Morgan Probate Court
November Term 1832
On this 13th day of November in the year 1832, personally appeared
before John Matthews, Probate Judge within and for said County,
George Baker a resident of said county aged seventy three years who
being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain benefit of the provision made by the act
of Congress passed June Seventeenth 1832.
That he Enlisted in the army of the United States the year 1776 in May
or June of said year for the term of two years and six months in the
Continental Line in the Sixth Regiment of said line under the command
of Colonel Livingston enlisted by George Doratty Lieutenant Colonel and
the Majors name not recollected he says he served in the company
commanded by Captain John Baptist Ash 1st Lieutenant George Doratty and
Second Lieutenant Armstrong, he served under said enlistment
untill which time the said declarer says he was taken sick and returned
home and remained at home untill sometime in the Spring of the following
year which was in the year 1777 to the best of his recollection he was
not able to rejoin with the army untill sometime in the sprng of said
year of 1777 about the middle of May in said year that he continued in
the Army from said time untill about the middle of August in said year
at which time he received a discharge at Guilford County North Carolina
the reason he was discharged at this time was because he was sick again
and he hired a certain Humphry Price to serve in his room and sted at
which time he the said declarer got a regular discharge signed by Major
Armstrong of the Fourth Battallion which discharge he has long since
lost.
This declarer says that in the year 1775 sometime in that year he does
not recollect the precise time he volunteered for for forty days in the
army of the United States under the command of Captain Hightower and
Lieutenant William Leemore that they marched to Salem in the state of
North Carolna for the purpose of fighting the Scotch at Crop Creek
but when we got to Salem we learned that they were subdued by Roswells
Army and we returned home.
That he volunteered in the army of the United States sometime in the
winter of 1778 or 1779 for the term of three months and served under
command of Colonel Joseph Phillips and the Majors name was James
Shepherd the Captains name under whom he served for the term of four
days was William Kn--- the said declarer says he acted as Ensign in
the company to which he belonged for the term of the said four days that
Knowl acted as Captain and this declarer says he himself acted as
Captain in said company to which he belonged the ballance of the said
term of three months that he lived in the County of Wilks in the state
of North Carolina at the time he served in the army that they marched
to Charlott and from there to Anson Court House and from there to
Sallsberry Court House in the state of North Carolina and from there
to a place called Horsepasters in the state of Virginia and from there
they returned on homeward he says he got a written discharge from
Colonel Phillips or Captain Speers he says they were both there but he
does not recollect which signed the said discharge he says hereckons in
was sometime in the year 1781 he says he has long since lost the said
discharge.
This declarer says he was out with and under the command of Captain
Robert Coyl and Captain Robert King in the state of North Carolina
in Halston River and its vicinity in what is now Hawkins County in
scouting parties for the purpose of preventing the Indians from doing
mischief to the white people for the term of three months about the
time that Cornwallis surrendered either a little before or a little
after that time he does not recollect with that he was at different
time out in scouting parties for the purpose of preventing the Tories
from doing any mischief in Wilkes County in the state of North Carolina
he says the scouting party to which he belonged was commanded by
Captain Andrew Baker he does not recollect the precise time he was out
in more scouts but he thinks something like one month which said served
several times before mentioned when all added together he believes to
make about one and a one month -- ---- and the said declarer
in answer to the questions propourded by the court as required by the
instructions from the War Department says that to the best of his
knowledge and belief he was born in Granville county in the state of
North Carolina on the 14th day of October 1759 he says he had at one
time a record of his age in a bible which his father gave him but he
says it is lost.
Says he was living in Wilks County in the state of North Carolina at
the time he enlisted entered the service of the United States and
between the times of the several times of service aforesaid and for
about twenty five years afterwards and from that time moved to the
state of Kentucky in Clay County where he continued 18 or 20 years
and from there he moved to Morgan County in the state of Indiana where
he has ever since lived which is about five years.
That his declaration above details the manner in which he was called to
the service, that the answers of the inquires which the law requires
are contained in this declaration as well as he recollects that he is
known to George Baker, John Sims, Presley ----- and George A. Phelps
who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of
his services as a soldier of the Revolution that he has proved said
part of the above services by his brother Boling Baker and herewith
send his affidavit of the fact that he knows of no other person whose
testimony he can procure who can testify to his services and that he
has no documentary evidence thereof interegatory to or herein did you
ever receive a compensation if so by whom with forbearance is signed or
sworn he never did any.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except
the and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency
of any state or territory as sworn to or subscribed the day and year
aforesaid
his
George X Baker
mark
Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in
and for said county of Morgan and state aforesaid George Baker who
being dully sworn ------- and saith that by reason of old age and the
consiquent loss of memory, He cannot state positive as to the precise
length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he
served not less that the period below and in the following grades to
wit.
In his first tour (as recited in his declaration) he served not less
than three months as a private. In his second tour he served three
months as a private. In his third tour (as recited in his declaration
supposed to have been in the year 1775) he served not less than one
month and ten days as a private. He says he was mistaken as to the name
of the Captain under whom he served on that tour, The Captains name was
Walton(Halton)(?) instead of Hightower as stated in his declaration.
In his fourth tour he served no less than three months all of which
time he served as a Captain except four days which four days he served
as Ensign. He says that upon examination of a more correct data, he
finds that he was mistaken as to the time he entered the service on
said tour, that he is now satisfied that he entered on said tour about
the first of November 1780 instead of 1778 & 79 as was stated in his
declaration In his fifth tour he entered the service in the spring of
1781 and served not less than three months as a private. In his sixth
tour (which was the Scouting tour against the Tories) he served not
less that one month as a private. This deponant further saith for
answer to the 14th interogations in the brief of objections forwarded
from War Department that he was of the opinion that the Judge of the
Court did certify as to the credibility of the winesses whose names
were subscribed to the certifivcate of his Revolutionary service.
This deponant further saith that the Reverend James Lumford is and was
at the time of the signing therof a respectable Clergyman of said
county and tht John Gray Sizmor is and was as aforesaid a respectable
citizen of said county both resident in the neighborhood of the
aforesaid George Baker and that the individual who drew this deponants
declaration has through mistake omited to insert the said Lunsford and
Gray names in the certificate and probably having heard this deponant
speak of getting a certain Clergyman by the name George W. Baker to
certify for him has inserted his name instead of Lunsfords whose name
should have been inserted And this deponant sait that in all the
aforesaid tours he served in the United States Army at least fourteen
months and ten days and for which service he claims a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed before his
me this 9th day of July 1833 George X Baker
Charles B. Butler mark
Justice of the Peace
George Baker was approved for $47.77 per annum.
Family Group Sheet-of George Baker.
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