MILITARY – REVWAR PENSION:  Samuel WHITE, 1833, Formerly of Lancaster Co., PA 

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Pension Application Of Samuel White, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, 
Application #R18952
Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, June 5, 1833, Samuel White, a resident of 
Hartland, Huron County, Ohio, aged 73 years: “That in order to ____ his 
services with the services of his brother, James White, the declarant states 
that his said brother, James White, in the year 1776, enlisted in the 
Continental Army for 3 years into a company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller 
of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in Colonel ?Maclay’s regiment. He does not 
recollect the name of the brigadier general. That his said brother served in 
said Continental company  under General Washington near Philadelphia for one 
year.”

“That about the end of said year, was in 1777, the declarant’s father, Josiah 
White’s wagon and 4 horses was pressed by the authority of the United States 
into their service and the said James having been used to said horses and 
wagon, then being under said establishment, was detailed and ordered to take 
charge of the same, and served as a teamster for part of his two following 
years, until the year 1779, when his said brother died at Quibble Town in New 
Jersey, about 10 miles from Philadelphia.”

“That in 1779, the declarant says that his father’s aid team wagon and horses 
were again pressed into the service of the United States. That the declarant 
then living at the town of Pastor in Lancaster County in the state of 
Pennsylvania being then about 16 years of age, and being also well acquainted 
with said horses and wagon, was pressed by authority of the United States to 
take charge of the same, which he accordingly did, and in the year 1779, he had 
charge and served with the same from the spring of that year to October or 
November following, not less than 6 months in hauling provisions: flour, rye, 
hay, ?swabs, ?drag ropes?, shovels from Cox’s Town down to Staats Town, where, 
at the latter place, was a provision store. That he, loaded back with salt 
provisions, and back with flour and whiskey to Staats Town.”

“That he also carried and dispersed the ?Teamsters of those who were pressed 
into the service under General Sullivan of the Continental Army into different 
parts of the country. One Doctor ?Wagner was surgeon of the regiment to which 
the declarant belonged. He served between said Cox’s Town lying on the 
Susquehanna and Lancaster, and from the latter to said Staats Town in hauling 
cannons and ammunitions of war. Colonel Cox was the commander and 
superintendent of the store on the Susquehanna and of the teams. A number 
besides his said father’s were pressed into service. He, the declarant, was 
under the immediate command of William ?L__, purchasing commissary and were 
under the general command of General Sullivan. The names of the clerks in Cox’s 
store were Alexander Berryhill and the other’s name was Cagley; he don’t 
recollect his Christian name. Both were in the same store. The provisions he 
hauled to Cox’s store were carried from thence up the Susquehanna to the 
Genesee country  (he thinks in 1779) for the use of General Sullivan’s army in 
his expedition against the Indians.”

“After the capture of General Burgoyne at Saratoga in 1777, the American army 
moved to the southward and the French Fleet came into the Capes of the 
Delaware, the declarant then living also at Pastor. His said father’s horses 
and wagon was again pressed into the services of the United States, and he the 
declarant, was again pressed to take charge of horses with the same, and that 
he hauled with it, provisions, whiskey and other articles in each of the 
summers of 1780 and 1781 from said Pastor and other places to Philadelphia. 
That he was employed in that service not less than 2 months in each of the said 
summers of 1780 and 1781. It took him generally 10 days to go ____ from 
Philadelphia. In the last mentioned service he was pressed and commanded by 
contractors and commissaries under the authority of General Washington.”

“He was about 17 years of age when he served in 1780, and 18 in 1781. He never 
received a discharge while he served as aforesaid in teaming and hauling. He 
remembers George McMillan who commanded a company of militia. The name of the 
colonel of the regiment, he don’t recollect. This Captain McMillan was employed 
in guarding the Hessians at Lancaster, a part of whom after their capture at 
Trenton, was brought to said Lancaster. He remembers Major John Gilchrist of 
the Continental army who was wounded in battle and died at Greensburg in 
Westmoreland County. He always took receipts for all the loads which he carried 
to different places during his services aforesaid.”

     “And the declarant further says that his father never made any contract 
with the United States respecting the use of said horses and wagon as 
aforesaid, nor did the declarant ever make any such contract, nor did his said 
father ever, according to the declarant’s best knowledge, ever receive any 
compensation therefore, nor did the declarant ever receive any compensation for 
his said services, except one half bushel of salt. The declarant says he was in 
the habit of carrying straw and ground rye in his wagon, and was obliged many 
times to ?get ?uprights and out straw and out with the ground rye for provender 
for said horses. The public horses having provender being frequently at an 
inconvenient distance. That he generally lodged in his wagon, and he was much 
and frequently so full of loading that he was obliged to sleep under his wagon 
exposed to storms and bad weather, in consequence of which his constitution 
became much impaired, his limbs became much enfeebled. 

He is now entirely helpless. I t has been over five years next September since 
he has been able to walk a step, even with the assistance of others. That he, 
in common with other soldiers, drew his rations at the public stores while he 
was impressed as aforesaid…That he was born in said Pastor in February 1760, 
and that he has no record of his age. That he lived, after the war, in the 
county of Washington near Pittsburg, Pa about 9 miles from said Pittsburg. Went 
from thence to Greensburg in Westmoreland County, lived there 8 or 9 years. 
>From thence he removed to Ohio near Youngstown where Judge Hirtland lived. He 
remained there about 2 years. From thence he removed to ?Asti___ town and 
county in said Ohio. Lived at the latter place about 7 years. From thence he 
removed to said Hartland, where he has lived 12 years.”

     “Upon further reflection, he remembers that the colonel of the regiment 
in which was the company commanded by Captain McMillan was Colonel Smith, and 
he remembers during his said services, he frequently saw General Washington who 
accompanied the army. The Rev. ____ Call of Florence in said county, and 
William Howland of Hartland in said county will testify respecting his services 
as a soldier of the Revolutionary War…”

“The declarant further says that very near the time of the peace between Great 
Britain and the United States, which closed  the Revolutionary War (he cannot 
say positively whether it was before the close of said war or a short time 
after) he entered and served as a ranger or Indian spy for part of two summers, 
one under the command of Captain John Eliot, in Colonel John ?Campbell’s 
regiment, and the other under Captain John Craig in a regiment commanded by the 
same Colonel ?Campwell. That he served ____ up the Allegheny River about 30 
miles above Pittsburg, and at other places. That he served not less than 6 
months in both said summers." 

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