Breckinridge County, KY - Rev. War Pension Application - Children of George Eskridge

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Linda R ussell Lewis. Copy provided by Vicki Hutchison. (both researching George Matthews,
witness on this application)

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SERVICE                                                   NUMBER

  Va.                ESKRIDGE, George                     W.8.693
                               Elizabeth

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Sate of Kentucky     |
Breckinridge County  |

                       On this 11th day of
April, 1863, Before me, Wm. D. Carwile, an
acting Justice of the Peace within and
for the county and State aforesaid, per-
sonally appeared George Matthews, a resi-
dent of this aforesaid county and State,
who, being sworn according to law, on
his oath makes the following declara-
tion, to=wit:

     That he is now seventy-two years
and nine months of age. That he was
born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and
lived there until about the year one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-
four (1794), when his father removed to
the State of Kentucky, and he came
out with him, he being at that time 
in his fourteenth year. That until a
short time previous to his removal from
Westmoreland county, George Eskridge,
deceased, late of the county of Grayson
and State of Kentucky, was a resi-
dent of the aforesaid County of West-
moreland, Virginia. That he recollects
of having heard the said Eskridge
(both while a resident of Virginia
and after his removal to Kentucky)
repeatedly speak of his military
service in the Revolutionary War.
That he has heard him say that
he served about three years in the
regular army, and that he has
always understood that he served
as an officer, a portion, if not the 
whole time. That he has heard him
say that he was at the battle of
Guilford Court House and the
Cow___. That the said George Esk-
ridge was generally refutted and be-
lieved to have been a Revolutionary
soldier by all who knew him.

     He further declares that the
said George Eskridge, deceased, removed
from Westmoreland County, Virginia,
to Fahquair [sic] county and subsequent-
ly married Elizabeth Robinson and
removed to the State of Kentucky
about the year one thousand eight
hundred and eleven (1811) and settled
in Grayson county, a near neigh-
bor to him. That at that time, Nancy
Porter, the eldest child of George and
Elizabeth Eskridge, deceased, was
nineteen (19) or twenty (20) years of age.
That the said George and Elizabeth
Eskridge continued to live together
as husband and wife until he died
in the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-seven (1827), and
were refutted and believed by all who
knew them to have been lawfully
married, and from the hgh re-
spectability of the parties, and his
intimate acquaintance with this
family, he has not the slightest
doubt that they were lawfully married.

He further declares that he maakes
the declaration for the purpose of
enabling the children of George and
Elizabeth Eskridge, deceased, to obtain
a pension and that he is a dis-
interested witness.

                      Geo. Matthews
                      [signature]

     Subscribed and sworn to before
me, this 11th day of April, 1853. And
I hereby further certify that George 
Matthews who has made oath to the
foregoing affidavit, is personally known
to me and that he is a very worthy
and highly respected man and that
all his statements are entitled to im-
plicit confidence.

               Wm. D. Carwille    J.P.B.C.

State of Kentucky    |
Breckinridge County  |

                    I, Jo. Allen, Clerk of
the county Court within and for the county and
State aforesaid, hereby certify that Wm. D. Carwile
Esq., before whom the foregoing declaration was 
subscribed and sworn to is and was at the time
of signing the certificate thereto an acting Justice
of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid,
duly commissioned and sworn and that all his
official acts as such are entitled to credit.

                    In testimony whereof I have set my
                    hand and affixed my seal of office
                    this 14th day of April, 1853.

                                  Jo. Allen