Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8528, for Stephen Pratt, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE: Va.

Pratt, Stephen
Sarah

NUMBER: W.8528

CONTENTS:
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22.227
Kentucky

Stephen Pratt of Wayne Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the co [illegible] commanded by Captain Helm of the regt. commanded by Col. Lynch in the Va line for 9 months. 

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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 30 dollars 0 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of [crossed out: sept] Oct 1833 and [handwritten] William Simpson Monticello
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept '33 
Semi-ani. allowance ending 4 March '34 

$ 75 -
$ 15 - 
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$90
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 22
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13.394

[underlined] S. Pratt

Stephen Pratt's 
[underlined] Declaration
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State of Kentucky
Wayne County 

County Court September Term 1832

On this 25th day of September in the year aforesaid personally appeared before the Worshipful Justices of the County Court now siting [sic] which is a court of record. Stephen Pratt, a resident citizen of the county of Wayne county and state of Kentucky aged as he believes from his best information 68 years, 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 the 7th day of June 1832 that he entered the serve of the United States ^ in the militia sometime in the month of February The precise time of the month not recalled, and in the year 1781 he entered said service as a volunteer [in margins] private soldier in the county of Bedford in the State of Virginia under Capt. Thomas Helm and John Calloway our mayor and Charles Lynch our [crossed out: mayor] Col and [in margins: 3 months] march on toward North Carolina and crossed Stanton River and crossed Dan River and went on through the country in various places until we found General Greens army not many miles from where Guilford
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Battle was fought, but was separated from him and then remained mostly to ourselves but was with him at times finally camped nearly at the Battle ground the night previous to the to the fight he states that the morning on the day of the fight that he was by order of his Col. appointed one of the bagage [sic] guard. He was not in the Battle was in sight and as the waggons [sic] moved off from the fighting saw the smoke from the fireing [sic] for some distance camped that night at a place called Frost Iron works if I am not mistaken, remained there two or three day with the waggons untill [sic] the dead were buried and then followed the enemy untill [sic] they crossed Deep River staid [sic: stayed] there a few days was dismissed then by our Mayor John Calloway, our Captain being killed in the battle. He then returned home to Bedford County. Received no written discharge from his service. [Crossed out] He states that he served three months in the above mentioned tower [sic]. He states that in a short time thereafter he was substituted in place of a certain  Lewis Franklim [Franklin?] who was called on to serve a three months tower [sic] ^ as a private soldier in the militia in the County & State aforesaid and marched under Captain Jacob Early and went the direct road from Bedford County to Richmond and went on down the
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and crossed Chickahoany [sic: Chikahominy] Swamp and thence to the camps at a place called the Mobin Hills [sic: Malvern Hills] and there I changed officers with a man that was under Thomas Leftwich and the man whom he changed put under Captain Early with the consent of both Captains at our request -- joined General Lawson's army at Mobin hills [sic]. He guarded the hospital near that place staid [sic] there some weeks, a great part of our regiment was detached from Lawson and went on to a place on Pamunky [sic: Pamunkey] River where there was a Tobacco inspection and a little town.  He thinks the place was called Newcastle and then marched to a place of some old fields the name not recollected, and was there discharged had a written discharg[e] from Captain Thomas Leftwich for a three month tower [sic] having served the time out and then returned home to Bedford County. He states that in a few days after he was substituted in the place of a certain William Dunwoody who was a private in the militia who was called out of Captain Dickson's company to guard the magazine at New London and he there remained there guarding the same in place of said Dunwoody there was some few men there that was called Continental Men they were making cartridges under the care and superintendence of Nathaniel Reid. He states he remained and served there the full term of three months, there was a certain Daniel Hilly who was the officer of the guard
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and had the entire control of the men that were there, there was but a small squad of them there, not more than about fifteen or twenty men they remained there some weeks after the Surrender of Cornwallis [19 October 1781] he recollects that some of the men stopped and stayed all night at the place where we camped that had been at the siege at York they were on their way home. He was finally dismissed by [crossed out: the] Sergeant Hilly had no written discharge and then went home having served three towers [sic] and was making in the whole nine months (if the first [crossed out: tower] trip counted for a full tower [sic] having lacked about one month's of being in service three months the first time). He was out which he states was the end of his services. He states that he was born in Bedford County Virginia and there was raised and stayed there lived until about sixteen years ago, then moved to Powels Valley East Tennessee and there lived about two years and then moved to Wayne County Kentucky where he has lived ever since. He has never had any record of his age, his discharge is lost and has no documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity
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except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, -- 
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid

S/ Stephen Pratt

We James Turner, John Turner, and Nathan Dabney, residing in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Stephen Pratt, who has sworn to & subscribed the above Declaration that we believe him to be 67 or [6]8 years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 

S/ James Turner
S/ John Turner
S/ Nathan Dabney

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the mater, and after ruling
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the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above-mentioned applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states: and the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that James Turner, John Turner, Nathan Dabney, who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Wayne County, and are credible persons. That their statement is entitled to credit --

[illegible] 
of Wayne County by Court

State of Kentucky
County of Wayne

I William Simpson, Clerk of the County Court of Wayne County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Stephen Pratt for a pension. 
On testimony whereof I have hereunto sit my hand and private seal having no seal of office on yet provided this 24th day of Sept 1832.

S/ Wm Simpson Clk

[left-aligned seal "LS"]
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I do certify that the signatures of William Simpson to the certificate of the within declaration is his true signature & he is the Clerk of the County Court of the County of Wayne. 
May 28th 1833

S/ Nathan Saither [Gaither?]

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5362 
Kentucky
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Sarah Pratt 
widow of Stephen Pratt 
who was a Private
in the Virginia Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Apr 1844 and sent to Hon. G.A. Caldwell 
[illegible] of.Repr.
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[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 172.

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[illegible] 20 Apr 44
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8127
Sarah Pratt 
of Stephen
Kentucky

Act 7 July 38

aomo [amount?]
9 mohri [9 months?]
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$30

7583
3775

Hon. G.A. Caldwell
H.R.

[vertical]
Sarah Pratt
Declaration de
No 8727
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benifit [sic] of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows.

State of Kentucky
Wayne County 

On this 14th day of December 1841 personally appeared Sara Pratt before me William P. Henden a Justice of the Peace of Wayne County Kentucky that said [underlined] Sarah Pratt a resident in the county of Wayne [underlined] aged 68 years old September past 

who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benifit [sic] of the pension made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled, an act granting half pay & pension to certain widows. 

That she is this widow of [underlined] Stephen Pratt who was a private in the army of the Revolution, & she believes princepally [sic] in the militia service. She further declares that she was married to the said [underlined] Stephen Pratt on the 1st day of September the years Seventeen hundred and eighty three in Bedford County, State of Virginia. That her husband the aforesaid Stephen Pratt [underlined] died on the 13th day of March 1841. That she was not married to him prior to him leaving the service; But- the marriage took place
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previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz as the time above stated and that she is now a widow. Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above mentioned before me. I further certify that the above applicant cannot well attend the court, from bodily infirmity. 

S/ W.P. Harden J.P
S/ Sarah Pratt her x mark

The said Sarah Pratt further states that she has no regular record of the marriage of her and her husband that the family record has been destoryed [sic]. But that she thinks she can prove the said marriage of her husband and her self by old [illegible] James Turner with the state of the same, that she has had ten children her oldest child Nancy Pratt, now Nancy Kinnet was born the 23rd day of October 1790. That the certificate her husband before [illegible] 4th March [Note: Stephen received pension at rate of $30/annum commencing 4 March 1831]. Likewise sworn to and subscribed this 14th day of December 1841 before me. 

S/ W. P. Narden[?] J.P
S/ Sarah Pratt her x mark

James Turner came before me on the said day and year and made oath that he was well acquainted with Sarah Pratt and her husband and he was at the marriage in Bedford County  state of Virginia in the fall her children the 1st day of September of the year 1783. I further certify that the said James Turner is a man of undoubted credit, and I have good reason to believe his statement. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of December 1841

S/ W.P. Narden[?]
S/ James Turner
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Like wise Abel Shriusbury and [illegible] Garth came before me on the said 14th day of December 1841 and made oath that they are and have been well acquainted with the said Sarah Pratt and Stephen Pratt in his lifetime and they have always [illegible; due to ink smear] and believe they were married in the State of Virginia as the said Sarah Pratte states upon her oath. [Crossed out] Further stated said person subscribed to this certificate are person of good character and of undoubtable credibility. 

Likewise sworn to and subscribed on the day and year afs. before me

S/ W.P. Narden[?] J.P.
S/ Abel Shriusbury 
S/ Roalf[?] Garth

I William Simpson Clerk of Cty Court of Wayne County, do hereby certify that the William P. Harden is a Justice of the Peace of Wayne County Kentucky and that full credit aught [sic] to be given to all his official acts as such. On testimony whereof I have [illegible] unto sit my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid to wit the 14th day of December 1841. 

S. W. Simpson Clerk 
of the Court of 
Wayne County
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Mark Pratt

[illegible]
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Charles Pratt was born December 20th 1804.
Charles Pratt [illegible] command you may your  mind. From many men of many mines 
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[cut off]..born September 16 179_ [page ripped] son John was born February [illegible] day 1800---

Cornelius [illegible] Pratt son of Stephen Pratt and Sary [Sarah] his wife was born in the year of our lord 1802 May

Charles was born December the 20 1804
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[top half]

[illegible] Stephen Pratt his father did die March the 17th day 1796---

his mother dide [sic] August 1795

mealley[?] did die April 24th, 1797

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[bottom half]

Mark Pratt
Mark Pratt   Mark Pratt
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Stephen Pratt was married September the first day 1791 his daughter Nancy was born October 22 [23] 1792 

Permealley[?] was born December the 7th day ... 1794
Lucy was born September 179[6] [page ripped]

his son John was born February [illegible] day 1800 ---

Cornelius [illegible] Pratt son of Stephen Pratt and Sary [Sarah] his wife was born in the year of our lord 1802 May

Charles was born December the 20 1804
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13.394 
Stephen Pratt

from 1781 private
9 months
$30

William Simpson
Monticello
Kentucky
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13.394
BRIEF in the case of Stephen Pratt 
County of Wayne in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?    Court 

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? -- 

3. How old is he?    68. 

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

[begin table] 
| Period | Duration of Service | Rank | Name of General and Field Officers under whom he served | }
|Vol. in 1781 Feb. | not stated precisely | private | Capt. T. Helm, Maj. Calloway, Col. C. Lynch, Gen. Greene | } 
|Sub. - - | 3 months | " | Capt. S. Carly & Capt. T. Leftwich, Genl. Lawson | } 
| [illegible] - - | 3 months | Capt. Daxon & Daniel Kilby | } 
[end table] 

5. In what battles was he engaged?    none 

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?    County of Bedford, Va. 

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?    Traditionary 

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?     The Clerk has no public seal of office, and his official character is not certified. 

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

S/ S. Waugh Examining Clerk
Feb. 18 1833
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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
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File No. 8528
Sarah Pratt
Wid. of Stephen Pratt
Pri. Va. line
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Act: Mch, 3 ,,743 [?]
Index:-- Vol. M, Page 140 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Sarah Pratt of Stephen 
Kentucky
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Rejected
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See letter of Jany [January] 1842 R. Garth.

was not a widow under after passage of act 7 July 1838

Act of 7 July 1838
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5721    April 13 1844
Ry 
Sarah Pratt 
3 March 1843

$30 per an

Hon. G.A. Cadwell
House of Repr.
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State of Kentucky
Wayne County

On this the 25th day of March 1844 Personally appeared before me Sourrere Popplewell an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs Sarah Pratt is resident of Kentucky in the County of Wayne aged about seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth are her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 3rd day of March 1843 granting pensions to the widows of certain persons who served in the Revolutionary War towit that she is the widow of Stephen Pratt who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution and she thinks belonged to the Virginia line of troops and an account of his services as soldier in said War he was granted a pension at the rate of $30 per annum and that she on account of his d'd service has received a pension under the act of Congress passed 7 Jully 1838 at the rate of $30 per annum and which was of only five years continuance, and to the evidence obtained in the papers [illegible] the application of her d'd husband for d'd pension granted him, and to that of her application for the aforesaid pension received by her she refers for such other facts as may be necessary in the investigation of her claim and that she still remains the unmarried widow of the aforesaid Stephen Pratt having never intermarried since his death. She respectfully pray that her claim may be allowed
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and that the [?] certificate of allowance be sent to William Trabue of Columbia Adair Cty Kentucky. Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid by me.

S/ Sarah Pratt her x mark

I the aforesaid Justice do certify that the foregoing declarant Ms Sarah Pratt is personally known to me and known to be the widow of Stephen Pratt, de'd and is the identical person who above a pension under the act of 7th July 1838 of $30 per annum and she is a Lady of respectability and all her statements intitled [sic] to full credit and she still remains the unmarried widow of the d'd Stephen Pratt Dec'd in testimony where of I hearunto subscribe my name this 25 day of March 1844.
S. Sourner Popplewell J.P.

State of Kentucky
Wayne County Court
I William Simpson clerk of the county court for the court aforesaid do certify that Sourner Popplewell [illegible] whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is a magistrate as above and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine 

On testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this 25th day of March 1844

S/ W. Simpson 
Clerk of the Court of Wayne County
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Kentucky 7983
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Sarah Pratt 
widow of Stephen Pratt
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832
and who died on the 13th March 1841
of Wayne Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Helm of the Regiment commanded by Col. Lynch in the Virginia line for 9 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of thirty Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of December 1842 and sent to Hon. G.A. Caldwell, House of Representatives
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Total Amount, 
$150.00

[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by Geo. C. Ames Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 375
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[illegible] 

J.L. Edwards
Company of Pensions 
{ Washington Cty.
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Wayne County Kty May 29th 1833

Sir--

I send you the declaration of Stephen Pratt, amended or written entirely new accompanied { by old or original declaration - when [illegible] the declaration anew, I did not think it necessary to return the original one, but some have thought it best - I have some[?] so you will please mend to it  and let me know its fate as soon as convenient as the clerk has no publick [sic] seal yet. I have gotten Nathan Gaither, the member of Congress from the Districk [sic] to certify and [illegible] to the regulations of your Department

[illegible] 
James Rapier
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9853

Stephen

Hon. G.A. Caldwell
HOR
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State of Kentucky
Wayne County

On this the 25th day of November 1843 Personally appeared before me Sourrer Popplewell an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky Mrs. Sarah Pratt a resident of said county aged seventy-two years and who after 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 an act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838 Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. Also the benefit of an act passed the 3rd day of March 1843 granting one years father pay to widdows [sic] of certain persons towit, that she is the widdow [sic] of Stephen Pratt who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and she thinks belonged to the Virginia line of troops and who on account of his service in said war, and in said line received a pension of $30..per annum and to the evidence composing the matter of the application of her said husband, for said pension she refurs [sic] for such facts and particulars as are nessisary [sic] in the investigation of her claim, she further declares that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim except on leaf of a book containing her family record as kept by her d'd husband and in his own handwriting which she hearwith [sic] files and makes the same a part of her declaration. She further declares that she was married to her said husband Stephen Pratt on the 1st day of Sept seventeen hundred and ninety one and that her said husband died on the 14th day of March 1841. She further declares that she at a previous date filed her declaration making application for a pension and to the evidence contained there in she refers for such as are in support of her claim. She further declares that she has never since the death of her said husband intermarried but still among his widdow [sic] and she now respectfully prays that her claim may be
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allowed under the said acts and that her certificate of allowance may be sent to her friend William Trabue in Columbia Adair County Kentucky. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before me.

S/ Sourrner Popplewell J.P.
S/ Sarah Pratt her x mark

I the foregoing subscribing Justice hereby certify that the declarant in the foregoing personally known to me and is a Lady of the first respectability and of undoubted verasity [sic] and all her statements is intitled [sic] to full faith and creddit [sic] I also know her to be the widdow [sic] of Stephen Pratt who drew a pension of $30 per annum and who died as before stated and that the d'd Sarah Pratt has never since the death of her d'd husband intermarried but still continues his widdow [sic] 25th Nov 1848 and that she is not able to appear in open court by reason of ill health and old age.
S/ Sourren Popplewell J.P

State of Kentucky, Wayne County [illegible]
November Term 1843

The declaration of Sarah Pratt for a pension certified on the 25th day of November 1843 by Sourren Popplewell a Justice of the Peace from said County being submitted to the Court, it doth approve his proceedings and acts in said case and hereby direct the clerk to endorse this approval on the papers.

I William Simpson Clerk of the County Court of Wayne County State of Kentucky certify that this above order is truly transcribed from the records in my office

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this 27th day of November 1843. 
S/ W. Simpson Clerk of the Court of Wayne County
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Stephen Pratt's
Declaration
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Dabney. James Turner & ohn Turner who lived in his neighborhood and county.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension rool [sic] of the agency of any state -
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court 

S/ Stephen Pratt

We [crossed out: William] James Lair a clergiman [sic] residing in the county of Wayne and State of Kentucky, and not far from the abovementioned Stephen Pratt and John Turner and Nathan Darby residing in the same county and state hereby certify, that we are well acquainted, with Stephen Pratt, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 68 years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  
S/ James Lair
S/ John Turner
S/ Nathan Dabney

and the said court do hereby declare these opinions, after the investigation of the mater, and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the
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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 James Lair- who has signed the preceeding [sic] certificate is a clergiman [sic], resident in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky and not far from the aforesaid applicant and that I [John] Turner and Nathan Dabney, who has also signed the same [illegible] residents in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky and not far from the aforesaid applicant and are a credible persons and that their statements [are] intitled [sic] to credit
S/ Robert Belshe presiding

Kentucky Wayne County Court
I William Simpson Clerk of the Court of the County of Wayne do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Stephen Pratt for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal having no seal of office as yet proceding [sic] this 28th May 1833
S/ William Simpson Clk

[affixed private seal of William Simpson]
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I do certify that the signature of William Simpson to the certifcate of this within declaration is his true signature and he is the Clerk of the County Court of Wayne County

May 28 1833
S/ Nathan Gaither
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State of Kentucky
County of Wayne

On this 27 day of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court (it being a court of Record) before the Justices of the Count of the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky, now sitting. Stephen Pratt, a resident of the United States of America, in the County of Wayne and State of Kentucky, aged 68 years, 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 the 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following names officers and served as herein stated- 
February in the year 1781 he volunteered as a private soldier in the militia of Virginia, in the County of Bedford and State of Virginia, under Thomas Helm and Captain John Calloway, Major and Charles Lynch the Colonel. He with the above named company marched on toward North Carolina, and crossed Slanton River, and Dan River, and went on through the County in various places untill [sic] they joined General Green, army, not many miles from where Guilford Battle was fought-
He states that in
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the morning of the day on which the battle of Guildford [sic] was fought, he was by order of the Col appointed one of the baggage guard-he was not in the battle-was in sight, and as the waggons [sic] moved off from the fighting, saw the smoke from the frieing [sic: firing] for some distance-

camped that night at a place called Frants[?] Iron Works, (if he is not mistaken) remained there two or three days with the waggons [sic], with the dead when buried, and then they followed the enemy untill [sic] they cross Deep River-staid [sic] there a few days-was dismissed there by our Mayor John Calloway-our Captain being killed in the battle-He then returned home to Bedford County, Virginia, where he resided when he entered the service aforesaid (1st tower [sic] 3 months)-He received no written discharge from the service-He states that he served three months in the abovementioned tower [sic]-

He states that in a short time thereafter, he was substituted in the place of a certain Levy Franklin, who was called on to serve a three month  tower [sic], as a private soldier in the militia in the county of Bedford and State of Virginia-and marched under Captain Jacob Early, and went the direct road from Bedford County to Richmond
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and went on down and crossed the Chickahomany [sic: Chickahominy] swamps and thence to the camps at a place called the Mobin Hills- and there he changed officers with a man that was under Thomas Leftwick, and the man for whom he was exchanged put under Capt Early. The exchange was made with the consent of both office at our request-joined General Lawson army at Mobin- He guarded the hospital near that place, staid [sic] there some weeks and a great part of our regiment was detached from Lawson, and went on to a place on the Pamunky river, where there was a Tobacco inspection and a little town, he thinks the place was called Newcastle- and then marched to a place of some old fields, the name not recalled, and was there discharged- had a written discharge (2nd tower [sic] 3 months) from Capt Thomas Leftwich for a three month tower [sic]- but has lost it or so mislaid it, that he can't find it- he states that he served three months in the above named tower [sic] and returned home to Bedford County Virginia-

He states that in a few days after-he returned home, he was substituted in the place of a certain William Dunwoody, who was a private in the militia of Virginia, who was called out of Captain Dixon's company, to guard the [illegible] at New London and he remained there guarding the same in the place of said Dunwoody.
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There were some few men there, who were called Continental men- they were making cartridges under the care and superintendance of Nathan Reid- he states that he remained there the full term of three months- there was a certain Daniel Hilly who was the officer of the guard, and had the entire control of the men there- there was but a small squad of them, not more than 15 ~ 20- they remained there some shorttime after the surrender of Cornwallis- he was finally dismissed by Sergant Hilly- had no written discharge, and then went home-

He states that he served as a private soldier three towers [sic], three months each time as aforesaid, making it all nine months- for which services he claims a pension-

He states, that he was born in Bedford County Virginia and was named there, and lived there, untill [sic] about sixteen years ago. Then moved to Powels Valley East Tennessee, and there lived about two years and then moved to Wayne County Ky, where he has lived ever since and now lives-

He states, that he has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure[?], by whom he can directly prove his service

He states, that he is known to Nathan