Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20400, for John May, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Penn
May, John
NUMBER R. 20400
CONTENTS
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[illegible]
20.400
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John May - Private
Pennsylvania Line
Evidence insufficient
Missouri Act 1828
Ex.: one old Book, and Ref
Invalid Act Wids
[illegible]
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Rejected
[blank] Ex'r. OLD WAR.
File No. 20.400
[strikethrough: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]
John May
Private
Capt. Bower
Pennsylvania Line
Revolutionary War
Filed at REJECTED
[blank] other claim.
[blank] ,187 .
Application filed: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O.
Evidence insufficient
Act 1828
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1276
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
24 Nov 1828.
John May of [blank] in the County of Cape Girardeau in the State of Missouri, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in Captain Bower's company, in the Sixth regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
FA Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
20 November 1828
[strikethrough: It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to in the]
It further appears that John May is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3d March 1826.
The name of John May cannot be found among those of the Pennsylvania line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued.
Peter Hagner, Auditor
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War Department: Bounty land Office
12 May 1829.
The records of this office do not show that John May of the Pennsylvania line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.
Robert Taylor
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1276
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th day of May 1828. I, John May of Lorance Township in the County of Cape Girardeau in the State of Missouri, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for three years or for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Jacob Bowers' company in the sixth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line and I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States. Further, that after the termination of the war, I received a discharge signed by Colonel Harmer, the commanding officer of the Regiment believes, however that at that time, Colonel Harmer had been promoted to a Brigadier retaining as if thought the immediate command of the Regiment. The discharge which I received has been lost.
John May
Sworn and subscribed to by the said John May before me, Claiborne Thomas, a Justice of the Peace for the township of Bird in the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri this 31st day of October AD 1828.
C.S. Thomas, J.P.
County of Cape Girardeau
State of Missouri SS.
Before me Claiborne Thomas, a Justice
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of the peace for the said Township of Bird in the said County as before mentioned and duly empowered to administer oaths in the said County of Cape Girardeau in the said State of Missouri, personally appeared Thomas Furel and Davis Johnson of the said County who did severally make oath that John May by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a private soldier in the Army of the revolution in manner as is therein stated.
Witness my hand this 31st day of October AD 1828 at the said township and County aforesaid.
C.S. Thomas, J.P
State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau SS.
I, Claiborne S. Thomas, Deputy Clerk for Peter R Garrett, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Cape Girardeau in the State of Missouri, do certify that Claiborne S. Thomas, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the peace and duly empowered to administer oaths within and for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this thirty-first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty-eight.
C.S. Thomas
Deputy Clerk
For P. R. Garrett, Clerk
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Jackson, Missouri
Nov 6th, 1828
Revolutionary Claims
Free
Honorable Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City
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Jackson Missouri 31st Oct 1828
Sir
Enclosed is the statement of John May as a private in Capt. Bowers' Company 6th Regiment Pennsylvania. He is a native of Pennsylvania, a German, and could not inform me whether the name of his Captain Bowers is correctly spelled or not, but that it is the same name. It will be observed that he was enlisted for three years or during the war and that he remained and served during the war, the Government having it in its power to hold him as an engagement during the war.  His discharge, he says, is lost. He did not consider it of any consequence and took no care of it and from the circumstances of his being a great distance from his early friends, it is [illegible] for him to prove anything further in respect to the existence or loss of his discharge. Mr. May [illegible] hereafter for himself and if found entitled to the benefit of the late act, he wishes the remittances made directly to him at this place.
I am very respectfully your obedient and humble servant,
Johnson Ranney
Honorable Richard Rush