GEORGE HEETER

From Record of Pension Papers Granted to Revolutionary War Soldier Who Settled in Allen County in the State of Kentucky

Compiled by Annie Walker Burns Bell © 1935 pg24
submitted by Sharon Tabor

 

HEETER, George Maryland S 16410

Allen County, Ky. 15 Oct. 1832, GEORGE HEETER, aged 80, deposes that he enlisted as volunteer under Captain SPEIGER in Frederick County,Md. 1776. This was in Gen. BELL's Brigade and part of the "Flying Camp"; was in the Battler of White Plains.

Was born in Frederick Co., Md. in 1751. Since the war has lived in Montgomery Co., Maryland from whence he migrated to Allen County, Ky.

ZADOCK B. THACKSTON, clergyman, DENTON S. PORTER and WM. STRAIGHT are neighborhood witnesses.

Covering Jacket: Kentucky --------- 5802. George Heeter, Allen County, Pvt. Co. of Capt. Speiger. Regt. Col. Griffith in Maryland Line, for 6 1/2 months. Inscribed on Ky. Roll at $21.65 per year to begin 4 March 1831. Certificate of pension issued 18 Feb. 1833.