REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - LINSFIELD BICKNELL

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Linsfield Bicknell
Old War File 6647 - Kentucky Militia

A copy of an invalid pension certificate issued by the War Department to 
Linsfield Bicknell was on file and stated that the applicant had been inscribed 
on the roll of the Kentucky agency, to commence on the 17th day of May 1819, and 
given at the War Office on August 7, 1833. This was a duplicate copy of the 
certificate given 28th of July 1820, which had been lost or mislaid.

On July 15, 1834, in Madison Co., Kentucky, Doctors Wm. P. Letcher and Chas. I. 
Walker, residents of said county made application to be used in favor of 
Linsfield Bicknell, resident of Estill Co., Kentucky, and who was applying for 
an increase of a pension. They stated that the tomohawk which had wounded the 
shoulder of the Revolutionary soldier, Linsfield Bicknell had split the cap of 
the shoulder and on account of it, the shoulder was in danger of being 
dislocated by labor. Dr. Wm. R. Letcher further stated before H.B. Hawkins, 
Justice of the Peace, that he was in the battle of Dudley's defeat and was the 
only seargeant of this of this regiment. That he knew said Bicknell then and 
ever since.

H.B. Hawkins, Justice of the Peace, stated that he was acquainted with both Dr. 
Letcher and Dr. Walker of their respectabilities in their professions and to 
their characters as to honesty and truthfullness.

On July 17, 1834, in Madison Co., Kentucky, Linsfield Bicknell, resident of 
Estill Co., Kentucky, made application for an increase of pension and further 
stated that: he was a private in Captain Coombs' Company in the Kentucky Militia 
in Colonel Dudley's Regiment and was placed on the pension roll on account of 
having received a wound in the shoulder with a tomahawk, splitting the cap of 
the shoulder and on account of it, the shoulder often slips out of place. Said 
injury occurred while in the line of duty in said service on May 5, 1813, in 
Dudley's Defeat at a place called the Rapids of the Miami, of the lake opposite 
Ft. Meigs in Ohio, and is still disabled in consequence of the injury.

In Fayette Co., Kentucky, Leslie Combs, late Captain of the spies, of the 
Kentucky Volunteers, attached to Col. Wm. Dugley's Regiment made oath on May 
17th 1819, that Linsfield Bicknell belonged to his company and was wounded as he 
stated, on the 5th of May 1813 and with this deponent was taken prisoner by the 
enemy.

Archibald Goodloe appeard before court in Madison Co., Kentucky on the 7th 
January 1833, and made oath that the pension certificate of Linsfield Bicknell 
has been placed in his hands by said Bicknell, but he had lost or mislaid it.

Linsfield Bicknell, whos disability was rated one-half, was placed on the 
pension roll of Kentucky, to commence on May 1819, the certificate of the 
pension was issued 28 July 1820.