from Pioneer History of Washington County, Kentucky, by Baylor

John Lambert, S 16443, S.C. State of Kentucky, Mercer County, June 9, 1832

The above soldier a resident of Washington County, Kentucky, age 72 and would be 73 in February next, born in Albemarle County, Virginia, and resided in the county of Bedford in the same state when the war was commenced, called into service in the month of April 1781 volunteered in Captain Clemons Company of Nose Wards (?) battalion and marched to Salisburg on my way to 96 in South Carolina, one tour of three months, and upon reaching Salisburg I was detached and joined the company of Captain Jeremiah Pate and marched on to 96 and joined General Gree’s army and finding that we could not take 96 we marched back to Broad River from which place my company returned home at the expiration of my term and I was discharged on the 1st of August 1781.  I volunteered in Captain Charles Calloway’s Company in Colonel William Campbell’s regiment, commanded at the time by Major Arthur Campbell.  The colonel being sick we marched to Little York against Lord Cornwallis and aided in his capture.  I was present at the surrender of Cornwallis October 1781.

I do not know of any person by whom I can prove this last tour, I further state that besides Mr. Joshua Richardson and Richard Bunch, who was with me, I am acquainted with Caleb Sims and William Kelly who are my neighbors and who can testify as to my character as a man of veracity.  I also relinquish all claim to a pension or annuity except the present.

Joshua Richardson and Richard Bunch made affidavit that said John Lambert is the identical man that with whom they marched in April 1781 as a soldier in Captain Clemons Company of the Virginia militia of Major Ward’s Battalion in North Carolina, and from thence to the siege of 96 which later fact is well known to said Joshua Richardson who accompanied the said Lambert and returned home with him at the expiration of his tour of the three months to the said Richard Bunch knows that he was a soldier as far as Salisbury at which place he was detached and he also knows that said Lambert did not return until the expiration of his time.  The other tour of three months at the capture of Lord Cornwallis.  We were not with him, but we have often heard Mr. Lambert speak of it not long afterwards and of his having performed that tour, many years ago, so we have no doubt as he is a man of the truth and reputed to have been a soldier.