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S 42675 PENSION of Richard Drought Certificate 15.758 issued Nov. 11, 1819 in Pennsylvania
to the pensioner. State of Ohio, Coshocton County SS On
this 4th day of July 1821 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for
the said County of Coshocton, Personally appeared, Richard Draught, who on oath
declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the first company
commanded first by Captain Morrill, afterwards by Captain Center, who was succeeded
by Capt. Potter, and in the first regiment commanded first by Col. Cilley and
afterwards by Col. Dearborn in the service of the United States; that his name
was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania from where he has
lately removed - that he now resides in the County of Coshocton and State of Ohio
where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in the future. Pennsylvania, Wayne County SS On this the twenty sixth day
of August, 1818 before me, the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County of Wayne in the State of Pennsylvania, personally
appears Richard Draught of the said County of Wayne, aged fifty years, resident
in said County and being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the
late act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in
the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, that
he the said Richard Drought enlisted at Epsom in the State of New Hampshire in
April 1779 in the Company Commanded by Capt. Morrill of the 1st Regiment New Hampshire
troops as a soldier (and afterwards served as a drummer). During the war that
he continued to serve in the corps or in the service of the United States until
the expiration of the war which the said Richard Drought exchanged (?) enlistments
with Gideon ___ one of the last three year men and continued in the service to
the December following when he was discharged from service in the State of New
York at Constitution Island, that he was in the Battles of Newtown and at Morrisena,
and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his
country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his person of his
said services. District of Pennsylvania, Wayne County On this 29 day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared, Richard Drought, aged 55 years, residing in the Township of Herling (?) and County aforesaid, declares that he that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz - In the first New Hampshire Regiment and first Company commanded by Capt. Morrill, date of original declaration 26 August 1818, certificate 15.758, and I the said Richard Drought do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. Schedule of
the property of Richard Drought. 42675 Invalid File, Richard Draught, Drummer, Rev. War, Act of March 18, Index Vol 8 Page 137 | ||||
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