Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 932, William Blankenship, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Blankenship, William "Blankinship,
R. 932
CONTENTS

I John D Mims Clerk of the Court of the County of Pike hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said office this 6th day of July 1830. John D Mims Clerk Pike County Court

Rejected
let 21 July 35 to Thos Cain Pike ville. Ky did not seem sit mths. See letter to claret 23 Sep 1835
932

Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
RECORDED
William Blankership
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Philadelphia Pa Sept 12
Sept 22
Rev.
J. A. Edwards
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Washington City
25

Pikeville 9 th Sep r 1835
Dir - Your letter announcing the rejection of my claim for Revolutionary services, has been received, and I comply with some reluctance - at the time I made out my case, my memory was greatly racked, and I did not make my statement as full as I could have done, indeed it was done in a hurry. & so much on the subject of my service to which I fully thought I did not set out my case at length - I served as a Gunner in the Virginia State Line in the south. I am averse to the war dept the most conclusive satisfactory evidence of my having served longer than than I have stated - I served as a Gunner at 96. Comp as Gunner at 96. at the siege - I did expect that when my name would be found on the roll that you would receive a specific statement of all my services

- I respectfully ask you to re-consider my case & allow me my Claim - or permit me to set out my case and all the services performed & to submit proof - an answer is respectfully requested. which you will hope deign to send me -
I am Respectfully
Yours OOT sent.
Wm. Blankenship
Wm Blankenship -

Miram Ranch Philip ...
Cape Girardeau
Dr. ... July 11
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City District of Columbia
July 21

Pikeville Ky. July 6.
For July on your funding my name on the va. roll. I not fear prove my services you will please. send back as quick as you can to me. or to Thomas Keain, Pikeville Kentucky.
Yours friend.
Wm Blankenship

2.5
33. 148
M m Blankenship Kentucky
Could not have come from R. L. Davis because the same is 18.5 miles from the house of R. L. Davis

The deposition of William Ramey the wife of William Ramey of the county of Pike, state of Ohio was taken before me this day and she being first sworn, deposes that she has been acquainted with William Ramey for forty years or upwards, and that her character has been good and upright and that she has never been guilty of any thing against him or a moral part of him and that she has the greatest confidence in his character and ability.
William Ramey
John D. Mims being first sworn, deposes that he is the clerk of the court and subscribed to the foregoing deposition.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this office this 6th of July 1835.
John D Mims Clerk Pike County Court