Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9772, John Campbell, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.

Campbell, John
                   Mary

NUMBER
W. 9772
B. L. Wt . 32235-160-55
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The State of Ohio}
Miami County }   SS.

     On this Second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeard (sic) in open court before the court of common pleas for the County of Miami aforesaid [inserted: The same being a Court of Record] now Sitting John Campbell a resident of Said County of Miami and state of Ohio aged Seventy Six years who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and Served as herein stated.
     This deponent saith that he was born in the month of April in the year one thousand Seven hundred and fifty seven in Ireland and in the year 1773 he emigrated to the united [to the united, sic] States & located in Cumberland County Pennsylvania Said deponent has no record of his age but the information received from his Parents and a frequent [?reference] to this Subject enables him to state this fact with Confidence Said deponent saith that he was drafted in the Pennsylvania Militia in the month of July 1777; the company rendezvoused in Carlisle, Cumberland county, under the command of Capt. James Fisher, Lieutenant David Marshall, and Ensign Allen Nesbit. That he marched, in said company, from thence to Lancaster where they remained a few days; from Lancaster they marched to Iron-hill, where they had a skirmish with a detachment of the British Army; he also thinks that he was engaged in another Skirmish near Mill-town[sic]; from thence he proceeded in the Same company to Brandywine, where they joined the main army under General Washington; and that he was in the engagement known by name of the battle of Brandywine; and a few days after he was engaged in the battles of the White-horse[sic] and Germantown. General Potter commanded the corps of the army to which his company was attached; and Col. Dunlap commanded the particular detachment. Deponent cannot recollect the names of all the
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General officers who commanded in the several battles; but well remembers Generals Washington, Wayne & Lafayette at Brandywine, and Germantown. He further says that he served at that time full two months, was discharged from service in the neighborhood of Philadelphia; but is not possessed of any written evidence of the fact. In the year 1779, (as near as deponent recollects) he Served two months in the northern part of what was then called Cumberland county, Pennsa. under the command of Captain Fisher. The company rendezvoused at Brown’s Mill, in Kishacoquillis valley, and was discharged at the same place, but has no written discharge in his possession.  And in 1780 or 1781 he served two months, in July and August, under the command of said Captain Fisher, in Stone Valley, Bedford County (now Huntington,) where he was engaged in protecting the frontiers against the Indians. That the three tours aforesaid he served the full term of six months, part of the time as a serjeant[sic], and the balance of term as a private. That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his Service. That when he first entered the service he resided in Cumberland County in the state of Pensylvania[sic] where he continued to reside until the spring of the year Eighteen hundred fourteen when he moved to the County of Miami in the state of Ohio where he has ever since resided & yet resides during the Time of his service he was acquainted with General Washington General Layfyette[sic] General Armstrong Col Dunlap General Marshell[sic] & a number of other officers whose names he cannot now recollect That he is acquainted with the Honorable Thomas Adams John Telford Thomas W Furnase[sic, see signature next page] & the Reverend James H Harrison all residents of the County of Miami who can Testify as to his being a Man of Integrity & their belief of his having been a Soldier of the Revolution. He hereby 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—

1st He was Born in the Month of april[sic] in the year 1757
2nd He has no Record of his age-
3rd He was living in the County of Cumberland in the State of Pensylvania[sic] when first called into the service where he continued to reside until
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the spring of 1814 when he moved to the County of Miami in the state of Ohio where he has ever Since resided & yet resides.
4th. He was called into the service as here in before stated
                        John Campbell
sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
   John G. Telford Clerk

Hon James H Harrison a Clergy man in the Presbyterian Church residing in ? the County of Miami & Thomas Adams {struck out:John Tilford] & Thomas W Furnase[sic. see signature below] all residents of the County of Miami hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with John Campbell who has subscribed and sworn to the above [?Testination] and that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & Subscribed
30 day of May 1833 in open Court
John G. Telford Clerk
                  James Harrison
                  Thos W Furnas
                  Thomas Adams
  [The following is completely struck out:
The State of Ohio}
Miami County Ss} I John G. Telford Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Miami do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Campbell for a Pension.
              In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Troy this Sixth day of May A.D. 1833.
       John G. Telford Clerk  ]
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And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and of the putting the Interogatories[sic] past[sic] by the War department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States and the court further certify that it appears to them James Harrison who has signed the above certificate is a [crossed out:clergy] clergyman & that Thomas W. Furnas & Thomas Adams who have also signed the same are residents of said Miami County and that their affadavit[sic] is entitled to credit.
[Crossed out line: In testimony whereof I have heretofore set my hand & aff]


I John G. Telford Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Miami do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of John Campbell for a Pension

          In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Said Court at Troy the [?]6th day of May A.D. 1833.
      John G. Telford clerk, M Com Pleas