Pension Application of William and Jane Dean Campbell: R1632
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
The State of Alabama} Be it remembered that on this the 17th day of June one
Dickson County} thousand eight hundred and forty eight, personally appeared in open Court, of the County Court for said County, Jane Campbell, a resident of said County who was born on the 8th day of December AD 1760. who was aged eighty seven years on the 8th day of December last who after being duly sworn as the law directs says in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the acts of Congress of the United States of June 7th 1838, March the 3rd 1843, July 17th 1844, 4th day of July 1836, and the 2nd of February 1848 granting pensions and half pay to the widows of Soldiers in the revolutionary army in certain cases, that on the 9th day of March, in year of our Lord 1782 she intermarried with one William Campbell, in the County of Montgomery in the State of Virginia. She further states, that the said William Campbell was a soldier in the revolutionary army and served under, Col. [George Rogers] Clark of the Virginia troops, and during this campaign, he with other troops under the said Clark passed from the state of Virginia and embarked upon the Tennessee river [in 1778], and from there to Kaskaskia in the now state of Illinois, where he was stationed for some time. She further states that the said William Campbell after his campaign under Clark as above stated, (in which campaign he served as Ensign) joined a light horse company, organized and commanded by Captain Isaac Campbell in the County of Montgomery, in the state of Virginia, under whom he served a campaign, that he was in the battle of Shallow ford on the Yadkin river [14 Oct 1780] in the battle at Ramsours Mill [20 June 1780], and at Whitzells Mills [sic: Wetzel’s Mill 6 Mar 1781] in the state of North Carolina, and that he reached the battle field of Kings Mountain in the state of South Carolina on the day after that battle [on 7 Oct 1780], and assisted in securing the victory there obtained by guarding prisoners &c. She further states that she was married to the said Campbell by License issued from the Court of Montgomery County Virginia, the maiden name of applicant was Jane Dean. She further states, that her husband kept a family record, which is herewith filed and marked (Exhibit A) which record has been kept by her for the last thirty years. She further states that her husband died in the County of Cumberland and State of Kentucky on the 15th day of March 1814. She further says that the rites of matrimony were duly solemnized between her and her husband by Ebenezer Brooks a presbyterian minister of the gospel at the county and place herein before stated. She can prove by Joseph Dean who resides[?] as she he lives in the County of Davidson and State of Tennessee, if living, and said witness was alive at her last accounts the date of her marriage with her husband. She can prove by William L Allen of the County of Jackson and State of Alabama, the date of her husbands death. She has never married again. She has resided in the County of Jackson and State of Alabama near five years, before which time she lived in the County of Russell and State of Kentucky. She also states that in the year 1833. one Milton King of Burkeville in the State of Kentucky made application for the pension of her deceased husband but without success. the said William Campbell her husband did not receive any land from the government for his military services.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of June 1848} Jane herXmark Campbell
NOTES:
In the file is the following note: “My Grand Father never got land he entered the services in the forepart of the year 1777 Milton King got a declaration have you ever got up with his papers”
The file also includes a copy of a bond signed by William Campbell and Stephen Saunders in Montgomery County VA on 5 March 1782 for the marriage of Campbell to Jane Dean, daughter of Adam Dean. Also in the file is a document dated 18 April 1857 by William L. Allen, identifying himself as the husband of Sarah Campbell, who was the daughter of Jane Campbell, deceased.