Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,655, for Ambrose Pitman, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Pitman Ambrose
S. 30,655
CONTENTS

31,822
Kentucky
Ambrose Pitman of Laurens in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Alexander of the regt commanded by Col. Garard in the Virginia line for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky, at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Feb 1841. John White, House of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841 $ 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 11 Sept '41 10.00
210.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. M. Gundy Clerk, Book C 2. Vol. 7. Page 38.
1855, Oct. 15. List to W. H. Randall & Heirs claiming balance to permanent death 17 Feb. 1842 refused by B. Audr.
died Feb. 17, 1842 See Cogeney Book

35,011
Ambrose Pinnar Kentucky
To B. P. Pinnar
U. S.
H. J. White 172

State of Kentucky
Laurel County ss
Be it remembered that on the 10 th day of February 1840. before the undersigned General Hobbs as Justice of the Peace for the County of Laurel & State aforesaid. Subscribed Pitman, aged, being born the 9 th of November 1750. a Resident Citizen of the U.S. in the County aforesaid, came came before the undersigned and made the following declaration, being first duly sworn, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress en- titled "An to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Revolutionary War, passed the 7 th of June 1832, That on the day of  day of in the State of Virginia in the County of Stafford, he was drafted as a Private for the term of months as a Private in the Militia of said State in the Army of the U.S. in the Revolutionary War, in the Company commanded by Capt. William Alexander, Thomas Bowling Lee Lanard and William Bowling Ensign, in the Regiment Com-

manded by Lieut. James Gannard, for- merly General of Kentucky. Shortly after being drafted, the Company Redgeroused at Salumtha Town in said County one mile above Fredrickburgh, on the Rapahannock River, where he was appointed by his Cap d as d an orderly Sargent in said Company. On the 3 d day after organizing at Salumtha the Company marched to Williamsburgh in said State, and Campt d  Camped within one mile of the same, where they remained, several weeks, when Lieut. Gray  Gannard  Greg  transferred his Reg t  the Chas and joined General Washington at York in Pa t State the day before the Siege opened at the Capture of the army under the Command of Lord Cornwallis. But upon joining Gen l Washington it was found that Corps  was  Lieut d Gannard only constituted a day's Com- mand, where Lieut d Gannard, and the Septem  Lieut d resigned the Com- mand and returned home, leaving  Lieut d Gannard then the Command to Maj r Greg, or per- haps Greg, which he can not distinctly recall. He continued to serve in said Company until the surrender of Cornwallis; as orderly Sargent, when he with his Company was

detached as a guard for the prisoners to Winchester in Va: but before reaching there his term of service as ap d having expired, he was (within sight of Williams - high) discharged by Col d Edmonds, under whose command his Cap d 55 Company as ap d had been placed. He rec d an honorable discharge in  the writing, which tho' he has long since lost. At the time he often saw Gen d Washington, Gen d Safford (whom he understood had the command of the (Va: Militia) at the time Gen d Nelson, then Governor of Va: in whose company he spent an evening, Col d Meriwether, and various other officers being so - many the and so common that he can not recollect names.
Previous to this term of service as ap d - in the County of Stafford  in Virginia  after the after the declaration of independence he volunteered as a private for (no time specified) under Capt d Robert Childs and marched to the mouth of Guntonman in said County to guard the Country, on this trip he can not say how long he was in service, but believes it was upwards of three weeks - After this he moved and settled in Stafford County as ap d when he enrolled himself as a private in the Company commanded by Col d William

Alexander is ap p rently in this engagement he serves by different tours, four in number, all upon the Potomac River in watching and guarding against the enemy; the precise length of time thus served as a minute man he can not precisely specify; but he is confident, and knows positively that it was upwards of three months and a half but not four months. In these latter trips 41, in number, two of them he served under Capt. Alex- ander, the two others under dif- ferent other officers appointed by the Col. of the Coly, whose names at present he does not remember. In all these services he never got any discharge; but was dis- charged voluntarily. The reason why he has not applied sooner for a pension, is that he has always felt too proud spirited (his own language) but being so old, and decrepit, not having walked, without assistance for upwards of twenty years, in consequence of affliction by Rheu- matick pains, and he has become convinced, that it is, his duty, he owes to himself to apply for assistance.
Dep d Samuel Hildreth Sp ks , Ambrose Pitman for also states, that he was born

in Lancaster County, State of Virginia; from thence he moved to Stafford County in said State, then to Stafford  Spotsylvania and after the close of the Revolution, in the year 1794, he moved to the state of Kentucky, where he has ever since resided. He had no Commission save that of a Sergeant at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at ap l - He had no discharge, save as stated at ap l - The date of his birth he has the Register of his father, now in his possession, from which he has oft made the statement as to his age. He further declares, that he was, a resident Citizen of the U. States, on the day of 1818; That he has not since  at any time received any pension or annuity from the U. States, or any State on account of Revolutionary services; and he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity on account of Revolutionary services. He further states, that when he entered the Service, as ap l  (as the whole time he served as such) as a minute man it was, as he understood, in the service of and by the authority of the State of Virginia.
Therefore I the undersigned General Debord, Justice of the Peace as ap l and one of the Justices of the of the County Court of said City, do hereby certify, that the aforesaid Subscribed  Subscribed is to my own knowledge

is so disabled by disease, that he can not (living 8 or 9 miles from the Court house) attend Court unless he were handled there by the assistance of some Person. I also certify that he is a man of good character, to believe when upon oath, and generally believed in the neighbourhood to have been — a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, and from my personal knowledge of his character I have no doubt his statement as to his time given under oath my hand, this 10 th of Feb: 1840. Samuel Hibbard J.P. etc
State of Kentucky
Subscribed Before me, the Lawful Court, there no Session and being a Court of Record, there was presented in open Court by Samuel Hibbard one of a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid and one of the members of this Court, the foregoing ori- ginal petition of Ambrose Pitman and ord to be transmitted to the War Department; whereupon James Jackson and David Weather, the latter a Preacher of the Gospel, both for many years Citizens of the County who upon oath Subscribed to the following declaration in writing, "That they have for many years known the said Ambrose Pitman whom they believe to be of the age he states, that they know it to be true as to his physical disability; that the from his general good character

as a man of truth they believe he served as stated by him in the Revolutionary War, Jackson states that for upwards of twenty years, has heard him speak of his Revolutionary services.
Slaid Dyer G. W. Price
Javis Jackson
It is therefore considered by the Court, that it be certified as the opinion of said Court that the said Ambrose Pitman is of the age he states, and that he did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated by him as ap d and that from his disability he is unable to attend Court in person and that Javis Jackson and Slaid Dyer and  G. W. Price are near relatives of said Court & the said Dyer a Preacher of the gospel, both upwards of forty years of age, and reputable witnesses and to be believed on Oath.
William Randall Clerk of the Court, Court of General Sessions ap d do hereby certify that this and the two other stated half shells of paper here attached together are the original petition submitted filed in said Court by Ambrose Pitman. In testimony whereof I have hereunto attached the seal of my office, this 15 of February 1842.
William A. Randall Clk

June 10, 1933
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS Ambrose Pitman S. 30655
Mr. M. L. Williams 1445 C Street Lincoln Nebraska
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter requesting the Revolutionary War records of Ambrose Pitman and Matthew Williams.
The papers in pension claim, S. 6414, show that Matthew Williams was a colored man and it is presumed that you are not interested in the record of this soldier.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 30655, based upon the military service of Ambrose Pitman.
He was born November 9, 1750, in Lancaster County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Lancaster County, Virginia, he enlisted within less than two years of the time of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown and served eight weeks as private in Captain Robert Chin's Virginia company. Having moved to Stafford County, Virginia, he enlisted, date not given, and served over forty days as private in Captain William Alexander's Virginia company. He next served several short tours of about ten or fifteen days each in the Virginia militia, names of officers not given. He then enlisted and served about three months and ten days as private and orderly sergeant in Captain William Alexander's company in Colonels James Garrard's and Edmonds' Virginia regiments and was in the siege of Yorktown.
From Stafford County he moved to Culpeper County, Virginia, and in 1794 he moved to Kentucky where he continued to live.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 10, 1840, at which time he was living in Laurel County, Kentucky. He then signed as Ambrose Pitman, Junior.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.
Ambrose Pitman died February 17, 1842.
Very truly yours
See Agency Book
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

London Ky Oct. 1853
Official
Adm. Commission
McMullin
Passions
Washington City
D.C.
300
Embarked Pitman 800
June 32-3222

Ambrose Pitman Kentucky
Suspended
Act 18 June 1840 to Hon. John White,
Act 7 June 1832

30 655
Recy INVALID.
1932 June 10, hist. to Rev. Mr. S. Williams, Desletter in Rev. ch. Francis Jones, D. 36653 N.C.
File No. 30,655
Embrace Pitman
Rev Rev War
Act: June 1 st 182 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 489
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Kentucky Laurel County Set.
Be it known that on the 8 th of Sept r . 1840. Ambrass Pitman a resident Citizen of the County at this day appeared before the undersigned General Hibbora, an acting justice of the Peace for the County at? And before his Oath in due form of Law made and subscribed to the following declaration in addition to his previous one alluded to  the and referred to by the letter last attached by the Commissioner of Pensions, Court, J. S. Edwards, dated June 18. 1840. di- rected to the "Hon: John White, House of Representatives". In explanation and in answer to the letter at? he will now say (tho' his memory is bad being 90. years old the 9 th of Nov r next) as per his father's Register and probably to attend Court that his tour to York Town in Va, at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, after entering the service he served upwards of thru  three months, and ten days when he was discharged in consequence of sickness when he was guarding the Prisoners. Before this in the state of Va in Lancaster County, within less than two years before the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, he served as a "Minute Man" as stated in his former petition, he first served under Capt. John , who was

as he was, held a Capt y by appointment by the State of Va p  and may so hold by said Capt a Minute man for the term of eight weeks. This tour was performed in Washington the Battal ion on the Rapahannock River  The first  Another tour under the same Capt y Alexander, who was likewise a "Minute man" commissioned as such by the State of Va p to guard the Potomac River, and served something upwards of forty days. This was  before  after his tour under Capt y Ohin and was in Stafford County in Va p where he had remained after serving under Capt y Ohin in Lancaster County Va p . He served several other small trips, about ten and 15 days at a time as a Militia ("minute man"), and upwards of in the service as a forage service nine months. The tour to York Town he entered the service and served during the time as "Ordinary Sargent" and so rec d his discharge which he has long since lost as before stated in his previous Petition. As stated in his previous Petition he is in the same disabled condition as he was in his previous Petition. In view of his great age and afflictions the Sec y of Pensions must be aware that he can not give particulars, dates, &c as he could wish. Signed this 8 th of Sept r 18 th In the presence of G. Gilford, W. G. R. his A. D. Peterson Mark

At a County Court held for the County of Laurel State of Ky on the 9 th of September 1840. Lemuel Hibbard, whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit and Petition of Ambrose Pitman is and was an acting member of this Court, And that it is the opinion of this Court that the said Ambrose Pitman did serve in the Revolutionary War the several terms and times as spe- = cified by him in the foregoing de- = claration. It is further ordered by the Court to be Certified, That several of the members of the Court have long known said Pitman personally and also from general character. And that from his general character as a man of truth, & honesty the S d of Revisions may place the utmost reliance his affidavit. on the same Given under my hand
this 9 th of Sept r 1840. as Clerk of the County Court ap d . And to which I have attached the seal of Official seal of Office. And now at a County Court held for the County of Laurel ap d ap d . I do further certify that Ambrose Pitman whose af- = fidavit is hereto attached made Oath in open Court to the facts therein contained. And it is ordered to be Certified to the same under my hand.

Set of Resolutions, that J. P. Pitman is personally known to the Council to that full faith I credit may be given to his Affidavit. Given under my hand to which I hereby attach the seal of office. this 11 January 1841 as ap.
William A. Randall Secy
Hon. John White H. Bay

35,011
Ambrose Pitman Kentucky
admitted
P: 6 mo. $20. - Capt Alexander Col. Garrison. Va.
Act 9 June 1832
Hon John White, No R.

Ambrose Pitman, a resident Cit- = zen of Laurel County Kentucky aged 33. not long who upon his oath in open Court declared, that long previous to the act of the 7 th June 1832, and for many years before he often heard his father in divers conversations speak of his Revolutionary Ser- = vices; that he has this day here his Affidavit read, before Gen- = eral Dibbend, Justice of the Peace for Laurel County on the 8 th of September 1840. And from his best recollection it substantially corresponds with what he there has sworn to. Signed sealed in open Court this 11. of Jan: 1841
Ambrose Pitman Jr.

Pension Office, June 18. 1840.
Sir,
The papers in the case of Ambrose Titman have been examined and filed with suspended cases. Each tour of service as a militia man of Virginia should be particularly specified, as required in the enclosed printed regulations. The duration of the tour at Yorktown is not given, nor are the tours of actual service as a minute man.
I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Hon: John White. House of Representatives.