Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8372, William Dusinbery, New Jersey
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were killed and wounded in this battle, which was fought near a
place called the farm road. I served one month in said service under
Captain Stricker and one month under Captain Groommdike
I served nine tours of duty for myself when draughted, and substituted
for others for two tours making in all eleven monthly tours, I then
enlisted under Captain Adam Hope for six months six in
the said service, was at Elizabethtown New Jersey three months of
the latter period of service, and after that was stationed at Bound (could be Pound)
Creek, between Newark and Elizabethtown, to stop English trade.
I being the oldest Sergeant I had command of thirty more in this last
business, I made no other regular tours of duty, but on the burning of
Springfield by the enemy I went into the service for two weeks
one half of the militia being called out at a time, being harvest time
all could not time out at once-- we took the tories who were sup-
posed to have been concerned in this being and hanged them-
I always acted in the capacity of a Sergeant and sometimes as issuing
Commissary and never as a private, in my several tours of duty before
mentioned. In the six months tour under Captain Lock we fought
the enemy three times in one day, of Second river, above Newark
in New Jersey. General Wayne then came to our aid and the enemy
were departed, Captain Lock fell, the enemy retired to New York
by Bengin point and Paulin hook. I labored on the fort at
Morristown, was in the service when General Lord Sterling and
General Maxfield fought the enemy at Short hills, I was at
Millstown when they fought the enemy there, I was engaged with
the Hessians again ^at White's Mills, in battle, where we and took many
swords and guns from this enemy. I was engaged many a night
in search of English traders, by order of our officers-- making
a period of time of regular tours of duty of Seventeen months and
one half.  Declarant states that he has no documentary evidence of his
said service and knows no persons other than Jacob Creager
residing in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, now
surviving whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service