Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,986, Robert Depriest, Va.

SERVICE
Va
Depriest Robert Patsey
NUMBER
R. 2986
CONTENTS
S + W.

Dear Letter to Mr. J. H. Brown 23. Oct '39 " Hon. A. M. Cliftan, Dec 26. 1839 - 6 August 1839 -
26 Aug 39 19.855-
East Tennessee
Robert Despriet
of Claiborne Co, in the State of E. Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Johnson of the regiment commanded by Colonel Marshall in the Virginia line, for the term of three years, from 1778 to 1779
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 day of January 1828
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of March 1828, and sent to Benj. Clonda, Esq r Tazewell. Ten.
Arrears to 4th of March 1828 $ 2.32 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1828 48.
$ 50.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }

Collected by Count S. ...
20557
Robert Leprieux Clairborne County Tennessee act 18 March 1888
Very kind. Engr Fazewell. Tennessee

State of Tennessee 3  3 County Court
Clackbone County Dec. Session 1827
On this 20 th day of December 1827 personally appeared in Open Court Being a court of record, for the County aforesaid possessing the power of fine and imprisonment the laws of the State aforesaid Robert Deprest (resident in said County) aged about twenty years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820. that the said Robert Deprest enlisted for the term of three years on the day of 1778 or 1779 declarant does not distinctly recollect which; in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt. Dickson, and was afterwards attached to Capt. Johnson's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Martin; and was afterwards attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Porterfield on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said Corps; until about the year 1781 when he was discharged from the service in Camden in the State of South Carolina by Capt. Johnson, which discharge he deposited in the Auditor's office in Richmond, and is now unable to produce it, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any State State and that the following is

the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension; that he did not know, that the law authorized him to receive, and, and that he had no knowledge until lately of the existence of the act of Congress aforesaid and in pursuance of the act of the 1 st of May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner dispose of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to disqualify myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war, passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts, and to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, —
1 Mare worth ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 25 Dollars Real estate I have now ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
That Mr Choate has taken place in my property since the 18 th of March 1818. That he owes to Robert George about twenty dollars for clothing, and other necessaries. Declarant further states that he has no family, that he lives at this time in the house of William McCall, aged

infirm and afflicted with the dead palsy, and is compelled in order to attain a support to apply for the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid; —
Robert this Depriest Mark
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court Decr. 20 th 1827 Benj. Clance clk By O. S. Clance D.O
Ordered by the Court that it be Certified the opinion of this Court that the property returned in the schedule of Robert Depriest preliminary to his attaining a pension from the United States is a true account of all the property the said Robert Depriest had, and that the value thereof is twenty five Dollars; and it further appears to the satisfaction of the Court that said Depriest is a citizen of of Claiborne County, Tennessee
State of Tennessee
I Benjamin Clance Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for Claiborne County do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Robert Depriest did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement in the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty five dollars —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my hand and hereunto my public seal of office at office in Tennessee the 23 rd day of January 1828 3 Benjamin Clance

No Patsy DePriest mng Robert Tenn. July 22 1838 Patsy De Priest Declaration for a Pension
J. T. Nibley Present.

State of Kentucky County of Harlan B. Sp.
On this 10 th day of November 1888 personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of the Harlan County Court in the State of Kentucky aforesaid (being a court of record and entitled to a seal) Patsy De Priest a resident of Harlan County in the State of Kentucky aged about eighty five years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed the seventh July Eighteen hundred and thirty eight. - That she is the widow of Robert De Priest who was a pensioner of the United States in consequence of services rendered during the War of the Revolution. That he the said Robert De Priest drew a pension of Ninety six dollars a year at the pension agency in the City of Knoxville in the State of Tennessee - that at the time of drawing said pension he resided in the County of Harlan in the State of Kentucky but that his pension papers were prepared in Claiborne County in the State of Tennessee. She further swears that she was married to the said Robert De Priest on the 24 th day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight in the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia by a Methodist Preacher that she has caused the records of said County to be searched but that she can find no evidence of said marriage but that she can prove said marriage by credible witnesses, that her husband the said Robert De Priest died on the 6 th day of August 1839 in the County of Harlan in the State of Kentucky that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four (viz) at the time above stated. She further swears that she is

now a widow, and that she has remained a widow, ever since the death of the said Robert De Priest, and that she has never before made any application for a pension. Patsy De Priest ad
Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned on the day and year aforesaid, and I further certify that that the said Patsy De Priest to be the identical widow of the said Robert De Priest and that she is of the age above stated. and I further certify that the said Patsy De Priest is unable to appear in open court to make this declaration owing to great bodily infirmity.
Given under my hand as Judge of the Harlan County court, the day and year first written.
M. Gano Wood C.J.H.C.
State of Kentucky Harlan County. Set
We Hiram Hoskins and William Burns residents of Harlan County do swear that we were personally present when the said Patsy De Priest swore to and subscribed the foregoing declaration for a pension and we further swear that we are personally acquainted with the said Patsy De Priest and believe her to be the identical widow of Robert De Priest as stated in said Declaration. Given under our hands this 10 th day of November 1853
Hiram Hoskins William Burns
Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned Judge of the Harlan County. And I do certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Hiram Hoskins and William Burns are residents of Harlan County and that they are creditable and their statements entitled to full credit & confidence Given under my hand this 10 th day of November 1853 M. Gano Wood C.J.H.C.

State of Kentucky County of Harlan 3 Set.
I John G. Gump Clerk of the Court of Harlan County do certify that Moses Garwood is Judge of the County Court of Harlan County as above and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal of office and subscribed my name this 10 th day of November 1853 John G. Gump Clerk of the Court of Harlan County
State of Kentucky County of Knox
on this the 18 day of November 1833
Personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting justice of the peace for said County Elizabeth M c Carroll, and after being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath say that she is well acquainted with Patry De Priest, & Robert De Priest in his lifetime, and that she was present when the marriage took place, between the said Robert De Priest and the said Patry his wife, at her fathers house in Wythe County Virginia, on the 24 th day of May, one thousand seven hundred & eighty eight - she further states that they were married at her fathers house by a Methodist preacher, that she has known them until the death of the said Robert De Priest, and that they were recognised as man & wife until the death of the said Robert De Priest; & she further swears that she is between seventy four & seventy eight years of age - given under my hand and seal this the day above written Elizabeth her M c Carroll mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the undersigned an acting justice of the peace, in & for Knox County & the State of Kentucky, on the day & year above written, & I do certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth M c Carroll.

well & that she is entitled to full credit & confidence in any statement that she would make - given under my hand & seal, this day & year above written Alfred Simsley J.P.
Kentucky, Monroe County, ss.
I John M. Dickinson clerk of the County Court for the County & State aforesaid do certify that Alfred Simsley Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit of Elizabeth McCarroll was made and who to his own proper certificate foregoing hath subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, an acting justice of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned & sworn and that his signature is genuine
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of office as clerk of the County & State aforesaid this 22 nd of November 1853
John M. Dickinson Clerk,

State of Kentucky } County of Knox }
On this 6 th day of February 1857 before me a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Burgham a resident of the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky aged 67 Years who being first sworn according to law upon her oath doth make the following declaration as an amendment to the declaration made by her mother Patsey Dipriet (deceased), from the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky to the pension office at Washington City. under the act of Congress approved 7 th . July 1838 or under any other for a pension act of Congress.
That she is the only surviving child of the deceased Patsey Dipriet (deceased) who made application for a pension from the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky to the pension office at Washington City for the benefit of the pension act of Congress approved 7 th July 1838 or under any other act of Congress. as the widow of the deceased Robert Dipriet whose name was placed on the increased pension agency on account of his services in the army of the Revolutionary war. - the pension amount granted to him she are not entitled

recalled, but thinks it was $96 per annum under the act of Congress approved 18 th March 1818.
She further declares that the said Patsey Dipriet (deceased), as she has always un- -derstood was married to the said Robert Dipriet (deceased), in the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia, on or about the Year 1788, & that her name before her said marriage was Patsey Saylor, by whom said marriage was celebrated she does not know. That her husband the aforesaid Robert Dipriet died in the County of Harlan in the State of Kentucky at the declar- -ant's house many years ago, leaving Patsey Dipriet his wife a widow. It is reported that the said Patsey Dipriet was afterwards married to one Thomas Hopkins since the year 1840 - with whom she lived for some years before and after the death of said Robert Dipriet the declarant, but this declarant was always infor- -med that by her brother the said Patsey Dipriet that she was never married to the said Hopkins & that the said Thomas Hopkins died in the County of Harlan in the State

of Kentucky in the year 1853 or 1854. & the said Robert Dipriest at his decease consequently left. the said Patsy Dipriest his wife a widow who remained his widow until her own death, & that her said death took place in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky on the 30 th day of July in the year 1856, at this declarants house. leaving this decl- arant Mary Beirha. the only sur- viving child of the said Patsy Dip- riest deceased she had by her hus- band the aforesaid Robert Dipriest deceased, & that she never had any children by any other person. that she knows of no family bible record either private or public of the said Patsy Dipriest (deceased) & Robert Dipriest deceased for his head. showing the date of their said marriage or the date of the birth of this declarant, there only surviving child. and to sustain said claim to a pension she respec- -fully refers the Hon. commissioners of pensions. to the application of her Mother the said Patsy Dipriest for a pension and the proof therein submitted to the application upon

which a pension was granted to her Further the said Robert Depriest (deed) and to prove the true date he since She refers to the record file all of which is filed in the pension office at Washington City, and to the proof hereto attached. She further states, it is some 35 miles from her residence to the courthouse in Harlan County Kentucky & from her present health age and bodily infir- mity she is unable to go to Court, & that it is more convenient to qualify to her papers in Knox County Ky. than in Harlan County Kentucky.
her Mary + Bingham mark
A. Mr. Parrott. we know  know  the  the  above  above  affidavit  affidavit of the county of Knox, in the state of Kentucky: upon our oaths declare that the foregoing affidavit was signed sworn to and acknow- ledged by Mary Bingham in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statement of the Applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to

he & we believe him to be of the age of the States. & we have no interest in said claim,
W C Barrett Dea Easley Barrett Dea
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written by W C Barrett and Easley Barrett. - I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be. & I have no interest in said claim nor concerned in its prosecution, and that it is more convenient for Mary Bingham the claimant to qualify to her papers in Knox County Ky. than in Harlan County Ky. that it is some 35 miles from claimant's house to the court house in Harlan County and that she is from age and present bodily affliction unable to attend court. The words (for a period) was intended in the foregoing declaration before signing. The word that was also erased before signing & the name

Isaac Moulton, in the foregoing affidavit was erased & the name M C Garrett, was inserted before signed. The blot is the P. above, and in the word Parrot, the affidavit was made before signed in this certificate.
Daniel D. Davis J.P.
Note of Oath taken That during the 3rd of March 1837, William D. of the County Court of the County of a City, the names Alexander Wilson James Sigourney appears to be appointed to the foregoing Certificate, is now as at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of State of the City of Philadelphia and Record as such. Given under my hand and seal of Office this day at Danbury the 3rd of March 1837 William D. Wilson J.P.

State of Kentucky
County of Knox (Sib)
This day Elinder Crank personally appeared Before me Daniel Baker acting Justice of the Peace for said County and made oath as foloweth
That she the said Elinder Crank Is well acquainted with certain Patsy De Priest and Robert DePriest her husband up till his death and I was present at the marriage of him Robert DePriest and Patsy Taylor for she was my Sister and he Robert DePriest and My Father went with him to with Cart house in the County of of with State of Virginia for the marriage was and they were married lawfully in My Father's house on the 24th day of May in the year 1788 and they the said Robert and Patsy was Recognised as man and his Wife and Wife untill the death of the said Robert DePriest This given under My hand This 19 of November 1853 Elinder Crank mark
Sworn Before me the undersigned acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Knox & State of Kentucky on the day and date above written By the said Elinder Crank and subscribed in My presence and she is of good Credit for Knox County Kentucky
Daniel Baker Justice of the Peace

State of Kentucky
County of Knox set
I John M. Dickinson, clerk of the County Court for the County & State aforesaid do certify that the foregoing certificate of Daniel Baker Esq, which is contained on the opposite side of this half-sheet of paper, is in the handwriting of sd Daniel Baker and that his signature thereto is genuine & I do further certify that sd Daniel Baker was at the time of signing sd certificate, an acting justice of the peace in for sd county duly commissioned & sworn
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand & affix my seal of office as Clerk of the County & State aforesaid
This 22 nd day of November 1853
John M. Dickinson Clerk

State of Kentucky Harlan County Set
On the 11 th day of November 1853 Personally appeared before me the Undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Harlan County Kentucky Mary Bingham who first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath State that she is the Daughter of Robert Depriest and Patsy his wife and that the date of the death of her Father the said Robert Depriest appended to this Deposition is a true and correct record of the death of her Father the record was written by her Husband Joshua Bingham in his life time and has been left in her possession until the present time
She further states that she is about sixty five years of age about next July from the best information that she has from her Mother the said Patsy Depriest
And she further states that her Father Robert Depriest lived with her during the time drawing his Pension and until his death and died at her House
Attest _____ James Culton
Mary Bingham mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County and I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mary Bingham and that she is the entitled to full credit and confidence in any statement that she would make

given under my hand and seal this day and year above written and I further that I believe her to be of the age above stated
Ezekiel Henderson
State of Kentucky County of Harlan 3 rd ss.
I John G. Lemmp Clerk of the court of Harlan County certify that Ezekiel Henderson is a Magistrate as above and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 11 day of November
1853.
John G. Lemmp Clerk of the court of Harlan County

Nov 11 th the 6 th day of 1763 and also the 6 th day of 1839

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MCS:MLB
November 15, 1930
Mrs. Stella D. Camden Sullins College Bristol, Virginia
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 2986, that Robert Depriest was born November 5, 1763, place not stated.
He enlisted in Virginia, in 1778 or 1779, served as a private in Captains DeCloser's and Johnson's companies, Colonels Marshall's and Porterfield's Virginia regiments, and was discharged in 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 20, 1827, while a resident of Claiborne County, Tennessee.
He died August 6, 1839, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Bingham, in Harlan County, Kentucky.
The soldier married May 24, 1788, in Montgomery, later Wythe County, Virginia, Patsy (Martha) Taylor. In 1835 she was a resident of Harlan County, Kentucky, aged about eighty-five years. She died there July 30, 1836, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bingham, who was the only surviving child.
It was stated that Mary, born in July, 1789, was their only child. She married, date not stated, Joshua Bingham, and was living in 1835, in Harlan County, Kentucky.
One James W. Bingham was aged twenty-six years in 1837; one Robert Bingham was aged thirty-two years in 1837, and the name, William R. Bingham, appears; all were residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1837; no relationship to Mrs. Mary Bingham is stated.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau do not show that a Patsey Depriest claimed pension as the widow of Turpen Depriest.
You are furnished, herewith, the history of the only soldier by the name of Randolph Depriest that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

MT Vernon Kentucky
30 th Ap 1862
Dear Sir
Patsy Depriest widow of Robert Depriest. made her application for a Revolutionary Pension from Warren County Kentucky - under act of July 1836 - her husband Robert Depri- est being a Revolutionary pensioner at his death. Patsy Depriest died before her claim was perfected - and Mary Bingham her only child. made her application under the same act for the arrears of pension due her Mother Patsy Depriest at her death - to I attended to the care for her - the claim was per- -fected and allowed by the then commis- -sioner of Pensions about 1856 or 1857 - but the pension certificate was withheld by the Comm r until the Attorney General Black settled a case pending before him - as to the rights of the children of the Revolu- -tionary soldiers under the pension laws. The Atty Genl. settled the law - did not apply that the arrears of pay was not a vested right and did not accrue to the children. This opinion settled the case of Mrs. Bingham - I have noticed that a Joint resolution of a Law has passed

The House, in being now - forbidding any Revolutionary pensions to be paid - only upon the claims had been perfected - and whether it passed the Senate and became the law of the land. I am unadvised. This Bill should have passed the House - in July or March 1862. - If it certainly became a law - Mrs. Mary Bingham's case is now included by it. because her claim was fully perfected by the decision of the former Commis- sioner of Pensions. as he decided the marriage of Patsey Dupert to her husband - and the quantity of the pension was fully established - and the case perfected: if I am correct. will you do Mrs. Bingham the favor to look into her case and settle the matter as you may think right and report to me - if allowed receipt Certificates. I am Dear Sir
Truly Yours &c
Alfred Smith
Agent for
Mrs. Bingham
War Department Washington D.C.
I sent Mr. W. J. Miller a power of attorney in the winter to attend to this case before Congress. perhaps it will be best and right to

Hand Mr J Miller of washings as the Certificate of alliance - he will remit to me.
Respectfully A Smith

McVorn Rockcastle County Kentucky.
4 th January 1868
Dear Sir:
I will be very much obliged to you if you will cause the case of Mrs. Mary Bingham of Kentucky. Submitted to Hon. Attorney General Stanton. to settle her case - whether or not in his judgment A. Pension is a vested right - upon the death of the Revolutionary soldier widows - whether under the Revolutionary pension laws - the arrears of pension descend to the children of the soldier.
Mrs. Mary Bingham after the death of her Mother Patsy Deprest - made her application for some arrears of pension due her mother under Act 7 th July 1838 from Ky. in 1857. Hon. Leavitt - Minister - admitted the marriage &c & granted the claim, but with held issuing the pension Certificate to Mrs. Bingham until Attorney General Black settled the question as to the rights of the children of the Revolutionary soldier under the pension laws - in a case then pending before him - and his decision was that the law did not apply - consequently upholds the settled rule of the Pension office - in such cases - nevertheless the high Opinion I have for Attorney General Black and for his Opinion - I am satisfied that he settled the law wrong - and to settle the point of law - Mrs. Bingham will be very much obliged to you - to have her case submitted to Hon. Attorney General Stanton for his opinion - whether or no - under the pension laws - a pension is a vested right - and will descend to the children upon the death of the soldier & widow in the case of Mary Bingham.

Your early attention to this case. will be by me as well as by Mr. Bingham thankfully received and in the investigation of the law of the case - The Hon. Attorney General is referred to two letters remitted to him by me within the last ten days.
I am Dear Sir Truly Your Friend Alfred Smith Agent for Mrs. Mary Bingham
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
I had some 10 days ago addressed Hon. Attorney Genl Stanton to examine and settle the law of this case - and his advice is - that it is not his duty to settle any point of law. unless called upon by the President or some of the heads of the Departments - accordingly I adopt this course to get the case of Army settled by him whether or not a pension is a vested right in the case of Mary Bingham A. Smith

Washington City D. C. Dec d 24 th 1839.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Sir:
I have had in my possession the Pension papers of Martha Depriest Moans of the late Robert Depriest dec d a pensioner of Claiborne County E. Tennessee, which papers I have laid before the 3 rd auditors for the purpose of draw- -ing the residue of his Pension and am inform d . by the 3 rd auditors that inasmuch as it has not been due 8 months it cannot be drawn here, and that appli- -cation will have to be made at the Knoxville agency Tennessee, My object in writing you is to get the original certificate of the s d Robt. Depriest which I am told is in your office you will please send it to me with all the necessary papers, together with a printed form so that I may forward them to his wife -
Respectfully yours friends & Oth rs . Servt. Aben. M c Callan

Engr. M c Wanum 19 Jan 21
Patney depoint Robert Jan - Dec 1838
Pension Office
Washington
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Pension Office, Jan. 9. 1856.
Sir,
Aided by your note appended to my letter addressed to you on the 10 th ult. I have been enabled to ascertain that there was a Robert Depriest inscribed on the last Tennessee Roll under the acts of March 18. 1818, and May 1. 1820, at the rate of $96 per annum. He died it is alleged, on the 6 th of August 1839, and there is now pending a claim asserted by Patsey Depriest, of Harlan County, Ky. who claims to be his widow.
Resp y .
R. M. Rae for Comm r .
E. Smith, Esq. Mount Vernon. Ky.
29. Sir: I hope you will not forsake me in trouble soon. Do me the favor to

inform me if he was placed there by act of Congress, if so can the his widow who left her husband (not her fault) be put on the pension roll - or can they when the husband is on roll by - act of Congress —————
E. Smith
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Patry deposit Robert
Mar - Jan 1838
Eng
Mr. Warner
Station Off
Pres. in

Weytherville Pa Dec r 23 rd 1853
Dear Sir
Yours of the 19 th inst is just to hand asking for information in regard to the marriage of Patsy Taylor to O'Prist, in the year 1788 - this County was not formed until 1790. so she could not be married in Weythe County in 1788. as stated in your letter, you will probably be able to get the necessary information from the clerks office in Montgomery County as this County was formed from that, And there are a good many Taylors living in that County, I have however made an examination of the records from 1790 to 1795 without being to find any thing in regard to it
Respectfully Yours
To Mrs. T. Neely
H. S. Matthews CLK Weythe County Court

Washington D.C.
Dec: 19 th 1853
Sir.
Enclosed is the Declaration of Nancy De Priest widow of Robert De Priest a Revol. Soldier and Pensioner of the State of Tenn, for a Pension under the act of 1838, Yours very respectfully
E. P. Keely
Commrs Pensions 3 Present 3

Washington City Feb 8 1854
Dear Cousin Sir
Herewith Enclose additional Evidence in the Case of Mrs. De Priest widow of Robert De Priest for a Pension under act 1838 application of the Widow Mary for the estate of Kentucky the Widow of her husband and ask the action of the Dept with claims at its earliest convenience
Yours Respectfully Wm. Kelly

St Vernon Ky Nov. 21/55
Dear: Please inform me if Rupert or a revolutionary other pension on the Ky Roll was placed there by a deduction or by act of lease - if by act of lease can the interest now apply to respectfully E. Smith

Washington D.C. Sept 8 th 1855,
Sir,
The claim of Patsy De Priest widow of Robert of Kentucky, for Pension under act 1838, having been suspended for proof to establish it under that act, I would inform you it is found impossible to obtain further evidence. I have been in correspondence with Clerks of the Courts in Va and have been unable to secure any evidence that would establish the date of the marriage. You will therefore have the claim taken up, examined and allowed under such act as you may in your opinion deem it entitled. There is no doubt of her being the widow of said Robert DePatsey as she drew the arrears of Pension due at his death, for proof of which I refer you to the files of the Office of the 3 d Auditor.
Yours very respectfully
J. S. Keely
To Commr of Pensions Present

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Pension Office Washington City
Patsey Defriet Robert - Jan - 1838
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Provis Offici Dec. 10. 1855-
Sir:
I do not find any one named Dupont has been pronounced from Kentucky. Some further information must be given.
Yours resp W. Cole
for Commr
Please examine the the Ten: provision book for Dupont. E. Smith
E. Smith Esq Mt Vernon Ky.

State of Kentucky County of Rockcastle
Be it known that on this the 15 th day of Nov r in the year 1888 before me the presiding Judge for County Court in and for the County & State aforesaid, personally appeared, Andrew J. Menden aged 32 years Resident of the County of Rock- castle in the State of Kentucky and known to me to be respectable, who being first sworn according to Law, upon his oath doth make the following affidavit. Says that he has carefully examined all the acts of the Gen l Assembly of Kentucky commencing with the year 1844 and continuing regularly on every year down to 1840, inclusive, and find that no act of assembly was ever passed between or in those dates by the legislature of Ky decreasing Robert DePriest, (who is said to have been a United States Revolutionary Pensioner at his decease) from his wife Patsy DePriest (deceased) and it is said that the latter resided in Harlan County Kentucky for many years and at her decease, affiant further states that this affidavit was was drawn up in his

own proper hand write, and that he has no interest in this said claim whatever
A. J. Mershon
State of Kentucky Rockcastle County 3 d Oct
J. J. E. Pearson. Presiding Judge of Rockcastle County court in and for the County aforesaid Personly appeared before me on the day and year first above written Andrew J. Mershon and made oath to his foregoing affidavit accord- ing to Law, and signed the same in my presence understandingly, and I know that the affiant is a respectable person, and is a resident of the County aforesaid whose oath is entitled to full faith and credit, and that the foregoing affidavit was drawn up in affiant's own proper hand write, and I have no interest in this claim, and am not concerned in its Prosecution
J. E. Pearson — P. J. R. C.
State of Kentucky County of Rockcastle 3 d Oct
J. E. V. Fish, Clerk of the County Court in & for said County do certify that J. E. Pearson before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at its date presiding judge of said court duly authorized to administer oaths and that his signature thereto is genuine
Given under my hand a seal of said court 15 th Novr 1856
J. E. V. Fish, Clerk

Robert Despriest, act 1818, died 6 Aug. 1839, Arrears paid to Martha Despriest, his widow, in the first gr. of 1840.
J. Burch Auditor

Oklahoma County. Circuit - 12 th District in - Depree case About Divorce (None,

State of Tennessee  County of Claiborne  I O. M. Rice clerk of the circuit court in and for said county, the same being included in the 12 th Judicial Circuit of the State aforesaid, do certify that I have carefully examined the records of my office, commencing the year 1820, and on every year down to the year 1840 inclusive and find that no suit was ever instituted in said court between those dates by Robert H. Priest, who is said to have been a Revolutionary petitioner, or by Patsey H. Priest his wife for a divorce between the parties parties, and I further certify that the county where the said parties resided in said State is the proper court for such suits to be instituted
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of office of said circuit court and signed my name at office in Lenoir the 16 th day of April 1857 O. M. Rice clerk

Patsy Depriest 30 Aug 1832 from Benjamin
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Patsy Depriest for Rev Pension
Rejected suspender file 1838
1838
Cole 
filed by
John Edwards (signature)
May 5- 1857

Washington D.C.
May 5. 1857
Sir
Enclosed I send you additional evidence in the case of Mary Bingham child of Patsy Bryant which covers all the objections contained in your letter of March 27 1857. Your early attention to this is requested
Respectfully
John S. Edwards
George C. Whiting Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Maft. A. L. Mershaw
Deposition in Patsy Dapriest Case.
Widow Widow of Robert Dapriest,

State of Kentucky } County of Rockcastle }
Be it known that on this 28 th day of January 1857 before me the presiding Judge of the county court in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Andrew J. Mershon aged 32 years past a resident of the county of Rockcastle in the state of Kentucky, who being first sworn according to law, upon his oath doth make the following affidavit, says that he was in Shelby county in the state of Tennessee, a few days passed, and while he was there, he carefully examined the acts of the Tennessee Legislature, commencing the year 1816, and continued the examination regularly every year down to the year 1840, inclusive, and find that no act of Assembly was ever passed between or in those dates by the Legislature of the state of Tennessee, divorcing Robert Depriest (who is said to have been a Revolutionary pensioner) at his request divorcing the said Robert Depriest from his wife Patsey Depriest deceased. & it is said they both died in Harlan county Kentucky & that I have no interest in this claim A. J. Mershon

State of Kentucky Rockcastle County ss. I J E Larson Presiding Judge of the county Court in and for said county. personally appeared before me on the day and year first above written, Andrew J. Overton, and made oath to his foregoing deposition according to law, and he signed the same in my presence with his own hand understandingly. & I know the affiant is respectable resident of said county, whose oath is entitled to full faith and credit, & I have no interest in this claim or concern in its prosecution.
J E Larson P.H. Kee

State of Kentucky County of Rockcastle
I E. T. Fish Clerk of the county court in and for said county, do certify that J. E. Hanson who has signed the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same the preceding Judge of said county court duly commissioned and qualified as the law directs, & that his signature thereto is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said county court on this 28 th day of January
1857
E. T. Fish, Clerk

Clerk Harlan Circuit Court Certificate Dispute case as to divorce being none

Harlan Circuit Court.
State of Kentucky } County of Harlan } ss.
I Geo. B. A. J. Mills, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Harlan and State of Kentucky of the 12 th Judicial District, of Kentucky, do hereby certify that I have Carefully examined, all the records of my Office, Commencing, in the year, of 18 4 , the same year the County was erected, and continued the search, every year Carefully down, to the year of 1840. inclusive and find that no suit, was ever instituted in the Circuit Court Aforesaid, by Robert DePriest, deceased, who is said to have been a revolutionary Pensioner, or by Patty DePriest, his wife his wife for a divorce between the said Parties & I further, certify that the County in which the said Parties resided is the proper County, for such suits, to be instituted, if not done by an act of the Legislature and, I have no interest in this Claim, of the said Patty DePriest, for a Pension nor Concerned in its prosecution.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said Circuit aforesaid this the sixteenth day of December, 1846.
Geo B A J Mills. Clerk of the Harlan Circuit. C.

Mt Vernon Kentucky 1 st March 1857.
Sir
I am personally acquainted with Mr. Early Parot & Mr C Parot. who are residents of Knox county Kentucky, within eleven miles of my residence in said county of Knox. I am also personally acquainted with Jacob Woollum James M Bingham & Joseph Baker, who are residents of Harlan County Kentucky. and know them all to be persons, whose oaths should be respected by all good men.
I am Dear Sir
Very Respectful.
Thos L W Sayers
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D C City
Mount Vernon Kentucky 1 st March 1857
Sir I am personally acquainted with Col Thos L W Sayers of Boxboroughville Knox Co Ky and his statement can be implicitly relied upon Respectfully
Granville Pearl Judge of the 12 th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky

State of Kentucky 3 County of Rockcastle 3
I E J Fish clerk of the county court in and for said County Certify. That Wm. Granville Perl whose name appears to the foregoing letter in respect to the reprobation of said Thos. Lewis Jr. is the Judge of the 12 th Judicial District of Kentucky. His signature thereto attached is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said court court this 2 d day of March 1857.
E. J. Fish, C.R.

Virginia. Montgomery County To wit.
I Rives D Montague clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that I have examined the records and files of my office, and can find no evidence in relation to the marriage of Robert DeBrient and Baty Taylor.
Given under my hand this 20 th day of January 1854.
R. D Montague C.

18th Dec 1860 at the house of the Rev. J. H. H. H. H. Barn
blank leaves Count Harlan County Ky No Marriage evidence to be found of Thomas Warren & Patsy Dyriest

State of Kentucky County of Harlan
I Jas B Howards Clerk of the County Court within and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby Certify That I have carefully examined the records and files of my office commencing at the date said County of Harlan was made and regular on every year down to the year 1857 and find that no marriage license or marriage bond was ever issued to Thomas Hoskins and Daisy Depriest deceased from said office nor no evidence is to be found among the records or files in my office of any marriage ever having been made be- -tween the said parties Thomas Hoskins and Daisy Depriest deceased
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said County Court and signed my name on this 33 rd day of April 1857
Jas B Howards Clerk of the Harlan County Court Ky

Alfred Smith, Mt Vernon, Ky. May 5/61.
Appeal in the Revolutionary pension claim in right of Patsey Pofirst.
Respectfully referred to Com. Pensions. Int. Dept. May 11/61.
Rec'd May 11 Pensions

Mt Vernon Ky 5 th May 1861
Dear Sir
Mrs. Patsy Dipriest in her lifetime made application from Henderson County Kentucky for a revolutionary Pension - her husband at his death being a pensioner at his death, her application was made under act of July 1838. She died before perfecting her claim, leaving Mary Bingham her only child, who applied for the arrears of pension due her mother at her death. I attended to the case for Mary Bingham, but not for her mother Patsy Dipriest. The claim for her was admitted in 1857 by the Commission of Pensions. The marriage of her mother was admitted - & the identity of Mary Bingham - but the Commission refused to issue the certificate until the Attorney Genl Black settled the question as to the rights of the children of the Revolutionary soldiers under the Pension laws. Black afterwards settled the law - that arrears of pension was not a vested right, that if the soldier and his wife died without receiving the amount due, it then stopped - which killed her case - nevertheless it had been the settled policy of the Government for many years - that arrears of pension was a vested right that upon the

death of the Parrante the arrears deemed to the Chilaria, I now write on the part of Mrs. Bingham to request you to cause the care to be laid before the Attorney Genl Blair to settle the question as to the rights of Mrs. Bingham on the pension laws - and for that purpose I ask an appeal in her case - your special attention to this will very much oblige Mrs. Bingham - but I suppose that the rupture in our Great country will cause much delay in all matters of business - but I flatter myself that the Great mediator now at the head of our Government will still command - the troubled waves to be still, and the storm will finally be blow over, & peace be restored to our present distracted country - it is true I live in what is called a Southern State, but for the union of the States as handed down to us by the Founders of our country - I am for - sincerely if every other Southern State takes their final departure from this Great Country - I am in favor of Kentucky's standing as she is - under the Old Constitution - and never to secede - Kentucky is inmovable - she was the first - to be and was added to the old domin- ion after the Revolution, and she will be the last to leave it. (to test my

devotion to the constitution and the Union of the states. I addressed a line to Hon. Aaron Adams, some days ago. That if it be the pleasure of President Lincoln, to confer an appointment upon me in the army, I would accept it, and would stand by the flag of my country, fighting under the old constitution which binds us all together - until all shall come aright. Mr. Adams has not answered me as yet. ask him to reply if my letter came to hand. I stated to him, that he was aware that I had a family to support - & an officer in the in the army worth much less than $2000 per ann would not support myself and family. Mr. Adams knows me to whom you are referred.
I hope you will have Mr. Burgham can take up as requested - at an early day -
I am Dear Sir
Truly yours &c Alfred Smith
Hon Secretary of Interior Washington D.C.
If Hon Attorney Genl Bates has adopted the opinion of Attorney Genl Black, as to as to the rights of the children of the Revolutionary soldiers. Of course it is useless to take an appeal on the case of May Burgham, if he has not settled the law in such cases. I desire an

appeal and hope you will soon attend to it. This is the Only Revolutionary Case I now have any thing to do with before the Pension office - time having worn out all Original cases - it is useless to prosecute any other claim.
Respectfully A. Smith

State of Kentucky } County of Pulaski }
Be it known that on this 25 th day of November in the year 1858 before me a justice of the peace in and for the county and State aforesaid personally appeared William Barnett, resident of the county and State aforesaid, who being first sworn according to law, upon his oath doth make the following affidavit, says that he does not precisely know his age but from the best information he had from his Father he was born in the year 1775 that when he was married he was at that date 18 years of age, that his son Jubell Barnett was 22 years old on the 5 th day of October 1814, the same fall the said Jubell entered the service in war 1812, under Captain Evans of the 1 st Regiment Kentucky militia from Pulaski County Ky. for six months, as it appears from the date of the said Jubell Barnett discharge here present and read to me by the Justice, and was dated at home in Pulaski county Ky 10 th May 1813, & I know my said son entered said service in September 1814, & that the said discharge here present he knows to be genuine, which he has left in his possession to render the said son, now deceased in the year 1815, soon after his arrival home from said war, and was he now alive his age would be 63 years the 5 th day of October last, - This affidavit made in Wythe County in the State of Virginia before and after his said marriage where he personally well knows Robert Depriest who was married to Patsy Taylor

in said county of Wythe in the state of Virginia which took place before my own war of 1794, that he can not certainly recollect that he was present at said marriage of Robert Depriest and Patsy his wife but thinks he was, and knows that they were living together as husband and wife and had one child a daughter whose name was Mary Depriest, before the marriage of this affiant, and know that the said Robert Depriest & Patsy Depriest was regarded by their neighbors in Wythe County Virginia as husband and wife and their marriage was never questioned or doubted where they lived, and that the said Robert Depriest was reputed to have been a united states Revolutionary prisoner at his decease, and that he died in Harlan County in the state of Kentucky and that the aforesaid Patsy Depriest his wife died in the said County of Harlan & swears that he is a disinterested Witness, William his Barnett mark
State of Kentucky } County of Pulaski }
I Joel Barnett a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that personally appeared before me on the day and year first above written William Barnett and made oath to his foregoing deposition recorded

to law, and signed the same in my presence by making his mark under and sigh. After the same was read & explained to him, & I know the affiant to be a respectable resident of said County, and is of disposing memory whose oath is entitled to full faith and credit. & I believe him to be of the age he states, & I have no interest in this claim nor concerned in its prosecution. I further certify that I carefully read the discharge referred to by the affiant to him & I believe the same to be genuine. The appearance of it is old and defaced. A print also of V. J. P., was erased before signed. Isaac Barnett J.P.
I am acquainted with William Barnett, the foregoing affiant, and know him to be a man of respectability whose oath should be respected by all good men. John Cranford Clerk Pulaski Circuit Court

State of Kentucky County of Pulaski
I, W. M. Fox Clerk of the county Court in and for the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joel Barnett Esq. whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making his foregoing signature a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn according to law & that full faith and credit is due all his official acts as such & that his signature thereto is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and signed my name Clerk of said County Court on this 15 th day of December 1856.
W. M. Fox Clerk Pulaski Co. Court Clerk 6

Andrew Bingham. child of Patsy Dymott, widow of Robert Dymott,
Power of Attorney to J. S. Leavitt, Washington City Mass.
Andrew
Andrew
Andrew

Know all men by these presents that I Mary Burgham of the county of Warren in the state of Kentucky - The Daughter & only child sur- viving of Patsy Depriest deceased, the widow of Robert Depriest (Deceased),
Do hereby constitute and appoint John S Edwards, of Washington D C my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to examine all papers and Documents of every description may be filed in any Department or office of Government at Washington city or elsewhere upon an application was made by the said Patsy Depriest deceased, for a pension from the county of Warren in the state of Kentucky for the benefit of the pension act of Congress approved 7 th July 1838 or under any other act of congress, due on account of the services of her husband in the revolutionary war the said Robert Depriest deceased, whose name was placed on the Pension pension list under the act of Congress approved 28 th March 1818 to obtain by all lawful means, any amounts of pension money may be found due the said Patsy Depriest from the united States, two of the

services of her husband the said Robert Dipriest in the army of the revolutionary war, under any act of congress heretofore passed, said Attorney is moreover authorized in my name to file additional evidence or argument in the premises, with full power of substitution, hereby revoking any other authority in the premises with full power of substitution, and best the same in said Attorney herein appointed said John S Edwards
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and Seal this 6 th day of February, 1857.
Mary H. Bingham mark
State of Kentucky } County of Knox. }
On this 6 th day of February, 1857, before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County do certify that personally appeared Mary Bingham the subscriber to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering the same to be her act and deed, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and made oath in due form of law that she is personally introduced in said claim as there

alluded. and the said Mary Burgham is known to me to be a resident of the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky, and I believe her to be personally interested in said claim as therein expressed & I have no interest in said claim or concerned in its prosecution
Seal Seal G.P.
State of Kentucky Clark County ss. I, John M. Dickinson Clerk of the County Court of the County of Clark, Ky. do hereby certify that Mary Burgham whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Clerk of the Court in & for the County of Clark Ky. duly Commissioned & qualified as such.
Given under my hand & Seal of Office this 10th day of August 1887
John M. Dickinson Clerk

No 151188
Parley DeForest May Point
3 rd Ancestors Dec. 28/53 J. T. Kelly Dec 30/53 To Same Feb 13/54 Same Sep 17/55 E. Smith Jan 9/56 " " Feb 6/56 July 7/58
Ltr. to Alfred Smith.
May 14, 1861.

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Patsy Depriest. cho? Widow of Robert Kentucky
Third Auditor Dec: 23. 1853- J. T. Neely Dec: 30. 1853-
Feb 13. 1854- Same 7. 1855 E Smith Jan 56- Same Jan 6. 1856-
J. Edwards March 29. same May 19. 1857- Alfred Smith Jan 18/61
2986
Sep - 2915-
Act July 7. 1858
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Pension Office.
Dec. 23, 1853,
Sir,
I will be obliged if you will state when, and to whom, the arrears of pension due to Robert Dapriest, dec d . who was a pensioner on the Baers Sennefee Roll, under the acts of March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820 at the rate of $96 per annum, were paid. The papers on which his pension was granted are herewith enclosed,
I am, Very respectfully, Your Ob t . Servant,
L P Malas
Commissioner
Francis Gurt. Esqr.
Third Auditor.

March 1, 1932
BA-J/MLB
Amanda J. Knuckles
Hazard, Kentucky
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, relative to Robert De Priest and Nelson Taylor, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land, based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of Nelson Taylor.
On June 20, 1929, you were furnished the record of Robert De Priest, R. 2986 , the only soldier by that name found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
For information in regard to eligibility to the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, you should consult the regent of your local D. A. R. Chapter, or the Corresponding Secretary General, D. A. R. Continental Memorial Hall, this city.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Assistant to Administrator

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MKK/eel
June 20, 1929
Miss Amanda J. Runkles Hazard Kentucky
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 2936, it appears that Robert Depriest was born November 5, 1763, place not stated.
He enlisted in Virginia, in 1778 or 1779, served as a private in Captains DeCloser's and Johnson's Companies, Colonels Marshall's and Porterfield's Virginia Regiments, and was discharged in 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 20, 1827, while a resident of Claiborne County, Tennessee or Harlan County, Kentucky.
He died August 6, 1839, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Bingham, in Harlan County, Kentucky.
The soldier married May 24, 1788, in Montgomery, later Wythe County, Virginia, Patsy (Martha) Taylor. In 1853, she was a resident of Harlan County, Kentucky, then aged about eighty-five years. She died there, July

30, 1856, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Bingham, who was the only surviving child.
It was stated that Mary, born in July, 1789, was their only child. She married, date not stated, Joshua Bingham, and was living in 1862, in Harlan County, Kentucky.
One James W. Bingham was aged twenty-six years in 1857; One Robert Bingham was aged forty-two years in 1857, and the name William M. Bingham, appears, all were residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1857, no relationship to Mrs. Mary Bingham is stated.
Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
Widow's sister Elinder crank was present at the marr. of sol. & Patsey Taylor. She was living in 1853 In 1820 sol was living at the home of Wm McCarroll. no rel stated. In 1853 Elizabeth McCarroll stated that sol was married at her father's house.

In re: to your request of Sept. 6, received Sept. 9, 1910 for a statement of the military history of Robert De Priest a son of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. D.W.R. 2986
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1778 or 1779 1781 Deklewan ✓ Va   Johnson Marshall   Porterfield  
Office note. Soldiers daughter married Joshua Ringham and it is (Mrs) Nell Ringham who asks for her St. Griffiths' service
Battles engaged in, ✓ Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted in Va. Date of application for pension, Dec 20 1827; his claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Glaiborne Co. Tenn.  please not stated Age at date of application, Nov 5 1763, died in Harlan Co Ky Aug 6 1839  she was 85 years in 1833 Remarks: He married in Wythe Co Va May 24 1788 Patsey (Martha) Taylor, Abolished in Harlan Co Ky July 30 1856! Only Child Mary born July 1789 mar - Joshua Ringham 

Hazard Ky. 275-33 (Rev) Commissioner of Pensions.
I am want to join the D.A.R. and my forefathers were Robert 1920 D e Priest , and Nelson Taylor tell me how and I will get started soon.
advise what steps to take for us you see I am green on the subject.
Thanks Amanda J Knuckles

STATION Board Ky 6/4 29
The Commissioner of Pensions Sir:-
I am anxious to join the D-a-R- Society and my folk tell me I'm eligible -
Only one of my foreparents
Robert DeQuilt is one of my foreparents I'm told also I have tried the war department and they referred me to you - This is important to me and I'm highly anxious to learn just what's needed to be known.
Thanking you for reading this and hope to have a early and favorable reply
I am Respect - Yours miss Amanda Gunkle

Madison, Ind., Sept. 6, 1910
Chief of Pensions:
Dear Sir:
Tracing back my ancestors to my great-great grand- father Robert Mc'Pheish I find I can not find the year in which he was born or died I ask the president of our

Elizabeth Jane Society what I should do and she said for me to write Chief of Records and Pensions I did so at once. I received a letter in a few days from the War Department saying the date of his death or birth was not found of record in their Department but saying it was possible that further information relative to the soldier could be obtained upon application to the Commissioner of Pensions. The following is the brief history I know.
Mr Robert McPreish was born in France and came to Richmond Virginia while quite a small boy. He was raised in Richmond Virginia, stayed there till

he became a young man, then he became Union Major under General Washington. Here he served for seven years. After the war he went to south eastern part of Kentucky to a place about three miles from Pineville on Straight Creek where he settled. This is now coal land owned by my mother. In this place Robert De'Preist married, lived and died.

If it is possible for you to find the dates or any others records for me please write
Miss Nell Bingham 411, N., Jefferson St., Madison Indiana

1910. Sept 15. Hist 18 Miss Nell Bingham. m 13 #
1929 June 20, Hist to Amanda J. Ruckler, 7922
1930. Nov. 15 Hist. to P.O. Stella D. Camden, was correspondence in name of Randolph. DePriest.
1932. Mar. 1 Amanda J. Ruckler ad. hist. was furnished as above apply to regent of local chapter or
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
7986
Jatsey DePriest
Service:
widow of Robert
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Privileges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

addendum
Mary Bingham
Amended {
Statement { child of Patsy Dipreest. deceased. widow of Robert Harlan county Ky. at 7 th July 1838
J. S. Edwards Washington City Attorney
Address.
Robert
Robert Pike County Kentucky

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State of Kentucky County of Harlan
Be it known that on this 21 st day of April 1857. before me a Justice of the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Robert Burgham, a resident of the county of Harlan in the State of Kentucky, aged 42, years, who being first sworn as the law directs upon his oath doth make the following affidavit, saying that he has resided where he now lives for the last  years and has personally well known Patsy Depriest and Robert Depriest from his earliest recoll- ection, that the said Robert Depriest was a united States Revolutionary pensioner. On the Tennessee pension agency know them both well in Harlan County Kentucky to the date herein the said, that it is believed and so understood, by those neighbors in Harlan County Ky. where they lived, that the said Patsy Depriest and Robert Dep- riest the pensioner was married at an early day soon after the close of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, and their marriage was not questioned or doubted notwithstanding the said Patsy Depriest separated from her said husband Depriest the pensioner and lived in the house with one Thomas Haskins in Harlan County Ky. to whom to wit said she was married, after the death of her husband Depriest the pensioner but said report was not made by those neighbors

It is further understood, that the said Patsy Dipriest was never divorced from her husband the said Robert Dipriest the pension not withstanding her residence with Waskins, with whom she lived until the Waskins died in Harlan County Kentucky (absent), and that she went by the name of Patsy Dipriest nearly all the time, up to her death, and the said Robert Dipriest the pensioner died in Harlan County Kentucky, at the house of his daughter Mary Bingham in the county of Harlan Kentucky many years ago leaving Patsy Dipriest his wife a widow, who consequently remained his lawful widow until her own death, and her said death took place at the house of Mary Bingham her daughter in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky on the day of July 1856 being at her decease Mary Bingham the only surviving child of the said Patsy Dipriest died, she had by her husband the pensioner Robert Dipriest died mentioned in the foregoing declaration, and the said Mary Bingham is now a resident of Harlan County Kentucky, and is now the applicant for this pension. I swear that he is an unadulterated witness
Robert Bingham (Seal)

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I know the affiant Robt. Bingham to be a respectable resident of the county of Harlan in the State of Kentucky whose oath is intitled to full faith and credit. The foregoing deposition was read and explained to said affiant before signed and for signed the same, with his own hands before me as aforesaid, me understanding, & I have no interest in this claim nor concerned in its prosecution
Stephen Rice J.P. Harlan county Court Ky
the words, (he and) the interlined in the foregoing deposition, was interlined before signed the, was erased before signed in this certificate
Stephen Rice J.P.
the word, lawful, was interlined in the foregoing deposition at word Midway, before signed
Stephen Rice J.P.

State of Kentucky County of Harlan
I J B Howards Clerk of the county court in and for the county and state aforesaid certify that Stephen Rice Esqr who has signed the foregoing certificates is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn according to law and all his official acts in such is entitled to full faith and credit and that his said signature thereunto is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said county and Signed my name Clerk of said Court On the 22 nd day of April 1857.
Jas B Howards Clerk of the Harlan County Court Ky

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State of Kentucky } County of Harlan }
Be it known that on this 21 st day of April 1857 before me Justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Edward North aged 51 years a resident of the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky who being first sworn on the law oaths upon his oath doth make the following affidavit, says, that he was personally acquainted with Patsy Depriest for nearly quite 26 years before her death resided in the same neighborhood where she died in Harlan county Kentucky also knew Robert Depriest her husband who was a united states pensioner on the Tennessee pension agency and knew her resided at his death in Harlan county Kentucky and the said Robert Depriest died in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky many years ago leaving Patsy Depriest his wife a widow to whom it is understood by the neighbors said Robert Depriest the pensioner was married at an early age the said Patsy Depriest separated from her said husband and lived in the house with one Thomas Harlan in Harlan County Kentucky to whom it is reported she was married after the death of her husband since Robert Depriest the pensioner in Harlan County Kentucky but said report of her marriage to said Thomas Harlan is untrue

or behind by their neighbors, and the said Robert Dipriest the pensioner died at the house of Mary Bingham, his Daughter in Harlan county Ky. Many years ago, leaving at his decease Robert Dipriest his wife a widow (mentioned in the foregoing declaration), who later became the lawful widow of the pension- er Robert Dipriest died, to the date she died, and her said death took place at the house of Mary Bingham in Harlan county Kentucky, on the 30 th day of July 1856. was present and saw her after she had died, hope her leaving Mary Bingham (mentioned in the foregoing declaration), being the only surviving child of the said Robert Dipriest (deceased) she had by him said her husband the pensioner Robert Dipriest (deceased) and the said Mary Bingham, as now reside in Harlan county Kentucky, and is now the applicant for this pension.
Edward North

Sworn to and subscribed before me On the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiant Edward North to be a respectable resident of the county of Harlan in the State of Kentucky whose oath is intitled to full faith and credit and the foregoing declarative affidavit was read to him and explained before signed & he signed the same understanding, & believing his statement to be true and of the age he states. & I have no interest in this claim nor concerned in its prosecution,
Stephen Rice J.P. Harlan County Court Kentucky
State of Kentucky County of Harlan I Jas B Howard Clerk of the County Court in and for said County - certify that Stephen Rice Esqr who has signed the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn and that his said signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County Court and signed my name Clerk on this 22 d day of April 1857. Jas B Howard Clerk of the County Court Ky Harlan

I am acquainted with William Bingham, Robert Bingham & Edward North & they are entitled to credit as witnesses
I am well acquainted with the above named Hon Green Adams and take pleasure in stating that his statements are entitled to full credit and that implicit confidence may be placed in any thing he says - Given under my hand April 23rd 1857
John M Elliott

A State of Kentucky County of Harlan
On this 21. day of April A D 1857. before me a Justice of the peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Bingham aged 67 years a resident of the county and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law, upon her oath doth make the following, declaration as an amendment to her statement made and sworn to before a Justice of the peace in the county of Knox in the State of Kentucky, as an amendment to the declaration made by her mother Patsy Depriest (deceased), for a pension from the County of Harlan in the State of Kentucky for the benefit of the pension act of Congress approved 7th July 1832, or any other act of Congress.
That she is the child of Patsy Depriest deceased aforesaid, who is the widow of the late Robert Depriest, whose name was placed on the Tennessee pension agency at what amount per annum, she does not precisely know, under act of Congress approved 18th March 1818, on account of his services in the army of the revolutionary war.
That she has always understood her mother the aforesaid Patsy Depriest was married to her father the aforesaid Robert Depriest in the county of Wayne in the State of Kentucky or about the

year 1788, and before the 1 st day of January 1794, by whom she was married not known, and that her name before her said mar- riage was Patsy Taylor, that her husband the aforesaid Robert Depriest died at this declarants house in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky many years ago, leaving Patsy Depriest his wife a widow. it is reported that her mother the aforesaid Patsy Depriest was after the death of her said husband Depriest, the pensioner, was married to one Thomas Haskins, in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky since the year 1840, with whom she lived for many years before and after the death of her husband the pensioner Robert Depriest, and up to the date said Thomas Haskins died and his said death took place in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky in the year 1853 or 1854, but this declarant was always informed by her mother the said Patsy Depriest that she was never married to said Haskins, and that she always went by the name of Patsy Depriest - and that she was never divorced from her husband the pensioner Robert Depriest - and at his decease he left Patsy Depriest his wife a widow who remained his widow until her own death, and her said death took place at this declarants house in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky on the 30 th day of July in the year 1856, leaving this declarant

ant Mary Bingham, being the only surviving child of the aforesaid Patsey Dipriest deceased, she had by the aforesaid Robert Dipriest the pension her husband; and to sustain her claim, to a pension she respectfully refers the War Commission of pensions, to all the proof filed in the pension office, upon which a pension was granted to her Father the pension Robert Dipriest - and to the application of her Mother the aforesaid Patsey Dipriest for a pension, and to her own amended statement she was qualified to in Knox County Ky, all of which is filed in the pension office at Washington City, and to the proof hereto annexed which is respectfully submitted
her Mary Bingham Mark
B. We Robert Bingham and William Bingham residents of the county of Harlan in the State of Kentucky, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Bingham in our presence on the day and year first above written, and that exclusive from the appearance and statement of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and we have no interest in said claim. Robert Bingham William Bingham

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be respectable credible witnesses, that the claimant is the person she repre- sents herself to be, & I further certify that the claimant from age and bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open court. (Mary Bingham aforesaid) & I have no interest in this claim nor concerned in its prosecution,
Stephen Rice JP Harlan County Court Ky.
State of Kentucky } County of Harlan }
I, Jas B Howard clerk of the county court in and for the county and state aforesaid do certify that Stephen Rice Esqr is and was at the time of signing his foregoing certificate a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and sworn according to law, and that his said signature thereto is genuine; I further certify that the foregoing declaration of Mary Bingham together with the deposition of Robt Bingham & Mr Bingham Robt Bingham & Edward Matthews attached was on this day exhibited in open court held in and for said county and was approved & ordered to be certified.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county

and subscribed my name on this 22 d day of April 1857. Sarah Bowman let of the Hardin County Kentucky
State of Kentucky  April Special Term 1857 County of Hardin 
It is hereby ordered to be certified, that the foregoing attestation of Mary Kingham to gether with the deposition of Robert Bringham William M Bringham Robert Bringham again. I Edward Smith residence of Hardin County in the of Kentucky hence attached marked A B C & D was on this day not exhibited in open Court, before me for said County, now in Session and the same being approved by the Court, said affidavits being known to the said Court to be reputable witnesses and in-titled to credit, and it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that Robert Despriest was a united States Revolutionary pensioner on the Tennessee agency, that he died in Hardin County in the State of Kentucky many years ago, leaving Walter Despriest his wife a widow, that she lived separate from her said husband before his death for some years in the house with one Thomas Hoskins in Hardin County Kentucky, to whom report said she was married after the death of her husband Robert Despriest the pensioner but said report of her marriage to Thomas Hoskins not being credited or believed by their neighbors, and it further appears to the satisfaction of the Court that Thomas Hoskins the deceased  husband  of  the  widow  of  the  pensioner  Robert  Despriest  was  the  husband  of  the  widow  of  the  pensioner  Robert  Despriest

Said Mary Deprest and Robert Deprest her husband the pensioner, that they were never divorced, that at his decease he left Mary Deprest his wife a widow who remain his lawful widow until her own death, and that her said death took place in Hardin County Kentucky on the 30th day of July 1886, leaving Mary Bingham the only surviving child of the said Mary Deprest deceased. She had by her husband the aforesaid Robert Deprest the pensioner and that the said Mary Bingham is a residence of Hardin County Kentucky is now the applicant for the pension mentioned in the foregoing declaration.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County Court and signed my name Clerk on this 22nd day of April 1887
Jas B Howard Clerk of the Hardin County Court Ky
The words (et al), & the words, for in the foregoing order of court, was erased the before signed
Jas B Howard Clerk

Mary Bingham Amended Declaration of Warrenton Ky Made in Knobs Ky. Daughter of Patricia Deprived of her estate Oct 7 July 1838
J. S. Edwards Washington Ky Attorney Cole
Deprived of her estate  by her father  and mother  and brother  Deprived of her estate
filed by Edmund Rodmans D
I am a sympathizer with Joseph Matthews & James M. Bingham, and would help them and others to obtain justice when upon oath, I have no sympathy with Joseph Baker Danville Ky July 6 1857
Green Adams

I am acquainted with Jacob Noellum & James W. Bingham, and would say they are entitled to credit for truth when upon oath, I have no acquaintance with Joseph Baker
Burbonsville Ky
July 6 th 1857
Green Adams

The King's Court. High Sessions Dec 1857 It is proved to be Belief that on the 7 th day of Feb 1857 at a County Court held in the County of York for the trial of a cause between the King and the defendant of James Williamson & Rev. Mr. Bingham were Exhibited in open Court, a copy of a letter from the acting Registrar of the Court in the State of New York to the Hon. the Hon. also Belief that Postal Order is a document of the County Court and is a full credit when on cash, satisfactory proof was Exhibited by affidavit that said Rev Williamson & Rev. Mr. Bingham are entitled to full Confidence when on cash, and Rev Williamson is personally known to the Court & is entitled to full Confidence when on cash the foregoing being approved by the Court.
Clerk of the Court. High Sessions. Sir. I the undersigned Clerk of the High Sessions Court in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of the record of my Office Witness my hand & Seal of Office at New York this 7 th Feb 1857 Richard Williamson Clerk

State of Kentucky 3
County of Knox 3
B.
Be it known that on this 6 th day of Febrg 1857 before me a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Jacob Woodrum a resident of the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky, aged 59 years, who being first sworn accor- -ding to law upon his oath with make the following affidavit says that he has been the neighbor and has been personally well acquainted with Patsy Dipriest (deceased) and Robert Dipriest deceased, for the last 50 years. may say ever since he can recollect any person. his husband, and knows the said Robert Dipriest was a united state revolutionary pensioner at his decease, mentioned in the foregoing declaration; often his children say that they were married at an early day soon after the revolutionary war. and knows their marriage was never questioned or doubted. knows the said Patsy Dipriest deceased and the deceased Robert Dipriest lived separate for some years before and at his decease. - and the said Patsy

De Priest his wife lived for some years before and up to his decease in the house with one Thomas Washburn in Harlan County Kentucky. To whom one report said she was married, after the death of her husband, the pension De Priest, - but the report this affiant never credited, - as she nearly always went by the name of Patsy De Priest, notwithstanding her residence with Washburn, - & the said Thomas Washburn died in Harlan County Kentucky some three years or more ago. - & the said Robert De Priest the pensioner died in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky at Mary Bingham his daughters house many years ago, leaving Patsy De Priest deceased, his wife a widow who remained his widow until her own death - which his said death took place in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky at her daughters house Mary Bingham the Clamats on the 30 th day of July 1856. no doubt at the advanced age of near or quite 90 years, leaving at her decease Mary Bingham the only surviving child of the said Patsy De Priest (deceased) She had by her husband the pensioner

Robert D Priest deceased, mentioned in the foregoing application, & doubts not the said Mary Brigham. The claimant knows knows the age she states, & that Patsy D Priest deceased, is the same person who made applica- -tion for a pension from Warrenton Conty Ky - as the widow of the pensioner -or Robert D Priest deceased, & it has always since the separation of the said Robert D Priest and Patsy D Priest his wife, being my sister that they were never divorced, & so understood by the neighbors who know them well. notwithstanding their separation as aforesaid; and that the said Patsy D Priest deceased, never had but one child by any person, whose name is Mary Brigham as aforesaid, and is the only surviving child of the pensioner Robert D Priest deceased, he had by his wife Patsy D Priest deceased, and whom are men- -tioned in the foregoing application & swears that he has no interest in this claim. & said Mary Brigham resides in Warrenton Conty Kentucky. Jacob Woodrum Deed

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above mentioned. & I know the affiant is a respectable resident of the county of Warren in the state of Kentucky where he is entitled to full faith and credit. He signed the same in my presence with his own hand, understanding that the words (her said death) and the words (been mentioned) were inserted in the foregoing deposition before signed & I have no interest in said claim nor concerned in its prosecution.
Daniel Bousp

16.
State of Kentucky 3 County of Knox 3
Be it known. That on this 6 th day of February 1857 before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Joseph Baker aged 35-years. and James W. Bingham aged 26. years both residents of the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky who being first sworn according to law upon their oaths, both make the following affidavit, says that they have been a resident neighbor of Patsy Dipriest (deceased), and Robert Dipriest (deceased) ever since our most earliest recollection & know them well all the while. - and know the said Robert Dipriest was a united states revolutionary prisoner in his lifetime. has often here it said that they were married at an early day in the state of Virginia soon after the close of the revolutionary war - and their marriage was not questioned or doubted by their neighbors and the said Patsy Dipriest separated from her said husband Dipriest the prisoner &

lived in the house with one Thomas Waskins in Harlan County Kentucky, to whom it was said. She was man- -ried after the death of the said Robert Depriest. said Report these affiants never executed, as she went to the date of her death by the name of Patsy. Depriest the widow of the deceased Robert Depriest. - from whom she said she was never divorced, and is understood by these neighbors that no divorce was ever granted to either said Depriest or his wife Patsy Depriest and that the said Robert Depriest died in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky at the house of Mary Bingham their child, many years ago - leaving Patsy Depriest (deceased) his wife a widow who remained his widow until her own death, and that her said death took place in the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky at the house of Mary Bingham her child, on the 30 th day of July 1856. these affiants were present at the said saw her after she was dead.

and the date of her said death were set down which is genuine where present which show the above date of her said death leaving at her decease Mary Bingham the only surviving child of the said Patsy Dipriest deceased, she had by the deceased Robert Dipriest deceased, her husband mentioned in the foregoing declaration, and Mary Bingham is a resident of Harlan County Kentucky and is the applicant for the pension mentioned in the foregoing declaration, these affiants further state that the aforesaid Thomas Harlan died in Harlan County Kentucky some three or four years ago. - & the said Patsy Dipriest never had any chil- -dren by any other man save that she had by her husband the Pension- -er Robert Dipriest deceased, and the only surviving child is named Mary Bingham as aforesaid. & they state they have no interest in this claim, & Mary Bingham resides in Harlan County Kentucky.
Joseph Baker (Seal) James W Bingham (Seal)

Sworn to on a subpoena before me on the day and year first above written. I certify that I know the affiants Joseph Baker and James M. Bingham is known to me to be reputable residents of the county of Harlan in the state of Kentucky whose oaths are entitled to full faith and credit. They signed the foregoing deposition in my presence understanding it with their own hands. I have no interest in this claim or cause in its prosecution.
David Benf. P
State of Kentucky Mason County ss. I John H. Williams Clerk of the County Court of the County of Harlan do hereby certify that James M. Bingham whose genuine signature appears to be subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is now and at the time of signing the same, a Clerk of the peace within & for the County of Harlan State of Kentucky - Commission and known as such, and I further certify that the signature of James M. Bingham Esq. Judge of the 12th Judicial Dist. in the state of Ky is genuine. Given under my hand and seal of Office at Harlan this 7th day of Aug 1887 John H. Williams Clerk