REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JOHN CASEY

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection




Casey, John (Cayce)               Pen. 73              1786-1789
Soldier-11th Virginia Regt
Frederick County, Hampshire County, Hardy County

Frederick June Court 1786
  Ordered that it be certified that John Casey was a soldier in Captain Peter 
Bryan Brisons? Reg. in the 11th Virginia Regiment and that he received a wound 
in the right arm at the Battle of Brandywine in condsequence of which he was 
discharged from the service, that he is now living in this County and appears to 
be so disabled by the said wound and appears to be about 38 years old and it is 
ordered that Capt. Cornelius Baldwin do examine and certify the present 
situation of the said wounds.  A Copy Teste: Jas. Heath, Ed Carr

  I do with the advice of Council hereby certify that John Casey, about  37years 
of age, late a private in the 11th Virginia Regiment appears to have been 
disabled in such a manner while in the service of the United States as to 
entitle him to  the sum of twelve pounds yearly, which allowance is accordingly 
made him to commence from the 1st day of January 1786.  Given under my hand as 
Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, , this 4th day of June 
1786. 
                               Signed: P. Henry

Winchester June 1786
  In pursuance of an order of the County Court of Frederick, dated June '86,  I 
have carefully examined the wounds of John Casey and do certify that it appears 
he has received a wound by musket ball about the middle of the upper part of his 
right arm, that the bone has been much fractured and is very unequally united 
the muscle is very much contracted of his arm almost entirely depriving of its 
natural powers. Signed: Commdr. Baldwin