State of Ohio} Sct. Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen of the Independence of the United States the 43d and of our said State the 16th personally came before me the subscriber president of the Court of Common pleas of the Second District Adam Rider of Ross County, who  after being duly sworn on The Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he is in his seventieth year of his age, that he enlisted in May seventeen hundred seventy five in Hugh Stevenson’s [sic: Hugh Stephenson’s] company of Riflemen for one year, in Virginia Line and served out said time, and immediately on the expiration of that time he again enlisted in Cap. A. Sheppard’s [sic: Abraham Shepherd’s] company Colonel [Moses] Rawlings regiment in same line & Corps for three years during the first enlistment he was marched to Boston and was in several small skirmishes, in that quarter and thence to Long island New York where we had a small engagement [23 Aug 1776]. Then his first enlistment expired and during his second enlistment, he with many others was captured at Fort Washington on York island [now Manhattan Island, on 16 Nov] in ’76 and confined in an old sugar house (without sugar) [see endnote] about the eleventh day after said confinement, he the deponent, climbed out of a back window on the top of a shed and escaped the sentry, and went thro new york and got a canoe and landed near palisades, and went to join the army but first thing this affiant saw  in his rout after the army was the British pursuing Gen’l. Washington & by pretending to be of new york and a labourer out of employ & so forth he got clear by turning out of the way and getting to Tappanne [sic: Tappan] New Jersey commanded by Major Clark, who gave him a letter to Gen’l. Washington then about Trenton as supposed and commanded him to sew it up in lining of jacket and told him how to act. he set out and arrived at the Camp of General Washington at Princeton and after giving the letter to the General this affiant was induced to join the army which he did at Trenton, and was at battles at Trenton [26 Dec 1776], Monmouth [28 June 1778] and from thence ordered up the Susquehanna to shamokin and was in that quarter the summer and untill late in the fall, and then ordered to the South to join the army commanded by Gen’l. Green [sic: Nathanael Greene, late 1780], but in the mean time this affiant’s term of enlistment expired, and he immediately enlisted at Trenton after said summer & fall expedition with Gen’l. Sullivant [sic: John Sullivan’s campaign against the Iroquois, May - Nov 1779] up said [Susquehanna] river, this third time, for three years or during the war, in same Corps in Captain [Gabriel] Long’s company eleventh Virginia regiment commanded by Colonel Trammell [see note below] and served in southern department until peace; was in the battle of Guilford [sic: Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781] and Utaw springs [sic: Eutaw Springs SC 8 Sep 1781] and after that battle, he this affiant with others were sent off to Fredericktown [Frederick]Maryland, and there discharged, after Cornwallis capture, which is lost by ways unknown to affiant and he has no evidence in his possession of services, aforesaid And from reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of the Country for support.

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