Pension Application of Nathaniel Blunt (or Blount): S49296

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

State of Virginia

Botetourt County to wit

            On this 16th day of August 1821 Nathaniel Blount a resident of the County of Botetourt and state of Virginia, aged seventy three years, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for said County which proceeds according to the course of the Common Law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings & having the power of fine & imprisonment, and the said Nathaniel Blount being first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820. That he the said Nathaniel Blunt inlisted in Capt. John Anderson’s Company in the army of the United States, on Continental Establishment and 5th Virginia regiment, the date he does not recollect in the Revolutionary War: that he served in that company (which was attached to a regiment or detachment then commanded by Colo. Balls) about one year when he was discharged.  he further states that he is now in such reduced circumstances as to need the assistance of his Country for Support, as will appear by my Original declaration which was sent to the War Office –

            and in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 he solemnly swears that he was a resident citizen of the United States of American  State of Virginia & of the County of Botetourt on the 18th day of March 1818. and that he has not since that time by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, so as to bring himself within the provisions of an 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,” passed on the 18th of March 1818, and that he has not nor any person in trust for him any property or securities, contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any income other than is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed – that he is a laborer by profession, but is unable by age & infirmity to work, that he has no wife, she being dead, no children living with him.

Schedule – I have nothing.                   [signed] Natt Blunt

 

NOTE: Misfiled with this application is one by William Blunt W23633.