Daniel O’Rear served several tours of duty with the Virginia Militia in the war of the Revolution, including one with George Rodgers Clark. He received a pension under the Act of 1832. This document, preserved in his father’s desk at Cloverfield records an agreement related to one tour of service when he was 17 years old:

"Memorandum of an agreement made Between Benjamin (unintelligible) with Daniel O’Rear

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