Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,545, for William Patterson, Virginia

SERVICE
Va.
Patterson William
NUMBER
S. 35545
CONTENTS

20,037
Kentucky,
William Patterson,
of Trinity Co , in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Hoays — of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Matthews in the Virginia line, for the term of ten years , from — 1775 to — 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky , at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th day of January 1829
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of January 1829 and sent to Hon. R.P. Fletcher H.R.
Arrears to 4th of March 1829 , $ 12.64 Semi-ann. all'ce ending
$ 12.64
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.
Rec: b. l. 93 fol: 56 }

State of Kentucky
Knox County Court See January Term 1825
William Patterson an applicant for a pension proved in Court a statement of the services performed by him during the revolutionary war in order to obtain the provisions of the several acts of Congress relating to persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the revolutionary war which statement being sworn to in open court in due form of law is ordered to be entered of record copied and certified to the Secretary of War and is in the words and figures following (Concil)
State of Kentucky Knox County Set
On this 10 th day of January 1825 Personally appeared in open court (it being a court of record by law and having the power to fine and imprison) William Patterson a resident in said county aged Seventyfive years who being first duly sworn according law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18 th of March 1818 the 1 st of May 1820 and the 1 st of March 1823 that he the said William Patterson enlisted for the term of two years in March 1775 in the County Augusta and the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt John Stays in the Regiment commanded by Coln George Matthews in the line of the State of Virginia on Continental establishment and called the ninth Virginia Regiment that he continued to serve in the corps until the Battle of German Town when and where he was taken prisoner and that he remained a prisoner until the time of enlistment expired when he was discharged at Elizabeth Townpoint in the State of New Jersey by an officer whose name is not recollected that when he was taken prisoner at the Battle of German Town the British marched him to Philadelphia where he was kept nine months, then sent to the City of New York and there remained about one

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month and was then sent with about seven hundred men to Elizabethown Point in New Jersey and there discharged as before stated that he was in the Battle of Brandywine and several other skirmishes before the Battle of Germantown that he served more than one year before he was taken prisoner and in the service and as a prisoner he served more than two years on the Continental line and in the service of the United States that shortly after his enlistment he was promoted as a sergeant that he was under his Capt and in the same Regiment he enlisted when he was taken prisoner. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to so diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1878 and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed (v)
  1 old horse - - - - - $10.00   5 head of cattle - - - - - 22.00   13 head of hogs - - - - - 12.95   I have a wife and three children and am a farmer by occupation from infancy and all my past labor 
Wm Patterson

Knox County Set
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We the undersigned housekeepers for the County of Knox have valued the property of William Patterson and find his schedule to be correct amounting to the sum of $44.75 in sum to in open court
James Howard Darius Baker
William Patterson makes oath that he is indebted as follows Mr Gale for $34.50 cents for chick $12.00 Joseph Mills $9.00 Thomas Gregory $5.00 & William Williams $6.00 and that there is due him about $9.00
We do certify that William Patterson is a creditable witness given under our hands as justices of said County this 10 th day of January 1825
Javis Jackson J.P. KC Randolph Adams J.P. KC Merley M. Gurnett J.P. KC Gale Cox J.P. KC
Also appeared in open court Christopher Horn a respectable witness and made oath that he enlisted in Mann Town Augusta County Virginia with William Patterson who now applies for a pension in Capt John Hays Company with Virginia Regiment Commanded by Col George Matthews and well knows that he served as stated in his declaration and that they lived neighbors for many years in said county
Christopher Horn
Knox County Set
We the undersigned Justices of the peace for said County do certify that Christopher Horn is a respectable witness and we do further certify that William Patterson resides in said County is a very old man respectable in

his neighborhood and we have no doubt that he enlisted and served as stated in his declaration and would recommend him to the honorable Sec- retary of War as a fit subject to receive a pension
James Jackson PPK Nisley M Gannett PPK Gale Cox PPK
And afterwards forth at a circuit court continued and held by adjournment on Tuesday the 10 th day of July 1827 the aforesaid applicant for a pension (William Patterson) proffered in Court the following statement which was verified by his oath in due form of law and ordered of record. which being duly ordered to be copied and certified to the Secretary of War. and is as follows.
State of Kentucky Knox County See
On the 10 th day of July 1827 personally appeared in open Court (it being a court of record made so by act of assembly of Kentu- cky pursuant according to the course of the common law proper office of unlimited jurisdiction in the 15 th Judicial dis- trict before the honorable Joseph Eno one of the Circuit Judges of this Commonwealth in and for the said district aforesaid) William Patterson a resident citizen in said County aged about seventy seven years who being first sworn according to law doth make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said William Patterson enlisted for the term of two years as a pri- vate on the day of _____ in the year 1796 in the State of Virginia in the County of Augusta about twenty miles from Staunton in the Company comman- ded by Capt John Hays in the 9 th Regiment comm- anded by Coln George Matthews in the line of the

Wm Patterson
admir?
pen: to com: 18 Jan. 1829
Hon. R. P. Setchell H. R.
S L. Horn
Alpachan

On the sixteenth day of July 1828, Christopher Horn, came in to the Knox Circuit Court, before the Hon ble Joseph Eve, Sole & Presiding Judge it being a Court of Record, made so by act of assembly of the state of Kentucky and after being first sworn, he make the following as an additional statement to his testimony for the benefit of William Patterson, who filed his Rev: Schedule in the Court app d at Knox County Court at the January Term of S. Court 1825, and an admin- -istered one in the Knox Circuit Court at the July term 1827 before the ap d . Hon ble Joseph Eve. The said Horn declares that the statement of said Richard Patterson (except as to the date of enlistment in the first Reg t  being in 1776 ) in said Rev d & Schedule are true - He enlisted with said Patterson near Stan- -ton in the state of Va, by Ensign

Lewis, in the Compt. commanded by lieut. John Hays in the 9 th Va. Reg. Commanded by lieut. Gray Mathews, on Va. line Continental establishment - Patterson, was enlisted by St. Andrew Moore in the Com- -pany and in the same Reg. Capt - The said Patterson was taken Prisoner at Gorman Town - For many years since he lived a near neighbor to the said Patterson - He is now a Pensioner for service in the said Reg. C. Horn
James F. Ballinger, Clerk of the Knox Circuit Court, John Pogue and Thomas J. Adams Esq. Reputable Witnesses came in to Court and made Oath they have known for many years Christopher Horn, the ap l . Applicant and that from his general good Character they have no doubt

That his statement is true. Sept 2
Jas T. Ballinger John Pogue
T. J. Adams
It is further ordered to be certified to the Secretary of War, that the Pre- siding Judge of this Court has known the said  for Christopher Horn for many years, & knows his good character as an honest man & of truth he has no doubt his ap d Affidavit for the benefit of William Patterson is true.
J. T. Ballinger
Clerk of the Knox Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit of Christopher Horn, the afts d of Ballinger, Pogue & Adams, and the opinion of the Court are truly copied from the records in my office. July 16. 1828
James C. Ballinger Clerk

I Joseph Eno, Presiding Judge of the Knox Circuit Court in the B.F.R. State of Ky., do hereby certify that James T. Ballinger, at the time of signing the foregoing Certificate was Clerk of the Knox Circuit Court. And that said Certificate is in due form. And that full faith & credit are due to his official acts as such. July 16. 1828. Joseph Eno
L. Howe Depositor
Hon. R. P. Letcher H. R.
advised per to com: 15 Jan. 1829
Mr. Patterson

State of Virginia an Continental establishment so soon as the company was completed he was appointed by his Capt d aforesaid, a Sergeant in said company and con- tinued to serve in that capacity until he was taken prisoner at Germantown he remained a prisoner with the enemy about nine months and in the mean time his term of service expired when he was exchan- ged by the enemy and discharged at Elizabeth Town point in the State of New York by an officer whose name he does not recollect he got no written discharge that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State except on the roll of the line of the State of Virginia an Continental establish- ment and that the following are the reasons why he has not made sooner this application That heretof- ore he has made out two petitions and schedules in the Shock Court aforesaid which have both been at the war department to which he refers as a part of this Petition if they are recorded in the war department and if they are not he will cause them to be forwarded to the Secretary of War They are now in the possession of Col s J d Dun- cals residing fifty miles from this place that since he filed the last petition & schedule he waited some time to know the result and since he ascertained it he has neglected

making earlier application by the present petition. The year he enlisted he was under the impression it was in 1795 but upon reflection it may have been in the year 1796 but his name no doubt will appear on the rolls of the 9th Regiment aforesaid. He likewise was under the impression that he was discharged in New York City but now believes it was in New York City in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent to diminish the same so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts or assessments due me or any income other than what is contained in the following schedule and by me personally signed (to wit),
There is worth — — — — — $30.00

  4 head of cattle worth — — — — —  $ 30.00    20 head of hogs worth — — — — —  25.00     55.00    no debts owing him
On the 18 th of March 1818 he owned the horse cattle and hogs aforesaid and that no changes have taken place in the same other than for the maintenance of his family and that the total amount of its value did not exceed $100. his family consists of himself & his wife Jane about forty years old to support her- self by work he has not for several years part worked any himself of any consequence being so old and inform that he is not able to do so he at present owns about $75-
William Patterson facts Secd Christopher Horn a reputable witness came in to Court and made oaths that he enlisted in the Company and Regiment described in the fore- going Petition that he continued to live in said Company about one year when he was detached from the same, during the whole time he served in said Company the said Wil- iam Patterson was an acting Sergeant in said Company and that there was not any

Other man of the same name in said company say that from his knowledge of the estate of the said William Patterson he has no doubt the foregoing Schedule as to his property and its value is true
I James T. Ballinger Clerk of the Knoxville Civil Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said William Patterson did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing petition against the Common enemy for the term of nine months and upwards in one engagement on the line of the Continental establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath of Schedule is truly copied from the records of the said Court and that it is the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of the property specified in the aforesaid Sch- =chedule is $80- in testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand, having no seal of Office this 10 of January 1828
James T. Ballinger Clerk

No. Re.
18 th January 1829
Sir.
I must beg of you to reconsider the application of William Patterson of Knox County Ky. to be placed upon the Pension Roll.
I have known Patterson for near twenty years. He has always maintained the character of an honest truthful man, and long before the Law passed making provision for those who performed certain Revolutionary services, I have heard him speak of the several battles he was in, and also of his having been taken Prisoner by the British. I believe the statement he has made in relation to his services

be substantially true. I believe so from my particular knowledge of the man, from his general good character, from having heard him speak of his services before he could have had any hope of pecuniary aid from the government, and from a long acquaintance with his witness Christopher Horn, who states the fact of his enlistment, and his having served in the same Regiment with him (Patterson) and of his being taken Prisoner at German town, and of his intimate acquaintance with him before and ever since his enlistment.
C. Horn, is a poor man, but of irreproachable good character. His goodness of character is supported by the Affidavit of Capt. J. F. Ballinger the clerk of the

knows not count, John Pausche Esq, and J. J. Adams all of whom are gentlemen of high respectability.
Mr. Patterson is now near eighty years old, he is very poor and in firm, he has used every effort in his power to obtain a Pension, he has the anxious wishes of all his respectable neigh- -bours for his success, because they think him entitled to it.
It is impossible for him to comply with the requisition of the Department, contained in your letter to E. Smith of the 23 rd of July 1828. Which is that he must establish his services by an officer under whom he served or two other credible witnesses. I have nothing to offer against the justice or the propriety of a general rule by which cases of the sort have hitherto been regulated, but like most general

Rules, there ought to be some exceptions. The peculiar circumstances of each case should be weighed and considered, and a sound discretion exercised in the application of a general rule.
The applicant in this case in the 1 st place is a very old man. He has lived for many years in Ky, a distance of 500 or 600 miles, from the Theatre of his early services. He is too poor to travel in pursuit of witnesses, and if he could go to where they once lived, it is not probable he would find them there, for the long lapse of time, they have probably either died or removed, he is man of good character, so is his witness, whose statement is positive as to his services, there cannot be any danger therefore is in making an exception to some general rule in a case like this.
Hastily yours & R. P. Letcher.

35545 INVALID.
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