Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18348, John Williams, Penn.
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SERVICE

Penn.

Williams, John
Susannah

NUMBER
W 18348
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1839
Richmond Virginia
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Susannah Williams
widow of John Williams 2nd dec?
who died on the 14th July 1824
of Frederick in the State of Va.
who was a Private in the {illegible}
by Captain ________ of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Hand in the Penn.
line for 2 years Pa.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond Va.
at the rate of 80 Dollars _____Cents, per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued 8th day of March
1838 and sent Thos. Hord of ? none Present
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $560.00
Semi=annual allowance ending Sept 4 ? - 40.00
$600.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the, 3rd}

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 160
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Letter to R.H. Barton 25 hist 1839
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Virginia
15789
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John Williams
of Fredbly? in the state of Virginia who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hand of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years War
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Inscribed on the roll of Virginia 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
on the 12 of August 1819
_______________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of Nov 17
and sent to Hugh Holmes Winchester Va.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819  20, 31/30   6.22
Semi-anl all'cc ending 4 March 1820     48
$54.22

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
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John Williams was born January the 15 anno domini 1757

Susannah Williams wife of John Williams was born March Anno Domini 1755

Sarah Williams daughter of John Williams & Susannah Williams was born on Wednesday the 3 January Anno Domini 1781
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This paper shows the birth of the oldest child (Sarah) of John and Susannah Williams - and allowing 9 mos. & 24 days before her birth the marriage is proved to have been as stated by Mrs. Williams 9th March 1780 -
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Virginia Je

On the 12th day of August 1819 before me Hugh Holmes a Judge of the General Court of the state aforesaid personally appeared John Williams resident of the County of York State aforesaid, aged 63 years, and being by the first duly sworn doth make the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress ? the 18th day of March 1818 entitled an act making provision for the officers & soldiers in the land & naval services during the Revolutionary War.  That he enlisted in the year '77 in Bucks County state of Pennsylvania in the compy ? by Capt  Jacob Bennet First Pennsylvania Regiment continental line for three years. That he continued to serve in said Compy or in the service of the United States (being transferred to drive one of Gen Washingtons baggage wagons) while the and of the Revolutionary War when he also honorably discharged at Philadelphia. That he was in the battle of E? Town & {illegible}.  That he has no other proof in his possession except that now enclosed and that he is in needy circumstances and stands in need of his country's support.

Hugh Holmes (signature)

I Hugh Holmes Judge as aforesaid do certify that it  appears to my satisfaction that the said John Williams did serve in the Revolutionary war as  stated in the preceding.
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declaration against the common enemy and that he is in reduced circumstances & stand in need of his country's support and I now ? the preceding and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War ? to the directions of the aforementioned Act given under my hand and the seal of York County the 18th day of October 1819.
H Holmes.

Ja Keith 626
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John Williams 
Declaration
15739
March 1820
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Virginia

At a Court continued and held for Frederick County the 3rd day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court being a Court of Record for the said county of Frederick, John Williams 2nd aged sixty four years resident in Newtown, Stephensburg in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary War as following to wit. That he enlisted with Capt. Bennet, and was attached to the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line and served in that line during the term of his enlistment which was for three years or during the War, as will appear by his declaration made before the Hon. Judge Hugh Holmes bearing date the 12th day of August 1819 on which declaration and evidence exhibited he has obtained a pension certificate 15739, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" papered on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, as follows: One house and one acre and one quarter of ground, on the back street near the south east corner of the town of Stephensburg in Frederick County subject to a yearly rent of twenty five shillings, one cow, one ten filate stove, one old ...
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Desk, half dozen old chairs, two tables, one old tea kettle, one iron kettle, one ditto pot, one Dutch oven, one old pine cupboard, one tin coffee pot, one earthen tea pot, about half dozen old tea cups and saucers, one Matlock, one washing tub, and a set of Shoemaking tools.

The small debt due me I am certain will not in the aggregate amount to two dollars.  I am now owing to Lewis Stephens at least sixty dollars, to Henry Jackson fifty dollars, to Stephen Webb between fifteen and twenty dollars, and some of her small debts.  I am also bound as security for the payment of a debt now due to George Ritenour for about twenty dollars.  And I do further declare that I am by occupation a Shoemaker, but that in consequences of my age and infirmities I am not able to perform one half the labor I have been accustomed to perform in my younger years, neither at any trade nor at any other manual labor.  My family residing with me consists only of my wife Susannah Williams, aged about sixty six years who is able to perform but very little labor and my daughter Susannah Williams aged about twenty one years whose labor goes to her own support.
John Williams 2  X his mark

Witness A.C. Smith (signature)

Sworn to and declared this 3rd day of July 1820 before me John Smith a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Frederick, and also sworn in open court.
John Smith

I, James Keith, Clerk of the Court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court.  And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is two hundred dollars.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court the 12th day of August 1820.  And the final year of the Commonwealth.
J. A. Keith
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3,000
Feb 14

Mrs. Susannah Williams - widow of John Williams (2nd) Marc 1780 
died 1824
Allow - 2 year
$80 per ann [illegible]
4 March 1837 

Her agent 
Thos. Hord of Va
now at Washington -
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I hereby certify that the affiant Margaret Williams is a person of truth, and I believe her statement is entitled to full faith credit - given under my hand this day & year aforesaid.
James R Brooking Jg (signature)


Virginia
I Thomas Allen Tidbree, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Frederick, do hereby certify that James R. Brooking before whom the foregoing affidavits were made is a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my Seal of Office the 5th day of February 1838 and in the 62nd year of the Commonwealth.
J F Tidbree


Virginia 
At a court held for Frederick County the 5th day of February 1838, the declaration of Susannah Williams, widow of the late John Williams the 2nd, who was a private soldier in the Pennsylvania line in the War of the Revolution, made for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act of Congress papered the 4th day of July 1836 entitled 'An Act granting half pay to widows or orphans where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States and for these purposes taken before James R Brooking, one of the Justices of this Court, on the 3rd day of January 1838. Also the accompanying affidavit of Margaret Williams taken before the same Justice, on the same day, were produced to this Court, and after examining the said documents the Court doth certify that in their opinion the said Susannah Williams is unable from bodily infirmity to allow court to make her declaration in person.

In testimony wherefore I Thomas Allen Tidbree, clerk of the said court hereunto subscribe my name and affix my Seal of Office this 5th day of February 1838 and in the 62nd year of the Commonwealth.
J. F Tidbree.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
September 14, 1926

Mrs. S.W. Freedman
215 Bradford St.
Charleston, W. Va..

Madam:

I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim, W. 18318, it appears that John Williams was born January 10, or 15, 1757, place not stated.  He was pensioned as John Williams, Second.

While living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in 1776, in the Flying Camp, under Captain McKesick of the Pennsylvania Militia, length of service not stated.

He re-enlisted in 177-, as a private, in Captain Jacob Bennet's Company, of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, from which he was detached to drive one of the wagons of General Washington's Army.  He was in the engagement at Germantown and Whitemarsh, served three years and was discharged at the close of the war, date not given.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1819, while living in Frederick County, Virginia.  He died July 14, 1824.
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He married in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1780, Susannah, born in March 1755, (maiden name not given).  She was allowed pension on her application executed January
3, 1838, while living in New Town, Frederick County, Virginia

They had children:
Sarah           born January 3, 1781.
John              "      October 13, 1785.
Edward          "      April 1, 1791.
Susannah     "   about 1808.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.