Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 6379, John Zinn, Va.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE

Va.

John Zinn
Nancy

NUMBER
W6379
B.L.Wt. 34520-160-55.
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CONTENTS
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194747 Act Mar 3'd
???20/53
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Nancy Zinn wife
John Zinn
Private
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Cap. Redder
Col. Logan} Ky. Mil.
Enl.
Dis.

Revolutionary War
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Rec'd Pension
Ky.  Feb'y 48-3380
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??: 160 Ac July 11/06
B ???

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C. W. Bennett.          Vol Z=131
Present
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3380
Kentucky Louisville
Nancy Zinn--
widow of John Zinn--
Va. who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3rd February, 1853.
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 Certificate of Pension issued the 
31st day of Dec'r /53
and sent to 
C. W. Bennett
Present
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853 Page 179 Vol. A

(321)

opposite page
749747
hon. J. W. Stevanson, March 18, 1858.
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[illegible] 25.825
John Zinn
of Grant Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Riddle of the [illegible] commanded
by [illegible] in the [illegible]
be for [illegible] Va
[illegible] $80.00
Inscribed in the Roll of Ky
at the rate if 80 Dollars/0 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of June
and [illegible]
13 [illegible]
[illegible] to the [illegible]
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] 40.00
$80.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J T Sprague Clerk,
Book C Vol. 7 Page 35
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State of Kentucky}
Grant County Court} June term 1858
On this 13th day of June eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared before the [illegible] Grant County Court Mrs Nancy Zinn a resident of Grant County State of Kentucky aged 67 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 3d February 1853
That she is the widow of John Zinn deceased who was a revolutionary soldier and late pensioner of the United States who was pensioned under the Act of 7 June 1832, at eighty dollars a year as a private of the Virginia militia, that her husband the sd John Zinn at the time of her marriage to him and thence until his death resided in Grant County Kentucky, his pension was paid at Louisville agency some few years before his death, originally at Lexington. She further declares that she was married to the sd John Zinn in the county of Pendleton on the 16th day of January [crossed out 1844] in the year eighteen hundred and forty four 
That her husband the sd John Zinn died in Grant County State of Kentucky on the day of April 1847. That she was married to him at the time above stated She further swears that she was a widow at the time of the passage of the Act, and is still a widow
Nancy her X mark Zinn
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year above written
O. P. Hagan P.J. [illegible] G.C.
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State of Kentucky}
County of Grant} Set
On this 22nd day of July 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the peace within and for the county aforesaid William C. Collins who being duly sworn according to law, states that he lived a neighbor to John Zinn the husband of Nancy Zinn whose declaration this accompanies many years before his death that sd John Zinn died in Grant County Kentucky to the best of his recollection in April 1847. And that sd Nancy Zinn is still a widow
William C. Collins
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that William C. Collins is a man of veracity
B M. Emery JPGC
State of Kentucky}
Grant County} Set
I hereby certify that O P Hogan who has Subscribed his name to the foregoing declaration was at the time of so doing the presiding Judge of Grant County court and that sd declaration was made in open court at the June term 1853 I further certify that B H Evans before whom the affidavit of Wm C. Collins was made was at the time is was made an acting Justice of the Peace for sd County duly commissioned and Sworn and that the Signature hereto purporting to be his is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal our court this 13th October 1853
H. Woodyard Clerk
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Affidavit of Henry Thompson
who states on oath that he was acquainted with Nancy Zinn widow of John Zinn late pensioner of the United States before her marriage to sd John Zinn that her name was before her sd marriage Nancy Mullikin that she is the identical person called Nancy Mullikin in the copy of the marriage certificate of the Rev Jesse Robinson bearing date the 16th January 1844 and certified by H. Woodyard on the 13th day of October 1853 which copy is now before him and is referred to as part hereof that John Zinn died in Grant County about five years ago he can not state the exact time and that Nancy Zinn is still a widow and that he has no interest in the prosecution of this claim
Henry Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of December 1853. And I certify that Henry Thompson is a citizen of Grant County Kentucky and the late presiding Judge of Grant County successor of the Hon. O P Morgan and is a man of unimpeachable veracity
B H Evans [illegible]
State of Kentucky}
County of Grant} Set
I Henry Woodyard Clerk of the Grant County Court certify that Bennet H Evans before whom the foregoing affidavits of Wm Oneal and the Hon. Henry Thompson were made is an acting Justice of the peace for Grant County duly commissioned and sworn and that [caret] the signature hereto purporting to be his is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our court this 21st day of December 1853
H. Woodyard Clerk
By J. B. Woodyard D.C
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Affidavit of Henry Thompson
who states on oath that he was acquainted with Nancy Zinn widow of John Zinn late pensioner of the United States before her marriage to John Zinn that her name was before her sd marriage Nancy Mullikin that she is the identical person called Nancy Mullikin in the copy of the marriage certificate of the Rev Jesse Robinson bearing date the 16th January 1844 and certified by H. Woodyard on the 13th day of October 1853 which copy is now before him and is referred to as part hereof that John Zinn died in Grant County about five years ago he can not state the exact time and that Nancy Zinn is still a widow and that he has no interest in the prosecution of this claim
Henry Thompson
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of December 1853. And I certify that Henry Thompson is a citizen of Grant County Kentucky and the late presiding Judge of Grant County successor of the Hon. O P Morgan and is a man of unimpeachable veracity
B H. Evans [illegible]
State of Kentucky}
County of Grant} Set
I Henry Woodyard clerk of the Grant County Court certify that Bennet H Evans before whom the foregoing affidavits of Wm Oneal and the Hon. Henry Thompson were made is an acting Justice of the peace for Grant County duly commissioned and sworn and that [caret] the signature hereto purporting to be his is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our court this 21st day of December 1853
H. Woodyard Clerk
By J. B. Woodyard D.C.
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State of Kentucky
Grant County Clerks office
on the 9 day of January 1844
John Zinn obtained Marriage License from this office to intermarry with Nancy Mullikin and on the 24 January 1844 the following Certificate was returned
This is to Certify the Clerk of Grant County that I Joine in Marriage John Zinn & Nancy Mullikin on the 16, day of January 1844
Jesse Robinson
 State of Kentucky
Grant County Set
I, H. Woodyard Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy from the record in my office also that I was well acquainted with Jesse Robinson whose name appears to the above Certificate and that he was authorized By Same to Joine in Marriage
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of our Said Court this 13 day of Octation 1853
H. Woodyard Clerk
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31,156
Wm H. N. Drake
Sends this 
to R M Johnson
from 1780 for = 2 yrs
H80
Hon. R. M. Johnson
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State of Kentucky}
Grant County } SS
On this 12th day of May 1834 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the County Court of Grant now sitting John Zinn a resident of the county of Grant and State of Kentucky aged about seventy one 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 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say He arrived in the month of January 1780 at a Station under Riddle Station which is situated at or near the junction of  Hinston and Stoner which formes what is called the south fork of Lickin River the place of the Station being now in the county of Bourbon and State of Kentucky but then in the district of Kentucky and State of Virginia And was immediately enroled as a minute man in the Militia of the State of Virginia under the command of Captain Isaac Riddle, Leutenant Casper Casner, and an Ensign whose name is not now distinctly recollected but he thinks his name was David Patton He does not know to what Regiment he belonged nor who was the [illegible] officers of the same as during his [caret] service
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there was not any field officer [caret] at the said Station nor was there any other company there save the one to which [caret] he belonged but he has understood that Colonel Benjamin Logan was the Colonel of the Regiment but he can not say whether he ever understood so before his return from captivity.  
Some time in [caret] the latter part of the month of February 1780 in consequence of a suspission of being attacted by the Indians the aforesaid Captain Riddle called on this declarant to enter upon Military duty and this declarant did immediately in a regular manner enter upon the same and served under the said Riddle with the aforesaid Leutenant and Ensign in the aforesaid Riddles Station (he at the time residing in said Station) and continued so to serve until as well as this declarant now recollects [caret] until the 24th day of June 1780 or near that time his service consisted in guarding the Station and hunting for the support of the Station say he guard his turns and hunted his turns there was however some times during the aforesaid period that the guarding was very slack rather a guarding in name than a guarding in fact but this declarant considered himself as regularly in the service all of the aforesaid time and actually under the orders of his officers On or about the 11th day of March 1780 as well as this declarant can now recollect the Indians attacked the said Station at or near day break and continued to operate
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against the Station until late in the night and succeeded in wounding one man only [crossed out who was] named Andrew Beard who was shot in the right side of the breast and the ball lodged inside of the skin on the back and Captain Riddle cut it out and he recovered  
The Indians although they did not succeed in killing any persons in the Station did succeed in killing a number of Cattle, Sheep and a few dogs and carried off a number of horses 
On or about (as well as this declarant can now recollect) the 24th day of June 1780, Captain Byrd of the British Service accompanied by about 130 or 200 British regulars, two pieces of cannon and near about 500 Indians arrived and attacked the said Riddles Station Beginning the attack about sunrise and ending about three Oclock when the forces in the Station surrendered There was no one in the Station either killed or wounded before the surrender but as this declarant was informed by others there was some 3 or 4 who was old and sick killed by the Indians afterward On the day after the surrender aforesaid the British and a part of the Indians marched for Martins Station which they succeeded in taking as this declarant afterwards learned from prisoners who said they were taken on said Martins Station and
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also from the British Soldiers he learned the same facts At the time that the British set out for Martins Station the prisoners taken at Riddles Station (say about fifty or sixty effective men bound to Military duty and between one hundred and one hundred and fifty others consisting of old men, women and children) was apportioned out in small parties among the Indians who was to proceed in small parties to Detroit this declarant and one other prisoner (soldier) was given in charge of three Indians who tied us and proceeded down the South Fork of Licking River to the mouth of Raven creek (by land) where we took bark canoes and decended the River to its mouth and crossed the Ohio River and landed about where Cincinnati Ohio now stands then we passed over by land to Detroit where we arrived near the first. Although we were tied when we first set out we were tied only about five or six days the balance of the way we were guarded without being tied. After this declarant had arrived at Detroit the others which had been taken at Riddles Station continued to some in detached parties for several weeks (this declarant does not think that all ever arrived) when the British Captain (Byrd) and his company together [caret] with some Indians arrived with the prisoners which they had taken at Martins Station (say about or near the same number which had been taken at Riddles Station) when all was kept
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guarded in a Ring of a Picketed fort for a considerable time / time not recollected when some thing like half was sent off to to the falls of Niagara and the balance was permitted to go to work for their support but was watched in such a manner as totally to put it out of their power [illegible] as we were to make our escape and if there was any who would not work for their support it was understood that they would be still confined but all who was left and work for their support so far as this declarant was informed we were scattered about among the inhabitants just in proportion as they could make our labour profitable to themselves  
Thus those of us who was left remained until about May 1781 when there was a considerable number of those who were left last fall taken on board of the shiping and was or was intended to be conveyed to Quebeck the balance still remaining as before still working for their support at Detroit and neighbourhoods but so arranged among the inhabitants as to make it impossible for them to leave and return home so that this declarant and those who remained was kept as prisoners of war until the close of the the Revolutionary war and until the news of peace reached Detroit which this declarant now thinks was some time in
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the year 1783 the period of the year not now recollected but when the news of peace did reach Detriot in an official manner this declarant as well as all of the other prisoners that remained were informed that they were at liberty to return home or remain at their pleasure and many did return so soon as they could obtain the means and some remained
This declarant and seventeen others after having obtained the means and provided themselves in such a manner as they thought they could with safety encounter the wilderness did on the 28th day of June 1784 set out for the United States (the names of all of the seventeen not now recollected) and traveled to the head waters of the Allegany and then down that stream until it could be navagated with canoes when we made bark canoes and then decended in the canoes to Pittsburgh where we seperated and went in different directions this declarant and four others decended the Ohio River to a place then called Lime Stone now Maysvill and then went by land to Lexington State of Kentucky where we arrived on the 14th day of August 1784 (the four who accompanied him was Richard Rue, Bery Cottingkon, Ransom Tinsley and Thomas McGuire) This declarant may not be considered as having been in actual service all of the time which he remained in the station from the time which he was first called on say from latter part of the month of February 1780 until the 24th
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day of June same year but he will say that he was regularly called and was actually in the service of the United States not less than two months and was while so in service and acting against the enemies of the United States taken a prisoner of war and detained as such until the close of the war and until the independence of the United States was acknowledged by Great Britain & until the news was [caret] officially received by the constituted authorities at Detroit to that this declarant will say that he served the United States as a private soldier in the year 1780 not [illegible] that two months and was taken a prisoner while [illegible] in the service of the United States and detained six months in the year 1780 and in the year 1781 twelve months and in the year 1782 twelve months so that in all he was in the said service two years and eight months leaving out the year 1783. It will be perceived that this declarant cannot give all of the dates but this cannot be expected as many years have passed since and this declarant not knowing that it would ever be of any advantage to him and not charge his memory with any of the events except such as was of such importance to him as to make a lasting impression on his mind. He has no record evidence of his services having received no discharge from his officers nor does he know of any person now living by whom he can prove all or any
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of his service except Michael Leonard and Elizabeth Franks neither of whom can I with any convenience have at court nor do I know whether (from their age and circumstances) they will be able to recollect the service circumstantially but I will procure their Depositions at a future day
He has no record of his age nor has he any other datta by which he can assertain his age except that his uncle John Link told him in February 1780 that he was over the age of sixteen therefore he must have been born in the year 1763 but the time of the year was not ever known to this Declarant which is the reason that he says that he is about seventy one years 
He was born in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania and [illegible] in same county and state with his father until he was about twelve years old when his uncle John Links took him to the county of Augusta State of Virginia and he has not seen his father since that time He remained in Augusta Virginia until about September 1779 when he moved with his said uncle to Ruddle Station then in the district of Kentucky [caret] State of Virginia now in Bourbon county Kentucky where he [illegible] in the month of January 1780 and where he entered the service and was taken prisoner as before stated and detained and he arrived at Lexington Kentucky from his captivity as before stated on the 14th of August 1784 where
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he remained until March 1783 when he removed to what is now Bourton County Kentucky where he remained until the month of March or April 1789 when he removed to what was then Pendleton County now Grant County and State of Kentucky where he has ever since resided and does now reside say forty five years
His services was in the Militia of Virginia
He never served with any other troops than the company to which he belonged consequently as he was taken a prisoner and remained until the war was over he never knew any of the regular officers or continental troops For the reputation in his neighbourhood of his having been a revolutionary Soldier he refers to the certificates which follows this declaration of James How and James Winnars of the county of Grant there being in my neighbourhood no clergy man whose attendence he can procure
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State or Teritory whatever
Sworn to and Subscribed }
the day and year aforesaid }
John Zinn
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We James How and James Winnars residing in the County of Grant and State of Kentucky hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Zinn who has Subscribed and Sworn the above declaration. That we believe him to be about Seventy one 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 and Subscribed } James How
the day and year aforesaid } James his X mark Winnars
[illegible] the [illegible] court do hereby declare their [illegible] after the [illegible] of the matter [illegible] of the [illegible] that the [illegible] was a Revolutionary Soldier [illegible]. And the court further certifies that [illegible] James Zinn [illegible] that James How and James Winnars [illegible] certificate as residents of the county of Grant and State of Kentucky and that they on oath [illegible]

Clerk of the Grant County Court do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Zinn for a pension
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[illegible]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 27th day of May A.D. 1834.
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BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF 3d MARCH, 1855.
Claim (No. ___)
OF
Nancy Zinn
194747
C. W. BENNETT,
ATTORNEY,
H, Corner of 11th street,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
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State of Kentucky }
County of Grant } SS.
On this 12th day of July A. D. 1855, before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Nancy Zinn aged 70 years, a resident of a Pendleton in the County of Pendleton and State of Kentucky who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Zinn deceased, who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Riddle in the regiment of Ky. [caret] (Va Mil) Militia commanded by Col. Logan in the War [crossed out: with] of the Revolution
That her husband entered the service at [illegible] ___ about the ___ day of ___ A.D. 18__ ; for the term of ___ and continued in actual service in said War, for the term of ___ and was honorably discharged at ___ on the ___ day of ___ A.D. 18__: as will appear by his declaration Act 1832 on file 
She further states that she was married to the said John Zinn in Pendleton County and State of Kentucky on the ___ day of January A.D. 1844 by one Jesse Roberson a ___; and that her name before her said marriage was Nancy Mullikin that her husband died in Grant County Ky on the 17th day of April A.D. 1847, and that she is still his widow, as will appear by the public record of her marriage on file with her claim for the pension under Act of 3d Feby. 1853 which she now receives at the Louisville Ky Agency  
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled on account of said service, and mileage under the Act passed 3d March 1855 [crossed out: she also declares that she has received a Warrant for Bounty Land, ciz. No. ___ for ___ acres: under Act of ___ which she has since legally disposed of and cannot now return.]  That she has never applied for, or received under this or any other Act of Congress, any Bounty Land Warrant. [crossed out: except the one above mentioned.]
She hereby appoints C. W. Bennett, of Washington, D. C. her true and lawful Attorney, with power of substitution, to prosecute this her claim for land, to receive the Certificate or Warrant when issued, and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises.
Witness, William H Morgan  14
Nancy Her X mark Zinn
Sworn to and Subscribed before me, on the day and year first above mentioned, and I hereby certify that I know the said deponent Nancy Zinn to be as is above stated, and that she is of the age above stated; and further, that I am not interested in this her claim as Attorney or otherwise.
William H. Morgan JPGC
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[crossed out: State of ___ } County of ___ } SS. On this ___ day of ___ A. D. 18__, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized to administer oaths, ___ a resident of said County, to me well known as a credible witness, and who, being by me first duly sworn, doth on his oath state that he is acquainted with Mrs. ___, the above applicant for Bounty Land--that he has known her for ___ years last past, that he has examined her family record--that he believes the same to be genuine--that it is contained in a book purporting to be the "___" and printed in the year ___; and that the said record, as far as relates to the marriage of the said applicant and the soldier above named, and of his death, is as follows, which is an exact copy of the same: ___ and that the said deponent is not interested in the claim. Subscribed and Sworn to, the day and year first above written, before me, and I certify that I am in no manner interested. ___ Justice of the Peace.}]
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State of Kentucky}
County of Grant }  SS.
Town of ___ } 
On this 12th day of July A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County Seth Doud and Priscilla P. Morgan who are to me well known, and who are credible witnesses, and who being by me duly sworn, depose and say, that they are each well acquainted with Mrs. Nancy Zinn the above applicant for Bounty Land -- that they have known her for 15 years last past. That they were acquainted with John Zinn her late husband, having known him for about 20 years previous to his death; that they, the said John Zinn and Nancy Zinn, lived together as husband and wife, and were reputed so to be, that deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned. That the said John Zinn died on the Seventeenth day of April 1847; and the said Nancy Zinn has been since that day, and still is reputed to be his widow, which deponents believe to be the fact. That she has never married since her said husband's death, and still is his widow, and that her said husband was the identical man mentioned as a soldier named in her  declaration above, and further, that they were present and saw Nancy Zinn execute the foregoing affidavit by Her, making Her mark to the foregoing declaration, and making oath thereto in due form of law, and further, that they, deponents, do reside in the County aforesaid.
Witness, William H. Morgan
Seth Doud
Prisilla P Morgan    
Sworn to and Subscribed before me, this 12th day of July A.D. 1855,
William H. Morgan, JPGC
State of Kentucky }
County of Grant } SS.
I Hereby Certify, that William H. Morgan Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signatures thereto are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of [illegible] Court, for the County aforesaid, this 13th day of July 1855
B. M. Carter Clerk of Grant Co Court
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1915 July 20. Hist to T. C. Buxton. aw
1915 Dec. 8. Hist to T. C. Buxton aw

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6379
Nancy Zinn
Wid
John Zinn
Privt Rev War
Act: Feb 3d 1853
Index:-Vol. M, Page 375
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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[illegible]
MEMBER OF COMMITTEES ON
FARM DRAINAGE
JUDICIAL APPORTIONMENT
MUNICIPALITIES
ROADS
BRIDGES
[Illinois State Seal]
FORTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
STATE OF ILLINOIS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
T. C. BUXTON
626 POWERS BUILDING
DECATUR
Decatur Ill
July 16 - 1915
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
Dear Sir--
Were any one of the following named persons in the Revolutionary War of 1776,----
Michael Krout, Pa,       Frederick G Krout Pa
Adam Krout,     "          Micheal Krout Pa
David Krout, Pa,           Micheal G Krout Pa
Henry Krout Pa            John Krout, Pa
Daniel Krout Pa,           Spangler Krout Pa
George Caslow Pa        David Zinn Pa
Adam Fraisher, Pa.       Daniel Zinn Pa
Christian Gerber Pa      William Zinn 
William H Ruth Pa        W6379-John Zinn
John J Rebert Pa           David Zinn
John C Frick Pa             Jacob Zinn
Adam Mickey, Pa          Phineas Strope
William K Mickey Pa     All from the state of Pa.
Micheal Goutz Pa
Noah Goutz Pa
Albert K Smith Pa
Humphry Miller Pa.
James Hartman Pa
Samual Krout Pa
If you can give me this information I will be obliged
Yours truly
T. C Buxton

[stamp]
[illegible] SION
JUL
19
[illegible]

Not one of the above found on our records except John Zinn W6379
See reply to Mr Buxton relative to above soldiers attached
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July 20, 1915.
Hon. T. C. Buxton.
626 Powers Building,
Decatur, Ills.
Sir:
In response to your letter which was received on the 19" instant, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the record of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file for George Caslow, Adam Fraisher, Christian Gerber, William H. Ruth, John J. Rebett or Rebert, John C. Frick, Adam and William K. Mickey, Albert K. Smith, Humphrey Miller, Phineas Strope and James Hartman or for any soldier named Krout, Goutz or Zinn, except John Zinn, Wid, File No. 6,379, whose history is herewith furnished you.
 Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

[illegible] of Illinois legislature
See Mr Buxton's letter in 
John Zinn W 6379
[illegible]
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Record
Member of Committees on Farm Drainage, Judicial Apportionment, Municipalities and Roads and Bridges.
[Illinois State Seal]
FORTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
STATE OF ILLINOIS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
T. C. BUXTON
626 Powers Building
Decatur,
Pension Dept.
Washington D. C.
Dear Sirs--Will you kindly give me [illegible] Copy of the Application of John Zinn for pension dated May 12th 1834.
If it is too long will you give me the following--
Was he married----at that time?
Was he a widower.
What was his wife's name?
If these do not appear in application kindly advise, me.
But hope you will send copy of Application for Pension.
Yours truly
T. C Buxton
Nov 29-1915
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Washington D.C.
Dec. 24, 1853.
Honl. L. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions Sir.
I have the honor to enclose herewith the application of Mrs. Nancy Zinn widow of John Zinn decd. a late Pensioner under Act of 1832 upon Somerville Roll, Ky, at $80 per annum, with which I enclose proof of marriage and identity.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
C. W. Bennett
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[illegible] April [illegible]
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34.520
[illegible]
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V Pen: Off:
29th Dec: /53.
Sir,
Please Certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, or the date of his date.
Very Respectfully,
S. Cole
for the Commissioner.
John Zinn, Act 1832.
$80 per Annum, Dec'd 17th
April 1847, paid
F. Bush
Auditor
Francis Bush, Esquire
Third Auditor [illegible]
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answer me &
oblige
Rh M Johnson
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Wms Town Grant Co. Ky.
May 28th 1834
Dear friend
Accompaning this you will receive the declaration of John Zinn
Be pleased to present it to the pension office and have it passed as soon as possible and forward the certificate to me at Falmouth Ky.
The applicant is in great nead.
Yours respectfully
W. H. S. Drake
Hon R. M. Johnson
I will write to you soon
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Brief in the case of Nancy Zinn, Widow of John, 
Grant County and State of Kentucky,
act 3". F'bry: 1853,
Claim, ("original," [or "for increase." crossed out])
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of June, 1832.
Record Evidence of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
C.W.Bennett, Esq.
[illegible]
Name and residence of Agent
H. Wright,
Examining Clerk.
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H of Representatives
16 March 1858
George C Whiting Esq
Court of Pensions
Sir,
May I ask that you will respond to the enquiries in the letter 
of Jno E Reind herewith enclosed.
 Please return the letter of my correspondent with your reply
Very Respy
J. W Stevenson
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We the undersigned having heard [illegible] the declaration of John Zinn of Grant county Kentucky made before the county court of Grant on the 12th day of May 1834, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said John Zinn and was so acquainted at the time Ruddles Station was taken and do distinctly recollect that said Zinn was a soldier as he has stated and that while he was so a soldier and under army he was taken a prisoner of war as he has stated in his declaration and detained until the close of the Revolutionary War. Given under our hands this 27th day of May 1834
Michael his X mark Leonard
Elizabeth her X mark Franks
State of Kentucky}
Grant County} sch
I Thomas L. Mackoy a Justice of the Peace in and for said county do hereby certify that this day personally appeared before me Michael Leonard and Elizabeth Franks and made oath in [illegible] form of law that the above certificate (to which their names are signed) containes the truth to their knowledge Given under my hand this 27th day of May 1834
Thos L Mackoy J.P.Esq.
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Commonwealth of Ky}
Grant County} SS
I, W. M. Tenable Deputy clerk for J. H. B. Smith clerk to the court for the county afs. do certify that Thos. L. Mackoy whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same [Presiding crossed out] a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn [illegible] to law and as such full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts.
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 28th day of May 1834.
W. M. Tenable D. Clerk
for J. H. B. Smith Clerk.