Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,596, Abraham Goff, Va.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  [stamp of a star]  NUMBER

[handwritten]Va.  Goff, Abraham   S.39596 [/handwritten]

CONTENTS
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Date of death not On AB
[Written vertically] Notification [illegible] October 28 18?? to [illegible], Liberty, Virginia
7516
Virginia
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Abraham Goff
of ------------ in the state of Virginia 
who was a private in the [inserted by hand] 10 [inserted by hand] regiment commanded by
Capt [Colonel crossed out by hand] Carrington of the Virginia
line, for the term of Three years
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Transcribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 14 of September 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of March 1819
and sent to William Daniel
Lynchburg Virginia
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819                       45.56
Semi-anl. all'ce (sic) ending 4 Sep 1819        48.00
                                                                       $93.56

{Revolutionary claim,
  Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Virginia Scty 
At a Superior Court of Law held for Bedford County at the courthouse the 14th day of September 1818
Present, William [illegible] [illegible] Judge.
Abraham Goff a free man of color [illegible]and under oath that he enlisted in the regular army of the United States during the revolutionary war in the month of January 1777 to the best of his recollection under Capt. M. Carrington of Cumberland County Virginia, that he served in the tenth old Virginia Regiment (so called) that he served regularly until 1790 when he was taken prisoner at Charlestown in South Carolina. That afterwards he re-entered the service immediately on his return to Virginia and continued in the said service under Gen'l Robert Lawson until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in Virginia, that he served greatly upwards of four years, that he was honourably discharged at Yorktown in Virginia immediately after the close of the war and that his discharge he believes is in the auditors office in Richmond Virginia and that from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Virginia Bedford County to [illegible],
I James G. Steptoe clerk of the Superior Court of Law for Bedford County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record and proceedings in the case of [crossed out word] Abraham Goff a revolutionary soldier applying for relief under the act of Congress [illegible] the 18th day of March 1818 entitled [illegible] providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States.
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District of Virginia Sep

Bedford August court 1820 on the 28th Day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being in Court of Records for the Senior County Abraham Goff aged Seventy Seven years resident in said County who being first duly Sworne according to law doth on his oath declare That he Served In the revolutionary war as follows I the company of Capt Alexander Parker but first enlisted under Capt May Carrington, in the 10th Old Virginia Regiment under Col Richard Parker and served upwards of four years having enlisted in 1778 served until [Illegible] Surrender date of original declaration September 1815 in the Superior Court of Law of Bedford County Member of the pension certified [illegible]75th date 12th March 1819 and I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 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 [illegible] on the 18th day of March 1818 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 means other than what is contained In the Schedule hereto announced and by me subscribed
Schedule of property one pair trace chains Cost $1.00 that he is by occupation a farmer and utterly unable from age and infirmity to pursue his labour and fourth part of his time that he has four children living with him the adult a daughter named Matilda aged 14 years Eley aged 12 Samuel aged 6 years Mary aged 3 years.
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Neither of Whom are Capable of assisting him much or to any advantage sworn to and declared in open Court on the 28th day of August 1820 [illegible]

Abraham his X mark Goff
I James Steptoe Clerk of the County Court of Bedford do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto announced 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 aforesaid Schedule is one dollar. 

[A faded piece of paper with two of its corners folded upon which some sort of dial is printed]

In [illegible - proper noun?] Whereof I have herein to Set my hand affixed the Seal of the Said Court on this 21st day of September 1820. 

[illegible] J Steptoe CBI