Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35755, Alexander Young, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Young Alexander
NUMBER
S. 35755
CONTENTS
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15.945
Kentucky
Alexander Young
of the Floyd County in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Brown of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Huger
in the Carolina line, for the term of 6 months
from 15 March 1776 to 17__
=
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 day of July 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Nov 1819
and sent to B Mills, Floyd County, Kentucky

Restored to the Roll on the 25 day of February
1828 and notification sent to Hon. H.  Daniel
House of Representatives
Pension commencing on the 24th of February 1828
Amount due on 4th of ---
September 1828
                                                             $51.48

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.
 Floyd County, Sct.
On this 21st day of July, 1818, before me the
subscriber, one of the Judges of the circuit court, in and for the state aforesaid, personally appeared Alexander Young aged sixty years -- who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following statement and  declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late law of Congress, entitled, ""an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that he is a citizen of the state of Kentucky, and resident in the county of Floyd
and that he was enlisted for fifteen months at Fort Charlotte in the state of South Carolina, on or about the 1st March 1776. by one Wm Hutton
and served in the company commanded by Captain John Brown of the 5th South Carolina Regular Commanded by Col Isaac Hagen that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, in the continental army, against the common enemy, until about the
1st day of June 1777 when he was honorably discharged from service at Fort Charlotte in the state of South Carolina, that he was in service fifteen months and was in the battles of of Seneca under Colo Williamson, & also others not necessary to be dated and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has lost his discharge, and has no evidence in his power of his services and discharge, other than that which is here transmitted.
.
Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
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I Benjamin Mills, Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify
, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said applicant Alexander Young did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department
of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress and it further appears to my satisfaction, that said applicant is in such indigent and reduced circumstances, as to require the aid of his country, pursuant to the
above recited act. Given under my hand the date
first before written
B. Mills
SEAL OF
THE COURT.
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A. Youngs
Schedule
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Pension roll
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State of Kentucky
Floyd County         Set
On this 17th day of April in the year 1821
personally appeared in open court at a Court
held for the Circuit of Clay County, being a
Court of record expressly made so by the act
of Assembly creating it. Alexander Young
aged about 62 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow
declaration in order to procure the provisions
of the several act of Congress concerning
pensioner - That his former statement for a pension (upon which a certificate has issued from the Secretary of War No 15945. is fine, and in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st of May 1820.
I, the said Alexander Young do solemnly swear
that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intention thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United
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States during the Revolutionary war passed
on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the
Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed
Viz
Two horses worth about                                 $50.00
two calves                                                         20.00
one 2 year old heifer                                          7.00
Five Sheep                                                        10.00
one sow pig                                                        3.50
Eight hogs                                                           9.50
Household furniture about                               10,00
exclusive of bed
about 18 acres of land for which I have a bond which worth with the improvements about
 $200. but the 200 right to the improvements 
is in dispute & if lost I am doubtful whether the
man of whom I bought the land will be able to repay me should the same  being in doubtful circumstances
I have owing to me about
                                                                       $100-
about 25 dollars from a man
 who is insolvent & have little
 hope of recovering any
                                                             Total $435.00
I am also one of the securities
of Robert Daws late Sheriff of Floyd County
who has become insolvent together with
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some of the other securities, the said Haws has left the County greatly in arrears to his Creditors as Sheriff & several suits have already been commenced against his security
but I cannot say how much I shall
be responsible for by occupation a Farmer and that I am of the age of 62 years on the 30th day of October next have no family but my wife aged 61 the 15th of May next. both of us are very weak & almost wholly unable to labour & I am disabled in my left hand having lost two of my fingers in Revolutionary War in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians, under the command of Colo. Williamson
                              Alex. Young
 Sworn to and declared on the 17th day of April 1821 In open Court 
before me Eli Shorbridge, Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district for the State of Kentucky composed of the County of Floyd and others. And I do further certify that it is my opinion that the foregoing schedule and the value thereto annexed are true and correct, all of which is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of War
Will J Mayo, Clerk of Circuit Court
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State of Kentucky Floyd Circuit
I William James May Clerk of the Floyd
Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the said Schedule is four hundred and thirty five dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 25th day of May 1821 the said year of the Commonwealth
William Gallage Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court
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July 30, 1937

Alexander Young
Robert Young
W. 3063
BA-J/AWF


Hon. E. W. Creal
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Creal:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War records of Ezekiel
Young, Robert Young, and Alexander Jackson Young, all from that part of Virginia which later became Kentucky.
The Revolutionary War records of this office
have been searched and no claims for pension found based upon the service of Ezekiel Young or Alexander Jackson Young.
The records of Alexander Young and Robert
Young are furnished herein as found in pension
claims based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
Alexander Young - S. 35755
The data concerning Alexander Young were
obtained from papers on file in pension claim,
S. 35755, based upon his service in the art of the
Revolution. Alexander Young was born October 30, 1759, place not stated, nor were the names of his parents given. Alexander Young enlisted in the month of October, 1775, under Major Williamson in the South
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Carolina troops in pursuit of the Tories, was in a
battle near Ninety-Six, and another battle on
the Saluda River, continued in this service until
the spring of 1776. He enlisted March 1, 1776,
and served as private in Captain John Bowie's
company in Colonel Isaac Huger's Fifth South Carolina Regiment, marched to the Cherokee Nation, and was in three "hard battles", in one of these battles his middle finger was shot off; he was discharged June 1, 1777 at Fort Charlotte, South Carolina, after this service, he was employed in carrying expresses, until in the summer of 1780, he went to Rutherford
County, North Carolina, and joined Colonel Isaac
Shelby's regiment, was in the battle of King's
Mountain; returned to South Carolina and continued in the service in pursuit of Tories until the close of the war.
Alexander Young was allowed pension on his
application executed July 21, 1818, at which time
he was living in Floyd County, Kentucky. his wife, Nancy, was born May 15, 1760, place not shown, nor were the names of her parents given,
and no details as to their marriage. It was stated
in 1824 that they had no children living; this is
the only reference to children.
Margaret McCrary, sister of the soldier, Alexander Young, was living in 1819 in Floyd County,
Kentucky. Robert M. George in 1826 residing in Floyd County, Kentucky, stated that the soldier married his mother's aunt, but did not give the name of his mother or of his mother's aunt.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the
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following data:
Alexander Young
Certificate 15945
Issued November 27, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced July 21, 1818
Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820
Kentucky Agency.
++++++++++++++++
Robert Young-W. 3063
The data which follow relative to Robert Young
were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, 3063, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War . Robert Young was born in Prince William County, Virginia, date not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.
While a resident of Prince William County, Robert
Young enlisted in the summer or fall of 1775, served in the Second Virginia Regiment, until he was commissioned First Lieutenant in Captain Jesse Davis' company in the Eleventh Virginia Regiment; he was in the battles of Brandywine, and Monmouth and in April, 1779, he became a supernumerary officer, and continued as such
until the close of the war.
Robert Young married May 18, 1780 in Prince
William County, Virginia, Judith (Judy) H. Tebbs,
daughter of Captain William Tebbs of Prince William County.
Robert Young died May 4, 1790 in Prince William
County, leaving a widow and five children with 
Young, an children, Thomas Young, Robert Young, Samuel Heath Young, Margaret Young, and Willoughby Tebbs
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Young. The widow with her five children moved in the fall of 1791 to Mason County, Kentucky.
The widow, Judith H. Young, was allowed pension on her application executed January 13, 1841, at which time she was aged eighty-three years and living in Mason County, Kentucky, she was still living there in 1848, with post office address, North York.
Their son, Samuel Heath Young, was referred to in 182 as deceased, having never married. Their daughter, Margaret, married -- Cooke (first name not shown), then a widow in 1832, and in 1844 she was in fifty-sixth year and living in Mason County, Kentucky; her daughter,
Mary J. Cooke, was a resident of Mason County, in 1843.
Their son, Willoughby Tebbs Young, was born in 1790, shortly after the death of his father; he was an attorney at law in Mason County, in 1832. Their sons, Thomas and Robert Young, were living in 1840 in Kentucky. Thomas Young, brother of Lieutenant Robert Young, Captain in the Revolution in the Virginia troops, and in 1872, was living in Mason County, Kentucky. Hugh Trent, born January 18, 1773 in Prince William County, Virginia, and in 1841 living in Bourbon County, Kentucky , stated that Captain Thomas Young married his eldest sister, her name not given. A. Sidney Tebbs, nephew of the widow, Judith H. Young, was an attorney at law in 1843 in Loudoun County, Virginia. Charles B. Attwell of Loudoun County, Virginia in 1844, born and reared in Prince William
County, stated that Lieutenant Robert Young was the half brother of his father, and the widow, Judith H. Young, was his father's cousin, but did not give his father's name. One William T. Tebbs was living in 1841 in Mason County, Kentucky, his relationship to the family
not shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the widow, Edith Young, you should
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apply to The Comptroller General,
Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following:
Judith Young, widow of Robert
Certificate #3163 
Issued January 19, 1849
Rate $20.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1848
Act of February 2, 1848
Kentucky Agency.


Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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35755
Revy INVALID
File No. 85,755
Alexander Young
Private Rev War
++++++++++++++++++++++
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 497
Arrangement of 1870.]



1937 July 30 192
Hist to Cong.

E. W. Creal
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E. W. CREAL
4th Dist. Kentucky

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

July 28th, 1937.

U. S. Veterans' Administration
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sirs;
I am anxious to ascertain if you have any record of the following men having served in the Revolutionary War:
Ezekiel Young,
Robert Young
Alexander Jackson Young,
all from that part of Virginia that later became a part of Kentucky.
Yours very truly,
                     E. W.Creal
E. W. Creal, M. C.
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21st July 1818
Alexander Young
on that line for 15 months
in the South Carolina Regt Colonel
Sayer
served to the 1 June 1777-
B. Mills
Administrator


No Certificate
Place
one
the
thereof
See certificate of
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State of Kentucky ⎬
Floyd Circuit Sct
October 21st 1818
I William I Mays Clerk of the
Circuit aforesaid do hereby do hereby certify that Benjamin Mills whose name appears to the certificate of Alexander Young was at the time of so doing and now is one of the Circuit Judges of the State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn according to law and due faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Circuit aforesaid to be hereto affixed
                                   William J. Mays, Clerk


State of Kentucky Floyd County
Margaret McCrary this day came before me in open court & being first duly sworn deposeth that the above name Alexander Young was her brother, that she knew of his enlistment the spring of the year 1776 for 15 months and knew of his serving the said period in the  Revolutionary war in the company commanded by Capt Boell in Hughes Regiment, was at the expiration of the 15 months when he was discharged has frequently afterwards were the written discharge.
 I certify the above testimony was taken before me & that the said Margaret McCray
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is a credible witness.

Given under my hand & seal this 25th day of October 1819

__________
Circuit Court Judge  for the 11th Judicial Dist.
that is composed of the County of Montgomery
North, Grump. P D Lloyd
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15.945
Kentucky

Alexander Young
Floyd County in the state of Kentucky
who was a part in the regiment commanded
Colonel Huger of the South Carolina
line, for the term of 6 months,

Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 21 of July 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Nov 1819 and sent to B. Mills Judge of Floyd Co Kentucky.

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819
                                                              $107.89
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar.1820
                                                                 48.00
                                                       $155.89
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818 }
Discontinued

Certificate sent 2 July 1821 to Wm. J. Mayo
Mount sterling, KY
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Son of
Restore Alexander Young, Private to
com: Feb. 24 1828 - Send hist with the Pension; 

to Hon. H. Daniel
House of Representatives


J. L. Edward JP
Washington
City
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copy

War Department
Pension office
Sept 8th 1826
Your letter of the 12th Ultimo reached this
office on the 5th Instant, Alexander Youngs name cannot be restored to the Pension roll, because satisfactory information has been received here, that he still hold a tract of Land
worth $200, on a part of which he lives at present, and sent out the remainder, although he has nominally conveyed away the same to a relative of this Tract and in the Land which the Sheriff sold some time since and has been carefully kept out of view in all the account
which he has given of his property. Unless he can prove to the satisfaction of this Department, that the conveyance of the Land was a bona fide an action, he must not expect
to receive a pension
I am respectfully

Your Obt Sert
J. L. Edwards


Mr. Robert Walker
of Prestonsburg
Floyd C.H., Kentucky
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Mr J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City
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Washington City Decr 23d 1822
Mr J. L. Edwards
Sir
I enclose, for Your examination & decision the
Schedule of Alexander Young, Revolutionary soldier-
.
With highest of respect 
Your Obedient servant
J T Johnson
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Floyd C. H.
Jany 11th 1823


The Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.
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Kentucky
Floyd County Prestonsburg
9th Jany 1823
Dear Sir,
I lately received Pleasant Childers claim for correction per endorsement which will in due time be allotted to William Ferguson which was directed to be closed to me if I am
not mistaken. I have not received yet. Alexander Young hath lately forwarded a new Schedule, in which is set forth that his land had been sold by the Sheriff to this is true.
I believe as for as it goes but it is not the land he lives on, which set forth in his first schedule he had given perhaps $200 for he still a part of lives on that land and draws rent for a part he truly did in the month of October last deed the $200 place to a distant relative of his but keeps possession be and I suspect will for I am fully of opinion that the conveyance was made through fraud to bring him within the statute.
The land which the Sheriff sold as set for in his new schedule was a
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fifty acre survey made adjoining the
200 tract and or State warrant
I write you in confidence, prompted
thereto under impressive detestation and
abhorrence  of such impious & iniquitous
courses which I believe is praised by Young and others to swindle the Government out of money.
The deed to Youngs relative above mentioned is of record in my office as Clerk of the Floyd County Court, yet I verily believe the same to be fraudulent & not bonafide.
I am Sir with sentiments of respect yours
Will J. Mayo


The Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
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the declaration of Alexander Young in order to be restored to the person
list under the act of Congress of 1st March 1823
State of Kentucky
Floyd County

On this 27th day of October 1824 personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for the circuit County of Floyd in the eleventh Judicial District in said State in said County Alexander Young aged  sixty six years and who was an old revolutionary soldier & being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, the first of May 1820 and the 1st of March 1823 
that he the said Alexander Young enlisted for the term of fifteen months about the first of March 1776 in the State of South Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John Boone in the Regt commanded by Colonel  Algernon Hugee in the line of the State of South Carolina on the Continental establishment and that he continued to serve in the corpse until about the first day of June 1777 when he was discharged from the said
service at Fort Charlotte in the district of Ninety six in the said State of South Carolina being the same place at which he was enlisted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the
United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed
of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress
entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed
on the 18th day of March 1818 or of either of the aforesaid act of Congress of the first of May 1820 or of the first day of March 1823
and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed to wit
one cow &  calf of the value of
$9
Two sheep of the value one dollar each
$2
14 Head of Pigs, shoats and has in all of the value $18
Household Kitchen furniture value of
$9
1 Old plough & old gear of the value of
$4
Old drawing knife some old angers & other tools
$2
$44
and that the following list shows the manner in which the property exhibited in the first schedule and not now owned by me has been disposed of
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Floyd Circuit Court October Term 1824
Personally appeared in open Court Robert M George the vender in the foregoing deed of conveyance and upon his oath declared that he hath here use
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Floyd County Court October Term 1824
Personally appeared in open Court Robert M George the Vendie in the foregoing deed of conveyance and upon his oath declared that he honesty & bonafide purchase of Alexander Young sr the tract of land mentioned in
the foregoing conveyance for the price and sum of one hundred dollars in  Commonwealth Bank paper which was and is worth about fifty dollars in silver, that he
has paid to the said Alexander Young seventy five dollars in Commonwealth bank paper to discharge debt in the said Bank that the residue of the purchase money he refuses to pay said Young unless he shall be compelled to do so, because he is creditably informed that by a late decision of the appellate Court
of Kentucky the entry of John Preston for 40,000 acres under which claim said Young derived title to is invalid and vague for uncertainty.
                       Robert M. George
                          his mark
Sworn to & declared on in open Court the 27th day of October 1824 before me Silas W Robbins Circuit Judge the eleventh Judicial district of Kentucky composed of the County of Floyd & others, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of this Court that the foregoing declaration and the other exhibits are true & correct all which is ordered to be copied and certified to the secretary of war
according to law.
Silas W Robbins
State of Kentucky Floyd Circuit
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I William James Mayo Clerk of the court for the Circuit aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and schedule is truly taken & transcribed from the records in my
office as Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court. And I do further certify that Silas W. Robbins is Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district in the State aforesaid composed of the County of Floyd and others duly commissioned & qualified according to law to all whose official acts as such full it is due credit and ought to be given as well in Court as thereout .
Given under my hand and seal of office this 25th day of November 1824
Will J. Mayo, Clerk
Floyd Circuit Court
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names of Persons to
whom sold
Saml Auxer 
Amount of money & description
of Property received in return
Time of Sale & particular
property sold: One Barrell of whiskey 33 Gal
as a 33 ⅓ cents per Gallon
one beef steer, Value $6 the
whisky  sold to Richard Lee in 
payment of a just debt
the Steer killed for Beef


Robert M. George 
18 Acres of Land
On the 15th day
of March 1822
for $100. Seventy five dollars rec.
& paid my amount in the Bank of
Commonwealth $25
due be refused to be paid
because Court of Appeals
has decided the  county
under which the land
was held to be vague and
of no account.

As to the five sheep mentioned in original schedule I held on to and the wolves killed & steal three & the old one which was left
had a lame leg which makes the two I now have. The two course calves which I had at the time of exhibiting my former schedule the sheriff of Floyd sold together with a small tract of land since that time acquired by me to satisfy and pay a Judgment obtained against me by others as the securities of Robert Haws late Sheriff of Floyd County for ten dollars twelve & a half cents & the under Sheriff Keaton became the purchaser and afterwards gave me one of the cows which is the cow I now have, and that Will and Stratton the Sheriff who made this sale about the day has since departed this life & that therefore his certificate of sale cannot now be had. The two years old heifer when is mentioned in the original schedule to be of the value of seven dollars was sold by my wife about the first of the year 1822 to Jane George for six dollars to be paid in spinning and weaving which has since been recd & realized in family clothing the Hogs that were mentioned in the original schedule have
been and along from time to time to supply the family with food & the hogs I have given in this schedule are proceeds of the same has so far as they remain. In regard to the house
hold & Kitchen furniture exhibited in my original schedule it remains about as before except wear & decay incident to the use of it & except the sale of one old kettle with a hole in it sold by me about the day of to Alexander Koomer for three days work the remaining horse which I called blue Jacket departed this life in the 15th year of his age about the first
day of April last past, which is as well as recollected a time
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and full account of the manner in which the property exhibted in my former schedule has been disposed of
                                Alex Young
The said Alexander Young further states on oath that his family consists of himself aged as aforesaid and his wife Nancy aged about sixty four years the site of last May that his  occupation is that of a farmer & that from old age and an attack which he had about seven years ago of the pleurisy and from a viocent cough which is excited & much increased by any bodily labour or manual exertions he is wholly unable to pursue his avocation with sufficient success to secure him & his wife a living & must depend to a certain extent upon the charity of his neighbours, that in many instances from bodily infirmity he is compelled to pursue his labour upon his knees. That his wife is also very infirm & very unable to assist in raising a crop. That he & his wife have no children living, that he is in indigent circum
stances and does well believe that it is and from his country to afford him the means of support & subsistence by restoring him to the Pension list from which he is informed he has been stricken.,
                                 Alex Young
Henry B Mago States on oath in open court that he is acquainted with Alexander Young, the applicant in this case, that he has been acquainted with him for 15 years last part and that he know the said Young is poor and infirm of body and that for many years past he has much complained of a bad caugh and other dis
cases, this affiant further states that he knows from having been a Directors of the  Commonwealth Bank that the said Alexander Young was indebted to the Commonwealth Bank in the sum of seventy six dollars and that he has since paid the debt as he is informed & believes and he further knows that William
Stratton late Sheriff of Floyd County is now dead.
                                  H B Mayo
James W Brown Esq in Open Court upon his oath states that he has a distinct recollection that William Stratton late Sheriff of Floyd County died about two years ago, at
publick sale two cows the property of  Alexander Young were under execution and by said Brown bid ten dollars at said sale for the cause as he understood the sd cows were sold to satify of an execution placed in his hands for collection and that the sd William Stratton, Sheriff as aforesaid is since dead.
JW Brown
12
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This Indenture made the 15th day of March 1822 between Alexander Young of the count of Floyd, and state of Kentucky of the one part and Robert M. George of said county and state of the other part where forth it is the said Alexander Young for & in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars to him in hand paid before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and doth by these presents bargain sell & convey unto the said Robert M George his heirs and [illegible] forever one certain [illegible] or parcel of land lying in Floyd County on Sandy River containing fifty acres be the same more or less eighteen acres of which only is fit for cultivation being abounded as follows beginning at the lower end of the both am Samuel May now lives in at a beach marked J.G. [illegible] down the river on the east side  north 22° E 65 poles to a maple N 83 E 94 poles to a maple N 10° E 100 poles to a red oak then north 30° W untill the line extends to a rock in the narrows where salt [illegible] was made by Samuel Brown & William Herrell thence to the river there running up the river and burrowing on the sound to the beginning, which track of land with all & singular the appurtenants benefits & emoluments thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining the said Alexand Young do warrant and defend to him the said Robert M George his heirs & forever to have & to hold the aforesaid land & premises to him the said Robert M George his heirs & against me my heirs & against John Preston his heirs and against all persona claiming by through or under as or either of us but against no other person or claim whatever. In
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State of Kentucky
Floyd Circuit Court SS
Alexander Young a citizen of the County of Floyd Came before the Subscriber Circuit Judge for the Court as being a court of record and made so by act
of assembly of the state as and states he was heretofore placed on the Pension list of the United States N. 15.945 that he made an application to be continued as a pensioner and gave a schedule of his property and at that time he did not know of his liability as one of the securities of Robt Haws late Sheriff of Floyd and that since then he has been
obtained a Judgment against him as security and an Execution issued and was levied upon his property and the whole thereof sold save the following
one old horse value of--- $20
one axe & hoe $3 
come heifer $12 -15-18 
has two sheep $2.50
19.50 
lot mettle- 11.25
Cuphasin are- 3.00
Plough & Guns- 5.
 To one pair of and in order to debt due from his Pitchpatuch (?)                                       $54.30
other small debts 6
which is the whole ______ his possessions
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That he owes the following debts
to the Bank Commonwealth                         $88
Adam Gearhart                                               11
To Wm Stratton                                                6
Peter Amyse                                                     2
Sundry Small debts to
To H Asberry                                                    2
To John Grayson                                               6
              Total                                      $119
That he knows not to what amount he is liable as security there are several claims in suit is him and he expects just for more than he is or ever will be
to pay, that he hath no transfer whatever of his property at any time to bring him within the
provisions of the act Congress that he is 64 years of age his wife is 62 and both is unable to work for a living which is the whole of h s family, that he perform
the services as stated in his original application and the pay thereof
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Wm Shallen Esqr H  of Floyd County states he has read the statement made by Alex Young with regret
to a sale of his property as secure for Robt Haws late sheriff and States it is true he sold his land , two
calves
Enoch Herrill States he is acquainted with the property of Alex Young contained in the foregoing schedule and States he believes the same to be correct.

H B Mayo States he is acquainted with Young saith he is entitled to credit, knows he owns the debt and to the Bank stated as in his application
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Sworn to in open Court and declared on the 30th day
of October 1822 before me Silas W. Robbins Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district of the State of Kentucky Company of the County of Floyd and others,
and I do further certify that it is my opinion that the foregoing Schedule and the value hereto annexed are true and correct all which is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of War
                        Silas W Robbins   
Attet
Will J Mayo

---
M
un
State of Kentucky Circuit Court  to wit
William James Mays Clerk of the Court for the circuit aforesaid do hereby certify that Silas W Robbins is and was at the time of subscribing the above certificate of attestation Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district  in the state aforesaid company of the County an Circuit and others duly commissioned and qualified as such according to Law to all whose official acts as such deserve full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
 Given under my hand and private seal (as having yet
no seal of office) this tenth day of November 1822
Will J Mayo Clerk
of Floyd circuit Court
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1 March 1823.
20
Alexander Young
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by
Robert Walker
Floy H. the
Recd 5 Sept. 1826
free
Barbour Secretary
of war Washing
City
law
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prestan_____ entirely
August the 12th 1826
sir
At the request of Alexander Young a Revolutionary Soldier of Floyd County I herewith enclose to you his original pension Certificate sent from your Office, also to pray your honor to reexamine his several schedules on file in your office in order to whether his name agreeable to the Act of Court can be restored to the pension with what evidence
he has already furnished with Respect to his property and if the Department of war or your honour on a reexamination shall not be satisfied with the schedules he has heretofore rendered of his property, your honour would inform him in what particular he has failed to satisfy the department disposition of his property
    I discovered a letter from the war department dated March the 30th 1820 to Richard R Lee Esq at Fleming Kentucky in which you state that the said Alexander Young has not satisfactorily accounted for the disposition of his property but the department
in that letter has not informed Mr Young in what particular he has failed in this schedule to satisfy the department. I discover that Mr Young's last schedule appears to have been delivered in and declared on in the Floyd Circuit Court on the 27th day of October
I am inclined to believe that on a reexamination of that schedule and declaration that your honour will be satisfied that Mr Young ought to be restored to the pension list it appears to be very particularly drawn up
in pursuance of the forms you sent from your office.
I will leave merely to remark to your honor
that Alexander Young is restored to the pension with out that he will have to be placed on the poor list of this County to be supported by the County for he iis entirely unable to support himself and wife which is all he has with out some aid as is said he is very inform and
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and his wife also although I know or that
what I have stated is not credence to you without any Sworn to in a legal manner.
Young has furnished me with a memorandum or statement of his services in the evolutionary war drawn in his own handwriting by himself, although I informed him that it is no evidence to the department of his services with and if it was certified in a legal manner and perhaps will not avail him anything in as much as
the department has already been satisfied with 
his services. But still he askr that I shall enclose it to department, and at the request of the old man I have done so, there is no doubt but what the man has been a true friend to his country and that she has received the services to his country as stated by him.
Be so good as to examine the old Gentleman  and Report to me at Floyd Courthouse Kentucky
I am respectfully
your Obt Servant
                                Robert Walker



Hon. James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Mr. J.L. Edwards
Washington City
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Burdick's Washington Cty
24th Feb. 1828.
Sir
I received the papers though the Post office
in the Young case. with great care I have
examined them and the result of the examination
has satisfied my mind, that injustice has been
done him in rejecting his application to be again
placed on the pension roll, this decision I presume was given in the hurry of business and without due deliberation. In your letter to on Walker Eq. You say satisfactory information has been received at the war office, that  Young still holds a tract of land worth 200 $ this information is derived from letter of Will I Mayo dated " of Jany 1823" addressed to the secretary of War. In reply to this letter permit me to remark that information of this character should at all times be looked upon with distrust.
It is made in a confidential communication to
which the individual assailed has no opportunity
is vindicate himself against the charge. In secret
the malignant purpose of an enemy my be brought to operate upon the victim whom he intends to destroy without responsibility. Information collected from the writer is to be received with suspicion are frequently operated upon by their sympathies to his partialities, or their prejudices. But as this letter has been a considerable swarth in the investigation let it be affect by the Letters of Lee & Walker
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they both speak of the poverty and helpless condition of Young and his wife. they are gentlemen of respectability who have served in the Legislature of Kentucky.
These two latter letters should turn the scale in Young's favor.  But I will not rest his claim on only such grounds
 I know that his claim must be supported by evidence-- It is equally true state it ought not to
be debated, by the representations of a letter written by May's letter out of the way-- Young 's right to be placed in the pension list is complete-- I refer to Youngs three statments made on oath and the evidence accompanying those statements.
These proceedings show what disposition
he has made his property-- that the conveyance of his land was made for a considerable consideration and the pounds of sale went was a debt he owed to  the commonwealth Bank of Kentucky.
His letter to John M. McConnell dated on of
Nov. 1826 It is stated that the consideration
In which young held the 50 acres of Land
was 400. This is a misunderstanding of what
the consideration really was. Hise papers when
carfully examined show that the consideration
was 100 - I readily perceive how you were led into the mistake. He did copied into the last statement of Young
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give the consideration at 400. but the copy of the same deed in his second statment shows the true
consideration to be 100 . Couple this with the
evidence of George who swears that he purchased the Land and paid for it one hundred dollars and we can no longer doubt of the true consideration.
George's testimony does not admit equivocation
it is clear and explicit when both of his
affidavits are taken as one statement. the difficulty which has grown out of this case may be attributed to the interference of an individual who had no value in the matter and the confused manner in which the claim has been presented to the war department.
but when property filed and examined his right
is apparent. The old man fought through the war
the revolution and I believe the last war his
entitles him to be more consideration by his government. Humanity and justice demand he
should be placed on the pension roll and
be should draw his pay from the time he
ought to have been enrolled am with due
justice.
Henry Daniel
for Hon.  J. L. Edwards
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War Department
Pension office
November 20th 1826
The claim of Alexander Young has again been
examined. It appears that he conveyed in the year 1828 fifty and of Land for $400, and he has not shown how that sum has been applied. The affidavit of R. M. George is not implicit, unless it was clearly understood which tract his testimony is intended to apply to as it appears that he was a purchaser of the land exhibited in the claimants
first schedule. The claimant should give a satisfactory reason for withholding from the Department, the fact of his having been in possession of the tract of fifty acres which
from the document now presented was sold in 1822 as above stated
I am respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J. L. Edwards


John McConnell Esq
Greensburg
Kentucky
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1 March 1823
-
Alexander Young
Ky

J. M. McConnell
Greensburg KY


Secretary of War
Washington City

 Read 29 Nov. 1826
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Greenupsburg 4th Nov. 1826
The Secretary at War
Sir
Enclosed I send you a copy of the oaths of Alexander Young and others made in the Floyd circuit court Ky.-- I have no doubt these declarations on oath will be satisfactory to the war department in shewing that Mr Young is not the owner of the land on which he resides or of any other land.  whatever should it be the pleasure of this department to reinstate Mr Young on the pension list you will please communicate the same to him at Prestonsburg Floyd County N.Y. as early as practicable.
Respectfully yours
Jno. M. McConnell
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Floyd County Kentucky January the 9th 1826.
Dear honored sir, 
I an old Revolutionary Soldier have to inform you of my services during the Rev. War but a boy in the month of Oct entered into services of the United States under the command of Major Williamson of the Ninety six in South Carolina against the Tories on the 19th of _____ for we heard of a large party or parties coming against us. We marched into an old field near an old town  & made a kind pen of old pails around us about 12 oclock .we were surrounded by a large body of tories about six to one of us. we were about one hundred at about 3 oclock the battle commenced and we fought 
untill early evening Without eating or drinking
When the Enemy, marched off & he marched out in
the month of Dec. We marched down Salina River where those Tories   lived & where there reinforcement from the army under the command of Colo Richardson from North Carolina.
We Defeated the Toris about the last of Dec as near as I can recollect we were then Discharged & went
home.  in a few days after we were ordered out to disarm  all the Tories We could find .I was one sent in this business untill about the first of March 1776 when we reorganized at  Fort Charlotte  in John Grove 's 5th South Carolina Regiment. there was stationed until sometime in June then broke out there was orders came to the Capt to send Lient & one to go against the indians.
 we marched into the Cherokee nation after being
in the parties to be shot by accident in my left hand
 which took my finger off close to my hand this
Very much disabled my hand & rendered me unable to Labour  I then returned to Fort Charlotte and served out the time for which I enlisted & was honorably discharged.
found
in the 1st day of June 1777  as soon as I got home I found I Could  be of more service in the militias as 
dying in a fort I immediately entered into the Service and not being well able to lay my Gun on the general put me to bringing express to all parts where it was necessary for me to go and to packing money from Charleston to the armies to for  part of the extent of the war but if I was not at this Business & there was a call for men  I was always one  never stood trap but was a volunteer through the whole of the War and never stayed at home when men was wanting of almost constant in the service.
When Charleston was taken by the British the tories Rose in they  & many that had been with us Turned against
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And communication was entirely cut off from the north. all on the north side of Saluda River was tories Led off Cunningham General Pickens Did every thing he could his men but found it was out of his power it was in last concluded to Green their arms to the trees which was done but there was a Capt James MeCall & myself would not submit Some few move in all 25 We stated about the last of June or in July 1780 & took the wilderness between the whites & indians. after Traveling eight days . We got into Rutherford County of North Carolina & there joined Col Isaac Shelley from  the farm that has been
governor of this State ,with him we remained after
Morisons Defeat  on Kings Mountain when he returned home It was almost two year I never saw my own house.  the tories Left me nothing but what they took they destroyed and my wife had to seek refuge amongst her neighbors but of stuck it out untill we retook the county & could sit down in peace And now my Claim I never received one cent for the time spent  in the service untill the Law pased for therelief of the old Revolutioners  proved up my
Services who alone pay untill the act of the for
20 then I was requested to render a Schedule of
property which I did but was greatly deceived
in the Land mentioned I had a bond for, not knowing the Lines Run it was not worth half as much as thought it was or was very much involved in Debt
by being the high Sheriff security of Borrower one
hundred Dollars to help to pay up his old but it
fell for short of doing it. I sold the first mentioned piece of Land to pay the money  Borrowed ,purchased forty acres more  it which was 
Executed & sold for the Sheriff Debt I had but two
low the sold them both in my first property mentioned two an action what became of them
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'---
and all my other property but they have
harrassed me so much about paying the Sheriff's
debt that I can get nor keep nothing after the
the Death of my horse  mentioned in my second schedule I was about one year without horse or barrow $37 50 cents for which I am now indebt, I bought ____ few weeks she was Executed & sold for $10 for the same debt & it is far from being paid
 there is some hundred, of any not paid which there is Judgements Executor , & all the property that I now possess is one cow &one calf &  one ewe & two Lambs,  two pigs & Shotes  I had but two to kill for my Winters meat that Weighed Some ____
over one and each and about $20 Worth of
other household furniture one old plow &
about 4 one axe & hoe & some other
Augers ,Chisels & Draw Knife worth about-
3 now if I do not deserve a pension I dont know who does for I do believe I  Donel and suffered as much for independance as any man in the United States . I am 67 years old the 30th day of Octr last of my Wife 65 last May & both very much failed,  I am not able to get me stick of firewood, nor do no service or 
Labor my wife can so but by which means we h I live on rented Land one third of what I make goes for rent & one third for a man to work it . We generally  depend on my neighbours for a horse to place for me & one Reason, why I did not apply for a pension for my wound of said in the old war was my old Capt Rowe commanded a large Company of men at the time our men surrendered to the Tories 
hereof he was anxious to surrender of War not We
disrepected so high upon it that I accused him for being a
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Tory & After that We never was friendly after
& turned out the two much the

Alexander Young
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State of Kentucky SS
At a court continued and held for Floyd Circuit at the Courthouse in Parsonsburg on Tuesday the 24th day of October 1824
On motion and at the request of Alexander
Young this day Enoch Merrell of Floyd County personally appeared in open court the same being a court of record so made by the provisions of the statute creating it and also being so by the common law for its general jurisdiction over all matters civil and criminal that are within the County in which the same is held and from its having a clerk to record its proceedings and the said Enoch Herrell being duly sworn cautioned and examined as the manner as touching the matters herein after mentioned and  adjudged to deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Alexander Young who is an applicant to the war department to be reinstated on the pension list and who resides on big sandy river in Floyd County for upwards of twenty years that for about seven or eight years last past he has resided within about one half mile of said Young that he never knew Alexander Young to rent out any land, or receive any rents for the same that he has known and to employ croppers and give them a share in the crop for cultivating the ground that since understood the sale of the land was made by Alexander Young to Robert M George.  Nathaniel Merritt attended the land as a cropper said Merritt had undertaken to crop with A. Young before the sale as this afficent understood and since he continued on
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afterwards. That the next year after Merrill worked the acres, Robert M. George at the old man Young have a lease to plough the ground for he had none himself and be attended a part of the sum himself the residue lay all that the next year which was the year 1825, Henry Waller worked
it as a cropper under A. Young that during the present year this affiant has worked
the crop himself under a written leave from
Robert M. George for three years and that
Young has nothing to do with this contract
of lease under which this affiant now holds
the land except that old A. Young is to
be priviledged to live in a little cabin that is
on the land this affiant always understood
that Mr Young agreed to pay to Robert M. George rent of one hundred bushels of corn a year for each year he has enjoyed the
place and the sale thereof to Robert M George that all the property belonging to the said Alexander Young for as is known to this affiant is one cow of about the value of $7 eight head of hogs of about the value of $10, being mostly all that four head of sheep about the value , one old plough and gears of about the value of $3, two old angers two old chisels and one old drawing knife of the supposed value of $1.75 some old cupboard ware which this affiant thinks not worth more than $2. a pair of old andirons
with the ends burned off and one sound pot
and several pieces of  craked and broken metal the whole of the supposed Value of $6,50 to a paid on a bucket four ten cups an old pewter bason the whole of the
value of $1.30 one old ax one old line of the
supposed value of $1,25 old fire tongs and shall of the supposed value of $1, one old trunk with
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the line broken off of the supposed value of $1, and one old spinning wheel of the value of about $1,50. This affiant states that he knows, that the said Alexander Young has for many years past been afflicted with disease and that he is unable to labour or even make on a fire for himself:  he has no person to aid him but his wife who is a very old and infirm woman, and for the most part they are dependent on the charity and kind offices of their neighbours.  this affiantfurther states that he always understood from said Young and George that the sale was a fair one
and when this affiant came to the determination of renting the place for three years he applied to said Young specially to know of any claim on the place and he was informed by him that he had not nor any Control over it and then this affiant applied to the said George who leased the same to him for three years, as before stated, and further this affiant saith not.
                                Enoch Herrell

Also the affidavit and statement of Robert M.
George who appeared in open Court at the same me and being duly sworn cautioned and examined touching the premises, and location the sale of the tract of land on Big Sandy River to him by the said Alexander Young states on each that he is no manner related to Alexander Young except the said Young married his mother's aunt  and therefore is by marriage his great uncle and that he bought the said tract of land being the same on which the said Young now resides and has resided on for several years last part being the only had known to this affiant that the said Young award or claimed at the time this that this affiant
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purchased it that this affiant agreed to give for the same the sum of $100 which he has fully paid up some time since and has lifted his bond for the money and destroyed the same that he has the deed of the said Young for the said land, which being produced is in the following words and figures to wit (here insert it) this Indenture made the 15th
day of March 1822 Between Alex Young of the County of Floyd and State of Kentucky of the one part and Robert M George of said County and state of the other part  witnesseth that the said Alexr Young for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred dollars to him in hand paid before the sealing and delivering of these presents
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and doth by the presents bargain sell and convey unto the said Robert M. George his heirs and assigns forever one certain tract a parcel of land lying in Floyd County of Sandy river containing 50 acres be the same more or less and bounded as follows Begining at the lower end of the bottom Samuel May now lives in a back marked . Begining corner of Prestons 2000 acre survey thence runing down the river on the east side N 22.65 poles to a Maple N 8394 poles to a maple
10. 100 poles to a red Oak thence North 30. W. untill the line extends to a rock in the narrows where salt path was made by Samuel Brown and William Merrell thence to the river thence runing up the river and bending on the same to the Begining which tract of land with all and singular the benefits and emoluments
thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to the said Alexr Young do warrant and defend to be the said Robert M. George his heirs & forever to have and to hold the aforesaid land and premises to him the said Robert George his heirs & against me my heirs & against
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John Preston his heirs &c and against all persons claiming by through or under us as either of us but and in other person or claim whatsoever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed my seal the day and year first above.
acknowledged in presence of
                                                Alexr Young End
Floyd County Court Clerks office day of October 1823
I Jacob Mayo deputy Clerk for William
James Mayo Clerk of the Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the within deed was this day produced to me in my office and acknowledged before me by Alexander Young subscribing party thereto to be his hand and real act and deed and that the same is duly recorded in my office according to law
Jacob Mayo D.C. for Will J. Mayo JP
and that his purchase was a fair one made
in good faith, and that no secret understan
ding either in writing as by poral that said
Young ever to have the land again or does this affiant intend he ever shall have it or its profits except so far as charity may
operate on his mind to indulge him in the
are of the same, that he consider himself
under no obligations either legal or moral
to allow him the rents of the land on the
land itself except so far as his sympathies for
a distressed old man and woman may
induce him to aid in supplying their wants
to prevent them from suffering and in doing
this he feels no further bound than every other man in a christain country he thinks ought to feel that he consider the possession of the said Young of the cabin in which he lives to be the possession of this affiant and held for his use
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that he did early last Spring leave the said land to Enoch Herrell for three years excepting and reserving to the said Alexander Young the right and privilege of residing in a small cabin on said land if he shall
choose to do so. That from the time this affiant purchased the land and during the time that said Young retained the possession said Young agreed to pay this affiant 100 bushels of corn per year as a rent that he has received of this rent since his said purchase 150 bushels of corn or rather be received a more for which he gave a crate of 130 bushel and be paid for the said Mare $10.12 ½ cents in silver which was due from said Young on an execution and this mare this affiant yet has this affiant states that the said Young is a very infirm and needs the aid of his friends and neighbours to enable him to meet the want of nature and that he knows that he has to all human appearance but little property and no visible means of support and he has no reason to believe that he has any invisible
Means.
This affiant states that he never
knew said Young to rent out said land or
receive any rents but by the aid of hands who
cultivated the ground for part of the  proceeds he worked both before and after this affiant purchased it: except one year when he worked it apart of it himself, and this affiant furnished the old man a house that year which house he let him have gratis as this affiant had horses enough besides for his own use and further
this affiant saith not
Robert M. George

also the statement of Alexander Young made
on oath in open court at same time and
place states that the sale of the land by him
to Robert M George was made in good faith and
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that he has no claim upon the land so sold or
upon the rents and profits thereof that he made the
deed for said land and acknowledged it before the
Clerk of the Floyd County Court for recorded. That there is now nor ever was any understanding either written or verbal by which this affiant is to have the said land or any part of it as the rents and profits thereof or any interest in the same that he on me not one oot of land on earth nor any reversion as expectancy of any right privilege, rents, profits or emoluments1
that he is very infirm and wholly unable by his own
exections to make a support and maintainance
for himself and his wife who is also old and
infirm. That he has no other property than that
mentioned in his schedule heretofore rendered
and that in fact he has not so much now
as at the time he gave in said Schedule, because
he has necessarily been compelled to sell  some
part of it for his support and other parts of
it has been worn out and broken where it has
not been consumed by us, and is therefore not of so much value as it then was he further states that he has no means as a support either visible an invisible except the little property above alluded to and the
charity of his friends and neighbours being as he states: his wholly unable to work 
                           Alex Young

all which is ordered to be copied
and certified to the Secretary of
was according to Law
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State of Kentucky Faye Circuit St
I Jacob Mayo Clerk of the court for the
circuit aforsaid do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true full and complete copy taken from the records in my office by me given under my hand
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said Court this second day of
November 1826.
Jacob Mayo Clerk
of Floyd Circuit Court
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1 March 1823
KY
Alexander Young
Recd 10 Jan 1825

Richard Lee,
Flemingsburg City:

C. Calhoun
Washington City
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Flemingsburg   December 28 1824
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the schedule of Alexander Young a Revolutionary Soldier who has
been stricken from the Pension List and prays to be restored again under the several act passed for
those benefit you will please Let me know the result at
his case as soon as possible as he is an object of pity indeed. Direct your answer to me at Flemingsburg
Kentucky where strict attention shall be paid to his
business by me.
             Richard R. Lee
.
J C Calhoun