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Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of Gabriel Duncan, *S10588:
State of Kentucky Madison County SS:
On this 13 day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record and now sitting, before James Dejarnett, William Goodloe and George Alcorn Justices of said Court, now sitting Gabriel Duncan a resident of this County of Madison aforesaid aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated – That in the Spring as he thinks of 1777 he volunteered in the then County of Bedford and State of Virginia in the militia to go upon a tour against the Cherokee Indians We were marched to the long Island of Holstein where a treaty was made with the Indians. That he served out the tour for three months. That he was in a Company commanded by Captain James Dixon, Christopher Irvine was Lieutenant. That after his term was out and before he returned home, he enlisted or volunteered a second time to go an expedition upon Clinch River. Captain Isaac Shelby, afterward Governor of Kentucky was his Captain and said Irvine, lieutenant. That said Isaac Shelby not being ready to march at the time, his father, Colonel Shelby, marched us over from the Long Island of Holstein to a Fort upon Clinch River called Rogers Fort, where he continued to do duty about six months. That he was absent from the time he left Bedford and was in service nine months before he returned. That afterwards he went out in the militia, volunteer, from Prince Edward County, Virginia, in a company commanded by Captain Allen in General Lawson’s command – was marched down to old Petersburg in Virginia to prevent the British who were coming up James River – that he cannot state certainly the year, but thinks it was in the year 1780 – that he was in service two months this tour – that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person by whose testimony he can establish his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
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