LICKING CO. - REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION – THOMAS PERKINS

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION FOR THOMAS PERKINS

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STATE OF OHIO LICKING COUNTY 
On this second Day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred 
and thirty three ( 1833) personally appeared before me Samuel Brancroft one of 
the Judges of the court of Common Pleas for said county, Thomas Perkins a 
resident of Bennington Township in the County of Licking and State of Ohio , 
aged Seventy One years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his 
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provisin made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 That he enlisted in 
the army of the United States in the month of October in the year 1781 with 
Captain Buchannan and served in the number of the regiment recolled, contennial 
line under the following named officers to wit General Mullinburg, Col. Brown 
and Capt Bohannan and left the service about the first of May 1782 having served 
six months. Resided when he entered the service in the town of Winchester 
Virginia where he enlisted into a company of Artillary and marched from 
Winchester to ALbermarle Barrack and gaurded prisoners back to Winchester, where 
he continued in the service at the Barrachs until he was discharged. He also 
states that he was born in the state of Maryland in the year of 1762 swearing to 
the account he recieved from his parents and that he has now no record of his 
age he also states tha he never recored a written Discharge he further states 
that he is known in his present neighborhood to Samuel Rose, Boyant Thronhill 
and James Houk who can testify as to his characther for varocity and their 
belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution He also states that he has 
no written testimony and knows of no person at present whose testimony he can 
procure who can testify to his service. He herby relinquishes every claim 
whatever to pension as an annuity except the present and he declares that his 
name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year appeared S  Brancroft Assoicate Judge  
.                                 Thomas X Perkins his mark