York County PA Archives Military Records.....Anderson, Samuel September 7, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Andrew Anderson, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #201
State of Pennsylvania, Lycoming County
	On this 7th day of September, 1832, personally appeared in open court 
before the Honorable Seth Chapman and his associates, judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas of Lycoming County now sitting, Samuel Anderson, a resident of 
Chapman Township in the county of Lycoming and state of Pennsylvania, aged 69 
years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the 
following declaration..:

	I was living in the state of New Jersey in the year 1776, when my 
father, William Anderson was killed by the enemy in a battle fought near 
Philadelphia. I then moved with my mother into York County in the state of 
Pennsylvania, where, in the spring of the 1777, I enlisted in the Pennsylvania 
line of the state troops. I belonged to the company commanded by Captain John 
Rippy and the regiment commanded by Colonel James Ross. I marched to Lancaster 
in Pennsylvania. When we arrived there, I was informed by Joseph Reed, forage 
master, that there was a driver wanted for one of the United States teams, and 
he, the said Reed, being acquainted with me, agreed to procure me that 
situation. Accordingly, when the officers called our names for the purpose of 
entering them upon the regular roll, the said Joseph Reed had my name entered 
upon his roll, and he assigned me the charge of a team during the continuation 
of the war. I was employed in hauling grain to the mills, flour and meat to the 
storehouses and commissary stores of the army until the summer of 1783, where I 
gave up the team at Lancaster and the said Joseph Reed procured me a discharge 
from the commanding officer, who signed my discharge. I left the service having 
been in the actual service six years.

And in reply to the interrogations prepared by the War Department, and 
prpopounded by the court, the said applicant saith;

I was born in Oxford Township, Sussex County, in the state of New Jersey on the 
21st of August, 1763.

I have no record of my age.

I was living in York County, in the state of Pennsylvania. In the year 1795, I 
came to the county of Northumberland, and have lived in that, Centre, and 
Lycoming Counties in Pennsylvania ever since.

I enlisted, as stated in my declaration.

I do not recollect the names of any officers other than those listed in my 
declaration.

I received a discharge, but do not recollect by whom it was signed. It is since 
lost…

State of Pennsylvania, Lycoming County
Personally came before me, the subscribed, a justice of the peace, Samuel 
Anderson, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and 
the consequent loss of memory, he cannot positively swear as to the precise 
length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served 
not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grades:

He enlisted in the month of March in the year 1777. He enlisted in the company 
commanded by Captain Rippy in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Ross (as 
stated in his foregoing declaration) when he was not but 13 years of age, and 
in the same month and year, I was enrolled as a driver of a Continental team 
under Joseph Reed, forage master. ?Note. I served in the capacity of a teamster 
driving a Continental team under said Reed for six years and three months and 
which service terminated in June 1783; and for such service I claim a pension, 
and further saith not. Samuel Anderson, sorn and subscribed this 7th day of 
April, 1833.

In 1852, Nancy Anderson, daughter of Samuel and Blanche Anderson, signed a 
power of attorney  for assistance in making a claim to any residue she may have 
been entitled to. She was aged 52 years. I could not make out here married name 
from her signature, but it may have been ‘Blossom.’

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