Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16072, Philip Catt, Penn. Va.
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Service: Penn.  Va.
Catt, Philip
Number: S.16072
Born in Va   carded
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Indiana    1816
Philip Catt
of Knox in the State of Indiana
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Whitsel of the Regt commanded
by Col. Broathead in the Pennsaia
line for 1 year from 1776 & Va

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana
at the rate of 40 Dollars - cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Nov:
1832 - and delivered to E.J. Coale, Washington City D.C.

Arrears to 4th Sept 1832                  60
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4         20
March 1833                                    $80

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book D Vol. 9 Page 180
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from 1776
private one year,
$40.

Mr. Edwards will please
send this certificate or
answer to E. J. Coale
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Indiana }
County of Knox } S. S.
On this 12th day of September
1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Amony Kinny, Presiding judge of the circuit court of said County now sitting Philip Catt an old and respectable inhabitant of said County, and State, aged about 82 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration: That he was born near to where the Town of Mansfield now stands in Virginia, in the year 1750 :- That at an early age his parents removed over the mountains, the near where the town of Brownville stands - now Pennsylvania ; That in the year 1776 or 1777 he joined a company of Rangers or Spies under Capt John Whitsel and fixed a station at the mouth of Fishing Creek, on the east side of the Ohio - and ranged from Wheeling to the mouth of Kenhawa - and served in said company for six months ; when he was discharged by order of Col. Broadhead, then in Chief Command at Pittsburg; That his discarge was in writing, and is lost ; That on his return home he performed many ___ tours of Militia duty in pursuit of hostile Indians, under Captains Kincaid and Wilson - the duration of which cannot remember ; That in the year 1777 or 1778 , he volunteered in a company raised near Brownville, and marched to Pittsburg under said Tevbaugh, and then Captain Morgan took command and he marched in said Company with about 500 other troops, on an expedition against hostile indians on white womans creek where they burned the Indians huts - destroyed their property, released one white person and killed two
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Indians, then marched back to Pittsburg and thence home, when he was discharged ; That in the years 1782 or 1783, he volunteered at Brownstown in a Company under Capt Jacob Tevbaugh, and marched to Pittsburg - then crossed the Ohio and Mingo bottom and proceeded with the troops to Sandusky plains where they attacked the Indians, British and tories ; and after two days fighting under Col Crawford the Americans retreated after sever loss, and the capture of Col. Crawford by the enemy ; he marched back to Mingo bottoms, and thence home ; That the exact duration of his many services in scouting parties and expeditions during the revolutionary war is out of his recollection ; he confines himself therefore to a limit of one years service altogether, although he thinks he was on duty much longer ; That he removed to the NW Territory in May 1785, and settled in Knox County Indiana where he has since continued to reside; That he has no documentary witness, and knows of no person but Michl. Thorn, who can testify to his service etc. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.  A. Kinny  } The mark of Philip Catt  PC

Michl. Thorn appears in open court and states that Philip Catt, who has signed and sworn to the above declaration Since the year 1770 when they lived on the south bank of the Potomac in the same neighborhood ; That he afterwards saw said Catt in the American Service at different times during the revolutionary war in the neighborhood of Pittsburg Penns- ; That he believes said Philip to be eighty two years of age and that the revolutionary services detailed by said Philip were faithfully performed. 
Sworn to  and subscribed as aforesaid. A. Kinny
The mark of Michael Thorn X
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We Frederick Mahl and Gen. W. Johnston residing in said County of Knox hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Philip Catt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration ; The we believe him to be 82 years of age ; that he is respected and believed the the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - In open court  A Kinny }
Fredk. Mahl
G. W. Johnston

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the interrogation prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states ; And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Fredk Mahl & G. W. Johnston who have signed the preceding certificate are old and creditable citizens resident in Knox County aforesaid and that their statement in confirmation of that of Michl Thorn, who is also an old and creditable resident of said county, is entitiled to credit.    A. Kinney

State of Indiana}
Knox County}
I Daniel C Johnson Clerk of the court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Philip Catt for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand & seal of Office this 12th day of September 1832
D. C. Johnson  clerk
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July 6, 1936
BA-J/EEL 
Philip Catt - S.16072

Mrs. S.H.Lloyd, Sr. 
422 Scott Street
Vincennes, Indiana

Dear Madam
Reference is made to our letter in which you request the record of Philip Catt, who served in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania and received a pension while a resident of Knox County, Indiana.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim,  S.16072, based upn the military service in that war of Philip Catt.
Philip Catt was born in 1750, in the state of Virginia, near where the town of Moorefield was later located and when very young, moved with his parents over the mountains to Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
 While residing at said Brownsville, Philip Catt enlisted in 1776 or 1777, served in Captain John Whitsel's Company under Colonel Brodhead in the Pennsylvania Troops, established a station at the mouth of Fishing Creed on the Ohio River and went out as a ranger from this station as fat as the mouth of the Kanawha; length of service, six months; he returned to Brownsville and served on several tours against the Indians under Captains Kincaid and Wilson; dates of the tours not given; he enlisted in 1777 or 1778, served in Captain Morgan's Company and went on an expedition against the Indians on White Woman's Creek; length of service not given; in 1782, he enlisted in Captain Jacob Tevibaugh's Company, marched to Sandusky Plains where he was in a battle with the Indians under Colonel Crawford in which the Americans were defeated and Colonel Crawford taken Prisoner; length of this service not given. Soldier states that he served at least one year in all. 
In May 1785 he moved to Northwest Territory and settled in what was later Knox County, Indiana. 

Could not identify any officers except Brodhead and Crawford  he did refer to  Crawford! ___ death so could not use it
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Philip Catt was allowed pension on his application executed September 12, 1833, while a resident of Knox County, Indiana. 
There is no reference to wife or children.
No claim for pension was made to the United States by anyone as the widow of the above noted Philip Catt.

Very truly yours

A. D. Miller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator. 

Date of death not on AB
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P.     16072

INVALID

File No. 16072
Philip Catt
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 62
Arrangement  of 1870

1929 Apr 17 - John F. Mail add.
cast of photos. See carres. in  
ch. of Michjael Thorn. _____
1929 Photos to John F. Mail
May 7 & Fin. Div. ntfd. See Michael
Thorn, S.16272. A. D. Y.
1936. July 6 - Thist to Mrs.
S. H. Lloyd Sr. ____
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Vincennes Ind
Apr. 3 1936
Veterans Administration
Will you please give me any information about Philip Catt, (Revolutionary soldier - Penn. Militia pensioned in 1831 at age of 84 while living in Knox Co.) Will give wife's name, Sarah. He died about 1844. I would like to know the date of birth. No of pension claim. If wife applied for pension
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and would like to know if names of his five daughters are given.
I would appreciate it very much if you can give me information requested.
Thanks,
Mrs. S. H.. Lloyd Sr. 
422 Scott St.
Vincennes
Ind.