Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40614, Thomas Vaughan, Penn.
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( 3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Vaughan, Thomas
NUMBER
S. 40614
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3.993
Pennsylvania Roll
Thomas Vaughan,
Capt [Captain] Hughes
Private
Pennsylvania line 13 yrs 6 mo [months]
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary Wa[r]

Inscribed on the Roll of Penna. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence o[n] the 8 of April 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of Oct. 1818 and sent to Saml. [Samuel] Roberts, Esq. Pittsbg. [Pittsburgh] Pa. 

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818- $39.2
Semi-anl, all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Mar. 1819 48.
[illegible]. 4 Mo 27 /30 $87.2

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

[illegible scribbles]
Continued 
Pittsburgh Allegany County
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Duplicate certificate issued 10 Apl. [April] 1824, and sent to E. Pintland, at
Pittsburg, Pa

of Con

Notif [notification] Sent to Clerk A.J.D. Court Pittsburg, Pa June 20. 1820

Dead See letter to J. S. Stevenson, Sept. 12. 1829 
do to Hon J Banks Jan. 27. 1832
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Certificate of the Judge wanting return the papers with copies to GB [illegible] 21 1828
FREE
FREE
[round stamp, illegible APR]
J. Calhoun
War Depart. 
Washington
[illegible]
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Pennsylvania ss
Before the Honbl. [Honorable] Samuel Roberts, President of the Court of Common Pleas in the [illegible] district, personally appeared Thomas
Vaughan, who having been duly sworn deposed & said, that he served as a private soldier in Captain James Green's Company, in the first Pennsylvania Regt. commanded by Colonel James Chambers, from June 1777 until January 1781, at which time he was regularly discharged. That "by Reason of his reduced Circumstance in life", He is "in need of assistance from his Country for Support". & that his discharge was lost.
Thomas Vaghan
Sworn & Subscribed at Pittsburgh 8th day of April 1818.
Saml [Samuel] Roberts

I have a personal knowledge of the Deponent Thomas Vaughan & served in the same Regiment with him. Certified at Pittsburgh Penna. 8 April 1818.
George Stevenson
formerly a Lieut. in the Penna. Reg.
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A Smith

Allegheny County. Ss.
I Ephraim Pentland, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the Said County do by these Presents certify that Samuel Roberts, Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who hath hereunto in his own proper hand writing Subscribed his name, was at the time of taking Such deposition and now is President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and is duly authorised [authorized] by the Laws of the Said State to administer oaths [illegible] to all whose acts as
such due faith and credit are of and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere. In testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Pittsburgh, this 10th April 1818
E. Pentland, Pro.
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Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section
MCS/HAM
May 1, 1930.
Mrs. G. F. McDermand
2635 South 14th Street
Lincoln
Nebraska.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 40614, it appears that Thomas Vaughan enlisted at Fort Littleton, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in June 1775, served in Captain Robert Cluggage's Company, Colonel William Thompson's Rifle Regiment; he also served as a private in Captain James Greir's Company and Captain John Hughes' Company, Colonel James Chambers' First Pennsylvania Regiment, from June 1777, until January 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818.
In 1820 he was living in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, aged about sixty-eight or sixty-nine years. In that year he referred to his wife, Agness, aged sixty-eight years, and to the following children:
Eleanor aged 32 years, wife of John Tod
Sally aged 27 years
Christiana aged 24 years
Nancy aged 22 years, wife of James Cochran
Peggy aged 17 years, or 18 years
William aged 16 years
Thomas Vaughan died December 28, 1827.
[Written below death] See agency book
This is the history of the only soldier from Pennsylvania named Thomas Vaughan that is found on the Revolutionary War. records of this Bureau.
Your letter has been forwarded to the proper division of this bureau for reply in regard to Samuel A. Foulkrod who served in the Civil War.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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H.E. Terrell, President
F.M. Horsman, Vice-President
E.M. Johnson, Cashier
Rena V. Johnson, Ass't Cashier
Farmers Bank
Unincorporated
Highland, O., Aug 14 1923
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Sir:
Do your records show any pension issued to one Thomas Vaughn, private in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, 1778, or to his widow, Rebecca Cane-Vaughn?
If so please give me the date of their marriage.
Yours Truly,
Rena Vaughn Johnson
Pension U.S. Office L Aug 16 1923