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Facts and Events
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 5, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
SPERRY, Peter - born 1/1760 in Frederick County, Virginia; father died when soldier was quite young; entered service 1778 in Rockingham County, Virginia in Virginia company; entered service 1781 in Virginia Regiment; left Virginia in 1814 & moved to Ross County, Ohio, where he was granted pension in 1832 when residing in Concord Township; had uncle Nicholas Sperry, dec'd in 1832; George Spickard made affidavit 1833 in Highland County, Ohio, that he entered service with soldier in 1781 when resided in Frederick County, Virginia; query letter in file states soldier died in 1838 & was son of Thomas [Sperry]; query letter in file says soldier was buried in Shenandoah County, Virginia & died 11/24/1836 [s/b 1838] in Ross County, Ohio & is buried there. F-S3959, R2258.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/peter-sperry_2182453
Note: birthdate appears to be in error based upon Peter Sperry's Revolutionary War Declaration.
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension application of Perry Sperry S3959 f20VA
Transcribed by Will Graves 3/30/12
State of Ohio Ross County: SS – On this 10th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open
Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, now sitting, Peter
Sperry a resident of Concorde Township in said County, 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 7th 1832. That from information received from his Uncle Nicholas Sperry now dead (his father having died when he was a child) he was born in Frederick County Virginia, in January 1760. That he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, as a private soldier in the volunteer Militia, under Captain Cravens [probably Robert Craven], from Rockingham County, Virginia for a tour of six months, he thinks, about the year 1778, to guard the frontier settlements, during which time he assisted to build fourt Koonce [Fort Koonce?]1 and was in several him expeditions against the Indians, but was in no general battles, and had no higher officer that his Captain, that having served out his tour of six months, he returned home Rockingham County in a few weeks after, he again entered the said service as a Substitute for Gasper Haynes who was drafted from the same County to serve a tour of three months in the Militia and was marched to Warracks fort [Warrick's Fort?] on Green briar [Greenbrier River], but cannot positively remember the name of his Captain but thinks it was Captain Peters, or Captain Busby [?]2, having served out his tour, he returned home; and in a short time after he again entered the service of the United States in the Militia, as a substitute for a Mr. Porter of Shanadore [Shenandoah] County, Virginia, who was drafted to serve a tour of three months, under Captain Pennewright [Jacob Penneweight] and was attached to Colonel Edmunds Regiment at Richmond, under General Millinbergh [Peter Muhlenberg]; he was thence marched to Bottoms bridge, thence followed in pursuit of Corn Wallis [Cornwallis] towards little York or Yorktown in Virginia until he was taken sick, and left, at or near, the camp, and remained there till the Americans on their retreat, three days after found him void of reason as a Mr. Shepard [?]3 informed him. He was then carried home, he was at other times called on to serve a few days at a time but has no documentary evidence of any said facts, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services, except George Spickard Senr. Whose testimony is hereto annexed. He hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of any State – That he left his residence in Virginia in the year 1814 and removed to Ross County of Ohio where he now lives.
S/ Peter Sperry [looks more like Peter Sherry to me]
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court October 10th 1832
S/ Humphrey Fullerton, Clerk
[Nathan Corey, a clergyman, and William Callings gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
The State of Ohio Highland County SS
The deposition of George Spickard Senior4 who being of lawful agent duly sworn deposeth and
saith that he was a drafted soldier in the United States service in the revolutionary war in the year of our Lord 1781 being the same year that Corn Wallace surrendered [October 19, 1781] and that Peter Sperry served a three month tour as a drafted Soldier in the United States Service at the same time in the year in which the said Corn Wallace surrendered and that he and the said Peter Sperry was at that time residence of Frederick County in the State of Virginia and was taken from Frederick County to Richmond and from thence to Bottoms Bridge from thence we pursued after Wallace on his route to little York until the term of three months expired and that the said Peter Sperry served under Captain pennewit [Jacob Penneweight] and General Muhlenberg and Colonel Edmond and this deponent saith that he the said Peter Sperry entered the service about the 1st of April A.D. 1781 and that said Sperry was taken sick about the middle of June in the time of service this deponent also states that he was personally acquainted with the said Peter Sperry in the time of Service and before the draft and since that time he is positive that the said Peter Sperry is the person that he represents himself to be further this deponent sayeth not. Sworn to and subscribed before me at my office this 21st day of March A.D. 1833
S/ John Hixson, JP S/ George Spickard, Senr., X his mark
State of Ohio Ross County: SS
Affidavit of Peter Sperry of the County of Ross in the State of Ohio, taken before me
Peter Patterson Justice of the Peace in and for said County, this 3rd day of April 1833,
supplementary to the declaration of the said Peter Sperry made before the Court of Common
Pleas for said County, on the 10th day of October 1832 in the matter of his application for a Pension under the act of the 7th of June 1832 – the said Peter Sperry being first duly sanctioned and sworn, deposeth and saith that he performed the first tour of service of six months as stated in his declaration in full, also his second term of three months in full, but in his third tour being for three months under Captain Penneweight (his own residence being at that time he entered said term of service in Frederick County Virginia) and that to the best of his recollection and belief he served two months and a half of said tour, but being then taken sick as stated in his declaration, he did not perform any more actual service during that term but was shortly afterwards carried home sick.
S/ Peter Sperry
[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $38 33 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for
service as a private for 11 months and 15 days in the Virginia militia.]
4 George Spickard S4880
http://revwarapps.org/s3959.pdf
- Find A Grave.
Peter Sperry
BIRTH 1760
Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA [s/b Frederick County, VA]
DEATH 29 May 1838 (aged 77–78)
Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, USA
BURIAL Old Baptist Cemetery
Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, USA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10038119/peter_sperry
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