Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23803, for Joseph Mendenhall, Pennsylvania
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Fayette County Pennsylvania

On this 14th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four ,personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county, Joseph Mendenhall, a resident of the said county, aged eighty-seven 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 September 1777 he was drafted in Captain Isaac Taylor's company of Penna. militia for two months; that he was marched from this county to Penna. to Brandywine and was engaged in that battle on the 11th September 1777; that he then thinks he was in this tour in Col. Hannes(?) regt. of this however he is not certain'; he served the remainder of his time after this battle near the Valley Forge; that he served his full two months on this tour and was discharged.  

That in September or October of the year 1778 he was (illegible) into the service with his wagon and team and was engaged in hauling from (illegible) to Lancaster most of the time; that he was two months in this service in 1778; that on the tenth day of May 1780 he received from the (illegible) Executive Council of the Penn.
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Uniontown, Penna
Oct. 16, 1923
The Pension Department
Dear sirs;
Could you send me a copy of the pension record of one Joseph Mendenhall who was a private and captain in Penna Militia during the Revolutionary War?
he served in Chester Co. Penna, and at the close of the war; came to Menallen Township Fayette County Pennsylvania and lived to be a very old man.  He is married in a list of pensioners in Menallen Twp. Fayette co.  See p. 529 Volume Twenty three, Penna. archives.  Third Series for