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Adrian Davenport
DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY JULY 6, age 60, Fayette Co, Ky, states he enlisted 1776 in Maryland under Captain Thomas Bell, of the rifle regiment commanded by Col Moses Rollins for three years. That he continued to serve until 1779 when he was discharged from service in Fort Pitt, not Pitt's Pennsylvania, that he was in the Battle of Trenton, Princetown, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.
Schedule of his property made in District of Kentucky, Union County. 18th day of February 1822, Age 62. States that he entered in service in Virginia in 1776 for three years in Capt Thomas Bell's company of Rifle Regiment, commanded by Col Moses Rollings. This was an independent corps and the regiment recorded in Maryland and Virginia, colonels were from Maryland and this deponent was afterwards transferred to the 11th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col Febecker, and the Virginia Continental Line and that he was discharged on the 9th day of August 1779 in Pittsburg by Captain Tounehill; that he is now on the pension list and the number of said pension is certificate 10917. That he has but two children living with him, to wit: Barbary Ann age 8, and Abram age 6, both of which are too young to maintain themselves, that his wife is aged and had a disease called lung trouble. Sworn to by John S Chapman, John Berry, James R. Delaney. Samuel Casey was the clerk of the Union Co, Ky court on 1822. And John Blue was one of the justices.
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 |