REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - THOMAS PRICE

Contributed by:  Darlene Stone

Declaration-State of Indiana, Monroe County. 

On this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and 
thirty-two personally appeared before me (the undersigned) Stephen P. Seall, one of the judges 
of the circuit court of said county being a court of record and I being an associate judge of said 
court, said circuit court being composed of a President and two associate judges, Thomas Price, 
a resident of said county and state aged eighty two 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 the 4th of June 1832. That He entered the service of the United States under 
the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was born on the twenty second day 
of April in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and fifty in the then county of Frederick in the 
state of Virginia. His fathers name was John. He resided in said county and state with the 
exception of six years until this applicant entered into the service in the year seventeen hundred 
and seventy seven in the month of September. He volunteered in said United States service of 
infanty in the Virginia Militia in the company of Michael Reader commanded by Colonel Gibson in 
the Brigade commanded by General Hand for a period and tour of three months, a new county 
having been formed between and out of the said county of Augusta and the county of Frederick. 
This applicant though still residing in his old neighborhood was now living in said new county 
called Shenandoah. He was rendezvoused and entered the service in said last named county in 
said month of September. He was marched thence to Fort Pitt now Pittsburgh at the forks of the 
Allegany and Monogahalia Rivers against the Indians thense he was marched down to Fort 
Wheeling where he was stationed upwards of a month. He was marched homeward and 
dismissed on the way at Cape Capon River. He served said tour of three months faithfully and to 
the acceptance of his said officers. He received no written discharge. In the year seventeen 
hundred and eighty-two, he then re-enlisted in the month of January, the company to which he 
belonged being called upon to furnish a certain number of men. He, with the number required, 
volunteered and entered into the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia of infantry for a 
tour of thee months in the company commanded by Captain John Seahorn. He thinks he was not 
attached to any Regiment. He entered the service in the county of Shenandoah in said state. He 
was marched and served as a guard in charge of the prisoners taken by General Morgan at the 
Battle of the Cowpens. From Shenandoah county he guarded said prisoners to Winchester, 
Virginia to the Barrick there, where they and this applicant as a guard was stationed about three 
months when he was marched guarding said prisoners to the Maryland line where the Maryland 
militia took charge of the prisoners, and he was there dismissed some time in April 1782. Name 
of the county not recollected. Without any written discharge. In last mentioned year (1782) this 
applicant again volunteered in the service of the United States in the militia in the same manner 
as in said last and second tour in the month of September about the 22nd day in the company of 
Infantry by Captain Martin Naul. He (living) was at said county of Shenandoah when he 
volunteered and entered the service, thense was marched to Little York River, Yorktown in 
Virginia near the seacoast. On the other side of the river where was stationed the British Light 
Horse. He joined the regiment commanded by Colonel Elias Edmonds or Edmondson under the 
command of General George Washington at Headquarters. He was ordered and was employed 
at ditching, entrenching and making breastworks. He commenced entrenching and making 
breastworks at the distance of about six miles from Cornwallis and progressed successfully until 
he _______ in ________ at Quarters where they were about to plant some of Washingtons great 
cannon when Lord Cornwallis surrendered. About Wednesday was the surrender. He was 
employed filling up the trenches for the British to march out to stack arms which they did on 
Friday. On Saturday he marched in charge of said prisoners up through Virginia to the Potomac 
River where he was dismissed, the prisoners being put under guard of the Maryland Militia. He 
served in said last tour three months. He states his age from a recollection of the record, he 
knows not what became of it. He never received any written discharge. He served in all said 
times and tours nine months faithfully and to the acceptance of his officers. He received perhaps 
about 25 cents a day during said last tour which altogether for the whole tour was not worth 50 
cents in _________. He has never received any other pay for any of said services. Said pay 
being in Continental paper money. He lived in said county of Shenandoah five years after the 
war. He then removed to Pulaski County Kentucky, resided there thirty-two years, then removed 
to Monroe County, Indiana where he resided for two years and now resides. He has no 
documentary evidence of any part of his services nor does he know of any persons whose 
testimony he can or could procure except the certificates herewith. He relinquishes hereby every 
claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll 
of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. He is unable to 
attend court by reason of age and weakness. He also states there is no clergyman convenient 
whose certificate he can procure. Thomas X (his mark) Price

Mr. John Hansford, James Everman, and James Smock residing in the neighborhood of Thomas 
Price hereby certify that we are all well acquainted with the said Thomas Price who has 
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about eighty-two years 
of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides to have been a 
soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. I, the said John Hansford, have been 
well acquainted with the said Thomas Price from my infancy. I being thirty-three years of age, 
about twenty years of which time I have resided in the same neighborhood with him, during all 
which time he was reputed and believed where he resided to have been a soldier of the 
revolution. Sworn to and subscribed the year , day, month aforesaid. John Hansford, James 
Smock, James Everman