REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JOHN ROSS

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Ross, John                    Pen. 358                               1788-1794  
Soldier-Major Nelson's Corps of State Cavalry  
New Kent County

I do certify that John Ross was a soldier in the State Cavalry under my command 
and that he received a wound which disabled him which appears by a certificated 
signed by  Capt. Armistead of Lieutenant Diggs in whose troops he served.  
Signed: J. Nelson Maj. Gen'l
K. G. Wm.  March 3 1788


I do with the advice of Council hereby certify that John Ross, aged about 24 
years, late a  private in the State Cavalry and whose pay was at the rate of 30  
pounds per annum appears to have been disabled in such a manner while in the 
service of the United States by a wound to his left leg as to entitle him to the 
sum of twelve pounds yearly; which allowance is accordingly made him, to 
commence from the first day of January 1787.  Given under my hand as Lieutenant 
Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this 3rd day of April 
1787.  
T. Meriwether                                     Signed: Edm: Randolph

Certified by Wm Foushes, surgeon, that the wound in the left leg caused it to be 
larger than the right leg on April 1 1788.

Ross' pension was augmented to 18 pounds yearly after an examination by Dr. 
Halyburton in January 1792, certified  by Beverley Randolph, Governor.