Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39742, for James Hutton, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn

Hutton, James

NUMBER
S 39742

CONTENTS
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State of Pennsylvania County of Cumberland Sct

On this fifteenth day of April 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said county personally appears James Hutton, aged between sixty one and sixty two years, resident in Carlisle in said county, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the lan and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War;" That he, the said James Hutton enlisted in Carlisle aforesaid, in said State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain William Alexander of the seventh Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col Wm. Irvine, in the spring of the year 1778, to serve for three years or during the war. That he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until September AD 1783 when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia, state of Pennsylvania, That he was in the battle of the Green Spring in Virginia, & in the seige & capture of Lord Cornwallis at York town in Virginia. And that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. That his discharge was laid before the committee of Revolutionary Claims in Congress in the year 1815, & there remains; & that his said discharge was granted to him & signed by Genl. Lincoln.
Jas. Hutton

Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Jacob Hendel

Michael Miller, of Carlisle aforesaid, being also duly sworn, agreeably to law saith, that he knew the above named James Hutton before and at the time he enlisted in the revolutionary army as above stated; that he saw the said James in the United States service in the winter of 1781 And that he