REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - ROBERT CLENDENIN Copyright (c) 2002 by Janet Putt Neville. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. [jandneville@yahoo.com] *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permissionto the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection Clendenin, Robert Pen. 84 1783-1806 Soldier-Capt. George Moffitts Rangers-1763--French and Indian War Greenbrier County, Bourbon County I do with the advice of Council hereby certify that Robert Clendenin, about 41 years of age, late a private in the Revolution appears to have been disabled in such a manner while in the service of the Commonwealth, (then the colony) by wounds in his right arm and hand as to entitle him to the sum of ten pounds yearly, which allowance is accordingly made him , to commence from the 1st day of January 1786. Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, / the Governor being absent/ at Richmond this 22nd day of December 1788. T. Meriwether Signed: James Wood In obedience to an order of the Court in Greenbrier directed to me, I have examined the wounds of Robert Clendenin a disabled soldier who appears to be about 41 years of age, the wounds which he received are in his right hand and arm, that in his arm has lost the Vena Cava, and has been of such a nature as to oblige the surgeon to sew it up with a band to prevent the hemorrhages, until it has turned to a dangerous mortification, which has ocationed (occasioned) it to break open to the bone, the cicatrix which has ___ near the ___ of his arm and contracted the elbow joint in such a manner as to render the arm exceedingly crooked, stiff and useless. The wound whereby his hand is disabled is by a ball going in--immediately in the inside of his wrist and coming out on the backside of the hand and fractured a great deal of the metacarpus which has so injured his hand and made the whole of his fingers stiff and immoveable, almost shrunk. Given under my hand this 22nd of September, 1788 Signed: Joseph Kayson, Surg Received 10 pounds per year.