Thomas Lowry Pension Deposition & Nancy Lowry Widows Pension Deposition

 Submitted by Pat Merrill Helton, Ireland1934@bellsouth.net

Also see Lowrey/Lowry Estate Records; Lowrey Deeds; Lowrey Genealogy Report

This document was transcribed from the National Archives records. I did not have a complete set of papers so as you will see at the end, it is not a full transcription of his pension deposition.

September 25, 1832, Clark Co., Kentucky: On this 25th day of September in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Hon Richard French, Judge of the Clark Circuit Court now sitting, being a court of ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ by the act of the Legislature in establishing it, Thomas Lowrey a resident of Clarke County and state afore said, aged seventy two years in ___ his first being duly sworn in according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress proposed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated He entered as a private in the company ___ militia commanded by Captain George Mountjoy to serve a tour of three months -  He was drafted into the service - Said company was raised in Strafford County and State of Virginia. It was stationed at Marlborough where it continued until the three months ___ when we were discharged - He cannot recollect what year it was, he was very young and has no distant recollection at this time of what occurred. He does not now recollect who commanded at Marlborough no any of the officers who were there, ___ his own Captain - Col. James Garrad was in command of the Militia in Strafford County but not recollect his being at Marlborough. The next time he entered the service as a drafted militia man in a company commanded by Captain Elijah Threkheld which company was raised also in Strafford County Virginia He served in this company a tour of three months - The company was stationed on the Potomac River where it remained until the three months expired and he was discharged - The time when he served this tour he does not recollect. The next time he served was in the year 1781 He was drafted in a company of militia commanded by Captain George Mountjoy The company was raised in Strafford County Virginia It was marched to Falmouth where the company received orders - It was then marched through Fredericksburg, & through Spottsylvania, Caroline, King and Queen and on to Williamsburg and from there to Springfield where it joined the brigade commanded by Col. Dark - after being at Springfield for sometime we were marched to Pigeon Hill to drive the British back into York, they having erected some pieces(?) of cannon on said hill - We were then commanded by General Stivers - The British spiked their cannon and retreated into York and we occupied the ground they left. He was drafted for a tour of three months and before his time had expired, ___ ___ he was at the siege of York and after the affair at Pigeon Hill, but before the surrender of Cornwallis, he enlisted as a regular soldier in the army of the United States for a period of three years. He was enlisted by Edmund Moutjoy - The number of the regiment he doesnot know. General Spottswood was as he understood the commander of the regulars enlisted by Montjoy - So soon as he was enlisted, he got a furlough and was absent and during his absence Cornwallis surrendered - Sometime after ___ ___ we were called together near the Bowlinggreen in Virginia, there were a few of us together at that time. Col. Montjoy was there and General Spottswood, were not kept there long, but were again sent home on furlough - We were again called together at the same place about a year after my enlistment and Edmund Montjoy then attended and gave us a discharge - He states he has lost all the discharges that he had, many residences - He enlisted as before said three years, but he was never called upon after the expiration of about one year after the period of his enlistment, and then a considerable part of that year he was on an furlough there being no demand for his active service - It was in the Virginia State troops sometime called Spottswood's Legion and sometimes called the Virginia State line He states he was born in St. Mary's County Maryland, and at that time he was about three years old he was brought over into Stratford County Virginia where he resided until he was twenty five or twenty six years of age and he lived in the State of Virginia until the year 1816 in which year he removed into the State of Kentucky, and has been living in Clarke County ever since with the exception of a few months when he first came into Kentucky that he resided in Madison County He states that he was born in the year 1760 as he always understood from his father and mother, twelfth/tweneth of August of that year He has no record of his age - He states that he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service in the revolutionary War but his brother Moses Lowrey He is known to James Elkins and Ruben Franklin who live in his neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution He hereby ___ his every claim whatever to a pension or ___ except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Thomas Lowrey And Moses Lowrey a resident of Bath County and State aforesaid also appeared in open Court on the day aforesaid and made oath that the said Thomas Lowry who has subscribed and sworn the foregoing declaration, is his brother that the said Thomas Lowrey is now seventy two years old as he has always understood his age in the family - That during the revolutionary war his father, and his said brother Thomas (text ends, need to see if copy of document is in the Clark County Courthouse.)

Deposition for a Widow's Revolutionary War Pension:  On this 16th day of March, A.D., 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for the county and state above named, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, Nancy Lowry, a resident of the county of Clark and State of Kentucky who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress ___ February 4, 1853. That she is the widow of Thomas Lowry who was a private in the Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary Army, and who was a Pensioner under the act of Congress June 7, 1832; and who was placed on the Pension roll on the 23rd day of October 1833, and commenced drawing a pension from the 4th of March 1831; that he received a pension of $70 his annum; that he first drew in the city of Lexington and State of Kentucky and for a few years before his death he drew in the city of Louisville and State of Kentucky. For proof of his being a pensioner this refers to the certificate of Pension which ___ to him and since his decease has been returned to the Department at Washington, D.C. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Lowry in the County of Orange and state of Virginia, on the 16th day of October, one thousand eight -hundred and five (1805) that her name before marriage was Nancy Dedmon, and that her husband, the aforesaid Thomas Lowry died in the county of Clark and State of Kentucky, on the 21st day of November, 1846, said that she has reminded a widow since that period and is still a widow. She further states that from bodily infirmity she is unable to attend court. Signed: Nancy Lowry