REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - AARON HORN

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Aaron Horn R5225 of VA Service applied May 5,1834 in Madison Co Ky. age 72, 
states that in 1778 he joined Capt Riddle's company on Holston (river) He thinks 
in the now county of Washington Co Va which was raised as he understood to to 
protect the western country against the British and Indians. He joined as a 
volunteer but whether the company belonged to the State Troops of Va. or not he 
is unable to say. He has understood it did. The company was marched to Ky and 
reached Boonesboro Fort which is in the now county of Madison aforesaid in the 
Spring of 1778. He continued to do duty in Capt Riddle's company as a soldier in 
said fort for a considerable time until
Capt Riddle returned to Va or was appointed to command at some other fort in Ky; 
that he applicant then joined and was transferred to a company commanded by Capt 
John Holden; that afterwards Capt David Gass was his capt and he also served in 
Capt Starnes company. Col Calloway he thinks was colonel when he first reached 
the fort at Boonesboro, he was subsequently killed by the Indians, old Daniel 
Boone after he escaped and returned from his imprisonment with or among the 
Indians acted as the colonel. Applicant was also under Col Bowman in 1779, He 
thinks it was in his expedition across the Ohio against the Indians. He 
continued at the fort at Boonesboro his best recollection is untill 1783, except 
when out on campaigns, or in scouting parties against the Indians. He sometimes 
hunted for the fort and was sometimes out as a spy. When at the fort he 
performed military duty as a soldier duty enrolled. He states that he served 
from the Spring of 1778 more than 2 years as a private, a volunteer in the army 
of the Revolution under several captains, and officers as he has before stated. 
He can prove his service by Joseph Proctor and Matthias Horn of Estill Co Ky. He 
states that he was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1762, removed to Va when young 
with his parents and was residing on {the} Holston in the now county of 
Washington Co., VA, when he joined Capt. Riddle's company.

Since the close of the Revolution he has resided in Madison Co Ky {near} the old 
Boonesboro fort. Affidavits of Thomas S Bronston, a clergyman and Gabrial Duncan 
are well acquainted with him and can testify concerning character. Affidavit of 
Major Oswald Townsend , a resident of Madison Co Ky 1835 April 8, states that he 
came from Va to Ky to the fort at Boonesboro in the now county aforesaid {in} 
1775 , that he was then about age 18, that in 1778 he knew Aaron Horn, now 
resident in Madison Co Ky when the old fort at Boonesboro stood and who is an 
applicant for a pension, knew him as a soldier in the fort in 1778, from that to 
the close of the Revolution, that said Horn performed military duty at the fort 
and was frequently out on scouts and campaigns against the Indians and was 
always considered a good soldier. joseph Proctor made his affidavit in Estill Co 
Ky 1834 April 23 stating that in 1778 he came from Va as a soldier in Capt 
Riddle's company to the fort at Boonesboro KY; that Aaron Horn came along at the 
same time as in said company and continued to do duty at Boonesboro in said fort 
during the Revolution in service part of the time in Capt John Holder's company 
and sometime in Capt David Gass's company and was awhile in Capt Starnes's 
company. Col Calloway and Col Benj. Logan were the colonels in Ky at the time, 
and old Daniel Boone, That said Horn served part of the time in said fort and 
part of the time was out on campaigns as a hunter and spy for the fort. He has 
resided at and near Boonesboro since 1778 and is a man of good character. Also 
affidavit of Matthis Horn of Estill Co Ky 1834 April 23, states that in the 
spring of 1778 he came from Va as a soldier in Capt Riddle's company to 
Boonesboro Ky. That Aaron Horn of the county of Madison Ky came out with him in 
said Riddle's company as a soldier at the same time, that said Aaron Horn 
continued at the fort during the Revolution. And after Spring 1778 he sometimes 
acted as a spy and a hunter and when at the fort, performed military duty. Said 
Aaron Horn now resides near the old fort at Boonesboro, where he has resided 
since the close of the Revolution.