Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13803, for Rodham Lunsford, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Lunsford, Rodham
S. 13803
carded
CONTENTS

4707- Kentucky.
utens July 18/61.
Redham Lunsford of Lincoln in the State of Ky. who was a pr: in the company commanded by Captain Butler of the Regt commanded by Col: Heath - in the Va: line for 3 years from 1779.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky. at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Jan'y. 1833 — and Supt-Hon. R.P. Letcher, Ho: Reps.
Arrears to 14th of Sept-1832  120- Semi-annl. allowance ending 4 th Mar. 33  40- $160-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice - Clerk Book (L) Vol. 9 Page 47-

Rodham Sunford
from 1776 private 3 years. $80.
Black Creek of the state of Tennessee

BRIEF in the case of  Richard Lunsford  of Lincoln Co in the State of Kentucky  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he?  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17 79 3 As a Gen. Brig Genl Heath Cont'l line  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none, was taken prisoner at the surrender of Charleston,  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Franklin Co. Va.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional, of the rolls  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

State of Ky.
Lincoln County. ss.
On this nd 22 day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the Lincoln County Court now sitting, Roddy Lunsford a resident Citizen of the county and aged 70 - years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832.
He states he enlisted in the county of Fergusson in the state of Virginia in the month of March 1779, after three years, and was enrolled in Capt. Bowlers

Company, his Lieutenant was by the name of Philip Mallory, his ensign by the of Roy, Heath was his Col. and Charles Scott was his General, he lay one Summer at Petersburg in Virginia, and then in the fall of 1779 was marched to South Carolina, under the command of his Genl Charles Scott. He was in Charleston at the time of the siege, and was there taken prisoner in May 1780 the City having been surrendered by Genl Lincoln to the British army. He was detained and kept as a Prisoner in Richmond, Va. until after the surrender of Genl Wallis, having been about four years and nine months. He has no

Documentary evidence of his services
During the period of his being a prisoner he suffered every sort of privation, but he presumes a detail of all the facts connected with that part of his case, is not called for in the present application.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Richard Lunsford
We Thomas Delvin John Pennick and William Bryant residing in Lincoln County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Lunsford who has affidavited and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age, and that he is a man

of good moral character and that they give full credit to the statements made by him in the foregoing declaration.
Thomas Helms Wm H Bryan
John Dennis
After the investigation of the matter and after putting the same to the test by the Department that the information given by John Dennis was true.
Revolutionary War and served as Thomas Helms in the unit further east of that Thomas Helms, Esq. of Bryan, Ohio, and John Dennis, who had been in the original certificate of the Department of War in Franklin County and as credible persons that the information is as follows to wit:-
Robt Miller
Richard Singleton John Wheeler
I, Thomas Helms, clerk of the court in America, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Helms for a pension that he has killed seven British soldiers and taken 100 prisoners.

Rev. War
✓ 13.803 INVALID.
File No. 13.803
Rodham Lump Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1852.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 239
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Redham Venus/serp

of the space in the left hand, I compose the count when the foregoing declaration was sworn to, & that these signatures are mine or their genuine signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my office this Tuesday of October 18 th 1877 (Chas. H. Allen)

Treasury Department January 21. 1833
I Certify that Rhodam Lansford is entered as a Soldier of Infantry upon the List - "of Soldiers of the Virginia Line on Continental establishment" - belonging to the files of this Department
Adrian Perkins, C.ck.