REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - WILLIAM PATTERSON

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State of Kentucky Knox County Court 5 Circuit January Term 1825

William Patterson an applicant for a pension proved in court a statement of the 
services performed by him during the Revolutionary War in order to obtain the 
provisions of several acts of Congress relating to persons engaged in the land 
and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War which 
statement being sworn to in open court in due form of law is ordered to be 
entered of record copied and certified to the Secretary of War and is in the 
words and figures following (to wit)

State of Kentucky Knox County 5 Circuit
On the 10th day of January 1825 personally appeared in open court (it being a 
court of record by law and having the power to fine and imprison) William 
Patterson a resident in said county aged seventy five years who being first 
duely sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in 
order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818 the 
1st of May 1820 and the 1st of March 1823 that he the said William Patterson 
enlisted for the sum of two years in March 1775 in the County Augusta and the 
State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt John Hays in the Regiment 
commanded by Col George Matthews in the line of the State of Virginia on 
continental establishment and called the ninth Virginia
Regiment that he continued to serve in the corps until the Battle of Germantown 
when and where he was taken prisoner until the time of enlistment expired when 
he was discharged at Elizbethtown Point in the state of New Jersey by an 
officer whose name is not recollected that when he was taken prisoner at the 
Battle of Germantown the British marched him to Philadelphia there he was kept 
nine months then sent to the city of New York and there remained about one 
month and then sent with about seven hundred man to Elizbethtown Point in New 
Jersey and there discharged as before stated that he was in the Battle of 
Brandywine and several other skirmishes before the Battle of Germantown that he 
served more than one year before he was taken prisoner that he served more than 
two years on the continental line and in the service of the United States that 
shortly after his enlistment he was promoted to the rank of sergeant that he 
was under his Capt Col and in the same regiment he enlisted when he was take
prisoner. And 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 any other manner 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 initiated an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the 
land and naval service of the United in the revolutionary war passed on the 
18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any other person for me 
intrust any property on securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any 
income other than what is contained the schedule hereto entered and by me 
subscribed
1 old horse $10.00
5 head cattle $22.00
13 head of hogs $12.35
I have a wife and three children and am a farmer by occupation from infirmity 
and past labour.

William Patterson

Knox County 5ct
We the undersigned housekeepers for the County of Knox have valued the property 
of William Patterson and find his schedule to be correct amounting in the sum 
of $44.35 sworn to in open court.

James Stewart

David Baker

Abraham Dean

William Patterson makes oath that he is indebted as follows Wm Gale for $34.50 
Jack Chick $12.00 Joseph Mills $9.00 Thomas Gregory $5.00 and William Williams 
$6.00 and that there is due him about $9.00 We do certify that William 
Patterson is a creditable witness given under our hands as Justices of said 
county this 10th day of January 1825.

Jarvis Jackson

Randolph Adams

Wesley Garnett

Gale Cox

Also appeared in open court Christopher Horn a creditable witness and made oath 
that he enlisted in service to on Augusta County Virginia with William 
Patterson who now applies for a pension in Capt John Hays ninth Virginia 
Regiment commanded by Col George Matthews and well knows that he served as 
stated in his declaration and that they lived neighbors for many years in said 
county.

Christopher Horn