KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 15 Aug 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 237 X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:23:36 -0500 Subject:CENSUS: Wilkerson, 1850, Hopkins Co From: Dak Lyons [mailto:dlyons@coollink.net] 1850 Hopkins Co, Dist #2 KY. #212 John C. Wilkerson 30 M Farmer NC Mary P. 26 F NC William 3 M KY Samuel 6 1/2 M KY #213 William Wilkerson 57 M Farmer NC Martha 53 F NC William J. 24 M Farmer NC (married within the year) Panacide 18 F KY (married within the year) 1860 Madisonville, Hopkins Co., KY #378 John C. Wilkerson 40 M Farmer NC Mary 36 F NC William 13 M KY George 11M KY David 8 M KY James 5 M KY Charles 2 M KY #354 William J. Wilkerson 34 M Farmer NC Panazine 26 F KY ------------------------------------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:50:25 -0700 From: "Batha Karr" Subject: HISTORY: Otter Creek, Madison Co KENTUCKY - A Guide to the Bluegrass State Compiled and Written by the Federal Writer's Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kentucky Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York copyright 1939 by University of Kentucky Page 269 - On the US 25 at 31.m., is the point where Boone's Trace from North Carolina turned to follow Otter Creek to the south bank of the Kentucky River, where Fort Boonesboro was built. The trail entered Madison County over the crest of the Big Hill, the landmark on the Jackson County line, and went down the hills to the headwaters of Otter Creek. Page 274 - Through Cumberland Gap at the southern end of US 25E, and over the route now followed in part by US 25 E, came the first western surge of Kentucky pioneers, singly or in snall groups, attracted by tales of fertile land yet unclaimed, of springs and brooks and rivers, of slentiful game and endless adventure. Daniel Boone and his companions, sponsored by Col. Richard Henderson, became the advance guard for this westward movement, when in 1775 they marked the way to the site of what was to become Fort Boonesboro. Boone's Trace was not a new trail through the wilderness; it was a combination of paths long used by the buffalo and Indians, and later by French hunters and trappers. North of Cumberland Gap, for about 30 miles, Boone followed the Warriors Path-which extended from the Shawnee villages on the Ohio and Scioto Rivers to the Cherokee Country of the south-then selected a buffalo trace that took him westward to Rockcastle River, up Roundstone Creek, through the gap in the Big Hill, and down Otter Creek to the Kentucky River. ------------------------------------------------------------------- X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:41:43 EDT From: GaleBrisa@aol.com Subject: MILITARY: Revolutionary War Pension Information, all of KY The following information pertaining to the pensions and the laws is from the National Archives: The first pension law passed after the Declaration of Independence was that of 8/26/1776. It provided for veterans who were disabled in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War. The Act of 9/29/1789 provided that "Pensioners heretofore paid by States" should be paid by the United States from 3/4/1789, which pension was continued by the Act of 7/16/1790. The Act of 6/7/1794 authorized the Secretary of War the examine the evidence, and if satisfactory to place the names on the pension rolls. This provision was repealed by Act 4/1/0/1806 which required that the cases be reported to Congress for six years from the passage of a the Act. This was extended for six years by the Act of 4/25/1812. The Secretary of War was again authorized to place the names on the pension rolls, without reference to Congress, by Act of 3/3/1819, and this authority was exercised by him until the establishment of the Department of the Interior in 1849. The first act after the Revolutionary War for regulating the military establishment of the united States was passed 4/30/1790. Section II of this act provided pensions for veterans wounded in public service, not necessarily during the war period, These invalid acts were so numerous that it is not expedient to the list. However, prior to 1818 Congress passed no pension laws except for the relief of those veterans who were disabled in the service of the United States. War Department buildings were subjected to fire in November 1800, and again during the Battle of Blandensburg, 8/24/1814. Prior to 8/24/1814 original papers relating to pension claims were destroyed. The Act of 3.18.1818 was the first general act passed granting pension for service only. This was for the benefit of those surviving veterans of the Revolutionary War who had rendered military or naval service for nine consecutive months in an organization on the Continental Establishment. The Act of 3/18/1818 was causing too great a drain on the Treasury. On 5/1/1820 an Act was passed whereby all pensioners who were not in indigent circumstances were dropped from the pension rolls. The Act of 5/15/1828 provided for those surviving veterans of the Revolutionary War who had continued in service until the termination of the war. The Secretary of Treasury was responsible for these pension claims, therefore many papers pertaining to those claims are not on file in the Division of Veterans Administration Archives of the National Archives. The Act of 6/7/1832 provided for the final service benefiting veterans of the Revolutionary War. The eligibility requirements was that the aggregate length of war service be at least six months. This act included militia as well as Continental service. The "indigent circumstances" provision of the Act 5/1/1820 was not included in the Act of 5/15/1828 and 7/7/1832. The Act of 7/14/1836 was the first to provide for widows of veterans of the Revolutionary War. This Act provided for those widows who had married the veteran prior to the close of his last Revolutionary War service. The subsequent Revolutionary War Widows pension act were: Act of 7/7/1838; and Act of 7/20/1848 provided for widows who had married the veteran prior to 1/1/1800; the Act of 2/3/1853 provided fir widows whose marriage took place after 1.1.1800; these pensions ran for a term of five years. Continued from time to time by acts of Congress, and continued for life by the Act of 6/3/1858. "Virginia Half-pay claims" by Act of 7/5/1832. This Act covered claims granted by the state of Virginia granted to Veterans of that was for a period of five years the full amount of pay per year which they had received during the war, or in lieu of such payment for a five year period granted them an option of receiving one-half of the amount of such annual payment for life. The state of Virginia defaulted in such payments and Congress by special Act undertook to fulfill the obligation. The Bounty Land Act of 9/16/1776 granted land to veterans of the Revolutionary War who continued therein until the close of the War or were discharged by Congress, and to representatives of such veterans "as shall be slain by the enemy." Land grants were based on military rank and were as follows: Major General 1,100 acres: Brigadier General 850 acres: Colonel 500 acres; Lieutenant Colonel 450 acres; Major 400 acres; Captains 300 acres; Lieutenant 200 acres; Ensign 150 acres; noncommissioned officers and privates 100 acres. Claims have been given a file number with a letter preceding it to designate the class of the claimant (S for survivor and W for widow). Rejected claims for both veterans and widows were given the file number preceded by the letter R. The rejected claims provide much genealogical information....... 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