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At a quarterly Court held for King and Queen County at the Courthouse on Monday, 14th of Aug. 1820
Andrew Pebbles appeared in Court and made Oath to a written affidavit and Schedule …On this [12th crossed out] 14 day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court …Andrew Pebbles aged seventy three years resident in the said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, for a part of the time of service in the 15th Va Regiment in a Company commanded by Captain Booker apart of his time in the 5th Virginia Regiment under the same Captain and for one year he served in the Artilery [artillery] commanded by Captain Dandridge and that he served two years in the light infantry under the command of Colo Henry Lee that Michael O’Dolph was then his Captain that he served five years and some months altogether, that his original declaration is dated the 11th day of May 1818 that he has received a pension and his pension certificate is dated the 6th day of September 1819 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of of my property or any part there of with intent 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, passed on the 18th day of March 1808 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for and any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule 1 hog 6 months old 1 hatchet 1 hoe 1 razor, $30 due me from my attorney in fact for and account of my pension received by him
X (his mark) Andrew Pebbles
And I do further swear that … from the infirmities of old age increased by three wounds received in the revolutionary War I am not able to render much service to my employer, that I am a free Mulatts, that my wife and child who live at the Mill where I do are Slaves, that my wifes name is Rachel aged between 50 & 60 years and my Child’s name is Ursula aged 11 years and no other than Rachel & Ursula of my family live with me
Sworn to and declared on the 14th day of August 1820 before the Court of King & Queen County.
Robert Pollard CC
And the Court doth value the property of the said Andrew Pebbles and mentioned in the foregoing Schedule other than the said thirty dollars to five dollars