Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25632, William Glasgo, Md.

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State of Georgia 
County of Madison
Court of Ordinary 
January adjourned term 1833
On this fourteenth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in this court before Robert Groves, John Meroney, Noah M. Pittman, and James Long Justices of the Inferior Court now sitting as a Court of ordinary William Glasgo a resident of Capt. Wilson’s Company District of Georgia Militia in the County of Madison and State of Georgia aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780 with Capt. Race Clicket and served in the third regiment of the Maryland line of troops as before stated, from the lapse of time he can not recollect the name of the Maj. or Col. he first served under. He joined the regiment at [illegible] in New Jersey and was marched to West Point under Genl. Arnold. The summer afterwards Arnold proved traitor, Genl. Putnam commanded a Brigade while stationed at West Point Capt. Smith beat through the line for volunteers to storm Fowler’s Fort on or near the North River not far from New York, he joined said Company and marched to the fort when near the fort and nearly at the Gate the company was hailed by a sentry, the captain answered a friend, he was ordered to advance and give the countersign, the captain advanced and ran the sentry through the body with a spear, the fort immediately surrendered, he was also at the storming of Stoney Point Fort

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R
Boynton
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions
Present

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Washington
March 15 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
Sir
I have the honor to enclose herewith Mrs. Elizabth Glasgow’s application for the benefit of the Revolutionary Pension act Feb 3 1853.
Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Sevt.
S. M. Knight