Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11430, Joseph White, Penn.
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Service                                          Number
Penn.            White, Joseph           R.11430
                                Mary 


Contents
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15.2114
No. 38 808 (crossed out)
Mary white
Wid of Joseph
Ohio,
Letter sept. 12/54
11430
July 7, 1838.
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[crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [end crossout]
11.430
P.O. Mary White
Service. Joseph
[begin stamp] REJECTED [end stamp]
Enlisted; Ohio
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
_____Recognized. ______Contract
_____Cert of Dis. Searched for ______
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No. 15.214
Mary White,
Widow of Joseph.
Ohio
July 7, 1838




J.W. White
Cambridge,
Ohio.
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A Joseph White received Bounty Land for his service in the Revolutionary Line of Pa. on the 10th of June 1784. Silas Hart Assignee.
                                              W.O.L.
Sept. 11/54.
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The State of Ohio
Guernsey County ⎬ On this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty four, personally appeared before me James Delong, Probate Judge of Guernsey County Ohio, duly
authorized to administer oaths, Mary White a resident of the County of Guernsey in the State of Ohio, aged eighty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and an act passed March 3d 1843, entitled "an act granting a pension to certain Revolutionary Soldiers" and an act passed June 17 1844 entitled "an act to continue the pensions of certain widows" and an act passed February 2d 1848, entitled "an act granting four years additional pension
to certain widows" That she is the widow of Joseph White who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war with Great Britian, that he went out as a volunteer being a private soldier  in the service some time during the
war, after being out in service a short time he returned home and then enlisted during the war, and continued in service until the end of the war, that after he went out the second he was in the service between three and four years, the exact time cannot be
stated, that at the time he first went out he lived Eight miles from Carlisle - and started from Carlisle Cumberland County Pennsylvania. That at the time he went out the second time he lived at the same place and started from Little York York County Pennsylvania
That he served under Captains Bush and Campbell, and Colonel Dodds that, Joseph Dodds and James Dills were with him in the service, he was in the battles of Brandywine and Trenton. that she does not know where he was discharged, that all the documentary
evidence in regard to her claim has been lost, and that
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at this time she is possessed of none. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph White in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty eight by a Mr McKnight, she thinks, a Presbyterian Minister on Shertee, nine miles West Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania. That Hugh Rogan and John
White were present at said marriage. That her
husband the aforesaid Joseph White died on the fourteenth day of December 1831 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred
and ninety four, viz at the time above stated. That she has never been married since the death of said Joseph White That said Joseph White never drew a pension but she thinks
he recd a grant of bounty land. That she knows of the said Joseph White after he enlisted going from Little York to Carlisle, he went there in the fall of the year and left in the spring of the year 
Attest
Benjamin White
J.W. White
Mary White
her mark X

The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss.
Personally appeared in open court before me
James Delong Probate Judge of said Guernsey County the above named Mary White who signed the foregoing application for a pension
and made oath that the matters facts and things set forth in said application are true to the best of her knowledge and belief.
In witness of which I have set my hand and official seal at the Court House in Cambridge this 25th day of March 1854
James Delong Probate Judge
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Address Mrs. Mary White
Care of J. W. White
Cambridge,
Guernsey County
Ohio