Lewis Mangum Pension
 


 


State of Kentucky Campbell County January 3, 1826

Lewis Mangum was a private in the company under the command of Captain Posey, and in the regiment of United States Infantry. He is incapable of performing the duty of a soldier as he was on November 7, 1811 injured in Battle of Tippecanoe, and was disabled from obtaining his subsistence by means of manual labor.

(signed) Bennett (acting surgeon)
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Newport, State of Kentucky

Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace, in Campbell County, Kentucky, Richard Southgate and John Taliaferro who under oath say that they have known Lewis Magnum for many years, and that he and his family are in very indigent circumstances and considered as an object of charity.

Under our hand: Richard Southgate, John Taliaferro 1826 JPCC David Perry
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Lewis Magnum, a citizen of the state of Kentucky, humbly represents to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America that he was a soldier in the 7th Regiment of the United States in the said War of the Revolution.

(signed) Lewis Magnum
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Remember that this June 2, 1825 Lewis Magnum made oath that the foregoing statements are the truth.

Under my hand: David Perry
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I, John Taliaferro, Deputy Clerk of the Court, hereby certify that David Perry was, at the time of signing, an acting justice of the Peace of the said county of Campbell, and that his attention is in due form and entitled to full faith and credit as well, in courts of justice.

Sealed under my hand, John Taliaferro for James Taylor, Campbell County Circuit Court
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