Revolutionary War Pension Application of Thomas Overstreet State of Kentucky Jessamine County

On the 21st day of November 1837, personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Henry Overstreet, a resident of said county, and made oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with Thomas Overstreet and that he was a brother of this affiant. That in the year 1777, this affiant and said Thomas Overstreet did live in Hanover County, Virginia. That said Thomas Overstreet was in that year sixteen or seventeen years of age and entered or listed in the service of the United States in the spring of that year, as well as this affiant can recollect for the term of one year under the command of Captain Anderson, and started from said county in said service and was gone about twelve months and returned in March 1778 as near as this affiant can recollect. This service was performed in the northern states about New York and Philadelphia, and as this affiant believes, was in the Battle of Monmouth, the said Thomas was vaccinated whilst he was in the service for the smallpox. That said Thomas Overstreet in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine or 1780, entered or listed for the term of eighteen months in the regular service. This affiant does not recollect the exact season of the year that he listed, nor the exact year, neither can he recollect the officer under whom he entered, but believes that General Green was one of the officers under whom the said Thomas served. That he started from Hanover County, Va for the southern states, served eighteen months and returned home. This affiant believes that said Thomas Overstreet, whilst in the eighteen months served, was in the battle fought at the Utaugh (Eutaw) Springs, Siege of Ninety-Six, and the Battle at Guilford Courthouse. This affiant was not along when the above services was performed, but knows that said Thomas started in the service as above mentioned and returned at the end of the term for which he enlisted, making in all the time that said Thomas was about in the services aforesaid two years and six months. The affiant further states that said Thomas Overstreet departed this life on the 4th day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty two, leaving a widow who departed this life on the 5th day of September 1836. That the said widow left Jeney Hall and her husband, John Hall, Charles Overstreet, Jeriah Harris and James Harris, her husband, James Overstreet, Thomas Overstreet and John Overstreet as her heirs; that said Charles Overstreet has since the death of said widow also departed this life, leaving Nancy Overstreet, his widow and Elizabeth West and her husband Wilson West, William Overstreet, Emaline Bruner and her husband Silas Bruner, Jane Overstreet, Monrow Overstreet, James Overstreet, Samuel Overstreet, Mary Ann Overstreet and Purpetua Overstreet his heirs. This affiant further states that Thomas Overstreet was married on the 14th day of March 1782, shortly after the expiration of his last term of service. That all the above decedents departed this life in the county of Jessamine aforesaid, the said Thomas Overstreet died of congestive fever; his widow of dropsy, and Charles Overstreet of consumption. Henry Overstreet