Pension Application of James Berry: S37756
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia, Montgomery County Sct
On this 28th day of September 1833 personally appeared before the Judges of the Circuit Superior Court of law and chancery for the county of Montgomery James Berry a resident in the county of Montgomery and state of Virginia aged eighty two years, 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 15th May 1828. That he enlisted in the army of the United States to serve for and during the war in the year 1777 with Captain Robert Sample [word illegible] served in the tenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line under the following named officers Cook was his Colonel [first name illegible] Stewart[?] the name of his Major. Robert Sample was his first Captain, John Lang his second. John Miligan[?] was his Lieutenant. he has forgotten the name of his Ensign. he continued in the service until he was discharged at Philadelphia after the capture of Yorktown [on 19 Oct 1781] after having served his country five years in the war of the revolution as a private. Your applicant served [word illegible] but one tour of enlistment and at the time he enlisted he resided in Bucks county and state of Pennsylvania about twenty five miles from the city of Philadelphia and was engaged in the following named battles, the battle of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777], the battle of Germantown [4 Oct 1777], a small battle at James Town [probably 6 July 1781] in Virginia and the last battle in which he was engaged was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis: after he enlisted he marched from Philadelphia to Trenton from thence to Princeton from Princeton to Morristown from Morristown to a place called Sommerset and through other parts of the country the names of which he now disremembers. Your applicant further states that he was not aware of the [two words illegible] of the law of 1828 until he came to apply under the act of 7th June 1832 when he was informed of the other law. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
James hisXmark Berry
NOTE: A typed summary in the file states that Berry also served under Col. Richard Butler, and that he had successfully applied for a pension on 8 June 1818 while living in Russell County VA. It states that he died 4 Dec 1836 leaving a widow named Margaret Berry.