Andrew 1783
From Andrew's pension application 1818. He apparently didn't know when he was discharged.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
LUZERNE, SS.
On
this seventeenth day of April
A.D. 1818 before the subscriber,
President Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, personally appears Andrew McClure ------- aged sixty
three ---------- years, resident in
Newport in the County of Luzerene
--------- in the State aforesaid,
who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of
Congress, (unknown) to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the
revolutionary War.” That the said Andrew McClure ---------- enlisted
in Sussex
County ---------- in the state
of New
Jersey in 1776 --------------- in the company commanded by Captain Abraham
McKinney of the New Jersey Regt commanded by Ephrain Martin that he continued to in the said corps and
others in the service of the United
States, until the seventh day of June 1783 ------
when he was discharged from service in near
New Windsor state of New York That he was in the battles of Long
Island White Plains - Brandwine and
several small engagements with the enemy and at the taking of Cornwallis that
then discharged here with forwarded (unknown) in
1783
And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands
in need of the “Assistance of his Country for Support” — and that he has no
other evidence now in his power of his services.
Sworn to, subscribed and declared, Before me,
the day and year aforesaid. Andrew McClure
Ths. Burnside
Time line 1783
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