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- Moved to Mercer County, Kentucky in 1788. Green County in 1794. Microfilm 897,324
On this 27th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court intheGreen Circuit Court before the Judge in the said court, holden forGreenCounty, Kentucky, William Lee a resident citizen of said countyaged 78years on the 24th day of January last past, who being firstduly swornaccording to law doth on his oath make the followingdeclaration in orderto obtain the benefit of the provisions made bythe act of congress ofthe 7th day June 1832 who makes the followingdeclaration towit—that hewas drafted and served in the militia of theState of Virginia from theCounty of Buckingham as a soldier of UnitedStates in the RevolutionaryWar under a captain who marched with acompany to the Albemarle Barrackwho returned home & when he reachedthe Barracks at Albemarle he thinksthe company he was attached to wascommanded by Capt William Benning thohe does not recollect whetherthere was any officer from his own countywho commanded them nor doeshe recollect the names of . it was in thesummer of the year 1778 thathe performed this service. This service wasrendered in guardingprisoners as they moved them the Albemarle Barracks,a short distanceabove Charlottsville in Albemarle County being in theprocess length oftime he served in this tour could not state but was ofopinion that itwas months—whatever time it was he served the tour anddischarged & has--
He served as a volunteer from Buckingham County in the year 1778 ashethinks, tho of this he is not certain. The company who march I thiswaswith officers from the said county. They started out with a view tojoinGen. Stickan and at some place on their tour drew arms &ammunition. Thefirst place of destination was Point of Fork on JamesRiver in Virginiabut before (they) reached that place their march waschanged and theymarched in a direction to aid James Fahen, tho theydid not go to thatplace. He in connection with of the volunteers fromBuckingham joined alarger body of troops in that section of countysome where tho he cannotsay where, as it was to him then & now astrange part of the county. Whenthey joined the troop named before,they were put under officers, tho hedoes not recollect the officersnames for they were strangers to him, hepresumes they were Stutan'stroops. He recollects on this tour that on acertain occasion while hewas marching with the army to have seen a fieldofficer whose name heinquired and was told it was Marquis De Lafayette.This tour was ashort one, about one month, he was discharged tho hisdischarge is lostand he cannot say when he was discharged.
He served as a militiaman, being drafted from the same county, intheyear 1781 under Captain William Carnson who commanded a riflecompanywhich he served in. This company was attached to GeneralLawson'sBrigade. In this company he served as second Sergeant. Herecollects,Col. Holcomb, B. Randolph & Tucker who commanded regimentsin Lawson'sbrigade. In this service, the company he belonged tomarched to the southand he with them was in the Battle Guilford Countyalso in NorthCarolina, where he discharged about six rounds of in his company; herecollects that in that engagement there were threecaptains killed fromBedford County. All of whom he was well acquainted(with) Jacob Morris?,Wm. Jones, Thomas Helms. In this tour he servedto the best of hisrecollection three months. He served the whole timeout, he thinks andwas discharged at Bainsouco Mill in North Carolina.The battle was fought15th of March 1781. He was discharged after this,but how long he doesnot recollect. The discharge he obtained he haslost if he obtained onetho he thinks the company was discharged by thecaptain without writtendischarges.
He served a fourth tour from his county aforesaid in 1781 underCaptainThomas Liftrech or Leftrige. In this tour he thinks he wascalled out forthree months but most of the men ran away. He served hethinks two monthsand was discharged August 10, 1781 by the MajorThomas Watkins commanderof the 2nd Battalion as will appear by hisdischarge here with file whichis the only discharge he preserved. Thisdischarge was old field. Thecolonel's name of the Regiment he hasforgotten.
He served a fifth tour in the Virginia Militia in the companycommandedby Peter Garren in the Battalion commanded by Major WoodJones fromAmelia. In this tour he served also as a sergeant andmarched to thesiege of Little York, he was engaged till the surrender.This tour wasfor three month, but he was taken sick & did not servethe tour fullyout. He thinks he served from 1 and a half to two monthsof the time. Hewas discharged from the service by a lieutenant, for at(the) time thecompany had no officer of higher rank. This discharge hehas also lost.He has no other documentary testimony of his service asabove stated.
He was born Albemarle County Virginia but in that part of it nowincludedin Buckingham and he resided there wholly except a very shorttime inPrince Edward County until he removed to Kentucky in the fallof the year1788 and resides still. He settled first in Mercer County,Kentucky &from there he removed to Green County Kentucky in the year1794 inDecember and has continued to reside in Green County eversince. He hasnever drawn or applied for a pension before and he herebyrelinquishesevery claim to pension or an annuity whatever except thepresent and hedeclares his name is not on the pension roll of anyagency in any statewhatever.. Sworn to & subscribed this day yearaforesaid
We, Thomas Gains clergyman residing in Green County and state ofKentuckyand Samuel White residing in the said county hereby certifythat we arewell acquainted (with)William Lee who has subscribed andsworn to theabove declaration; that we believe him to be 78 years orage on the 24thday January last. That he is reputed and believed inthe neighborhood inwhich he resides, to have been a soldier ofrevolution and that we concuron that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed this 28th day of August 1832.
The deposition of Gresham Lee of Adair County, Ky taken at the house?ofJohn Hardwick in the County and State aforesaid of the applicationofDrusilla Lee for a pension under the Act of July 7, 1838.
Deponent being Thirty Seven years on the 30th July 1839 deposethandsaith that he was well acquainted with William Lee deceased andDrusillaLee his widow, he the deponent being their son. He furtherstates he knewhis father the aforesaid William was a pensioner on therolls of theKentucky agency and that the aforesaid William died on thetwelfth day ofFebruary eighteen hundred and thirty five and that hismother theaforesaid Drusilla Lee has remained a widow ever since thedeath of herhusband the aforesaid William to the present period andthe deponentfurther states that the family Bible which contains therecord of hisfather's marriage death and birth of his children is nowand has been inhis possession from a few days after his father's deathuntil this time.
The Deponent stated in this register which now lies before him undertheHead of Marriages in plain legible letters and figures in thefollowingwords Viz. Wm. Lee and Drusilla Lee married January 24th inthe year 1783(January the twenty fourth in the year seventeen andeighty three). Onthe same register he sees it entered Wm. Lee bornJanuary 24th 1754 andimmediately after this is entered, Druseller bornat the December 1760.And immediately before this entry is another Viz.the date married I wasthe twenty-nine years old and Drusiller was 18years and about one monthold.
And the Deponent further states that in the same family Bibleandregister under the head of Births he sees entered in the followingwordsViz. Mary Ann Grisham Lee born January the 10, 1784, Saturday 1or 2after night. Samuel Lee Born Friday the 12th May 1786, abt 8 intheafternoon. William Lee Junior born Wednesday at 8 or 9 in theafternoonthe 17 February 1789.
And so continues the register until all the children's ages of William&Drusilla are registered all of which registering is in thehandwriting ofhis Father the aforesaid William he being familiar andknowing the handwriting of his Father the aforesaid William and theDespondent has knowdoubt his father the aforesaid William Lee didwrite and make all theaforesaid entries correctly and the despondentfarther saeth not.
6th February 1839 John Hardwich J Peace
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1754 - 1835 (81 years)
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