Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,784, Robert Buchanan, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Buchanan, Robert
NUMBER
S. 40,784
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3788.
Pennsylvania Roll

Robert Buchanan, 4
Capt Bearley , private.
Penn line 77 - 1 year
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 14th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of October 1818 and forwarded to John Williamson Carlisle. Cumberland Co Pa

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819
37.60
48 00
$85.60
4 months 21/30
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
Mifflin Pa
Cumberland, County

Certification sent to John Williamson, Esq.
19 September, 1820. Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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40784
Revy INVALID. aw
File No. 40,784
Robert Buchanan
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 5, Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cumberland County
and State of Pennsylvania ss.

Be it remembered that on the fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me Jacob Hendel one of the Judges ^of the court of common pleas in and for the County of Cumberland in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared Robert Buchanan of Mifflin Township in the said County of Cumberland and a resident citizen of the United States, and being duly sworn according to law doth and did say and declare, that in the beginning of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven, he entered into the Army of the United Colonly, raised for the defence of American liberty and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof invasion thereof, by enlistment as a private soldier at Philadelphia in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Kearsley, it being one of three Companies raised in Pennsylvania, to be attached to such regiment as the Commander in Chief should ^direct (though such regiment should not be of the Pennsylvania line) and at the same time said companies should in every other respect be considered as troops of the Pennsylvania line, that accordinly with said Company he was in the first instance attached to the sixth Regiment of the Virginia line commanded
by Colonel Hendrix, that in the fall of the next ensuing year after his said enlistment with the said Company he was transfered to the fifth regiment of the Jersey line commanded by Colonel Spencer, that in the beginning of the year next ensuing the year last mentioned with the said Company he was transfered to regiment commanded by Colonel William T Malcolm called the New York State regiment
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and that when said last mentioned regiment arrived at Wyoming in Pennsylvania, with the said Company he was transfered to the Eleventh Regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Colonel Adam Hubly and continued to serve in the said last mentioned ^regiment and the company aforesaid untill in the Winter of the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty when by order of Congress the Pennsylvania line and with it this deponent ^was discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey and that his written discharge has been long since lost - That this deponent served as a private soldier in the Army of the United against the common enemy as aforesaid from the beginning of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven untill in the winter of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty the period of his discharge as stated above from the said Army. That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support, and that he hath no pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge and if any such exists do hereby fully and entirely release the same to the United states.
his mark [hand drawn O]  Robert Buchanan
Sworn and subscribed before me this fourteenth day of April 1818
Jacob Hendel
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Pennsylvania
Robt Buchanan
3787
March 1819
CM
John Williamson Esq
Carlisle
Pa
19 Sept 1820
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Cumberland County State of Pennsylvania ss
On this 8th day of August AD 1820 personally apeared in open Court of Record for said County, the same Court proceeding to the course of Common law having jurisdiction unlimited in point of Amount and keeping a record of its proceedings Robert Buchanan aged (to the best of his knowledge sixty eight years or more resident in Mifflin Township in said County of Cumberland who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows Viz he enlisted in the independent Company at the time commanded by Captain Samuel Kearsley in the year 1777 in which company he served in the Sixth Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Hendricks and after the resignation of Captain Kearsley he served under several other captains in different Regiments untill he was legally discharged in the year AD 1781 when serving in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col Adam Hubley and that he did make declaration of his services on the 14th day of April AD 1818 and received a pension from the United states the date of the certificate of which is 21st of October 1818 And I do 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 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 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 have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedue of the real and personal property owned by the affd. Robert Buchanan two Acres of Land near the North Mountain with a small house and stable thereon. an anual pension from the State of Pennsylvania of Forty Dollars
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Two Milch Cows and one Calf 
Five small hogs 
Four Sheep 
A few pot and necessaries for Cooking 
his
Robert Buchanan
mark
 Valuation of the above property exclusive of the pension Seventy nine Dollars by the Court 
Isa Graham 
The said Buchanan likewise owes the following amount viz
To Robert Buchanan Junr fifty Dollars $50- 
To Robert Peebles thirty Dollars & thirty six cents 30.36 
To George Knouse & John Laughlin June & other Sundries 30 
Total $110.36 
The declarant become indebted the above sum purchasing the above mentioned lot 
his 
Robert Buchanan 
mark
The declarants occupation was a labourer but by reason of a tree falling on him 28 years past and his advanced age he is wholly unable to pursue it being very lame and dim of sight and was always supported for he received the hurt from the tree by the Township untill he received a pension he has a wife residing with him named Elizabeth aged near about fifty years to the best of his knowledge and supposed by him not to be able to support himself by reason of bodily  infirmity and no other of a family 
Sworn to and declared      his 
 on the 8th day of August  Robert Buchanan
 1820 before                                        mark
Isa Graham
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Cumberland County}
 I Robert McCoy, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereunto annexed are truly copied from the Record of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is seventy nine dollars exclusive of the pension .
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this 17th day of August 1820
Robt McCoy Prothy
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of Roll 
Robert Buchanan of Mifflin Township Pa priv- 14 Apl 1818 
To John Williamson Carlisle Cumberland --- admitted Penna Roll 

[illegible upside down text]
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I Jacob Hendel of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of  Cumberland do hereby certify, that it satisfactorily appears to me that the said Robert Buchanan, now residing in Mifflin township in the said County of Cumberland served in the revolutionary war as is set forth in his deposition hereto annexed against the common enemy.  This which together  therewith the affidavit do respectfully transmit to the Secretary of the war department. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
Jacob Hendel  {ink reproduction of seal}

Cumberland County}
State of Pennsylvania}
 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 Jacob Hendel 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 and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas now is, [an acting Justice of the Peace LINED OUT], 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 fourteenth 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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Honble Secy of War Carlisle April 16, 1818 
Sir 
If it be thought proper the certificate of the within named applicant being placed on the pension list can be forwarded to me at this place in case his application be allowed, and I will have it  immediately put into his hands- 
Jno. Williamson