Pension Application of Reuben, son of Samuel and Alice Scott: R9312

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

            State of Indiana} SS:     On this Fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one

            Boone County}            thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared in open

court before the Court of Probate for the County of Boone and State of Indiana, now sitting Reuben Scott a resident of Jackson Township in the said County of Boone and State of Indiana, Aged forty seven years on the 16 day of April last past, son of Samuel Scott and Alice Scott, his wife, who are now deceased, the said Samuel Scott Died on the eighth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and Alice Scott his Wife died on the tenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath make the following Declaration in behalf of his deceased Father & Mother the said Samuel Scott and Alice Scott his Wife, in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress in such case made and provided. That the said Samuel Scott entered the service of the Untied States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, as he is informed by the said Samuel Scott in his lifetime & others and verrily believes.

            That the said Samuel Scott was Born in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty and entered the service in 1775 as a Volunteer under Captain Joseph Cloyd on New River in Montgomery County and State of Virginia (his statement of the precise time not recolected nor the different officers he the said Samuel Scott was under in the service not recollected in rotation nor his marches & stations in rotation as performed) was under Colonel William Preston also under Colonel Wm. Christie [AKA Christian]. also Captain McCortte Captain Robertson & Capt. Wm. Penn & Captain How and Stephen Trigg administered to him the said Samuel Scott his oath of Fidelity to his Contry and was under several engagements, but the statement of the precise Number and length of each not recolected, he the said Samuel Scott continued in the service untill some time in the year of 1781. He the said Samuel Scott was Marched from Culbersom’s bottom on New River to Moravian Town in North Carolina [at present Winston- Salem], and to a place called Bluestone and to Watauga Fort there stationed three Months and then back to Cloyds Fort in Montgomery Via [sic: Va.]. He the said Samuel Scott was Marched to Hosston [sic: Holston] River at the Blockhouses and was also marched in Carlina the year after his second child was born who was born in Nov. 1780 and my Mother Alice Scott had to frequently take her children to the Fort while her Husband Samuel Scott was engaged out in the service. He the said Samuel Scott was in no regular Battle, but said he would have been, but he believed some of his officers were a little cowardly and did not like to push themselves forward. The duration of each term of engagement cannot be particularly given, but the said Samuel Scott did serve with an embodied Corps caled into service by competant authority, that he was in the field or in garrison, in all not less that four years, and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. And that I know of no documentary evidence to prove the service of the said Samuel Scott as his discharge was destroyed by the burning of his house and that I know of no person, whose testimony I can procure, who can testify to his service other than the Deposition of Forrest Farley and Sollomon Farley that are herewith enclosed. He the said Samuel Scott was a private through out his services in the War of the Revolution. I am informed and believe that the said Samuel Scott and the said Allice Scott his Wife was Married in the Winter of 1776 and that I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to their Marriage other than Mrs. Hannah Crow of Pulaski Co, & State of Via. whose Deposition is herewith enclosed.

            Every claim whatever to a pension or Annuity except the present is hereby relinquished and Declares that the name of the said Samuel Scott is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State

            Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.             [signed] Reuben Scott

Question 1st by the Court. Where and in what year were your Father the said Samuel Scott Born.

            Ans. In Augusta Co. Via. in the year 1750

            2nd I have no record of his age and do not know of any

            3rd [When he entered service he lived] In Montgomery County Via, and from thence he

            moved to Giles Co. Via. and from thence he moved to Lee Co. Via and there Lived untill

            he died.

            4th He Volunteered

            5th I know of no further statements of his officers and service than I have above stated.

            6th I have heard him say that he had received discharges and they was consumed in the

            burning of his house.

            7th John Muncy and Thomas Caldwell and Elizabeth Scott, who does Testify as to his

            character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution, whose

            evidence is herewith enclosed.