Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2066, William Clutter, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey

Name
Clutter, William

Number 
R.2066
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State of Ohio
Washington County

On this 13th day of August 1834 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace i n& for the county of Washington & state of Ohio aforesaid & township of Newport William Clutter a resident of the county & state aforesaid aged eighty-one years past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit: That sometime in the year 1775 affiant thinks in June or July affiant while living in Morris County State of New Jersey enlisted under Captain Joseph Budd for the term of one year, that said Capt. Joseph Budd's company to which affiant belonged was attached to a regiment number not recollected commanded by a Colonel Barber. That affiants company rendezvoused at  Succasunna Plain in said Morris County from thence to Albany thence up to the North River thence to Montreal in Canada which they took - at this place affiant was selected & taken to serve as one of the life guards of General Montgomery with whom affiant marched & was engaged in the siege & storming of Quebec where Gen Montgomery was killed - after this engagement affiant was placed in his own company again commanded by Capt. Budd & Lieut. William Gordon & marched by the same route back to Morris County New Jersey aforesaid, where affiant was regularly discharged after having served one year the time for which he was enlisted. That in addition to the officers named, affiant knew in that campaign Major Arnold, afterwards General Arnold & Brown & other officers whose names affiant has now forgotten.

That affiant soon after he returned from the Northern Service he thinks in the month of July 1776 volunteered for a tour of five months under Captain James Wilkinson who commanded a company of riflemen. Affiant rendezvoused at Succasunna Plain aforesaid & marched to Elizabeth Town in said State thence
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affiant took water & landed at New York thence to Long Island where affiant was engaged in the Battle of that name - after which affiant was marched to & was in the engagement of the White Plains, from thence affiant was marched to Trenton - his five months having expired, about the time the army crossed the Raritan River & a general engagement with the British being expected soon to take place, affiant volunteered to served one month longer & was in the battle of Trenton, sharing the danger & glory of that day - soon after which affiant was regularly discharged having served six months instead of the five for which he volunteered. In this campaign affiant was acquainted with Gen Washington & Putnam, Lord Stirling, Col Ephraim Martin of Militia & an Adjutant Johnson & others not now recollected - from the lapse of time & loss of memory affiant does not recollect the names of any of the officers of his own company except his captain already named.

That affiant in the latter part of January 1777 was drafted for a tour of one month which he served under Capt. Samuel Movies at Morristown New Jersey where Gen Washington had taken up his winter quarters - affiant's company was attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Hathaway.

That affiant again was drafted for a tour of one month he thinks in the early part of November 1777 & rendezvoused at Succasunna Plain under Capt. Nathaniel Horton attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. John Stark - from Succasunna Plain where affiant rendezvoused, affiant was marched to & served his tour of one month at Sampton on a water of the Raritan River after which affiant was marched back to Succasunna Plain & was discharged.

That affiant still residing in Morris County New Jersey in the year 1778 affiant thinks in April of said year, affiant enlisted in Captain James Wilkinson's company of Riflemen for the term of nine months in which company affiant was appointed & served as 2nd Sergeant - that affiant rendezvoused at Succasunna Plain aforesaid & marched from there to a place called Pluckamin form thence affiant was
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marched to and joined the main army under command of Gen Washington, near Monmouth Courthouse - affiants company was attached to Col. Morgan's corps of Riflemen with which affiant served in the battle of Monmouth Courthouse, where affiant assisted to capture a piece of artillery of the enemy's in doing which affiant received a bayonet wound in the back of the right shoulder - the enemy recaptured their piece of artillery and affiant & others with him immediately afterwards retook from the enemy the piece of artillery aforesaid & used it against them - in this last contest for the piece of artillery affiant received the wound before spoken of - the first capture of the piece of artillery was attended with an immense slaughter considering the small numbers engaged in the enterprise, for of two platoons consisting of 12 men each including affiant & another sergeant of the name of Logan all were either killed or wounded except Sergeant Logan and affiant. The second capture was attended with little or no danger to the Americans as affiant thinks there were none received injury but himself.

After the battle of Monmouth affiant being wounded though not badly remained in the neighborhood of Monmouth sometime after which affiant joined his company again & was marched to Spanktown where they were stationed sometime. Affiant was with the army posted about at various places in New Jersey until in January 1779 when affiant was marched back to the place of rendezvous where he was regularly discharged but from whom affiant received his discharge he cannot say as Capt. Wilkinson died in the last of August or 1st of September 1778 & the Lieutenant whose name affiant has forgotten was almost continually sick & their Ensign Cutter Solomon died about the middle of August - of said year 1778.

In this campaign affiant was acquainted with Gen Washington, Green, Lee, Lafeyette, Maxwell & Dickinson, Col. Morgan, Stewart & Parker & some
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the officers whose names he has now forgotten.

In this last campaign, while affiant was stationed at Spanktown, affiant & another sergeant having each a command of four men was sent out as scouts to ascertain the movements of the British & what they were about, a part of the enemy being then encamped on the opposite side of a swamp (affiant thinks called Black Ash Swamp) from Spanktown - this affiant & the other sergeant separated with their respective commands & went in different directions - affiant proceeding cautiously on his duty, discovered a party of the enemy consisting of seven men coming out of the swamp aforesaid, who made for a house nearby, which they entered, leaving their muskets out of doors - upon seeing which affiant with his four men rushed up & took their guns & made prisoners the seven British soldiers, whom they marched into camp and delivered p to (affiant thinks) General Wines (or Irvine) at that time in command to the best of affiants recollection of the post at Spanktown.

That affiant sometime about the 15th of January 1781 (still residing in Morris County New Jersey) enlisted under a Captain John J Wilkinson or a person of some such name in the New Jersey state line for three years unless sooner discharged. To this company was attached a Lieutenant Lorain or Lonrantz. That in February the company to which affiant was attached was marched by the Lieutenant to Stony Point on the North River where they were employed in building ware & store houses - Gen Anthony Wayne then in command of this post. In April, affiant was marched to Millstone Courthouse New Jersey - affiant was then attached to a company commanded by a Capt. Taylor & was stationed there during that season & engaged part of the time in gathering & storing up continental property both there & at Mount Holly N. Jersey. that affiant was appointed second sergeant immediately on entering the service this last time & served as such until about the 14th
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of March 1782 when affiant was appointed and commissioned a Second Lieutenant by General Wines (or Irvine) & Colonels Ford & Cook of the Jersey state troops or militia (affiant does not recollect positively which) & sent with a command of 12 men to guard a number of waggons (wagons) from Morristown New Jersey to Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, which were loaded with munitions of war & clothing for the troops at that place - that affiant delivered their contents to a Colonel O'Harra at Fort Pitt and returned with said waggons (wagons) about the last of July or 1st of August of said year 1782 to Morristown N.J. from thence affiant marched to Millstone C.H. and from thence back to Morristown again where affiant received a regular discharge from the army signed as affiant thinks by a Major Varin on the 27th day of December 1782 having served as 2nd Lieutenant in all nine months & about thirteen days for which affiant received his pay as a Lieutenant.

This last campaign concluded affiants service in the Revolutionary War having served as follows:

1st Term under Capt. Jos Dudd as a Private - one year
2nd Term under Capt. Jno Wilkinson as a Private - six months
3rd Term under Capt. Saml Morris as a Private - one month
4th Term under Capt. Nathaniel Horton as a Private - one month
5th Term under Capt. Jno J Wilkinson & Taylor 2nd Sergeant - 9 months
6th Term under Capt. Jno J Wilkinson & Taylor 2nd Sergeant - 14 months & as 2nd Lieutenant nine months & 13 days.

being in all which affiant served the United States 20 months as a Private, 23 months as 2nd Sergeant & 9 months & 13 days as a 2nd Lieutenant.
 
That from the great lapse of time & consequent loss of memory affiant has lost all recollection of the numbers or names of any continental or militia regiments with which he served - affiant received regular written discharges for each tour he was in the service except the two tours of one month each which discharges he preserved together with his commission until the year 1814 previous to this affiant & one of his
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sons had been in partnership in a Smith shop and upon overhauling their papers in the year 1814 affiant supposes the discharges & commission were accidentally thrown amongst such other papers as affiant considered of no further use & destroyed with them as affiant has never seen them since.

That he has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his services & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to substantiate the same.

That he was born in Buck's County state of Pennsylvania the 28th day of November 1752 that he had a record of his age some years ago but which is now worn out & destroyed - that after the revolutionary war affiant resided in New Jersey until in October 1785 when affiant removed to Washington County Pennsylvania where he resided eleven years thence he removed to Alleghany County Pa where he lived 12 years from thence he removed in 1808 to Ohio County Virginia sine which he has alternately resided in Ohio County aforesaid & Washington County Ohio State where he now resides.

That he is acquainted with the Reverand Charles W. Talbot a clergyman residing in Washington County & state aforesaid also with William G Medley, Poter Flint, Daniel Herring, Elijah Reed, Jacob Winget & Isaac Parr & others of his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services in the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension & annuity but the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

William Clutter

We Charles W Talbot a clergyman residing in the county of Washington & State of Ohio and Jacob Winget resident of the same county and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Clutter who has subscribed & sworn
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to the preceding declaration that we believe him to be 81 years past that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Charles W Talbott - Clergyman
Jacob Winget

And the said justice do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the several interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states; and I the said Justice further certify that it appears to me that Charles W Talbott who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Washington County & state of Ohio & that Jacob Winget who has also signed the same is a resident of the same county & state aforesaid & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit & I the said Justice do further certify that after having personally examined the body of the said applicant that he bears a scar on the back of his right shoulder corresponding with the one noticed in his declaration starting to have been received in the revolutionary war strongly evidencing the truth of said statement & I the said Justice do further certify that the above named applicant resides some 18 or 20 miles from the C.H. of his county & is unable form old age & bodily infirmity to travel to the C.H. of his said county given under my hand & seal in & for said county of Washington & state aforesaid this day and year first above written.

Thos. Ferguson - J. Peace
SEAL

The
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The State of Ohio
Washington County }ss.
I, George Dunlevy, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, before Thomas Ferguson, a Justice of the peace in and for Newport Township in said County, in the matter of the application of William Clutter, for a pension and that the within signature purporting to be the signature of said Justice is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this sixteenth day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Geo. Dunlevy, Clerk

31,968
William Clutter
Declaration for obtaining pension
1832  Ohio

Look at 2066
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Green }ss.
On this twentieth day of June AD 1842 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County (Abraham Clutter aged seventy six years of Green Township, Green County Pennsylvania) [illegible] being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that this deponent was a resident of Morris County, State of Jersey during the period of the American Revolution and am a brother to William Clutter who now resides in Jefferson Township, Allegheny County Pennsylvania.  That this deponent knows that the said William Clutter was a soldier in the Revolutionary army for and during the greater portion of the war.  And the deponent knows that the said William Clutter held the commission of Second Lieutenant in the service of the United States Army in the latter portion of the war.  That this deponent knows that the neighborhood in which the said Wm. Clutter has been he has uniformly been reported to be a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 

X his mark
Abraham Clutter

Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year above mentioned
Alexander Stephenson, J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Green County }
I, Alexander Stephenson, Justice of the Peace in and for Green Township said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abraham Clutter who has made the above affidavit before me & that he has been for many years a resident of said township, that he is a credible person and that his statement can be relied on as true. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th day of June A.D. 1842.
Alexander Stephenson, Esq.

Pennsylvania
Green County
I, John Phelan, Prothonotary of Green County do hereby certify that Alexander Stephenson, Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition of Abraham Clutter purports to have been made, and whose name purports to be signed to the above certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county, duly commissioned and sworn & that full faith & credit are due his acts as such & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine.  
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name & affixed my seal of office at Waynesburg this 21st day of June A.D. 1842
Jno. Phelan
Prothy.
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John T. Clutter's
Deposition
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State of Ohio
County of Washington }ss.
On this 13th day of August 1834 personally appeared before me Thomas Ferguson, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Washington aforesaid and State of Ohio, John T. Clutter who I hereby certify to be a respectable person and a creditable witness (and at present, clerk of the Township of Ludlow in which he resides) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath state that he is the son of William Clutter adverted to in his declaration in order to obtain a pension respecting a partnership in the  black smith business, previous to the year 1814 and of a settlement which took place between his father and himself in the said year of 1814, that the said John T. Clutter recollects perfectly well of the circumstances narrated in his father's declaration respecting three discharges which his father had received from service during the revolutionary war and also of a commission as Lieutenant that he, the said John T. Clutter seen and read those papers at the time of their settlement as above stated in 1814, and that he frequently seen those papers previous to that time, that he believes they were accidentally burnt at that time with some papers which they considered of no further use to them after having settled up their accounts to that date as he has no recollection of having seen them since that time. 
John T. Clutter
 
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before me.
Thos Ferguson J. Peace
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The State of Ohio
Washington County }
I, George Dunlevy, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, do hereby certify that Thomas Ferguson, Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken & whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time & now is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for Newport Township in said County, duly elected, commissioned & qualified agreeable to law, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all things by him thus certified as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Marietta in said County this sixteenth day of August, Anno Domini one thousand, eight hundred and thirty four.
Geo. Dunlevy, Clerk
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William Clutter
Pennsylvania
Suspended 
[illegible]
J. Bigham
Let. to Hon W.W. Irwin Mar 16 18 
do to Hon W. Wilkins, Sec. War
March 12, 1844.  do K C. Wilkins Esq, War office March 29, 1844
do to W. Clutter Oct 26, 1844

2066
Act 7 June 1832
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2066
REJECTED
P.O.
William Clutter
Service:
Enlisted: ____________, 18
Discharged: ____________, 18
Application Filed:  ____________, 18
Alleges:
Re-Enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized   Contract
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for ____________, 18
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April 3, 1844
War Department

Col. Edwards

Sir:
Mr. Darragh, member of Congress from Penna has requested me to procure for him a copy of your letter in reply to the claim of Wm Clutter for a pension.
Your obt Sert
Chas. P. Wilkins
Ap. 3d. 1844.


C P Wilkins
Present
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J. L. Edwards, Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City, D.C.


Sept 13 1842
Pa
William Clutter
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Pittsburgh Penn Sept 10 1842

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
I enclose to you the papers of William Clutter, a revolutionary soldier and applicant for a pension. 
Should you require any explanation I believe the Hon W.W. Irwin, the member of Congress from this district is familiar with the history of the old man's services.  Any additional information you may require will be furnished by addressing me at this city.  I remain your obedient service.
T. J. Bigham
Pittsburgh, Penna

To the War Department
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War Department
March 28th 1844
Col. Edwards
Sir:
I must again trouble you in relation to Clutter's pension.  He desire to know if he can be entitled to a pension as a private.  An answer at our convenience will much oblige me.  
I am your obt sevt,
Chas P. Wilkins
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West Elizabeth Pa
Oct 21, '44.
Wm Clutter
for a pension
C562 rec Oct 20 / 44
Pension Office

Wm Clutter
Pa 32

Arrd Oct 26, 44

Wrt G. G. Brown
Apl 4-44
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October 21th 1844
Mr Wilkins eye have taken this optunity to in form you that you that eye have applied for pension and it is so that eye cant get no anser whether eye will get it or no. eye think it have case eye fot a have case for it and eye help to set you all once and now you can reep my labor at liberty and eye think have that eye fot have cole and warm for my liberty and your and now eye must due the best eye can in my old days wen eye can't work.  now eye need it wen eye cant work but if eye had not met with that misfortin that eye had my papers burnt, eye could done better, but eye must due as well as I can.  eye understand that have a place for leutenet pay. eye dont want it for eye never had commisin for it.  Eye was afrinted by the offers and eye dont look for that pay.  Eye want pay for regular solder pay and if you will due same thin for your ole friend dimmicrat you will oblige your friend no more at present.
William Clutter

Mr. Wilkins your good ole friend has send his compliments to you if you can due for my ole father you will oblige your friend.  My father is ninety three years of age and if you can due any thing for him eye want you to do it soon as you can and eye want you to send me anser back as soon and you will oblige your friend.  
Paul Clutter

Direct your letter
West Elizabeth
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West Elizabeth Pa
Oct 21

Mr. William Wilkins
Citty Washington D.C.
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Western District of Pennsylvania
Allegheny County }ss.
On this fifth day of June AD one thousand eight hundred and forty one personally appeared before the Hon Thomas Irwin Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania now holding court in said district William Clutter, a resident of Jefferson Township Allegheny County in said Western District aged eighty nine years who being first duly sworn according in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by act of Congress for the relief of Revolutionary soldiers.  
I William Clutter then residing in Morris County New Jersey in the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy five enlisted for one year under Captain Joseph Budd and marched under General Arnold into Canada.  I was at the siege of Quebec and saw General Montgomery fall. When I enlisted I was to have received one hundred acres of land but never got any land or other pay.  In the succeeding spring AD 1776 I returned to Morris County, New Jersey where I again enlisted under Captain James Wilkinson for five months and marched  from Hacklebarney Plains to Elizabethtown then to New York where we joined Col. Morgan and marched to the battle of Long Island.  We returned to New York in night.  There to Elizabeth town where I remained until my time had expired.  I again enlisted under Captain James Wilkinson to aid Washington in his retreat through New Jersey, remained with the army until discharged after the battle of Trenton.  From January AD 1777 until October of the same year I was not in active service though I nursed those who were sick with the small pox in the army.
In October I again enlisted under Captain Nathaniel Horton, Col. John Start and General Wines, at the end of a month we were discharged.  I again marched under the same field officers in the Company of Captain Mathias Harris to Frank town where I was discharged about the tenth of January AD 1778.  In the spring of the said year I again enlisted for five months under Captain James Wilkinson and marched from Hackle Barney Plains to a place called Pluckemin New Jersey and there joined Col. Morgan's brigade with whom we marched to Monmouth in which battle I was wounded by a bayonet or spear in the hinder.  After the battle
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the remnant of our company marched to a place called Stoney Hill on the line between the two armies along which line we remained until January AD 1779.  I then left the army for two years when I again enlisted under Captain Wilkinson of Maryland for three years.  I was marched to Stoney Point under Lieutenant Loran and then helped to build the War Houses.  I remained under General Wayne until the following April when I returned to New Jersey Millstone Court House under Captain Taylor where I was employed in collecting the continental property.  In year in A.D. 1782 I was marched to Morristown New Jersey and here on the fifteenth day of March 1782 I with others were entrusted with a Brigade of wagons loaded with clothes we were provided &c. for Fort Pitt in Western Pennsylvania.  I received the Commission of Second Lieutenant from General Maxwell and Wines and Colonels Cook and Drake.  On our reaching Bethlehem Pennsylvania Capt Taylor took the command of the Pennsylvania wagons and I took the Jersey wagons.  Capt. Taylor went to Beaton Town now Union Town.  I to Fort Pitt now Pittsburgh.  I delivered my load to General James O Hara at Fort Pitt - who in return gave me deer and beaver skins for the use of the army.  I returned to Morristown in the last of June with my load.  Thence I marched to Millstone Court House where I was discharged upon the twenty fifth day of December A.D. seventeen hundred & eight two.  The orders came to us by General Maxwell and Major VonAnt we got our discharge from the field officers Generals St Clair & Maxwell.  My discharge with all my other papers were destroyed by my son John by mistake in AD 1814. I have however been informed that my name appears upon the record of the war department of the periods above mentioned.  In 1832 or1833 while I resided in Washington County this, I applied for a pension and my son John then made oath to the loss of my papers. I presume these papers are within the file of the
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pension office.  Owing to the informality of the papers then forwarded, I did not obtain a pension - nor have I at any before or since obtained any pension.  
William Clutter

Sworn to and subscribed before me in said court at Pittsburgh in the W.D. Penna this fifth day of June AD 1841
Th Irwin
2nd Judge W. D. C. 

Western District of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny
I, James Estep a clergyman residing in the township of Union, Washington County and State of Pennsylvania hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with the said William Clutter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that I believe him to be ninety years of age; that I am not acquainted with the belief entertained in the neighborhood of his residence, he having resided at present above only for a short time, but I myself believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution.  
James Estep
Pastor of the Baptist Church Peters Creek

Sworn and subscribed the eleventh day of August AD 1842
Geo Watson
ald

Western District of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny }ss.
And the said court do hereby declare their 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 court further certifies that it appears to them that James Estep who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the township of Union, Washington County Pennsylvania and that his statement is entitled to credit.   The answers to the interrogatories here referenced to are found in the preceding declaration and in the annexed affidavit to which I have subscribed my name. 
Th Irwin

I A A Irwin, Clerk of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applica-
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35,376
-tion of William Clutter for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 3rd day of September A.D. 1842.
A A Irwin Clerk
Dis Co U.S. W. D. Pa
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Western District of Pennsylvania
Allegheny County }ss.
William Clutter of Jefferson Township, Allegheny County appeared in open court on this third day of September AD 1872 and on examination adds the following facts to those already stated in his declaration made the fifth of June AD 1841 before the Honorable Thomas Irwin, Judge of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
To the first interrogatory contained in the War Department the petitioner answers
I was born in Bucks County Pennsylvania the 28 of November AD 1752
To the second interrogatory he answers 
I have no record of my age.  I had a copy from my fathers Bible of the record of my age - it is now lost and I know not where the original is.
To the third interrogatory he answers
I lived in Morris County New Jersey when called into service.  I removed from Morris County to Sussex County New Jersey in the fall of 1783.  In the year 1785 I removed to Washington County Pennsylvania.  In the year 1796 I removed to Allegheny County Pennsylvania.  In the year 1805 I removed to Ohio County [illegible]  In the year 1814 I removed to Washington County.  This where I residenced until in March 1840 when I removed to Jefferson Township in Allegheny County where I now reside.   
To the Fourth Interrogatory he answers
I was called into service by volunteering.  I have in my statement specifically given full detail of my services.  I never was a substitute.
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On one occasion I was drafted as a militiaman two months. 
To the Fifth interrogatory he answers
I have in statement of the 5th June 1841 recalled the regular officers under whom I served.  All the general circumstances of that service.
To the Sixth interrogatory he answers
I received a discharge at Millstone Court House New Jersey 25 of December 1782.  I received my discharge from General St. Clair and General Maxwell.  My discharge was destroyed by my son John by mistake in 1814 as appears by his affidavit hereto annexed.
To the Seventh interrogatory he answers
I received a commission as Second Lieutenant on the 15th March 1782.  It was signed by the Field officers General Maxwell and Wines and was destroyed by my son John at the same time my discharge was destroyed. 
To the Interrogatory marked as seventh he answers that he could name almost any number of persons to whom his character of veracity and the reputations in regard to his revolutionary services.  He named many here.   The Hon. Francis Mc Clure of Allegheny County Penns.  John Thompson said county.  Harvey H. Peterson Esquire, Benjamin Rickey a revolutionary soldier.  see testimony.  Abraham Clutter - also revolutionary solider.  the Rev James Estep and many other names might be given.  The above supplementary statement was made before me
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in open court at Pittsburgh in the Western District of Pennsylvania on this third day of September AD 1842
William Clutter

William Clutter on his solemn oath saith that the facts set forth in the above answers to the Interrogatories of the War Department are all each and every one of them true to the best of his knowledge and belief.  
Sworn before me this 3rd day of September 1842

Th Irwin 2nd Judge
US Western Dist of Penn
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Washington }ss.
On this 22nd day of June AD 1842 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County (Benjamin Rickey aged 89 years, a resident of Morris Township Washington County Pennsylvania) who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that this deponent was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and has been for some years in the receipt of a pension from the United States.  That he has been acquainted with William Clutter who now resides in Jefferson Township, Allegheny County Pennsylvania.  That this deponent knows that the said William Clutter was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and also believes that the said William Clutter was in the Battle of Long Island and that this deponent knows that in the neighborhood in which the said William Clutter has lived he has uniformly been reputed to be a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Benjamin Rickey

Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of June 1842 before me.
Wm. Lindly
Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County }ss.
I William Lindly, Justice of the Peace in and for Morris Township said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Rickey who has made the above affidavit before me; that he has been for many years a resident in said township; that he is a credible person and that his statement can be relied on as true for witness.  Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22nd day of June AD 1842
Wm. Lindly
Justice of the Peace

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Washington County, SS.
I, John Grayson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, do hereby certify, that William Lindly before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, was at the time, and now is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that the signature attached to the same, purporting to be his, I believe is genuine, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Washington this 24th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two.
Jno Grayson Prothonotary.
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Wm S Thompson Esq.
Pittsburgh Pa
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State of Ohio
Washington County ss.
Before me an associate Judge of the Cort of Common Pleas, duly commissioned in and for said County personally came John Clutter, a resident of said County aged fifty years and on his solemn oath duly administered saith that this deponent is the son of William Clutter of Jefferson Township, Allegheny County, Pa, that many years since, probably twenty six or twenty seven years ago, certain papers certificates discharges &c belonging to my father William Clutter were by me destroyed under a mistake as to the nature and importance of their contents.  That from having examined once these papers, or from information since received, I am satisfied it was a discharge from the field officers of the revolution to my father dated twenty fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred & eighty two.  
In 1832 or 1833 my father then residing in this county applied for a pension and I then made an affidavit to the loss of the above stated papers - which affidavit is probably on the files of the War Department.  
John Clutter

Sworn & subscribed before me this 25th day of September AD 1841.
John Cotton Assoc Judge
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State of Ohio
Washington County }
I Thomas W Ewart, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington and State of Ohio do hereby certify that John Cotton before whom the foregoing oath and affirmation was taken is duly commissioned as an Associate Judge of this Court for said County to all whose acts full faith and credit should be given.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said court at Marietta this 25th day of September A.D. 1841

Thos W. Ewart Clerk