Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7479, for George Sheets, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Sheets, George
S. 7479
CONTENTS
carded

Ohio 29,864
George Stuels
Gallia Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col. [blank] in the Virginia mil. time for 9 1/2 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 31 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 25th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of March 1833 and sent to [blank] Le Clereq. Pth. Gallia Co. Callipolis P.O. Ohio
Arrears to the 25th of March '35. 126.66 Semimant. allowance ending 1st July '35. 15.85
$142.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 8 Page 52
1883 Aug 1 1. Mrs Ann Halley that children or Heirs, not entitled to a pension on ac ct of services of within Soldier

32. 873
George Sheet Ohio.
f 1777 p 91. —.
$ 31. \frac{66}{100}
Francis Le Clercq Clerk. Gallia Co. Gallipolis P.O. Ohio.

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
United States
Sallia County ss:
On this 7 th Day of November in the year 1834. personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Thomas Brown President, and Thomas Rodgers Joseph Fletcher and John Holcomb, associates judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Sallia now sitting. George Sheely a resident of said county of Sallia and State of Ohio aged seventyfive years who first 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 and served as herein stated.
That in July 1777. that he entered into the service of the United States, under Captain Arkumble who commanded a company of drafted Militia from the County of Augusta, Virginia. The day of his draft he does not recollect but remembers that it was in July - He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and removed to Augusta when quite young, but the precise date of his emigration, he has now forgotten, and was drafted as above. They marched under the said Captain to Fort Pleasant on the Ohio River, for the defence of the frontier, at which place they remained four months and went home.
In April 1778 he was again drafted in a company under Captain Lockridge in said County of Augusta and marched to Somerville fort in Greenbrier County, Virginia, where they remained 21 days, and thence returned home, being absent about one month and a half.
In August 1778, he was again drafted in the company commanded by Captain McCallahan, in said County, and was attached to the Regiment commanded by General McIntosh Colonel Boyers, and a Major Anderson. They marched to Fort

McIntosh in the North West Territory (knowing when they stayed about a month or more thence they marched to Fort Sacoche on the Tuscarawas, where they lay upwards of three months, when he was finally discharged and went home. He got a written discharge from the Colonel under whom he served, but has lost it by time or accident, and cannot now produce it. — That he knows of no person by whom he can prove this service, nor can he prove the time he served, but he is willing to testify, and does hereby swear that in his first term of duty, he served at least four months.
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That he does not now recollect any of General officers under whom he served, He is old, and very poor, He has served faithfully, and if testimony other than he hereby offers is required he can never get it.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any the agency of any state or territory. So- sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
George V. Streets mark
sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Francis Leffler Clk. c.c.p. G.D.
Harrison Township, Gallia Co. residing in
see William Corder, clergyman,
and John Swindler and Cornelius Shultz residing in the same place, hereby certify, that you are well acquainted with George Shultz, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty five years of age, that he is, reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in the opinion, sworn and

Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. in open court.
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 Willicutt was a revolutionary soldier, and died in the State of Ohio. The Court further certifies that it appears to them, that the assisted
William Gaudin William Gaudin who has signed the foregoing Certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the neighborhood of and of George Shults, the applicant, and that John Swindler and Cornelius Holly who have signed the same, are also residents of the same neighborhood, and are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Yours & Sir I have the honor to be Sir, the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Salina. As hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of George Shells for a pension.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of my office this Twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four - and of the State the thirty Second.
Francis Leclercq Clk. e. c. p. G. E.

Rev May
INVALID.
File No. 1979
George Black 3121 11th
Act: 1901th 1902
Index:—Vol. 15 , Page 238
[Arrangement of 1870.]