Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,173, for William Stewart, North Carolina
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The declaration of William Stewart a soldier of the Revolutionary
Pennsylvania West{illegible] County
Personally appeared in open Court William H
Stewart a soldier of the revolutionary army who on his solemn oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain a Pension under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832. 
The declarant States that he was born in Brunswick County State of Virginia and is now in his seventy sixth year of age - he removed to North Carolina Northampton County where he enlisted in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven under Major Hardy Murphy a continental recounting officer in the month of June - he was then marched to Halifax North Carolina and from there to Alexandria in Virginia where there were assembled fifteen hundred new recruits where those who had not had the small pox were inoculated, and in the last of September of the same year we were marched to a place called the White Marsh in New Jersey and then joined the head quarters of Genl Washington where the declarant was placed in the company of Capt Robert Fenns in the second Regiment north Carolina line our Colonels were Col Jno Patton & Col Harney- we there wintered and in the spring marched to the Valley Forge on Schuylkill, and from thence to West point in North River and was there at the time the British took Stoney Point, Declarant was
Marched among other places to the White Plains by
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James Hackensack & Long Island Declarant was in the Battle of Monmouth, under the command of General Hogan - we marched to various places in Jersey and finally marched through Baltimore to North Carolina under the command of Genl Hogan, and was discharged in the month of June in the year 1780 in North Carolina, his discharge was signed by Genl. Hogan, having served three years the full term of his enlistment. He preserved his discharge for many year until it was worn out and lost.  He has other documentary evidence of his services - after he was discharged he remained in Northampton County North Carolina until about twenty seven years ago when he removed with his family into Pennsylvania and was for the last twenty one years resided in Westmorland County Prince, Declarant
is a coloured man but was free born. He claims
a pension for three years having served
that full term in the Revolutionary Army. His name is not inscribed on the pension roll of any State of agency or of the United States, and he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension except whathe may obtain upon this application
the aforesaid has not brought a clergyman in that Rev. Gutleman whose church he attends is ten miles from his residence, and of course knows little of the history [illegible] of an Individual - moreover the only knowledge or report of his revolutionary services in the neighborhood where he has resided, for the last 27 years year, could only be derived from his own details. The declarant is known to Peter Gay