Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1655, Merriday Canaday, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Canaday, Merriday Merideth
NUMBER
R 1655
CONTENTS

The State of Ohio
Scioto County - Court of Common Pleas
On this Ninth day of September A.D. 1834 personally appeared in open court Murdock Canaday a resident of Brush Creek Township in said County of Scioto & State of Ohio aged as he has always been informed & sincerely believes Eighty years on the fifteenth day of October next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision, made by act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. "That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779, on the Twenty first day of January at the house of Captain Billy Walker in Culpepper County Virginia about seven o'clock of the day - That he enlisted for during the War - In a Company of Volunteers commanded by Capt n Madison whose christian name this Declarant thinks was William & supposes that he was a Brother of the late President Madison - One Benton was the Lieutenant of said Company, The Company They were Marched to some Barracks in Albemarle County in the State of Virginia commonly called Albemarle Barracks where they were encamped for some time, And there for some time they guarded some prisoners. This Deponent thinks there were about five hundred men at that Encampment - under the command of Colonels Taylor & Lewis - Colonel Taylor was commonly called Colonel Frank Taylor & Colonel Lewis was commonly called Colonel Andy Lewis. This Declarant supposes that Colonel Lewis was for some time the superior Officer - Though he recollects that Colonel Taylor one day said to him this Deponent Declarant that he Colonel Taylor "was governor of this Place." That while laying here

And on the day the above remarks was made Colonel Taylor gave to this Declarant the paper or furlough here to exhibited, for the purpose of going to Culpepper County to see a Brother this Declarant had residing there. That there was at the Barracks an officer called Capt Phillips but this Deponent recollects that no more of him than that he was said to reside in Louisa County Virginia & that one night at said Barracks Capt n Phillips appeared to be the officer highest in command & had the Troops under Arms during the night. When they left the Albemarle Barracks they were marched down towards the York River towards York to protect the Country & to keep Cornwallis in check. We think their object was to prevent parties from the East of Cornwallis from scouring the Country etc. They were at first under the command of a French General who commanded them until Gen l Washington took the command. That he dont recollect the name of that French officer - But he was a Youngish man & was called among the Troops "General the Marquis" or "General Marquis" His Little he recollects but his name he cannot recollect. That in the month of July or August. Following said Enlistment the this Declarant was by a written paper under the hand of Colonel Taylor discharged from further active duty until an old sore on his leg something like a fever sore should be healed. That that paper or discharge he kept until about Twelve or fourteen years ago when he burnt the same at his own house in this County in the presence of Hoseaiah Bancroft his son & one Aaron Wallace. That that sore on his leg has never become healed up & still continues to afflict him. This Declarant was never in any Battle but was in actual service from the time of his Enlistment in January 1779.

as aforesaid until the Month of July or August next following making six months at least. That after his said Discharge he returned to said Culpepper County where he resided until sometime in the year 1795 when he removed to the neighbourhood of Lexington in Kentucky in the neighbourhood of which he continued to reside until about fifteen years ago when he removed to the neighbourhood where he now lives in Brush Creek Township Scioto County Ohio. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state.
I sworn to & subscribed the day Merriday  Canaday & Year aforesaid in Open Court.
on the day & year aforesaid - John H. Turner Clerk And the following questions were propounded by the court & answered as hereafter appears
Where were you Born & in what year?
I was Born in Essex County Virginia on the Rappahannock and was Born in the Year 1763 as I have learned & always understood from my Parents
Have you any Records of your age & where is it - My age at that date was recorded as I have stated in a Book which is now in Virginia. I have formerly said it has never since I left Virginia nor do I know where it now is.
Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live -
I enlisted at Culpepper Va. where I then lived & where I lived after service until I removed to Lexington in 1795 I now in Brush Creek Township in this County & have lived here for fifteen years or thereabouts How Were you called into service &c?
I was a Volunteer

State the names of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops Where you served such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect of the General circumstances of your service -
I cant state further than already stated in the Declaration
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service if so by whom was it given & what has become of it
I never Received any but the one before spoken which was burnt as I before stated
State the names of the persons in your neighbourhood to whom you are known & who can testify to your character for veracity & their belief that you served as a soldier in the Revolution - Thomas Brown Esqr John Wilson & the Revd John Devitt - live in my neighbourhood - Mr Devitt is sick & not expected to live - He is the only one about  in the neighbourhood clergymen with whom I am much acquainted - Merriday Canaday
Testimonium Subscribed
in open court at Ithaca
Jan 1836. Atty. J. P. Deer Clerk And on the same day personally appeared in open court Hoseiah Canaday Esq who being duly sworn according to law deposeth & says that some time ago this Deponent thinks about Twelve or fourteen years he saw his father the above Declaration burnn up a paper purporting to be a discharge signed by the name of in the Hand Writing (to the best of Deponents Judgment) of the forsook here to annys which Discharge purported to discharge said Merridith Canaday from active service until he had recovered from a Lameness. That this

Deponent cannot specify the date of said discharge, but he saw the paper & examined it. It had every appearance of a very old paper & corresponded in date & substance with the declaration of said Canadage. That one Aaron Wallace was present at the time said paper was burnt.
Subscribed & Sworn to before me Hazelick Kennedy
John N. Jones Clerk

Power of Attorney in the case of Meredith Canaday Rejected under act of 1832 —
This case
Retain the papers on it called for
Thompson & Venable
Atty's. Washington D.C.

POWER OF ATTORNEY—Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That the  Fanthus Canaday Wife of  Zekeiah Canaday , heirs at law of  Meredith on  Morriday Canaday dec d
hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M. THOMPSON, esq., of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of The heirs of Meredith Canaday dec d for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more sub- stitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 30 th day December A. D., 185 2
Signed and Sealed in the presence of { Fanthus Canaday Zekeiah Canaday dec d Geo H Newman. C. Geo Turner.
STATE OF Ohio COUNTY OF Scioto } ss.
On this Thirtieth day of December A. D., 185 2 . before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public  Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Fanthus & Zekeiah Canaday and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be this act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid. Witness my hand & Notarial Seal  C. Geo Turner Noty. Pub. J. P.
*In this blank, if the Claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his, or her, name, (stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power. If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.

Claim of the heirs of Meredith Canaway decd. Act of March 4th 1851.
STATE OF Ohio COUNTY OF Scioto }
Be it Known, That on this Thirtieth
day of December A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty three before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace  Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared
Zanthus & Hezekiah Canaway  are  residents of _____ in said County, and made oath according to law that they  the are the identical persons
who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that they  he is directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before
E. Geo. Turner Notary Public E. G. T.
Zanthus Canaway Hezekiah Canaway
E. Geo. Turner  Notary Public Justice of the Peace , in and for said County do hereby certify that Zanthus & Hezekiah Canaway who executed the foregoing paper are respectable residents of this County, and are I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Witness my hand and  seal  Notarial Seal
E. Geo. Turner Notary Public E. G. T.
I, John R. Turner Clerk of the Com. Pleas. Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that E. Geo. Turner Esq. before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Notary Public Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this Thirtieth day of January A. D., 185 3 .
J. R. Turner Clerk.
In this blank, if the Claimant be alive, he will insert his name, and execute the power. If he be dead, the widow, if alive, will insert her name, (stating the fact that she is his widow,) and execute the power. If both be dead, then any one of the children may insert his or her name (stating the fact that he or she is the son or daughter) and execute the power. If there be neither father, mother, child, or children, then there is no person entitled under the existing rules of the Department, and the power of Attorney need not be executed.

STATE OF Ohio COUNTY OF Scioto
PAGE 3.
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Benjamin Ramsey Judge of the Probate Court in for said County
that Mervith Canaway
was a Revolutionary Claimant of the United States at the rate of $ about 1832 or 3000 per annum , and that he died on the Twenty seventh day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight . leaving surviving Zanthus Canaway & Horatia Canaway.
and that they are now
the only surviving child ren of the aforesaid.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Thirtieth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Three.
R. Ramsey Probate Judge
NOTE—If the original Claimant or person in whose right the claim was made, be alive, then there is no use for the above certificate, but simply the power of attorney. But if he or she (as the case may be) be dead, then the exact period of his or her death must appear. If the widow execute the power of attorney it must also appear when the marriage took place, and that she is still a widow. If there be neither father nor mother, the period of the marriage, and of the death of each, must appear; and also, the name, or names, of the surviving child, or children. If, he, or she, (as the case may be) was a pensioner, state that fact, and also the amount received per annum; but if a claimant merely, state that fact.
The above certificate must be executed by the Clerk of the Court under his seal of office.

1655 Our
P. O. Meredith Canady
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: No letters. , 18 .
Allies: List of rejected claims printed in 1852, shows cause of
Re-enlisted: rejection as follows: "Not six months' service."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Albemarle Barracks March 9 th 1869
Meredith Canaday a Soldier in Capt. Madison Company of Volunteers from Orange County, California. He is absent from duty with the Mother near the Port instant when he is to return.
Frederick L. Calhoun

The State of Ohio Scioto County ss:
On this Seventy first day of November A.D. 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of Scioto County Ohio, John Wilson a resident citizen of said County who being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he has known the Declarant Merida Canaday between thirty five & forty years, that he first knew him near Lexington in the State of Kentucky. That for the last sixteen years he has resided in the same neighbourhood with said Declarant. That he has the fullest confidence in said Declarant & believes he served in the War of the Revolution as he states - He further states that said Canaday has always since his first acquaintance had the Reputation of having served as a soldier of the Revolution & has always sustained a good moral character. That there is no clergyman in the neighbourhood of said Declarant except John Grevitt who as this deponent believes is now lying sick & unable to attend this court -
Sworn & Subscribed
John Wilson
on the day & year aforesaid -
John N. Farnsworth Clerk

At a Court of Common Pleas continued held in for the County of Scioto at the Court House thereof in the Town of Portsmouth on Tuesday the Twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred thirty four of our State the Thirty second. Present the Honorable Thomas Irvin President Judges of said Court Samuel Correll, William Irvin & Joseph Moore Esquires Associates Meridah Canady having in open Court at our last Term presented his declaration to obtain a pen- sion having duly subscribed the same & been sworn to the truth thereof having also produced in open Court Hezekiah Kennedy who was duly sworn to deposition to said declaration annexed. And having now at this Term of the Court produced in open Court John Wilson who was duly sworn to the deposition by him signed to the declaration annexed. And it appearing to the satisfaction of said Court that Hezekiah Canady & John Wilson are creditable persons that there is no declaration any man in said neighbourhood except said John De Witt that he is still un- able to attend this Court The said Court are satisfied that said Canady was a Soldier has served as he is stated, all which is ordered to be certified.
32.888 Meridah Canady
I John R Turner Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Meridah Can- ady for a pension. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this seventeenth day of De- cember A.D. 1834 of our State the 32
John R Turner Clerk