Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41559, Robert Galway, Continental Penn. Agnecy And Residence
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Continental

Galway, Robert
or Gilway

NUMBER
S. 41559

Penn. agency and residence

CONTENTS
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1041
Pennsylvania

Robert Galway
Private, Penn.
Capt. Popham
Hazens Congress Regt, 1777 War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Continental

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of June 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of June, 1818 and sent to Joseph Nowse, Esquire, Register of the Treasury Department.

Arrears to the 4th of September 1818.
2 24/20mos. $22.40

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818}

Continued

Chester Co.
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Notification sent October 28, 1820 to 
John G. Werster, West Chester, Pa.
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I Robert Galway citizen of the United States and resident in Chester County Pennsylvania being duly sworn do make oath & say that in the latter end of March or beginning of April A.D. 1777 I enlisted in Philadelphia as a private soldier during the war (Viz: the war of the Revolution) in the company of Capt. William Popham belonging to the Congress regiment under Col. Moses Hazen.
That I was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, at the taking of Cornwallis & that I remained in the service until the close of the war when I was regularly discharged having served nine months & upwards against the common enemy. That my discharge has been lost or destroyed by the accidents of time. Moreover, I do make oath & say that I am a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do herby relinquish any claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States I being now sixty four years of age.
Robert Galway [signature]

Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in & for the County of Chester State of Pennsylvania this 10 Day of June A.D. 1818.
W. Finney [signature]
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I Walter Finney Judge of the Court of quarter session in & for the County of Chester State of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Robert Galway an applicant for a pension from the United States has served nine months & upwards against the common enemy in the Revolutionary War and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said applicant by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in  need of assistance from his country for support . And I now transmit the testimony in the case and the proceedings had therein to the Honorable Secretary of the Department of war.

Witness my hand and seal the Tenth Day of June one Thousand Eight Hundred Eighteen.
W. Finney [signature]
Seal
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Chester County Ss
Before the subscribed one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas for said County personally came John Gillespie aged Sixty four years, and being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Robert Galway the within named applicant that they served together in the same company in Colonel Hazans Regiment called the Congress Regiment in the service of the United States from early in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven untill [until] the close of the War that they were both discharged about the same time.
John Gillespie [signature]

Sworn & subscribed the Tenth Day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen.
Before 
W. Finney [signature]
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Robert Galway

1041

East Nottingham

Con

June 18
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There is due to me
One dept of Eleven Dollars
One debt of fifteen D [dollars]

I am in debt the following Sums
One dept of Twenty dollars
One of Ten D [Dollars]
One of Five Dollars
One of Two dollars 50/100

I am a laborer by trade and am unable from age & infirmity to follow that occupation. My family consists of my wife, Elizabeth aged sixty 6 years weak & infirmed - one son and Grandchild.
Robert Galway [signature]

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
CHESTER COUNTY, SS:

I John G. Wersler Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, of the said county of Chester; the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of Pennsylvania; do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Declaration and oath and the Schedule thereto 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 Twenty five dollars and forty seven cents. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Westchester, this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Jno. G. Wersler  [signature]
Prothonotary
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
CHESTER COUNTY SS:

On this first day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Twenty, Personally appeared in OPEN COURT of Common Pleas, held at Westchester, in and for the county of Chester, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; being a court of Record, proceeding according to the course of Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, 
Robert Galway aged sixty eight years and upwards, resident in the township of East Nottingham in the said county of Chester, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania' who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; That he served in the Revolutionary war, in the Company under Capt. Popham in the Congress Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Hazen on the Continental Establishment, and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18 March 1818, his certificate being numbered 1041.

AND I the said Robert Galway do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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," passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, 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. 
Robert Gilway [signature]

to, declared and subscribed, on the first day of August 1820, in OPEN COURT of Common pleas, in and for the county of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania' the said Court, being a Court of Record by the Laws of the said Commonwealth.
Jno. G. Wersler [signature] Prothonotary.

SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY.
One cow
One hog
One oak tub
One old Walnut hutch
One Pine Chest
One iron press
One iron teak kettle
Six knives & 6 forks
Three cups & 3 saucers
Six plates
Five chairs
Four dishes
One spindle
Shovel & [illegible]

Value $25. 47 1/2 / 100
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41559
INVALID
Revy

File No. 41.559
Robert Galway
Priv. Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: - Vol. 3, Page 186

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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City of Washington 22 June 1818

Sir.
Permit me to hand you the papers of Robert Galway for the purpose of being examined and returned to me if [illegible] to wait until you obtain the official Certificate of the Revolutionary Private from the Executor of Pennsylvania.
I observe from the testimony of John Gillespie that the time of service was from 1777 to the end of the War.
I am Sir,
very respectfully
your ob. [obedient] serv [servant]
Joseph Nourse [signature]

George Boyd
Pension Office
$16
6.40
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$22.40

30
10
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20
4
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24/30
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Admitted 23 June 1818

[illegible initials]
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I John G. Wersler Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Certify that Walter Finney Esquire before whom the annexed deposition appears to have been taken is and at the time of taking and subscribing the same was one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid duly appointed, commissioned, and qualified, to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at West Chester the thirteenth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Jno. G. Wersler [signature]
Proth.
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To the Honorable Secretary of the Department of war of the United States, The petition & representation of the subscriber humbly showeth
That your Petitioner as will appear from the accompanying Documents served nine months & upwards as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution on the continental establishment. That he is in need of assistance from his Country for support He therefore begs to be placed on the pension list of the United States agreeably to the law of March 18th 1818. And you petition will ever pray
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