Rev. War Pension Application of John Forehand - Rockbridge Co. VA


On this first day of April in the year 1823 personally appeared in open court
being a court of record for said county having a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount and professing the power of fine and imprisonment John Forehand
aged sixty eight years resident in the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath Declare that he served in the Revolutionary
War as follows.  That he enlisted in Staunton in Virginia in the company
commanded by Capt. [Mell?] about the year 1777, that he was afterwards
attatched to the sixteenth Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Gist in the
Brigade of Genl. Muhlenburg, that the period for which he enlisted was three
years, That He was in the battle of Monmouth and stony point and at the siege
of Charleston where he was wounded through the right breast & shoulder and
taken prisoner; That he was afterwards taken round from Charleston to
Williamsburg by the British for the purpose of being exchanged.  When he and
others made their escape from the vessel in which they were confined and that
he was afterwards discharged at Williamsburg having served out the period for
which he was Enlisted, And further, that he was born in the State of
Pennsylvania and is now and was on the 18th day of March in the year 1818 a
resident citizen of the United States, and that he has not by gift or in any
other manner Disposed of his property or any part there of with a view to bring
himself within the provisions of an act of Congress Entitled an Act to provide
for certain persons employed in the land or Naval service of the United States
in the revolutionary War and that he has not nor has any person in trust for
him any property, security, or contract nor has any Debts Due to him nor has he
any income of any kind or description  And further that he has no family living
with him upon who he can depend for Support.

John Forehand <signature>

Schedule: Real Property, none
Personal Property, none
Debts, none
Contracts, none

John Forehand <signature>

Virginia
     Rockbridge County, to wit;
I, Andrew Reid, clerk of the court of said county do hereby certify that the
foregoing oath and the Schedule annexed thereto are truly copied from the
records of said county.  And I do further certify that it is the opinion of
said court that the said Forehand is possessed of no property of any value.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my
office seal at Lexington the seat of justice of the said county this 1st day of
April 1823 and in the 47th year of the Commonwealth.

Andrew Reid <signature>

[Note at bottom of page: "Jno Forehand is sometimes called Jno Foran &
sometimes Furan".]


Submitted by Valerie Forren Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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