KNOX COUNTY OHIO - RECORD OF SAMUEL C PORTERFIELD IN WAR OF 1812
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RECORD OF SAMUEL C PORTERFIELD IN WAR OF 1812

     329.832                         Act of Mar 5
                                     Dec 26. 1855
     Samuel C Porterfield
           flotilla man

     Oliver Ossining, Wm B Foster   John Vincent
           To Pittsburgh

     Ent. Sept 1812      discharged Apl 15
           War 1812
     Disch. Sept. 4 ___  _____ Apl. 9/57
     No rolls on file on this Officer from the written Names service
                                     G__ Hall
                                     For Auditor

                                     Wallace McWilliam
                                     Bladensburg
                                     Ohio
     State of Ohio
     County of Knox
           On this fifteenth day of December A. D. one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five personally 
appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Samuel C 
Porterfield aged sixty seven years a resident of Knox County in the State of Ohio who being duly sworn 
according to the law declares that he is the identical Samuel C Porterfield who was a flotilla man  
in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812 that he entered 
the war as a flotilla man in the Month of September in the year 1812 a Captain of an aid boat for the 
purpose of conveining camp equipage provisions and ammunitions of war which I received at  Pitsburg 
Pennsyllvania from Oliver Ossining and William B Foster and delivered the saim to John Vincent at Eary 
County in the State of Pennsylvania and Continued in said service for a term of one year.  He makes this 
declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act 
approved March 5, 1855  He also declares that he has not receiveda warrant for bounty land under this 
or any other act of largess nor maid any other application therefore 
                                     (signature) S C Porterfield

           We Andrew McCamment and Levi C Smith residents of Knox in the State of Ohio upon our oaths 
declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Samuel C Porterfield in our presence 
and that we declare from the appearance in statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he 
represents himself to be
 (signed)  Andrew McCamment
                Levi C Smith

           The foregoing declaration and affadavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and 
year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the 
person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim
                                     William K Corbin
                                     J Peace

     State of Ohio Knox County
           I Alexander Elliott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby 
certify that William K Corbin Esq before whom the foregoing Declaration and Affadavit were sworn to and 
subscribed was at the time thereof and acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly 
commissioned and sworn as such and that the above signature purporting to be his is true and genuine and 
that he is fully authorized to do such acts.
           In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Mt 
Vernon, Ohio the 17th day of December A D 1855
                                     Alex. C Elliott, Clerk