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On this twenty sixth day of January 1835 personally appeared in open court, before the county court of Cabell County now sitting Hezekiah Adkins Senr, a resident of the County of Cabell and State of Virginia, aged Seventy five years the 20 day of September last, who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he entered the service of the united states in a company commanded by Capt. Thomas Burk during the revolutionary war, that we were stationed during the time of our service in a fort garrisoned by our company in what was then called Greenbrier County on a small stream called ridge creek, but whether the place where the fort then stood is in Greenbrier County or in the county of Monroe, Giles, Logan, Fayette or Nicholas which have since been formed by the addition of parts that formerly was in Greenbrier, this applicant cannot say [possibly Woods Fort on Rich Creek about four miles east of present Peterstown in Monroe County WV], this applicant says he volunteered as a private soldier in this service, that he entered into the service at the time of putting our of the leaves on the trees in the spring and continued in service until the leaves fell in the autum [sic] following. The length of time this applicant does not remember, that he was in service nor does he recollect the year, but thinks it was one of the years between 1775 and 1780, he is perfectly satisfied he served this tour three months.
That he again entered the service of the united states during the revolutionary in a company commanded by Capt. George Pearis and Lieutenant William Davis as a private soldier who volunteered in one of the years between 1775 and 1780, that the company in which he served Garrisoned a fort in Montgomery county on New river in Virginia, that their duty was principally Garrison duty except at times scouting parties would be sent out to see if the Indians were in the neighborhood of the fort. This tour of service was performed from the putting out of the leaves in the spring to the Autum [sic] or fall but the year in which it was performed this applicant cannot remember. He is satisfied that he served at that time three months.
This applicant further states that in two other of the summers from 1775 to 1780 he entered the service of the united states as a private soldier (he being a volunteer) under Captain Thomas Burk, that one of the summers from the putting out leaves until the fall he was one of the Garrison upon Sinking Creek under said Burk, then in Montgomery now in Giles County, near the place where Parker Lucas now lives in Giles; under said Captain Burk in the service under Captain Lucas [sic] this applicant is certain he served three months, and in another summer between the said years, this applicant served as a private soldier he having volunteered under Thomas Burk Captain (he thinks) [sic] at Thomas Farley’s fort at Culverson’s bottom on new river in Montgomery county, in this tour of service this applicant is certain that he served at least three months. This applicant cannot remember which of his terms of service was first nor the order in which they took place he thinks they were in four successive summers he well recollects that all the warm weather in those years he served was spent in the service. Their service was against the Indians and as their incursions were not made in cold weather there was not such need of troops during that season of the year.
This applicant further states that he got his regular discharges whenever dismissed from service, but has no recollection what he done with them; he recollects that he got his discharges regularly whenever he left the service.
This applicant further states that he again entered the service of the united states as a private soldier under Lieutenant Bowen that in this service he was one of fifty men who guarded two waggon [sic] loads of lead from Chissel’s mine, in Virginia to the Moravian Town, North Carolina, this lead was for the use of the American Army, but what length of time he was engaged in this service this applicant cannot remember.
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