Eugenior VIRDEN

                   From Kent Haldorson:

James Virden and a brother, John Virden, are listed in the 1790 census of Newberry County, South Carolina.  James Virden served for 15 months (from June 1777 until September 1778) in the Revolutionary War.  He filed a pension application for that War from South Carolina in1790, No. W-22485.  He also filed a claim for a pension from Missouriin 1827, stasting that he had never filed a claim before.  However the Missouri claim indicates that it is an Original Claim.  In the claim filed from Missouri he stated that 6 children were living, all outside the state of Missouri.  In fact, there were 7 children living when he filed the application, probably all living in Illinois.  After James Virden died, his widow, Sarah Virden, filed a claim for a widow pension in the State of Illinois.

On March 17, 1846, Levi Verden and Isaac Verden, son of Levi filed a claim for benefits for the suriving children of Sarah Verden, a pensioner.  The surving children listed were:  (1) Elizabeth Davis, and (2) Radford Verden of Montgomery County; (3) William Verden and (4) Jane Gordon of Christian County; (5 James Verden and (6) Charity Cisco of Shelby County; and (7) Levi Verden of Fayette County, all of Illinois.

ORIGINAL CLAIM OF JAMES VERDEN FOR REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION:

"Declaration to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th of March 1818.  State of Missouri, County of Scott, S.S.: On the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and twenty-seven personally appeared in open court in the County Court for the said County of Scott, being a Court f Record, and State aforesaid, James Verden, a resident of said County aged seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order t obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress on the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820.  That said James 
Verden enlisted as a private for the term of fifteen months on or about the first day of June A>D> 1777 in the State of South Carolina and Charlestown in the company commanded by Frank Boykin the second regiment of Riflemen commanded by Colonel William Thompson in the line of the State of South Carolina in the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until on or about the first day of September A.D. 1778 during the full term of fifteen months from the said time of his enlistment when he was honorably discharged from the service in Charlestown in the State of South Carolina.  That he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any State except that made by this application, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier applications for a pension.  I livedwhere I could obtain but little information and did not know what to do to obtain a pension, thinking it more trouble and expense to take the necessary steps to obtain the pension than it would be worth.  But the increased feebleness of my body and debility owing to my more advanced age making me less able to supprt myself by manual labour compels me to endeavour to obtain the pension.

And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st day of May 1820, I d solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act  of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War, assed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts, or debts me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed consisting of one horse of the value of thirty dollars and two heifers each of the value of five dollars lately bought and not by me or yet paid for.   That since the 18th of March 1818 the following changes have taken place.  I then owned one horse of the value of forty dollars and three cows each of the value of ten dollars, and I swapped the horse for the horse I now have when a colt and fifteen dollars, and from necessity have lived on the money as far as it went.  One of the cows died, another I killed for meat for the use of myself and family, the other from necessity I sold to one James Matley for ten dollars in meat for the use of myself and family.  That I am by occupation a farmer and that from my advanced age and unable to persue it, that I have a wife and six children all of whom are married and do not reside in this State and are not in a situation to assist me

Sworn and subscribed to in  open Court on the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty seven

					Signed  James Verdin His Mark
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(Note:  The file shows that his pension of $8.0 per month began November 25, 1828, and he was sent $26.63 on March 4, 1829.  The file also shows that his widow, Sarah Verden, received a pension of $50.00 per year after his death.  He died June 19, 1843.
                  

                   NOTE: possible child of Eugenior and Jane
                  

                   NOTE: possible child of Eugenior and Jane