Pension Application of John Mitchell: S5767

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Virginia}

Bedford County} SS.

            On this 28^th day of January 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Bedford now sitting John Mitchell a resident of Virginia in the County of Bedford aged seventy one 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^th 1832–

That he enlisted in the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated. That in the latter part of the year 1781 he was drafted from the County of Bedford to serve a Tour of six months in the militia in the war of the revolution  That they rendezvoused at Prince Edward Courthouse and marched from thence to Richmond where they remained under the command of Capt. Newell for some time, when he Cap. Newell became a supernumerary – The were then placed under the command of Cap. John Slaughter & Lieutenant Nathaniel Rice and remained under them during the balance of the time of service. They were stationed in Richmond and remained their during the whole term of six months. That he has no documentary evidence now in his possession. That he received a discharge but from the little value attached to such things then he took no care of it and that it is either lost or mislaid, but that he can prove this time of service by Capt. Sam’l. Wilks & George Swain who served said Tour with him and to whose affidavit he refers. He hereby relinquish 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  John Mitchell

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

The following are the answers to the several interrogatories propounded by the Court to John Mitchell before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn & subscribed–

Answer to question 1^st – I was born on the 3^d day of November 1761 in the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia where I have ever since resided–

2^nd I have a record of my age as set down by parents–

3^d 4^th 5^th and 6^th answered & stated in the declaration –

7^th I refer to William Leftwich a minister of the Gospel and to Pleasant Preston with both of whom I am well acquainted