Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22083, James Alworth, Penn.
Page 4

State of Pennsylvania
Beaver County

On this sixth day of March A.D. 1833, personally appeared in open court before John Brader, Esq., president and Thomas Henry and Joseph Hemphill Esqs., associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County aforesaid, James Allworth, a resident of Beaver Township in the county of Beaver and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid, aged seventy-two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as within stated.  

That he entered the service of the United States the first of January A.D. 1776 as a volunteer and assembled in Carlisle in Pennsylvania at which place Charles McClay was chosen captain and John Stewart, lieutenant.  From Carlisle he marched to the city of Philadelphia and there entered the regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Armstrong and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Peebles, and from thence he crossed the Delaware River at Carail's{?} Ferry and marched to a place about four or five miles from Brunswick, New Jersey, and remained there during the winter, scouting along the English lines.  And in the middle of March of the same year, he marched to Philadelphia and was there discharged about the twentieth of the same month, after having served at least two months and a half.  That in the middle of May 1781, he entered the service again as a volunteer, under the command of Major McCalmont (there be no other officers now recollected) and marched from Lurgan Township Cumberland
Page 5

County, Pennsylvania, to Standing Stone on Juniatti (now Huntington), and from thence to Frankstown at the head waters of the Juniatti, and remained there for a few days and was discharged by Major McCalmont, after having served not less than fifteen days. 

That about the middle of July 1781, he was drafted in the militia of Pennsylvania under the command of Major William McFarland and Colonel James Johnston.  The company to which he belonged was commanded by Lieutenant Robert Quigley and Ensign Samuel Walker (the other officers, if any, not now recollected), and marched from Lurgan Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania to Standing Stone on the Juniatti (now Huntington).  And from thence to Frankstown at the head waters of the Juniatti and remained there until he heard of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, which he heard of in the first of November 1781.  After having served at least three months and a half, in the whole having served not less than six months and a half, and that on the second tour he provided his own arms and provisions.  

And further saith that he has no discharges or other documentary evidence of any of his service, and that he does not know of any person now living who can testify to his services.  And that during the times stated in the foregoing declaration of his services, he resided in Lurgan Township, Cumberland County (now Franklin) in the state of Pennsylvania.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Signed: James Alworth

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Signed:  James Logan
Page 6

We, John Clarke and John Nesbit, residing in the county of Beaver in the state of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Allworth, who has subscribed the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides, and has resided for some years, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Signed: John Clark, John Nesbit
James Logan

And the court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above and foregoing named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court certifies that it appears to them John Clarke and John Nesbit, who have signed the above certificate, are residents of the county of Beaver aforesaid and are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit.

I, James Logan, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County in the state of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Allworth for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said county of Beaver, this sixth day of March A.D. 1833.
Signed:  James Logan, Clk.