David Kerr - Revolutionary Pension Application

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David Kerr
Revolutionary Pension Application

 

State of Georgia
Wilkes County

In the Superior Court of said county, July term 1819

On this nineteenth day of July eighteen hundred & nineteen, before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Superior courts of said State, personally appeared David Kerr aged sixty nine years, resident of Oglethorpe County in said State, & being sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that he, the said David Kerr, enlisted for the term of eighteen months some time in July (as he believes in the year seventeen hundred eighty in Bedford county in the State of Virginia with one ---- ---- from Prince Edward) in the company of commanded first by one – Marshall(?) & afterward by one Capt. John Anderson. That from that company he was detached by the Baron Steuben under Lieutenant Samuel Selden to join General Greene in the Carolinas in a regiment commanded by Colonel Green Virginia Line on the Continental establishment. That he continued to serve in said corps or in the service of the United States until the seventeenth day of January seventeen hundred & eighty two (1782) when he was discharged from service at Salisbury in North Carolina. That he was in the battles of the siege of (96) (Cambridge), Eutaw Springs, & several skirmishes & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country. That he has now no other evidence in his power of his said services, except the affidavits of Charles McKune & Claiborn Webb, herewith exhibited to the court. That last summer he placed his original discharge in the hands of Thomas W. Cobb member to Congress to be ---- with an affidavit made at last July court of this county but from a ------ of Mr. Edwards here shown it appears there was an irregularity in his papers then and that they were not back directed to this place & have never come to hand.

David Kerr

Sworn to before me this 19th July 1819.
Jno. M. Dooly, JSC

 


 

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