Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8525, for Patrick B Purdy, Pennsylvania
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Service                                       Number
Penn.      Purdy, Patrick B.          R.8525
                          Jane
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8525

P.O.  Jane Purdy

Service: ______,18
Enlisted: _____, 18

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

______Recognized.   _____ Contract.
____Cert of Dis.   Searched for ______,18
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No. 1209
Jane Purdy
widow of Patrick B. 
Richland Co. Ohio
Thos. H. Ford ap 23/53
Act of July 29, 1818
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Nov. 10, 02

Affidavit of Jane Purdy
widow of Patrick B. Purdy
Ohio

Act 29 July 1848.

Colo

If this examination is made in two weeks I wish to  be amended here at Washington otherwise (??)

Tho. H. Ford
Attorney

Mansfield, Ohio
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State of Ohio
Richland County ss

    On this fifth day of October A.D. 1832, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Jany Purdy, a resident of the County aforesaid, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, and on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 29th day of July A.D. 1848: that she is the widow of Patrick B. Purdy who was a private in the revolutionary War, and served from three to six months; (she thinks) in Captain Andrew Thompson's company and in Gen Potter's Brigade of Pennsylvania troops.  Her said husband went out from Hopewell Township, York Co. Pennsylvania, in 1776 or in 1777: Benji Savage and Thomas Dickson were privates in the same company, and James Leper and James Proudfoot in same mess: She further declares that she was lawfully married to said Patrick B. Purdy in the county of York, State of Pennsylvania, on or about the 22nd day of January A.D. 1787 by rev. James Clark, at the residence of Samuel Harper in Hopewell township; that her husband, the aforesaid Patrick B. Purdy on the 19th day of November A.D. 1825, at the County of Richland, State of Ohio died at the age of 67 years: the she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but said the marriage took place previous to the first day of January A.D. 1800 vis. at the time above stated.  She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
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                                         Jane Purdy
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State of Ohio
Richland County ss

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of October A.D. 1852, and I do hereby certify that the within named June Purdy who has made the foregoing affidavit is a highly credible person, and is the identical person and of the age the therein represents herself to be, as I (??) believe, and further that she is prevented, by bodily infirmity from appearing before a court of record in order to make her foregoing declaration.  Given under my hand and seal the day and year above written.      
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                                Robert Barret
                                Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Richland County ss

I Calvin A. Crowinger, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Robert Barnett Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn: that his signature thereto is genuine, and that he is a person duly authorized by law to administer oaths.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court(which is a court of record having general jurisdiction) at Mumsfield, in said county this 5th day of November A.D. 1852

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                                    C.A. Crowinger Clerk
                               By Adam S. Higgins Deputy