Virginia Service, Pension # S 15384

Samuel Conn applied for pension in Jefferson County, Kentucky 27 Mar 1834 before Trammell Conn, Justice of the Peace.  He made statement that he was 74, that he was a resident of Loudon County, Virginia when he enlisted and joined Captain Thomas Lewis's Company in September 1777 to protect the country along the Potomac.

He marched into service for a tour of 3 months, then marched down the Potomac River in order to deter the British from landing and plundering the country as they were in the habit of landing and plundering the country and taking off the negroes whenever they were permitted to land.  He was discharged and volunteered again in 1781 in Captain Richard Spur's Company of Volunteers.  They were called into service and rendezvoused in Loudon County, Virginia.  He was marched from said place of rendezvous to Fredericksburg on the Rappahancock River where he remained for some time.  They then marched to Bowling Town down to Richmond and after having been there for some time, they were marched to the river and across that river, thence to Glouchester Point where he was stationed till the surrender of Cornwallis.

After this discharge he guarded some of the prisoners from Leesburg to Nolan's Ferry.  The militia from Moreland took charge of said performers and his tour of 6 months being expired, he was discharged by Captain Spur.

The applicant, Samuel Conn, further states that he was born in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1760 and has a record of his age in his father's Bible.  When he went into service he was living in Loudon County, Virginia and stayed there till 1796 when he moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky where he has lived ever since.

He named General Washington, General Wayne, General Lafayette of the Regiment officers and General Weedon had a regiment of militia.

He was discharged by Captain Lewis on his first tour and the second tour he was discharged by Captain Richard Spur at Nolan's Ferry on the Potomac River.  William Proctor and Mago Herndon, residents of the same neighborhood as the applicant, made affidavits of being well acquainted with the applicant and to their belief in his statements.

Samuel Conn, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lewis of Virginia for 9 months, was inscribed on the Pension Roll of Kentucky Agency to commence 04 Mar 1831, certificate of the pension was issued 17 Apr 1834 and sent to Honorable P. H. Popel, House of Representatives.