Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,855, for William Mc Ginnis, Pennsylvania
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Service                                    Number

Penn.      McGinnis, William   S.41.855
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Contents
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41855
INVALID
Revy

File No. 41,855
William McGinnis
Priv.  Rev.  War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -Vol. 3, Page 220

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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3759

Pennsylvania Roll
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William McGinnis,
Col. Hartley
Private
Pennsylvania Line
In the Army of the United States during the revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the roll of Penna
at the rate of 8 dollars per month
to commence on the 15 of May 1818
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Certificate pf Pension issued the 20 of Oct 1818 and sent to John Breden esq Butler, Pa.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818                 29.45
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819      48.00
3 mo 17/31 & 4/30                             $77.45

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

3 years 20/76 (illegible)

Slippery rock Township Butler Pa
Continued

1888 Janry 13. Maj. Jr. McGinnis - history except military  (illegible)

Notification sent November 9, 1820 to William Caloner Pennsylvania.
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Relative to application of William McGinnis for a pension.

Copt Record

3759 

Adam's Coy

Act 18 Mar 1818
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In the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County of August Term 1820. It is thus entered:

Pennsylvania
Adams County ss


    On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court, being a court of record, William McGinnis aged seventy-six years resident in the county of Adams and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law & doth on his oath declares and say that he served in the Revolutionary War, in the Seventh Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, commanded by Colonel Thomas Heartley, in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Sweney, and afterwards by Captain Forester and Captain Jackson and the he applied for a pension in the fifteenth of May 1818, and obtained a certificate for a pension numbered 3759, and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with the intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any property on securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed ( continued on the next page)
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annexed and by me subscribed.  This deponent has no property of an kind or description.
                                         his
                             William  X   McGinnis
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Sworn and subscribed 
in open court August 14th 1820
by me.
                      //s//
                James Duncan 

State of Pennsylvania
Adams County ss

    I James Duncan Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Adams, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court,  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this fourteenth day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

                               //s//
                        James Duncan
                       Prothonty C.C.P. A.C.
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Wm. McGinnis
15th May

To: John Breden 
Butler, Penna.

On the Penna Rolls

8 June 1818
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(Transcriber's note: An addressed envelope.)

Wm. McGinnis 
Priv
Pa Line

8 June 1818

To the Secretary of the Department of War
City of Washington 

On the Pa Rolls
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Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ss

   I Jesse Moore Esquire President of the Court f Common Pleas of the Sixth Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William McGinnis did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned  act of congress.

    In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & seal this fifteenth day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

                                   //s//
                             Jesse Moore

     I John Negley Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do by these presents certify that Jesse Moore Esquire before whom the within declaration was made and who signs the foregoing certificate is was the President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Sixth Judicial District in Pennsylvania duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given to all his judicial and official acts as such as were in Court of Justices as thereon. 

   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Butler this eighth day of June Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

                                 //s//
                          Jno Negley Prothon.
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Butler County ss

    On this fifteenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me one of the subscribers, President of the Court of Common Pleas in the sixth Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared, William McGinnis aged sixty-six, resident of Slippery Rock township Butler County State of Pennsylvania who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "The Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War".  That he, the said William McGinnis enlisted in January one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven in Gettysburg, then in York County, now Adams County in Pennsylvania in Captain John Paxton's company in the Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Colonel Hartley tht he served in said Regiment until some time in the beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty.  When he received an honorable discharge from General Potter & Captain Paxton which discharge has long now been lost.  He was in the Battles of Germantown, Brandywine, Staten Island & White Horse.  That he is in reduce circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service. 
                                               his
                                   William  X   McGinnis
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Sworn & declared the 
day and year aforesaid.
Prothonotary
//s//
Jesse Moore