Jesse
Rose
State
of Kentucky - County of Harrison
He made
his hom with a son in later years in Grant
County
On this 13th day of July 1818 before me me undersigned
one of this circuit judge for the Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared
Jesse Rose, aged about 68 years, resident in Harrison County in said state
who being by one first duly sworn according to law doth make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provision made by "the act of Congress
entitled an act to provide certain persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" that he enlisted in
the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain Shelton in the
year 1777 or thereabouts, that he was afterward transferred to Captain Payton'e
Company and continued to serve in that company as a private soldier until
the expiration of the term for which he enlisted which was three years. That
Captain Shelton's Company and Captain Payton's Company belonged to the third
Virginia Regiment until a short time after the Battle of Germantown, when
they transferred to the second Virginia Regiment, that both the 2nd and 3rd
Virginia Regiments belonged to the Virginia line on the Continental
establishment. That he was at the Battle at Monmouth and several small
skirmishes. That from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need
of assistance from his country for support. Sworn to before me this day and
year aforesaid. Signed - John Trimble.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 13, 1818 while a resident of Harrison County, Kentucky, aged about 68 years. He died in 1830.
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