Pension Application of Joseph McAlister: S31241
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of
On this 17th day of September 1832, personally appeared before the County Court of the County of Pulaski, being a Court of Record, Established by the Constitution & laws of Kentucky, Joseph McAlister, a resident of said County of Pulaski, and State of Kentucky, aged seventy eight 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 the said Joseph McAlister, enlisted in the Army of the United States in the month of February, in the year 1776, for the Term of two years, as a Regular Soldier, in the Revolutionary war, in the Company Commanded by Captain Thomas Posey, in the 7th Virginia Regiment, Commanded by Colo. Alexander McClanahan [also spelled McClenahan], and in the Brigade of General Andrew Lewis. that the Brigade aforesaid, was a part of the Virginia State line, in the Continental Establishment, that at the time of his enlistment he was a Citizen of Bottetourt [sic: Botetourt] County in the State of Virginia, that he continued to serve in said Corps as a Soldier in the Regular Service of the United States, his Term aforesaid, for which he Enlisted, (two years, when he was Discharged from the Service, in the County of Burks [sic: Berks] & State of Pennsylvania, at Redding [sic: Reading], receiving his Discharge signed by his said Commanding General Andrew Lewis, which Discharge he preserved for many years, but the same has been lost, mislaid, or destroyed, and has not seen it for a long time, and further states that he was at the taking of Burgoine [sic: Burgoyne, at Saratoga 17 Oct 1777], and that during his service in the Army as a regular Soldier, he marched from his place of Enlistment through the States of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and many other parts of the United States;– and that after he was Discharged from his service as aforesaid he Served two Malitia tours of duty, was at the Battle of Guilford [sic: Guilford Court House NC, 15 March 1781] and the Cowpens [in SC, 17 Jan 1781].–
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension, or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency, in any State.
Sworn to and Subscribed in
NOTE: The file contains a declaration made in Pulaski County KY on 16 June 1834 by Robert, John, George, Adam W., and Harvey McAlister, “children heirs at law and legal Representatives of Joseph McAlister Dec’d” repeating the details of the declaration above. It states that Joseph McAlister died 22 July 1833 at an age “upwards of seventy nine years,” and that his wife and two other children, James and Martha James, died before him. This document was supported by one from a Joseph M. James.