REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION 1833- LOT STRATTON: Cumberland Co, NJ > Lycoming Co, PA Contributed by: Sean Drury (spdrury@earthlink.net) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm *********************************************************************** On this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lycoming in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania now sitting Lot Stratton a resident of Muncy Creek Township in the County of Lycoming & State aforesaid, Aged 76 years on the 4th day of February last past, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Certificate of the Act of Congress passed June 7th AD 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as following viz.--I was a minute man early in the year 1775 under Captain Foster of Cumberland County in the State of New Jersey. I was frequently called out to repel the British who landed on the sea Shore for plunder & provisions. I continued to be a minute man until I enlisted for one month in the month of August 1776 under Captain Mead, Lieutenant Pauling, Ensign James Rhea after serving the term of my enlistment I was discharged at Shrewsbury below Long Island. About a month afterwards I was drafted in the militia. My captain's name I think was Foster, the field officers names I do not remember. The company in which I was, marched to Mount Holly New Jersey where we had a small skirmish with the British. No lives were lost. This was in the Autumn of 1776. We retreated toward the Delaware river & I shortly afterward returned home. After remaining at home a short time I was again called on & we rendezvoused at Bordentown and marched from that place to Trenton where I arrived just before the Cannonade began in January 1777. We marched across the Assawpuik Creek to the South side. I was in the front line near a Stone wall during the Cannonade, the firing did not cease till after dark. We remained till ten O'Clock at night & then moved quietly off the ground, leaving our fires behind. The army went to Princeton & I went as a guard with the baggage Wagons by way of Bordentown to Burlington after remaining a few days with the baggage at Burlington I went with it to Princeton. The baggage went on to the main army further up the Jersey. I remained at Princeton till the time for which I was drafted expired & then returned home. I was out as a drafted militiaman frequently in the year 1777 in different places in New Jersey but I never was in any other engagement, then those heretofore stated. At the time I entered the service I lived in Deerfield Township Cumberland County & State of New Jersey--I have no documentary evidence nor do I know of any person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my service as there is no person in this part of the Country with whom I was acquainted during the Revolution. I was born in the year 1756 on the 4th day of February at Deerfield Township Cumberland County New Jersey. I have a record of my age in my Bible at my residence in Muncy Creek Township Lycoming County. Penna. At the time I entered the service I lived in Deerfield Township as above stated & remained there till the year 1787 when I removed to the State of Pennsylvania where I have resided at different places ever since. I now reside in Muncy Creek Township above mentioned. I was called into actual service as a Minute Man and enlisted for one month. I was frequently on duty as a drafted Militiaman as above Stated, for upward of two years. I have given a full Statement of the general circumstances of my service above & do not at present recollect the names of the regular Officers with whom I served except that Captn. Foster was afterward appointed Major. I never received any written discharge from the service. I am known in the neighborhood where I reside by the Honorable Isaac McKinney, William A. Peterken, Esq. and others who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a Soldier of the revolution. And I do further hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state to the best of by knowledge. Sworn & Subscribed in open Court of Common Pleas this 5th day of September AD 1832. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Lycoming aforesaid Lot Stratton who being duly sworn deposititioned (saith) that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he did not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades viz.-- I served in the year 1775 surely as a minuteman and was called out whenever an alarm was given that the British were in the neighborhood--my whole term of service during that year did not exceed one month. In the year 1776. I served as an enlisted soldier for one month under Captain Wood as stated in my declaration. During the Autumn of the same year I served as a militia man one month under Captain Foster. In the year 1777 I served beginning sometime in December of 1776 one month at the time of the Cannonade at Trenton in which I took a part as stated in my declaration. After returning home I was regularly called out & served every other month during the year 1777 in the militia. In that year to the best of my recollection I served six months and after that I rendered no further service. The whole term of my service as an enlisted soldier and militia man is between eight and nine months and for such service I claim a pension. I would further state that to the best of my knowledge the Officers of the Regiment to which I belonged were Colonel Potter, Major Foster (formerly my Captain) and Adjutant Fithian Stratton (my Uncle). I believe that Colonel Seeley was our Colonel at the cannonade at Trenton. I distinctly recollect that at that time I first saw General Washington. Deponent further states that he was not employed in any civil pursuit during the period above named but was under the command of his officers and regularly enrolled in an embodied corps and performing military duty as above stated. Sworn & Subscribed before me this eighth day of October AD eighteen hundred and thirty three name "Lot Stratton" in the third line from the beginning interlined before signing Lot Stratton