Originally Published by the ECHGS and used here with their
permission
Some of the words in this transcript may be misspelled. This is how they were
spelled in the original
Be it Remembered that heretofore, on the 18th of June 1821, Robert Pike made affidavit
in open court and produced a schedule of his property amounting to eighty dollars,
agreeably to an Act of Congress of the 1st May 1820 concerning pensions, which ordered to
be entered of record in the words and figures following; towit, Estill County, Kentucky on
this 18th day of June 1821 personally appeared in open court, being a court of records for
the District, and having power to fine and imprison for contempt. Robert Pike, age 70
years, resident in Estill County in said District, who being first duly sworn according to
Law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: He
enlisted with Captain Woods in Colonel Abraham Bufort's Regiment of Regulars on
Continental establishment in the Virginia Line in the year 1777, as well as he recollects
in Rockingham County, Virginia, to serve for eighteen months, at the experation of which
time he re-enlisted in the same Regiment for during the war. He was discharged in South
Carolina by his Captain. His certificate of pension is No. 14119.
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of
March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any other matter,
disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
bring myself within the provisions of An Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War", passed the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has
any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, in debts due me, nor
have I any income other than what is contained in the schudle hereto annexed and by me
subscribed: one horse of little value, appraised by two neighbors at $15.00; seven head of
hogs including 7 pigs value at $10.00; house furniture besides one old bed value at
$10.00; farming utensils value at $5.00 total $40.00. I have owing to me a small amount
from a man whom I have ben dunning for about fifteen years and fear I shall never get it.
I owe about fifty dollars to various persons, and shall owe about 10 barrels of corn next
Christmas for rent. I am a farmer on rented land, but can scarcely work any, being lame
and forced to work with crutches.
My family consist of my wife, aged 66 years, and one son, aged 17 years.
Robert Pike
Sworn to, and discharged, on this 18th day of June 1821, before the Justices of the Peace
and Judge of the County Court
John Parks, William Meadows, John M. Moore, Lewis Moore, John Oldham and Samuel Kelly
Note: Mr. Pike settled in Estill County following the Revolutionary War. However, it
wasn't until he removed to Fayette County, Kentucky that he made an application for a
pension. He was instructed by the Fayette County Court to enter his application for a
pension before the Justices of the Peace of the Estill County Court. Mr. L. Combs, one of
the Justices of the Peace for Fayette County said in a letter to Mr. Pike that he had no
doubt that he could get his pension allowed, and would have been done sooner had he lived
in Fayette County.
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