State of Kentucky
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Wayne County S Ct } On the 22nd day of March 1830 personally
appeared in open Court Joseph Mings or Minzes who being first
duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following
Statement in addition to the Statement heretofore made by him
at a County Court held for the said County on the 23rd day
of March 1829. First he states he does not know the name
of the Colonel of the Regiment to which he belonged by reason
that he was never with Said Regiment, but kept and retained at
the laboratory in Salisbury North Carolina and at all times under
the command of Captain Edward Yarborough and was by him discharged
at said place, which discharge (now as he is informed in Washington
City), he believes States the Regiment to which he belonged to
be the 3rd Regiment. He states that the reason for his not making
application for the pension at an earlier period is that he was
Ignorant of the mode of applying, and the Lawyers to whom he
made application to prepare his papers &tc asked him such
an unreasonable price as discouraged him from making application.
He states that
the following is a true account of the property owned by him
on the 18th of March 1818 and the Changes which have taken place
in Said property by Sale or otherwise, Since that time, viz.
Fifty acres of third rate land, Sold to John Vestal Sometime
in the year 1822 Around in Autumn, received in return for it
two house beasts, & two Cows and three hundred Bushels of
corn paid at Several different periods. He owned three head of
house beasts, two of which died and the other went blind, Twelve
or thirteen head of cattle, four Cows he gave to his four daughters
who left him about that time, the rest have since died or been
killed for beef, a tolerable stock of hogs, & a few sheep.
He lost a good many of the hogs & killed some of the sheep.
And further he Saith not. Sworn to in open Court, the day and
date first above written.
JOSEPH MINGS {Seal}
State of Kentucky
Wayne County } S Ct.
I John Chrismun, Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the
Records of the Said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and affixed my private Seal ~ having no seal of Office
as yet provided. Given under my hand this 2nd day of April 1830
& 38 years of the Commonwealth.
Wayne
{L. S. } John Chrisman, Co. Clerk
Co.
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