Pension Application of Robert Campbell W6621

Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Kentucky

Jessamine County Sct.

On this 17 day of December 1832 personally appeared in open th Court, before the justices of the

County Court of said County now sitting Robert Campbell a resident of the County and state aforesaid aged 71 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. that in the year 1777 he was drafted in Botetaut [sic: Botetourt] County Virginia in the Company Commanded by Captain Joseph McMurtry, that after the Company was drafted they were marched from thence by Captain Thomas Boyer [sic: Thomas Bowyer] in May 1778 and joined the armey at the Valey forge [sic:Valley Forge] (and was then immediately inocolated for the small pox) we entered into the 12th Virginia Regiment Commanded by Gen’l. [Charles] Scott, when we reached the armey we had 24 hours to choose the Captain we would go under & be commanded by & I went in the Company of Captain Andrew Wallace and remained at the valey forge with the Smallpox until the battle was at Monmouth [28 Jun 1778], from thence we marched on to the white planes [sic: White Plains] by New york and was sent from the white planes on the North River to a town called new winsare [sic: New Windsor] on the North River, and was billetted from there to guard the frontier on the North of Jearsey [sic: Jersey] during the winter 1778 and came from thence to Middlebrook and was there discharged in February 1779. That he had a written discharge; that an order for a suit of clothes was written on the back of the discharge and it was given to a man by the name of Samuel Walker to draw the clothes at Richmond Va. that he has not seen or heard of said Walker of the discharge since and does not recollect by whom the discharge was signed.

That when he returned home, in the fall of 1780 he volunteered in the Company of Capt. And’w. Hanly [possibly Alexander Handly] and and there was about 200 volunteers marched by Major [David] Campbell from Botataut County to South Carolina and we reached there & joined Col. Dan’l. Morgan [sic: Gen. Daniel Morgan] the second knight after the battle of the Cowpens [17 Jan 1781] We then came back to Guilford [NC] and there dismissed by Maj’r. Campbell, our term of service for three months having expired in the spring of 1781.

That he knows of no person except Jane Wilmore (whose testimony has been taken) whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service – He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. [signed] Robert Campbell

NOTE: On 3 May 1853 Katy Campbell, age 87 years and seven months, applied for a pension stating that she married Robert Campbell in Nov 1807, and he died on 4 July 1850. On 15 Aug 1853 Mathew Campbell and Jacob Wilmore stated that they were at the wedding of Katy Hawkins and Robin Campbell