Culpeper-Prince William County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Military Records.....Priest, John March 13, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application
State of Ohio Licking County

	On the thirteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty 
three personally appeared before me, Samuel Bancroft, one of the judges of 
this court of common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid, John 
Priest, a resident of Fallsbury Township in the county and state aforesaid.. 
aged eighty-two years who being first duly sworn personally to law doth on 
this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
act of Congress passed June 7th, 1802, that he entered the service of the 
United States under the following named officers and service as herein stated:
	(Col. name not recollected) Major Williams, adjutant Wm. Broadis. 
Capt. Henry Monroe, Lieut. James Purvis.  Entered the service in the month of 
April 1778 according to the best of his recollection, and served six months 
and left the service in the month of October of the same year.  He entered the 
service within about two miles of residence --  was drafted for six months – 
the company to which he belonged met at Culpepper Court House and then marched 
to Brandywine Mills where by General Washington’s orders they were stationed 
to guard the Mills and continued there until discharged. – He also states that 
he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony 
he can procure who can testify to his service – he states he was born in 
Prince William County, Virginia in the year 1750.  He has now no record of his 
age – he has lived since the Revolutionary War in Culpepper County, Virginia 
until about twenty-two years ago when he moved to the state of Ohio where he 
now lives  - does not recollect that he ever received a written discharge.

	He also states that he is known in his present neighborhood to Abraham 
Day and Isaac Norman who can testify as to his character for veracity and 
their belief of his service as soldier of the revolution.

	He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity 
except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of 
the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed before me			John     X    Priest
on the day and year aforesaid				       his mark
Samuel Bancroft  Associate Judge

We, Wormwood Marriott, residing in the county of Licking and the state of 
Ohio, and Abraham Day, residing in the county of Knox and state of Ohio, 
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Priest who has -?- and 
sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty two years of 
age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to 
have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed before
me the day and year aforesaid
Samuel Bancroft Associate Judge

And I -?-  Samuel Bancroft do hereby declare that my opinion is after the 
investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed 
by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary 
soldier and served as he states and I do further certify that it appears to me 
that Homewood Marriott and Abraham Day who has signed the preceding 
certificate are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to 
credit and I do also certify that the applicant cannot from bodily infirmity 
attend the court.
					Samuel Bancroft, Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Licking County

		


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