REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JOHN H. LANG/LONG

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Note from transcriber: the surname of this person was "Lang" but it was 
frequently misspelled "Long" because that is the German pronunciation of "Lang."

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State of Virginia
County of Goochland

On this 17th day of September 1832 personally appeared before the Court of the 
County of Goochland aforesaid John H. Lang, a native of Germany and now a 
resident of the County of Goochland. I state aforesaid aged Eighty-one years the 
24th day of June last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his 
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 
provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted 
about the commencement of the Revolutionary War in America, in Germany, in the 
French Army and was under the Command of General Rochambeau and Colonel Dulon 
[sp?] and belonged to a regiment called the Dutch Regiment, that he with the 
above named Officers and French Army, arrived at Rhode Island in the French 
fleet commanded by Count De Grasse about the month of May in the year 1780, that 
from the time of his arrival, he continued in the service of the United States 
until the close of the War and has remained in the State of Virginia ever since, 
that he remained in Colonel Dulon's regiment during the War under the following 
named Officers: Captain Clock, Captain Hawk, Lieutenant Calp [sp?] and served as 
a Grenadier during the War. He does not recollect the names of any other 
officers -- He embarked for America at Brest in France about the first of 
February 1780, he thinks, and that he continued in the American service from 
that time until the close of the War when he left the service in the City of 
Williamsburg on the 24th day of June 1782 -- he was in a battle at sea with the 
British fleet in which about twenty five Men of War on each side were engaged. 
The time of this engagement he does not recollect, but it took place while he 
was on his passage to America -- that he marched from the State of Rhode Island 
to the City of Philadelphia, thence to Annapolis, thence to Wilmington in 
Delaware, thence to Fort Washington in New York, thence back to Wilmington, 
thence to Jamestown in Virginia, thence to Williamsburg, thence to York, where 
he remained until the surrender of Lord Cornwallis in October 1781 -- that he 
was in the service of the United States for two years and he thinks about four 
months -- he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an 
annuity, except the present, and he declares his name is not on the pension roll 
of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

John H. Lang

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named 
applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.

I William Miller, Clerk of the Court of Goochland County, do hereby certify that 
the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter 
of the application of John H. Lang for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this first 
day of October, One Thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Will Miller

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Note from transcriber: This is Pension Application Number R6142
A copy can be found at the Library of Virginia.

It was rejected May 9, 1833 on the grounds that the pensions covered only 
American soldiers (according to the Act of June 7, 1832).