Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 689, Daniel Bebout, New Jersey.

SERVICE
New Jersey.
Bebout Daniel
NUMBER
R 689
CONTENTS

Rejected, did not serve six months. See letter of Oct 30 to Mr J. Brown.
689

Ex'r.
INVALID,
RECEIVED
Daniel Deboe
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

32,027 Daniel Bebout Indiana

State of Indiana, Rusk Circuit Court, September Term 1834 Rusk County } On this 6 th day of October 1834 Personally came into open Court before the Honorable the judges of the Rusk Circuit now in session Daniel Betts aged seventy years, the 22 nd day of September last a resident of Rusk County Indiana who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 State upon oath that he was drafted he thinks in the year 1781 at which time applicant was about sixteen years of age he was drafted in the Company commanded by Captain Mc- Key for the term of six months but was, to be dismissed at the end of any one month if their service would no longer be required that the object of said draft as he then understood was to protect the Country against the invasion of Tories and looting parties of the British that was plundering the Country murdering the in- habitants, the Regiment he belonged to was commanded part of the time by Colonel Ludlow and part of the time by Colonel Ogden. He further states that at the time he was drafted he lived in Somerset County New Jersey and belonged to what was called the New Jersey militia from Somerset County at a place called Millstone they were to Elizabethtown, where they lay some time but was most of the time employed marching to different points and back again as their service might be required that during the summer they were at Brunswick, Newark, and South Amboy that about three months after he was in service, he was in a small engagement with a small party of Tories in which this applicant was wounded with a musket shot in his left breast, although it was but a flesh wound it rendered him unable to do duty for about six weeks at which time he was at home having been wounded in the neighborhood of his father when he again got able for service he again returned to the head quarters and rejoined his company at Elizabethtown where he remained until the expiration of six months when he was discharged and he received a written discharge from Captain McKey which has long since been lost or mislaid, that he cannot state the names of any of the Regular officers except Col Ludlow and Col Ogden, that he does not know the main army which he understood was at the South, that from the time he entered the service until he was discharged including the time he was wounded it was six months He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension in amount whatever except the present and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State or territory

Deponent David Bebout
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 6 October 1852
Where were you born and what year were you born Ans, I was born in New Jersey. five the year 1764
Have you any record of your age & if so where is it Ans I have none my father's records were burnt but I have been told by my parents, I am 70 years of age Where were you living when called into service when you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live Ans, I was born in Somerset County New Jersey when called into service, I lived a number of years in Washington County Pennsylvania, I lived in Franklin County Ohio nine years & lived 23 years in Kentucky. I live now in Port City Indiana where I have lived seven years How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom Ans I was drafted, as before stated
State the name of some of the Regular, officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recall & the General Encounters of your service Ans I can state the names of Colonel Dudley Colonel Ogden & Captain McCloy the General Services before mentioned
Did you ever receive a discharge from service if so where was it signed & what has become of it I received a written discharge from Capt McCloy but in moving about, I have lost it
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services
Ans Rev Elias Poslow and William D. M. Wickham Esq

We Elias Boston a clergyman residing in said County of Rush of William D. Wickham Daniel Brown, residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution & have had him in the house of and that we have never heard it doubted or doubted and we believe him to be a man of truth and veracity, and for the thy state not
Elias Boston W. D. Wickham
Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 6th day of October 1834
Robert Thompson Clerk
Since the said court as hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after fulfilling the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above affidavit was a declaration of the Revolution and as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Elias Boston who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a Clergyman Residing in said County and that William D. Wickham who has also signed the same is a resident of said County, of Rush and is a credible person true their statement as entitled, to Credit
I Robert Thompson Clerk of the Rush Circuit Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Brown, for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of office this 9th day October Term 1834
Robert Thompson Clerk