William Hicks
Pension Number S 35, 410   Virginia

District of Kentucky, June 15-1818

Circuit Court of Fayette County, Ky  appeared Wm Hicks, aged 66, - he enlisted 1776 in Berkley Co, Va under Abraham Shepherd of the 11^th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col Hugh Stephenson or Stinston for 3 years, and that he continued in the service until 1779 when he was discharged from service in New York near West Point, and that he was in the Battle of Brandywine.

     In June term 1820 he was aged 67, at the time, resident of Fayette – he states he has a wife and one child living with him and one grand child five or six years old – he served 3 years. He did not give the names of any one in his family.

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