Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5691, for Samuel Lightcap, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Lightcap, Samuel
S. 5691
CONTENTS
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* Pittsburgh Pa  Ohio Pennsylvania 29.714
Samuel Lightcap of West. Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Cowan of the Pa. Vols. commanded by Col. Skene in the Penn a militia for 8 months
* Pennsylvania
Inserted on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Benefits of Pension issued the 10 th day of Feb. 1835 and sent to John Armstrong Greensburgh Pa.
Arrears to the 1st of Sept. '34. 93.33 Pension, allowance ending March '35. 13.33 $106.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } $
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E-2 Vol. 5 Page 127
transferred to Ohio - Pittsburgh see let to Mr. Terman Pec. apt. April 10. 1835-

32.725
Saint Lightcap Pennsylvania
Jan 1776 Pa 8 months $26.66 \frac{2}{3}
John Armstrong Greencastle Pa

State of Pennsylvania } Westmoreland County } ss
On this 12 th day of January 1835 personally appeared before me Thomas Pollock One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County aforesaid Samuel Lightcaps. of Derry Township in said County, age Eighty Years who being duly sworn according to law, do on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six, at which time he resided in Cumberland County in said State & was drafted in the Militia of said County and served two months in Third Battalion in the Company Commanded by Captain William Cowan was Marched from Carlisle in said County to a place called Amboy, and was there dis- charged by General Dickerson who at that time had the Command We marched from Carlisle in the month of September 1776 and was discharged in the month of November following - Again in the month of January 1777 I was again drafted in which was called the Sixth class of the Cumberland County Militia and served a two months tour in a company Commanded by Captain Thomas Gibson. We were Marched from Carlisle about the first of January to Berks County and was employed in preventing the enemy from supplying General Howe's Army with provisions. I was discharged at a place called the Crooked Billets by General Lacey Again about the first of May 1777. was drafted in same class and was Marched from Carlisle under the Command of Captain Williamson and was employed in guarding provisions over the Mountains to a place called Hannah's Town in Westmoreland County for the Soldiers under the Command of Col. Hannah at said place was discharged by General Chambers in the month of July following -
Again in the month of March 1778 I was drafted in the said Sixth class of Cumberland County Militia & marched from Carlisle under the Command of Captain Samuel Fenton, to a place called the Great Falls Standing Stone in Huntingdon

County, we were here employed in protecting the inhabitants on the frontier settlements from the ravages of the Indians, who were instigated by the British to burn & destroy their settlements. Declarant served two months on this tour and was discharged as declarant believes by a Major Cluggage. Declarant states that he never was in any engagement with the enemy, don't think that I ever received a discharge in writing, the Generals gave our Capt. their discharges in writing, and then our Captains discharged their Companies verbally and every one returned home by the shortest route possible. Declarant therefore has no documentary evidence of his services, but states that Captain William Cowan who is yet alive can testify to his first tour, and My Brother Levi Lightcap who resides in this County testify to the last tour which I served. Declarant claims a pension for eight months service as above stated. And I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
1. When were you born 2. Declarant was born in Bucks Co Penn s in the year 1756 in the month of June 3. Declarant has no record of his age in his bible 4. Was living in Cumberland County when called into service 5. How were you called into service? - I was drafted 6. State the names of the regular officers & the regular troops whom you served under - Ans r : Declarant does not recollect the names of any other than those stated above. 7. The answer to the sixth interrogatory is embodied in the foregoing declaration 8. Declarant mentions Ephraim A. Robison Esq m John Wigham Esq m Robert Rainey Esq m - Declarant moved to Westmoreland County in 1802 where I still reside Sworn and subscribed before me the twelfth day of January 1835
Thos. Pollock
James Lightcap

Westmoreland County, ss.
We John Rainey and William Taylor - residing in the Township of Derry in said County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Lightcap who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe he is about eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion -
Sworn and subscribed before me this twelfth day of January 1835.
John Rainey William Taylor
And the Said Thomas Pollock does hereby declare as his opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named Samuel Lightcap was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, that John Rainey & William Taylor who signed the preceding certificate reside in Derry Township are creditable persons. And I do hereby further certify that the above applicant from bodily infirmity cannot attend in court -
Thos Pollock
Westmoreland County ss. I Randal McLaughlin Prothonotary of the court of common pleas of Westmoreland County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Samuel Lightcap for a pension. Also that Thomas Pollock Esquire before whom the declaration of said Lightcap, and the depositions of John Rainey and William Taylor were made, now is and at the time thereof was one of the Associate Judges of our court of common pleas of said County, being a court of record and that his signature thereto annexed is his genuine signature.
And I do also certify that Ephraim A. Robinson Esquire, before whom the deposition of said Lightcap was taken, and Joseph Lohry Esquire before whom the deposition of Captain William Cowan was taken, at the respective times were, and now are, Justices of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned sworn & qualified as such, and that their respective signatures thereto are their genuine signatures.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal

of said board at my office in Greencastle this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
Randal McLaughlin, Prothon.

Northumberland County ss
Pursuant to [blank] personally came before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Captain William Bowen who lived in the first Battalion of the Militia of Cumberland County in the State of Penn- sylvania in the Eleventh hundred and Seventy- Six who being sworn according to Law I depose that Samuel Lightcap lived as a private in Capt William Bowens Company for the term of two months Marched from Carlisle in Cumberland County to Amboy and was then discharged under General Dickason who at that time had the Command think they entered the Service in the Month of September Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six and was discharged in November following and further I depose that he the Deponent is at this time receiving a pension from the United States and is aged Eighty five years of age Sworn and subscribed before me the 9 th day of December 1834 J. Stokes Justice of the Peace
William Bowen his X mark
I do hereby certify that Captain Bowens eyesight is so far failed that he could not as he said be to write his name at the time J. Stokes

Westmoreland County, ss
We John Rainey and William Taylor - residing in the Township of Derry in said County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Lightcap who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe he is about Eighty Years of age that he is Reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion -
Sworn and subscribed before me this twelfth day of January 1835.
John Rainey William Taylor
And the Said Thomas Pollock does hereby declare as his opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named Samuel Lightcap was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, that John Rainey & William Taylor who signed the preceding certificate reside in Derry Township an creditable persons. And I do hereby further certify that the above applicant from bodily infirmity cannot attend in court -
Thos Pollock
Westmoreland County ss. I. Samuel McLaughlin Prothonotary of the court of common pleas of Westmoreland County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Samuel Lightcap for a pension. Also That Thomas Pollock Esquire before whom the declaration of said Lightcap, and the depositions of John Rainey and William Taylor were made, now is and at the time thereof was one of the Associate Judges of our court of common pleas of said County, being a court of Record and that his signature thereto annexed is his genuine signature.
And I do also certify that Ephraim A. Robinson Esquire, before whom the deposition of Levi Lightcap was taken, and Joseph Shively Esquire before whom the deposition of Captain William Cowan was taken, at the respective times were, and now are, Justices of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned sworn & qualified as such, and that their respective signatures thereto are their genuine signatures.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal.

State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County
Personally came before Ephraim A. Robinson Esq. a justice of the peace in & for the County of Westmoreland aforesaid Levi Lightcap who being sworn according to Law did depose and say that about the beginning of the Revolutionary war (does not recollect the year) his brother was drafted and marched from Carlisle in Cumberland County Pa. under the Command of Captain Wm. Cowan deposed and his father went to Carlisle & seen Samuel march away the said Samuel returned after being away in the Service more than five months, deponent knows they had been marched to Amboy & other places.
Deponent states that his brother Samuel served another tour of two months in the said war, marched from Carlisle to Philadelphia or Bucks County does not recollect the Officers name which he more he under nor does he recollect the year, but is sure that it was not long after the first tour. deponent says he being a younger brother not being drafted does not recollect the name of the Officers so well as if he had been in the Service
Deponent says that the said Samuel served a third tour of two months under Captain Williams was marched from Carlisle to the Westward to help to guard provisions over the mountains to Shippensburg Pa. No one here now in Westmoreland County Pa. recollect well of his brother Samuel

returning home in harvest when the rest of the families was cutting down the grain
Deponent recollects of about the term of duty of two months that his brother Samuel served under Captain Samuel Henton, marched from Carlisle and being away about two months Samuel returned and deponent understood from his brother that they had been marched to Franktown now in Washington County Pa o to protect the frontier white settlements from the Barbary of the Savage Indians then under the British
Sworn and subscribed before me the 10 th day of January A. D. 1835
Ephraim H. Robinson J.P.
Levi Lightcap A.P.
I do hereby certify that Levi Lightcap who has sworn to and subscribed the above deposition is a creditable person, to whose testimony full faith is due.
Ephraim H. Robinson of certin. of the here

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File No. 5691
Samuel Lightfoot Pri. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. M , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec 1 Jan 19
Rec.
J. Edwards Esquire Commission of Pensions Washington City

Greensborough Westmoreland Co. Penn a 14 th January 1835.
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commission of Pensions
Sir
Inclosed I forward the declaration and proof of service of Samuel Lightcap a Soldier of the Revolutionary War. (who claims a pension under the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832) which I hope will be found to be in conformity with the requisitions of the department.
Dr Sir
Yours Very
Respectfully
John Armstrong