Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension Application of Fiatt and Susannah Coffman Wisong: W8305
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
On this
14th day of May 1833 Fiatt Wisong comes into Court
and makes and swears to the following Declaration for the purpose of obtaining
a pension under the act of Congress approved on the 7th of June 1832 that he
was born in the neighborhood of York in the State of Pensylvania
[sic] after living for some time in that place he removed to Shepherdstown then
in the County of Berkly and State of Virginia [see
note below] that he was then drafted to
serve in a Militia regiment Commanded by Col. Morrow that he continued in that service for the
space of five months that his Captain
was Josiah Swearingen and Isaac Johns was the Lieutenant of the Company in
which he served after marching to Fort
McIntosh at present in the State of Ohio he became associated with the Army
under the command of General McIntosh
that from thence they were marched to Muskingham
[sic: Muskingum River] and there built a fort and from there he was marched to
Fort McIntosh where he was discharged he
would state that during the period he was associated with the regular army he
remembers to have seen Gen’l McIntosh and Colo.
Richard Campbell afterwards killed at the Eutaw Spring [sic: Battle of Eutaw
Springs SC, 8 Sep 1781] that shortly
after his return to Shepherdstown to wit in the following Spring he removed
from that place to the Town of Fincastle in the County of Botetourt and State
of Virginia in the Fall following to wit
in 1781 he was again drafted and marched under the orders of Captain Joseph
Looney Lieutenant [James] Tosh (his name
of Baptism not recollected) and Ensign William McClenahan
to Bottoms Bridge a few miles below Richmond
that after being joined by other Troops he was march to York Town and
was present at the Siege of that place and after the event of the Siege he was
discharged. (In this service he was employed for the Term of three months). He
of course remembers that at that time the army was commanded by General Washington he also remembers
that Gen’l. Lay Fayette [sic:
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Fiatt his + mark Wison
NOTES:
Shepherdstown
is now in
Gen.
Lachlan McIntosh commanded the Western Department of the Continental Army from
1778 until the spring of 1779.
State of
On this 14th day of February, 1853, personally appeared before the County Court of Record of the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Susannah Wisong, a resident of the County of Botetourt and State of Virginia, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed February 4, 1853. That she is the widow of Fayett or Fiatt Wisong, who was a pensioner under the act of Congress approved on the 7th of June, 1832, and drew twenty six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum.
She further declares that she was married to the said Fayett or Fiatt Wisong, in the County of Botetourt, and State of Virginia, on the 28th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, (1816); that her name before her marriage was Susannah Coffman, and that her husband, the aforesaid Fayett or Fiatt Wisong died in Botetourt County, Virginia, on the 4th day of August, A.D. 1837. – She further swears that she has remained a widow since her husbands death, and was on the 4th of February, 1853, a widow, and has never before made application for a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day} Susana her + mark Wisong
and year above written, in open Court}
State of
On this 28th day of March, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Susannah Wisong, aged 67 years, a resident of Botetourt County, in the State of Virginia, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Fiatt Wisong dec’d. who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a Pensioner of the United States until the day of his death; that her said husband enlisted in Botetourt County, Virginia, but that she does not know now the dates of his service; she also states that her said husband was honorably discharged, and that said discharge is now on file at Washington, D.C. She further states that she is now a Pensioner under the 2nd section of the act of February 3, 1853, and she refers to her declaration filed under that act, for proof of her marriage and husband’s death, as well as his services. (Refer to page 131 – Vol. a) under act. 1853.) She further states that she was married to the said Fiatt Wisong, in Fincastle, Va., on the 28th day of March A.D. 1816 by one John Helms, a Methodist Preacher, and that her name before her said marriage was Susannah Coffman; that her said husband died at Botetourt County, Va. on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.
Susannah her + mark Wisong