Harrison County OhArchives Military Records.....Geery, John April 8, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Geery, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #S2233
Harrison County, Ohio, April 8th, 1833, John Geery, aged 80 years: “That he entered
the service of the United States under the following names officers, and served as
herein stated,  to wit: Captain George McCarter, 1st Lieutenant Samuel Brady, Ensign
Hallimus? Hortell? First entered the service as a volunteer about July 1776. Marched
from York County, Pennsylvania, the place of my residence,  through Lancaster and
Philadelphia in which place were detained for nearly 2 weeks for the purpose of
equipping. Thence by water to Trenton, Princeton, and thence to Amboy, where we
encamped for 2 months and a half, at the expiration of which time he was discharged,
it being the full term of 3 months for which I had volunteered.”

“I then returned home to York County, Pennsylvania, at which place I resided when I
was drafted, and was my home during all the time I was in the army; from which place
we marched in the latter part of December 1778? through  Little York, Lancaster, and
crossed the Schuylkill at the Valley Forge, thence to Bucks [or Berks] County,
Pennsylvania, where we performed ___ camp duty and we placed sentinels on the public
roads to prevent the carrying of provisions to the English, then in Philadelphia. I
remained in Bucks County until some time in March, at which time I was discharged,
the full term of 3 months being completed for which I was drafted. In the last tour
were Captain Samuel Ewing, Lieutenant Robert Wilson and Lieutenant George ?Stokely.
I was a sergeant. The ensigns I cannot recollect.”

“The next winter I was in Lancaster with my team. I had hauled a load of whiskey to
Lancaster for one of my neighbors, at which place they pressed me to haul provisions
from Philadelphia to the North River. I continued in that service for 3 months, at
the expiration of which time I was discharged.”

Interrogatories: I was born on the ?5th of December, 1752, in York County,
Pennsylvania. I have no record of my age. It is recorded in my father’s Bible which
he gave to a brother that resided some place in Kentucky. I was living with my
father, as I have noted,  in York County, Pennsylvania [at the times of his
enlistment]. I removed from thence to Baltimore County, Maryland. I also lived at
Baltimore for 2 years. I next removed to Frederick County, Virginia, not far from
Winchester for about 4 years and a half. I next moved to Washington County,
Pennsylvania. From there to Athens Township, Harrison County, Ohio. From thence to
Moorefield Township, state and county last aforesaid, where I still reside. I
volunteered the first tour, the second I was drafted and the 3rd time I was in the
service (as a waggoner) I was pressed. [The officers that I knew were] Captain
George McCarter, 1st Lieutenant Samuel Brady, 2nd lieutenant I cannot recollect his
name, Ensign Hallimus Hortell, Colonel John Anderson…”

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