James Fletcher
Pension Number S3594     Continental  Virginia

     DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY, FAYETTE KENTUCKY
     On this 21st day of September, age 56, residing in Fayette County Kentucky, who being first by me duly sworn, states that he enlisted in Caroline County Virginia for and during the war, in the year 1777 in Captain Parson's Company of the 3rd Virginia regiment of Light Dragoons on Continental Establishment commanded by Col. George Baxter and by Col William Washington and continued to serve in said corps or in services of the U.S. until the year 1782. He was discharged in the city of Richmond, Va, and in the battle of the Cowpens Guilford and the Eutaw Springs and that he is in reduced circumstances and etc.
Benj. Mills was judge of the court of Fayette in 1819. 

     He enlisted in Captain Walker Baylor's Company of the Third Regiment of horse of cavalry commanded by Col William Washington for and during the war and was honorably discharged at the end thereof and that the number of his pension certificate is 17387. He was a common laborer but at the time of making the application was a bar tender at a country tavern and from a wound received in the Revolutionary War it [was] difficult for him to follow any kind of business and that he has no wife nor children. 

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