Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11868, Abraham Workman, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Workman, Abraham
P 11868
CONTENTS

Rejected.
See letter 4 Oct. 1834 to Isaac J. Leavick, Wythe Co. Va.
no such service as performed that set forth during
Rev. War —

11,868
P. O. Abraham Workman
Service: _____
1-0
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

32,057
Abraham Workman
Declaration for
Pension
Virginia.
of the Result advise
Isaac J. Lifterich
My the b. house V.A.
11868

State of Virginia Fayette Co. ss.
On this 22 nd day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open court the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Equity for the county of Fayette now sitting Abraham Warbeman a resident of the county of Fayette & State of Virginia aged Sixty three on the twenty fifth day of January last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain 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, & served as him after stated (Navy) this declarant entered the service while a citizen of Monongalia county near Fort Pitt, as a draftsman & matriculation man under Lieut. Morgan & Capt. Hezekiah Morgan , Lieutenant John White, on the 1 st of April 1777. was mustered at 6000 lbs on a craft called a "Shirley" and was taken to Fort Pentacost, called "Lieut. Pentacost, Fort", where he remained only one day, and was then marched to Fort Pitt, where this declarant remained three months, and was discharged from the service by Lieut. Morgan, the term of service for which he signed being three months which had then expired, & thereupon as a written discharge which this declarant had the misfortune to lose by the burning of his house, he left the service on the 1 st day of July 1777. He feels certain of the time of the year when he entered & left the service, as above, he arrived at the year of 1777. by calculation from the age which he then was, and what he now is, and feels nearly certain of its correctness.
This declarant entered his second term of duty on the 1 st of April the year following, while still a resident of the county of Monongalia, under Lieut. Morgan, Capt. Morgan & Lieutenant White, the same officers under whom he served his first term, as a draftsman & matriculation man, for the term of six months, was re-enlisted at the same place as above stated, and was marched from there to Fort Pitt, where this declarant was stationed & remained and on duty during his term of service, and was again discharged by Lieut. Morgan.

I recd a written discharge, which was lost in the same manner and at the same time his first discharge as above stated. He left the Service on the 1 st October following 1778.
This declarant then returned home to Kennebec and was drafted the third time by the same officer which he resisted then, for nine months, and when the Service was reduced at the same place Pentacook Fort, above stated, on the 1 st of April 1779, and was again marched to Fort Pemaquid, where this declarant remained the whole term of Service of nine months, and was discharged the third time by Col. Morgan on the 1 st of January following 1780. And recd an other written discharge which was lost in the same manner in which his first & second were lost: This declarant was in no engagement during the term of any of his engagements aforesaid, nor has he any documentary evidence of his Service, nor does he know of any person now living by whom he can prove his Service, thereby This declarant in answer to the several interrogatories propounded by the War Department, makes the following, first. That he was born in Washington Township in the State of Pennsylvania the County he does not now recollect, on the 28 th of January 1761. As he has all ways been an infirm old man, he has no record of the fact to which he can point: The place where he was living when called into Service he refers to the foregoing declaration, he removed from Kennebec to the place where he now lives in Fayette County where he has been since recruited: The manner in which he was called into Service, the names of his officers, and the general circumstances of his Service, he also refers to his foregoing declaration: He is known in his present neighbourhood to Phillips Green & Abraham Ritter who can testify to his character for veracity, & their belief of his Service as a soldier of the Revolution, he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State or Territory whether Service to one subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid. his Abraham Workman mark

We Philips Green & Michael Ritter residing in the neighborhood of Abraham Workman in the county of Fayette Pa. hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with the said Abraham Workman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age: that he is pious and religious, in the neighborhood where when he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
Abraham Workman Philips Green Michael Ritter
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, & the Court further certifies that it appears to them that
Phillip Green & Michael Ritter
who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents in the neighborhood of the said Abraham Workman in the County of Fayette, and that they are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit, and also that there is no clergyman currently to be had, also that the witness Michael, as one of the persons referred to, to prove character in the declaration, also the names of the claimants named in the certificate of character, belief that the same were in the certificate of court, were made before acted upon.
I John Crockett Clerk of the present Superior Court of Law & Chancery for the County of Fayette do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Workman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 24th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty four. The foregoing "Abraham" in the clerk's copy typed made before sign John Crockett Clerk of the present Superior Court of Law & Chancery for Fayette County