Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2168, Andrew Dennisson, Penn.

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Penn
Dennisson, Andrew
S2168
carded

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2168 Invalid
Rev War
File No. 2168
Andrew Dennisson
Print Rev War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870]

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4585
Pennsylvania
Andrew Dennisson
of Bucks in the State of Penn'a
who was a Private in the Country commanded by Captain Jamison of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hart in the Penn'a line for 11 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Jan'y 1833. and Sent to Hon. P. Ihrie, House of Rep.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 54.99
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4th Mar" 33 18.33

$73.32

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by John D. Willson, Clerk
Book of D. Volume 6 Page 53.

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Application of Andrew Dennison
for pension under the Act of 7th June 1852

$36.66 per ann

Hon. P. Ihrie
Dec. 18

or Juno Pugh
Doyles Four

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Commencement of Pennsylvania
Bucks County

On this eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeased in open Court before the Judges of Court of [illegible] of Books County, Andrew Dennison, a resident of Doylestown township in the said county age of seventy five years, who being who being first duly 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 7th 1832.

The applicant above mentioned states that he was born as appears by an entry in the family bible of his father the court hereshown 17th of November 1757 and is now a resident of the County of Bucks aforesaid that on or about the 22nd of December in the war of 1776 being there a resident of said county he first joined the army under the command of Gen. Washington in Lower Makefield in Bucks County, a short time previous to the Battle of Trenton and defeat of Hessians he was drafted for that tour of service and served as a private in the company commanded by Capt. John Jamison, he is not positive whether Col. Joseph Hart or Col. Willett commanded the regiment, but thinks it was Col. Hart or Major Thomas Folwell commanded the battalion; he was not in the battle of Trenton in consequence of not being able to [illegible] the Delaware on account of the drift ice, until the next day; he was placed on guard over the captive Hessians, and escorted them to Philadelphia, where he remained a few days, when he returned home sick, and remained there about a week until he recovered; he then joined the army the night after the battle at Princeton, he then went with the army to Morristown in New Jersey, he was again taken sick, but remained until he was discharged, having served the full tour for which he was drafted, vis: two months.

In the month of May in the year 1777, he went out a volunteer private in the company commanded by Captain Abraham DuBois. he cannot now recollect the name of the Colonel or Commandment, the first rendezvous of the company was Newtown in Bucks County from whence he marched to Philadelphia and there to Billingsport on the Delaware below Philadelphia, when he remained until discharged, after having served a full tour of two months.

During the same summer (1777), he again performed a tour as a volunteer private under General Mifflin the Captain's name was Stewart, he thinks, but is not positive that the first rendezvous was near Richard Leedom's in Northhampton, Buck's County, from

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whence he marched to Newtown and in a few days went to Trenton or rather to Mill Hill, below Trenton, where he remained until discharged after having served a full tour of two months.

Very soon after his return he was drafted in Captain William Walker's company and performed a tour of duty as sergeant in his company, hethinks Colonel Tomb had command of the regiment, the first rendezvous was at Newtown, from where he went by the way of Philadelphia to Billingsport, where he remained about a fortnight, and then went aboard of the row gallies to Wilmington, the company then had orders to join the army under Washington which it did somewhere near the Head of Elk, we then retreated, in about a week with the army to the neighborhood of Brandywine, where we remained till after that battle, in which this applicant took part, we then marched over the Schuykill to a place called Skippack, where we remained until discharged, the applicant having performed a full tour of two months.

About the middle of November of the same year (1777), the applicant again went out as a volunteer private, the Captain William Ramsey's Company of Infantry, we formed a part of General Potter's brigade, our Colonel's name was John Lacey and Major David Forst had the command of our battalion, we went first to Whitemarsh in Montgomery County, thence we went to Mattson's Ford on Schuykill, and seven or eight miles below the Gulf Mills where we lay about a month, when we were attached by the British, and driven off the ground; we had there a pretty severe skirmish with the enemy and lost a good many clever fellows, some of whom were killed, some wounded, and a considerable number taken prisoners, we retreated thence to the Swedesford over Schuylkill, we there joined the army under Washington, and remained with him about a week, when he went to Valley Forge into winter quarters; the applicant with Ramsey's company and the other part of Gen. Potter's brigade went to the York road about 17 miles from Philadelphia and after remained there about a week was discharged having served a full tour of two months.

The applicant then remained at home until the month of July in the year of 1778, sometime after the British had left Philadelphia, when he again entered the army as a volunteer private, in a company commanded by the Captain M. Conkey in Colonel Wilson's regiment, we then first had our rendezvous at Newtown (the seat of justice of Buck's County) thence we marched to Trenton, thence to Princeton and Brunswick and thence to Rahway near New York where we

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remained until his discharge. This tour was for two months but the applicant us under the impression that the whole of that time had not elapsed at the time of discharge. The precise time of service in this tour the applicant is unable to specify, but it was considered as a two months tour, and he can testify to having served in this tour, one month or more.

The applicant further states that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

Given to and subscribed this day and year aforeasaid [Wm Purdy Prothy has signed the document below the writing]  [to the right of Wm Purdy's signature the name Andrew Dennison is written]

We Samuel Aaron (a clergyman in Doylestown) and Francis Baird in the township of Warwick both of the County of Bucks hereby certify that well acquainted with Andrew Dennison, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed in open Court December 11, 18[illegible]. [To the right of this information are the signatures of Samuel Aaron and Francis Bairde]

And this said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations 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 them that Samuel Aaron, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the township of Doylestown, Bucks County, and that Francis Baird who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

[signed]
John for the [illegible]
[illegible]
William Long, [illegible]

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I William Purdy Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said County in the matter of the application of Andrew Dennison for a pension, and that John Fox is the President Judge of said Court and that the signature [illegible] is his and also that William Wattes and William Long are Associate Judges of the same Court and have [illegible] [illegible] their genuine signatures.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eleventh day of December Anno Domini 1832


WmPurdy Prothonotary
[document was signed by Mr. Purdy)