Pension
Application of Rice D. and Ann Adams Montague: W2416
Transcribed
and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State
of Virginia Cumberland County to wit
On this 27th day of August 1832
personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of Cumberland Rice
D. Montague a resident of the said County and State of Virginia who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed
June the 7th. 1832
That
he is a native of the County of Cumberland and is now in his 67th year of
age that he has always resided in the
said County. That when he was in his 17th. year of age he was drafted to
perform a three months tour of duty in the Malitia. That he marched from said
County in the year 1780 to the best of his recollection under Capt Charles
Ballow [or Ballon], that they marched first to Hillsborough North Carolina, and
set out from there to CharlesTown [sic: Charleston SC] That he was with the Army when it met the
enemy at the battle of Cambden [sic: Camden SC, 16 Aug 1780], and was in that
action, that this Company to which he belonged was attached to Colo. Spencers
[Joseph Spencer’s] Regiment and in Genl Stephens [sic: Edward Stevens] brigade.
That some short time after Genl. [Horatio] Gates defeat at Cambden he was
discharged and returned home, that although the tour was intended for a three months
tour yet it proved to be four months before his return home. That the 2d tour
of duty which he performed was a three months tour of duty in 1781 in Capt
William Merediths Company and Major John Hatcher (who is now present and
testifying to the fact) as his Lieutenant
that they joined the Marquis DeLafayettes Army near Richmond and was
discharged near the Racoon Ford [sic: Raccoon Ford on Rapidan River], and
returned home with his Lieut. John Hatcher, and begs leave to refer to his
declaration for a history of this service. That his third and last tour of duty
was performed shortly afterward at the Siege of York, when all the Malitia were
called out he thinks he was about [sic: out] about 2 months making in the whole
service during the war about nine months.
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 any State. Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid [signed]
Rice D Montague
NOTES:
A typed summary in the file states
that Rice D. Montague first enlisted as a substitute for his brother, Thomas
Montague.
On 5 Sep 1853 Ann Montague, about
70, applied for a pension in Montgomery County VA, stating that her late
husband had moved there from Cumberland County after he began receiving a
pension. She stated that they were married in Oct 1830, and that he died on 3
April 1849. In the file is a copy of a bond dated 5 Oct 1830 signed by Rice D.
Montague and Frances Armistead for the marriage of Montague to Ann Adams of
Cumberland County. On 18 June 1855 in Montgomery County Ann Montague applied
for bounty land. The typed summary adds that Ann Montague in 1866 referred to a
widowed daughter, and to a son named Rice D. Montague, who was a resident of
Christiansburg and Clerk of the court of Montgomery County.