Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 19323, Christian Young, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Young, Christian
NUMBER
R 19323
CONTENTS

State of Kentucky. Caldwell County set
On this 16 th day of April in the year 1838 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Caldwell County Court now sitting. Christian Young a resident of Caldwell County and State of Kentucky aged 73 or 74 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. The General under whom he first entered the service was General Clark. The Colonel who commanded the Regiment under whom he served was by the name of Isaac Cox who was afterwards killed by the Indians on Cox's Creek in Nelson County, then in Virginia now Kentucky. One of the Majors belonging to said Regiment was by the name of William Oldham, and probably the other was by the name of Samuel Wells. He recollects that said Wells was in the Regiment at that time as an Officer, but whether he was promoted to the grade of Major at that time or was only a Captain he does not positively recollect. The Captain under whom he acted and to whose Company he belonged was Captain Richard Chinneth (or Chinnoweth) the other Officers of the Company he does not recollect positively, but he thinks the name of the Lieutenant was George Bomeroy. The other field and Company Officers in the Regiment he does not now recollect. He states that he first entered the service of the United States in the spring of 1781 as well as he now recollects. He states that he was first called out to make a fortification at Louisville for the purpose of repelling a threatened invasion or attack of the Indians and British. They continued their operations until they completed the fortification, after which some time he thinks in the fall afterwards he was ordered out as before stated under General Clark in Cox's

Regiment. The object of this expedition was to subdue the Shawnee tribe of Indians who were at that time doing much mischief on the frontier settlements. On this expedition a part of the forces with General Clark at their head rendezvoused at Louisville and then proceeded to where the City of Cincinnati now stands, where they met some other forces amounting perhaps to 1100 or 1200 in all here they built a block house the first house ever built in that place. We then proceeded through what is now the State of Ohio up the Miami where they destroyed a number of Indian Towns or villages, killed some warriors, and took some prisoners. The first Indian Town we destroyed was called New Chillicothe where we had a smart engagement with the savages a number was killed, most of whom were carried off by their comrades, but a few were left on the field. Remained some time We stayed at that place, that is a portion of the Army, while detachments were sent out to destroy other little Towns. We were frequently attacked while at that place by the Indians during the night season but they were always repulsed and were compelled to retreat. I think in this expedition we destroyed altogether some fifteen or sixteen Indian Towns and brought in several prisoners. We were successful in subjugating the Shawnee Tribe to a very considerable extent, as they done comparatively but little damage afterwards. After having remained as long out on this expedition as General Clark thought advisable we marched back to Cincinnati where the militia were disbanded and went home and General Clark with his regular troops went on to Louisville. I will mention one circumstance further. On the morning we left Chillicothe for Cincinnati a Captain McBracken of the Militia had persued his horse outside the Centries and was fired on by the Indians and shot through the hip. He was carried in a litter for several days when he died of his wound.

Where he was buried. He states, that he was engaged in the expedition up the Mieme at least three months , and that he was engaged in building the fortification at Louisville at least six weeks . At the time he entered the service he resided at Linn's Station within 8 or 10 miles of the City of Louisville in Kentucky (then Virginia). He states, that at the time he entered the service the part of the Country where he lived was a wilderness and the inhabitants were compelled to station themselves and make a common cause of defending themselves and their wives and children as well as their property from the aggressions of the savage enemy and their being but few settlers comparatively speaking, every individual who was able felt it to be his duty as well as his interest to go at the shortest notice to defend his injured Country. When called on for that purpose and influenced by these considerations he volunteered his services to go on the expeditions of which he has spoken. He states, that in the next year he thinks in 1782 in the fall he was again called on by order of General Clark to go on an expedition against the Miamie tribe of Indians, we met General Clark with his regular troops at Louisville and again rendezvoused there. We then crossed the river just below the falls at Ship-pingport and traversed the country by the way of what was then called the big lick (or French lick) to Vincennes through what is now the state of Indiana. We staid at Vincennes several weeks, then went up the Wabash several days but a spirit of insubordination got into some of the officers, and the whole force turned back and we went home without doing any thing creditable to ourselves or beneficial to our Country. I was out in this expedition at least two months . In this expedition I was under the command of Captain James Patton then a citizen of Louisville. The other Officers in this expedition I do not recollect.

He states, that in addition to the several expeditions he has detailed he was frequently called out on the spur of the occasion to drive back the Indians, that in these occasional excursions he was sometimes out as much as a month at a time, and sometime only for a few days, these operations were very frequent during the years 1780 1781. 1782. 83 & even afterwards but the precise time at which these different periods of service were rendered he cannot recollect, they were generally in the middle section of what is now the state of Kentucky. He states, that in all the expeditions of which he has spoken he was a volunteer, and that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose evidence he can procure who can testify to his service without much trouble and expense. He states, that there are several persons yet living who could prove his service in part if they could be procured without trouble or expense but he is old and poor and is advised, that it will not be necessary. He states, that he was engaged in actual service of the United States all together in the years 1781. 1782 and 1783 at least twelve months
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I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any state or Territory whatever.
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
The following questions were then propounded by the Court to the applicant and answered by him as follows.
Question 1 st Where and in what year were you born.
Answer I was born in the state of Pennsylvania I believe in Northampton County. about the year 1764.

Question 2 nd
Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?
Answer My father kept a record of my age but it passed into my brother's hands and I know not what has become of it. I have now no record of my age.
Question 3 rd Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
Answer. At the time I entered the service I was living at Lynn Station near Louisville now in Jefferson County Ky. I lived there several years after the war, I then moved to Nelson County and lived there three or four years. I then moved back to Jefferson County Ky and remained there principally till about three years ago when I moved to Union County Ky. I lived there nearly two years and then I moved to Caldwell County Ky about a year ago I now live in Caldwell County Ky. He states that about 17 years ago he lived about 4 years in Union County Kentucky How were you called into service
Question 4 th Were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom
Answer I was a volunteer.
Question 5 th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services.
Answer I have a recollection of General Clarke and his regular troops as well as of all the a Major Wales who I believe belonged to the regular troops, and commanded the horse or mounted men

The Colonel to whose Regiment I belonged was Col. Isaac Cox, and Major William Oldham, and Major or Captain Samuel Wells, and Captain Richard Chinneth the Captain under whom I served my Lieutenants name in the expedition up the Miami was George Pomeroy. The other Officers, in the Corps I do not now remember.
Question 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer I never received any other than a verbal discharge.
Question 7 th State the names of Persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer I am acquainted with the following named persons in my present neighborhood who can testify as to my character for veracity and good behavior and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution to wit. Stephen Grove Esqr., Isaac Grubbs Esqr., Henry Muechen, Revd. John Barnett Revd. T. McManus and many others.
Yours Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
We Timothy McManus a Clergyman residing in the County of Caldwell Kentucky and Stephen Grove residing in the same County & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Christian Young who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. J. McManus Stephen Grove

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Timothy McManus who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Caldwell and State of Kentucky and that Stephen Grove who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Caldwell and State of Kentucky and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
B G R co. S.P.
Coleman Rogers
W. A. Pickett
W. Cook
Stephen Grove
Kath. Oliver
I Charles B. Dallam Clerk of the County Court of Caldwell County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Christian Young for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 16 th
day of April 1838.
Ch B Dallam Clerk

Caldwell County set
This day the personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for said County Christian Young who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned in the accompanying declaration as a private as therein stated, and for which service he claims a pension.
Given under my hand this 16 th day of April 1838.
B.G. Rice D.P.
34. 542 Christian Young Kentucky
April
34. 542 Christian Young Kentucky

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Christian Young a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     aw 6 weeks building a fortification at Louisville Ky   3 mos under Capt. Richard D. Smith Col. Isaac Cox Ky   George Rogers Clark built a blockhouse on site of Cincinnati and was in expedition against Indians in frequent engagements & fought many other times   2 mos under Capt. James Patton in Gen. George Rogers Clark's expedition against Indians on the Wabash River  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Young Station near Louisville Ky (Va)
Date of application for pension, Feb. 16 1838
Residence at date of application, Caldwell Co. Ky.
Age at date of application, b. in Washington Co. Penn. in 1764.
Remarks: _____
The claim was rejected on the ground that the service rendered was subsequent to the termination of the Revolution and did not come within the provisions of the pension laws, under which he applied.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
See back of this statement.

This claim is rejected on ground of service being rendered after Rev. His dates are incorrect
Loessing shows.
a fort built at Louisville in 1782. Vol. 2. p. 289.
The first expedition described by Soldier took place in Fall of 1782. from Sept to Nov. Vol. 2. p. 275. The last expedition was in 1786 Vol. 2. p. 288

Reign war 1932-3
1914 Feb. 24 Hst. to Mrs. J. Frank Presnell T.L.M.
1920, apl. 12 Hst. to Laura Taylor Poplar Bluffs Mo Eu
P.O. Christian Young
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Christian Young Kentucky.
Rejected
See letter 10 th July 1838 to S.W. McGoodwin.
service after termination of the revolutionary war.

Mr. 1 Rev Lee
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS ONLY
The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Smithland Ky.
The Commissioner of Pensions
Please give me the record of the Christian Young, whose services were ren- dered under George R. Clark, from that part of Virginia which is now Kentucky.
Thanking you I am yours Respectfully see Miscellaneous letter to her —————> Mrs. J. Frank Presnell

Law
Smithland, Ky., Jan. 26, 1920.
Department of the Interior.
Please send me a copy of Christian Young's application for pension.
The following was on my sister's paper which will probably help you find it; U. L. M.
R. 19323-
Very Resp.
P.S. If you can Laura Taylor send three of the said copies why please do so, but if not why it's alright.

BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, Feb. 26, 1920
Respectfully returned for company and regiment in which soldier served; or, if that is unknown, give name of his widow and date of his death.
C. M. SALTZADER.
Commissioner.
Christian Young's widow was Nancy Humes. He died 1849.
Please address same to Poplar Bluff Mo. as I'm located there.
Resp't Laura Taylor.
Identify?

S. M. ... July 10. 1838 Ken O. C.

War Dept., P. M. Office July 10. 1838.
Sir
The declaration of Christian Young has been examined. He alleges, to have been engaged in building a fortification at Louisville and to have performed two tours under Genl Clark against the Shawnee Indians and Miamie Indians. The alleged service was after the termination of the revolutionary war. The act of 7 June 1832 provides for work who did not serve in a regularly organized corps, during the revolutionary war. The claim has therefore been rejected as the papers filed in this office
S. W. McGoodwin Esq. Princeton, Ken.

FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington City D.C.

Princeton Ky Apr 21 st 1838
Dr Sir
Inclosed I send a decl n for a pension for Christian Young. I hope it may be deemed sufficient by the department if however it should be considered otherwise I will endeavour to have it amended so as to suit if the defect should be in form. I feel conscious that the applicant is entitled as he is a man of much w th If there is any objection please re- it so that I may have the benefit of yr. advice.
Direct to H.W.M. Goodwin Princeton Kentucky.