REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - RALPH C. COLLINS

Contributed by: Beulah Franks

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State of Kentucky, County of Grant.
On this 11th day of August in the year 1834 personally appeared in open court 
before the Honorable Justices of the Grant County Court, now sitting, being a 
court of record, Ralph C. Collins, a resident of Grant County and State of Ky., 
aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath 
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of 
Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States 
under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the 
spring of 1781 he was drafted for 3 months in the Company of Captain Collins? 
in King and Queen County, State of Virginia, was not in any engagement with the 
enemy during that time, but was part of the time at Hubbards old fields and 
part at Abbington Church and from those places was marched to Gloucester and 
after having served out the whole time there was discharged. The only field 
officers he now recollects were Colonel Roan and Major Roe. They had barely got 
home before they were again called out by the same officers and from this same 
county during this tour which was more than three months he was marched from 
Abbington Church to Gloucester point and was present in the American ranks 
during the siege of York and after the surrender of the British he was one of 
those who guarded them or some of them up to a place called Todd's bridge and 
then received his discharge but from the great length of time it has long since 
been lost. During this service he was under the same officers, to wit: Col. 
Roan, Maj. Roe and Captain Collins?. Afterward he was out in what is generally 
known as St Clairs campaign, he was under Captain Dark for 9 months and with 
him at the defeat of St. Clair. His colonel's name was Dark and his major was 
Bedinger. Some short time after the defeat of St. Clair he moved to Kentucky 
and has been living in what is now Grant County ever since its formation as a 
county. He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service 
neither is he known to anyone who has a personal knowledge of his service. He 
hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annunity except the 
present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency 
in any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Ralph C. (X) 
Collins.

We, Joseph Jump, H. B. Smith and James Williams, residing in the County of 
Grant, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ralph C. Collins who has 
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 
years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he 
resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that 
opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Joseph (X) Jump, 
H. B. Smith, James Williams.

Remarks: His application was rejected.