Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7421, for Charles Mc Donald, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Va

McDonald, Charles
Hannah
Ohio residence and agency

NUMBER
W. 7421
B.L. Wt. 2438-100

CONTENTS
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P. 78 Thorntown Ind.
Jany 10, 1851
Charles C. McDonald
McDonald 
Revy
wants information how
& when to locate land 
warrant No 2438 for Revolutionary 
services in Va
State Line

Letter to C. McDonald
Jany 27/57
and February 6th 1858

Ref to Com. of Pensions for answer
Rev war.
Sept [illegible]
Day 27/51
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Letter to A. McDonald
January 27 51
Admitted February 6th 1851
Referred to Commissioner of pensions for answer
Department information
January 27 51
Thornton Indiana     Free
January 21st
Honorable Alex H.H. Stuart 
Secretary of the interior
Washington City
p. 78
Thornton Indiana
January 10, 1851
Charles C. McDonald
McDonald
Revolutionary
Wants information born and where to locate Issued warrant number 2438 for revolutionary services in Virginia State line-
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Thorntown Boon County, Inda. Jan 10th, 1851.

My Dear Sir

I have to trouble you for a little information. I know that you must be harassed and overwhelmed with business but as we are all selfish & grasping after our own interests. I therefore must claim a small share through dire necessity & affliction for myself & family. For seven years I have been affected with the consumption & not able to work. Now sir all I require of you is this - I have a U.S. Land warrant No. 2438 for 100. acres for my Fathers Services in the Revolutionary War. Of the Va line & transfered to the Invalid Regt, the warrant was issued to me July 1849. Countersigned J.L. Edwards & T. Ewing Secretary of the Interior. I do not know where to go to enter the warrant you will confer a favor by informing me in what states the Military Lands lay & where is the best chance to fortify the warrant with the least expense to me as I am poor and afflicted. There are more heirs besides me. but I have the just right as I established all my fathers service in the Pension Department - with all the trouble expense && [et cetera] but I have given them in July 1850 all claim to it they may call for. I wish to locate it soon as can be done. and tell me where to go. Respectfully yours && [et cetera] 
Alex H. H. Stuart. Secetary of Interior

Char Mc Donald
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Reported
Letter to Alexander Ray
March 14 '[18]48
Charles C.  McDonald 12th December 1849
 Honorable C. L. Dunham 4 April [18]50
ditto to Honorable TR. Young House of Representatives
July 5, 1850
Letter to Honorable Robert Young 21 January 1832
C. C. McDonald July 21/[18]52
1880 January 31 3rd auditor
returning voucher 1848
8323
Ohio - Cincinnati
Hannah McDonald
widow of Charles McDonald
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 2nd April 1821

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of February 1848 and sent to Charles McDonald Present

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book W
Volume 2 Page 206
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State of Ohio
Montgomery County
Be it known that before me Joseph Cline a justice of the peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths in and for said county, personally appeared Hannah McDonald and made oath in due tern of law, that she is the identical person named in an original certificate of pension in her possession of which justify the following is a here copy.  "War Department.  Five years pension I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7.1838 Hannah McDonald of Ohio widow of Charles McDonald who was a private in the Revolution and died on the second day of April 1821 is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March 1836 and in case of the marriage or death of said widow before the 4th of March 1841 the pension shall cease on the day of such marriage or death. Given at the War Office of the United States this 18th day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Eight. W. L. Marcy Secretary of War. Examined + Countersigned J.L. Edwards Commissioner of pensions by assistant commissioner Wm [Illegible].

That she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the aforementioned Charles McDonald and that she now resides in the County of Montgomery State of Ohio, and has resided there for the share of ten years past, and that previous thereto she resided in Warran County in said state of the truth of which statements I am fully satisfied.  
Hannah McDonald X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed this tenth day of March 1848 before me.
Joseph Cline Justice of the Peace    }
Witness Joseph Cline }
John W Becker

Know all men of these presents, that I Hannah McDonald a revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Charles C. McDonald my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to raise from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Cincinnati State of Ohio, my pension from the fourth day of March 1836 to the fourth day of March 1841.
Witness my hand and seal this 6th day of March 1848 sealed and delivered in presence of 
Hannah McDonald-her mark 
Joseph Cline
John W Becher
I do hereby certify that insertions were made  before signing
Joseph  Cline Justice of the Peace
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State of Ohio
Montgomery County
Be it known that on the 6th day of March 1848 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace on and for said County duly authorized by law to administrative oaths personally appeared Hannah McDonald within named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Joseph Cline JP

State of Ohio
Hamilton County 
Be it known that on the Sixth day of March 1848, before me the Subscriber a justice of the peace on and for said County duly authorized by law to administrative oaths personally appeared Charles C McDonald the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath that he has no interest whatsoever in the money he is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney either by my pledge mortgage sale assignment or a transfer and that he does not know or  [illegible] the same has been so disposed of to any person whatsoever.
Sworn to and  subscribed the day and year just above mentioned
Chas C McDonald
David T Snellealen seal
Justice of the Peace
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State of Indiana
[illegible] County sct-
I Charles C. McDonald heir at law
of Charles McDonald, deceased, do depose, saith, testify and declare to the best
of my knowledge and belief that said
Charles McDonald did enlist in the service
in 1778 - 1779 for the terms of during 
the war and served as a private in the 
Regiment number___under the [illegible]
of Colonel [illegible] (as [illegible] [illegible]
of the Virginia Line, and that he continued 
in the service aforesaid until he
was transferred to the Invalid Regiment
where he continued till the close of the
war. I further declare that I have
never received a warrant for the bounty
land promised to Charles McDonald
the [illegible] of the United States, and I do
believe that he has never received it, or transferred his claims to it in any manner whatever. And I am sure no warrant was ever issued to any of heirs of said Charles McDonald.
Therefore it is respectfully requested
a warrant [illegible] be issued for said
bounty land as soon as it is ascertained same is
due-to me.
July 3rd. 1849  Charles C. McDonald
State of Indiana, Jennings County set
personally appeared before me the above signed justice of the peace for said
county, the above named Charles C.
McDonald the subscriber to the foregoing
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declaration and made oath to the truth of the same.
Witnessed by hand and seal this 3rd
day of July 1849.
Philander L. Basnett Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
Jennings County
Before me a Justice
of the peace in and for said county personally
came Addison Campbell] a [credible]
witness who being duly sworn according
to Law, on his oath says that John 
McDonald, Jane Westlake wife of Howard
Westlake, Margaret Foster wife of William
Foster, Francis McDonald and Charles
L. McDonald, are all over the age of
twenty one years, and that those so
named are the only surviving heirs
at Law in file to Charles McDonald,
Late a private in the Regiment Number___
under the command of Colonel
Vance of the Virginia Line and
continued in the service aforesaid
until he was transferred to the Invalid
Regiment. as aforesaid verily believes
and deponent further says he is disinterested.
[signed] Addison Campbell

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 3rd day of July 1841.
[signed] Philander L. Basnett Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
Jennings County Sct.
I hereby certify that Philander L. Basnett
Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit
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and declaration were made and who 
has hereunto subscribed his name was
at the time of so doing a Justice of the
peace in and for the county of said
duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I have
set my hand and affixed the seal
of my office as clerk of the circuit
court of said county this
3 rd day of July 1841.
[signed] William P. Shields, clerk
By Jas. M. Hill [illegible] 

Hannah McDonald, widow of Chal. McDonald, was allowed a Pension on
the 18th of February 1848, the evidence filled with her application showing that her husband 
inlisted in the Virginia lines, and was subsequently transferred to the
Invalid Regiment, was considered by the Commissioner of Pensions as sufficient to
identify him as the Charles McDonald, who is returned in the Invalid Regiment
at the Close of the war.
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State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County
On this 16th day of April in the year 1830, personally appeared before me [James H.Major      , a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. Thomas Westlake aged forty one years past and Jane Westlake his wife aged forty three years past. Residents of the county of Tippecanoe aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, upon their oaths say. That the said Jane is a daughter of Hannah McDonald, who was the widow of Charles McDonald deceased a Revolutionary soldier, who died in Fayette County, Kentucky in April 1821.
That these affaints resided in Montgomery county, Ohio in the fall
of the year 1840, where they had lived for many years previously, 
and that the said Hannah McDonald, as such widow, made her amended Declaration for a pension, before the court of common pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio, on the 23rd November 1846, where she there resided. That the said Hannah McDonald had resided with these affiants for many years and removed with them to Tippecanoe County Indiana in the fall of the year 1847 and that the said Hannah McDonald continued her residence with these affiants in Tippecanoe County, Indiana until the time of her death which took place at their residence in Tippecanoe County, Indiana on the 8th day of January in the year 1848 and was buried there the next day. That they personally witnessed her death and funeral services. And that the said Hannah McDonald, never was back to Montgomery County, Ohio, after she removed with these affiants to Tippecanoe County, Indiana in the fall of the year 1847. And that the said Hannah McDonald had no knowledge at any time previous to her death that her pension claim was admitted or obtained by any person, although she had while living in Montgomery County, Ohio at the request of her son Charles, employed L. P. Cooper Esquire of Marshall, Illinois to obtain her pension for her. That the said Hannah McDonald, at the time of her death left the following named children, who are now living, as these affiants are informed and believe to wit. "John McDonald living in
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Warren county, Ohio: Jane Westlake, living in Tippecanoe county, Indiana ; Margaret Foster, living in Butler county Ohio; Francis B. McDonald, in Carrol county, Kentucky; And Charles C. McDonald, whose residence is now unknown to these affiants. These affiants, are informed that the said Charles C. McDonald has obtained the pension money due to the said Hannah McDonald, if he has done so, upon any vouchers or papers executed after the 8th day of January 1848, they were executed after she died. and  would not have been executed to him for that purpose if she had been living, as she was always fearful of his fidelity from his profligacy
[signed] Thomas Westlake
[signed] Jane Westlake
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of April 1850.
[signed] James H Major Justice of the peace

State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County
On this 16th day of April 1850 personally appeared before me James H Major a justice of the peace in and for said county Jeremiah C Gano, Physician aged fifty two years past, a resident of said county, who being by me first duly sworn according to law upon his oath says; That he attended Hannah Mc Donald late of said county in her last illness That she died at the Residence of Thomas Westlake, in said county, on the 8th day of January 1848. as aforesaid by Reference to the dates of my attention to her in my day book, which was regularly kept by me at the time and was the reputed widow of Charles Mc Donald, a Revolutionary soldier, and the mother of Jane Westlake, wife of Thomas Westlake where she died as aforesaid.
Jeremiah C Gano
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of April 1850.
James H Major Justice of the Peace
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 7421
Hannah McDonald
Wid
Chas. McDonald
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Mch 3rd [illegible] 43 years ?? 44
Index: - Vol. M   Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870]
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10408
Ohio
Hannah McDonald Widow of Charles McDonald who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 2nd April 1821, of Montgomery Co in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col Vance in the  for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Feb 1848 and sent to Charles McDonald
1 [illegible]
Total amount $400
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by H [illegible], Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 393
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No 10794
Hannah McDonald
Rev
Letter to Hon R. M. Johnson 3 June '44
  "      " S. G. Suggalt 26 Nov '44
  "       " [illegible] C.C. McDonald Nov 11 '46
  "      " Honorable S. Breese, Dec 12 '46
to same Feb 3, 47
to March 11 '47
C. C. McDonald June 2nd 47
Act 7 July 1838
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No 10794
Hannah McDonald
Ky
Let. to Hon. R. M. Johnson, 3 June '44
"   " S. G. Suggett, 26 Nov 44
"   " G. G. McDonald, 11  " 46
"   " Hon. S. Briese  12 Dec 46
"   " Same 3 Feb 47
"   " G. G. McDonald  11 March "
"   " 2 June "
Let to [illegible] [illegible] 1 '47
to same Oct 6 '47
" [illegible] '47
Act 7 July 1838


See letter Dec 1 1867 [illegible] J. M.
McCalla
Let to J. P. Cooper
Jany [January] 10 '48
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No. 10794 - 10794
Hannah McDonald
Ky
Let to Hon. RM Johnson  
3 June '44
L.C. Suggett 26 Nov. 1844
to Miss C.C. McDonald Nov 11 '46
7 July 38
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Act '48 - 9425
No. 10794
Hannah McDonald
wid of Charles
Ohio
act 7 July 1838
Admd 2 years pri
$80.00 per annum
aomo act 3 March 1843
and 14 Mar 44
$80.00 per annum
per 4 March 1843

Chs. C. McDonald
Present
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Vet. 10794
Hannah McDonald
[illegible]
Act 7 July 38
m90d21

[illegible]
$98.60
  43.30
  16.27
_______
$158.17

[illegible]
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Pension Agency, Cincinnati,
March 6, 1848.

Received of JAMES HALL, Pension Agent, Four Hundred Dollars, Cents, being for 60 months pension due to Hannah Mc Donald, 7 July 1838 from the fourth day of March 1836, to the fourth day of March 1841, for which I have signed duplicate receipts.

Witness:
Charles C McDonald
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This was found amongst our papers.
May it not belong in your department?
Augt. 18/52.
W Rul.
M. Cole
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Jany [illegible]
Mr Young

Mr. Cole

Hon T R Young
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(This letter may refer to Vouchers)
Jany 15 1851
Sir.  The papers in the case of Hannah
McDonald, or Thomas Westlake administrator of H.
McDonald, I learn is still, "non est investry"
They being referred to the Commissioner of Pensions
about the middle of November last.  I hope this Department will use renewed exertions to find
them, as it will be very difficult to make
out new papers, the parties and witnesses
now living very wide apart.
Very Respectfully
Your obedient Servant
TR Young

Honorable JE Heath
Commissioner
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Please examine this case of 
Nancy Rolgton of Pope County
Illinois for a Pension, and
let me know the result -
Also the case of Hannah 
McDonald's heirs - relative to a
pension - See my letter of this morning
Dec. 17 1857 - R.M. Young
Address me at Potomac House
Washington City -
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The second comptroller wishes to see the original papers in the case of Hannah McDonald’s account late a pensioner of the Ohio Agency under the act of 7th April 1838.
3rd auditors office
July 8th 1850.
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Tippecanoe County Indiana
October 11th 1850

Hon A.K. Parris
Comptroller
We learn with regret that Charles C McDonald one of the sons of Hannah McDonald Deceased widow Charles McDonald late of Montgomery County Ohio drew $800 the pension money due to her up to 4th March 1848 at the Cincinnati Pension agency Ohio on the 6th March or [thereabouts] which he had no authority to receive and has not paid over any of it Mother. McDonald previous to her death had not at any time made arraignments to live with her son Charles C. McDonald and would not to our personal knowledge have done so on account of his very [dissipated] and profligate habits for many years previously during which time she made her home at our house in Montgomery County Ohio and subsequently in this County to where we removed and where she died on the 8th January 1848 as we have this in case already testified, to be found is from file in the Department Hannah McDonald was strenuously opposed to her son
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Charles C McDonald having the power to obtain her pension money and so wrote to J P Cooper Esq her attorney in its prosecution to Marshall in Illinois in 1846 or 1847 requesting him not to permit Charles to handle it or receive it per her at the request of the other children administered on the estate of Hannah McDonald they want me to obtain their rights in this pension money from the government we ask the payment of this money us a matter of right and justice and if Charles C. McDonald has done wrong in obtaining it let him take the consequences for certain it is he had no right to it and obtained it without authority and against his mothers and our request or desire
Your obt servents
Thomas Westlake
Jane Westlake sister to Charles C. McDonald
administrators of Hannah McDonald Deces
Hon A.K. Parris
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March 17/52
Crawfordsville Ind
July 26th/52
Chl. C. McDonald
Ref. to Pension Certificate
granted his mother in right of
his father a Revolutionary 
Soldier.
________
Ref to Com of Pensions for War 
Dept Into
Mch  15/52.

Reply Ref. to Dept. Interior
& written so informed.
War Dept5
Mar 11/52 
Rec. Mch 12/52
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[illegible] Ref to Dept Interior and write to informed war Dept Mar 11/52


Gov. Crawford
Secretary of War
Washington City, D.C.
Mch 15/52

MAR
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Crawfordsville Indiana Feb 26 1852

Dear Sir in June 1849 I made application to James L Edwards for the Settlement of a certificate Issued to my Father allowed by Congress to all of the Soldiers who served to the End of the Revolution 1783 my Father having Served to the End of the war. was wounded & transferred to the Invalid Regt, under Col. Nichola & in whose Right a pension was granted to my Mother. the certificate for the gratuity allowed $80 & interest [until] paid was Issued on the 4 of May 1784 in favor of Charles McDonald & did not Reach the hands of My Ancestor & consequently was Returned to Government in 1790 august. and there remains never Settled. by advise of Mr Edwards I wrote to the Secretary of Treasury Mr Meredith in 1849 to ascertain if he could find any Record of the payment of the certificate & he could not find any & [Referred] my letter back to Mr Edwards. & Mr E Comm of Pen, wrote to me that it was not in his power to settle it & [Referred] me further of which I did through Hon C L Durham & T. J. Henly & there it is left unsatisfied and in [Mystery] by them - well now Gov. Crawford - for the Memory of
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An old brave veteran Soldier who assisted To lay the foundation of his government & Should not be Lost Sight of through time & for the Sake of an afflicted & Suffering Heir who has Suffered for 8 years with Consumption & has no means of Support For his Suffering family under Heaven with 2 young & helpless little ones for the Sake Of Humanity for the Sake of Justice & Right Please look up this claim and Do Something for me.

I refer you if necessary to my character filed in the Pension Office in 48 by Col. Richard Ch Johnson who knew me from a Bog) while I was in Washington filing the evidence of My Fathers Services Col Johnson was there at the Same time & assisted me with Profound Respect

Your Humble Servant
Charles C McDonald

Gov Crawford
Secretary of War
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C. C. McDonald
and June 22nd.49 

Cha. McDonald - Inv. Reg. 

Queensville In
June 19

Mr. J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Queensville Jenning County Indiana
May 12th -49
Mr. J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir I employed Mr. Thos J Henly
last winter to settle with you for 100 Acres of bounty land for $80 of Premium money Due to Charles McDonald for services rendered to the End of the Revolutionary War, which has never been paid & of whose service is filed & established in your office & which which has never been applied for by authority except Mr. Henry member of Congress last winter, of which I [enclose] you his last letter to me from Washington
of which he states the $80 has been paid, but it is a mistake it never was paid, therefore you will  please settle it with me as the lawyer son of Charles
McDonald you have a power of attorney from & for me & my name & character firmly established by Col.
Rich Johnson, when you paid my Mothers pension in 48 
who is since Deceased - now there is 100 acres of bounty land due & 80 dollars [illegible] with 6 per cent interest until paid & you will be kind enough to settle it with me without  delay. I do not know whether any forms are necessary or otherwise, & as you have my name established in your office as Legal Son of Chal McDonald by Col. Rich Johnson I think you will settle it with me without hesitation as Lawful heir. I have no heard fro Mr. Henly since the enclosed letter.
Most Respectfully Yours
C. C. McDonald


I hope this may find your eyes improved & strengthened with that of your general health. C.C. McD
Mr. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pens.
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June 22nd.49 - Sent the records and forms for application for bounty land by the
heirs of Charles McDonald, dec. a soldier of the Invalid Regiment.
Informed Mr. C. C. McDonald, that a Certificate for the Gratuity of 80. dollars
issued May 1st 1784 in favor of the aforesaid Charles McDonald, dec.
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Charles McDonald

No 2438

Chas. C. McDonald
Queensville
Indiana
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Washington City
Feb 19. 49

Dear Sir After considerable search
I find that the sum of $80 provided
to soldiers of the Revolution has been paid
to Charles McDonald or at least so the
commissioner of pensions says. If there are
any reasons in your mind to show that
it never has been paid let me know
what they are and I will look further
into it. The one hundred acres bounty land
is still due him. I will send you in a 
day or two the forms and instructions
how to make application for the land.
The power of Aty. [attorney] you sent will not
enable me to get it.

Yours truly
Thoy. Henly

C. C. McDonald Esq.
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Treasury Department
Third auditor’s office
August 14th, 1851
Sir,
The enclosed letter from J.P. Cooper of Illinois was referred to this office by the 2nd comptroller with a request to take the action of his office in the case of Mr. McDonald and should be reported to him. By the enclosed copy of a letter affixed to your [illegible] it appears that the papers forming the claim in question together with the [subject] alleged to be forged upon which payments were made at this agency were transmitted to your office on the 5th November last for a reexamination as presented for payments. To enable me to respond in this case to the comptroller I have to request you will be pleased to [illegible] the papers.
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in the case to be returned to this
office with your decision [illegible].
Very respectfully
Your obedient. servant. 
John S. Gallaher
Auditor

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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Memorandum for John Wilson, Esquire

1. Please examine whether there are any of the papers on file in the Pension Office, belonging to the Case of Hannah McDonald’s admitted  
claim for pension money about $800 improperly paid to one of her sons after her death. I want a certified copy of the Pension Certificate  granted to Hannah McDonald and a certified
copy of the evidence that payment was made to her son and the amount paid and when.
The case is now before the second Comptroller.  
2. Please examine papers of the widow Nancy Rolston for a pension under the act of July 7 1838.
I suppose the services of her husband Capt Rolston could also be verified by reference to the rolls of the army. If any additional evidence is wanting, let me know.

R. M. Young
Atty for the Parties
Claimant.

Jany. 1852.
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E. J. Phelps, 2nd
Comptroller of the Treasury
Letter to R. M Young
In the case of Hannah McDonald’s pension
Dec. 16. 1851
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Treasury Department
2nd Comptroller’s Office
December 16th 1851

Sir,
I have examined the case of the
heirs of Hannah McDonald in
pursuance of your request.
I am inclined
to think that all the papers that 
have been prepared in the case have
not been furnished to this office.
The papers contain no legal proof of
a pension certificate having been
issued in favor of Mrs. McDonald
or of any payments under such a
certificate nor any evidence as  to the
alleged forgery upon which payment
was obtained. I would suggest to
you to obtain a statement from
the Pension Office of the issuing of 
the original certificate particularly
describing it. Evidence will then
be necessary to show the forgery
upon which the payment was made.
I should infer from
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a letter found among the papers that this proof or a portion of it had once been prepared. It is not here now however, and from a memorandum in repaid to the case made by my predecessor referring to the same defects in the evidence above mentioned, I conclude that it was never furnished to this office. If you will have this proof furnished, the case shall be acted on immediately. At present we have no material upon which we can act.

Very resp Your Officer E. J. Phelps, Compt

Honorable R. M. Young, Potomac House, Washington D. C.
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Law & Cert Agency
Washington City, January 27, 1852.
Sir,
Will you please send in a copy of the
Pension Certificate (or Certificates if more than one), issued to Hannah McDonald, or a letter setting forth the facts, in such a form, or will enable me to use it, as evidence before the second Comptroller. It is the case I mentioned to you a few days ago in which some of the papers were lost, and I am [endeavoring] to supply the omissions.
Very Respectfully
Richard M. Lowery
Attorney for the administrator of
Hannah McDonald dec
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Treasury Department
First Auditors Office
November 5th 1851
Sir,
I herewith transmit the 
vouchers upon which the administrator
of the late Hannah McDonald’s claim.The had
received payment of past from 
first to the date of her death. The former payments
at the Agency it is alleged being most to her son Upon forged papers. I likewise transmit for
your information the vouchers upon 
which this pension was paid. You 
will perceive on examination that
Joseph Cline the Magistrate before
whom the papers said to be forged
were presented by Charles C. McDonald,
who received the money were both active 
agents. Likewise in establishing the claim of Mrs. McDonald in your office originally. [Illegible] just the claim rested upon the testimony or official affidavit of those men proved to be guilty parties is for you to determine. For that purpose I [illegible] the claim may
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undergo a reexamination with this
additional testimony before you
I make this recommendation.
Should your decision be in favor of
the original claims. I request a special 
report be sent tax regulations may be 
[illegible] for payment. it is not intended
of [illegible] to re-pay any portion of
the claims that Charles C. McDonald
may have been entitled to.

Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
John S. Gallaher
Auditor

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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Payment to be made at
Cincinnati  by
James Beall, Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of
Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March

Recorded in the Pension Office, in
Book A Vol. 2 Page 206.
Ths.  Pumpkin,
Clerk.
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War Department.
Widow's Pension.

I certify that in conformity with the acts of 3rd Match, 1843, and June 17th, 1844,
Hannah McDonald, of Ohio,
widow of Charles McDonald
who was a Private in the Revolution,
and died on the second day of April 1821,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty __________
dollars [next two words crossed out] and cents per annum, commencing on the 4th
March, 1843, and terminating on the 4th of March, 1848, unless the
Pensioner shall marry or die before the last mentioned date; in which case
the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 18th day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.
J S Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Crawfordsville, June 25th - 52
My Dear Sir
I want you to do me one important
favor. There is an old cheating villan by the
name of S. Brenton in this Neighborhood
that Everybody holds as a nuisance to Society
he has Slandered myself, Wife and little
innocent family. he has said to the Neighbors
that I am a liar that I never got a
cent of money from the Government for my
Fathers Services, that there no such law
or never was that I am an Impostor 
 and finally commenced on my Wife
who is one of the most chaste and virtuous
woman in the Western country. A Daughter
of Old Captain Samuel Campbells one of Waynes old
Soldiers of 94 and Harrisons of 1812 & 13, and
Grand Daughter to old Judge Trather.
This villan [sic] has called her a strumpet etc.
he is worth property and I am about to
prosecute him for five thousand dollars and
for Base Slander on a sick afflicted and
helpless family. I give it all to the Lawyers
Now Sir I want you to send me a copy
of Colonel Richard Johnsons Assersion of my personal
character filed with Hannah chc McDonalds
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CRAWFORD IND.
JUL 6. 
FREE. 
5

To T. L. Triplett
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.
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papers in the Pension office Feb the 18th, 1848
as the Col. knew me and my family from
childhood. it will aid me in the case
all the Neighbors are in my favor to go
ahead. Now my Dear Sir please send me
the copy by mail forthwith & please frank
your letter for me.  Your humble friend
Chas C McDonald

[illegible] F C Triplett
Pension Office
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Payment to be made
at Cincinnati
by Darius Wall, Esq.,
Agent for paying pensionors
in the Agency of Cincinnati,
Ohio
Payable in  the 4th March
and 4th September in each
year. 

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book D Vol. 1
Page 393 by H. Rumpkin,
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five year's Pension.

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838,
Hannah McDonald, of Ohio,
widow of Charles McDonald
who was a Private in the Revolution,
and died on the second day of April, 1821,
is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of Eighty
dollars and cents per annum, commencing on the
fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the
death or marriage of said widow before the 4th of March, 1841,
the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United
States this 18th day of
February, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight.
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.


Examined and
Countersigned.

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
[The countersignature is illegible]
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Marshall, Illinois
July 29th, 1851

[illegible] Comptroller of
the Treasury Department
U.S.A

Sir,
The claim of Hannah
McDonald of Indiana formerly of Ohio
widow of Charles McDonald for a Revolutionary
pension, which has long been under
advisement for allowance has not been 
heard of since the Hon. S. R. Young, member
of last Congress left the City in March last.
Mr. Young on his return home to this 
place, in March last, informed me that
you had said the claim should be
allowed as the proof then was satisfactory.
This claim is now asked by her administrator
for the use and benefit of her 4 children
except Charles C., her son, who had forged
the vouchers in Ohio & [illegible] the money
after she died, as the papers and proof
satisfactorily showed in the application
by the administrator, who has made out
and presented two full clear & satisfactory
set of papers in this claim.
I presented this claim from first to last
as Atty. for the widow & finally for
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the children and administrator, which has been
pending from the first, for at least four years.
Mr. Young, for me while at the two last
sessions of Congress, he says, gave his unremitting
attention to it and left under the 
promise that is should be acted upon finally
at an early day.
I suppose in the multitude
of other pressing business, it has been intentionally
postponed or forgotten.
Will you please have this claim acted
upon now without further delay and
enclose it to me at this please.
You will see that I have been the Atty.
in its prosecution from its origin in the
Pension office & that Charles C. McDonald
one of her sons, fraudulently slipped into the
City, and with the aid of Col. Johnson,
who was ignorant of his designs, but of some
old acquaintance got the claim into his
hands who forged the papers after her
death, & [illegible] the money & applied it to
his own use without authority. The papers 
in the case clearly show the forgery.
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Mr. Young says the papers were lastly
left in your possession who had the
decision of the case in the claim and that 
you were satisfied of its [illegible] to be said
to the administrator upon the papers [illegible]
those & promised him that it should 
be attended to at an early day and enclose
to me at this please.
I hope you will
have the goodness to hunt it up at once
and forward it as per request.

I have the honor to be
most respectfully
your Obd. Servt. 
J. Hooper
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor’s Office
November 5 1850

Sir,

I herewith transmit the voucher upon which
the Administrator of the late Hannah McDonald claims
the repayment of her pension to the date of her death,
the former payments at the Agency, it is alleged being
made to her son upon forged papers. I likewise trans-
mit for your inspection the vouchers upon which this
pension was paid. You will perceive on examination
that Joseph Cline, the Magistrate before whom the
papers said to be forged, were executed, and Charles C.
McDonald, who received the money, were both active
Agents, likewise in establishing the claims of Mrs. McDonald
In your office, originally. How far the claim
Rested upon the testimony or official credit of those
now proved to be guilty parties, is for you to determine.
For that purpose, and that the claim may undergo a
re-examination with this additional testimony before
You, I make this communication.
	Should your decision be in favor of the original
claim, I request a special order under the regulations,
may be issued for payment. It is not intended, of
course, to repay any portion of the claim that Charles C.
McDonald may have been entitled to.

Respectfully your obt. Servant,
Ino J. Gallaher Auditor

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Ohio
Montgomery Co
On this 28th day of April AD 1850 personally
appeared before me Sampson Harry a justice of the Peace
in and for said county. Joseph Clive a resident citizen of the
County aged 56 years past, who being by me first duly sworn
according to law upon his oath sayest that he is the same
[Identical] real Person who was acting as Justice  of the Peace in and
for such County of Montgomery and State of Ohio - and who as
Justice of the Peace did on the morning of the 6th day of March
in the year 1848, in said county Execute as such Justice of the 
Peace Papers & Voucher consisting of a Power of attorney
and Pension [illegible] Certificates of Hannah McDonald
a Widow of Charles McDonald a revolutionary Pensioner of
the United States. He said vouchers were to draw the Pension
money then due to the said Hannah L. McDonald at the Cincinnati
Pension agency in the state of Ohio and as I now
recollect there were [two] several vouchers to draw upon
her Certificates of Pension as near as I recollect from the 4th
March 1836 to 4th March 1841 and the other from the 4th
March 1843 to the 4th March 1848. The [illegible] cost I do not recollect
And the said Papers to [illegible] Execute by Charles McDonald by
a Power of Attorney made to him by the said Hannah
McDonald for that purpose before me acting as Justice of
the Peace for the said County [illegible] & Granting said pension
to the said Charles McDonald full pension to [illegible]
oh papers to and for said in behalf of and the place of the
said Hannah McDonald. For the said Hannah McDonald
not being present or [consenting] (in Person) or directing, the documents
be done me any way or manner known to this officiant
[illegible] by Virtue of said Power the said Charles being her
kin and both being personally known to this officiant
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and who confided innocently in the representations made by the
said Charles to this officiant at the time as follows, to me, that
at the time of the Execution of the said vouchers to the said Charles
McDonald or Charles C. McDonald informed me that he had recently
seen a letter from his mother Hannah McDonald and that she
was well and from that fact and having a full knowledge of the
wishes of the said Hannah L. McDonald [illegible] to the officiants
at the time she executed the aforesaid power of attorney to Charles
McDonald to gather letters [illegible] made to him and before
me as a Justice of the Peace to Enable said Charles to procure his
pension and to obtain it for her by Executing the necessary
papers &c  The said Charles McDonald then and there
contending for his rights claimed and under said power to swear
and Execute the said vouchers for and in the name of the said
Hannah McDonald under and by [virtue] of the said Power which
this officiant [permitted] to be done by the said Charles with great
distrust and doubts not being well versed in business of the [illegible] and in connection with the known wishes of the said expressed to the officiant And through the Power [illegible] of the 
said Charles this officiant further says that he knows the said
Hannah McDonald had removed from the said County of Montgomery
and State of Ohio to the State of Indiana with Thomas
Westlake and Jane his wife, Daughter of the said Hannah
McDonald prior to the time of the Execution of said [vouchers]
but was ignorant of her Death at the time  and
never heard of her Death until [several] month after this
officiant heard if her Death, and states positively that
the said vouchers on the same morning & day witnessed by
him and one John M. Becher Esq and were signed with 
& by the said Charles by [virtue] of said Power of Attorney
for the said Hannah McDonald who was not present
and that they are the only vouchers ever 
Executed before being for and in the name of the said
of the said Hannah McDonald and that this officiant [illegible]
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since the fidelity of the said Charles in the matter but having
had knowledge of the desires of the said Hannah McDonald
to give the said Power to the said Charles as the
[designed] to move to Indiana for him to fully Execute her
pension caused me to some extent to permit the matter
thus made out which I greatly regret as I am forced now
to believe that Charles McDonald knew at that time
of the Death of his mother thereby acting deliberately in
the matter.   Joseph Clive 

Sworn and subscribed to
before me this 30th April
AD 1850
Sampson, Harry
I Sampson Harry a Justice of the Peace before whom the
foregoing officiant was made to certify that the said
Joseph Clive the officiant is a man of undoubtable credibility
which I certify from my personal knowledge.
Given under my hand this 30th day of April AD 1850.
 Sampson, Harry, J.P.
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State of Ohio
Montgomery Co.
I William J. McKinney
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county
of Montgomery and State of Ohio do certify that Sampson 
Harry whose official signature appears to the
foregoing affidavit and certificate now is and was on the
date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for
said county duly been [illegible] and qualified that full
faith are due his official acts that his Commission
was dated on the twenty fourth day of February 1849 and later
expire on the twenty fourth day of February 1852 and that
his signatures above are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said
county this 30th day of April AD 1850.
Wm. J. McKinney Clerk
John F. Dodds Dep.
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United States of America.
State of Ohio
Montgomery County
Be it known, that, before me Joseph
Cline a Justice of the Peace duly authorized
by law to administer oaths, in
and for the county aforesaid, personally
appeared Hannah McDonald
and made oath in due form of law, that
she is the identical person named
in an original certificate in her possession,
of which I certify, the following
is a true copy:
War Department, Widows pension.
I certify that in conformity with
the acts of 3 March 1843 and 17 June
1844, Hannah McDonald, of Ohio, widow
of Charles McDonald who was a private
in the Revolution and died on
the second day of April 1821, is inscribed
on the pension list at the rate
of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing
on the 4th of March 1843 and
terminating on the 4th March 1848, unless
the pensioner should marry or
die before the last mentioned date:
in which case the pension is not payable
after the time of such marriage
or death.
Given at the War Office of the United
Copy of voucher returned to
the Bank Auditor
July 31 1881
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States, this 18th day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and forty eight,
signed W. L. Darcy
Secretary of War.
Examined and countersigned,  J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions, by  G. [illegible]
that she has not intermarried, but continues 
the widow of the above mentioned Charles
McDonald that she now resides in the
county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, and
has resided there for the space of Ten years
past; and that previous thereto, she resided
in Warren County in said State. Of the
[illegible] of which statements I am fully
satisfied.
Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day
of March 1848.
In the presence of Jos. Cline
John W. Becher
Before me Joseph Cline J.P. x her mark
Hannah  McDonald

Pension Agency Cincinnati, 1848
Recieved of James Hall, Pension Agent,
Four Hundred Dollars _____ Cents, being for
pension due to Hannah McDonald from the
4th day of March 1843 to the 4th day of March 1848,
for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
Witnesses   Jos. Cline    her mark
John W. Becher             Hannah McDonald
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Pension Agency Cincinnati. __________1848.
Received of James Hall, Pension Agent, Four Hundred Dollars -----Cents - being for pension due to Hannah McDonald from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 4th day of March 1841 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.  Hannah McDonald, her mark.
Witnesses: Joseph Cline, John W. Becher

Pension Agency, Cincinnati, March 6, 1848
Received of James Hall, Pension Agent, Four Hundred Dollars----Cents, being for sixty months pension due to Hannah McDonald 17 June from the fourth day of March 1843 to the fourth day of March 1848 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.  Charles C. McDonald.
Witness _________

State of Ohio
Hamilton County
Be it known, that on the sixth day of March 1848, Before me, a Justice of the Peace to for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Charles C. McDonald the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive, by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney either by
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that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney either by any pledge, mortgage, sale assignment, or transfer, and that he does not know or believe that the same has been disposed of to any person whatever.
     Sworn and subscribed to the day and year last above mentioned.
     Charles C. McDonald
     Sworn and subscribed to the day and year last above mentioned.  Charles C. McDonald
     Before me David T. Snelleaker, Justice of the Peace

     Know all men by these present:  That I, Hannah McDonald, a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States do, hereby constitute and appoint Charles C. McDonald my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Cincinnati, Ohio, my pension from the fourth day of March 1843 to the fourth day of March 1848.
     Witness my hand and seal this 6th day of March 1848.  Hannah McDonald - her mark
     Sealed and delivered in presence
     Joseph Cline
     John W. Becher


State of Ohio. Montgomery County
Be it known that on the 6th day of March 1848 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county - duly authorized by law to administer and personally appeared Hannah McDonald above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney and her (illegible) in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year last above mentioned.
Joseph Cline, J.P.
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I do hereby certify that the memorandum
was made before signing.
Joseph Cline J.P.
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Washington City, December 17, 1851
Attn: J.E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
Will you please 
inform me if the papers in the case of the 
application of Hannah McDonald, either of Ohio or Indiana, for a pension, are on file in 
your office.  Whether a Pension Certificate was 
issued to her; and if so, when, and for what 
amount of Pension; and to whom was the money 
paid.  Is there any evidence as to the 
time of her death, and that the money 
was paid to one of her sons, or to any 
other person, upon a power of attorney, 
or other papers made out and authenticated 
after her death; and consequently in an 
improper and illegal manner.
Your early reply will much oblige.
Yours very Respectfully 

Richard M. Young
Atty for Heirs of Hannah McDonald

Please address me at the Potomac House 
Washington City
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State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County
     On the 16th day of April 1850 personally 
appeared before me James T. Major, a Justice 
of the Peace in and for said county, Enoch G. Burkhart, 
James Cole & James Westlake, all of lawful 
age and residents of said county who having by me first duly 
sworn according to law upon this authority, that they 
secondly attended the funeral services of Hannah McDonald, 
late of said county.  That she died on the 8th and was buried on the 
9th day of January in the year 1848 in Tippecanoe County, 
Indiana, that her death took place at the residence of Mr. 
Thomas and James Westlake in said county.  That she was an 
old lady formerly of Montgomery County, Ohio; 
& the reputed widow of Charles McDonald, a Revolutionary soldier.  
That the said Burkhart, (strike thru), (strike thru), & Cole, were her Surgeons 
or Grave diggers, and attended her funeral in that capacity 
& that the said James Westlake bought her coffin & attended 
her funeral on the 9th January 1848.

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
this 16th day April 1850.  James T.  Major, J.P.
James Cole  James Westlake

I, James T.  Major, the Justice of the Peace before whom 
the foregoing affidavits were severally made do hereby certify 
that the said affiants are all personally known to me and 
that they are all persons of truth, veracity & credibility.  
Given under my hand, at said county, this 16th day of 
April 1850.  James T.  Major, J.P.
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State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County

     I, Mark Jones, Clerk of the 
Tippecanoe Circuit Court in and for said county, 
do certify that James T. Major is a justice of the Peace 
in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as 
such that his commission was dated on the 22nd day of April 
in the year 1846 and will expire on the 20th day of August 
in the year 1851.  That full faith and credit are due all his 
official acts and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be 
his are genuine.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
subscribed my name and affixed my seal of 
office at Lafayette this 18th day of April the year 1850.  
Mark Jones, Clerk.
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Recd July 12th 49
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Queensville Jennings Co  July the 4 (illegible) 49

Dear Sir:
I recd. your kind favor of 22nd June in Due time inclosing the printed forms + instructions.  My Friend, Mr. Huggin, made [illegible] Error in one of the printed forms + as he has communicated with you on Other Claims, he sugested to me a written form would be as acceptable to you as any other - we have arraignedit to the best of our possible power at present + I seriously hope that if there should be any light Error you will be good Enough to rectify it for my Sake - we had to have it done before a Court of Justice of this Co as there is no Other until October + all agree that this is sufficient to Justify you to send me the Warrant - therefore I Respectfully Solicit your favor in Sending it - + my Ardent wish is the Restoration of your Sight and General Health may improve with it - in the meantime being pleased that you were through a Sense of Justice Retained in your Office + that no other man could be found [illegible] to fill that you have so (promtly) and Perseveringly for years is the honest testament of My feelings.
Yours with Profound Respect
Charles C. McDonald
J.L. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner
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The State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County

Probate Court of Tippecanoe County

In vacation after February term, AD 1850


	Be it remembered that on this eighteenth
day of April in this year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty on Application Thomas
Westlake was by me Mark Jones, Clerk of the 
probate Court of Tippecanoe County in the State of
Indiana, appointed administrator of all and
singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits, money
and effects which were of Hannah McDonald
late of the County of Tippecanoe in said State
deceased, and the said Thomas Westlake now files
bond in the penalty of two thousand dollars with
James Westlake security therein given, which bond
and surety are by me approved, and which bond
reads in the words and figures following to wit:
“Know all Men by these present. That we Thomas
Westlake and James Westlake all of the County
of Tippecanoe in the State of Indiana, are held
and firmly bound unto the State of Indiana, in
the Sum of two thousand dollars, for the payment
of which, well and truly to be made and done, we
bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators 
jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, signed
with our hands, and sealed with our seals, and
dated this Eighteenth day of April AD 1850.
The condition of the above obligation is such
that if the above bound Thomas Westlake shall dilligently 
and faithfully execute the duties and
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hereto committed to him as administrator of the estate of Hannah McDonald deceased, and shall obey all orders and decrees of the Probate Court of Tippecanoe County, made pursuant to law touching the administration of said estate then the above obligation to be void and of no effect; otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law.
Thomas Westlake
James Westlake (his mark)

Taken and approved by me on this 18th day of April A.D. 1850. Mark Jones, Clerk

And the said Thomas Westlake takes and subscribes the following oath to wit:
The State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County
On this eighteenth day of April A.D. 1850 before me, Mark Jones, Clerk of the Probate Court of Tippecanoe County, personally came Thomas Westlake and being by me duly sworn upon his solemn oath says that he will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts committed to him as administrator of the goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys and effects which were of Hannah McDonald, late of the County of Tippecanoe deceased, according to law, and further saith not.  Thomas Westlake

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the date above written.  Mark Jones, Clerk.

And thereupon the following letters of administration issued to the said Thomas Westlake to wit:

The State of Indiana, Tippecanoe County [illegible] I, Mark
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Jones, Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the County of Tippecanoe, in the state of Indiana, do hereby certify that administration of the goods, chattels, rights, credits, money and effects which were of Hannah McDonald late of Tippecanoe County, deceased, who died intestate, is granted to Thomas Westlake, and the said Thomas Westlake having qualified and given bond as such administrator is duly authorized to take upon himself the administration of said estate according to Law.

     Witness Mark Jones, Clerk of our said Court, and the seal thereof affixed at Office in Lafayette on the 18th day of April A.D. 1850.  Mark Jones, Clerk.

The State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County
     I, Mark Jones, clerk of the Probate Court of Tippecanoe County in said state do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true, full, correct and complete copy of the appointment bond, oath, and letter of administration granted to Thomas Westlake of all and regular the goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys and effects, which were of Hannah McDonald late of the County of Tippecanoe in the State of Indiana, deceased as appears from the records of said court now remaining in my office.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Office in Lafayette on this 18th day of April A.D. 1850.  Mark Jones, Clerk
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The State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County

I, John Killgore are sole Judge of the Probate Court of Tippecanoe County, in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that Mark Jones whose genuine signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof and now is clerk of said Court and that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court and that the attestation hereto is in due form of law, and further certify that the clerk of said Court is duly authorized by law to grant letters of administration during the vacation of said Court. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed my private seal on this 19th day of April A.D. 1830.

Jn. Killgore P.J. seal
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U. S. PENSION OFFICE
DEC 16 1880
O.W.
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A copy of the voucher 
ordered to be made & 
put on file. The original 
to be forwarded to 3rd Auditor
Dec 17. 1880

Treasury Department
THIRD AUDITORS OFFICE


Sir:
In reply to your letter of the [illegible]
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Note written on original: A copy of the Voucher ordered to be made & put on file & the original to be forward to 3rd Auditor, Dec. 14, 1880

Letterhead: Treasury Department, Third Auditors Office, Washington, D.C.

Letter:

Dec. 14

Sir:
     In reply to your letter of the 29 July to the Second Comptroller, referred to this office on the [illegible], relating to original papers upon which the pension claims of Hannah McDonald was allowed, you are informed that the same are not on file in this office, nor is there any evidence of their every having been received.
     The records show that the original vouchers in the case, upon which payment was made to Charles O. McDonald in the first quarter 1848, of $800 (on forged papers) were loaned your office, and as yet have not been returned. 
     The only papers found on file in
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this case, are those upon which Treasury Settlements was based and allowed by the (illegible) Comptroller, payment through having been made to the Administration in amt. - $630.24, being for period from March 4, 1842 to January 8, 1848, date of death of the pensioner (less 1/5 - Charles Geo. portions).

Very respectfully,
(illegible)
Auditor

War Commission of Pensions
"Civ-Div - (illegible)