Pension Application of Zachariah Lee: R6260
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
On this 12th day of May in the year 1834 personally appeared in open Court (the same being a Court of record for Botetourt County) Zachariah Lee now a resident of Botetourt County and State of Virginia aged about sixty nine 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 an act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. that he was born in Albemarle County in the year 1765 from the best information he [the remainder is very faded; this transcription should be read with more than usual caution]… he moved to Rockingham County Virginia… volunteered his services in the company under the Command of Captain Michael Coker [sic: possibly Michael Coger of the Rockingham County Militia] was marched to Richmond where he joined a Regiment under the Command of Colo. William [two or three words illegible] marched to different places in [two words illegible] but being illiterate and ignorant of the Geography of the Country he cannot specify the [word illegible] places at which [several words illegible] during this Campaign this applicant states that he [two lines illegible] but this applicant claims for six months only for this tour as he cannot precisely specify how much longer he [two words illegible]. this applicant states that after he was discharged he returned to Rockingham and arrived at home, but about the next month he was drafted into service under the Command of Capt. James Frazier and rendezvoused at Rockingham Court house from whence he was marched to Petersburg Virginia and from thence to Hobbs’ Hole at a river [Rappahannock River, near Tappahannock], which last place this applicant in a Skirmish with the Enemy was wounded in his [word illegible] a musket ball or Buck shot which rendered him for some time unfit for service. he states that he served six months this tour, after which he returned home and remained a short time [two words illegible] again drafted into the service under Captain Jeremiah Quigly[?] and rendezvoused at Rockingham Court House and was attached to Colo. Lewis’s Regiment and marched to the [word illegible] of Virginia and Carolina where he served six months during this Campaign this applicant was in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse [15 March 1781] after which he returned home and remained a little upwards of five months when he was drafted into service under the Command of Captain William [illegible] and was marched [two lines illegible] was discharged. this applicant [one or two words illegible] that in two of the Tours above stated he was [word illegible] in service longer than six months but being at that time very young he cannot [two lines illegible] This applicant [two or three words illegible], states that he was very young when he entered the service, that he was illiterate and unacquainted with the Geography of the Country and consequently cannot [one line illegible] to which he was ordered during his services. This applicant states that after he was discharged from his fourth and last Campaign he returned to Rockingham where he remained till about twenty five or thirty years ago when he removed to Botetourt Virginia where he now resides & has resided ever since. This applicant states that he remembers that he was a part of his Service under the Command of Gen’l. Mulenburg [sic: Peter Muhlenberg] but does not recollect the number of his regiment he was during this Campaign [two words illegible] under the Command of General [word illegible] and that he was as before stated in a Skirmish with the Enemy at Hobb’s Hole in which he was wounded that he was in the Battle of Guilford that he has no record of his age. that if he ever received a written discharge he has lost it that he has no written evidence of his service nor does he know any person now living in the Country from whom he can procure [three words illegible] In Witness whereof applicant [four words illegible] that he served more than one or two Terms of service but [word illegible] does not recollect how many each time.
This applicant is known in the neighborhood by James Murry and Rand [?] Hall, 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 of any state whatever. given under my hand on the day year first above written Zachariah his X mark Lee