Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4068, Amos Glover, Del.

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from there to Duck Creek Cross Roads.  Thence to Wilmington in New Castle County same State then to Philadelphia Pa. from there to Trenton New Jersey from [deleted] there to Princeton [/deleted] same state thence to [deleted] New Jersey [/deleted] Brunswick same State
from there to West Point General Benedict Arnold was commander [illegible] while I was there he turned Traitor. The three militia men who captured Major Andre belonging to the same regiment that I did.  I have no documenting evidence and I know of no person by whom I can prove the service unless Samuel Glover and Thomas Stokleys widow can now claim[?] who the last I heard from them was
living somewhere in the State of Ohio.  I was born about ten miles from Lewiston in the County of Sussex said state of Delaware was born April the 3d A.D 1762 I lived on this place where I was born twenty eight years. I then moved from there to Green County Pennsylvania  do not recollect how I then married the widow Nancy Holmes whose married name was Nancy Smith.  I moved from there to Washington County in Pennsylvania and from there to Belmont County in the state of Ohio - I lived in Belmont County in the state of Ohio twenty eight years  from there I moved
to the town of Farmington in the County of Van Buren and Territory of Iowa in November A.D. 1842.  I refer the department I refer the department to William Wilson of Centerville in said Belmont County Ohio Post Master of the [illegible] post office and to Messers  Thomas Jackson and Elijah Lucas of Smith township in said County as to my general character
in said Belmont County and as to common reputation ^in said Belmont County^ about my  being a

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Amos Lucas being sworn says that he has
been personally acquainted with Amos
Glover (the applicant for a pension from the
United States) for more than Twenty years
and has always heard said Glover say that
he served in the (scratched out word)  army Major Andre of the United States
during the Revolutionary War for more
that Six months and that during the time
that he was in the Army Major Andre
was captured and hung. He further states
that he always understood said Glover to
say that he would not apply for a
pension because he could live without it
 but now he is unable to do without
it for the following reason in the fall
of 1842 said Glove sold his farm in the
State of Ohio and moved to the Territory
of Iowa for the purpose of settling there
and while on the road to the place where
he designed settling he was robbed of
all his money which has left him destitute, the person who robbed him was
arrested tried and convicted and is now in the
Penitentiary for the Territory of Iowa but
the money was not recovered from the
Robber