Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Samuel Lindsay, Pennsylvania
Page 1

(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
[Handwritten black star]
Lindsay, Samuel
1784
NUMBER
Dis.-
No papers
CONTENT
Page 2

Lindsay, Samuel
His name appears on a list of applicants
for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 101.
 
Rank: Lieutenant.
Colonel F. Bull's battalion of flying camp.
Disability: Wounded in the head with the stroke of the butt end of a musket, when the British army attacked and captured Fort Washington, in the State of N. York, by which means he has lost his left eye, the effect of which has also nearly deprived him
of the sight of the other eye, that, also, at the same time, he was wounded by the enemy in his right leg by a musket ball, in the actual line of his duty in the service of the United States.
When and where disabled: Nov. 16, 1776, Fort Washington,
New York State
Residence: Nether Providence, Delaware County.
To what pension entitled; Three-fourths
Remarks: This officer was in the flying camp, and a prisoner
Al See list 1835
over
Page 3

Evidence transmitted by the District Court incomplete as to the time of his leaving the service; but the time for which these troops were enlisted was four or five months.
June 16, 1906 aw
Page 4

806 W. King St.
Martinsburg, W. Va.
April 22, 1939
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
There was a Samuel Lindsay who served
as First Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion
of Chester County militia under the
command of Col. William Montgomery, attached to the Flying Camp of Pennsylvania. He was
bounded and taken prisoner at Fort Washington, Nov. 16, 1776. He died April 16, 1800.
Page 5

Will you please give me any facts you have relative to this death and the names
of the members of his family who were recipients of a pension because of his service and injury
Thanking you
I am,
Yours truly
Grace E. Lindsay
Page 6

806 W. King St
Martinsburg, W. Va.
June 5, 1939
[handwritten inserted] History had Gone
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you please give me all the information
you have on record pertaining to Samuel Lindsay who served in the 8th Battalion of Chester County militia under Colonel William Montgomery, attached to the Flying Camp of Pennyslvania [Pennsylvania] in the Revolutionary War? He was wounded and taken prisoner at Ft. Washington, Nov. 16, 1776. He died April 16, 1900. What I particularly wish to know is, where did he
Page 7

live at the time of his death, what was
his wife's name, and the names of the children
for whom a pension was granted
I am trying to trace the connection of my
family and will be greatly obliged for your
help in this matter I wrote you a month
or six weeks ago concerning this but the letter must have gone astray.
Yours sincerely
Grace E. Lindsay
[Black round stamp] 10:45 RECEIVED JUN 8 1939 [illegible] 21
Page 8

Grace R. Lindsay
806 W. King Street
Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Dear Madam:
July 13, 1939.
BA-J/ILL
Samuel Lindsay
Rev. War
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Samuel Lindsay, 1st Lieutenant in the Flying Camp of Pennsylvania, who was wounded at Fort Washington, in 1776.

The records of this office show that Samuel Lindsay, of Nether Providence, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was Lieutenant of
Colonel T. (Thomas) Bull's Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp, was in the battle of Fort Washington on November 18, 1776,
where he was wounded by a musket ball in his right leg, also, wounded in his head by the butt end of a musket which resulted in the loss
of his left eye and nearly deprived him of the sight in his right eye, and was taken prisoner.

On account of his service and disability resulting from wounds incurred while in service, as cited above, Samuel Lindsay was allowed pension from March 4, 1793, at the rate of $120 per annum, under the Act of September 29, 1789. He was then a resident
of Philadelphia Co. Pennsylvania. He died April 16, 1800. [Handwritten text in right margin - S. of War Phila. Pa turned list page 47] 

There are no statements on file made by this officer at the time he made application for pension, because of the destruction
of papers in such early claims when the War Office was burned in 1800, hence, nor data pertaining to his family. 

It is suggested that further information in regard to the military record of this officer might be obtained from the Adjutant General, War Department, this city.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
Page 9

aw Rev. War Section.
[handwritten text right margin: Pa Bail of LC Thomas Bull]
Mr. Leon French, [handwritten arrow pointing right to this text: See [illegible] letter in Rev War John Gordon Penn. S39603]
November 27, 1914.
Suite 1008 California Building,
Los Angeles, California.
Sir:-
In response to your letter dated the eighteenth instant, you are herewith furnished the history of the Revolutionary War pensioner ^ John Gordon Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Sur. File No. 39,603, and advised that John Gordon, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, whose pension certificate issued January 17, 1816, Sur. File No. 10,190, did not serve in the War of the Revolution but enlisted January 1, 1814, served in Captain William Little-john's company of Light Dragoons, was discharged May 1, 1815, and was pensioned on account of a fracture of his right thigh which caused an amputation of the same. There is no data on
file as to his family.
You are further advised that Lieutenant Samuel Lindsay of Colonel T. Bull's Battalion of the Flying Camp, was captured November 16, 1776, at Fort Washington and was wounded in the head by the butt end of a musket which caused the loss of his left eye and nearly deprived him of the sight of the right eye,
and at the same time he received a musket wound in his right leg.
Page 10

He was pensioned from March 4, 1793, at the rate of $120 per annum, and died April 16, 1800.
there is no data on file as to his family.
[Handwritten arrow from left margin points to text above: This from List of 1835]
Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.