Deposition of Asahel Landers: I, Asael Landers of Lenox County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for the Term of Three Years or during the war & continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in the American Regiment of the Massachusetts line. That I enlisted according to the best of my recollection in the month of April 1782 in the fifth Regiment commanded by Capt. Benson & that I was transferred to the light Company commanded by Capt. John Mills in the first Regiment of the Massachusetts Line to which said first Regiment I belonged in 1783. That I was a, I verily believe entitled to the Reward of eighty Dollars under a Resolve of Congress pass. May 15, 1778. That I have no recollection of receiving a certificate for a reward but that 200 Acres of Land has been awarded to me in the State of Maine to which I am now entitled & I further declare that I was not on the 15th of may 1828 on the Pension list of the United States. Witness my hand this 27th day of September 1828. [National Archives - Pension record W 15,009 - declaration of Asael Landers dated 27 Sep 1828]

Deposition of Asahel Landers: Asael Landers of Lenox in the County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts... That he enlisted at Lenox aforesaid in the month of April 1782 for three years. That after his enlistment he went to Springfield in Massachusetts where he was mustered & that afterwards in the month of may or June of the same year he joined the army at West Point where he entered the fifth Regiment of Infantry of the Massachusetts line commanded by Col: Newall. That he served during the war & was discharged by order of Brigad. Gen. Jackson on the 30th day of June 1784. That he served in the Regiment aforesaid in the Company commanded by Capt Benson or Capt [Groffe?] & which he cannot recollect his memory being imperfect until the Close of the war & that at that peroid having enlisted for 3 years he was transferred to the first Massachusetts Regiment & served in the company commanded by Capt Mills only a part of the time & a part of the time the company he belonged to was commanded by Capt Bolles. That he was with Genl Washington in New York after the City was evacuated by the British & then he was in the company of Capt Bolles or Bowles. That he is not & never had been on the pension Roll. That he applied for a pension under the law of May 1828 & that his claim was rejected... The said Landers is in the sixty ninth year of his age. [National Archives - Pension record W 15,009 - declaration of Asael Landers dated 1 Aug 1832]