Peter & Sarah Priest Revolutionary War Pension

Compiled by Annie Walker Burns Bell 1933

Virginia W 3(8?)530
STATE OF KENTUCKY BARREN COUNTY: SCT

I, PETER PRIEST of the county of Barren and State aforesaid, do hereby state that the following schedule contains a true account of all my property and affect of every kind whatsoever, except wearing apparel and necessary beding, Viz; one hundred acres of third rate land, on which I live worth two hundred dollars, farming utensils, two dollars, neither horse, cow, sheep or cattle of any description nor household furnitur nor debts, due me. I do furhter state that I have not directly nor indirectly since the 18th day of March 1818 by gift sale or otherwise desposed of my property of any part thereof so as to bring me within the provision fo the Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the U.S. during the Revolutionary War, nor hath any person in trust for me, any property contracts, or debts, due me, not have I any property surrendered and subscribed by me. I further state that I enlisted as a Private soldier on the 11th day of February 1780 in Capt. ROBERT GEORGE's company of artillary attached to Col. GEORGE ROGERS CLARKE's Virginia Regiment in the continental establishment, in the service of the U.S. in the Revolutionary War, in the Kingdon of Great Britian for and during the war, and that I served during the war and was honorably discharged at Louisville (now in Ky.) on the 15th Feb. 1784, which discharge was granted by the said Capt. GEORGE or the said GEORGE ROGERS CLARKE, who was then a Gen., which I do not rmember which discharge is lost or mislaid. That I was in the Battle at Picque Plains fought with the Indians by Col. GEORGE ROGERS CLARKS, who then commanded the American Forces there. I further state that I was born in the U.S. and have always been a citizen of the same, and have always been on the side of my county in every war that I have been in. I do further state that I was a resident citizen of the said county of Barren on the 18th March 1818 and yet reside in said county, and that from my reduced circumstances that I stand in need of the assistance of my country for support. I further state that I live with my family, which consists of my wife, who is in the 48th or 49th year of her age, three daughters, one aged about 23 years, one about 20 years, the other about 13 years old and that I have no other assistance or family with me, that I am now in the 63rd year of my age, that my occupation has been farming, that owing to my informity of the sciatic or rheumatic pain which was on me before I left the service of the U.S. and has continued ever since, in my hips, back, shoulders and neck and for some years (back) settled chiefly in my neck, and shoulders, I have not been able to do any labour of consequence. I do hereby release unto the said U.S. all pensions and claim to pesnions allowed me by any law of Congress of the said U.S. or any provisions made whereby I could have claimed the same previous to the said law of the 18th March 1818.
/s/ PETER PRIEST

Subscribed and sworn to in open court in the Barren County Court on the 16th day of Oct. 1820, being a court of record and made so by Act of Assembly entitled an Act to reduce into one the several Acts estabishing county courts and regulating proceedings therein and encurring the appointemen tof Justices of the Peace and their jurisdiction approved Dec. 17, 1796. Attest, W. LOGAN, Clerk of the county court of the county of Barren.

I, WILLIAM LOGAN, Clerk of the County Court for the aforesaid county of Barren do hereby certify that the foregoing affirmation and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundres and two dollars. In testimoney whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, this 16th day of Oct. 1820.
/s/ W. LOGAN, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Barren

Notations on revers of this declaration: "The service stated in this declaration was in the Virginia State Line and not on the Continental establishment. Rejected. See letter to the Hon. F. Johnson, H.R., U.S. Jan. 16, 1821.

 

STATE OF KENTUCKY COUNTY OF BARREN: AS
On this 18th day of February 1833 personally appeared before the Justices of County Court of Barren County, in open court, PETER PRIEST, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, aged 75 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the U.S. at the Falls of the Ohio, on the 11th day of February 1780 under Capt. ROBERT GEORGE in the Ill. Regiment of the Va. State Line, commanded by Col. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, at the time he enlisted as aforesaid, he lived in the County of now Jefferson County, Ky., then the Falls of Ohio, Va. He was engaged in the Battle of, he thinks, Pickquay Plain and marched through and served during the whole of his service in the Western Country. He got a discharge but cannot now tell where it is, never expecting to ahve use for it. He served in said Regiment of said Col. CLARK, four years and 4 days exactly. 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 the agancy of any state. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
/s/ PETER PRIEST

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named and foregoing applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. I, WILLIAM LOGAN, Clerk of the county Court of Barren County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of PETER PRIEST for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have herunto set my hand and seal of office, this 18th day of February 1833.
/s/ W. LOGAN, Clerk of the County Court of Barren County

 

STATE OF KENTUCKY BARREN COUNTY: SS
Be it remembers that at the February term 1852 of the county court began and held in and for the county aforesaid personally appeard in open court LYDA WRIGHT, who on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress passed July 7th, 1838 and Acts subsequent thereto granting pensions to the widows of certain soldiers of the War of the Revolution, that LYDA WRIGHT, SUSAN GASSAWAY and WILLIAM PRIEST is the surviving heirs at law of PETER PRIEST and SARAH PRIEST, his widow, that her said fathr PETER PRIEST was a pensioner of the U.S. on the Kentucky Roll in Barren Co., Ky. at the rate of $80 a year and she refers to his papers on file for the particulars that the said PETER PRIEST died on the 5th day ofo January 1835 and that the said SARAH the widow of the said PETER and the mother of this applicant died in the said county on the 22nd day of December 1839 and that the said PETER PRIEST and the said SARAH whose name before marriage was SARAH McCOY was married in the county of Shenandoah and state of Va. in the year 1790 on the 6th day of January and that she knows of no family record showing the marriage or birth of the said PETER and SARAH PRIEST children. She further says SARAH PRIEST at the time of her death, that she was sixty three years of age and makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the pension due to her said mother from the sixth day of January 1835 to the 22nd day of December 1839. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of February 1852 in open court.
/s/ W.R. McFERRAR, Judge, Barren Co., Court

 

STATE OF KENTUCKY BARREN CO., SS
I, TRAVIS COCKRICLL, Clerk of the County Court in and for said countyk do hereby certify that at the February term of teh county court began and held in and for said county on the 16th day of February 1852 satisfactory evidence was exhibited to said court, that PETER PRIEST was a pensioner of the U.S. at the rate of $80 per year, that he died in the County of Barren in said state on the 6th day of January in the yar 1835 and that the left a widow whose name was SARAH PRIEST and that said SARAH the widow of siad PETER died in said county on the 22nd day of December 1839 and that she was at the time of her death the widow of the said PETER PRIEST and she left three heirs whose names are LYDA WRIGHT, SUSAN GASSAWAY and WILLIAM PRIEST and it si futher certifies that the foregoining are the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of the said LYDA WRIGHT for the pension due to her said mother. In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my hand and affixed the official seal of said county, this the 16th day of February 1852.
/s/ TRAVIS COCKRILL C.B.C.C.

 

BARREN COUNTY STATE OF KY., SCT
I visited Mrs. SARAH PRIEST at JAMES CARDINs in Barren County, Ky. on the 20th day of Dec. 1839. I found her in a dying ocndition form apoplexy. I am enabled to fix the date by reference to the charge on my book. I am a practicing physician. Mrs. LYDIA WRIGHT is the daughter of Mrs. SARAH PRIEST and I know of no other living heirs of Mrs. PRIEST. Given under my hand this 20th day of February 1852.
/s/ ISAAC WESTERFIELD

 

Know all may by these presents, that I do hereby constitute and appoint W. MANLY my true and lawful attorney, for and in my name to prosecute and attend to the allowance of a certain claim, which I have asserted against the U.S. for pensions both before teh Commissioner of Pensions, the Secretary of the Interior, and any department of the Government, or the Congress of the U.S. and my said attorney is authorized and empowered one or more attorneys under him to make and soncstitue fot he purposed aforesaid, thereby ratifying and confirming what my said attorney, and those by him consituted, may do in the premises. Witness my hand and seal, this 16th day of February 1852
/s/ LYDA WRIGHT

Among the records of the County Court of Shenandoah County is the following: Med -- dus of those persons who have been joined together in the estate of Matrimony by the subscribed sice the last returne. PETER PRIEST and SARAH McKAY or McKEY? Jan. 6, 1791.
/s/ JOHN KOONTS

I, SAMUEL C. WILLIAMS, Clerk of the County Court of Shenandoah County, and State of Va. do hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the records of marriages in my office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of m office this 22nd day of March 1852 and in the 76th year of this commonwealth.
/s/ SAMUEL C. WILLIAMS, C.C.

Covering Jacket: Peter Priest, Barren Co., Ky. who was a private in the Company commanded by Capt. George in the Regiment, commanded by Col. G.R. Clark, in the Va. State Line for 2 years from 1780. Inscribed on the Roll of Ky. at the rate of $80 per annum to commence March 4, 1831. Certificate of pensions, issued Nov. 25, 1833, and sent to Hon. C. Tompkins.
Arrears to the 4th Sept. 1833-----------------------------------$200.00
Semi-Annual allowance ending March 4, 1834---------------------40.00
------------------------------------------------------------------$240.00

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by Wm. L. Allison, Clerk.
Covering Jacket: Sarah Priest, decd. widow of Peter, who was a private for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of Ky. at the rate of $80 per annum to commence March 4, 1836. Ending Dec. 22, 1839. Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of July 1852.