Lincoln County KyArchives Military Records.....Barnett, James P. Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 23, 2006, 12:45 pm Pension Application Of James P. Barnett, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 150, Application # S12963 JAMES P. BARNETT, a resident of Lincoln County, Kentucky, aged 70 years: “That he served a tour of three months under Captain JOHN LEAK, a man by the name of MARTIN, he thinks was the Colonel, and JOHN JONES was the Lieutenant. That he served in the year 1780 in the winter he thinks. That it was the duty of the company in which he was, to guard a public magazine in Guilford County, North Carolina, pursuant to the command of General GREENE, to preserve it from the Tories. That there was no regular officers or regiments stationed near them. That they marched only from one part of Guilford County to another in which they were stationed. That there was no regular discharge in writing, but they were relieved at the expiration of their term of duty at the public magazine. That he was in no battle.” “That he entered as a volunteer again in the first part of the month of March 1781 under the command of Captain JOHN MAY, MARTIN was the Colonel, he thinks a man by the name of HUNTER was the major. General NATHANAEL GREENE was the commander in chief. Colonels WASHINGTON and LEE commanded the cavalry. That he resided in Guilford County, NC when he volunteered. That they were marched backwards and forwards maneuvering through the county until the American Army under General GREENE encountered the British Army under Lord CORNWALLIS at Guilford Courthouse. “ “That he was in the battle under the officers of his company. That the battle was fought as near as he can recollect, about the middle of March 1781 [per Heitman, March 15, 1781]. That he served a tour of three months and was discharged by Captain JOHN MAY at Captain JOHN MAY’s own house on Dan River. He states that he has lost his discharge. That in the same year, he emigrated to the District of Kentucky, then a part of the state of Virginia and came to Logan’s Fort.” “That in the spring of the year 1782, about the month of May, he entered the service as a substitute for George Murrell in pursuance of an order from Colonel Logan to relieve Estill’s Ford which was threatened by the Indians, Captain Estill having lately been defeated and killed by the Indians with 18 or 20 men. That he served a tour of one month and was verbally discharged by Captain John Woods, the commanding officer at Estill’s Ford.” “That in the month of June or July, he does not recollect which, 1782, he volunteered under Captain Robert Barnett, Benjamin Logan was the colonel, and marched to the Blue Licks in the District of Kentucky for the purpose of burying the dead that had been killed by the Indians in the defeat of Colonel Todd and Scruggs at the Blue Licks, and that he served a tour of one month when they were discharged.” “That in a few days after, in the same year, 1782, he substituted for Lazarus Cotton and marched from Burcutt’s station in Lincoln County under the command of Captain Kirkum, Colonel Jackson, the colonel, to Bullit’s Licks for the purpose of guarding the salt works, at which place was the only place where salt could be procured in the western county, and which was constantly menaced by the Indians. Here he remained doing duty for one month, when they returned to Lincoln County and was discharged in the usual manner by their officers.” “That in the month of October, 1782, he volunteered under Captain Robert Barnett, John Logan was the Lieutenant-Colonel, and Benjamin Logan the colonel, and went on what was called General Clarke’s 1782 campaign up the Big Miami. They rendezvoused opposite the mouth of Eich___? River, where Cincinnati now stands, when they marched up the Miami to the old Shawnee Town, where they had a battle and defeated the Indians. General Clarke commanded and Benjamin Logan was the second in command.” “That on the same day, about two hours by sun [2 o’clock?], Colonel Logan conducted an expedition of about one hundred and ten men volunteers and marched about twenty-two miles to an Indian Town in which there was a French store. That they surprised the town and captured some prisoners and returned to the main body under General Clarke. That they then marched back to the mouth of Licking where they crossed the Ohio and were discharged so soon as they crossed and proceeded home, and that he served a tour of sixty days or two months.” “That in the fall or winter of 1782, he volunteered under the command of Captain John Woods and marched from English’s Fort to the Cumberland Mountains to guard the emigrants from the state of Virginia to the interior of Kentucky, which was made a part of their duty by law, and that they were engaged in this service for one month when he was discharged by his officers.” “That he was born in Amherst County state of Virginia in 1762. That he was taken to Guilford County when he was young. That he left North Carolina in 1781 and came to Kentucky directly after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, where he has remained ever since.” “He would state that in the month of May 1783, he went on a volunteer expedition under Colonels Benjamin Logan, John Logan and Isaac Shelley, Captain Robert Barnett, to expel an inroad of some Northern Indians who had encamped on the Sandy River. That they marched to the camp of Indians who retreated and abandoned the county before they could be overtaken. He was about one month on this expedition.” “He states that he has since served in the public service about thirteen months. He states that he has no documentary evidence of his services whatever, but states that he can prove the greater part of his services by Mrs. Ann Hall, Joseph Hall, Benjamin Briggs and Abraham Estes. “And the deponent Ann Hall, upon her oath, states that she knows of James P. Barnett having served in the Revolutionary War. That he served as a substitute for his father, JOHN BARNETT, and that he was under the command of Captain JOHN LEAK, and that he served a tour of three months as guard over the public magazine in Guilford County, North Carolina, which she thinks was in the year 1780, and that she knows of his having served a second tour of three months under the command of Captain JOHN MAY in the spring of 1781, and that he was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse as he has stated in the above declaration, as she was living in Guilford County at the time and had a personal knowledge of his services.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/lincoln/military/revwar/pensions/barnett307gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/