Revolutionary War Pension Applications of Benjamin Sutton State of Kentucky County of Garrard

On the 16th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the Garrard County Court, now sitting, Benjamin Sutton, a resident citizen of Garrard County, and State of Kentucky, aged 76 years, who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed 7 June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He entered the service under the command of Capt. Gabriel Long ( Philip Slaughter being lieutenant). That he entered the service in the year 1777, as a regular, having enlisted for three years, and continued in the service during said time. That he resided in Culpepper County in the State of Virginia, at the time of entering the service, and he entered as a regular, enlisted for 3 years. That he was at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. That he marched through parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. The command of his Regiment was under Genl Morgan, part of the time, and this affiant received his discharge under Genl Woodford, and the discharge was signed by him, but is now lost. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Benjamin Sutton We, William Owsley and Benjamin Hudson, residing in Garrard County, State of Kentucky, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Sutton, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age, that he is reputed and believed to be in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and served as he states, and we concur in that opinion. Wm Owsley Benjamin Hudson And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that William Owsley and Benjamin Hudson, who have signed the preceding certificate, are resident citizens of Garrard County, are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit. I, James H. Letcher, Clerk of the Garrard County Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Sutton for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16th day of July 1832. James H. Letcher

State of Kentucky County of Garrard

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an “Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution” approved on the 15th of May 1828. I, Benjamin Sutton, of the County of Garrard and State of Kentucky, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for the period of 3 years, and served so, and furnished a substitute who continued in its service until its termination; at which time I was a private in Capt. Gabriel Long’s Company, of the 11th Regiment of the Virginia Line. And I also declare that I received a certificate for --- of land, under a resolve of Congress passed 15th May 1778. And I further declare, that I was not, on the 15th day of March 1828, on the pension list of the United States. Benjamin Sutton Before me, Thomas Millan, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Garrard in the State of Kentucky, personally appeared, this 7th day of November 1829, Benjamin Hudson, of the County of Garrard and State of Kentucky, did make oath that Benjamin Sutton, by whom the foregoing declaration subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Army of the Revolution, in the manner therein stated. Witness my hand this 7th day of November 1829. Thos Millan, J.P.