Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11734, Frederick Winter, Penn. (1774) Va.
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SERVICE
Penn. (774)
Va-
Born in N.Y.
CONTENTS
Winter, Frederick
NUMBER
R. 11734
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declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 of June 1832
State of Tennessee}
Wilson County}
on this 24th day of March 1834 personally appeared in open court in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Wilson County in the State of Tennessee before Britain Drake  [illegible] Horn & James Dramer Esquires Justices of the peace & members of the Court aforesaid now seting [sitting].  Fredrick Winter a resident of Wilson County in the State of Tennessee aged seventy eight years and thirteen days who being first duly worn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 77 June 1832 that sometime in the year 1774 he entered the service of the United Stated as a volunteer and went into Captain Cars company in the State of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] to march [illegible] the Synakee and Mohawk indians

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Frederick Winter
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who were at that time exceedingly troublesome on the frontiers of Pensylvania [Pennsylvania]. shortly after declarant volunteered, his corps was attacked by a party
of the Indians, and he and his brother Henry Winter and two other men were taken
prisoners and declarant was Carved a prisoner by the said indians to Niagara from thence across the Saint Lawrance [Lawrence] river where he was detained a prisoner under the constant watch of the indians undergoing many hardships and privations for the space of six years about the end of which time he found an opportunity to make his esscape [escape] to Fort Pitt at the Junction of the Monogahalee [Monongahela] & Ohio rivers from thence into the Western part of Virginia now Kentucky & where he again volunteered and [illegible] as a mounted Gunman in the Maliltia in the Virginia Line [illegible] was his
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Cornel & Logan his General he does not recollect the number of the regiment that he Joined Captain Irven at Paint Lick in Madison County then in the State of Virginia now in Kentucky & from thence marched to Millford old Court house in the county last aforesaid continued there but a short time then marched to Lexington then in Virginia now in Kentucky continued there a short time and then marched to Limestone Ferry on the Ohio River crossed sd [said] River then to old Chilacotha [Chillicothe] in the state of Ohio and then to new Chilacotha [Chillicothe] now in Indiana. then to Blue [illegible] aforesaid he was in a battle with the Shawnee indians in which battle Captain Irvin was killed and one Coronel McGary was wounded and one [illegible] was wounded and sixteen or seventeen of the
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  Could not read, will come back.
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11.734
P. O. 
Frederick Winter
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted:   , 18  .
Discharged:   , 18  .
Application filed:   , 18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.  Contract
Cert. of Dis.    Searched for   ,18
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Lebanon March 25th, 1834

Sir,

    I have transmitted to you the pension papers of Frederick Winter for a pension you will please put his name on the pension rolls and send his certificate to me direct to the post office at the (illegible) I have the honor to be your (illegible) and honorable servant.
                                              //s//
                                       John Bruce 
The Honorable
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War