Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6657, for Daniel Mc Caskey, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER

[handwritten] Penn Mc Caskey, Daniel R. 6657

CONTENTS
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33.117

Daniel McCaskey

Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania Beaver County ss.

    On this first day of June 1835 personally appeared before the Court of Common pleas now sitting in and for said county, Daniel McCaskey a resident of said County in the State of Pennsylvania, aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted under Captain Johnston in the 1st Regt. of Penna. troops he thinks in 1777 and served ten months (although his enlistment was only for nine) in the capacity of a Fifer during this time his officers were engaged in the revolutionary Service, & at the end of the ten months was discharged in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He then remained some time out of the service, cannot tell precisely how long, but to the best of his knowledge, again enlisted in the early part of 1780, for one year or to the end of the war to act in the capacity of fifer.  This enlistment took place at Lancaster under Captain William Leeper in the 4th Penna. Regt. was detained at Lancaster, for about three months in the recruiting service, then went to Carlisle & recruited there and in the different towns through the county for as much as ten months, was then called into actual service & Marched through Hagerstown & to Winchester to gather in the Recruits, and taken from that on to Philadelphia, during all which time he served as a fifer, about the close of the year after his enlistment, before the troops were marched from Philadelphia, he was taken sick & lodged in the hospital and lay there at least one month when he was discharged  from the hospital and taken away by the late Governor McKean, still in bad health & (illegible) for duty.  His last service would amount to at least including the time he lay in the hospital thirteen months making in all (next page)
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twenty three months.

    He was born in Ireland in the year 1761, has no record of his age, was living in Penna. when called into service, and livid in Penna. ever since except about seven years that he lived in the State of Virginia & Ohio.  The first discharge he got in writing which is long since lost, the second discharge was by parole, & not in writing.  That there is no person now living that has a knowledge of his service that he knows of, nor can he make any other proof than his own declaration, that the Rec/d Joshua Monroe.  Who resides in his neighborhood & Joseph Jenkins of the same county who have long known him can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services in the Revolution.
    He thereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
   Sworn & subscribed to in open court the first day of June A.D. 1835.
                                           his
                               Daniel   X    McCaskey
                                          mark

//s//
James Logan Pro.

    We Joshua Monroe a Clergyman residing in the county of Beaver and Joseph Jenkins residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel McCaskey, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration, we believe him to be 73 years of age, that he is reputed and believed, as we have understood in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion & that he sustains a good character for truth and veracity.

                                             //s//
                                     Joshua Monroe
                                     Joseph Jenkins

Sworn and subscribed in
open court the first day
of June A.D. 1835.
                     //s//
                 James Logan Pro.
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    And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that t appears to them that Joshua Monroe who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the county of Beaver and that Joseph Jenkins - who has also signed the same is are credible persons and that their statements are intitled to credit.  

    I James Logan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County do as Prothonotary of said Court, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel McCasky for a pension.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this first day of June A.D. 1835. 

                                          //s//
                                   James Logan Prothn.
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Suspended.

See letter 13 June 1835 to James Logan.
Becomes do 13 July 32, do do Hon. Tho. Henry Dec. 9, 1837.  Dec. 26th Dec 37

6657.
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6657
P.O.  --------
Daniel McCaskey

Service___________
REJECTED
Enlisted:___________, 18__.
Discharged:_______, 18__,

Application Filed: _______, 18__.

Alleges:_________
Re-enlisted:_________

Attorney: _________
P.O. ______________

_______Recognized.  _________Contract
_______Cert. of Dis.  Searched for_________,18__.
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77  10 mo. fifer 1 Regt Pa Troops Capt. Johnson

80  12 mo. fifer (illegible) after (illegible) 13 mo. (illegible) dischd. at Phildel. Capt. Wm. Leeper at Lancaster 

George Snyder Art.

78 12 mo. & servd. 9 mo. Capt. ripper

79 12 a DW at Lancaster  Col. Johnson, Regt (4th) saw him Balch l. Plaith

Mr. (illegible) Aug 1776. 




Hon. Tho. Henry
                     Pa.
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(An addressed envelope)

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Commissioner of Pensions

Mail from Pa. ab(out) Dec. 26



Hon. T. Henry
               H.R.
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26th Dec. 1837

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Dr. Sir:

    I feel sorry for your decision adverse to the claim of Dan, McCaskey. 
   In answer to the objection, that McCaskey did not apply under the Act of 1818, I knew him then, and that he was in reasonably good circumstances, having a small tract of land & living comfortably, & did not as long as he could avoid it become a pensioner.

    I do not at all wonder that there should be a discrepancy in dates between the statements given by old Revolutionary men.  McCaskey is now very old, and now in my opinion in his second childhood.  That he can give an honest detail of all his prominent facts relating to his Revolutionary service, I have no doubt, but I feel well assured there could not now be expected much accuracy as to dates.

    I knew McCaskey well in the late war, then quite an old man. (He) was Fifer Major in the Regt. in which I was a Captain.  He was a first-rate Fifer, but what was called left-handed.  At that time I heard him frequently speak of his Revolutionary Service, & that he said he was a fifer in the Regular Service.  This was at a time when it was not known or even thought of, that of pensioning old soldiers. 

    For myself I have no hesitation in saying that it is my firm belief McCaskey served in the Revolutionary, as a fifer and from his integrity as to truth, I believe he served the time (next Page)
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(An addressed envelope.)


                                 FREE

Honorable J. I. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

(Date stamp)
BEAVER
    Jun
     2
    PA

(Revd) June 8
Pa.
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Town of Bever County June 1st, 1835

Dr. Sir:

    I enclose you an application of Danl. McCaskey an old Revolutionary Soldier who asks a pension from the government for his services.

    I have long been acquainted with the applicant and believe him to be a man of veracity, and do not at all doubt his statement.  Please write to me at Beaver,

                             Yours with gerat respect
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Additional evidence
of Daniel McCsskey
to procure a pension.   Va. 









Thos, Henry
H.R.
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I do further certify that the deponent is a credible person given under my name this 8th day of November 1837.

                                        //s//
                             Moses Congleton J.P.

State of Virgina Brooke County ss.

    I Adam Kuher Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Moses Congleton Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit & certificate was on the day of the date thereof now is an acting Justice of the Peace of the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to the constitution and law of the state aforesaid to all whose official acts as such full faith & credit are due and ought to be given and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

    In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 8th day of November 1837 and in the 62nd year of the Commonwealth.

                                  //s//
                             Adam Kuher