Pension Application of Charles Phillpott: S5924
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia}
Henry County} SS:
On this 6 day of October 1832 personally appeared before me a magistrate of the county and State aforesaid Charles Phillpott a resident of the county of Henry and state of Virginia who will be seventy nine years old on the 20th November next 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. (He being unable from age and infirmity to attend Court.) That he enlisted first as a volunteer in a Maryland company in which Elias[?] Cammell [sic: Campbell] was capt and one James [last name illegible], and served therein for five months the term for which he enlisted. afterward he enlisted and served in the seventh Maryland regiment in the service of the United States under the following named officers, Mountjoy Bailey Capt, one Beattie Lieutenant, & after the promotion of Beattie, one Simms[?] succeeded him. Benjamin [last name illegible] ensign – John Gunby was first colonel, and Daniel [last name illegible] was 2d Colonel, as they were then termed. one Donally adjutant. there were several generals during my term of service Generals [John] Sullivan, LaBore[?] and others. I left the service 7th December 1779. when he entered as a volunteer he resided in Frederic [sic: Frederick] county Maryland in what was called the Maryland troop[?]. after the expiration of the 5 months service he went to Philadelphia to get a discharge where he enlisted in the regular service for three years without returning home & without getting the discharge. The first battle in which he engaged was a skirmish was on York island [now Manhattan Island] near Kings bridge, the next was at [looks like Tuckahoe] heights where the enemy was commanded by General [William] Howe, as he thinks. the third was at the White plains [28 Oct 1776] the next was at fort Washington on York island [16 Nov 1776]. all the foregoing battles took place while he was a volunteer under the aforesaid enlistment of five months. Under his enlistment in the U. S. service he fought at Staten island [21 Aug 1777], Brandywine [11 Sep 1777], Germantown [4 Oct 1777], besides various little skirmishes in scouting parties. Under the first enlistment he marched from Frederic Town Maryland to headquarters at N. York, thence to Tuckahoe[?] Heights, thence to the White plains, thence to [looks like Custin’s] bridge, thence to Fort Lee [New Jersey] on North [now Hudson] river, thence to Philadelphia to where his tour ended. Here he enlisted [word illegible] in the regular army for three years, and returned to Frederic Town with 50[?] tories who had been taken some where in the North & were confined in jail in Philadelphia, with directions to jail them in Frederic Town, which was [word illegible] the names of which he is unacquainted with, acting in an inferior capacity generaly[?] executing the orders of his superiors. from Frederic town he went to head quarters which he thinks was at Princeton, but his infirmity is so great and his mind so weakened from age as to be indistinct in his recollection of the places he went [word illegible]. he passed thro New York, Pennsylvania, and the Jerseys. He frequently saw Genl Washington, General [Israel] Putnam, General Sullivan & many others. He was a Sergeant as will appear from a discharge hereto annexed. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Charles hisXmark Phillpott