STATE OF KENTUCKY MERCER COUNTY: DECEMBER 3, 1832, PERSONALLY APPPEARED IN OPEN COURT THE ABOVE SOLDIER, A RESIDENT CITIZEN OF SAID COUNTY AND STATE AGED 76, SAYS HE WAS BORN IN THE TOWN OF WINCHESTER VIRGINIA 1755 AND MY PARENTS MOVED TO WEST MORELAND COUNTY, PA., WHEN I WAS ABOUT 15 YEARS OF AGE, AND I LIVED ON THE YOUGHANY RIVER IN THAT STATE WHEN I WAS CALLED INTO THE SERVICE OF MY COUNTRY AS FOLLOWS;
IN THE MONTH OF MAY 1775, WAS DRAFTED IN CAPTAIN JOHN RICE&S COMPANY OF COL. BROADHEAD'S REGIMENT FOR 4 MONTHS AND WAS MARCHED TO A PLACE 6 MILES ABOVE, WHAT WAS CALLED THE TURKEY FOOT SETTLEMENT AND BUILT A FORT CALLED HOAGLAND FORT, WHERE I WAS STATIONED UNTIL MY TIME EXPIRED WHICH WAS FOUR MONTHS WHEN I WAS DISCHARGED.
NEXT TOUR WAS IN THE FALL OF THE SAME YEAR, I VOLUNTEERED IN A COMPANY OF RANGERS, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN DRAKE FOR 3 MONTHS AND WE MARCHED TO COMMAUGH RIVER, IN SAID STATE AND RANGED ON THAT RIVER ADJACENT FRONTIERS UNTIL OUR TIME EXPIRED AND WE WERE DISCHARGED.
AGAIN IN THE YEAR 1776 AFTER HARVEST I AGAIN VOLUNTEERED IN IN CAPTAIN DRAKE'S COMPANY OF RANGERS AND ANOTHER TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AND WE MARCHED UP TO A PLACE CALLED THE GLADES THERE ON THE WATERS OF 4 TURLTLE CREEK, AND YOUNGHANY RiveR ON THE FRONTIERS OF WEST MORELAND CO., UNTIL OUR TIME EXPIRED AND I WAS AGAIN DISCHARGED. WE HAD NO COLONEL WITH US IN EITHER OF THOSE TOURS BUT WERE ORDERED INTO SERVICE BY COL. BROADHEAD, WHO WAS OUR PRINCIPAL OFFICER IN OUR COUNTY#
AGAIN IN JANUARY 1777 VOLUNTEERED IN CAPTAIN DRAKE'S COMPANY FOR ONE MONTH IN ORDER TO TAKE SOME DESERTERS FROM THE MAIN ARMY. WE MARCHED TO THE GLADES AND SEVERAL OTHER PLACES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF BEDFORD AND TOOK SEVERAL AND OTHFRS CAME IN AND DECLARED THEMSELVES UP AT BEDFORD AND OUR TIME EXPIRED AND WAS DISCHARGED.
AGAIN IN 1778 AUGUST, MADE A TOUR OF DUTY OF ONE MONTH AS A VOLUNTEER IN A COMPANY OF RANGERS OR INDIAN SPY UNDER CAPTAIN WILGON AND MARCHED TO CHEAT RIVER WHERE WE RANGED UNTIL OUR TIME EXPIRED AND I WAS DISCHARGED AND AGAIN IN THE FALL OF 1778- I PERFORMED ANOTHER TOUR OF ONE MONTH IRS A VOLUNTEER RANGER IN CAPTAIN BROWN'S COMPANY TO A PLACE CALLED THE SCRUBB GLADES IN 1779 WAS EMPLOYED BUILDING BOATS ON THE RIVER AND IN THE THE MONTH OF APRIL 1780 I SAILED DOWN THE OHIO RIVER AND IN THE MONTH OF JULY OF THAT YEAR VOLUNTEERED IN CAPTAIN McGARY'S COMPANY AT McGARY'S STATION NOW IN LIS-RCER COUNTY FOR THREE MONTHS ON AN EXPEDITION THERE ABOUT TO MARCH UNDER COL, GEO. R. CLARK AGAINST THE INDIANS AND WE MARCHED TO THE MOUTH OF LICKING AND FROM THERE TO A PLACE THEY CALLED PIQUA ON MUD RIVER, A BRANCH OF THE BIG MIAMI, WHICH PLACE WE BURNED AND DESTROYED, AFTER WE HAD A SEVERE CONFLICT WITH THE INDIANS AND AT THE EXPIRATION OF MY TIME, I WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED.
AGAIN IN THE FALL OF 1782, I VOLUNTEERED IN CAPTAIN JAMES RAY'S COMPANY ON ANOTHER CAMPAIGN AND TOUR OF 3 MONTHS AGAINST THE NORTHERN INDIANS UNDER GENERAL GEORGE R. CLARK AND WE MARCHED ACROOS THE OHIO AT THE MOUTH OF LICKING ABOUT SEPTEMBER 1ST., AND HENCE TO PIQUA ON THE BIG MIAMI, WHICH PLACE WE TOOK AND BURNED SEVERAL OTHER TOWNS AFTER A SEVERE CONFLICT WITH THE INDIANS, PREVIOUS TO THIS TIME, IN THE YEAR 1781, I PERFPRMED A TOUR OF TWO MONTHS AS AN INDIAN SPY AT McMURTY'S STATION IN KENTUCKY, NOW MERCER COUNTY, UNDER CAPTAIN RAY, AND ONE MONTH A AT McGARY's STATION IN THE SUMMER OF 1781., AND ONE MONTH AT THE MOUTH OF SALT RIVER AT McGARY'S STATION, I SERVED UNDER CAPTAIN JIHN GARDON AND AT THE MOUTH OF SALT RIVER.
I BELIEVE I CAN PROVE MY SERVICES BY JAMES HUTTON AND GENRAL JAMES RAY.
AFFIDAVIT OF GENERAL JAMES RAY, SAYS HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH THE SAID JAMES GRITTON COMMISSIONED IN THE SPRING OF 1780 SOON AFTER HE CAME TO KENTUCKY AND I HAVE KNOWN HIM EVER SINCE, I KNOW THAT HE MARCHED WITH GENERAL CLARK ON HIS EXPEDITION IN THE SPRING OF 1780 AND IN THE YEAR 1781, THE SAID GRITTON, PERFORMED DUTY,AS AGREED AT THE PLACES HE HAS STATED, PART OF HIS TIME WAS AT McGARY'S STATION WHERE I WAS STATIONED AND AGAIN IN THE FALL OF 1782 HE MARCHED WITH ME AND IN MY COMPANY ON THE CLARK'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS ON THE BIG MIAMI.
JAMES HUTTON MADE AFFIDAVIT THAT HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLDIER JOHN GRITTON, SR., OF MERCER COUNTY AND I HAVE KNOWN HIM SINCE HE FIRST CAME TO KENTUCKY IN THE SPRING OF 1780 AND FROM THAT TIME TO THE PRESENT AND KNOWN HIM SINCE HE FIRST CAME To KENTUCKY IN THE SPRING OF OF 1780 AND FROM THAT TIME TO THE PRESENT AND KNOWS THAT HE WAS IN THE SERVICE AS OUTLINED BY HIM VIZ; CLARK'S CAMPAIGN 1780-1781 AT McMURTRY'S McGARY'S AND ON SALT RIVER ALSO ON CLARK'S -I KNOW PERSONALLY OF HIS SERVICE SINCE HE CAME TO KENTUCKY AND HAVE OFTEN HEARD HIM SPEAK OF HIS SERVICE WHILE HE LIVED IN PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY REGIMENT, COMMANDED
I THINK BY COL. EPHRAIM MARTIN IN CAPT. JOHN ANDERSON'S COMPANY, THE 4TH REGIMENT,(COMMANDED). I WAS HOWEVER DIVIDED AND I WAS ATTACHED TO THE SECOND REGIMENT, I BELIEVES, BY COL, SHRIMES, I WAS IN THE BATTLE AT GERMANTOWN IN 1777 AND OF MONMOTH IN 1778. I NEVER OBTAINED A WRITTEN DISCHARGE FOR ANY OF THE SERVICES MENTIONED IN THE FOREGOING STATEMENT, EXCEPT THE LAST OF 9 MONTHS, WHICH I HAVE LONG SINCE LOST, I HAVE NO DOCUMENTS AS TO PROOF OF MY SERVICES, EXCEPT 9 MONTHS, WHICH I CAN PROVE-NO DOUBT BY THE HON. JOSEPH ANDERSON OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
I REMOVED TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY IN THE YEAR 1789 AND HAVE RESIDED IN MERCER COUNTY EVER SINCE OR AT LEAST SINCE IT'S FORMATION AS A COUNTY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TIMES, WHICH I MAY HAVE GONE OUT OF THE STATE ON TRADING EXPEDITIONS.--AFFIDAVITS OF SAMUEL DAVIESS AND JOHN L. BRIDGES SAY THEY ARE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THE SOLDIER.
--AFFIDAVIT OF WASHINGTON ... C. AUGUST 1, 1833, MADE BY JOSEPH ANDERSON, SAYING AS FOLLOWS; IN THE AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN GRANT, OF KY., WHICH HE HAS MADE FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING A PENSION, STATED A CLAIM FOR 9 MONTHS SERVICE IN ONE OF THE REGULAR REGIMENTS OF NEW JERSEY. AT THE TIME MENTIONED BY MR. GRANT OF HIS SERVICES, IN THE 4TH REGIMENT OF NEW JERSEY, IN CAPTAIN JOHN ANDERSON'S COMPANY, I WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE 3RD., REGIMENT OF NEW JERSEY, COMMANDED BY COL. ELIAS DAYTON AND I RECOLLECT THAT JOHN GRANT, WITH A NUMBER OF OTHERS, JOINED THE SEVERAL NEW JERSEY REGIMENTS AS DRAFTS OR SUBSTITUES FOR THE TERM OF 9 MONTHS AND ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION, I BELIEVE THAT JOHN GRANT COMMENCED HIS SERVICES AS A SUBSTITUTE OR DRAFTED MILITIAMAN AT THE TIME HE STATES AND THAT HE WAS DISCHARGED AT THE TIME MENTIONED IN HIS AFFIDAVIT.
SIGNED JOSEPH ANDERSON
from "Historical Records of Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., Kentucky"
I assume in the affidavit from Joseph Anderson, he meant to speak of John Gritton and not John Grant.
Dave Nation