Anthony S. Davenport

24 Oct. 1832. Pickaway Co., Ohio. Anthony S. Davenport of Wayne Township in said county, aged 74, declares he was born near a small town called Piscataway in Maryland on 19 May 1758, from whence he removed with his father’s family to Berkeley Co., Va., where he resided at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and from which he was drafted and entered service in the militia as a corporal in the company of Capt. John Lyle, Lt. Robert Canady (a), and Ens. William Carney under Maj. John Morrow and Col. George Scott in the fall of 1779 for three months. He marched with three other companies to the west side of the Ohio River where they joined the army under Gen. McIntosh and built a fort below Beaver Creek which was called Fort McIntosh. They marched against the Indians in a westerly direction towards Sandusky. On the third day two of the men were killed by Indians. When they arrived at the Tuscarawas Fork of the Muskingum River they halted and built Fort Lawrence where they continued until winter when the companies of militia returned to Martinsburg, Va., and were discharged, having performed their three month tour of duty.

On his first tour of duty he was called out as a corporal but after a few days’ march was ordered by his lieutenant Robt. Canada(y) to serve as sergeant and served as sergeant.

He resided in Virginia until 1798 when he removed to the neighborhood where he now lives. He was married in 1781 and for his license was charged $200 and for his marriage fee $800. Anthony S. Davenport of Pickaway Co., Ohio, private in the company of Capt, Lyle in the regiment of Col. Scott in the Virginia militia for six moths, was placed on the Ohio pension roll at $20 per annum under the Act of 1832. Certificate 26448 was issued 8 July 1833.

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