Virginia Service Pension # S 36590

James Horseley applied for pension in Jefferson County, Kentucky 24 Jul 1821, and made declaration that he was 60 years of age and a resident of Jefferson County, Kentucky, that he served in the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Robert Yancey at Winchester, Virginia in the regiment commanded by Colonel Anthony Walton White, when he arrived in the southward in the First Virginia Regiment of Light Dragons on Continental establishment, that he enlisted on September 1780, and soon afterward marched to the south and was at the Hillsborough Santee.  He remained in the south about 18 months; returned and was taken with prisoners to Blueford, Virginia.  He served till the close of the war. He served on the Virginia line of Continental establishment.  He also made schedule of his property and stated that he has a wife but no children, that his wife is 50 years of age.  James Horsley of Jefferson County, Kentucky, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel White of the Virginia line for 3 years was inscribed on the pension roll of the Kentucky Agency to commence 24 Jul 1821.  Certificate of the pension was issued on 27 Nov 1821 and sent to R. C. Anderson, esquire.