Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8480, for Asahel Prichard, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn

Prichard, Asahel (star by name)

NUMBER
R.8480



CONTENTS
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35.263
Let to Hon. AH Read 4 July '42
"      "    "  A Dana. 5 Feb. 1844

Asahel Prichard
Penn [crossed out]
New York
82180
7 June 1832
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Acts of July 14, 1832, and March 9, 1873 [all crossed out]

8480

Asahel Prichard

REJECTED
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35363
In the matter of Asahel Pritchard and applicant for a Pension Pa [crossed out] New York act 7. June '32

Hon A.H. Read
H.R
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State of New York
Tioga County}Ss.
On this tenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two, personally appeared before me, Stephen Strong, First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County, and State aforesaid, Asahel Pritchard, a resident of the said County of Tioga and State of New York, aged seventy nine years, on the 28th day of this present month of May, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration and statement, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832.  This deponent emigrated to the Valley of the Wyoming in the State of Pennsylvania with his Father, Jonathan Prichard and his family, about five years previous to Battle of Wyoming, or about the summer or harvest of the year 1772 or 1773 as near as deponent recollects.  deponent being at this time about ten years of age, and resided in said valley of Wyoming until several years after the conclusion of the war-That in the fall of 1780 or 1781, as near as deponent can recollect, he entered the service of the United States as a soldier, in a Company of Infantry, belonging to the Continental Army, commanded by Captain Spaulding,-that deponent entered said Company and the service as a substitute for a soldier in said Company named James Bagley:-that at this time deponent lived at the Shawnee flatts,now town of Plymouth, in said Wyoming Valley, about five miles below Wilkes-Barre on the west side of the Susquehanna River:-that soon after Deponent entered the service as aforesaid, Captain Spaulding, ordered Deponent to go down to said Shawnee flatts, and help build a fort, then building  there a  defence against the enemy; deponent did as he was ordered, and continued to serve, as a minute man, and as required at said Fort, and in the neigh-
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borhood, until the close of the Revolutionary War.-Deponent was not ordered to join his Company after being stationed at Shawnee by Captain Spaulding as aforesaid, but remained there subject to the order of Sergeant Nathaniel Cook and Corporal Thomas Park who had charge of said Fort for a part of the time.  This Fort was a part of the time garrisoned by the Inhabitants, in the neighborhood, comprising some eight or ten families.  Amongst these families were those of Abraham Nesbitt, Thos Parks, Jonah Rogers and others.-This deponent further say, that during the war this Fort and the families in the neighborhood were frequently attacked by the Indians and Tories and constant vigilance was necessary to protect the settlement.  This deponent was frequently engaged in fighting and skirmishing with the enemy, and the services of the Inhabitants who continually put in requisitions in order to defend their lives and the lives of the Inhabitants.  In this way deponent continued to serve during the war, always, being in readiness and liable to be called on at a moments warning.  Deponent has no knowledge that he was ever discharged, or his services in any manner dispensed with by Captain Spaulding, and always held himself in readiness to obey his commands:  Deponent also states that John Carey, Hanover Township Luzerne Co Penna.-Geo. P. Ransom and Abram Nesbitt both of Plymouth in said Luzerne County and the Revd. Benjamin Bidlack of Kingston in said Luzerne County, were severally acquainted with who can testify to Deponent services as above stated.
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Deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity accept [except] the present; and declared that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.-
A Prichard
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me
Stephen Strong
First Judge

I, the above named Stephen Strong, Judge as aforesaid, do Certify, that the above named Asahel Prichard, is unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity.-
Stephen Strong

We ,John  Griffing a Clergyman residing in the Town of Tioga the County of Tioga and State of New York and David Fleming residing in Owego in the County and State aforesaid, hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with Asahel Prichard, who  who had subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.-
John Griffing
David Fleming
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me,
Stephen Strong
First Judge of Tioga Coy [County] NY
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Asahel Prichard, the within applicant for a pension, and also with the Rev. John Griffing and David Fleming the witnesses within named, and know them to be each and all of them persons of respectability and veracity-, and that full faith and credit would be given to their statements or testimony in the community where they reside.
Stephan Strong
First Judge of Tioga 
Coy [County]. Counsellor &c

State of New York
Tioga County Clerks Office}Ss
I David Wallis Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County Do certify that Stephen Strong Esqr Before whom the foregoing affidavits are Taken and whose name is subscribed to the Above Certificate was on the day of Taking said Affidavit and making said Certificate the First Judge of our said County of Tioga duly authorized to act as such-
I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said First Judge and do duly Believe Stephen Strong Above and within subscribed in his own-Proper hand Writing
In Testimony whereof I  have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Tioga at Owego June 16th 1842
David Wallis Clk
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I Ebenezer Chamberlin the Justice aforesaid do Certify that I am well acquainted with the above names Abraham Nisbett and Joze Rogers and that they are credible persons and of good repute for truth and veracity and that their evidence is entitled to full credits belief and of the truth and [illegible] of their several statements I have no doubts.-
Witness my hand and seal
Ebenezer Chamberlain
 Justice of the Peace

Luzerne County SS
I Andrew Bedford Prothonotary of this Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County Certify that Ebenezer Chamberlin who's signature to the foregoing certificate is an acting and duly qualified Justice of the Peace in and for Luzerne State of Pennsylvania and being well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Ebenezer Chamberlin do verily believe the signature above purporting to be his to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Wilkes Barre the tenth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
A Bedford Prot
By Geo W. Smith
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Luzerne County}ss  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before Ebenezer Chambeerlin a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Luzerne-Abram Nesbitt and upon his solemn oath depones and sayeth that he was personally acquainted with Asahel Prichard who now is said to reside in the Town of Owego in the State of New York before the revolutionary war and after the close of the war and further this deponent sayeth that the said Asahel Prichard was in the service during the war in common with him self and others in defence of Wyoming and Its Inhabitants.
  Abram Nisbitt
Sworn and Subscribed this Ninth day of June A.D. 1842 before me
 Ebenezer Chamberlin
Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County Ss}

Joze Rogers a citizen of Plymouth Township Luzerne County state of Pennsylvania being first duly Sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is personally acquainted with Asahel Pritchard now residing in the Town of Owego Tioga County, and State of New York-that he the said Rogers, living in Wyoming Valley during the Revolutionary war that he saw the said Asahel Pritchard here in Plymouth Township Luzerne Co, Penna during the said war and that he saw him on the third day of July AD 1778 the day of the "Wyoming Massacre". at Fort Shawnee in the said Plymouth Township.  And the said deponent further states, what he verily believes from much information given him on the subject, that the said Asaheal Pritchard not only engaged, but very actively engaged in defence of Wyoming, during the period of the Revolutionary War.
Joze Rogers

Sworn and Subscribed before me this ninth day of June AD 1842}
Ebenezer Chamberlain Justice of the Peace