A revolutionary Claim
State of Virginia Wythe County to wit
Be it known that on this 26th day of November 1845 be fore me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Christopher Philope aged eighty two years first being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was personally Acquainted with Peter Kinder and known him to be called in service in the Spring of the year 1781 and served until he was shot through [close] part of his leg wile enguaged at the battle of Gilford court County house North Carolina and I knowed Maj Clouyd to take him on his horse and convey him to some safe place so that he was out of danger and also knowed peter Kinder and his wife to be married and live to gether as man and wife untill death he died—and no that the wife of peter kinder had to go to salem North carolina and tend to her husband wile he was in the Doctors care of the wounds he got at the battle of gilford in the war of the revolution I do not recollect the time precise time the[y] ware married but I know that the[y] ware married before he whent into service
Sworn to before me this 26th day of November 1845
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Christopher Philope and he is a man of varacity and is entitled to full credit and is the age he I believe he represents him self to be
John Gannaway Justice of the Peace
State of Virginia
Wythe County} to wit:
I, John P. Mathews, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Wythe, in the State of Virginia, do certify, that John Gannaway before whom the foregoing affidavit was Sworn, was at the time said affidavit was made and still is an acting Magistrate of said County of Wythe duly Commissioned, and that the foregoing Signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this 20th. day of December in the year 1845.
J.P. Mathews, Clerk of the County Court of Wythe County
By Andrew Thompson DC
