AYRES, THOMAS
Switzerland County, Indiana, Pension
Claim
S.17245
Born Aug. 31, 1755, Somerset Co. N.J.
Entered
service from Somerset Co. N.J., 2 months private under Capt.
Countrymon; 1777, 1
month private under Capt. Key Kendall; 1778, 1 month under L. Westfall;
1778 -
1779, 1 month under Capt. Key Kendall; 1778, 1 month
under Capt.
Sheaver; 1779, 1 month under Capt. Key Kendall;
1780, 1 month
under Capt. Kane; 1721, 1 month under Capt. Harkness,
1782, 1 month
under Capt. Bunnell.
Lived at Patriot, Posey twp. Probably buried
there.
Married after Revolution in Penn. and continued to live in Penn.
for 5 years. Lived in Ohio 25 years and then moved to Indiana.
BASSETT, JOSEPH
Pension S. F. 355770
Born in 1760,
Raynham, Mass. Enlisted in spring of 1776 for 1 year, under
Capt. Perry in
Col. Sargeant's Reg. Mass Line, Cont'l Establishment. Enlisted
within 2 or
3 months after his term expired in Capt. Perkins Co.
Col. Cranes's Regt. in
Gen Knox's Birgade of artillery on the Cont'l Establishment for 3
years.
Discharged at Morristown, N. J. under Capt. Calendear from the
hands of
Major Shaw; aid to Gen Knox. Was in Brandywine, Monmouth and Rhode
Island.
Died Sept. 8, 1822. Probably buried in Pleasant twp. near
Bennington. wife Mary ________.
Children:
Ebenezer m. Elizabeth Mapes
Mary m. 1823 David Blodgett
Ard.
D.A.R. Lineage, Vol 32 pg. 249 gives a wife Lydia
Jones
and son, Daniel
Switz. Co. Records
Civil Order bk. A
1811 - 1824
pgs. 177 - 202 -
220
Edenezer Bassett,
adm of Joseph
Bassett Jan. 28, 1823.
Inventory Feb. 1, 1823
Oct. 20,
1823 Adm. Wm. Hunter; bondsman,
Wm. C. Mitchell &
William Cotton
Ebenezer Bassett; pgs. 219, 248, 249, 250,
251, 251, 252, 250
Wm. C. Mitchell signs
bond
Sept. 25, 1823 W. C. Mitchell
appraises property of Eben. Bassett
List of
property. Oct. 7, 1823, signed by John Burns
BLADES, JOHN LEVY
W.9502
The date &
place of birth of
this soldier are not shown, nor the names of his parents
given. He
was named after his uncle John Levy.
John Levy
Blaces of Worchester Co. Maryland, enlisted March 10, 1777,
served a a
private in Captain De Sheild's & Vance's companies, and in Col.
Gunby's
& John E. Howard's 2d Maryland regiment; he was in several
battles, was
taken prisoner by the British, Jan. 28, 1780, and was
discharged,
Nov. 15, 1783. It was not stated how he was released from
prison.
John Levy Blades married, Jan. 17, or Feb. 17, 1776 in
Somerset or Worchester Co. Md.
Sarah_________, maiden name
not given. He died in Jan. or Feb. 1784 in
Worchester Co. Md.
Their son, Zadock Blades, was born in the month of May, 1777. He with
his
widowed mother, Sarah Blades, moved to Kentucky and lived in
Mason and
Bracken Counties.
The widow, Sarah Blades, married September 11,
1813 in Bracken Co. Ky.
William Lancaster. He was a Rev.
soldier &
pensioner, and died Nov. 4, 1843 in Switzerland Co. Ind. Said
Sarah
was his 2d wife. She was allowed pension, on account
of her husband,
John Levy Blades, on application executed June 26, 1845, then
living in
Craig twp. Switz. Co. Ind. aged 90 years.
In 1844, Catherine, wife
of Mallory Lancaster (son of Wm. by his 1st. wife, name of wife not
given) was a
resident of Switzerland Co. William and Catherine J.
Lancaster were of
Switz. Co. Ind. were of Switz. Co. Ind. in 1845; it is not
stated that
they were related to each other or to the soldier.
JEAN BAPTISTE BOISSEAUX
Was a Frenchman, who came to the United States to fight in the revolutionary war. He was under the leadership of Lafayette, and fought at Yorktown and was a witness to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He had also seen service At Brandywine and Germantown. He stayed in the United States and married a woman of German descent, Barbara Frick. They finally came to Switzerland County Indiana where they owned property and his will was probated in about 1835. They had a farm on Plum Creek and although it has never been proved he may be buried on that property.
More about Jean Boisseaux from Sheila
Kell
Jean Boisseaux appears in the 1820 and 1830 census in
Switzerland County. The name is spelled creatively and the
first name Jean has been Americanized as John.
BRAY, JOHN
Pension
claim W. 4143
John Bray enlisted in September 1777, in
"Romley" evidently meant for Romney, Hampshire Co. Virginia, served as
a private
in Captain William Voss's company, Colonel James Wood's Virginia
Regiment, was
in the battles of Brandywine, in which he was wounded, Monmouth, and at
the
taking of Stoney Point, also in several small skirmishes, and was
discharged
after serving three years, the term for which he enlisted.
The soldier
was allowed pension on his application executed June 20, 1818, at which
time he
was aged 56 years. His application was executed in Switzerland County,
his place
of residence not given.
John Bray married April 13, 1820, at the home of
one Jacob Hunter (no relationship to soldier shown), in Gallatin
County, Ky.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coonies, also referred to as Betsey, a widow of that
county (the
given name of her husband and date of his death not shown) Their
marriage was
recorded in the County Clerk's office of said Gallatin County,
Kentucky.
In 1821, the soldier was residing in Craig township,
Switzerland County, Indiana. He died in that county, June 10, 1832.
John
Bray's widow, Elizabeth, married October 4, 1834,
Robert Bakes, and
their marriage was recorded in the office of the County Clerk of
Switzerland
County, Indiana. Robert Bakes died March 19, 1847.
Said
Elizabeth, while a resident of Switzerland Co. Ind. aged 55 years,
applied Oct.
3, 1853, for pension due her as the former widow of John
Bray. Her claim
was allowed and she was pensioned under the name of Elizabeth
Bray. In
1859, she was still residing in Switz. Co. Ind. with postoffice at
Vevay, same
county. In 1863, her place of residence were the same, Mount
Sterling,
Switz. Co. Ind. with postoffice at Vevay, which was still her
postoffice in
1874. She did not sign as Elizabeth Bakes but Elizabeth Bray.
The only
names designated as children of the soldier, John Bray, were two
daughters,
Carolina, aged two years, and Amelia, aged three months in 1821, and
Daniel, who
in 1824 made afidavit in the soldier's behalf in Switz. Co. Ind. and
referred to
one Samuel Bray, but did not state his relationship.
In 1870 one John
Bakes witnessed the signature by mark of soldier's widow, Elizabeth, in
Madison,
Indiana, but his relationaship to her was not shown.
Land Warrant 8178
1st wife
unknown. Ch; John; Daniel; Samuel; Jane; Nancy, Elizabeth.
2nd
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Coonies; ch; Amelia,
George Washington,
Sophia.
More about John Bray from Sheila
Kell
Buried in McKay cemetery, Craig twp. A stone read by Wanda
Morford in 1980 as follows - John Sr., d. Jun. 10,
1832 aged 71y 4m 12d
BROWN, SAMUEL
Service: 3 years in Continental line of Virginia; served in
Kentucky, which was then part of Virginia, under General George Rogers
Clark; See Vol 1, pg. 133, same. Samuel Brown had
received bounty
land before 1828, as indicated by "r" pg. 187;
pg. 395 Samuel Brown was in
Va. Military Dist. of Ohio. Also photostats of Muster Roll of
Captain
James Downings Co. of Militia in Lincoln Co. Ky.; on actual service on
an
expedition against enemy Indians under General
George Rogers Clark, dated Nov. 24, 1782.
References for family
history
2. Bible
and Court
records; Switz. Co. Marriages estates 1901 -
1920; Mortuary
reports of Morrisons.
3. Bible;
history
of Dearborn, Ohio & Switz. Co. Indiana. Photostat of original
of Consent
& Marriage returns, Protzman.
4.
Photostat notice of Polly Brown Campbell, which states that William R.
Protzman
was her grandson.
5. Old
family letter
by Wm. L. Campbell, born 1836 - d 1922. Supp. National No.
293,046, Nellie
Protzman Waldemaier.
Children of Samuel Brown and Susan
Bacon:
--Jemima Brown d 1873 m Isaac Shingledecker; buried
Weslayan Cemetery, 4003 Colrain Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio,
m Oct. 19, 1813 in Green Co. Ohio.
--Polly Brown b June 17, 1783 buried Florence, Switz. Co. Ind. m. June 17, 1800 William Campbell
--Elizabeth (Betsy) Brown, m Evan Brock, Dec. 25, 1812, Green Co.
Ohio
--Samuel Brown's wife died in Cincinnati, Ohio
--Polly Brown born
June 17, 1783 at Harrodsburg, Ky. died Sept. 4, 1869 Vevay,
Indiana, married June 17, 1800 to William Campbell, b. Aug. 1776, Rowan Co. N.C.
d Feb. 10, 1832 Florence, Switz. Co.
Ind. Their dau. Polly Campbell b Nov. 13, 1889, Vevay,
Ind. m
Nov. 29, 1826 to William Protzman, b Feb.
1, 1801, Danville,
Ky. d Nov. 5, 1866, Vevay, Ind.
Their dau, Flora Protzman Betts Morrison
Samuel Brown died in Switz. Co. date 1816 given in his estate, he was allowed 44.50 for schooling the children of Caleb Hayes.
BURNS, JOHN
Pension claim W.9372, B.L. Wt. 71127 -
160 - 55.
Born about 1763
Entered service 1777 in King and Queen Co., Virginia
under Col. Richard Parker. Served until 1780. In
battles of Savannah
and Charlestown.
Died July 13, 1827,
Switzerland Co. Probably buried Slawson
cemetery.
Married Lucretia Vanosdol, 1810 Children:
David; Robert; Jane;
Elizabeth m Harrison Harris; George; John.
Collected by Mrs. A. V.
Danner, Vevay, Indiana
COTTON, RALPH
Born Jan. 10, 1742
Served as a private in 6th Class,
in Capt. Timothy Downing's Company, 3rd Batt. of Washington Co. Pa.
Militia;
ordered to rendevous May 18, 1782
Proof: Pa. Archives, 6th Series, Vol. 2, pg. 104 -
105. pg. 117 - 118
Buried Cotton graveyard, near
Mt. Stirling, Switz. Co. Ind. Died
1817
Married:
--Elizabeth Kitchen, about
1761; Children; Henry Smith, b
1763, m Mary
Harrold; Susana, b. 1765;
Peggy, b
1767;
--Jemima b 1769; Mary
b 1772; John b 1774;
William b
1776 m Christina Froman; Sarah
b 1778;
Nathaniel, b 1783; Ralph
b
1786; Robert b
1788.
More on Ralph Cotton
Ralph Cotton, born Jan. 10, 1742, was a
Revolutionary soldier; served as a private of the 6th class
in Captian
Timpthy Downing's company, 3d Battalion of Washington Co.
Militia, Pa.
ordered to rendevous May 18, 1872. This muster roll is
published in the
Pennsylvania archives, 6th Series; Vol. 2
pg. 104 - 105.
Another muster roll of this company in which Ralph Cotton served as
above stated
is published also in the Vol. and series referred to pages
117 - 118 and
the original roll is in the possession of Division of Arch. belonging
to period
of 1782 - 1783; Commonwealth of Penn. State Library of
museum,
Harrisburg.
Parents: John Ralph Cotton married Susan Smith, Feb. 17, 1741;
Children of above:
Ralph born Jan. 10,
1742 died Switz. Co. Ind. 1817.
John born Sept. 20, 1744
Mary born Mar. 5, 1746
Elizabeth born Apr. 15, 1749
Sarah born March 26, 1751
Nathaniel born March 8, 1753
Susana born May 7, 1756
Robert born Dec. 30, 1759
Ralph Cotton married about 1761 Elizabeth Kitchen
b 1747; died in Switz. Co. Ind. Jan. 12,
1832, age 85
years. Both are buried in Cotton cemetery near Mt. Stirling.
Ralph lived in Penn. and in Culpepper Co. Va. Removed to near
Carrollton, Ky. and Switz. Co. Ind. 1805. Their children:
Henry Smith Cotton born Sept. 4, 1763
Susana born Feb. 14, 1765
Peggy born Aug. 4, 1767
Jemima born Aug. 8, 1769
Mary born Jan. 27, 1772
John born Feb. 12, 1774
William born March 13, 1776 Christina Froman
Sarah born May 10, 1778
Nathaniel born Apr. 7, 1783
Ralph born Jan. 17, 1786
Robert born Dec. 4, 1788
William Cotton born Mar. 13, 1776 died Jan. 12,
1836; born in Nelson Co. Ky. married Jan. 7,
1796 Christina
Froman, born Sept. 24, 1775 in Pa.; both buried in
Cotton cemetery
near Mt. Sterling.
Children of Wm. & Christina Cotton are:
Mary Cotton - Nov. 22, 1796
Harvey Cotton - Apr. 26, 1798
Bettsy Cotton - Jan. 30, 1800
John Froman Cotton - Oct. 29, 1803 (1st white
child b in Switzerland Co. near Mt. Sterling.)
William K. Cotton - Aug. 18, 1805
James Madison Cotton - June 24, 1807
Robert S. Cotton - Feb. 27, 1810
Sarah Cotton - Jan. 22, 1812
Perry K. Cotton - Nov. 20, 1813
Christena - Apr. 13, 1816
William Cotton was elected a delegate to
draft the constitution of the state of Indiana; appointed
Judge of Quarter
sessions 1804 by William Henry Harrison.
Robert S. Cotton b
Feb. 27, 1810 married 1830 in Switz. Co. Ind. to Lovina
Gilliland
b Aug. 19, 1812; died Mar. 22, 1885; both
buried in Cotton
cemetery.
COY, WILLIAM
Pension S.31614
Enlisted
July 1777, Montgomery Co. Maryland, under Capt. Nathaniel
Pigman, Col.
Mordock, Gen. Smallwood's Brigade, served 5 months in the battle of
Germantown; discharged. Drafted Oct.
1781, served 5
months guard over Cornwallis' men, Hessians at
Fredricktown.
Died July 10, 1833 Buried on Ted Carver farm on
Hominy Ridge near Dalhi School. Tree marks grave.
Married Mary Ann Dennis on Nov. 25, 1779. Penson gives
children;
Thomas, Ann, Nancy, Susannah, Samuel, Esther, Elizabeth, Ann, William, Sarah,
Mary, Seely, Francis
Indianapolis Star; April 6, 1930:
William Coy,
Rev. soldier, born Mar. 10, 1756, Somerset Co. Maryland and married
Nov. 25,
1779 Mary Ann Dennis; moved to Garrard Co. Ky.
where he lived till
1826; moved to Switz. Co. Ind.
Pension gives children; Thomas,
Nancy, Susannah, Samuel, Esther, Elizabeth, Ann, William,
Sarah, Mary,
Seely (Celia) and Francis, who was born Dec. 4, 1802 and married in
Garrard Co.
Ky. Aug. 18, 1824 to William Chandler. William Coy
died in Switz.
Co. Ind. July 10, 1833. His brother Christopher
Coy, also a
Rev. soldier, died in Lawrence Co. Oct. 12,
1839. (See
Star, July 3, 1932 for record of Christopher Coy).
Star of June 1, 1930
gives grave of William Coy:
Unmarked grave on the Carver farm, Hominy Ridge, York
twp. 21-2-1. This is near the town of Florence.
CRITCHFIELD, JOHN
Pension claim R. 2547. Pension rejected because he
did not serve six
months. D.A.R. Lineage, Vol.
50, pg. 294
Born
1752 Sussex Co. N.J. Entered
service in Capt. Wm.
Underwood's Co. Surry Co. N.C. then Capt. Woolridges Co.
county
Militia.
Died Dec. 31, 1841 Buried Vevay
Cemetery.
Stone.
Married Sylvia Randolph. Daughter Mary married John
Francis Dufour.
Collected by Mrs. A. V. Danner, Vevay,
Indiana
CROSS, EBENEZER
Born about 1754. Enlisted May
1780 in Conn. Capt. Nathaniel's Co. Col. Levi Will's Regt.
Continental
Establishment. Served 9 months. In 1781 under
Jonathan Little,
conductor of teams, for 9 months. Discharged by Little.
See
Switzerland Co. Ind. Civil Order bk. 1820 pg. 373.
Married
Hannah __________.
Above collected by Mrs. A. V. Danner,
Vevay, Indiana.
DAVIS, DAVID
Pension claim S. 35878 B.L.
Wt. 252 - 100.
Born about 1754. Enlisted at Lebannon, Penn. as private May
10, 1777 under Capt. Amos Wilkinson, of Col. Thomas Proctor's
Artillery.
Discharged at Carlisle, Penn. in 1783, by Major
Lukens. Allowed 100
acres land 1801.
Last payment of pension made Mar. 27,
1829.
Married Anne ___________. Children; Alace; David;
John; Spencer.
DEASKY, LEMAN/LEIMAN
Leiman Deisky. S.
35886
Name is shown as Leamon Desky, also.
The date and place of birth
and names of Parents are not shown.
Leiman Deisky enlisted in C (A)pr.
May County, New Jersey, served in Captain
Cummings's New Jersey Company and in Captain Cyrus De-Hart's company,
Colonel
Barbers's 2d New Jersey Regiment, was at the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis and
was discharged June 5th, 1783, having served three years. Soldier
stated that he
received a badge of merit for "faithful service."
He was allowed pension
on his application executed June 16, 1818, at which time he was aged
nearly
sixty-one ears and resided in Jefferson Township,
Switzerland County,
Indiana. He signed by mark, Leeman Desky, was born on the pension roll
as Leiman
Deisky.
The soldier died February 15, 1829, place
not shown.
In 1820, 1825, 1826, soldiers family was referred to as
wife, Hannah, date of marriage and maiden name not given, aged between
fifty-eight and sixty-eight years: children, Malinda, Emily,
Sarah, Polly,
James and Samuel, and niece, Emila, age about eighteen in 1825, names
of her
parents not shown. In 1826, Malinda had two children and her husband
had
deserted her; names of husband and children not
shown.
Switz. Co. records;
Probably buried near Old
Bethel church now
in York Township.
Malinda married 1824
to Joel
Heron
Polly married Chas. F. Krutz
1830
Sarah married 1823
Thomas
Hatton
DEWITT, WILLIAM
Pension W.729
William Dewitt
was born March 18, 1763 in Fredericktown, Frederick County,
Maryland.
Names of Parents not shown.
While residing in Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, William Dewitt enlisted April 1, 1780, served nine months
as a
private in Captain Thomas Cluggage's company, Colonel Piper's
Pennsylvania
Regiment; Marched to a fort at the lead mines
in Bedford county,
where he was stationed during the whole time of his enlistment.
After the
Revolution, he continued to reside in Pennsylvania for twenty
years, then
moved to Kentucky, and lived eighteen years, then to Indiana.
He died in
Switzerland County, January 31, 1838.
The soldier married in December,
1804, Elizabeth Conner, a widow, whose maiden name was White.
The date and
place of her birth was not given. The widow stated that she was married
to
William Dewitt in Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, also in Scott
County, Ky.
The marriage bond was dated Dec. 5, 1804 in Campbell Co. Ky.
Elizabeth,
widow of William Dewitt, was allowed pension on her application
executed April
8, 1855, at which time she was aged seventy-five years and resided in
Cotton
township, Switzerland County, Indiana.
There is no reference to
children
--------------------------------------------
Pr. bk. A pg.
91 Switz. Co. Ind.
William Dewitt,
revolutionary soldier. John Pavy & John Dickerson,
sign
Children named in soldier's will: Polly Bradford; Nancy;
Betsy
Palmerton; John m Mary Jane Potter: Phoeby m. John
Johy;
Judith m Simeon Shattick;
Marie;
Isabelle.
DICKENSON, GRIFFITH
Born Dec. 25, 1762, Hanover Co. Virginia
Enlisted 1777
under Capt. Richard Anderson, 5th Virginia Regt.
Col. Fall, Gen.
Hand's Brigade, for 3 years. Was at Valley Forge. Discharged near
Williamsburg.
See Switzerland County, Ind. Civil
Order bk. Sept. 1832, pg. 68
Collected by Mrs. A. V. Danner, Vevay, Indiana
DUMONT, PETER
See National No. 138, 632
Peter Dumont, born Staten Island, N.Y. 1744; died Vevay, Indiana 1821. Stone in Vevay, Ind. cemetery.
Married Mary Lowe (1750-1841) in 1770. Son, John 1787 -1871 who married Julia Louise Carey, in 1812.
Married Julia Louise Carey, in 1812
Capt. in 2d Batt. Somerset, N.J. Services in the cause were even more outside the ranks than as a soldier. Gen. Washington often consulted him. Certain accounts still in existance indicate that he may have been in the commissary department. It is also said that at Washington's request that he ran his mills day and night to help the soldiers at Valley Forge and that this resulted in irretrievable loss financially. Due to overwork his health failed and he became blind. He refused to apply for a pension.
See Tales of Our Forefathers by Eugene
McPike, pg. 55 - 152.
Stryker's Register of N.J. Officers and
Soldiers, pg. 229
Children: Lydia Guest, Cathherine Anderson, Jane Murphy, John, Abraham
FOSTER, THOMAS
Switzerland Co. Indiana
Pension claim S.17640
Private in company under Capt. Chapman,
in Connecticut Line for 9 months.
FROMAN, PAUL, JR.
Born Oct. 17, 1734 in New Jersey
Service; Captain in Virginia on "Pittsburg Pay Roll" for 176 days. Also a Captain at Fort Nelson in Jefferson Co. Virginia in 1781.
Proof:
Va. State Library "Pittsburg Pay Roll" pg. 56;
Echenrode, List of Revolutionary soldiers;
Virginians in Revolution
War Department; Adjutant General's office
Wife; Mary Cartmell
Daughter Christina, mar. William Cotton, she was born Sept. 24, 1775 in Pa. mar. Jan. 7 1796, buried in Cotton cemetery near Mt. Stirling.
GRAY, MOSES
Revolutionary Soldier.
For service see manifest in Switz. Co. dated June 23, 1823. He
enlisted for 1 year, March 1775, Bedford Co. Pa. under Captain
John
McDaniel (or Donald), Regiment of Col. John Piper, Continental
line, State
of Pa. He was in battles of Trenton and Mrunswick; received
gun wound at
Trenton and discharged. Family, wife, aged 53, feeble; son
William, age 18
years. Estate 1 mare, 8 years old; 3 cows, 3 calves, 10 small
hogs, 1
table, 4 chairs, cubboard and ware, 1 kittle, 1 skillet, 1
plough.
Signed
Moses Gray, June 1832
John ?. Dufour
The following Gray marriages are recorded in Switzerland Co. Ind.
Moses ? Gray to
Malinda Oberon - April 2, 1827
James Gray to Mary Van Dusen - April 22, 1820
Isaac Gray to Elizabeth McLean - Jan. 6, 1827
John Gray to Mathilda Bellamy - Feb. 2, 1827
Joseph Gray to Adaline Smith - Oct. 20, 1827
Elizabeth, dau. of James Gray to Joseph Alfrey - July 2, 1823
Sallie Gray to Andrew Poland - Apr. 9, 1823
Lydia Gray to H. Bright - Oct. 23, 1827
See Charles Allfrey in Biog. Souvenir of Jeff. Co. pg. 203 - 204, for record of James Gray
GULLION, ROBERT
Pension S.
16396
Born Feb. 4, 1764, near Frederick on the Potomac
Enlisted 1780 or 1781 in a company of militia or rangers under Capt. Shearer of Westmoreland Co. Penn. Was stationed at a block house on the waters of Turtle Creek in Penn. for 90 days. In 1782 under Col. Wm. Crawford marched against the Indians on the Ohio River.
Died July 23, 1853. Probably buried York township. Married Barbara _____________.
Children;
Henry
John m 1815 Elizabeth Jones & 1824 Betsy
Scudder
Charles D. m Lena
Dillman
Polly m David
Miller
Rachel m Joseph
Fulton
Sallie& m Wm. McQuiston
Robert m Dolly
Fulton
Switz.
Co. will bk. 2 -
109;
Robert
Gullion.
Sons; John, Henry, Charles.
Daughters; Catherine Miller, Sarah McQuiston, Rachel
Fulton, Rachel Gullion.
Probate bk. A - pg.
69;
Robert Gullion,
revolutionary soldier. Signed by Jas. Cox of Gallatin Co. Ky.
and William Scudder.
HANNIS, HENRY Revolutionary
soldier
Pension record S. 32288.
Henry Hannis was born May
12, 1757 in Ulster County, N. Y. Names of parents not stated.
While residing in said Ulster County, Henry Hannis served as a private with the New York troops, as follows; from sometime in September, 1775, nine months with Captain John Aker's company; from early in July, 1776, in Captain John Deyo's company, Colonel Rawlings regiment, was in a skirmish with the British, and was discharged December 25, 1776; from early in 1777, six months in Captain Hardenburgh's company, Colonel Rawling's regiment; from sometime in August, 1777, three months in Captain Peleg Ransom's company, Colonel Hardenbergh's regiment; was in the battle of Saratoga, and guarded the Hessian prisoners to Albany; from sometime in September, 1770 four months in Captain Conklin's company, under Colonel Owens.
The soldier,
Henry Hannis moved sometime in 1780 from Ulster Co. New York, to
Washington
County, Virginia, and served three months under Captain Bowen and
Arthur
Campbell in Colonel William Campbell's Virginia Regiment.
Henry
Hannis continued to live in the state of Virginia for about ten years;
then
moved to Kentucky, where he lived for about thirty years, then moved to
Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 14,
1832, then a resident of Switzerland Co. Ind. He died
September 23,
1835.
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to wife or
children of the soldier, Henry Hannis.
In order to obtain the name
of the person paid the last payment of this pension, you should apply
to the
Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division,
Washington, D. C. and cite the following; Henry
Hannis, Certificate
#22239, Issued Oct. 18, 1833, Rate $80.00 per annum, Commenced
March 4,
1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana
Agency
From the
General Accounting Office, a letter--
Henry
Hannis, Certificate 22239, died Vermillion County, State of
Illinois,
Sept. 23, 1835. survived by a widow, Gilly Hannis.
Arrears of Pension due from
March 4, 1835 to Sept. 23, 1835 paid on
Jan. 11, 1836 at
State Bank of Indiana to Calvin
Fletcher, as
attorney for the widow.
Switzerland
Co. Ind. records;
Deed bk. B. pg.
457 1826 Henry
Hannis and his wife Hannah, to William Hannis part
sec. 36-3-4 to the
old Indian boundary line fro sugar tree, etc.
Deed bk. B. pg. 503 same signatures.
Probate court records, Nov. 14,
1832; pg. 92 Henry Hannis' petition for
pension. He came to
Switzerland Co. 1814 from Garrard Co. Kentucky. A Baptist
preacher, and
lived on Indian Creek, Jefferson Township. Son William Hannis.
Henry Hannis died July 18, 1846 -- he was a son of William. See bk.
1846 pg. 293; widow, Elizabeth J.
Chancery court, August 1847;
William Hannis, vs. widow & heirs of Henry
Hannis; pg. 345 vs.
Cecelia Hannis, et al. William E. Elias
R., Mahala,
John, Mary, minor heirs of Willam & Ellen, his
wife. pg. 296, 1847.
Marriage records; Switzerland Co.
Indiana
Thomas Hewson to Polly Hannis - Sept. 5, 1817
James A. Stewart to Sarah Hannis - Oct. 13, 1817
William Hannis to Sally Burns - Aug. 18, 1819 - John Six stepfather of
Sallie
Lydia Hannis to Wilson Crandall - Sept. 1, 1819
Hannah Hannis to W. J. Griffith Jr. - Feb. 22, 1822 - Her father Henry Hannis present
Margaret Hannis to George J. Taylor - Dec. 24, 1842
Information
from Mrs. Harry Demaree, a great grand daughter. William
Hannis, a soldier
in the War of 1812 married Ellen Burns. She was of
Welsh descent and he was from Virginia. Children of William and Ellen
were Henry, who married Elizabeth Vernon (she
later married a Todd); Elias, unm.; William E.
mar. an Orr; John mar. Mrs. Gray;
Mary mar. a Gow; Margaret mar. a Taylor; Mahala mar. a Patrick;
Cecelia mar. W. F. Taylor; Kesiah unm. and two who died in
infancy. William was the only son of his parents but
had seven sisters; Polly who mar. Thos. Hewson; Sarah m James A. Stewart; Margaret m a Furguson; Lydia m Wilson Crandall; and three others died in
infancy.
Bio. Souvenir
of Jeff. Clark, etc. Co. Ind. pg. 284; William Watlington
married Nov. 26, 1839 Miss Mary Hewson, a daughter of Thomas and Mary
Hewson. Seven ch; William, Thomas, Mary F., Emma,
Charles E., Abraham & Elizabeth.
Vawter Family History has sketch
of Wm. Watlington.
Deed bk. A - 42 Jefferson Co.
Ind.
William Watlington U.S. Patent
1819 Sec.
2-4-10.
HARRIS, DANIEL
Pension S.36575
Born about
1737. Enlisted Sheperdstown, Virginia, Mar. 2d or Apr. 2d,
1777 in Capt.
James Kearney's co. Col. Thomas Hartley's Regt. Was in Sullivans's
Indian
campaign. Discharged June 1, 1780, from Colonel Adam Hubley's
Pennsylvania
Regiment.
Allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1818, at which
time he was residing in Swits. Co. Ind. In 1820 he stated
that he was 85
years of age and that his wife Elizabeth was 81 years of age and that
they
resided with their children but did not give their names.
Died June
7, 1821, Probably buried in Allensville, Cotton twp. Had several
children
HARRIS,
ROBERT
Pension
W.10076
Born Conn. (see Hist. of Switz. Co. pg. 1222) died 1827,
age 60 yrs. Rev. soldier moved to Indiana 1817; Wife
Lucretia
Kennedy, born Conn. died 1844 age 72. Son, Nelson Harris.
Roster, pg.
179
Born Dec. 12,
1766, Preston,
Conn. Son of Daniel Harris. Matross in company
under Captain Durkee
in Conn. Line for 1 year. Died July 22, 1826 buried in
Quercus Grove,
Switz. Co. Married Lucretia Kennedy, 1787, born
1773.
Children Robert b
1793
Daniel Kennedy, b
1797
James Hiram b
1800
Jacob Rude b
1802
Josiah John Nelson b
1811
Westley b
1818
Lucretia b
1789
Dorothy b
1791
Alice b
1795
Lucretia Whipple b
1804
Fanny Morial b
1808
Mary Zelphia Anny b 1813
HAYCOCK, DANIEL
Switz.
Co. records
Daniel Haycock lived on Tapps
Ridge;
wife, Janie. A Revolutionary soldier. See Ady. in
Village Times,
1837. Lived in
Franklin Co. Ky. A
private in New Jersey. pension in 1818. Deed bk.
E-280. Switz.
Co. Dau. Lucretia Boyd.
HEATH, DANIEL
Pension W.7711, B.L.
Wt. 40013-160-55
Lived in Albany N. Y. where he enlisted 1777,
Private & Serg. in company commanded by Capt. McCalups under
Col.
Blair, N.Y. Militia for 2 years.
Died Oct. 1, 1841.
Buried near Enterprise, Cotton twp.
Married 1st; 1785 Hannah
Gates, (1765 - 1797) children; James (1793 - 1864) m.
Susannah
White; Ann Buckingham; Ara;
Asa; Jeremiah; Mary Halford; Daniel; Orra Babit
Married 2d; Azubah
Reynolds
1797;
Children;
Arden, b
1801
Sabrina Ann b
1802
Felinda
b 1804 m Francis B.
McBeth
Charles b ???
1806
Philo Almana b
1810
Angeline b
1812
See Natl
Nos. 139, 877; 135, 546; 164, 566.
Daniel Heath 1760 -
1841
Natl No. 139,
877
On pension
roll of Switz. Co.
Ind. Born Coventry, Conn.
Mar. 20, 1760. Private & sergeant in N.Y.
Militia.
Mar.
1st Hannah
Gates 1765 -1797. Died Switz.
Co.
Children
James M. Heath, 1794 - 1864
m 1819 Susannah White (1794 - 1858)
Will in Swita. Co. bk. 1
- 184:
Written
Mar. 2, 1841; recorded Nov. 1, 1841
8
children; Anna
Buckingham
Ira Heath
Asa Heath
Jeremiah Heath
Mary Halford
Daniel Heath
James Heath
Orra Babit
Grandsons;
Jefferson &
Napoleon Bonaparte.
A private burying
ground
His wife,
Ozubah Heath and
remaining 6 children; Arden, Sobrina, Ann Byington, Philanda
McBeth,
Charles Philo Almon,
Angelina
Lockwood.
Huffman (Hufman),
Henry
Switzerland Co.
Indiana
Born about 1750. Enlisted 3 years March 1777 in Maryland
company, under Capt. McMahon, Col. Nevel, to serve till March,
1781.
Discharged at Lancaster, Penn.
See Switzerland Co. Indiana, Civil Order
bk. 1828, pg. 117
Married Fanny __________. Children
Ann; Sarah; Lewis m Elizabeth Glenn.
Collected by Mrs. A. V.
Danner, Vevay, Ind.
HUMPHREY, EBENEZER
Switzerland County,
Indiana. Pension Claim S.18040
Born May 8,
1763 Worcester Co. Massachusetts
Private in co.
of Capt. Tucker, Regt. of Col. Tyler, in
Mass. Militia for 15
months.
Died March 23, 1841. Buried in Quercus Grove
Cemetery, Posey Twp. Stone
Married Hulda Keeney.
Children; Stephen b 1791;
Arthur b
1796; Indianus H. b. 1824 There
were other
children.
Collected by Mrs. A. V. Danner, Vevay,
Indaiana.
KELLY, WILLIAM
Pension W.10165
Private in
Virginia Millitia, 9 months from 1777,
Capt. Baldwin, Col.
Steele. Resided in Winchester, Virginia, when he
enlisted.
Born Nov. 2, 1755, Chester Co.
Penn.
Died Jan. 21, 1834 Posey
twp.
Switzerland Co. Ind. Probably buried Lostutter Cemetery.
Married
1786 Sarah Preysor.
Children; Nancy, b. Apr. 13,
1787
Catherine b. Dec. 30, 1789
Mary Ann b. Feb. 17, 1792
Elizabeth b. Sept. 20,
1795
Thomas b July 31, 1798 m Dorthea & Rachel
Lydia Ann b. Nov. 11, 1824 m
Wm. Hess
William b Mar. 26, 1802 m Sept.
6,
1837 Kirea Craig
Switz. Co. Probate bk. A - pg. 195;
Comes
Sarah Kelly, William Kelly died Jan. 21,
1834. Sarah, widow,
said William is the person in Pension Roll of Indiana
Agenncy/ Was resident of Switz. Polly
Kelly, adm.
Will
bk. 1 - pg 71:
Will of William
Kelly. Thomas Kelly, executor. Jan. 16,
1832. Wife,
Sarah, 50 acres NE 30-3-1. Leaves wife pension due
March 6, 1834 to pay
for cows. Son,
Thomas Kelly, exec.
Witnesses; John
Gibbons
and John Stockdale
LANCASTER, WILLIAM
Pension S.16912
The record of William Lancaster follows as found in pension claim S.16912, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War record of JOHN LEVY BLADES is given herein, also, as William Lancaster married his widow.
William Lancaster was born November 17, 1745 in Hanover County, Virginia; he was christened in King William County, Va. Names of parents not given.
While residing in Orange County Va. William Lancaster enlisted, January 20, 1779, serving two months as private in Captain William Buckner's company. Colonel Harvey's Virginia Regiment & guarded the British and Hessian prisoners at Albermarle Barracks. He enlisted in 1780 and served 90 days in Captain Benjamin Johnson's company, under Major Nathaniel Welsh. He enlisted sometime in July or August, 1781, served four months under Abner Porter, commissary, and was engaged in collecting cattle for the army.
He moved about 15 years after the Revolution from Orange County, Virginia to Kentucky and lived there about 28 years, then moved to Indiana. He was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1832, at which time he was living in Switzerland County, Indiana.
LANDERS, KIMBROW
Pension
W.1632 Switzerland Co. Indiana
Born 1757
Albermarle Co. Virginia.
Enlisted 1777, 2 years 9th Virginia Regiment
under Col. George Mathews. Enlisted again under Capt.
Powell of 13th
Vir. Regiment for 3 years. Discharged at Winchester,
Va. In Battle
of White Marsh and Germantown.
Died May 26, 1831. Buried
Cotton cemetery, Jefferson Twp.
Married 2d Keziah
Humbles. July 21, 1793
Dau. Martha m
Aaron Sturgeon. Sons named in will are Nathanial, William,
Benjamin, John,
Kimbrow and
Bradley.
will
bk. 1 - 35 Kimbro
Landers. written Mar. 14,
1831; rec. June 10, 1831. 6
sons, Nathanial, William,
Benjamin, John, Kimbro and Bradley. Wife Keziah.
Son-in-law, Aaron
Sturgeon and wife, Martha.
LANHAM, HENRY
Revolutionary soldier. Switz. Co.
Ind.
Born May 28, 1761, probably Prince Georges Co.
Maryland.
Service: in 2d company of Maryland troops in Battle of
Long Island, 1776. Enlisted Feb. 3,
1776.
Proof:
Archives of
Marylalnd,
Maryland Troops in Revolution,
pg. 8.
Maryland Historical
Mag. June
1919, pg. 110-120
Family Bible and
Will
in Switz. Co. Ind.
Buried McKay cemetery, Braytown,
Switz. Co. Inscription on stone
"Henry Lanham, May
28, 1761 - Nov. 20, 1849"
Married Millia
___________:
Children; Meshack 1811 -
1883 m Susanna
Bray
Shadrick
Thomas b
1797
Mary b 1800 m Abisha
McKay
Chloe b 1795 m a Saddler
Sarah
b 1805 m Zachariah
McKay
Hilley m a
McKay
Nancy m a McCarty
LEAP, JOHN
W.
Indpls Star, Nov. 8, 1931:
John W.
Leap born on Rhine River, Germany, came to America in 1757: born in
1733;
settled near families of Washington & Clark. Tradition that he
knew George
Rogers Clark as a child. He joined the New
York militia at outbreak
of Revolution and was a quartermaster general. He married
before the war
but name of wife not shown. After the war they came to Switzerland
County,
Indiana. Before this they moved to Lancaster Co. Pa. where
they lived till
1796. Later came to Switz. Co. Ind. They went back
to Virginia and
then returned to Switz. Co. probably with 2d wife: Children
of 1st
marriage were; Gabriel b 1771, died 1866 in
Martinsville, W. Va. m
Jennie Courtney; John W. m Mahala Wise, died Oct.
1866; Katie m
______ Ferby;
Samuel W. b 1795, d Vevay, Ind. 1884 m
Henrietta Guile, b
1794.
Probate
bk. A. pg. 70: Swit. Co. Ind.
John Leap, revolutionary soldier. Signed by John
Morrill, clergyman
and Jean D. Moreod.
LEVI, ISAAC
Pension record: W.773
Isaac
Levi was born in February, 1749 in Hungary, and when about seventeen
years of
age arrived in America. The names of his parents were not
shown.
While a resident of Lexington, "Kentucky" he enlisted sometime in
June, 1780, served as a private in Captain Robert Patterson's and
Benjamin
Harrison's companies with the Virginia troops; went on a expedition
against the
Indians on the Big Miami under General Clark, was in a battle at
Pickaway Town,
where the Indians were defeated and the town burned, after
which they were
stationed for fifteen or eighteen months at Fort Vincent (later
Vincennes,
Indiana); then returned to the Falls of the Ohio, where he was
discharged having
served "upwards of two years."
He continued to reside in Kentucky for
about forty years, then moved to Ohio and lived five or six years,
thence to
Indiana.
Isaac Levi was allowed pension on his application executed
September 18, 1832, at which time he was living in Switzerland Co.
Ind.
He married November 14, 1841, in Ripley County, Indiana Mrs.
Mary (Polly) Tucker. She was the widow of John Tucker, to whom she was
married
in February 1836 in Scott County, Kentucky. In the same year
they moved to
Ripley County, Indiana, where John Tucker died November 14, 1840.
Isaac
Levi died September 21, 1850 in Ripley County, Indiana. His
widow, Mary
Levi, was allowed pension on account of the services of her husband,
Isaac Levi,
on her application executed March 26, 1853, at which time she
was aged
fifty years and a resident of Jefferson County, Indiana. She
died October
14, 1853.
Reference was made in 1854 to two children of John & Mary
Tucker, and it was stated that the widow, at her death, left several
children,
"some of which are not of age:. Names of children are not
given.
Roster;
Buried near Osgood, Ripley Co. John Tucker also served in
Revolution.
LEWIS, THOMAS
Pension; Switzerland Co.
Indiana
Born December 1764, Caroline County, Virginia.
Enlisted in March or April 1781; served two months as a
private in Captain
Coleman Sutton's or Captain Taylor's company, Colonel Andrew Thornton's
Virginia
Regiment. Enlisted in June, 1781, served two months as a
private in Capt.
Coleman Sutton's or Capt. Taylor's company, Colonel Thomas Matthew's
Virginia
Regiment. He enlisted in Aug. or Sept., 1781 and served as 2d
Sergeant in
Capt. Coleman's or Capt. Taylor's Company, under Major Carey, in the
Virginia
Troops for two months and two weeks.
He died in Switzerland Co. Indiana, July
28, 1833. Offical papers of his widow stating July 28, 1832.
For
proof; Veterans Administration, Washington, D.
A. Letter to
Mrs. Harvey Morris, Salem, Indiana, dated Jan. 14, 1936. He was allowed
pension
Aug. 18, 1832, while residing in Switz. Co. Ind. where he had resided
for 14
years.
He married Aug. 4, 1805/6 in Angelica, Allegany Co. N.Y.
Sarah Condly. The date and place of her birth not given, nor
names of her
parents. She was allowed pension April 3 or 5, 1853, while
residing in
Switz. Co. Ind. age 70 years, in 1854, she stated she was aged 80
years, and in
1855, 74 years. No explanation given for this. Nine children survived
Thomas
Lewis, names not given. In 1849 a daughter was residing in Cincinnati,
and same
year a son-in-law, Robert D. Collins, resided in Cincinnati, but name
of his
wife is not given.
A Joseph Lewis, born 1812, died near Aaron, Feb. 9,
1893; buried in Brushy Fork. (This may be one son.)
Pr. bk. A-84;
Thomas Lewis, 1832,
age 68 yrs. Newton E. Tapp signs.
pg.
171
Sarah, widow of Thomas Lewis. Thomas died July 28, 1832. Applied for pension June 7, 1832. Certified.