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On this 4th day
of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before worshipful Jabez
Owen, Wright Stoukey[?] and Wm. Johnson, Esqs., the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions of said county now sitting, Henry Garrett, a resident
citizen in the County and State aforesaid, aged 78 years who being duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath makes 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, I Henry Garrett was drafted in February 1778 in Fauquier County, State
of Virginia, to serve during the term of 12 months in order to fill up the
vacancies caused by the death & etc. in the 3rd Virginia Regiment commanded
by Col. Heath and in Capt. John Blackwell’s company, Lieutenant Peyton. John
Hawkins from Alexandria was our Adjutant in said RegT. and from the best of
my recollection was marched from said county by Joseph Blackwell, a brother
of my captain, to the Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where I joined
headquarters under the command of Gen. Washington. Gen. Woodford was our
Brigadier General. To the best of my recollection there was one company in
our Regt. commanded by Capt. Peyton. I cannot, at this remote period,
recollect to particularize all the places we marched to, but I was in the
Battle at Monmouth in the State of New Jersey in June, I think, 1778. I
recollect that I was one of the party called out the night after the battle
to attack the enemy’s pickett guard but failed of success and returned to
our encampment a little before day break. My best recollection is the next
place we were marched to was the White Plains in the State of New York. I
was there taken sick and carried on board of a vessel to what was called the
High Lands of N. York at a village which I think was called Fishkill on the
North River in the summer or fall of that year. We marched from there to
headquarters at Pluckemin[?] in New Jersey about the first of the winter, to
the best of my recollection, near which place I was discharged from the
service. While on our way to Virginia to be disbanded, in consequence of my
inability to keep up with the company by reason of bad health, my 12 month
having been expired.
I also entered into the service of my country as a volunteer soldier in
August 1780 according to the best of my recollection in Fairfax County and
State aforesaid for the term of six months under the command of Captain
William Mason, James Nezbitt, Lieutenant and Joseph Adams, Ensign. I do not
now recollect the names of the field O\officers except that General Green
was our Commander in Chief. I marched from Fairfax County, Va., through
North Carolina into South Carolina on Peedee River about the Cheraw Hills
and there continued until our term of service expired.
On our return to Virginia to be discharged we guarded a body of British and
Tory prisoners to the Yadkin River where they were put under the care of
other troops to be marched to Albemarle Court House, Va. We were compelled
to change our course before we got to Salisbury, N.C., in consequence of
there being a considerable British force there and by reason of high waters.
We were discharged from the service in February 1781 by my Capt. William
Mason. My discharge in each term of service has been either lost or mislaid
(not having any idea that they would ever be of any use to me after the war
had ended), neither do I know of any person living by whom I can prove the
afsd services. My residence at the time I first entered into the service for
12 months, even in Fauquier County, Va., and the second time when it was in
Fairfax County. I resided in Virginia seven years after the war then I moved
to North Carolina resided there 21 years, then I removed to Kentucky after
remaining there 17 years when I moved to Williamson County, Tennessee. My
residence is in the county of Williamson, State of Tennessee. I was born, as
my father informed me, 18th March 1754 in Fairfax County, Va.
The said Henry Garrett doth hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever 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 whatsoever.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] Henry Garrett X his mark
Sworn to in Open Court 4th October 1832
[signed] Thos. Hardeman, Clk.
We, Daniel White, a Clergyman, residing in the County of Williamson and the
State of Tennessee and Bennett Aden, residing in the same, do hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with Henry Garrett who has subscribed and sworn
to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 78 years of age, that he
is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a
soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] Daniel White X his mark; Bennett Aden
Sworn to in Open Court 4th October 1832
[signed] Thos. Hardeman, Clk.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation
of the matter and after putting his interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and
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