Pension Application of Zachariah and Betsy Ashberry Goff: W2730
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
At a Superior Court of Law continued and held for Bedford County at the Courthouse the 14th day of April 1818 before William Daniel Esq’r Judge Zachariah Goff came into Court and made oath that he enlisted in the regular or continental service of the United States of America during the Revolutionary war under Capt. Mayo Carrington of Cumberland County Virginia in April in the year of Christ 1777 that he belonged to the old tenth regiment commanded by Gen’l. Charles Scott of the Continental line; that he was honourably discharged in the month of October (as well as he can now recollect, his discharge being in the old paymasters office in the City of Richmond Virginia) 177[page torn] and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the support of his country for support which statement may [page torn] supported by the affidavit of Colo. John Watts of this County, who appeared in Court and made oath that the said Zachariah Goff was a regular soldier in the Continental line of the army of the United States of America during the revolutionary war, that he well knows the said Goff served three years or upwards in the said service and that he was, as he believes, regularly discharged and that he believes the said Goff to be in reduced circumstances, which is ordered to be certified.
NOTES:
Compare the pension application of Abraham Goff (S39596).
On 25 Sep 1851 Betsy Goff, “a Free Negroe,” applied for a pension stating that she married Zachariah Goff in Campbell County VA in June 1796, and he died in 1823. On 28 May 1855 Betsy Goff applied for bounty land, stating that her name before marriage to Zachariah Goff was Betsey Ashberry. The file includes a family register inscribed “This Bible is the Property of Elizabeth Goff,” which is now mostly illegible but appears to list the names and dates of birth of five children.