Revolutionary War Pension Application of Joshua Hudson State of Kentucky Jessamine County

On this day, the Eighteenth of February, Eighteen Hundred and thirty-three, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Peace now sitting, Joshua Hudson, resident in the county aforesaid, aged seventy-two 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 the 7th 1832. First, he was called on in Culpepper County, State of Virginia, where he was born and raised to manhood, early in the month January 1781, and was drafted and put the command of Capt. James Thomas, the Major not recollected, and Col. Thorn, commandant of the Regiment. That he marched from Culpepper County through different counties in Virginia to Stafford County in that state, to Hunters Forges, or Iron Works, and there served a Tour of Duty with the malitia of the United States. Secondly, he was called on in the last of March 1781 and drafted for eighteen months to serve as a continental soldier, in the Revolutionary army or war, of the United States, and hired a substitute to serve that length of time in his place, and that substitute was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis, for the proof of the living the above substitute, see Col. James Barbers of Virginia certificate, and Benjamin Sutton’s affidavit, which hereunto ---. Thirdly, he was called on in the place of his substitute on the first of May 1781, and was drafted to serve a Tour of duty and was put under the command of Capt. Green, Major Nathl Welch, a regular office and Col. Allcock, commandant of the Regiment, and we all fell under the command of Marquis de Lafayette, and marched from Culpepper County, Virginia through Orange and other counties below the city of Richmond, and there reconnoitered on the British lines, until the first of August, and was then discharged. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state whatever. Joshua Hudson We, H.T.N. Benedict, a clergyman residing in the county of Jessamine, and Hugh Chrisman residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Hudson, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy-two years of age, and 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. H.T.N. Benedict Hugh Chrisman