Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31183, for Leonard T Kerby, Virginia

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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Kerby, Leonard T. S. 31183
CONTENTS

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892
Kentucky
Leonard T. Kerby
of Warren in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Martin - of the Regt commanded
by Col: Lyon - in the Virginia line for 11 months 1778 ---

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per ann: 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of October 1832 --- and sent to W. L. Underwood. Bowling Green. Ky.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832. 54.99
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4.} 18.33
March 1833--} 
$73.32
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 9 Page 46

Paid at Treasury, under
act 6 April, 1838, from
4th March, 1842 to 15th 
Sept. 1842. Agent notified
7 April, 1845.

Date of death not
on A.B.

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Leonard T. Kerby
No 1232.
PO

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State of Kentucky
Warren County
On this day, the 23rd of July 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the County Court of Warren County, now sitting Leonard T Kerby a resident of said County and State aged seventy two years on the 4th of October next, 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 1st that he entered the service from the County of Henry and State of Virginia as a substitute for his father David Kerby, in the company of Capt Brice Marten the Lieutenants names in whose company were Marvel Nash + John Davis. he marched from Henry C.H. in company with Capt. Lyons to the mouth of Walker's Creek on New River; It was about the 18th of May 1778 that he joined the army on a three month tour. He aided in building the fort at the mouth of the Creek and continued there, fighting the Shawnee Indians. Both night + day - till the expiration of the tour. Capt. Lyons did not continue with Capt. Marten's company but was stationed at Capt.

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George Paris'. - Cols Robertson + Preston superintended the force stationed on the River. He was discharged by his capt at the expiration of his tour.
2ndly. He volunteered into the service on a tour of 20 or 30 days, about the 18th of February 1781 from the same county and State, under the command of Capt James Terrence, Major Peter Haston + Col. Lyon. Intending to join Gen. Green [General Nathanael Greene]  then stationed on the Va side of Dan River opposite to Lord Cornwallis.[General Charles Lord  Cornwallis] He rendezvoused for this purpose at Capt Shaw's, there was a Capt Crite + a Capt Marten with their companies on this tour. He marched to William's Mile on Sandy Creek and was here discharged. Gen Green [Nathanael Greene] refusing to receive a regiment whose term of service was so short. He had a discharge from his Captain.
3rdly. He had scarcely reached home after the foregoing tour when Gen. Green [Nathanael Greene] requested an additional force, and ye applicant again entered the service as a substitute for Joel Estridge in the Company of Capt Geo Haston, Joshua Renfro Left + the regiment of May Waller + Col. Penman led from Henry C.H. under their direction to the Headquarters of Gen. Green [Nathanel Greene] a few miles from Guilford CH (NC) [Guilford Court House]

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the battle at Guilford having just been fought after joining the main army he was detached into Leut. Randon's regiment + Gen  Lawson's brigade, May Tucker being his Major. On account of the great lots of men which had befallen that regiment in the recent battle. He then marched after Cornwallis to Ramsay's Mill on Duss River, where Green ? to overtake him. But Cornwallis crossed the river on rafts of rails in the night, moved on with his main body, left Sarlton to defend his ? budget and defeated Green of his hope. Here Lawson's brigade was discharged: but our company's time not being out. Capt. Haston was ordered down on Cape Fear River and joined Col. Lee's regimt. of Infantry. Having stayed with Col. Lee until near the expiration of our tour he was ? to march into S. Carolina + unwilling to take with him Troops whose term of service had so nearly expired, told Capt Haston that he would prevail on 12 of his men to enlist for Two months to march with him to the south, he would discharge his company. Capt. Haston consented to the proposition and yr applicated

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[Declaration page 4]

was selected to go with him which he did do-Col Lee [Henry Lee] promised us a good horse & suit of clothes - He marched us & marched us through the swamps of "drowning Creek [South Carolina], Wakamar [Waccamaw River, SC] , Big Pedee [Great Pee Dee & Little Pedee [Pee Dee, [both in SC]

one half of our time mired in the quagmires & getting over the obstacles the enemy had place in our way- & the other half fighting the tories- until we joined Gen. [Francis] Marion, at Dock Purvis's on the road from  Campden to Charleston

On the next day [Francis] Marion & [Henry] Lee marched up Santee river to Wrights Bluff [Wrights Fort, South Carolina], where the British & Tories were forted - This we besieged for 9 days & finally captured it taking Col McCoy [James McKay] with about 300 british and two companies of Tories all of whom (the Tories) were killed except their two Captains Ned Luten & Ben Gess.  

This affair took place about the 1st of May - Thence he was sent off with the sick &  wounded under the care of a Doct Gwinn - about 3 miles from the fort where he remained til he was discharged.

He left home on this tour about the last of February in first of March and was discharged about the last of June 1781. His discharge by a Col. [Richard] Richardson who he thinks was a

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[Declaration page 4]

continental officer and who had been sent by Col [Henry] Lee to the temporary hospital where yr [your] applicant was stationed for the purpose of giving him his discharge - Some of the sick & wounded were regulars of Infantry 

One named Asberry, one named Henson Benwinkle & another Wills &c - your applicant must beg leave to say that the horse furnished him by Col [Henry] Lee was by Col [Henry] Lee taken away and the suit of clothes promised was never furnished by him.

4thly He is again drafted on a three month tour from the same County & state about the 1st of November 1781 under Capt Jas Terrence [James Terrence (Tarrant)], whos Lieutenant was named Reuben Daniel. He was ordered out by Col. [Abraham] Penn to guard a body of Prisoners mainly taken at the Eutaw Springs. [Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina 1781] .

He took  possession of these prisoners at Henry C.H. [courthouse] and marched with them near Winchester (Va.) where the news of Cornwallis' surrender [Surrender of Cornwallis, Virginia 1781] reached them and the prisoners being  destitute of shoes, clothing & were put out upon the farmers & country people who were required to keep them safely

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[Declaration page 5]

and return them or release them when required. Our company was discharged and , our discharges signed by my Captain

your applicant has none of his discharges some years ago his house was burnt down & they with nearly  all other of his papers burnt with it 

His age is recorded in the family Bible now in the possession of Jess Kirby. He moved from Pittsylvania county where was born to S. Carolina then to Ky, then to (Tenn) & then back to Ky. He can not procure the certificate of a preacher

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name in not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. The certificate of Tho. Rogers & F Potter is here annexed.
Leonard T. Kerby [his mark] X

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

I Jesse Kerby a resident of the State & County afsd [aforesaid] do hereby certify that I served two tours in the army of the Revolution with the above named Leonard T Kerby - the first of which commenced about the 1st of 
February 1781 and lasted about one month then other commenced about the 1st of November 1781, and lasted about three months 

We both went from the same county, under the same officers & performed at the same services on those tours- as above stated - I likewise know of the sd [said] Leonard T. Kerby starting & returning on the other two campaigns he has mentioned

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[Declaration page 6]

and prove the reputation of the Country of the particular report of his comrades on their return. I verily believe he performed the services & served the tours as are by him declared & sworn to.
Jesse Kerby [his mark] X

We Thomas Rogers & Frederick Potter residing in the county of Warren & state of Ky- hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Leonard T Kerby who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be of the age he states. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that belief.
Tho. Rogers
Frederick Potter 

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter , and puting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Kerby, Thomas Rogers, and Frederick Potter who have signed the proceeding Certificate, are residents in the county of Warren aforesaid
and are credible persons, and that their Statement is entitled to credit.

I Jonathan Holson, clerk of the court of Warren county do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter fo the application of Leonard T Kerby for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal of office this twenty third day of July eighteen hundred and thirty two
Jon. Hobson

[seal attached]

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1232
L.T. Kerby [Leonard T. Kerby]
from 1778
private 11 months
$36.66Adm  JL
W.L Underwood

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1232 BRIEF in the case of Leonard T Kerby
of Warren Cty in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

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

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

3. How old is he? 72 yrs. 4 Oct next

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

Period.
In 1778-1st
of May -
1781 - 1st Feby volunteered
1781 again --
again 1s No 81-
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
3 mos.
1 mo.
4 mos.
3 mos.
11 in all
Rank. As a
private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.
Capt Brice Martin 
Lts. Marvel Nash &
John Davis
from Same County - Capt
Terrence - Maj Haston
Col. Lyon-
Capt Terrence Lt Daniel.

5. In what battles was he engaged?

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Henry County Virginia

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

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Theare correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
T. Waugh Examining Clerk.

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August 23, 1932
BA-J/MLB
xxxxxxx
Mrs. C. J. Devereux LEONARD T. KERBY
404 North Main Street S. 31183
Huntsville, Missouri

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Leonard Kirby, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 31183, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Leonard T. Kerby. His name is not shown as Leonard Kirby.

Leonard T. Kerby (son of David,) was born October 4, 1760, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

He enlisted about May 1, 1778, from Henry County, Virginia, as a substitute for his father, in Captain Brice Marten's Virginia company, assisted in building a fort at the mouth of Walker's Creek on New River and was engaged in fighting the Shawnee Indians; length of this tour three months. He volunteered about February 1, 1781, and served twenty or thirty days as a private in Captain James Terrence's company, Colonel Lyon's Virginia regiment. He enlisted about the first of March, 1781, and served until about the last of June, 1781, in Captain George Haston's company in Colonels Penn's, Randon's and Lee's Virginia regiments and was in the battle of Wright's Bluff. He again enlisted about November 1, 1781, and served three months in Captain James Terrence's company, Colonel Penn's Virginia regiment, and was engaged in guarding the prisoners taken at Eutaw Springs.

The soldier moved (date not stated) from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to South Carolina; from there to Kentucky;

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thence to Tennessee (?), and from there back to Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 23, 1832, at which time he was residing Warren County, Kentucky.

He died September 15, 1842.

No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.

In 1832, one Jesse Kerby, a resident of Warren County, Kentucky, stated that he served two tours during the Revolution with the soldier, Leonard T. Kerby, the first of one month commencing about February 1, 1781, and the other, of three months from about November 1, 1781, but he did not state any relationship to soldier.
(Add: There is no cl. for pen. on file based upon ser. in the Rev. War of a David Kerby or Kirby, etc.)
The data furnished by you in regard to John Stephenson are not sufficient to enable this office to make a proper search of the records.

In order to identify the record of the particular John Stephenson in whom you are interested, should it be on file, as much as possible of the following data should be furnished:
approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 29th, 1845.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Adm: of Leonard T. Kerby, decd. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky - Agency, at the rate of Thirty six - Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1842 to the 15th Sept. 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

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In reply to your request of - , received - for a statement of the military history of Leonard T. Kerby a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this bureau. S.F. 31,183
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Substituted for his father May 1, 1778
Feb. 1, 1781
Immediately after to last of June, 1781.
Nov. 1, 1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
3 mos.
20 or 30 ds.
3 mos.
RANK.
Pri.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Brice Marten
James Terrence
Geo. Haston
James Terrence
COLONEL.
Lyon
Penn.
Randon
Lee
Rem.
STATE.
Va.
Battles engaged in, Wrights Bluff
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Henry Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, July 23, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Warren Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, b. Oct. 4, 1760, in Pittsylvania Co.
Remarks: Soldier's father, David Kerby, was alive during the Rev. war.
There is no further data relative to family.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

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Huntsville, Mo,
August 5 - 1932.
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Please give me all the information you have on the Military record of the following Revolutionary war soldiers.
John Stephenson - In Captain John Holder's Co, 1779
Leonard Kirby, from Henry Co. Virginia served in Virginia troops, I think After the Rev. war, lived and died in Warren Co. Kentucky.
Did these men or their wives apply for a pension?
Please state where enlisted from, and ages if possible,
Sincerely,
Mrs. C. J. Deverens,
404 North Main St
Huntsville,
Missouri.

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31183
Revy
INVALID.
File No. 31,183
Leonard T Kerby
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32 [1832]
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 219
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1914 July 13 History to A.L. Anderson
Letter with cl. m  7/9489 Jesse Kerby
1932 Aug 23 Hist to Mrs. C  Devetrix . M