Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,135, for John Perry, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.

Perry, John
Margaret

NUMBER
R.8135
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Jany 2/36
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Pension Office
January 2, 1857

Sir
  I return the petition of the son of Mrs. Margaret Perry of Iowa who is claiming a pension on account of the alleged service of her husband John Perry in the War of the Revolution and have the honor to state that the claim is not only unsupported by any direct evidence.  It has been certified by some witnesses that the claims to have been sent, but the testimony of no one has been addressed who pretends to know anything of his having served a day.
  I enclose a copy of a letter written by the late Commissioner Judge Walsh to Honorable A C Dodge after a personal examination of all the papers in the case which will show his views in relation to it.

Hon. G.W. Jones
Chairman of Pensions
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Washington City DC
Jany. 5, 1857

Sir

  Will you be kind enough to forward to the Committee on Pensions the papers on file in your office in the case of Noah Smith an applicant for a Pension.
  Also the papers which were transmitted to your office by the Committee on Pensions, an enquiry by the letter dated Dec. 24 / 56 in the case of John Perry & other children of Margaret Perry Decd praying to be allowed the pension due her, as widow of John Perry decd. an artificer in the Revolutionary war.
I have the honor to be
Your obedt. Serv.
Geo. W. Johes
Ch. Com. Pensions
USS

Geo. G. Whiting
Com. on Pensions
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Washington
Nov. 6th 1852

Sir,
Enclosed please find
additional proof in the case
of Margaret Perry, of Iowa
Widow of John Perry Act 7th July
1838.
I hope this case may be allowed
upon the evidence now filed,
without requiring what it is impossible
to do viz ^ procure affidavits from
those who know that her husband
did actually serve, and who
served with him. I learn that the very
sparely settled condition of the Country
in the time of the Revolution, and all
of his cotemporaries being long since
dead, preclude the possibility of
proving further identity. John Perry
the husband of Margaret, the applicant
being an Artificer or Carpenter
must I think be regarded as the man
to whom the payment was made.
Hon. J.E. Heath Comm
I am very Respy, [illegible]
Hon. I. E. Heath, 
Comm.
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State Chamber
Feby 9th 1852.

Hon J. E. Heath
Comr. &c.

Sir:
 Allow me most respectfully to call your attention to ^the case of Mrs ^Margaret Perry filed in Your Office on the 9th of Oct. last She is ninety years of age, resides in Van Buren Co. Iowa, and I am informed is in great need. I have rec'd a letter from J. P. Brown Esq. a near neighbor of hers most earnestly urging me to endeavor to procure favorable action on her case. I hope the proof is such as will enable you to grant her a pension
With high respect, Your obt. Sert.
A. C. Dodge
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Tray February 6th 1858

To the Commissioner of Pensions--Dear Sir
I ask a favor of you, which you will confer a very great favor on me by assisting me. I authorized John P. Brown & Lumpkin to attend drawing a pension for Margaret Perry wife of John Perry, dec'd of Lycoming County Penna. a Revolutionary Soldier, the said Brown & Lumpkin deny ever receiving any thing 
you will please answer me whether they have or not
Yours very Respectfully
Joseph Perry
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February 28, 1940

John Perry
R. 8135
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Donald Welsh
437 W. Church Street
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Perry of Lycoming Township, Pennsylvania; James Burney or McBurney of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, about 1700, died in 1814 (?) in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; William Baird or Bayard, died in 1813.

You were advised January 22, 1940 that the Revolutionary War records of this office fail to show claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the Revolutionary Service of James Burney or William Baird (Bayard). The records do not afford any information in regard to a James McBurney or MacBurney as described.

The data which follow in regard to John Perry were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R. 9135, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.

The date and place of birth of John Perry and names of his parents are not shown, nor is the date of his death given. 

Margarert Perry, widow of John Perry, applied for pension, under the Act of July 7, 1838, and alleged that her husband, John Perry, of Lycoming
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County, Pennsylvania, served in the Revolutionary War as artificer and carpenter with the Pennsylvania troops. No dates of service are shown.

The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service as required by the pension law was not furnished.

The widow, Margaret Perry, was ninety years old in 1852, then a resident of Van Buren County, Iowa.

Reference was made in 1857 to John Perry and "other children".

Joseph Perry was living in 1858, in Troy, Iowa, his relationship to the widow not given.

The date and place of birth of Margaret Perry and names of her parents were not given, nor was it stated when and where she married the soldier, John Perry.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Senate Chamber
Jany. 11. 1853

Hon. J E. Heath }
Comr. Pensions. }

Sir:
Duty to a
Constituent requires that I should lay
before you, the enclosed letter from Hon.
J. C. Knapp, and ask your especial 
attention to the case therein mentioned. I
am the more anxious to succeed before you
in getting Mrs. Margaret Perry's Pension
from the fact, now apparent to myself, that
I cannot succeed before Congress at this
session, whatever may be the merits of the
Case.
I have examined the proofs & papers
now on file in your office, in support of Mrs.
Perry's claim for a Pension, and with great
deference to the ^ opinion of the worthy Clerk having charge
of them, whose name I do not at this moment
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recollect, - I think she is entitled to it.
But this may be regarded as presumption
in one so uninformed respecting the laws
& regulations which govern these matters.
My purpose is to ask your own
personal examination of all the papers in
this case, and your decision on it. In
making that decision, I trust that it
may not be regarded as inappropriate in
me to ask that you will disregard all
technicalities & allow the old lady's pension
if you can do so, consistently with your
views of Duty.
Most respectfully
Your obt st.
A. C. Dodge
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Pension Office
March 17" 1858.

Sir:

Your letter of the 6" Ulto, is before me.
No pension has been allowed to Margaret Perry
as the widow of John.

Messrs. Brown & Lumpkin have received nothing in her right as pension.

I understand the case is before the Court of
Claims.

Joseph Perry, Esquire
Troy, Iowa.
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Pension Office
Feby 19. 1852

Sir:
The supplemental declaration of Margaret
Perry of Iowa, widow of John, simply stating
that her husband was a Boot & Shoemaker
at the time he entered the war of the
Revolution has nothing to do with the merits
of the claim and remove none of the objection
to it urged in my letter to you of the
4th Decr. last, to which you are referred.

T. Lumpkin Esq.
Present,
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Margt Perry
Iowa, Act 38, as

Capt. Triplett

has papers


T. Lumpkin
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Portland, Iowa
Sept 10th 1853

My Dear Friend
I wrote you some six weeks ago. Relative to Mrs. Penny claim by the request of the Family for the purpose of getting your opinion as to whether
you thought the claim would be allowed as I had red [read] a letter from you in Feb. last expressing your opinion that you would obtain
it in four mounts, which letter I showed to the old lady and family and they have requested me to write you again upon the subject.  I hope you will inform us about the matter as soon as you get this and give us all the particulars.

Yours truly
John P. Brown

Mr. Thomas Lumpkin
Washington, DC
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Pension Office,
Feby 27, 1852.

Sir:
The certificate from the Auditor General
of Pennsylvania in the case of Margaret Perry has
been recd. It now remains for you to identify
the claimants husband with the John Perry
therein referred to.

T. Lumpkin Esquire
Present
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Pension Office
January 9 1857

Sir
I enclose the papers in the case of
Margaret Perry of Iowa under the Act
of July 7 1838 as you request.
Will you inform from what state
application was made by Noah
Smith or his representatives?

Hon G W Jones
Ch Am Pension
U S Senate
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Hon A. C. Dodge
Aug 16 1852
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Hon. A.C. Dodge
Jan 12/54
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Sincerely,
Mrs. Donald Welsh
437 No. Church St.
Lock Haven, PA