Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7099, for John Megaw, Pennsylvania
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Service                                Number

Penn.         Megaw, John    R. 7099
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Suspended
let 25 May 1836
Hon. D. Kilgore

7099
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REJECTED
7099
P.O.

John Megan

Service: ____
Enlisted: ____
Enlisted: ____,18__
Discharged:____. 18__
Application filed: ____. 18__

Alleges: ____
Re-enlisted: ____
Attorney: ____
P.O. ____
____Recognized.  ____ Contract.
____ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18__.
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House of representatives
May 23, 1836

Sir,
    
    I have herewith enclosed to you the declaration and application of Mr. John Megaw, a soldier of the revolution for a pension.  From personal acquaintance with Mr. Magaw, I believe his statements entitled to full credit.

    As soon as you have papers upon this application, please to inform me of the results.

                             Yours respectfully,
                                          //s//
                                   D. Kilgore
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33.702
John Megaw
Ohio


Hn. D. Kilgore
              H.R.
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State of Ohio}
Harrison County} ss

    On this third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared before me Robert Maxwell one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Harrison, John Megaw a resident of North Township in said county of Marrison and State aforesaid aged  ninety six 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 and and served as herein stated to wit, this declaration first entered the service (he thinks) in the year 1777 about the first day of January and served for the term of two months, under Captain Samuel Shannon, Ensign Robert Carlisle, Lieutenant Thomas Campell, when he first entered the service he lived in Westmoreland County in the state of Pennsylvania.  This tour he was drafted and he marched to a river, near Woodbridge in New Jersey. The name of the river this claimant cannot now recollected, but he recollects that the British were on the opposite of said river.  From there he marched to a place called the Ash Swamp and there they had a skirmish with the British.  The skirmish commenced in the morning and lasted till eight of the dame day, at night the British got a reinforcement and we retreated back to the old place of our encampment.  Then this declarant remained till the expiration of the said two months when I received a written discharge from my Capt. which is lost.
    Again early in the spring (this declarant thinks) of the year 1778.  This declarant, being a single man, and not having the charge of a family, volunteered for the term of seven months and the said term under Capt. Shannon Lieutenant & Ensign not recollected, this service was performed in Ligonier Valley in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania in defending a fort which was in that place and in guarding the frontier from the ravages of the Indians and during all the said seven months he was not engaged in any civil pursuit but was either in the fort or out on scouting duties after the Indians.
     Again early in the spring of the next season this declarant further states the he volunteered for the term of six months and served the said tour under Captain Edward Halferty Lieutenant George McDowell all at the fort last aforesaid and in the manner last aforesaid.
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  This declarant further states, that in the spring of the next year to wit of the year 1790; the day of the month this declarant (on account of his extreme old age & bodily infirmity) cannot now recollect, volunteered for the term of six months and served under Captain Edward Halferty Lieutenant George McDowell the same officer under which he served the six months before mentioned. This same officer under which he served the six months before mentioned. The service was also performed in the fort in Ligonier Valley in Westmoreland County & his Colonel's name was John Henry or Pumeroy, and he thinks they were under the inspection of General Hann.
    This declarant further states that in the summer of 1791 he was drafted for the term of two months and served the said tour at the place last aforesaid in defending the frontier from the Indians under Capt. John Archibald. He thinks Lieut. was Goerge McDowell, he positively declares that he served in the revolution or during the time of the Revolutionary War at least twenty three months.  That he received pay as a soldier for at least twenty three months and during all the times here stated as being in the war he was not engaged in any civic pursuit, but that he was doing duties of a soldier with an embodied corps.
    This declarant here by relinquishes every claim whatever to any annuity or a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Rolls or the Agency of any state.
                                                  //s//
                                          John Megaw
Sworn to and subscribed the day &
year first aforesaid before me.
                  //s//
               Robt Maxwell {Associate Judge}

    The following are the answers of the declarant to the interrogatories proposed by the Judge in pursuant of the regulations of the War Department.
1. I was born in Ireland Larone County in the year 1740 or 1742.
2. I have no record of my age.
3. I lived in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania when I first entered the service. I remained there till after the close of the war, from thence I went to Conewago in York County Pa. I remained there about four years.  From there I removed back to Westmoreland County and I remained there till the year 1818 when I removed to this county of Harrison where I now live.
4.  The first time I was called into service I was drafted, the second, third and forth time I volunteered and the last time I was drafted.
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5. This declarant states that the names of his officers were Genl Hann Col. John Henry, Captain Shannon, Halferty and Archibald, Lieutenant George McDowell & Thomas Campbell, Ensign Robert Carlisle.
6. I received written discharge for each tour for which I served from the respective captains, but they are all lost.
7.  Revd. John McCathur James Campbell Peter Ferrel and John Bushy Esq. & Judge Bingham.

                                             //s//
                                       John Megaw

Sworn to and subscribed before
me on the day & year first above
 written.

                            //s//
                  Robert Maxwell 
                  (Associate Judge)

  We John McCarthur a clergyman residing in the county of Harrison and state of Ohio and Thomas Bingham Esq, residing in the county and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Megaw, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be ninety six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
                                                 //s//
                                            John McCarthur
                                            Thos. Bingham
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this fourteenth day of May AD
1836.
                 //s//
           Robert Maxwell 
           (associate judge)

   I Robert Maxwell one of the associate Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Harrison, Ohio, hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And that the said John McCarthur who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman and resident in the county of Marrison & State of Ohio & that Thomas Bingham who has also signed the same is a resident in the county last aforesaid and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that the applicant cannot for bodily infirmity attend the court.
                              //s//
                         Robt. Maxwell} Associate
                                                  Judge
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The State of Ohio}
Harrison County}ss

    I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the within named Robert Maxwell Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and certificate was at the time of subscribing the same and now is an associate judge of the court of common pleas of said county duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures within written are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court at Cadiz this 16th day of May A.D. 1836.

                                                     //s//
                                         William Tingley Clerk