By the law of the 18th of March 1818, indigent officers of the Revolutionary War were entitled to $20 per month and privates who were indigent were entitled to $8 per month. They had to have served not less than nine months in the Continental Line during the war. One of those indigent soldiers was John Jones who lived in Caldwell County, Kentucky in 1818.
“Personally appeared in Court John Jones a citizen of this County and made oath that he enlisted in the Continental army in the first Pennsylvania Regiment in September 1775 and continued in said Regiment until after the battle of Guilford in North Carolina when he was discharged by order of Genl. Wayne which discharge he gave to the person when he Sold his land or otherwise lost and being old infirm and a Cripple claims the benefit of the law passed the 18th March 1818 for the benefit of Continental Soldiers – which is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of War.”[1]
[1]
Deposition of John Jones, Caldwell County, Kentucky Court Order Book B, p 226,
28 April 1818.
Published 14 Sep 2021, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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