Samuel Phillips, the above named soldier applied for a pension in Jefferson County, Kentucky on October 2, 1830 before John Williamson, Justice of the Peace of said county, and stated that he is 79 years of age.  He enlisted in the year of 1778 against the British and Indians under the command of Colonel McCleanner and marched to Anango Town on the Allegheny River and remained in service at that place about two months.  He served a second term of six months in the same year under Captain Thomas Stokely at a station about 25 miles from Pittsburg on the Allegheny River defending the frontiers against the British and Indians.  In the year 1779 or 1780, he served seven months as a volunteer in a pack horse company under the command of Captain Mark Harding in transporting provisions from Winchester in the state of Virginia to the army stationed at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.  In the year 1781 he volunteered in the militia at Williamsburg, Virginia.  He enlisted in the service in the month of March 1781 under the command of Captain Cornelius Skinner and continued in that service till January 1782 and was discharged at Baltimore.

He does not recollect of having been with any troops accept those at Little York and Pittsburg.  He was born in Loudon County, Virginia in 1775 on October 11.  (Obviously the birth year was a typo.  Online records show birth date as 11 Oct 1751.)  He resided a short time there, after the close of the Revolutionary War, he resided for a short time on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania and for the last forty years has resided in Jefferson County, Kentucky.  This statement was certified by Warden Pope, clerk of the county at that time.