Pension:  James Blevens    Lawrence County, Indiana


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State of Indiana, Lawrence County.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County
and State aforesaid, James Blevens who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that, by reason of
old age, and the consequential loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to the precise
length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than
the period mentioned below, and in the following grades.  For six months as a private, as
mentioned above, which was written under the impression that I had served out my whole tour,
and that that was the length of time for which I engaged and for said six months service I
claim a pension.                                                                             
James Blevens
Subscribed and sworn to this 13th day of January 1834.    Alfred L. Arthur Esq.
State of Indiana, Lawrence County:
I, Robert Mitchell clerk of the circuit court of said county, do certify that Alfred L.
Arthur Esq. whose signature appears above was at the time of subscribing the same and now is
an acting Justice of the Peace of said county and that full faith and credit is due to all
his official acts as such justice.  Witness my hand and seal of office at Bedford January
28th AD 1834.       Robert Mitchell Clerk of Circuit Court
State of Indiana, Lawrence County:  County Probate Court November 12,  1832
Declaration in order to receive the benefit of an act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.
On this the twelfth day of November in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before
Rollin C. Dewey Judge of the probate court of the county of Lawrence aforesaid the same being
a court of record, James Blevens a resident citizen of Shawswick Township in the county of
Lawrence and State of Indiana aforesaid aged 70 years of age on the 25th day of December last
that he was born some place in New England from whence he moved to the county of Henry in the
State of Virginia when he was an infant, and also from whence his father removed to county of
Montgomery in the State of Virginia when this declarant was about ten years of age as he is

informed from the tradition of his family, that he entered as a volunteer in the county of
Montgomery aforesaid in the State of Virginia in the army of the United States some time in
the summer of 1780 but on what day of the month or what in said summer he cannot be certain
but thinks it was in the month of in said year in the company commanded by Captain William
Love, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Campbell of the Virginia State Volunteers and that
John ? who was afterwards promoted to the rank of Capt. was Lieutenant in said company at the
time this declarant entered the service as above stated and that Charles Robertson was
ensign, that during the time that this declarant served under said engagement as herein
stated march through a part of the State of Virginia, and North Carolina, and South Carolina,
that he was in the battle of Kings Mountain, from the battle of Kings Mountain, he was with
the rest of the regiment under Campbell and marched to Motte between two rivers in South
Carolina when the regiments commanded by Col Campbell and General Green met, that this
declarant was discharged at the said town of Motte on or about the 7th day of April in the
year 1781.  Whilst the forces under Campbell and Green were at that place as herein stated,
that he received his discharge as above stated from Col. Campbell and that on the day he
received his discharge as above mentioned that he enlisted under General Green at the town of
Motte, North Carolina aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain John Carroll in the
regiment commanded by Col. Cleveland for nine months and that  ? Luke Carroll, brother of
said John Carroll was Lieutenant in said company and that from said town of Motte after
having stayed there but a few days this declarant was marched to Logtown in sight of Camden
and was in the battle of Camden from there to '96 was in said battle from there to the High
Hills of Santee where they remained some time, from there to the Eutaw Springs was at the
battle of Eutaw, from there back to the High Hills of Santee, where they remained some time,
from there to some town not far from Charleston, the name of which this declarant does not
remember, that soon afterward this declarant was discharged at some little town between the
Eutaw Springs in the State of South Carolina and the High Hills of Santee, that he received
his last discharge as herein stated from Col. Cleveland, that on his way home from the army
to Montgomery County, Virginia that he was taken sick and lay at the Hanging Rock for about
two months when he was ok last met up his friends and taken home, that the declarant resided
in Montgomery County in the State of Virginia for 8 or 10 years after the war, after which he
moved to Tennessee in the neighborhood of Knoxville,  then back to the State of Virginia into
Wythe County where he resided until about 11 years ago when he removed to Lawrence County in
the State of Indiana where he now resides.  That he has lost his discharge with a number of
other papers and law books in moving from Virginia to this state which he had in an open
barrel or cask, because of heavy rains and high waters.  That he has seen his name recorded

in his father's family Bible which he supposes now to be lost, but prove the best of his
recollection by frequently reading said record that he believes he was born December 25,
1762,  That he has no written or documentary proof of his service nor does he know of any
person by whom he can prove his service other than his own declaration and the satements of
his neighbors and of Abraham Mitchell a clergyman citizen of the county of Lawrence
aforesaid.  That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the
present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any other State or territory
as a pensioner.
                                                                                             
James Blevens