Othcourt: Pension Appl: James Williamson, 1832: Dunkard Twp, Greene Co

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TRANSCRIPT OF AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES WILLIAMSON FOR REV. WAR PENSION
(Pension record roll #2597, S-22597; Roll 835, compiled military service records) Served in 12th PA regt. under Col. William Thompson

Greene County
Pennsylvania

     On the 11th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open
court before the Judges of the Court of [Common] for the county of
Greene, state of Pennsylvania now sitting, James Williamson a
resident of Dunkard Township, county and state aforesaid, aged
seventy-[seven] years, who being first duly sworn according to law
with on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 7th day of June
1832.  That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the
year 1775 in Captain Nagle's company of a rifle Regt. of the
Pennsylvania line,

     That in June 1775 he enlisted in the town of Reading, Berks
County, Pa. under Capt. George Nagle of the rifle Regt. commanded
by Col. William Thompson for the time of one year.  That he was
marched from Reading Pa. to a place called Prospect Hill in
Massachusetts, and lay there until March 1776, and was then
marched to the city of New York, from there taken and encampt on
Long Island, and was then discharged in June 1776, his term of
service having expired.

     That sometime in fall of 1776 he received a commission from
the Council of Pennsylvania as 2nd Lieutenant, and that this
deponent and Captain Peter Withington raised a company of Regular
troops the terms of enlistment [            ] that they raised
their company in Berks county Pa. and places adjacent.  That they
marched their company to Philadelphia and arrived there about the
time the Hessians were taken at Trenton.  That a few days after
they arrived at Philadelphia, Capt. Withington returned home, took
sick and died.  That the first Lieutenant Hannibal Lincoln, was
elected Captain, and this deponent first Lieutenant and
commissioned as such.  That they then marched the company from
Philadelphia to Bristol Pa. and there crossed the Delaware River
into New Jersey, and were at Burlington and Bordentown two or three
weeks.  That they marched from there to [Trenton] and arrived at
there on the day of [Cannonade        ] and that night marched to
Princetown, and was engaged in the battle at that place, marched
from there to a place called "[Millstone]". That he performed
military service along the coasts of Delaware in New Jersey
during a few weeks after the battle of Princeton and went into
winter quarters at Morristown in January 1777,  That when the
campaign opened in the spring of 77 their company was placed in
the 12th Pennsylvania Regt. commanded by Col. William Cook.  That
on the eleventh day of Sept. 1777 he was engaged in the battle of
"Brandywine" and from that marched to a place near the "White Horse
Tavern" in Chester County, Pa. and from there marched to the
"Yellow Springs" and from there to "White Marsh" where they
encamped for a short time and from there marched to the battle of
"Germantown" and was engaged in [    ] on the 4th day of October
1777.  That their company did not perform much more service that
fall, but went into winter quarters at "Valley Forge" and remained
there during that winter, and at the opening of the spring campaign
1778 they marched again into Jersey, and was engaged in the battle
of Monmouth on the 28th day of June 1778.  That they continued with
their company in the state of New Jersey principally during the
summer of 78, but was a part of the time in the state of New York.
That in the winter of 1778-9 he resigned his commission as first
Lieutenant and returned, having served something more than two
years as first Lieutenant of the company he assisted in making up
the fall of 1776, commanded first by Capt. Withington, then by
Capt. Lincoln, and lastly (while he was with it) by Capt. Boyd of
the 12th Pa. Regt.

Sworn & subscribed
the date above written
     Wm. T. Hays, Prothonotary          James Williamson[signature]

I James Williamson do hereby relinquish [       ] claim whatever to any
pension or annuity except the present and [       ] that his name
is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state.

                                        James Williamson[signature]