He stated that he volunteered on the Monongahela River at a place thirty miles above Redstone Fort in the State of Virginia.  He stated that he had served at the taking of Post Vincent which later was called Vincennes and also at the taking of Fort Kaskaskia.  He stated that he then went down the Ohio River to the mouth of the Saline Creek and he then marched through the state of Indiana and Illinois.

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The affidavit of Edward Tyler was also given at the same time and in the same place as the foregoing.  The said deponent stated and swore that he was both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner at the time of his enlistment and he stated that hew as an elder brother of the said pensioner and he said that he remembered his brother's enlisting.

The affidavit of Michael Miller, a clergyman, and James Pomeroy was also given a the same time and in the same place as the foregoing.  The said deponent stated and swore that at one time and in the said county and state they had been both well and favorably acquainted with the said pensioner and the said deponents stated and swore also that in the neighborhood in which the said pensioner resided he was reputed to have served in the War of the Revolution on the side of the United States of America.

The said pensioner gave the following answers to the question posed by the Department of War:  he stated that he was born in Barclay County in the state of Virginia near Shepherdstown on June 24 or 25 of the year 1755 and he said that he had enlisted on the Monongahela River in the state of Virginia.  He stated that in the year 1780 he had removed to the Falls of the Ohio River and he said that he had resided in Jefferson County in the State of Kentucky ever since that time.

He stated that in all his tours of duty he had volunteered his services and that he had never acted in the capacity of a substitute.  he said that he had served under the command of Colonel George Rogers Clark, Colonel Montgomery, Captain William Harrod, Captain Edward Worthington, Lieutenant John Swann, Ensign Jacob Vanmeter and Captain John Bailey.  The said pensioner also stated and swore that he was honorably discharged by the aforesaid General George Rogers Clark, but that his discharge was later burnt when his fathers house was burned.

The said pensioner enlisted in the year 1779 for a tour of two years duration to serve in the company under the command of Captain Bailey as a private soldier and in the regiment under the command of Colonel Clark.  He stated that they had marched through the state of Virginia and that at the time of this application he was at the age of 77 years and he said that he had enlisted in the state of Virginia on the Monongahela River.

The said pensioner himself, William Tyler, was on the Kentucky Roll of Pensions at the rate of $80.00 per annum and his certificate of pension for that amount was issued on April 16 of the year 1833 and it was then sent to James Pomeroy at Louisville in the State of Kentucky.