PENSION APPL: Collins, 1834 - Grant Co

State of Kentucky - County of Grant

On the 11th day of August in the year 1834 personally appeared in open
court before the Honorable Justices of the Grant County Court, now sitting,
being a Court of Record, Ralph C. Collins, a resident of Grant County and
State of Kentucky, aged 72 years, 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.
     That in the Spring of the year 1781, he was drafted for three months
in the Company of Captain Collins in King and Queen County, State of
Virginia, was not in any engagement with the enemy during that time, but
was part of the time at Hubbards old fields and part at Abbington Church
and from those places was marched to Gloucester and after having served
out the whole time there was discharged. The only field officers he now
recollects were Colonel Roan and Major Roe. They had barely got home
before they were again called out by the same officers and from the same
county during this tour, which was more than three months, he was marched
from Abbington Church to Gloucester point and was present in the American
ranks during the siege of York, and after the surrender of the British he
was one of those who guarded them or some of them up to a place called
Todd's Bridge and there he received his discharge, but from the great
length of time it has long been lost. During this service he was under the
same officers, to wit, Colonel Roan, Maj. Roe and Captain Collins.
Afterward he was out in what is generally known as Lt. Clairs Company; he
was under Captain Dark for nine months, and with him at the defeat of Lt.
Clair.  His Colonels name was Dark and his Major was Bedinger. Some short
time after the Defeat of Lt. Clair he moved to Kentucky and has been living
in what is now Grant County, ever since its formation as a county.
     He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service,
neither is he known to any one who has personal knowledge of his service.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any
agency in any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

                                        Ralph C. (X) Collins

We, Joseph Jump, H. B. Smith and James Williams residing in the County
of Grant hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ralph C. Collins
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him
to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we
concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

                                        Joseph (X) Jump
                                        H. B. Smith
                                        James Williams

I, Hubbard B. Smith, Clerk of the County of Grant, do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Ralph C. Collins for a pension. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County Court Office
this 11th day of August 1834.
                                        H. B. Smith, CGCC



Beulah Wiley Franks
wrfc71a@prodigy.com
18 Kim 1998