Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14727, Daniel Trabue, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Trabue, Daniel
S14727
CONTENTS

3377.
Kentucky
Daniel Trabue
admiral in the State of Ky who was a priv. Com. in the ————— comm nd by Captain ————— of the ————— comm nd in the ————— VA ne for 2 years
Due from 1830
Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville at the rate of 470 Dollars ————— Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Ending 10 September 1840
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of March 1857 and sent to
D. J. Trabue
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Present
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. C. Robinson Clerk,
Book E Vol. 9 Page 49

Dan Trabue Adm. declaration

State of Missouri St Louis County Set
On this the 17 th day of August 1880 Before me Peter W. Johnstone an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Personally Appeared Daniel Trabue and after being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to ob- tain the means of Pension due his deceased Father Daniel Trabue at his death under the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832: To wit That he is the Administrator of the estate of his Father aforesaid Daniel Trabue who was as he verily believes a private and Company Proba- bly held some other Office during the War of the Revo- lution. That he was in Service in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky & regarded as having been under the Command of Genl Geo Rogers Clark. That after the passage of the act 7 th June 1832 his said Father applied for and obtained an allowance under said act of $260. Per Annum which Pension was discontinued for several years previous to his death, and this declarant believes the discontinuance was unjust and should now have taken place. That the Service of his Father performed in the Revolution he believes to have been Clearly and Correctly set forth by him in his declaration now on file in the Pension Office and which Service he

likewise believes to have been full and satisf- =actorily proven by the testimony now on file in said Office to which reference is now made. He asks as right and believes it to be his duty so to do, That an examination of the papers & evidence con- =tained therein may be had, And an allowance made for the amount now honestly remain- ing due , And that a Certificate may issue to him as administrator of the estate of said Daniel Trabue who departed this life on the tenth day of September Eighteen Hundred & forty leaving sev- =eral Children now living (viz) Robert Trabue of the State of Illinois His declarant of St. Louis Miss- =ouri James Trabue of the City of Louisville State of Kentucky And Mrs Sally Anderson of Green County Kentucky who is now a widow. This Declarant would suggest That the service of his Father was as he believes of full or upwards of two Years duration, And was Calculated in his Opinion at too small a rate, When it sho- =uld have been Calculated at the rate of full $600 per Annum as he is of Opinion the pay of an issuing and purchasing Commi- =ssary during the years his Father was in Service was full 50¢ per Month And to the Journals of the Continental Congress reference is now made for the rate pay allowed during the years of the said service of his said Father was performed. He now asks that the allowance may be made

for the Service performed at the proper rate of pay per Annum and that the Certificate may view for the Annuities payable to declarant as admin- istrator of S d Estate
Sworn to and Subscribed before me On the day & year aforesaid Peter W. Johnston
Daniel Draper Administrator
State of Missouri } County of St. Louis } I, Lewis F. Lacy Clerk of the St. Louis County Court certify that Peter W. Johnston Esq. whose name is subscribed to the preceding affidavit was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and sworn, and that his said signature is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court August 17. 1850 Lewis F. Lacy CLK

I hereby Certify, that the accompanying page & numbered from One to Twenty, inclusive, are truly copied from the original & in the Pension Office. War Department,
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Be it Remembered, that JAMES L. EDWARDS, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given. In testimony whereof, I have here- unto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be af- fixed, on this 19 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-Six.
L. D. Baker
Secretary of War.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832.
State of Kentucky County of Adair
On this 6 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the county court of the county of Adair, Daniel Trabue a resident of Columbia in the county of Adair and State of Kentucky aged 73 years the 31 st of March last past who being first duly sworn according to Law in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
He states that in the Spring or Summer of 1776 shortly after he was 16 years of age, he was called on to guard the magazine that had been removed from Williamsburg to Chesterfield county Virginia (his native place), and continued as a guard for more than one month under the command of Capt Mathew Scott. Same year he was called on to go a tour of duty against the Dunmore who was down James River, we started at Chesterfield courthouse, went down the South side of said river, did not go far before we halted, remained only a few days or weeks and were discharged, for which we were credited by a tour of duty, Capt Blackhorse Mosby and led for the officers if I remember aright.
In the fall or beginning

of winter, seventeen hundred and seventy seven, I enlisted to go a tour to the west under James Seaburn. He contemplated on remaining at the forts in Ky when belonging to it & which were then in great distress until Col George Rogers Clarke came down the Ohio river to its falls at which point he intended joining him (He here states that he was then a volunteer.
Accordingly we left home and after a very cold and difficult tour of travelling we arrived at Boonsborough Fort, in the mean time having come across (in the wilderness and put to flight a small party of Indians about as numerous as ourselves. A part of the company having come on before us, we learned on our arrival that they had been taken prisoners a few days previous with Col Boon at the blue licks. Having drawn provision, &c we started to and in a few days arrived at Logansport. This applicant was there appointed commissary for the fort by Col Bowman, Col Walloway, and Capt (who was afterwards Col Logan) by virtue of which office he performed a great deal of hard and dangerous labour, employing hunters pressing cattle, buying corn &c &c a great deal of provision, being needed as many of Col Clark's men were frequently passing and drawing provisions from our fort and also as in times of eminent danger, companies of men were called on from the Shelby county.
The public stores, magazines and public horses were given up to me. By the direction of James Seaburn commissary General

For the forts it was made my duty (which duty I performed) to go to the falls of the Ohio to examine the accounts of Mr. Pyatte commissary there, and also to Harrodsburgh and Boonstorough on the same business all of which was attended with much danger and privation.
I received the pay of a Captain, and now respectfully petition the Secretary of War to be so considered. In the office of commissary I continued for eighteen or nineteen months.
Early in the Year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine I went into old virginia to assist Col. Calloway in bringing out ammunition, we accordingly brought out forty pack horse loads. Some time in January Seventeen hundred and eighty I delivered up the public property to Col. Bauman Col. Calloway and General Logan and returned to Chesterfield.
In January or February Seventeen hundred and eighty one. I was a volunteer under Col. Haskins for a short time the object of which was to meet the enemy who then were in the neighbourhood of Richmond, but they made to their shipping and went down near to Norfolk.
I was then called on as a militia man to do a tour of duty for three months under Capt. Edward Morely. Markham and Falkner being our Colonels and Mulenburgh our General. We marched down the river on the south side near to Norfolk. The enemy advanced and we retreated to Petersburg where we were reinforced by Baron Stuben and

4 where an engagement ensued. The action began at Sunrise and ended about midnoon the enemy were commanded by Genl. Arnold and Phillips or one of them if I amember aright.
The loss of the enemy were greater than ours.
In a few days Cornwallis and Tarlton came from the South and defeated our army at Satterrys old fields, in the county of Chesterfield and took some prisoners. The remainder of our men retreated to the North to meet Sayfalle and Wayne. My tour being at an end Col Goode petitioned me to go with dispatches to Sayfalle which I did, and in going through Goochland and Louisa Countys I was endangered by the scouting parties of Tarlton's light horse, and at one time was pursued so very close that I would have been taken had I not left the road and taken refuge in a thick wood. I however delivered the dispatches to Sayfalle at Raccoonfield on the Rappahannock river and returned to Goode with the answers of Sayfalle. Col Goode then petitioned me with a flag of truce to the enemy to see some of our pris- oners that had been taken at Satterry's old field as their friends wanted to let them some money and clothing, but he said the flag would not be received if I were not an officer, and for the purpose of performing said business I was commissioned a lieut. by Thomas Jefferson the Governor of Virginia, which I received with the flag from Goode and performed the business.
This was the last service I done in the Revolution time it is, I was at the siege of York but was there only as a settler on my own business.
I have lost every document on the subject

having since then been engaged in public business for a great number of years and extensive private business which have accumulated and arranged a great number of papers.
He states that he never deserted or abandoned the service, but fulfilled all his engagements and never departed without being legally discharged in writing or verbally, but at this lapse of time he is wholly unable to state by whom he was discharged, and those in writing have been lost as above stated. He further states that after that after the close of war in the year 1785 he removed to and settled near Versailles, Woodford county, Kentucky where he resided until the year 1795 when he removed to and settled in county of Green on the waters of Russells creek near Adair county, in which last named county he has resided ever since, having removed to the town of Columbia about the year 1814 in which he has ever since resided. He states that he is able to prove substantially much of the services performed by him, by John Baker and William Baker of the county of Cumberland and Ben: Briggs and Ezra Morrison of the county of Lincoln and state of Kentucky, he states that he has procured their affidavits which he has had certified in their several counties and here presents to the court and will forward to the War office, he states that from the great age and bodily debility of John Baker and Ezra Morrison they are wholly unable to attend here in proper person, and from the great age and personal debility of William

Baker and Ben Briggs their travelling to and attendance in court would have been attended with great inconvenience and difficulty, and he was unable to procure their attendance in person.
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.
Daniel Trabue
To which foregoing declaration led Daniel Trabue near Swoon in open court and produced and read in open court the affidavits of John Baker and William Baker Benjamin Briggs and Ezra Moraine and produced in open court the following witnesses who swore as follows Joe Nathan Gaither representative in the eighth congressional district personally appeared in court and made oath that he has been for many years acquainted with Col D Trabue of Columbia and that he has been reputed a soldier of the Revolution and has no doubt that he has stated the facts only in his declaration he states that he is well acquainted with the affiants John and William Baker of Cumberland county Kentucky that they are men of the highest respectability for honesty and veracity and that they are aged and feeble men and that John Baker is so infirm that he could not with any reasonable probability be produced in this court, that William Baker could not attend without great labour and inconvenience owing to his

7 age and ability and being married.
J. G. Walker also at Law appeared in open court and made oath that he has been acquainted with Col. D. Frabre the applicant for upwards of thirty years, that he has always been reputed a Soldier of the Revolution as stated in his declaration. He has filled respectable offices as now a Justice of the peace and county court. He has no doubt he has stated the truth in his declaration. and also that he has for years been personally acquainted with John and William Baker that they are men of the first respectability and concurs with Doc. Nathan Gaither in his belief of the inability of John and inconvenience of William's attendance in person that he has a slight personal acquaintance with Morrison and has some knowledge of his & Briggs character, which are good. They are aged men.
Col. Williams Owens also at Law states that he is, and has been for many years well acquainted with John and William Baker of Cumberland's and Elyas Morrison and Ben Briggs of Lincoln, that they are all men of good characters and their statements on oath entitled to full credit, that they are aged and neither of them could attend court without considerable inconvenience and John Baker is unable to travel this far that he has long been acquainted with Col. Frabre who has since been reputed a soldier as stated in his application and has no doubt he has stated the facts truly in his declaration.
D. Luddarth, Esq. one of the members of the county court made oath that he is

acquainted with Ezra Morrison and Ben Briggs that they are men of respectability equal to any in the Union for truth and honesty that they are aged that Morrison is unable to travel and that Col. Frabue could not have procured the personal attendance of Briggs without great inconvenience, that he has always understood from reputation and believes that he was a soldier of the Revolution, that has no doubt of the truth of this declaration made oath that he has been long acquainted with Ezra Morrison, Ben Briggs, that he concurs with Esquire Swoarth in his statement of their character and condition, and the inability of Morrison to travel and the inconvenience to procure the personal attendance of Briggs.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and officer as stated in his declaration and now as he states, and the court further certify and declare that J. Swoarth, J. G. Walker Esq s Col W m Owens, J. Swoarth Esq s and Andrew Russell are men of credit and respectability, and their statements are entitled to full credit and reliance, and they further declare that it is their opinion that Col Frabue could not possibly have procured the attendance of John Baker and Ezra Morrison the affiants nor the personal attendance of William Baker Benjamin Briggs the affiants without great inconvenience all of which is ordered

to be certified to the War Department.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Adair county ss.
I William Caldwell clerk of the county court for the said county of adair do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Col. Daniel Trabue for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 18 th day of August 1832, and forty first year of the commonwealth of Kentucky.
William Caldwell clerk
I John Baker of Cumberland county Ken: do state that I have been acquainted with Daniel Trabue of Columbia Adair county for sixty years and in the year 1781 I served to my duty with him in the American Army and we was together in a battle with the British at Petersburg and I John Baker was orderly sergeant and do state that the said Trabue was in the engagement and believe he fired on that day many times at the enemy. The battle began about sun rise

and ended about the middle of the afternoon the said Habue was that day very brave. I think I know he did serve in the Army that year six months and perhaps more and in the whole time of the war after he the said Habue was old enough he was forward and willing and was in the army, given under my hand this 10 th of July 1832.
John Baker
I William Baker of Cumberland county and state of Kentucky do state that I was with the above named John Baker and Daniel Habue in the above named army forays and battles and do state the same of said Habue's services &c as stated by the above named John Baker this 10 th of July 1832.
William Baker
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for Cumberland county John Baker and William Baker and made oath to the truth of the statements contained in the above certificates given under my hand this 10 th day of July 1832.
Joel Ainsly. J.P. C.C.

Kentucky, Cumberland County ss.
I Milton King clerk of the county court of said county certify that Joel Owsly who administered the oath to the aforesaid subsenting John and William Baker was at the time of administering the oath and is now a justice of the Peace for the aforesaid county and duly authorized to administer such oaths and the signature annexed is his genuine signature, given under my hand and seal
of Office in Barks ville This 11 th day of July 1832 Milton King
Kentucky Cumberland county Set.
I Joel Owsly a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do certify, in addition to my certificate annexed to the within affidavits of John Baker and William Baker of the date of July 10 th 1832 that said John Baker and William Baker are residents of said county of Cumberland, that they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. Witness my hand this 27 th day of November 1832
Joel Owsly J.P.C.C.

Kentucky Cumberland County, Set.
I Milton King Clerk of the Cumberland county court do certify that Joel Overley Esquire whose signature is annexed to the foregoing certificate is the same person who has signed the certificate annexed to the within affidavit of the date of July 10 th 1832 and before whom said affidavit was taken, that he is now and was at the date of the foregoing certificate an acting Justice of the Peace in Cumberland County duly commissioned and qualified, that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts, And that the signature annexed to the foregoing certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of my office this 27 th day of November 1832.
M. King
I Ben Priggs of Lincoln county Ky do state that in the year 1778 and early in that year that Daniel Frabue who now lives in Columbia & Daviess county did come to Logan Fort and was commissary at said fort, and dispensed provisions, employ hunters &c and did issue the provisions ammunition &c and the said Frabue continued there to the end of 1779

and that quit the public store and magazine. I would think it might be considered he was in the service at this time two years. I do further state that a great many of General G. R. Clark's men passed by the said Logan's Fort and drawn provisions going and coming and very often the said Fort was commanded by Capt Ben Logan the first year, he was soon after promoted to Col. and then Gen B. Logan. I think D. Trabue was not long at the said Garrison before he acted as commissary and acted in the said capacity until the last of the year 1779 given under my hand this 27 of July 1852.
B. Briggs
Lincoln county Set.
This day personally appeared before me H. Wheate a justice of the Peace for said county Ben: Briggs and made oath to the foregoing statements. Given under my hand this 27 th day of July 1852.
Henry Wheate. J. P. C. C.
Kentucky Lincoln county Set.
I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln county court do hereby certify that Henry Wheate esquire before whom the foregoing deposition or affidavit of Ben: Briggs was taken, is an acting justice of the peace in Lincoln county duly

commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit should be given to his official acts and that the signature annexed, is his genuine signa- ture.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 27 th day of July 1832.
Thomas Hilm Clerk.
Kentucky, Lincoln county, Set.
I Harry Wheat a Justice of the Peace in the county aforesaid do certify in addition to my certificate annexed to the foregoing affidavit of Rev. Briggs of the date of July 27 th 1832, that the said Rev. Briggs who has subscribed said affidavit is a resident of said county of Lincoln in the State of Kentucky; That he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. Witness my hand this 20 th day of November 1832.
Harry Wheat
Kentucky, Lincoln county to wit.
I Thomas Hilm clerk of the said county court do hereby Certify that Harry Wheat whose signature

is annexed to the foregoing certificate is the same person before whom the within affidavit of Benjamin Briggs was taken, and who subscribed the certificate referred to in the above and foregoing certificate, that he was at the date of the said certificate and now is an acting justice of the peace in the county of Lincoln duly commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts and that the signature annexed to said certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this 20th day of November 1832.
Thomas H. H. Clerk
The affidavit of Ezra Morrison taken on the 20th of October 1831. This affiant do state that in the year 1779 that Daniel Frabue now living in Edair county in Columbia Kentucky was acting as a commissary at the garrison at Logan Fort and he the said Frabue had the arrangement of the Public Store and magazine at that place and did employ

This affiant as one of the sheriffs to hunt and kill and bring in Wild Meat for the use of the United State soldiery and that the said Trabe furnished the affiant with ammunition and a Public Horse to pack in the meat, and he did fetch in a considerable quantity of meat and delivered it to the said Trabe at the said garrison.
Ezra Morrison S
Kentucky Lincoln county set.
I John Carpenter one of the commonwealth justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Ezra Morrison personally appeared before me and made oath that the statements contained in the foregoing affidavit are true and that the said Morrison assigned the same in my presence. Given from under my hand this 20 th October 1831.
Jno. Carpenter J. P. cc
Kentucky Lincoln County set.
I John Carpenter a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do certify in addition to my certificate of the date of the 20 th of October 1831. annexed to the within affidavit of Ezra Morrison, that the said Ezra Morrison is a resident of the County of Lincoln and State of Kentucky that he is a credible person, and that his statement

is entitled to credit. Given under my hand, this day of — 18. —
Kentucky Lincoln county set.
I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln county court do certify that John Carpenter whose signature is annexed to the foregoing certificate is the same person, before whom the within affidavit was taken and who subscribed the certificate referred to in the above certificate, that he was at the date of the above certificate an acting justice of the peace in said county of Lincoln duly commissioned and qualified, that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts, and that the signature annexed to said certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office, this — day of — 18 —
Kentucky Lincoln County set:
I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Lincoln county court do certify that John Carpenter Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Ezra Morrison was taken was an acting justice of the peace in Lincoln county on the 20th day of October 1831 duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts, and that the signature annexed is his

Genuine signature.
T. G.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of my office this 27 th day of July 1832, Thomas Hilm
Mr Thomas Blair and Joseph Miller appeared in open court and made oath that Ezra Morrison of Lincoln county Kentucky, has been known to them upwards of thirty years and is a man of first rate character for truth and veracity and there is but one man of that name, as they believe in that county this 3 rd day of Dec r 1832.
Thomas Blair Joseph Miller
At a county court held for the county of Adair in the Commonwealth of Kentucky on Tuesday the 4 th day of December, 1832 by the justices of said county court. The affidavit of Thomas Blair and Joseph Miller was exhibited in open court subscribed and sworn to by said Blair and Miller and ordered to be attached to the declaration of Daniel Trabue Sen r hereafter made in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, and the said court do hereby certify and declare

Their opinion that it appears to them that the said Thomas Blair and Joseph Miller who have subscribed and sworn to the aforesaid affidavit are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. The affidavits of Benjamin Briggs of Lincoln county and of John Baker and William Baker of Cumberland county heretofore attached to the aforesaid declaration of said Daniel Trabue Sen r were also produced in open court with the additional certificates of Harvey Wheat and Joel Owsly Esquires before whom said affidavits were taken, and of the clerks of the county courts of said counties of Lincoln and Cumberland annexed to them. And it is ordered by the court that said affidavits of Benjamin Briggs and John and William Baker be also attached to the aforesaid declaration of said Daniel Trabue Sen r and it is further ordered that all the aforesaid affidavits be certified under the seal of the court.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Adair County Set.
I William Leadwell clerk of the county court for the county of Adair aforesaid do hereby certify that the annexed affidavits of John Baker, William Baker, Benjamin Briggs, Ezra Morrison and Thomas Blair and Joseph Miller form a part of the testimony in support of the declaration of Daniel Trabue, Sen r to which they

are attached and connected as directed and required by the above and foregoing order of said court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court this 9 th day of December 1832.
William Caton, Clk.

Rev.&1812 Wars Section. mmn am
April 11, 1928.
R. T. Sublette, 18 West 41 st Street, Savannah, Georgia.
Sir:
I advise you that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made to the United States on account of his services.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of Littlebury Sublett.
From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 14727, it appears that Daniel Trabue was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia March 31, 1760.
He served one month as a private under Captain Matthew Scott in the spring or summer of 1776; during the same year he served under Captain Moseley and Colonel Goode.
In the fall or winter of 1777 he volunteered and accompanied his brother Commissary James Trabue to Logansport, Kentucky where he was appointed Commissary to the fort at that place under Captains Richard May and Logan,

Colonels Bowman and Calloway and George Rogers Clarke in the Virginia State Troops, and served in that capacity until January 1780. In January or February 1781 he served a short time under Colonel Haskins, then served three months under Captain Edward Moseley, Colonels Markham and Faulkner and was in the battle of Petersburg.
He was then directed by Colonel Goode to convey dispatches to General Lafayette, after which he was commissioned a Captain by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia, and sent with a flag of truce to interview some prisoners taken by the enemy.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 6, 1832 while a resident of Adair County, Kentucky. He died September 10, 1840.
In 1850 his only surviving children were: Robert, a resident of Illinois; James, a resident of Louisville, Kentucky; Daniel a resident of St. Louis, Missouri and Sally Anderson (a widow) a resident of Green County, Kentucky.
For information relative to land that may have been granted by the State of Virginia it is suggested that you apply to the Librarian, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

The affidavit of Ezra Warren taken on the 20th October 1821. The affiant do state that in the year 1779 that Daniel Frabin now living in Scott County in Columbia Kentucky was acting as a commissary at the garrison at Logan's Fort and to the said Frabin had the management of the public store and magazines at that place and did employ this affiant as one of the hunters to hunt and kill and bring in wild meat for the use of the militia State Soldiers and that the said Frabin furnished the affiant with ammunition and a public store to pack in the meat and he did pack in a considerable quantity of meat and

Kentucky Lincoln county Set I John Carpenter a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid do certify in addition to my certificate of the date of the 20th October 1831, annexed to the within Affidavit of Ezra Morrison, that the said Ezra Morrison is a resident of the county of Lincoln & State of Kentucky that he is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand this day of 18.
Kentucky Lincoln county Set I Thomas Helms clerk of the Lincoln county court do certify that John Carpenter whose signature is annexed to the foregoing certificate is the same person, before whom the within affidavit was taken and, who subscribed the certificate referred to in the above certificate, that he was at the date of the above certificate an acting Justice of the peace in said county of Lincoln duly com- missioned & qualified, that full faith & credit is ought to be given to all his official acts, and that the signature annexed to said certificate is his genuine signature.
Ezra Morrison
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this day of 18.

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Trabue, Daniel Va. 514727

(70) Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832.
State of Kentucky } ss County of Adair }
On this 11 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the County Court of the County of Adair Daniel Frabue, a resident of Columbia in the County of Adair and State of Kentucky, aged 73 years the 31 st of March last past who being first duly sworn according to law to obtain in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
(2) hundred, and Twenty Seven, I enlisted to take a tour to the west, under James Frabue. He contemplated on remaining at the fort, which were then in great distress until Colo George Rogers Clark came down the Ohio river to its falls, at which place he intended joining him. (he here states that he was then a volunteer.) Accordingly we left home and after a very cold and difficult tour of travelling we arrived at Boonsborough fort, in the mean time having come across (in the wilderness) and put to flight a small party party of Indians about as numerous as ourselves. A part of the company having come on before us, we learned on our arrival that they had been taken prisoners a few days previous with Col. Stern at the Blue- licks. Having drawn procuring V. we

The States that the  States in the Spring or Summer of 1776 shortly after he was 16 years of age, he was called on to guard the Magazine, that had been removed from Williamsburg to Chesterfield County Va. (his native place) and continued as a guard for more than one month, under the command of Capt Walter Scott. Same year, he was called on to go a tour of duty against Dunmore who was down James River; we started at the Chesterfield Courthouse went down the South side of Sand River - did not go far before we were halted, remained only a few days or weeks, and were discharged, for which we were en- titled to a tour of duty, Capt Blackburn Moore and Col. Goode, the officers, if I remember aright.
In the fall or beginning of winter, Seventeen
Started to and in a few days arrived at Logans fort. At that time The garrison was there appointed commissary for the fort, by Col. Burman Col. Calloway and Capt who was afterwards Genl. Logan, by virtue of which office he performed a great deal of hard and dangerous labor; employing hunting provising cattle, buying corn H. H. a great deal of provisions being needed as many of Col. Clark's men were frequently passing and drawing provisions from our fort, and also as in times of imminent danger, com- panies of men were called on from the Hampshire Country.

(3.) The public stores, magazines, and public houses were given up to me. By the direction of James Irvine commissary General for the forces it was made my duty (which duty I performed) to go to the falls of the Ohio to examine the accounts of Mr. Galt commissary there, and also to Harrodsburgh, and Boonsborough on the same business all of which was attended with much danger and privation. I received the pay of a Captain, and now respectfully petition the Secretary of war to be so considered. In the office of commissary I continued for eighteen or

Nineteen months
Early in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy nine I went into Old Virginia to assist Col: Callaway in bringing out Ammunition, we accordingly brought out forty pack horse loads. Some time
in January Seventeen hundred and eighty I delivered up the public property to Col: Bennan. Col. Callaway & Gen: Logan and returned to Chesterfield
In January or February Seventeen hundred and eighty one, I was a volunteer under Col: Washington for a short time the object of which was to meet the enemy who then were in the neighborhood of Richmond, but they made

(4.) made to their shipping and went down near to Norfolk.
I was then called on as a Militia man to do a turn of duty for three months under Capt Edward Morley - Warham and Hault- ney being my Colonels and Moughtonburg our General. We marched down the river on the South side near to Norfolk. The enemy advanced and we retreated to Petersburg , where we were reinforced by Baron Stuben, and where an engagement ensued. The action began at sunrise and ended about midnoon, the enemy were commanded by Genl Arnold & Phillips or one of them if I remember aright. The loss of the

1 Enemy were greater than ours. In a few days Cornwallis and Tarleton came from the South and defeated our Army at Wat-berry, old field, in the County of Chesterfield. They remained  there and took some prisoners. The remainder of our men retreated to the North to meet Lafayette and Wayne.
My tour being at an end Col Scott petitioned me to to go with dispatches to Lafayette which I did, and in going through Rockland and Louisa Counties I was endangered by the scouting parties of Tarleton's light horse, and at one time was

5 pursued Henry Steele that I would have been taken had I not left the road and taken refuge in a thick wood. I however delivered the dispatches to Lafayette at Raccoon Ford on the Rappahannock river and returned to Goose with the answer to Lafayette. Colo. Goose then permitted me with a flag of truce to the enemy to see some of our prisoners that had been taken at Sutterbry's Creek field as their friends wanted to tell them how some money and clothing, but he said the flag would not be received if I saw not a officer and for the purpose of performing said business I was commissioned a Captain by Thomas Jefferson the Governor of Virginia, which I received with the flag from Goose and performed the business. This was the last service I done in the Revolution; true it is I was at the Siege of York town by the  army of but was there only as a settler on my own business. I have lost every document on the subject having since then been engaged in public business for a great number of years, and

6 And will further testify in open court, that from the great age and bodily infirmity of John Baker & Ezra Morrison they are wholly unable to attend here in person, & from the great age & personal infirmity of Wm Baker & Ben Briggs their travelling to & attendance in court would have been attended with great inconvenience & difficulty, and he was unable to procure their attendance in person person 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 army of any State.
Daniel Trabue.
To which foregoing declaration Col d Danl Trabue was sworn in open court & produced; he produced and read in open court the affidavits of John Baker, Wm Baker, Benjamin Briggs & Ezra Morrison and produced in court the following the following witnesses whose names are as follows. Doct Nathan Farthing, representative in the 8 th Congressional district personally appeared in court and made oath that he has been for many years acquainted with Col d

extensive private business, which have accumulated and disarranged a great number of papers. He states that he never deserted or abandoned the Service but fulfilled all his engagements and never departed without being legally discharged in writing or verbally but at the lapse of time he is wholly unable to state by whom he was discharged and there is nothing here as above stated. He further states that after the close of war in the year 1785 he removed to and settled near Versailles Woodford County Kentucky where he resided until the year 1795 when he removed to and settled in the County of Green in the valley of Russell, Creek near its mouth where he removed in which last named County he has resided ever since; having removed to the town of Columbia about the year 1800 in which he has ever since resided. He states that he is able to prove in substantially much of the Service performed by him by John Baker & William Baker of the County of Cumberland & Rev. Briggs & Ezra Morrison of the County of Lincoln, & State of Kentucky. He states that he has procured their affidavits which he has had certified in their several Counties & has present, to the Court

Dr. Graham of Columbia And that he has been reported a Soldier of the Revolution. And has no doubt he has  has that he has stated the last, truly in his declaration, he states that he has is well acquainted with the applicant officer John and William Baking of Cumberland County Ky that they are men of the highest respectability for honesty and veracity and that they are aged and noble men, and that John Baking is a younger brother he contends with any reasonable possibility possibility that providence in this court that William Baking could not attend without great labor and inconvenience owing to his age debility and being paralytic.
J. Walker age 80. Atty at Law. Appeared in court and made Oath that he has been acquainted with Col. J. Graham the applicant for upwards of thirty years, that he has always been reported a Soldier of the Revolution as stated in his de- claration. He has filled responsible offices, is now a pastor of the peace, & County Court, he has no doubt he has stated the truth in his declaration. And also that he has for years been personally acquainted with John & Wm Baking that they are men

of the fact of their respectability
Of the great respectability and consensus of the public opinion in his belief of the inability of Johnson and inaccuracy of Wood's attendance in person. That he has a slight personal acquaintance with Morrison and had some knowledge of his and Briggs' characters which are good. They are aged men.
Col. William Owens, att. at Gen. State, in oath that he is, has been for many years well acquainted with John W. Dillinger, Barker of Cumberland, and Ezra Morrison and Ben Briggs of Lincoln that they are all men of good character and their statements are their xxxxxx in oath entitled to full credit. That they are aged and neither of them are  xxx of their own accord without considerable inducement. John W. Dillinger is unable to read this far. That he has long been acquainted with Col. Owens who has been reported a Solicitor ad litem in his application has no doubt he has stated the facts truly in his declaration.

Andrew Russell Esq. One of the members of the County Court made Oath that he is acquainted with Ezra G. Morris and Mr. Briggs that they are men of respectability equal to any in the Union for truth and honesty, that they are aged that Morris is unable to travel, and that Col. Saltonstall's order has prevented the personal attendance of Briggs without great inconvenience that he has been always understood from reputation and belief, that he was a Saloon of the revolution. he has no doubt of the truth of this declaration
XXXX XXX Andrew Russell
made Oath that he has been long acquainted with Ezra Morris and Ben Briggs that he concurs with Ezra's statement in his statement of their character & conditions and the inability of Morris to travel & the inconvenience to procure the personal attendance of Briggs
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the Ward Department, that the

above named defendant was a revolutionary soldier and officer as stated in his declaration and served as such and the court further certify & declare  finds that Jonathan Hickson Esq. Col. Mtn. Mtn. Division the Eng. and XXXXXX are men of credit & respectability and their statements are entitled to full credit. And reliance. And they further XXXXXX  find declare that it is their opinion that Col. Hickson could not have procured the attendance of the Baker & Ezra Norcross the affiants nor the personal attendance of Wm Baker XXXXXX XXXXXX the affiants without great inconvenience all of which is ordered to be certified to the honorable court.

Commonwealth of Kentucky Adair County ss
I William Caldwell Clerk of the county court for the said County of Adair, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Col. Daniel Trabue for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 18 th day of August 1832 and forty first year of the common- wealth of Ky.
Wm Caldwell Clerk

State of Kentucky, Barren County Sct.
Daniel Trabue of the town of Columbia in the County of Adair, aged 73 years this day personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Barren, and made oath, that he served as Deputy Commissary under James Trabue Commissary in the Regiment of the Virginia State Troops, commanded by Col. George Rogers Clark in the revolutionary War. That he the said Daniel Trabue served as Deputy Commissary as aforesaid during the years 1778 - commencing in June 1778. 1779 & 1780, and that he did not resign nor was he otherwise discharged from the service, but held himself in readiness to perform the duties appertaining to his said Office until the termination of the revolutionary War. That his Commission with other papers of his were with the papers of his brother James Trabue at Ruddle's fort at the time said James Trabue was captured and the said fort taken and burnt by the Indians & British in the year 1780, and he presumes said Commission was then destroyed. He has never seen it since, & cannot now produce it. He farther maketh oath, that he is the same Daniel Trabue who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and whose services are proven by the affidavits of Esther Whitley, Ann Harrod, Ambrose White, Ezra Morrison, Benjamin Briggs & Josiah Collins, & the same who is also mentioned in the affidavits of Benjamin Bowmar & Nathan Gaither.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, Daniel Trabue in the County of Barren this 8 th day of November 1833
W. J. H. E. I. N. D. N. H. C.

Know all men by these Presents, that I Daniel Trabue, of the Town of Columbia, County of Adair, State of Kentucky, do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint Christopher Tompkins of the Town of Glasgow, County of Barren, State of Kentucky, my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name to demand, re- ceive, and give acquittances for any Compensation in money, lands Scrip, or Warrant, or other Compensation which may be due me for my services, as Deputy Commissary under James Trabue Commissary General in the Regiment of the Virginia State Troops commanded by Col George Rogers Clark, from the Government of the United States or its agents, who are appointed and au- thorised to pay out the same, or from the Govern- ment of the State of Virginia or its agents ap- pointed and authorised to pay the same. And I the said Trabue do hereby and by these Presents ratify and confirm every act or acts of my said Attor- ney, done in pursuance of the above authority and acknowledge the same to be as binding & obligatory upon me as fully for every intent and purpose as if I were personally present acknowl- edging and consenting to the same. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal this 8 th day of November, 1833. Sealed and delivered in } Daniel Trabue presence of } W. J. Elkin
State of Kentucky, Barren County.
Be it known that on the 8 th day of November, 1833, before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Dan- iel Trabue above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last aboven- tioned.
W. J. Elkin J.P.

let 22 Jan '36 Hon. J. Williams Copies of papers sent to Hon G. W. Lay, H.R. Feb 20 1836
Kentucky 3517-
Daniel Grubye of & in the State of Kentucky who was a Com. Y. L. R. in the ————— commanded by Captain ————— of the Regt commanded by Col. Goode — in the Virginia line for 18 mo: Company 6 " Private from 1778-
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky as the rate of 260 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Dec r 32 and said Pensioner Columbia. Ky-
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 390 ~ Semi-ant. allowance ending June '33 130 ~
$ 521 ~
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk Book 2 Vol. 9 — Page 62

OW
RECORD & PENSION OFFICE 433019 NOV 8 1895 WAR DEPARTMENT
207. Columbia Building Louisville, Ky. Nov 5. 1895.
Daniel Trabue served in the Commissary for Ky. under Col. Geo. R. Clark. War of the Revolution.
Miss. Letitia L. Trabue
Requests copy of the declaration for pension of the above named, (her great grand father), for services rendered in the war of the Revolution.
R.R.P.
Address: "Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D. C."
Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, Nov'r 9, 1895.
Respectfully transmitted to
The Commissioner
of Pensions,
and the writer so informed.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
[Signature] Colonel, U. S. Army, Chief of Office.
(300c) Per

Louisville, Ky. Nov. 5th, 1895.
War Department, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen;-
My Great Grandfather, Daniel Trabue, was Issuing Commissary for Kentucky under Col. George Rogers Clark about 1777. He was placed upon the Pension Roll under the Act of Congress of 7th. of June 1832 for service rendered in the Revolutionary War.
He made his statement as to service performed by him in his declaration, among his papers constituting his Application for the pension, now on file in the War Department at Washington.
I am very anxious, as a matter of Family History, to have a copy of his declaration as it will give his full cause of service, and will be obliged if you can furnish me with a copy. After his death several years, an allowance for a higher grade of service was obtained than that for which the first allowance was made.
The Pension Agency here have informed me that you can furnish me with a copy of this paper, and I will greatly appreciate it if you can accommodate me.
Very Respectfully Yours, (Miss) Letitia L. Trabue.
207 Columbia Building, Louisville, Ky.

Washington, D. C.
July 28, 1910 Capt. John R. King U.S. Pension agent.
Dear Comrade, -
I am interested in find- ing the records of two revolution- ary soldiers: William Caldwell, private in Virginia line who was placed on pension roll July 20, 1819. I think he died July 5, 1825. The other was Daniel Trabue, private in Virginia militia and received pension Dec. 26, 1832. Both of these men afterwards lived
AUG 1 - 1910

in Adair County, Kentucky.
If not too much trouble, I would also like to have the record of Lieut. John Trabue of Virginia who received bounty warrant of land in Kentucky.
Thanking you in advance, I am Yours in F.C. and L., D. J. Block.
Fendall Bldg., City.
AUG 1 - 1910

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by a. mae S. 2/8/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier _____
Service Lieut. John Trabul
Additional Service Va.
Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191____
No claim, combination records _____, 191____
REMARKS:
NO Inv. " Wid. " Rej' Ensign Va troops B.L. 2221 for 150 acres issued Dec. 30, 1796 (no papers)

W. H. MILLER P. T. WHEELER J. W. CRAFT
Rev. Sec. - 1.
C. B. B.
STATE AND FEDERAL PRACTICE LAND TITLES A SPECIALTY COLLECTIONS AND ALL CIVIL LITIGATIONS CAREFULLY ATTENDED TO
Miller, Wheeler & Craft Attorneys and Counsellors at Law HAZARD, KENTUCKY
March 30, 1916.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
There is being instituted here a chapter of the D.A.R., and in order to establish my eligibility, I am taking the liberty of writing you for certain information relative to my great-great grandfather, one Daniel Trabue, who was a Colonel in the Revolution.
Colonel Trabue for years, as I am informed, drew a pension, and his pension voucher was mailed to him at Greensburg, Greene County, Kentucky.
I would indeed appreciate it if you will have your records examined and give me all the data necessary to establish my right to become a member of the D.A.R.
Thanking you, I am,
Respectfully,
(Mrs) J. W. Craft

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Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I am endeavoring to get the Revolutionary War records of Littlebury Sublett and Daniel Trabue both from either Powhatan or Chesterfield Counties Virginia and I was referred to you by the Adjutant General's Office as the records of that office are far from complete and while he was able to give me one enlistment of Littlebury Sublett, our family history indicates that he served longer than one year. As to Daniel Trabue, the Department had no records and I am positive that he was granted a land bounty and drew a pension for Revolutionary War duty.
Any charge which you may make for gathering these data will be cheerfully remitted upon advice from you.
Very truly yours ,
R. T. Sublette R.T. Sublette. 18 West 41st. St. Savannah, Ga.

Rev. War Section mmst
August 24, 1923
Mrs. J. T. White 423 Avenue A Lawton, Okla.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 14727 it appears that Daniel Trabue was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia March 31, 1760.
He served one month as a Private under Captain Matthew Scott in the Spring or Summer of 1776; during the same year he served under Captain Moseley and Colonel Goode.
In the Fall or Winter of 1777 he volunteered and accompanied his brother Commissary James Trabue to Logansport, Kentucky where he was appointed Commissary to the fort at that place under Captains Richard May and Logan, Colonels Bowman and Calloway and George Rogers Clarke in the Virginia State Troops, and served in that capacity until January 1780. In January or February 1781 he served a short time under Colonel Haskins, then served three months under Captain Edward Moseley, Colonels Markham

and Faulkner and was in the battle of Petersburg.
He was then directed by Colonel Goode to convey dispatches to General Lafayette, after which he was commissioned a Captain by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia, and sent with a flag of truce to interview some prisoners taken by the enemy.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 6, 1832 while a resident of Adair County, Kentucky. He died September 10, 1840.
In 1850 his only surviving children were: Robert a resident of Illinois; James a resident of Louisville, Kentucky; Daniel a resident of St. Louis, Missouri and Sally Anderson (a widow) a resident of Green County, Kentucky.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
no hand on old Book of Warrants for you part

August 8, 1910. August 8, 1910.
Mr. S. J. Block,
Fendall Building,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 28" and received the 30" ultimo, you are advised that in the claim, Sur. File No. 14,727, Revolutionary War, it appears that Daniel Trabue who was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, March 31, 1760, served one month as a Private under Captain Matthew Scott in the Spring or Summer of 1776; during the same year he served under Captain Moseley and Colonel Goode. In the Fall or Winter of 1777 he volunteered and accompanied his brother Commissary James Trabue, to Logansport, Kentucky, where he was appointed Commissary to the fort at that place under Captains Richard May and Logan, Colonels Bowman and Calloway and George Rogers Clarke in the Virginia State troops, and served in that capacity until January, 1780. In January or February 1781, he served a short time under Colonel Haskins, then served three months under Captain Edward Moseley and Colonels Markham and Faulkner and was in the battle of Petersburg.
He was then directed by Colonel Goode to convey dispatches to General Lafayette, after which he was commissioned a Captain by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia, and sent with a flag of truce to interview some prisoners taken by the enemy.

He was allowed pension on an application executed August 6, 1832 while a resident of Adair County, Kentucky. He died September 10, 1840.
In 1850 his only surviving children were: Robert a resident of Illinois; James a resident of Louisville, Kentucky; Daniel, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri; and Sally Anderson (a widow) a resident of Green County, Kentucky.
A bounty land warrant for 150 acres was issued December 30, 1796, on account of the services of John Trabue an Ensign in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary War, but there are no papers on file relative to said claim. the same having been destroyed when the War Department was burned in 1814. see slip
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

No 1822
ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1871.
WAR OF 1812 3333
Daniel Trabue Capt. & Deputy Commissary Va Revolution
Discharged _____, 18_____
6030
RECEIVED
Va. half pay claim N.Y. Pay act 32
Consolidated with D.W. Knw. File 14.727

Rehman
not carded
14727 4
INVALID.
File No. 14727
Daniel Trabue
Pri. Row. na
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 379
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Wash. D. C.
1916 Apr. 10 Hist. to Mrs. E. J. Rebasz
1923 - August - Hist. to Mrs. J. T. White
White letter in ch. # 10996 of Richard Denny - MMH F.
1928. Apr. 11 - Hist. to R. J. Sablette. MMH F.
95: 1. Miss L. L. Trabue ville Ky.
History Mrs. Brookland visit to D. C.

Order of Court showing day of death. Dunc Irabm - who is his ADMR. & copy of his pension Certificate

State of Kentucky Franklin County Set
Franklin County Court September Term 1850
At a County Court duly organized began and held at the City of Frankfort on Monday the 16 th September 1850, It was Satisfactorily proven that Daniel Trabue late of Green County Kentucky departed this life on the tenth (10) day of September (1840) Eighteen hundred of forty leaving several Children viz Robert Trabue of the State of Illinois James Trabue of the City of Louisville Mrs Sally Anderson now of Green County Ky and Daniel Trabue. That said Daniel Trabue now living last named, is the Administrator of the estate of said Daniel Trabue deceased. That said Daniel Trabue deceased was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed 7 th day of June 1832 at the rate of $260- per Annum. And that his pension Certificate cannot now be found, which pension was paid at the Kentucky Agency. I Alexander H. Kennick Clerk of the Court of Franklin County Certify that the above order is truly Copied from the records in my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office and subscribed my Name this 17 th day of Sept r 1850
A. H. Kennick Clerk Franklin County Court

Wm Lab Nashville Ky Nov 24 1864
for
J Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Simsbury Ky 25 th Nov 1839
Rev Sir,
Please to give the enclosed your attention. I have the recd lection of the case but I am not acquainted with you nor do I know the gentlemen who addressed the Secretary of War and I assure you he stands high as an honorable worthy citizen whose statements are entitled to your confidence very respectfully
Please to reply to me for the case of Mr. Trubee
Yr Obedt Servt Joseph Schicklin

David Frayne Ken M
3517 J. L. Edwards Esq.
Inverness Office
Mr. J. Williams AR

Home of Rep Dec 18 th , 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
will be you be so good as to inform me why it is that the pension of Daniel Habuel of Ky has been suspended
Yours respectfully
Sherrill Williams

Northern Bank of Kentucky Lexington Aug 16 th 1837
To Wm Oramp Esq Act g Comm r of Pensions Sir
Your favor of the 7 th Inst in relation to the case of Daniel Trabue, was rec d yesterday. I have Carefully examined all the correspondence on the subject of suspensions and other changes since 1831 and can find nothing relating to him but the two letters authorizing his enrollment - the first dated 28 Dec 1832 at 260 $ per Ann m & the second 12 July 1836 at $20 per Ann m a copy of which is annexed. By examining our Books I find that he was first paid on the 26 June 1833 for 2 years Pension. The second payment was for 12 months on the 29 th March '34 since which time he has drawn regularly every six months nor is there any memorandum on the books of his ever having been suspended except for an informality in the voucher for the first pay t which was returned to this Agency & not corrected until the Spring of '34, and as our custom is

Payment was stopped by the Pension Clerk until the correction should be made. In paying him therefore we were not conscious of acting contrary to the instructions of the Department. Why he should have applied to Congress for an additional pension while he was regularly receiving so liberal an allowance, I do not under- stand. If an opportunity presents this coming fall I will enquire further into this matter and endeavor to obtain a true history of the case
Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt Wm Ernst
Pens n Clerk
P.S. Daniel Trabue will not be paid until instructed to do so W Ernst

1 copy,
War Department Pension Office July 12 1836
Sir
Be pleased to inscribe on your roll the name of Daniel Grabue, a private, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum to commence on the fourth of March Eighteen Hundred & thirty one under the Act of the twenty eighth June Eighteen Hundred & thirty six and pay him accordingly on the production of the proper Vouchers. Let him be placed on the list with those who are pensioned under the Act of June 7 th 1832
I am respectfully Your obed Servt J. G. Edwards
John Telford Esq Pension Agent Lexington Kentucky

Feb 13.
Dan. O. Trubee Ken.
James D. Edwards Esq. Com d of Reserves Washington D. C.
Henry W. May (H.W.M.)

House of Representatives
Feb. 12. 1835.
Sir.
A petition has been referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions from Daniel Trabue of Kentucky praying a Pension.
This paper is in the Pension Department. Without there is a copy no examination of the case can be made.
Will you please send the paper to me as early as convenient.
Yours Respectfully,
George W. Day
of the Committee on
Revolutionary Pensions
Jas. L. Edmunds Esq.
Chair of Pensions.

S Williams 111. Brn. Pm Daniel Trabue
Feb. 1 1836
Ref to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
March 26 1836
Bill reported N o 507
S. Williams

To the Congress of the United States your petitioner Daniel Frabrie respectfully petitioning states that during the war of the revolution he rendered various important and arduous duties as
which are set forth, in a declaration filed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, & to which he refers, and prays to be considered, as a part of this petition. He not only rendered faithfully important services for his country but he spent years of his life, in hardship and peril, and now in his old age and poverty he calls upon the bounty and generosity of his country for some reasonable compensation, having been informed, by the the Secretary that his case is not embraced by any act of Congress; although able and well informed men entertain and have

express? a different opinion -
Daniel Treble
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Deposition of Doct. G. A. ...

11 The deposition of Doctor Nathan Gentry taken before Milton P. Wheat, a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Adair This deponent being of lawful age and first duly sworn deposes and saith
That he has been acquainted with Benjamin Bowman of the County aforesaid and for about Twentyfour years, and that he has examined the signature of the said Bowman to a deposition taken & exhibited on this day deposing in which the said Bowman, Speaker of the Charcoalers of One Josiah Collins of Bell County Kentucky This deponent saith that the signature of the said Bowman is genuine and true, and he has no hesitation in saying that the said Bowman should be accredited as he is a man of fair character and irreproachable standing. And is so regarded by his acquaintances generally

He further saith that he has been acquainted with Col Daniel Travis of St Clair County Kentucky for about the same length of time who has always stood as a man of good character and high in public estimation all of which this deponent thinks he merits from his deportment through life, and the reputation he has of having done his Country Service in times past And further this deponent saith not.
Nathan Gaitan
The foregoing deposition was sworn to and subscribed before me, in manner and form as set forth in the caption Seven issues. My hand & seal Nov 28th day of October 1833
Milton P Wheat J P He

Parmar Aparishkar

The Deposition of Benjamin Bowman a citizen of Adair County Kentucky, aged fifty eight years, taken in Columbia before the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid, after being sworn deposeth & saith.
That he has been acquainted with Isaac Collins of Bath County Kentucky who he is informed and believes is the present high Sheriff of said County, he has known the said Collins since since his deponent was a small boy, and has no hesitation in saying that he is a man of unblemished, and irre- proachable character, and of the highest respectability. His deponent further saith that his father has always said that he (Collins) and his the deponent's father were together in Clark's campaign  campaign , together all of which he has no doubt is strictly true.

The further Saith, that he has examined a deposition, taken of Joseph Collins taken on Bath Collins County the 29 th of April 1833. in which the services of James & Daniel Tralau are deposed to by the said Collins, and states that the signature of the said Collins to said deposition is genuine and true.
The further states that he has known Col. Daniel Tralau for forty years and he is a man of good character, has ever has been, and has no doubt but that he served as stated by Collins, the said Tralau now resides in Adair County Kentucky And further this deponent saith not Benjamin Bowman

Adair County Ky
Personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid - Benjamin Bowman and made oath that the facts contained in the foregoing deposition are true & that he is from the information of others he believes to be true. And that the said deponent Bowman is a man of excellent character. Given under my hand & seal in Columbia this 28th day of October 1833
William P Wheat Justice of the peace for Adair County
State of Kentucky Adair County
I William Caldwell Clerk of the County Court for the said County do certify that William P Wheat whose name is affixed to the foregoing certificate, attached to the deposition of Nathan Gaither & Benjamin Bowman, is an acting justice of the peace in and for said County, and his signature to each of said certificates is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court this 29th day of October 1833, and 42nd year of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Wm Caldwell

Kentucky - Adair County ss
I Milton P Wheat as presiding justice of the County Court for the said County do certify that the foregoing certificate and attestation of William Calowell Clerk of said Court is in due form of law.
Witness my hand this 29 th day of October 1833
Milton P Wheat a justice of the peace for Adair County presiding justice of the County aforesaid

Mar 21. 1842.
To the Tribune Paul. Allen will
copy & send papers to Th. Green, Hickman Va.
Printon office at Washington City U.S.A.
2 half mks.

To the pension of the United States at Washington City - I desire a copy of the papers now in said office in the case of Daniel Traber, for the purpose of laying them before the proper authority of Virginia Very Respectfully L. H. Traber
Said Daniel Traber was on the Kentucky roll for Revolutionary service -

War Department, Pension Office, Aug. 17. 1839
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 10 th inst. relative to the case of Daniel Grabue. It would afford me great pleasure to comply with your request, if I knew precisely what was wanted in the case. Under the law of April, 6. 1838 all pensions unclaimed for eight months are payable here. Has the Agent refused to pay Grabue under that law? If you will make a more particular statement of the case, I will immediately attend to it.
I am, very respectfully, Your obt. servt.
Lexington Ky 27 Augt 1839 J L Edwards
D r Sir The pensions of D. Grabue should be paid and will not be paid until an order from you to reinstate one of them is recd - it is not known here why this has been done but the son of D. Grabue informs me it arose
J. Hicklen, Esq. Lexington, Ky.

out of his father's drawings on two cases one of which was confiscated - he was asked to be reinstated in the pension in which is correct - I have sent papers to draw of Mr P Hagner under the law of April 1838 but not yet heard from the application, it is not time but if paid at W.B. up to 4th Sept 1838 still your order will be good to pay from that date to 4th Sept 1839
Yours respectfully J. L. Edwards Esq. for the children

Joseph L. Klinkner free
Paul Laurence Dunbar Dunbar Springs Bucksville Ga. W. Ky.
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War Department Pension Office 11 th May 1838
Sir
The Pension Agent at Lexington has this day been instructed to resume the pay- ment of Daniel Trahene, a pensioner under the Act of the 7 th June 1832 at $20 per Annum.
I am Sir Very Respectfully Your obed Serv t J. L. Edwards
P. Office Lex Ky 18 th May 1838
To D. McLaughlin Sir you have the above satisfactory account of report of the Agent please return this with your papers. Yrs & J. Hickson

Aug 16
Com Am
Dear Friend Ken Hill
Edwards Esq. Commission of Pardon Washington City
W. H. Allen

Lexington Ky 10 th Augt 1839
My Sir,
I assure you it is with real pleasure that I ask you to say Can the pension granted to David Ficklin be allowed from 1837 the date on which it has been paid here - at the request of Mr T. Ferguson the last recd of this $20 pension expecting the other half of 160 per Annum to be paid now I am requested to apply for the 2 years of the $20 each the other being refused - I know you have had already a great deal of trouble with this man's pension - but there appears to be some intention here to the full understanding I hope you will pardon this application Yrs & O J. Ficklin

for
Mr. L. D. [unclear]
J Edwards Esqr Commissioner of Pubs Washington City

Lexington Ky Feb 7 th 1835
Sir,
On application here the ag t understands the order to pay one the 20$ Pension to Danel Trabue I know nothing of the case but have prepared some misapprehen- sion of the matter may have existed when your order of the 11 th inst was given & therefore submit the sub- ject again to your consideration with your note of the 11 th th and Mr Trabue's of the 29 th January both of which you have endorsed.
Very respectfully Yours Obediently Joseph T. Phipps

Jan 11.
Con.
Dear Father
free J. J. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Northern Bank of Kentucky Lexington Jan'y 1 st 1838
J. J. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Sir
Daniel Toabue has this day refunded One Hundred twenty dollars being the amount disallowed in last statement of differences from 3 rd Auditor's Office The amount has been placed to the account credit of Pension Fund under Act of June 1832, —
Very respectfully
Your Obedt Servant J. S. Gufford Post for M c Cartest P. M. letter

May 15/1848
Dear Sir
Reptly Repting - Commisary being Allowed Pay on behalf of Dal. Frabru
J. Edwards Commisary Washington
Adams
FREE

Ky. 0 Louisville 23 Apr 1848
Mr. J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir I have underoods from a source (Pension agent here) that the Your department are now considering the claims of deputy Commissioners and allowing them to pay. Will you please say if my Father's case can be now admitted I consider it the hardest case I ever heard of. You can see it by reference to the correspondence with you 4 or 5 years ago it was Del Habre of Columbia Adair County a pension of 260 per Annum was allowed him as Commissioner and Private and drew it for some time and often an addition of 25 or 20 $ per Annum was allowed him by a total misapprehension of the Bill to allow it, and by error or want of proper information of the true design of your department to pay the 20 $ per Annum it was drawn and the largest sum was dropped on account the construction you put on the law as to Commissioners for further particulars see correspondence Yours D. Habre

A White affidavit

State of Kentucky Woodford County Set personly appeared before me E. H. Macklin one of the commonwealths Justices of the peace for said County Ambrose White President of the County of Franklin and state aforesaid aged seventy 78 years old and made Oath that he was acqua- inted with Daniel Trabue in July 1779 in Bed- ford County Virginia That whereas Col d Richard Callaway of the said Daniel Trabue came from Ky y to carry out powder and Lead to Ky y for the use of the Garrisons and Soldiers there The said Callaway engaged this affiant as a volunteer soldier to help to guard and pack said powder and lead to Ky y the said Callaway engaged about 35 men soldiers each soldier to furnish his own horse to ride and we was to have two Shillings per Day until we Returned to Virginia The said Daniel Trabue as I understood was and believe was a Deputy Commissary in Col d George Rogers Clark's Brig d and acted as such in taking out said powder and lead The said Trabue had a young Negro Man which also agreed and helped to pack out said Ammunition we got safe to Boonsborough with the said powder & lead and in three Days after I was was badly wounded by the Indians, about 4 Miles from Boonsborough and taken prisoner and Remained with the Indians four years & five Months and then made my escape I Do pointedly state that the said Trabues services was very Eysential on this expedition as he had his Negro

man of three horses of his own and much engaged himself I Do further state that that the said Daniel Trabue as named in this affidavit is a man of good character and now lives in Columbia Adair County Ky & known by the name of Col Daniel Trabue we are present together in Woodford County this
this 13 day of May 1833
Ambrose White
Whereas Woodford County set J H Blackburn one of the commissioners of the justices of the peace for the County of said do hereby certify that in the above date Ambrose White personally appeared before me and said oath that the statements contained in the above affidavit are correct and true and that the said Ambrose White subscribed to the same in my presence and I hereby further certify that the aforementioned Ambrose White is a man of good character and a credible witness given under my hand this 13 day of May 1833 - J H Blackburn a justice of the peace for Woodford County

Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County Set I John McKinney the clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Edward M Blackburn Esq whose signature is annexed to the within certificate is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace in and for the County of Woodford duly commissioned and qualified as such and that his said signature is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of my office at Versailles this 11th day of May 1833 and in the 47th Year of the Commonwealth.
John McKinney Esq, Clerk.
State of Kentucky Woodford County Set.
As presiding magistrate of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that John M c Kinney Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate of attestation is clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid duly appoin- ted and qualified, and that his certificate is in due form of Law. Given under my hand Seal this 26 th day of Sept r 1833.
J. M. Miller

Jan 10.
Mr Evans
Paris
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commission of Pensions
Washington City

Lexington Ky Janu y 1838
on the rec d of your letter requiring the repayment of the sum over drawn by D r and Trubauer I write to his firm & have been request- ed to pay the sum required by the over- draw being 120 Dollars I hope you will order the restoration of the funds to their place on the books of this agency
Very respectfully
Yrs Obedient
Joseph Stevenson
D. D. Full

Morrison's affidavit
Lincoln

State of Kentucky Lincoln County Set Personally appeared before me Henry Wheat one of the Justices of the peace for said County Ezra Morrison resident in the county and State Aforesaid aged 76 and made oath that he was acquainted with Daniel Trabue at Logans fort in the year 1779 and that said Trabue was acting as commissary at said place Logans fort in Kentucky and that the said Trabue had the management of the public stores and maga- zine at that place and the said Trabue did employ this affiant as one of his hunters to hunt Peil and bring in wild meat for the use of the United States Soldiers and that the said Trabue did furnish this affiant with ammunition and a public horse to pack in meat on and he did bring in a considerable quantity of meat and delivered it to the said Trabue at said garrison and I also further state the aforesaid Daniel Trabue spoken of as afore  said commissary is the same man now commonly known by the name of Bob. Daniel Trabue living in Columbia & Adair County Kentucky this 22 nd day of April 1833 Ezra Morrison

Kentucky Lincoln County Set
I Henry Wheat one of the Commonwealths Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that on the above date Ezra Morrison personally appeared before me and made oath that the statements made in the foregoing affidavit are true and that the sa d Ezra Morrison subscrib- -ed to the same in my presence and I hereby Further state that the forenamed Ezra Morrison is a man of good character and a credible witness Given under my hand this 22 nd April 1833
Henry Wheat Justice of the peace for Lincoln County
(Kentucky - Lincoln County laws)
I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Lincoln County court in the state of Kentucky do hereby certi- -fy that Harvey Wheat whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is an acting Justice of the peace in Lincoln County duly commissioned & qualified. That full faith & credit is & ought to be given to his official acts & that the signature annexed to said certificate is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office this 17 th day of May 1833 Thomas Helm Clerk.

State of Kentucky Lincoln County ss
As presiding Magistrate of the County Court for the county of Lincoln do hereby certify that Thomas Helen whose name is subscribed to the above certificate of attestation is clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid duly appointed & qualified. And that his certificate is in due form of law. Given under my hand & Seal this 2 day of October 1833
Charles J. Simmons J.P. Seal

Capt. Briggs Affidavit Lincoln

State of Kentucky Lincoln County Set Personally appeared before me Heri Wheat one of the Justices of the peace for said County (Capt. Benjamin Briggs absent in the County and state aforesaid age sixty eight years and made Oath that he was acquainted with James Trabue and Daniel Trabue and they came to Logans Fort 1778 now in Lincoln County Ky. in the beginning of the spring of that year and they belonged to Col. George R. Clarks Reg and Capt. Richard May was their Capt they all remained with many others at the s d Logans Fort until Col. G. R. Clark came down the Ohio with Men provisions &c and then Clarks men which were at Logans Fort all went to the Falls of Ohio to rendezvous with Col. G. R. Clarks Army James Trabue was then ap- pointed commissary general at the garrison at the Falls of Ohio Harrodsburg Logans Fort and Boonsborough and Daniel Trabue was then appointed deputy commissary under said James Trabue in furnishing the Army with Horses Provisions Ammunition and seeing it out also employing Horses to provide meat for said Army in which duty they continued much engaged until the last of the year 1779 when some of the garrisons not having need of the Soldiers discharged the same in about June 1780 James Trabue was taken prisoner by the British and Indians at Isaac Riddles Fort soon after that perhaps some months Col. G. R. Clark was preparing for a campaign in then being Col. or Genl Clark was to be their commander

in the events the indian Town and Daniel Trabue was then again called to act as commissary and did act as commissary and make preparation for said campaign. And I also further state the forenamed Daniel Trabue spoken of as commissary is the same man now com- monly known by the name of Col Daniel Trabue living in Columbia Lincoln County Ky & The said Benj Briggs do further state that the said James Trabue and Daniel Trabue began to act as comisarys as has been mentioned in the spring or or beginning of the summer 1778 this 22 nd day of April 1833 B Briggs
Kentucky Lincoln County Set
I (Henry Wheat and ) of the Commonwealth Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that on the above date Benjamin Briggs personally appeared before me and made oath that the statements contained in the foregoing Affida- vit are true and that the said Benj Briggs sub- scribed to the same in my presence and I hereby further state that the forenamed Benj Briggs is a man of good character and a credible witness Given under my hand this 22 nd day of April 1833
Henry Wheat Justice of the peace for Lincoln county
Kentucky Lincoln County Set
Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln County Court in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that Henry Wheat esquire whose name is subscribed

to the foregoing Certificate is an acting justice of the peace in the said County duly Commissioned & qualified & that full faith & credit is & ought to be given to his official acts & that the signature annexed to the said Certificate is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office this 17 th day of May 1833.
Thomas Helm Clerk L.C.C.
Thomas Helm Clerk
State of Kentucky Lincoln County Set the foregoing Magistrate of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Helm whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate of attestation is Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid duly appointed & qualified & that his Certificate is in the form of law given under my hand & seal this 2 nd day of October 1833 Martin & Stewart P (Ad)

That
Robin Whitty off
12½
Co Daniel Inahue Adair Cunn Ky

The Deposition of Mrs. Esther Whitney the Widow of William
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155

The deposition of Mrs. Easter Whitty widow of William Whitty deceased taken at the house of J. H. Blackburn in Woodford County Kentucky to be read for the purpose herein mentioned. She states after being first sworn that she was living at Logans Fort in Lincoln Ky in 1832 and that Daniel Trabue who now lives in Columbia Adair County Ky. did come to Logans Fort and was there at the time and did procure provisions supply hunters & c and did issue the provisions & ammunition & c and when she left the fort he was then acting in that capacity this 7 day of October 1832 this intitled before me } Easter Whitty
Woodford County settle Kentucky this day personally appeared before me J. H. Blackburn -un- a justice of the peace for said county Easter Whitty and made oath to the foregoing statements given under my hand this 1 day of October 1832 - J. H. Blackburn J. H. and I further certify that Mrs. Easter Whitty is a respectable witness and good standing as any lady in Kentucky - J. H. Blackburn a jus- -tice of the peace for Woodford County

Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County set I John M c Kinney Esq. Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do Certify that Edward M c Blackburn Esq r whose name is subscribed to the within and foregoing Certificate is one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified as such, and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit either in or out of this State —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office at Versailles, this 10 th day of October 1832. and in the 41 st Year of the Commonwealth —
John M c Kinney D r Clerk.

Memorandum
1890 Jan 1 - 1891 Jan 1 - 1892 Jan 1 - 1893 Jan 1 - 1894 Jan 1 - 1895 Jan 1 - 1896 Jan 1 - 1897 Jan 1 - 1898 Jan 1 - 1899 Jan 1 - 1900
1890 Jan 1 - 1891 Jan 1 - 1892 Jan 1 - 1893 Jan 1 - 1894 Jan 1 - 1895 Jan 1 - 1896 Jan 1 - 1897 Jan 1 - 1898 Jan 1 - 1899 Jan 1 - 1900
1890 Jan 1 - 1891 Jan 1 - 1892 Jan 1 - 1893 Jan 1 - 1894 Jan 1 - 1895 Jan 1 - 1896 Jan 1 - 1897 Jan 1 - 1898 Jan 1 - 1899 Jan 1 - 1900

Deputy Commissary pay in July 2 1777
$60 per Month Congress same in Aug t 6
Jan y 14 1777 Continental Money good by law of Congress
April 17 1778 half pay to Officers after the end of the war - April 27 Do
May 8 page 546
Aug t 11 - 1779 half pay for life
Aug t 17 - 1779 Do
May 11 1779 Do their pay
Jan 22 1780 Stopping pay to officers that was not in actual service preserving their Ranks
Oct 21 - 1780 all officers supernumerarys also to have half pay
Purvis Oct 17 1780
16 - Sep r 1776 grants of land promised
Feb y 11 - 1780 Commissary pay $60
July 24 - 1782 Commissary pay $75
Oct 16 - 82 Congress Resolved that all officers should be commissary who was appointed by their states March 16 - 1779 Resolved all existing commissary shall stand at places of the army as they are directed by the commander of the Army as the Commissary General

11th May 1776. Assistant Commissary of Ordnance of every Magazine, Regiment or Brigade of the Army, be allowed 90£ per Month, and the Clerks of Commissary General & Deputy Commissary General of Ordnance, the Sums of 80£ per Month.
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Col Daniel Trabue
Served a long while as issuing Commissary at Logans Station in 1779 and 1780 - and 1781.
He applied for and obtained an allowance under the act 7 th June 1832 at the rate of $260. per Annum and this Amount was paid him until 4 th September 1835 when it was discontinued on the ground that there was no record evidence of his service, and that there were no Stationed troops at Logans Station in Kentucky during the war, notwithstanding Daniel Tra- bue had filed a large Mass of parole testimony proving his service as issuing Commissary to the troops there stationed. All the Privates who alleged service at Logans Station were likewise discontinued because of no troops being Stationed at Logans Station - Among the number Benjamin Briggs who was allowed $80- per Annum when the law of 1832 was first passed was stricken from the roll and not allowed a cent.
When I was in Virginia at Richmond in February last I found a book marked on the back "Expen rs or tures in the County of Kentucky". In this book I find the following entries as regard expenditures for the troops at Logans Station.
February 16. 1780 James Trabue purchasing "Commissary for Kentucky for provisions purchased the Militia "of that County - £16 77. - 4 - 5 "March 1. 1781 To paid James Trabue as issuing Commissary March "1779 & purchasing Commissary to December £3200- immediately follow "To Daniel Trabue as issuing Commissary £500. 00-00

I at once had the preceding entries copied and certified to by the Auditor and On my return to Washington demanded that Benjamin Briggs should be reinstated at $80. per annum, filing at the same time the evidence thus obtained. Briggs in his declaration in the first instance stated that he was 2 years and over at Logans Station and that Daniel Trabue was his issuing Commissary from whom he obtained his daily rations — His statements were verified by a number of others, and Mr. Edwards caused Briggs to be reinstated at $80.-per Annum and near $800. was paid the other day at Louisville on the claim —
Now
by referring to Briggs pension papers you will there find the evidence from Richmond which will reinstate Daniel Trabue at $260.-per Annum, from 4 th September 1835 to 10 th September 1840 — As the old pension certificate is lost you will please have a new one issued to Daniel Trabue Jr as administrator.
After the discontinuance of $260. as an officer 6 months pension as a private was allowed and a portion of which may have been used, but I think was refunded as James Trabue of Louisville said he shouldn't receive it that is his Father shouldn't have it.
I have been thus full in order that you might have all the facts

+ obtain the allowance at once before you leave the City as the money would hurt none of us just now. 8 years ago I undertook it, but could never find record evidence until last winter & I wrote a few weeks ago to Richmond for another copy of it but was replied to that "The book could not be found". So you see the only evidence is on file in Ben- =jamin Briggs application under the act 1832
I herewith enclose you the Declaration of Daniel Trabue the administrator of the estate of his Father and an order of Court Showing the fact & the day of his death.
Your particular attention will greatly oblige Athens as well as myself
I am Most Respectfully Yours &c G. H. J. Trabue
If you obtain the certificate before you leave please forward to Isaac H. Trabue Frankfort Ky, who will be at home to attend to it

State of Kentucky. Bath County Set.
Personally appeared before me William O Myrie one of the Justices of the peace for said County. Josiah Collins resident in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy five years, and made oath that he became acquainted with James Trabue, and Daniel Trabue at Logan's Fort in or about the first of June 1778. that he the said Josiah Collins together with the said James Trabue, and Daniel Trabue belonged to Colonel George Rogers Clark's Regiment, and that they all three marched together to the falls of the Ohio River, and rendezvoused there together with many others, and that the said James Trabue, and Daniel Trabue went no farther than the falls of the Ohio, as the said James Trabue was appointed commissary General for the Garrison at the falls of the Ohio river and the other Forts of Kentucky, and that the said Daniel Trabue was one of the Deputies of the said James Trabue, as he understood it, and the said Josiah Collins well remembers that he saw the said James Trabue, and the said Daniel Trabue in service afterwards at the different Garrisons discharging their duty (to wit) in the years 1778. 1779. and 1780. he also remembers that James Trabue was taken prisoner by the Indians in June 1780. and that he recollects the said Daniel Trabue, and that he recollects him well and knows that this is Daniel Trabue now present with him, and knows that he is the same Daniel Trabue that he knew many years ago in the service and of whom he has spoken above, and that he now resides in Columbia Adair County State of Kentucky, as he is informed and believes - April 29 th 1833. Josiah Collins

State of Kentucky Bath County set.
I William O Myrie one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that on the above date Josiah Collins personally appeared before me, and made oath that the statement contained in the above affidavit is correct, and that the said Josiah Collins subscribed to the same in my presence, and I hereby further state that the forementioned Josiah Collins is a man of good character and a credible Witness - Given under my hand this 29 th day of April 1833.
William O. Myrie a Justice of the Peace for Bath County
State of Kentucky } set Bath County }
I Lewis E. Sudduth Deputy for William O Sudduth Clerk of the Bath County Court do certify that William O Myrie whose signature appears to the above Certificate signed the same is his signature and was at the time of doing the same one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace in & for the County of Bath having been duly Elected Commissioned & qualified as a justice of the peace and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Record as elsewhere
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Owingsville this 29 th day of April 1833 & in the 41 st year of the Commonwealth - Lewis E. Sudduth D.C.

State of Kentucky Bath County set.
William O Mylie
Justice of the peace in and for the County of Bath do hereby certify that William M Sudduth is the only acting qualified clerk of the court of the County aforesaid and that Lewis E Sudduth whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate is the regular qualified Deputy of William M Sudduth, and that the same is in due form of Law, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all acts by him so certified as well in all courts of Justice as elsewhere. Given under my hand this 29 th day of April 1833
W. O. Mylie Justice of the Peace for Bath County Ky.
Set
Thos. Dyer Owings Presiding Justice of the peace in & for the county of Bath, do certify that William M. Sudduth is the only acting qualified Clerk of the court of the county aforesaid & that Lewis E. Sudduth whose signature appears to the above certificate, is the regular qualified Deputy of William M. Sudduth and that the same is in due form of Law, and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to all acts by him so certified as well in all courts of Justice as elsewhere. Given under my hand this 29 th day of April 1833
Thos. Dyer Owings Presiding Justice of the peace for Bath County

S L Edwards
junior officer

Sir I am Old and infirm and can not Ride about much in the winter time I got two of the Magistrates to certify to the credibility of some of the witnesses which you will see and I got a young Man to go 50 Mile to see J Carpenter Esq r to certify as to Cyra Morrisons Credibility and he J Carpenter Esq r was gone from home a long time - I got Thos Blain & Joseph Miller to come in court and give their affidavits as to Cyra Morrisons Credibility which I hope will Do
if my Declaratin g d will Do one pays I would Rather get the Money at Louisville - but any where will Do I am Respectfully yours Dec 6 1832
Daniel Trabue
Columbia Ky.

JB
Col Daniel Trabue esq. Columbia Adair County Kentucky

Richmond
Feb: 21 st 1833
Dear Sir
In consequence of my absence from home since the first of December, as a member of our Assembly, I did not receive your letter of Jan: 24. until it was forwarded to me here - The other, I have not received at all -
I write now in haste, only to give you such information as I now possess in relation to your claim. as the Half Pay is no bounty, but a debt now due from the Government, under laws passed during the revolution, your accepting the pension, cannot interfere with your other claims -
You say you were attached to Col. G.R. Clarke's regiment, as Commissary with the rank of captain - It will be necessary for you to prove this - You can do it by affidavits of credible witnesses, producing your commission, and letters or orders &c you may retain &c - This proof should shew distinctly that you belonged to Clarke's regiment & how long you served &c - When it is obtained, it should be certified as other papers are authenticated from one state one another, by the certificates of your clerk, including Judge or Justice do.

My terms for attending to such claims are 10 percent on the amount which may be recovered & no thing if nothing is recovered - If you think proper to employ me on these terms, send your documents &c. with a power of attorney to me at Charlottesville, & I will submit & attend to your claim -
Having acted as the agent on the agent on behalf of this State in prosecuting these claims against the United States, I have many documents &c. in my possession which may corroborate your proof. Though your name does not appear on the list of claimants submitted in my possession - the Commissioners not being reported by the Board of officers who sat here in 1784.
I can still, probably obtain other evidence in relation to your claim in the public offices here, if you wish me to attend to the case -
in haste
Yours very respectfully
Thomas W. Gilmer

Mr Ann NY Harrods
Disposition
K. Bae 11/10/05
March 1833
London

Mrs Ann Harrod a citizen of the county of Mercer and State of Kentucky aged seventy six years States upon her Oath that she came to the new State of Kentucky in the year 1775 and has resided in Kentucky ever since and that in the year 1778 she became acquainted with Daniel Trabue and soon after I and my Husband to James Harrod went to the Falls of Ohio now the city of Louisville by special request of Col George Rogers Clark on some partic- -lar business - and while there became more particularly acquainted with Daniel Trabue and often saw him and Col G R Clark together and engaged in doing Publick business But have now forgot what kind, But my impression was and is that in Daniel Trabue held an office under him Col G R Clark - and further States that Daniel Trabue now present is the one spoken of in my deposition and she has been informed P. now and believes lives in a fair county and Town of Columbia Ann Harrod

Mercer County oil
I do hereby certify that Ann Harrod this day personally appeared before me and Made oath that the within deposition is the truth and I believe her to be a good and credible witness given from under My hand as a justice of the peace for said County this 17 th day of May 1833
Jas Lillard JP
Commonwealth of Kentucky Mercer County Set I the Thomas Allin clerk of the County Court for the County afo d do certify that Jas Lillard Esq r whose signature is annexed to the within certificate is one of the Commonwealth justices of the peace in & for the County of Mercer duly commissioned & qualified as such & that his said signature is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at my office in Clarksville this 24 th day of Sept May 1833 and in the 42 nd year of the Commonwealth
Thos. C. Allin L.C. for Thos. Allin del

State of Kentucky Mercer County Set
I David Lowe, as presiding magistrate of the county Court, for the county aforesaid; do hereby certify that Ben C Allen whose name is subscribed to the above certificate of attestation is a deputy clerk for Thomas Allen who is clerk of the county Court for the county aforesaid, that the said Ben, and Thomas, being duly appointed and qualified, that his certificate is in due form of law. Given under my hand & seal this 24th day of September 1833
D. Lowe
24

He has served for 18 months after 2 July 1977 - Mr Cole told if you pay more and at $600 per annum

307 To L. Daniel Rabine
Oct. 20 48
Heard L. S. Moore head
Oct 17/30

163.
Daniel Frabue
No. 21 Dec. 1833,
Not allowed 370.

file letter & receipt, and direct the Pension agent to resume the pay, in consequence of the amt. overpaid having been refunded. Let Mr. Hicklin know that the payment has been directed to be resumed by order J.D.W.

Rev Daniel Fisher declining for junior annexed & enclosed
Kentucky returned
Dec. 17.
Immediate return attention
from 1778 Com- missions & private
for years copy of mts. No. 6.2
$260.
Pendleton Columbia Ky
extension office for instructions

Admit,
1 Year & 6 Months
Cambridge - $380
6 Years private 20  $380
Canning 4 March 1831.
Ending 10. Septm o  Dec r 1840
Payable to Daniel Fraline Adams, for the use of Robert Fraline James Fraline, Sally Anderson and Dan l Fraline and surviving children - Deduct the amounts hereafter

Faint: $260 and $20 per annum

Daniel Trabue, Kentucky Roll, act June 7. 1832. Up to what time and at what rate was he last paid? Pension offered } July 1. 1836. }
paid to the 4 th Sept. 1835, at the rate of $260 per annum as appears from the 3 rd Auditor's book.
M c D. W. Dean July 1. 1836

To what time was Daniel Trabue, of Kentucky, pensioned by a special act passed 28 June 1836, at $20 per annum, last paid? You will find his name on the act 7 June '32 Roll - I do not wish to know to what time he was paid his first pension.
J. Edwards
Aug. 17. '39
It appears that he was paid $120 up to the 4 th March 1837 but has subsequently refunded the amount to the agent at Lexington Ky.
J. H.

Noted at Burksville Ky 29 Janry 1839
Mr Joseph Pickins Dear
Sir I enclose to you the note of J L Edwards on the subject of D. Isabella's pension. You will see from the note that he says that he has directed the payment of the Pension of 20$ per annum: now I don't want that pension. I want the Original Pension of 266$ per annum which was allowed some years ago. The 20$ pension was the one that Congress passed a special act for and we don't want that unless they will pay both. You will please call at the Agency and see if they will pay the 266$ pension.

Northern Bank of Kentucky Lexington Jan'y 1 st 1838
Received of Joseph Hicklin Jr. One Hundred and Twenty Dollars being amount refunded by Daniel Trabue Pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7 th 1832. —
John Guford Pres per W m Ernst Pens n Clerk

3517 Kentucky Daniel Trabue
of Adair Co in the State of Kentucky who was a priv t in the Reg t commanded by Capt n  of the commanded by Col Harkins in the Va line for 1 Yr & 6 Mo Com d 380
8 yrs Private 20 Ded d $1630.38. Heretofore paid 380
Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville at the rate of 380 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and ending 10. Sept 1840.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d day of Jan'y 1851, and sent to
Arrears to the 4th of H. J. Trabue Pension allowance ending Present
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. E. Robinson Clerk, Book E Vol. 9 Page 47

Daniel Trabue
Power

State of Kentucky, Barren County set
I William Logan Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Barren do certify that whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate annexed to the foregoing Power of Attorney and affidavit is, and was at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Barren, duly commissioned and qualified as such - that his signatures to said Certificates are genuine, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts. - In testimony whereof I have here-
unto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 8 th day of November 1833.
W Logan Clerk of the Court of Barren County

Acct of Money paid for the County of Kentucky.
  1780 Feb. 16 James Fraley, purchasing Commissary for Kentucky, for provisions furnished the Militia of Shelby County 1677 4 5   1781 March 1 Do paid James Fraley as Spring Commissary, March 1779 & purchasing Commissary to December 3200   " " Do ditto Daniel Fraley as Spring Commissary 500   June 21 Do ditto John Fraley for his services as Commissary to Militia 960 
I certify that the foregoing Extracts are truly copied from an Account with the above Caption, amounting in the aggregate to £151,972 " 11 " 9 & endorsed "Genl. Acct. of Expenditures in the County of Kentucky, from 1778 to 1781" To be found in the 5th volume of Illinois Papers now in this Office
RO Johnston Auditor's Office Va. 7 And Pub Accts. 24 th April 1850
The above is a copy of a paper filed in the Case of Benjamin Brigg, to which reference is made. J. P. Boles

W. City
Hon Comm of Pensions
Yrs
During the Summer of last Year I submitted the Claim of Daniel Frake Jr Administrator of Daniel Frake deceased for the amount due said decd as Pension under the Act 7 th June 1832. An allowance of the Claim was made for 18 months as Company and six months as Private. The rate then allowed as Company was $450. per Annum when it should have been $600. per Annum. If I am Correctly informed at no period of the Revolutionary War was Company allowed less than 50¢ per month or $600. per Annum, and to the Journals of the Conti- nental Congress I beg leave to refer for the pay per Annum allowed Commissions, at the period during said War at which the service of said Daniel Frake was performed . I ask for the in- crease per annum to $600, and the issuing the Cert- ificate accordingly
I am Sir
Very respectfully
Yours &c
G. J. Frake

Daniel Trabue, dec. Ky
18 mos Comng $450
6 " Pr 20
Sub'ta $470
less former paymts at $340 per ann.
Endg 10 Sept 1840
Payable to
Daniel Trabue
Administrator, for the benefit of
Robert Trabue
Pat Trabue
Daniel Trabue &
Sally Anderson, only surv children
F. S. Trabue Present

It appears from the books of this Office that the pension of Daniel Fisher of the Kentucky Agency under the Act of 9 th March 32 has been paid at the rate of $265 per annum from the 4 th March 1831 to the 4 th March 1837. That his name was then stricken from the roll. That his pension was restored at the rate of $25 per annum & paid from 4 th March 1831 to the 10 th September 1845, the pay has since and that the sum of $125 was refunded on account of this pension & credited by the Agent to the United States.
Third Auditor's Office January 21 st 1851.
Ja d S. Gallagher, A.D.
Recapitulation    Pension at $265- $1560-   " at $25- 195-38   1755-38   Deduct 120-   Am t paid $1635-38 
James E. Heath, Esq. Com d Pensions.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 18 th , 1842.
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," The administrator of Daniel Trabue, deceased, late _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky _____ Agency, at the rate of — Twenty — Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837, to the 10 th Sept. 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Harrison
Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Priv 163
24th CONGRESS, 1st Session.
H. R. 507.
MARCH 26, 1836.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. LEA, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
An Act
A BILL
For the relief of Daniel Trabue.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That 3 the Secretary for the War Department be, and he is hereby, di- 4 rected to place Daniel Trabue, of the State of Kentucky, upon 5 the roll of the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, at 6 the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth 7 day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and 8 to continue during his natural life.
Approved 28 th June 1836
A true copy compared with the Roll in this Office.
Dept of State June 30 th 1836
Adams Brinkins. Chief Clerk

DANIEL TRABUE.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 507.]
MARCH 26, 1836.
Mr. LAY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Daniel Trabue, report:
That on an examination of his petition the facts appear to be as follows:
The petitioner states that he is a resident of the county of Adair, in the State of Kentucky, and was seventy-two years of age on the 31st of March, 1832, and entered the service of the United States in the summer of 1776, when he was sixteen years of age, and served one month to guard the magazine at Chesterfield, Virginia, under the command of Captain Mathew Scott.
In the winter of 1777, petitioner went on a tour, as a volunteer, under James Trabue to a fort in Nantucket, at Boonsborough, and was then appointed commissary for the fort by Colonel Bowman, and continued to act as such commissary, in buying cattle, corn, and procuring provisions. That by the direction of James Trabue, commissary general, the public stores, magazines and public horses were given up to petitioner, who received the pay of a captain. That during this term of service he went into Virginia, and brought out, in 1779, ammunition, military stores and provisions, employing forty pack-horses for this purpose: and in January, 1780, he delivered up his charge as commissary to Colonel Bowman, the commandant, and returned home after having been entirely engaged in the service eighteen months. That he was again called out as a militiaman, under Captain Edward Morely; Markam and Faulkner, colonels; and Muhlenberg general. That they marched down to Norfolk, and as the enemy advanced retreated to Petersburg where they were reinforced by Baron Steuben when a battle was fought. This petitioner served at this time three months. He was next employed by Colonel Goode to go and carry despatches to General Lafayette, which was attended with great danger and hazard. He delivered the despatches to Lafayette, and returned with his answer to Colonel Goode. He was then sent by Colonel Goode with a flag of truce to the enemy, and was commissioned at this time a captain by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia. This business he performed agreeable to the order of Colonel Goode, and returned to

Proof of Service.
The affidavits of John Baker and William Baker, duly authenticated, prove six months' service in 1781.
The affidavits of Benjamin Briggs and Ezra Morrison, prove the services of petitioner at Fort Logan during the years 1777, 1778 and 1779.
In regard to the services of the petitioner by virtue of which he claims a remuneration as a deputy commissary, the committee are of opinion that there has been no law framed, or any principle heretofore established, which would entitle the petitioner to a pension. His services at Fort Logan were of a private character, and not in any respect connected with the State or continental service.
The committee therefore report in favor of allowing the petitioner for six months' service, and have reported a bill for this purpose.

May 24. (1874)
Ref: to D. and Frank's Case.
James L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions D.

Washington May 24. 1841.
Sir/
You will receive enclosed a letter from Daniel Trabue Jr. son of the late Daniel Trabue. inscribed on the pension list Company & Private at the rate of 20$ per annum. Under the act June 7. 1832. If I understand the case aright D. Trabue was an admitted pensioner at the rate of $20s. Not being satisfied with that sum application was made to Congress for an augmentation; and a bill was passed it seems by the letter enclosed, to allow a pension of 20$ a year. I find in July 1836. the case was before the attorney general.
I have respectfully to request, to be informed if you can do any thing in the case. If not, the points of objection with the view of recourse to Congress. As the letter relates to other business you will please to return it; to me, but if necessary to retain it, will copy that part which is unconnected with the application in question, D. Trabue died the 11 Sep. 1840.
Very respectfully Gunn. On. Ser. The way
J. L. Edwards Esq. & Co

Honorable
Secretary of War Washington city D.C.

Bunksville, Ky. 20 Novr 1837
Mr
Dear Sir at the request of Daniel Trabue Esq my father. I address you to know the cause of his pension being suspended please state the cause so that we may know how to obviate the cause to re-instate him again on the pay roll
Yours
Respectfully
Your Obedient Servt
Daniel Trabue Jr.
N.B. I expect that I can anticipate the cause and will on this sumiss. attempt to explain to you the nature of his case. Supposing that the cause was his drawing on 2 pension certificates. I shall now proceed. He obtained a pension for 260 $ per annum. and applied to Congress for a half pay compensation from the close of the war up to the present time and interest. for his services under Gen Geo Clark in the Illinois servasy. as was generally called. Serving as a commissary. and drawing pay as capt and as we understood. one of the branches of Congress passed a bill to this effect. and the committee in the other house. reduced it to a near small amt perhaps making a mistake in the hurry of the business towards the close of the session. or some
Other

Other cause to us not known. The honorable Mr. Calhoun member of Congress from Ky. sent my father a certificate, and in his letter said he had obtained an addition to his former pension. he was after ward, consulted about it and he said we must draw it and not hesitate. I consulted the Hon. S. Williams also member of Congress. he said draw it that the bill passed as an addition. I consulted Hon. R. A. Buckner former Member of Congress and he said draw it that there was no impropriety in it. To prove to you our honest designs, both power of attorney was sent at the same time matter to the same attorney, done before the same justice, and I think of the same date. signed by Daniel Trabue own hand. which was positive proof that they were the same.
in haste
Yours
D. Trabue Jr for Daniel Trabue