Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.32091, Joseph Alexander, Penn.
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Penn.
Alexander, Joseph
NUMBER
S.32
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

State of Indiana
County of Montgomery

On this 19th day of March 1833 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the circuit court of said county and state now sitting, Joseph Alexander, a resident of Coal Creek Township in said county of Montgomery and state of Indiana, aged seventy-seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he enlisted in the army of the United States about Christmas in the year 1777 as a volunteer private under Capt. Hugh White in the regiment of Pennsylvania Militia at Sunsbury in Northumberland county, state of Pennsylvania and marched thence to Philadelphia, thence to Trenton and Princeton and Piscataway and near to Amboy where the British then were and were discharged, deponent thinks at Springfield about the 1st of April 1878 and marched to Philadelphia for this way.

Deponent was in ten skirmishes during this tour among which were the skirmish of the Ash Swamp, Camrow's Hills, (illegible) and one at a place called Crow, as deponent thinks in New Jersey.  During this tour deponent was (illegible) an ensign of said company.  Deponent recollects to have seen on this tour Generals Putnam and Maxfield of the regular army and Col. Cook with his regulars cooperated at the battle of the Ash Swamp.  This tour was three months or upward.  Deponent having enlisted for those terms.

Deponent again enlisted at Sunsbury in the fall of 1778 for a three months tour having been ordered out for a (illegible) under Capt. James McMahan of the Pennsylvania Militia being under the command of Col. Antis and was first lieutenant in said company and marched to the west branch of the Susquehanna near the Big Island where they remained guarding the frontier during that winter and were discharged in the spring of 1779 at Pine Creek.  

Upon this campaign we fell in with no regulars I led no skirmishes and went out three months.  Immediately after being discharged from that service deponent got a captain's commission in the Susquehanna boat service under commander Frederick Antis with the (illegible) of raising 50 men for a five months tour, which he did about the first of April 1779 and they went up the
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Susquehanna and Tioga Rivers in their boats to Newtown Point.  Commander Antis went no farther.  General Sullivan commanded this expedition.  At Newtown Point they were met by General Clinton and his army, which two armies marched thence by land (deponent going with them) to Senecon Lake and thence to the (illegible) county and cut off the supplies of the enemy there and returned to Newtown Point, and there deponent and those with him reembarked and went down the rivers.  I was discharged at Cox's Town about November 1779.  

During his services deponent acted as captain as above stated.  Deponent never received a written discharge.  Deponent at the time of said several enlistments resided within one mile of the town of (illegible) in Northumberland in Pennsylvania.  His commission as captain as aforesaid was burnt with his father's house in 1780, as he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state.
Signed:  Joseph Alexander

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Signed: John Wilson, Clerk

We, Alexander Crawford and Joseph Hanks, both of the said county of Montgomery hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Alexander who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be between 70 and eighty years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solider of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Signed:  Joseph Hanks, Alex Crawford

Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.
Signed:  John Wilson, Clerk
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and Alexander Crawford who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of said county and are credible persons; that their statement is entitled to credit and that they have been a long time acquainted with the applicant.
Signed:  John R. Porter, James Hill, Abraham Ketcham

I, John Wilson, clerk of the circuit court of Montgomery County in the state of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Alexander for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of March 1833.
Signed:  John Wilson, Clk.

(Supplement)

State of Indiana
Montgomery County

On the 17th day of September 1833 personally appeared in the circuit court of said county in open court now sitting the above named Joseph Alexander and, on his oath, makes the following supplemental declaration for the purpose set forth on the 1st page of this sheet.

That on the 19th of March 1833 (the date of the above declaration) then was not living in this  vicinity, nor does there now live there any resident clergyman by whom he can give traditional(?) evidence of his Revolutionary services, it being a new and (illegible) neighborhood and the clergyman who visit it itinerant.  Deponent in answer to the interrogatories put to him by the court and prescribed by the War Department says that he was born in the County Tyrone, Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain in the year 1756 and emigrated to America at the age of 9 years.  He has no record of his age, it having been in his father's family Bible which was burnt with his house in 1780.  

Deponent at the time of his said several enlistments resided within one mile of the town of Northumberland in the county of that name in Pennsylvania.  Deponent after the Revolution resided in Northumberland and Centre(?) Counties respectively until about 30 years ago when he removed to Ross County and resided in Ross and Clarke Counties, Ohio, until September 1828 when he removed to Montgomery County, Indiana, where he has resided and where he now lives.  

Deponent volunteered in his first above tour in which he served as private and ensign; was drafted in his second above tour in which he served as first lieutenant; and accepted a captain's commission which was sent to him in his last above named tour in the Boat service.  He was
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engage in no civil pursuit while in the service aforesaid.  He here refers to the names of the general officers (regular) and continental troops with whom he served and became acquainted as set forth in his above declaration.  Deponent does not recollect to have received a written discharge at the end of his first tour and (illegible) cannot recollect by whom his commissions as lieutenant and captain were signed, they having both been burnt in 1780.  He refers to and states the names of Joseph Hanks and Alexander Crawford (above named) living in his neighborhood by whom he can prove his good character for veracity and their belief of his Revolutionary services.
Signed:  Joseph Alexander

Sworn to in open court Sept. 17th 1833.
Signed:  John Wilson, Clk.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the said Joseph Alexander has served as stated in his declaration and supplemental declaration and further that it appears to them that there is no settled clergymen in his neighbored by whom he can give the (illegible) evidence of his services. Sept. 18 1833
Signed: John R. Porter

I, John Wilson, clerk of the said circuit court of Montgomery County in the state of Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the supplemental declaration of Joseph Alexander, an applicant for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of Sept. 1833.
Signed:  John Wilson, Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL
July 12, 1929

Rose A. Syron
1012 N. Bishop Avenue
Dallas, Texas
Madam;

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.32091, it appears that Joseph Alexander was born in 1756, in County Tyrone, Ireland, and
came to America when he was nine years of age.
While residing a short distance from Northumberland,
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted about Christmas, 1777, and served three months as a private
and ensign in Captain Hugh White's Pennsylvania Company;
was in ten skirmishes, among them being Ash Swamp, Camron's Hills and Piscataway.
In the fall of 1778, he was commissioned First Lieutenant and served three months in Captain James McMahan's
Company, Colonel Antis' Pennsylvania Regiment.
He was commissioned Captain and served from about
April 1, 1779, until November, 1779, in the Susquehanna Boat service under Commodore Frederick Antis, was in
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case of Jos: Alexander
J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington City
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Affixed Oct 10. 1833
attest James Cunningham Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL
November 1, 1929

Mrs. Charles L. Syron
1012 H. Bishop Avenue
Dallas, Texas

Dear Madam:
I advise you that in the papers on file in the Revolutionary
War pension claim, S.32091, of Joseph Alexander,
there is no reference to wife or children.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Joseph Alexander,
S. 32091, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C.,
citing all of the following data:
Joseph Alexander, Certificate No. 25025, issued November 12, 1833, rate $36.66 per annum, commenced March 4,
1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.