Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39946, Samuel Auchmuty, Penn.

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(3-1776)           NUMBER

SERVICE

Penn.             Auchmuty, Samuel    S.39946

CONTENTS

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Letter to Thomas Duncan Atty 20/50

He died Aug. 2, 1834

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18.782

Pennsylvania

Samuel Auchmuty

of Northumberland Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Craig of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 1776 through 1781 (illegible)

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the (illegible) of February 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of October 1822 and sent to Jeremiah Simpson, Sunbury, PA

Arrears to 4th of September 1829,        (illegible)
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1823     .48
(Illegible)                                                     $295.48

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
(illegible)

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Application for Pension
Samuel Auchmuty



Any return to be made, direct to Jeremiah Simpson Esq. Sunbury Penna
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faith and credit are and ought to be given as will in court of Justice as elsewhere. In testimony of which I have hereto subscribed my name and office (illegible) Court at Sunbury the Twenty Second Day of February Anno Domini, (illegible)

Martin Weaver (illegible))

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District of Pennsylvania
Northumberland County, PA

Be it remembered that on the third day of February Anno Domini, 1820. I for one Henry Shaffer esquire, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, in the District aforesaid, and being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath depose and make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Navel Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" That he the said Samuel Auchmuty meritly enlisted on the 27th day of October 1776, (Northumb. County Pennsylvania in aforesaid,) in the Company commanded by Captain John Harris of the twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment (or line) under the command of Col. William Cook, (James Crawford then being and acting as major) that he continued in said Company (after the resignation of Captain Harris) under Captain Stephen Chambers and Regiment till it was broken up in Jersey about one year and a half from the time of his enlistment, to wit, from Oct. 1776; - That he was then transferred to the Company commanded by Capt. (or Lieut. John Henderson) who acted as such of the third Pennsylvania Regiment and line commanded by Col. Thomas Craig, and continued to serve in the Company last assigned,  till the month of January 1781, after the revolt of the Pennsylvania line, when he read his Discharge at Trenton in the State of New Jersey from and signed by General Wayne; that Deponent was at/in the Battles of Ash Swamp, Piscattaway, Monmouth, as many skirmishes with the common enemy; Further that said Deponent of Declarator having had his House burnt on the 17h day of July 1812, and all therein consumed by which accident he lost his discharge, which he actually had it kept in his possession, until the said accident happened; and further that his Deponents whole service being upwards of nine months, to wit, from the time of his enlistment till the receiving his said Discharge; And that he now is in reduced indigent circumstances, and stands in the need of assistance of his Country for support. That hereafter accompanying Documents will be offered in favour of his services do depose.

Sworn and Declared to the the Day
and Year aforesaid ____________
Before.
Henry Shaffer

Sign'd
Sam'l Auchmuty

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I Henry Shaffer Associate Judge as aforesaid, Do certify that it appears to my entire satisfaction that the said Samuel Auchmuty did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing Application for a Pension, against the common enemy: that is in indigent circumstances to my certain knowledge. And I now direct that the time any taken and had before me, be transmitted to his honores the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the herein beforementioned and Act of Congress. 
Certified sender my Hand this Twenty first Day of February Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and twenty One

Henry Shaffer [signature]
State of Pennsylvania
Northumberland County
I Martin Weaver Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of the County aforesaid, Do Certify that Henry Shaffer, who has given the above Certificate, and before whom the foregoing Application of Depositions was taken and subscribed, was at the time of sodoing, and yet is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Northumberland, duly Commissioned and Sworn to all whose Acts as such full faith and Credit are and ought to be given as well in County of Justice as elsewhere, In Testimony of which I have hereto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court of Sunbury the Twenty Second Day of February Anno Domini, 1821. 
Martin Weaver [signature]

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Schedule of Property

Samuel Auchmuty