Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 16,627, for John Mummy, Maryland
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(3-1776)
Service Md
*Mummy, John Number R 16627
or Monny
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CONTENTS
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Pension
Pension Office
3rd April 1829

John H. Eaton Esq.
Sec'y of War
Washington City

Private
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[not legible] March 20, 1829
Dear Sir, 
I submit this case to your own sound discretion. The only difficulty I can see in the case at all, is the fact that he only served, including his detention as a prisoner of War, about 1 year & 9 months. He, I mean says that his company had gone into the southern states beyond his means of reaching them- that he went home after is escape from the British - that he got married and was never called on to serve any longer. He is very poor, perfectly so, and needs a support from some quarter as to his wife are part labor & have a [not legible]. t appears to me, that the few days he has to live and they are few indeed, might be only properly made happier by extending to him the provisions of the acts of congress, under said he claims. Submit his case as it is to your sound discretion, hoping that some hope of mercy may be [not legible] with justice, in this case of distress and want. If any difficulty should be felt by you about granting this pension, I would thank you Sir to state it to Gen. Jackson, himself, who will fee for a soldiers suffering, tho' I suppose not more than yourself. The applicant is extremely ignorant, and it was owing to that circumstance, I believe that he did not join some other corps, after his escape from the British, as his own were some off out of his way.
Respectfully Yours
Caleb Atwater
Hon J. H. Eaton
Sec'y of War
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20984
John Mooney
Act March 18, 1818
OHIO
Rejected, Ice letter
A. G. Atwater Circleosle
20 May , 1829
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
Resolution 16627
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P.O.______________________
John Monney
Service: Md
[stamped] REJECTED
Enlisted: ___________, 18__
Discharged: ________, 18__
Application filed: ___________, 18__
Alleges: ____________, 18__
Re-enlisted: __________

Attorney: _________________
P.O. __________________________
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_________ Recognized. __________ Contract
______ Cert. of Dis.   Searched for _______, 18__
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20984
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John Mooney
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Declaration, in order to be placed on the Pension list, under the Act of Ar. 18th March 1818.
State of Ohio
County of Pihaway
On this 20th day of March 1829, personally appeared in open court it being a court of record for the county and state aforesaid John Mooney a resident in said county aged seventy-six years who being first duly sworn according to law oath and his oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of congress of the 18th of March 1818 and of the 1st of May 1820 and that he than said John Mooney enlisted for the term of three years on during the war in the month of December 1770 in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Capt. Haynes in the regiment commanded by Col. Shryork, Capt. Gieslund sometimes commanded the company after Haynes was promoted on Continual establishment and that he continued to sever in the said corps until after the battle of Brandywine, in the Autumn of 1777 in October, then he was captured by a member of British light horse at Swedes Fork while he was standing sentinel and that he was taken into Philadelphia as a prisoner of War and was there detained as such prisoner of War until the British left that city before the battle of Monmouth when he fortunately made his escape from them and not knowing where his company were in the southern states he returned home near the blue mountains in Maryland and never joined his company afterwards and was never called on to join it having served fully 9 months before his capture and including his detention as prisoner of war was One year and
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eight or nine months and that he never received any pay scarly for his services.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except that present, that his name was not on the pension roll of any state and that the following is the reason why he did not make an earlier affiliation for a pension aig because until lately he has been able to support himself and family by labor
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May, 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner deposed of any property or any land there of with intent thereby so to diminish it as to being myself with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain pensions engaged in the [not legible] service of the United States in the Revolutionary War prepared on the 18th March 1888, and that I have not now has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule here to annexed and by me subscribed.
That since the 18th March 1888 no changes have been made in my property except raising and selling a few chickens in market occasionally for the purpose paying for a little coffee or tea.
John Mooney {X his mark}
Sworn to and declared on the 20th day of March 1829
I Andrew Haston Clerk of Pihaway County court of Memmon Treas do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said John Mooney did serve in the Revolutionay War as stated in this
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preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the record of this said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty-one dollars.
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this in court [covered by seal] day of March 1829
Andrew [not legible]

Schedule of property belonging to John Mooney
Real Estate - None
Personal Property
1 Cow value $7
2 other bed & bedding value $2
2 Tea Pots value $2
3 Pigs value $2
a few chickens value .50
TOTAL $31.50
John Mooney is 76 years old and very infirmed his wife is 76 years old also, in a month or so from this time they are unable to keep house and reside in another family and both husband and wife are unable to labor any longer they have no family no house of their own
John Mummy [X his mark]