REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - SAMUEL SELDON

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Seldon, Samuel                   Pen. 376                   1786-1800  
Lieutenant-1st Virginia Regiment   
Mecklenburg County

I  do with the advice of Council hereby certify that Samuel Selden about 27years 
of age late a lieutenant in the First Virgina 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 forty eight pounds yearly; which allowance is 
accordingly made him to commence from the first day of January 1786.  Given 
under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this 
16th day of December 1786. 
T. Meriwether                              Signed:  Edm: Randolph


I do certify that Samuel Seldon was wounded in attempting to storm the British 
fortification at ninety six (?) in South Carolina in June 1786-and that the loss 
of his arm was the consequence of the said wound.  Given under my hand ___ 17th 
1785
  Signed: L. Hawes, formerly Lt. Col. 1st Va. Regt.