Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6657, for Daniel Mc Caskey, Pennsylvania
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time he states.
    He had another deposition taken same time service of an old soldier who knew him in service, but it was informally taken.  I asked him for it when I left but, he had lost it or could not lay his hands on it. 

    Will you have the goodness to reconsider this case, and if you can (illegible) with duty to consider the whole facts so as to place him on the pension list for the length of time he states.  I believe it will be an act of justice and will much serve the old man as he is now in very indigent circumstances. 

              I have the honor to be
                 your obedient servant

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                                 Tho Henry

P.S. The winter preceding the year that McCaskey entered in service with the late war, he was at Fort Meigs under Gener. Harrison.  It appeared to the old man the time of the Revolution had got a taste of for military service and could not keep from it when opportunity appeared. 
                                                          T.H.
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State of Virginia
Brooke County} ss

    Be it known that before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared George Snyder of the County aforesaid in the State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is now seventy-six years of age; that he served as a fifer in the Militia of Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War for about ten months; that he is well acquainted with Daniel McCaskey, at present residing in Brooke County aforesaid but formerly of the county of Beaver aforesaid and has been so acquainted with the said McCaskey since his youth.
    This deponent understands that the said Daniel McCaskey has applied for a pension under law of Congress of the 7th June 1832, and says on his oath aforesaid that the said Daniel McCaskey enlisted as a fifer in the year 1778 for the term of one year, and served on said enlistment nine months in the company commanded by Captain Rippy, in Major William Findlay's Battalion of the Pennsylvania troops; deponent further says that he (deponent) served in the militia of Pennsylvania, part of the time said McCaskey was serving under Captain Rippy, and frequently saw said McCaskey performing duty as a fifer, as above stated, deponent was then serving, also as a fifer, in Capt. Purdy's Company.  Said Daniel McCaskey and the deponent were from Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania.

    Deponent further says that in the year 1779, as well as he can recollect, the said Daniel McCaskey enlisted as a fifer with Col. Francis Johnson's 4th Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of one year or during th war.  That deponent perfectly recollects that Col. Johnson arrived in Lancaster and made inquiry for the abve named McCaskey the fifer; that the said McCaskey was then some distance from Lancaster. but was sent for by Col. Johnson, and when the said fifer did arrive, Col Johnson, in presence of this deponent, enlisted said fifer, paid him bounty money and deponent saw said fifer make the necessary oath of enlistment, before a magistrate in the town of Lancaster.  That deponent understood the objective in enlisting said McCaskey by Col Johnson was to place him in the recruiting service, and that deponent repeatedly saw the said fifer on duty in said service in Lancaster; deponent understood that said McCaskey was afterwards marched to Staten Island and that he served under the last-mentioned enlistment the full term thereof.  

    Deponent further says that he was in the battle of Long Island and then and there saw the said Daniel McCaskey doing duty as a fifer in the Pennsylvania Line. 

    And further this deponent was mustered to do duty on Mud Island with the Pennsylvania Militia and there saw the said McCaskey doing duty.  That after the evacuation of Mud Island; the U.S. troops were pursued by a body of British and within about two miles of Newark in the state of Delaware a skirmish took place between British and United States regular troops in which battle was the said Daniel McCaskey.
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                            George X Snyder
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Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of November 1837 before me.

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             Moses Congleton