Mercer County KyArchives Military Records.....Banta, Samuel May 6, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Samuel Banta, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #R479
State of Kentucky, Mercer County Court
On this 6th day of May, 1833, personally appeared in open court, Samuel Banta, 
aged 80 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the 
following declaration…

That he volunteered under Captain Simon Vanarsdale in the month of December 
1776 at Yorktown in York County, Pennsylvania for a tour of four months and 
marched to Philadelphia where we were stationed until we received orders to go 
on which he thinks was about 10 or 12 days. From thence we marched to Trenton. 
We met the Hessians that had been taken prisoners in the Battle at Trenton 
about eight miles from Philadelphia. We marched through Trenton to Princeton 
and joined the army at that place and under General Putnam whose headquarters 
was at that place. We were stationed here and at Kingston during our tour. We 
acted as scouts between Princeton and Brunswick and protected the inhabitants 
from the British scouting parties that would come out of Brunswick where the 
British then lay. Our tour of service having expired, we honorably discharged 
at Princeton by General Putnam and returned home after having served a little 
upwards of 4 months.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and 
declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
That he now lives in Mercer County, Kentucky and has resided there for upwards 
of 40 years, and further sayeth not.  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and 
year aforesaid, Samuel Banta.

I, Henry Comingore and John Comingore, citizens of Mercer County, Kentucky and 
formerly citizens of York county, Pennsylvania, do state upon oath that we are 
well acquainted with Samuel Banta who has deposed the foregoing declaration. 
That we lived neighbors in York County, Pennsylvania. 

And I, Henry Comingore do further state that I volunteered at the same time and 
place under the same Captain Simon Vanarsdale and served with the said Samuel 
Banta out in the same company with him for the whole tour. And the said John 
Comingore senior, do further state that I did not serve in this tour, but I 
recollect that both Samuel Banta and Henry Comingore both joined Captain Simon 
Vanarsdale at Yorktown in Pennsylvania and marched to the north and were gone 
several months. I have no doubt but that they served their tours faithfully.  
Signed and sealed the 6th day of May, 1833. Henery Comingore, John Comingore.  

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