Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 18,952, Samuel White, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Penn.
White, Samuel
NUMBER R. 18.952
CONTENTS
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26.514
Samuel White
Ohio
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We, Cyrus Call, a Clergyman residing in the Town of Berlin in said County of Huron, and William Howard, residing in Hartland County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel White, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be Seventy-three 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, and we further consider him an honest man and of truth and veracity.
Cyrus Call
Wm. Howard
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
D. Gibbs Clerk W.C.P.
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 applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that the Reverend Cyrus Call, who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman, a resident in the Town of Berlin, in said County, that William Howard, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Hartland in said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. Higgins, Presiding Judge
Timothy Batter
Fredrick W. Voucher
John Turk
Associate Judges
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I, D. Gibbs, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Huron in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel White for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 6th day of June A.D. 1833
D. Gibbs, Clk H.C.P.
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State of Ohio Huron County SS Norwalk
On this fifth day of June one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in open Court now sitting, Samuel White, a resident of Hartland in the said County of Huron, aged Seventy-three years; who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of 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. That in order to connect his services with the services of his Brother, James White, the Declarant states that his said Brother in the year AD 1776, enlisted into the Continental Army for three years into a company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller of Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania in Colonel Mackay's regiment. He can't recollect the name of the Brigadier General that his said Brother served in said Continental company under General Washington near Philadelphia for one year. That about the end of said year, viz in 1777, the Declarant's Father, Josiah White's wagon and four horses were pressed by the authority of the United States into their service and the said James having been used to said Horses and wagon, then being under said enlistment, was detailed and ordered to take charge of the same, and did accordingly take charge of the same and served as a Teamster for part of the two following years until the year 1779 when his said Brother died at Quibble Town in New Jersey, about ten miles from Philadelphia. That in 1779, the Declarant says that his Father's said team wagon and horses were again pressed into the service of the United States. That the Declarant, then living at the Town of Paston in Lancaster County in said State of Pennsylvania, being then about sixteen years of age and being also well acquainted with said horses and wagon, was pressed by the authority of said United States to take charge of the same which he accordingly did and in the year
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1779, he had charge and served with the same from the Spring of that year to October or November following not less than six months in hauling provisions, Flour, Rye, Hay, Swabs, dragropes, Shovels, from Colstown to Staates Town where at the latter place was a Provision Store that he loaded back with Salt salt provisions to Colstown and back with Flour and Whiskey to Harstown. That he also carried dispersed the [illegible] of those who were pressed into the service under General Sullivan of the Continental Army, into different parts of the country, one Doctor Wiggins was Surgeon of the Regiment to which the Declarant belonged. He served between said one [illegible] Town lying on the Susquehanna and Lancaster and from the latter to said Staates Town in hauling cannon ammunitions of war. Colonel Cox was the commander and Superintendent of the store on the Susquehanna and of the teams. A number besides his said Father's were pressed into said service. He, the Declarant, was under the immediate command of William Swan, purchasing Commissary, and all were under the general command of General Sullivan. The names of the Clerks in Cox's store were Alexander Barreyhill and the other name was Cogley (he doesn't recollect his Christian name), both were in the same store. The Provisions he hauled to Cox's Store were carried from up the Susquehanna to the Genesee County (he thinks in 1777), for the use of General Sullivan's army in his expedition against the Indians. After the capture of General Burgoyne at Saratoga in 1777, the American Army moved to the Southward and the French Fleet came within the Capes of the Delaware. The Declarant then also living at said Paxton, his said Father's horses and wagon was again pressed into the service of the United States and he, the Declarant, was again pressed to take charge of and serve with the same and that he hauled with it provisions, Whiskey and other articles in each of the summers of 1780 and 1781 from said Paxton and other places to Philadelphia. That he was employed in that service not less than
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two months in each of the summers of said 1780 and 1781. It took him generally ten days to go to and return from Philadelphia.
In these last-mentioned services, he was pressed and commanded by contractors and commissaries under the authority of General Washington. He was about Seventeen years of age when he served in 1780 and eighteen in 1781. He never received a regular discharge. While he served as aforesaid in teaming and hauling, he remembers George McMellin who commanded a Company of Militia, the name of the Colonel of the Regiment he don't recollect. This Captain McMellin was employed in guarding the Hessians at Lancaster, a part of whom after heir capture at Trenton were brought to said Lancaster. He remembers a Major John Gilchrist of the Continental Army who was wounded in battle and died at Greensburgh in Westmoreland County. He always took receipts for the loads which he carried to different places during his services aforesaid. And the Declarant further says that his Father never made any contract with the United States respecting the use of said horses and wagon as aforementioned, but they were pressed into their service as aforesaid, nor did the Declarant ever make any such contract, nor did his said Father ever, according to the Declarant's best knowledge, ever receive any compensation therefor. Nor did the Declarant ever receive any compensation for his said services except one half Bushel of Salt. The Declarant says that he was in the habit of carrying straw and ground Rye in his wagon and was obliged on many tours to set safe sights and oat straw and [illegible] with the ground Rye for provisions for said Horses. The Public Stores having provisions being frequently at an inconvenient distance. That he generally lodged in his wagon and was much and frequently his wagon was full of loading that he was obliged to sleep under his wagon, exposed to storms and bad weather. In consequence of which, his constitution became much impaired, his limbs became gradually enfeebled. He is one entirely helpless. It is
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now five years next September since he has been able to walk a step even with the assistance of others.  That he in common with other soldiers draws his rations at the public stores while he was [illegible] aforesaid.  That he has no documentary evidence respecting his said Services and knows of no person living who can testify to them.   That he was born in said Paxton in February AD 1760, that he has no record of his age.  That he served as aforesaid in the whole not less than ten months. That he lived after the Revolutionary War in the County of Washington near Pittsburgh in said Pennsylvania about nine miles from said Pittsburgh, went from thence to Greensburg in Westmoreland County, lived there eight or nine years. From thence he moved to Ohio near Youngstown where Judge Kirkland lived.  He resided there about two years, from thence he removed to Ashtabula Town and county in said Ohio, lived at the latter about seven years, from thence he removed to said Hartland, where he has lived twelve years. Upon further reflection he remembered that the Colonel of the Regiment in which was the company commanded by Captain McMellens, was a Colonel Smith and he remembers during his said services he frequently saw General Washington, who commanded the army.  The Reverand [blank] [illegible] of Florence in said county and William Hayland of Hartland in said County will testify respecting his services as a soldier  
 of the Revolutionary War and his reputation as such and also unto his reputation of being a man of truth and veracity.
The declarant further says that [illegible] the time of the  Peace between Great Britain and the United which closed the Revolutionary War, he cannot say positively whether it was before the close of said war or a short time after .  He entered and served as a Ranger in Indian [illegible] for part of two [illegible] one under the command of Capt John Eliot in Colonel John Campbells regiment and the other under the command of Capt John Craig in a regiment [illegible] by the same Colonel Campbell that he served [illegible] the Allegany about thirty miles above Pittsburgh and at other places that he served and [illegible]
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26,514 Ohio
Act of June 183
Rejected
See letter of Oct 1  
Semis B. Sturges
dr. 31 Augt 1838
[illegible]
Haros County
Ohio
Samuel White
Sct to Saml White, 18 July 1838
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Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873
18952
[illegible]
P.O. Samuel White
Service:  Rejected
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Ohio June 14
26.514
Postage stamp
Norwalk O June 6 

L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensioners
War Department
Washington

26514 
Samuel White
[illegible] County
Ohio
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Norwalk
 6 June 1833 Ohio
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I now forward to you the application of Samuel White for a Pension under the Law of 6th of June 1832
Very respectfully 
Your obt [illegible]
Lewis B. Sturges
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cept 2
Saml White
add. proof
Acc 7 June 1832
Samuel L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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State of Ohio, Warren County
Declarations in order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress of the United States of the 7th of June 1832.
On the fourth day of March AD 1838 from an atty appearing before the Court of Common Pleas sitting in Norwalk within said Warren County, Samuel White of Haittand in said County, aged Twenty eight years who being duly sworn according to Law  doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of said Act.
 That in some part of the summer 1833, he made application in the form prescribed to the War Department for the benefit of the Provision of said Act. which was forwarded to the Pension Office of said War Department and said War Department on the 9th October 1833 notified by answer "That the evidence in support of said claim of Samuel White has been examined [illegible]. The Department entertains no doubts  as to the alleged services yet such are the regulations found within the Act of 7th June 1833 that such claims are expressly excluded." The papers will remain in the files of this office." This answer was signed by Geo. Wm. Crump.
     The applicant  by his agent Lewis B. Sturges on the 20th of October 1833 gave notice that he should thereafter give another to the Department for a reversal of said decision which is now accordingly made.
Although the Declarant will not now presume to question the correctness of that decision yet possibly upon a review of it.  There may still be some doubts of its correctness.  But upon this he doe not rely in the present application.  He now declares that he has other [illegible] which was not then presented owing to his then want of recollection arising from his old age, which is as follows, viz. That he lived at
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[illegible]. County of Lancaster now the County of Dauphin State of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War that in addition to his services as a Teamster as [illegible] in his said former declaration he was in the year 1777 drafted by the proper authorities of Pennsylvania in the militia into a company commanded by a Captain Smith which said Smith afterwards left said company for the regular Army and after said Smith left said Company it was commanded by one James Corden in which he served for two months in guarding seven or  eight hundred Hessians at Lancaster who were taken at Trenton.  He after this [illegible] in the Corden Company in guarding the Store house of the United States at Cox's Town on the Susquehanna After this he served more than a month in guarding said stores at Middletown in Susquehanna County in Capt McMullens Company in 1780.  He also served in guarding British soldiers and Hessians for two months at [illegible] in Lancaster County.  He further declares he was liable to perform military duty in the militia in his companies commanded at different times by Captains Smith, Cordin, and McMullen according to his recollection as much as the period of Two years when called upon at a minutes warning, that he always was prepared with his fire arms and was frequently called into [illegible] that he was always in the same Regiment.  That Captain Curter and Captain Mc Mullen afterwards became Colonels. The Declarant says he is miserably poor in his temporal circumstances.  He is or has been in a most decrepit state and bedridden in Consequences of a severe Rheumatism and has not been able to [illegible] or walk for eight years last past and cannot do the least thing by labor for a living.  That while he served as a Militia man he was employed in guarding public Farms from Cox's Town to  Lancaster
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one month & from Lancaster to Hekertown for six weeks.

That after said Revolutionary to an he served for two summers (??) in 1782 & 1784 against the Indians of the Mernses Nation between the Allegany River and the head of the Susquehanna & north of Pittsburgh or North Ohio river in Capt John Eliot's company in Col John Campbell's regiment & said Campbell was paymaster. As he the Declarant is so extremely poor & miserable in his bodily complaints, he earnestly requests of his government for some assistance in his very old age.
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Sworn & Subscribed                     Samuel White
this 10th day & year aforesaid.

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D. Gibbs Clk HCH

State of Ohio Huron County ss

    Personally appeared before said court Obidiah Jenney aged forty three & Luke Keeler sixty eight years both of Norwalk in said county.
    Who being duly sworn on their oath declare & say that the know personally the above Declarant Samuel White who have and signed the foregoing declaration that he is a person of truth & veracity.  & they further declare that said White is very poor & destitute in his temporal circumstances that he is extremely decrepit in his body & limbs owing to an ..setesate rheumatism which has afflicted him to such a degree that he has not been able to step or walk for eight years last past & has been for that period totally unable to labor (??) for his living.

Sworn and subscribed this day & year aforesaid.

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D. Gibbs Clrk HCH                  O. Jenney
                                               Luke Keeler
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and this said court do hereby declare as their opinion after the investigation of the matter written & above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states & the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Samuel white, Obidiah Jenney & Luther Keeler who have signed the foregoing written declaration & certificate are persons of truth and veracity.
Attest D Gibbs Clerk                O. Bowen 
                                                 Presiding Judge 
                                                 2d Circuit Court

I David Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Huron & State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel White for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of officer this 24th of March A.D. 1838. 
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                                      D. Gibbs Clk H.C.P.