This is not a completed transcription of the entire records, and I am sure many mistakes have been made. These records are extremely hard to read. Please refer to original records for your own interpretation.
Humphrey Brumfield, 81 years old, filed a certificate with Gallia County Ohio Court of Common Pleas on 16 July 1833. He swore that sometime in the month of March or the first part of April 1776, he enlisted or volunteered into a company of militia raised in Montgomery County, VA, for six months and was placed under the Command of Captain John Lucas.
He was then ?? under his command to the lead mines, where he was transferred to the command of Captain Edwards, the name of the Lieutenant is not remembered. The name of the Ensign was Robert Albert, and the company was ??? to the Moravian Towns in the state of NC…where he served six months and was honorably discharged after the war.
When the declaration’s house was burned in the county of Montgomery aforesaid, about one year after the first tour of duty was finished, this declarant was again called into the service of the US by draft for six months. It was put under the command of Capt. John Lucas, called out in the county of Montgomery aforesaid, was mustered to a place called the Shallow Ford of Adkin in the state of NC….
The declarant received a wound in his breast from a musket shot in the battle. After the battle, the Regiment was marched to the Moravian Towns to guard the prisoners taken in the battle at that place. This declarant served out the six months and was honorably discharged. At the battle and at Moravian Towns by Col. Cleveland, he received a written discharge which was burnt in his house as aforesaid.
In the year 1780, this declarant was again drafted in Pittsburg County, VA, for six months and served under Captain Coneway, the first Lieut. and Ensign is not remembered. He was ? from Pittsburgh County to Kings Mountain, where this declarant was put under the command of Captain George Oarris and was attached to the army and in the battle at Kings Mountain. Col. Campbell was their commander in chief, and as he now thinks, Col. Charles Lynch also had a command at that time…
He states that he was in the battle at Kings Mountain with Henry McDaniel Esq, who now resides in Gallia County and can testify as to that fact. He further states that he has been acquainted with said McDaniel for more than fifty years, and he, too [resides] in the same neighborhood with him, both in the state of Virginia and Ohio, and can testify as to this declarant’s having been called a soldier of the Revolution.
This declarant also states that he has been acquainted with the Rev. Joel Sartin for about 62 years, who knows of his being called into the service and returning home, having lived in the same neighborhood as this declarant.
He also states he has made his declaration in Gallia court of common pleas because of his witnesses being residents of said county of Gallia and also because he lives about on the line between the county of Lawrence and Gallia and is much nearer to the courthouse in Gallia than Lawrence County and is declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except this present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. (This section gives researchers perspective of how interchangeable records are within neighboring counties, including WV and KY.)
This declarant further states that he was born in Amelia County, VA, on the 22 of June 1752, as his parents have told him he moved from Amelia county when he was about ten years old to Halifax county, where he lived a short time. Then moved to Pittsylvania county, where he lived a short time, then moved to Montgomery county and lived there until 1816, when he moved to Gallia county, Ohio, which is now Lawrence County, where he still lives. His Mark Humphrey Brumfield
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid in open court July Term 1833. His Mark Humphrey Brumfield
We, John Short, a clergyman Pastor of the Baptist Church in Gallia county of Ohio, residing in the neighborhood of the said Humphrey Brumfield and Camelius Halley, residing in the same neighborhood, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Humphrey Brumfield who has ?? to and sworn for the above declaration and that we believe him to be 81 years old and that he is respected and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we ?? in that ???
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid in open court July Term 1833
Signed by John Short and Cornelius Halley
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