Lt. John Dent

Monongalia Co., Va. 28 Aug. 1832 appeared JOHN DENT, a resident of said county, aged 77 and made declaration to obtain benefits of provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He enlisted as a private soldier for three years in the said county of Monongalia in the month of April 1777 with Capt. David Scott of the 13th Virginia regiment of Continental troops, commanded by Col. John Gibson, Lieut. Col. Richard Campbell and Major Taylor—that in the same month, he marched to Fort Pitt and from there to Kittanning to a fort on the east bank of the Allegheny River about 50 miles above Fort Pitt, where he and his company remained about two months...

...that in the spring of 1778, Col Gibson received intelligence that General McIntosh was marching to Fort Pitt and sometime in the spring Genl. McIntosh arrived and in about three weeks afterwards he was presented with a Lieutenants commission without any application on his part. That he was then attached to Capt. Jacobus Sullivan’s company that during the summer or early part of the fall of 1778 he with the troops under Genl. McIntosh descended the Ohio River to Big Beaver Creek near to which the troops erected a fort and named it after the commanding officer, that during the fall of 1778, Genl. McIntosh, with said department, the 8th Pa. reg. and several regiments of militia marched to Tuscarora, a tributary of the Muskingum River where Fort Laurence was built, where he remained until about the first of Feb. 1779...... /s/ John Dent

John Dent was inscribed on the roll at the rate of $320 per annum on 28 Nov. 1832. On 27 Sept. 1841, his wife Margaret Dent, a resident of Monongalia Co., Va., and aged 78, made a declaration to obtain the benefits of her husband, John Dent. She was married to John Dent in June 1780 and he died on 20 September 1840. Several of their children’s names and birth dates are list on the pension application.

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