Revolutionary War Pension Application of Abraham Cassel State of Kentucky Fayette County

On this 11th day of July 1833 personally appeared Abram Cassel before the court of the county aforesaid, (a resident in the adjoining county of Jessamine) state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he served in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with Capt. Abram Huff in the county of Frederick, Maryland. Col. Charles Beatty, and Genl James Johnson being in command. We first went to Phil. and then to Jersey. Stayed three months then returned home in March 1777. He was in no battle during that time, but stayed mostly at a place called Basking Ridge. There was about one Regiment he thinks there at the time. He thinks they marched more than 100 miles from Phil. The next time he entered the said service in 1778 in Capt. Smith Company in Col. Wood, Major Williams Regt in the same state and county and marched to Georgetown, where the Federal city now is and stayed there a few weeks and then went back to guard the British prisoners at Fredericktown. Was guard over the prisoners till our three months expired. Were then discharged � his whole service was six months. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present. He declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court. And this affiant recollects no Continental Regts in service. He has no discharge or other written evidence of his service and never recollects to have heard and knows of no person he can procure to prove his said services except John G. Bowyer of Lexington Ky to prove the last term and John Lingenfelter of Fayette County to prove the first � He has many respectable neighbors who will testify to his good character. Among others, he names Andrew McCampbell, Rev. Nathan Harris, John Postlethwait of Lexington, A.S. Trotter of Lexington, Saml Trotter, and Maj. John Tilford. He has no record of his age, but believes he will be 78 years old next September. We, Nathan Harris, a clergyman residing in Jessamine County and Andrew McCampbell residing there also near the Fayette County line and Thomas W. Jones of Lexington, KY hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abram Cassel, the above named applicant, who has signed and sworn to the above declaration; and we believe him to be about seventy-five or eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution. We concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Nathan Harris Andrew McCampbell I, John G. Bowyer know of the 2nd tour of three months service as within stated, as I was a fellow soldier of Abram Cassel. John G. Bowyer I, John Lingenfelter, do state on oath that I recollect the above named Abraham Cassel as a soldier of the Revolutionary Army in the ---on one campaign. John Longefelter And the said court doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the act of Congress and the War Department that the above named Abraham Cassel was a soldier of the Revolution, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Nathan Harris, who has signed the succeeding certificate is a clergyman, resident of Jessamine County, and that Andrew McCampbell and Thos W. Jones, who has also signed the same are residents, Andrew McCampbell in Jessamine and Thos W. Jones in Lexington, Ky, and that John G. Boyer of Lexington and John Lingenfelter of Fayette County are also, one and all credible persons, and their statements are entitled to credit. Wm Boon