Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2062, Hugh Beaty, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE

Beaty, Hugh

NUMBER
S.2062

Carded

CONTENTS
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5550

Pennsylvania
Hugh Beaty

of [BLANK] the State of Penna
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Clark of the [BLANK] commanded
by [BLANK] in the Penna 
line for 17 mos Private  $63.33

Inscribed on the Roll of Penna 
at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Feb
1833 and Sent to Hon. L. Duval
House Reps


Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                    $94.99
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833  31.66
                                                               ________
                                                              $126.65

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk,
Book  D  Vol. 6  Page 48
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I Joseph Stilwell Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Union County Do Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Hugh Beaty for a pension.  -  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at New Berlin the 29th day of September A.D> 1832
[ SEAL ]
(signed) Joseph Stilwell  Prothy



application of 
Hugh Beatty
for Pension
(illegible)
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State of Pennsylvania
Union County SS

On the 21st day of September A.D. 1832, personally appeared before Hugh Wilson Esquire, one of the judges of the court of Quarter Sessions Common Pleas and for said county of Union and State of Pennsylvania, Hugh Beaty, a resident of the township of Hartley in Buffalo Valley in the county of Union and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid, aged eighty-one years & upwards, 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 under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He lived in Northumberland County (now Union) in the year 1777 and received orders, he thinks, in the month of April
 of that year from Walter Clark, who was county lieutenant and had the command of the militia of the county to march against the Indians who were committing infractions and murder on the frontier inhabitants at that time.   We marched out under William Clark, who was the captain and served a tour of three months duty.  Our services were confined to Northumberland County, now Union, and Centre.  There was no other officer with us but Captain Clark on this tour.  At the expiration of the tour the inhabitants of this part of the county had fled while we were in Centre County.  While in Centre we had got information from General Potter that the inhabitants of Buffalo Valley had fled.  We then marched the families in Potter Fort over to Kish-
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acoquillas Valley in Mifflin County and then returned by the way of Brower Dams and Middle Creek.  Some of the families returned to take off the harvests.  While harvesting we were attacked by the Indians and drove in to our temporary garrison. A Mr. Clinesmith and a son of Henry Hoon was killed and Mr. Wilson and Catharine Clinesmith was wounded.  He continued in the county until the end of the war and during that time, a term of more than three years, he was in the service during the spring, summer and fall and of each year by orders of the county by Lieutenant accounting to more than two years service.  

He was born in Ireland in the year of our Lord 1751.  He has a record of his age but cannot now find it.  He lived in Northumberland County in Buffalo Township and has still lives in the same county, now Union.

He was drafted into the service and at several times a volunteer.  There were no regular officers where he served.  He never received a discharge as he remembers.

James Thompson has some knowledge of my Revolutionary services.  John Glover and James Madden, who live in my neighborhood and have known me for many years, can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a revolutionary soldier. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Signed: Hugh Beaty
Signed:  Hugh Wilson
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State of Pennsylvania
Union County SS

Before me, the subscriber, one of the judges of the court of {illegible) in and for the said county, personally appeared John Gover and James Madden, who being sworn according to law doth say that they are well acquainted with Hugh Beaty who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that they believe him to be eighty-one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.  
Signed:  John Glover, James Madden

Sworn and subscribed the 26th day of September A.D. 1832
Signed:  Hugh Wilson

I, the subscriber, one of the judges of the court of {illegible} in and for said county of Union, do certify that owing to the bodily infirmity and inability of the foregoing applicant to appear in open court the declarant {due to the document quality, the rest of this paragraph is very difficult to transcribe.}