John Rose, the above named soldier, applied for a pension in the Jefferson County Court of Kentucky on January 7, 1833 and stated that he is 72 years of age last January.  He enlisted in the service of the United States on the 3rd day of May 1783, and left the service the third December following and served 7 months during which time he served as a guard to the frontier on the Monongahala River and has his headquarters for some time at Hannah Town and afterwards on Turtle Creek and was employed in ranging through the frontiers of Pennsylvania but from the long lapse he cannot now recollect the names of the officers under whom he served.  Afterwards, he moved to Kentucky and again entered the service under the command of General George R. Clark on the 6th day of October 1786 and was commanded by Captain James Patton, Lieutenant Bland W. Ballard and Joseph Hursts, ensign, and continued in the service this time forty days, leaving the service the 16th or 17th of November 1786.  In this company we marched from the Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville, Kentucky through the now state of Indiana some distance above Vincennes, where the army turned back, that on reaching Vincennes or a few days after, to wit:  On the 20th or 21st of November 1786 he enlisted as a private soldier under Thomas Mason, Captain, Lieutenant Jennings and ensign Lavender, for the term of one year but was discharged some time in the last of August 1767, serving only nine months, and was engaged on building a fort at Vincennes, and guarding the same and the town of Vincennes.  He afterwards on the 2nd of May 1787 enlisted and served six months as a private ranger under Captain Ballard Smith, Lieutenant Reuben Eaton and Ensign William Cristy and was stationed on Goose Creek in the county of Jefferson and state of Kentucky and was employed in ranging through the frontier of this state and sometimes in the territory of Indiana as far as the waters of White River.  He has no documentary evidence of his discharge and never had any and that he can prove his service in party by William Tyler and Edward Tyler, and such part as he cannot prove by them, he does not now know anyone by whom he can prove it.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity expect the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll or agency of any state.

Edward Tyler, aged sixty years, and William Tyler, aged seventy seven, both residents of Jefferson County, Kentucky under oath make certifications they were well acquainted with the applicant, John Rose, and that his statements could be relied upon.  Edward Tyler also states that he was a Mess Mate of John Rose and served with him at Vincennes and on the Monongahala River.

A letter was received from the War Department April 13, 1833 that the Revolution terminated on the 3rd day of September 1783 making the service of John Rose up to that time only four months.  His claim has therefore been rejected.