Revolutionary War Pension Application of Humphrey Brumfield

Submitted by Hope Nicholson 

Gallia County Ohio

On this the 16^th day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Humphrey BRUMFIELD a resident of the county of Lawrence and the state of Ohio _______ aid, aged eighty-one years the twenty second day of June last (1833) 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, some time in the month of March or first part of April of 1776 he enlisted or volunteered into a company of militia raised in Montgomery County Virginia for six months and was placed under the command of Captain John Lucas and was marched under his command to the Lead mines where he was transferred to the command of Captain EDWARDS, the name of the Lieutenant is not remembered, the name of the Ensign was Robert ALBERT and the company was marched to the Moravian Towers in the state of North Carolina where this declarant served out the said six months and was honorably discharged by Captain EDWARDS, received a written discharge which was destroyed after the war when this declarant’s house was burned in the County of Montgomery aforesaid. About one year after the first tour of duty was finished this declarant was again called into the service of the United States by draft for six months and was put under the command of Captain John LUCAS. He was called out in the County of Montgomery aforesaid, was marched to a place called the Shallow Ford of Adkin in the State of North Carolina where the company was attached to a regiment commanded by Colonel CLEAVELAND. At that place the regiment had an engagement with the Tories, took several of them prisoners and this declarant received a wound in his breast in the battle from a musket shot after the battle the Regiment was marched to the Moravian Towers to guard the prisoners taken in the battle and at that place this declarant served out his six months and was honorably discharged at the Moravian Towers by Colonel CLEVELAND, he received a written discharge which was burned in his house as aforesaid. In the year 1780 as he thinks this declarant was again drafted in Pittsylvania County Virginia for six months and put under the command of Captain CONEWAY, the Lieutenant and Ensign not remembered. He was marched from Pittsylvania County to Kings Mountain where this declarant was put under the command of Captain George PARRIS and was there attached to the army and was in the battle fought at Kings Mountain, Colonel CAMPBELL _____ was the commander in _____   ______   ______things Colonel Charles LYNCH also had a command at that time his command was a regiment of mounted men called rangers, he also states that ____ Colonel CLEAVELAND commanded a Regiment at that Battle and this declarant thinks he was under his command during the engagement. He served out his time and was honorably discharged he thinks by Colonel CAMPBELL at Kings Mountain which discharge was also burned up as aforesaid. In the spring of 1781 this declarant was again called out to guard the frontier for six months and was called out from Montgomery County and was stationed on the frontier on New River at a placed called Big Stonny Creek at _____’s Fort he served out his time and was honorably discharged by Captain DONNALSON at the Fort he received a written discharge which was destroyed by fire as aforesaid. This declarant states he served in the whole two years under regular calls. This declarant was called out several times for short tours after the Indians, Tories and Brits to which he has not mentioned in this declaration. He states that he was in the battle at Kings Mountain with Henry MCDANIEL _____ who now resides in Gallia County and can testify as to that fact. He further states that he has been acquainted with said MCDANIEL more than fifty years and he lived in the same neighborhood with him both in the state of Virginia and Ohio and can testify as to this declarant’s having been called a Soldier of the Revolution. This declarant also states that he has been acquainted with the Rev. Joel SARTIN about sixty-two years who knows of his being called into service and of his returning home, having lived at that time in the same neighborhood with this declarant. This declarant states that he has no documentary evidence. This declarant further states that he has made his Declaration in Gallia Court of Common Pleas by reason of his witnesses being residents of said County of Gallia and also because he lives about on the line between the County of Lawrence and Gallia and is much nearer to the Court house in Gallia than Lawrence County. This declarant hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except this present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and years aforesaid in open court July Sixteen 1833.

Signed Francis Le Clereg Clk. C.C.P.G.C.

 This declarant further states that he was born in Amelia County State of Virginia on the twenty second day of June 1752 as he has been told by his parents, moved from Amelia County when about ten years old to Hallifax County where he lived a short time then moved to Pittsylvania County whre he lived a short time then moved to Montgomery County and lived there until 1816 when he moved to Gallia County Ohio now Lawrence County where he still lives. Signed Humphrey Brumfield

We John SHORT a Clergyman Pastor of the Baptist Church in Gallia County of Ohio residing in the neighborhood of the said Humphrey BRUMFIELD and Cornelius HALLEY[1] residing in the same neighborhood hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Humphrey BRUMFIELD who has subscribed to and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty one years old and that he is reputed and believed to be in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we _____ in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid in this Court July Term 1833

Francis Le Clereg Clk. C.C.P.G.C.

Signed John Short and Cornelius Halley 

Gallia County

Personally appeared in open Court the Rev. Joel SARTIN who being sworn saith he has been acquainted with Humphrey BRUMFIELD about sixty two years and that he lived a near neighbor to him while he lived in Virginia and since he came to Ohio and that he knew of the said Humphrey BRUMFIELD being called into the service of the United States as he states in his declaration and his return home out of the service and that his house was burned as stated in the declaration and that to the best of his knowledge this said Humphrey is eighty one years old as he states.

Sworn to and subscribed this day and years aforesaid in open court July Term 1833

July 16^th 1833 Signed Joel Sartain

Signed Francis Le Clereg Clk C.C.P.G.C. 

Gallia County

Personally appeared in open Court Henry MCDANIEL aged seventy years this 28^th day of November 1833 was _____ sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Humphrey BRUMFIELD upwards of fifty yeas, that he was with him at the Battle of Kings Mountain as he has stated in his declaration and has ever since understood that he served several tours in the Revolutionary War and from his ______ for truth and veracity and what he has known of him from above fifty years acquaintance he has no doubt that what he states in his declaration is true.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court July Term 1833 and 16^th of July 1833 Signed Henry McDaniel and Francis Le Clereg C.C.P.G.C. 

And the court hereby ____ their opinion ____of the matter and putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution and Served as he states. And the court further certifies that John SHORT who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman and Cornelius HALLEY who has also signed the same are residents of the said County of Gallia and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to _______.

The State of Ohio Gallia County ___

Francis Le Clereg Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Humphrey Brumfield for a pension.

On _____ whereof I have ____ set my name and affix the Seal of ____ Court at Gallipolis this twenty third day of July Anno Domini 1833

Signed Francis Le Clereg Clk. C.C.P.G.C.

 The State of Ohio Gallia County

Gallia Common Pleas March 18^th 1834

This Day Humphrey BRUMFIELD an applicant for a pension by N. K. CLOUGH Esq., his attorney produced to the court satisfactory evidence that Henry MCDANIEL and Joel SARTIN who filed their affidavits at the last July Term of this Court were credible persons and that their statements are entitle to credit the same is thereupon ordered to be certified to the Department of War under the Seal of this Court.  

War Department

Pension Office

11^th October 1833

Sir,

This evidence in support of your claim, under the act of Jun 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus }). You will when you return your papers to this Department send this printed letter with them and you will by complying with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of you claim.

A Statement showing the Service of Humphrey BRUMFIELD

 I am respectfully your obedient servant,

J.L. Edwards

Commissioner of Pensions