MILITARY – David HECKENDORN/HACKEDORN, 1833, Rev. War Pension, Lebanon Co., PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Em Hicks jamahicks@yahoo.com January 24, 2006, 8:15 pm Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/lebanon/ _______________________________________________ Pension File On the 8th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open county court before the Honorable Calvin Bap__Esq President and his associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Juniata aforesaid, David Hackathorn, a resident of the township of Tuscarora in the County of Juniata, and state of Penna, aged between seventy four and five 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 Jan AD 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereafter stated as That he was born in Lebanon, at that time Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania, on the eighth day of April AD 1759 as appeared by the record of his age entered by his father in the family Bible which he frequently saw, the Bible containing said records was given to one of his brothers and he does not know where it is nor what has become of it. That he resided in Lancaster County Pennsylvania at Lebanon at the time he entered the service of the United States. That he was drafted in the Militia some time about the twentieth day of May 1777 for a term of three months, that he marched under Captain Daniel Otterbrook, his Major Trigger (Frigger?)and he was under the command of Col. John Greenwalt, he was marched to Chester County Pa and joined the army under Gen. Washington at the Brandywine. He was stationed in that neighborhood for about four weeks, was sometimes stationed in the city of Philadelphia and continued in Philadelphia until the Battle of Brandywine. That he was in the Battle of Brandywine and received a wound in his foot, by which he was unable to walk or leave the hospital where he had been taken._______________(Missing) He further states that after he served the period for which he was drafted, he was detained by the order of General Washington and kept until he received the wound as before stated--and that his whole period of his service from the march from Lancaster County until he got his discharge was clearly seven months, to wit from aabout the 20th of May until about the 15 of December in the year 1777. That he removed from Lancaster, now Lebanon County where he resided from the time of his aforesaid service to Shippensburg, Pa where he resided about ten years and he removed from that place to Mifflin County, now Juniata, where he has resided ever since. He refers to the following persons in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution, viz George Gilliford, William Wharton Esq. Commissioner of the County of Juniata, Esau A Swininger, George McCulloch Esq, member of the Senate of Pennsylvania and the Rev. John Coulter. He states that he has no documentary evidence of his said service, nor does he know of any person now living who could prove his said services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or agency. Sworn and subscribed in open County court of Common pleas, May 8 1833 Wm W Kirk, Prothy Additional Comments: Available at Heritage Quest--Revolutionary War Records on Series M805 Roll385 Image 67 File S22820