MILITARY PENSION: John Edens, Bullitt Co., KY

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Date: 17 May 2002
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EDENS, John
South Carolina
File #S.35911

On September 21 of the year 1818, in Bullitt county in the state of Kentucky, the said pensioner at the age of 58 
appeared in open court and made the following affidavit.  He stated that he had enlisted in the state of South 
Carolina in the spring of the summer of the year 1777 to serve undter the command of Captain James DOLLISON in the 
Third Regiment of the South Carolina line.  He said that in the month of May in the year 1780 he was taken 
prisoner by the British at Charlestown in the state of South Carolina and that he had been then detained for fourteen 
months after which time he was exchanged at the High Hills of the Sanfee in the state of South Carolina in 
the spring of the year 1782. He served in the Battle of Savannah and also at the siege of Charlestown.

The affidavit of Jonathan RICKETTS was also given at the same time and in the same place as the foregoing. The said 
deponenet stated and swore that at one time he was both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner and he 
also swears that he really does stand in need of the aid of his country.

On May 31 of the year 1821 in Bullitt County in the state of Kentucky, the said pensioner again appeared in open court 
and stated that he would be 63 years of age on July 4 of the year 1820.  He gve affidavit as follows and 
stated that he had first enlisted for a tour of three years in the army of the United States in the State of South 
Carolina at the age of sixteen years before the capture of General BURGOYNE und the command of Captain DONALDSON 
in the Third South Carolina Regiment to serve under the command of Colonel THOMPSON and then later Colonel HENDERSON.  
He stated that all his service took place in the states of South Carolina and Georgia and that he had been 
in the Battle of Stonefort in the state of South Carolina under the command of General LINCOLN.  He stated that his 
property was worth about $47.50 and that he owes about $25, and is owed about $6 by other people.  

The said pensioner, John EDENS, was on the Kentucky Rolle of Pensions at the rate of $8 per month to commence on 
September 21 of the year 1818.  His certificate of pension for that amount was issued on February 10 of the year 
1819 and it was thereupon sent to the Honorable R. C. ANDERSON, Junior at the House of Representatives.

Source:  McGhee, Lucy Kate.  "Abstracts of Pension Papers of Pensioners Residing in Bullitt County in the State of 
Kentucky," manuscript. (Lucy Kate McGhee died in 1975.  The typewritten manuscript is so old that the zip code given 
for her address is a single digit in Washington DC.)