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On this 5th day
of September 1832 before the Honorable Thomas Stuart, Judge of the fourth
Judicial Circuit for the State of Tennessee now sitting, David Ivy, resident
of the state and county aforesaid aged 70 years who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefits of Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States as a drafted militiaman
about the first day of January 1781; under the following officers; Captain
John Hicks under whom he served a part of the time and when he left the
command he does not recollect who filled his place. The rest of company
officers not recollected, commanded by Col. Merriweather, Major Duval,
attached to General Robert Lawson’s Brigade. He marched from Brunswick
Courthouse near where he resided in Virginia to Long Onery[?] near
Petersburg and there drew arms. He then marched to Cabin Point, then to
Smithfield, then to Mackey’s Mills and there guarded the magazines at that
place for some time, then to Stono’s Mills. There he met another regiment
and then to Babbs Old Fields and there discharged sometime in April, same
year, 1781, making a period of upwards of three months. He received a
discharge for this campaign but has lost or destroyed it. He was engaged in
no regularly fought battles. He does not recollect any of the Continental or
Regular regiments or companies or the names of any of the officers of those
troops.
He entered the service a second time as a drafted militiaman about the first
day of May in the same year, 1781, under the following officers, Capt. John
Lucus, rest of the company officers not recollected, commanded by Col.
Nathaniel Lucus and attached to General Robert Lawson’s Brigade and marched
from Brunswick Courthouse, Va., to Petersburg, to Carter’s Ferry on James
River and to Rappahannock River above Fredericksburg and there formed a
junction with the main army commanded by Gen. Lafayette and continued under
his command until discharged in Hanover County, Va., about the middle of
August, same year, 1781. He received a discharge also for this campaign but
has lost or destroyed it believing it to be of no value. He was in no
battles during this campaign and does not recollect any officers but
Generals Lawson and Lafayette. He does not recollect the names of any
Continental or Regular regiments or companies. He served this campaign for
three months.
He again was drafted and entered the service of the United States a third
time about the first day of September, same year, 1781, under Captain Turner
Binum (rest of company officers not recollected), under whom he served till
he reached Yorktown and was then commanded by another Captain whose name he
has forgotten. He was commanded by a French Col. whose name he has also
forgotten and was attached to General Muhlenburg’s Brigade. He marched from
Brunswick Courthouse to Petersburg and thence down the river straight to
Yorktown and remained there during the siege. He was occupied for some weeks
working in the breastworks and ditches and securing[?] the fortifications,
and after the surrender of Cornwallis to the combined forces of Washington
and Lafayette was marched homewards and discharged some time in the month of
November, same year, 1781.He received also, a discharge for this campaign
which together with the former ones he has lost. He did not preserve them
with any care, they being of no value to him at that time. He recollects
that during the campaign he served with and knew Generals Washington and
Lafayette, Lincoln, Muhlenburg and Lawson. The number of regiments and
companies he does not remember. He is so old that his memory does not serve
him as to many minor events of the foregoing campaigns and his statements
here made are all that he now remembers concerning them.
He lived in Brunswick County, Virginia when he was severally called into the
service of the United States. He resided in Brunswick County, Va., after the
Revolution till 1816. He then moved to North Carolina and resided in Halifax
County till 1823 at which time he came to Tennessee and has since resided in
Williamson County.
He knows of no person who can prove his services except Nichols Lanier who
served with him the first campaign mentioned in this declaration commencing
about the first of January 1781 and ending same year in April.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present
and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any
state whatever.
[signed] David Ivey X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] P. Hay, Clk. & etc.
We, Ca[---?] H. Hines, a clergyman residing in the County of Williamson and
State of Tennessee and Thomas Pate residing in the same county and state
aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Ivy who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 70
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.
[signed] C.H. Hines; Thomas Pate X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] P. Hay, Clk. & etc.
State of Tennessee ))
Williamson County ))
On the fifth day of August 1833 before the Hon. Thomas Stuart Judge of the
fourth Judicial Circuit Court for the State of Tennessee now sitting, David
Ivy, a resident of the state and county aforesaid aged seventy one years,
who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following
amendment to his declaration in order to obtain the benefits of an Act of
Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he was born on the eleventh day of June 1752 in Brunswick County in the
State of Virginia, that he never had any record of his age but received
information from his parents.
That by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear
positively as to the precise length of his services but according to the
best of his recollection he served not less then the periods mentioned below
and in the following grades; for nine months he served as a drafted
militiaman in the three campaigns mentioned in his said declaration, which
this is intended to amend and for such service he claims a pension. Given
under my hand this sixth day of August 1833.
[signed] David Ivey X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] P. Hay, Clk. & etc.
I, Preston Hay, Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Williamson in
the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings in the said Court in the matter of David Ivy for an
amendment to his declaration for a pension. In testimony whereof … [next
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