Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,354, Robert English, Md. Penn. Va.
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English Robert
R.3,354
SERVICE Md., Penn., Va.
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REJECTED [stamped on page]
3354
Robert English
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Virginia
Robert English
See letter to claimant Aug. 2d, 1839

3354

Act June 7th, 1832
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Aug't - 2

Mc Syl.
[illegible]
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Land Office, Annapolis, 30th July, 1839

Sir,

Yours of the 18th last, with the declaration of Robert English, enclosed, was received. I have examined very carefully the records of the Revolution in this office and they afford no evidence of his service. The declaration is herewith returned.

Very respectfully,
Yr. ob't Svt.,
G.G. Brewer

J.L. Edwards, Supt [?]
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State of Virginia
Wythe County

On this 11th day of March in the year of our lord 1839 personally appeared before the County Court of Wythe County Robert English a resident of said County, and State of Virginia,aged eighty six years on the 17th day of this month, 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, about the commencement of the year 1775, being a minute man, of a Rifle Company, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, he marched as a volunteer to Boston in the State of Massachusetts; was in the Battle of Bunker Hill; the officers remembered are Genl Putnam commander, Col. not now remembered. Michael Crissup was his Captain. After serving in the neighborhood of Boston and in Massachusetts, was marching to New York and being one of the guard of baggage waggons the whole were taken by a [illegible] of British Tories, the night following the capture he made his escape and returned home; having escaped from the enemy he had no discharge; he was in this service about seventeen months. After getting home to Cumberland County Pennsylvania, he removed to Frederick County Maryland where in the year 1776 (as well as he remembers) he enlisted in the Maryland line under Capt Henry Harman, was recruiting Sergeant, - The number of the Regiment not remembered. - field officer, remembers Genl Bell, Col Henry Shryock (or Shryhock) and Major Crush [?]. When the company were enlisted they marched to Baltimore where they were
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equipped and armed, thence they marched to Philadelphia, thence by Trenton to New York, from New York they were driven by the British forces, and removed to Kingsbridge where a fort was built. Genl Washington Commander. From Kingsbridge went up the North River. Was in the Battle of the White Plains. After which battle crossed the river at the Fish Kills, and marched to Fort Lee, situated on the North side of the North River and opposite to Fort Washington. Then crossed the river again to Fort Washington which was taken the same day by the British and Hessians. Col. Cadwallader and Magan commanding the Americans. He remained a prisoner of war, in the British prisons in New York from the time of the surrender of Fort Washington until the June following (the time of season being [illegible] by the fact that Rye was in bloom) when he effected his escape and returned home to Maryland. He had no discharge, having made his escape as a prisoner of war. His term of service had expired before he escaped from Fort Lee back to Fort Washington. The Regiment had set out for Philadelphia there to be discharged, but was recalled and sent as before and started to Fort Washington and captured. He was in this service and prisoner of war one year and eleven months, as near as he can remember. He removed from Frederick County Maryland to Botetourt [?] County in Virginia. About the first of March 1781 he substituted in the Militia; Officers remembered: Col. Lynch (he was not of the same party or command) Capt George Hairston his Capt. and Maj Waller, his major. He went from Henry County Virginia to which County he had moved from Botetourt; they marched to North Carolilna and he was in the Battle of Guilford in the same month (March.) After this battle the Militia dispersed and went home. He was in this service six weeks. He shortly after substituted in a light horse company called the flying camp under Captain Ayre Buckner, (or Buckler) of Pittsylvania, the service performed by this troop was in the nature of a guard against the depredations of the British and Tory scouting
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parties: he was in this service six weeks. He again substituted and marched to Little York, was present during the night [?], and when Corn Wallace surrendered. Officers remembered at Little York under whom he immediately served Col. John Rentfro and Capt. Swinfield (or Swingfield) and he was in this service six weeks. After the capture of Cornwallace he removed to Fort Chiswell in Montgomery County and settled. He also states that he went a volunteer to the Illinois, they rafted down the Tennessee burnt the towns and destroyed the property of the Chickamauga Indians on that river and then proceeded on to the Illinois and was at the taking of the Port on the Kaskaskia river. His officers were Col. John Montgomery and Captain Thomas Guirk. This service was undertaken for a year but the time employed was about 8 months. To sum up he was forty months in the regular service and prisoner of war. Eighteen weeks a substitute in the Virginia Militia serving in North Carolina, Virginia and at Yorktown and eight months with the Illinois battalion [illegible]. The service undertaken was for a year. In all four years and four months.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the foresaid, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written.

Robert (his mark) English

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated.
I John P. Mathews Clerk of the Court of Wythe County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the
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foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Robert English for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of March 1839.
J.L. Mathews