Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2782, for John Mc Carroll, Pennsylvania

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State of Tennessee
Stewart County

On the 5th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, personally appeared in open court before the court of common pleas in and for the county of Stewart and state of Tennessee now sitting, John McCarroll, a resident of the county of Stewart and state of Tennessee, aged seventy-six years, who first being 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 7 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  That he was born the 13th of March 1757 in the state of Pennsylvania, Cumberland County, near Carlisle; that in the fall of 1776 or about the last of August there came a call for men in that quarter.  

That he volunteered under Captain James Miller and served until the last of March 1777.  That during the above tour he served in the (illegible), that the British lay in Brunswick and Princeton.  The Americans were during part of the time on the Raritan River during this time.  Applicant states that he was in no considerable engagements but was in a small skirmish near Princeton where a party of Americans swarmed a Picket.

Applicant states that in October of eighteen hundred seventy-seven he volunteered under Captain John Campbill in General Lacy's brigade and served until the last of March 1778.  This tour of service was rendered in Pennsylvania, and he was stationed with others at Doylestown to protect the supplies for Valley Forge from (illegible) the Delaware.  The British were at this time at Philadelphia.

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and the American army under Washington lay at Valley Forge.  Applicant states that he was discharged but has preserved no evidence of it of a documentary character.

Applicant says that shortly after this last term of service he went out with his wagon and teams hauling public stores for one year, part of the time under Samuel Cox, wagon master, but that in April or May of 1779 he was himself appointed to wagon master, as will appear from his commission filed in the office of the Secretary of War with other papers by Col. H. H. Bryant.  This commission was signed by John Wilson, deputy quarter master under Colonel Steel, quarter master of the (illegible) division.  

Applicant states that in addition to the above services rendered he was a heavy sufferer by the depreciation of the Continental money which left him poor.  

1. Have you any record of your age?
Ans: Nothing but his father's Bible which has served as sort of a family chronicle.

2. Where did you live when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans:  I was living in Cumberland County (at the time) Pennsylvania near Carlisle.  I moved to Virginia in the year 1780 where I lived several years.  From there to Kentucky, Lincoln County, for ten years, from which place I moved to Montgomery County where I lived about twenty years and from there to my present residence in Stewart County, Tennessee where I have lived about then years. 

3.  How did you enter the service?
Ans:  By voluntary engagement every time.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on any pension roll or agency in any state or(illegible).
Signed:  John McCarroll

Sworn to in open court.
William Williams, Clk.

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We, Jesse Edwards, clergyman and William Elliott, residing in the state of Tennessee and (illegible), do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John McCarroll who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that he is an honest and industrious person; that we believe him to be seventy-six years of age and that he is reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we believe he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War as he states.
Signed:  Jesse Edwards, Wm. Elliott

Sworn to in open court.
Signed:  W. Williams, Clk.

And the said court do hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to it that Jesse Edwards and Wm. Elliott, who have signed and sworn to the preceding certificate, are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.  
Signed: 
Jesse Edwards
Wm. Elliott
Jesse Morris
John Worden