Pension Application of Peter Brickey: R1192
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
At a court held at the Court house for the
On this 10th day of December in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court the same being a court of record for Botetourt county Peter Brickey now a resident of said County aged about 71 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 of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 that about the last of September 1780 he was drafted in the County of Botetourt and sent to guard the lead mines on New River [sic: probably at Fort Chiswell in present Wythe County VA] from which the armies[?] of this country derived their principle supply in lead, to prevent the Tories from taking possession of them where he was then placed under the command of a Captain Saunders who was the Commanding officer of the place and immediately on his return from this expedition he was again drafted into the service under Captain William McClanahan [also spelled McClenahan] of Botetourt County with whom he marched to the State of North Carolina and joined the army of General Green [sic: Nathanael Greene] during the celebrated retreat before the army of Lord Cornwallis through the State of North Carolina a short time after the Battle of the Cowpens [on 17 Jan 1781] and remained in the army of General Green untill near the last of March after the Battle of Guilford [Battle of Guilford Court House on 15 March 1781] during the whole of this campaign he served under Captain William McClanahan was engaged in several skirmishes one of which was called the battle of Alamants [sic: at Clapp’s Mill on the Alamance River in early March 1781] where Major [Thomas] Rowland of Botetourt County was wounded and when a certain Philip Watkins[?] and Archy Hill two of Captain David Mays Company from Botetourt County were killed and the other was the battle of the Reedy fork of Haw River [on 6 March 1781] where Colo. Clayed[?] and Major Rowland commanded he was in the hard fought battle of Guilford and [one or two words illegible] in the field of Battle during the whole day he further states that he was in the service of his Country in the Revolutionary Army in these two expeditions about six months altogether that he is entirely illiterate and does not recollect the different places to which he was marched or much about the Geography of the Country. he states that he has no record of his age and was born the 10th day of April 1761 he received a written discharge both from Capt Saunders and Captain McClanahan but he has lost them both not supposing that they would ever be of any use to him he took no care of them he has no documentary evidence of his service but can prove by William Brickey who is now in Court that he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary army [sic] and that Henry Buchhanan James Style[?] Esq’r. and the Rev’d. Jonathan Lee will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution he hereby relinquishes all claims whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to and subscribed in open court Peter his X mark Brickey
State of
Carter County} on this 9th day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Elizabeth Brickey aged about fifty six years a resident of the said County in the State of Tennessee who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Peter Brickey deceased who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. She further states that she was married to the said Peter Brickey in Bottetourt County Virg. about the year A.D. 1820 by one ____ [name illegible] a minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Dunn, that her late husband died at Bottetourt County Virg. about the year A.D. 1834 [“4" written over “3" or vice versa] and that she is now a widow and has been ever since the death of her husband the above named Peter Brickey. She further states that for the proof of her said husband’s services she refers to the proof now on file in the Pension office made out by the agent of the said Peter Brickey on an application for a Pension during his life time and to any payroll proof that may be on file in relation to the service of said Brickey. She states that she has no private or public record of her said marriage in her possession She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March the 3rd 1855 Elizabeth her X mark Brickey
NOTE: Elizabeth Brickey’s declaration was accompanied by a supporting affidavit signed by Geo. W. Brickey and Susan Syrah.