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Fielding Jeter
June 20th 1818 Fayette Co, Kentucky, aged 56. States that he enlisted in the year 1779 in Richmond state
of Virginia for one and one-half years, under Captain Denham of the
First Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. Richard Campbell, as he
recollects on the Continental Establishment and that he continued in
said service until 1782 when he was discharged from service in the
vicinity of the town of Ninety-Six South Carolina, that he was in
the Battle of Guilford under General Green. He
enlisted Richmond, Va 1779. One
Littleton Jeter made oath in Fayette Co, Kentucky; that he was well
acquainted with Fielding Jeter and knows that he enlisted in the
revolution and served as stated by him. He was a resident of Fayette
County 1820 and this declarant made at the June term of Court 1820 he states
that he enlisted in Chesterfield Co, Va in the Revolutionary War in
the company commanded by Captain William Denham, in Virginia
Regiment commanded by Col Campbell, in the Continental Line and his
original declaration was dated June 20th 1818 and the
pension certificate is dated June 20-1820 No 17450 and I do swear
that I was a resident citizen of the U.S. on March 18-1818 and etc.
He was living on a rented farm at this time. He had a wife and 3
children, living with him, two daughters and one son about age 18. John
Jeter, son and heir at law of Fielding Jeter, decd, who was a
pensioner of the U.S. on the Kentucky roll under Act of Congress
passed March 18-1818 at the rate of eight dollars per month and who
died without a widow September 27-1843.
Source: Records of Revolutionary War Pensions of Soldiers who Settled in Fayette County Kentucky Annie Walker Burns, compiler, Washington DC, 1936 Copy held by the Kentucky Room, Lexington Public Library Call number: R976.947 B4128r KY1936 |