PENSION: John Edens, 1818 Bullitt Co., KY


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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 19:52:14 EDT
From: catmom1@aol.com
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From - "Abstracts of Pension Papers of Pensioners Residing in Bullitt County in the State of Kentucky" compiled by 
Lucy Kate McGhee.  The paper is quite aged, as is the binder it was in, and it was typed, not word processed. There is 
no copyright date or information on the papers

EDENS, John 
South Carolina
Pension #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 under the command of Captain James DOLLISON in the 
Third Regiment of the the South Carolina Line. He said that in the month of May of the year 1780 he was taken a 
prisoner by the British at Charlestown in the state of South Carolina and that he had then been detained for fourteen 
months after which time he had exchanged and discharged 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 seige of Charlestown.

The affidavit of Jonathan RICKETTS was also given at the same time in the same place as the foregoing.  The said 
deponenet stated and swore that at one time he had been 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 gave 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 under  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 services 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 Roll of Pensions at the rate of $8 per month to commence on 
September 21 of the year 1818.   His certificate of pension in that amount was issued on February 10 of the year 
1819 and it was thereupon sent to the Honorable R. C. ANDERSON, JR. at the House of Representatives.