REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION 1833- LOT STRATTON: Cumberland Co, NJ > Lycoming Co, PA

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On this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight  
hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of  
the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lycoming in Commonwealth of  
Pennsylvania now sitting Lot Stratton a resident of Muncy Creek Township in the  
County of Lycoming & State aforesaid, Aged 76 years on the 4th day of February  
last past, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the  
following declaration in order to obtain the Certificate of the Act of Congress  
passed June 7th AD 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named  
officers and served as following viz.--I was a minute man early in the year 1775  
under Captain Foster of Cumberland County in the State of New Jersey. I was  
frequently called out to repel the British who landed on the sea Shore for  
plunder & provisions. I continued to be a minute man until I enlisted for one  
month in the month of August 1776 under Captain Mead, Lieutenant Pauling, Ensign  
James Rhea after serving the term of my enlistment I was discharged at  
Shrewsbury below Long Island.
About a month afterwards I was drafted in the militia. My captain's name I think  
was Foster, the field officers names I do not remember. The company in which I  
was, marched to Mount Holly New Jersey where we had a small skirmish with the  
British. No lives were lost. This was in the Autumn of 1776. We retreated toward  
the Delaware river & I shortly afterward returned home. After remaining at home  
a short time I was again called on & we rendezvoused at Bordentown and marched  
from that place to Trenton where I arrived just before the Cannonade began in  
January 1777. We marched across the Assawpuik Creek to the South side. I was in  
the front line near a Stone wall during the Cannonade, the firing did not cease  
till after dark. We remained till ten O'Clock at night & then moved quietly off  
the ground, leaving our fires behind. The army went to Princeton & I went as a  
guard with the baggage Wagons by way of Bordentown to Burlington after remaining  
a few days with the baggage at Burlington I went with it to Princeton. The  
baggage went on to the main army further up the Jersey. I remained at Princeton  
till the time for which I was drafted expired & then returned home. I was out as  
a drafted militiaman frequently in the year 1777 in different places in New  
Jersey but I never was in any other engagement, then those heretofore stated.

At the time I entered the service I lived in Deerfield Township Cumberland  
County & State of New Jersey--I have no documentary evidence nor do I know of  
any person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my service as there  
is no person in this part of the Country with whom I was acquainted during the  
Revolution.

I was born in the year 1756 on the 4th day of February at Deerfield Township  
Cumberland County New Jersey. I have a record of my age in my Bible at my  
residence in Muncy Creek Township Lycoming County. Penna. At the time I entered  
the service I lived in Deerfield Township as above stated & remained there till  
the year 1787 when I removed to the State of Pennsylvania where I have resided  
at different places ever since. I now reside in Muncy Creek Township above  
mentioned.

I was called into actual service as a Minute Man and enlisted for one month. I  
was frequently on duty as a drafted Militiaman as above Stated, for upward of  
two years. I have given a full Statement of the general circumstances of my  
service above & do not at present recollect the names of the regular Officers  
with whom I served except that Captn. Foster was afterward appointed Major. I  
never received any written discharge from the service. I am known in the  
neighborhood where I reside by the Honorable Isaac McKinney, William A.  
Peterken, Esq. and others who can testify to my character for veracity & their  
belief of my services as a Soldier of the revolution. And I do further hereby  
relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present &  
declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state to  
the best of by knowledge.

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court of Common Pleas this 5th day of September AD  
1832.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for  
the County of Lycoming aforesaid Lot Stratton who being duly sworn  
deposititioned (saith) that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of  
memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but  
according to the best of his recollection he did not less than the period  
mentioned below and in the following grades viz.--

I served in the year 1775 surely as a minuteman and was called out whenever an  
alarm was given that the British were in the neighborhood--my whole term of  
service during that year did not exceed one month.

In the year 1776. I served as an enlisted soldier for one month under Captain  
Wood as stated in my declaration. During the Autumn of the same year I served as  
a militia man one month under Captain Foster.

In the year 1777 I served beginning sometime in December of 1776 one month at  
the time of the Cannonade at Trenton in which I took a part as stated in my  
declaration. After returning home I was regularly called out & served every  
other month during the year 1777 in the militia. In that year to the best of my  
recollection I served six months and after that I rendered no further service.

The whole term of my service as an enlisted soldier and militia man is between  
eight and nine months and for such service I claim a pension.

I would further state that to the best of my knowledge the Officers of the  
Regiment to which I belonged were Colonel Potter, Major Foster (formerly my  
Captain) and Adjutant Fithian Stratton (my Uncle). I believe that Colonel Seeley  
was our Colonel at the cannonade at Trenton. I distinctly recollect that at that  
time I first saw General Washington.

Deponent further states that he was not employed in any civil pursuit during the  
period above named but was under the command of his officers and regularly  
enrolled in an embodied corps and performing military duty as above stated.

Sworn & Subscribed before me this eighth day of October AD eighteen hundred and  
thirty three name "Lot Stratton" in the third line from the beginning interlined  
before signing

Lot Stratton