Military: Pensions: Daniel Rex, 1832: Menallen Twp, Adams Co, PA

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       Daniel Rex, Pension Application, 1832

The following has been typed from a copy of a hand written
application for a pension for Daniel Rex's service in the
Revolutionary War. This document was obtained from the
National Archives File No. 8.4066. Daniel Rex was born in Northampton
Co. (now Lehigh). 16 Jun 1755.  His was one of about 50 families
that migrated to Adams co. in 1780.  Daniel and his wife, Elizabeth Arner, 
are buried in Bender's Graveyard in Adams Co.



Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress
passed the 7th of June 1832.
State of Pennsylvania_County of Adams/b_____
on this second day of October AD 1832 personally appeared
in open court of Common Pleas and quester sessions of the
peace held at Gettysburg for the County aforesaid now sitting.

Daniel Rex Senior a resident of Menallen Township in the
County of Adams and state aforesaid aged 78 years who being
first duly sworne according to law doth on his oath makes the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of congress passed  June 7th 1832.

That he the said Daniel Rex entered  the United States army
first as a drafted private in the Militia of Northampton
County Penn under the following named officers and served
two terms of service one  as a private the other  as an
Ensign. The first term of duty commenced in the year of 1777
for a period of three months from Northampton County and
state of Penn. His commanding officers were General Bull, Col.
Nickolus Karns, Capt Wright and lientenents Lightwalters and
N.Marks.  Said Daniel Rex resided at the time he was drafted
in Whitehall township Northhampton County and state foresaid.
Served part of the tour in North Welsh (then so called)
about 20 or 30 miles from Philadelphia. At the time
Philadelphia was in posession of the British. That during
the tour he marched from North Welsh to the vicinity of
Philadelphia to make a feigned attack on the place to
divert the Brittish from occupying some high ground
(which they were then endevering to get possession of) which
would have commanded the city and the neighbouring country
This march was made in company of a large body of men
who assembled from different parts of the state. The army
was commanded by General Washington and the time of this
march to his best recollection was the 24th day Feb. 1777 or 1778
He was in no battles nor did he ever receive a wriitten discharge
but served a full term of three months.That Tobias Sharry and
Felix Armer now residents of Adams County Pennslyania served
the tour with him whos certificates are hereunto annexed.

The second tour of duty the said Daniel Rex declares was
sometime in 1780. He was commissioned an Ensign of foot
of the Militia of Penn. first Batalion in the county of Northampton
under the immediate command of Captain Zearfaus (So spelled
in German) his commission bearing date the 18th of May 1780
and herewith accompaning this declaration Col Strous Regiment.
During this tour he was stationed and commanded an outpost
on the frontier (then so called) in the margins of the Pine Swamp
of thirteen men, ten recruts and files and three hunters and spies
to watch the indians.and as a picket guard. Durring this time he
was in no engagements but the fatiguing and severe duty.
Durring this tour he preformed duty upwards of three months.
Does not recolect wether his term of duty commenced
immediately after being commissioned but in the summer or
fall of that year and that he never received a written discharge
as far as his recolections serve him.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the
pension roll of the agency of any state.

                                                              Daniel Rex