Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38138, for Samuel Lee, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Lee, Samuel
S 381 38
CONTENTS
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26840 1/2 40
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Mar 3, April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 Sept March 1839. Aged Notified 1. May 1840 Paid as above from 4 March to 4 Sept 1839. Aged Notified 26. Sept 1840
K' tuck General Re ... in the State of ... who was a ... in the ... commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by ... in the ... one per ... 9. No ... 31. 00
Inscribed on the Roll of ... at the rate of 30 Dollars ... per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of ... and ... to ... 131 ... K. C. ...
Arrears to the 14th of ... 91.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending ... 15.00 $ 106.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by ... Clerk, Book ... Vol. ... Page ...

31. 178
Samuel Parker
pg 9
Less Pension Claim
to John Little Coastal
Henry
Returnable to Newcastle
Samuel
W. R. M. John T. C. H.
866 17 11 1/2

Samuel Lees Pension Claim 31. 178 Returnable to John Tuck Newcastle Henry County Pa 9 No. 11 Mr. John Tuck
18th Feb 1778 [ ] [ ] [ ]

State of Kentucky Spencer County
917 Sub
on this 12 th day of may 1834 Personally appeared before me Samuel Marshall a Justice of the peace in and for Spencer County and one of the Judges of the County Court of said County Samuel Lee aged 71 years and after being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the benefit provisions of the act of Congress passed the 7 th of June 1832.
This declarant states that he was residing in Hardy County State of Virginia when he entered the service of the United States and served as herein stated that in the year 1861 a draft was ordered in said county for a term of six months, and he thinks the draft about took place about the first of March in the year aforesaid and states they rendezvoused at the Courthouse in said County which was called place of rendezvous and was marched from said place under Captain Anderson Lieutenant Wm B Lewis and Ensign John Vandiver and was attached to Major Higginson's Battalion and marched down through Winchester from thence to Fredericksburg and crossed the river at Fredericksburg and from thence to join the the main army which junction was formed near Richmond and was attached to Colonel Edmuns's regiment he states that during this stay campaign they were seldom stationed long at one place but was almost constantly marching sometimes after the enemy and sometimes retreat- ing from the enemy until his time of draft.

Expired when he was unjustly discharged by his said Captain Anderson in the first of September and went home. This declarant further states that in the month of September 1781 another draft was ordered for 3 months when his father was drafted into the service for a term of three months. When he the said declarant did take his father's place, and rendered at the courthouse in said County and was marched from said place under Captain Neale on down through Winchester thence on down to Fredericksburg and from there to Williamsburg and from thence to Yorktown and was there during the siege and after the surrender of Cornwallis he states he did guard part of the prisoners from Yorktown up to Winchester Barric where he was stationed as a guard until his time of service expired when he was discharged legally by his said Captain Neale in December to his Colonel from the great lapse of time he cannot remember but he thinks it was his former Colonel Edmundson - he states he has no documentary evidence of his service nor knows of no living witness by whom he can prove said service and that from old age and bodily infirmity he is unable to appear in open court to make his declaration he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory. Samuel Lee
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day and year

Last above mentioned General Court-martial I Answers to the Questions by the magistrate before me I was born in Richmond City State of Virginia in the year of 1763 and I have a record of my age as was left in my father's register and when I entered into the service I was living in Hardy County State of Virginia where I remained until the year of 1790 when I moved to Kentucky where I have lived ever since and I now live in Spencer County Kentucky and I was once drafted into the service for six months and I again substituted for three months for my father and on my first tour there was of the regular officers General Washington General Lafayette General Wayne General Stanton Steuben and of the militia there was General Mendenhall General Stevens, Colonel Stanton Colonel Richison and Major Higgins that I knew and an I never received any my second tour there was of the regular officers General Washington General Lafayette Corps General Wayne Colonel Butler Commandant of light and of the militia there was General Lawson General Nelson Colonel Edmiston Colonel Richison that I knew and I never received any written discharge but was both times verbally discharged by my Captains.

and I will relate the names of Samuel H Sparks Clergyman and Nimrod Sparks who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution
Samuel H Sparks Nimrod Sparks
Re Lee Samuel Sparks Clergyman and Nimrod Sparks residing in the neighbourhood of Samuel Lee who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. we say we are well acquainted with him we believe him to be 77 years of age he is reputed and deemed in the neighbourhood where he resides to be a man of strict veracity and to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in the opinion of his neighbours
Samuel H Sparks Nimrod Sparks
Subscribed and sworn to before me this year and date last above mentioned Samuel Marshall
I Samuel Marshall a justice of the peace in and for Spencer County do hereby declare my opinion after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the department and fully investigating the matter, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and sworn as he has stated in his declaration and I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Samuel H Sparks who has subscribed and and sworn to the preceding certificate is a Clergyman in the neighbourhood of said applicant and that the Nimrod Sparks

who has subscribed and sworn to the same Certificate is also a resident of the same neighbourhood and is a credible person and his Statement may be relied on and that from old age and bodily infirmity the ap- plicant is unable to appear in open court to make his declaration given under my hand as a justice of the peace this date and year above mentioned Samuel Marshall S.P
I Ralph Lancaster Clerk of the Court of Spencer County do hereby certify that Samuel Marshall before whom this declaration was made is and was at that time an acting Justice of the peace Commissioned and sworn in according to Law and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is Genuine and full faith and Credit is and ought to be given to his official acts in testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and fixed the seal of Spencer County this 19 th day of May 1834
Ralph Lancaster CLK Spencer CLK/CL

December 9, 1938
BA-J/AWF Jude Brown-S.40039 Samuel Lee-S.38138
Mr. H. W. Jenks Box 434, Benjamin Franklin P.O. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jude Brown, pension claim, S.40039, and the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Lee, aged seventy-seven years, and then a resident of Jackson County, Indiana.
The data which follow concerning Jude Brown, and Samuel Lee were obtained from claims for pensions.
Jude Brown-S.40039
The data furnished herein in regard to Jude Brown were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S.40039, based upon his military service in the Revolutionary War.
The data and place of birth of Jude Brown are not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.
Jude Brown enlisted at Newtown, Connecticut, sometime in February, 1777, served as a private in Captain Joseph A. Wright's company, Colonel Philip Bradley's Fifth Connecticut Regiment, and in Colonel Heman Swift's Second Connecticut Regiment; he was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, and at

the taking of Cornwallis and was discharged in June or July, 1783.
The soldier, Jude Brown, was allowed pension on his application executed April 16, 1818, at which time he was seventy years of age, and living in Huntsburgh (later Franklin), Franklin County, Vermont. He was a resident of Fairfield, Vermont, in 1820, and stated that he had "no family under my care".
Jude Brown died February 17, 1839.
In order to obtain the name and address of the person who received the last payment of this pension, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data-
Jude Brown Certificate #4297 Issued November 10, 1818 Rate $8.00 per month Commenced April 16, 1818 Act of March 18, 1818 Vermont Agency.
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Samuel Lee-S.38138
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S.38138, based upon the military service of Samuel Lee in the War of the Revolution.
Samuel Lee was born in the year 1763 in Richmond, Virginia. The names of his parents are not given.
Samuel Lee, while residing in Hardy County,

Virginia (later West Virginia), enlisted March 1, 1781, and served six months as private in Captain Anderson's company, part of the time in Colonel Edmunds' Virginia regiment. He enlisted sometime in September, 1781, served as substitute for his father, three months in Captain Neale's Virginia company, was in the Siege of Yorktown, and after the surrender of Cornwallis, guarded the prisoners to Winchester.
The soldier, Samuel Lee, moved from Hardy County, Virginia, in 1790 to Kentucky.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 19, 1834, at which time he was living in Spencer County, Kentucky.
The papers on file in this claim do not show that Samuel Lee was living in 1840 in Jackson County, Indiana, and there are no further discernible data in regard to his family, other than the reference to his father, as given herein.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data-
Samuel Lee Certificate #26840 Issued June 12, 1834 Rate $30.00 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Kentucky Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 25 th , 1840,
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Samuel Lee, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky - Agency, at the rate of Thirty - Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1838, to the 4 th March, 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
Alison P. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 18 th 1840.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Samuel Lee, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Thirty _____ Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 4 th September 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Alison L. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Washington, D.C., December 1, 1938.
Box 424, Benj. Franklin P.O.
Revolutionary & 1812 War Record Section, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.,
Please send an abstract of information shown in following- named Revolutionary War pensioner :
SAMUEL LEE, aged 77 yrs. residing in Jackson County, Indiana, at time of 1840 census.
Data for General Acct. Office will also be appreciated.
Yours very truly,
_____ (Harlan W. Jencks).
DEC 3 1938

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1938-Dec 9 - high L.H.W. Jan 10 th
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File No. 98/200
Daniel Lee
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Index :—Vol. 2 , Page 303
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