Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,473, for Andrew Mc Calla, Pennsylvania
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State of Kentucky   W. J. Bodley
City of Lexington 

On this 28th day of July 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Mayor of the city of Lexington, now sitting, Andrew McCalla a resident thereof aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath making the following declaration as a reply to the several interrogatories put to him in pursuance to las, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th June 1832.
He was born in Plumstead township Berks County, Pennsylvania on the 30 November 1757. Where was a family record in which his birth was recorded, which is now, as he believes, in the home of same of his brother of sister, in Philadelphia.  He resided with his father when the revolutionary was began, and served five tours of two months each during the years, 1776,1777, & 1778.  He first entered as a private in his fathers, Captain William  McCalla company in 1776 but was soon appointed fife major to the regiment in which company he marched with the troops to Amboy where he remained his first tour.  He second he served as a substitute for his uncle John McCalla, still acting as fife major and of course attached to the regimental staff Col. John Beattie, commanded the regiment in which
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ments of his office, as far as usual in the army.
He remembers one circumstance which occurred during the Siege of Fort Mifflin. Generals Patter & Irwin, Brigade Major Wyckoff and other officers with an escort went down on the Western side of the Schuylkill on a party of observation, with whom he was in company and when they arrived below the lower ferry Major Wyckoff with a spy-glass observed the British ships which were then firing on the fort, and declared that one of them was in flames.  They rode on and overtook the next who had not stopped, and informed them of the fact, and in a short time the Augusta blew up; after that party had gone to Darby and left there about a mile , the Merlin blew up.  He frequently saw and personally knew General Washington, LaFayette, Green, Knox, Wayne Lord Sterling, Maxwell Arnold Hathers.  He also knew Col Parter of the artillery, Col Lee of the Virginia house; also General Conway from who he heard a statement as to the causes which lost the battle of Germantown.
He refers to the statement of his brother John McCalla of Philadelphia amounted hereto and if he was in Burks county has no doubt but 
that he could procure other testimony. But as he removed from that county in 1784 to Kentucky and has remained here ever since, he knows not which, if any of his officers or commanders who knew his services are still alive.