Pension S 35, 182 Maryland

Thomas Batman, of Jefferson County, Kentucky, applied for a pension in that county on 09 Nov 1825 and made declaration that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:   He enlisted for three years as a private soldier in June 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Adamson Tawnhill and Colonel Rawley's Maryland Regiment and served a s hort time and was then transferred to the 6th Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Williams and marched to Fort Frederick in Maryland and from that place to Fort Pitt, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania at a place at which he was discharged in August 1779.  He also stated that he has a wife aged 67 years, and 6 children among them whom are four daughters, and that the daughters have married and left him.  The sons left him about ten years ago and are laboring for themselves.  The children are Polly Jetter, aged 43 years, Sally Shaw, aged 39 years, Hannah Gibbons, aged 37 years and John Batman, aged 35, and Rachel Dunagin, aged 33 years and Thomas Batman, age 26.

In Jefferson County, Kentucky on 01 May 1826, Ambrose Camp came before justice of the peace, and made declaration that in 1822 he purchased a horse for which he gave said Batman the sum of thirty dollars.

In Jefferson County, Kentucky on 02 May 1826 Dr. Richard Chew came before a justice of the peace and made declaration that in November 1825, Thomas Batman paid him, the sum of ten dollars for his account against a physician.

Thomas Batman, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Tawnyhill, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Rawlings of the Maryland line for three years, from 1776 to 1779 was inscribed on the pension roll of the Kentucky Agency to commence on 02 May 1826.  Certificate of the pension was issued on 18 May 1826.