Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38453, Ambrose Walden, Continental Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
kontinental Va.
Walden, Ambrose
S. 38 453
CONTENTS

Vir.
Ambrose Walden  Walden of Fauquier Co. in the State of Vir who was a Lieutenant in the Company by Captain McCollough of the Regiment com. by Colonel Hazen in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 18 months from April 1777 to October 1778
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, commence on the 20 day of January 1829
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of January 1829 and sent to Hon. J. P. Babbitt H. B.
Arrears to 4th of March 1829 $ 30. 32 Semi-ann. all'ce ending
$ 30. 32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
New certificate issued 21 Feb. 1831, and sent to Pennington, Warrenton Fauquier Co. Va.
See letter to J. Walden
Oct 30. 1830.
Letter to Col. Walden Jan 28; 1850. with Copy of Commrs' order at the J. H. Strother, Apr 23/52.
Same Sept 16/52.

Franklin County Court, 26th day of April 1882.
It appearing to the Court by satisfactory proof that Ambrose Walden late a pensioner of the United States as a lieutenant in the Virginia Continental line died in this County on the day of March 1840 - leaving no will - and that Richard Walden, Judith Lester, William Walden and John Walden are the only surviving children of said Ambrose Walden and that John Walden is the administrator of the Estate of the said Ambrose Walden deceased.
Administration of the Estate of Ambrose Walden deceased is granted to John Walden who thereupon qualified and gave bond and security according to law - the security having justified.
State of Virginia Franklin County S.C.
I William H. Jennings Clerk of the County Court of the said County in the state aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing orders are true transcripts from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 7th day of May 1882. William H. Jennings C. Clerk

Warrenton January 20 th 1829
Dear Sir, You will perceive from the enclosed papers that my Father is an Applicant for a Pension. The same papers were sent some time ago to the War Department & returned by Mr. Edwards who stated that the records furnished satisfactory evidence of my Father's services but that the law of Congress required that the Court of the County in which the applicant resides should certify the probable value of any property which might be in dispute and the likelihood of its recovery. If you will examine the papers you will find that my Father made a deed to a tract of land in Kentucky when he divided his other property among his children which land is yet in dispute & I believe will not be recovered. You will also find with the papers the Certificates of the Court of this County. You can represent to the Department the credit to which it is entitled. I wish the Certificate of La Fayette preserved and returned to me - your attention to this business when you find it convenient will confer a great obligation on your
Friend &c
John Walden

Wadsworth to Elopys Deed. Wadsworth
Spec — 7/20/20.
Parret

County of Dauphin, State of Pennsylvania
On this the day of 1828,
personally appeared in open Court, being the Court of second for the County of Dauphin. AMBROSE WALDEN resident of the County aged seventy six years or more, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and 1st of May 1820, that he the said Ambrose Walden, on the month of April 1777, in the State of Pennsylvania entered with the Commission of Ensign, the company commanded by Captain McClellan, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Moses Hazen which Regiment was raised by Congress and therefore bore the name of no State as will appear by reference to his Commission, hereto annexed marked A, that he was in the month of 1778, promoted to the rank of first Lieutenant, as can be inferred by reference to the Certificate of the Marquis de la Fayette dated 1778 that he continued to serve in the Continental Army until the month of October 1778, when he resigned his Commission, at the White Plains, in the State of New York, that he hereby relinquishes all and every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension: 1st. until the 9th of June 1828, he had a competent support arising for a part of the time from the disposition of real personal estate, and the remainder from annuities. 2ndly. the short space from the date of June 1828, to the present time has not been more than sufficient, to collect and prepare the papers necessary in laying his claim before the War Department.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1828, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner disposition of any property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within

the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income whatever, or property of any kind; that farming was once my occupation, but now, from age and infirmity, I am unable to pursue that calling; that I am not a housekeeper, that I spend the principal part of my time with my children living in the County of Fauquier, and lastly that I am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country. That since the 18th of March 1818, the following changes have been made in my property, on the 18th of March 1818, I had a right, without the possession, of a certain tract of land in the state of Kentucky, for which a suit is now depending: That at the same time I had a life estate in same, - a reversionary interest in three, and an absolute right in three of the negroes named in a deed hereto annexed marked C. That on the 23 of November 1821, I conveyed to my sons Richard, William & John & to my daughter Judith Carter & George her husband the said tract of land & all my right in same in consideration of my three sons paying me sixty dollars per annum & of my daughter also paying me the further sum of sixty dollars per annum during my life which will also appear by reference to the said deed marked C. That after said conveyance the only property I had was a negro named Isaac whom I sold to Theophilus Green in May 1826, for $225 for which sum I took his bond. That being in the custody of the Sheriff of Caroline County Virginia under a writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum on the 11th of June 1828, I availed myself of the act of the Legislature of Virginia for the relief of insolvent debtors; and that in a schedule which I made out & subscribed before a

received the oath of insolvency I surrendered the sum of money annually due from my son & daughter to whatever else I was worth all which will appear by reference to the record from the Court of Caroline marked D.
Ambrose Walden
Sworn to & declared on the 22 day of September 1828, in open Court. J. A. W. Smith, C. S.
Virginia: ss
Wauquien County, to wit:
John A. W. Smith, Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that it appears to the satis- faction of the Court from the declaration of Ambrose Walden made in open Court, upon oath, & the documents accompanying said declaration, that the said Walden did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in said declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental establishment. That the said Ambrose Walden has taken the oath of an insolvent debtor, and is in such indigent circumstances as to require the aid of his country for support, and that he has no property of any kind, it is ordered that the same be certified to the Secretary of War of the United States.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 23 d day of September 1828, in the 53 d Year of the Commonwealth.
John A. W. Smith Clerk. Wauquien County Court

This Indenture the 23 day of November 1821, Between Amos Warden of the County of Fauquier of the one part, and Richard Warden of Cabell County, George Carter and Judith Carter and John Warden of the County of Fauquier and William Warden of the County of Campbell of the other part, Witnesseth, that the said Amos Warden, for and in Consideration of the sum of One dollar to him in hand paid, the receipt of which he does hereby acknowledge, and for which he does acquit the said Richard, George, Judith, John and William, and for and in consideration hereafter expressed, doth give, grant and bargain and sell, and has hereby given, granted, bargained and sold, to the said Richard, George and Judith & John and William the following property, that is to say, negroes. Jim, George, Winney, Mary, Alice and her three chil- dren, Yellow Fanny and her three children, Black Fanny, Syntha and her child Beg, Lucinda, Juf- frey, Deephey and child Stephen, Strother, Jeremiah, young Isaac and Emily and such interest present or future as the said Amos has or may have in negroes Lucy and her seven children and Thom, Nancy and her child Bob, Lizzy and her three children that is Jipsee, Isham and Erenara, slaves belonging to Eliz- abeth Warden as alimony and conveyed in trust by virtue of a decree of the Chancery Court of Staunton and also one tract of land containing by patent thirteen hundred and thirty three and two third acres, situate lying and being in the County of Mason Ken- tucky, on the waters of the North fork of Atkinson's fork of Licking. To have and to hold the aforesaid slaves, and the aforesaid slaves allotted as alimony to the said Elizabeth together with their future increase, and the

aforsaid tract of land, excepting therefrom forty acres to be laid off at any place or part of the said tract as the said Ambrose or his assigns may assignate to them the said Richard, John, William and their heirs forever, and to the said George and the heirs of the said Judith his wife forever, free from the claim or claims of the said Ambrose and all and every person or persons whatsoever holding or claiming under him, and the said Richard, John and William each for himself, his heirs and assigns, doth covenant and agree to pay to the said Ambrose and his assigns during the natural life of the said Ambrose the sum of sixty dollars per annum for the true and punctual payment of which the said Ambrose for himself and his assigns reserves to himself and his assigns a lien upon the portions or shares of the said Richard, John and William after they are ascertained, and until that event a lien or incumbrance upon the slaves, land and interest in the alimony hereby conveyed, and the future increase of such slaves and alimony, and the said George and Judith do also covenant and agree for themselves and their heirs and assigns to pay to the said Ambrose and his assigns one other sum of sixty dollars per annum during the natural life of the said Ambrose for the true and punctual payment of which the said Ambrose for himself and his assigns reserves to himself and his assigns a lien upon the portion or share of the said George and Judith his wife that is to say one fourth part of the slaves, land and interest in the alimony hereby conveyed, after the said fourth part is ascertained, and until that event a lien or incumbrance upon all the slaves, land and interest in the alimony hereby conveyed and the future increase of such slaves and

alimony. It is further stipulated stipulated and agreed between the parties to this indenture, that either the said Richard, John, William, George and Judith may after the division and ascertainment of their respective shares sell and convey or in any manner dispose of the same provided, that they, their heirs or assigns shall previous to any sale or transfer of their portions respectively secure the sums which they have each stipulated to pay by this deed by a lien upon other property real or personal, amply sufficient and safe for securing the said sum of sixty dollars per annum during the natural life of the said John or Richard or by giving good personal security for the payment of the said sum per annum during the natural life of the said John if his his assigns should prefer real to personal security. It is nevertheless to be understood that this covenant last aforesaid shall not extend to all the property hereby conveyed larger than a division of the same into four parts between the said Richard, John, William and George and Judith his wife or their heirs or assigns or them or any of them and the heirs or assigns of them or any of them, and that from the time of such division, each share or fourth part shall be only liable to the charge and satisfaction of the sixty dollars per annum, during the natural life of the said John to be attendant upon and to attach to such part, and each part, one fourth of the slaves, land & alimony constituting such part. It is further understood that the fourth part in the land, slaves and alimony, and the future increase of the said slaves and alimony hereby conveyed to George John and Judith his wife and the heirs of the said Judith is to be no farther considered the property of the said

George and his heirs than it would by law be considered, if this conveyance had been made prior to the intermarriage of the said George and Judith, to the said Judith and her heirs, that is to say, be the said George shall only have the same interest and power of disposal as he would have had if he had received the fourth part of the slaves and alimony, and the land above mentioned as the property of his wife at the time of her intermarriage with him. The witnesses whereof the parties to this Adventure have hereunto subscribed their names and annexed their seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of the undersigned who were called upon to attest the same  Ambrose Walden Wm Walden John Walden George Carter Judith Carter Richd. Walden 
Wm Clinton } as to Ambrose Robt. H. Rose } Wm & John Walden Wm M. Walden } as to Ambrose, Wm & John Walden.
John Swayne } as to George Carter John Winmace } as to Sanford Dodd } as to Hugh M. McCormick } as to Judith Carter
Charles Kemper.
On the office of the County Court of Dauphin the 27th day of April 1822. This Deed for the conveyance of land and personal property from Ambrose Walden to Wm Walden & others was produced in the said office and acknowledged by William Walden and John Walden to be their act and deed and as to them admitted to record. Witness, John A. Smith (Clerk)

And in said office, the 29th. day of May 1822.
This said deed was again produced in the said office and acknowledged by Atmore Walden to be his act and deed, and as to him admitted to record.
Teste,
John L. Green, D. L. Clerk.
And in the said office the 14th. day of June 1822.
This said deed was again produced in the said office & acknowledged by George Carter to be his act and deed and as to him admitted to record.
Teste,
John L. Green D. L. Clerk.
Frank County ss.
We Edward Digges and William Warner Justices of the peace of the said County do hereby certify that Judith Carter the wife of George Carter parties to a certain deed bearing date the 23rd day of November 1821, personally appeared before us in our County aforesaid, and being examined by us privily and apart from her said husband, and having the deed aforesaid fully explained to her, she the said Judith Carter declared that she had willingly signed, sealed the same, without the threat, persuasions or other undue influence of her said husband, and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed, and that she wished not to retract it. Given under our hands & seals this 29th day of June 1822.
Edward Digges W. Warner.
Campbell County ss. to Wit:
We Burrill Lee & Benjamin Walden justices of the peace in the County aforesaid.

State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Richd. Walden one of the parties to a certain deed bearing date on the 23 d day of November in the year 1821, and hereto annexed herewith appeared before us in our County aforesaid & acknowledged the same to be his act and deed and desired us to certify his acknowledgment to the Clerk of Fauquier County in order that the said deed may be recorded. Given under our hands & seals this 19 th . day of November.
Burrol see Benj H. Carter
Clerk's office of Fauquier County, Court, Jan'y 27 th 1823. The foregoing was produced in said office and having been acknowledged before magistrate by Richard Walden and Judith Carter the wife of George Carter, admitted to record as to them.
Teste, Geo. A. W. Smith, C.C.
A Copy Teste, John A. W. Smith C.C.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MCS/HMM
April 19, 1930.
Mr. J. C. Sanders Keyser West Virginia.
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 38453, it appears that Ambrose Walden was the son of John.
While a resident of Caroline County, Virginia, he entered the service early in the Revolution and served ten months as a minute man. He enlisted about February 1777 as orderly sergeant and was engaged in recruiting. In April 1777 he was commissioned ensign in Captain Mc Connell's Company in Colonel Moses Hazen's Congress' Own Regiment; he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1778, was in the battle of Germantown and served until October 1778 when he resigned. He then went to Kentucky and while there joined George Rogers Clark in his expedition to the Piqua Indian towns. After his return he was commissioned lieutenant in the militia, in Caroline County, Virginia, and served six months under Colonel Mathews and was at the capture of Cornwallis.
In 1821 reference was made to Elizabeth Walden to whom Ambrose Walden allotted some of his property "as alimony".
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 22, 1828, at which time he was a resident of Fauquier County, Virginia, and he then stated that he was "aged seventy sixty years and more."
He died in March 1840, leaving no widow.
The following children survived him:
Richard resident of Cabell County, Va. in 1821 William " " Culpeper " " " 1821 John " " Fauquier " " " 1821 and a " Warrenton " " " 1852 Judith Carter wife of George Carter resident of Fauquier " " " 1821

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to John Ambrose.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

1930 Apr. 19 hist. to Mr. J.C. Sanders, m.c.s.
38 453
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File No. 38 453
Ambrose Tilden
Lient Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 384
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ambrose Walden
S.F. 38453
A provision return of a party of capt. McConneli co, col. Moses Hazen's regt dated April 15, 1777 has been removed from this claim to be sent to the War Dept.
D.G.
Sent to War Dept. Nov. 14, 1910 Jan. 16, 1913

The Company with brother John from Caroline County Virginia to join the Continental Army, started the 1st. of February 1777. I had a draft from Judge Pendleton if I failed from unforeseen accidents should stand in need of more money than I had for self and Company. I will be obliged to those who furnish them and pay it on draft
Desmond Pendleton
February 2 Caroline Co. 1st. 1777 Virginia

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Mr. Ambrose Walden,
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Edmundslivg. - March 13 th 1780
Sir
You have no doubt heard ere this of Mr Rogers departure from Kentucky, and will see from thence, that my dependance for locating my Land is centred in yourself; especially if Mr Ford cannot undertake it — However I desire you at all events to act for me as you judge best. Let not any expense deter you from getting for me good Land, to defray which, I will pay your orders on sight, as far as five hundred pounds, if you can borrow money of any person coming this way on their credit, or if the inhabitants will take them for Services, and send them by their representatives to Philada, where they shall be punctually paid. — I will make you for your trouble any reasonable satisfaction, a matter in which I believe we shall not differ. I am told by a Mr Thomas, who will be in that country by the 1 st of May, and lives with Mr May the chief Surveyor, that an excellent tract of Land lies on the west side of the Cumberland mountain, tho' it is so distant from any other

good lands, that it would be only a choice of necessity. — This Mr. Thomas is a rela- -tion of mine, and if you will apply to him with my compliments, will perhaps assist you in locating the land. — Should you act alone for me, an application to Col o Callaway may not be amiss, who will not I am in hopes, refuse to assist an old acquaintance. — I have written to Mr. Ward on this subject, as it is possible you and he may have agreed that he should locate my land, but if the matter is not yet settled, pray open the letter I gave you to Mr. Rogers and act in every respect, as if it had been addressed to yourself — This letter comes by Mr. Thomas, but I shall send a copy of it by Mr. Sutton, lest it should miscarry — Let me hear from you by every opportunity and give an account of your success — in return I will inform you of affairs in this quarter, and will also, if you will

Transmit to me your surveys, take the the proper measures for obtaining grants as speedily as possible - Your father's family are well - I am Sir
Yr. mo: Atti: Ser:
John Taylor
If any persons in Kentucky will assist you in locating the land, I will in return assist them in getting out grants as speedily as possible, from which they may derive no small advantage. J.T.

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Mr. George Rogers
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By favor of Mr. Walen } of Kentucky
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(Dear Sir
Caroline Feb y 27 th 1780.
It was with pleasure I received your favor of Dec r 3 rd , giving me an account of your safe arrival at Kentucky, and making me certain of a fact, of which I had entertained some doubts — I mean — the fertility of the soil, which hath induced me to purchase more warrants, than I had ever intended. It was out of my power to get pre-emption rights after the receipt of your letter, so that I must trust to common warrants only. Mr. A. Walden brings out warrants for three thousand acres for me, besides the thousand you were kind enough to take out, with directions to deliver them to you, as you will be the best Judge what to do with them. If you find it too laborious to locate them for me yourself, perhaps it might be best for you to agree to give Mr. Howard, or some other surveyor, an undivided tenth part of my land for locating it; neither if you do it, shall I have any objection to making you a compliment of so much for your trouble — Should you employ any other person, I should not wish that his part should be fixed, that by being obliged, if I should insist on it, to take a part of each survey, he might get as good land as possible, tho' if he does his duty, it will be most

convenient both for him and me, to have it assigned in one body. — However I leave it entirely to you to act for me as you think best. — I send out to you by Mr. Walden, one hundred pounds, of which  in which which you will see as you please, since altho' you should make a bargain with any any one for locating my land, so as to lessen the expense yet you must want money yourself, and nothing will give me greater pleasure, than if it should prove serviceable to you.
I am very much determined to live at some future day in Kentucky, and therefore I am the more anxious to get good land ready for me to live on.
The War seems yet to continue in full vigor, tho' some Gentlemen think it is drawing towards a conclusion. — The British tyrant hath been disappointed in some late requisitions of troops from the German Princes, which will be a considerable disappointment to him — It is said that Genl. Clinton will be recalled after this campaign, and that his wish to do something ere he goes, hath induced him to take the command of seven thousand men, which have sailed from New York, and landed in Georgia, with an intention to attack Charleston in S. Carolina — They had a stormy passage, were considerably damaged & shattered, and several of their transports have fallen into

The hands of our cruisers — The N. Carolina Troops have marched by this to the assistance of Charleston, a brigade under Scott, and a chosen body of fifteen hundred men under Woodford; this force, if it arrives in time, together with the militia and S. Carolina regulars, will I am in hopes give Mr. Clinton the same reception which he formerly met with there.
We have lately heard from your family, and are well. — Give my compliments to Genl. Clark Callaway — Powell & Preston, & to Capt. Harrod if you see them — Pray let me hear from you by every opportunity — And Believe me to be.
Sir Yrs. m c Dad John Taylor

Found mutilated Walden, Ambrose Nov. 14, 1910 Cont. No. 538453

A IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to
Ambrase Walden esq m
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign in the Regiment, whereof Moses Hazen Esquire is Col l Commandant,
in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of
ing. And we do strictly ent to your Orders as s and Directions from colonies, or Committee being of the Army of ad Discipline of War, e until revoked by this Thousand seven
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PRESIDENT.

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Mr. Ambrose Walden in Kentucky
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Caroline - April 19 th 1780
Sir
I have heretofore written a letter to you, requesting you to draw on me for four or five hundred pounds, should you find yourself distressed for money — and lest you should fail to receive that letter, I am now induced again to repeat the offer, to which I am also prompted by the request of your father, who wishes also to fix on some chan- =nel, through which to furnish you with money, should you have occasion for a supply — Your draughts therefore on me as far as a thousand pounds shall be punctually paid, tho' it will be proper for you to mention for whose use the money is for, that if it be for your father I may settle with him. — If you can prevail

on any people in that Country, to assist you in locating your land & mine, you may promise that I will in return assist them in securing their grants here, & doing their other business in the registrar's office — This may perhaps be an additional inducement to them, since it is clear to me, that considerable advantages will be derived to individuals, from a proper attention to these points — Your father hath promised to inclose this to you in a letter of his, from him you will probably hear the news. — Pray write to me by the first opportunity, & expect your letters lest one or two may — miscarry, and let me know whether it would redound to a man's interest,

to make purchases of land in that country — I should not the Delegates of Kentucky have set out to Richmond ere this reaches you, then , let me hear from you by them — I am
Sir
Yr: mo: Hon: Servt John Taylor
P.S. There is a Mr. Thomas, a relation of mine in Kentucky, who lives with Mr. May the chief surveyor, and will if you apply to him, give you some directions about locating your lands —

Col. J Taylor Letter to W. B. Rogers & myself
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Caroline April 26 th 1780 -
Dr. Ambrose
I have recolved to set out a letter in search of you, tho' it is uncertain when or where it will find you, as all conveyances are rendered very doubtful by the announced danger of the Indians, who I hear are doing mischief. - If this is the case, I fear it will be difficult for you to survey your lands, and also that the means of subsistence in that country will be hard; and yet it is out of my power to give you any advice touching your conduct, because I am wholly ignorant of the circumstances of your situation; your own discretion must therefore be your guide; - however it is my general advice to you to endeavour to form connections & friendships with the old settlers in that country, who have in their power to do you both greater good & greater harm than any body else. Major Taylor hath as enclosed given you authority to draw on him for money, and your draughts will be immediately paid - but you had best in your orders mention to whom the money you call for is applied, that he may keep distinct accounts of it.
Your mother hath considerably mended in her health, since you left this, owing probably in

Some measure to the arrival of Johnny from the army, who got home well, & much green on the first day of April — all who yet left in the Regt of his comrades returned also with him — he hath turned in very earnestly with me for a crop, appears to be satisfied with rambling, & does not talk of Kentucky. The rest of the family are well together with the neighbours — Don't omit any opportunity of writing to us, especially as many letters may fail before we arrive, and your mother will be uneasy until she shall hear of your safe arrival, & secure situation.
I am
Yr. aff. father —
Johnny & Betsy are to go to Calpeper at Whit Sunday & to have a mighty frolick when they get there —
John Walden,
I have repaid to Mr. Rogers the 100 Dollars sent by you to him, so that you may make use of it
Fare you well.

Mem! presented to the Senate Committee by the Petitioner John Walden.
Col Colo Wm. Finniss - Lieutenant Master General - Quarters Master Gen- erals are not embraced by the general Land bounty laws - Yet the legisla- ture allowed him land bounty. Capt. James Baytop - served 2 years 9 months. Dr. John M. Galt, Hos- pital Surgeon.
Lt. Col. Reynolds. Dr. Corbin Griffin claim presented in 1834 or 35 - Sept r 17 - 1850 allowed -
Colo. Frederick Warneck of Engineers. I understand that neither Hospital Surgeons nor Engineers were embraced in the bounty land laws - Yet These claims were allowed

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PETITION
OF THE
HEIRS OF AMBROSE WALDEN,
PRAYING FOR BOUNTY LAND FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES OF THEIR ANCESTOR.

PETITION OF THE HEIRS OF AMBROSE WALDEN.
To his Excellency the Governor of Virginia.
Your memorialist, John Walden, in his own behalf, as one of the children of Ambrose Walden, deceased, late of Fauquier county, Virginia; and, also on behalf of Richard and William Walden, and of Judith Carter, the wife of George Carter, all children and heirs of said Ambrose Walden, respectfully represents:
That the said Ambrose Walden served three years and more in the War of the Revolution, and died entitled to the land bounty promised to her own officers and soldiers for such service, by the State of Virginia, to wit: 2,666 \frac{1}{2} acres, as a Lieutenant, by regular commission; that the said Ambrose Walden, died on the                     day of March, 1840, (having never received his said bounty land,) intestate, leaving your petitioners, his only children and heirs.
Your memorialists will state the actual service of their father, and will briefly refer to the evidence of said service in proof of the claim they now advance:
In the first instance, he served ten months in the minute service of the State of Virginia, commencing with the war of the Revolution, as will appear by the affidavit of John Walden, his brother, who deposes distinctly to the fact. [See said deposition, marked A , herewith filed.]
Secondly —It appears from the same deposition, that said Ambrose Walden served eighteen months or more in the Continental Army, in a regiment called " Congress' Own ," commanded by Col. Moses Hazen; and that he was then commissioned as a Lieutenant. [See his commission as Ensign, when he first entered the army, presented herewith.] In relation to the said commission of Lieutenant, see the certificate of Gen. La Fayette, marked B . See, also, the declaration of Ambrose Walden himself, herewith filed, marked C : "That he entered the regiment of Col. Moses Hazen in April, 1777, and remained in service until October, 1778," making about 18 months from the date of his commission. See, also, a copy of a return of necessaries for the seven men enlisted in the county of Caroline, according to John Walden's deposition, [paper A ,] when Ambrose Walden received his commission. This paper is marked D , and your memorialists state that it is wholly in the hand-writing of their father, and was found among his papers since his death.

Your memorialists consider the above references as establishing, conclusively, at least eighteen months additional service. But they claim his actual service to have commenced on the 14th of February, 1777, when he left the county of Caroline with his seven recruits, which, under the promise of Major, (afterwards) Col. Taylor, entitled him to his commission, as stated by John Walden in paper A . The time occupied in marching to Philadelphia, and in hospital, to be inoculated for the small pox, was two months, which, added to the 18 claimed in the declaration of Ambrose Walden, [paper C ,] confirms the statement of John Walden, [paper A ,] that the service was more than eighteen months.
Your memorialists file a memorandum in his own handwriting, found among his papers since his death, showing the date at which he left Caroline to join the army. From this paper, marked E , it appears that he started on the 14th of February, 1777, with his seven recruits.
Upon this statement of facts, your memorialists rest their claim to a service of twenty months in the Continental army.
In the third place —Your memorialists claim a third service, for an unknown period, in the county of Kentucky, after his resignation in October, 1778. To establish this claim, they refer to the deposition of John Walden, [ A ,] which is distinct and circumstantial. As corroborative of John Walden's said statement in relation to this Kentucky service, your memorialists file the original letters of Col. John Taylor of Caroline, addressed to Ambrose Walden in Kentucky; also, a letter of Colonel John Taylor to George Rogers, forwarded by Ambrose Walden to Kentucky, but never delivered to Rogers, because he never saw Rogers until he met him at the Battle of Pickwa, where Rogers was mortally wounded, and where said Rogers delivered to Ambrose Walden the ornaments worn by him whilst among the Indians, of which John Walden speaks in paper A . In the same connexion, they file a letter addressed to Ambrose Walden by his father John Walden. The above letters are marked F, G, H, I . These letters confirm the statement of paper A , and establish a service of not less than two or three months. Your memorialists claim to have proved a service of at least 32 months.
In the fourth and last place —Your memorialists claim a service of six months as a Lieutenant from the county of Caroline, after the return of Ambrose Watson from Kentucky. He entered the service at the most critical period of the struggle, and remained until the war ended by the surrender at Yorktown. For this fact, reference is made to the distinct statement of John Walden, found in paper A .
Your memorialists have thus established, by clear and conclusive evidence, that their father, the late Ambrose Walden, performed three years and two months of actual service in the Revolutionary War. It is true this service was not continuous and unbroken. It was detached, and rendered at four different periods. But the construction uniformly given to the Land Bounty Laws, has awarded to this detached service the stipulated bounty, if, in the aggregate, it reached the period of service prescribed by the laws.

Your memorialists will cite a few precedents to establish this position : See petition of Josiah Parker, 12th November, 1783, Journal of the House of Delegates, November 18th, 1783, page 22. See petition of Col. James Inniss, page 72, December 19th, 1783. Also, of Col. William Nelson, page 75, December 19th, 1783. Also, of Isham Keith, page 20, May 26th, 1784. Also of Edward Stephens and Robert Lawson, page 14, November 11th, 1783.
Your memorialists will conclude by stating that their father, the said Ambrose Walden, for many years prior to his death, had fallen into habits of great improvidence ; that his children were all in comfortable circumstances, and discouraged any application for this bounty land, because they knew, if granted to their father, it would be quickly squandered. Since his death, the claim has been entrusted to your petitioner, John Walden, who has been much engaged out of the Commonwealth.
This statement is made to account for the delay in presenting this petition.
All which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN WALDEN.

DEPOSITION OF JOHN WALDEN.
The deposition of John Walden of the county of Caroline and State of Virginia, aged seventy-nine years, being first solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith that his brother Ambrose Walden late of the county of Fauquier and State of Virginia, entered the minute service of the State of Virginia at the commencement of the War of the Revolution, and served a tour of ten months as this deponent verily believes, perfectly recollecting when his brother Ambrose returned from the service, his giving the reason why that he had remained so long beyond the time after the tour for which he had at first volunteered had expired, which was, that in consequence of there being no troops to supply the place of the men then in service, that he together with many others volunteered for four months longer. This deponent farther states that he was at that time about fourteen years of age, that his said brother Ambrose Walden by and under the promise of a Commission from Maj. John Taylor of Caroline, (afterwards Col. John Taylor,) commenced recruiting men as an Orderly Sergeant, that he enlisted in some very short time seven Privates, of which number this deponent was one, that Judge Edmund Pendleton gave him the necessary authority to march his men to head quarters, and authority to draw subsistence for his men on their march. That his said brother upon his arrival at Philadelphia, was sent to the Hospital, together with his recruits to be inoculated for the small pox, where they stayed until they had recovered, that they joined the Regiment at Princeton in New Jersey, then in cantonment at that place, being the Regiment known as Congress' own Regiment, Commanded by Col. Moses Hazen from Canada, Lieut. Col. Antil, Majors Taylor, Taney and Reid, that immediately upon his this deponent's brother Ambrose Walden joining the Regiment, an Ensign's Commission was given him, and he was forthwith sent home to Virginia upon the recruiting service, that he returned and joined the Regiment with the recruits that he had made, and was with this deponent in the battle at Germantown in the State of Pennsylvania ; that during the time he was in service that he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in said Regiment. This deponent cannot positively say as to the precise time his brother Ambrose remained in service in this Regiment, but is certain that it was not less than eighteen months and it may have been two years, he inclines to the opinion that it was near two years, but from the lapse of time will not undertake to say what was the precise time, farther than he recollects this : that at the time of the year they left home and the time which his said brother left the service, satisfies him that he is perfectly correct in saying that his brother was in service eighteen months or more, but not less than that length of time. That upon his brother Ambrose Walden leaving the service he went to Kentucky, that whilst there he went with Gen'l George Rogers Clarke upon an expedition against the Indians in the now State of Ohio, at a place called Pickwa

town; of this service this deponent speaks not from his own knowledge, but upon information of others, having been told by Maj. James Suuton, deceased, of the county of Caroline, State of Virginia, that he was with said Ambrose Walden upon that expedition; and from the further information that his brother Ambrose Walden received from George Rogers, who was a nephew of the wife of Judge Edmund Pendleton, and as this deponent believes cousin to Gen'l G. R. Clarke, who was mortally wounded in the battle with the Indians, his bracelets and ornaments indicative of his being among the Indians—said Rogers was raised in the county of Caroline, and that his brother Ambrose Walden, at the request of Rogers, brought them to said Rogers' relations, of the duration of this service and the grade his brother held, whether a private or an officer, this deponent is unacquainted with. That upon his said Ambrose Walden's return to the county of Caroline from Kentucky, he was Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Militia of that county, and performed a tour of duty of six months duration, as this deponent believes as a Lieutenant from said county, that of this service this deponent speaks of his own knowledge, having then returned himself from the Army, went to see his brother then in service and carry him some clothing, found him at Savages' old fields near Williamsburgh, in the Regiment of Militia, commanded by Col. Mathews. And this deponent believes that his brother was at the taking of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and further this deponent saith not.
JOHN WALDEN.
Rappahannock County, to wit:—
This day, John Walden personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and made oath that the foregoing deposition, as far as depends upon his own knowledge, is true; and so far as depends upon the knowledge and information of others, he believes to be true. Given under my hand and seal, this 19th day of March, 1841.
PHILIP SLAUGHTER, ( Seal. )
A deposition, signed by John Walden of the county of Caroline, Virginia, and qualified to on the 19th of March, 1841, setting forth the services of his brother, Ambrose Walden, during the revolution, having been shewn me, I have no hesitation in saying, that, from a long acquaintance with said John Walden (whom I believe to be dead), I have implicit confidence in the truth of what he states in said deposition. John Walden lived for many years in Spottsylvania county. I had many business transactions with him, and knew him well. I ever regarded him as worthy of entire credibility, and believe he was so esteemed by the community.
Given under my hand this 9th day of December, 1850.
O. M. CRUTCHFIELD.
To his Excellency, the Governor of Virginia.

City of Richmond, Virginia, to wit:
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said city, O. M. Crutchfield, and made oath to the facts herein stated to be true.
Given under my hand, this 10th day of December, 1850.
THOS. TYRER, J. P.
PENSION OFFICE, January 28th, 1850.
SIR: Agreeably to your request, I enclose herewith a copy of the commission given by Congress to Ensign Ambrose Walden and General Lafayette's certificate of said Walden's oath of allegiance.
The commission is imperfect, having been torn or mutilated previous to its being filed in this office.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
Col. WALDEN, Present.
Commission and Certificate of General Lafayette.
I hereby certify, that the accompanying pages, numbered from one to two, are truly copied from the original files in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
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 ought to be given.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 28th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
T. EWING, Secretary of the Interior.
[No. 1.]
IN CONGRESS:—The Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,
To Ambrose Walden, Esq.:
We, reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, conduct and fidelity, do, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to

be Ensign in the Regiment whereof Moses Hazen, Esq., is Colonel Commandant in the Army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof.
You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of ———ng., and we do strictly ——— ent to your orders, as and directions from Colonies, or Committee cing of the Army of and Discipline of War, until revoked by this thousand seven ——— O. N., President.
[No. 2.]
I do hereby certify that Lieut. Ambrose Walden, of Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment, took, before me, the oath of allegiance to the United States of America, and abjuration and renunciation of obedience or allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, according to the resolutions of Congress, of February the 3d, 1778—March 14th, 1778.
The MS. DE LAFAYETTE.
NOTE.—See declaration of Ambrose Walden, that he served eighteen months in the Continental Army.

[D.]
A Return of Cloathing wanting for a party of Captain McConnel's Company, in Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment, 15th April, 1777.
   Coat, Waistcoat, Breeches, Shirts, Stockings, Shoes, Blankets, Hats, Haversack, Canteen, Guns and Bayonets, Cartridge Boxes, Wires and Brushes,     Francis Fleming, 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1   Rich'd Edmundston, 1 1 1 2 1 1 1   Rich'd Reynolds, 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1   Cornel's Beasley, 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1   Steven Furgason, 1 1 2 1 1 1 1   William Easten, 1 1 2 2 1 1   John Walden, 1 1 1 2 2 1 1   1 2 1  
A provision return of a party of Capt. McConnel's company, in a Regiment Commanded by Moses Hazen, Esq., Col. Commandant for three days, both days included.*
A return of necessaries wanted for a party.
* This endorsement is on the back of the return.

Memorandum in the hand writing of Ambrose Walden, found among his papers after his death.
The Company, with brother John from Caroline county, Virginia, to join the Continental Army, started on the 14th February, 1777.
Then follows the substance of the letter of credit from Judge Edmond Pendleton.
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CAROLINE, Feb. 27th, 1780.
DEAR SIR: It was with pleasure I received your favor of December 3rd, giving me an account of your safe arrival at Kentucky, and making me certain of a fact, of which I had entertained some doubts—I mean the fertility of the soil—which hath induced me to purchase more warrants than I had ever intended. It was out of my power to get pre-emption rights after the receipt of your letter, so that I must trust to common warrants only. Mr. A. Walden brings out warrants for three thousand acres for me, besides the thousand you were kind enough to take out, with directions to deliver them to you, as you will be the best judge what to do with them. If you find it too laborious to locate them for me yourself, perhaps it might be best for you to agree to give Mr. Howard, or some other surveyor, an undivided tenth part of my land for locating it; neither, if you do it, shall I have any objection to making you a compliment of so much for your trouble. Should you employ any other person, I should not wish that his part should be fixed; that, by being obliged, if I should insist on it, to take a part of each survey, he might get as good land as possible, though, if he does his duty, it will be most convenient, both for him and me, to have it assigned in one body. However, I leave it entirely to you to act for me as you think best. I send out to you, by Mr. Walden, one hundred pounds, which you will use as you please, since, although you should make a bargain with any one for locating my land, so as to lessen the expenses, yet you must want money yourself, and nothing will give me greater pleasure than if it should prove serviceable to you.
I am very much determined to live at some future day in Kentucky, and therefore I am the more anxious to get good land ready for me to live on.
The war seems yet to continue in full vigor, though some gentlemen think it is drawing towards a conclusion. The British tyrant hath been disappointed in some late requisitions of troops from the German Princes, which will be a considerable disappointment to him. It is said that General Clinton will be recalled after this campaign, and that his wish to do something, ere he goes, hath induced him to take the command of seven thousand men, which have sailed from New York, and landed in Georgia, with an intention to attack Charlestown in South Carolina. They had a stormy passage, were considerably damaged and separated, and several of their transports have fallen into the hands of our cruisers. The North

Carolina troops have marched by this to the assistance of Charlestown—a brigade under Scott, and a chosen body of fifteen hundred men under Woodford. This force, if it arrives in time, together with the militia and South Carolina Regulars, will, I am in hopes, give Mr. Clinton the same reception which he formerly met with there.
We have lately heard from your family, all of whom are well. Give my compliments to Cols. Clark, Callaway, Powell and Peyton, and to Capt. Harod, if you see them. Pray let me hear from you by every opportunity, and believe me to be, sir, your most obd't serv't,
JOHN TAYLOR.
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EDMUNDSBURG, March 13th, 1780.
SIR : You have no doubt heard, ere this, of Mr. Rogers's departure from Kentucky, and will see from thence, that my dependence for locating my land is centered in yourself, especially if Mr. Hord cannot undertake it. However, I desire you, at all events, to act for me as you judge best. Let not any expense deter you from getting for me good land, to defray which, I will pay your orders on sight, as far as five hundred pounds, if you can borrow money of any person coming this way, on their credit, or if the inhabitants will take them for services and send them by their representatives to Richmond, where they shall be punctually paid. I will make you, for your trouble, any reasonable satisfaction, a matter in which, I believe, we shall not differ. I am told by a Mr. Thomas, who will be in that country by the 1st of May, and lives with Mr. May, the chief surveyor, that an excellent tract of land lies on the west side of the Cumberland mountain, though it is so distant from any other good lands, that it would be only a choice of necessity. This Mr. Thomas is a relation of mine, and if you will apply to him, with my compliments, will, perhaps, assist you in locating the land. Should you act alone for me, an application to Col. Callaway may not be amiss, who will not, I am in hopes, refuse to assist an old acquaintance. I have written to Mr. Hord on this subject, as it is possible you and he may have agreed that he should locate my land ; but, if the matter is not yet settled, pray open the letter I gave to Mr. Rogess, and act in every respect as if it had been addressed to yourself. This letter comes by Mr. Thomas, but I shall send a copy of it by Mr. Sutton, lest it should miscarry. Let me hear from you by every opportunity, and give an account of your success ; in return, I will inform you of affairs in this quarter, and will also, if you will transmit to me your surveys, take the proper measures for obtaining grants as speedily as possible. Your father's family are well.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
JOHN TAYLOR.
P. S.—If any person in Kentucky will assist you in locating the land, I will, in return, assist them in getting out grants as speedily as possible, from which they may derive no small advantage. J. T.

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Caroline, April 19th, 1780.
SIR,—
I have heretofore written a letter to you, requesting you to draw on me for four or five hundred pounds, should you find yourself distressed for money—and lest you should fail to receive that letter, I am induced again to repeat the offer, to which I am also prompted by the request of your father, who wishes also to fix on some channel, through which to furnish you with money, should you have occasion for a supply. Your draughts therefore on me as far as a thousand pounds shall be punctually paid, tho' it will be proper for you to mention for whose use the money is for, that if it be for your father I may settle with him. If you can prevail on any people in that country, to assist you in locating your land and mine, you may promise that I will in return assist them in securing their grants here, and doing their other business in the Register's Office—this may perhaps be an additional inducement to them, since it is clear to me, that considerable advantages will be derived to individuals, from a proper attention to these points. Your father hath promised to enclose this to you in a letter of his, from him you will probably hear the news. Pray write to me by the first opportunity, and repeat your letters lest one or two may miscarry, and let me know whether it would redound to a man's interest to make purchases of land in that country.—Should not the Delegates of Kentucky have set out to Richmond ere this reaches you, let me hear from you by them. I am,
Sir,
Your most humble servant, JOHN TAYLOR.
P. S. —There is a Mr. Thomas, a relation of mine in Kentucky, who lives with Mr. May the chief Surveyor, and will if you apply to him, give you some directions about locating your lands.

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Caroline, April 24th, 1780.
DR. AMBROSE,—
I have resolved to set out a letter in search of you, tho' it is uncertain when or where it will find you, as all conveyances are rendered very doubtful by the danger of the Indians, who I hear are doing mischief. If this is the case, I fear it will be difficult for you to survey your lands, and also that the means of subsistence in that country will be hard; and yet it is out of my power to give you any advice touching your conduct, because I am wholly ignorant of the circumstances of your situation; your own discretion must therefore be your guide;—however, this my general advice to you is to endeavour to form connections and friendships with the old settlers in that country, who have it in their power to do you both greater good and greater harm than any body else. Major Taylor hath as inclosed given you authority to draw on him for money, and your draughts will be immediately paid;—but you had best in your orders mention to whose use the money you call for is applied, that he may keep distinct accounts of it.
Your Mother has considerably mended in her health, since you left this, owing probably in some measure to the arrival of Johnny from the Army, who got home well and much grown, on the first day of April—all who you left in the Regiment of his comrades returned also with him—he hath turned in very earnestly with me for a crop, appears to be satisfied with rambling, and does not talk of Kentucky. The rest of the family are well, together with the neighbours. Don't omit any opportunity of writing to us, especially as many letters may fail before one arrives, and your Mother will be uneasy until she shall hear of your safe arrival, and secure situation. I am, your affectionate Father,
JOHN WALDEN.
P. S. —Johnny and Betsey are to go to Culpeper at Whitsuntide, and to have a mighty frolick when they get there.—I have repaid to Mr. Rogers the 100 dollars sent by you to him, so that you may make use it.
See Extract from Marshall's History of Kentucky and Clark's Expedition against the Indians in Ohio, filed with the papers.

Printed Journal of the Virginia House of Delegates, November 29th, 1784, page 45.
In the case of Capt. William Payne is the following Report, &c.:
It appears to your Committee, that, on the 5th day of March, 1776, the said William Payne was appointed a Lieutenant in the Marine service, in which capacity he acted until he was appointed a Captain in the 1st Virginia State Regiment, in which rank he served until the 25th day of July, 1778, when he resigned his commission.
It also appears to your Committee, that the said William Payne, in October, 1780, when this State was invaded by General Lesley, raised a volunteer corps of horse and joined Colonel Lerf, who commanded at North-West River Bridge, in which service he was badly wounded, and lay confined until some time in April, 1781.
Resolved , &c., That he have the bounty in land of a captain for three years service.
William Payne received 4000 acres 18th April, 1785—Continental.
It appears from the above, that Payne served two years, four months and twenty days in the Regular Army, and resigned —that he raised a company of cavalry during Lesley's invasion, and had command as a militia officer. The invasion lasted but a short time, but Payne was wounded and was confined, which was considered equal to service. So it appears that the legislative interpretation of the bounty land law, at that day , was, service for three years, whether wholly in the regular line, or a fair portion in that line and the balance in the militia. (See Isham Reith's case, same Journal, May 26th, 1784, page 20.) He served in the Minute Battalion from 4th October, 1775, till it was disbanded in the spring of the year, 1776, then appointed in 3rd Regiment, Continental line, and resigned in consequence of ill health, never entered the army again, and the Legislature, upon his petition, gave him his bounty land, according to his rank of Lieutenant, although he served only two years and about four months. He received two thousand six hundred and sixty-six and two-third acres of bounty land on the 9th July, 1784. Resolution of the House of Delegates.
In the case of General Robert Lawson, he served as Major and Colonel in the 4th Regiment, Continental line, from the winter of 1775, till the 25th December, 1777, and resigned. (See same Journal, November 11th, 1783.) He served with General Nelson in the militia after his resignation, and was allowed bounty land by the Legislature as a Brigadier General (ten thousand acres), on the 21st November, 1784; (but here is an allowance of bounty land with but two years service in the regular army, with a resignation, and the bounty for a grade higher than he held in the regular army, and for a rank he subsequently held in the militia.)
Col. Josiah Parker served in the regular line two years and ten months, and resigned, and received bounty land by resolution of the House of Delegates. (See his case, November 12th, 1783, same printed Journal.)

Memorandum Presented to the Senate Committee by the Petitioner, John Walden.
Col. WM. FINNIE, Quarter-master General . Quarter-master Generals are not embraced by the General Land Bounty Laws, yet the Legislature allowed him land bounty.
Capt. James Baytop served two years and nine months. Dr. John M. Galt, Hospital Surgeon . Lt. William Reynold. Dr. Corbin Griffin: Claim presented in 1834 or '35, September 17th, 1850, allowed.
Col Frederick Warwick, of the Engineers. I understand that neither Hospital Surgeon nor Engineers were embraced in the Bounty Land Laws, yet their claims were allowed.
Report of the Committee of Claims of House of Delegates.
The Committee of Claims, to which was referred the Petition of John Walden and others, heirs of Ambrose Walden, have according to order, had the same under consideration and have adopted the following resolution:
Resolved by the General Assembly , That the Prayer of the Petition is reasonable, and that they are entitled to the bounty in land of a Lieutenant in the Continental service for three years, and that the Register of the Land Office issue a warrant accordingly.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, January 27th, 1852.
GEORGE W. MUNFORD, C. H. D.

June 5. 1852
Sir
I submit the inclosed papers for your examination &c
Very Respectful
yr. att s.r.
Jas. F. Strother

Col. Edwards, Com r of Pensions.
Wash n 28 Jan y '50.
Sir,
Col. Walden, my friend will hand you this note; he is the son of Mr. Ambrone Walden, my neighbor, who died five or six years ago, and was at the time of his death a pensioner, as an officer of the W.T.S. during the revolution. Col. Walden desires to withdraw from the files in your office, the commission of Ensign which was conferred upon his father, and Genl. Lafayette's certificate of the oath of allegiance he took; both of which accompanied Mr. Walden's application for a pension and are now in your office. The claim on the govern ment for a pension being no longer made, there can be no difficulty whatever in granting Col. Walden's request for papers which will be held by him and his descendants as mementos of the patriotism of his father so long as they may last.
I am, Sir, very respectfully and truly — R. Wallace.

Sir
Please examine the inclosed & return me if convenient a reply to day.
Yrs Respectfully
J. S. Barber
Munday Morning
J. L. Edwards Esq:

Warrenton May 11 th 1852
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is my application as Administrator of my father Andrew Walden the late for an increase of Pension under the act of June 1832. The vouchers to sustain the claim are in the hands of the Commissioner of Pensions.
Be pleased to give the proper direction to the enclosed papers.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Yr. ob. Servt.
John Walden
Hon. James F. Strother Washington City

Colonel Walden Extracts from journals Horn Delegates 1784
No. 13

Printed Journal Va Ho. Del Nov. 29 th 1784, page 45
In the case of Capt W m Payne is the following report &c It appears to your committee, that on the 5 th day of March 1776, the sd W m Payne, was appointed a Lieutenant in the Marine Service in which capacity he acted until he was appointed a Captain in the 1 st Virginia State Regiment, in which rank he served until the 25 th day of July 1778, when he resigned his Commission
It also appears to your committee, that the sd W m Payne, in October 1780, when this state was invaded by General Leslie, raised a volunteer Corps of horse, and joined Colonel Luff, who commanded at Northwest River Bridge, in which service he was badly wounded and lay confined until some time in April 1781. — Resolved that he have the bounty in Land of a Captain for 3 years service William Payne recd 4000 Acres 18 th April 1785 Continental
It appears from the above that Payne served 2 years 4 Months & 20 days in the Regular Arm, & resigned — That he raised a company of Cavalry, during Leslie's invasion & had command as a Militia Officer. The invasion lasted but a short time but Payne was wounded & was confined which was considered equal to service. So it appears that the Legislative interpretation of the bounty Land law, at that day  was service for three years whether wholly in the regular line or a fair portion in that line & the balance in the Militia — See Isham Keith's case, same Journal May 26 th 1784, page 20. He served in the Minute Battalion from 1 th October 1775 till it was disbanded in the spring of the year 1776 then appointed in 3 rd Reg. Continental line & resigned in consequence of ill health, never entered the Army again, The Legisla- ture upon his petition gave him his bounty Land according to his rank of Lieutenant also he served only 2 years and about 4 Months — He recd 2666 2 / 3 acres

Bounty Land on the 9 th July 1784, - Resolution H o , Delegates
In the case of Genl. Rott. Lawson He served as Major & Colonel in the 4 th Reg. Continental Line from the Winter of 1775 till the 25 th December 1777 and Resigned See same Journal Nov. 11 th 1783
He served with General Nelson in the Militia after his resignation and was allowed bounty Land by the Legislature as a Brigadier Genl. 10,000 acres on the 21 st Nov. 1784 but here is an allowance of bounty Land with but 2 years service in the regular army with a resignation and the bounty for a grade higher than he held in the regular army and for a rank he subsequently held in the Militia
It is strange if Holden can't come in with all the precedents above referred to, He certainly is as much entitled as any one of them
Colonel Joseph Parker served in the regular line 2 years and 10 months and resigned & recd bounty Land by resolution House of Delegates See his case Nov 12 th 1783 same Journal

A deposition signed by John Walden of the County of Caroline, Va., & qualified to on the 19 th of March 1841, setting forth the ser- vices of his brother Ambrose Walden during the Revolution, having been shown me; I have no hesitation in saying, that from a long acquaintance said John Walden (whom I believe to be dead) I have implicit confidence in the truth of what he states in sd. deposition. John Walden lived for many years in Spotsylvania County. I had many business transactions with him & knew him well. I ever regarded him as wor- thy of entire credibility, & believe he was so esteemed by the community. Given under my hand this 9 th day of Decr: 1850 - A. M. Southfield To his Excellency, The Govr: of Virginia

City of Richmond Va to wit
Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for Dan City O M Canfield and made oath to the facts herein stated to be true given under my hand this 10 th day of December 1856
Thompson J.P.

War Department Pension Office October 31. 1832
Sir:
Your letter enclosing the certificate of your father Ambrose Walden has been received. If he cannot himself make a written application for the benefit of the act of June 7. 1832. owing to his infirm state of health, he should sign the paper making the application. The certificate will remain on the files of this Office.
I am. Respectfully, Your m c Obs- J. L. Edwards
John Walden Esq d Warrentown N o

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
County of Fauquier ss. State of Virginia
On this 21 st day of February 18 31 , before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Fauquier personally appeared James who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain McCollum in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wm Hays in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Virginia that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War: which certificate, on or about the 10 th day of September 18 30 , at or near the Town of Frederick'sburg on the way from Middlesex Co to Fauquier County  he  lost
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, } the day and year aforesaid. }
Edu. Shackleford
NOTES.—The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
☞ If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, " but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one. "
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.

Fauquier County, to wit:
Joseph Horner this day personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, I made oath, that about two years ago he prepared a declaration of pension for the within named Ambrose Walden who claimed to have been a Lieutenant, or an Ensign, this affiant has forgotten which, in the Army of the Revolution; that he transmitted the said declaration with papers supporting it, to the War Department and that a certificate of pension was forwarded in a short time to the said Walden - That he well knows the within named Ambrose Walden to be the same person above mentioned - That he knows nothing about the Revolutionary services of said Walden, but that to the best of his recollection of the papers aforesaid, particularly a mutilated commission appointing said Walden a lieutenant, he believes that he said Walden was what he described himself to be. The affiant saith that from as much as he could read of the said commission, he thinks that it purported to be a commission from the old Congress signed by John Hancock, appointing said Walden to the Regiment of Col: Moses Hazen, and that the War Department had the said commission before them when they passed upon the claim of said Walden to a pension.
Jos. Horner
The above affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me, on this 7th day of February 1831, by the above named Joseph Horner - and I certify that the said affiant is a man of veracity
Edw. Shacklett
Virginia:
Fauquier County, to wit:
I, John A.W. Smith, Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid, hereby certify, that Edward Shacklett, whose name is subscribed to the within certificate, and also to the above certificate, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, to all whose official acts full faith and credit ought to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the said Court, on this 7th day of October 18 February 1831, and in the 55th year of the Commonwealth.
Jno: A.W. Smith, Clk. Fauquier County Court.

Pension Office January 28 th 1850.
Sir,
Agreeably to your request, I enclose herewith, a Copy of the Commission given by Congress to Ensign Ambrose Walden, and General La Fayette's certificate of said Walden's Oath of allegiance.
The Commission is imperfect, having been torn or mutilated previous to its being filed in this Office.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obh. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Col. Walden Present

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I Certify, That, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820 & March 1, 1823, Ambrose Walden late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Virginia Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 26 th day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
P. B. Porter
Secretary of War.
Examined and countersigned, James G. Edwards

To his Excellency, the Governor of Virginia the
Your memorialist, John Walden, in his own behalf as one of the children of Ambrose Walden deceased late of Fauquier County Virginia, and also on behalf of Richard and William Walden, and of Judith Carter, the wife of George Carter - all Children and heirs of said Ambrose Walden, respectfully represents -
That the said Ambrose Walden served three years and more in the War of the Revolution, and died entitled to the land bounty, promised to her own officers and soldiers for such service, by the State of Virginia, to wit: 2,666 2 / 3 Acres, as a Lieutenant by regular Commission - That the said Ambrose Walden, died on the 1840 day of March having never received his said bounty land, intestate, leaving your petitioners his only children and heirs -
Your memorialists will state the actual service of their father, and will briefly refer to the evidence of said service in proof of the Claim they now advance -
In the first instance, he served ten months in the militia service of the State of Virginia, commencing with the War of the Revolution - as will appear by the affidavit of John Walden, his brother, who deposes distinctly to the fact - see said Deposition marked, A , herewith filed. Secondly - It appears from the same deposition that said Ambrose Walden, served Eighteen months or more in the

Continental Army in a Regiment, called " Congregational " commanded by Col Moses Hazen; and that he was then commissioned as a Lieutenant - (See his Commission as ensign when he first entered the army (presented herewith) - In relation to the said Commission, of lieutenant see the Certificate of Genl: La Fayette, marked, B . - See also the declaration of Ambrose Walden himself, herewith filed, marked, C . "That he entered the Regiment of Col Moses Hazen in April 1777 - and remained in service until October 1778, making about 18 months from the date of his Commission -
See also a copy of a return of necessaries for the seven men enlisted in the County of Caroline according to John Walden's Deposition (paper A ) when Ambrose Walden received his Commission. This paper is marked, D , and your memorialists state that it is wholly in the handwriting of their father, and was found among his papers since his death.
Your memorialists consider the above references as establishing, conclusively, at least eighteen months additional service. But they claim his actual service to have commenced on the 14 th of February 1777 when he left the County of Caroline with his seven recruits, which, under the promise of Major, (afterwards) Col: Taylor, entitled him to his commission as stated by John Walden in paper, A . The time occupied in marching to Philadelphia and in hospital to be inoculated for the small pox, was, two months; which added to the 18 claimed in the declaration of Ambrose Walden (paper C ) confirms

the Statement of John Walden (paper, A. ) that the service was more than eighteen months.
Your memorialists file a memorandum in his own hand writing, found among his papers since his death, shewing the date at which he left Carolina to join the Army. From this paper, marked, B. , it appears that he started on the 14 th of February, 1777, with his seven recruits.
Upon this statement of facts, your memorialists rest their claim to a service of twenty months in the Continental Army.
In the third place - Your memorialists claim a third service for an unknown period in the County of Kentucky after his reengagement in October, 1778. To establish this claim, they refer to the deposition of John Walden ( C. ) which is distinct and circumstantial. As corroborative of John Waldens said Statement in relation to this Kentucky service, your memorialists file the original letters of Col: John Taylor of Carolina addressed to Ambrose Walden in Kentucky - also a letter of Col: John Taylor to George Rogers, forwarded by Ambrose Walden to Ken- tucky, but never delivered to Rogers, because he never saw Rogers until he met him at the Battle of Piqua when Rogers was mortally wounded, and when said Rogers delivered to Ambrose Walden the Ornaments worn by him whilst among the Indians, of which John Walden speaks in paper D. In the same Connection they file a letter addressed to Ambrose Walden by his father, John Walden. The above letters are marked, F. G. H. I.

These letters confirm the Statement of paper, et , and establish a service of not less than two or three months. Your memorialists claim to have proved a service of at least 32 months.
In the Fourth and last place.
Your memorialists claim a service of six months as a lieutenant from the County of Caroline, after the return of Ambrose Walden from Kentucky. He entered the service at the most critical period of the struggle and remained until the war ended by the Surrender at Yorktown. For this fact, reference is made to the distinct statement of John Walden found in paper, et .
Your memorialists have thus established by clear and conclusive evidence, that their father the late Ambrose Walden performed three years and two months of actual service in the revolutionary war. It is true this service was not continuous and unbroken. It was detached and rendered at four different periods. But the construction uniformly given to the same Bounty Laws, has awarded to this detached service the stipulated Bounty, if, in the aggregate, it reached the period of service prescribed by the Laws. Your memorialists will cite a few precedents to establish this position. See petition of Josiah Parker, 12th November, 1783, Journal of the House of Delegates, November 18th, 1783 - page, 22. See petition of Col James Imbif. page 72 - December 19th, 1783 - also of Col William Nelson, page 75, Decr 19th, 1783 -

also of Isham Keith, page 20, May 26th, 1784 - also of Edward Stephens and Robert Dawson - page 14 - November 11th 1783 -
Your Memorialists will conclude by stating that their Father, the said Ambrose Walden, for many years prior to his death, had fallen into habits of great im- providence. That his Children, were, all in comfortable circumstances, and discouraged any application for this county land, because they knew, if granted to their father it would be quickly squandered - Since his death, the Claim has been entrusted to your petitioner, John Walden, who has been much engaged out of the Commonwealth This statement is made to account for the delay in presenting this petition.
All which is respectfully Submitted -
John Walden

The deposition of John Walden of the county of Caroline and State of Virginia, aged seventy nine years, being first solemnly sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God. Deposeth and saith that his brother Ambrose Walden late of the county of Fauquier and State of Virginia, entered the minute service of the State of Virginia at the commencement of the War of the Revolution, and served a tour of ten months as this deponent verily believes, perfectly recollecting when his brother Ambrose returned from the service, his giving the reason why that he had remained so long beyond the time after the tour for which at first volunteered had expired, which was, that in consequence of there being no troops to supply the place of the men then in service that he together with many others volunteered for four months longer. This deponent further states that he was at that time about fourteen years of age, that his said brother Ambrose Walden by and under the promise of a commission from Maj John Taylor of Caroline (afterwards Col John Taylor) commenced recruiting men as an orderly sergeant, that he enlisted in some very short terms seven privates of which number this deponent was one, that Judge Edmund Pendleton gave him the necessary authority to march his men to head quarters, and authority to draw subsistence for his men on their march. That his said brother upon his arrival at Philadelphia, was sent to the hospital together with his recruits to be inoculated for the small pox when they stayed until they had recovered, that they joined the regiment at Princetown in New Jersey then in cantonment at that place, being the Regiment known as Congress' Own Regiment Commanded by Col Moses Hazen from Canada, Sub. Off. Unit. Majors Taylor, Terry, and Reed, that immediately upon his this deponent's brother Ambrose Walden joining the Regiment, an Ensign's Commission was given him, and he was forthwith sent home to Virginia upon the recruiting service that he returned and joined the Regiment with the recruits which he had made and was with this deponent in the battle at Germantown in the State of Pennsylvania, that during the time he was in service that he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in said Regiment. This deponent cannot positively say as to the precise time his brother Ambrose remained in service in this regiment, but is certain that it was between eight not less than eighteen months and it may have been two years, he inclines to the opinion that it was near two years but from the lapse of time will not undertake to say what was the precise time, further than he recollects it was about the time that they left

and the term which his said brother left the service satisfies him that he is perfectly correct in saying that his brother was in service eighteen months or more, but not less than that length of time - That upon his brother's Ambrose Walden leaving the service he went to Kentucky. That whilst there he went with Genl. George Rogers Clarke upon an expedition against the Indians in the then North Western Territory now State of Ohio, at a place called Pickawillapawnee Town. Of this service this deponent speaks not from his own knowledge, but upon information of others. Having been told by Maj. James Fulton Esq. of the County of Caroline, State of Virginia that that he was with said Ambrose Walden upon that expedition, and from the further information that his brother Ambrose Walden, received from George Rogers, who was a nephew of the wife of Judge Edmund Pendleton, and a near depen- dant's cousin to Genl. G. R. Clarke, who was mortally wounded in the battle with the Indians. His bracelets and ornaments, indicative of his being captured taken among the Indians. Said Rogers was raised in the County of Caroline. And that his brother Ambrose Walden at the request of Rogers brought them to said Rogers' relations, of the duration of this service and the grade which he held held, whether a private or an officer. This deponent is unacquainted with. That upon his said Ambrose Walden's return to the County of Caroline from Kentucky he was Commissioned as a lieutenant in the Militia of that County and performed a tour of duty of six months duration as this deponent believes as a lieutenant from said County. That of this service this deponent speaks of his own knowledge, having then returned himself from the Army, went to see his brother then in service and carrying some clothing found him at Savage's Old fields near Williamsburg in the Regiment of Militia commanded by Col. Matthews. And this deponent believes that his brother was at the battle of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and further this deponent saith not.  John Walden
Rappahannock County to wit
This day John Walden personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for said County and made oath that the foregoing deposition as far as depends upon his own knowledge is true and so far as depends upon the knowledge and information of others he believes to be true. Given under my hand and seal this 19 day of March 1841.  Philip Houghton

Virginia:
At a Court held for Fauquier County, on the 24th day of December 1828.
It appears to the Court by the testimony of John Walden, that a tract of land in the state of Kentucky, conveyed by Ambrose Walden of Fauquier County, Virginia, to his children, for a valuable consideration, is of the value of $12,000:00: That it has been the subject of a suit for upwards of twenty years past; and that there is no reason to believe that the suit will be determined, in any time, short enough for the advantage of any person now alive, who is concerned in its recovery. It also appears, by the testimony of the said John, (as it will also appear by reference to papers which have been transmitted to the War Department) that said Ambrose Walden has taken the oath of an insolvent debtor; and having taken such oath, that he has no right or interest in the said tract of land.
In testimony that the foregoing is truly copied from the record of the proceedings of the Court aforesaid, I, John A.W. Smith, Clerk of said Court, hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the said Court, on this 20th day of January 1829, and in the 53rd year of the Commonwealth.
John A.W. Smith, Clerk Fauquier County Court.

Clark's Creek March 27 th 1831.
Mr. Walden
I recd your favour of the 2 nd Inst. post marked the 4 th Cain to hand about the 15 th and I should have answered it sooner but for the pressing of other previous engagements - I am glad to hear that you enjoy your health amidst advan- -ced years and declining age - There is no thing new here at least worthy your attention. There has not been any deaths that I now recollect of since I last wrote you - The Spring has opened very finely, though Crops of Wheats are not as promising as they were the last season - I have found your Warrant in your trunk - whether you left it there, or it got there by magic art I am unprepared to say - suffice it to say that it was there, and I herewith enclose it to you, according to your request, but not as early as I could have wished - And for the short delay I hope you will excuse me - Our best respects &c. to you -
Make our respects to Mr. Garter Family -
Respectfully y s . mo. obt. Serv t .
N.B. let me hear from you soon, and if you get your Warrant safe - J.P.P.
Mo. P. B. in word.

Commission & Certi= ficate of Gen Lafayette
B
No. 4

I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the accompanying page 1 numbered from One — to Two — truly copied from the original file , in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
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 hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 28 th day of January — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty  Fifty —
J. Ewing
Secretary of War  The Interior .

In Congress ~ ~
The delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, To Ambrose Walden Esq:
We reposing especial Trust, and Confidence in your Patriotism, valour, conduct, and fidelity, Do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign in the Regiment whereof Moses Hazen Esquire is Col o . Commandant, in the Army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. ~
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of ~
~ ng. And we do strictly ~ ent to your Orders as and directions from Colonies, or Committee cing of the Army of and Discipline of War until revoked by the Thousand Seven
John - President

I do hereby certify that Lieut: Ambrose Walden, of Col: Mores Hazen's Regiment, took before me the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America, and abjuration and renunciation of Obedience or allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, according to the Resolutions of Congress, of February the third 1778 - March 11 th 1778 -
The M o De Lafayette -

Inw. File 38453. Ambrose Walden. The original oath of allegiance of Lieut. Ambrose Walden, signed by the Marquis De Lafayette was missing from this claim when opened by me on Feb. 15, 1907.
ASL
A. Wilson O.W.H. Div.
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Pleas before the Superior Court of Law of Caroline County at the Court House, on the 16 th day of May 1827.
Be it remembered that heretofore to wit: on the 22 nd day of June 1824, came Humphrey Sacco Jr, by his attorney, and sued out of the office of the said Court, a writ of Capias ad respondendum against Ambrose Walden, which writ with the endorsement and return thereon made, is in these words, viz: 'The Commonwealth of Virginia, To the Sheriff of Caroline County Greeting We command you that you take Ambrose Walden if he found in your bailiwick then safely keep, so that you have his body at the Clerk's office of our Superior Court of Caroline, at the Court House in said County, on the first Monday in July next, being next day, to answer Humphrey Sacco Jr of a plea of covenant - damage £160. 0. 0. and here then there this writ. Witness John L. Pendleton Clerk of our said Court, at the Bowling Green, this 22 nd day of June 1824, and in the 48 th year of our independence.'
Jn o L. Pendleton C l
Endorsed - 'Covenant - No bail required J. D. p. q.'
Return. Executed Thos. B. Coleman J. D. S. for James J. Garnett. S. C. C.'
And at another day to wit: At Rules held in the Clerk's office of the said Court on the 6 th day of September 1824: came the plaintiff by his attorney and filed his declaration against the defendant in these words to wit: 'Superior Court of Law Caroline County, to wit: Humphrey Sacco Jr plff. Compt t complains of Ambrose Walden, Deft: in custody & of a plea of covenant broken for that the said Ambrose by his certain covenant bearing date the 14 th day of March 1816, sealed with his seal, and now here to the Court shown, dated as aforesaid, covenanted with said plff that in consideration that if said plff would also see my interest in a bond of incompromise'

enter into said defts employment to go to the state of Ken- tucky to attend to his said defts land suits he would pay the said plffs necessary expenses together with the sum of £100 with a condition that if said plff should not succeed in doing said defts business or put it in a train so that it can be done the said deft & said plff further covenanted to leave to two competent men (one to be chosen by each) to say what said plffs trouble was worth, the said £100 & expenses or what- said trouble in the last case should be decided to be worth to be paid on the 25th day of the then next Decr. and said plff on his part covenanted with said deft. to use every exertion in his power to have the said defts business in said state of Kentucky attended to. And the said plff avers that he well and truly per- formed & fulfilled his covenant on his part to be fulfilled & performed by going to the state of Kentucky and attending to said defts land suits & his business there according to the terms of said covenant which justly entitled him according to said covenant on the part of said deft to demand & have of him the said £100., who had by said compliance on said plffs part become bound on the 25th Decr. 1816 to pay the same to said complt., of which said deft. then he had notice. Yet the said deft. disregarding his said covenant although often requested by said plff to pay him the said sum of £100. (he having paid all said complt. expenses) on the 25th of Decr. 1816 refused to pay the same or any part thereof whereby he has broken his said covenant on his part and become liable to the said plff, who thereby has a right to demand and have of said deft the said sum of £100. - with int. from said 25th Decr. 1816 which said plff has requested to be paid to him by said deft. who has refused & still refuses to the plffs damage of £200. and therefore he sues
J. Dickinson sp. of.
Whereupon the defendant being arrested and not

5 appearing, on the motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, it was ordered that judgment be rendered for the plaintiff against the said defendant for what damages the plaintiff hath sustained by occasion of the breach of the covenant in the declaration mentioned, unless the said defendant should appear and plead to issue at the then next rules.
At which day, to wit: At Rules held as aforesaid on the 4th day of October 1824: The defendant still failing to appear, on the motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, it was ordered, that the last order made against him in this cause be confirmed, and that the plaintiff's damages be ascertained by a jury at the then next term.
And at a Superior Court of Laws held for the said County, at the Court House on the 21st day of October 1824.
The parties by their attorneys mutually submit all matters in difference between them in this suit to the final determination of John Dickinson and Charles L. Stevenson, and agree that their award, or the award of their umpire, shall be made the judgment of the Court: and the same is ordered accordingly.
And at another day to wit: On the day before first herein mentioned, until which time this cause had been continued; This day came the parties by their attorneys and the arbitrators to whom the determination of the matters in difference between the parties, were submitted by a rule of this Court made the 21st day of October 1824, this day returned their award in these words; In this case the subscribers having met & heard the parties in support of their respective pretensions & differing as to the award in the case and having elected in the subscribers Daniel Turner as our umpire, who having likewise heard the evidence in the case respectively submitted, do award that the deft. pay

to the plaintiff the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars with interest from this date & his costs expended in the prosecution of this suit. Given under our hands & this 16th day of May 1827. John Dickinson Barker L. Stevenson. v. Daniel Turner. In confirmation whereof, it is considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover against the defendant two hundred and fifty dollars with interest thereon after the rate of six per annum per annum from the 16th day of May 1827 until paid, also his costs by him about his suit in this behalf expended; And the said defendant in money &c. Costs. $10.87.
The following is a copy of the covenant on which the foregoing action is founded; viz:
Articles of agreement made and entered into between Ambrose Walden of the one part and Humphrey Saxe Jr. of the other, Witnesseth That the said Ambrose Walden hath employed the said Humphrey Saxe Jr. to go to the State of Kentucky, to attend to his land suits, and for which the said Ambrose Walden is to pay the said Humphrey Saxe Jr. one hundred pounds current money, and to pay the said Saxe's necessary expenses but if he the said H. Saxe Jr. should not succeed in doing the said business or put it in a train so that it can be done, then the said Walden and Saxe are to leave it to two competent men (one to be chosen by each) to say what his trouble was worth. The said Walden is to pay the said Saxe the money above mentioned on the 25th day of Dec r next, and the said Saxe is to use every exertion in his power to have the said Ambrose Walden's business in the state of Kentucky attended to. As wit- ness our hands and seals this 14th day of March 1816.
Witness J. P. Walden
Ambrose Walden (Seal)
The words (attended to)
H. Saxe Jr. (Seal)
interlined before signed Teste, J. P. Walden.
A Copy - J. P. Walden Feb. 1: 30 Teste, Robt. H. Hagen D.C.

Virginia.
In Caroline County Court June 9th 1828.
Ambrose Warden, an insolvent debtor was this day brought into court, by virtue of a writ of Capias ad satisfaciendum issued from the office of the Superior Court of Law of this county in the name of Humphrey Sale vs him by the Sheriff, and notice of his application to avail himself of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors, being acknowledged, the said Ambrose Warden, in open court, subscribed and delivered in a schedule of his estate and made oath thereto as the law directs. It is ordered that the said Ambrose Warden be discharged out of custody.
The following is a copy of the schedule referred to in the above order. H. Sale vs Ambrose Warden - Capias. A schedule rendered by Ambrose Warden a defendant in an execution of Capias ad satisfaciendum in the name of Humphrey Sale vs himself which issued from the office of the Supr. Court of Law for Caroline County on the 9th June inst; and which was levied the 9th June 1828, upon the body of the said deft, who being brought into court to discharge himself under the insolvent act rendered up the following schedule on oath.
My interest which I may have in the property in the hands of my sons Richard, William John and my son in law George Baxter, conveyed by me to them by deed recorded in Fauquier County, but I say that I have no interest in it whatever. Also I see my interest in a bond of Theophilus

for the sale of a slave by me - which bond is in the hands of George Carter.
My Annuity of Sixty dollars per annum reserved to me in the said to my then sons aforesaid and my son in law George Carter to be paid by each as stated in said deed.
Ambrose Walden
Return." On the 11 th day of August 1828, I offered for sale, at public auction, the interest mentioned in the within copy of the Schedule of Ambrose Walden, having first advertised the time and place of such sale according to law, when Humphrey Dace became the purchaser thereof at the price of forty dollars.
Anthony Thornton D.S.
The foregoing are copies from among the records and proceedings of the County Court of Caroline. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 11 th day of September 1828.
John S. Pendleton Ck.
Virginia
Caroline County to wit I George Buckner presiding magistrate of the County Court of Caroline, in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that John S. Pendleton is Clerk of the Court of said County and that the foregoing certificate and attestation are in due form of law. Given under my hand and seal this 11 th day of Sep r 1828.
Geo: Buckner Ck.

I John L. Pendleton Clerk of the County Court of Caroline, in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that George Buckner, whose hand and seal are affixed to the foregoing certificate is the presiding ma- gistrate of the said Court duly commissioned and qualified according to law. Given under my hand this 11th day of Sep r 1828.
John L. Pendleton C l .
Clerk's Office of Caroline County Court
Sep r 11th 1828.
Ambrose Watsun states that the annexed paper is to be used only upon an application for a pension.
Teste, Robt. Budgin D o

J. C. SANDERS, SUPERINTENDENT
KEYSER PUBLIC SCHOOLS KEYSER, WEST VA.
Jan. 16, 1930
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.A.
Dear Sir:-
Will you please to inform me if the records of your department disclose whether or not a pension for services in the War of the Revolution was issued to either one Ambrose Walden supposed to be from Fauquer Co. Va. or to one John Ambrose from Caroline Co. Va.
Respectfully,