Revolutionary War Pension Application of Robert Campbell State of Kentucky Jessamine County

On this 17th day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the county court of said county now sitting, Robert Campbell, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, aged 71 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make 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 year 1777 he was drafted in Botetourt County, Virginia in the Company commanded by Joseph McMurtry, that after the Company was drafted they were marched from thence by Captain Thomas Boyer in May 1778 and joined the army at the Valley Forge, and was then immediately inoculated for the small pox. We entered into the 12th Virginia Regiment commanded by Genl Scott. When we reached the army, we had 24 hours to choose the captain we would go under the command by I --- in the company of Captain Andrew Wallace and remained at the Valley Forge with the small pox until the battle was at Monmouth. From thence we marched on to the white planes by New York, and I was sent from the white planes on the North River to a town called New Windsor on the North River and was --- from there to guard the frontier on the North of Jersey during the winter 1778. And came from thence to Middlebrook and was there discharged in February 1779. That he had a written discharge, that an order for a suit of clothes was written on the back of the discharge, and it was given to a man by the name of Samuel Walker to draw the clothes at Richmond, Va. That he has not seen or heard of said Walker or the discharge since and does not recollect by whom the discharge was signed. That when he returned home in the fall of 1780, he volunteered in the Company of Capt Andrew Hanly and there was about 200 volunteers marched by Major Campbell from Botatourt County to South Carolina. And we reached there and joined Col. Daniel Morgan. The second night after the Battle of the Cowpens we then came back to Guilford and there dismissed by Major Campbell, our term of service for three months having expired in the spring of 1781. That he knows of no person, except James Wilmore, whose testimony has been taken, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. Robert Campbell Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. And we, H.T.N. Benedict, clergyman residing in the county of Jessamine and James Wilmore residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Campbell, who has subscribed and sworn the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-one 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. H.T.N. Benedict Jas Wilmore And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Horace T.N. Benedict who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Jessamine, and that James Wilmore, who has signed the same, is a resident in the county of Jessamine aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.