Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,937, Robert Willson, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Willson, Robert or Wilson
NUMBER
S.33.937
enl, [enlisted] at Chambersburgh, Cumberland Co. Pa. in 1878 aged 74 yrs. res, Morris Co N. J.
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7027.
New Jersey
Robert Willson of Morris in the state of New Jersey who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles of the Pennsylvan [Pennsylvania] ine, [line] for the term of three years

scribed [inscribed] on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence o [on] the 8th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Mar. 1819 and sent to the Hon E Bateman

rrears [arrears] to 4th of Mar 1819   79.25
Semi-anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Sept 1819 48-
$127.25

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Morris County
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Applications of Richard Hazle alias Hazlerigg & William Kelly on file in the of file are of old date, and as the [illegible] in the same neighborhood with Robert Wilson if they
can be attended to at the same time a favor will be conferred-
E. Bateman
Feb 22" 1819
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Robert Willson
Not on roll
Returned for further evidence of service and subject  certificate [illegible] circumstances

Hon. E. Bateman
H. R.

adm @
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State of New Jersey}
County of Morris ss}
On this Eighth day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Personally appears Robert Willson, aged seventy four years, residing in the Township of Morris
in the County of Morris and State of New Jersy, [Jersey] who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war". That he, the said Robert Willson, Enlisted for five years or during the war at Chambersburgh in the County of Cumberland and State of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] in the company commanded by Captain People or Peebles of the second Regiment of Rifleman of the Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] line, commanded by Col. Miles, some time as he thinks, in the Spring of the year 1776, and remained in the same company untill [until] some time in the month of August 1776, when capt  [Captain] Peoples was Killed at the Battle of Long Island; That Lieut. Burns then took the command of the said Company, that he continued under the said Capt [Captain] Burnes in the said Regiment, in the service of the United States on the continental establishment for upwards of three years; that he then on account of having his arm broke enlisted into the waggon [wagon] service, at the head of which waggon [wagon] Department was Col. Biddle of Philadelphia, and continued in the same until the conclusion of the war; when he was discharge with others of a brigade of Waggoners, at Morristown, in the county of Morris & State of New Jury. This deponent for the saith that in the course of his Services, he was in the Battle at Long
Island, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, German Town & Brandy wine besides a number of skirmishes; and that he is
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in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
his
Robert X Wilson
mark
Sworn to, and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid}
Lewis Condict

I, Lewis Condict, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Robert Wilson did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of the 18th March, ADom: 1818-
Lewis Condict
Morris Town N. Jersey 10th May 1818-

I do hereby further certify, that Robert Wilson, the above Deponent, has resided in this vicinity for nearly twenty years, & perhaps more, that he has been personally known to me, the greater part of that time, & has uniformly sustained to the best of my knowledge, the reputation of a man of truth & uprightness.-- I am satisfied, that he bore arms during the Revolutionary war on the Continental establishment for the term of three years, against the common enemy & that from his age & poverty he is entirely unable to travel into the State of Pennsylvania in quest of further proof of Service.
Given under my hand at Morris Town, N Jersey this 15th January ADomini 1819-
Lewis Condict
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State of New Jersey}
County of Morris}
I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the said County of Morris do certify that Lewis Condict Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit is made, is and was at the doing thereof
duly enrolled one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for 
the County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due & ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of
the said County the Eleventh day of May AD Eighteen hundred & eighteen
Robert H. McCarter
[white paper attached at left margin]

Lewis Condict Esq states in a letter to me that on account of the age & infirmity of Robert Wilson it is impossible for him to travel from home in quest of further proof of his service
Ephraim Bateman
Feby 22nd 1819
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Feb. 25th, 19(81)

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: -

     Please send the military record of two Revolutionary soldiers Robert Wilson of Lancaster, Pa. and John VanDorn of Somerset Co., N.J. and greatly oblige.

                            Yours very truly,
                                      //s//
                              Alice E. Wilson
111 Church St.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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33937
Revy INVALID.
File No. 33,937
Robert Willson
Pri [Private] Rev War
Act: 18 March 18"
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 456
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Mch. [March] 28 - 1901 Alice E. Wilson Saratoga Spgs [Springs], NY