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'The day I was taken prisoner was on Sunday morning th 15th of April and marched into Brunswick and there paraded. I heard a man call me by name. I stared about to see if I Could see any person I knew, he called again and bid me come to him which I refused and told him if he had anything to say to me to come forward and he cam forward and I new him. He held out his hand and gave me a guinea and told me that would befriend me when he would not have a chance; and he gave a dollar to Rinard Smick and told him to drink that with his acquaintances; and then we were marched into New York and clapt into the Sugarhouse; that evening or next morning *********** to go to Long Island ***** Fergason told Turnbull that he had not a 6d to buy his breakfast dinner and I gave him a dollar; another prisoner came with $2. from Andrew Robinson in a letter and said that I should not want as long as I was a prisoner. Shortly after that I got the liberty of the City and boarded with a man the name of Conner beside the fly Market and then with Gen. Butler and continued in his employ until I head of an exchange going to take place and then I went back to prison and there continued for about 2 weeks and found the artillery men and John the wagoner with one mess of spruce beer and bread from the oven every day during that time and I got my discharge without on dollar of all that was due me from the states **************"

Pension file:

Pennsylvania Beaver County

Personally cam before me on the eleventh of June Anmno Do 1818 William Little and being duly sworn as required by Law deposeth and saith that he is now in the seventieth year of his age that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five he inlisted as a private soldier in Col Thomas Proctor’s Regement of Artillery __th Revolutionary war Pennsylvania line and served on said regiment under capt Courtney that his Inlistment was for the term of three years which time he served in said corps at the ____tion of which time at fort Montgumry on the North ___ Col Shobush said to the deposant are you now sai__ to have untoo(many were there discharged) No said the deposant not until we go to Philadelphia some time after the Detachment the deposant was with marched toward Phillidephia as for as M___ R__n under the command of said Col Shobush from which place he the depossant was __quested to go to Bonbrook to act as a quarter master for a short time at Bonbrook he arrived on Friday evening and on the thirteenth day of April which was the next Sunday Morning the Deposant was Taken prisoner by the British together with Lieutenants Turnbull and Fergeson and about seventy others was conducted to New York and there kept as prisoner of War Sixteen Months. Lacking a few days came on to Philadelphia and was discharged by said Col Proctor who neglected dating the discharge never got any pay Clothing or any thing else for the time he was a prisoner nor anything for back rations or d_____ mony his memory is so much imformed that he cannot recollect the month he was inlisted nor the day of the month he was discharge but it was in the Month of August in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight to the best of his remembrance that he has been afflicted with a Nervous complaint for more than ten years by reason of which and the want of sight sufficient he can no longer work at his trade of calling which was that of a Painter that he never plawed an acre of land in his life and but very little of any farming work that he owns forty acres of light C____T Land about fourteen acres of which is clear but has no person to cultivate it for him and that he is wholy unable to make a living for himself that he has not farther mens in his power to obtain a livelyhood that is above stated not w_n comfortable Cl___ that he stands in great need of assistance from his country and prays he may be allowed a pension agreeably to the late law of congress I___d __ that he has no other ____ in his power to offer sworn and submitted before me the {Wm Littell above mentioned Eleventh day of June Anma Do 1818 Jn Mudoch { a___ate Judge Beaver County


Beaver County

On the Eleventh day of June anmo Do 1818 before me one of the a_____ Judges on & for said County came James Ledlre and being duly sworn in form of Law deposeth and saith that he the Deposant was a Sargent in Joseph Th___ Company in Col Thomas Proctor’s Regiment of Artillery in the Revolutionary War that soon after the Battle of Province Town (the third of January seventeen hundred and seventy ____) the army moved to Morristown new Jersey that the above named William Littell then belonged to Col Thomas Proctor’s Regiment of Artilery and ___d as a sergeant the Detachment he belonged to as the Deponant understood has been stationed at Fort Montgomery or the North Ohio but joined that ____ the Dep____ment belonged to at Morristown that the said Littell was M___ as well as many others after the affair of Bonbrook and on the Dep___ ever understand was taken prisoner on that day to wit the thirteenth day of April seventeen hundren and seventy seven {James Ledbie sworn and Submitted the said 11th Jun 1818 before me Jn M_d___

Beaver County of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

On the 19th day of September AD 1820 Personally appeared in open court being a Court of Record for the county of Beaver William Little aged seventy two years who being __t duly sworn according to law doth doth on his oath make the following deposition in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 I the 1st of V___y 1820 that he the said William Little enlisted for the term of one year in the month of December 1775 in the state of Pennsylvania in the Regement Commanded by Col Thomas Proctor in the l__ of the state of Pennsylvania on the cont__t establishment that e continued to serve in said corps until he was taken Prisoner on the 13th April 1777, _, __ exchanged 15th August 1778 he was discharged from said service at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania that he was in no battle but when he was taken prisoner as above stated and that he has no other ____ now in his power of his said services except what accompa__d his former application to the war office bearing date 19th day of December 1818 No 4962 and on p_____ of the act of the 1st day of May 1826 I do solemnly swear I was a Resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner deposed of my property or any part thereof _____tent there by to diminish it so as to bring myself we then the provision of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and ____ L____ of the United States on the Revelutionary War ____ the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor have any person any trust for me any property or securities Contracts or debts due to one nor have I any income other than what is Contained in the Schedule herto annexed and by me L_____d

Schedule of Property 1 Cow 6 Sheep household + Kitchen Furniture Debts due me ----- 36.50 Debts against me $9 William Little Declarant Saith he formerly followed Painting but has been unable to follow it for several years past he has a wife about sixty years of age two sons Exceeding twenty one years one son in or about twenty one, on daughter sixteen, one daughter about twelve and one daughter about ten years Sworn to and declared in open Court the 19th day of September 1819 Wm Littile Thos Homy Patty





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