Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2707, Daniel Davis, Penn.
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(3-1776).                                            NUMBER

Penn.           Davis, Daniel.               R. 2707
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State of Indiana
Clinton County SS

On this 13 day of October 1845 personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county, Daniel Davis, a resident of the county of Carrol and state aforesaid (who by reason of age and consequent infirmity is unable to appear in open court or to appear before a more distant justice), aged from the best of his recollection about ninety-nine years on Dec. 25 next  ensuing, who being 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 7 1832.

I was born in Reading Berks County Pennsylvania.  I have no record of my age, the church in which the only registry of birth and baptism having been destroyed, and the family record in my Bible having been destroyed by fire with my son's house.  From the best of my knowledge and comparison of my oldest child's age, with other seventy, I will be ninety-nine years of age on the 25 Dec. next.

I was living in Reading Pennsylvania at the time I was called into the service of the United States army.  I was enlisted on the 4th of July 1778 (I believe that was the year, of the day I am certain) in Captain Natles{?} company, Col. Lutz reg. of (I believe) 10th Reg. U.S. Infantry. 1st Lieut. Jacob Free, 2nd Lieut. Jacob Livesgood, Sgt. Anderson.   

First went to Valley Forge as headquarters; was during my time of service at the battle of Brandywine and Stoney Point and the taking of the British at the (illegible) Fort near Philadelphia, besides other places where in the course of service the company was ordered.  I was in the same company and regt. all the time.  When enlisted, was enlisted of five years unless sooner discharged.  I was discharged at the Board of War in Philadelphia and, received a certificate of discharge there on 4th July, I believe 1783.  

When enlisted was promised, besides bounty money, 200 acres of land which I never got, nor any part thereof, nor anything in lieu thereof.  Gave my certificate for pay to John Continer to collect, who said he lost it and I never received any pay thereon.  The certificate was given me by Lieut. Riley Westcook, paymaster of the regt.  And the said Daniel Davis further declares that he has made diligent search and can find no person who is alive to testify to the facts of his being in the army or any of the facts above stated except one, the name of (illegible) who says he heard one {Kritzer?} (with whom the said Davis was acquainted in the army) say he was a lot
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died in the army of the Revolution.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state; that he once applied through Jacob Hepman M.C. from Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania, when Jefferson was president, but never received any word concerning it nor ever saw his papers again.
Signed:  Daniel (his X mark) Davis
(illegible) present at signing
Signed:  John Steen

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Signed: John Glendinning, J.R.

We, Elias Morkert, a clergyman residing in the county of Clinton and John Steen, residing in the same county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Davis who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration; that in his neighborhood and through this region he has the reputation of being a soldier of the Revolution and being upwards of ninety-nine years of age; from his appearance, we are led to believe that he is as he presents himself, a soldier of the Revolution and upwards of ninety years of age.
Signed:  Elias Morkert, John Steen

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Signed:  John Glendinning J.P.
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Daniel Davis
Ind. Act. 1832
Suspended

To sec Harris
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State of Indiana }
Carroll County } ss

On this 31st day of March AD 1832 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid Israel Davis aged 27 years a resident of the above named county and the state who bein, by me first duly affirmed according to law, does on his affirmation make this following statement (Viz)
     That he is one of the children and heirs o Daniel Davis deceased and that his father the said Daniel Davis was a soldier of the war of the Revolution as he has always heard from him and believed. His term of service according to my best recollection was five years. He then lived in the State of Pennsylvania.  He never drew any pension for his services, although I have frequently heard him say that he was entitled to one.  He made an effort through Mr. Wright of Lafayette Indiana some ten or eleven years since and I refer to the papers in that application for the names of his officers, Regiment etc. etc. 
     My father was a weaver by trade I do not know. (End of page)
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Know whether he was before the war or not he was a brick or stone mason also. he lived in Bucks County Pennsylvania after the war until he moved to Columbriana County Ohio.  I cannot state the year but have always heard that his three oldest children were grown at the time, inasmuch as they remained in Pennsylvania.   My father and mother were married in Pennsylvania I believe it was in Berks County. My mother’s maiden name Sarah Albright as it is pronounced in English but how it is in German I know not.  She was of German descent. My father I believe was born in Pennsylvania. His father was a. Wel Han. My father resided in Columbriana County, Ohio until the time when I was about three years old.  My mother’s maiden name died there the year before. When my father left there he came to Montgomery County Ohio where he resided for about twelve years.  He then came to Clinton County Indiana and resided altimately in that county and in this one until the fall of the year AD 1846 when he started back to Columbriana County Ohio, and stopped with Mr. Daniel Miller a Quickard preacher in Belle County, Ohio, where he was taken sick: and Mr. Miller’s family being sick also (end of page)
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Also he was removed to the new house where he died in the month of November AD 1846, as I was informed in about two months afterwards by letter from Mr. Miller but which letter I have lost or mislaid.  I will have to get statement from there of the day and date of his death.
     My mother as stated above died when I was about so years old in Columbriana County Ohio.  My father and mother left there following children and heirs at law (Viz)
1. Elizabeth married and living in Berks County Pennsylvania Her husband’s name I do not know that I ever heard
2. John Davis Berks County Pennsylvania
3.  Daniel Davis Berks County Pennsylvania
4.  Christian DVI’s lived about 25 lies north between Mansfield and Cleveland ohio about 3 miles from the “Dandusky Plains” in what county I do not know. I once lived with him but I was small at the time
5.  Adam Davis Columbriana County Ohio
6.  Jacob Davis Columbriana County Ohio
7.  Peter Davis Jackson County Ohio
8.  Samuel Davis Williams County Ohio
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9.  Emanuel Davis Columbriana County Ohio
10. Henry Davis Jackson County Ohio
11. Jonathan Davis Williams County Ohio
12. Susana internamed with Levi Sley They live in Jackson County Ohio
13. Levi Davis Mahorning County Ohio }
14 Israel Davis Carroll County Indiana this declarant } twins
   The above is the full list of the children and heirs of my father and mother I may not give their relative ages correctly as I have never been much with them. Three in Berks County Pennsylvania I never saw at all that I know or heard of.  I give their respective residences from my latest information
     There  were three more children Vis Benjamin, Michael, and Sarah all of whom died without heirs as I believe.  I have never before made any application for any pension as one of the heirs of the above named Daniel Davis deceased.
     I do not know of any one living by whom I can prove my father’s service.  From the best information. I can obtain my father was about one hundred years old when he died.  This was from his own account some of my older brothers may perhaps know better
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Better as my father had been quite frail ever since I was old enough to remember.
     I make. This declaration and application for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land, pension, arrears or increase of pension, pay, back pay, extra pay, arrears or increase of pay,  to which I may be entitled under any law or laws of Congress to the benefit of which I may be entitled.  I forgot to mention above that “I have herd my father say that he was at the battle of “Brandywine” I have heard him talk of a place called “Painted Post” but whether these was a battle fought there or not I do not remember.  My belief however is that it was there he was discharged from the service. 
      I refer to the following affirmations of Peter Pippinger and Solomon Cripe for further information as they knew my father for many yers previous to his death

Israel Davis (X his mark)

Witness:  CH Barkley