Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,713, Anthony Evans, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.

Evans, Anthony

NUMBER
S.42713
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42713
INVALID
Reg
File No. 42713
Anthony Evans
Fife Major Rev War

Act:18th March 18

Index:-Vol. 3, Page 164

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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9290
Ohio R

Anthony Evans 
of Washington Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a Fife Maj in the regiment commanded by Colonel W. Coy on the Pennsylvania line, for the term of the war.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 5th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of April 1819 and sent to Henry Jolly, Esquire Point Harmon, Ohio

Arrears to 4th of March 1819  80.25
Semi-anl. all's ending 4 Sept 1819  48.00

128.25

(Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818)

Continued
Washington County
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Notif'n sent to Levin Okey Esq 6 Nov 1820  Woodsfield

This
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Anthony Evans
9.290.
Con
Levin Okey
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State of Ohio
Worthington County

This day personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the associate judges in and for said county, Anthony Evans of the said county of Worthington, who being sworn, deposeth and sayeth that he enlisted into the eighth regt. of the Pennsylvania line or Continental establishment, in Aug. in the year 1776, the said regt. at that time commanded by Col. Eneas McCoy of Pittsburgh, 

and that he served as Fife Major in said regiment until some time in the month of February in the year 1777, when this deponent was taken prisoner by the enemy, near to a place called [illegible] in the state of Jersey,

that he was held a prisoner in New York, about three months and then in order to avoid the most cruel treatment and effect his escape, he inlisted into the British army and was immediately after sent to Long Island and put under the command of Genl. Delancer, where he remained until near the last of August in said year

when the said deponent effected his escape from the east end of Long Island, around the sound into Connecticut, near a place called Southhold, from thence he traveled to a town called New Haven where he attached himself to a corps commanded by a Col. Cooke, and soon after marched in the campaign against the British army under the command of Genl. Burgoyne and that he fought in the battles of September and October 7th, and shared the dangers of said campaign in common with his fellow soldiers 

and this deponent further sayeth that soon after the capture of the British army commanded by Genl. Burgoyne, he became attached to the rifle regt. commanded by Col. David Morgan and marched into the state of Pennsylvania with said regt. where he joined the aforesaid eighth regt. of Pennsylvania, commanded by Col. Danl. Brodhead and that he served as Fife Major
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in said eighth regt. until the end of the Revolutionary War and that at that time (illegible) a discharge, signed by Lieutenant Col. Stephen Bayard.  

This deponent also sayeth that he served a campaign against the Indians northwest of the Ohio River under the command of Genl. McIntosh in the year 1778, and also a campaign against the Indians on the Allegheny River in Aug. in the year 1779 commanded by Col. Danl. Brodhead, and a campaign against the Conshohocken Indians on the big Muskingum River in the month of April in the year 1781 commanded Col. Danl. Brodhead.  

And this deponent further sayeth that he has lost his discharge; that he is, at least he thinks, 63 years of age, and unable to support himself by labor

and that he has never applied for nor received any pension from the United States, and that he is in very reduced circumstances and hopes to be placed on the pension list agreeable to an act of Congress for the relief of Revolutionary solders, filed March 18th, 1818.  And further this deponent sayeth not.
Signed:  Anthony (his X mark) Evans

I do hereby certify that the said Anthony Evans swore to the above and written statement May 7th 1818.  And I do further certify that I was acquainted with the said Evans in the Revolutionary War eighth regt. of Pennsylvania.

I do know that he was missing from said regt. some time in the last of the winter of the year 1777 and also that he served in the American army at the capture of General Burgoyne, and that he became attached to the rifle regt. and marched with it into Pennsylvania and joined the said eighth regt. of Pennsylvania. 

Anthony Evans lived in my neighborhood, is very needy and if the United States will not give him relief, he will in a short time become a town charge.
Signed:  Henry Jolly, Judge Court
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State of Ohio Monroe County ss
 At the Court of Common Pleas at the July Term 1820
 On this 22d day of July AD 1820 personally appeared
in open Court being a Court of Record for said County, Anthony Evans 
aged 55 years, resident in Monroe County who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the 
Revolutionary war as follows: He service as a fife Major in the
Regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Col Enos McCoy
 who died at Trenton, and then by Col Daniel Broadhead
He served for the space of seven years & six months;
He has received a pension certificate from the Government of the United States, 
the date of which is the 15th day of April AD 1819. The date of
his original declaration was the 4th day of May AD 1818.
The Number of his certificate is 9290. And I do solemnly
swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th
day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift,
sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within
the provisions of an 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 passed on the 18th
day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person
in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts
due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained
in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
Schedule one Horse -- $40 three Cows-- $24  four Hogs $4
three pigs-$1- One Bench 3 Earthen plates 4 cups &
Saucers 3 knives & forks & other furniture of the rate of $10 Dolls
Total $89 Dolls
Anthony Evans his mark
Witness
Henry Jackson
Ephr’m Root 

The family of the declarant consists of his
wife Susannah aged 76 years confined to her bed with sickness
& an orphan boy an [illegible] aged 16 years. The declarant’s 
occupation is if any a fifer. He has served more than twenty years
in the American service, but is now unable to work. He lives
in a cabin on 4 acres of land which is given to him from Charity
Anthony Evans his mark
Witness
Henry Jackson
Ephr’m Root 
Sworn and subscribed on the 22d day of July
Before
Levin Okey president of said Court
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I H. H. Mott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Monroe & State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing oath
and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record
of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion
of the said Court that the total amount in value of the
property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is eighty nine
Dollars $89
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court
on this 18th day of August AD 1820
H. H. Mott Clerk of the Court 
for the County of Monroe
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Anthony Evans
Priv.
Fifer Maj.
Col. McCoy’s
Pennsylvania Regt
1776 - War Roll

4th May [illegible]
Admitted
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State of Ohio Washington County ss
This this day personally appeared before me one of
the associate Judges in & for said county, 
Thomas Dickerson, who being sworn deposeth
And sayeth, that he was acquainted with  Anthony Evans 
in the within Deponant in the revolutionary war and
that he served as fife Maj. in the Eighth Regt of Pennsylvania.
Commanded first by Col Eneas McCoy, and afterwards by
Col Dan’l Brodhead from Sometime in Aug’t in 1776
untill some time in Aug’t in the year 1779.
Said Evans performed the duty of fife Maj. in
said Regt for the above term of three years.
This said Deponant left the said Eighth
in the Month of Aug’t in the year 1779 and
And the said Evans Continued in service in
said Reg’t. And further this deponant sayeth
not. 
Thos Dickerson his Mark
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 5th day of
June 1818
Henry Jolly Judge Court
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State of Ohio Washington County ss:
As Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for said
County, I do hereby Certify that the Honorable Henry Jolly
Esquire, who hath signed his name to the foregoing certified
then was, and now at this time is one of the Associate Judges of the said Court, duly
appointed, commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Laws of said State. And
that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to all his Certificates as such,
throughout the United States, as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and
affix my official Seal at Marietta in said County this
Sixth day of July Anno Domini One thousand eight
hundred and Eighteen
Geo, Dunley, Clerk C.C.C.C