Pension Application of Westbrook Day: S39404

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Virginia towit

            On this seventh day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the General Court of Virginia allotted by law to the thirteenth Circuit, which comprehends the county of Montgomery, personally appeared Westbrook Day, aged eight three years, resident in the County & State aforesaid, who 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” That he the said Westbrook Day entered the military service of the United States about the month of September, in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six; that he enlisted with Captain John Dixon, and belonged to the Twenty-third Regiment of the New York Line, on Continental establishment, but does not recollect the name of the Commanding officers of the said Regiment, that he served six months in that regiment, according to the terms of his enlistment, & was regularly discharged, when he again enlisted with Captain John Hart, and served in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Huntingdon [sic: Huntington], of the Connecticut line on Continental establishment, for the full period of three years, and was regularly discharged at Pumpton[?] plains [sic: Pompton Plains NJ]. that he again enlisted with Captain Wm Robertson at Staunton, in the state of Virginia, and belonged to the regiment commanded by Colonel Harvey, of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, and served in that regiment until the close of the revolutionary war, when he was finally discharged, but has long since lost his several discharges, that he was in the battles of Monmouth [28 June 1778], Springfield [in New Jersey, 23 June 1780], and the White Plains [in New York, 28 Oct 1776], and from his reduced circumstances stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support