Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40213, for John Nowlan, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE   Penn.
Nowlan, John
or Noland
NUMBER  S.40213
MR
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3814     
Pennsylvania Roll 
John Nowlan, 4 
Capt Stout   
private 
Pensylvania line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War    
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Octo 1818 and forwarded to James Hamilton Carlisle Penna        
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818      40.00 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819    48.00    
$88.00    
Are  5 months 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
6 years 
Cumberland Cty Penna
[unreadable] sent to John Beden Esqr 3d Oct 1820 –
Carlisle Pennsylvania
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Penn Roll
John Nowlan pr [private]
5th April 1818
To James Hamilton
Carlisle Penna
Admitted
On Pa Rolls
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Cumberland County, 
State of Pennsylvania, ss
I, Robert McCoy Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these presents certify, that James Hamilton Esquire, before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken, and who hath thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such deposition President of the Court of Common pleas and now is, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.    
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Carlisle, in the said County, this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America , the forty Second 
Attest, Robt McCoy Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania      
Cumberland County SS          
Personally appeared before James Hamilton Esq. President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Ninth District of Pennsylvania composed of the Counties of Adams Franklin and Cumberland which said Court is a Court of Record John Nowlan who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth that he served as a private in the continental line during the Revolutionary War -          
That he was enlisted in the town of York in the State of Penna in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven by Lieut Jacob Stake of Cap Hardman Stouts Company and that he served in the said Company more than nine months which company was attached to the tenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Col Wm Hubley - That he afterwards served in Capt Pattons Company and also in Captain Saml. Montgomery.   
That he was in the Battle of Brandywine Germantown, and Monmouth and that he received a slight bayonet wound near the left eye at the Paoli which has for some years past refrained the sight of that eye – 
That in the year 1783 the war having terminated and the time of his enlistment expired He was honorably discharged by Col Wm Butler while attached to Capt Saml Montgomery company That he preserved for several years his discharge signed by Col Wm Butler but being a labouring man it was accidentally lost about eighteen years ago.  
That for the last twenty years he has resided Shermans Valley Cumberland County Penn & that
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during that time he has supported himself and family by his manual labour but that he is now near Seventy years of age and having become infirm and his wife confined to her bed with the dropsy and no prospect of her recovery he has been compelled to ask for that relief which Congress in its wisdom he thought proper to provide by the Act of March 18th 1818 for old and unfortunate Revolutionary Soldiers -    John Nowlan  his mark
Sworn before me her the fifth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen  
James Hamilton            
I James Hamilton Esq President of the ninth District as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Nowlan did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the Directions 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”    
James Hamilton April 10th 1818
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Mar 19
John Nowlan
Con
No. 3814
21 Apl 1818
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Pennsylvania Cumberland County Sct    
On the eighth day of August AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common pleas for the County of Cumberland aforesaid  (the same being a Court of record in and for the said County, and the proceedings therein being according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their proceedings) John Noland aged sixty nine years resident in Perry County (not yet organized) who being first sworn according to law saith on his solemn oath duly declared that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows   he enlisted in 1776 in Captain Stokes Company in Col. Hubleys Regiment and was discharged in the year 1783 at the conclusion of the war and that the date of his original declaration is the 5th of April 1818 and the number of his pension certificate 3814 - And I solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with 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 18th 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 anexed and by me subscribed    
Schedule 
Two Blankets one chaff bed, one coverlet, one Pot one Griddle and one Frying pan, no debts due to me, By occupation a Labourer and by reason of old age and infirmities unfit for several years past to maintain myself by manual Labour and have no family    
Valuation of the above property ten Dollars by the Court  Isa Graham
John Noland his mark
Sworn & declared 8th Day of August AD 1820 Before
James Armstrong }
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I Robert McCoy Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Cumberland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of said Lot of 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 ten dollars and- Cents          
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand all that and affixed the seal of the said Court this 16th day of August A D 1820
Robt McCoy Prothy
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40213
Revy  INVALID
File No.  40,213
John Nowland
Pri  Rev War
Act:  18 March 18
Index:- Vol 5, Page 566
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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The Deposition of James Cooney
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Cumberland County    
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in & for Said County James Cooney and being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he has been Eleven years in the [unreadable] of one thousand seven hundred and seventeen the fifth of April on the Pension rolls and that he knew Jno Nowland while in the revolutionary war to be a private in Capt Saml Montgomery company in the third regiment Pennsylvania - Deponent also knew Jno. Nowland in Lieut Stokes Company in the year seventy seven according to the best of Deponents recollection Deponent know that J. Nowland was regularly and honorably Discharged in the town of Lancaster and further saith not    
Sworn and subscribed this third day of April AD 1818 before me 
Isaac Radd 
James Cooney his mark
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51- 12 - 5 - 41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives    
NAME   Nowland, John   GRADE  Private   LINE  Pennsylvania 
WARRANT NUMBER  10156    ACREAGE  100   ISSUED   November 10 1791 to John McClelland assignee    
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of Land Warrants issued prior to 1800 which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.