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Subject: Watts.Peter.Revwar.1832.Shelby.MILITARY-Pension


Pension Application Of Peter Watts, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ 
Application #s30765 Revwar Shelby County KyArchives Military Pension

Pension Application Of Peter Watts, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ 
Application #S30765 Shelby County, Kentucky}
	On this 20th day of November, 1832, personally appeared in open court 
before the justices of the county court of Shelby now sitting, Peter Watts, 
a resident in the county of Shelby and state of Kentucky, aged 76 years, born 
in the county of Culpeper in the state of Virginia in the year 1756, who being 
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following
declaration…:

	That he enlisted as a private for one year in May 1776 in the county of 
Guilford and state of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John 
Nelson, whose Lieutenant was William Dent, and whose ensign  was ____ Nelson 
in the 4th Carolina regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Pogue [it was actually 
Polk]. We marched from Guilford to Wilmington on Cape Fear River in North Carolina 
where we were stationed some time, then marched to Halifax, from thence back to 
Wilmington, and from thence to Hadley’s Point near Fort Moultrie near Charleston, 
South Carolina, when my time expired and I was discharged, which discharge is 
now lost. Some of the general officers were General Moore, Colonel ?Bankering of 
the 5th regiment, and Colonel Lytle of the 6th regiment.

 	I lived in Guilford County, North Carolina until 1779 when I removed to 
Kentucky and have lived in said state ever since, and I now live in Shelby County 
in said state. My age is recorded in a book in Woodford County, KY, and in a large 
Bible at home. I don’t know of any living witness by whom I can prove my services 
positively…Peter Watts

Submitted by: Nancy Poquette
npoq@hotmail.com



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