Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2109-100, for Joshua Swan, Pennsylvania
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Service                                  Number

Continental    Swan, Joshua  B.L.Wt. 2109-100

Penn residence of heirs in 1835.

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Adornmach C.H.  Apr. 20 1835.

Rcvd. of the Hon. Scy of War a military warrant No. 2109 for 100 acres to Christian Swan father's only heir of Joshua Swan private Pa. Line, forwarded by mail & dated 11th April 1835.

V. E. S. Ellisath
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Joshua Swan

No. 2109.
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1932 Feb. 11 - Hist. to Hedllie Baker - Letter in case John Swan, B.L.Wt. 2058-400.

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State of Pennsylvania, County of Lebanon ss
Personally appeared Christina Swan before me a Justice of the Peace for said county known to me to be a credible person and made oath in due form of law that she is the daughter and one of the heirs at law of Joshua Swan who was a soldier in Maylans Dragooners in the Pennsylvania line in the Revolutionary War & that he died in 1819 leaving this deponent William Swan, Elizabeth Wagner & William Swan a & only heirs as his children & only heirs at law and that William Swan has been absent from this Commonwealth and unheard from more than seven years. He is supposed to be dead & that Lidia Swan, Catharina Swan and John Swan are the children and only  heirs at law of said William Swan son of said Joshua Swan deceased aforesaid.

Sworn and subscribed before me
this 29th day of November A.D. 1834.
C.C. Bieckel Judge

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Christena X Swan 
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Personally appeared before me Peter Levangood & John Burns.  Two credible and disinterested witnesses and made oath in due form of Law that they were well acquainted with Joshua Swan a revolutionary soldier who died about 1810 and that they were well acquainted with Christena Swan, Elizabeth Wagner and William Swan who were reputed and believe to be the children and only heirs at law of said Joshua Swan. That the two first are living and that William Swan has been absent for the state & unheard from for more than seven years & that Lidia Swan, Catharina Swan, Mary Swan, Johnathan Swan and Elizabeth Swan & John Swan are the children and only heirs at law of William Swan, son of Joshua Swan, whereas are orphans court held at Lebanon in and  for said county of Lebanon, Pa. John Shepler was in due for of law appointed guardian this 4th day of November AD 1834 for the said Lidia Swan, Catharina Swan, Mary Swan, Johnathan Swan, Elizabeth Swan & John Swan minor children of said William Swan was a son of Joshua Swan deceased. 

Sworn & subscribed before me this 29 day of November AD 1834.
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C.C. Bickel Judge

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Peter Levangood

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John Brown
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State of Pennsylvania the county of Lebanon ss

I John Uhler Register for the probate of wills & granting letter of Armunster in and for said; do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence was this day addressed to prove that Christina Swan, Elizabeth Wagner and William Swan were children and only heirs at law of Joshua Swan deceased formerly a soldier of the Pennsylvania Line in the war of the Revolution, and that Lidia Swan, Catharine Swan, Mary Swan, Johnathan Swan, Elizabeth Swan & John Swan are the children & only heirs at law of the said William Swan, son of said Joshua Swan deceased. And whereas are at orphans court held at Lebanon in & for said county of Lebanon on the 4th day of November 1834 before the Judges there of - John Shipler was duly appointed guardian of the persons & estate of Lidia Swan, Catharina Swan, Mary Swan, Jonathan Swan, Elizabeth Swan & John Swan all of whom are yet in their minority & children of said Willaim Swan, who is supposed to be dead, the said Christina & Elizabeth still living.

Witness my hand and the seal of the register Office at Lebanon this first day of December AD 1834.

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John Uhler regst.


Jonathan Swan
Pa Line


Nu. @ Dec 20, 1834
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I certify that I was well acquainted with Joshua Swan and know that he was a soldier of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War and know that he served in Maylans Dragoons until the war ended, I know that he was the same Joshua Swan who was the father of Christina Swan & that he died about the year 1810.
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Peter Levengood

State of Pennsylvania
County of Lebanon

This day Peter Levengood personally appeared before me & made oath in due form of law to the above certificate & I certify that he is a man of good character. Witness my hand and a justice of the peace this 29th day of November AD 1834.

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? Bickel Just. of P.

I certify that I was well acquainted with Joshua Swan and know that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War in the Pennsylvania Line and know that he served in Maylan's Dragoons until the war ended and I know that he was the same Joshua Swan who was the father of Christina Swan and others that he died about the year 1810.

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John Burns

State of Pennsylvania
County of Lebanon 

This day John Burns personally appeared before me this day John Burns made oath in due form of law to the above certificate & I certify that he is a man of truth & good character.  Witness my hand as a Justice of the Peace this 29th day of November AD. 1834.

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? Bickel Just. of P.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Lebanon

I Christina Swan heir at law of Joshua Swan do upon my oath declare and testify that to the best of my knowledge and belief that the said Joshua Swan did enlisted in the year unknown for the term of during the war & served in the Maylan's Dragoons of the Pennsylvania Line and that he continued in the service until the war ended.  I further declare that I never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to said Joshua Swan on the part of the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever therefore know all men by these presents the I Christina Swan aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Vespasian Ellis of Accomack County Virgina to be my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States  a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purpose above expressed.
Witness my hand and seal this 29th November AD 1804.
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                            Christina  x  Swan
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? Bickel Jud. of P.

Personally appeared the above named Christina Swan subscriber to the forgoing declaration and in my presence and acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto subscribed to be her act and deed witness my hand & seal this 29th day of November AD 1834.

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? Bickel Jud of P.
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Hallie Baker                     Joshua Swan
                                       B.L.Wt. #2109-100
                                       Feb. 15/32
                                       EEL

     The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file for bounty land based upon the military services of Joshua Swan in the War of the revolution.

    Joshua Swan enlisted, date and place not stated, served as a private in Colonel Moylan's Regiment of Dragoons and was discharged at the close of the war, length of service no shown.

    He died in 1810, place not stated, leaving as his only heirs two daughters, Christina Swan and Elizabeth, who married -- Wagner, and a son, William Swan.  The name of soldier's wife is not stated.

    In 1834, said William Swan had not been heard from in seven yers and was supposed to be dead.  William's heirs were Lidia, Catharine, Jonathan, Mary, Elizabeth and John Swan, all minors in 1834.   The name of William's wife is not given.

    On November 29, 1834, Christina Swan applied for the bounty land that was due on account of the services of her father, Joshua Swan, in the revolutionary War.  She applied in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in behalf of herself and the other heirs named above.

    Warrant Number 2109 for one hundred acres of bounty land was issued April 11, 1835, in behalf of the heirs of Joshua Swan, as named above.


Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.