John Rush

Pension Application: "In reply to your request of June 7, (1916), received June 7, for a statement of the Military history of John Rush, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired infromation as contained in his application for pension, on file in this Bureau:

Enlisted June, 1776, and served to close of war as Private in Company of Capt. Jacob Piatt and William Piatt, under Col. Matthias Ogden, State of N. J. He sustained bayonet wound at Trenton and was wounded in battle of Monmonth.

Battles engaged in: Flatbush, White Plains; Trenton, Dec. 1776; Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Red Bank, Monmonth, Hogback Hill and taking of Cornwallis.

Residence of soldier at enlistment: Enlisted at New Brunswick, N. J.

Date of application for pension, April 18, 1818. His claim was allowed.

Residence at date of application, Union, Broome Co., New York.Age at date of application, sixty years.

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