Virginia Line

Mary Herndon, widow of Thomas Herndon, who was a private in the VA Line
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1843
(increase from $40 per annum)
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of June '45 and sent to Hon. R. M. Johnson

Scott County, Sct.
Personally appeared before me Robert McCalla a justice of the peace in and for said county Mrs. Elizabeth Branham an aged
and respected lady and made  oath in due form of law.  That she is sister to Thomas Herndon, dissist (probably deceased??)
and well recollected of his enlisting in the army of the Revolutionary War in the Company of Captain Joseph Spencer and that
her brother Thomas Herndon and two other boys from the same neighborhood one by the name of Joshua Jennings and the
other by the name of John Denny and they all three took sick at a place called Quinninn or Guinn Island.  Jennings died on
said Island, her brother Thomas and Denny came home on furlough.  Denny died at home and so soon as her brother got well
he joined the army again and so and served out his two years.  She does not recollect any of the officers names whom he
served under only the Captain and she further states he enlisted in the year 1776 and never knew him to serve a Militia tour
and has often heard him talk of fighting in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown and others, but cannot now recollect
names.  But, she well remembers the crying and lamentation that were at home by his mother and others when he took
fair well again to join the army the 2and time they were all sure they would never see him any more.  But he served out his two
years and thinks he got his discharge at a place called Valley Forge.
The foregoing sworn to before me this 13th day of June 1839.
R. McCalla, JP

Elizabeth Branjam is reputable in her character.
R. McCalla

State of Kentucky - Scott County Sct
On this 1st day of December 1838 personally appeared before me Robert McCalla a Justice of the Peach in and for said county
Mrs. Mary Herndon, aged seventy three years on the first day of May next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on
her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed
July the 7th, 1838 entitled and act granting half pay and pension to certain windows.  That she is the widow of Thomas, Decd..,
who was a private in the army of the Revolutionary War.  She knows nothing of the period of his enlistment neither of his
discharge, but while she refers you to the affidavit of Achilles Stapp.  She further declares that she was married to the said
Thomas Herndon on the 2and day of January 1786 by the Rev. Ambrose Dudley and that the said Herndon departed this life on
the last day of November 1821, which will appear from the family record which is as follows:
Thomas Herndon and Mary Shipp was married on the 2and day of January in the year 1786
Sarah Herndon, daughter Thomas Herndon and Mary Herndon was born on the 20th of October 1786
Richard Wiatt Herndon, son of Thomas Herndon and Mary Herndon was born 26th January 1788
Nathaniel Herndon was born 15th May 1791
John Herndon was born the 28th of May 1793
Thomas Herndon departed this life on the last day of November 1821
She further declares that all the births of their children are in the hand writing of her decd.. husband and their marriage is recorded in the
family bible of Thomas Branham, deceased, and she does not recollect in who's hand write it stands, but it is correct and that his death
is in the hand writing of one of his sons.  That her husband the aforesaid Thomas Herndon, died on the aforesaid last day of November
1821 of astham or pheltic.  That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to
the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz . at the time above stated.
Mary Herndon (her mark)

Scott County, Sct.
On this 29th of November 1838 personally appeared before me Robert McCalla a Justice of the Peach for said county Achilles Stapp an
aged and respectable gentlemen who being first duly sworn doth on his oath say that he (Stapp) enlisted in Virginia on the 2and day of
March 1776 in the Company of Capt. Joseph Spencer and that Thomas Herndon enlisted in the same company and joined at Spotsylvania
about the middle of the same month under the command Capt. Joseph Spencer and in the seventh Virginia Regt. commanded by Col.
Alexander McClanahan of Botetourt County, Virginia.  The 1st Lt. name was Garland Burley, 2and Lt _____ Cunningham and the name of
the ensign forgotten - From Sporsylvania we marched through part of Virginia and Maryland into Pennsylvania and fought in the Battle of
Brandywine and the next was the Battle of Germantown and other skirmishes and am positive he the said Herndon served two years and
to the best of my recollection he got discharged at Valley Forge.  Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written by me.
Achilles Stapp
R. McCalla

Achilles Stapp is an aged and respectable gentleman in good standing in the Baptist Church at Great Crossing and is reputable in his
character.
R. McCalla, JP

On the 29th day of August 1838 - Mary Herndon, widow again appeared in Court - stated she was seventy-three years of age, she was
still a widow and that her husband Thomas Herndon had died the 31st day of November of consumption and that she was married to him
on 2and day January 1786.
R. McCalla stated that Mary McCalla because of age and bodily infirmity could not attend court because of the distance from her home of
about 9 or 10 miles.  Neighbors Nancy Wilson and Nancy David stated they knew her as the widow of Thomas Herndon.

The pension states he was also against the Indians & was stationed at the fort a Bryants Station and the Great Crossing, KY
Pension stated soldier married Mary Shipp on Jan 2, 1786 at Great Crossing, Scott County, Ky and states he died Nov 30, 1821.

(He is referred to as Thomas Hern or Horn)