S 35,  993,  SECTION 22,  VIRGINIA

Reuben Griffin applied for a pension on 20 Apr 1820 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and made declaration that he enlisted in Fredericksburg, Virginia for three years in Colonel George Baylor's Regiment of Light Horse or Dragoons, at the age of seventeen or eighteen.  He marched to New Jersey and was with the regiment when it was attacked by the British.  Many men were killed and wounded and taken prisoners.  He remembers that the deponent was afterward commanded by Colonel William Washington and continued with the Northern Army till it was ordered to South Carolina.  Previously, he was in the Battle of the Morristown and while in the southern army was in the action of Guilford Court House, Cow Pens, Eutaw Springs, and others, and continued till the end of the war.  He made affidavit of the schedule of his property and stated that by occupation he is a farmer and has no wife or children living.  This affidavit was made before John P. Oldham, Judge.

Reuben Griffin of Jefferson County, Kentucky, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baylor of the Virginia line for 3 years was inscribed on the Pension Roll of Kentucky Agency to commence on 20 Nov 1820 and sent to Honorable R. C. Anderson.