Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22621, Andrew Alsworth, Penn
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SERVICE   Penn.
Alsworth, Andrew
NUMBER  S.22621
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18370 
Pittsburgh 
Andrew Alsworth 
of Butler Co. in the State of Penn who was a Private in the company command by Captain McConnel of the Regt. command by Col. Scott in the Penna Troops line for 1 year 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16. day of August 1833 and sent to S. A. Gilmore Butler Pa    
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 80.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep 1833 20.00 
$100.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E. Vol. 5 Page 71
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11.105
Declaration of Andrew Alsworth
Revolutionary Soldier
[illegible] Said McConnel since decd
There is no Clergyman in the vicinity of Said Alsworth he cannot [illegible] of certificate Apr th10 1833
Jno Gilmore
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Butler} SS
On this tenth day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas Setting Andrew Alsworth a resident of Cranberry Township Venango County but formerly of the County of Butler in the State aforesaid aged Eighty 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 under the following named officers and served as herein after stated.   He enlisted in Capt James McConnels Compy for the term six months then Cumberland County Penna  New Franklin in the Regiment commanded by Col Frederick Watt that they were stationed at Fort Lee afterwards retreated through the Jerseys and crossed the Delaware and he was in the engagement of Trenton on the 26th of Dec. 1776 at the capture of the Hessians that the term of
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of their service of six months had previously expired but was induced to extend the time he served altogether upwards of ten months in said company when he rec’d a discharge which is lost afterwards in the Summer of the year 1781 he served a tour of two Months duty under Capt Thomas Erskine of Cumberland Penna and was stationed at Frankstown and assisted at what was known by the Bedford Scout in burying the dead who was killed by the indians that he knows of no person has living by whom he can prove his service that he have the declaration of Alden McClure who was the first Lieut in said compy as to his service which is probably in the War Department 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State 
Andw Alsworth
Sworn to Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Wm. Stewart Pro
d the said court do hereby declare the opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary, and served as he states
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Butler County ss. 
I, William Stewart, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Andrew Alsworth for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office, this 22d day of September A.D. 1832 
Wm Stewart, Prothy. 
Butler County 
Pennsylvania } SS     
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace Andrew Alsworth who has applied for the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, and further declares that he was born in Cumberland County Pennsylvania on the 25 December 1752 that he has no record of his age except that was contained in the family bible which is now torn out of the same that he does not now recollect of the names of any of the continental or malitia officers who were with the troops he served except those already mentioned and Colonel Soap from York County Pennsylvania who were at Fort Lee and further that the deposition of Abiel McClure which he had obtained is rendered which proved his service and upon what the state of Pennsylvania granted him a pension and further the deponent saith not 
Andew Alsworth
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15th June 1833 
John Duffy
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a clergyman residing in the Township of Center in Butler County State aforesaid hereby certify that well acquainted with Andrew Alsworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he owes to have been a soldier of the revolution and that concur in that opinion 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
I Certify that I am well acquainted with Alsworth the within applicant for he is a man of integrity and whose statement may be fully confided in I had the deposition of Abdiel McClure who proved the service of said Andrew Alsworth and if not in  the pension office is either lost or mislaid.  There is no Clergyman in the vicinity of Said Alsworth in whom he can [illegible] certificate Aug 10th 1833
Jno Gilmore 
11.105
Declaration of Andrew Alsworth
Revolutionary Soldier
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BRIEF objections to the tor of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Andrew Allsworth which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes 
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?   Yes   
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the assigned for his not doing so?  
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes 
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes 
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes 
VII  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes 
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No  No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? The officers affidavit to which he alludes is not in the War Department.
XIV   If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  Yes   
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, which of them is not so answered?   1st 2nd 5th  
EXPLANATORY NOTES. QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: “Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For year -- months, and --- days, I served as a and days, I served as a  months and for such service I claim a pension.”
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite , and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions. merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time 3 during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oath the this certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Revolution
OWN
22621
INVALID.
File No. 22,621
Andrew Alsworth
Pri  Rev War
Act: June 7” 32
Index:Vol. 2 Page 5
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
NAME  Alter, Jacob   GRADE   Private   LINE   Pennsylvania  
WARRANT NUMBER  8897    ACREAGE  100   ISSUED  January 25, 179- (torn) to Christian Hubbert Admr.  
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives. registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Althouse, Matthew GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 8905 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 10, 1790 (torn) [possibly, looks like "torn"] TO Daniel Stever, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.