Person:George Vest (13)

From the George VEST Revolutionary War Pension File [07 Jan 1833] :

State of Kentucky, County of Boone, SC'D. On this 7th day of January in the year 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Boone County Court now setting, it being a Court of Record, George VEST a resident of said County of Boone, State of Kentucky, aged Seventy Three years May next, 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 he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein after stated. In the year 1776 & month of March he entered the service of the United as a private militiaman in the County of Pittsylvania & State of Virginia where he then lived, under Captain Thomas DILLARD & marched under Col Andrew LEWIS against Lord DUNMORE down in Middlesex {County} on the {Rappahannock River} & was there when Lord DUNMORE was driven away & then returned & very soon marched again under Colonel CHRISTY chased the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee & continued in the service until November in that year being in all at least eight months engaged in that years in the service of the United States and afterwards in the month of March in the year 1777 he joined a Company as a private commanded by Captain James DICKSON & went with said Company under Colonel Evan SHELBY {SR} to a treaty with the Cherokee Indians on {Holston River} & continued there until the treaty done & then joined a Company of Captain Evan SHELBY Jun & continued in that part of the country in the service until the November following and guarding the frontier & then returned home after serving eight months more & then in February in the year 1778 he again joined a company of Militiamen commanded by Captain Thomas DILLARD & with said Company under Gen G. R. CLARK to Kentucky & wintered in the service for a least three months & was taken sick & remained sick until the fall & then returned home.

He has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person where testimony he can procure who can testify to his service-He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension on account except those present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state Sworn to & Subscribed at the day & year aforesaid. George "his X mark" VEST. Attest by Willis GRAVES, Clerk. Mr. Lewis CONNER, a Clergyman residing in the County of Boone, State of Kentucky & Abner GAINES, residing in the same county & state, Hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with George VEST who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that they believe him to be Seventy Three years old in May next that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides have been a Soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that opinion. Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid. Lewis CONNER & Abner GAINES, Attested by Willis GRAVES, Clerk. And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war adjutant, that the above named applicant George VEST was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states-And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Lewis CONNER who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Boone & State of Kentucky and that Abner GAINES who has also signed the same is a resident also of said County and State and is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit. I Willis GRAVES, Clerk of the County Court of said County of Boone, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of George VEST for a pension.(SEAL) In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 7th day of the year 1833 and 41st year of the commonwealth.

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KENTUCKY-PENSION CERTIFICATE Number 4338, jacket. George VEST, County of Boone in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain DILLARD of the Regiment commanded by Colonel LEWIS in the Virginia line for 19 months from 1776. Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of Sixty-Three Dollars Thirty-three Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of January 1833 and subscribed. Hon. R. M. JOHNSON, House of Representatives. Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $94.99; Some annual allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 = $31.67 $126.66 Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by Nathan RICE, Clerk, in Book D, Volume 9, Page 64.

[3 Mar 1845] United States of America, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Boone County Sct. At a county court begun and held at the court house in the Town of Burlington in and for the County of Boone on Monday the 3rd day of March 1845. Amongst other things determined and orders made was the following, viz- Satisfactory proof was this day made in open court by the oaths of James STEVENSON and Robert E. SLEET that George VEST late a pensioner of the United States departed this life on the 22 day of February 1845 and that the said George VEST was the identical person named in an original certificate now here shown to the court bearing date 2 January 1833 and signed by Lewis CASS Secretary of War granting to the said George WEST a pension of Sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum and numbered 4338 and it was further proven to the satisfaction of the court that the said George VEST left a widow of lawful age by name Nancy VEST. In testimony whereof I J. G. HAMILTON Clerk of said court & hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this 30th day of May AD 1855. J. G. HAMILTON Clk

[30 May 1855] State of Kentucky, Sct. I. J. G. HAMILTON Clerk of the County court in and for Boone County certify that George VEST and Nancy ONEAL were duly and legally married on the 19th day of November 1829 as appears by the return of Michael ROUSE a minister of the Gospel duly authorized to solemnize marriage now of record in my office. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court done at Burlington this 30th day of May Anno Domini 1855. J. G. HAMILTON Clk. At a county court begun and held at the court house in the Town of Burlington in and for the County of Boone in the State of Kentucky on Monday the 4th day of June AD 1855 amongst other things determined and ordered made was the following- Mrs. Nancy VEST, a resident of Boone County Kentucky aged about Sixty-years personally appeared in Court and upon her solemn oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions

[4 Jun 1855] of the act of Congress of the United States entitled "as such to continue Half pay to certain widows and orphans approved February 3, 1853, to wit-That she is the widow of George VEST who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Sixty three dollars and 33 cents per annum which was paid to him at Louisville, Kentucky. That the residence of the said George VEST was in Boone County, Kentucky. She further states and declares that she was married to the said George VEST on the 19th day of November 1829. That said George VEST departed this life in said county on the 22nd day of February 1845. She further declares that she was the widow of the said George VEST at the date of the passage of the said act of Congress, and still remains his widow and that she has never before made application for a pension. In testimony whereof I am hereunto set my hand and affirm the seal of said court done at Burlington this 4 day of June 1855. J. G. HAMILTON Clk.

Recorded Book D Volume 9 Page 64 ________________________________________________________________________________

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GEORGE VEST.

George Vest Will-Boone County, Kentucky

I George Vest of Boone County, Kentucky do hereby make this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say.

I desire that all the perishable part of my estate be immediately sold after my decease and out of the monies arising therefrom all my just debts and funeral expenses:

1st I give to my son John Vest one dollar

2nd I give to my son Squire one dollar

3rd I give to Polly O'Neals heirs one dollar

"Notation" Polly O'Neal married William O'Neal 24 Nov 1805 in Shelby Co.

4th I give to my daughter Rutha Alexander one dollar

5th I give to my son George Vest, Jr. one dollar

6th I give to my son Thomas Vest one dollar

7th All the rest of my estate both real and personal of what nature or kind so ever it may be I give and bequeath to my wife Nancy during her natural life and to be managed as she thinks best and at her death to be divided equally amongst my wife's several children; Thomas O'Neal, Polly Ann O'Neal, Willa Jane O'Neal, and Richard Ellis O'Neal which I give to them, their heirs, executors, and assigns forever.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my wife Nancy Vest the administrator of this, my last will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 25th day of July 1840.

ATTEST George Vest (His Mark) Robert H. Vickers Robert E. Sleet Commonwealth of Kentucky to wit. Boone County Court July 10th 1845

This writing purporting to be the last will & testament of George Vest deceased was executed in court and proven according to law by the oaths of Robert B. Vickers and Robert E. Sleet, two subscribing witnesses thereto and thereupon ordered to be recorded as the true last will and testament of said George Vest deceased whereupon the same is duly recorded.

J. G. Hamilton Clerk _____________________________________________________________________________

CODICIL GEORGE VEST WILL BOONE COUNTY STATE OF KENTUCKY

Know all men by those prersent that I George Vest of the county and state aforesaid knowing the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death, I do this day before God and in the presense of men make my last will and testament knowing the uncertainty of man and feeling desirous to secure to my wife Nancy Vest, and Ellis, her son all my estate both real and personal for and during their natural lives, & furthermore it is my wish that the estate be in my wife's hands until her death, and then to be secured to Ellis for his support, and it is also my wish that the will now in hands of Squire Robert B. Vickers shall stand good with exception of the revision above named, and in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my seal this the day and date above named.

ATTEST George Vest (His Mark)

James H. O'Neal

Edgar M. Bostick

Boone County Court-October 10th 1845

The writing purporting to be a supplement or codicil to the last will and testament of George Vest deceased was exhibited in court, and proven according to law by the oath of James O'neal, one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be filed.

Boone County Court-October 10th 1845

The writing purporting to be a supplement or codicil to the last will of George Vest was again exhibited in court and was further and fully proven by the oath of Edgar M. Bostick another subscribing witness thereto according to law, whereupon the same is ordered to be recorded as the true codicil to the will of said George Vest whereupon the same is recorded.

J. G. Hamilton Clerk ________________________________________________________________________________

1. ↑ Jomartin1@@worldnet.att.net. Research by Mary Jo Martin. (Dec. 2005).
2. ↑ NARA Military Pension Records - George Vest.
3. ↑ Vest, George; Military Pension Award. (Recorded 6/4/1855).
4. ↑ NARA Military Pension Records - George Vest.
5. ↑ NARA Military Pension Records - George Vest.
6. ↑ NARA Military Pension Records - George Vest.
7. ↑ Vest, George; Will.