FOUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN'S DEPOSITIONS.

FOUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN'S DEPOSITIONS. The deposition of Emanuel Switzer, July 21, 1820, describing his service in the American Revolution aboard the frigate Boston 'in the month of September in the year 1779 in the State of Massachusetts commanded by Captain Samuel Tucker in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Massachusetts Continental establishment; that the said vessel mounted 34 Guns that she sailed from Boston to Charleston where she joined some other vessels of war then laying at Charleston under the Command of General Lincoln; that he continued to serve in said vessel as a Marine in which character he shipped until the reduction of Charleston, South Carolina when he was Captured with the Garrison and fleet, then under the command of General Lincoln on the 12th day of May 1780 depositor sayeth that after he was taken prisoner as aforsaid he was put on board the King George and about two months afterwards he was transported on board another vessel the name of which he doth not recollect and was carried to Philadelphia and put on show where he was shortly afterwards exchanged which was in August 1780.' The Deposition of George Conselyea, May 1, 1820, stating that he enlisted for the term of nine months in January or February 1776 in New York in a company commanded by Captain Van Zandt in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Lasher and continued his service in that corps until December 3, 1776... That h was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains and was present at the Capture and Surrender of Burgoyne. The Deposition of John Williams, July 1, 1820, stating that he 'enlisted as a private in the year 1776 in the Regiment of Musketry commanded by Colonel Nicholson in the company commanded by Captain Charles Digby Audlum at New York in the continental service for three years or during the War deponent has forgotten the Number of his Regiment, they went from New York to Canada but before they reached Canada deponent was taken sick an discharged by Colonel Nicholson, then deponent went to New Haven and shipped aboard the Privateer Hancock commanded by Captain Shomaker mounting 16 guns sailed from New Haven to Bordeaux and on the return voyage fell in with and had an engagement with a vessel whose mane is unknown to deponent when both vessels were very much cut up and after fighting about two hours wore away and the Hancock returned to Newburyport & deponent then left her and went to Elizabethtown in New Jersey where he was taken Prisoner by the british the day after he arrived there, he was kept by them about 3 months & then exchanged, then deponent enlisted for and during the year as a private under Captain Barnett in a company of Light Horse in Elizabethtown when deponent equipt himself with a horse, dress, and accoutrements at his own expense the company joined the 2nd Regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon, and was drafted out in Count Pulaski's body guard commanded by Captain Pemberton & shortly after Captain Pemberton reassigned when deponent was appointed to the Captaincy deponent was at the Battle of Beggarstown with Lord Cathcart when deponent received a wound in the foot with a broadsword which disabled him for some time, he was at the Battle of Germantown where he had his horse killed under him and mounted another when he received a wound in the head with a broadsword deponent kept the command of his company until the year 1783 when he was honorably discharged by General Washington. A Revolutionary Claim for Daniel Bill of Connecticut dated January 6, 1838m to receive $38.21, along with a 1789 pay order for Daniel Bill in the amount of one Pound, seventeen Shillings signed by Ralph Pomeroy. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing