Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4122, Leonard Backenbaugh, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER
| Md. | Backenbaugh, Leonard.  | W. 4122 |
| [blank] | Peckinpauth or | B.L.Wt. 27681-160-55 |
| Born in Md. To Pa. to Ind. | Beckenbaugh or Catharine | [blank]

CONTENTS

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Ohio 2.2,126

Leonard Backenbaugh
[cut off here]t Union Co in the State of Indiana
who was a private in the com commanded
by Captain Mullen of the regt commanded
by Col Welter on the Maryland
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Oct
1833 and Edghill
Burnside Liberty

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 50.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 10.00
$60.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 7 Page 105

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See letter to E. Coffin Rethd. [illegible]
P. [illegible] 30 Sept 1826 -
do Jame Oct. 26. 1836 -
let: 14 January 1839 No
J. Rander

cer to Pen Agent 11. Sept 1839
To Ohio, from 4th March
1839. 4 Oct 1839. Notification
to T. Corwin Lebanon Ohio.
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Pleas held at the Court House of Union County in the Sixth
Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana, on the first
monday of September in tye year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty three Before the Honorable
Charles Hobert president Judge of said Court & Daniel
Ogden U Robert Swann his associate judges of the said
Union Circuit Court,

Be it remembered that on the
seventh Judicial day of said term & 9th day of September
in the year aforesaid, personally came into open
Court Leonard Beckenbaugh & made & filed the
following declaration to wit, State of Indiana, Union
County ss. On this 9th day of September 1833, personally
appeared in open Court, before Robert Swann & Daniel
Ogden associate Judges of the Union Circuit Court now sitting
Leonard Beckenbaugh a resident of said County of Marion
State of Indiana aged seventy two years who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. This deponent
states that one ot two months before the Capture of
Lord Cornwallis in the fall of 1781, he volunteered in
the service of the United States in the volunteer company
of sixty men, which company was named in Frederick
County, Maryland, and was commanded by
Capt Philip Hullard and Lieutenant Peter Rastle
that Colonel Weller was the name of the Regimental
Colonel who commanded the Regiment out of which
said Company was revised, whose christian name said
Claimant cannot now reccollect. [recollect] That the said Company
was held in readiness to March and enter into the service
at the Command of their Captain and that in the
spring of 1782, the day nor month this claimant does
not reccollect, [recollect] Captain Hullards Company was
ordered out and repaired to Frederick Town
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in the County of Frederick, Maryland, and were
placed as a guard about British Soldiers who had
been captured at the siege of York Town the fall before
by the combined forces of France & America, and who
had been Marched to Frederick Town to be guarded.
The states that Captain Hullards Company of which he
he this claimant was one, guarded the British prisoners
stationed there for about four months, when they were
Marched from Frederick Town Maryland to Fort
Frederick in the State of Virginia by Captain Hullard and
his company who still guarded them, the British prisoners
for about two months, when the actual service of six
months, for which time Captain Hullards Company
volunteered & served; and that a short time before
peace was concluded, not more than a month or
thereabouts, this claimant was regularly discharged
from the service, having been in actual service for
for the full time and space of six months, and received
a written discharge signed by Captain Hullard, He States
that he did not serve with any other continental company
than Philip Hullards, as that Company above composed
the guard placed over the British prisoners at Frederick
Town and afterwards Marched to Fort Frederick in
Virginia, He further states that he resided in 
Frederick Town Maryland for the space of nineteen
years after his discharge when he removed to the
County of Fayette in the state of Pennsylvania
where he resided for twenty four years& that shortly
after he had arrived in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
his house accidently [accidentally] took fire and was entirely consumed 
with all his possessions including his written discharge
given him by Captain Hullard above mentioned,
that he knows of no person living by whom he can
prove his services as aforesaid as the most of the whole
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company with whom he served were older than the
applicant at the time of volunteering this applicant
then living but nineteen years old and those of his
acquaintance has long since departed this life
That he was a short time in company with General
Washington who visited Frederick Town in the summer
of 1781. He further states that after he had
resided in Fayette County above twenty four years
he removed to Union County Indiana some time in 
the year 1822. where he has resided ever since and
still resides. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares
that his name is not on the agency of any pension
roll of the agency of any state. And thereupon the
following Questions were propounded to him by the Court
and the following answers received. where and in what
year were you born? I was born in the year 1760, in the County
of Frederick State of Maryland, Have you any record
of your age, and if so where is it. I have a record
of my age taken from a copy of it given to me by
my father George Leonard Beckenbauth,
Where were you living when called into service,
where have you lived since the revolutionary war
and where do you now live? I lived in Frederick
County Maryland, and lived there nineteen
years after my discharge from the army, I then
moved to Fayette County Pennsylvania where I lived
twenty four years, and then moved in 1822 to Union
County Indiana where I now live, How were
you called into the service, Were you drafted
did you volunteer or were you a substitute &
if a substitute for whom? I Volunteered; State
the names of some of the regular officers
who were with the troops where you served such
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continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect
and the general circumstances of your services.
The were no officers called into service in the Company
I served with except Capt Philip Hullard and
Lieutenant Peter Rastle, the Ensign & other officers
in Land Company I do not remember, and the
general circumstances of my service is contained
in the body of my declaration above recited, Did
you ever receive a discharge from the service and
if so by whom was it given and what has become
of it? I did signed by Capt Hullard, and 
it was destroyed by fire when my house was
burned in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
State the names of persons to whom you are known
in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity and their belief
of your service as a soldier of the revolution, John
Cline & Abraham Vaucaton residing in the county
of Murin, who can testify as to his Character for
Veracity and their belief of his cervice as a Soldier
of the revolution and that no Clergyman resides
in his neighborhood signed, Leonard + ^his mark^ Beckenbaugh
Sworn to by the said Leonard Beckenbaugh in open
Court the 9th day of September 1833.
Edghill Burnside Clerk.

We John Cline and Abraham Vaucaton residents
of the County of Union and State of Indiana and
in the neighbourhood of the said Leonard Beckenbaugh,
hereby certifythat we are well acquainted
with said applicant, who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him
to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed
and believed to be a soldier of the revolution
in the neighborhood where he lives, and that
we concur in that opinion. John Cline
Sworn to and subscribed in } Abraham Vaucaton
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open court by the said John Cline & Abraham
Vaucaton the 9th day of September 1833.

Edghill Burniside Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that
after an investigation of the matter and after putting
the interrogatoires prescribed by the War
department, that the above named applicant
was a revolutionary soldier and served as
he states, and the Court further Certify that
that Abraham Vaucaton & John Cline who have
signed & Sworn to the foregoing Certificates
are credible persons and that their statement are
entitled to credit.

I Edghill Burniside Clerk of the Court of Union
County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Leonard
Bechenbaugh for a pension,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & official seal
this 18th day of September 1833
Edghill Burniside Ckl

ordered out and reported to Frederick Town
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No 23048
Leonard Beckenbaugh
Ind

Adm 6 months
$20.00-

Edgehill Burnside
Clk Union County Court
Liberty Indiana
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office.
183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of Leonard Beckenbaugh Union County Indiana

[column headers as follows:
| Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the claimant's service. | [sub-headers here: | Years. | Months. | Days. |] | Rank of the claimant. | Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. | Battles in which the applicant was engaged. | Country through which he marched. | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. | Evidence by which the declaration is supported. |]

| Vol 1782 [illegible] | [blank] | 6 | [blank] | Prv | Capt Nullan | Col Welter | None | Md. | Aged 72 Frederick County Md. | Traditionary |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognize as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraces in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, an Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance,
make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of }
County of } ss.

On this [blank] day of  [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank]
A.B. a resident (b) of  [blank] in the county of  [blank] State, Territory or District
of [blank] age (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d), with [blank] an
serve in the (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following name officers:

{Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. ->This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of [blank]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.

I  [blank] of the Court of  [blank]
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of [blank] for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
[blank] day of [blank] &c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank]
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 it appears to them that A.B.
[blank] who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank]
and that C.D, who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank]
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank]
for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
[blank] of office, this [blank] day of  [blank] &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; 
but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as my have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one by attempted;
and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there
subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account
of service in the Militia, State troops or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.

1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary
war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
{ To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character
and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the
proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to
perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, sating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.

No payment can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of tha act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure,
taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow
the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county whee he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For--year---months, and --
days, I served as a ---. For --- months and --- days, I served as a ---; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority;
that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit. 
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has do device or inscription by which it can be distinguished form any other seal, or if he has no public
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must by attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.

[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the record of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses,
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time an manner of his leaving the same, as well
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, 
and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
-> The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.}
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Dyer Custor
[illegible] Clerk
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The State of Ohio Warren County [illegible] on this 23 of September
AD 1839 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the
county ofsd. personally appeared Leonard Backenbaugh who on 
this oath declares that he is the same person named in a pension
certificate this day shew to me of which the following
is a true copy viz War Department Revolutionary claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of
the 7th June 1832 Leonard Backenbaugh of the state of Md
iones who was a private in the army of the revolution
is entitled to receive twenty dollars and [blank] cents per
per annum during his natural life commencing on the
4th of March 1831 & payable semi annually on the 4th of
March & 4th of September in every year, Given at the War
office of the United States this 12th day of October one thousand
eight hundred& thirty three Seen Coss Secy of
War [illegible] & cosigned Geo W Crump acting
commissioner of pensions - endorsed as follows 22726
Payments to be made at Corydon by Thomas Parcy
Agent for paying pensioners in the agency of Illinois
Recorded in the pension office in Book C Vol 7 page 105
by Danl Boyd Clerk. said Backenbaugh declared
that he was placed on the pension roll for the State
of Indiana from whence he has lately removed that
he now resides at Lebanon in the State of Ohio &
wishes his pension to be there payable in future, The
following are his reasons for removing from Indiana
Viz. he is now old & infirm & has a son living in Lebanon
Ohio who desires him to come to Lebanon & live with him
Leonard X ^his mark^ Backenbaugh
Sworn & subscribed before me }
this 2d of Sept 1839 }
Benjn Blackburn J.P.

At the same time & place came William Roof
a citizen of Lebanon Ohio who being sworn says
that he ney knows Leonard Backenbaugh for
about thirteen years past that he is the same
person described in the above affidavit, that
he is reputed to be a revolutionary soldier that he
knew said Backenbaugh in [illegible] & knows that
he has lately removed to & now resides in Lebanon Ohio
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& further saith not } Wm Roof
Sworn & subscribed before }
me the 2d Sept 1839 }
Benj Blackburn J.P.

The State of Ohio Warren county [illegible]
I Benjamin Blackburn a Justice
of the peace for the County afsd. do certify that
I am personally acquainted with Wm Roof the 
above affiant & that he is a person of veracity
& worthy of credit under oath
Benj Blackburn J.P.

The State of Ohio }
Warren County} SS
I Horace M Stokes clerk of the court of
common pleas for said county certify that Benjamin Blackburn
Esquire is an acting Justice of the peace in and
for said county duly commissioned & sworn as such. that
his commission is dated on the 12" of November AD
1836 & will expire on the 11" day of NovemberA.D. 1839
and that his signature above is genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of said
Court at Lebanon this 2d day of September
A.D. 1836
H.M. Stokes clerk
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5.700
Ohio. Cincinnati

Catharine Backenbaugh
widow of Leonard Backenbaugh who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
ML[?]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of June 1837 and sent to A.H.S[?] J.C. Dunlevy
Lebanon
Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 332[?] Vol. 4

[sideways] Reg'd M55-54934[?] [/sideways]
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The deposition of Christopher Shroyer, of Franklin county Indiana, taken before the undersigned a Notary Public of Franklin County Indiana on this 22nd day of August -- 1848 at the Town of Brookville in said County

The said Christopher Shroyer, being of lawful age, and by me duly sworn proceeded to [illegible] the [illegible] interrogatories as follows.

1 Question. Have you a sister named Catharine Peckenpaugh, and if so where does she live, who was her husband and is her husband living or dead as you learn?

Answer: I have a sister named Catharine Peckenpaugh who lives at Lebanon Ohio. Her husbands name is Leonard Peckenpaugh, and he is dead as I learn

2 Question. Were you present at the marriage of said Catharine Peckenpaugh, and if so where did it take place who married her + the said husband, if you recollect?

I was present at said marriage -- It took place about a mile from Middletown in [illegible] Co. Maryland at my fathers home. They were married by a Presbyterian Preacher whose name I think was Ranke, and the banns were published in the[?] Church at Middletown

3rd Question. How long did you know the said Catharine and her husband to live together as man and wife and where did they last reside as you know or have understood

I knew them to live together some fifteen or twenty years. The last I knew them during the life of Peckenpaughs was when they resided in Western Pennsylvania. I do not know when or where he died.

C Shroyer
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State of Indiana
Franklin County

I John S. Williams Notary Public of the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that the above deposition of Christopher Shroyer, was taken before me, and by me [illegible] to writing at the time and from named [illegible] of said deposition the said Christopher Shroyer being by me first duly sworn, and that the said Christopher Shroyer subscribed said deposition at the time the same was taken

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal this 22nd day of August AD. 1848

John S. Williams
Notary Public

[sideways] Christopher Shroyer
Depention[?] [/sideways]
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M. Peckenpaugh
Deperation[?]
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State of Ohio
Court of Common Please

On this 30th day of August in the year 1848, personally appeared in open court Michael Peckenpaugh, of Warren County Ohio who being duly sworn saith that Catharine Beckenbaugh who signed and was sworn to the accompanying declaration made for the purpose of obtaining a pension, and which declaration is dated 30th August 1848, is deponents mother. That Leonard Peckenpaugh or Beckinbaugh his father and the husband of said Catharine, died at deponent's house, in Lebanon Warren County Ohio, on the 12th day of November 1842 and that said Catharine widow of said Leonard has lived with said Michael the deponent ever since the death of Leonard and is still living with [illegible]

Deponent further saith that at the time of obtaining the pension specified in pension certificate No 22126, now present, the said Leonard lived in Warren county [illegible] and that he
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the said Leonard and his said wife Catharine removed from Union County Indiana to Lebanon, Warren County Ohio in the month of April 1839, where they remained until the death of said Leonard and where said Catharine still lives.

Deponent further saith that the family name of Beckenbaugh is sometimes called Peckenpaugh -- that he has learned that originally it was uniformly called + written Beckenbaugh, but is now generally called Peckenpaugh [illegible] so deponent and all his brothers now call + write the name -- That the cause of this variation [illegible] in the difference in the pronunciation of the German and English letters and further deponent saith not.

M Peckinpaugh

affirmed[?] to in Open Court in the day and year aforesaid
G. W. Stokes Clk
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13817
Catharine Backenbaugh
[illegible] of Leonard
[illegible]
act 7 July 1838
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Be it Remembered that on this the 30th
day of August 1848 Catharine Beckenbaugh
was duly sworn in Open Court, to her Declaration
made for the purpose of obtaining pension: and
the Court therefore after examining the said
Catharine, as the facts stated in her declaration, 
and the evidence by her adduced and satisfied that
the said Catharine was lawfully married to Leonard
Backenbaugh that she is now the widow of
said Leonard Backenbaugh, and that said
Leonard Backenbaugh died on the 12th day of
November in the Year 1842; and the Court ordered
the Clerk of this Court to Certify accordingly

State of Ohio Warren County } Ss.

I Granville W Stokes Clerk of 
the Court of Common Pleas for said County
and State aforesaid, do Certify that the foregoing
entry is truly Copied from the Minutes
of said Court for August Term AD. 1848.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court at Lebanon this 7th day
of September AD. 1848
GW Stokes Clk
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State of Ohio
Warren County SS

On this Thirteenth day of
August in the year 1848 in the Court of Common
Pleas, within and for the county aforesaid, being a
Court of Record, and before the Judges thereof, Catharine
Beckenbaugh of the county of Warren and
state aforesaid, makes the following declaration in
order to obtain the pension which was payable to
Leonard Beckenbaugh, her deceased husband, as
specified in the enclose Pension Certificate which
issued to her said husband in his life time and
which is copied below in this her declaration
and which pension she the said Catharine claims
under the law of Congress approved February 2nd
1848.

The sai Catharine states that she was lawfully
married to said Leonard Beckenbaugh
in the year 1786 being then in her sixteenth year
an now in the Seventy Eighth year of her age. Her
marriage with said Leonard took place in Frederick
county Maryland in the year 1786, at her fathers
house an was solemnized by a clergyman of
the Presbyterian Church by the name of Runke
or Runkle, as the said Catharine now recollects the
name, though she is not certain that this was his
name. The marriage was without licence, [license]on the publication
of banner, according to the law of Maryland at that
time as deponent understood and believed. This
deponent knows of no one living at this time who was present
at said marriage except her brother Christopher
Shroyer of Franklin county Indiana, whose deposition accompanies
this declaration. Deponent lived with said
Leonard as his wife from said marriage in 1786 until
his, the said Leonard's death in Lebanon, War-
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-ren County, Ohio, on the 12th day of November in the year
1842, according to the recollection of the time of his disease by said
deponent tho she is not certain as to the precise day of said
Leonards death.

The enclosed Pension Certificate No 22126, is
the document left by said Leonard at his decease and
by which he had drawn a pension for several years before
his death, and is in the words and figures following:

"War Department
"Revolutionary Claim
" I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
States of the 7th June 1832, Leonard Backenbaugh,
of the state of Indiana who was a private in the
army of the Revolution in entitled to receive Twenty
dollars and 11 cents per annum during his
natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1837 and
payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th
of September in every year.

"Given at the war office of the United
States this 12th day of October, one
thousand eight hundred & thirty three
(signed) "Lew Cass
"Secretary of War"

"[illeigble] & countersigned
Geo Wm Crump
Acting Commissioner of Pensions"

The said Catharine Beckenbaugh, therefore asks that
allowance of said pension as received by her deceased
husband, to her said Catharine his widow under the
act of Congress approved the 2nd day of February 1848.
Attest 
G.W. Stokes
Catharine + ^her mark^ Beckenbaugh
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State of Ohio
Warren County
Court of Com. Please. Aug. Term[?] 1848

On this thirtieth day of August in the year 1848, personally appeared in open court, as aforesaid, the above named Catharine Beckenbaugh and made oath that the facts stated in her foregoing declaration are true as she verily believes.

Catharine Beckinbaugh her mark

Attest
G.W. Stokes
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In the matter of Catharine Bechanbaugh as widow of Leonard Bechanbaugh a deceased pensioner late of Ohio.

The Deposition of Michael Bechanbaugh of the County of Frederick and State of Maryland taken before the undersigned a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Frederick County duly authorized to administer oaths and take depositions.

The said Michael Bechanbaugh being duly sworn and of lawful age makes the answers to the following interrogatorys.

Inter. 1st. Was you acquainted with Leonard Bechanbaugh and Catharine his wife formerly of Frederick County Maryland and afterwards of Ohio and if so were you present at their marriage.

Answer. I was acquainted with Leonard Bechanbaugh and Catharine his wife and was present at their marriage.

Inter. 2d. What was Catharine Bechanbaugh's maiden name and in what year or how many years ago were they marrieded and at what place.

Answer. Catharine Bechanbaugh's maiden name was Catharine Shroyer, they were married about sixty years ago or upwards they were married near Middletown Frederick County Maryland
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Inter. 3d. Do you know by whom the marriage of said Leonard and Catharine was solemnized and was not the ceremony performed by a clergyman of the German Reformed Church by the name of Runkel living at Frederick town in said County of Frederick.

Answer. The marriage was solemnized by a clergyman whose name was Runkel a pastor of the German Reformed Church who resided in Frederick Town in said County of Frederick and had several congregations in Frederick County and probably a congregation in Creagers Town a village of said County.

Inter. 4th. Do you know whether said Runkel is living and whether the church as such exists at Frederick town or other place and whether any of the records of said church as far back as said marriage exists.

Answer. The Revd. Runkel aforesaid is now dead and said church still exists in Frederick town in said County, does not know any thing of the Church records of said Church.

Inter. 5th. Do you know whether said marriage between Leonard and Catharine Bechanbaugh was authorized by bans published at some public meeting or otherwise and was it the custom of said Church to enter on their Church records all such marriages as were authorized by banns published in their meetings without refference to membership of the parties to be married.
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Answer. The marriage was authorized by banns published at the public meetings of the Church for three several times does not know what the custom of the church was in regard to transferring to the records all such marriages as were authorized by banns published in their meetings.

Inter. 6th. Did the laws of Maryland at the time of said Leonard and Catharine Bechanbaughs marriage authorized marriage by publication of banns without license.

Answer. The laws of Maryland did at that time and still does authorize by publication of banns without license --

Inter. 7th. Do you know what became of Leonard and Catharine Bechanbaugh after their marriage and did they remove to the west and where if you know or have understood.

Answer. Leonard and Catharine Bechanbaugh did remove to the west to some part of the State of Ohio.

And furthermore this deponent sayeth not.

November 3rd. 1849
John Alexander

State of Maryland Frederick County town;

I hereby certify that John Alexander gentleman before whom the foregoing depositions were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing on of the Justices of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Frederick County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand + affix the seal of Frederick County Court this 28 day of February 1850.
Wm. B Tyler
Clk
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Maryland to wit:

I Richard J. Marshall, one of the presiding Judges of the fifth Judicial District of the State of Maryland, do certify that Wm B Tyler, the person notarising[?] the foregoing attestation, is and was at the time of making said attestation, the clerk of Frederick County Court within the fifth judicial district aforesaid, and that said attestation is in proper form.

Given under my hand, this 28th day of February 1850[?].
Richd H Marshall

State of Maryland Frederick County Sct

I hereby certify that Richard H. Marshall Esquire before whom the above certificate is given and whose name is thereto subscribed is one of the presiding Judges of the fifth Judicial district of the state of Maryland, composed of the counties of Frederick Washington & Allegany, duly commissioned and gratified.

In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Frederick County Court this 28th day of February 1850
Wm. B. Tyler Clk
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Augt 11/56 -- Lett: to Agent[?] -- Springbow[?] -- Warren Co. -- Ohio.
recalling [illegible] warranted died before [illegible]
P.D.C.[?]

[sideways] [illegible] G.W. Frost, Sept. 21/53
lett " " " Nov. 1/"

Vol. P. page 14 [/sideways]
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54.954. Act [illegible] 3/55[?]
April 9/55[?]

Catharine Packenpaugh [illegible]
Leonard Packenpaugh a Private

Capt. [blank]
Col [blank]
Ohio Mil.

[diagonal] May 26/56 [/diagonal]

Ent day of [blank]
Dis day of [blank]
War Revolution.
Now a Pensioner of the U. States.
No 48 -- No 5700[?]
Ohio [illegible]
Av[?]: 1609[?] May 17/56
[illegible]

Geo. W. Frost, atty
Lebanon
Ohio
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State of Ohio
Warren County [illegible]

On this fifth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the county and state aforesaid, Catharine Packenpaugh aged about 85 years, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Leonard Packenpaugh, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, that she is the identical Catharine Peckenpaugh named in an original Certificate in her possession of which the following is a true copy:

"Department of the Interior.
Widow's Pension.

I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Catharine Packenpaugh widow of Leonard Packenpaugh, who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the 11th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Seal
Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
J.J. Crittenden
Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and countersigned
J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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which said Certificate is indorsed as follows to wit:

"Payment to be made at Cincinnati by James Hall Esq. Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio. Payable on the 4th September and 4th March. Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d 1848, Page 332, Vol. 4.

H.R. Weightman Clerk."

She further declares that she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the above mentioned Leonard Packenpaugh that he died November the 12th 1842. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1835. She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor. She further declares that she is old and infirm and has forgotten the time and place of her marriage and for such information she refers to the files in the Pension Office.

Catharine Packenpaugh her mark

We Jeremiah R. Booram and David Davis residents of the town of Lebanon in the County of Warren and state of Ohio upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Catharine Packenpaugh in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. We further declare that we have resided in the said town of Lebanon for 17 years, were well ac-
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quainted with said Leonard Packenpaugh in his lifetime, that he and the said Catharine Packenpaugh lived and cohabited as husband and wife and were reputed as such, that the said Leonard Packenpaugh departed this life about the 12th day of November A.D. 1842, that the said Catharine Packenpaugh has not intermarried but continues the widow of the said Leonard Packenpaugh, and that we have the interest in this claim.

J.R. Booram
David Davis

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me a Notary Public as aforesaid in the day and year above written and I certify that I know affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. And I further certify that the foregoing copy of a Certificate and endorsement thereon were correctly copied from an original Certificate in the possession of the said Catharine Packenpaugh.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial seal on this 5th day of April A.D. 1855
Jas C. Sabin Notary Public for W. Co.
State of Ohio
Warren County [illegible]
I, J.S. Totten Clerk of the Court
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of Common Pleas within and for the county of War-
ren and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the above signature and seal of Jas. C Sabin are genuine, that he was at the time of signing and sealing the above certificate and is now an acting Notary Public within and for the county and state aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and as such is authorized to administer oaths for general purposes, that full faith and credit are due to all of his official acts, and that this court is a court of record of general jurisdiction and that I have no interest (in the claim?) In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Lebanon on this 6th day of April A.D. 1835.
G.S. Patton Clerk
Court Com. Pleas

George N. Frost Atty
Lebanon Ohio

54.934
Catharine Peckenpaugh
Application for
Bounty Land
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Springboro Warren County Ohio
July 30, 1856

Sir:-
Catherine Packinpaugh, widow of Leonard Packinpaugh, private in the Revolutionary War, to whom Bounty Land Warrant No. 27681 for 160 acres, issued 26th day of May 1856 died about twenty days before the warrant was issued leaving no minor heirs.  She left children however who have arrived to their majority.  Is the warrant good to them, if not can it be made so? I should like very much that they could derive a benefit from it, not on my own account for my services in the case are gratuitous, but because they are in necessitous circumstances, one of them being (al.....) idiot. Please answer this at your earliest convenience. 
Respectfully yours
George N. Frost

P.S. Address to this P.O.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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[illegible handwriting]
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3—525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., 19__
In reply to your request of __, received __ for a statement of the military history of Leonard Beckenbaugh or Peckinpaugh [handwritten] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his + [W. 4122 handwritten] (or [crossed out] his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Fall 1781
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 6 mos. [months]
RANK. Pvt. [Private]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. Hullard
COLONEL. Welter
STATE. Md. [Maryland]
Battles engaged in, + Brandywine [handwritten][crossed out]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Frederick Co. Md. [handwritten]
Date of application for pension, Sept 9, 1833 al. [handwritten]
Residence at date of application, Union Co., Ind. [handwritten]
Age at date of application, b. 1760 in Frederick Co. Md. [handwritten]
Remarks: He was the son of Geo. [George] Leonard Beckenbaugh [illegible] Mar. 1786 in Frederick Co. Md. Catharine Shroyer of [illegible] Co. Ohio; he d. [died] in Lebanon, Warren Co. Ohio Nov 12, 1842; she was [illegible] Aug 30, 1848 while res. [residing] in Lebanon, Ohio at 77 yrs. A son Michael lived in Warren Co. Ohio in 1848. Widow d. [died] in May 1856 leaving children names not stated.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
+ service too late for Brandywine – EW
6—2856
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Widow, &c.
File No. 4122
Catharine Backenbaugh
Wid.
Leonard Backenbaugh
Pvt Rev: Wa
Act: Feby. 2d, 48
Index: Vol. A. Page 29
Arrangement of 1870.

1921, Nov. 7 [illegible] to Mrs. Nellie P. Herrin. Letter in W. 836 Henry Wyatt - EW
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No 13817
Catharine Backenbaugh
A
Let. To A.H. Dunlavy
April 26th ‘49
“ Hon Tho [Thomas] Corwin 20 May 1850
“ to same 24 May 1830
Aity July 1838
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27.681 -
Wd [Widow] lives
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Cincinnati (Ohio) [illegible]
Catharine Backenbaugh
Wd [Widow] of Leonard, who was a private Capt. Miller Co to Col Walter Regt. Maryland [illegible]
As Acts March 3d 1843
June 17, 1844
Feb 2d 1848
[illegible] 6 mo [month] private
$20 per Ann. to commence March 4, 1843
Married 1786
He died Nov 12. 1842
To A.H. + J. C. Dunlevy,
Lebanon Ohio
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9028
Ohio, Cincinnati
Catharine Backenbaugh
widow of Leonard who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of June 1857 and sent to A. H. + J. C. Dunlevy
Lebanon Ohio
Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 208
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No. 54.934
Catharine Peckinpaugh's
Bounty Land Claim
Additional
[handwriting too light to read]
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State of Ohio
County of Warren [illegible]
On this 7th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public in and for the County of Warren and State of Ohio, Catharine Peckinpaugh, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical person who made application for Bounty Land about the first of April 1855, under act of Congress approved March 3, 1855, which said application was numbered 54.934 and was suspended for want of proof of record evidence.
She further declares that she is still a Widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of reviving her said suspended application, and asks that a Bounty Land Warrant may issue to her under the act approved March 3. 1855, and the amendatory act thereto, passed and approved during the present session of Congress, (the date of which is not to her known) which dispenses with proof of record evidence.
And for hard proof of the service of her husband Leonard Peckinpaugh, she refers to her said application No. 54.934 and the proof on file in the Pension Department establishing her claim as a pensioner of government.
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We [handwriting too light] and [handwriting too light] residents of Warren County State of Ohio, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Catharine Peckinpaugh in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
[handwriting too light]
[handwriting too light]
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
In testimony I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my notarial seal on the day and year above written
Jas C. Sabin Notary Public for W. Co. O.
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The State of Ohio⎬ Sat
Warren County
V. V.S. Totten
Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas in and 
for said County of State do hereby certify that Jas C. Sabin Esq
whose genuine signature appears to the above certificate
was at that now is an acting Notary Public in and for
Warren County, Ohio duly appointed Commissioned and
qualified and that he is duly authorized to administer
oath for a general purpose to perform all and singular
the duties of that office according to the laws of this
State and that all of his official acts as such are entitled
to full faith and credit and that his signature as
above Jas C Sabin is in his own proper hand writing.
Witness my hand and the official
Seal of said Court at the Court
House in Lebanon County,
Ohio this day of May (illegible)
1856.
J. S. Totten Clerk (illegible)
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Lebanon May 14tt/57
Dear Sir
There is an application 
for a pension by Catharine
Peckinpaugh on file in the
Department which was allowed
last Aug by Comm Edwards
but we declined accepting it
until Congress should act
upon a resolution which was
then pending & which would
increase the amount of Pension
money.  The joint resolution
passed on the 4th of
March last & we wish to
get her certificate allowing as much
as possible under the late Resolution
which we have not yet
been able to get hold of.  I wish
you would attend to getting
it & bring it here, with given
the old lady is very needy
& almost suffering & you will
greatly oblige both her & us by
so doing. Please attend to it
& I will return the complement 
at any time. Get also a copy
of the late resolution & bring with it.
I hope you will at the (illegible) papers
which are in print as well.
yrs truly
A H & J C Dunlevy
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Sept 9
(illegible)

Free
Thos Corwin Me


L Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.
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Lebanon O2 Sept 1839-
Sir 
I enclose papers for a transfer of a pension
all previous here draw at (ilegible).  I know
the applicant in this case I have no doubt
of the truth of all stated in the papers.
Very respectfully
Thos Royton

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Branch State Bank of Indiana
Richmond, 10 mo. 15. 1836.

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Resp
I enclose herewith vouchers of Leonard Backenbaugh, a Revolutionary Pensioner of June 7, 1832 and respectfully apply, at his request, for permission to make him payment of his pension - the last payment to him covering the time to Sept. 4, 1835, since which time more than a year has elapsed.

Respectfully,
Elijah Coffins, Co, hire
Acting for Samuel Merrill
Pension Agent of Indiana
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Catharine Beckinbaum
Cath Beckenbaugh
Pension app.
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Lebanon O. March [illegible]

Sir,

In the matter of Catharine Beckenbaugh
or Peckenpaugh's applicatin for a Pension, as
the widow of Leonard Beckenbaugh, forwarded
t the war department in August 1848, in your letter
of April 26, 1849, you say the proof of service
by Leonard Beckenbaugh is sufficient but
not of the marriage - 1st that it took place priou
to 1794 and 2nd Because a copy of the license
or record of the Church in which the bans
were published, if without license should should a
produced.

I enclose you the additional evidence
of Michael Beckenbaugh of Frederick County
Md who proves that the marriage was solemnized
on the publication of [illegible], more than 
60 years ago, and tho he thinks the church to which
the Pastor belonged her till on [illegible] yet he
knows nothing of the records of the church if any
or whether it was customary to enter marriages
published or rather marriages intended on
their records. It seem to me, with all deference,
that to require us to hunt up such records,
when they could not prove anything unless
it be the publication of banns, would subject
us to a most useless search. But if we must
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attempt it we will comply with the rule of the
department tho it expend the whole of the
old ladys pension. Still if possible we would
wish to avoid this well before that on reflection
it will be seen that whether such record exists
or not it would not make the evidence
more satisfactory. Besides we understand
that in many cases the main entry in the
family bible has been held sufficient. In
Mrs B's case however that [illegible] was destroyed
by fire which consumed the dwelling
some 40 years ago.

Please look at this additional evidence
and let me know the determination of the
department. I hope it will feel satisfied
in sending the Pension warrant in answer
hereto. But if not we must submit, this
to obtain a pension under its rules, in cases
of marriages so collects, is worth the pension 
itself. Yet the old Lady, necessities are
proping well if possible must be relieved
Your se
A H Dunlevy
Atty at Law
Lebanon Ohio

Hon J L Edwards
Pension Office
Wahsington}

P.S. I have taken measures to search thoroughly for the records of
this church - tho I have no doubt the result will be that they cannot
be found still if necessary I will have the evidence of the search forwarded;
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Lebanon Oct. 22,1853.

Sir:

On the 26th alt I received a notice from you that "the claim of Catharine Packenpaugh for boundy land under the act of the 3rd of March 1855, No. 54934, has been examined and suspended." Absence from home and business have prevented an earlier answer.

The fact that Catharine Packenpaugh or Peckinpaugh, which is the correct orthographley of the name, has been a pensioner of government since the 28th day of June 1851, for services rendered by her husband, now deceased in the Revolutionary War, evidence of which was referred to me in her application for bounty land, as recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act of February 2nd 1848, page 332, Vol 4, I trusted would be sufficient proof to obtain a warrant without further evidence. The evidence of service was certainly in the possession of the Department when the Pension was granted her else how did she obtain it; and if there it must be there still.

Mrs. Peckinpaugh is now at an advanced age, her intellect impaired, and it is impossible now for her to remember the facts necessary to establish proof of record. Hence if your decision as to the require-
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ments of the law be correct, it will have the effect of cutting not only her claim, but hundreds of others, who should, if any, be the proper recipients of government gratuity.

Leonard Peckinpaugh, himself, the husband of the applicant, for several years prior to his death, received a pension for the services which his widow now claims a bounty land warrant. He served in the Maryland Line and was at the battle of Brandywine. This is all the family can now recollect of his services. The names of the officers under whom he served are now forgotten, and we are consequently unable to make the proof at present which you require.

I believe it was decided by your predecessor that where proof is on file in the Department in a former case, the same will not be required in applications for bounty land under the late act. For this reason reference was made in Mrs. Peckinpaugh's application to her certificate of Pension, with the hope that the evidence necessary to obtain a pension would be sufficient to obtain a land warrant.

But record evidence is required to substantiate a claim for bounty land, and in support of this requirement reference is made to the 3rd section of the act of which the following is, I believe, a correct copy.

"Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that in no case
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shall any such certificate or warrant be issued for any service less than fourteen days, except where the person shall actually have been engaged in battle, and unless the party claiming such certificate or warrant shall establish this in her right thereto by record evidence of said service.
Now I don't propose to write an argument upon this question but with due deference and respect I will simply ask, is not the production of record evidence her required only of such persons , who have served less than fourteen days and have actually been engaged in battle? I think this is a fair construction of the section and is what was contemplated in the passing of the act. It has however been otherwise decided and I must therefore submit.

Since writing the above I have more carefully examined the Certificate of Pension referred to above and find that the name of the person inserted might be spelt either Packenpaugh or Baekeupaugh. Be it either, the individual who made the application, No 54934, is the same to whom the aforesaid certificate was issued. The name is spelt differently by different members of the family, and the name most commonly used her is spelt and pronounced Peckinpaugh. Should you want the proof of this fact it can be easily produced.

I understand that the original rolls of Genl Wayne's Army were burnt in 1812. Were the Revolutionary rolls also burnt? If so is
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there are authenticated copy and where is it? Will you please answer these question?

Respectfully yours
George W Frost
Atty for
Catharine Peckinpaugh
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(illegible) Jan 9.
Leonard Backenbaugh

Edwards
J.L. Edwards
Pension agent
Washington
City

Hon J. Rariden 
H.R.
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Washington May 9th 1839
Sir
Your views upon examination of the
papers of within named pensioner is respectfully
requested if consistent with official 
duty.
Vry respectfully
Joe Rariden
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22126
Payments to be 
at (illegible)
by Thomas Posey
Agent for paying Pensioners 
in the Agency of
Indiana
(stamp)
Illegible


Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book 6 Vol 7
Page 103 by Danl' Boyd
Clerk
Page 60

WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States
of the 7th June, 1832. Leonard Backenbaugh
of the state of Indiana
who was a private in the Army of 
the Revolution
is entitled to receive twenty dollars
and
0 cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing 
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi
annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in
every year.
Given at the War Office of the United 
States, this 12th day of
October one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and
Countersigned.
Geo. Wm Crump
Commissioner of Pensions
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free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

NW Evans Sept 28
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Indiana Pension Agency
(illegible) in Sept  21 1839

J. L. Edwards 
Comm of Pensions
Sir
Yours of the 11th (illegible) is ? Leonard
Backenbaugh was last paid 4 March 1839 -
Very respectfully
J. D. Fenner
Agency
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City
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Lebanon, O. Sept. 6, 1848
Sir,
Enclosed is the application of
Mrs Catharine Peckenpaugh of this place for the
pension of her deceased husband, under the law of
Feb. 1843. We hope the papers will prove satisfactory.

In answer please address the undersign
who have acted as her attorney, or Mrs Peckenbough
herself, in either case, at Lebanon, Ohio.
Yours &c
A H & J.C. Dunlevy

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City.
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April 23/49
Lebanon Ohio
April 17/49
A. H. Dunlevy
asks attention to
Pension claim of 
Elizabeth Rockinpaugh
⎬
This is the only case on
roll that (illegible) it

Comm of Pensions
Dept. of the Interior
April 23/49
Page 66

Lebanon, O. April 17, 1849
Dear Sir
I regret to trouble you, knowing that you must be
pressed with business in your new office-- but I applied
in August last for a widows pension the relict of an old
Pensioner who died in our town several years ago-- took the
evidence of marriage, death & forwarded the Pension 
certificate of the deceased husband all I am sure perfectly
fair and highly deserving, and I can get no
answer except a circular from Mr Edwards that the
claim is pled and will be attended to in regular
turn. In the mean time the old lady Elizabeth Peckenbaugh, is suffering absent for the
pittance to which she is entitled.

Cannot these claims receive an early attention?
It is at all consistent with the rules of your department
& could urge the consideration of this case or these
ground. The old lady is old -- nearly or quite 80 years
and unless the received this bounty soon, it comes to late.

Be pleased to pardon my apparent importunity
-- the case is a peculiar one and I hope I shall
hear from it soon.
In haste
Yours &c
A.H. Dunlevy

Hon. Thod Ewing Secy
Home Department
Washington City
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J.L.  Edwards Esq
Comms of Pensions
P office
W City
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Senate Chamber W City 15th Apl 1850
Dear Sir
I here the letter of Mr Dunlevy relative to the
petition of Mrs Catharine Perkinpaugh for a pension.
I beg you to return to me the letter of (illegible) With
your answer to the inquiries he makes.

I have only to add, that Mr Dunlevy
is one of the best of men & a sound lawyer.  He
(illegible) what he (illegible). I know Mrs P the petitioner & all her  family. They are poor, but
perfectly honest, even pious people, I am sure
there can be no unfounded claim from them. They
all live in the Village where I reside - I
hope you will find the cave satisfactory-
I Elmer G
yr friend
Tho Corwin

J.L. Edwards Esq
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Washington May 25th 1857.
Hon E Heath
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find a
letter of J C Durnley Esqr in relation to the claim
of Catharine Packenbaurgh for a pension
which came into my hands at a time when
I could not possibly attend to it.

Will you be so kind as to send the copy
of the resolution spoken of in the letter with
the amount due Mrs. P. under it to Mr Durnley 
or myself at Lebanon, Ohio
Very Respectfully
Yours
S.R. Morwin
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Lebanon, Ohio, April 5, 1855.
Dear Sir, 
In your predecessors, the Hon. J. L. Edwards time, and
about the month of August 1880, the application of Catharine
Beckenbaugh, or as more frequently called Peckinpaugh,
widow of Leonard Beckenhaugh, a Revolutionary Pensioner,
for the amount of her husbands pension, during her life, was
granted, and the offer of a certificate thereof entered commencing
at the date of her application which was not until about
5 years after her husbands death. The Hon Lewis D. Campbell, 
having some charge of the matter advised Mrs Peckinpaugh-
to wait the event of a bill which had passed the H. of Reps
and which (illegible) the pension law under which Mrs
Peckinpaugh deserved, so as to give her the pension
from the decease of her husband - and we are informed
that this bill did finally pass during the last session and
has become a law, the we have not been able to get
a copy of it

Mrs Peckinpaugh is a very old lady and
is in great need of the pittance for her comfort and
of possible she would be glad to prevent any
further delay. The object of this letter is to see if there is any
obstacle to the granting of Mrs P's pension from the death
of her husband, under the construction put upon the act, by
the joint resolution which passed the late Congress? The papers
we presume are all on file in your office, and we would
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be glad to hear from you. At great trouble and expense
principally borne by us her marriage was proved, though
more than 60 years ago, and unless she can soon realize
the claim, she cannot live to enjoy or even receive it.

We must therefore trouble you with looking into this
claim as soon as you conveniently can. Mr. Campbell
was to attend to it, but when Congress adjourned he
was probably in too at a hurry to get home to
see to this matter.  If the new law settles the condition 
of the former law under which the application was
made and allows her pension to commence from the
death of the husband, we presume nothing further is 
required to be done-- If no such law, however, was passed
at the late Session Mrs Backenbaugh would of course
accept the certificate offered her by Mr Edwards, the 
it limits her claim to sometime in 1847, and, if recollection
is correct, nearly five years after the death of Mr B. her
husband.

A letter in answer will be thankfully received
by the old lady who lives within a few doors of us.  She
rested to us or our care.
Yours &c
A.H. & J.C. Dunlevy
Lebanon, Ohio

J.E. Heath Esq.
Pension Agent
Washington
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Lehauow May 1, 1856,
Sir,
I enclose the accompanying paper from
information received that Congress
has amended
the Bounty Land act of March 3, 1855 (illegible)
with proof of record evidence. I have not
seen the amendment nor do I know its
provisions. The applicant had given up all
effort of prosecuting her claim until I informed
her of the amendment as it is impossible at
this late day to get data sufficient to find the
evidence required under the law as it originally
passed.
Respectfully Yours
George W Frost
Atty.

To the Comms. of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
W. Fort
Atty.