The petition of the Heir of C. Terrant Respectfully states—
That her father Caesar Terrant was in the Navy of Virginia as she has been informed, during the whole war of the Revolution – But she has as yet, been unable to obtain any other evidence than that of Mr. James Burk and Mr. John Cowper. Their affidavits however show he was in service more than three years.
Mr. Cowper says he was intimately acquainted with him, and that he was in service after the Capture of York. And Mr. Burk says C. Terrant was in service when he entered it in 1778 and remained, as well as he recollects, in service when he Burk left it — how said Burk entered the service in the Beginning of 1778 as will appear in evidence among his own [illegible] on which he recently obtained his own land in addition to what he had personally obtained – Connecting this fact with the statement of the two witnesses, and it is shown that Caesar Terrant was very nearly four years in service — He was a Pilot and in the action in which Commodore Taylor was wounded, steered the Vessel & behaved gallantly.
Your Petitioner prays an allowance of the Land Bounty due for his service.
Thos. Green
For the Petitioner
