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as those before mentioned. There was no engagement in this town. The Tories made their appearance frequently but were kept off by the guards. He was discharged at the end of one month, verbally, in October as he thinks. He does not remember the day of the month when he entered or left the service. This block house was about two miles from the place where he lived. There was a mill in the same neighborhood called Continental Mill which they guarded at the same time with the block house.
          About the first of November 1778 he again entered the service of the United States as a Private soldier of the Militia under the same officers as in the former engagements. He volunteered, lived at the same place as before. The employment was the same as before to wit guarding the frontiers against the refugees & Tories & preventing them from carrying provisions to the enemy. Immediately after entering the service in this engagement he & his company was called to pursue a party of Tories who were conveying horses to the enemy in the city of N. York. They caught up with them when crossing the little ferry at Hackensack N. Jersey where they had an engagement with them & took them being eight men & eight horses. They then returned to the block house mentioned in the account of the last engagement which they considered then headquarters. They scouted around the country for about 20 miles around the country for several months till about the first of February at which time the sleighing being good they heard of a company of Tories in four sleighs who had been to New York with provisions for goods such as silk, (gauze?). They caught up with this party on the road from N. York to (Sophi’s?), about 20 miles from the latter place took the sleighs horses goods & men who were tried & let go. Their property was detained they frequently sas the regular army as in former engagements officers the same as before he served at this term six months. Was discharged about the first of May 1779. No written discharge.
          In all of the before mentioned engagements he served as a private soldier of the Militia and was a volunteer in all except the first three months where he was a substitute for a private soldier whom he thinks was drafted. The great length of time which has elapsed and his youthfulness at the time the events above related happened added to the fact that he is now rendered entirely helpless by a severe stroke of the palsy. These he alleges as a reason why he does not remember more minutely the particulars of his service. The events above are related as (?) as he has a distinct recollection. The four terms of three, two, one and six months making together twelve months were attended with much privation danger & exposures. He was born in the year 1761 in the state of N. York at the place mentioned above as his place of residence during the several campaigns (?) Hew was born on the 25th day of March 1761. He has a record of his age in a bible now in his house. Not having been attached to any Continental or Militia regiments he cannot speek any more particularly than he has already done. He has no documentary evidence of his service nor does he know of any person who’s testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He states the names of John Hendricks, Lewis Morgan, (Bessel Bins?), Ralph Coalscott and James Ray persons to whom he to known in his present neighborhood & who can testify as to the belief of his services as a soldier of the revolutions during the whole of the engagements above mentioned he was engaged in no civil pursuit but was in constant employment as a soldier & on the alert. The company in which he served was at each time regularly organized and called into the service. After he quit the service he lived eight or ten years at the same place he had lived during the service. He then moved to Pompton Plains in N. Jersey, lived there two years, moved to Washington County, Pa, lived there six or eight years, moved to Ohio, to the part now called Warren County, lived there thirty one years, then moved to Shelby County, Indiana where he now lives. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state or territory.

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Samuel (His X Mark) Pope        

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