Samuel Byland Pension
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On this the 26th of August 1833, personally appeared before the J.P. of Campbell County Court, Samuel Byland a resident of said county, aged 67 years, being first duly sworn, according to law, on his oath, make the following declaration. He enlisted in regular service of the U.S. in the year 1775 with Captain Johnson, of Loudoun County, Virginia, for a term of one year and under the following officers: Mostly Colonel Stephens, and remaining time under Colonel Merriweather, Captain Johnson, Lieutenant Sandford, 2nd Lieutenant Libbs. When he enlisted and entered the service he resided in London and that he joined the 10 Regiment of Williamsburg, Virginia, marched to various places such as, Norfolk.
He had a skirmish in which the enemy set fire to the town previous to the detachment, leaving the town in cinders. Two or three years after he volunteered and entered service again under Captain John Luckett of Londoun County, Virginia, about four months previous to surrender of Lord Cornwallis, he served another term of three months under Captain Hugh Dunlap of Londoun County. And received his discharge about four weeks previous to capture of the British at Yorktown. He hereby relinquished every claim to a pension and declared hi name is not on the pension roll. Sworn to the day and year aforesaid. (signed) Samuel Byland
We, Samuel Robbins, William Sayers, and John B Whitford, residents in county aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Byland who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. We believe his age to be 67. He is believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution.
(signed) S Robbins, John B Whitford, and William Sayers
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Sworn to and subscribed to the day aforesaid, John Taliferro, clerk do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter after putting the intergatories prescribed of the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary War soldier and served as he states, that Robbins, Whitford and Sayers are residents of the county and creditable persons, that the statements are entitled to credit. I, John Taliferro, clerk of the Campbell County Court certify that the foregoing contains the original forms in the said court, in order of an application of Samuel Byland, for a pension.
(signed) J. Taliferro, clerk of Campbell County Court, State of Kentucky.
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On this 19th day of August 1853, appeared before the presiding judge of Kenton County Court for the State of Kentucky, Mary Byland, resident of the city of Covington, aged 78 years on the 25th day of October 1852, makes the declaration. She is a widow of Samuel Byland who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
For proof of her husband’s service she refers to the records on file in Washington, filed for her husband upon which he drew a pension through Abner Gaines at Lexington, Kentucky. Gaines had his papers. He has been dead many years. She knows nothing of her husband’s pension certificate if he had one. After her husband’s death, Samuel Baker obtained some back pension due her in right of her husband, 1836 to 1837. Said Baker never gave her any papers. No papers from Washington or any place upon this pension matter. Baker kept them if he got any. Married to Samuel Byland May 1809 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Her husband died on March 4, 1835 in Campbell County. She has no family record, either of the death of her husband or her marriage to him. She was not married to her husband, Samuel Byland, prior to January 2, 1800.
(signed) Mary (X) Byland
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S.C. Perrin, Justice of the Peace, Judge Campbell County
John F Rusk, S. C. Perrin, I, S. C. Perrin, presiding judge in the State of Kentucky, before whom Mary Byland personally appeared, subscribed and made oath to the foregoing application for pension. That the said Mary Byland, from bodily infirmity et., is unable to appear in open court, and for that reason, 19 August 1853, swears her truth of above application house of Eli Rusk in the county and with whom she resides. I am further acquainted with Mrs. Byland, believe her statements to be true, and that she is the widow of the deceased Samuel Byland. She is a highly respectable widow, and in every way worth of relief. Given under my hand this date above written.
(signed) S.C.
Perrin, P.J.C.I.
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This affiant Mary Vroman states that she was acquainted with
Samuel Byland, and now acquainted with his widow Mary Byland. She is still
living in this county with her son-in-law, Eli T. Rusk. Samuel Byland died in
Campbell County in this state in the year 1834 or 1835. She knew them well. She
lived near them. Samuel Byland was a Methodist preacher. His wife a Methodist
also. She always understood Mr. Byland was a Revolutionary War Soldier. I got a
land warrant for the services of my husband, William Vroman for the War of 1812.
I am not related to Mrs. Byland and have no interest in her application for
pension.
(signed) Mary (X) Vroman
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Attest: John F Pick, George W. Southgate: personally appear before me, a J.P. in county, now made oath to above affidavit ended hereby certify that Mary Vroman a lady of high standing in this case known, also acquainted with widow Byland and believe her claim in just. Given 19th day of August 1853.
George M Southgate, J.P. State of Kentucky, Kenton County: This affiant is jailer of Kenton County, Kentucky and has been fore 13 years. I came to this county in 1820, and have remained here ever since. Samuel and Mary Byland were living in the county as man and wife. This county then being Campbell County. They decided to make a new county named Kenton, leaving one part still Campbell. Samuel Byland was a very pious man. He was a member of the Methodist Church. They lived together until Samuel died about 1835 or 1836. His wife is still living in Campbell County, is a widow and has remained so since Samuel’s death. She is old and feeble and lives with her son-in-law, El J Rusk in the county.
C. W. Hall, personally appeared before me 20th of August 1853, Colvin Hall, subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit. I hereby certify that Hall is the jailer of Kenton County and is entitled to full faith and credit. I believe he is in no way related to Mrs. Mary Byland and that he is entirely disinterested. Given under my hand a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county and state aforesaid.
(signed) George Southgate, J.P. in County of
Kenton, State of Kentucky.
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I, Napoleon B. Stephen, clerk of Campbell County, in and for the county and state above, hereby certify that P.S.C. Perrin, J.P. of Kenton County, whose signature appeared to application of Mary Byland is, and was at the time of signing, at the same time presiding Judge of Kenton County Court, all his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit an I certify that George Southgate, J.P. Kenton County, whose signature appears to the affidavit of Mary Vroman and C. W. Hall (in Mrs. Byland’s case) is a J.P. duly commissioned for Kentucky and all his acts as such are entitled to credit this August 1853
March 28, 1834, Dear Sir: The conformity with the 8th year of the 6th January last, I enclose with an application, my pension claim as to the mistake about my age. Will you therefore be so good as to attend to the matter, and let me hear from you upon the subject as early as possible. I have the honor to be,
Yours respectfully, (signed) Samuel Byland