Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24022, for John Munrow, Massachusetts
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State of Maine
County of Washington Ss.

On this Twenty ninth day of January AD 1841 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the County of Washington John Munrow a resident of Pennfield in the County of Charlotte & Province of New Brunswick aged Eighty years
who being first duly sworn according to law doth his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. 
That he enlisted as a private in the army of the
United States at Athol in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, where he then resided some time in the summer of the year 1777 but his memory does not now enable him to fix the precise time-- & served as he thinks in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment under the following named officers,-
John Blanchard Captain- Lt Col Millan, Col. Weston, & in the Brigade commanded by
Gen. Learned.- 
After enlisting at Athol he marched in
company with seventeen others under the charge of a Lieutenant Grant to Albany - 
He first [[provided]] to German Flatts [[then found his company]] the whole force being under the command of Genl. Arnold. 
Fort [[Stanwix]] was then held by Lt. Col. Millan & was surrounded by a regiment of British troops & a body of Indians under Col. Butler
Gen. Arnold by making use of one Schuyler who had been sentenced to death as a spy of traitor, to convey to Butler a false account of his force, caused Col. Butler suddenly to decamp.-
After this he marched to Saratoga & was
present at all the fighting which proceeded the surrender of Burgoyne & at the time of that surrender-- he stood [[near ofdaw]] Gen. Burgoyne when he gave up his sword
to Gen Gates, Col. Weston who had formerly served as a corporal under Gen Burgoyne stood near. they [[ cut off ]]