Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11231, John Weatherford, Va.
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Service Va.

Weatherford, John.

Number R.11231
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the  Act of Congress dated June 7th 1832

State of Indiana County of Bartholomew


On this 12th day of August 1845

Personally appealed in open court before the probate court of said county and State now sitting John Weatherford a resident of the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana age ninety eight years last May the 5th day who...first duty served according to  laws doth all his cash make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the  Act of Congress dated July the Seventh 1832


That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated

I was born in the year   1747 the 5th day of May I have now no record of my age I had a record till   a few years one of my brothers held the record and when he died in the State of Indiana about ten years ago the record was lost I was living in Henry county in the state of Virginia when I first entered the service as volunteer I served as volunteer in   the   that          
I
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Till precisely by the year  I was about the middle of the Revolutionary War in the Spring of the year. My Captain was  Marble Nash. The Colonel was Joseph Martin. I entered for A tour of three months and served two months longer than the tours. Our expedition was organised the Indians who had become hostile 

I was thought through...of the Brittish and Tories. We marched to the block house at Holston River and remained there until a treaty was effected with the Indians when we were discharged. After I returned from this first tour, I went out of Henry County, to the County of Pittsylvania in Virginia to live. And in the last manned... I entered the service of the United States under  Clemons...Captain and Colonel Abraham Shelton. I am not certain who the other officers were. But I think John Dolston was...

I entered as volunteer this 2nd tour and for one tour of 3 months there was about one year of an interval between the time of my discharge from my first tour about...till I entered for the 2nd tour we marched to North Carolina and was within about twenty miles of General Gates when he gave up his men, when the news came that Gates had given up his men, I was within a few days of the end of my tour and we were all discharged to... I returned immediately to Pittsylvania County Virginia and .... volunteer
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One held my regular discharges but have not had them for 20 years past, my son took them with him to the State of Missouri some 20 years time and by some..too them, The reason I have not made application soon is that before the year 1832 I had no expedition after receiving a pension and since then I have been by no means solicitous... have made all or too unsuccessful efforts when dad discouraged me and...the time.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension annuity except the...declares, that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State John Weatherford......

Uriah McQueen a clergyman resides in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana and Samuel Sandofer residing in said county of Bartholomew hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Weatherford who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations.


...believe him to be ninety eight years of age that his reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a settler of the revolution and sworn to the day and year aforesaid. 


Uriah McQueen and Samuel Sandofer
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion of the matter and after hitting the  interrogations prescribed by the war department than the above named application was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Uriah McQueen....the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana and that Samuel Sandofer
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Who has signed the same is a resident in the county of Bartholomew aforesaid and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to free credit.


Henry B. Roland  seal Judge of the Probate court Bartholomew County Indiana

I, Isaac S Boardman Clerk of the county Probate do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of John Weatherford a Pension.


Testimony...I have here unto..my hand and seal of office..twelfth day of August eighteen hundred and forty five

Isaac S. Boardman Clerk
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  in the United States service under Captain William Linch, who has command of a company called Minute Men, that was intended as a defence against the Tories. I served under Captain Linch four tours. I joined him in Pittsylvania, and we remained in the same court during the whole of the four tours of 3 months each.

Except 3 or 4 days of the last of 4th tour when we heard that Cornwallis had driven Genereal Green from South Carolina into Virginia. Captain Linch then discharged us all and I together with himself and many more entered the Service of the United States under Thomas Smith, Captain and Colonel, Peter Perkins, to meet Gen. Green and his force against Cornwallis.

When we came up to Green, he had crossed the Jean river back again into South Carolina. Colonel Morgan was then in command of the
riflemen and I being a rifleman was attached to his regiment.

We marched to the housing east of Haw river, we there had a battle with the Brittish and Tories and defeated them. We marched from there to Guilford and fought the Battle of Guilford.

In that battle, I was within 15 or 20 feet of General Steven when he was shot in the thigh. I served this tour our tour of 3 months making my service in all seven tours and 2 months. 

Leaving these tours, I was not....I have lived  in Virginia and in Kentucky and in the State of Indiana soon since the Revolutionary war, I
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N. 35,991

John Weatherford

Ind.

act 7 June 1832
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The State of Indiana

Jefferson courts set. On the 20th day of February in the year of our Lord 1845. Personally appealed before we the [Illegible]
Public of said courts and state aged 98 or thereabouts who [illegible] fair dues sworn up to law...or his ...make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made


who performed military services during the Revolutionary War ... that he performed the following...military services. The year he does not recollect. But it was against the Indians and the service was performed Holston River. 
Col. Joseph Martin was the Col. and Captain was Nash. 
Militia troops [Illegible] the length of this tour was five months, or thereabouts. That the next tour he performed was under Capt. Clemens. This service was performed in North Carolina near the ... where Gen. Gates was defeated about 3 or 4 years after the war began. 

This was a three months tour. The next tour was served in Pittsylvania county Virginia under Col. Peter Perkins. Capt. Thomas Smith a three months tour. Year was not recollected.

The next tour was served under Col. Lynch in Virginia, year of the Battle of Guilford. In which battle he was, who in the battle at [Illegible] hills. That the battle of the Hanging Rock (Haws River) where he was [Illegible] This was a three months tour [illegible] He performed three other tours under the same Col. Lynch of three months each. All of these were in Virginia and against the British and Tories.

Was [illegible] in the service under Capt. Chietor about the time of Cornwallis capture about two months and was discharged soon
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that court.  He served the whole time as a private and in militia corps. Always a volunteer never waited to be drafted. The following states that he has never claimed  any pension [Illegible]


John Weatherford Male


I was to attend [Illegible] before me the [Illegible] public within and for the said courts of Jeffers [Illegible]  This 20 February 1845
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No. 35,991

John Weatherford

Ind.
Act 7 June, 1832

[Illegible] W. Hendricks. April 19th 1845


[Illegible] 18. 1845


11231

Act 7 June 1832
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William Hendricks presents his...to companions of Pensions and... The application of John Weatherford for a pension.

He is acquainted with this applicant and.... of the statements contained in his declaration.

17. Sept 1845
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REJECTED

11231

John Weatherford
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John Weatherford Ind.

5 Mo X  at... Cap. Nash Col. Jos Martin


3"   Capt. Clemens

3" Capt. Thomas Smith Col. Peter Perkins

3" at Guilford Crt. Col. Lynch

3 MO each Capt. Shelton Col. Lynch
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Feb. 24, 1845

John Weatherford

June 7 1832


For James L Edwards

Pension Office
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William Hendricks presents his respects to J. L. Edwards and requires his [illegible]  of the enclosed application for a pension and that if objected to that he requests forms and declarations in the case of [Illegible]
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Pension Office,
April 19th, 1845.


The declaration of John Weatherford, under the act of 7th June, 1832, now for the first time presented, unsustained by any proof whatever, has been examined and filed. Before claimant can receive the benefit of the act of 1832, he will be required to make a new declaration before a court of Record, in open court, unless from bodily infirmity he is unable to attend court. In that case a judge of a court of Record may act out of court, he certifying to the particular disability. 
The commencement and termination of each tour of service, with the names of the company and field officers under which he served should be set forth and sustained by the testimony of two or more credible witnesses, who where his comrades. Some satisfactory reason should be given for not having made earlier application for a pension, when the chances for establishing his claim by person engaged in the service with him are daily diminishing. You will see by the enclosed printed instructions the proof required to sustain the claim.
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I am very Respectfully your...

J. L. Edwards