Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3965, David Geer, Conn.
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Service.                    Number
Conn. Geer, David R 3965
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3965 Daniel Geer
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Montrose Aug 17/52
Will the Commissioner of Pensions be good enough to return answer to the inclosed pension application to the Subscriber at this place
My
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38,434.  Aug 20/52
David Geer
Penn,

June 7th 1832
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County
On this fifteenth day of August AD 1852personally appeared in open Court
of Common Pleas in and for said County of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania
which David E? aged Eighty four years last December who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit the Act of (or 
-? pap?  June 7.1852.

That he entered the service of the United States as a Teamster in the fall of the year,as
he thinks 1782 in October in Stamford in
Connecticut in the Regiment Commander
by Col. Canfield of New Milford in
said State, that the fort in which in which the
garrison was stationed, with which he
served was about three miles from Stamford, that he Continued in the Service
until the next Spring,as D for? t?
in May. Where he returned to New Milford. That he was engaged driving said ?? in hauling wood to the garrison and hay and provisions for the houses of the Army. That he was not attached to any particular company but was under the general direction of Col Canfield. There was an ? named ? and a Quatermaster named Drinkwater. The latter was from New Milford in Connecticut. That Deponent drove a team belonging
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to Jabez Davis of New Milford That at the time of said Service he was leaving a [illegible] of said Jabez Davis and [illegible] to live with him when left the said services. Our John Roberts of New Milford was a Teamster at the same time with Deponent. He drove a yoke of oxen + a ? of horses. That is the course of the ? deponent ? with his team under an escort of twenty men to Rye for the purpose of the ? ?. The Deponent remembers Simson Taylor and two privates named ? being in the service at the same time that he knows of no person who can testify to his services as herein set forth. That during the period of said service he was not engaged in any other employment. He answers to the inquiries devoted to be pro? by the Court he answers. I was born in the Town of Kent in the State of Connecticut in December 1766. That he has no record of his age. That he was living in New Milford Connecticut until he went into the Service. That he lived from that time in Connecticut until about twenty years ago when he moved into Bridgewater in Pennsylvania and has continued to reside in that town since
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that he has stated above all he can
recollect of the names of the officers and
the general circumstances of the service.
That he never received a discharge.
I am known to Reverend Henry A Riley
Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
[illegible] of which I am a member
Orin Clemons who knew me in 
Connecticut, Honorable William Jessup late
President Judge who has known me
since I have been in Pennsylvania.
He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatsoever to a pension except
the present and declares that his name
is not on the pension Roll agency of any state.
That the reason he has not earlier
applied for a pension is because he
did not know it could be obtained
without positive proof of his service
and that he is unable to furnish
Sworn & Subscribed in open
Court this 16th day of August AD 1852
David Geer
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We Henry A. Riley, Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in [illegible] of which the witness
named David Gere is a member, Orin Clemons  residing in Bridgewater & having 
known the said David Gere in Connecticut and for many years & William Jesup of 
Montrose, Hereby certify
that we are well acquainted
the said Daniel Gere, who was known and  subscribed to the foregoing declaration
that we believe him to be
Eighty four years old last December
that he is reputed and believed
the neighborhood where he reside
have served in the Revolutionary War 
as he has within described and we concur in that opinion
affirmed & subscribed
this day & year aforesaid
Orin Clemmons
Fa. Ward Prothy
Wm Jessup
Henry A. Riley
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and the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigations of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and serves as he states
And the court further certifies that it
appears to them that Reverend H. A. Riley
who has signed the preceding certificate
is a Clergyman resident in the Town of
Montrose and that Orin Clemons &
William Jessup are credible persons
and that their statement is entitled to credit
I F. A. Ward [illegible]
of said Court of Common Pleas for the County
of [illegible] Do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of David Gere for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand. Seal of Office this seventeth day
of August A D 1852.
F. A. Ward, [illegible]