ISAAC FLEETWOOD - Revolutionary War Pension Document - June 16, 1818

This document was obtained from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.  It has been scaled down considerably to fit on the computer screen.

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

• Isaac Fleetwood an old Revolutionary
• soldier seventy five years of age states
• that he was …
• United States in the year 1776 for the
• time of three years or induring the war
• and he states that he was in the Battle
• of Brandywine and the Battle of White-
• marsh and continued in the service
• for the tenure of four years in the
• Eleventh Virginia Regiment Commanded
• by Col. Fabaker in Captain
• William Smith's Company and was
• honorably discharged in the year 1780
• and he states that he had lost his
• discharge and know not where nor
• when and also states that it is
• from his age and infirmities and
• indigent circumstance no property
• that he claims this assistance of his
• Country agreeable to the Act of
• Congress approved the 18^th day
• of March 1818.

I have not transcribed the affidavit at the bottom of the document.  In the affidavit, it has the date of the document as June 16, 1818.

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