Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6736, for Goine Mc Ilvain, New York
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SERVICE   |      |   NUMBER
                 |   McIlvain, Goine   |   R. 6736
                 |   Jane                     |

CONTENTS
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[crossed out]

REJECTED

6,736.
 
p. o.

Robert McIlvain

Service:

Enlisted: ___________, 18

Discharged: __________, 18


Application filed: ___________, 18


Alleges:  _______________________

________________________________

Re-enlisted:  _________________________________

______________________________________________


Attorney: _______________________

P. O. ____________________________

__________________________________

Recognized, ____________ Contract

____________ Cert. of Dis.   Searched for __________, 18
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N-Y, 4,500

Robt. McIlvain
for arrears of pension own[?] his Father who died in 30. & Mother in '44.

Rejected
6756

Let. to R.S. Goodrich 30"Mch/54

Oct 15th
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State of New-York, }
Delaware County Clerk's Office.  }

I, Benjamin Cannon, Clerk of the County of Delaware, and also Clerk of the Courts of said County, do hereby certify that Ezra Denend & Matthew McLaughry Esquires before whom the annexed depositions purport to have been taken, was at the time of taking such depositions a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware aforesaid, elected and sworn, and dely authorized by law to take the same, and that their signature thereto is genuine.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County and County, this 22' day of October 1854

[signature] Benj. Cannon Clerk
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Nov. 7, 1853.

Appl of Mary Mclwain, decd, widow of Goine.

Delaware Co., 
N. Y.

[overwritten] G. Cole

Nov 1838

no [illegible, papers?]

R. L. Goodrich
Davenport Centre,
Delaware Co.,
N. Y.

Int,
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Respectfully referred to the Dept of the Interior,
War Dept
Nov. 4 /53
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Delaware County Asses Samuel Campbell and John Harper of the Town of Harpersfield in said County being duly sworn says that they was well aquainted with Goine McIlwain and Jane his wife and that they are now deceased and that we are well aquainted with Robert McIlwan and know him to be the surviving heir of the said Goine and Jane McIlwain and that we have examined the affidavit of the said Robert McIlwain hereunto annexed and that it is substancielly true acording to my knowlege and belief 
[signed] Samuel Campbell  John Harper 
Sworn this third day of September 1853 before me 
[signed] Matthew McLaughry Justice of the peace 

Please Direct to R. L. Goodrich Davenp Center Delaware County NY with instructions if necessary and oblige yours &c 
[signed] R. L. Goodrich
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Delaware County ss  Robert McIlwain in said county being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the son and heir of Goine and Mary McIlwain now deceased and that Goine McIlwain was a soldier in the Revolutionary war with Great Britton in 1776 and under the command of General George Washington and Served during the war as this deponent has been duly informed and verily believes to be true and this deponent further says that his Father Goine McIlwain Died in February 1830 Leaving a widow and this deponent as his survivors and that Jane his wife died on the 21st day of December 1844 in the Town of Harpersfield in said County leaving this deponent as her survivor and this Deponent hereby make application for a Pension under the act of Congress passed on the 3d of February 1853 granting Pensions to certain widows and children of deceased officers and Souldiers of the Revolutionary war and this deponent further says that after the death of his Father Goine McIlwain Jane McIlwain Remained his widow and was never married up to the time of her death This deponent says he does not know the under officers names in the Redgement to which the said Goine McIlwain belonged but which may fully appear from the muster Rolls and Records now in the war department 
and this deponent further says that at the time he engaged to serve and did serve be Resided in Orange County in the Town of Wallkill and that he was under the special command of General Washington when his troops under his command evacuated New York City, in the time of the Revolution aforesaid 
[signed] Robert McIlwain
Subscribed & sworn this 12th day of July 1883. before me 
[signed] Ezra Denend Justice of the peace