REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - WILLIAM SUTHERLAND

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National Archives Records of Service for William Sutherland Rev. War Pension 
Application. Transcribed by D. Sanner

Declaration of April 19, 1833
State of Kentucky
Casey County
"On this 19th day of April 1833 personally appeared before me Andrew Sinkhorn 
Justice of the Peace, and one of the Judges of the Casey County Court in the 
State aforesaid. William Southerland aged about eighty five years who being 
first 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 
the 7th 1832.

That he enlisted as a regular soldier under Captain Cambell at Hagerstown in the 
state of Maryland in tdhe year 1776 he can not recollect the day or month and 
marchedwithout delay to the North and --- the army commanded by General Putnem 
and Sullivan and in a very short time afterwards they engaged the enemy at a 
place called Flatbush as well as the deponet can recollect the conflict here was 
very severe, we were forced to giveway, but not without thinning ranks of the 
enemy. This was my introduction to the Red Coats as they were then called. We 
afterwards served the army under the command of General Washington at or near 
the White Plains where we came together again; the ground here was severely 
contested. The British claimed the victory but it was believed by all of us that 
we got the best of this fight. In the Battle we were directly commanded by 
General McDougal, he thinks Washington was commander in chief, we afterwards 
crossed North River and took a post. He cannot recollect the name of it. We then 
retreated into Pennsylvania, crossed the Delaware and through Jersey State 
during this retreat we suffered severely. It was bitter cold weather and the 
great body of the militia of volunteers left the army, but shortly afterwards 
rec'd reinforcements and recrossed the Delaware overtook the Hessians at Trenton 
and nearly took all of them prisoners. We then marched to Princetown and came up 
with a body of the enemy defeated them and took several hundred prisoners. We 
then went into winter quarters at Morristown during which time we suffered for 
want of provisions and clothing, as well as the deponent recollects after this 
winter broke we marckh for Brandywine and had another Battle, it was hot weather 
and we had a hot time in this Battle. He was wounded in the left leg, a little 
below the knee the ball entered the left side of the leg and lodged next to the 
skin on the inside. They were forced to retreat and the next morning the surgeon 
cut out the ball and he was able to keep his place in the ranks this deponent 
was afterwards in the Battle of Germantown and other skirmishes this year. And 
went into winter quarters at a place called Valley Forge. He thinks it unnessary 
for him to further innumerate his services he was one of the first to enlist and 
one of the last to quit. He has no doubt but that his name will be found on the 
Rolls of the Continental Army from Maryland and has received mothing but the 
bounty at the time of his enlistment. He was promised land, also which he has 
never received and which he now wishes to get. He has --very claim what ever to 
a pension or --- except the present and he declares tht his name is not on the 
pension Roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid and he further more swears that 
he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service except from 
reputdation that he has long since lost or mislaid his discharge and for proof 
he refers to the old rolls and to those who know him best and longest and that 
he is unable to attend court in that it is 15 miles off.
Andrew Sinkhorn JP William ( X ) Sutherland