Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 884, Hugh Black, Penn.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Black, Hugh
NUMBER  R. 884
CONTENTS:  blank
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REJECTED
(3-223)
No. 884
----------, Ex'r.

OLD WAR INVALID.
Hugh Black
P.O. Ky.
Service: 
Enlisted: , 18.
Discharged:  18.
Application filed:  18.
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney: 
P.O. 
-------Recognized.  ----------Contract.
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Kty
Hugh Black
884
Hugh Black
Not entitled to a pension under the act of the 18th March 1818 - the flying camp in which he states to have swerved, was not on the continental establishment.
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Mercer Circuit Sct
September Term 1820
Hugh Black produced into Court & swore to his written Statement Schedule 7c. as followeth State of Kentucky Mercer County I Hugh Black of said County & State do hereby state on oath for the purpose of of obtaining a pension from the United States under the act of Congress
parted the 18th day of March 1818 to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval Service of the United States during the revolutionary war that I am at this time Sixty five years of age that in the month of July
1776 I march in Capt McClellands Company of Militia from York County & State of Pensylvania to Perth Amboy in the State of New Jersey when sometime in the month of September in the same year I enlisted for and during the war in the Company of Capt David Wilson & Col Kennedy 2d Pensylvania Regt called & known by the name of Flying Camp and that I was a corporal in sd. Company and was shortly after Stationed at Fort Washington on New York Island when on the 16th day of Novr in the same year I was taken prisoner with the Troops of said Fort and conferred in a prison ship Called the Grosvenor in East River where I was detained a prisoner about three months and suffered every kind of privation & distress from Hunger & want of Clothing and was then parolled and returned again to Pensylvania where I remained in readiness to perform service as soon as I was Exchanged but did not
recover from my sickness for more than nine months that I have no recollection of being exchanged that sd. Corps & Regt called the Flying Camp were Regular Soldiers in the Continental Army engaged in the service of the United States & I considered myself in service agreeable to my Enlistment until Exchanged that
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I am now old and in a great degree helpless and so reduced in my circumstances that I stand in great nead of the assistance of my Country for support and I hereby release all other claims to a pension from the U. States & I Hugh Black do hereby solemnly Sware that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or any other way whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in Trust for me any property securities contracts or Debts due me nor have I any other income besides what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed that I have a wife but no children under age to assist me so help me god A schedule of Hugh Blacks whole Estate & income
One old ax $100
One staff $.04
Hugh Black
State of Kentucky Mercer County Viz
I Francis McMurdie of sd County & State do hereby State on Oath that I am well acquainted with the above named Hugh Black and that I know that Hugh Black Marched from York County Pensylvania the latter end of July 1776 in Capt McClelands Company to Join the United States Army in the State of New Jersey & I saw him when he returned from the prison ship and he continued along time unwell as from appearance he had been nearly starved to death I helped to take care of him & often saw
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him at my Fathers house that I know him at this time to be very poor man and in great need of assistance from his Country for support so help me god
Frs. McMurdy
To which the said McMurdy made Oath in open Court which Court is a Court of record Ordered therefore that the same be recorded copied and certified to the Secretary at War
State of Kentucky Mercer Circuit Sct
I Thomas Allin Clerk of the County Court of the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing statement in writing and Schedule Affidavit & order are copied from the Record and files in my office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my
office this 13th day of October 1820
Tho Allin
Kentucky 
I William L. Kelly one of the Circuit Judges for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and presiding judge in the Mercer Circuit Court do hereby certify that Thomas Allin whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is Clerk of the Mercer Circuit Court, and that his said Certificate is in due form
Given under my hand this 23 day of Novr 1820
William L Kelly