Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32393, for Benjamin Mahorney, Virginia
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Putnam Circuit Court April
June 1833
State of Indiana
Putnam County Sct
on this 24th day of April 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Amroy Kinsey President Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of the State of Indiana and the Honorable David Dewise and the Honorable William Elrod both associate judges for the County aforesaid Benjamin Mahoney resident of said County in Marion township of and in said County and State aged 73 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779 in the Spring of said last year
mentioned in Farquhar County in the State of Virginia in and under the command of Captain Wales
for the term of Eighteen months in the regiment 
commanded by Colonel Buford - that this declarant
was marched in said regiment with two other
battalions to Williamsburgh in Virginia to defend
the liberty of his country - that the three battalions
arrived at Williamsburgh in the summer of
the year 1779. - thence he was with the balance
of his regiment marched to Petersburgh in the
State of Virginia in the summer of the year
marched 1779. - thence in last mentioned [illegible] marched towards Charleston in South Carolina
with his regiment but were ordered by the commander of the regiment to halt at
Moncks corner about twenty five miles from Charleston, where they with others on duty remained about three weeks, when this declarant with others was
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ordered to the Waxan settlement in one of the
States of Carolina where a British officer by the
name of Parleton defeated the Americans
and this declarant with about sixty other of
the troops in the American side made their
escape and were not made prisoner
this
declarant with those aforesaid who made their
escape in mediatle joined Colonel Davis of the
American army at Chesterfield Court House in
the State of Virginia, that this declarant contin
in the service of said Davis about one
month at Chesterfield aforesaid when Colonel
Breford or Bluford again took command of
the said tenement of which this deponent and
declarant was one that Colonel Bluford March
His regiment of which this declarant was one to
Hillsboro in North Carolina State where he served
untill discharged by Colonel Buford or Bluford
which discharge is lost or destroyed
on the 25th October in the year 1780 this dile
ant and deponent relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or an annuity except the present and
and declares
he believe his name is not on the pension roll of any
agency in any state that he know of but the State of
Virginia, nor on the roll of any State as derevery a
to and subscribed
the open Court at the said
term of April in the year 1833
Benj Mahoney
A. McGaughey
Clerk
and the said Court