PENSION: John Shoptaw, pension, 1832, Bullitt Co., KY ********************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 19:52:14 EDT From: catmom1@aol.com ********************************************************************** 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 SHOPTAW, John Indian Frontier 1788 and 1791 #21684 In the service of Kentucky The said pensioner first enlisted on August 1 of the year 1788 and he was then honorably discharged in the month of September following his enlistment. He served on the frontier under the command of Captain JENKINS and then he again served from March 1 of the year 1791 in the company under the command of Captain ENOCK for a tour of six months duration on the frontiers against the Indians and he then re-inlisted again in the year 1832. On September 18 of the year 1832 in Bullitt County in the state of Kentucky, the said pensioner at the age of 67 years appeared in open court and stated upon his oath that he had first entered to service on August 1 of the year 1788 in Washington County in the state of Pennsylvania to serve in the company under the command of Captain JENKINS as well as under the command of Lt. Peter DRAKE to serve in the capacity of a substitute for a man by the name of Thomas NICHOLS. The said pensioner further stated that they had first rendezvoused at Lindleys Mill and from that place they had then marched for a distance of seventy miles to the frontiers and in that location the said pensioner was appointed to serve in the capacity of a spy by the order of the said Captain JENKINS who was the commander as aforesaid of the company in which the said pensioner was enlisted. He served in this capacity as a spy for a period of one month and one week and he was then honorably discharged and returned. The said pensioner further stated and swore that on March 1 of the year 1791 from Washington County in the state of Pennsylvania he had again volunteered to serve in the company under the command of Captain Henry ENOCK as well as under the command of Lt. William ENOCK and Ensign Abraham ENOCK. He stated that they first rendezvoused at Washington in the county of Washington in the state of Pennsylvania and thereupon Col. MARSHALL of the Washington County Militia appointed him, the said pensioner, along with men by the name of Isaac M. KEOWN, John DANIEL and Adam MILLER to serve in the capacity as spies. They first made a march for one hundred miles and then they were stationed at the mouth of Fish Creek on the Ohio River. The said pensioner was thus engaged in the capacity of a spy for a period of six months. The said pensioner further stated and declared that he was thereupon honorably discharged from the service of his country in writing by the said Colonel MARSHALL at the aforesaid Washington in Pennsylvania after having served out full tour of six months duration. The said pensioner further stated and declared that he had been born in Berkeley county in the state of Virginia on March 11 of the year 1764 and that thereupon in the fall of the year 1891 he removed to the state of Kentucky to Nelson county in the aforesaid state. And then from there he had removed to Bullitt county in the said state. He further stated and declared that he had acted in the capacity of a substitute for one tour and that he had volunteered his services into the other tour of duty. The affidavit of William SHOPTAW was also given at the same time and in the same place as the foregoing. The said deponenet stated and and swore that at one time he had been both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner and the said deponenet further swore that the had really served as he had stated for a period of six months and in the capacity of a spy. The affidavit of Jeremiah P. HINTON, James CHAPPELL and Moses HOGLAND was also given at the same time and in the same place as the foregoing affidavit. The said deponetets stated and swore that at one time they had been both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner and they further stated and swore that in the neighborhood in which the said pensioner resided he was reputed to have served in the War of the Revolution on the side of the United States of America and they thereupon conclude their affidavit by swearing and certifying that the said pensioner was a man considered by them all to be a person of the very best and greates veracity. The application of the said pensioner for a pension was rejected by the commissioner of pensions because this man had served after the termination of the War of the Revolution and the pension laws only provided for those who participated in the War of the Revolution itself. We learn that this is the case by a letter written from the War Department of the United State of America to George F. POPE who whas thus evidently the Attorney for the said pensioner JOHN SHOPTAW.