Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,300, for Peter Poland, Virginia

SERVICE
Poland, Peter
NUMBER
R. 8300
CONTENTS

Suspended See letter 22/10 1835 to 16/11 Stewart
8300

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
8300 REJECTED
P. O. Peter Polana
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

32,045
Penn.
Declaration of Peter Poland Revolutionary Soldier
Aug 7 th .
Thos. A. Stewart N. R.

Pennsylvania
Greene County, ss.
On the fourth fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand and thirty four before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Greene County, personally appeared Peter Polands a resident of Richhill Township in the County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose  say aged 74 years who being 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 18th 1832
That in the year 1778 he entered the service of the United States, at Sheppards Town Virginia, in the militia, under the following officers, to wit, in the company of Virginia militia commanded by Captain Charles Moyer, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Peyton and Wallis and Admiral Major Scott. There were five companies in the above Regiment commanded by Captains Moyer, Wallis Duncan, Evans, Beeler & Portefield, - Deponent served three months in the above company and Regiment, and was marched from Sheppards Town to White Marsh, and the neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Deponent further states that in the year 1779, he again entered the service in the Virginia militia, at Sheppards Town, in the company commanded by Captain McIntire and

Lieut. M rs Buckle and Eusebius Alexander Pan- ney for three months - Deponent during this three months service was marched to Falmouth and Norfolk, - Deponent can not recollect the names of any of the field officers under whom he served, they were strangers, to him, and in consequence of his loss of time one imperfection  of his memory he cannot now recall these names. De- ponent further states that he received discharges at the end of both of his terms of service, but has since lost them
Deponent states that he was born in Hunterdon County New Jersey in October A.D. 1760 - That he had a record of his age in his Bible, which has been de- stroyed. That he removed from New Jersey near to Shepherd's Town in Virginia at which place he lived when he entered the service - That since the Revolution he has lived near twenty years, near Shepherd's Town that he then removed to Cnnap Town in the State of Maryland, and from thence he removed to Greene County Penn- sylvania where he has lived for the last twenty years - That he received a discharge but has since lost it
Deponent hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present. & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Dependent for their state that by means of the resources of his resources, at the extremity of the country, he is unable to re- fer to a single man, to substantiate his views.

reputation of having been a Revolutionary soldier but he came from his veracity and the belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution by Wm Kencaide Esq. and John Funk Sworn & subscribed On
day & year aforesaid E Hook Publi
his Peter Poland mark
The applicant makes the following answers to the questions proposed by the War Department 1 That he was born in Hunterdon County New Jer- sey in the year 1760 2 He had a Record of his age but it is destroyed 3 He served in the militia six months. 4 He resided about twenty years at the  head Town, then removed to Maryland & has since resided in Greene County Pennsylvania. 5. He received discharges, but they have been lost.
his Peter Poland mark
We William Kencaide & John Funk. both residents of Greene County Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Poland who has signed the foregoing Declaration Sworn and subscribed the foregoing Declaration — that we believe him to be 74 years of age — that he is reputed & believed in the neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a Revo- lutionary soldier & that we concur in that opinion.
Wm Kencaide
John Funk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opin- ion after the investigation of the matter and af- ter putting the interrogatories, presented by the

War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states, & the Court further state that it appears to them that Wm Kincaid, Esquire, and John Funk who have subscribed the foregoing declaration certificate are residents of the County of Greene, that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Enos Hook Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of Greene County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peter Poland for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal & affixed this 22 nd day of September A.D. 1834.
Enos Hook Clerk