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Linsfield Bicknell
Old War File 6647 - Kentucky Militia
A copy of an invalid pension certificate issued by the War Department to Linsfield
Bicknell was on file and stated that the applicant had been inscribed on the roll of the
Kentucky agency, to commence on the 17th day of May 1819, and given at the War Office on
August 7, 1833. This was a duplicate copy of the certificate given 28th of July 1820,
which had been lost or mislaid.
On July 15, 1834, in Madison Co., Kentucky, Doctors Wm. P. Letcher and Chas. I. Walker,
residents of said county made application to be used in favor of Linsfield Bicknell,
resident of Estill Co., Kentucky, and who was applying for an increase of a pension. They
stated that the tomohawk which had wounded the shoulder of the Revolutionary soldier,
Linsfield Bicknell had split the cap of the shoulder and on account of it, the shoulder
was in danger of being dislocated by labor. Dr. Wm. R. Letcher further stated before
H.B.
Hawkins, Justice of the Peace, that he was in the battle of Dudley's defeat and was the
only seargeant of this of this regiment. That he knew said Bicknell then and ever since.
H.B. Hawkins, Justice of the Peace, stated that he was acquainted with both Dr. Letcher
and Dr. Walker of their respectabilities in their professions and to their characters as
to honesty and truthfullness.
On July 17, 1834, in Madison Co., Kentucky, Linsfield Bicknell, resident of Estill Co.,
Kentucky, made application for an increase of pension and further stated that: he was a
private in Captain Coombs' Company in the Kentucky Militia in Colonel Dudley's Regiment
and was placed on the pension roll on account of having received a wound in the shoulder
with a tomahawk, splitting the cap of the shoulder and on account of it, the shoulder
often slips out of place. Said injury occurred while in the line of duty in said service
on May 5, 1813, in Dudley's Defeat at a place called the Rapids of the Miami, of the lake
opposite Ft. Meigs in Ohio, and is still disabled in consequence of the injury.
In Fayette Co., Kentucky, Leslie Combs, late Captain of the spies, of the Kentucky
Volunteers, attached to Col. Wm. Dugley's Regiment made oath on May 17th 1819, that
Linsfield Bicknell belonged to his company and was wounded as he stated, on the 5th of May
1813 and with this deponent was taken prisoner by the enemy.
Archibald Goodloe appeared before court in Madison Co., Kentucky on the 7th January 1833,
and made oath that the pension certificate of Linsfield Bicknell has been placed in his
hands by said Bicknell, but he had lost or mislaid it.
Linsfield Bicknell, whose disability was rated one-half, was placed on the pension roll of
Kentucky, to commence on May 1819, the certificate of the pension was issued 28 July 1820.
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