Revolutionary War Pension Application of Sterling Crowder State of Kentucky

On the twenty-third day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges for the Circuit Court of the State of Kentucky, personally appeared Sterling Crowder, aged about fifty-nine years, resident in Jessamine County in said state, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declarations in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.” That he, the said Sterling Crowder, enlisted in the year 1777 in Pittsylvania in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt. Henry Coryear of the 14th Virginia Regiment of the continental line for the term of three years. That he continued to serve in said corps or in the service of the United Sates until the expiration of the three years for which he enlisted when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania. That he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. That he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service, and that he has never received a pension from the United States. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid. Benj. Johnson Circuit Judge