REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JOHN HUGHES

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection



Hughes, John                   Pen. 206                1787-1790
Serjeant-Old Regiment of Artillery, Harrison's Regt. of Artillery
Fluvanna County
Bedford County

   
 I do with the advice of the Council hereby certify that John Hughes, aged 32 
years, late a Serjeant in Col. Harrison's Regt., appears to have been disabled 
in such as manner while in the service of the United States as to entitle him to 
the sum of eighteen pounds yearly: which allowance is to commence from the 1st 
day of January 1786.  Given  under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, at Richmond, this 25th day of  January 1787.
       Signed: Edm: Randolph
               T. Meriwether

  I certify that John Hughes was a sergeant in Col. Harrison's Regiment of 
Artillery in the beginning of the year 1777 when I joined it.  And I understand 
that he had been among the first enlisted in what was called the Old Company of 
Artillery raised under Col. Innes.  That in spring 1778 when the Regiment was 
innoculated for small pox at Canley's previous to the march of said regiment to 
the northward, the said John Hughes became blind from that disorder.  Given 
under my hand the 25th day of January 1787.  Samuel Coleman, Lt 1st Regiment of 
Artillery

December 6, 1888--John Hughes died as attested to by his administrater of the 
estate,  George Morday.  Received 16 pounds 16 shillings as amount owed to the 
estate.