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Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of William Christian, *S35830:
District of Kentucky SS:
On this 15th day of August 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court for the said district, personally appeared William Christian aged sixty years, resident in Fayette county in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.” That he, the said Wm. Christian enlisted in Hanover County in the state of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain Dabney of the 1st Virginia Regt. under the command of a Colonel (whose name he does not now recollect) in the fall of 1775; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the fall of 1776, when he was not discharged from service having been sent home on account of sickness some month or two before the usual time of expiration of service, that he was in the battles Camplin and Goochland mill at the time of General Gates’ defeat and some other skirmishes while afterwards serving in the militia and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stand in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
William Christian
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