Greene County PA Archives Military Records.....Williamson, James February 19, 1833 Revwar - Pension 12th Pennsylvania Regiment ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Brian Core greenhouseguy@juno.com January 21, 2007, 9:14 pm Declaration Of James Williamson, Revolutionary War Pension Greene County Pennsylvania Ss On the 11th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common [Pleas] for the county of Greene state of Pennsylvania now sitting, James Williamson a resident of Dunkard Township, county & state aforesaid, aged seventy seven years; who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit 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 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 term 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 thence taken & 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 & Captain Peter Withington raised a company of Regular troops the terms of enlistment during the war. That they raised their company in Berks county & places adjacent. That they marched their company to Philadelphia, & 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 Hananiah Lincoln, was elected Captain, and this deponent first Lieutenant and commissioned as such. That they then marched the company from Philadelphia to Bristol Pa & there crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey & were at Burlington & Bordentown two or three weeks. That they marched from there to Trenton and arrived at there on the day of Cannonade, and on that night marched to Princetown, and was engaged in the battle at that place, marched from thence 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 & went into winter quarters at Morristown, in January 1777. That when the campain 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 thence marched to the "Yellow Springs" and from thence to "White Marsh" where they encampted for a short time and from thence marched to the battle of "Germantown" and was engaged in there 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 campain 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 & 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 us) by Capt. Boyd, of the 12th Pa Regt. Sworn & subscribed the date above written Wm. T. Hays, Prothy James Williamson I James Williamson do hereby relinquish any claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state. James Williamson Greene County Pennsylvania I Enos Hook Prothonatory of the court of common pleas in the said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Williamson for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 19th day of February AD 1833 Enos Hook (“Declaration of James Williamson,” James Williamson Pension No. S22,597, U. S. Revolutionary War Service, War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records (Record Group 93), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.). Additional Comments: James' will was written on 12 September 1839, and was proved on 28 March 1840. Legatees were his widow, Elizabeth; sons James, Jr. and Hugh; daughters Jane Forster, Sarah Russell, Mary Able, and Rachel Hart. William Hart and Hugh Williamson were co-executors; the will was witnessed by James Stephenson and Enoch South (James Williamson Last Will and Testament, Will Book 2: 123-124, Greene County Clerk and Recorder's Office, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania). This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb