Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,318, for William Sutherland, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey Penn.
Sutherland William
R. 10,318
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Set to C. & S. (Sag) Aug. 24. '44, do to farm Sept. 24. 1844.
Act. June 7. 1832.

New York August 1, 1844
Sir,
The claim of William Sutherland, has now been pending more than eight months, and has not yet been examined, your attention is respectfully called to his case agreeable to his request.
I am respectfully Your obed Servt B. A. Lay
St. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions
Thomas Smith Esq James L. Smith Esq
Dec 1. Wm Sutherland act 32

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10,318 em
P.O. Wm Sutherland
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

New York Nov. 29 th 1843.
Sir,
Herewith enclosed is the declaration of William Southland claiming the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832. The Muster Rolls of Captain Williams Company of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, is relied upon to afford the requisite proof to sustain his application, I am fully satisfied that he served as he alleges. He has resided since the war, in the same neighborhood where he now resides, and is well known to have been a soldier in the war of the revolution, He desires that the action of the Dept. may be reported to me.
I am very respectfully
Your Obedt Servt, W. A. Pay
J. G. Edwards Esqre Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

New York Feb. 29 th 1843.
Sir,
Herewith enclosed is the declaration of William Southland claiming the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832. The Muster Rolls of Captain Williams Company of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, is relied upon to afford the requisite proof to sustain his application, I am fully satisfied that he served as he alleges. He has resided since the war in the same neighborhood where he now resides, and is well known to have been a soldier in the war of the revolution, He desires that the action of the Dept may be reported to me.
I am very respectfully
Your obed Servt, W. A. Gay
J. G. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

New York Sept. 21. 1844.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 21 st Ultimo in the matter of the application of William Sutherland for a pension under the Act of June 7 th 1832. You remark that his name is not found on the Pennsylvania Rolls. It is desirable to know if you have a Roll of any description of the Company and Regiment in which he asserts that he served and during the period that he states he was in the service in that Line. He does not assert that he served five years in that Line and of course he would not be returned as a War Man entitled to bounty Land. He says that he served as a regular Soldier in that Line for three Years, "that is from 1776. to 1780," and was regularly discharged and received his full pay.
He has been prevented from making earlier application by reasons over which he had no control as can be shown if necessary. But there is not the least probability that the two witnesses which you require can now be found but it can be shown that he was a Soldier in Genl Wayne's Brigade in 1779- by a grade of proof that cannot be doubted.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully
Your obt Servt G. A. Day
Hon J. L. Edwards Esq Comm er of Pensions

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William Sutherland
N. J.
act 7. June '32
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State of New Jersey, County of Hudson, Township of North Bergen, S.S. On this 28 th day of November, A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me, John G. Speer, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the State and County aforesaid, William Sutherland, a resident of the County, Town, and State aforesaid, aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the ben- efit of the provision, made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832, That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776, or the early part of 1777, with Capt. Williams, and served in the 11 th regiment of the Pennsylvania line, under Captain Williams, and Colonel Hampton, as private, a period of three years, to about the first of the year 1783, - and that previous thereto in the year 1776, he served as private, a period of five months, under the said Capt. Williams, in Col. Sloops Regiment, of Gen. Ewing Brigade, of Pennsylvania Flying Camp, - and that subsequent thereto, he served as private, in the State Troops of New Jersey, first a period of one year, in Capt. Gillams Company, and then a period of seven months, in a detachment of Capt. Craigs Company, under Lieut. Commandant John Speer, to November 1782, when he left the service. That he enlisted for nine months, in Captain Craigs Company, but in consequence of their services being no longer required, they were discharged at the end of seven months. That at the time he first entered the service he resided in the City, County, and State of New York. That he was engaged in the Battles, at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli, and Monmouth. That he first enlisted in the City of New York, and first laid in Fort Washington, until it was taken, then through New Jersey, to Lancaster Pa. at which place he enlisted for his three years service in the 11 th Regt. and that during that period of service, he laid very winter, at that place, and he laid some time in Philadelphia, and Paoli, and Germantown, after the Battle at Monmouth, went to Philadelphia. That during his year service, in Gillams Company he first laid at Newark, then at Connecticut Farms, then to Dobbs Ferry then to Second River, and then to Newark. That he laid Stationed during his seven months service under Lieutenant Speer, at Second River, now called Belvill. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll, of any Agency in any State; William his Sutherland mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me.
John G. Speer Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Hudson County

I certify that the applicant making the foregoing declaration is known to me and that in my opinion he was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And I do further certify that the said applicant cannot, from reason of bodily infirmity attend the court.
Dated at Bergen County of Hudson & State of New Jersey this the 28 th day of Nov 1843
John G. Spicer
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
State of New Jersey Hudson County { SS:
I Robert Gilchrist Clerk of the County of Hudson aforesaid, and Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby Certify that John G. Spicer Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and Certificate was at the day of the date thereof and now is a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County, residing therein, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. I do also further Certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and that there the signature thereto is genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the seal of the said Court and County this 28 th day of November A D 1843
R Gilchrist Clerk