York County PA Archives Military Records.....Patterson, James January 5, 1841
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of James Patterson, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #R8002
York County, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1841, James Patterson, a resident of 
Chanceford Township in York County, aged 79 years: “The regiment in which he 
served was commanded by Colonel George Ross, and the company by Captain 
Thompson, but what the Christian name of Captain Thompson was, declarant from 
age and defect of memory is unable to recollect. Declarant entered the service 
on the 1st of May. 1778, and left it in the month of November in the same year, 
thus remaining in the service 6 months. At the time of his entering the service 
he resided in the county of York, in the state of Pennsylvania. He entered the 
service as a volunteer and the portion of the army to which he was attached was 
called the ‘Flying Camp.’ After his enlistment in Lancaster, he was marched to 
Chester County, thence to Delaware County, and afterwards to the county of 
Philadelphia. Declarant recollects a Colonel ?Clotr or ?Klotr, who he thinks 
marched the company in which he entered out of Lancaster after his enlistment. 
Knew a Colonel or General ?Halen (who he thinks was also a physician). 
Recollects that the British vacated Philadelphia almost a month after his 
enlistment.”

“Declarant has no documentary evidence. During the earlier part of his life, 
never expecting any compensation for his services, he took no pains to preserve 
the discharge he received at Lancaster.”

“We, John Kener and Zachariah Spangler, the latter residing in the borough of 
York and the former in Chanceford Township in the county of York and state of 
Pennsylvania, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Patterson 
who has sworn to and subscribed to the above declaration. That we believe him 
to be 79 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood 
where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur 
in that opinion.”

“To the first interrogatory, he answers and says that he was born in the County 
of Down in Ireland, in or about the year 1760. To the second, that he has no 
record of his age beyond that which he supposes was placed there at the time of 
his birth.”

“To the third, that he was living in the County of York, state of Pennsylvania 
when he was called into service, his father having removed with his family to 
this county within 3 or 4 years after this declarant’s birth. That he has 
resided in said York County, where he has been a Justice of the Peace for 35 
years, since the Revolutionary War, and that he still lives there.”

“No reference was made in the claim to his wife. It was stated that he lost his 
last son in 1835. No names of children were given.”

His claim was rejected by the US Government for lack of proof, but he was 
granted a pension by the state of Pennsylvania.

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