Pension of William Rhodes

From the NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Transcribed from Revolutionary War pension #1324 of William Rhodes, 15 Apr 1818: "William Rhodes aged Seventythree years deposeth and saith, that sometime about the first day of Sept. in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventyfive he enlisted as a private soldier into the first Company of Regular troops in the second Regiment of the Virginia line of Continental troops said Company at the time of this deponents enlisted was commanded by Capt. George Johnson, and said Regiment by Colonel William Woolford-this deponent enlisted as aforesaid for the term of one year, and served as a private soldier in said Company during the full space of said year. This deponent was regularly discharged at the end of said year, and immediately enlisted into the same Company again, then commanded by Thomas Tibbs, for three years. The deponent served as a private soldier in said Company under said Captain Tibbs about six months when said Capt. Tibbs died and Capt. Peyton Harrison succeeded to the command of said Company and this deponent served as a private soldier under said Capt. Harrison in said Company in the Continental service, for two years or upwards. This deponent then enlisted into the same Company under the command of Capt. Harrison aforesaid, during the war. This deponent performed his duty as a private soldier in the aforesaid Company to the command of which Capt. Thomas Catlett afterwards succeeded and was killed, and then the Company was commanded by Capt. Alexander Parker, till the close of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent was discharged from said Company at Richmond in Virginia at the close of the war aforesaid. The Regiment to which said company then belonged, was commanded by Colonel Posey." "All the discharged which this deponent received, as a soldier in the war aforesaid, have been lost by accident or destroyed by time. This deponent has been a Citizen of the United States ever since the Revolution and is now a Resident Citizen of the County of Champaign in the State of Ohio. This deponent being far removed from the place of his nativity, is unable to produce any further evidence of his services aforesaid, than his own affidavit and the affidavit of James Hopkins herewith enclosed. This deponent now draws a pension of fortyfive dollars a year from the United States, for wounds which he received while a soldier in the Revolutionary War. This deponent is in reduced and indigentcircumstances, and needs the assistance of his Country for support."

From the NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Transcribed from Revolutionary War pension #1324 of William Rhodes, 20 Jul 1820:

On the 20th day of July 1820 personally appeared in Open court Wm. Rhodes aged Seventy five years, resident of the county of Champaign aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, to wit:

He enlisted in the army of the United States for the term of one year at Alexandria in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain George Johnston belonging to the second Regiment commanded by Colonel William Woodford and there he served out the time of his Aforesaid Enlistment. He was honorably discharged from service at Williamsburgh in the state of Virginia that he again immediately enlisted in the army of the United States at Williamburgh aforesaid for the term of during the War then existing between the United States and Great Britain in the company commanded by Captain Peyton Harrison belonging to the second Virginia Regiment then commanded by Colonel Alexander Spotswood and that he faithfully served out the term of his aforesaid Enlistment when he was honorably discharged from Service at Richmond in the State of Virginia that on the 15th day of April 1818 he made an application in order to a pension under the act of the 18^th March 1818 and has since Rec'd a certificate of his being inscribed on the Pension list file of the Ohio agency which said ------ bears date

And I the said William Rhodes do Solemnly Swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof in order thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War repaid on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any persons in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other then what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me Subscribed--and I do further Swear that my occupation in life is a laboring farmer and that in consequence of advanced age in life I am unable to work at all and my family consists of a wife and three children one aged 11 years one 14 years and one aged 17 years

From the NATIONAL ARCHIVES: Wm Rhodes, Land Warrant application no. 1026, "I William Rhodes aged seventy seven....the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five I enlisted in the army of the Revolution,....and served in the company commanded by Captain George Johnson and in the regiment No. 2 of the Virginia Line under command of Colonel William Woodford of the Virginia Line;....in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, I was regularly discharged from the first regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Posey....11th day of January 1822"

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