Pension Application of Henry Wysor: S7854

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Virginia, Montgomery county Sc.

On this 3rd day of September 1832 personally appeared before the county court of said county in the state aforesaid, Henry Wysor (or Weizer) a resident of said county and state, aged 78 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 (he believes in the month of February) under Captain Berry in the county of Frederick and state of Virginia, and served in the Eighth Virginia regiment of the line, under the following officers. He was marched from Frederick county to Jamestown in Virginia, where he joined his regiment commanded by Colo. [Peter] Muhlenburg and Colo. Barsman, and from there they marched to Halifax in North Carolina, from thence to a place called Pine tree store where we took water in South Carolina, and when we were landed we were marched by the way of Charlestown to Sullivan’s Island, and I was there when it was attacked by the British shipping [27-28 June 1776], from there to Savannah Georgia from thence to Saulsbury [sic: Salisbury NC?] where I was taken sick and lay three months and then returned to Savannah, and got a Furlow and returned home, where I remained almost three weeks and was sailed[?] to Philadelphia and from there crossed the Delaware and joined the main army on the Jersey side and was marched to Gen’l. [Daniel] Morgan’s regiment of Riflemen. I was a short time in Capt. Long’s company and then in Capt. Knox’s company, my Lieutenant was Craig and Ensign Lively. I was at the taking of Burgoyne [at Saratoga NY, 17 Oct 1777] and was in the battle of Valley forge [Battle of Whitemarsh, 6 Dec 1777?], where my Major (Morris) was killed. I was in several skirmishes at places I do not recollect so as to describe them. I was discharged I think in February 1778, at a place called the white House in Pennsylvania [possibly White Horse Tavern in Chester County], my discharge I kept until the return of peace or sometime after, and thinking it would be of no use to me, threw it away or destroyed it. I returned home and married, and lived in the county of Frederick till the siege of Little York [Yorktown] in the year 1781 when I was drafted under Capt. Bell and marched to Little York, where I was at the taking of Cornwallis and in about six or seven weeks got a Furlow to return home, and was not after called upon. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

            [signed] Henry Wysor

NOTE: Other documents in the file state that Wysor served as a sergeant during both tours, and they give his date of death as 12 Jan 1844.