REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION: TERRIL, John - Bourbon County, Kentucky

Contributed by: John & Cindy McCachern (mccachern@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 18 July 2002

COURT RECORD FILED BY JOHN TERRIL IN BOURBON COUNTY, KY, IN 1818
 
Commonwealth of Kentucky
 
   Before me the undersigned one of the judges of the general court and the 
presiding judge of the eleventh judicial District in and before the State 
aforesaid, this day personally appeared JOHN TERRIL aged sixty six years, a 
citizen of Bourbon County in the State aforesaid and a citizen of the United 
States and being sworn according to law did dispose and say that in the fall 
of the year as he thinks 177__. He was enlisted at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 
under CAPT HENRY GREER of the heavy Artillery in the continental Army and was 
attached to the regiment commanded by COL. FLOWERS of the Pennsylvania Line. 
That his enlistment was for three years or during the war, of which he served 
about two years and six months and was then honorably discharged at Carlisle 
about a month or two or at farthest three months after CORNWALLIS'S surrender 
in York (NOTE: Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown 19-Oct-1781) and by that 
circumstance alone he is unable to determine when he enlisted, as he is 
unlettered and cannot retain dates. That he received his discharge from CAPT. 
WILEY; but has long since lost it and cannot produce it----That he has no person 
near him except his oldest daughter who can prove any thing of his service and 
she was then very young---That he is now infirm and unable to labor, and and 
that he is indegent and has bearely anything besides his clothes. He owns one 
bed and no other property. That he and his wife are through age and infirmity 
unable to support themselves at housekeeping and are obliged to separate and 
live with their children apart, and thus they are unable to exist, and he is 
truly in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to subsist without the 
contributions of charity or the aid of his country as now provided by law.

   I BENJAMIN MILLS Judge as aforesaid  do certify that the foregoing  examination 
was taken and sworn to before me the day of the date hereof and that it does account 
any satisfaction that said applicant JOHN TERRIL did enlist and serve as a soldier 
in the continental army as in said examination is stated and that he is really in 
such indigent circumstances as to need the aid of his country as now provided by 
the act of congress. Given under my hand this twenty ninth day of August 1818.
 
B. MILLS
 
 
COURT RECORD FILED BY JOHN TERRIL IN BOURBON COUNTY, KY, IN 1820
 
STATE OF KENTUCKY
 
Be it remembered that at a court held for the county of Bourbon  in the state of 
aforesaid, being instituted a court of record by a legislative act on Monday the 
2nd day of October 1820. JOHN TERRIL, at present a pensioner under the general 
government of the United States is exhibited in court a Schedule  of his Estate 
together with an affidavit in the words and figures following to wit.
 
   Schedule of JOHN TERRIL Estate, he being a Revolutionary Soldier. One Cow 
and calf, one pot, three small pewter plates, one table. His children have all 
left him, his wife is 72 years old and he has none to assist him and they are 
both living on the charity  of their friends. He has nothing due to him. 
JOHN (x) TERRIL
 
STATE OF KENTUCKY BOURBON COUNTY
 
   I JOHN TERRIL  do solomenly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the 
United States of America on the 18th day of March seventeen hundred and eighteen 
and that I have not other that time, gift, sale or any manner whatever disposed 
of my property  in any part thereof with intent thereby  so to deminish it as to 
bring 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, possessed on the 18th day of March one thousand 
and eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in interest 
for me any property or security contract or debts due to me nor have I any income 
other than what is contained in the schedule hereto aforesaid and by me subscribed.   
I also swear that I am SIXTY NINE YEARS OLD IN AUGUST LAST that I am the same 
JOHN TERRIL whose name is inscribed on the pension void of the Kentucky Agencies 
at the rate of eight dollars per month, for which I had a certificate dated in 
the twenty nineth day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
JOHN (x) TERRIL
 
   And the court do assess the value of the property contained in the schedule 
aforesaid  at fourteen dollars seventy five cents. I Thomas P. Smith Clerk of 
the said County Court of Bourbon do certify the foregoing schedule and affidavit 
of JOHN TERRIL was presented in open court. Sworn to and subscribed before the 
said court by the said TERRIL and being a minutes of record filed in my office, 
the aforegoing is truly copied together with the valuation as assessed by said 
court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sit my hand and assigned my seal 
this 3rd day of October 1820 in the 29th year of the commonwealth. 

Thomas P. Smith. 


EVIDENCE OF JANE HIBBS AND JOHN HAMILTON SUPPORTING JOHN TERRIL CLAIM FOR 
REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION

Mrs. JUNE HIBBS being by me first duly sworn did depose and say that she perfectly 
recollects of the distress of the wife of JOHN TERRIL on his enlistment during the 
revolutionary war, and it was understood and well known that he had enlisted for 
three years or during the war, and that he staid from his family shortly after 
his enlistment in the town of Carlisle, Penna as a soldier. She also well 
remembers his coming home during his term of service on furlough and of the joy 
of the family on meeting. She also well remembers the name of Capt. GREER as his 
officer and of Colo FLOWERS, and that he was commanded by them. That she was then 
young unable at that time to speak with certainly as to the term of his service, 
but knows of the time appearing long and it was far more than one year. She also 
remembers of the rejoicing at the close of the war and of the wife of said JOHN 
being much elated at the prospect of his return on that event, which satisfies 
her that he was still absent and did not leave the army till the close of the war, 
after which she well remembers of his return home. She thinks that after his 
return she saw his discharge, but cannot speak with certainty on that subject.
 
   Also JOHN HAMILTON aged about seventy three years (NOTE: born 1746)  
being first duly sworn, desponth says that at the time the said applicant 
JOHN TERRIL inlisted this deponent lived in the same neighborhood and was 
acquainted with him. That he well remembers the enlistment of TERRIL and 
that he made considerable sacrifice when he went to the army; but he cannot 
recollect the date of his enlistment tho from facts and circumstances it 
must have been about three years or more before the close of the war. That 
this deponent did not see him during his service not for some time after 
his discharge. But his enlistment and his leaving home to the injury of 
his family and against the opinion of his neighbors, he perfectly remembers 
and he knows him to be very poor without any estate now.
 
   I BENJAMIN MILLS judge as aforesaid do certify that the additional evidence 
of JANE HIBBS and JOHN HAMILTON relative to the claim of the aforesaid JOHN 
TERRIL was this day taken in and sworn to before me, and is added to the 
original statement of the the applicant that it appears fully to my 
satisfaction that the said TERRIL was inlisted and did serve in the 
continental army as in his own detail and then addition as statements is 
declared and that he is really in such indigent circumstances as to require 
the aid of his country.

Given under my hand this 28 day of May 1819. 

B. MILLS


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