Pension Application of Benjamin Edwards: S8397

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

Floyd County and State of Virginia

            On this 25th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judge of the circuit superior court of Law and chancery for Floyd county Benjamin Edwards a resident of the county of Floyd aforesaid aged 75 year on the 1^st day of March 1833. who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7^th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the first redgment of Virginia Malitia Commanded by Colo Charles Dabney and the company to which  he belonged was commanded by Capt Abner Crump. Being a redgment of light infantry. He entered the service about the year 1778 or thereabout and remained in the service untill the conclusion of the war and he received his discharge at York town some time after the surrender of Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781] which discharge was lost by Judge Sanders of this state and proof of that fact is now on record in the county court of Franklin. He was at Yorktown at the surrender thereof by Cornwallis. He then resided in the county of Goochland and was marched from there to Richmond Va. where they were joined by the Genl Lafayette. He was principally engaged in Virginia and generally under the command of Capt Crump. He was also commanded by Major Dicke and adjutant Ensign Berry.

            He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agent in any state or teritory whatever.

            Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid            Benjamin hisXmark Edwards

 

NOTES:

            Lafayette arrived in Richmond on 19 April 1781.

            Edwards’s pension was paid until 4 Sep 1840, the probable date of his death.