REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION EXCERPT - CHARLES FINNELL

Contributed by:  David Finnell 
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The following is an excerpt from Charles Finnell's 1834 pension deposition 
concerning his military service in the Continental army. He served three brief 
tours as a private in Virginia militia units.

Born in 1762 in Orange County, VA, Finnell moved to what is now Garrard county, 
KY, and then in 1822-23 to Silver Creek Township, Randolph County, MO. At least 
two of his children, Abner and John Finnell, lived nearby in Chariton County, 
MO.

"...he entered the service of the United States on a third two months tour in 
the first part of the month of August 1781 a private militia man a substitute in 
the place of one Francis Flint his residence was then Culpeper County 
aforesaid....marched directly down to the siege of York[town] -- he entered the 
service aforesaid in a regiment commanded by Col. James Barbour....was here 
until the siege was carried by the American Army against the British -- he was 
well acquainted with General Washington by sight, as well as with General 
Anthony Wayne and two French Generals Lafayette and De Chomonds [probably De 
Rochambeau]....the whole British garrison marched out with Lord Cornwallis at 
their head -- he [Finnell] marched with the British prisoners from York to 
Fredericksburgh and from thence to Falmouth where he got his discharge ...thence 
he went home to Culpeper County...."