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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ***************************************************************************** Samuel Ward's application for a pension for Revolutionary War service: Georgia } Inferior Court Sitting for } Ordinary Purposes Oglethorpe County } September 3, 1832 On this the third day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before Judges Banks, Cox, Pope & Hutchinson of the Court of Ordinary of said County now sitting Samuel Ward, a resident of the County & State aforesaid, aged 79 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed 7 June 1832--that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was drafted from the Virginia Militia--drew, he recollects, No. 10 sometime previous to the time of being called out. Was ordered in consequence of said draft & did rendezvous at Hillsboro, North Carolina on 25 Oct 1780--__?__ he marched under the command of William Collier, Capt--he soon left--Deponent was placed then under command of Ensign _____ Ferguson-- field officers were Gen'l Green, Col Jno. Glenn, May. Morris. Was marched from thence to Pedee, stationed at Hicks Creed, thence on a [line is illegible] Towns Guilford Court House--were fired on by the enemy in crossing the shallow ford of the __?__ & discharged at Pittsylvania Co Court House on 25th Febry 1781. Deponent then returned to Lunenburg County, Virginia were he resided when first drafted. In the fall of 1781, it again became the duty of Deponent to render service under the same draw No. 10--and was called upon and marched from Lunenburg County, Virginia to __?__ York under the command of Capt ____ Broadnax, he thinks starting __?__ as Lieutenant, and remained at York until its capture by Gen'l Washington In all this deponent is most religiously confident, making a period of more--and certainly not less than two months tho the precise dates his memory cannot now supply him with. His discharge for the first four months service under Col. Glenn he has lost. He recieved none at York. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. /s/ Samuel Ward We, Benj. Blanton, a clergyman residing in the county and state aforesaid, and John Beasley, residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Ward, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 79 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Maj. Jno. Beasley further certifies that Samuel Ward, the applicant, lived __?__ __?__ for his Father, when he first was called upon & entered the service. That he served the first tour stated by him within his knowledge, and he understood then, and has no doubt of the fact that he served the two months stated to have terminated at York. Sworn to & subscribed the day and hear aforesaid. /s/ Benj Blanton M P /s/ John Beasley And the said Court does hereby dictate this. In Samuel Ward's pension file is a copy of a letter from the custodian in the "Rev. & 1812 Wars Section" to Mrs. Philip A. Spence, Wytheville, Virginia, dated 4 Aug 1931: "Dear Madam: "You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 32047, the Samuel Ward, while residing in Lunenburg County, Virginia, enlisted, was rendezvoused at hillsboro, North Carolina, October 25, 1780, served as a private in Captain William Collier's Company, and under Ensign Ferguson, Colonel John Glenn's Virginia Regiment and was discharged February 25, 1761. "He enlisted in the fall of 1781, served two months in Captain Broadnax's Virginia Company, and was at the seige of Yorktown. "He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, at which time he was aged seventy-nine years and resided in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. "There are no data as to his family. "The above is the history of the only Samuel Ward, who served with the Virginia Troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator"