REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - ROBERT PIKE

Contributed by: Jen Bawden [jenbawden@comcast.net]


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Be it Remembered that heretofore, on the 18th of June 1821, Robert Pike made 
affidavit in open court and produced a schedule of his property amounting to 
eighty dollars, agreeably to an Act of Congress of the 1st May 1820 concerning 
pensions, which ordered to be entered of record inthe words and figures 
following; towit, Estill County, Kentucky on this 18th day of June 1821 
personally appeared in open court, being a court of records for the District, 
and having power to fine and imprison for contempt. Robert Pike, age 70 years, 
resident in Estill County in said District, who being first duly sworn according 
to Law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as 
follows: He enlisted with Captain Woods in Colonel Abraham Bufort's Regiment of 
Regulars on Continental establishment in the Virginia Line in the year 1777, as 
well as he recollects in Rockingham County, Virginia, to serve for eighteen 
months, at the experation of which time he re-enlisted in the same Regiment for 
during the war. He was discharged in South Carolina by his Captain. His 
certificate of pension is No. 14119.

I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 
18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in 
any other matter, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent 
thereby so to diminish 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 service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", passed the 18th 
day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any 
property or securities, contracts, in debts due me, nor have I any income other 
than what is contained in the schudle hereto annexed and by me subscribed: one 
horse of little value, appraised by two neighbors at $15.00; seven head of hogs 
including 7 pigs value at $10.00; house furniture besides one old bed value at 
$10.00; farming utensils value at $5.00 total $40.00. I have owing to me a small 
amount from a man whom I have ben dunning for about fifteen years and fear I 
shall never get it. I owe about fifty dollars to various persons, and shall owe 
about 10 barrels of corn next Christmas for rent. I am a farmer on rented land, 
but can scarcely work any, being lame and forced to work with crutches.

My family consist of my wife, aged 66 years, and one son, aged 17 years.

Robert Pike

Sworn to, and discharged, on this 18th day of June 1821, before the Justices of 
the Peace and Judge of the County Court

John Parks, William Meadows, John M. Moore, Lewis Moore, John Oldham and Samuel 
Kelly

Note: Mr. Pike settled in Estill County following the Revolutionary War. 
However, it wasn't until he removed to Fayette County, Kentucky that he made an 
application for a pension. He was instructied by the Fayette County Court to 
enter his application for a pension before the Justices of the Peace of the 
Estill County Court. Mr. L. Combs, one of the Justices of the Peace for Fayette 
County said in a letter to Mr. Pike that he had no doubt that he could get his 
pension allowed, and would have been done sooner had he lived in Fayette County.