Revolutionary War Pension of George Washington Baker
Brother of John Baker
Submitted and Transcribed from the Actual Pension by Harley T. Bowling
Morgan Co., IN 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 Lieutanent Colonel and the Majors name not
recollected he say he served in the company commanded by Captain John Baptist
Ash lst 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
spring 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 South 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 theFourth
Battallion which discharge he has long since lost.
This declarer says that in the year 177. sometime in that hear he does not
recollect the precise time he volunteered for forty days in the Army of the
United States under the command of Captain Hightower and Lieutenant Leemone that
they marched to Salem in the state of North Carolina for the purpose of fighting
the Scotch at Cross Creek but when we got to Salem we learned that they were
subdued by Roswells Army and returned home.
That he volunteered in the Army of the United States someime 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 Shepperd the Captains name under
whom he served for the term of four days was William Knowl (Nall) 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 (Nall) 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 Wilkes
in the State of North Carolina at the time he served in the army that they
marched to Charlotte 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 he recons it 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
(Cleveland?) and Captain Robert King in the state of North Carolina in Holston
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 the precise time
he was out in .... scout but he thinks something like one month which said
served several times before mentioned when all added together he believes
to make about eighteen months or one and a half years and the said declarer in
answer to the questions propounded 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 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 hime 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 after- wards
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 answeres of the inquires which te law requires are contained
in this declaration as well as he recollects that he is known to George Baker,
John Sims, Presley Sadiner and George A. Phelps who can testify as to his
character for reacity 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 herin did you
ever receive a compensation if so by whom with forbearance is signed or sworn
never did any.
He hereby relinguishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except th. 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.
George X Baker
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 9th day of July 1833
Charles B. Butler
Justice of the Peace
Deposition of Boling Baker:
Morgan Probate Court
November Term 1832
Be it remembered that on this day before me the undersigned Justice of the
Peace for said County personally came Boling Baker who being duly sworn
according to law deposeth and saith that he the deponent is both acquainted
with George Baker (who is his brother) and further this deponent saith that
he knows that the said George Baker enlisted as a regular soldier in the Sixth
Regiment of the North Carolina troops, commissioned by Colonel Bunham or
Dunham in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, in the war
between the United
Colonies and Great Britain and after the said George Baker had served a
while this length of service not now recollected the said George Baker had taken
sick and hired a substitute to serve out his time .. and the said deponent
further saith that after that he knows that the said George Baker volunteered
for
and served a three month tour in the year seventeen hundred & eighty one under
the command of General Green stationed at Salisburg, North Carolina once there
services were rendered in the service of our United Colonies for Independence
.. and further this deponent saith not.
Boling X Baker
I George A. Phelps, Clerk of this Circuit Court for said County do hereby
testify James Crawford Esquire whose name appears to in the affidavit made
by Boling Baker which is hereunto affidavit was at the time of signing the same
since is yet an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly
commissioned and qualified according to law and that full faith and credit on
bill
sought to be given to all his official acts as such Justice.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of said court at
Martinsville the 13th day Nov 1832.
George A. Phelps, Clerk
