Pension Application of Samuel and Jane Horton: W7809
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
At a Court held for the
Samuel Horton, an inhabitant of said [?] County & Citizen of the State personally appeared before the court being a court of Record, and made oath that he enlisted in a Corps raised to guard the prisoners taken at the capture of Gen Burgoyne’s army [on 7 Oct 1777], which Corps of Guards was then commanded by a Capt. Taylor, that after his discharge from that service he inlisted in the first Regiment of Light Dragoons then commanded by Colo. Anth’y W. White on Continental establishment, that he served in that Regiment untill it was disbanded at Nelson ferry in So. Carolina in the year 1783, that during sd service he was wounded in an action with the Indians in Georgia at which time he was under the command of Genl. [Anthony] Wayne and finally that he is now in reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of his Country for support
Henry
Bowyer being sworn says he was a Lieut’t. & adjutant in the first Regim’t
of Light Dragoons on Continental establishment in the army of the revolution,
that he knew the above mentioned Sam Horton to be a soldier in sd Regiment,
that shortly after the Siege of York in Virginia in the year 1781 sd. Horton
marched in a Troop belonging to that Reg’t. from
On this
11th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record
for said County, Samuel Horton aged about 60 years, who being duly sworn
according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration (in order to
obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 &
the 1st May 1820) That he the said Samuel Horton enlisted under Captain John
Hughes at the Siege of York in Virginia in the year 1781. That the year after
Genl Burgoine & his army was captured, he enlisted with Captain Burray, and
served eighteen months, and was discharged at
Schedule — One pot One small oven a small skillet Six knives & forks Six small pewter plates, five Earthen Ditto, a wash tub, an old earthen Crock Six cups & saucers a small pail & old water can three small tin cups a small tray, two old mattocks one hoe, a small cooler an axe, a butcher knife, and that he has a wife & three children & is not able to support them.
Samuel his X mark Horton
State of
On this 6th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before Thomas Younger a justice of the peace for the County of Craig and state of Virginia, Jane Horton a resident of the County of Craig and state aforesaid aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war: That she is the widow of Samuel Horton who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, that he entered the army at an early stage of the war and served, to the best of her knowledge, during the greater part of said war, – That he died in the County of Botetourt on the [blank] day of August in the year 1829 or 1830– That she was lawfully joined in marriage with said soldier, and that she is now a widow, that the said Saml Horton was receiving a pension at the time of his death– That she cannot state under what act he was pensioned nor at what agency he received his pension.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Horton on the [blank] day of [blank] eighteen hundred and fourteen; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.
Jane her X mark Horton
State of
On this 15 day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County & state aforesaid Jane Horton aged 75 years a resident of Craig County in the State of Virginia who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Samuel Horton deceased who was a private in the Company commanded by (name not known) in the [blank] regiment of (not known) commanded by (name not known) in the war of the Revolution, that her said husband entered upon the service of the Country in the Revolutionary war, nor at what place or time he did enter said army, nor when or where he was discharged, not the precise periods he served but believes he served during the whole of the war– She refers the Commissioner of Pensions to her declaration [two words illegible] filed in her application for a pension as the widow of Samuel Horton a Revolutionary soldier, and to the [word illegible] submitted by said Samuel Horton at the time of his application for a pension which he received [two words illegible] until the day of his death.
She further
states that she was married to the said Samuel Horton in the County of
Gloucester on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. 1815 by one Lewis Dirton a
Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her sd marriage was Jane
Swan[?] that
her said husband died in the
She makes this declaration for the purpose of attaining the
bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3rd 1855.
She further declared that she hereby appoints Joseph [illegible] of the