Individual Details

Logan Co DB G
p.194
29 Apr 1819
Thomas S. SLAUGHTER to John HOY for $300 ...on Drakes Creek ...400 acres ...corner to Thomas HOYs Military tract


Applied for his Revolutionary Pension from Simpson Co, KY, and did receive it. His death is noted as 15 Sep 1846. He first applied 16 Jun 1834, Simpson Co Court. He was seventy ___, an ink blot directly over the second word, the 13th of the present month.
In 1781, he was a resident of Campbell Co, VA, and was drafted under Capt. Webster Gilbert. They were marched to Cabin Point near Norfolk at which time Capt Gilbert resigned and went home. Capt. Chiles of Bedford Co took command. After about six weeks they were marched across the Dismal Swamp to Portsmouth near the British lines, under Lord Cornwallis. Mulenburg was the General at Portsmouth; Fleming was the Colonel; Jones the Major. He was paroled sometime in the month of August and Capt Chiles gave him a written discharge and he returned to his father's. He was drafted for three months, but served four.
A short time after he returned home, he enlisted as a substitute for John Welsh under Capt David Beard. They were marched to near Yorktown where Cornwallis had entrenched, Gen. Coswell commanding. Hoy was put in charge of five wagons to haul cartridges bomb shells and cannon balls from head quarters to the entrenchments laying before Yorktown. He also hauled those who were very badly wounded but expected to live, during the seige, to the General Hospital at Williamsburg. He was so engaged at least 18 days. On the 19th day of October, 1781, as best he recollects, Cornwallis surrendered. Gen. Cogswell gave him a ticket to Gen. Washington who instructed his clerk to write him a discharge. He served not less than two months.
Hoy was born in Buckingham Co, 13 June 1763.
He has no record as it was in his father's Bible which has been lost or destroyed.
He was living in Campbell Co at the time he was drafter. His father moved from Buckingham to Campbell sometime after the was was over. Having no education and being very poor, he decided to emigrate to some new country and moved to Georgia where he lived for about two years. He decided to visit his father and put his discharges with some other papers in a pocket book and left it with George Taylor to give to Capt Chiles to keep. He also left his sword and pistols. Hoy never returned to Georgia; he made several attempts to retrieve his belongings, but Chiles had died. He went instead to Kentucky, about the year 1793 - Hoy's Station in Madison Co. He then moved to Bourbon Co. KY where he lived about 14 or 15 years. He then moved to Logan Co and resided there until in 1819 a new county of Simpson was made and he was included. He has lived there ever since.
He listed several neighbors that lived near him who could testify to his veracity and belief he served in the Revolutionary War. He has no documentary evidence of his service, and no knowledge of anyone whose testimony he can procure.
Thomas Hoy signed with his mark.
William Dawson, a clergyman, and Patrick H. Boisan, both residents of Simpson County, were acquainted, believed him to be 71 years of age and that he was a soldier in the Revolution

Birth	1763	Buckingham County, Virginia
Marriage	Ca 1790	Susannah Bush
Death	15 Sep 1846	Simpson County, Kentucky

Spouse	Susannah Bush (1766 - 1830)
Child	William Hoy (1794 - 1846)
Child	George Washington Hoy (1801 - 1852)