Pension application by Richard Long
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed
June 7th, 1802
State of Tennessee
Bedford County
On thirteenth day of A.D. 1832 personally appeard in open Court
before Samuel Phillips John B. Armstrong and John L. Neill
Justices of
the Court of pleas and
quarter sessions for the County of Bedford in the State of Tennessee
aforesaid Richard Long a resident of said County aged seventy four years
who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the
following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Con-
gress passed June 7th 1832.
That he enterd the service of the United States under the following named
officers and served as herein stated. In the latter part of the year
1775 or the first part of the year 1776 In the county of Culpepper in the
State of Virginia he entered the service as a volunteer for the term of six
months and was attached to the Company commanded by Captain John Jimmison
which Company was attached to the Regiment Commanded by Col. Tolliver.
That after serving the above tour of six months he again in the summer of
1776 enterd the service as a Marine for the term of two years he was
attached to a Company commanded by Captain Gabriel Jones immediately
after inrolling himself in the above company he received the appointment
of a Corporal. That after having served in the Marine Service as well as
he can recollect about 15 months he reenlisted for three years being
about the last of the year 1777. That he enrolld himself in a Company
Commanded by Capt. Jones his former officer. That after having served
as a private three or four months he was made a Sergeant in said Company
which office he filld to the end of the above enlistment said Company
was attached to the Regiment Commanded by Col. George Gipson and was known
by the name of the 1st Virginia State Regiment. The Majors Commanding in
said Regiment were John Lee and Merry weather. We were marched from
Williamsburg to Alexandria in Virginia at which place all were Innoculated
with the small pox. We then marched on and Joind General Washingtons
head quarters near Philadelphia and shortly afterwards we had an engagement
with the British at Germantown. We then went into Winter Quarters at
Valley Forge. The second campaign we served mostly in the Jerseys. That
he was engaged in the famous Battle of Monmouth from Monmouth he was
marched to Brunswick and there celebrated the Anniversary of American
Independence from there they marched into the State of New York to a place
called the White Plains. From there we proceeded to West Point where
we assisted in building a Fort. We were there under the command of Maj.
General Putnam. From there we marched to Middlebrook in the Jerseys.
and then took up Winter Quarters. The 3rd and last Campaign of said three
years service I served in the Jerseys and in the state of New York. I
was at the taking of Stony Point. From thence we marched to Philadelphia
where I received my discharge from Brigadier General Micklingburgh about
the first of the year 1780 for the service of the above term of three
years as a Sergeant. Although I had only served about two years and eight
or nine months as Segeant as before stated discharge is either lost
or mislaid.
I then returned to Virginia Culpepper County my former residence and during
that summer I was drafted and served a 2 months tour but I cannot now
recollect my company or Regimental officers. I was under General Lafayette
as Command in Chief. I was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at little
York. And about the commencement of this seige I substituted in the place of
a Mr. Dusing of Orange County in Col. Darks Regiment. I then asisted
in guarding the prisoners taken at Little York to the Barracks above
Winchester in Virginia. I then returned home being the end of my services.
I served between the years 1775 and 1781 inclusive according to the best
of my recollection about five years as a Revolutionary soldier. And I
hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
present and that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any
state. The written Declaration sworn to and subscribed before us this day
and year above written.
Richard Long
(signature)
Questions by the Court
1st Where and what year were you born
Answ. I was born in Culpepper County in the State of Virginia on 22nd
Septr 1758
2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answ. My age is recorded in a book which I have at hand and according
to that record I was born on the 22nd of September A.D. 1758.
3rd Where did you live when you enterd the service of the United
States.
Where have you lived since the Revolution and where do you live now.
Answ. Shortly after the close of the Revolution I removed from Virginia
Culpepper County to the State of Kentucky Fayette County. I lived in that County
five years. I then removed to Franklin County and lived there seven years from
there I removed to Warren County and lived there nine years in all I lived in
the State of Kentucky twenty one years.
I then (1818) removed to the state of Tennessee Bedford County where I have
lived for the last twenty years and where I now live.
4th Did you ever receive a discharge is so from whom and what has
become of it
Answ. I do not recollect to have receivd any but the one mentioned in
my Declaration which I recvd from General Mecklingburgh at Philadelphia about
the first of the year 1781 for the performance of the 3 years enlistment
mentiond in my declaration as Sergeant. But said discharge is either lost or
Mislaid so that at this remote point I cannot find it.
5th State the names of persons of your Neighborhood and County to whom
you are known and who can testify to your character for veracity and their
belief of your service as a Revolutionary Soldier.
Answ. I an wel known to the Revnd Thomas I Hall of my neighborhood who is
a regularly ordaind preacher of the Presbyterian order. To Col. John Warner late
the high sheriff of this County to Col. John L. Neill to Col. John Orr o Col.
James McKissick Clerk of our Court of pleas and quarter sessions and to Wm. D.
Orr Esq. The present high sheriff of our County. I am known to many of my
Neighborhood having resided amongst them upwards of twenty years
Sworn to in open Court
10th August 1832
Richard Long
(signature)
Co J McKissick
(signature)
We the undersigned residing in Bedford County in the state of Tennessee
being referd to by Richard Long in the above declaration do hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with him and that he is reputed by his Neighbors
and ac-
quaintances to have been a soldier in the American Revolution and we concur
in that opinion.
Sworn to in open Court John Warner
10th August 1832 William D. Orr
Col. McKissick Clk J. L.
Neill
Contributed
by:
Kevin McCauley
Tyler, TX