Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 813, Solomon Betz, Penn.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Union

On the seventeenth day of December A.D. 1835, personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas of the said county, now sitting, Solomon Betz, a resident of the Township of Buffalo in the county of Union, state of Pennsylvania, aged seventy-nine years, who being first duly affirmed 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.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  

In the spring of the year 1776 in the month of April, as nearly as I can remember, while living in Reading in Berks County, state of Pennsylvania, I enlisted in what was called the Flying Camp under Colonel Holler and Captain Jack Bower.  I received eight dollars bounty money.  We were at Red Point, Long Island, Red Island, White Plains, New York and Elizabethtown and Trenton, New Jersey. 

I was out again in the militia under Captain Ludwig, the name of the colonel I cannot remember.  I served nearly two months at the close of the Revolutionary War.  The war ended before my two months were up.  We went to Union Township in Pennsylvania. Mr. George Engle of Union Township, Union County can testify that he knew me in the last service.

1.  Where and in what year were you born?
Ans:  I was born in Old Chester Township now called {illegible} in the year 1755.

2.  Have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?
Ans:  I have no record of my age.
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3.  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans:  I have already stated that I lived at Reading when called into service.  After the Revolution I lived in {illegible} and Maiden Creek Townships, Berks County, and I now live in Buffalo Township, Union County, Penna.

4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute, for whom?
Ans:  I have answered the interrogatories in my general declaration.  I was not a substitute for anyone. 

5.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. 
Ans:  I have already answered this in my declaration.

6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans:  My Captain Jacob Bower gave me a discharge, but I have long since lost it.

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Ans:  Abraham Armand, Conrad Dunkel, and John Robert know me very well and can testify as to my veracity and their belief I am {illegible}.  

He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever 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 or (if any) only on that agency of the state of Pennsylvania.
Signed:  Solomon Betz

Affirmed and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Signed:  Joseph Stelwell, Prothy