REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - EDMUND StJOHN NEWMAN

Contributed by:  Patrick Hayes [patrick@migrations.org]

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The following is abstracted from a letter from A. D. Hiller, Assistant to 
Administrator (presumably to the National Archives) to Lillian Higinbotham of 
Pine Bluff, AR.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the record of Edmund St. John Newman.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 
9214, based upon the military service of Edmund Newman.

He enlisted in Prince William County, Virginia, in 1780, served eighteen months 
as sergeant in Captain John Marshall's and Samuel Selden's Companies in Colonels 
John Green's, Samuel Hawes' and Campbell's Virginia Regiments, was at the battle 
of Camden, the siege of Ninety-Six and the battle of Eutaw Springs and was 
discharged in January, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 24, 1832, while a 
resident of Hancock County, Kentucky, and he then stated that he was seventy 
years of age on March 19, 1832. The place of his birth was not given, nor were 
the names of his parents.

In 1838 he was living in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

He died August 11, 1850.

This soldier married April 3, 1783 in Prince William County, Virginia, Miss Mary 
Wiatt of that county.

As a widow to Edmund Newman she was allowed pension on her application executed 
March 8, 1853, while a resident of Hancock County, Kentucky, aged eighty-nine 
years.

In 1853 the widow, Mary Newman, stated that her oldest child (name not given) 
was sixty-eight years of age. IN that year reference was made to a son (*NOTE: 
Should be GRANDson*), Albert H. Newman, and Manly and Nancy Newman made 
affidavit in Hancock County, Kentucky, in behalf of the widow, Mary Newman, but 
their relation to her was not given. The papers in this pension claim contain no 
other data relative to family.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford information in 
regard to any Edmund St. John Newman or to an Edmund Newman who was born in 
1749.