Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5142, for Mitchell L K Montgomery, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn

Montgomery, Mitchell L.K.
Rebecca

NUMBER
W. 5142

CONTENTS
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5695
Ohio C
Rebecca Montgomery
widow of Mitchell L. K. Montgomery who served in the Revolutionary war Penn, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 90 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st July, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of June 1857, and sent to Hon N. Evans Cambridge O.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 350 Vol. 4
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State of Ohio Guernsey County Ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the associate judges in and for the Court of Common Pleas for said County Rebecca Montgomery widow of Mitchell L. K. Montgomery who was a private in Captain Pickets company of Colonel McCoy's Regiment in the army of the revolution, and who was a pensioner of the United States, and the Rebecca Montgomery being first duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that she was married to the said Mitchell L. K. Montgomery in Pendleton County in the State of Virginia at the time stated in written declaration to wit about the month of September AD 1798 by one (Felty) Volentine Powers a regularly ordained minister of the gospel of the Presbyterian Church. That she has now no record evidence of said marriage, but that the same was celebrated according to the laws of the State of Virginia, and by a person legally authorised to solemnise marriages at the time the same took place, That she had a family record of her marriage in the family Bible belonging to her husband, but that the house belonging to the said Mitchell L. K. Montgomery and in which we resided caught fire and was burned up in the year AD 1881 including the Bible in which said record was contained. That this deponent has caused examination to be made of the records of the state of Virginia and that no evidence of said marriage can be found among said records. This deponent further states that she is unable from age and bodily infirmity to appear before the Court of Common Pleas in Cambridge Decr. 28th 1850
Rebecca Montgomery X her mark

Attest Joseph Ferrell

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that the said Rebecca Montgomery us a person entitled to credit.
Zadock Davis
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Deposition of John McNeely

The State of Ohio Guernsey County SS
Personally appeared before me one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Guernsey aforesaid, John McNeely who being first sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he is the son of Rebecca Montgomery by her first husband one Robert McNeely, that after the death of his father, his mother was married to the said Mitchell L K Montgomery, that this deponent was  present and witnessed said marriage, that the same was solemnised in the County of Pendleton in the State of Virginia by one Volentine Powers a regularly ordained minister of the gospel of the Presbyterian Church. That the same was legally solemnised according to the laws of Virginia - and took place sometime in the summer or fall of 1793 and before the 1st day of January AD 1794. But this deponent is now unable to state from recollection the month or the day of the month on which said marriage took place.
This deponent further states that he has often seen the record of said marriage in the family bible which deponent states was burned up in 1831. That the time fixed in said record corresponds with deponents recollection and statements above made of the date of said marriage. This deponent further states that the said Rebecca Montgomery has continued the widow of the said Mitchell L. K. Montgomery since his death, which took place in the year 1845, and that she now is widow of the said Mitchell L K Montgomery - December the 28th 1850
John McNeely X his mark

Attest Joseph Ferrell

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year above written, and I hereby certify that the said John McNeely is a person entitled to credit Zadock Davies - Associate Judge

Deposition of Isaac Montgomery in the matter of the application of Rebecca Montgomery for a pension

The State of Ohio Guernsey County SS
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Isaac Montgomery who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the son
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Mitchell L.K. Montgomery