Person:George Black (36)

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. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Black, George - entered service Shepherdstown [Frederick County], Virginia; born 1/1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania; granted Pension 1786 in Frederick County, Virginia, for disability. R251.

1.   The Pension Roll of 1835: Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).

   Name: George Black
   Rank: Private
   Age: 74
   Birth Year: abt 1757
   Pension Enrollment Date: 4 Mar 1831
   Residence Place: Frederick, Virginia, USA
   Service Description: Virginia contin'l

2.   United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).

   Name: George Black*
   Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Western District, Frederick, Virginia
   Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79: 1 [b. bet. 1751-1760]
   Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
   Free White Persons - Under 20: 4
   Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
   Total Free White Persons: 8
   Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8
   * - Note: this Census record was transcribed as "George Blayet" on Ancestry, but in looking at the Census image, it clearly reads "George Black"

3.   United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704).

   Name: George Black
   Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Frederick, Virginia
   Birth Year: abt 1758
   Age: 82
   Military Service: Veteran

4.   USGenweb Archives.

   REVOLUTIONARY WAR DISABILITY AFFIDAVIT - GEORGE BLACK
   
   Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection
   
   Black, George Pen.28 1787-1789
   Soldier, 12t
   Sh Virginia Regiment
   Berkeley County----Frederick County
   
   Agreeable to an order from Berkeley County directed to me I have proceeded to
   examen George Black a Con't soldier, who stands upon the list of pensioners and
   found that he has been shot through the thigh the bone of which was broken,
   which has shortened it very much. I am of opinion that the weakness produced by
   the wound renders him unable to procure a living by labor and that he is a
   proper object to stand upon the list of pensioners, given under my hand this
   19th day April 1787. Chetzlow Greer
   
   The within George Black was a private soldier in the 12th Virginia Regimen and
   was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine as I commanded that regiment at that
   time. I perfectly can attest that his thigh was broken by a musguit ball, and
   that he fell into the hands of the enemy where he remained a pensioner for a
   considerable time. James Wood. Cmdr. ? G
   
   Note on bottom: Geo Black's con'd on P list with ten pounds for Jan'y 1786
   
   I do, with the advice of council, hereby certify that George Black aged about
   years of age, late a private in the 12th Virginia Regiment whose pay was at
   the rate of 24 pounds per annum was disabled in the service of The United States
   by a wound in the thigh which fractured the bone, and he is allowed the sum
   of ten pounds yearly; which allowance accordingly made him, to commence on the
   first day of January 1786. Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth
   of Virginia , at Richmond is this 1st day of July 1788. Edm: Randolph
   Copy teste: Thos. Meriwether
   
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