Miller Bledsoe

Revolutionary Pension Application

Georgia
Oglethorpe County

On this the third day of September eighteen hundred thirty two, personally appeared before the honorable the inferior court of said county when sitting for ordinary purposes, Miller Bledsoe, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 77 with Nathaniel Welch and served in the second Virginia State Regiment and he supposes State line, under the following named officers ~ Deponent enlisted under Nathaniel Welch as recruiting officer, was commanded during his stay in Virginia by Capt. Ambrose Dudley, thence conducted to Valley Forge by the said Nathaniel Welch and there under the command of field officer Genl. Matenburg, Col. William Brent & Maj. Lee & company officers Capt. he thinks William Tabb, Lieutenant Mucklehany, and ensign Hardeman. That deponent left the service of his country in the year 1780 and he thinks on 17th Feby. of that year. Deponent further states that at the time of his enlistment he resided in the county of Orange State of Virginia, that he was in command of Maj. Lee – at the storming of the fort at Powlers Hook opposite the city of New York, and that during the period of his enlistment he was marched from Williamsburg in Virginia to Baltimore, Fredericktown & to Valley Forge, where deponent lay some time with smallpox, & from thence to Monmouth & he thinks from thence to White Plains ~ thence to Smiths Clove, and thence unto winter quarters at Middlebrook. Deponent thinks from thence to Philadelphia, thence to Fredericktown, thence to Falmouth, and thence discharged from expiration of time of service. Deponent may be in error from defect of memory, as to places & unimportant particulars & as to the order of their occurrence, but the material & prominent statements are true & the rest so, to the best of a waning memory & recollection.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Miller Bledsoe