Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,875, John Denney, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
★ Denney John
NUMBER
R. 2875
CONTENTS
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John Benney Kentucky
Rejected
per let. 11 (Sec-1841) to Hon B. Y. Owens let of Jan'y 4 th R. Gault
did not serve six months.
2875
Act of June 1832

RETIRED
2873
P. O. John Denney
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Dec 11. 1841
B. G. Quincy MC
Hon: J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Hon. B. G. Quincy H. R.
Washington City

Home Representation Decr. 9 th 1841
Sir.
Enclosed you will receive the Declaration of Mr. John Denny for a Pension Please examine it and let me know the result as early as convenient Very Respectfully Yours
Lyman W. Overby
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. Pensions

Declaration of John Denny
In order to obtain the Benefit of the act of congress of the 7th of June 1832.
State of Kentucky ss.
Wayne County ss.
On this 22 nd day of November 1841. personally appeared before the county court of Wayne aforesaid. John Denny a resident of Wayne County & State of Kentucky aged seventy five years, being born in August 1766. 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 the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he volunteered in the army of the united States in the year 1780. as a private for thirty days under Col William Cabell with about two hundred others to prevent the British from crossing James River in order to retake the British prisoners which were at the Barracks at or in Albemarle county Virginia, to the best of my recollection we volunteered about the last of July 1780. at Amherst county house in Virginia by the order of said Col And the next day we met at said Col's house of Amherst and marched directly to Lynchburg on James River to oppose them & to prevent them crossing James River we remained there & in the neighborhood watching for the British & in detachments and gathering all the water craft several miles up & down the River
+B. I think there was some inferior officers present during the train, I do not now recollect performed most of

for the space of thirty days, & at the expiration of our term we were informed by the B. L. R. that they had been informed that the British had taken an alarm & gone back. He then marched us back to Amherst court house & discharged us in writing - but which discharge I have long since lost. at the Burning of my house many years past.
I the said John Denny further state that on the first day of July 1780 he believes he was drafted under the order of Col. William Cabell of Amherst County Virginia as a private for four months to go to guard the British prisoners at the 83 snacks in Albemarle county, we rendezvoused at Amherst court house & marched under Capt. Samuel Cabell the son of Col. Wm Cabell , we think the son directly to said snacks were marched the said town of four where I served the said term of four months. And about the expiration of our said term, orders came to Capt. Samuel Cabell from the Col. to take the guard, by volunteers or other wise & march & guard the British Prisoners to the Pennsylvania line, & those of the company that were well volunteered to perform the work or duty I did likewise for one month more & marched & guarded the said British Prisoners to the Pennsylvania line & delivered them to an Officer & soldiers that met us on or at the Pennsylvania line. I our Captain Samuel Cabell marched us back to Amherst court house

and then discharged us all in writing for four months as drafted and volunteer under his command, which was in writing but which is likewise lost at present we got home in Amherst County I think between the 10 th & 15 th of November of the said year 1781.
I the said John Denny further state that I was born in Amherst County Virginia on the waters of Rockfish River on the 24 th day of August 1756. and lived there about twenty years; my Father moved to Fayette Kentucky with the family then about 6 years I then moved to Clark County & lived there about 6 years, & I then moved in Wayne County Kentucky where I have lived about 43 years.
I the said John Denny hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. He the said John Denny claims for six months service to get one of thirty days, 4 months as drafted & one month to guard the fort at Prisoners to the River. He hereby declares that the said John Denny is of the above named applicant was of opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he stated as above stated in his Declaration state John Denny
We Isaac Cooper and James C. Hall residing in Wayne County Kentucky, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Denny who has subscribed & sworn to the above decl- aration that we believe him to be 75 years old and that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. Isaac Cooper James C. Hall

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 & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary sol- dier and served as he states in the court further certifies that it appears to them that
Isaac Cooper and James H. Hall who has also signed the same are residents of said county of Wayne & State of Kentucky, & are credible persons; and that their statement is entitled to credit and that we have no reasonable doubt, but that the said John Denny performed his said revolutionary services
John Datto J.P.
S: Popplewell J.P. C.S. Higginbotham J.P.
I William Simpson Clerk of the court of Adair county do hereby certify that the foregoing con- tains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Denny for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand a Seal of office this 27th. day of November 1841.
W Simpson Clerk of the County Court Adair Ky
John Denny Kentucky 35-290
Hon B. Y. Owens H.R.
att. Denny upon said
which was noted