PENSION # S 30, 888, MARYLAND

Henry Briscoe, applied for a pension on 03 Dec 1832, in Jefferson County, Kentucky and made statement that he is a resident of the county aforesaid.  He enlisted on June 1781, as a drafted man at Leonard Town, in St. Mary's County, Maryland, for 6 months and continued till the middle of December following, when he was discharged at Annapolis, Maryland, after having been in service as stated.  After he was drafted at Leonardtown, he marched to Annapolis, Maryland to the siege, and went to the name of a John King and was put under the command of Captain David Lynn, a regular officer.  Then he was then by the court of Annapolis received by General Smallwood, who was also a regular officer and was marched to Georgetown which was then in Maryland, at which place he was put under the command of Captain Mangers, who was also a regular officer, who after the service at Little York, was killed in a duel by Captain Lock Betts of Maryland, who was also a regular officer from Georgetown.  Then he was marched to Little York, in Virginia passing a place called the Green Spot and Fredericksburg, Virginia till they arrived at Little York in Virginia.  He remembered Major Roxford, a Frenchman, after remaining at Little York, till the siege of New York was over, and Cornwallis had been taken, he was employed some time in the act of filling up entrenchments and forts.  After this, all of them who had the small pox (he being one of them) were selected to guard and convey the prisoners by a placed called Todd's Bridge in Virginia.  Many of the prisoners also had small pox.  After they arrived at Todd's Bridges, he was marched in a starving condition to Annapolis, Maryland where he got discharged.  He lost his discharge papers.

He further stated that he was born in Maryland on 03 Feb 1763 and lived in Maryland till he was 39 years of age and then removed to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he has since resided.  He continued to live in Leonard's Town, in St. Mary's, Maryland, till the year 1802 when he moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky.

He gave the following persons of his neighborhood as references as to his character and tot he truthfulness of his statements, etc.:  George Hikes, Jacob Hiles, John Howard, Major Samuel Bray, Abraham Keller, Dr. David Lynum, Colonel Joseph Funk, Captain John Murphy and many others.

There is on file a letter from Clarke County, Illinois, written 02 Dec 1837, from L. P. Cooper, Justice of the Peace, stating that the application of Henry Briscoe was enclosed.  He wished a transfer of his pension pay from the rolls of the Kentucky Agency to the rolls of the Illinois Agency, where he now resides.   The letter was written to Honorable J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions.

Henry Briscoe made application in Clark County, Illinois on 30 Nov 1837, for a pension transfer to the said county stating that he had recently removed there from Kentucky.  His reasons for removing from Kentucky were that he had no land in that state, and was not able to purchase any land sufficient for the support of himself and his family there, and for that reason removed to the state of Illinois to purchase a farm in October 1835.

In Clarke County, Illinois on 30 Nov 1937, he made application for a pension before William B. Morris, Justice of the Peace, and Darius Phillips, clerk.

Henry Briscoe, of Jefferson County, Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lynn of the regiment commanded by Major Roxford, in the Maryland line, for 6 months, was inscribed on the pension roll of the Kentucky Agency to commence on 04 Mar 1931.  Certificate of the pension was issued on 27 Feb 1833, and sent to Honorable C. A. Wickliffe, House of Representatives.  The pension agent was notified on 15 Apr 1841, that the said pensioner was dead.