York County PA Archives Military Records.....Patterson, James August 6, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Patterson, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #S23837
York County, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1832, James Patterson, aged about 78 
years: “That he was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania on the 2nd day of 
September, 1754. That he has ever since been a citizen of Pennsylvania. That 
sometime in the later part of 1776, he marched under Captain James McCandless 
in the Pennsylvania York County regiment of militia commanded by Colonel 
William Smith, to Bergen in the state of New Jersey, where he immediately, or 
within a few days, joined the company of Captain John Laird of the ‘Flying 
Camp,’ and was mustered in the regiment commanded by Colonel Richard McAlister, 
of both of which companies, he the said James, was commissioned ensign. That he 
faithfully served out the period for which he engaged and was honorably 
discharged the 1st of January, 1777. That on account of the sickness of Captain 
Laird, the death of the 2nd lieutenant, and the taking prisoner of the 1st 
lieutenant of the company, this deponent had, during most of the campaign, the 
command of the company and was detained in the city of Philadelphia some weeks 
after the expiration of the time of service in making out the rolls and getting 
the pay of the company.”

“That in the following year, 1777, a few days after the Battle of Germantown, 
he again marched from York County, as 1st lieutenant in the company commanded 
by Captain Joseph Reed, and served a tour of duty of two months, performed in 
the neighborhood of Philadelphia, during which time this deponent had the 
command of the company, Captain Reed having returned home after being in ?
command but 4 or 5 days.”

“That this deponent was during his first campaign, in an engagement on Staten 
Island and assisted in taking 20 prisoners. That he was also at Fort Lee at the 
time Fort Washington was surrendered to the British by Colonel ?McGans. That 
belonging to a detachment of the army that was stationed below the Falls of 
Trenton, he was not in the Battle of Trenton, but assisted in escorting the 
prisoners taken in that battle to a place in Bucks County called Newtown.”

“That the dwelling house of this deponent was consumed by fire in the township 
of Hopewell, York County, on the same farm on which he now resides in the year 
1806 or 1807, in which were destroyed his commissions and all his other papers."

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