REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION, 1818 - NATHAN FORBES, Huntington Twp, Luzerne Co, PA

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Revolutionary War Pension File No.: S42201
Transcript of affidavit in pension file of Nathan Forbes - b: 1755 // d: 3 Feb  
1833 in Huntington Twp., Luzerne Co, PA

State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County SS

On this sixteenth day of July, AD 1818, before me, the subscriber, one of the  
Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County of  
Luzerne in the Eleventh Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,  
personally appears, Nathan Forbes, ^ of the Township of Huntington in the County  
of Luzerne in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ^ who being, by me, first, duly  
sworn, according to the law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in  
order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled, "An  
Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the  
United States in the Revolutionary War." That he, the said Nathan Forbes,  
enlisted in Hampshire County in Massachusetts, in Captain John Ferguson's  
Company, in Colonel Samuel Brewer's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, about  
the first of May, in the year 1776, for nine months and served the term of  
enlistment, and about one month over the term. That he was discharged at  
Bennington, in the State of Vermont. That his discharge is lost and he knows not  
what became of it.

And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of  
his Country - And that he has no other evidence, now in his power of his said  
Service except the Testimony of Gideon Post, here present.

Sworn to Subscriber and declared Nathan Forbes
before me, the day & year aforesaid
Jesse Fell ^The interlineation of his place of Residence in the fifth line from  
the top, was inserted on the presence and on oath before me, August 9th, 1819,  
with my hand.
August 9th, 1819 Jesse Fell

On the same day & place, came Gideon Post, who being duly sworn, did depose and  
declare that he was knowing to service of Nathan Forbes in the Revolutionary  
Army, as above stated & that he served in the same regiment with him and further  
saith not.

Sworn & subscribed before the day & Gideon Post
year, above mentioned.

Jesse Fell