleetwood,
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Walker,
torsburg, Kty.
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Recd. 18 Dec: 1823.

Atty Houx CV. 28a
1823