Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,633, John Dalrymple, New Jersey
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Service: New Jersey
Dalrymple, John
Number: R. 2633
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John Dalrymple
26. 504
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The State of Ohio
Preble County

on this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Hon: the judges of the Court of Common pleas for Preble county aforesaid now sitting, John Dalrymple a resident of the county of Preble aforesaid aged seventy six 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein states:
That in the fall of the year 1779 or 1780. but which [illegible] cannot [illegible], he joined a company of volunteers, under the Command of Captain George Elle lying at a place called Bung Town in Hunterdon County New Jersey. The duty assigned to the company to which deponent voluntarily attached himself was to transport provisions on the Deleware River from Bordontown to Easton, and also to carry stores and munitions of war for the army of the United States, then in the neighborhood that [illegible] one John Porrail was our major; that after being engaged on the river for upwards of three months he volunteered under Captain Cornelius Hoppick, to prevent the British from making a descent from Staten Island; that they marched to Elizabeth Town and from thence to second river and returned to Bung Town, after being out six weeks.
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where he again engaged in the service under Captain Elle as a water man. Deponent remembers that the Majors who were out with them during the tour above specified were by the names of Cornelius Stout and William Chamberlain and our Colonel was David Chambers: that  deponent continued in the service as a water man on the Delaware as a member of the company commanded by said Elle upwards of one year after his return from the expidition  above mentioned. That he was discharged at Bring town, but recieved no written discharge that he served in all above the fifteen months during the war of the Revolution as a volunteer militiaman. That he was born in Hunterdon County in the State of New Jersey but he cannot state the year of his birth positively, but thinks it was in 1757 - He has no record of his age: He has no documentary evidence from which he can prove his said service,