Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3479, John Fee, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.

Fee, John
Jane

NUMBER
R.3479
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CONTENTS
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                        A
To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
                The Petition Colonel John Fee of Huntingdon County
                         Respectfully therewith

     That your Petitioner entered into the service of his country in January 1777, marched to Philadelphia enrolled in Captn. Thomas Clugage’s company, and marched from thence in the Regiment commanded by Col John Piper thru[sic] Jersey to a place called Baskin[sic] Ridge where they were received by Lord Sterling— That a party of the British having fortified themselves at Quibbletown. Captn. McDonald and Cap. Miller were ordered to select twenty men and attack them and bring off the cattle which they had collected— That your Petitioner, with others, was selected by Captn McDonald who attacked the British about break of day and succeeded finally in taking and bringing off about four hundred head of cattle and twenty nine horses and a number of sheep which they carried off to our army at Princeton— That before they left Baskin[sic] Ridge, their tour being about to expire, and no other troops arriving to take their place, a call was made to  know who would agree to serve longer. That your Petitioner with several more of Clugage’s company agreed to stay till the arrival of other troops, and did remain as long as it was thought necessary and were finally discharged in Philadelphia and reached home (near the town of Huntingdon) the last of March or first of April following having spent fully three months in said extended tour.
     That soon after, in the course of the same spring, a large party of Torys[sic] to the number of about ninety, started off to join the Indians at Kittanning with the intention of bringing them in to murder the inhabitants on the frontier— That as soon as the alarm at this attempt was raised, a party of militia to the number of about one hundred and fifty was gathered together by Col Buchanan of Lewistown, Col McAlevy of Stone creek and Col Jack of Frankstown and marched across the Allegheny mountain and halted at the waters of the Susquehanna, where they sent [inserted:out] spies, five of whom were shot by two Indians. That your Petition[sic] was one of said party during the whole of said campaign, and returned with the company to Huntingdon having spent between two and three weeks in said tour— and suffered much and endured many privations, their provisions having run out on the way— That your Petitioner was called on and turned out at any alarm during that eventful period the particulars of [inserted: all of] which he cannot now call to mind. That he turned out and marched in a scout down Kissinger's Mills at the
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time of the massacre of Mr Eaton— And in Another up the Raystown branch when Mr Elder was taken and John Plummer killed, who he assisted to bury. And in another with Capt. John Shaver to Hairt {Heart] valley where they discovered ^ and took several stands of arms secreted by the Torys [sic] - And in another up the Little Juniata after the murder of ____ Green. And in another up the Narrows, after the massacre of the Donnellys - And in another to the foot of Allegheny where it was reported a party of Indians were lurking— That your Petitioner’s Father and mother and family were Forted[sic] for about five years during that period at Carmichaels Fort ^ at the mouth of [Augh??] and Prigmore’s Fort at Mill Creek —That he feels perfect safety in stating that he was in actual service four months and much longer: that he has no knowledge of any of his companions in arms who are now living except John Patton Esq who was in the Regiment with him in the tour to the Jerseys in 1777— That your Petitioner is now in the seventy seventh year of his age, is poor and in need of the assistance of his country . He therefore prays your Honourable bodies to grant him such remuneration for his services as you in your wisdom may think right. 
              & he will pray &c ~  John Fee

Huntingdon County Ss
          Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said county personally came Col. John Fee the Petitioner above named who being sworn according to law doth depose and say that the facts set forth in the foregoing Petition are true to the best of his knowledge belief and recollection-
   Sworn & subscribed the 10th day    John Fee
   of March 1836 before
              D. Budy 
[sideways]
14.320.  [underlined: Jan 30 / 57]
[D ??] proof of
Jane Fee 
       and John
Cap Triplett
   Penn
[Presented?]
John Scott
Huntingdon
              Pa
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County } Ss

         On this 31st day of December 1850, personally appeared before James Gwin Associate Judge of the court of common Pleas Jane Fee, a resident of Huntingdon county Penna. aged Eighty-one Years, who, being first duly Sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838. entitled “An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows”. That she is the widow of John Fee who was a private in a volunteer Regiment commanded by Col. John Piper in the Revolutionary War, and served in New Jersey in the Year 1777. The particulars of which service together with other services are more fully set forth in his own declaration dated March 10th 1836. hereto annexed marked A.
         She further declares that she was married to the said John Fee on the 16th day of June Seventeen hundred and ninety one. that her husband the aforesaid John Fee, died on the 26 day of August Eighteen hundred and forty five. that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz, at the time above stated.
                                   Jane Fee
  
   Sworn to and subscribed  }
on the day and Year above written. }
before
      [underlined: James Gwin]

I James Gwin the ASsociate Judge before whom the above declaration was made do certify that Jane Fee the Affiant is a very old woman and unable from bodily infirmity to attend in Open Court 
        [underlined: James Gwin]
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I, Theodore H. Cremer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County, State of Pennsylvania do certify that James Gwin
before whom the foregoing declaration was made and whose name is subscribed in his own proper handwriting is an Associate Judge of the said Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and as such authorized by law to administer oath.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand and the seal of said Court this
24th day of January in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and fifty one,
Theo H. Cremer
Proty

Huntingdon County SS
Before me a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County personally came Michael Maguire, a Person of good character and worthy of belief who being sworn according to law doth depose and say: that he is now
near eighty three years of age and upwards: that he was acquainted  with John Fee in his lifetime, and knew him from the year seventeen hundred and eighty-six until his death.
that the said John Fee died on the 26 day of August eighteen hundred and forty-five, leaving to survive him his widow Jane fee, who this affiant knows was married to the said John Fee in the year seventeen hundred and
ninety-one; that said John Fee and Jane Fee lived
together as husband and wife from the said year in which they were married until the death of the said John Fee, and that the said Jane Fee has not since married.      
[signature] Michael Maguire

Sworn and subscribed this 11th}
day of January AD. 1851            }
before me                                  }
John Porter [signature]
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Rev. War Section.
[initials]

August 19, 1930.

Mrs. C. R. Swanson,
224 N. Clinton St.
Albia, Iowa.

Madam:

In reply to your letter of the 5" ultimo, you are advised that in the papers in the pension claim Rejected File No. 3,479, it is alleged that John Fee was enrolled at Philadelphia, in January 1777, in Captain Thomas Cluggage's Company, Colonel John Piper's Regiment, was discharged the following March or April and returned home to Huntington, Pennsylvania. Also that he turned out against the Indians and Tories on many alarms. It is not stated that he served during the War of 1812.
Soldier married June 16, 1791, Jane, whose maiden name is not stated. He died August 26, 1845 aged about eighty-five years. He was referred to as Colonel John Fee, but no explanation is given of said title.
His widow Jane applied for pension December 31, 1850, while living in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-one years, but her claim was rejected on the ground of no proof of six months actual military service as required by the pension laws.
Very Respectfully,
[handwritten F D Byington]
Acting Commissioner.
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[A file jacket; preprinted on the right side but partially cut off; handwritten notes on the left side]

P.O.		Jane Fee
Service		wid. Of John

Enlisted:          	, 18
Discharged:		, 18

[A stamp “REJECTED” diagonally across the above two lines]

Application filed:		, 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.

__________Recognized.	__________ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. 	Searched for __________, 18

1912 May 7. Hist. to Mrs. G. H. Dern
1920 Aug. 19.  Hist: to Mrs. C. R. Swanson   awd
see her letter [Sur??] 6213. Geo. J. Fee. War 1812
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14,320
Jane Fee,
widow of John
Penna.

Act July 7, '38

Rejected, see letter to John Scott, May 8/51

3479

Reg. 8 Mar 55 1864 80
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]    

Blair County SS

Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, came Mrs Nancy Adams who being sworn according to law sayeth that she is now upwards of Eighty _ years of age, that she was acquainted with John Fee in his lifetime and knew him from the year Seventeen Hundred Eighty Six or Seven years until the time of his death, that he died on the 26 day of August A D. 1845 leaving to survive him his widow Jane Fee: 

that this deponent was present at the marriage of the said Jane Fee and John Fee, that they were married on June 16 1791 by Thomas Wilson Esquire a Justice of the Peace, that they lived together from that time until the time of his death as husband and wife and that the said Jane has not since married. 

She further states that to her knowledge John Fee was a soldier in the Revolutionary war as stated in his own declaration hereto annexed. 

sworn and subscribed before  }             her
me January 14th A. D. 1851    }    Nancy X Adams
                                                              mark
Saml Smith

[A round, illegible seal obscures parts of the prothonotary’s certification]

State of Pennsylvania    }
                    County SS  } 

I George W Johnston Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Saml Smiths... before whom the above affidavit purports to have taken, was at the time of taking thereof & now is a Justice of the peace duly [illegible] commissioned & sworn according to the constitution & laws of this Commonwealth & that his acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit, as well in Courts of Justice [illegible], & that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be the signature of said Justice is genuine

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Hollidaysburg this 14th day of January A.D. 1851.

G W Johnston Prothy
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Huntingdon County ss

Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County personally came James M Bell Esquire and Geo Jackson, who being sworn according law do severally depose and say that they have been intimately acquainted for many years with the within Petitioner Col. John Fee and that they believe him to be worthy of credit, that they believe his statement to be true, and that he is universally reputed by those who have known him to have been in the Revolutionary war and to have been a brave and meritorious soldier---- 

Sworn & subscribed              }         J. M. Bell
the 10th day March 1836       }         Geo Jackson

Jno. Crisswell 


Huntingdon County ss 

We the subscribed Justices of the Peace in and for said County Do Certify that we are well acquainted with the above named James M. Bell Esquire and Geo Jackson, and that they are respectable men.  Given under our hands and seals at the Borough of Huntingdon the 16th day of March 1836

Jno. Crisswell      [The word “Seal” circled] 
Daniel Africa
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]   

We the under signed Cittizens of Huntingdon County who being well acquainted with John Fee for many years who is the within Petitioner and they believe him to be worthy of credit that they believe his statement to be true and that he is universonally reputed by those who has known him to have been in the Revolutionary war and he is know [now] old and poor and without means of support we do hereby certify to the above statement

March 21st 1836         D. McMurtrie Jr
                                     R Williams

We Henry L. M’Connell and George MCulloch do certify that Major David McMurtery and Col Robert Williams who have certifyed [certified] and subscribed to the foregoing certificate are residents of said County of Huntingdon and are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit

we also concur in the statement with them from the best information we have received that the petitioner is poor and without means of support

March 21st 1836             George McCulloch
                                        H. L. MConnell

[written vertically beside signatures]

McCulloch 514
[Illegible] Col John Fee
[Illegible]
[end of vertical writing]

[sentence illegible due to fold in paper]
..Col John Fee..Of thirty years.  He has during this time [sustained] a good character, in whose truth implicit confidence may be placed & is now old & poor

J Warnash
[illegible] 21 March 1836
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J.S.B           8-871    2

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
RECORD DIVISION

Briefed by    R.S.M.
Orig.
Cert.             Old War Inv. file no 24549
Claimant
Soldier         John Fee
Service         2nd Lieut 22 U.S. Inft

No _____ claim, Service record _____ 191
                                     __________, Clerk.
No claim, Alph'b record _____ 191
                                      __________, Clerk.

REMARKS:        No other Old War than above
No 1812

Inquiry was for a Col John Fee who served in Rev War & War 1812 from Pa.  So I send Rev. 
War File 3479, John who was called Col.

The above noted Lieut of 22 Inf 1812 was alive in 1848 so not same person as the Rev. War soldier. [aw]
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May 8, 1851 to John Scott

"In appl[ication] to Leg. of Penn he claimed 4 mos. hence he never applied to this office & cannot be granted less than 6 mos.
 total absence of proof in very essential point in his case etc, etc"
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CONSOLIDATED MERCUR GOLD MINES COMPANY    
P. 0. BOX 1418

JOHN DERN, PRESIDENT
HUBBARD W. REED, VICE-PRESIDENT
GEO. H. DERN, TREASURER AND GEN’L MANAGER
A. REEVES, SECRETARY

Salt Lake City, Utah
April 29, 1912.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Sir:-

In connection with my application for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, I am endeavoring to get the necessary proof of the service of my ancestor, Col. John Fee.  Col. Fee commanded a Pennsylvania regiment in that portion of the army which was under the direct command of Washington, but I have no more detailed information than this of his service.  It has been suggested to me that I could probably get the desired record from your office.  If so, will you please furnish it to me?  Any fees in connection with the search, or for such certified copies of the record as I may need, I will be glad to remit when you let me know the amount.

Yours respectfully

Mrs. G. H. Dern
By G.H.D.

36 H Street 
Salt Lake City, Utah.