Application for Revolutionary War Pension of William Rogers

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Application for Revolutionary War Pension of William Rogers

Book 8, Vol. 7, page 59

Hamilton County, Tennessee

State of Tennessee, County of Hamilton:

On the twenty-seventh day of November eighteen and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court before the worshipful justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for said county now sitting William Rogers a resident of said county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee age ninety-two years took an oath being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June seventh eighteen hundred and thirty-two That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as wheron stated that is to say he entered the service in Bedford County Virginia under Captain John Arwin and Colonel Calloway under which this applicant served three months ------ through the lower parts of Virginia and was at Williamsburg and service places that this applicant has forgotten he has no recollection at all of the date but remembers that it was during the Revolutionary War and remembers that he and the troops with whom he served came near being in an engagement with the British this tour but the British took a different route from the one expected by the Americans -- he also remembers that it was about four months from the time he entered the service till he was discharged and returned home he received no written discharge but was dismissed. Colonel . Calloway did not serve this tour but as applicants militia Colonel at home in Bedford County.

Sometime afterwards perhaps a year or two this applicants tour came again he remembers that he drew the tenth number and was drafted to serve three months at a time, he went out this time under Captain Moses Fuqua and he thinks General --- and was marched by them to Charleston on the seaboard --- about remembers whether it was Charleston South Carolina or not, he thinks it was, he served three months this time and returned home and was dismissed. He never actually served but the two above mentioned tours himself but hired a substitute to serve two or three tours for him during the Revolution -- he remembers that whenever his tour came he either went himself or hired a substitute to go in his place. This applicant never was discharged in writing and has no documentary evidence of his service in the Revolution and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure as to his said services.

He was born in Bedford County Virginia as related to him by his mother and from his best memory he is able to make he is ninety-two years old last March he has no records of his age and never had. He has stated all he remembers about his services in the Revolution -- He lived in Virginia Bedford County about two years after the Revolutionary War ended and removed to the State of Georgia Washington County and lived there sixteen years removed from there to Buncombe County North Carolina and lived there three years from there he moved to Kentucky Perry County and lived there about ten years from there he removed to the County of Hamilton and State of Tennessee and has lived here about three years and still resides here. He states that he is known in his present neighborhood to George McGuier, Esquire and James Russell who can testify as to his character for veracity and good behavior and as to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution but not to any clergyman that he knows of who can .

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of the State.

His

William Rogers

Mark

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court.

Attest Asahal Rawlings, Clerk

We George McGuier and James Russell hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Rogers who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be ninety-two years of age that he is -- and lives in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we agreed in that opinion.

George McGuier

James Russell

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court.

Attest Asahal Rawlings, Clerk

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