William Trimble

1. COPY OF PENSION APPLICATION OF WILLIAM TRIMBLE

On this 12th day of October in this year 1833 personally appeared before Simon Weaver, an acting Justice of the Peace for Pulaski County, and a member of the Pulaski County Court in the state aforesaid, said court being a Court of Record established by the Constitution and laws of the State of Kentucky, William Trimble, a resident of said county and state of Kentucky aged about seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath state, in consequence of his bodily infirmity he is unable to attend or appear in, and before the Pulaski County Court not having been able to leave his residence or room for a considerable time past owing to his infirm state of health aforesaid, and the said William Trimble on his oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he volunteered in the Army of the United States in the month of September in the year 1777 in the county of Augusta and State of Virginia with Captain Joseph Patterson, commanded by Col. Dickinson, in the Brigade of General Hann, to serve a tour of duty of three months during the Revolutionary War against the Indians hostile at that time, was Marched from Stanton through Greenbrier to the Point on the Ohio River, and there remained or was stationed until the expiration of three months and was then discharged by said General Hann, and returned home to my said residence in the County of Augusta. Afterward to the best of this applicants, William Trimble, recollection in the month of September in the year 1779 he served a tour of duty of three months as a substitute in the room of his brother James Trimble, who was drafted to serve for three months against the hostile Indians to wit the Tuschaway Tribe of Indians, marching from the town of Stanton in said County of Augusta and State of Virginia, under Captain William Henderson commanded by Col. William Boyer and in the brigade of Genl. McIntosh, to the town of said tribe of Indians called at that time the Tuschaway Towns, crossing the Ohio River at McIntosh's Fort or Garrison, from thence to said Indian Towns, at which place the said Gen. McIntosh concluded or made a treaty with said Indians in the month of December, or January following to the best of his, the said William Trimble's, recollection. When he was discharged having served out his tour and then returned home to his residence in the said County of Augusta and State of Va.

Afterwards, the said William Trimble sites, in the month of December, in the year 1780, he was drafted to serve and perform a tour of military duty in the service of the United States against the British. The company commanded by Capt. James Trimble, in the Reg. of Col. Sampson Matthews, was marched from the town of Stanton in County of Augusta, to Fredericksburg - remaining there two or three days from thence to Gerico, near the sea shore, marched through the now city of Richmond thence through Petersburg from thence to Gerico where the troops were stationed and remained till the expiration of the three months, the time for which he was drafted to serve as aforesaid, and was there discharged or dismissed from further service, and again returned home to his residence in the county of Augusta and State of Virginia. Afterwards, to the best of his the said Wm. Trimble's recollection in the month of July, in the year 1781 or 82, he volunteered in the said County of Augusta, Va. to serve a tour of duty of three months in the service of the United States against Great Britain in the mounted Rifle Company commanded by Capt. James Trimble, marched upwards of 200 miles in a direction towards New York. The said Wm. Trimble states that the company of troops to which he belonged during his servitude was frequently visited by Col. Dick belonging to the regular service or army of the United States, and continued in said mounted company twenty days. I was then discharged, but the time or place he cannot now precisely recollect, he being at that time very young, and it being a long time since, but to the best of his recollection it was about two months before the surrender of Cornwallis and then returned home to his place of residence above mentioned in Augusta County Virginia, receiving a discharge for a tour of three month, in consequence of his having equipped himself as aforesaid by furnishing himself a horse etc. The said William Trimble states he has no documentary evidence having lost or mislaid his several discharges for his services as above mentioned, and knows of nor person or persons by whom he can establish his service, or who has a personal knowledge of them. But states the above named services were performed by him with embodied corps called into service, as he as the time understood, and still believes by competent authority, and for the times which all his said service as mentioned were performed and performing he was not employed in any civil pursuit. An he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any sate. Answer to interrogatories put to him as prescribed by the War Department, to wit:

Answer to lst interrogatory he the said William Trimble states on his oath that he was born in the County of Augusta and State of Virginia, the day month nor year not recollecting having no record of his age, but supposes it was in the year 1760 as he was put on the muster roll at the age of 16 years of age and that he had been on the muster roll to the best of his recollection one year previous to his volunteering to perform the first tour of duty as in his declaration states.

Answer to 3rd interrogatory (the 2nd having been answered in the first to the record of his age) he states on oath that he was living at the time of volunteering to perform the 1st tour of duty as in his declaration states in the County of Augusta in the State of Virginia, in which county he was born and which said County of Augusta he continued to and did live in during the Revolutionary War, except the time he was absent therefrom the service of the United States.

To 4th interrogatory he states he volunteered to perform his 1st tour of duty. Substituted in the place of his brother James Trimble the 2nd. And then was drafted when he performed his 3rd tour of duty and volunteered to perform the 4th tour, all of which appear in his annexed declaration. To 5th interrogatory, he the said William Trimble here again states, that Col. Dick of the regular Army frequently visited the army or troops to which he belonged during his service, but being very young cannot recollect or state the regiment, he being kept out reconnoitering and he states that he has no recollection at this time of ever having seen the main or regular army during his service more than one time. To 6th interrogatory, I received discharges for the several tours performed by me as in my declaration mentioned, but have lost or so mislaid them that I cannot find them. To the 7th interrogatory, He states he is known to Robert Gilmore and Christley Tarter of Pulaski County, and residing in his present neighborhood, by whom he can prove his character for veracity and their belief of this service as a soldier of the Revolution, he further states that there is no clergyman at this time residing in Pulaski County immediately in his said Trimble's neighborhood.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Signed William Trimble

Robert Gilmore and Christley Tarter residing in Pulaski County and vicinity of William Trimble hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Trimble who has subscribed, and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about 71 years old as stated by him and that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution Sworn before a Justice of the Peace Signed: Christley Tarter & Robt. Gilmore

State of Kentucky - Pulaski County - Be it known that on this 11th day of September in the year 1842 personally appeared before the Pulaski County Court in open court now sitting as a court Mary Trimble aged 70 years the 14th day of April 1842, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Law of the United States granting a pension to the widows of the soldiers of the Revolutionary War of the United States who were married between the close of the Revolutionary War and before the year 1790. She states that she was in due form of law married to William Trimble now dead, on the 19th day of April 1787. That the marriage took place in the County of Greenbrier, state of Virginia, that she was married by a Baptist preacher by the name of John Alderson, she understood that the license issued according to law for their marriage, but she does not know what became of it nor does she know whether there was any return or certificate of their marriage put to record. She further states on oath that she knows of no person by whom she can prove her marriage. Her husband kept a record of their marriage and the first three of their children to wit, David Trimble, James Trimble and Betsy Raburn Trimble, in his own hand writing in a black sealed skin pocket book, which is here exhibited for inspection. She states that her name before marriage was Mary Flemin. That the three of their children whose births are recorded in said pocket book are written immediately under the entry of their marriage, that the births of the other persons entered in said pocket book at a different place are not her children, but are her grand children. That David Trimble her eldest and first child was born 20th January 1788. She further states that William Trimble her late husband departed this life on the sixth day of June 1840 in the county of Pulaski State of Kentucky, that he was a soldier of the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War and was at the time of his death a Revolutionary pensioner of the Untied States, she respectfully refers to his declaration on filed in the pension Department made by him to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolutionary War. That she is now the widow of said William Trimble, that they had nine children of the following names to wit, David, James, Betsy R., William, Polly, John, Joicy, Letitha and Ellsebeth Trimble. That her husband moved from Greenbrier County, State of Virginia to the County of Bourbon and State of Kentucky about the first of October 1792 and lived there about three years, he then moved to the County of Harrison, State of Kentucky and lived there about ten years, they then moved to the County of Pulaski, State of Kentucky that they lived together as man and wife in the County of Pulaski till his death and in which county she has ever since resided. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Mary X Trimble, her Mark

I David Trimble, residing in the County of Pulaski, State of Kentucky, aged 54 years hereby certify and declares on oath that he is the son of the above named applicant Mary Trimble and William Trimble decd. that he does of his own personal knowledge know that the black sealed skin pocket book produced in the court this day by his other was his father's pocket book, that his Father at the earliest recollection of this that he does also know that the entry in said pocket book of the time of the marriage of his Father and Mother and the births of their three first children is in the hand writing of this Father , that his Mother from his earliest recollection was always recognized by his Father as his wife. That his Father departed this life about the sixth day of June 1840 and that at the time of his death as a pensioner of the United States for services as a soldier of the Revolutionary War of the United States. David X Trimble, his mark

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