REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JOHN DOHERTY
Contributed by:  Beulah Franks

Commonwealth of Kentucky, County of Shelby
On this 30th day of June 1820 personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of record for the Fourth Judicial 
Circuit, John Doherty, aged about sixty-four years, resident in the County of Shelby in the circuit and state aforesaid, 
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a provision 
made by the Act of Congress on the 18th of March 1818 and the said May 1820, that he, the said John Daugherty 
enlisted for the term of eighteen months, in the month of June, in the year 1776 in the State of Virginia in the Company 
commanded by Captain Stephen Ashby in the 12th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel James Woods, in the line 
of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the month of 
February 1788 when he was discharged from said service in the State of Pennsylvania. That he was in the Battles of 
Short Hills, Germantown and Brandywine, and that he has no other evidence to show in his favor of his said service 
except persons being at a great distance and not in this state, in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820. I do 
solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the State on the 18th of June 1818, and that I have not since that time by 
gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring 
myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled in that to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and 
naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 day of March 1818, and that I have not 
since had any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts due me, nor have I any income other 
than contained in the schedule hereto and by me subscribed. He further states that his occupation is farming, but is 
unable to do labor; he has a wife; he has no children being with him or near him; he has three grandchildren living with 
him who are small; their mother being dead, and have nothing to support themselves; their ages are about 12, 9 and 8 
years. John Daugherty.