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Edward Burgess
Revolutionary War Pension Application
Lawrence County Order Book No. 1, pp. 36-39
September Court 1st Day 1822
At a court begun and held for the county of Lawrence at
the house of Andrew Johnson on Monday the 16th day
September in the year 1822. Presents Nimrod Canterbery,
Edward Burgess, Andrew Johnson, James Wheeler, Henry
Giger, John Stafford and Lewis Wellman, Esqrs. Gentlemen
Justices
Edward Burgess an old revolutionary soldier prefered on
Oath in open court a statement of facts, relative to his
services so requiring to be placed on the pension list of
the United States with an affidavit of his being in
indigent circumstances accompanying the same all of which
is ordered to be recorded and certified to the Secretary
of War agreeable to the provisions of the Act of Congress
approved the 18th day of March 1818, which ___ and
affidavits in the following words and figures, to wit:
State of Kentucky Lawrence County States [?] This day
personally appeared in open court this _____ made a court
of record by the laws of this State being solemly
adjoudged [?] the be such by the other tribunals of this
State with power to fine and imprison always keeping a
record of its proceedings. Edward Burgess an old
revolutionary soldier aged about seventyeight years a
resadent citizen of the County aforesaid formerly Floyd
County and in person and of the Act of Congress of the
first of May 1820 it being an act to amend an Act
entitled an act for the relief of certain persons engaged
in the land and naval services of the United States in
the army of revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of
March 1818 upon his Oath doth solomly declares that he
enlisted in the army of the revolutionary war of the
United States against the common enemy. that he was
enlisted by a certain Capt. Newell a captain of the army
of the Unites States at Hillsborough in the year one
thousand seven hundred and seventy nine for the term of
eighteen months and was also commanded by Said Capt.
Newell in the Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Abram
Bluford corpse [?] line and continental Establishment and
that he
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continued to serve in said corpse untill the month of
October 1781 his time of enlistment being expired he was
then honourably discharged from said service at
Hillsborough which discharge he has lost or mislaid. he
was in the following battles to wit, the battle at
Classesmill in the State of North Carolina at the battle
of Ramsawry Mills in the State aforesaid (he was in the
battle of Gates Defeat as a militia soldier under the
command of Capt. Thomas Williams. and that he has no
other evidence of his services except the depositions of
Moses Preston and Richard Thomson two old revolutionary
Soldiers which are herewith transmitted and that he made
his original Declaration of his said services on the 18th
day of June in the year 1818 but has not as yet received
his pension certificate which declaration is herewith
filed and transmitted marked A and he also doth enclose
an oath that he was a resadent citizen of the United
States of America on the 18th day of March 1818 as well
all his lifetime before and that he has not since that
time by gift sale or conveyence or in any other manner
disposed of his property or any part therof so as to
deminish the same so as to bring himself within the
provisions of the act of Congress of the 18th day of
March 1818 and the 1st day of May 1820 and that he has no
estate real or personal or any debts securities or
contracts or money due unto him or income other than that
___ in the following schedule hereto annexed and by him
subscribed, to wit: one sorrel horse value @ $50, one cow
@ $10, three young heifers @ $12, one old how @ 25 cts,
one axe @ 75 cts, farming utensils @ $2, household
furnature of every kind and nature @ $10, his debts that
he ows amount to $5 and the total amount of his estate is
$74 "75 cents. he has no other property either real
or personal his occupation is that of a farmer but he is
too old and infirm to persue it his family consists of
his wife named named
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Nancy aged about 75 years old and himself and his said
wife is unable to contribute any thing to his support and
that himself and her entirely live on the ___ of their
Friends
Subscribed by me Edward Burgess [his mark].
Taken sworn to and subscribed in open court on the 16th
day of September 1822 in the presence of the court and
that we Nimrod Canterbery {seal} Edward Burgess {seal}
Andrew Johnson {seal} James Wheeler {seal} Henry Giger
{seal} whose names and herewith subscribed being Justices
of the peace for the county of Lawrence being duly
appointed and commissioned as such agreeable to the laws
of this Commonwealth and by virtue of our said offices
have a right to and constitute this court and bear and
determine all matters arising herein conizable herein by
the laws of this commonwealth do hereby certify that it
is the opinion of this court that the property contained
in the foregoing schedule is of the value of $74 75 cents
and no more which is recorded [?] to be certified to
Secretary of War and to all to whom it may concern and
therefore in persuance of the said Acts of Congress of
the United States the foregoing oath or affirmation and
sceduleare ordered to be recorded.
*Richard Thomson aged about 80 years of Lawrence County
kentucky States that he was well acquainted with Edward
Burgess of Lawrence County who made his original
declaration for a pension on the 15th day of June 1818
and that now makes another application for a pension this
being the 16th day of September 1822 and that the said
Edward Burgess was in the Revolutionary war in the
service of the Unites States under the command of Colonel
Abraham Bluford and this deponent states that he left the
said Burgess in the service of the United States when he
himself was discharged from the army and that this
deponent always
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understood that the said Burgess served out his full time
of enlistment Richard Thomson [his mark]
Moses Preston of Lawrence County Kentucky aged about 58
years states that he was acquainted with Edward Burgess
an old revolutionary soldier and that this deponent knew
the said Edward Burgess as an enlisted soldier for the
term of _____ moths in the army of the revolutionary war
in the service of the United States about the year 1779
or 1780 that the said Edward Burgess was under the
command of Colonal Abram Bluford in Capt. Newells company
at Hillsborough in North Carolina in a Virginia Regiment
that this deponant was well acquainted with the said
Burgess service for upwards of nine or ten months in the
service of the United States and this deponent was then
detached off from the army on a detachment and left the
said Edward Burgess in the service and this deponant was
well acquainted with the said Burgess both before he went
to the army and since he came back as well as when he was
in the army for an enlisted soldier and that the Deponant
always understood that the said Burgess was honourably
discharged from his said term of service of the serving
his full term of enlistment and which was for the Term of
18 months Moses Preston [his mark]
Transcribed from the original Lawrence County court
records by Marlitta H. Perkins [September 2002]
P.O. BOX 142
Blaine, KY 41124-0142
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