Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8393, for Eleazer Powell, Pennsylvania
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Declaration of Eleazor Powell in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of Pennsylvania
County of Beaver
On the ninth day of September A.D. 1836 personally appeared in open Court before John Braden president and Thomas Henry and Benjamin Adams his associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Said County now sitting Eleazor Powell a resident of Chippewa Township in Said County in State of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged Eighty 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States as a private soldier a Volunteer in the Company commanded by Captain James Amberson on the first of March A.D. - 1775 and served in said Company until the first of December A.D. 1775 making a term of nine months when he was discharged by said Capt. That he entered the service of the United States again as above stated in the same Company commanded by said Captain James Amberson on the first of March A.D. 1776 and served in said Company until the first of December A.D. 1776 making another term of nine months when he was again discharged the said Captain Amberson.
The he entered the service of the United States again as above in the Company Commanded by Captain Peter Parchment on the first of March A.D. 1777 making another term of nine months when he was discharged by said Captain Parchment. That he entered the service of the United States again as above in said Company Commanded by said Peter Parchment on the first of March A.D. 1778 and served in the same until the first of December A.D. 1778 making another term of nine months when he was discharged by said Peter Parchment making in all Three years marched against the Indians along the Allegany River and north west of it.
1st. Where and in what year were you born
 A. In Shippientown in Pennsylvania in Cumberland County I believe in the year 1756 on the 6th of August
2nd. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
 A. I saw it as my father had it recorded in his Bible which is not now in my possession
3rd. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
 A. When I joined the service I lived on Turtle Creek in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania about twelve miles along the Philadelphia road from Pittsburg
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where I lived until I moved to Beaver County where I now live above thirty years ago
4th. how were you called into service
 A. I entered the service as a private volunteer in a Company of 88 men called minute men which remained an organized Company for several years and was commanded at first by Capt. James Amberson and afterwards by Captain Peter Parchment (who was afterwards a Lieutenant in the regular army) The Indians being then very troublesome along the frontiers especially along the Allegany River and parts adjacent we were still called out at the first of March to pursue them to build and keep forts guard the frontiers and other military services until the first of December all which time in each year we were in actual service as when the  ground was bare they were always dangerous but in the winter in time of snow less dangerous because the might be tract
5th. State the names of some of the regular officers where you served 
 A. The Company in which I served was under the Command of Colonel Enos McCoy in part but our company generally marched alone against the Indians
6th. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
 A. I was discharged regularly still by the officer in command at the end of my several terms of service but I have lost them all and know nothing of them now
7th. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
 A. General Samuel Power David Porter Esq. and others that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person else whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service and that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
                        Eleazor Powell [signed]
We Samuel Power and David Porter residing in the County of Beaver hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Eleazor Powell who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
                         Samuel Power [signed]
                         David Porter [signed]
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant served as minute [illegible] was a Revolutionary Soldier [illegible] and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Power Esq. who has signed the proceeding certificate is a resident in Beaver Borrough and that David Porter Esq. who has also signed the same is a resident in Beaver County and that they are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit.

 John A Scroggs Clerk of the Court of Common please and quarter sessions in and for the County of Beaver aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Eleazor Powell for a pension in testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and seal of said court this 9th day of September A.d. 1836
                                   John A Scroggs [signed]