Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34997, for John Mc Cauley, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Continental
Penn

McCauley, John
or
McCanley

NUMBER

S. 34997

CONTENTS
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3509
Maryland Roll

[4 or LL}
John McCauley
Capt Slough
Private

Pennsylvania Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 17th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of October 1818 
and sent to John Moriarty
Baltimore

Arrears to 4th of Septemr 1818
4- 10/30  36.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819. 48.
$84.00

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

1775
Seven years
Baltimore County
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County

On the 17th day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, before me the Subscriber, Chief Judge of Baltimore County Court, personally appears John McCauley, who make Oath on the Holy Evangelists, that he served in the Army of the United States, in the course of the revolutionary War - that in the Month of July 1775, he enlisted at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the Company commanded by Captain William Slough of the 42nd Regiment, Light Infantry Pennsylvania Line, under the Command of Colonel Hartley; that he was immediately marched to to the River Delaware, afterwards stationed at [illegible] Fort, was at the Battle of Brandywine German Town & Munmouth.  Subsequently stationed with the Army encamped at the White Plains, which watched the movements of the Enemy at New youk, was from thence marched to virginia.  attended at the investment and Capture of Cornwallis, and so continued in the service untill the end of the War. and being then of the company of Captain Noons of said Regiment and Colonel.  he was in course discharged, that in said service he received several wounds, and is in consequence thereof, ever since blind of his right eye and that now being grown old, he from his reduced circumstances greatly needs the assistance of
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his Country for support -
Sworn in open Court before
[signed on right side] Walter Dorsey

State of Maryland Baltimore County viz I hereby certify that The Honorable Walter Dorsey Esquire before whom the aforgoing Deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of sodoing Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Maryland and of Baltimore County Court duly commissioned and sworn,
In Testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and seal of my
office this Seventeenth day of Apr
Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
Wm Gibson Clk Pallo Coty Crt

[words on vertical bottom of page faded]
The Judge must certify that the claimant [illegible]
circumstances & that he is satisfied that the claimant
 served as stated in his declaration.


[signature signed vertically on right bottom of page] John McCauley
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Admitted
To John Moriarty
Balt'o
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Judge of Baltimore
I William Dorsey Chief County Court, do hereby Certify that it appears to my Satisfaction, that John McCawly named in the annexed declaration made and sworn to before me on the 17th day of April 1818, did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in said annexed declaration, against the common Enemy, for the term of nine months, and longer, on the continental Establishment, and also, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony confers and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the called Act of Congress in the case made and provided - September 29th 1818.
[signed on bottom right] Walter Dorsey
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August 9, 1934.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/ady
John McCauley or McCanley
S. 34997

Miss Anna Louise Closterman
Wilmington
Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to one
John McCauley, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for
pension, S.34997, based upon his military service in
that war.

The date and place of birth of John McCauley or
McCanley are not shown and no reference is made to his
parents.

He enlisted in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in July
1775, served as private in Captains William Slough's
and Noon’s Pa. Companies, and in Colonel Hartley's Regiment; was in
the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth and
at the capture of Cornwallis and discharged at the close
of the war. He received wounds in service and in
consequence thereof lost the sight of his right eye.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
in Baltimore County, Maryland, on April 17, 1818.
There are no family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

[left margin]
Next time
use as in 
pencil, as neither
Captain
can be verified
as of Hartley’s
Regt. 
MMFH


[right margin]
Date of death not on. AB
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34997
Rev INVALID.
File No.34997

John McCanley
Pri. Rev War

Act:18th March 1884
Index: -- Vol. 9, Page 264
(Arrangement of 1870.)

1917 Sept. 6 Mrs. J.J. McQuinn
1934 Aug. 9 Hist. to Anna Louise
Closterman. ADY
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Wilmington
Ohio
July 24/34

U. S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir
In Brumbaugh's a/d story
of Maryland, I came across
this notice in the list of
Pensioners - John McCauley
Private, Pa. line (Jan. 1820
P. 347) If you will please
send me a copy & does it
give name of wife & children.
I will pay whatever
charges there are.

Respectfully
Anna Louise Closterman

{circle stamp}
REC’D
JUL 25 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM 4
[illegible]
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Apartment 23
#557 N. 124th St
New York NY, 8-16-17

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Will you kindly send complete data
concerning one Jno. McCanly, listed
 as Private Penn
line Act of 1868. Baltimore Co., Md.
And oblige
Yours Respectfully
Mrs. J.J. McCanly Quinn
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Rev. War Section.
September 6, 1917.

Mrs. J. J. McCanly Quinn,
Apartment 23, 557 W. 124"" Street,
New York, N. Y.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 16"" ultimo,
you are advised that a careful search of the Revolutionary War
records of this Bureau fails to show a claim for pension
or bounty land on file for any soldier named John McCanley.
The pensioner of Baltimore County, Maryland,
Act 1818, is John McCauley or McCanley, This Bureau is unable
to ascertain whether the third letter of his name is u or n
as he did not sign his name to his application for pension
and it is illegibly written in the body of said paper.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.