The State of Ohio Warren County / On this 4th day of October
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred thirty two personally
appeared in open court in the court of common pleas for Warren
County (Ohio) now sitting Daniel Banta a resident of Warren County
aged seventy years ~ who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That
he entered into the service in the revolutionary War under the
following named officers ~ served as herein stated ~ No. Bergen
County New Jersey as he now believes in the year 1777. In the
fall of that year. He volunteered with others but for what length
of time he cannot recollect (under Capt. Outwater) with the view
of defending that part of the country against the British troops
as he thinks then or about to make an attack there as was believed.
That he recollects no field officers under which he served except
a Col. Dye who generally commanded the regiment to which he belonged,
that he was engaged in scouting, peloting [sic-should be petroling
for patrolling?] & escorting provisions & warlike stores
for the Continental army. From the time first above Mentioned,
until the year 1781~ with the exception perhaps of a few weeks
in the hard weather of each winter ~ that the service was all
performed as a Militia Man in the New Jersey Service & according
to rules by which compulsory drafts were made on the Militia of
East Jersey. In the beginning of the year 1781 he enlisted in
the service of the State for one year, under Captain Outwater,
he recollects one Riker Sedan was an ensign in said Company, he
enlisted at Hackensack, Bergen County New Jersey ~ That he remained
stationed at Hackensack for the winter of 1781 ~ except occasional
excursions into the secondary country until May 1781. The company
was Marched to fort Lee on the North river, then recently Accupied
[sic] by the British troops ~ That Col. Dye he recollects with
the Militia ^ in the attack on Fort Lee, gave way & and the
attack was abandoned, this was on the 15th of May 1781 ~ Three
days after this his company ( the Captain being on a visit to
his family) commanded by a Leut. Collectin [?] he thinks Marched
to Fort Lee again ^ under Col. Dye attacked and took it, the British
all made their escape in the last exchange into [sic] he was wounded
by a Musket ball which passed through both his thighs ~ he laid
under the surgions [sic] care from ~ the 15th of May 1781 Until
some time in lefts following when he became able to help himself
& in October following rejoined his company at Hackensack
with which he remained Until his years service expired. + he was
discharged ~
After this he was only occasionally in arms when its was necessary
to watch or harass the March of British troops passing through
East Jersey ~ but saw long [end page] altogether he served
in this way after his years enlistment expired + and before the
close of the War he is unable to say. That he recollects in the
year 1778 he was taken prisoner in New York & was whipped
by one of the Tories in the British service in consequence of
a quarrel about the father of the applicant whose character was
assailed by the person allotted to issue provisions + [unreadable?]
of the applicant. ~ That he has no documentary proof of his services
+ that he knew of no person living who could testify to his services.
He hereby relinquishes his every Claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present. + declares that his name is not on
the pension rolls of the agency of any state, ~ He states that
he was born in east Jersey, Bergen County in the year 1762. That
there was a record of his age in his fathers bible which he has
seen but does not know where it is ~ That he recollects no other
officer in command Where he served, than he declared. ~ saw Washington,
Green and Law Fayette.
[signed] David Banta
sworn + subscribed in open court 4th Oct, 1832
J.K. Wildold, Rubend Semonton a Clerk of now residing in Warren
County Ohio & Joseph Dill of the same place certify that we
are well acquainted with Daniel Banta who has sworn subscribed
and sworn to the afforgoing declaration that we believe him to
be 70 years of age that he is reported + believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier & that
we do concur.
Amendment/ appeal to original application:
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officers and soldiers of the revolutionary War. He makes the following
addition to his former Statement made before the court of common
pleas for Warren County Ohio. Says that he entered the service
as stated in his first application In the fall of the year 1777.
Under Captain ^John Outwater who commanded the company in which
he enrolled as a common soldier, & served for one month &
returned to his house in Bergen county N. Jersey, During the time
the british [sic] army lay at New Bridge in Bergen co.
New Jersey ~the company was attached to a regiment Commanded by
Col. Dye. The American troops were (during the Monthly services
above stated under Col. Dye) engaged in watching the movements
of the British army & preventing the british troops from foraging
through the surrounding the country. In the early part of the
month of March AD 1778 he was drafted as a common soldier for
one month & marched under Capt. James Christis to a point
about five miles from New Bridge in Bergen County New Jersey,
on the road to Gloster the place where the company was Stationed
he remembers was called Tenafly ~ Surving [sic] this months service
he was taken prisoner by the Tories & carried to New York
where in a few days he was exchanged & in about a week was
again back at Tenafly with his company, where he remained with
said company till his month expired & he was discharged ~
After this & before the year 1781 ~ (when he enlisted as stated
in his first application) he served in the New Jersey Militia
as a common soldier without any loss of time That he can recollect
till his enlistment up. He recollects serving under Capt. John
Hyler a Lieut. Herring, but being old & infirm he cannot recollect
the places & particular terms of each tour of duty or the
officers under whom he served & further saith not. This applicant
further says that by reason of being old age & consequent
loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the particular
lengths of his services but according to the best of his recollections
he served not less than the periods following: viz: as a common
soldier. Two months at New Bridge, New Jersey, Two months at Schallenberg
Bergen co. New Jersey,, Five Months at Tenafly in the same county,
Three Months at Closter New Jersey & 5 or 6 weeks with Lieut.
Seely at New Bridge, all in the field ^ besides the year enlistment
as Stated in his former Statement & none of the apt. services
in the Garretson & for the services & that stated in my
first application I claim a pension.
The State of Ohio, Warren County Ss Personally came before me the Undersigned a justice of the peace for Warren County Ohio, Daniel Banta a resident of the county & who being sworn saith that the facts set forth in the aforesaid Statement are true according to his recollections + further saith not, sworn and
[signed] David Banta
subscribed before me }
[Signature illegible]
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