Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2608, Lewis Goodin, Va.

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been attached to Wayne he marched under him to York, he was a the Seige of York under Wayne at the Surrender of Cornwallis, and was marched from there under Wayne to a place called Cumberland old Court house and was stationed there all winter --- and was then marched to a place called Ebenezer on Savannah River in the state of Georgia which place was about Twenty miles down from Savannah, we remained at Ebenezer until the British evacuated Savannah after which the regiment was marched back to Cumberland old Courthouse to receive their discharges, he got his discharge there, he thinks according to his best recollection of Capt. Kirkpatrick, he has lost his discharge and cannot now lay his hands on it, he further states that previous to his enlistment in the regular service as above stated he volunteered as a militiaman in the year 1779 under the Command of Captain Rucker whose first name was Cekhrain and served a tour of three months, he does not recollect what regiment they joined but that he was marched northward at the time the Roebuck was blown up in the Delaware river, he saw the smoke ascending & heard the report when it blew up and after serving out his time he was

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Charlotte Goodin
To} Declaration 
for  Pension
United States

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State of Kentucky
Marion County\
On this the fifteenth day of July 1853 personally appeared before one Mathew J. Cecill Judge of the Marion County Court Charlotte Goodin a resident of Marion County Ky. aged sixty eight years who being duly sworne according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed 3rd July 1853 and to secure the benefits of any and all other acts or resolutions of said Congress under which her evidence herewith transmittedwords entitle herself to money or land. That she is the widow of Lewis Hoodin who was a private soldier in the Revolution said Lewis Goodin drew a pension of $80. commencing about 1833 he was in the Virginia Continental line he there lived while he drew his pension in the County of Barren State of Kentucky I suppose he drew his pension at Huntington Kentucky. She further declares that she was married to said Lewis Goodin on the twenty fifth of February in the year eighteen-hundred and twenty in the said county of Barrien state of Ky= That her husband the aforesaid