Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23203, Stephen Donley, Continental (Penn.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER 
Continental(Penn). Donley, Stephen. S.23203

CONTENTS
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State of New York
County of Kings ss.

    On this twelfth day of November in the year of   one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two personally appeared before the Municipal Court in and for the Village of Brooklyn in the county and state above mentioned, Stephen Donley a resident of Gravesend in the said county of Kings aged seventy-two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832,  That sometime during the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine as he believes and about none nine months previous to the capture of Major Andre of the British Army he enlisted as a private soldier in the army of the United States that he served in Colonel Procter's regiment of artillery of the Pennsylvania Line, that the company to which he belonged was commanded by Captain Colton, and that he was attached to said company and regiment about twelve months.  That he joined the said company and regiment about two months after he enlisted there in and actually served there in during the residue of the time he belonged there to.  That about eleven months after he enlisted and about one month before the period for which he had enlisted expired he was honorably discharged from further service and that his discharge was in writing and signed by Major Houston of the same regiment above mentioned.  That he kept his discharge in his possession until after the peace when he lost the same and has not since been able to (next page)
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find it.  That from the great length of time which has elapsed since he belonged to the Army and from the unfortunate circumstances of loosing his discharge as above mentioned he is unable to recollect the exact date when he entered the service or when he left the same.  That he resided in the county of York in the state of Pennsylvania at the time when he entered the service as aforesaid.  That he was engaged in an attack upon the Blockhouse in a place called the English neighborhood in the state of New Jersey under the command of General Wayne as the declarant then understood.  That when he joined the Army that part of said Army to which he was attached was encamped at Tappan in the state of New Jersey that they moved soon afterwards to Hackensack where they encamped about two months as declarant believes to what was then called the Big Falls which as this declarant understands is just above where Patterson now is situated.  That he went with the Pennsylvania Line to Stoney Point for the purpose of transporting some field pieces that they then returned and went into winter quarters at Morristown where declarant remained until he was discharged.
    He, this declarant, 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 any agency in any state.
    Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                            //s//
                                 Stephen Donley

Subscribed and sworn to in
open court November 12, 1832.
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         Joseph Donley Justice of
          the Municipal Court