Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10983, for William Lent, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Bent, William
S 10983.
Carded
CONTENTS

1950
Kentucky
William Scott
of Nelson - in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Scott of the Regt commanded by Col. Woodson in the Virginia line for 2 years from 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 - Dollars - Cents per An. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Oct. 1832 - and sent to Henry Pettibone, Louisville, Ky.
  Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832  120 -    Pension allowance ending 14 th March 1833  40     160 -  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Clatton Clerk Book L Vol. 9 Page 47

3630 Appalachian William Lent

State of Kentucky } On this 13 th day of August 1832 Owens County, } personally appeared before the County Court of said County William Lent a Resident Citizen of said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832. Says that he is now in the 74 th year of his age that his former residence was in Prince William County Virginia that he enlisted in the year 1775 or 1776 in a company of Minute men under Capt Andrew Leitch of Dumfries Va and served in that capacity under the said Captain Leitch Leitch until the Spring of 1776 when he re-enlisted under the said Capt Leitch at Hampton Va for the term of two years in the 3 rd Virginia Regiment an Continental establishment commanded by Col. Hugh Mercer & George Weedon. that he faithfully served in said Regiment until the term of his en- listment expired at the Valley Forge in the neighborhood of the White Church when he was marched from thence into Virginia under Lieut. Hanger ford and then his discharge delivered to him by the said Hangerford, having been brought by him from the place where his service expired, he says that he was under the com- mand of the Capt Leitch until his promotion to a major- ity and afterwards under the command of Capt John Balsitice Deyton. that he was in the following battles or engagements; (Viz) On York Island, White Plains, Trenton, Prince- ton, Monmouth, Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank. That he received a land warrant from the State of Virginia for one hundred acres of land in right of his services that his discharge is lost and he believes was stolen from him. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the United States or of

The agency of Aug State - I swear to and subscribe in open Court the day and year aforesaid
William Lent
"And the said Court hereby declare their opinion that the "before named applicant was a New Testament Saint and "lived in the manner set forth by him in the foregoing decla- "ration"
I, Nathaniel Wickliffe Clerk of the County Court for Nelson County in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing, contains the original declaration of William Lent, and that the above is a true copy of the original order and proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Lent for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 14 th day of August 1838.
Nath l Wickliffe

Brandstown Nelson County Ky
18 th of August 1832
Sir
Enclosed is my application for the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832 proceeding for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution. You will be pleased an old soldier by causing an early investigation of my said claim and should the same be satisfactorily substantiated you will cause my name to be registered on the list or roll of those entitled and entail me to this place such evidence of my eligibility as it is necessary that I should have and the means of enabling me to draw my annuity or pension at Branch Bank of the United States at Louisville Kentucky Or should my said claim be informed on any further evidence be wanting to substantiate the same you will please advise Henry Wortham of Louisville of it as of anything generally pertaining to the same as I have employed him to attend to the same and oblige Sir
Yours Respectfully
William Lent

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 _____ 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.     1775 1775 Private John H. Lockhart Pa.   1776 1776 Sergeant Andrew Smith George Washington Pa.   William Smith   William Smith   William Smith  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, _____
Residence at date of application, _____
Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: _____
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

J. W. WILSON CLERK GRAVES CIRCUIT COURT MAYFIELD, KENTUCKY
COURT CONVENES
FIRST MONDAY IN MARCH THIRD MONDAY IN JUNE THIRD MONDAY IN NOVEMBER
Feb. 6, 1919.
Pension Office Washington, D.C. Gentlemen -
Will you please inform me if you have any record of one William Lent, a soldier in the Revolution. He fought according to an old biography, in the battles of Princeton, Brandywine, &c. and later married in Virginia. Afterwards they emigrated to Nelson County Ky. where he died in 1832.
Am desirous of becoming a D.A.R. & thought your office might have a record of a pension or a land grant.
Thanking you in advance for any information you may be enabled to furnish me, I am
Very truly
Mayfield, Ky.
Mrs J. W. Wilson 214 N 5th St.

Rev. War
10983 INVALID.
1919 Feb 17 Hist. Soc. Mrs. J. W. Wilson
File No. 10983
William Kent Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 221
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Edwards Henry Ely Duncan office War Department Washington City
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Aug 25

Louisville Thursday 16 th of August 1872
Sir Enclosed is the Papers of William Lent a Revolution- ary Soldier for a Pension under the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June last. To corroborate his claim is the affida- vit of L. Sedgwick a Revolutionary Soldier also by reference to the books in the Land Office you will find that he drew from Va a warrant for 100 acres of land from Va he drew land for less than 3 years service in the whole at one time. You will discover the Papers are in my hand , he Mr Lent had given me a state- ment of which I took a memorandum and afterwards prepared agreeable to form the application and mailed it to Mr. Hardstern. I find in the same document re- turned an intimation of the words "at the Rocky Forge" In the original it says "in the neighbourhood of the White Marsh" This is the statement Lent gave me, but I presume upon reflection must have been found to be erroneous having enlisted in the Spring of 1776 for two years he could not have been at White Marsh until after the battle of Monmouth of 28 th of June 1778. By Then his term of service had pro- bably expired
Will you Sir cause an early investigation of this claim and advise me of the result and if any further evidence is wanting and oblige Sir
Yours respectfully Henry Ward Phelps

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By J. O'Brien

Joseph Sidelbattan of lawfull age and first duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he was a soldier in time of the revolutionary war in the Third Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonels Warden and Marshall in Captain Wirt company, that William Lent listed in said Regiment in Captain Leech company in the year 1776 and served his time out and was Honorably discharged in the year 1778. and that said William Lent now resides Nelson County in the state of Kentucky - and further this deponent saith not 
his Joseph Sidelbattan Mark
State of Kentucky Henry County St This day Joseph Sidelbattan personally came before the undersigned one of the commonwealth's Justices of the peace in and for said County and having been duly sworn gave the above and subscribed the above deposition in my presence which is on this half sheet and is all in my hand write given under my hand as a Justice aforesaid This 25 th day of July 1831
Lucas L. Lewis
I have been intimately acquainted with Joseph Sidelbattan as above thirty years and certify that he is a man of good character, and is and has been during the time as much beloved as any man of my acquaintance
Lucas L. Lewis J.P.H.B.

Commonwealth of Kentucky
Henry County Court
I Edmund P Thomas Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Joel Jackson the justice before whom whom the foregoing deposition was taken and sworn to is now and was at that time an acting justice of the peace in and for the County of Henry duly Commissioned and qualified according to law and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his acts as such.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand
And affixed the Seal of S. Court this 11 th day of August 1832 and in the 41 st year of the Commonwealth
Edm P Thomas
By J. O'Bannon
Separate side of letter see Mr. Kent