Certification of Wounded Soldier Andrew Lewis
Document 1797Certifies that Andrew Lewis served as a soldier in a volunteer militia unit to protect inhabitants of Virginia. While sent on an express to warn the local inhabitants of an impending Indian attack, he was wounded and his arm was subsequently amputated.
I certify that Andrew Lewis served as a soldier in a Company of Volunteer Militia under my command raised for the protection of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the frontiers of Kanhawa County in the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety three and that by my command he went on express to give information to the Inhabitants of the approch of the Indians, & on that service was unforunately wounded ^ on the 23rd day of September year above said which occured an amputation of his right arm, which renders him incapable of pursing any kind of manual Labor Given under my hand at Point Pleasant the 9th day of June 1797 William Clendinen Capt. [undecipherable] Volunteer Militia
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