Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8881, for James Mc Cormick, Pennsylvania
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Penn

McCormick, James

S.8881
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26.217

Pittsburgh Agency

James McCormick of [illegible] in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Regiment commanded by [illegible] in the Penn line for [illegible]

$40.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of 40 Dollars and no cents per annum to commone on the 4th day of march 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of April and sent to [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of [illegible]  $120.00
Semiannual allowance ended 4 Sept [illegible] $20.00

Total $140.00

Revolutionary Claim Act, June 7, 1832

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk
Book C, Vol 5, Page 84
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Application of James McCormick for a pension

Please direct to Henry Davis
Beaver County, PA
Beaver Post Office

James Logan, Pro
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th AD 1832

State of Pennsylvania
County of Beaver

On this 6th day of March AD. 1834 ersonally appeared in open Court before the honorable John Braden, President, and Thomas Henry & Joseph Hemphill, his associates, Judges of the Court of Common pleas and quarter sessions in and for said courts now sitting, James McCormick a resident of Hopewell Township in said County and State aforesaid aged Seventy two 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 7th of June A.D. 1832


That he entered the service of the United States as a private volunteer in May in the year 1779 under Captain Joseph Lipseney and Lieutenant Lewis Rene (who was afterwards killed in Trafford's defeat at Sanduskey). that he served under the same said officers three months in the summer of 1779 and three months in the summer of each succeeding year for four years, making in all twelve months. that the Company went by the name of Rangers or Indian Spies. That he served in said Company along the frontiers on both sides of the River Ohio partly in the Counties now called Allegany and Beaver and partly on the North side of said River between it and Sanduskey and that he often assided in pursuing groups of Indians and chasing them from the frontier settlements.  that his place of residence at the time when he entered the service was on Charteens Creek about five miles from Pittsburgh in the County now called Allegany.  that he has no documentary evidence of his services but that he believes that Samson Piersal of said Company
has a knowledge of his services.  That he hereby relinquishes every 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.

Interrogatory 1st:  Where and in what year were you born? 

A: I was born in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania on the 22nd of February A.D. 1762 as I have a record of my age in a book at home

2nd: where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since
the revolutionary War, and where do you now live?

Answer:  when I entered the service I lived on Charteens Creek about 5 miles from Pittsburgh and I resided in Allegany County until within a few years since, I moved into Beaver County where I now reside
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Interrogatory 3d:  How were you called into service

Answer:  I entered the service as a volunteer, a private soldier in a Company of rangers or Indian Spies Commanded by Captain Sisseney and served in the same Company three months every summer for four years making one year in all. we were not joined to any other Company or Regiment during the time of my service

4th did you ever receive a discharge from the service or if so what has become of it?

answer:  the company was released from further service but if I received any discharge, I have lost it.

5th: Note the names of persons to whom you are known in your
present Neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution

Answer:  there are many you will hear from. some of them

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court

JamesMcCormick

James Logan Pro

Personally appeared in open Court sitting this day Samson Piersal of Beaver County and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with James McCormick who has sworn to and Subscribed the foregoing declaration. that he was with him in the same Company and well knows that he rendered the services as he states to the United States in the revolutionary war.

sworn & subscribed this 6th day of March 1834 in open Court

Samson Piersal

James Logan, Pro

[illegible] Williams, residing in the county of Beaver and James Johnston, residing in the same, do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with James McCormick who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. that we believe him to be 72 years of age. that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

[illegible]
James Johnston

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court,

James Logan, pro

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 [illegible] and James Johnston who have signed the preceeding certificate and residents in the County of Beaver and that Samson Piersal, who has also signed the same is a resident in said County, and are credible person and that their statement is entitled to Credit
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Beaver

Personally before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Came James McCormick the foregoing Applicant for a pension and being duly sworn according to Law did depose and say that according to the order of Colonel Nevil there was a company of Volunteers raised in the vicinity of Pittsburgh and Chartier Creek in the year 1779 in the Revolutionary War in order to defend the Frontier settlements along the River Ohio and adjacent counties below Pittsburgh from the Indians. that said Company was commanded byCaptain Joseph Sisseney and Lieutenant Lewis Reno. That it was a separate Company and not attached to any other Company Battalion or Regiment during the time of its standing and was called the Company of Rangers or Indian Spies. That it was a duly organized Company. That he the said deponent entered the service of the United States in said Company under the said  officers as a private soldier and served in that capacity during the whole of his service. that he entered the service of the United States as aforesaid on the first of May A.D. 1779 in said Company and continued
in said Company untill the first of August A.D. 1779, making three months. That he entered the service of the United States again as a private soldier in said Company under the said officers on the first of May AD 1780 and served in the same untill the first of August A.D. 1780, making three months.  That he entered the service of the United States againas a private soldier in said Company under said officers on the first of May A.D. 1781 and served in the same untill the first of August 1781 making three months more, and that he entered the service of the United States again as a private soldier in said Company
under said officers on the first of May A.D. 1782 and served in the same untill the first of August A.D. 1782 , making three months more.  making in all Twelve months that he served as a private Soldier. During the four terms of his service aforesaid in the said Company under the said Captain Sisseney and Lewis Reno Lieutenant as above stated in the Revolutionary War during which time he was not employed
in any civil pursuit. that he rendered the services to the United States in said Company along and near to the frontier settlements on both sides of the River Ohio below Pittsburgh and between said River and
Sanduskey in the direction of Lake Erie.

James M Cormick

Sworn and subscribed this 29th day of March A.D. 1834 before me

Daniel Christy

State of Pennsylvania
Beaver County 
I, James Logan, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that Daniel Christy Esquire before whom the above deposition was taken was at the time of taking said deposition, an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county to all whose acts full faith and credit is due and of right ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 2nd day of April A.D. 1834

James Logan Prothy
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I, James Logan, CLerk of the Court of Common Please and quarter sessions in the county of Beaver aforsaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeedings of the said Court on the matter of the application of James McCormisk for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 6th day of march AD 1834

James Logan, Prot


Application of James McCormick for a pension

219.865
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29.865

James McCormick
Penn

Adm to year
$40

Henry Davis
Bearer
Beaver County, PA
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office
14 March 1834

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  Tse points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement showing the Service of James McCormick
current age and Residence:  72 years

[Traditionary]
I am, respectfully Your obedient servant

JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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STANDARD FORM OF INTERROGATORIES - NOT TRANSCRIBED AS NO UNIQUE INFORMATION

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8881

INVALID

File No:  8881
James McCormick
Private, Rev War

Act:  June 7th, 1832

Index:  Vol [illegible], Page [245]