Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension app of William Daugherty W3229 fn81Pa. Transcribed by Will Graves (revised 7/11/08) District of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this second day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County, William Daugherty aged 66 resident in said County in said District, who being first duly sworn as the law direction, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz., and Captain Reppy's Company in the sixth Regiment commander Colonel Irwin in the Pennsylvania line – date of his first declaration is the first of June 1818 No. of certificate is 14:214. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or other wise disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Settlement right to two hundred acres of land $200.00 Grain in the Stack [?] 32.50 Hay valued at 13.00 Corn in the ground 12.00 a falling ax 1.50 kitchen furniture 15.00 A log chain 2.00 6 hogs 10.00 A waggon 50.00 three cows 33.00 two sheep 3.00 two horses 75.00 one mare colt 20.00 plough & harrow 15.00 A rifle gun 7.00 Debt due him 24.00 $503.00 William Daugherty Dr To a judgment on Esqr. Magiffins docket $47.00 to as 6.00 To Wiliam McMillan 20.00 to Humphrey Graham 30.00 to George Ward & James Rice 13.00 to Peter Wilson 12.00 To William Shenany 5.00 To Charles Lucas 5.00
To Jacob Belsuver 9.00 To the estate of Marcus Harrison 42.60 To different small sums 10.00 $206.60 The declarant has no trade and is in an inferior state of health, his wife and one son compose his family, his son is 20 years of age and healthy his wife is 62 years of age and frail – the declarant was through almost the whole of the Revolutionary war was taken prisoner in eneiee [sic, Enoree?] river and taken to a place called Ninety Six in South Carolina and kept by the British in irons for some time, from Ninety Six was taken prisoner to Charleston from whence he made his escape and returned to the Army and when he left the service there was due on to him two years and three months pay which he never received. Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the second day of October 1820. S/ James Miller, Pre S/ Wm Daugherty
State of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this 25th day of September A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before John Breden Esqr. and the Associates Judges of the Court of Mercer County now sitting William Daugherty a resident of Wolf Creek Township in Mercer County, State of Pennsylvania aged 78 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in addition to the one year and two months which he served as enlisted soldier in Capt. Wm. Rippy's Company in the years 1776 and '77, the evidence of which is on file in the war office and for which he was placed on the Pension List Roll of the Pension Agency and stricken off again because he had at the time a little too much property. And for the same a certificate of Pension has been granted under the act of congress of the 7th June 1832. He states that he entered the service of the United States, a volunteer in Capt. Samuel Ewing's Company in Col. Williams' [James Williams] Regiment in South Carolina in District Ninety Six June 1780; we marched out towards the Mountains to Join Col. Shelby, Col. Edmonston, and Campbell, when we joined them, soon after, he was in the Battle of King's Mountain where his Col. Williams was killed, but we defeated the British; killed their commander, Ferguson, and took from 8 to 900 prisoners & about 300 killed. Col. Hays [sic, Joseph Hayes] then took command of the regiment. We returned towards Ninety Six, some time in December his Col. sent him out as a spy and was to meet him at a certain place. Shortly after he set out, the enemy came on his Col. and routed the party and instead of meeting him he fell into the hand of the Enemy being a misty morning and was made a prisoner. He hailed them, they said they were friends to Liberty, and that they were his own people until it was too late to escape. They took from him his horse, saddle & bridle, a good blanket, rifle gun & case of Pistols, all his own property. They then took him to Ninety Six Jail, where they had a Fort commanded by one Cruger, he was prisoner about three months when he made his escape from Charlestown, where he had been taken to and lay about 3 weeks. Two others with him
escaped and in a short time joined General Sumpter [sic, Thomas Sumter] on the Congaree River. The British were reinforced at that time and we were obliged to retreat towards Charles town, on the way we fell in with a party of the British wagons, with supplies for their Forts in that part of the Country and took them all wagons and men. We then went to Genl. Sumter's dwelling, and the next day had an engagement with the enemy, and had to retreat being too weak. We made way towards Camden and he with some others joined his own Regiment commanded by Col. Hayes and continued in the service until the spring of 1782 a volunteer the whole time. The Tories being more troublesome than the British in them times so that he was in the service, a mounted volunteer, finding his own Horse and arms the whole time, from June 1780 until the last of April 1782, being in the service not less than one year and ten months he was enlisted makes three years, for which he claims a pension. Question: Where and in what year were you born? Says he was born in York County Pennsylvania, in the year 1755. Says he saw his Father's record of his birth. When he enlisted he was living in Cumberland County Pennsylvania and when he volunteered he was living in South Carolina. Since the war he has lived in Pennsylvania and in Mercer County thirty years. Says he first entered the service by enlisting, and again by volunteering and always served for himself and would never hire to be shot at. Col. Williams, Col. Hayes, Col. Campbell, Col. Shelby, Col Edmonston, Capt. Ewing with many others were in the service when he was. Says he has no documentary testimony to prove his service, nor does he know of any living witness that can prove for him. When he left the service he got a written discharge and pass, but they are lost or destroyed as useless long ago &c. 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 (except what he has stated already in his declaration), his present certificate he will give up on receiving a full pension. Sworn and subscribed in open court. S/ Wm Daugherty S/ John Hicks [?], Pres.
[William McMillan and John Galbreath gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[facts in the file: veteran died January 6, 1834; veteran married sometime in 1780 in Franklin County, Pa., Mary [maiden name not in file]; she died in Mercer County, Penn. February 25, 1848; William and Mary Daugherty had the following children: Elizabeth born December 1, 1781 Robert born may 20, 1783 Margaret born April 14, 1785 Mary Ann born said worry 14, 1787, married William Dunlap of Penn. John born April 19, 1789 James born may 18, 1791 William born June 24, 1793 Mary born January 11, 1796 Sarah born July 11, 1798 Joseph born August 25, 1800]
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Pension app of William Daugherty W3229 fn81Pa. Transcribed by Will Graves (revised 7/11/08) District of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this second day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County, William Daugherty aged 66 resident in said County in said District, who being first duly sworn as the law direction, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz., and Captain Reppy's Company in the sixth Regiment commander Colonel Irwin in the Pennsylvania line – date of his first declaration is the first of June 1818 No. of certificate is 14:214. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or other wise disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Settlement right to two hundred acres of land $200.00 Grain in the Stack [?] 32.50 Hay valued at 13.00 Corn in the ground 12.00 a falling ax 1.50 kitchen furniture 15.00 A log chain 2.00 6 hogs 10.00 A waggon 50.00 three cows 33.00 two sheep 3.00 two horses 75.00 one mare colt 20.00 plough & harrow 15.00 A rifle gun 7.00 Debt due him 24.00 $503.00 William Daugherty Dr To a judgment on Esqr. Magiffins docket $47.00 to as 6.00 To Wiliam McMillan 20.00 to Humphrey Graham 30.00 to George Ward & James Rice 13.00 to Peter Wilson 12.00 To William Shenany 5.00 To Charles Lucas 5.00
To Jacob Belsuver 9.00 To the estate of Marcus Harrison 42.60 To different small sums 10.00 $206.60 The declarant has no trade and is in an inferior state of health, his wife and one son compose his family, his son is 20 years of age and healthy his wife is 62 years of age and frail – the declarant was through almost the whole of the Revolutionary war was taken prisoner in eneiee [sic, Enoree?] river and taken to a place called Ninety Six in South Carolina and kept by the British in irons for some time, from Ninety Six was taken prisoner to Charleston from whence he made his escape and returned to the Army and when he left the service there was due on to him two years and three months pay which he never received. Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the second day of October 1820. S/ James Miller, Pre S/ Wm Daugherty
State of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this 25th day of September A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before John Breden Esqr. and the Associates Judges of the Court of Mercer County now sitting William Daugherty a resident of Wolf Creek Township in Mercer County, State of Pennsylvania aged 78 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in addition to the one year and two months which he served as enlisted soldier in Capt. Wm. Rippy's Company in the years 1776 and '77, the evidence of which is on file in the war office and for which he was placed on the Pension List Roll of the Pension Agency and stricken off again because he had at the time a little too much property. And for the same a certificate of Pension has been granted under the act of congress of the 7th June 1832. He states that he entered the service of the United States, a volunteer in Capt. Samuel Ewing's Company in Col. Williams' [James Williams] Regiment in South Carolina in District Ninety Six June 1780; we marched out towards the Mountains to Join Col. Shelby, Col. Edmonston, and Campbell, when we joined them, soon after, he was in the Battle of King's Mountain where his Col. Williams was killed, but we defeated the British; killed their commander, Ferguson, and took from 8 to 900 prisoners & about 300 killed. Col. Hays [sic, Joseph Hayes] then took command of the regiment. We returned towards Ninety Six, some time in December his Col. sent him out as a spy and was to meet him at a certain place. Shortly after he set out, the enemy came on his Col. and routed the party and instead of meeting him he fell into the hand of the Enemy being a misty morning and was made a prisoner. He hailed them, they said they were friends to Liberty, and that they were his own people until it was too late to escape. They took from him his horse, saddle & bridle, a good blanket, rifle gun & case of Pistols, all his own property. They then took him to Ninety Six Jail, where they had a Fort commanded by one Cruger, he was prisoner about three months when he made his escape from Charlestown, where he had been taken to and lay about 3 weeks. Two others with him
escaped and in a short time joined General Sumpter [sic, Thomas Sumter] on the Congaree River. The British were reinforced at that time and we were obliged to retreat towards Charles town, on the way we fell in with a party of the British wagons, with supplies for their Forts in that part of the Country and took them all wagons and men. We then went to Genl. Sumter's dwelling, and the next day had an engagement with the enemy, and had to retreat being too weak. We made way towards Camden and he with some others joined his own Regiment commanded by Col. Hayes and continued in the service until the spring of 1782 a volunteer the whole time. The Tories being more troublesome than the British in them times so that he was in the service, a mounted volunteer, finding his own Horse and arms the whole time, from June 1780 until the last of April 1782, being in the service not less than one year and ten months he was enlisted makes three years, for which he claims a pension. Question: Where and in what year were you born? Says he was born in York County Pennsylvania, in the year 1755. Says he saw his Father's record of his birth. When he enlisted he was living in Cumberland County Pennsylvania and when he volunteered he was living in South Carolina. Since the war he has lived in Pennsylvania and in Mercer County thirty years. Says he first entered the service by enlisting, and again by volunteering and always served for himself and would never hire to be shot at. Col. Williams, Col. Hayes, Col. Campbell, Col. Shelby, Col Edmonston, Capt. Ewing with many others were in the service when he was. Says he has no documentary testimony to prove his service, nor does he know of any living witness that can prove for him. When he left the service he got a written discharge and pass, but they are lost or destroyed as useless long ago &c. 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 (except what he has stated already in his declaration), his present certificate he will give up on receiving a full pension. Sworn and subscribed in open court. S/ Wm Daugherty S/ John Hicks [?], Pres.
[William McMillan and John Galbreath gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[facts in the file: veteran died January 6, 1834; veteran married sometime in 1780 in Franklin County, Pa., Mary [maiden name not in file]; she died in Mercer County, Penn. February 25, 1848; William and Mary Daugherty had the following children: Elizabeth born December 1, 1781 Robert born may 20, 1783 Margaret born April 14, 1785 Mary Ann born said worry 14, 1787, married William Dunlap of Penn. John born April 19, 1789 James born may 18, 1791 William born June 24, 1793 Mary born January 11, 1796 Sarah born July 11, 1798 Joseph born August 25, 1800]
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Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension app of William Daugherty W3229 fn81Pa. Transcribed by Will Graves (revised 7/11/08) District of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this second day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County, William Daugherty aged 66 resident in said County in said District, who being first duly sworn as the law direction, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz., and Captain Reppy's Company in the sixth Regiment commander Colonel Irwin in the Pennsylvania line – date of his first declaration is the first of June 1818 No. of certificate is 14:214. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or other wise disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Settlement right to two hundred acres of land $200.00 Grain in the Stack [?] 32.50 Hay valued at 13.00 Corn in the ground 12.00 a falling ax 1.50 kitchen furniture 15.00 A log chain 2.00 6 hogs 10.00 A waggon 50.00 three cows 33.00 two sheep 3.00 two horses 75.00 one mare colt 20.00 plough & harrow 15.00 A rifle gun 7.00 Debt due him 24.00 $503.00 William Daugherty Dr To a judgment on Esqr. Magiffins docket $47.00 to as 6.00 To Wiliam McMillan 20.00 to Humphrey Graham 30.00 to George Ward & James Rice 13.00 to Peter Wilson 12.00 To William Shenany 5.00 To Charles Lucas 5.00
To Jacob Belsuver 9.00 To the estate of Marcus Harrison 42.60 To different small sums 10.00 $206.60 The declarant has no trade and is in an inferior state of health, his wife and one son compose his family, his son is 20 years of age and healthy his wife is 62 years of age and frail – the declarant was through almost the whole of the Revolutionary war was taken prisoner in eneiee [sic, Enoree?] river and taken to a place called Ninety Six in South Carolina and kept by the British in irons for some time, from Ninety Six was taken prisoner to Charleston from whence he made his escape and returned to the Army and when he left the service there was due on to him two years and three months pay which he never received. Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the second day of October 1820. S/ James Miller, Pre S/ Wm Daugherty
State of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this 25th day of September A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before John Breden Esqr. and the Associates Judges of the Court of Mercer County now sitting William Daugherty a resident of Wolf Creek Township in Mercer County, State of Pennsylvania aged 78 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in addition to the one year and two months which he served as enlisted soldier in Capt. Wm. Rippy's Company in the years 1776 and '77, the evidence of which is on file in the war office and for which he was placed on the Pension List Roll of the Pension Agency and stricken off again because he had at the time a little too much property. And for the same a certificate of Pension has been granted under the act of congress of the 7th June 1832. He states that he entered the service of the United States, a volunteer in Capt. Samuel Ewing's Company in Col. Williams' [James Williams] Regiment in South Carolina in District Ninety Six June 1780; we marched out towards the Mountains to Join Col. Shelby, Col. Edmonston, and Campbell, when we joined them, soon after, he was in the Battle of King's Mountain where his Col. Williams was killed, but we defeated the British; killed their commander, Ferguson, and took from 8 to 900 prisoners & about 300 killed. Col. Hays [sic, Joseph Hayes] then took command of the regiment. We returned towards Ninety Six, some time in December his Col. sent him out as a spy and was to meet him at a certain place. Shortly after he set out, the enemy came on his Col. and routed the party and instead of meeting him he fell into the hand of the Enemy being a misty morning and was made a prisoner. He hailed them, they said they were friends to Liberty, and that they were his own people until it was too late to escape. They took from him his horse, saddle & bridle, a good blanket, rifle gun & case of Pistols, all his own property. They then took him to Ninety Six Jail, where they had a Fort commanded by one Cruger, he was prisoner about three months when he made his escape from Charlestown, where he had been taken to and lay about 3 weeks. Two others with him
escaped and in a short time joined General Sumpter [sic, Thomas Sumter] on the Congaree River. The British were reinforced at that time and we were obliged to retreat towards Charles town, on the way we fell in with a party of the British wagons, with supplies for their Forts in that part of the Country and took them all wagons and men. We then went to Genl. Sumter's dwelling, and the next day had an engagement with the enemy, and had to retreat being too weak. We made way towards Camden and he with some others joined his own Regiment commanded by Col. Hayes and continued in the service until the spring of 1782 a volunteer the whole time. The Tories being more troublesome than the British in them times so that he was in the service, a mounted volunteer, finding his own Horse and arms the whole time, from June 1780 until the last of April 1782, being in the service not less than one year and ten months he was enlisted makes three years, for which he claims a pension. Question: Where and in what year were you born? Says he was born in York County Pennsylvania, in the year 1755. Says he saw his Father's record of his birth. When he enlisted he was living in Cumberland County Pennsylvania and when he volunteered he was living in South Carolina. Since the war he has lived in Pennsylvania and in Mercer County thirty years. Says he first entered the service by enlisting, and again by volunteering and always served for himself and would never hire to be shot at. Col. Williams, Col. Hayes, Col. Campbell, Col. Shelby, Col Edmonston, Capt. Ewing with many others were in the service when he was. Says he has no documentary testimony to prove his service, nor does he know of any living witness that can prove for him. When he left the service he got a written discharge and pass, but they are lost or destroyed as useless long ago &c. 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 (except what he has stated already in his declaration), his present certificate he will give up on receiving a full pension. Sworn and subscribed in open court. S/ Wm Daugherty S/ John Hicks [?], Pres.
[William McMillan and John Galbreath gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[facts in the file: veteran died January 6, 1834; veteran married sometime in 1780 in Franklin County, Pa., Mary [maiden name not in file]; she died in Mercer County, Penn. February 25, 1848; William and Mary Daugherty had the following children: Elizabeth born December 1, 1781 Robert born may 20, 1783 Margaret born April 14, 1785 Mary Ann born said worry 14, 1787, married William Dunlap of Penn. John born April 19, 1789 James born may 18, 1791 William born June 24, 1793 Mary born January 11, 1796 Sarah born July 11, 1798 Joseph born August 25, 1800]
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Pension app of William Daugherty W3229 fn81Pa. Transcribed by Will Graves (revised 7/11/08) District of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this second day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County, William Daugherty aged 66 resident in said County in said District, who being first duly sworn as the law direction, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz., and Captain Reppy's Company in the sixth Regiment commander Colonel Irwin in the Pennsylvania line – date of his first declaration is the first of June 1818 No. of certificate is 14:214. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or other wise disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Settlement right to two hundred acres of land $200.00 Grain in the Stack [?] 32.50 Hay valued at 13.00 Corn in the ground 12.00 a falling ax 1.50 kitchen furniture 15.00 A log chain 2.00 6 hogs 10.00 A waggon 50.00 three cows 33.00 two sheep 3.00 two horses 75.00 one mare colt 20.00 plough & harrow 15.00 A rifle gun 7.00 Debt due him 24.00 $503.00 William Daugherty Dr To a judgment on Esqr. Magiffins docket $47.00 to as 6.00 To Wiliam McMillan 20.00 to Humphrey Graham 30.00 to George Ward & James Rice 13.00 to Peter Wilson 12.00 To William Shenany 5.00 To Charles Lucas 5.00
To Jacob Belsuver 9.00 To the estate of Marcus Harrison 42.60 To different small sums 10.00 $206.60 The declarant has no trade and is in an inferior state of health, his wife and one son compose his family, his son is 20 years of age and healthy his wife is 62 years of age and frail – the declarant was through almost the whole of the Revolutionary war was taken prisoner in eneiee [sic, Enoree?] river and taken to a place called Ninety Six in South Carolina and kept by the British in irons for some time, from Ninety Six was taken prisoner to Charleston from whence he made his escape and returned to the Army and when he left the service there was due on to him two years and three months pay which he never received. Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the second day of October 1820. S/ James Miller, Pre S/ Wm Daugherty
State of Pennsylvania, Mercer County On this 25th day of September A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before John Breden Esqr. and the Associates Judges of the Court of Mercer County now sitting William Daugherty a resident of Wolf Creek Township in Mercer County, State of Pennsylvania aged 78 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in addition to the one year and two months which he served as enlisted soldier in Capt. Wm. Rippy's Company in the years 1776 and '77, the evidence of which is on file in the war office and for which he was placed on the Pension List Roll of the Pension Agency and stricken off again because he had at the time a little too much property. And for the same a certificate of Pension has been granted under the act of congress of the 7th June 1832. He states that he entered the service of the United States, a volunteer in Capt. Samuel Ewing's Company in Col. Williams' [James Williams] Regiment in South Carolina in District Ninety Six June 1780; we marched out towards the Mountains to Join Col. Shelby, Col. Edmonston, and Campbell, when we joined them, soon after, he was in the Battle of King's Mountain where his Col. Williams was killed, but we defeated the British; killed their commander, Ferguson, and took from 8 to 900 prisoners & about 300 killed. Col. Hays [sic, Joseph Hayes] then took command of the regiment. We returned towards Ninety Six, some time in December his Col. sent him out as a spy and was to meet him at a certain place. Shortly after he set out, the enemy came on his Col. and routed the party and instead of meeting him he fell into the hand of the Enemy being a misty morning and was made a prisoner. He hailed them, they said they were friends to Liberty, and that they were his own people until it was too late to escape. They took from him his horse, saddle & bridle, a good blanket, rifle gun & case of Pistols, all his own property. They then took him to Ninety Six Jail, where they had a Fort commanded by one Cruger, he was prisoner about three months when he made his escape from Charlestown, where he had been taken to and lay about 3 weeks. Two others with him
escaped and in a short time joined General Sumpter [sic, Thomas Sumter] on the Congaree River. The British were reinforced at that time and we were obliged to retreat towards Charles town, on the way we fell in with a party of the British wagons, with supplies for their Forts in that part of the Country and took them all wagons and men. We then went to Genl. Sumter's dwelling, and the next day had an engagement with the enemy, and had to retreat being too weak. We made way towards Camden and he with some others joined his own Regiment commanded by Col. Hayes and continued in the service until the spring of 1782 a volunteer the whole time. The Tories being more troublesome than the British in them times so that he was in the service, a mounted volunteer, finding his own Horse and arms the whole time, from June 1780 until the last of April 1782, being in the service not less than one year and ten months he was enlisted makes three years, for which he claims a pension. Question: Where and in what year were you born? Says he was born in York County Pennsylvania, in the year 1755. Says he saw his Father's record of his birth. When he enlisted he was living in Cumberland County Pennsylvania and when he volunteered he was living in South Carolina. Since the war he has lived in Pennsylvania and in Mercer County thirty years. Says he first entered the service by enlisting, and again by volunteering and always served for himself and would never hire to be shot at. Col. Williams, Col. Hayes, Col. Campbell, Col. Shelby, Col Edmonston, Capt. Ewing with many others were in the service when he was. Says he has no documentary testimony to prove his service, nor does he know of any living witness that can prove for him. When he left the service he got a written discharge and pass, but they are lost or destroyed as useless long ago &c. 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 (except what he has stated already in his declaration), his present certificate he will give up on receiving a full pension. Sworn and subscribed in open court. S/ Wm Daugherty S/ John Hicks [?], Pres.
[William McMillan and John Galbreath gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
[facts in the file: veteran died January 6, 1834; veteran married sometime in 1780 in Franklin County, Pa., Mary [maiden name not in file]; she died in Mercer County, Penn. February 25, 1848; William and Mary Daugherty had the following children: Elizabeth born December 1, 1781 Robert born may 20, 1783 Margaret born April 14, 1785 Mary Ann born said worry 14, 1787, married William Dunlap of Penn. John born April 19, 1789 James born may 18, 1791 William born June 24, 1793 Mary born January 11, 1796 Sarah born July 11, 1798 Joseph born August 25, 1800]
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