Rockcastle-Madison-Lincoln County KyArchives Military Records.....Williams, John, Colonel April 1, 1853 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 March 18, 2007, 3:41 am Pension Application Of Colonel John Williams, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #W9147 Rockcastle County, Kentucky} On this 1st day of April, 1853, personally appeared before me, Jesse Lear, an acting justice of the peace for the county and state above named, Mary Lumpkins, aged about 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration…: That she was married to John Williams in the County of Lincoln, state of Kentucky on the 28th day of February, 1793, and that he served for a considerable time in the army of the Revolution as a colonel. He went from the state of North Carolina. She does not recollect whether he belonged to the North Carolina militia or North Carolina Continental line, but thinks he belonged to the North Carolina Continental line. That her aforesaid husband died the last day of February, 1796, after which death she was married to John P. Lumpkins about 10 miles east of the Cumberland Gap in Tennessee on Christmas Day in the year 1800, who died on the 11th day of September, 1847 in this county. That she is now a widow, never having married since the death of her last husband, John P. Lumpkins. That she is a poor widow and most respectfully asks the Commissioners of Pensions to grant her a pension…for the services of her first husband aforesaid, John Williams, deceased, a colonel in the army of the Revolution. She most respectfully asks that her aforesaid claim be met with a favorable and early consideration from the honorable Commissioners of Pensions and other officers of this department. That the reason she haven’t applied sooner for a pension for her first husband Colo. John Williams is that her last husband, John P. Lumpkins, deceased, claimed to have been a soldier in the militia of Virginia for some two years in the Revolution and was hunting proof of his services up to his death and she continued the same for some 4 years, when she was told she had a right to apply on account of her first husband’s services in the Revolutionary War, which she thought her 2nd marriage had de____ from applying and that she has been hunting up proof ever since she was informed she had the right to apply on account of her first husband Colonel John Williams, deceased, and commenced taking proof last fall. That she has never drawn a pension on account of her first or last husband, deceased. That she had one child by Colonel John Williams, her first husband, deceased, spoken of as aforesaid, and some 8 raised by John P. Lumpkins, deceased. Her first child died at 15 years old, which she had by Col. John Williams, deceased, her first husband, deceased, aforesaid. County Laurel, State of Kentucky} On this 5th day of August, 1853, before me, John Casteel, a justice of the peace for the county and state above named, personally appeared, John Fairbush [could this be a member of the Forbis family?] a Revolutionary pensioner of this county, who being first duly sworn as the law directs, upon his oath, makes the following statement: That some months since he gave his statements relative to the Revolutionary services of Colonel John Williams from the state of North Carolina and his statements more fully is now required, as near as his memory serves him, some time in the fall of 1775, he became acquainted with the above named John Williams at his brother’s in Randolph County, who was paying his address to his sister, ?Ann, who was living with his brother. That his sister always told him she was engaged to said Williams, but she died the same fall. That the said Williams was an uncommon fine looking man. That he often heard him spoken of by men who spoke as they were associates of said Williams; Colonel Vail, Knox, and others as being a fine colonel and was among the first in the field at the breaking out of the old war. That in the fall of 1776, he saw said Williams in actual service of the United States acting as colonel with the county of, he believes, Guilford, North Carolina, and other times that he don’t know what county Williams entered the service, but in the spring of 1795 was the first time he saw Williams after the war. Said Williams was then living in Madison County, Kentucky, and both knew each other at sight, and said Williams called him his brother-in-law and talked over the times he saw him, the said Williams in the old war. That he (Fairbush) has no services granted him prior to 1778, after which time he never saw said Williams in the service. He thinks the said Williams served near three years as colonel in the state of North Carolina from his own knowledge and what he heard from others, and came from the county of Guilford and state of North Carolina, and was in Kentucky but a short time before he married his wife, Mary, whose name is now Lumpkins. He has known Mary Lumpkins ever since he first saw her in Madison County, KY before her first husband’s death, Colonel John Williams. That the said Mary is wholly entitled to a pension for the Revolutionary services of her first husband, Colonel John Williams, deceased, that he is not interested in said pension nor acting as agent. August 5, 1853. John Fairbush, his mark. County Laurel, State of Kentucky} On this 5th day of August, 1853, before me, John Casteel, a justice of the peace for the county and state above named, personally appeared, Jacob ? Gableart, a Revolutionary pensioner of Laurel County, Kentucky, who being first duly sworn as the law directs, on his oath makes the following statement; That several months since, he gave his deposition relative to Colonel John Williams services in the old war from the state of North Carolina. That he was always informed by Colonels Moore. Knox and Ervin who said that they had been associated with Williams in the old war. That said Williams entered the service in the Revolutionary war at the breaking out of the old war and served the United States faithfully for upwards of two years in the state of North Carolina. That in the summer of 1776, he saw the said John Williams acting as colonel in the state of North Carolina in the county of Stokes. That he thinks in the year 1795, he met with Williams in Madison [end of record as shown on HeritageQuestOnline.] Additional Comments: There is a typewritten letter to a descendant, Mrs. G. W. Rogers of Great Falls, Montana, dated June 22, 1926, which states that there is also a huge volume of correspondence from an E. Smith which evidently had no weight with the Bureau, but is likely to be loaded with more details of Colonel Williams’ life and service. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/rockcastle/military/revwar/pensions/williams1206gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/