Blair, Samuel

Pension Number 14966 Pennsylvania & New Jersey

FAYETTE COUNTY KY - March 18-1833 Samuel Blair, a resident of Fayette County, age 75, the 4th of last September. He states that he was born on the 24th of September 1757 and that he entered the service about one year before the battle of Princeton. They were stationed a few miles below Philadelphia. The said company was raised in the city of Philadelphia of which city he was then a resident. He was one of the sergeants during the whole of the said time. He again entered service at Philadelphia under Captain Burney, militia, soon after the battle of Princeton as time expired whereupon he returned to Phila. Soon after his return to Philadelphia, he removed to Pennington a small town in the state of New Jersey and was there drafted for a tour of two months. The British at that time had large collections of soldiers in New York state and had companies stationed in various parts of the country who frequently committed depredations of various kinds upon those who were friendly to the cause of the U.S.

     He says he was born in Chester Co, Penn, at Hogs? Manor or Fogs? Manor. He resided in Pennington, N.J. about two years. He moved from there to a county in Maryland near the Penn. line about 20 miles from Fredericktown. He does not remember the name of the county. He lived there a little more than two years. He moved from there to Fayette Co, Ky in which county he has resided ever since. He is well acquainted with Thomas Bodley, Hon. Thomas M. Hickey, General John McCalla, Capt, John Fowler, all who resided in the same county with him and he is also well known to the Hon. Wm. T. Barry and the Hon. H. Clay

Source: Records of Revolutionary War Pensions of Soldiers who Settled in Fayette County Kentucky

Annie Walker Burns, compiler, Washington DC, 1936

Copy held by the Kentucky Room, Lexington Public Library

Call number: R976.947 B4128r KY1936