Sgt. John Jameson

Service, Pennsylvania; Butler County. On the fifteen day of May anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me the Subscriber [?] President of the Court of Common Pleas in the sixth Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, formally appeared John Jamison, aged sixty-seven, resident in Parker Township, Butler County of state aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled ìAn Act to Provide Certain Persons Engaged in the Revolutionary Warî That he, the said John Jamison, enlisted in Hannah’s Town in Westmoreland County, Penn., in Captain Samuel Miller’s Company until he was killed by the Indians; and then served under Captain Clarke as sergeant until he was discharged in the beginning of September one thousand seven hundred seventy nine. That he was in the battle of Brandywine, Germantown, and in several skirmishes with the Indians, and in the year seventy-nine, was under Captain Clarke between Beaver [Ft. McIntosh] and Fort Laurens about three miles from Fort Laurens in January 1779. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence [?] now, in his power of said services. [Signed] John Jamison
Sworn to and declared before me this day and year aforesaid. [Signed] Jesse Moore

State of Pennsylvania, Butler County. On the sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court [ink blot] court records in and for Butler County in the fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, John Jameson of Parker Township, Butler County, aged seventy years, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he enlisted in Hannah’ Town, Westmoreland County Pennsylvania in Captain Samuel Miller’s company in the eight Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col. Enos McCoy on the tenth of August (1776) one thousand seven hundred and seventy six for three years that he served in this Regiment until the tenth of August one thousand seven hundred seventy-nine when he received an honorable discharge for Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Baynard [?] at PittsburghÖÖI have received from the State of Pennsylvania by act of Assembly forty dollars per annum. I have a wife named Janet, aged seventy years. I have one daughter named Anges living with me, thirty-one years, a sickly girl, by occupation a farmer, but by my advanced age, I am almost totally unable to follow if for a living. [Signed] John Jameson. Sworn and Subscribed in open Court this 6th day of Oct 1820 [Signed] Jno Negley, Prothonotary.

Sgt. John Jameson of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment was placed on the pension roll, 11 December 1818 with the commencement of his pension beginning 15 May 1818 at an annual allowance of $96.00. Pension certificate number S. 39,722. However, in his 1820 application, Jameson states his Pennsylvania pension application number was ì4.856î. A list of his possessions is included in the 1820 pension application. Jameson was born between May and October, 1750, and died 10 June 1839, in Venango Township in Bulter County, PA.

In early January 1779, General McIntosh dispatched supplies of clothing and whiskey to Ft. Lauren. The supply escort was under the command of Capt. John Clark of the 8th PA Regiment. Upon its return to Ft. McIntosh, Capt. Clark and his party of fourteen men and a sergeant was attached about three miles from Ft. Laurens by Simon Girty and a party of Mingo Indians. Two of Clark’s men were killed, four wounded, and one captured [See pension application of Pvt. John Fox]. Clark returned to Ft. Laurens. The sergeant involved in this ambush by Girty may have indeed been John Jameson.

The information on John Jameson was submitted to the Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation by Jameson, Robert T. ìRe: Sgt. John Jameson.î E-mail to Friends of Ft. Laurens Foundation. 04 August 2002.

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