The affidavit of Milley Webb taken at her own house in the County of Madison State of Kentucky who being first sworn saith that Thomas Lanter who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration was born and raised in the County of Orange State of Virginia and there resided until he moved to the State of Kentucky where he has resided ever since: that she was born and raised in same County of Orange State of Virginia and there resided until she moved to Kentucky: that she is 77 years old and has been intimately acquainted with said Lanter from his childhood, to the present time: she well knows that said Thomas was many times in the service of the Country during the revolutionary war, that he was not more than 18 years old when he went the first campaign and that was which was called minute men, that he was there with whom he went rendezvoused at Culpepper Courthouse, that she [several words too faint to discern] at the courthouse where they rendezvoused: at that time she understood they were to be marched to Williamsburg, she well knows that said Thomas was gone near 3 months, for at the end of 3 months they had heard nothing from them. That after said Thomas got home, he remained but a short space of time, before he again entered the service & knows that Thomas and into the service under Captain Spencer who lived in Orange County: and said Thomas was gone a considerable length of time, but how long precisely she does not know: states that it was a great while: she recollects that Thomas went with an officer by the name of Waw & when Thomas returned he told me the places he had been at in different conversations they were Williamsburg, Norfolk and that he was in the battle at the Big bridge: and knows that battle was fought 9 December 1775 – she has often heard Lanter say he was at Norfolk the time the town was burned: She also knows that said Thomas rendezvoused at Rowland Thomas': She thinks Thomas started one campaign in October: and once returned home in July: and started another in August she knows that about these times said Thomas was little or no time at home but in the Service: Marquis Lafayette's road was about 1 mile and a half from where she lived and where the troops went along said Thomas was then in the campaign & that she from bodily infirmity and old age is unable to attend Court & further saith not.
[Signed] Mary Webb, X her mark
[Attested February 5, 1833 in Madison County Kentucky.]
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