Pension Application of John Colbert S9212 VA
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
County of Frederick Ss.
On this 1st day of October 1827 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the said County John Colbert resident in said County aged sixty two years who being first sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820 that he the said John Colbert enlisted for during the war in the Spring of the year 1781 near Winchester in the State of Virginia (the month he cannot recollect) in the troop of Cavalry or Light Dragoons commanded by Captain Armand Vaugluson [sic: Martin Armand Vogluson] (not attached to any regiment, was well as he recollects) in the line of the State of Virginia, on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the month of May 1783, when he was discharged from the service at Hampton in the State of Virginia that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any State except Virginia and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension that he has been until now able to obtain a living by his Labour, & with the little property that he had but finding himself getting infirm with an afflicting Palsy, and his eyesight being very much impaired, he can labour but very little so that he is in danger of coming to want.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz: one black horse; one mare, two colts, two cows, ten head of Sheep, one Sow, two Pigs, one Stove and pipe, one Cart, two Sows, one harrow, one Shovle, one hoe, one plough, one Silver watch, one Saddle and Bags, two Axes, one table one oven and a lot of tools.
John hisXmark Colbert
That since the 18th of March 1818, the following changes have been made in my property to wit: At that time I lived in Montgomery County Pensylvania and had only sundry articles of houshold furniture, and about five hundred dollars in cash. Having been a native of Frederick County and being afflicted with a complaint in my eyes, and having lost my wife, I concluded to sell of what little property I had & remove to that County I accordingly sold my furniture at public sale which brought about one hundred and sixty dollars; with that, and the money that I had by me I came to Frederick County and purchased some stock an Farming Utensils with the money that I had left after the expenses of removeing, and going to Philadelphia where I went in the fall of 1819 and was there under the hands a phisician for about six months for the disease in my eyes and the paralitic disorder The property I have now is what I first bought when I came to Virginia and what has been raised by me from the Stock I first had and the furniture is the same that I then bought: and I have neither bought nor sold any property since. I am a farmer by occupation. Live in a house with a man whose sister I married since I came to this County, and who owns a piece of Land, and I generally hire a hand or two to assist on the farm, and I have now a wife who is upwards of fifty years of age, who is not a healthy woman being frequently under the Doctors hands State of Virginia
Frederick County Ss.
On the 11th of August 1832 before the subscriber a justice of the peace for the County of Frederick in the State of Virginia, personally appeared John Colvert, or Colbert, a resident in the said County of Frederick, who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that when he made his declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, which is now, as he understands, among the files in the War Department, he was informed that Service of Nine months would entitle him to a pension, and that therefore it was not necessary to be particular as to the time of his enlistment, so that he stated that he enlisted in the Spring of the year 1781, and that he was discharged in June 1783. But he could then have stated, and does now upon his oath state, that he enlisted in Capt. Armands corps in Winchester in the month of May 1781, he presumes in the early part of the month, as they marched from Winchester in that month, and that he served until the month of June 1783, making his term of service two years and about a month.
John hisXmark Calvert
NOTE: On 1 Oct 1827 Joseph Parrel made a statement in support of Colbert’s claim for a pension. On 4 Aug 1854 Sarah Perrell assigned power of attorney to obtain benefits for the service of her brother, John Colbert, witnessed by Mary T Parroll.
