That he served in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Teter and Lieutenant George McConnel in the Virginia Line of troop.
"I served as a volunteer entering the service of the United States in August AD 1779 for six months, which term I served fully out. Shortly after my enlistment, I, with the troops to which I belonged, consisting of about nine hundred, to wit: three hundred regulars, two companies of volunteers and the balance of militia, all under the command of Colonel Broadhead and Lt. Col. Gibson, rendezvoused at Fort Pitt. Shortly after, he marched with the troops above mentioned, under the command of the officers just named, to the Munsee towns on the Allegheny River about two hundred miles above Fort Pitt. We there destroyed the towns after routing the Indians. We also destroyed nearly three hundred acres of corn, killed several Indians and took a large quantity of their property, consisting of a great number of copper kettles, some horses, furs and skins, a large quantity of scalping knives and plough irons, and other property not now recollected particularly. We were gone on this expedition about six weeks when we marched back to Fort Pitt, and from there we went into stockade forts for the purpose of guarding the frontier settlements. During the time we were in stockade forts, we, by turns, performed various scouts. During these scouts, we frequently took Indians and killed some. I do not recollect the names of any other officers than those above named. The time we were in stockade forts, I was stationed in a fort called Wells fort situated on a ridge between the waters of Buffaloe and Cross Creek in Virginia.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension of annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state."
Where an in what year were you born?
" I was born the second day of April 1753 at Germantown within seven miles of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."
Have you any record of your age and, if so, where is it?
"I have no record."
Where were you living when called into the service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you live now?
"I was living in the State of Virginia in what is now called Brooke County, Virginia. I lived since the war a part of the time upon a farm belonging to Francis McGuire that was divided by the line between Virginia and Pennsylvania and which lays in Brooke County, VA. and Washington County, PA., a part of my time on each side of the line; thence to Alexander Wells farm in Brooke Co., VA.; and from there to Harrison County, Ohio were I lived eight years; and from thence to Morgan County, Ohio, my present residence, where I have lived about eight years."
How were you called into the service?
"I was a volunteer."
State the name of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served.
"I cannot recollect any but what I have aboved named."
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior, your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
"I am acquainted with Alexander Simpson, John D. Rutledge, Esqr., John E. Hanna, Caleb Wells, William Hammond, Benjamin Talbott, but I know of no person but Charles D. Wells of Harrison County, Ohio by which I can prove my service.
His
Christopher Mummey
Mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
S. A. Barker, CprotemCCPMC
We, Alexander Simpson & Benjamin W. Talbott, residing in Morgan County, do hereby testify that we are well acquainted with Christopher Mummey, who was subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age.
Notes on the claim made by Christopher Mummey on November 22, 1832:
Notes made 1998 by Richard Cole.