Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33387, for John Mc Callister, Pennsylvania
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Service                                             Number

Penns.      McCallister, John           S.33387
                of McAllister
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New Jersey
John McCallister
Capt. Doyle private Penn.
In the Army of the U.S.

At $8 per mo. Com. @ 20 Mar 1828

Certified 2d April 1828 & sent to Honor. Generl Bloomfield, House of rep. U.S.

(??) to 4 Sept. 1878. 5 13/28 mo. $43.71

Rev. Claim,
Act 18th March, 1878

Pennsylvania Line
3 years to 79
continue Middlesex Co.

Notification sent the 7th July AD 20 to William P. Deare Esq.

M. (Brunswick)
M. J.
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In the case of John McCallister claiming to be entitled to a pension under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War."

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County}

     John McCallister of the county of Middlesex and state aforesaid being duly sworn before me Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex aforesaid on his oath saith that he enlisted in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the company commanded by Captain John Doyle of the Sixth Regiment commanded by Col. Johnson in the Pennsylvania Line on the continental establishment and that he continued to serve as a soldier in that Regiment in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy until the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine, at which time his term of enlistment having expired he was discharged in Philadelphia; and this deponent further saith that since his discharge as (??) he has continued=
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= a resident citizen of the United States and for the last ten years of the state of New Jersey and that he is now by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of the assistance from his country for support and this deponent further saith not.
                                                 his
                                       John    X    McCallister
                                                Mark
Sworn & subscribed
this 20th March 1818 
before me.
//s//
Thoms' Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County} ss

    I Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex certify that the foregoing is to me satisfactory proof that John McCallister the applicant served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as a Private soldier  on the continental establishment for the term of nine months and longer.

Witness my hand this 20th March 1818.
//s// 
Thos Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County}

I William P. Deare clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Middlesex in the state=
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aforesaid certify that Thomas Hanes Esq. who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestations is one of the Judges of said court duly commissioned and sworn and to his official act full credit is to be given.

    Witness my hand & the seal of said court this twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred eighteen.

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Wm. P. Deare JTP
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John McCallister
47

Sept 1878
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Schedule

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County, ss}

    On this Twentieth day of June 1820, personally appeared, in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in said state, being a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the common law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of ots proceedings, John McCallister aged seventy eight years, resident in New Brunswick in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: Viz. In the Sixth Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Colonel Johnson, that he made his declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of March 18, 1818, in that same month and that his pension certificate is No. 47.

    And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitle "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Schedule

(illegible) or other effects.
And I do further declare that I am by trade a (featherer) but unable to earn my subsistance and that I was at the time of obtaining my pension maintained as a pauper by the township of Morth Brunswick and that I have no family.

                                          his
                                 John    X   McCallister
                                         mark

Sworn to, and declared and subscribed on the day aforesaid. 
//s//
Robert McHesney

     I, William P. Deare clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Middlesex 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 - dollars and - cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.

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Wm. P. Deare
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33387
Rev INVALID
File No. 33387
John McCallister
Priv  Rev War

Act:  18th March 1800
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 263


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