Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,665, Samuel Darling, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
New York.  Darling, Samuel.   R. 2665
CONTENTS
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State of New York
Monroe County ss

On this twenty fifth day of January in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty five, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Addison Gardiner, Vice Chancellor of Eight of the State of New York, Samuel Darling a resident of the town of Clarkson in the County of Monroe and State of New York aged seventy-nine years on the seventeenth day of March last past. 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 into service of the State of New York, in the State troops, in the month of August in the Year 1776 (the particular day in that month he does not remember) at the town of Dover in the County of Dutchess in said State in the company commanded by Captain William Piece.  That immediately after he entered the service he marched with the company under the command of Captain Piece from Dover to  Peekskill on the Hudson River in said State of New York where the said Company joined the Regiment under the Command of Col. [crossed out name] . That from Peekskill he marched with the said Regiment to the White Plains near New York and from that place crossed over to Long Island and was there when a battle commenced with the British troops in the latter part of the month of August as near as he can recollect. That this declarent was not engaged in the battle that the Regiment to which he belonged retreated across the River to the main land very soon after the battle commenced.
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That he continued a considerable time with the same Company under the command of Captain Piece in the vicinity of New York. That while they remained there a battle was fought near a place called Harlem Heights in which Col Knowlton of the Connecticut Troops was killed. 
That the regiment under Col. Swartwout to which this declarant belonged was engaged in a part of that battle, and a Captain by the name of Van Wyck belonging to that Regiment was killed. That the Company to which this declarant belonged retreated up the North River and continued along that River for a considerable time and there crossed said River and marched into New Jersey and continued to and across the Delaware River and remained near that River until the latter part of the month of December. That on Christmas Evening in that month he crossed the River Delaware under the command of Captain Piece and marched to Trenton. That the troops which crossed the River were divided into two parts or detachments and the one in which this declarant was marched down near the River and the other by another road further from the River, that it snowed very hard through the night and that they arrived at Trenton about daylight in the morning and attack made took prisoners a party of Hessians who were stationed at that place. That the declarant remained for several days at the place until the troops there crossed the River on the approach of Lord Cornwallis as deponent thinks.  That after they crossed the River fires were kindled on the bank and the troops marched away in the night toward Princeton and had a battle at that place in which this declarant was engaged, that a quantity of prisoners were taken.
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That very soon after the taking of that place, this declarant and the company to which he belonged returned to Peckskill in the State of New York and were then dispersed - that no discharges were given to any of the soldiers to the knowledge or recollection of this declarant.  That this declarant at the time when he entered the service was living with the Captain Piece before mentioned at Dover and joined the army with him and under his command and continued with him until he (the declarant) served out his term of five months for which he had entered the service.

And the declarant further says that in the Spring of the Year 1777 in the month of April as he thinks, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental Army at Peckskill in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Hamans, in the Regiment under the command of Col Courtland - one Livingston was Lieutenant Col. and a man by the name of Fish or Fisher was major. That they marched very soon after his enlistment, some distance down the North River and then crossed into New Jersey and continued in motion from one post to another until a short time before the battle of Brandywine, when they joined the main  army under General Washington. That he was engaged in the battle of the Brandywine in August or September in the year 1777 - that he does not now recollect the month. That before the time of that battle from the ill health (as this declarant thinks of Captain Hamans) the command of the Company in which this