Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9490, for John Kercheval, Virginia
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(printed document with handwritten responses)

(S-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER

Va. | Kercheval, John | W. 9490
or Kerchival | B.L. Wt. 38507-160-55
Elizabeth

CONTENTS
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Vol.. K.. 26.

Act of Mar 3
Nov. 26. 1855

224.713,
Elizabeth Kerchival widow of John Kerchival decd Priv - 

Va regt. of Continental
Elizabeth Kerchival
wid [widow] of John
Revolutionary War.

Rec'd Pension act of 7th July 1828 $60. per annum Ky. Agency.

14 Beby 48 - 5591
W: 160 ac.  Aug: 12/56
Boynton

S. F. J. Trabul
Frankfort Ky.
 
No. 38304  Aug 45/56
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5791
Kentucky Elizabeth Kerchival widow of John Kerchival Va who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Sixty Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of November 1851 and sent to Claimant Bridgeport Ky

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1818, Page 242 Vol. 5

224713
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State of Kentucky Woodford county Ict Woodford County Court At above County Court duly organized began and holden in the Town of Versailes in and for the County of Woodford State of Kentucky on this the 1st day of May 1843 personally appeared before the said Court Mr. George Kircheval a resident of the said County of Woodford, and who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain for Mrs. Elizabeth Kircheval, a Pension by virtue of the act of Congress passed 7 July 1838. To wit that he is the son of said Elizabeth Kircheval, and that she is the widow of John Kircheval who as declarant verily believes was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War and belonged to the Virginia Regular Continental line and served therein five years. and in one tour of service in Said Regular Line he served three years. and thereafter volunteered to serve during the war. And the whole of his actual service was of five years duration the latter part of which being recorded at the close of war.  Declarant States that he has heard his aforesaid Father John Kircheval during his life particularly and often State the aforesaid facts. He further declares that he was born on the 25 day of November 1793 in the County of Fayette State of Kentucky, and is now a resident of Woodford County, and that his said mother resides in Scott County but not further than a hundred yards from the Woodford line and that she has never married since the death of her said husband, which took place on the 21st day of October 1823. He further declares the Fayette County Court clerk office was since his remembrance burned of and he thinks all the records - Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before the said Court} George Kercheval And the Said Court do hereby certify that the above declarant is a man of respectability and one whose state=
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are entitled to and ought to receive full faith and credit 
J Hult
Sam Wm Wallace
B M Gray 
J. Wilhort 
Lincoln Woodford County Court

Kentucky Woodford County Court State of Kentucky Woodford County viz    
Herman Bowman Jr clerk of the County Court of Woodford State of Kentucky hereby certify that the foregoing composes the matter of the Declaration of George Kirchival before the court of the Said County   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this the 1st day of May 1843 Herman Bowman Jr Clerk of Woodford County Court -
[seal]
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224.713
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State of Kentucky}
County of Woodford} SS

ON this the 24 day of August (1855) One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me William A. Moore An acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeth Kerchival aged about ninety years a resident of the County of Woodford in the state of Kentucky who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Kerchival deceased who was a Private in One of the Virginia Regiments upon Continental Establishment in the war of the Revolution.  That he was a resident of the State of Virginia at the time of his entering the service of the United States in the Regiment aforesaid, and about the termination of Said war or shortly thereafter he emigrated to Kentucky where he continued to reside until his death.  That She was Married to the Said John Kirchival about the year 1790.  In consideration of the Said Revolutionary Service of her Said husband she applied for a pension under the act of Congress passed 7th July 1838.  That her application was conceded and a pension was paid her under said act, and the subsequent acts in extension of the provisions of the same; of the 3d March 1832, 17th June 1844 (illegible) at the rate of $60= per annum, which pension was paid her at the Kentucky Agency in Louisville Kentucky
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2 The particulars of the service of her said husband in said war, and the proof of the same, being contained within the papers comprising her aforesaid application in for the pension allowed him as aforesaid, she now respectfully asks that reference thereto may be had in support of this application.   The documentary evidence in support of her said Marriage, the day of the death of her said husband being likewise contained in said papers, she refers thereto for proof of the same. That her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Lackland, That she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, and is now a widow.     
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. Elizabeth Kerchival her mark   
Sworn to and subscribed by Elizabeth Kerchival this 24th day August 1855     
William A. Moore J. P.  W. Co Ky       
We Thomas Chapman and William R. Chew residents of Woodford County, in the State of Kentucky upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Kirchival in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be       
Thos J. Chapman 
Wm. R. Chew     
Sworn to before me by Thos J. Chapman & Wm R Chew this 24th day of August 1855 William A Moore J. P. W. C. Ky.
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State of Kentucky
Woodford County Sch

I Herman Bowman (illegible) Clerk of the County Court for said County do certify that William A. Moore Esquire whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing Certificate, hearing date the 24th day of August 1855. is and was at the dates of said Certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and Sworn - In Testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Versailles this 25th day of August 1855.

Herman Bowman Esq.
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10052
Elizabeth Kercheval
(illegible, ink blot)
Act. 7. July 38.
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John Kercheval and Elizabeth Lackland was Married July 8th in the year of our Lord 1790 - John Kercheval son of John and Elizabeth his Wife was born February 3rd 1792 - Joseph and George Kercheval sons of John and Elizabeth his Wife was born November 25th 1793 William Kercheval Son of John and Elizabeth his wife was born May 9th 1797 Charles Kercheval Son of John and Elizabeth his wife was born January the 10 1800 - Elizabeth Kercheval Daughter of John Kercheval and Elizabeth his was born July the 12 1802. Mary Kercheval daughter of John and Elizabeth his wife was born May the 19th 1805.
but that he was in the Battle of Brandywine in the North in the year 1777 and was also in the Service in the South in South in South Carolina and was in the Battle of Eutaw Springs and Guilford as she has heard her said State and she thinks General Green was his General in the south.  She further declares that she cannot state the precise time that her aforesaid husband entered the Service but presumes that he entered in 1777 and served out three years and declare [unreadable] that he entered John [unreadable]  Kirch she was not stated [unreadable] as which is the [unreadable] one she was mam [unreadable] Oct 1823.  [unreadable] Kercheval  his mark
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State of Kentucky
Scott County} SS

On this the 25th day of April 1843 Personally appeared before me the undersigned John Dougherty an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid.   Mrs. Elizabeth Kircheval a resident of the Said County of Scott + who is by reason of Bodily Infirmity prevented from in open Court, aged upwards of Seventy four years and who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and Pension to certain widows" that she is the widow of John Kircheval who was @ Soldier in the Revolutionary war and belonged to the Regular Line of Virginia on continental establishment + she thinks his actual service as said Soldier in the Revolutionary war and belonged to the Regular Continental Line of Virginia was of five years duration.  She further declares that she cannot State all the Battles he was engaged in but that he was in the Battle of Brandywine in the North in the year 1777 and was also in the Service in the South + in South Carolina and was in the Battle of Eutaw Springs + Guilford as she has heard the said State. and she thinks Gnl.. Greene was his Genl.. in the south.  She further declares that he entered in 1777 + served out three years and then after volunteered to serve for the war.  She further declares that her aforesaid husband resided in Essex County Virginia when he entered the service.  She also declares that she was married to the aforesaid John Kircheval  on the 8th day of July Seventeen Hundred + ninety, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first fay of January 1794 (viz/ at the time above stated as will fully appear by a leaf from her Bible herewith filed, + which is thereby documentary evidence she has in support of her claim + that she was married in Fayette County Kentucky + that her said husband died on the 21st Oct. 1823.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day + year aforesaid
John Dougherty - - J Peace} Elizabeth Kercheval  her mark
NEW TESTAMENT
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And, I the aforesaid+ subscribed Justice hereby certify that a full investigation of the matter that I am of opinion that the aforesaid declarant should be enrolled on the Roll of widows Revolutionary Pensioners.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 22nd day of April 1843

John Dougherty JPeace

I the first above subscribed Justice certify that the partial or disabilities which prevents the written declarant from appearing in open Court are that of the want of physical strength, produced by old age, and ill state of health.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 4th day of May 1843

John Dougherty Jpeace

State of Kentucky Scott County Set.

I Ben B Ford clerk of the county Court of Scott County hereby certify that John Dougherty before whom the foregoing declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Kircheval was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Scott duly commissioned and qualified, and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are his own genuine signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this the 15th day of May 1843
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This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers on the Virginia Continental Line, during the revolutionary War, as settled on their Accounts, and received Certificate for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 27th day of December 1784 in the name of John Kercheval as a Soldier of Infantry for £19.12.4, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to John Dunn and was given for service prior to the 1st January 1782. p 185. {No Seal of Office) Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 29th day of May 1843. J W Heath AUDITOR.
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Feb. 15/98 Mr. J J Parry St. Joseph. Mo

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 9490
Elizabeth Kervhival 
Wid. of
John Kerchival
Pri. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 27/48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 391
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Frankfort Kentucky
May 22, 1843

Sir

I herewith enclose again the Declaration + proceedings in favour of the application of Elizabeth Kercheval of Scott County Kentucky for a Pension under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of July 1838

Please transmit to me at Frankfort Ky the certificate of allowance

I am Very Respectfully your Obt Sevt

L N Trabue

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City DC
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V 10.052
Elizabeth Kercheval 
Ky

let to C. H. Trabue July 18, 1843
" Hon G. Davis, March 3rd 1846
" " " Arb. Ray Oct 11/50
Act 7 July 1838
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State of Kentucky Scott County      
Scott county Court May Seven 1843. At a county court duly organized began and holden at Georgetown in and for Scott County State of Kentucky on the 15th day of May 1843. It is ordained to be certified and recorded that the proceedings in the matter of the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Kircheval for a Pension under the act of Congress passed 7 July 1838 In and the same are now Submitted to the court, and are sanctioned by the court, and further that the said proceedings are entitled to as full faith as though they had been made in open court.       
Ben B Lord Clerk of the Scott County Court hereby certify that the above is truly transcribed from the record in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this the 15 day of May 1843 Ben B Lord clerk By M Price DC
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Elizabeth Kerchival
Wio of John
Ky
Act 7 July 38
3 Mch 43
17 June 44 +
2 Feb 48
Adm. @ 18 mo. pir $60.
per an: from 4 Mch 36
except 2 years

Claimant,
Bridgeport
Ky
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W. City July 10. 1858

Hon. Comm. of Pension

Sir

You will please enclose the pension certificate when issued in the case of Elizabeth Kirchival to her at Bridgeport Ky

I am sir Very respectfully yours

S. J. Trabue
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Alexander Ray Esq
Washington City
01 6
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Washington City
February 4th 1850

Alexander Ray Esq
Washington

D Sir

Permit me to call Your attention to the claim of Mrs Elizabeth Kierchival of Woodford Co Ky widow of John Kirchchival deceased, under the act of 7th July 1838, 3d March 1843, 17 March 1844 - and 2nd February 1848.
The marriage is satisfactorily Shewn and likewise the service of John Kirchival in the Virginia Continental Line.
The claim ought to be allowed for two years Service at least.

You will please have this claim acted on and
allowed as early as possible.

I am Sir 
Very respectfully
Yours

S J Trabue
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Kerchival, wio [widow] of John      County and State of Ky    acts 7 July 1838 etc. 
Claim, (original)
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. Evidence of service, Record 
Evidence of Marriage, Documentary 
Evidence of ages of children Documentary 
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?    
Name and residence of Agent. Claimant, Bridgeport, Ky     Kirby Examining Clerk.
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224.713
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Frankfort Kentucky
Nov 20th 1855

Hon Comm of Pensions
W City

Sir

Herein I enclose you the application of Mrs Elizabeth Kirchival for a warrant of Bounty Land on account of Revolutionary Services of her deceased husband.

Foward the Warrant to me at Frankfort Ky

Very Respectfully
S. F J. Trabue
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38.507

Nov Any
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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary War and the
War of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the
Record and Pension Office, War Department
. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary
War may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.

L. W. B.
W. 9490.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

February 15, 1898.

Sir:-

Replying to your request for information concerning John Kerchival a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that Elizabeth, widow of John Kerchival, made an application for pension on April 22, 1843, at which time she was 74 years of age and residing in Scott County, Kentucky, and her pension was allowed for the actual service
of her husband as a private in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary war, for a period of eighteen months. (Officers under whome he served not stated). He enlisted in Essex County, Virginia.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mr. G. G. Parry,
St. Joseph, Mo.

Wrong case all
W.F. 3023
John Kercheval of Mason Co. Ky
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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the of 1812 are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department.  Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary
War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

L. W. B.

 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

January 14, 1898,

Sir:- 

In returning, herewith your communication of the 6th inst.,it isagain requested that in each and every instance where you request
information concerning a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you state for whom the information is desired, together with the applicant's post office address.

Very respectfully,
H Clay Evans
Commissioner.

Mr. Henry Cadle,
Bethany, Missouri.

(Stamped, round containing: PENSION B U.  FEB 3 1898 S. OFFICE.)
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OFFICE OF SECRETARY
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883 and Exegi monumentum aere perennius

Missouri Society. K
Bethany, Mo., Jan., 31st 1898.

Hon. H. Clay Evans,
Commissioner of Pension,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:- - 

Replying to your favor of the 14th., would may that I desire this information for Mr. G. G. Parry of St Joseph, Missouri, a Great-grandson of John Kercheval.

I am, 
Very truly yours,

Henry Cadle

PENSION B  U. FEB 3 1898 S. OFFICE
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(Stamped, round containing: PENSION DU. JAN 8 1898 S. OFFICE)

(Stamped, rectangle containing: OLD WAR & NAVY JAN 10 1898 FILES.)
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OFFICE OF SECRETARY

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883 and Exegi monumentum aere perennius

Missouri Society. K

Bethany, Mo., Jan.,5th 1898.

Hon. H. Clay Evans,

Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:- - 

I will thank you to give me the military history of John Kercheval, who was placed on the pension rolls of Mason County, Kentucky for services in the Revolutionary War.

I am,
Very truly yours,

Henry Cadle

PENSION B U. FEB 3 1898 S. OFFICE
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11. 195
Kentucky
Elizabeth Kerchival
widow of John Kerchival
who died on the 21st October 1823
of Medford Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Va continental line for

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents
annum, to commence on the 4th day of
per March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of
November 1857 and sent to Claimant Bridgeport

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim,}
Act July 7,1838}

Recorded by A H Marklund Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 1 Page 371
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9092
Kentucky
Elizabeth Kercheval
widow of John
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of sixty Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of Nov 1837and sent to claimant Bridgeport Ky.

[Acts of March3, 1842, & June 17, 1844]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 182
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Mrs Kirchevals Affidavit

Mr, S. J. Tribue
Frankfort Ky

SEP 16 KY,

paid 3
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Woodford Cty Midway Sept 15th 1881

Mr S J Tribue

Dr Sir

I will state to you that my Fathers name was John he came to Kentucky at an early day from
Virginia I have heard him say that he belonged to the Troops of the Virginia line in the Revolutionary war and I have heard him and his old companions in arms when they called on him frequently speaking of their services in the war 

Respectfully yours
Wm Kercheval

William Kercheval Says that he believes the foregoing statement are true

Wm Kercheval

Sworn to before me by William Kercheval
This 15th day of September 1856

A. H. Summer J.P.