Rev Solider Pension S 14727 Served one month as a private undet Capt Matthew Scott in the spring or summer of 1776; during the same year he served under Capt Moseley and Colonel Goode. In the fall or winter of 1777 he volunteered and accompanied his brother Commissary James Trabue to Logansport, Kentucky where he was appointed Commissary to the fort at that place under Capts Richard May and Logan, Colonels Bowman and Calloway and George ROgers Clarke in the Birginia State Troops, and served in that capacity until January 1780. In January or FEbruary 1781 he served a short time under Colonel Haskins, then served three months under Capt Edward Moseley, Colonels Markham and Faulkner and was in the battle of Petersburg.
He was then directed by Col Goode to convey dispatches to General Lafayette, after which he was commissioned a Captain by Thomas Jefferson, Governor of Virginia, and sent with a flag of truce to interview some prisoners taken by the enemy.
He was allowed pension on his application while a resident of Adair Co, KIentucky.
