Pension Application of Peter Hawley: S13328

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Virginia. Montgomery County Sct.

On this 20^th day of May in the year of our Lord 1833, personally appeared before me John Wade a Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid in the state of Virginia: Peter Hawley sometimes spelled Peter Hally, or Hollis, a resident of said county, aged about eighty (or perhaps upwards. having no register of his age cannot say certainly as to his age) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7^th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. About the first of March 1777 in the county of Frederick in the State of Virginia, he entered the service of the United States as a soldier for the term of three years, under Captain William Fields in the second Virginia State regiment. from Captain Fields company he was transfered to the company of Captain James of which a certain William Long was Lieutenant and who (Captain James having resigned or been removed) for some time commanded the said Company, until the command of the same was transfered to one Captain Mitchell Boswell, under whom he continued until he received his discharge; The said second Virginia regiment was for the greater part of the time during the service of the applicant commanded by Colo. William Brunt[?] and belonged to the Brigade commanded by General [Peter] Muhlenburg. This applicant resided in the county of Shenandoah in the state of Virginia at the time he entered the service, but entered the service in the county of Frederick having resided near the line of that county. He marched from the county of Frederick aforesaid under the command of said Captain Fields to Williamsburg, where they remained until the ensuing spring, when he received a Furlow for a few weeks and returned home, and just as his furlow expired he was taken with the small Pox, and on the fact being made known to his officers his furlow was extended until he should recover, that as soon as he recovered of the small Pox he joined his company again at the Valley forge, the British at this time was in Philadelphia until 18 June 1778]. from thence they marched to Monmouth, where he was engaged in the Battle [28 June 1778], they were then marched from Monmouth with the prisoners to a place called Goshen[?]. he was then marched through the New England states from place to place (all of which he cannot now from loss of memory recollect) they were stationed in the winter following at a place called Bon Brook [probably Bound Brook in Somerset County NJ]. in the spring they were marched to the State of New York. He was [word illegible] the Battle of Stoney point [sic: Stony Point NY, 16 July 1779] where they took many prisoners and was one of the guard to guard them, after the battle; This applicant was continued in the service until the three years for which he entered the service expired, he was discharged in the state of Virginia by Colonel Brunt. his discharge is not now in his possession nor can he say certainly where it is; unless it is in some of the public offices in Richmond: He has no further evidence of his service, nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can prove his service: He thinks he sent his discharge to Richmond for the purpose of receiving a warrant for his bounty Land. He entered the service in the second Virginia regiment as herein before stated, but was in the service with the Regular troops, Gen’l. [Charles] Scott commaned the regulars with whom he served,

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

            Peter his X mark Hawley