Pennsylvania Pension Applications

Pennsylvania Pension Applications -1\ TORE than thirty years ago Dr. W. F. Wagner of Hartleton, Union IVI_County, Pennsylvania, examined the files of the National Archives in Washington for pension application papers of Revolutionary War soldiers or their widows living in central Pennsylvania at the time of application. Dr. Wagner transcribed about five hundred of these applications, annotated them, and then arranged them alphabetically by county. In 1936 he presented typed copies of his findings to the Historical Society which has since transferred them to the Genealogical Society. Because these transcripts were carbon copies on "flimsy" paper, and single-spaced in such a manner as to make it impractical to bind them, they are now being abstracted, Dr. Wagner's annotations deleted from his text but incorporated as footnotes where useful, and will be published from time to time. The applications contain varying amounts of genealogical data. They also include a great deal of historical information on the activities of the applicants who served in various capacities either in the Continental Army or in the militia. Not all of the applicants were native Pennsylvanians; most of them were quite aged and in many cases their memories were at fault. Nevertheless, the information contained in the papers adds considerably to the genealogical background of the applicants, and to the conditions prevailing at the time of the Revolution. There were eight specific pension acts passed by Congress under which these applications were made: 1. The general Act of 18 March 1818, for the benefit of those surviving veterans of the Revolution who had rendered military or naval service of at least nine consecutive months in an organization on the Continental Establishment. 2. The Act of 1 May 1820, in which all pensioners not in indigent circumstances were dropped from the pension rolls. New applicants had to demonstrate their indigent circumstances. 3. The Act of 7 June 1832, which liberalized the service requirements of previous acts, reducing the term of service from nine consecutive months to an aggregate length of at least six months; extended the benefits of the act to include the service of militia as well as Con- 263 264 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine tinental Line, and deleted the "indigent circumstances" of the previous act. 4. The Act of 4 July 1836, the first act to include widows of veterans who had married prior to the close of the veteran's last war service. /. The Act of 7 July 1838, providing for widows who had married the veteran prior to 1 January 1794. 6, 7. The Act of 2 February 1848, and the Act of 29 July 1848, which provided for those widows only who married the veteran prior to 1 January 1800. 8. The Act of 3 February 1853, which provided for widows whose marriage to the veteran took place after 1 January 1800. These last acts provided pensions which ran for a term of five years. Continued from time to time by acts of Congress, by the Act of 3 June 1858, they were extended for the life of the widow. Thirteen forms to be filled out by the applicant were established under the Acts of 18 March 1818, 1 May 1820, and 7 June 1832. It is from such of these forms as were found in the original files that Dr. Wagner made his abstracts. These have been further excerpted by Mr. Elwyn Chase. Some of the phraseology, as given by Dr. Wagner, has been retained, but not all. It is recommended that a searcher, interested in a particular application, obtain from the General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C., photocopies of the original papers in those files. Centre County Pension Applications DAVID BARR, aged 82, resident of Ferguson Township, on 29 January 1833, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas, and being duly sworn, made the following declaration: In the month of April 1777, he resided in Armagh Township (then Cumberland, now) Mifflin County, and in the some month and year entered into service and marched to the Bald Eagle's Nest in Northumberland (now Centre) County where his company had a skirmish with the Indians and one of his comrades was killed. His Captain was George Bell and they were occasionally visited by Major McElhadden; Colonel Buchanan cominanded the Regiment from which we were drafted.' The Inclines at this time crossed over into Permsvalley and murdered several families which circumstance compelled us to return from the "Nest" and for the remainder of the Tour we were stationed at Potter's Fort in order to protect the Settlers in Pennsvalley. At the end of two months we were permitted to return home, the period for which we were drafted having expired. We This was the Fifth Battalion of Cumberland County militia, commanded by Colonel Arthur Buchanan. George Bell, in whose company David Barr served, mu captain of the battalion's 8th Company. When Bell's company was in service in the spring of 1778, it was duignated the "Eighth Class in Service!' Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XV. 601, 604-607; Seem, VI, 519 aid., to, Pennsylvania Pension Applications 265 received no written discharge from the militia, it not being the custom to given written discharges to the militia. I was out on several scouting parties against Indians and Tories; on one we were marched from Armaght [sic] Township aforesaid to Shelly's island in the Susquehanna river, a distance about eighty miles, and captured [blank] Shelly and conveyed him to Carlisle and lodged him in the jail there. In the spring of 1795 I moved from Armah [sic] Township to Ferguson (then Potter) township, Centre (then Northumberland) County, where I have ever since resided. I was born in the County of Antrim, Ireland, 15 August 1750, as appears from the record of birth kept by my parents. I have not seen the record for some years. I am not on the pension roll of any State. I was drafted first as a militiaman, then afterwards volunteered upon the several scouting parties in which I was engaged. There were no regular officers with them. Colonel Buchanan and Major McElhadden were the field officers of our regiment. Capt. George Bell, lit Lt. Joseph Young, and 2nd Lt. John Wakefield were the officers of our company. Captain Pint commanded one of the companies with us at Potter's Fort. Henry Dale, a soldier of the Revolution, and his brother Felix Dale, both now living in Ferguson, Centre County, know me well and can certify as to my veracity.' 21 May 1834, David Barr personally appeared before George Jack, Justice of the Peace for Centre County, and further declared: That by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to precise length of his service and its dates, and the particular length of time spent in the scouting parties alluded to in his declaration; but to the best of his recollection, he was in service from the month of August 1777,0 till about the end of October of the same year, and again in all, as near as he can recollect, for the period of three months. And in the following year, 1778, as near as he can recollect, he was in this service three and a half months, from the middle of July till the beginning of November. There were other seasons when he was out frequently from a week to ten days at a time, but the above were those when he was most constantly engaged. /s/ David (X) Barr On 2 January 1833, personally appeared before William Hirst, Justice of the Peace of Huntingdon County, Robert Barr of the Township of Barre, Huntingdon County, who is infirm and unable to go to Court, and who, after being duly sworn, deposed that he is well acquainted with the circumstances of his brother David Barr going to Pennsvalley, now in Centre County, on a Tour in the Militia under the command of Captain Bell, near Lewistown at this time, and further remembered his Brother David going on a Scout after the toriu, all in the Revolutionary war, can't recollect the year.. /s/ Robert (X) Barr Pension granted 8 July 1834, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, to commence on 4 March 1831, under Act of 7 June 1832. [File: S 6564]. 5 ' Affidavits included in the record were not transcribed by Dr. Wagner. oBarr appears to have been confused both as to month and year when he first entered the steaks. The 7th and Sth Clusa of Cumbuland County militia were not called up until 25 March 1778; of thee, the "marching classes of the fifth Battalion" under Colonels Buchanan and Brown had been sent to "Sinking Valley 8c Bald Eagle" by 24 Apr. 1778. Pennsylvania Archiver, [1st Series], VI, 438. 'Robert Harr made a second similar affidavit on 22 May 104, which contained no new information. .The Elie number refers to the number on the jacket in the National Archives. S indicates Survivor; V, Widow; R, Rejected; Blot, Bounty Land Warrant. The numbers have been taken from the loin of Revolutionary W. Pension Applications, published by the National Genealogical Sod.,' 266 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine LAWRENCE BATHURST, aged 75 years, resident of Howard Township, on 1 October 1832, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas and on his oath made the following declaration: In August 1776, I lived at Providence Township, now Montgomery County; the militia were drafted to go to Amboy. I volunteered in a company commanded by Captain Francis, lot Lt. Jahn Edwards, 2nd Lt. David Schrock, m the Reg't of Col. John Bull, Lt. Col. Curry; marched to Amboy, the British then at Staten Island; remained there two months, was discharged and returned home. Was at home a short time and again volunteered and belonged to the company of Captain Francis and Lieutenant Edwards; marched to Newtown Square in Bucks County; remained there a few weeks and marched, and with other militia and volunteers had the prisoners in care who were taken at Trenton [26 December 1776]. Returned to Newtown and was again discharged. In June 1777, I was drafted in the Militia and attached to the company of Captain Hamilton in the Reg't of Colonel Meister; marched to the Jerseys, returned to Philadelphia and was discharged. I think in the same year I was again drafted and marched in the company of Captain Rinee, Reg't of Colonel Moore,' to Tawnytown [Taneytown, Md.] to guard British prisoners; returned home and the company was discharged. In the same or next year there was a requisition for Waggons to go to the North river [the Hudson]. I drove Thomas Rees's Waggon; when we arrived at Philadelphia the orders were countermanded. There we were employed in hauling Cannon Ball from the King of Prussia Tavern on the West Chester Road to Philadelphia; remained two months and was discharged. A short time after the Battle of Brandywine [11 September 1777] I was employed by Edw'd Roberts, who had a Waggon in the Government's service and went to the Great Swamp; hauled flour and other provisions for the regular army from Germantown and was discharged. This was the last service I was engaged in. I am not on any pension roll of any State. I was born in Germantown in 1757; have a record of my birth but know not where it now is. I lived in Providence Township when called into service; lived there until I removed to what is now Centre County, and have lived there forty years and upwards. I know of no person now alive who was in service with me. I recollect Colonel Stone of the Regular [Continental] service, with whom our troops once served. That service generally was separate from the Regular troops. I never received a written discharge. is/ Lawrence Bathurst Certcate dated 28 September 1832, and signed by James Crawford, local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Roland Curim, Daniel NIVeemers, John Anderson, Robert Goodfellow, Henry Bonnhart and Frederick Antes, certified they were personally acquainted with Lawrence Bathurst. He was long a respectable citizen of Centre County; °Prior to the Mila Act of 17 March 1777, the so-called “tnilitia" were actually the Associators who had voluntarily joined themselves into military companies for the defense of the country. There is no Newtown Square in Bucks County. Bathurst confused Newtown, Bucks County, where ° he was sent, with Newtown Square in Clacster County. 'Colonel Dmiel Meister, Jr. commanded the First Battalion of Philadelphia County militia, and Captain John Hamilton the tat Company of the Fifth Battalion. Colonel John Moore was in command of the Second Battalion, Philadelphia County militia, and Captain John Reyner the 2nd Company of the Fifth Battalion. PenusYlVanie Areliiver, 3‘d Series, V. 591, 602, 709-711- Pennsylvania Pension APplications 267 many of them had known him thirty years and upwards; his character for morality and piety during that time was unimpeached and they think unimpeachable. Ile was now aged and infirm, his circumstances were also very limited. Many had often heard him, years ago, recount his own and his fellows' sufferings in sundry campaigns in the militia in defence and establishment of the liberty of his beloved country. 18 May 1833, Lawrence Bathurst personally appeared at Court of Common Pleas held at Bellefonte and made additional declaration that the teem of his first service in August 1776, under Captain Francis, was ten months; the second term of service was two months; that the service which began in June 1777, under Captain Hamilton, was two months; that the service in the company of Captain Rinee was two months wanting only a few days; that the time spent in driving Thomas Rees's waggon was two months; drove the waggon of Edw'd Roberts for about one month. /s/ Lawrence Bathurst Thomas Burnside, President Judge of Court of Common Pleas for Centre County, certified that Lawrence Bathurst was now infirm and lived two (?) miles from Bellefonte; the additional declaration was made at his Chambers, Court not being in session. Pension granted 9 October 1831, at the rate of 26 dollars 66 - 2/3 cents per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, under act of 7 June 1812, 12 May 1845, Rebecca Bathurst, aged 81 years, resident of Ce.ntre County, on her solemn oath before William Smith, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, made her sworn statement in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of 7 July 1838, granting "half-pay and pensions to certain widows:" She is the widow of Lawrence Bathurst, private in the Revolutionary War, who served in the militia of the State of Pennsylvania, and for his good conduct was pensioned under the Act of 7 June 1832. She was married to Lawrence Bathurst on 7 April 1782; her husband died 17 February 1845. She was married at Back Hill Church [Barren Hill Church] near Germantown by the Rev'd Michael Slaughter [Schlatter], then Pastor of said Church, who gave them a Certificate of marriage which has been lost or mislaid, and she has no other record of said marriage. /s/ Rebecca (X) Bathurst Judge Smith certifies Rebecca Bathurst cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court to make her declaration. 12 May 1845, Archibald Bathurst, in his 62nd year, being duly sworn before Judge Smith, deposed that he is the eldest son of Lawrence and Rebecca Bathurst; that he has lived with his father and mother in the same neighborhood all his life; that they have always been reputed to have been lawfully married, and have raised a large family of children. /s/ Arch'd Bathurst 24 April 1846, Frederick Antes, being duly sworn before Judge Samuel J. Green, one of the Justices of Centre County, deposed he was well acquainted with the late Lawrence Bathurst, dec'd, and with his widow Rebecca. Said deponent came with his Father to Bald Eagle valley, now Centre County, in 1787; he is now in his 66th year. To the best of his recollection Lawrence Bathurst was living in said valley, about five miles below; that he and the Bathurst family have lived neighbors ever since and is well acquainted with all the family, a large and respectable one; that two of Bathurst's eldest sons are still living neighbors to bun, the eldest being about three years younger than Antes, and 268 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine being certain Lawrence and Rebecca Bathurst must have been married before 1794 or have at least lived as man and wife until the death of Lawrence. 4 May 1846, Roland Curtin, Esq. of Bellefonte, aged 76, being duly sworn before Jas. Gilliland, Justice of the Peace for Centre County, deposed he has been a resident of the County for the last fifty years; was well acquainted with Lawrence Bathurst and his widow; that he believes from concurrent circumstances that they were married anterior to his acquaintance with them. He is also acquainted with Frederick Antes, an aged and respectable citizen of Centre County, and that any statement of his is worthy of full credence. Pension granted Rebecca Bathurst 24 June 1846, to begin 17 February 1845, at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, under the Act of 17 June 1844. 21 August 1848, Rebecca Bathurst, aged 84, resident of Howard (?) Township, being duly sworn before George Glenn, Justice of the Peace of Centre County, deposed in order to obtain benefit of Act of 2 February 1848. She is the same person granted a pension under the Act of 17 June 1844" Pension renewed 4 March 1848. [File: W 4630, Widow Rebecca Bathurst.] • • * * BENJAMIN CARSON, aged 68 years, resident in Pike Township, Clearfield County, on 21 May 1818, before James Potter, Associate Judge for Centre County, being duly sworn, made the following declaration: I enlisted in Capt. James Chambers' company of Cumberland County in June 1775, and marched from thence to Boston, and confirmed in the service for seven years. I was in the battles of Long Island, Paoli, White Plains, Brandywine, Germanton, &c., and at other places. The regiment to which our company was attached was commanded by Colonel Thompson's Rifle Reg't in the Pennsylvania line. At the end of the first year I re-enlisted in the same Regiment then commanded by Colonel Chambers, and was discharged in the state of New Jersey in 1782. I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my country for support. I have no other evidence at present of my service." /s/ Bonn Carson Pension granted 23 July 1819, under the Act of 18 March 1818, in the amount of eight dollars per month, to commence 21 May 1818. 'This deposition was witnessed by Antes Bathurst who has not been identified. The Act of 17 June 1844, was one of the renewal acts "to continue the pennon of certain widows." At the end of Dr. Wagner', transcript, he noted the file also included • power of attorney. executed 10 Sept. 1851, by Henry A. Bathurst, another no of Lawrence and Aebecca, as well as additional correspondence relative to the widow's claim, none of which he included, as being of no special interest." The deposition was made in Centre County at Potter's Mill, established by the Judge's father, Gm' era! James Potter. Clearfield County had been erected in 1804 out of Northumberland and Lycoming Counties, but at this time, according to the lam depositions in this file, Clearfield was attached to Centre County for judicial purposes. "For an account and the rolls of Colonel Thompson's Rifie Regiment, me Pennsylvania Archive,, 2nd Series, X, 3-425 This first declaration of Carson failed to satisfy the authorities initially. Dr. Wagner noted that on the back was the statement "The line must be stated and the seal of the Ct is wanting; if there is none, it must be so stated." However, the omissions appear to have hem remedied, for which see the teat, Pennsylvania Pension Applications 269 28 August 1820, Benjamin Carson, aged 73 years, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas, as resident of Pike Township, Clearfield County (which is attached to Centre County for judicial purposes), and deposed that on 26 June 1775, he enlisted for one year in Capt. James Chambers' company of the First Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, commanded by Col. William Thompson, and marched from Shippensburg about the middle of July following for Boston; was in the battle of Leechmoor's [Lechmere's] point; on their arrival at Boston was stationed there until January following when he was chosen and marched as one of General Lee's life-guard for James River [Virginia], and remained there about three or four weeks, when his time expired. He enlisted for the term of three years and returned to Long Island; was in the battle of Long Island, also in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, White Plains, Piscattaway. In the year 1779 his term expired. He enlisted for three years more and served out his time faithfully, but has lost his discharge. He received a certificate from the War department, dated 23 July 1819, No. 13,136. I have no property other than one horse, [valued at] $30; one cow, $14; two sheep, $4; one smooth [bore] gun, $10; one armed chair, 500; total value, $58.50. I have a yearly pension of forty dollars due from the State of Pennsylvania under the act of the Legislature of the state passed 28 March 1814. I have no trade; have a wife who does not live with me, but is old and looks to me for support. I have five children by my first wife, three sons and two daughters, all married, and doing for themselves, but are not in situations to render me any support. I have no children by my present wife, nor have I any place of residence other than with one of my daughters. I am old and infirm and unable to support myself by my labour. Is/ Benjamin Carson [File: S 407981 HENRY DEAL (DALE), aged 74 years, resident of Ferguson Township, on 1 October 1832, personally appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas, and being duly sworn, made the following declaration: In the year 1776 I resided in Buffaloe Valley, Northumberland County, and volunteered in the company of Captain Gray, Reg't of Colonel Potter, and marched first to Lancaster, then to Philadelphia, crossed the Delaware and marched to Burlington in Jersey. The command " of Colonel Potter then joined the American army under Washington on the day after the battle of Trenton. I remained with the army and was at the battle of Princeton [3 January 1777]. I was also present in several skirmishes with the enemy in the Jerseys. I was discharged at Morristown [New Jersey] having served three months, returned home. In 1778 I again marched in the company of Captain Pyatt against the Indians to Penn's valley, now Centre County; remained in the service two months and was discharged. I was born in Northampton, now Montgomery County, 29 August 1758. The record of my age is in my possession. I was living in Buff aloe Valley when called into service and lived there since, and for forty years past have lived in Centre County, formerly Mifflin." . TIM further deposition and the following schedule of property were its pursuance of the "sndigent circumstance," provisions of the Act of I May 1820. "nese troops forrned part of Peronylvanla's portion of the Plying Camp called up to miss Washington. .Deal's memory was at fault; Northampton County was erected out of Bucks County in 1752, SiX years before Deal we. born. Montgomery County was not erected out of Philadelphia County until 1784. 270 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine I volunteered when called into service first; when we arrived at Philadelphia we received a bounty, and shoes and stockings, canteens, &c. Whether it was an enlistment or not, I cannot tell. I recollect General Washington, General Putnam, Colonel Potter, Captain Gray, Sergt. James Carson and Sergt. James Buchanan with the troops. I never received a written discharge. I am not on the Pension Roll of any State. Is/ Henry Deal 1 October 1832, Valentine Stober and Henry Peterkin, residents of Centre County, certify that we are well acquainted with the above Henry Dale [sic], that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Pension rejected: "He did not serve six months." [File: R 2631] •* JAMES DOUGHERTY, aged 59 years [sic: aged 69?], resident of Centre County, on 25 August 1818, personally appeared before Judge Charles Huston, President Judge of Centre County Court of Common Pleas, and being duly sworn deposed that he enlisted in Lancaster County in the company of Capt. Matthew Smith of the First Rifle Regiment; " that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the general discharge of the army in 1783, when he was discharged from service in New York; that he was in the battles of Quebec, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and at the seize of York[town]; that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance; that he has no other evidence of his service. [Deposition unsigned] Pension granted 25 August 1818, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence 25 August 1818, under the Act of 18 March 1818. 28 August 1820, James Dougherty, aged 70 years last Christmas, resident of Bald Eagle Township, appeared in Centre County Court of Common Pleas and declared that on 25 June 1775, he marched as a volunteer under command of Capt. Arthur [sic] Smith, who was under the command of Colonel Thompson, for Boston; was stationed there for some time, then marched for Quebec by way of Kennebeck and Chadaire [Chaudiere] rivers, through the district of Maine, under the command of Col. Benedict Arnold; that about the middle of November he arrived at the plains of Abraham before Quebec, where he remained until the arrival of General Montgomery. That he was engaged in the storming of the garrison on the night of 31 December and next morning, being 1 January 1776, he was taken prisoner and put in Irons and was continued in that situation for eight weeks. That on 3 August 1776, an agreement was entered into between the American officers and General Carlton [Carleton] in which it was stipulated that we sign a parole, which we did in the words following: "We, the undersigned, do solemnly engage to his excellency, Gen'l Carlton, that we will not take up arms against, nor do anything injurious to his Majesty, King George, third, until regularly exchanged." Dr. Wagner points out that Ferguson Township, in Centre County, was never in Mifflin, being adjacent to Huntingdon County. Dr. Wagner adds that according to a "List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Union County," compiled by Mrs. W. C. Renzi of Lewisburg, Pa., Henry Dale [sic] d. 14 March 1844, as. 86. He m. 1st Rebecca Weber, and sod in 1804, PhiIlene, surname unknown, who d. in 1836, and was presumed to be a son of Chrinian Dale [sic] and Rachel. Christian Deal appears on Buffaloe Twp. assessment lists first in 1783, and Henry in 1785, as a single man, for which no Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIX, 549, S9a. "For roll of Captain Matthew Smith's company see ibid., lad Series, X, 39-41, Pennsylvania Pension Applications 271 He farther says that he enlisted to the fall of 1776 (notwithstanding the parole) in the Twelfth Regiment under Capt. John Brady in Philadelphia, commanded by CoL William Cook, and was called out on a recruiting party to Muncy its Northumberland County," and marched in the spring of 1777 for camp in Jersey at Metechum [Metuchen] near to Quibbletown, and some time in May was in the battle of Short hills and then joined the main army at Middle Brook, and was drafted into Captain Clark's company in the artillery and afterwards placed under Captain Cams in said artillery; he was in the battle of Brandywine 11 September 1777, and also in the Battle of Germantown, and then moved to winter quarters at the Valley forge and remained there until the March following, and there was drafted into General Washington's life guards; was at the battle of Monmouth [28 June 1778] and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and remained in the service until the final discharge at New York. He was placed on the pension list, receiving a certificate from the War department dated 23 April 1819, No. 9570. He has no property other than live stock, household furniture, &c., to the value of $57.101 He has a pension from the State of Pennsylvania in the sum of forty dollars per year. I have no trade, am old and infirm, have a wife who has been a cripple these fourteen years, aged 70 years, four children who are married and do not live with me, and are not in situations by which they could contribute to my support. /s/ James (X) Dougherty Debts amounting to $139.24 are owed to Joseph Battles & Co., Geo. Bresler, Jas. Brown, a judgement, Wm. White, Esqr., John Ritch, Adam Hepshon, Isaac Taylor, Michael Quigley. [File: S 42170] • JACOB DUCK, aged nearly 80 years, resident of Gregg Township, personally appeared on 27 November 1832, before Centre County Court of Common Pleas and made the following declaration on oath: In June 1775, I enlisted near Reading in the company of Capt. George Nogle [Nagle, Nagel] by Lieutenant Conner to serve for one year as a Rifleman. We marched in August following from Reading, to Bethlehem, thence to Allentown and Easton, crossed the Delaware at Easton, thence through New Jersey direct to Hartford, Connecticut, thence direct to Cambridge near Boston, where we joined the army of General Washington. At the latter, or within about a mile of it, we were reviewed by General Washin.gton and ordered on to Prospect Hill. When our company marched from Reading we were accompanied by Captain Roses rifle company from Lancaster, Captain Smith's company from Paxton, Dauphin County. At or near Boston a number of the companies joined the Regiment, vie: Captain Lowden's from Northumberland County, Captain Doudel's from York, Pa., and Captain Hendrick's from Carlisle." The latter company encamped between Cambridge and Roxbury. We remained in Boston until 17 March 1776, then took the road to New York, passing through Hartford. We lay in New York about two weeks, then passed over to Long Island and encamped at Gravesend, near a place called, I think, Newark. When the "For records of the Twelfth Regiment, Continental Line, see ibid., 757-764. The Muncy Hills are in present Lycoming County, east of the big bend of the one branch of the Susquehanna and above Lewisburg. "Dr. Wagner did not itemize the property in his abstract. The captains ment'Ioned by Duck were 211 under the command of Colonel Thompson in the Rifle Regiment cited in Note IF 272 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine British fleet appeared we passed over to New York and from thence to Amboy, from thence to Elizabethtown, from thence to Princeton, from thence to Trenton, and from thence to Philadelphia by water. At or near Boston, Captain Nogle was promoted, and Lieutenant Conner took command of the company. Afterwards, the command, from some cause or other not now recollected, devolved on a man named Harris. At Philadelphia, I received my discharge, from Captain Harris, I think, but it may have been Chambers. On this point memory fails him. His discharge was burnt by accident in 1802, when his house was consumed. Colonel William Thompson of Carlisle was in command of the Regiment, Dr. Hand of Lancaster was Lt. Colonel, Robert McGaw was Major, one Hussecker of Lebanon was Adjutant. His company officers were Captain Nogle, 1st Lt. Conner, 2nd Lt. either Peter Grub or Peter Scull, though Scull was perhaps Ensign. The applicant remembers seeing General Lee near Boston, also General Sullivan; he remembers Benedict Arnold being there at that time. He witnessed the cannonading of Boston, and saw General Putnam then. On alarm being given, the applicant marched with others to Cape Ann to defend the place, and remained some few days, then returned to Camp. He knows of no person living who can testify to his service, and is not on any pension roll. /s/ Jacob Duck I was born in Berks County 4 April 1753; the record of my birth was burned with my other papers. In 1793 I settled in Centre, then Mifflin, County and have lived in this county ever since. I am known to James Hutchinson, David Cook, Philip Musser,. James Duncan, Esq., Jacob Bollinger, and others who can testify to my character. /s/ Jacob Duck 24 April 1833, Jacob Duck's additional declaration stated that when he made his first declaration he did not know it was necessary to have the certificate of a Clergyman; that he resides fifteen miles from the county town [Bellefonte] and was unaware of the mode of application till he reached there. He has procured a certificate from the Rev. John F. Audley, a Clergyman in his neighborhood, but has only known him five years, and two years of that time the applicant lived in Huntingdon County; therefore Mr. Audley knows nothing of his service in the Revolution. 24 April 1833, I, John F. Audley, a clergyman residing in Mains Township, Centre County, certify I am personally acquainted with Jacob Duck, have known him, but not intimately, for about five years. I believe him to be 80 years of age, and I believe what he has stated of his Revolutionary service to be true, but have acquired no knowledge of his being reputed a soldier of the Revolution. Pension granted 11 July 1833, at the rate of forty dollars per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, under the Act of 7 June 1832. [File: S 128061 • • • • ,,. JOHN ELDER, aged 70, resident of Lamar Township, Centre County, personally appeared on 29 April 1834, in Common Pleas Court, Centre County, and made the following declaration on oath: That in the latter part of the summer of 1777, while living in White deer valley, Northumberland (now Union) County, he entered as a volunteer with Captain John ■ Tile original file conta ns signed affidavits of David Cook and Philip Musser, both of Gregg Tovrnship, but were not abstracted by Dv Wagner Pennsylvania Pension Applications 273 Foster's company of Indians scouts or rangers, and marched to Loyalsoc Gap, Northumberland (now Lycoming) County. From thence he marched to Love's [Lone's, Jones'?] gap in the same county. Was in this service for two months, and returned home when the Indians went to their hunting grounds. Captain Foster's company was the only company present at this time. Early in the spring of 1778, he again volunteered into Captain Foster's company (of which Nicholas Shaw was Lieutenant) and marched to Titsol's mill, and from thence to Jenkins station. 2'• About the time of the massacre of Wyoming Valley in this year, the settlement in White deer valley was broken up, and throughout the whole season for the space of eight months and a half, as near as he can recollect, he was engaged in marching from one station to another in said county to guard the same from Indian attacks, and in escorting the settlers back upon the older settled and more compact parts of the country. In the spring of 1779, he again entered into Captain Foster's company and sometime in April marched to Winter's meadow now in Lycoming County, and was in the service until after the destruction of Freeling's [Freeland's] Fort, where Captains Boon and Dougherty and nearly the whole of their command were put to death; this Fort was captured in August,' as he recollects. His own immediate commander in this service was Lieutenant Mathew Wilson. After the destruction of Freeling's Fort, this deponent returned to the settlement, having served for about the space of four months. In March 1780, he again volunteered into Captain Foster's company, after the murder of Swart's Station, to which place he marched and crossed over White deer mountain in pursuit of the Indians as far as Fisher's Station. He cannot distinctly recollect all the places to which he marched this surnmer, but he was actively engaged throughout the season till the Indians went off in the fall, for a space of eight months. In April 1781, when he was living where Der's town,. Union County, now stands, he entered into a company of Rangers commanded by Captain William Clark, of which George Clark was Lieutenant, and marched to Moor's Fort, from thence crossed over White deer mountain, and after being in the service this season for the space of two months until June, he left this section of the country and went to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and did not return again until peace had been concluded. This was John Forster of Northumberland County's First Battalion of militia, commanded by Colonel John Kelly, for which sec Pennsylvania Archives, tth Series, VIII, 637. Dr. Wagner note that a the time of the Revolution Forster lived near Buffed° Cross Roads, and that considerable data on him is contained in the pension application of his son -in - lava John Wilson, of Union Co., and of the latter', widow's application. Si Timell's Mill on Little Buffalo Creek was in White Deer Township. Dr. Wagner noted that on I Dec. 1774, William Robb and his wife Olive conveyed 50 acres to Henry Titzell who built the mill that winter; he was assessed in 1775 on a grist and saw mill. The plan was a rendezvous and a station of the frontier defenders during the Revolution. On 5 May I756, Titzell conveyed the property to Nagel Gray who died the same year. His son John and wife Jane later sold the place 15 Apr. 1796, to John Reniger. The mill was lacer known as Kelly's Mill after Reniger had failed in business. Fort Jenkins or Jenkins' station was probably on the North Branch between Bloomsburg and Berwick, according to Dr. Wegner. Dr. Wagner says it was captured 28 July 1779. Half of the Boone.Dougherty-Kemplin party sent to the relief of Fort Freeland were killed. Some of the survivors were still living in Northumberland in 1832 and were pensioned. Derr's town, now Lewisburg, was laid out by Ludwig Derr early in the spring of 1 783. See his announcement of his intentions in the Independent Gazette, 3 July 1714. 274 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine I was born in Chester County in 1762; the record is in the Family Bible at home in Lamar Township. When I was called into service I was living in White deer valley, then near where Derstown, Union County, now is, and since the war in Chester County, Union County, and Centre County where I now live in Lamar Township. I volunteered or was drafted by necessity and the law of the border settlements, where every man was compelled to do military duty at certain seasons. There were no Continental officers or regiments with us, but of ten other militia companies. I remember Capt. McGrady's company, a body of men snider Lt. Hammond, and another under Capt. Clark. I never received a discharge; our service was such that no discharges were ever given, we being chiefly volunteers or militia, drafted for particular periods of service, at the expiration of which we returned home without a discharge. I was under age, so was never drafted. We drew our ammunition from Col. John Kelly who commanded the Regiment to which Capt. Foster's company belonged. George Leidy, Esq., and Mark Wilson, Esq. can testify to my character and service." There is no settled Clergyman near to where I live, but they are Methodist clergymen who remain but one year on our circuit. /s/ John (X) Elder Pension granted 7 May 1834, at the rate of $68.32 per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, under Act of 7 June 1832. [File: S 23616] 23 April 1839, Mary Elder, widow of John Elder, late of Centre County, deceased, aged 72 years last November, made oath before the Hon'ble Thos. Burnside, Isaac M'Kinney and Jacob Kryder, Esqs., Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, that she was married to the said John Elder on 7 November 1793, and that her husband, John Elder died on 19 January 1835. Is/ Mary (X) Elder 14 June 1839, Joseph Gilliland of Centre County, deposed before Jacob Kryder, Esq., that he was well acquainted with John Elder in his lifetime, and also before his marriage; he was also well acquainted with Mary Dougherty (now Mary Elder) ; that he lived near their residence in Northumberland County, and well recollects the day of their marriage, although he was not present at the ceremony performed by the Rev'd Mr. Morrison; that they raised a family of children. Is/ Joseph Gilliland 16 October 1839, Before John Patton, Justice of the Peace, at Curwensville, Clearfield County, James Elder deposed on oath that he is a son of John and Mary Elder and was born 22 November 1795, and that he has three sisters: Margaret, who is older, Ann, and Mary, both younger than himself, and four brothers, all younger than himself: John, Thomas, William and Robert. That his mother is a resident of Centre County, and that the Bible accompanying this deposition wherein are recorded their Names and Births, is the family Bible of his father John Elder. /s/ James Elder 12 February 1840, George W. Buchanan deposes before W. C. Welch, Justice of the Peace of Centre County, that he cut out the leaves, hereto attached, from the family Bible late of John Elder, referred to in the written deposition. Is/ G. W. Buchanan Lady, high sheriff of the county, and Wilson, a justice of the peace, both attested to Elder's statements. Included in the Me also was a letter, dated 30 Apr. 1834, front one R. C. Hale of Bellefonte, to the Hon. Joseph Henderson, in which Hale stated that Elder was "old, blind, and needy, and certainly wants all that lus services will deserve and the law allows." The Rev. Hugh Morrison in May, 1787, was called by the Buffalo Cross Roads congregation in connection with the congregation of Northumbedand and Sunbury, according so Dr. Wagner. Pennsylvania Pension Applications 275 [Bible Record] " Joshua Elder, was born in the year of our Lord. The 12 March 1795 Cr Pegey Elder, was born in the year of our Lord. The 7 July 1794 James Elder was born, November 22, in the year of our Lord, 1795 John Elder was born, Aprile 14 in the year of our Lord, 1797 Thomas Elder was born, October the 20th in the year of our Lord, 1798 [The second leaf is mutilated and part missing, with perhaps two or more names unreadable.] Robert Elder was born November 2 in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven. 24 October 1839, before George Liggett, Justice of the Peace of Holmes County, Ohio, Margaret Thompson desposed on oath that she is the daughter of John and Mary Elder and the eldest child; she was born 7 July 1794, and that she had two sisters and five brothers: Mary, who married John Wilson; Ann, who married Goo. Walters; James, John, Thomas, William, and Robert. Her father died in January 1835, at Salona, Centre County, and she well remembers John [sic] Morrison, a Presbyterian minister of Buffaloe Valley, Pennsylvania, whom she often heard her Father and Mother speak of as the Minister who joined them in marriage. /s/ Margaret Thompson 14 February 1840, before Wm. McClaskey, Justice of the Peace in Potter Township, Centre County, Joseph Gilliland further deposes that: In 1793 I lived in Northumberland (now Union) County, White deer Township, and that John Elder and Polly Dougherty lived in the same neighborhood. They were married at Thomas Elder's, John Elder's father, by the Rev. Hugh Morrison, Presbyterian minister, then Pastor of Buffaloe Congregation. I was not at the wedding, but a man who was groomsman lived in the some house I did, and told me all about it. After Polly Dougherty was married to John Elder, she was called by some Polly, by some Molly, by some Mary Elder. I do not know of any person now living that was at there [sic] marriage. She always bore a good name for honesty and industry. H. R. [House of Representatives] 21 April 1842 J. L. Edwards, Esq., Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir: Please inform the Com. of Rev. Pensions, the reason the department rejected the petition of Mary Elder, widow of John Elder of Penn'a, also whether any evidence of John Elder's services exist, and how long he served. With great respect, yours, Is/ J. Fornance [Ho. of Reps.] . The record was on leaves removed from The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour fens, Christ, translated out of the original Tongues and with tbe former translations diligently comPared end revised by Nis Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read ha Churches. Edinburgh. Printed by Mark and Charles Kerr His Majesty's Printers. MDCCXCIV. The kayo were about four by six inches in size, old and discolored. A letter in the his from George Buchanan to the Hon. John L Edwards, Commissioner of Pensioners, 10 Feb. 1840, referring to the pensions for Mrs. C. Kehl, widow of Jacob Kehl, and for Henry Maims, both of Centre County, also refers to the Elder Bible record. It includes aa well the notation that .Joshua Elder, I am informed, was a nuural son of Ina Elder, which will explain why he is not mention.ed in the depositionx" The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 276 23 April 1852, before D. W. Moore, Justice of the Peace in Clearfield County, James Elder, resident of Bell Township, Clearfield County, deposed on oath that he is a son of Mary Elder who applied for a pension under the Act of 7 June 1838, on account of the service of his deceased father, John Elder, pension at the rate of $68.32 per annum; that he has beer, informed the said Pension ought to be allowed; that this affidavit is to be filed with such additional evidence as my Agent 25 may use in prosecuting such claim; that Mary Elder died 30 December 1848, leaving five children: Margaret Thompson, James Elder, Ann Walters, William Elder and Mary Wilson surviving her. /5/ James Elder 28 January 1853, Richard Shaw, Judge of Common Pleas Court, Clearfield County, certifies that this day satisfactory evidence has been adduced before him that Mary Elder, widow of John Elder, died on 31 [sic] December 1848, leaving Margaret Thompson, James Elder, Ann Walters, William Elder and Mary Wilson, as her only surviving children. Certificate of Pension issued 5 Feb'y 1853, for Mary Elder, deceased, widow of John Elder, private in the Revolution, at rate of $68.32 per annum, from 4 March 1836, to 31 December 1848, when she died. Except 2 years. Pay to Margaret Thompson, James Elder, Ann Walters, Wm. Elder, and Mary Wilson, surviving children, under Act of 7 July 1838. Certificate sent to S. T. Shugart. [File: W 24117] * a * PETER FLORY, aged 59 years, resident of Union County, on 21 May 1818, personally appeared before the President Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and made the following declaration on oath: He enlisted in Middletown, then Lancaster, now Dauphin County, in the fall of 1776, in the company commanded by Captain Bull and afterwards by Captain Isaac Van horn, in the Sixth Regiment in the Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel Richard Humpton." He continued in service in said corps or in the service of the United States until 1 April 1781, when he was discharged at Lebanon, then Lancaster, now Dauphin County, as per discharge. He was in the battles of the storming of the Block-house in the Jerseys and at Elizabethtown. He is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. He has no other evidences, now in his power, of his said service. /5/ Peter Flory 23 January 1821, before Common Pleas Court, Centre County, Peter Flory, aged about 66 years, resident of Hain. Township, Centre County, deposed on oath that he served in the Revolution as follows: In the fall of 1777 he enlisted for three years in the company commanded by Isaac Vanhorn, in the regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Harmer [Harmar]; 30 that he was stationed at West Point Fort and marched to a place called Jockey-hollow; was in an engagement at a Block-house near the North [Hudson] River A duly executed power of attorney to S. T. Shugart to prosecute the claim, dated 23 Feb. 1852, is included in the Ce. .None of these officers were attuhed to the Sixth Regiment in 1776, so far as is known; Humpton was not in command of the Sixth until 1781, for which et Pe,snsylvallie Archives, 2nd Serie, X, 701. It would appear therefore, that Flory's later deposition, which gives the date of 1777 as the time he enlisted, is more accurate. .Harmat was promoted to lieutenant colonel 6 June 1777, and uansferred from the Third to the Sixth Regiment. /bid., 447. Pennsylvania Pension Applications 277 and also at Elizabethtown in New Jersey, and to the best of his recollection was discharged in the summer or Fall of 1820 [sic].. He was placed on the pension list of which he received a certificate dated 21 July 1819, No. 13,322. 02 He is a day labourer by occupation; is lame with rheumatic pains and becoming unable to earn a livelihood; he has a wife and three small children, the eldest of whom is nine years old, lame and in all probability will never be able to walk; the second child is seven years old and the youngest six years old.. [File: S 421971 •o*•„„ LUDWiCK FRIEDLEY, aged 74 years last June past, resident of Logan Township, Centre County, personally appeared 29 January 1833, in Common Pleas Court of Centre County and made the following declaration on oath: In 1775 I went out as a substitute (I think sometime in the month of August) for a man named Wallick under the command of Colonel Peter Grub of Lancaster County. My captain was Henry Weaver of New Holland, 1st lieutenant, George Fisher of the same place.. We were marched to Philadelphia where we lay seventeen days in the Barracks. Whilst we were in the Barracks, a large company was enlisted out of our regiment into the Flying Camp. After a short time we were sent home on a conditional Furlough, and were not called on again. I cannot tell how long we were in the service that time. The second time, I was drafted in the Militia of Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, in 1777. I marched under Colonel Hoover; my captain was named Gingrich.. We lay at Lancaster guarding the British prisoners, and was marched from that place and encamped between the Schuylkill and Darby. We lay at this place when Mud Island Fort was taken by the British, 55 and heard the report of the arms very distinctly. We were discharged not long after; our call was for two months which I served and was honorably discharged. In 1778 I was again drafted. Colonel Robert Elder of Paxton Township, Lancaster County was my commanding officer. My captain was Isaac Adams of Adam's Town in Lancaster County; Adam Eicholts of the same place was 1st lieutenant. We rendezvoused at Lancaster; marched to Paoli, from there to Yellow Springs, from there to Valley Forge where we crossed the Schuylkill. From there to the Wishkihick [Wissahickon] near the ° This is obviously a clerical error. ° A schedule of Flory', property included in the fde was only summarized by Dr. Wagner. He listed a house and lot, livestock, household effects, tools, etc., valued at $201.40, and debts due by Flory amounted to $245.79. The original schedule also listed his creditors. ° This second deposition was ill pursuance of the Act of 1 May 1520, m which all pensioners not in ;ndigent circumstances were dropped from the pension rolls. Flory seems to have been uncertain as to his age, having given it as 59 in 1818, and 66 in 1821. The age of 79, as given in Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XXM, 502, h presumed to be a typographical error, however. Friedley's memory was at fault as to year. Weaver's company of Peter Grubb's Battalion of Associaton mustered 20 Aug. 1776, not in 1775, and seas "destined for camp in the Jerseys." Ibid., Sod Series, XIII, 342. Presumably these officers were Colonel John Huber of Lancaster County's Ninth Battalion, and Cap- ° ° tain John GingrIch of that bawalion's In Company. Ibid., 361. Fort Mifflin "alias Mud Island," was evacuated by the Americans during the night of 15 Nov. 1777, after heavy bombardment. "Defences of Philadelphia in 1777," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XIX (1895). 370. 278 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Farmers Mills and White March [sir] Church. From that we marched to Chestnut Hill through Flour Town) where we had a skirmish with the British. Captain Witty was killed, and several other officers and privates. We returned back through Flour Town °' to our former encampment where I continued until my two months tour was completed. I was again called our, I think in the year 1779. We met at Dunkard's Town, Lancaster County, under the command of the above Colonel Hoover--it was sometime in June. We were ordered to Lebanon to guard the Hessian prisoners," and continued there until they were sent to Philadelphia, to which place we guarded them, and then delivered up our arms and accoutrements and was discharged. I was five months employed in the Continental service as an Artificer at Reading, Berks County, but do not recollect the year. My name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State; I have no docir mentary evidence of service, and know of no person who could testify to it. I was born in Cocalico Township, Lancaster County in 1758. Fleet is the evidence of my age in my father's handwriting. I was living in Cocalico Township when called into service. I have lived in Cumberland County, afterwards in York County, and then again in Cumberland County. Then I went to Northumberland County, and now live in Logan Township, Centre County. I was first a substitute for a man named Wallick; I was drafted three times, and served two months each time. I think our Brigadier General was named Armstrong, but do not recollect the names of any in Continental Regiments. The discharges I received when I was drafted were from my captains; I have lost them. John Wilt and John Schrock can testify as to my veracity. Is/ Ludwick fridley [sir] 24 June 1833, personally appeared before Common Pleas Court of Centre County, Ludwick Friedley, aged 73 years an this month, and made further declaration on oath. [Here follows his service in 1775 as given in his first deposition, with the month of August added as the exact time when he went out into service, and that he was in the service at this time one month. Omitted was his previous statement about guarding British prisoners at Lancaster. His recollection of the Chestnut Hill engagement included the following new information.] The engagement [at Chestnut Hill] lasted one hour, this I recollected distinctly from the fact that the Capt. of the picket guard at the Barnhill [Barren Hill] Meeting House told me he had pulled out his watch when I first heard the report of arms and that it lasted one hour. The name of our Brigadier General was Armstrong; he, we were told, was taken prisoner at the battle of Chestnut Hill." I afterwards in the year 1780, in the month of January, entered into service as an Artificer at Reading (making Shoes) under the direction and control of CoL Holler." I worked for five months. We were paid by the month as soldiers, and received rations w This engagement was in early December 1777, not in 1778. Perwatyivanir Archive, [1st Series], VI, 70, 95; ibid., 5th Series, VII, 1090-1. It seam clear that Friedley considered his permanent duty nation and his active-duty station as two separate services. Elder was colonel of she Fourth Battalion sad in command of the 4th Clan mm ohm called out. In 1777, Isaac Adams and Eicholtz were captain sad 155 lieutenant of the 4th Company, Ninth Lancaster County Battalion. See aid., Sod Series, XIII, 356, 561. .The Hessian prisoners taken at Trenton were delivered to Philadelphia nrly in February, 1777, and ohm moved on to Baltimore, as noted in Minute, of the Consul of Safely, XI, 116, 129. It was in May, 1778, that the Lancaster militia was to furnish a guard of not more then 100 mm to guard the Continental scorn at Lebanon. Ibid., 498. It was General James Irvine who was wounded and taken prisoner at Chestnut Hill, not Armnrong. as This was Colonel Henry Holler, originally a tailor, who had commanded the Berke County Battalion of the Flying Camp. Ibid., 5th Series, V. 291. Pennsylvania Pension Applications 279 to every three shoes we made and which was our day's work. J. George Hearn, a [Lutheran] Clergyman residing in Unarm County and preacher for the congregation an Logan Township, and John Schrock of Logan Township, can testify to my character for veracity and belief m my service as a soldier of the Revolution. /s/ Ludwick fnedley [sic] Bellefonte, 26 March Jos. Henderson, Esq. Dear Sir: I have taken the liberty to send you enclosed the original declaration and application of my father for a Pension, the amendment to this declaration is now in the Pension office, and this enclosed paper was unfortunately left by mistake in this place, when the amendment or supplement was sent to the Department. I have to request you to present this paper to the proper office and urge a speedy decision on the whole application. And should anything be further wanted or necessary, will you please to inform me by letter directed to Sugar valley Post office in Centre County. Respectfully yours, Is/ Frederick Fridley [Two statements of the Comptroller, Albion K. Parris are included in the original file. The last, under date of 20 August 1842, says Ludwick Friedley's pension of $23.33 was paid at the Treasury Department from 4 March to 4 September 1841, indicating he was living at the latter date.] Pension granted 3 April 1834, at the rate of $23.33 per annum, to commence 4 March 1831, sander the act of 7 June 1832. [File. S 22248] JOHN GARRISON, aged 62 years, resident of Spring Township, Centre County, personally appeared on 2 December 1820, before Centre County Court of Common Pleas and on oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: In 1776 he enlisted in Haverstraw in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Pell of the Second Regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Courtland, in which Corps he served during the war and was discharged at Newburgh on the North [Hudson] River in the State of New York, in the Spring of 1782. He was at the taking of Burgoyne at Saratoga [8 October 1777]; at the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey [28 June 1778]; was in the Campaign with General Sullivan against the Indians [August-September 1779]; and at the Siege of York [Yorktown] in Virginia when Lord Cornwallis surrendered [18 October 1781]. He further sayeth that he has lost his discharge, and that he has no evidence, now in his power, of his said services. He was a resident citizen of the United States on 18 May 1818 [as required by the Act of 1 May 1818]. He has no property other than live stock, implements, household effects, &c, valued at $37.32 Va . He is a day laborer by occupation, and is becoming infirm to earn a livelihood to subsist on. He has a wife who is old, but has no children. Is/ John (X) Garrison Pension granted 12 July 1821, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on 2 December 1820, under the Acts of 18 March 1818, and 1 May 1820. 41 The Index, cited in Note 5, lists as pensioners two John Garrisorn who served with New York troops. 01. file number is S 10718, the other S 41S 6 S. Which is the pertinent file here has not been established. At the time Dr. Wagner abstracted the record, the number on the file jacket was 15,215.