Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35907, Aaron Easor, N C
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

(3-1776)

Service
Del

* Easor, Aaron.
or Easer

Number
S 35907

Contents
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

35907
Revy INVALID Own

File No. 35,907
Aaron Eason

Pri [Private] Rev. War

Act: 18th March 18th [1818]

Index: -Vol. 2, Page 118

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

16.134 
Delaware 
Aaron Easor
of Sussex County in the state of Delaware who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Hall of the Delaware line, for the term of six years 

Inscribed on the roll of Delaware at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 15 of November [1821?] 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of December and sent to [line is too light] 
George [Soular?] Delaware 

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1821 29.29 
Semi-anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending 3 mo. 16.4/30.51
$29 29 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Aaron Easor
Private
77 to 83
Hall Delaware
Regt. 

Admitted
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District of Delaware} 
Sussex County Ss.} On this fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, in and for the said District or State of Delaware, personally appeared Aaron Easor aged between seventy and eighty years, resident in said District of Delaware (Sussex County), who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war”:
That he the said Aaron Easor inlisted [enlisted] for the term of and during the Revolutionary war, on the [blank] day of [bank] in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, in the County of Sussex, in the State of Delaware, in the company commanded by Captain [Robert] Kirkwood, of the Delaware Regiment commanded by Col. David Hall, sometimes by a Major Patten [John Patton] & Col. Lawrence [John Laurens], in the line, on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, untill [until] the conclusion of the war, when he was discharged from the service in New Castle, in the State of Delaware, that he was in the battles of the Cowpens [SC, 17 Jan 1781], Guilford [Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781], at Camden [either Battle of Camden SC on 16 Aug 1780 or Battle of Hobkirk Hill near Camden on 25 Apr 1781], and at Little York at the taking of Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781] &c. – And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Aaron [his X mark] Easer
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid} 
Sam’l. Paynter Junr. [Jr.] J.
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State of Delaware} 
Sussex County Ss.} 
Be it Remembered that on the sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and nineteen, Mitchell Lecatts [Mitchell Lecatt, pension application S36040] aged sixty two years, personally appeared before me Samuel Paynter Jun’r. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty god, did depose and say that he knew Aaron Easor in the foregoing Deposition named, an inhabitant of Sussex County, and has known him from the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, and that he was at that time a Soldier in the Delaware Regiment, and continued in the said Regiment to the knowledge of this Deponent untill [until] they were discharged by a Resolve of Congress at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, and during the time of about five years that he served in the said regiment with this Deponent, he done faithful duty 
Mitchell [his X mark] Lecatts
Sworn and subscribed the day and year afsd [aforesaid]}
Saml. Paynter Jun.}

State of Delaware} 
Sussex County ss.} Be it remembered that on the seventeenth day of November in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen, Edward Harmon [S.36000] of the County of Sussex and State aforesaid aged about sixty years, Personally appeared before me Samuel Paynter Jun’r. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, did Depose and say that he has known Aaron Easor in the foregoing Depositions named, an inhabitant of Sussex County afs’d. [aforesaid] before the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, he inlisted [enlisted] in the company commanded by Captain Kirkwood
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in the Delaware Regiment, commanded by Col. David Hall, and occasionally by Col. Laurence and Col. [William] Washington, and continued in the service of the United States untill [until] the conclusion of the war, when he was discharged by general proclamation, and from the time of his enlistment to his discharge in the southern states, in the Army commanded by Generals, [Horatio] Gates and Green [Nathanael Greene]. 
Edward [his X mark] Harmon
Test}
Saml. R. Paynter} 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me Saml. Paynter Jun.} 
I do Certify that from the foregoing Depositions and my long acquaintance with the said Aaron Easor, I am fully satisfied that he served in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy, more than nine months, and that he is intitled [entitled] to all the benefits of the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an "act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." 
That he is in indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support. 
Given under my hand in Sussex County this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 
Saml. Paynter Jun. J 

The State of Delaware} 
Sussex County to wit} I do hereby certify that Samuel Paynter Esquire one of the Judges the Supreme Court for the State of Delaware aforesaid and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given all his acts and deeds as Such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at George Town the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & nineteen.
Wm Russel 6th SC
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Aaron Easor
10 134
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District of Delaware 
On this the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, personally appeared in open Court, the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware, sitting in and for the County of Sussex, (it being a court of record, having the power of fine and imprisonment) Aaron Easor, aged about eighty years, resident in Dagsborough [Dagsboro] Tennessee [Delaware] in the said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, in the Delaware Regiment, in the Company of Captain Kirkwood in the Delaware Line. The first declaration made by this deponent was on the fifteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the pension he has received has been on the pension certificate No. 16,134. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March, one thousand, eight hundred and eighteen, that I have not since that time by gift sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent there by to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”, passed on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due to me nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule here to annexed and by me subscribed
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Schedule or List of property belonging to Aaron Easor.

One chest of the value of 1.00
Two old pots .75
Some old cups and saucers .25
One Axe .50
One half bushel .20
One bucket .20
One table .50
One iron wedge .50
Two old barrels .50
One bed stead .50
Two stools .10
$5.00

And this deponent further saith that his occupation is farming; that he is verry infirm and afflicted with severe pains. That he has a wife named Kesiah about seventy years old and one son named Thomas Easor about fifteen years old.
Sworn and declared by the said Aaron Easor on the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and Twenty one before 
Francis Brown Prth’y. [Prothonotary]
Aaron [his X mark] Easor

I Francis Brown, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the same court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is five ---- dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court on this first day of May -- one thousand eight hundred and twenty one. 
Francis Brown Prothy