Pension Application of Richard Pugh: S38319
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Schedule
District of Virginia, Franklin County, to wit,
On this 4th day of August 1823 personally appeared in Open Court, Richard Pugh, being a Court of Record and Quarterly Session for the County of Franklin and state of Virginia, having the attribute and power to fine and imprison being also a Court which proceeds according to the course of the common law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a Record of all their proceedings, and have been Solemnly adjudged by the Tribunals of the several States to be a Court of Record, being expressly made such by the Legislature of the State aforesaid, the said Richard Pugh a resident in said County Aged Sixty four years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, that he the said Richard Pugh enlisted for the term of 18 months in the summer of the year 1780 in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain [blank space, but probably should be John] Anderson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Green and Samuel Hawes in the line of the State of Virginia on the second Regimental Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said Corpse until the 16th of January 1782, when he was discharged from the said service in Salisbury in the State of North Carolina, after serving under Captain Anderson, Captain Lawson and Captain [blank space] Stribling Continental Officers; that he was in the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina [sic: Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 15 March 1781], also in the Battle of Eutaw Springs South Carolina [8 Sep 1781], and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services except his own oath, and the Records of the War Department, and in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820, do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by Gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed, I possess two Cows and other domestic goods and chattel, not exceeding fifty dollars in value I have became an invalid through infirmity, and of course follow no occupation. I have six in family, towit, my Daughter Elizabeth aged twenty nine years, Eunice aged twenty seven, Amy aged twenty five, Susannah aged twenty four, my son Richard and Daughter Sarah Ann aged nineteen years, and an adopted daughter named Rutha Ann, aged two months; the assistance of which my family affords me is not sufficient to relieve and overcome the difficulty which poverty daily imposes on me. I therefore supplicate the aid of the General Government for my future support, and in duty bound I will ever pray Richard Pugh
Schedule of Property, towit,
Two Cows and some other personal property of the value of} $50 Doll.