REVOLUTIONARY WAR DISABILITY AFFIDAVIT - WILLIAM BROUGHTON

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Broughton, William      Pen.50        1787-1789
Serjeant Major--11th Virginia Regt.   Hardy County

  Hardy County      February Court     1787

   It is ordered that William Broughton be recommended to be continued as a 
pensioner, being aged and under a ____ And appearing to the Court that he is not 
able of doing Any thing, Scarcely for his support. A Copy Edward William CHC
  I do hereby certify that the within William Broughton, late a serjeant major 
of the 11th Virginia Regt, was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine which 
rendered him after ___ ___ ___ unfit for duty.  James Wood
he is about 52 years of age and lives in Hardy County
  
  I do, with the advice of council, hereby certify that William Broughton aged  
about 52 years of age, late a serjeant major in the 12th Virginia Regiment whose 
pay was at the rate of  36 pounds per annum was disabled in the service of The 
United States by wounds received at the Battle of Brandywine by a bayonet which 
passed thru the fleshy part of his arm and fractured the thorax, and he is 
allowed  the sum of twelve pounds yearly; which allowance accordingly made him, 
to commence on the first day of January 1786.  Given under my hand as  Governor 
of the Commonwealth of Virginia , at Richmond is this 1st day of  July 1786.

Edm:  Randolph 
Copy teste: T. Meriwether

Contributor's Note:
File says 11th, yet documents say 12th Regt.