 State of Indiana Greene County On this first day of October eighteen hundred & thirty-two personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Circuit Court of the County of Greene aforesaid, now setting Daniel Soesby, a resident of the County aforesaid, aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the Service of the United States early in September 1776 for three years, that he enlisted at Catfish (now Washington Pennsylvania) under Capt. Vanswearingham, in the eighth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded at the lines by Col. McCoy & Lieut. Col. Wilson & Major Butler, that he marched dureing the succeeding winter with said Regiment to New Jersy & was stationed at Bondbrook until part of the Regiment was captured by the enemy, that after the death of Col. McCoy, Capt. Vanswearinghams company was attached to Col. Morgans Rifle Regiment & were marched against Genl. Burgoyne & that he was engaged throughout the Campaign of 1777, that in the Spring of 1778 they were marched through the State of Pennsylvania westward & that at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) he joined the expedition against the western Indians under the command of Genl. McIntosh, that he assisted in building Fort McIntosh on the Ohio River at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, & also Fort Lawrence* at the Tuskarora*, that he was afterwards in the Spring of 1879 Stationed about three months at said Fort Lawrence under the command of Capt. Findley whose testimony accompanies this Declaration, that he faithfully served out his three years & was honorably discharged at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) that the only documentary evidence now in his possession is a receipt for the delivery of his Rifle Gun signed by the quartar master & dated on the day on which he was discharged, & the affidavit of Perry Th---** herewith sent, that he entered the service as above stated by voluntary enlistment & at the time of said enlistment he lived about two miles from Red Stone old fort (since called Brownsville) in Pennsylvania, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity accept the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court. (s) Daniel Soesbe And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. I Thomas Warnick Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Greene, Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel Soesby for a pension. In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal of office this 1st day of October eighteen hundred & thirty-two Thomas Warnick Clerk * There is a Fort Laurens in Tuscarawas County
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