Bradford, Charles

Corporal, Capt, Hart's Kentucky Militia

Old War invalid Pension Number 6741 (no pen F.F.)

STATE OF KENTUCKY: BOURBON COUNTY.

     Personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, for said county, James Garrard, and made oath that he was a brigade major of the 2nd brigade of Kentucky Militia, commanded by Brigadier General John Payne, in the service of the U.S. in the year 1813, and that he Major Gabbard was personally acquainted with Charles Bradford, a corporal in Captain Nathaniel G S Hart's company of the 5th regiment, said brigade commanded by William Leeves, and that said corporal, Charles Bradford, was wounded by a rifle or musket ball from an enemy in the Battle of the River Raisin on the 18th day of January 1813 in the territory of Michigan, and state of Major Garrard, knows that said wound was received by Corporal Bradford while he was in the line of his duty and in the actual service of the U.S. and that said Corporal Bradford was paid his monthly pay for said campaign up to the 15th day of February 1813 by Richard Blanton, and postmaster signed John Garrard Jr, Lt. Major of N.Y.K.M.

Signed John Edwards a justice of the peace of Bourbon County, Ky. Wm. H. Richardson M.D. and Charles Henry Warfield, M.D. of Lexington, Kentucky, examined said soldier and made their affidavit Aug 18-1820.

Treasury Department, 3 auctioneers office, 12-28-1820. It appears from the muster roll of Captain Hart's company of Kentucky Militia, filed in the account of Richard Blanton, P.M. and dated 2-28-1813, that Charles Bradford, a corporal of the said county, entered the service of the U.S. on August 14-1812, to serve one year and is noted on the above roll which is the last of that county in the account of Blanton, to have been taken prisoner of the 22nd Jan 1813, rolls are silent as to his wound.

Signed Peter Bagren and Pension Office

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