State Of Pennsylvania
Beaver County
On the 19th day of June, the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-five before the State of Pennsylvania the
honorable, Benjamin Adams, one of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas, for the County of Beaver aforesaid, and of Pennsylvania aforesaid.
Jesse Lumm, who after being duly affirmed according to law, both on his
own affirmation, makes the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the Act of Congress passed during the year 1832. -- That according
to the account given him by his mother, he was born in the state of North
Carolina, on the 12th day of May, 1764. --That he had no record
of his age, that he never new his father, but whilst he was an infant.
His mother removed to Loudoun County, State of Virginia. --That in the year
1779 or 1780 he was drafted in the second class of the Virginia Militia.
--That he marched from Loudoun County in the fall of the same year, but from
his old age and loss of memory he is unable to tell the month. --That Colonel
Rutledge commander of the Regiment, Major Cox, his Battalion, and the Company
Officers were Captain Humphrey, Lieutenant Taylor and Ensign Hatcher, they
marched through Fredericksburgh, and many other towns, that he cannot recollect,
to Gloucester, where he remained some time, and was discharged --the
discharge was not in writing. The main body of the Army was at Williamsburgh,
but the news came that the British were not coming there. --That this
tour he served two months, as a private, and during the time he was out
he was not engaged in any civil Employment, whatsoever. --That the
company he belonged to was an embodied Corps in the service of the United
States. --That after he was discharged he returned to his mother, --that
the next spring he was again drafted, he cannot tell whether it was in
February or March. That his officers were Colonel Lane, the same
Capt., Major, Lieut., and Ensign, under which he was drafted the fall previous,
and marched from Loudoun County aforesaid to Williamsburgh where he joined
the main army --while here the company to which he belonged, were sent up
the York River to procure boats for the purpose of passing the river, in
case they were defeated. --That they marched up to a town called Newcastle,
where they got them and returned to Williamsburgh, after which they marched
to York and from there back to Williamsburgh, the British having arrived
at this place, there then was a skirmish at the time they were landing, but
they soon drove us off, and we marched to Richmond at which place the Militia
was discharged, but this discharge was not in writing. This Tour
he served three months as a private, two of which was after he Joined the
main army, and during the time he was out, he was engaged in no civil employment,
whatsoever, and the company he belonged to was an organized Corps, in the
service of the United States. That after his discharge he returned
to this grandfather, in the said County of Loudoun. That after harvest,
or in the fall of the same year he was again drafted, but he cannot say
to a certainty, what month. That the company, in which he was drafted, was commanded
by Capt. Elgan, Lieutenant Elgan, and Samuel Mosley[?], Ensign (Col. West
commanded the regiment to which he belonged), he cannot recollect the names
of the other officers, but knows that the person who commanded at Gloucester
Point was a Frenchman, that they marched from Loudoun County, through Spottsylvania, and several small
towns, that he does not recollect the names to Gloucester Point,
opposite York, where he remained until the surrender of Cornwall.
That whilst he was here, and before the surrencer, he was in a skirmish
with the Eng. Piquet [?] guard, which they succeeded in driving into
the Camp. After the surrender, that part of the army to which
he belonged guarded five hundred of the prisoners taken to the Potomack, where they delivered them to the Maryland
Militia, after which he was regularly discharged by his Capt., but it was
not in writing. This tour he served three months, as a private, two
of which was after he Joined the main army. --whilst he was out, he was
not engaged in any civil employment whatsoever, and the company to which
he belonged, was an embodied Corps in the services of the United States.
After he was discharged he returned to Loudoun County aforesaid where he
remained until the year 1818 when he moved to Columbiana County,
State of Ohio, where he remained for fourteen years. From there he
removed to the County of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, where he lived
two years, last spring before last he removed to Beaver County, in the State of
Pennsylvania, where he now resides. That the application by reason
of extreme bodily informity?, being unable to walk except on crutches,
and the distance he lives from Beaver County Court House is unable to appear
in open court. That he is unable, from his own age, and loss of memory
to detail more facts about the incidents of his several campaigns.
That there is no Clergyman residing in his neighborhood and that he could
not obtain a certificate of one without much expense and inconvenience, and the said Applicant
doth hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever, to any pension or annuity’s
except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of any agency in any State or Territory. That he does not know
of any person living, either here or elsewhere, who can testify as to his
services, or state in detail, his personal knowledge of the applicants
services. but he states the names of John Bardin/Bicade, Wm Kerry/Hess,
Wm Close/Clowes, Abraham Zones/Zanes, and Michael Baker, who reside in
his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his present character for
versaity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
1835 Jesse Lumm
Benj. Adams
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