Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40177, for John Montgomery, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE                                            NUMBER
Continental     Montgomery, John   S.40177
(Penn)
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Contenets
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6,512
Ohio
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John Montgomery                 4
of Fairfield in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Moylan of the Penna line, for the term of five years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of October 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Feby. 1819 and sent to the Hon. J. O. Beecher House of Reps. U.S.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 
4mos. 22/31                                     37.67
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                                                       $37.67
{Revolutionary Claim,}
_Act 18th March, 1818,}



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John Montgomery
Application

(Text is faded to such a state that the following is a "Best Guess" of the text)

He does not (appear) (illegible) on the rolls of the (2-3 words illegible) but, John Montgomery is found on the 4th Regiment (illegible) on the state rolls commanded by Col. Maylan 1780 - war.


Correct
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STATE O OHIO, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, ss.

    I Hugh Boyle Clerk of the court of Common of Pleas for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Waltham Scofield esquire, before whim the foregoing deposition certificate was taken, and whose name is thereunto subscribed, was at the time of taking such deposition & an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that to all his acts as such, full faith and credit are due, and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.

    In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal of the said court, at Lancaster, in said county, this 4th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the independence of the United States of America 43d.

                                          //s//
                                   Hugh Boyle Clk.
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58
John Montgomery
6,512.
1st February 1819.



Con

Hugh Boyle
Lancaster, Ohio.
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I do hereby certify that the foregoing schedule and affidavit are copies of the original filed in the office of the Supreme Court in and for said county of Fairfield.
And I further certify that it appears to the court and it is their opinion (from the testimony of Levi Moore who has been examined and sworn as to the truth of the same) that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the said foregoing schedule is eighty-three dollars and fifty cents. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Supreme court at Lancaster in the county aforesaid this 14th day of August AD 1820.

                                  //s//
                          Hugh Boyle  Clk. S.C.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

Nov. 8, 1934

NOT SENT

Mrs. A. J. Lamb,
Enoree,  S.

Madam:

    I have to advise to you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.40177, it appears that John Montgomery was born January 1755, place not stated. 
    He enlisted at Lancaster, Penn. March 1, 1780, and served as a private, in Captains' John Heard, Pike and Gill Companies, Colonel Stephen Moylan's Regiment of Continental Dragoons.  He was engaged in the battle of Camden and Siege of Yorktown and was discharged in the fall of 1783.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed October 14, 1818, while living in Fairfield County, Ohio. 
    On August 14, 1820, he referred to his second wife, who was thirty-six years old in March 1820, but did not stat the name of either wife.  He also referred to his children:
William then aged 20 years,
Mary aged 16 years in March 1820,
Elizabeth aged 12 years in January 1820,
Jane aged 10 years in June 1820,
Elenor aged 8 years in July 1820,
Hugh aged 6 years in March 1820,
Sarah aged 4 years in March 1820,
Thomas aged 2 years in March 1820,
Joseph then four months old.

                                 Respectfully,
                                          //s//
                            Washington Gardner
                                            Commissioner.
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40,177
INVALID
Revy.

File No. 40177
John Montgomery
Priv. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol: 8, Page 385


[Arrangement of 1870.]