Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13996, for Daniel Munger, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Munger, Daniel
S. 13996
CONTENTS
carded

4317 New York
Daniel Manger
of Genesee in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Brewer in the Continental line for 8 1/2 months
★ Mass. Line
Records corrected Dec. 12/06. S
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 28 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Jan'y 1833 and due to Mr. P. L. Tracy No. of Rep.
Arrears to 14th of Sep. 1832 $42.48 Semi-ann. allowance ending Feb. '33 14.16 $56.64
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. Stiles Clerk Book D. Vol. 5. Page 126

Rev. War
13996 INVALID.
File No. 13.996
Daniel Mouser Rev: Rev: War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 269
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Daniel Munger Application for Pension
Send Certificate to Mr. Drowny at St. P.
admitted
8.2 mo private
26.66 1.66 28.32
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I Cyrus Munger of Wales in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Testify and say that Daniel Munger then of South Brimfield now resident in Byron, County of Franklin and State of New York, enlisted in the Spring of the year 1775 in a company commanded by Capt. Amos Walbridge of Stafford and State of Connecticut, and in a regiment under the command of Col. David Brewer for the term of eight months - and marched to Roxbury, Mass. where he was stationed, and in October of the same year I was a substitute for one Benjamin Weber and marched to Roxbury and joined the same company with Daniel Munger aforesaid, and served with him six weeks and the company was discharged,
Cyrus Munger
I Nathaniel Rogers of Stafford County of Tolland and State of Connecticut of lawful age Testify and say that Daniel Munger, then of South Brimfield but now resident in Byron County of Franklin and State of New York that he was a private soldier in the United States Service in the revolutionary war in the year 1775 in a company commanded by Capt. Amos Walbridge of Stafford  Connecticut , in the regiment commanded by Col. David Brewer and marched to Roxbury, Mass. I was at that time in the service and stationed at Roxbury aforesaid and about the first of May the company of the above said Capt. Walbridge arrived at Roxbury and joined the same regiment I belonged to, where we served together the term of eight months and was discharged.
Nathaniel Rogers
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hampden ss. 7 Wales Sept. 18 th 1832
Then the above named Cyrus Munger subscriber of this first deposition, and Nathaniel Rogers subscriber to this second deposition appeared and made oath to the truth of the same before me John Smith Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the Deponents Cyrus Munger and Nathaniel Rogers within named are well known to me to be credible and disin- terested witnesses and sustain fair and reputable characters. John Smith Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Common- Pleas Court sitting as Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that John Smith Esq. before whom the within deposition was verified is a justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden and that I believe his name thereto subscribed to be his true & genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Common Pleas Court at Springfield on this twenty ninth day of September A.D. 1832 John Ingersoll Clerk

Declaration of Daniel Munger of Byron in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York Genesee County ss. On this 10 th 13 day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me James Taggart one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county of Genesee being a court of record and having a seal Daniel Munger aged eighty four years and upwards, who being first duly sworn by me according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he was born in the Town of Brimfield in the then county of Hampshire and State of Mas- sachusetts in the year 1748 and was eighty four years old last April that he has no record of his age and knows of none unless there is one in the Town record of said Town of Brimfield that previous to his enlistment he had resided temporarily in the Town of West Springfield but that he enlisted in the Town of Brimfield that he resided in Brimfield aforesaid for about twenty two years after his term of service had expired that from that time until 1827 he resided in the Town of West Springfield in the then-

County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts that in 1827 he removed to the Town of Byron in the County of Genesee and State of New York, where he has since resided and now resides
That he enlisted into the army in the Spring of 1775 for eight months under Capt Amos Walbridge he thinks of Stafford in the State of Connecticut and that Col David Breder having command of the Regiment that he marched from Brimfield to Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts where he served the full term of his enlistment when he was dismissed without any written discharge that he afterwards served one half month as a substitute for a Mr Scott (whose given name he does not recollect) when he was likewise dismissed without any written discharge making about nine months service in all That during the time of his service he thinks General Thomas commanded that part of the Army stationed in Roxbury that at the time of the battle of Bunker or Breed's hill he was stationed at for near Roxbury meeting house where he could hear the firing and see the smoke of the battle but was not engaged in it That some time during his service General Washington assumed the command of the army that when he first enlisted he thinks it was in the Massachusetts line and that he was then transferred from that to the

continental army as he recd part of his pay from the Paymaster of the State troops and part from the Paymaster of the Continental army
and the said Daniel Munger further states that Cyrus Munger and Nathaniel Progers who has sworn to and sub- scribed the following affidavit was well known to this deponent during his term of service
and hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present and declares that his  his  his his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year foresaid before me
Daniel Munger
James Faggart Judge of Greene County Courts
And I The said James Faggart Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that the said Daniel Munger has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration at his place of resi- dence in the Town of Byron aforesaid and that he is unable to attend appear in a court of Record by reason of bodily infirmity and I hereby declare it as my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the said Daniel Munger was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states James Faggart Judge

Jan'y. 19. 1833. I hereby certify that James Lagg at before whom the within proceedings were had, was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Genesee & state of New York at the time specified within
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