Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1002, Samuel Bond, Md.
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SERVICE   Md.  Bond, Samuel  NUMBER  R. 1002
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______ Ex’r.    INVALID  (stamped) REJECTED
No. _____
Acs of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 (struck out)
1002
P.O. Samuel Bond
Service: _______
Enlisted: _______, 18  .
Discharged: _______, 18  .
Application filed: _______, 18  .
Alleges: _________
Re-enlisted: ________
Attorney: ______
P.O. _______
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Samuel Bond
Pennsylvania

Rejected

See Let 24th Feb 1838 to Hon D. Petriken

Did not serve six months in a military capacity

1002
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{illegible} at Feb 24 
PA

D. Petriken MD

J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office

Hon D. Petriken
H.R.
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H of Rep
Washington 23 Feb 1838

J L Edwards Esq

Sir

Enclosed I send you an application for a pension by Saml Bond Esq of Columbia Co of Pa.

I can attest he is one of the most respectable men in Penn and was a member of the Legislature of Penn for many years and is character for veracity is of the first order.

Yours
D. Petriken
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V 34377
Samuel Bond
Pennsylvania

Hon D. Petriken
H.R.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832.

State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County

On this fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight personally appeared before the Hon. William Montgomery Esq. one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county Samuel Bond Esq a resident of Liberty Township in the County of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty-three years who being first 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 7th, 1832.

I volunteered into the service of the United States in Cecil County State of Maryland on the 1st day of November 1775 by entering into a volunteer association compact with above sixty other persons the compact approving of and each individual subscribed his name to the declaration prepared by Congress to be published to the army in orders and to the people from the pulpit setting forth the causes and necessity of taking up arms and declaring that they would die freemen rather than live slaves. We then proceeded to elect our officers and to appoint a committee who should be authorized to enact law for the regulation of the compact. Richard Dobson was elected Capt. Richard Bon 1st Lieut. and John Jones 2nd Lieut. Congress shortly after this time sanctioned our proceedings by commissioning our officers.

Agreeably to the laws enacted by the committee we were required to train regularly at least once in every week, we continued strictly to observe all the laws enacted for the regulation of the compact, training once in each week and at all times keeping ourselves
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in readiness to join the army or to defend our country when called upon, until the 1st day of February 1777 (making a term of fifteen months) when our company was drafted in mass from Cecil County State of Maryland for two months, we marched from Elkton in Cecil County State of Maryland under command of Cols. Charles Rumsey and Henry Hollingsworth, Majors Edward Parker and Samuel Maffet and Capt. Samuel Gilpen (as substitute for Richard Dobson the commissioned Capt. who was sick and unable to go) to Philadelphia where we drew our arms and then proceeded to Baskin Ridge in Jersey where we lay about one week and marched to Quibbletown in East Jersey where we were stationed about three miles distance from the British forces and remained there till our term of service expired on the 1st day of April 1777. When our time expired, there had no troops arrived to take possession of our post and the forces then stationed volunteered to stay till other forces would arrive. When the regular troops arrived, we were immediately dismissed and returned home on the 10th day of April 1777 without having any knowledge of the regular officers (make a term of two months and 10 days). We returned our arms at Philadelphia on our way home. I volunteered to serve with the militia at Elkton at the head of the Elk river in the state of Maryland on the 26th day of August 1777 on receiving intelligence of the British having landed at Elk Ferry on the 25th and remained in the service with the forces then collected at Elkton and under the command of the same Field and Company officers as before stated, five days. When the forced collected at Elkton were placed on parage, the commanding officer gave orders that if we were compelled to
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retreat from Elkton, we should rally on Grays hill. When the British marched and took possession of Elkton, we attempted to rally agreeable to orders but found the hill occupied by the British. We then changed our course and rallied about four miles distant from Elkton. After we were called up in order and placed on parage, the commanding officer stated that he wanted to appoint a picket guard for the night and as there was one station, that he considered a dangerous one, he wanted such men as would volunteer to stand in that station. I volunteered and served as one of that guard. At the expiration of the five days above mentioned, there was a number of soldiers with the forces that were willing to fight who could not obtain arms. A great number of arms having been purchased previous to this time from the French for the use of the army and a very considerable number of the barrels not being good had busted in proving them. I being a gunsmith I was ordered by the commanding officers to give up my arms for the use of some other person and to go to my gun mills and put new barrels in the stalks of the above named guns, that had been busted in the barrels by proving for the use of the army. I obeyed the orders and was employed in that service in repairing guns for the use of the army until the 1st day of April 1778. Making a term of seven months and six days and making in all the several terms added one whole turn of twenty-four months and sixteen days: or two years and sixteen days. I have no documentary evidence, and I know of no surviving witness whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my services. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity and declare that my name is not on the pension
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roll of the agency of any stated.

Saml. Bond

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

William Montgomery

We John Bryson a clergyman residing in the township of Turbit County of Northumberland and state of Pennsylvania and William Sheddan residing in Liberty Township Columbia County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Bond Esq who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty-three years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

John Bryson
William Sheddan

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

William Montgomery

And the said William Montgomery does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the said William Montgomery further certifies that it appears to him that Joh Bryson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the township
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Quest 1 - Where and in what year were you born?
Ans - I was born in Cecil County State of Maryland on the 30th day of September 1754.

Quest 2 - Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it?
Ans - I have seen the record of my age in my father's bible which I distinctly recollect.

Quest 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 was living in Cecil County State of Maryland where I was born when I entered the service; and continued to live there after the war until the year 1791 when I removed from that place to Columbia County then a part of old Northumberland County state f Pennsylvania where I have lived since that time; and where I now live.

Quest 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 first volunteered into the service; secondly, I was drafted; and lastly, I volunteered.

Quest 5 - State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Ans - Cols Rumsy, Hollingsworth and Bland; Majors Parker and Maffet; no higher officer names recollected that were with the troops when I served. Genl. Washington had his headquarters at Morris-town about twenty miles east from where I served i Jersey. I cannot recollect the names of any of the continental or militia regiments. The general circumstances of my service are particularly noticed and set forth in the body of my declaration.

Quest 6 - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and
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if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans - I have no recollection of ever having received any written discharge.

Quest 7 - State the names of persons to whom you are known in our present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief or your services as a soldier of the revolution?
Ans - Rev John Bryson, William Sheddan, Robert Livingston, James Strawbridge and James McMahon.

State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County

I James Donaldson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Columbia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Hon William Montgomery in the matter of the Application of Samuel Bond Esq for a pension. And I do hereby further certify that the said Hon. William Montgomery Esq before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits was taken was and still is an acting judge of the several courts of Common Pleas and Quater Sessions of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned as such and to all whose official acts as such due faith and credit ought to be given and the signature annexed to the foregoing declaration of the said William Montgomery Esq is the proper hand writing of him the said Hon William Montgomery Esq. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Danville the 12th day of February 1838.

James Donaldson Prothy
per Jas Donaldson Sen Clerk
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The National Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Bond, Samuel
Grade: Private
Line: Massachusetts

Warrant Number : 3688
Acreage: 100
Issued: Mar 25, 1790
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