REV WAR:  Burns, James, 1820, Application for Pension - Grant Co.

Submitted by: wrfc71a@prodigy.com  (Beulah Franks)

State of Kentucky
Revolutionary War Pension Application.

Pendleton Circuit Court October Term 1820.
On this 18th day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court, being
a court of the State aforesaid, James Burns who is now on the Pension
Roll, agreeably to 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 on the 18th day of
March 1818, aged 63 years, resident in Grant, formerly Pendleton County,
in the state and circuit aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according
to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War
as follows:  In the year 1776, August 19th, he enlisted under Captain
Samuel Miller in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel McCoy,
and served as a private for three years and about twenty-six days, having
been enlisted for the term of three years at which time he received his
discharge at Fort Pitt, he at that time was under the command of Col.
Broadhead who commanded the said 8th Regiment and received his discharge
from the hands of Lt. Col. Stephen Byard of said regiment and he further
states that his original declaration under the Act of Congress aforesaid
was made in June 1818 and that the number of his pension certificate is
10.544, and in the Act of the __ of May 1820, he further stated on oath
that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of
March 1818, and hath not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner
disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby to
diminish it, as to bring himself 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 on the 18th day of March 1818, and that he has not nor had any
person in trust for him, any property or securities, contracts or debts,
due to him, nor has he any income other than what is contained in the
schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed, which schedule is in the
words and figures following, to wit: one cow and calf, five head of
sheep, three pieces of potmettle, half dozen earthen plates and a set of
queensware cups and saucers, necessary clothing and bedding, not included
in the above schedule. Said Burns further declared on oath in open court
that he is by occupation and profession a farmer and that from his age and
infirmity and more over a total blindness for the last 12 years past he is
entirely unable to labor and that his family consists of himself and his
wife, Eleanor, aged 65 years.

                                        James (X) Burns

Sworn to and declared this 16th day of October 1820 before

                                        John Trimble, Circuit Judge

The court is of opinion that the property contained in the above schedule
is of the value of thirty-seven dollars and 75 cents and no more.
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