Excerpt from Robert Mush’s Revolutionary War Pension Application (1820)

Robert Mush Revolutionary War Pension Application, Page 1

South Carolina

The declaration of Robert Mursh a native of Virginia and one of the Pamunkey Tribe of Indians, and now a citizen of & resident in York District in the state of South Carolina made in in pursuance of the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 18^th March 1818 entitled “An Act to Provide for Certain Persons Engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”.

The declarer saith that he enlisted as a common soldier in the army of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the latter part of the year 1776 and in the Early part of year following he joined the 15^th Virginia Reg^t of Continental Troops Col. Mason attached to a company commanded by Capt. James Gray at Walliamsburgh & shortly after joined the main army at Middlebrook in New Jersey. That shortly after he joined the Reg^t the command of it devolved on Col. James Ennis and under his command he fought at the battles of Brandywine & Germantown in the Brigade commanded by Gen^l Woodford. The Declarer further saith that having served in this Regement for something more than two years he reenlisted in the Continental Army in the service of the United States during the war; and was attached to a Regement from out of the remnants of the 7^th & 15^th commanded by Col. Russell, Lieut. Col. Burgess Ball denominated the [illegible] Reg^t of the  

Robert Mush Revolutionary War Pension Application, Page 2

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Virginia Continental Line, Cap^t William Mosely and that with this Regement he marched to Charleston where he remained untill that place was surrendered to the British and was among the prisoners of war and remained in that situation about fourteen months when he was carried to Jamestown and exchanged and then joined a Regement commanded by Col. Phebecca, Cap^t Kirkpatrick the number of which Regement is not now recollected. The command of this Regement was afterwards assigned to Col. Posey and with this Reg^t he marched to Ebenezer in Georgia where he joined the army of Genl. Wayne and that he continued with this army untill after the peace when he was regularly discharged from the service and that this discharge was delivered at the land office on obtaining his military Warrant of his bounty of land, so that he has it not now to exhibit—

The declarer further saith, that he is now about sixty years of age & has resided continually from his birth of the present day in the United States, that he is poor and feebly and in consequence of his reduced circumstances stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

X Robert Mursh