Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8507, Aaron Forman, Md. Penn. Va.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.
Penn.
Va.

Forman, Aaron

NUMBER
S. 8507

carded
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CONTENTS

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Ohio 29.867
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Aaron Forman
of Delaware Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Hines of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Schryhawk in the [hand drawn star] Maryland troops
[word line struck out] for 6 months
[hand drawn star] Md. and Va. and Pa.
Nov. 17 19[illegible]
Records corrected
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 20 Dollars [word Cents lined through] per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of March
1835 and sent to Hon J.
McLene, Columbus, Ohio
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Arrears to the 4th of March '35. 80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '35 10.00
$90.00
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{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book [illegible] 2 Vol. 8 Page 20

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31,592
Aaron Forman
Declaration for pension
____________________
Ohio
from 1776 for 6 mos
$20.
suspended
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allow for six mo.
if Mr. McLene shall
so estimate to this office
see letter to him 31
Jany '35.

Hon.J. McLene
Columbus, Ohio

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The State of Ohio
[begin underline]Delaware County, SS[end underline] Be it remembered that on the twe
nty first day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty four
personally appeared in open court before the Judges of
the court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Del
aware and State of Ohio, now in session, [begin underline]Aaron Forman[end underline] a resident of
Westfield Township in the said County, aged seventy eight years who
being first full sworn according to law, upon his oath makeing
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
[written vertically in the left margin] Aaron Forman of Westfield Oh. aged 78.

I the said Aaron Forman on my said oath state that I
entered into the service of the United States under the following
named officers and served as herein stated to wit.

I was born in Frederick County Virginia
in September 1755 and resided there [word during lined through] at
the commencement of the revolutionary war.
I have no record of my age, but according
to the best information I have received I am
[begin underline]more 78 years[end underline] of age and born in September 55 as aforesaid.

In the fall of the year 1776, I went from Virginia
where I resided to Hagerstown in Maryland and
there enlisted as a private for [begin underline]two months[end underline] in
a company of Maryland troops, called the Flying
Camp, and served that time under the command
of Capt. Andrew Hines, Lieutenant Issac McCrakin
and under the command of Col. Schryhawk.
I marched with my company through Philladelphia
Trenton, Brunswick to Fort Lee in New Jersey, and
 set up at Fort Lee, then Ft. Washington, on the opposite
side of the river near New York, [illegible] taken
by the enemy.  We were soon after that driven
back by the enemy through New Jersey to Phil
ladelphia where I was discharged after I had
served my two months.  I received a written

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discharge from Capt. Hines which I have long since
lost.  I was [word lined through] in company with a great many troops
& officers while out this tour, but as they were
all strangers to me and was with them but a
short time, I cannot now recollect their char
acter, rank or names.

In the Spring of the year 1777, I volunteered to
go a tour as a private solder in an expedi
tion into the western country against the
Indians.  I served this tour under Capt.
Holden and in a battalion or Regiment under
Major Smith.  I marched under [illegible] within
their command through the wilderness to Ken
tucky, at Boon's station on the Kentucky 
river where the troops to which I belonged
were stationed.  I was here employed as an
Indian spy in scouting and watching the
movements of the Indians along the Ohio river.
In about 6 or 7 months after I had been
in this service (from the time I left
Virginia) while I was there scouting & watching
the movements of the Indians, I was taken
prisoner by a party of the Shawnee's indians
near the fall of the Ohio, and was kept a
prisoner by them 6 or 8 weeks, when I made
my escape, and after some time I made
my way back to Boons station.  Soon
after I was discharged (verbally) from this
service after I had served at least 9 months.

Soon after that in 1778 I was at the Falls
of the Ohio, I enlisted as a private under Col.
Bowman in Capt. Harden's Company in Kentucky
and was employed to keep garrison at the falls
of the Ohio, at a Ft. or station under their
command.  I enlisted for no particular time, but
remained under their command nine months

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when I was discharged without any written
discharge.  I cannot state whether these troops
were Virginia troops or not.  I was promised
pay but never received any.  I suppose they
were troops raised by some authority then
exercised by the people of Kentucky.

In 1782 at Washington in Pennsylvania
in the spring of the year, I volunteered as a private
to go under Col. Crawford in his expedition
again the Indians at Sandusky.  I entered
this service with my new horse & accrou
trements with 30 days provision.  I served
in Capt. Bilderbank's company of horse under
Col. Crawford.  We first rendezvoused at the
Mingo Bottom on the Ohio river.  We there
crossed the Ohio & then marched to the Moravian
Town on the Tuscarawas river.  We then
marched west untill we came to the Sandusky
plains where we had a battle with the Indians
and Crawford was totally defeated and taken pris
oner.  In the retreat I lost my horse & all
I had.  I then made my way back, crossed the
Ohio at Wheeling and returned home.  I was
in this last tour six weeks.

I cannot now recollect the precise length
of time I thus served.  But I served as a private
soldier in the war of the revolution at least twenty
one (21) months, no part of which was spent in
any civil employment & for which I claim a
pension.

I have no documentary evidence & know of
no person by whom I can prove my service.
There is no clergyman residing my present neigh
bourhood, but I can refer to following named persons,
who reside in my neighbourhood, who can testify as
to my character for veracity as to their belief of

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my services as a solider of the revolution to wit-
David Cooke Esqr. Benjamin Williams Esqr.
Benjamin Olds Esqr. Thomas W. Powell Esqr. and
Major Thomas Butler.

After the revolution I settled in Virginia.  I next
moved to Pennsylvania, where I resided untill
about 1805, when I removed to Ross Co. Ohio
where I resided about 20 years.  About 8 years
since I removed to Delaware County where 
I now reside.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present and 
declare that my name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn & subscribed to,
Aaron Forman

We Thomas W. Powell and Thomas
Butler --------
residing in the said County of Delaware & in the neighbourhood
of the above named applicant, hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Aaron Foreman the above named
applicant who has sworn & subscribed to the above declara
tion that we believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age
that he is reputed and believed in his neighbourhood 
where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
and that we concur in that opinion.&c

Subscribed & Sworn to T. W. Powell
T. Butler

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And the said court do hereby certify and declare their
opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after put
ting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department
that the above named Aaron Forman was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states; and the court further certify that it
appears to them that Thomas W. Powell and Thomas
Butler who signed the preceding certificate are residents
in the said County of Delaware and in the neighbourhood
of the above named applicant Aaron Forman and are
creditable persons and that their statement is entitled
to full faith and credit; and it further appears to the said court
that there is no Clergyman residing in the neighbourhood
of the said Aaron Forman.

I Thomas Reynolds clerk of the said court of Comm
on Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceeding of the said court in the applica
tion of Aaron Forman for a pension.

[Blurred seal of office ] In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand & seal of my office this
12th day of July 1834.

Thomas Reynolds,
Clerk

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Mr. Aaron Forman a native of Berkley County
Virginia was born in the month September AD 1755-We the undersig
ned citizens of the State of Ohio certify that we are well
acquainted with the said Forman now residing in Delaware
County of this state who is an applicant for a pension-
that he has always been reputed & believed to have been
a soldier of the revolution-and rendered much service to
to his Country as a soldier during the revolutionary
war-And after a long acquaintance with him we certify
that he is a person of good character & of good reputation
for truth and voracity.

Edw. Strade
G. H. Strode
Abraham V. Applegate
Benja H Hull
John Van Metre
Jacob Vam Meetre

I certify that I am acquainted with the above subscribers
and know them to be men of truth & respectability.

M. Z. Kreider

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8507
INVALID.
[written vertically in left margin] Rev War

File No. 8507
Aaron Forman
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7 1832
Index:--Vol. [illegible], Page 929

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]

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Ohio - 29869
Aaron Forman
[remainder illegible]

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The State of Ohio }
Delaware County Ss } Be it remembered that on this 10th day
__________________
of February 1835, personally appeared before me
Sidney Moore a justice of the peace in & for
the said County [begin underline]Aaron Foreman[end underline] of the said County 
an applicant for a pension under the act of Con
gress of the 7th of June &c. and in due form
made the following oath, to wit,

I Aaron Forman being duly sworn upon my
oath say, that previous to my going to Hagerstown 
where I entered into the Flying Camp as stated in my
declaration I resided at or near Martinsburgh in
Virginia.  I went to Hagerstown as stated in my declaration
in the fall of 1776 and enlisted in the corps entitled the Flying
Camp under Capt. Andrew Haynes and Col. Shryhawk 
for two months.  Capt. Haynes company were raised in
the fall of 76 for two months only.  The residue of
the corps were raised previous for a longer term and
I believe they were raised five months previous.
Capt. Haynes Company marched from Hagerstown through
Philadelphia Trenton &c through New Jersey to Ft. Lee
where our company joined the corps under Col Shryhawk.
I cannot recollect the precise time or dates, but
recollect when I was in New Jersey on this tour they
were then making cider it being in the fall.
I was discharged at Phila. after two months [illegible]
when it was quite late in the fall.

I know nothing of John Fields of Lebanon, Ohio,
mentioned in Honbl. J. L. Edwards letter whom the subject of
my claim.  I was not acquainted with any person of
that name in the Flying Camp.

Previous to going to Kentucky in the Spring or the
latter part of the winter of 1777 I resided near Martinsburgh
Virga.  At that time it was necessary for every able bodied
person in Kentucky to bear arms. Some were kept con
stantly under [illegible] for such time as they want to volunteer;
others only at time of danger.  I did not volunteer for any
length of time, but volunteered in Virga. to go under arms
to Kentucky under Major Smith & Capt. Holder.  The number
of soldiers who went through with me were about 20 or 30

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I remained under the command of these officers at Boon's station nine months.  I was under no engagement for any particular time, but volunteered to serve until it was convenient to discharge me.  I could have obtained my discharge sooner if I chose.  During the time I was at Boon's station I was generally employed as an Indian spy and was most all the time out as a scout.  During a part of this time I was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians and was detained by them as a prisoner 7 or 8 weeks.  It was in the fall of the year when I was a prisoner.  I made my escape from them.  Majr Smith & Capt. Holder remained at Boon's station during the time I was in this service, and was under their command.  The object of this service & command was to protect the inhabitants at that station and that part of the county from the attacks of the indians.  Daniel Boon was there & had great influence but whether he was superior to Maj. Smith in command or not I cannot tell.  Whether these troops were Virg' a troops of Kentucky troops raised by the independent authority of the people of Kentucky I cannot tell.  I received no pay during that time nor did any of the troops there; we generally [illegible] upon buffalo beef.
I know of no testimony I can get upon my service in Capt. Boons company.
I positively affirm upon my oath I served during the revolution in the manner stated in my declaration at least twenty one months.  But I now ask the Secretary at War or Court of Pensions to allow me a pension for what may appear to be due me and I for the present abandon the residue of my claims.
Aaron Forman
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before me
Sidney Moore, Justice of the Peace

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The State of Ohio, Delaware County, Ss.
I Thomas Reynolds, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Sidney Moore is a Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified:  that his commission was dated on the 12th day of Dec. 1832.  & will expire on the 12th day of Dec. 1835 & that his signature above written in genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of said county, this 7th day of March 1835
Thomas Reynolds clerk