S
9928
PENSION of Samuel
Lear
Commenced on the 4th
day of March 1834
Declaration
State
of New Hampshire, County of Merrimack September 8, 1832
Samuel
Lear a resident of Epsom in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire,
aged seventy years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on this oath
make the following declaration, that he enlisted in the army of the United States
in the year 1780 with Jonathan Locke and Nathaniel Goss and served in the Col.
Henry Dearborn's Regiment of the Continental line, under the following named officers:
That
he enlisted at Rye in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire in May
1780 for six months under Jonathan Locke and Nathan Goss a committee for the town
of Rye aforesaid, and marched to Kingstown NH, passed muster there and marched
directly to West Point and thence joined the company commanded by Lt. Jonathan
Cilley, was under his command a few weeks thence under Lt. Cass, went from West
Point to Orangetown, New York, thence to English Neighborspond (?) so called,
thence to a place called Hacksmetack, thence back to Orangetown, thence to West
Point, thence to Soldiers Fortune, where he was taken out of his company as a
guard and put under the command of Capt. Ebenr Frye, Lt. Blodgett and Ens. Richards,
and marched down the River about eight miles to a village (the name of which he
cannot remembet) where he served until the expiration of the six months and was
there honorably discharged by Lt. Cass who came from Soldiers Fortune to the village
above mentioned and brought his discharge which was afterwards sent to Exeter,
NH to get his pay and had never been able to find it since.
That the above
mentioned service was in Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment in the Continental Line.
Samuel
Lear