REVOLUTIONARY WAR DISABILITY AFFIDAVIT - EDMUND ABSALOM

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Absalom, Edmund        Pen.1           

  1786-1790
Private, 15th Virginia Regt.
King William County
  This is to certifie that Edmund Absalom enlisted under me as a soldier 
the 13th day of December 1776 for three years and served his full time 
out in the fifteenth Virginia Regiment.  Given under my hand this 15th 
day of November 1786.  Giles Raines
  N.B.The above named Edm. Absalom enlisted during the war & was taken 
prisoner at Charly Town and there capitalated infirm.  Giles Raines List
         Robert Richardson Major     15th Virginia Regt.
  I do hereby certifie that Edmund Absalom was wounded in the army and 
to the best of my knowledge at Fort Putnam by accident in carrying 
timbers for repairs of the garrison or perhaps on being ____ out on a 
foliger party on the day the accident happened him, given this day the 2 
of Dec. 1786.       Tho. Jones, late L. G. Virginia
18 pounds--Edm.
6 Absalom pension

On examination of the above person find there has been back injury 
received on the vertabra as to occasion great ___ in general. The ___ is 
said to have been by the falls of a piece of timber, however received it 
totally disables him from a support by labour. (Signature cut off) 
Certified by Edm. Randolph for pension, 1 Jan. 1786.   Absalom was about 
35 years of age.