ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VA - MILITARY - Alexander Buntain, Revolutionary War 
				   Disability Affidavit
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR DISABILITY AFFIDAVIT - ALEXANDER BUNTAIN


Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Buntain, Alexander              Pen. 53     1787-1811
see Bunton, Alexander
Rockbridge County Militia 
 
  That the bearer Alex Buntain is (in my Opinion) under very considerable 
disadvantages in procuring any Laborious employment owing to a wound received in 
his right hand by which the motion of said joint is _____ destroyed and 
continues in a state of considerable suppuration without the Probbality of use 
of the aforesaid ____ being soon cured.  As attested by Me William Clunie 
Surgeon April the 28 1787  
  
  I do, with the advice of council, hereby certify that Alexander Buntain,  aged  
about 28 years , late a private in the Militia of Rockbridge County, whose pay 
was at the rate of five pounds per month, was disabled in the service of The 
United States by a  wound  in his right hand, and he is allowed  the sum of ten 
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 23st day of  April 1787.     Edm:  Randolph 
Copy teste: T. Meriwether

April 1788 last payment order to sheriff to pay pension.


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