Pension Application of Robert Davis: S2500

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

State of North Carolina}

County of Surry} SS

On this 14th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the undersigned Jonathan Whitaker  Geo A Jones & Jas Clanton acting justices of the peace for the county of Surry NC Robert Davis a resident of the county & state, aforesaid aged 77 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 enlisted in the army of the United States in the year [blank] with Capt Isaac Taylor and served with the 1st regiment of the Virginia line under the following named officers Capt J. Taylor, Major Quirck[?], Col John Montgomery. He enlisted for the term of three years in Bortetot [sic: Botetourt] County Virginia marched to the Mississippi River  past the Mississippi he marched to a place called the Illinois Town from thence to the Wabash thence to the Sandusky plains where he was in a battle against the Indians  from thence he was marched again to the Iron Banks on the Mississippi [in the part of Virginia that became the state of Kentucky] and thence to the falls of the Ohio where he was wounded in the shoulder & where he remained until discharged by Col Montgomery  his discharge he has lost  he was during the time engaged in many skirmishes with the Indians  During all which time he was a Sergeant Major.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of Virginia

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid        [signed] Robert Davis

 

NOTE:

            Lt. Col. John Montgomery join George Rogers Clark at Vincennes IN on the Wabash River in early May 1779 intending to attack the British at Detroit as part of Clark’s Illinois Campaign. Montgomery came with too few troops to mount, so Clark remained at Vincennes to secure the territory he had won from the Indians and British. Davis’s declaration indicates that Montgomery continued north and east up the Wabash River and to the Sandusky Plains in present Wyandot County OH.

            A typed summary gives the date of Davis’s death as 30 June 1847.