General Notes

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John was in the Revolutionary War

PRIVATE JOHN MIDKIFF APPLIED FOR VETERAN'S BENEFITS OCT, 18, 1832. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIO N IS A TRANSCRIPITION OF HIS APPLICATION STATEMENT AND THOSE OF HIS WITNESSES State of Virgin ia and County of Patrick.

On this 18th day of October, 1832 personally appears in open Court before the Justice of th e Court of Patrick now sitting, John Midkiff a resident of the County of Patrick, and state o f Virginia. Age seventy years the 11th day of March 1832, who being first duly sworn accordin g to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of t he provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service o f the United States under the following named Officers and servied as hereafter states. He wa s drafted under Captain Spencer Shelton for a three months tour he thinks in August 1780 he b eing then a resident of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and marched in that company as soon a s it was organized to Halifax Courthouse, Virginia, and he stayed there some time waiting fo r further orders. And afterward was marched into Granville or Coswell County of the State o f North Carolina, and after remaining there some time he was discharged. The precise time h e was in actual service during this tour he does not remember. In January 1781 he volunteere d in the company of Riflemen commanded by Captain Thomas Smith in the County of Pittsylvani a and State of Virginia. That he immediately marched in the same company and joined the Conti nental wing in the State of North Carolina and was attached to the infantry in the corps of C ol. Henry Lee, there he was engaged in a battle with the enemy at a place called Whitsals Mil ls on (?) Hew river. Col. Campbell from Holstein Virginia and Col. Williams of North Carolin a commanded. Also Col. Morgan and Col. Washington of the Continental Army. The Americans retr eated with some in considerable loss. How long he remained in service during that tour he doe s not exactly recollect having lost his discharge, but is under the impresssion that he retur ned home some time in the month of March in that year. Sometime in the month of August 1781 h e was drafted in the County of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia, in a company commanded b y Capt. Charles Hudgins and immediately marched in this said company to Yorktown Virginia an d joined the Continental troops. Capt. Hudgins then returned home, and he was put under the c ompany of Captain William Dix and attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. (?) Field Meriwe ather. And remained there during the siege and after the taking of Lord Cornwallis he was att ached to the Regiment who had charge of the prisoners and marched as far as Williamsburg, Vir ginia and was there discharged on account of bad health by Maj. Wood Jones, which discharge i s herewith exhibited and bears date of 20th Oct. 1781. He has no personal aquaintance with an y of the Continental Officers commanding at Yorktown, but frquently saw General Washington an d Gen. Lafayette who were pointed out to him by some persons who knew them, and he frequentl y saw many other Officers of this Continental line but does not now remember their names. H e cannot say the precise time he servied in all but believes it was not less than eight month s. He has no documentary evidence, save this discharge documentation, or verbal evidence wit h his mark to prove his services.

He was born in the County of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia according to the (?) Reg----o f his parents on the 11th day of March 1762 and raised in that County till April 1823 when h e removed to the County of Patrick where he now lives. He hereby relinquinshes every claim wh atever to a pension or ammenity except this present, and he declares that his name is not o n the Pension Roll of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

(signed) John Midkiff

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