REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - MARTIN MURPHY

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Murphy, Martin                   Pen. 302               1786-1789  
Soldier-11th Virginia Regiment  
Dinwiddie County--Spotsylvania County--Henrico County

     On examining the  wounds of the bearer who calls himself Martin Murphy he 
says that in 1776 he enlisted under Capt. Thomas West of Loudoun County--that he 
continued in service untill the Battle of Wax----? where he acted as a serjeant 
under Capt. Thomas Howard who was commanded by Col. Buford in which said he 
received the wounds that now appear intensive of a number on the body and arm 
some of which have considerable injury--he has received four wounds on the head-
three of them ? ? ? very nearly quite through the skull and have no doubt but 
the account he gives of fitts frequently produced by the injury received on the 
head being perfectly true -- the parts are now healed.  I am of opinion that he 
is clearly entitled to a full support as is generally allowed Pensioners.
                W. Foushes, surg.  May 1 1780

  I do with the advice of the Council hereby certify that Martin Murphy, aged 
about  30 years, late a serjeant in the 11th Virginia Regiment  appears to have 
been disabled in such a manner while in the service of the Continental, as to 
entitle him  to the sum of 18 pounds yearly; which allowance is accordingly made 
him to commence from the first day of January 1786.  Given under my hand, at 
Richmond, this 1st  day of May 1786.  
                                         Signed: P. Henry