Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,995, for John Mc Dowell, Pennsylvania
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Service
Penn.
McDowell, John
Number S.40.995
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9316    
R               
Pennsylvania            
John McDowell 2d       
of Fayette County in the state of Pennsylvania Who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hartley of the Pennsylvania line for the term of 3 years               
Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of June 1818                  
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of Apl 1829 and sent to Mr Samuel Smith Washington City Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819  29/30 Apr 31   $71.69              
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4th Sept 1819        $48 -        
$119.69              
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}    
Continued April 28 1821   
Note sent [unreadable] Union Co. Pa
[unreadable] 28 1821
Date of death not on AB
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Fayette Ss  
Pennsylvania         Before me one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for this county personally appeared John McDowell who being swore according to the law Deposeth that in the year 1776 he enlisted for one year with Capt. Moses McClean in York county Pennsylvania in the Regiment commanded by Col Erwin of the Pennsylvania troops he was in the battle at three rivers and was taken some days after by the Indians and carried to Montreal and from thence to Qubeck - in the Spring of the year 1777 he enlisted with Capt Bush (he believes) in the 11th Regiment commanded by Col Hartley who had been his Lieutenant Col before this last enlistment  & was for three years & during the war he was in the massacre at the Paoli and at the Battle of Germantown and was then marched up the Susquehanna and was shot through the body at Shimony town and was then brought to Sunsbury in the fall season in the year 1779 - and his circumstances in life are so reduced as to need assistance from his Country for support that he has been a resident in the Country about 38 years only that he served in Farmers campaign against the Indians                    John McDowell            
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of June in the year said Witness my hand and seal
James Finley [seal]
I do certify that I have known the Deponent about as long as he has stated and do know that his circumstances in life are very low and that he has always supported the character of an honest man and I firmly believe all that he has stated      James Finley
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Fayette County     
Pennsylvania } Ss.   I, John St. Clair Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for said county do certify that the within named James Finley Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken was at the time of so doing and still is official judge of said Court and that as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as well within courts of Justice as there out.    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand as affixed the seal of office this ninth day of July AD eighteen hundred and eighteen.         
John St. Clair         
Prothy       
John McDowell    
40.995    
John McDowell          
See Pa roll         
On Roll -   
Admitted        
6th June 1818         
John McDowell           
Priv 11th Penn Regt Col Hartley           
2 Years 1777 – 1779
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Fayette County     
Pennsylvania } Ss.   I, John St. Clair Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for said county do certify that the within named James Finley Esquire before whom the within deposition was taken was at the time of so doing and still is official judge of said Court and that as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as well within courts of Justice as there out.    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand as affixed the seal of office this ninth day of July AD eighteen hundred and eighteen.         
John St. Clair         
Prothy       
John McDowell    
40.995    
John McDowell          
See Pa roll         
On Roll -   
Admitted        
6th June 1818         
John McDowell           
Priv 11th Penn Regt Col Hartley           
2 Years 1777 – 1779
[unreadable]
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Fayette County in the State of Pennsylvania Ss.  Fourteenth Judicial district          
Personally appeared in the open Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid it being a court of record now in Session    John McDowell 2nd aged Sixty four years resident in the said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare.    That he served in the revolutionary war as follows.   That he enlisted under Captain Moses McClean for one year and afterwards enlisted under Captain George Bush under command Col. Thomas Hartley in the 11th Regiment in Pennsylvania line for the years or during the war.   was in the battle of the three rivers Germantown &      
That the date of his original declaration is the sixth day of June A.D. 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is No 9316 and that he is the same John McDowell 2nd to whom the above mentioned pension certificate was granted -  and now in pursuance of an act of Congress on the first day of May AD 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen in the United States on the eighteenth day of March AD 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed the eighteenth day of March AD 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or securities contracts or due to me nor have I any income other than what is contain in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed: That the said John McDowell 2nd has applied for the insolvent laws, and his property will be assigned to his creditors
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70 acres of Mountain land in Wharton township  $ 70
1 Cow and Calf                      10
3 Old Chairs                             1.00
1 Old Table & knives and forks & plates  3.00     
84.00
Joseph Huston         30.00
Dr. Alexander Johnston   150.00
Job Little                           40.00              
$ 220.00

That I am by occupation a mill stone maker and by reason of old age and a wound through the body am unable to follow it.  My wife Eleanor aged 60 years very frail and sickly    my son James aged 17 years      John McDowell 2nd  his mark 
Sworn and subscribed in open court the Sixth day of September 1820      
Test John St. Clair Prothy
Fayette County Ss.   I John St. Clair Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty four dollars and the amount of his debts is two hundred and twenty dollars     
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the seventh day of September AD 1820       
John St. Clair Prothonotary
John McDowell 2nd
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Returned from College Park Ga. P.O. unclaimed Apr. 17, 1916
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525   
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.   
Washington, D. C., March 30, 1916   
F.W.          
S.F. 40,995            
Rev War          
Mrs. Lucy D. Douglass          
College Park, Georgia          
Madam             
In reply to your request of Mch. 4, received Mch 7 for a statement of the military history of John McDowell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.   1776     LENGTH OF SERVICE.  1 year   RANK.  Pri    OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Moses McLean  Colonel Irwin    STATE   Pa.   
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  1777    LENGTH OF SERVICE.  3 years  RANK,     OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain George Bush   Colonel Thomas Hartley   STATE    
Battles engaged in, Three Rivers, Paoli,  Germantown, shot through body at Chemung.     
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in York Co. Pa.            
Date of application for pension,  June 6, 1818. His claim was allowed.              
Residence at date of application, Fayette Co. Pa          
Age at date of application, 62 yrs   Place of birth not stated                
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife, Eleanor, aged 60 years and son, James, 17 years of age Respectfully,          
G. M. Saltzgaber      
Commissioner,   
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Pittsburgh Pa.
40995
Revy INVALID
File No. 40,995
John McDowell
Pri  Rev War
Act:  18 March 1818
Index: - Vol.  5  Page 519
[Arrangement of 1870]
May 13 46
Ex by Dr. Morgan
Oct 23 1900 Mr. J. L. Schwartz
1916 Mch 30 Hist to Mrs. Lucy D. Douglass
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John McDowel
No 1565
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Know all men by these Presents that I John McDowell late a private soldier in the Revolutionary war which will fully appear by Certificate affidavits &c hereunto anexed do apoint Samuel Smith of Fayette County my true attorney to recall from the United States a pension which I am entitled to by the late act of Congress granting a pension of Eight Dollars per month to all those who served nine months at one time and are now in indignant [indigent] circumstances all which will appear by documents hereunto anexed and I further authorise my said attorney to draw a Land Warrant in my name, allowed to Soldiers who enlisted for three years or during the war and I further authorise my said attorney to apoint an attorney under him and I certify and confirm whatever my attorney or his substitute may lawfully do in the premises in testimony I set my hand and seal this twenty third day of June 1888.      John McDowell his mark  [seal]
Witness       
State of Pa   Co. of Fayette }  On the 23 day of June 1818 the above named John McDowell acknoledged the above power of attorney to be his act for the purposes therein before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid        
James Lindsay
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College Park, Ga. 3/4/1916
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
In the Virginia Revolutionary Pension Roll in the 1st session of the 23rd Congress 1833-34, Doc (514) Mason C.\o., Va page 80- I find the name of James McDade, pt. Va. Line 1819-1818, age 86, died 7/30/1833.  I will be pleased if you will send me any and all information he gave as to family, birth place and to whom the pension was paid, whee it ended and certificate.
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of the also same Sen - Doc (514) 1st Ses  23 Congress - Va. Roll I find in Giles Co. Va. page 61, Charles Duncan, pt – Va line, 1820- 1819, age 74              
Also on page 139 Floyd Co. Va John Duncan pt Pen. Mil. 1832- age 93, same Senate Doc of 23 Cong. 
Also on page 89, of Penn, Rev. Roll same Doc. (514) 23 Cong, 1st session 4  I find on page 89 Fayette Co. Penn. McDowell – 2nd pt. Penn Cont’l Line 1819 - 1818- age 78         
Also on pages 189 Penn. Rev. Sol Roll, same senate Dor (514 ) 1st 23 Cong. I find James Duncan, 5   pt Penn Cont’l Line 1833- 1836 - age 79 Washington Co Penn    
 I would like to have all the data given when pensions were applied for and to whom the pensions were paid, Thanking you on this Courtesy, I am Respectfully (Mrs.) Lucy Dozier Douglas, NED
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In reply to your request of    , received       for a statement of the military history of a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his  application for pension on file in this Bureau.    S. F. 40,995   
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  1776     LENGTH OF SERVICE.   1 yr.   RANK.   Pri   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Moses McLean   Colonel Irwin   STATE.  Pa. 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  1777    LENGTH OF SERVICE.  3 yrs.   RANK.   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.   Captain George Bush   Colonel Thomas Hartley    STATE. 
Battles engaged in,   Three Rivers, Paoli, Germantown, shot through the body in Chemong
Residence of soldier at enlistment,   Enl. In York Co. Pa.    
Date of application for pension,    June 6, 1818   his cl was adm [his claim was admitted]   
Residence at date of application,   Fayette Co. Pa.      
Age at date of application,   62 years, place of birth not stated
Remarks: In 1820, he referred to his wife Eleanor aged 60 yrs and son James, 17 years of age.
Respectfully,     
Commissioner.
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