Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23860, for John Ramage, Pennsylvania

卷二
Penn.
Ramage, John
NUMBER _____
D. 23860
CONTENTS

Pennsylvania 11,307
John Ramage
of Lycoming Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private - in the Company commanded by Captain Crane - of the Regt commanded by Col Rogers - in the Pennsylvania line for .
11 Mo Private - $ 36.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of April 1833 and sent to A. V. Parsons, Seney-Shore, Pa
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833. 73.32 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " - 18.33
$ 91.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 5 Page 48
See letters to P. Art. L. n. J. B. Anthony H. R. Jan. 5: 1836
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 th Sept 1837 to 4 th Sept 1838. Agt notified 17 June 1839.

No 6814
Penny loaned 15th March 1833 of Peterson
P 297
Admitted 11 mds $36.00
A. V. Parsons Esq Jersey Shore P a ..

BRIEF in the case of  Jno Ramage of Grove  County of Lycoming in the State of Pennsylvania  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 82.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1776 5 Private Gen. Capt McLean & Robinson   Aug 1777 4 Capt Crane. Col Rogers   fall 1778 2 Col Watson. Col Potter   Capt Emerson  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Several skirmishes  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lancaster County Pennsylvania  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Papers not attached as required 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Jas McWilliams Examining Clerk.

State of Pennsylvania Lycoming County } B.
On this fifth day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Seth Chapman and his associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting John Ramage a resident of Grove Township in the County of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty two years, who being first truly 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 the 7th of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He joined a volunteer company under Captain Richard M c Cowen in August in the year 1776. Captain M c Cowen's company belonged to Colonel Frederick's Regiment, in the Pennsylvania Line The company was raised in Lancaster County & he the applicant then resided in Hanover Township in said Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania. That he marched first to Philadelphia, thence on board a sloop to Trenton in the State of New Jersey, thence to Amboy in said State. Then sixteen men out of each company in the regiment, volunteered in the Flying Camp, some of them were he believes drafted but he volunteered. That he was a while under Captain Robinson, But he believes that an officer by the name of Armstrong had command of the Flying Camp at the time he entered it. He then went to the City of New York under said Armstrong

of the Flying Camp, Thence he marched to Fort Washington in the State of New York - That he was a member of a scouting party that left the Fort on the 15 th of Nov. 1776 - That the day after they left, the Fort was taken by the British, and, next day after that, Fort Lee was taken also. That they marched into the State of New Jersey in a few days afterwards - That he then marched towards Princeton, he does not recollect the Capt's name, but they traversed the country across to Princeton driving the Hessians before them. That he was in several skirmishes with the Hessians - That he remained in Princeton Prin- ton awhile, and soon after that he left it, the British took possession of the town - That he remained was in several skirmishes with the Hessians between during the winter. And in March, 1777 their time expired & he returned to Lancaster - He re-enlisted again in August Having been out five months, the company was of riflemen that he was in, they pro- vided their own arms clothing &c and never received any pay whatever for services ren- dered. - In August 1777. he again volunteered In Capt Crane's company belonging to Coln John Rodgers Regiment, marched to Lan- caster City and there took the oath of allegiance before William Henry Esquire - From the City of Lancaster they marched to Old Chester in Che- ster County Penn a Thence to the head of Elk ri- ver where they met the British, he was in several skirmishes between the riflemen and the British there - Thence he marched to Brandywine in the regiment commanded by General Potter & Coln Watson - he arrived at Brandywine on the 11 th of Sept 1777. That Crane's Company to which the S d Applicant belonged attacked the Hessians about a

miles below where the general battle was fought on that day. That night they had orders from General Potter to return again to old Chester immediately, where they arrived the next morning. Thence they marched towards the Philadelphia. That Capt Crane company scouted in the City the morning before the British entered the city. That they joined the Regiment again at the Trap in Montgomery County. Then there was five hundred men chosen from the regiment to march to the Middle Ferry on the Schuylkill, the whole of Capt Crane's company were chosen, the applicant being among them, he marched to said Ferry, under the command of Major Bush. That he the applicant saw Major Bush draw his sword & cut the ferry rope to prevent the British from crossing. That they stationed their Field piece & fired upon the enemy who were in the Ferry house on the opposite side. The enemy then rushed out of the house, and were fired upon at the door by the rifle company of Capt Crane, with great effect. That he went in Capt Crane's company that day & took from a party of the enemy thirty head of cattle & killed the whole of the party. This was on the same day that the battle was fought at Germantown. That the applicant continued in actual service until the middle of Dec- ember 1778 when they were discharged, having been in the service four months. He volunteered again in the fall of 1778. in Capt Samuel Ensworth's Company. He marched to Lancaster, from Hanover Township as aforesaid. He then marched to Newtown in Bucks County Penna. Their

Field officers name was Bopf, he remained there sometime then has he returned to Lan- caster and after remaining until the two months were up for which he had volun- teered, he was discharged, - Making in all eleven months of actual service in the army of the By the Pennsylvania line of state troops United States. That he has no documentary evidence of service Nor does he know of any person (now living) who can testify to his services.
He was born in the 1750 on the 8th day of June, in Hanover in said County of Lancaster, He has a record of his age copied from a register kept by his father.
He has lived in Lancaster, Northumberland and Lycoming Counties since the revolu- tionary war. - He never received any written discharge - The said applicant is known to John Drigley Esqr. John Ennas & others who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the revolution.
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. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
in open court
J. Wray Rother
John M'Namara
Certificate.
the undersigned said County of Lycoming and James Happle residing in said County of Lycoming hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bramnage who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two Years of age; that he is reported,

and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion — Sworn & subscribed the day 13 James Shaffer and year aforesaid — in open court J. W. D. Rother
Certificate of the Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories 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 John Rammage  John Rammage  who has signed the preceding certificate is a  is a  Chesapeake resident in said County of Lycoming. And that James Shaffer who has also signed the same is a resident of said County also and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. M. Chapman John Cummings
A. Davidson
I Joseph Wood Secretary Clerk of Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Rammage for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of September Anno Domini 1832.
J. W. D. Rother

Application of John Ramage Jr. a Pension.

State of Pennsylvania Lycoming County ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Lycoming John Innis and John Quigley Esqr who being respectively sworn or affirmed according to law do depose and say that they are well acquainted with John Ramage of Grove Township in said County of Lycoming, who is now about applying for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832. That they believe him to be a man of veracity, and of good moral and religious character; That from various circumstances of which they have a knowledge, they believe him to have been a soldier of the Revolution. That he is generally reported in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the American Army in the Revolutionary war - That they never heard it doubted by any person That they believe the declarations of said Ramage to that effect are entitled to full credit and belief - And the said deponents further saith not -
Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty first day of August A.D. 1832
John Innis
John Quigley
Washington D.C. June 1832

6814.
I Joseph Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lycoming in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Wallington Dunn the Justice of the Peace within named regular and acting Justice of the and for said County & that full credit are given to his official the name hereunto subscribed & seal to his hand writing being frequently him might. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Williams- port this 27 th day of Sept 1832.
J. Wood Prothon.

Resolution
23860
INVALID.
File No. 23,860
John Ramage Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1891
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 4 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," John Ramage, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Thirty Six Dollars and Sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1837, to the 4 th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Passmore Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Apr 16
J. S. Cor

Lisney Shan 1 st April 1833
Dear Sir
The objection made to the papers in the case of John Ramage an applicant for a Pension has been overruled - and I now again forward it - be pleased Sir to return the Certificate to me - as his agent.
I am yours respectfully, A. M. Ferguson

11307 Dec 31. Jno Ramage Dear Will
Jas L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City.
Ans J. B. Andrews

Washington City Dec r 20. 1836.
Dear Edward Esq.
Sir. As I know the handwriting of J. Ramage (the old Soldier) also that of Washington D. Dixon Esq. the Justice, I beg J. R. Frederick the Prothonotary of this Court, as stated in the within power of Attorney, if any thing be necessary to perfect the paper, by proof of hand writing, I can do it. Please to have what is necessary here done attended to as soon as convenient.
Obliged Yours respectfully.
H. B. Anthony