David Snowden

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    Pension W9308. Cert. No 5459 issued Jun. 25, 1850, $80 per annum beginning Mar. 4, 1848.
    Application dated Jun. 13, 1844 at age 82 in Owsley Co., KY.
    She is widow of David Snowden, Revolutionary pensioner, who died June 2, 1839. They were married April 1782 by a Baptist preacher by the name of William Woods. She knows of no record of her marriage, but she thinks the family record is in possession of her son James Snowden in adjoining county. Signed - Nancy (her mark) Snowden.
    Letter from Morris Owen, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Pension Commisioner, October 4, 1850 - Mrs. Nancy Snowden died May 5, 1850 prior to date of certificate June 25, 1850. Requests pension to be paid to administrator for her 4 children.
    
    David and Nancy Snowden
    W 9308 Penn.
    
    On the 20th of August 1832, before James W. Gravin, Samuel Tipton, and Sampson Walters, Justices of the Peace in said county, David Snowden, Sr., resident of said county, aged 73, made oath: That he was born in New Jersey in 1759. When about 3 years of age, that his father moved to the Western part of Pennsylvania and when the Revolutionary War commenced, he resided with his father in what is now Washington County, Pennsylvania. That from 1775 or 1776, he served as an Indian spy from time to time, for a great portion of his time till the close of the War. That sometimes they would be out for a week and sometimes more and that after guarding the frontiers against the Indians, he was drafted and when on McIntosh's campaign against the Indians in what is now the state of Ohio. He went within two miles from where Washington Pennsylvania now stands. He was out 3 months. Andrew Sweringer was his Captain. Crawford and Sl Glinson (?) were Colonels in the Militia. AFter they got to what in now called Ohio, they halted and bult a fort called Ft. McIntosh. That they afterward built a fort on the waters of Tuscarawai (?) called Ft. Lawrence. That they afterward were marched back to Ft. McIntosh and then discharged. He continued to act as a spy and guard for the frontier. That he volunteered under Captain Lest (?) and went out as Colonels Crawford and Williamson ordered. He went to the Sandusky Pains and were there in an engagement with the Indians and British and were defeated. Crawford was taken prisoner and burnt. Before going out with Crawford, he had served 1 or 2 months on the frontier at Black Hawk on the Waters of Wheeling Creek. Captain Scott was his Captain. He was engaged as an Indian spy and guard for the frontier and was out on campaigns against the Indians during the Revolutionary War for almost 3 years.
    
    Samuel Kelly, clergyman, and Thomas White, clergyman, both residents of Estill County, Kentucky, certify of their acquaintance with David Snowden and their belief in his statements.
    
    In Owsley County, Kentucky, on the 13th of June 1884, before David Snowen, Justice of the Peace, Nancy Snowden, aged 82, appeared and made oath: That she is the widow of David Snowden, deceased, late a pensioned on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency. That she married to David Snowden, in April 1782, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, by a Baptist preacher named William Woods and that her husband aforesaid David Snowden died in June 2, 1839.
    
    David Snowden of Estill County, Kentucky, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Swearinger of the Regiment commanded by Col. Crawford in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years, was inscribed on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency commence on March 4, 1831, certificate of the pension was issued March 29, 1833.
    
    James Snowden, aged 45, resident of Estill County, Kentucky made oath that: He is the son of David Snowden, deceased and Nancy Snowden, applicate for a pension on this 13th day of June 1844. That he has for many years, the record of the ages of the children of his father and which record commences with the age of the oldest child. He thinks this handwriting is that of his father, David Snowden.
    
    The record was made part of his deposition, and read as follows: Chas. Snowden born December 28th, 1783. Joshua Snowden born on June 26, 1785. David Snowden born December 6, 1786. Elizabeth Snowden, born October 26, 1788. Joseph Snowden born June 9, 1791. Sary Snowden, born November 19, 1793. John Snowden born January 3, 1796. James Snowden born April 30, 1798. Wm Snowden born August 27, 1800. Sancy Snowden born August 15, 1802.
    
    Eli Hazelrigg, resident of Bath County, Kentucky, made oath that he is 67 years of age, October next. That he is the brother of Nancy Snowden. That he was an inmate of his father's family at the date his sister, Nancy, intermarried with David Snowden. His father moved from Virginia to near Red Stone Old Fort in Pennsylvania in 1781. He had not lived there long before David Snowden married to his sister, Nancy, in April 1782. The deponent's father's family moved to Kentucky in 1784 and settled on Boone Creek, then to Fayette County and several years later said Snowden and family moved to Kentucky and lived 1 or 2 years in my father's family. Said Snowden there purchased a farm in this deponent's neighborhood where he lived several years and sold it and moved to Estill County, Kentucky where said Snowden died.
    
    Rachel Hoges made oath in Clark County, Kentucky, that she is 72 years old. That she became acquainted with David Snowden at this site in the family of Mrs. Snowden's father, James Hazelrigg and lived there for some short time. Then he purchased a piece of land adjoining Hazelrigg's and moved his family off of said land to the land above mentioned, where he lived for several years. The whole time he lived in the neighborhood, he lived within a short distance of this deponent. That said Nancy and David has 4 or 5 children when they first came into the neighborhood. That the record of their children says that Moses was born 28th December 1793 and the deponent knows that they lived in the neighborhood a year or 2 before the birth of the deponent's son Moses.
    
    A letter written from Morris Owen, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on the 4th of October 1850, to the commissioner of pensions, stated that Mrs. Nancy Snowden to whom the enclosed pension certificate was issued died, as he was informed on the 5th of May 1850, prior to the date of her certificate, which was dated 25th June. He asked that her pension, not having been drawn that the commissioner of pension permit it to be paid to her administrator, she having 4 children residing in this and different places and the commissioner of pensions directs her claim to be paid at the Pittsburg Agency, by William H. Howard, Esquire.
    
    Nancy Snowden, widow of David Snowden was inscribed on the pension Roll of Kentucky, to commence on June 2, 1839, certificate of the pension was issued October 14, 1845.