Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13731, for David Leonard, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
service.   number
New Jersey   Leonard, David.  S.13731
New York

carded
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To New York 11,122 David Leonard of Wayne Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lyon in the Regt commanded by Col Martin in the [star] New York line for 21 Mo Pr $70.00 annum [star] N. Y. and N. J. July 3, 1906 Records completed
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 70 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of March 1833 and Sent to Nathl B Eldred Bethany Wayne Co.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 140.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833. 35.00
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$175.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act of June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Spragens - Clerk
Book E Vol. 5 Page 35

Transferred to New York from the 4th Sept 1833. and notice sent to J.M.Pelton - of N. Y. - at present in this place, care to Hon'ble N. Halsey - H. R. Jan'y: 3rd 1834
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State of Pennsylvania County of Wayne } ss.
On this twenty seventh day of November One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before Isaac Dimmick and Moses Thomas Esquire Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Wayne now sitting David Leonard a resident of the County of Wayne and State of Pennsylvania, aged seventy eight 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 7. 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, he enlisted in June 1775 at Chatham in Morris County in the State of New Jersey for the term of six months under Captain David Lyon, Lieutenants Mathias Clark and ___ Bateman and marched under the command of Lieut Colonel Rickmore he Marched to St John's passing through Elizabeth town, New York Albany, Ticonderoga and Crown Point was at the Siege of St John's when that place was taken, from thence he went to Montreal where his term of service expired. That he enlisted again at Montreal for six months under Captain Samuel Sacket and thinks he was attached to the 4th Regiment. he cannot now recollect what Colonel had the Command. he recollects however that Colonel Rickmore remained there. General Montgomery was in command from Montreal he marched to Quebec under General Montgomery and was in the battle there when General Montgomery fell that he remained with the army on the plains of Abraham during the winter and in the Spring of 1776 returned to Albany when his term of service expired, and himself and the Company to which he belonged was dismissed without any written discharge so far as he knows and believes. That he returned home to New Jersey and very soon after his return he enlisted at Chatham for Five months in the Militia under Captain Sylvanus Seely - John Pipes was the first Lieutenant and Bethuel Farrin the Second Lieutenant, and John Roberts he believed was the ensign - there was also one John Roberts a Sergeant that he recollects. Aaron Bonnell Enoch Goble were privates in the same Company. That he was attached to Col. Martin's Regiment and General Herd's Brigade That he served out his term of five months and enlisted again for three months under the same officers - That he served out the term of three months and was discharged and returned home to Chatham in New Jersey. That he did not receive any written discharge at the
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time - that soon after his return, he believes in the month of March AD. 1777 he was drafted for one month and went out under the same Captain, to wit Sylvanus Seely and marched to Elizabeth Town, at which place he remained most of the time during the month; at the expiration of the month he was dismissed at Elizabeth Town without any written discharge. That when he first enlisted under Captain Seely he marched to Springfield and to a place called Connecticut farms where they remained some time. that he was in an engagement with the Hessians near a place called Fox Hall in which a number of Hessians were captured and sent to Morristown - that he was in other small skirmishes in the neighborhood that he was in the engagement at Flat Bush in which Col. Martin was wounded and also at the battle on Long Island which took place soon after the skirmish at Flat bush. He thinks on that day Col Morrison had the command. He was also with the army at White Plains where an engagement took place with the enemy - from thence we marched to Hackensack, Elizabeth town and Princeton - That he has no documentary evidence of his service except the pay Rolls which are in the possession of the representative of Captain Seely on which his name appears as a private attached the company of Capt. Seely, and which is in the proper hand writing of the said Capt. Seely as this Deponent is informed. That he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except that of Like Miller which is hereto annexed and exhibited -The Deponent further saith that he was born in Battle Hill Morris County in the State of New Jersey in seventeen hundred and fifty four in which State he resided for most of the time until the year 1830 when he removed to Dyberry   Township Wayne County Pennsylvania, where he now resides. That there is no clergyman residing in his immediate neighborhood with whom he is personally acquainted. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Daniel Leonard
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
Geo B Wescott
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19965
Daniel Leonard
adm'd
Private 21 mos. 
$70.
Nathl B. Eldred Bethany, Wayne County Pa.