MILITARY – REVWAR PENSION: Samuel WHITE, 1833, Formerly of Lancaster Co., PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com July 24, 2006, 3:29 pm Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lancaster/ _______________________________________________ Pension Application Of Samuel White, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #R18952 Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, June 5, 1833, Samuel White, a resident of Hartland, Huron County, Ohio, aged 73 years: “That in order to ____ his services with the services of his brother, James White, the declarant states that his said brother, James White, in the year 1776, enlisted in the Continental Army for 3 years into a company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in Colonel ?Maclay’s regiment. He does not recollect the name of the brigadier general. That his said brother served in said Continental company under General Washington near Philadelphia for one year.” “That about the end of said year, was in 1777, the declarant’s father, Josiah White’s wagon and 4 horses was pressed by the authority of the United States into their service and the said James having been used to said horses and wagon, then being under said establishment, was detailed and ordered to take charge of the same, and served as a teamster for part of his two following years, until the year 1779, when his said brother died at Quibble Town in New Jersey, about 10 miles from Philadelphia.” “That in 1779, the declarant says that his father’s aid team wagon and horses were again pressed into the service of the United States. That the declarant then living at the town of Pastor in Lancaster County in the state of Pennsylvania being then about 16 years of age, and being also well acquainted with said horses and wagon, was pressed by authority of the United States to take charge of the same, which he accordingly did, and in the year 1779, he had charge and served with the same from the spring of that year to October or November following, not less than 6 months in hauling provisions: flour, rye, hay, ?swabs, ?drag ropes?, shovels from Cox’s Town down to Staats Town, where, at the latter place, was a provision store. That he, loaded back with salt provisions, and back with flour and whiskey to Staats Town.” “That he also carried and dispersed the ?Teamsters of those who were pressed into the service under General Sullivan of the Continental Army into different parts of the country. One Doctor ?Wagner was surgeon of the regiment to which the declarant belonged. He served between said Cox’s Town lying on the Susquehanna and Lancaster, and from the latter to said Staats Town in hauling cannons and ammunitions of war. Colonel Cox was the commander and superintendent of the store on the Susquehanna and of the teams. A number besides his said father’s were pressed into service. He, the declarant, was under the immediate command of William ?L__, purchasing commissary and were under the general command of General Sullivan. The names of the clerks in Cox’s store were Alexander Berryhill and the other’s name was Cagley; he don’t recollect his Christian name. Both were in the same store. The provisions he hauled to Cox’s store were carried from thence up the Susquehanna to the Genesee country (he thinks in 1779) for the use of General Sullivan’s army in his expedition against the Indians.” “After the capture of General Burgoyne at Saratoga in 1777, the American army moved to the southward and the French Fleet came into the Capes of the Delaware, the declarant then living also at Pastor. His said father’s horses and wagon was again pressed into the services of the United States, and he the declarant, was again pressed to take charge of horses with the same, and that he hauled with it, provisions, whiskey and other articles in each of the summers of 1780 and 1781 from said Pastor and other places to Philadelphia. That he was employed in that service not less than 2 months in each of the said summers of 1780 and 1781. It took him generally 10 days to go ____ from Philadelphia. In the last mentioned service he was pressed and commanded by contractors and commissaries under the authority of General Washington.” “He was about 17 years of age when he served in 1780, and 18 in 1781. He never received a discharge while he served as aforesaid in teaming and hauling. He remembers George McMillan who commanded a company of militia. The name of the colonel of the regiment, he don’t recollect. This Captain McMillan was employed in guarding the Hessians at Lancaster, a part of whom after their capture at Trenton, was brought to said Lancaster. He remembers Major John Gilchrist of the Continental army who was wounded in battle and died at Greensburg in Westmoreland County. He always took receipts for all the loads which he carried to different places during his services aforesaid.” “And the declarant further says that his father never made any contract with the United States respecting the use of said horses and wagon as aforesaid, nor did the declarant ever make any such contract, nor did his said father ever, according to the declarant’s best knowledge, ever receive any compensation therefore, nor did the declarant ever receive any compensation for his said services, except one half bushel of salt. The declarant says he was in the habit of carrying straw and ground rye in his wagon, and was obliged many times to ?get ?uprights and out straw and out with the ground rye for provender for said horses. The public horses having provender being frequently at an inconvenient distance. That he generally lodged in his wagon, and he was much and frequently so full of loading that he was obliged to sleep under his wagon exposed to storms and bad weather, in consequence of which his constitution became much impaired, his limbs became much enfeebled. He is now entirely helpless. I t has been over five years next September since he has been able to walk a step, even with the assistance of others. That he, in common with other soldiers, drew his rations at the public stores while he was impressed as aforesaid…That he was born in said Pastor in February 1760, and that he has no record of his age. That he lived, after the war, in the county of Washington near Pittsburg, Pa about 9 miles from said Pittsburg. Went from thence to Greensburg in Westmoreland County, lived there 8 or 9 years. >From thence he removed to Ohio near Youngstown where Judge Hirtland lived. He remained there about 2 years. From thence he removed to ?Asti___ town and county in said Ohio. Lived at the latter place about 7 years. From thence he removed to said Hartland, where he has lived 12 years.” “Upon further reflection, he remembers that the colonel of the regiment in which was the company commanded by Captain McMillan was Colonel Smith, and he remembers during his said services, he frequently saw General Washington who accompanied the army. The Rev. ____ Call of Florence in said county, and William Howland of Hartland in said county will testify respecting his services as a soldier of the Revolutionary War…” “The declarant further says that very near the time of the peace between Great Britain and the United States, which closed the Revolutionary War (he cannot say positively whether it was before the close of said war or a short time after) he entered and served as a ranger or Indian spy for part of two summers, one under the command of Captain John Eliot, in Colonel John ?Campbell’s regiment, and the other under Captain John Craig in a regiment commanded by the same Colonel ?Campwell. That he served ____ up the Allegheny River about 30 miles above Pittsburg, and at other places. That he served not less than 6 months in both said summers." This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 8.1 Kb