ISAAC FLEETWOOD - Revolutionary War Pension Document - January 27, 1823 - Page 1

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Below, I have transcribed it line by line as best I can.

• At a court held for Floyd County at the courthouse in
• Prestonburg on Monday the 27^th day of January 1823
• Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary Soldier produced
• in open court a schedule of his property which is in the
• following words and figures to wit.
• State of Kentucky Floyd County (…)
• January term 1823 this day personally appeared in open
• court this being made a court of record by the laws
• of this state being solemnly adjudged to be such by the other
• tribunal of this state with power to fine and imprison
• always keeping a record of its proceedings Isaac Fleetwood
• aged about 78 years a resident citizen of the county
• aforesaid and in persuance of an act of Congress approved
• the 18^th day of March 1818 providing for certain
• persons engaged in the land and Naval Service
• of the United States in the Revolutionary War and
• also in pursuance to an act of Congress approved
• the 1^st of May 1820 entitled an act in addition
• to an act entitled an act to provide for certain
• persons engaged in the land and Naval
• Service of the United States in the Revolutionary
• War passed on the 18^th day of March 1818
• upon his oath doath solemnly declare that he enlisted
• in the service of the … in the Army of the
• Revolutionary War against the common enemy
• in the year 1776 for the term of three years or
• induring the war and that he was enlisted in
• Loudoun County in the state of Virginia in the 11^th
• Virginia line in a company commanded by
• Captain William Smith in a Regiment commanded at
• that time by Col. Morgan and afterward by
• Col. Fabaker in Virginia line and continental
• establishment that he continued to serve in the
• Army of the Revolutionary War in the Service
• of the United States four years at the end of which
• time he was honorably discharged which was
• the 1780 at the Valley Forge which discharge
• he has lost or mislaid and that he was in
• the following battles to wit The battle at
• Germantown the battle at Monmouth that he
•                                                                               has

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