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John Clinkenbeard Back to My Clinkenbeard Lineage State of Kentucky, Bourbon County} On this day 25th day of August 1834 Personally appeared before Robert Scrogin one of the Commonwealths Justices of the Peace in and for Bourbon County and state aforesaid, at his Residence in said County John Clinkenbeard a Citizen of said County and state aged Seventy Eight years on the ninth day of July last 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 his is 78 years of age and that from his advanced age and affliction with pains in his limbs and being otherwise greatly debillitated (sp) that he is unable to attend the Court of his County in order to make his decleration (sp) in this case, altho he resides within two Miles of Paris his County seat. He states that in March 1774 He volunteered as a spy under the orders of Colonel Sevier of North Carolina at the frontier post on the Notichucky River commanded by Robert Lucas, this affiant left the station with Arche Coody a half breed Indiana, who lived in Chilhow, an Indian Town, on Tennessee River affiant went with Coody in disguise as a pretended trader, when they arrived at the Indian town affiant was suspected as a spy and as the Indians had killed an American on Clinch River a few days before, they had a war dance over the scalp and old Squaw gave this affiant Information that the Indians would kill him if he did not make his escape the same night which he did but before he reached French Broad River on his way back, this affiant was persued (sp) by the Indians and fired on near French Broad River, and left his horse and had to swin the River and carry his shire and hunting shirt on his head, and then had 60 Miles to travel to the station with nothing on as clothes but his hat shirt and Hunting shirt this was on the 4th day of April 1744 the time of this service two weeks, his next service was under Col. Sevier and Capt. Nathaniel Evans as a volunteer private Soldier with his horse Rifle and Provisions to go to the Indian towns on the Tennessee River. The detachment Marched from Seviers Station on Notichucky River Pg. 2 under Col Sevier crossed the highwassee (sp) river and burnt the Indian towns to with Chilhowee Tilhawsee and Coosawattee on Coosa River in 1778 and took 28 Indian prisoners and one white man named _____ Forman who lived with the Indians and brought them into Seviers Station and after some time the were Exchanged for 40 American prisoners who had been taken prisoners sometime before at Little River, then service was completed in one month, this affiant also entered the Service of Captain Price and served under Col. Christie on his Campaign against the Cherokee Indians in 1776 and that during this service a battle ws fought between Bedsoes Fort and the Long Island on Holstein between the Indians and Christies Army in which 32 Indians were killed, this Service was entered for three months but was performed in six or eight weeks, this service as performed as a private Soldier with horse Rifle and Provissions (sp), furnished by Himself in the fall of 1776 this affiant was drafted for three months by the order of Col. Sevier to guard Blacks Station and Performed the said service and received his discharge from Col Sevier but has lost it, this service was as a private Soldier but he furnished his own Rifle. Captain John WIlliams Commanded the fort at Blacks during this service this affiant then returned to Berkley County and state of Virginia and entered the service again for a tour of three months as a private Soldier under Captain Josiah Swerengen and served on the Campaign under Genl McIntosh on the Ohio River that this Service was performed in the year 1778 and altho the tour was normily (sp) for three months yet this affiant had to serve from about the last of August until the evening of the 24th of December when he arrived at home in Berkley County all this time affiant discharged the duties of a private soldier in said detachment our march was from Berkley to Fort Cumberland thence to Fort Pitt thence down the Ohio to mouth of Beaver where we built Fort McIntosh thence to the forks of the Muskingum and Tuscarawas where we built Fort Lawrence in the year 1780 this affiant was drafted as a Private Soldier for Eighteen months in the Virginia Militia or minute men of Berkley County under Captain Josiah Swerengen Pg. 3 and received from Capt Swerengen a discharge for the said Tour but last it. That in the year 1781 an Express arrived in Berkley County giving the Information that the Torys had embodied on the South branch of Potomac, under General Claypole Colonels Wooltze and Brake and that Hagers Town was to be sacked and burnt this news produced great alarm and the old waggoner, General Morgan collected a detachment of volunteers for a tour of three months to march against them (the Torys) that this affiant Marched with said detachment with his horse Rifle and Provissions (sp) under Genl Morgan, against the Torys, a scrimish (sp) took place Col. Brake the second in Command was killed and his son wounded and Claypole and Wooltze defeated and their Tory partizans (sp) disperced (sp) this service being performed Genl Morgan gave this affiant a discharge for a three month tour {but he has lost it) altho the service did not (actually) amount to more than half that time. That in the year 1782 this affiant volunteered as a private Soldier with his horse & Rifle under Major Hugh Baird and Captain Nathaniel Evans for a three month tour to go to the fort at French lick and relieve the fort then besieged by the Indians near where Nashville now stands, a part of this service was also at Station Camp this service was performed in about two months altho the Information put by the Majistrate suggested by the War department that from Information of his Parents he was born on the 9th day of July 1755 near Conolloway in Pennsyvlania near the line of Maryland when a boy affiants father removed to Berkley County & state of Virginia from thence affiant went to Lucases Station on Watag(u)a water, of Holstein where he remained about 4 years and then Returned to Berkley County and thence ____ to Knoxville Tennessee, thence to Kentucky Bourbon County in the year 1816 where he has Resided ever since that he has no Documentary Evidence of his Service and cannot prove by testimony any of his services only that under Genl. McIntosh as private from August to 24th December, and this by two of his brothers who served with him in the same Company. He hereby relinquishes his every claim to a pension or annuity whatever except the present Pg. 4 and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. John Clinkenbeard Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforefsaid. . |
