REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION EXTRACT - JESSE POWERS Contributed by: Nora Hickam (bigsinking@aol.com) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** This data from the pension claim number 330-662,Virginia, State of Kentucky, Wayne County September 24, 1832, Jesse Powers, age 73 states he volunteered for 3 months and entered service under Capt. Thomas Williams, Capt. Morton, Leiut. Spencer, . He entered the services in 1777or 1778 and served 3 months, received his discharge in Portsmouth, belonged to VA Militia. He had volunteered and was a citizen of Charlotte Co., Va. He marched to Williamsburg then to Hampton, then to Portsmouth to where he was discharged and went home. He substituted for a term of six months under Capts. Good, Bacon and Lieut. Mason . At that time it was the 4th regiment of VA militia. Section 71 he marched then to Hillsboro, NC, to Camden, SC, to Black Swamp,SC and joined the headquarters. General Lincoln was commander, He was discharged at Camden and went home. He then engaged at a Battle at Stone. He substituted and entered the service again for 8 months as a regular continental soldier. He joined at Hillsboro, then to Rugsby's Mill, McFerry on PeeDee River, back to Hillsborough, then to Guilford Co., NC, was discharged but lost it. While serving out that term he lived in Halifax County, VA. He states he was born in Prince William County, VA 1759, that his neighbors in Wayne County, KY are Stephen and William Rainy. The widow of Jesse Powers secured pension, June 15, 1841, under the law of June 7, 1832, paid $30 per annum, been paid at this Department of Kentucky Agency from March 4 to July 14, 1840.