Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,846, for Roger Mc Bride, Delaware
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(8-1776)

Service

Del. McBride, Roger

Number
S. 41.846
and
B.L. Nt. 219-100

Contents
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16.789
Ohio R
Roger Mcbride

(?) in the state of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Hall of the Delaware
(?)ne, for the term of 1781 war

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 23 of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of April
1820 and sent to (?)

W. Lowrie, U : (?)

Arrears to 4th of March 1820        163.10
Semi-anl. all'c ending 4 Sept 1890   48
20                                                    ------
 8                                                      $211:10
---
160

2.13
113
----
16316

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued

(?)
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Rodger M. Bride
No 219
to
Zacheus Biggs
Letter of Atty.

Log'd by M. Norme[ly]
Nov. 28, 1805.

Hand delivered to 
Zach's Biggs
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Brooke County ss.
Before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the
peace for the County aforesaid, personally appeared
the within named Rodger McBride, who acknowledged
the within power of Attorney to be his act and Deed.
And I do moreover certify that the said Roger M. Bride making this
acknowledgement has been for the Term of Two years personally
known to me; and I have reason to believe he is the person he represents
himself to be. I do further certify that the said Rodger M Bride
is by trade a linen Weaver, and now resides in the County of Brooke
aforesaid.

Given under my Hand and Seal the Twenty
Eighth day of August A.D. 1802.

Jas Griffith
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Commonwealth of Virginia
Brooke County ss.
Before the Subscriber one of the Justices of
the peace in & for said County, personally
appeared Rodger McBride, who after being
duly sworn, said that he served as a soldier 
in Captain William M. [Kerman's] Company 
in the late Delaware Regiment, and that he served
until the end of the war against Great Britain. 
and
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and that he believes
he is entitled to one Hundred acres of Land agreeably
to the terms of his enlistment.
This deponent further said that he never
received the Military Land Warrant to which he believes himself entitled,
nor any other person for him.

Given under my Hand & Seal this Twenty Eighth
day of August A.D. 1802.

Test
W. M. Cluney

Rodger McBride his mark

Sworn before
Jas Griffith
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Brooke County
Virginia


I John Conner
Clerk of the County
aforesaid do hereby certify that, James Griffith Gentleman,
before whom the within
power of Attorney, was acknowledged and before
whom the further proof of his being a Soldier in
[sea. was joe?] was at the time of the taking thereof
and still is one of the Justices of the peace, & a Judge of the Court of
common pleas in and for the County aforesaid; and that full
faith is and ought to be given to all his
Judicial acts as such as will in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In Witness thereof I have hereunto set
my name and caused the seal of my office
to be hereunto affixed this 7th day of July
1804 in the 29th year of our Independance.
John Connell C.B.C.
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Rodger M. Bride
No 219
to
Zacheus Biggs
Letter of Atty.

Log'd by M. Norme[ly]
Nov. 28, 1805.

Hand delivered to 
Zach's Biggs
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Rodger McBride
Clks fees $0.50

Roger McBride
private
Delaware Regt
1781- war

Proof of Service
required is the 
testimony of 2 disinterested
& Credible witnesses
or the certificate of
an [Agent ??] duly taken and 
authenticated.
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State of Ohio 
Gallia County ss
On this 23d day of June 1818
before me the subscriber President Judge of the
Court of Common pleas for the second circuit of
said Court in the State of Ohio, personally appeared
Rodger McBride, aged sixty seven years in September.
Last resident in said County and state being by
me first duly sworn according to Law doth on
his oath make the following declaration, in order
to obtain the provision made by the late act of
Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States
in the Revolutionary War; that he the said
Rodger McBride enlisted on the 17th day of March
in the year 1781 in the Delaware Regiment as it
was called, he enlisted under Captain Kane who
at that time was recruiting for said Regiment in
the Town of Wilmington, in said State, where he
enlisted, from this [make] was marched under Captain
Buchanan in whose company he served untill discharged
after the close of the war.  he was first marched
to Christiana Bridge in the State of Delaware, where
they remained untill the siege of Lord Cornwallis,
was then marched to Baltimore, from thence to Anapolis
where they were embarked aboard a ship and
sent on to Williamsburgh. from there they marched
to General Washington's Camp before York Town,
himself with Twenty four others of the same Company 
were then drafted to serve the artilery in
one of the Batterys when he remained untill
after the surrender of the British Army to Genl
Washington, after which he joined his company
and was marched to Camden, from there to the
head quarters of General Greene at that time on
Ashley River in the state of South Carolina.  was
after the peace was proclaimed marched into the
State of Delaware to New Castle when he received
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his discharge in in the year 1783. and that he is in
reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no otherevidence now in his power of his said services.
Roger McBride his mark

Sworn to and delared before me the day
and year aforesaid
John Thompson
June 23d 1818

State of Ohio

I John Thompson president as aforesaid
do certify that from said examination it appears that applicant performed services in the revolutionary war, and on examination of applicant and
his neighbours it appears without doubt that he is very poor, and a [discion and ruption]  which incapacitates him from any labor of consequence and
much debilitated, and needs the assistance of the statute of Congress.

At Gallipolis Gallia [Co.]
County Second Circuit
John Thompson
June 23d 1818
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State of Ohio
Gallia County ss
Francis LeClerq Clerk of the court of
Common pleas for the County aforesaid
Do hereby certify that the foregoing
Certificates are in the own proper hand of
the Honorable John Thompson President Judge
of the Court of Common pleas for the second circuit
including the said County of Gallia and that the
foregoing are his signatures -
In Testimony I have hereunto set my name
and affixed the seal of said Court at
Gallipolis this twenty fourth day of
sum Anno domini 1818 and in the
16th year of this State
Francis LeClerq Clk. C.C. P.
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(147) 
Roger McBride
16.789.
29. April, 1820.
Con
Sep 20
Edward W. Tupper, agt
Gallipolis, Ohio
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State of Ohio
Meigs County ss
Court of Common Pleas July term.
On this 25th day of July 1820 personally
appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said County
Rodger McBride a common labourer aged sixty seven years, 
resident in Sutton Township in said County who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare:
that he served in the revolutionary War as follows,
That he enlisted in Wilmington in the State of Delaware
on the 17th day of March before the taking of Cornwallis under
Capt Hean for three years or during the war & joined and
was enrolled in Capt William M. Cannon (or Buckhanon),
Company in the Delaware Blues, regiment so called
commanded first by Col. Lawrence who was afterwards
killed & that he continued to serve in said Company
under said Capt McCanon (or Buckhannon,)  untill the
close of the war all of which will more fully appear by
reference to his former declaration for which he received a
pension certificate or warrant numbered 16789.
And I the said Rodger McBride do further solemnly
swear that I was a resident of the United States on the
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 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 18th day
of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person
in trust for me any property or securities contracts
or
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or debts due me nor have I any income or any property
 of any nature whatsoever to enter in a schedule
and that I am very infirm and and have an old
decrepid wife to support.
Roger Mc Bride his mark

Witness
Robt C Barton

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court July 25th 1820
Robt C. Barton Clk Com. Pleas

I Robert C. Barton Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby
certify that the foregoing oath is a true Copy of the record
of the said Court-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said Court this twenty seventh day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty.
Robert C. Barton Clk Com. Pleas
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41846
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 41846

Roger McBride

Pvt Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:--Vol. 3 [or 8] Page 320
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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I do certify
that Roger McBride was a Soldier in the late Delaware
Regiment during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, and that he
enlisted for and served therein until the end of the war
Given under my hand, this second day of September
in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred & five
Wm Kessan Captn

in the late Del Reg
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State of Virginia
County of Brook

Before the Subscriber one of the Commonwealths Justices of the peace in
and forth County aforesaid personally appeared John Russell of the said
County and State, Cooper, who after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is personally
acquainted with a certain Roger McBride, who this deponent understands now resides in the County of Gallia
in the State of Ohio, but formerly of the County of Brook and State of Virginia at which latter place this deponent
became acquainted with the said M. Bride in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninty nine. Deponent
further says that he accompanied the said Roger M. Bride to his former Captain, William McClennan family
of the Delaware line, who furnished said M. Bride with a certificate, stating the service of the law M Bride
in the war of the Revolution - that this deponent forwarded the said certificate to the war office of the
United States or obtained a land warrant for one Hundred acres in the name of the said Roger
which warrant was located on lot No 2 in the 3d quarter of the 1st Township one Third Range of the United States
Military law, and on which warrant and location a patent issued to the said Roger M. Bride dated the 5th
day of March 1806, Signed by Thomas Jefferson President of the United States, and countersigned James Madison
Secretary of State. Deponent further says that he purchased the above described lot of one Hundred acres of
land from the before named Roger M. Bride, and that he still continues to own the same-- and that the
patent therefor is in the possession of this deponent. Sworn to and Subscribed
before me this 12th day of
October 1819
Moses Congleton J. P.

John Russell

Virginia
Brooke County
I John Connell Clerk of the County
aforesaid do hereby certify that
Moses Congleton Gentleman before
whom the above Deposition was taken
and who appears to have signed the same, was at the
time of the taking and still is one of the Justices of the
peace in and for the County aforesaid, to whose official
acts full faith and credit is due
and ought to be given.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal
of my office at Wellsburgh this 13th
day of October 1819 in the 44th year
of the Commonwealth,
John Connell, C.B.C.
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The Deposition of Edward W Tupper of Gallipolis in the County of Gallia
State of Ohio. The said Edward being duly sworn deposeth &
saith, That in July last, he took the foregoing declaration of Roger
McBride, (which is suspended for further proof), with him on a
Journey to Pittsburgh, & also a memorandum from sd McBride
directing him to enquire for his captain who was clerk of the Court
of C.P. for Washington County Pensylvania. That on his arrival
there he found he had been dead six years. He also found his
name to be McKennan, & not Buckanan as written in his, McBride's, 
declaration. The same memorandum, this deponent directed to call on
John Russel in Charlestown, to whom he had sold his County
land, as a soldier of the revolution, the said Memorandum
[aspeeply] stating that he McBride went with the said Russel to his
Captain, & procured from him the evidence of his services
under him, necessary to procure a title to his land & this
deponant further saith, that he called on the said Russel
& he, said Russel, stated the facts as they were stated in McBride's
Memorandum, and as they are set out in the foregoing
Deposition -- this deponant further saith that he is well
acquainted with said McBride & his circumstances, that
he is old, & quite infirm and that it is with great difficulty he
procure a daily substance, and he has no doubt from common
report of those who were long since acquainted with him, that
he is one of those who come within the provisions of the act for
the relief of the soldiers of the revolutionary war
Edw W Tupper