Pension Application of John Law: S8809
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia}
County of Franklin} SS
On this 18th day of July 1832. personally appeared before me John M Holland a Justice of the peace for said County, John Law Jr. a resident of the County and state aforesaid, aged Eighty five years, who 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. That in the year 1778 or there about, he enlisted under Captain Jesse Herd as a volunteer in a company of cavalry in the County of Henry state of Virginia, for the purpose of guarding against, and queling the tories, and to be held in readiness to march to any other place, or in any other service where call’d on That they marched through the Countys of Henry and Bedford different times, dispersing the tories and disaffected – that they march’d into the state of North Carolina, at the call of Colonel Armstrong, he thinks in the county of Surry, for the purpose of suppressing the tories. – that they join’d General [William Lee] Davidson of that state, and was commonly sent out on reconnitering parties – and march into South Carolina. from thence return’d to North Carolina, where the Captain and Lieutenant of Our Company was discharg’d from the service in that quarter, and we march’d home and continued to be held in Readiness for further service. that he was in actual service twelve months, and he thinks more, as above stated, under the above named Captain Jesse Herd. that he was then drafted in the year 1781. under Captain James Parteete [sic: Poteet], and march from the County of Henry (now Franklin in the State of Virginia to Yorktown in the above named state, and was discharged on the [?]th of October, as well as he recollects. he obtain’d a written discharge, which has been either lost or mislaid – sign’d by said Capt. Parteete — that he was in service at that term one month. That the Col. to whose regiment he belonged was named [Henry] Skipwith, to the best of his recollection, that General Washington was the commander in chief – that he has resided in the County of Henry, that part which is at present Franklin, and on the same plantation in the above named County, in Virginia ever since and during the revolutionary War.
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.
[signed] John Law Jr.