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. Although the pension of William Ford contains a statement from his son, Elisha Ford, that this William Ford was not living, the authors know from an extensive study of available documents that this statement was erroneous. The reader is directed to information given about his father, William Ford II, for further discussion. Married 09 Apr 1818 in Pendleton Co., Kentucky to Mary Ford, his first cousin and a daughter of John and Ann (Woodyard) Ford, born about 1800 in Virginia; died sometime between the taking of the 1860 and the 1870 census. Enlisted in Captain James Morgan's Company, Colonel Dudley Evan's Second Regiment of the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812. He made a declaration to obtain his pension while living in Pendleton County, Kentucky portions of which are captioned as follows: On the 27th day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the County and State aforesaid William Ford aged about 59 years a resident of Pendleton County and State of Kentucky who being first duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical William Ford who was a private in Captain James Morgan's Company of Virginia Militia from the county of Monongalia in the State of Virginia; that he belonged to the 2nd Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Dudley Evans in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States m the 18th day of June 1812; that he volunteered at Morgantown, Monongalia County, State of Virginia on or about the 10 day of Septenber 1812 and rendezvoused or was mustered into service at Point Pleasant at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway on the -- day of September 1812 for the term of six months and continued in actual service for that length of time and was honorably discharged at Fort Meggs on or about the 15th day of March 1813 as will appear as he believes by the Muster rolls of said company. He also states that he retained and preserved his discharge til about the year 1847 when it was burned in his house in the County of Pendleton and State of Kentucky where he has resided for the last thirty years and upwards." An additional pension claim was made by William Ford as follows: On this seventeenth day of March AD One thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Five personally appeared before the undersigned G.C. Lightfoot a justice of the peace with in and for the County and state aforesaid William Ford aged about sixty six years to me long and well known as a resident of this County and state who being first duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical person who served six 6 months in the company commanded by Captain James Morgan in the 2nd Regiment of Virginia Militia commanded by Colonel Dudley Evans in the War with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he has heretofore made application for bounty land under the act of 28th of September 1850 to which he now refers for particulars of his service upon which he obtained a warrant for 80 acres No. 20,837 dated Nov. 18, 1851 which he has legally disposed of and cannot now return, he makes this declaration to obtain the bounty land to which he my be entitled under the act of Congress passed on the 3rd day of March 1855." In addition, his pension file also contains a deposition from his uncle, Noah Ford, who had lived near to him back in Monongalia County, Virginia and who was, at the time the deposition was made, a next-door neighbor to William Ford in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Noah Ford states that he was knowing to his starting with the Company, knew of his absience and of his return, that he saw his discharge frequently and knows of the burning of his house. He states that he is well acquainted with William Ford and has been all his life. William Ford served from 13 December 1813 to 05 April 1814 according to the records of the Third Auditor's Office of the Treasury Department. However, William Ford claimed his service was from October 1813 through March 1814, probably owing to the time span between his service and his pension declaration, a span of some 37 years. The case of Commonwealth v. Ford filed in June Term 1815, Pendleton County Court in Falmouth, KY inform us that William Ford arrived in Pendleton County during 1814: The Commonwealth of Kentucky to the Sheriff of Pendleton County. Greeting. You are commanded to summon William Ford if to be found in your bailiwick to appear before the Justices of our Pendleton County Court, at the Courthouse thereof in Falmouth, on the first day of their next June Term, to shew cause, if any he can, why he should not be fined and triple taxed according to law, for failing during the year 1814, and up to the first day of May, 1815, to give in a list of his taxable property to the Commissioner of the Tax or to said Court... An interesting circuit case was found regarding William Ford in which the Pendleton Grand Jury charged William Ford, Elisha Ford, John Clutter and John Williams for sabbath breaking viz. that they the said defts on the 8th day of March 1829, it being a sabbath day, at the circuit afsd did each and all of them labour at their several callings it being neither at their ordinary household ... or in other works of necessity or merry contrary to the statute in such cases. This was charged upon information of John Fuel of Pendleton County. The case was subsequently dropped and the charges dismissed. References
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