Gum.Shepherd.Revwar.1834.Hardin.MILITARY-PensionFrom: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:14 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Gum.Shepherd.Revwar.1834.Hardin.MILITARY-Pension Pension Revwar Hardin County KyArchives Military Pension Pension Transcription: Shepherd GUMM Rev. War Pension VA GUM, Shepherd R. 4384 State of Missouri County of Howard Sct In the sixth day of August, 1834, personally appeared before the County Court of the County of Howard and state of Missouri, Shepherd GUM, a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to the Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 9, 1832. That he entered the military service of the United States in the County of Rockingham, Virginia, under the under the command of Captain Robert CRAVEN in the spring of 1779, and marched under his command to a fort in Tyers Valley for the purpose of guarding the frontiers of Virginia against the incursion of the Indians. In this service I continued three months and was discharged or rather the whole company was disbanded. In the fall of the year 1779 I again entered the service under the command of Captain Abraham LINCOLN, and marched under him to the northwestern part of Pennsylvania, where we formed the army of General McINTOSH, at Fort McINTOSH, on the north west bank of the Ohio. From thence the whole command of Gen'l McINTOSH (except a guard for the garrison) marched to the head waters of the river Muskingum, where we built Fort Lawrence, on the western bank of the Tuscarora, and there met a tribe of Indians with whom we made a verbal treaty & from we procured some supplies of corn. In this term I served three months. In the fall of 1780 I served a time of three months under Captain George BAXTER. We marched from Rockingham, and camped in the neighborhood of Fort Smith to prevent the incursions and depredations of the British, who had possession of the Fort. In the spring and summer of 1781, I served a term of three months under a Captain George CHRISMAN. I entered the service in Rockingham County and marched from thence to a place of rendevous north of old James Town, nothing occurred during this campaign worthy of recording. In September 1781, I again entered the service and served a three months term, viz. Under Captain Richard RAGAN, I marched from Rockingham down to down to the battery at Yorktown, from whence I was ordered out on a fatigue party to BURREL"S ferry on James River, where I assisted in putting the cannon on their carriages & haul them up the river bluff. I was ordered on board the schooner Hummingbird this loading with provisions for the use of the French fleet then blockading York River. I sailed on board this schooner & delivered the stores to the French fleet. We proceeded from thence to York Town, where we arrived a few days after the surrender of CORNWALLIS, where I was discharged by Captain HAGUE. Between the periods of some of these terms of service, I served one campaign of twenty days under Captain William HARRING in marching from Rockingham to Richmond & returning. We were marched to Richmond under the apprehension that the British were about to attack that place, which apprehension, however, proved groundless. I also served a term of one month, in and irregular service, against the tories, who were embedded in the mountains on the head waters of the south branch of the Potomac. I do not remember the name of our Captain or whether he was more than a mere leader in this volunteer service. He knows of no living witness of his service. To the questions directed to be propounded by the War Department he answers ---- 1. He was born in the County of Grayson in the State of Virginia, on the 29th day of July 1761. 2. He has a record of his age, in the hand writing of his father Jacob GUM, which he here produces to the Court. 3. He was living in the County of Rockingham and State of Virginia at the several periods at which he was called into the service as aforesaid, and since the Revolutionary War has lived in Hardin Co., Kentucky and now lives in the County of Howard & State of Missouri. 4. He was a volunteer in every tour except the last one - and was drafted into the service for that tour. 5. In addition to the names of his Captains he states the names of General MUHLENBURGH, Co. NAUL & Major Guy HAMILTON who were with the troops where he served as aforesaid. 6. He rec'd a discharge, as before stated from Captain HAGUE. His own discharge & that of a fellow soldier (Saul DRAKE) were written on the same sheet and DRAKE having taken both together, I never possessed mine - caring nothing about it. 7. He states the names of Thomas BURROWS and Hampton L. BOON to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State. Shepherd GUM Sworn to and subscribed the Day and year aforesaid John B. CLARK clk We, Hampson L. BOON, a clergyman resident in the County of Howard & Thomas BURROWS residing in Howard County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Shepherd GUM who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 73 years of age; the he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day H. L. BOON and year aforesaid John B. CLARK clk Thomas BURROWS And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Hampton L. BOON, who has signed the preceding Certification is a Clergyman residing in Howard County and that Thomas BURROWS who has also signed the same, is a resident in the County of Howard aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. I John B. CLARK, Clerk of D. H. DRAKE the County Court of Howard County Henry LEWIS do hereby certify that the fore- David KEELOR going contains the original pro- cedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Shepherd GUM for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office [Missouri state seal] this sixth day of August Eighteen hundred & thirty four John B. CLARK clerk The Declaration of Shepherd GUMM amendatory of his declaration made before the County Court of the County of Howard and State of Missouri, on the sixth day of August 1834, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th day of June 1832. In relation to my services as detailed in my original declaration aforesaid, I am now under the impression, from an examination of some of my old papers, and taxing my recollection to its utmost, that I entered the service of the United States under the Command of Captain Robert CRAVENS in the spring of 1778, instead of the spring of 1779 as stated in my original declaration, and that, consequently, there is the inaccuracy of one year in the detail of his first, second and third terms of Service. His recollection enables him to state in relation to the second tour of service as detailed in his original declaration, that he was rendesvoused at Harrisonburg, Virginia and marched from thence across the south and north branches of the Potomac; we struck "Braddock's road" at GWINNS Tavern, at the foot of the Allegany mountains, a short distance above Fort Cumberland; we followed "Braddock's road" (a large road cut out by Gen'l BRADDOCK) across the Allegany mountain to the foot of Laurel Hill, passing the camp of DUNBAR, where he had once blown up a magazine, as we were given to understand in passing by it. Between "DUNBAR"S Camp" and "BRADDOCK"S old battle ground" we left the road, turning to the left in the direction of DEVONS old ferry, on the Monogohelia about thirty miles above Fort Pitt - now Pittsburg. From there we struck through the country to Fort McIntosh, on the Ohio, passing Col. NEVILLE"S on the head of Shirtee Creek. He remembers, in addition to what he has stated in his original declaration, that as the army was passing from Fort McIntosh to the Tuscarora (where he assisted in building Fort Lawrence) that as they were passing through some fallen timber, a body of Indians fired on the advance guard of the army & killed a man by the name of GAINES - as I now recollect the name. In the building of Fort Lawrence, having no wagons nor teams, he remembers the men had to carry the timber used in its construction, on their shoulders across a small prairie which lays between the Tuscarora & the woods. In his fifth term of service under Captain Richard RAGAN, he remembers that on his arrival at York Town the British were firing at the Americans who were engaged in throwing up the breastworks. This firing continued occasionally during his short stay there (before he was sent to BURRELL"S ferry as stated in his original declaration) and one cannon ball struck a stack of muskets, pieces of which wounded two men (brothers by the name of BOYER). The same Cannon ball cut off another mans thigh by the name of John SHANNON who died directly of loss of blood -- as I understood from some of my comrades. On his arrival at York Town onboard the Hummingbird (as stated in his original declaration) he remembers Lord CORNWALLIS was in close quarters under the river bluff -- the British shipping had the rigging all cut off - a great part of it had been sunk -- and many horses which had been killed were thrown into the river at the wharf. From old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection he served not less that fifteen months and twenty days - and for this service he claims a pension Shepherd GUM Sworn to and subscribed this day in open Court on the 3rd day of November, 1834 John B. CLARK clk And the said Court do hereby declare their [the document ends here] Transcribed by Patricia O'Connor p-oconnor@att.net Submitted by: Patricia O'Connor p-oconnor@att.net This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/