Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 19038, for John Simpson, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER
Penn. Simpson, John W 19038
Mary B. L. Wt. 27595-160-55

CONTENTS
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State of New York
County of Montgomery
Om the thirty first day of December AD 1838 personally appeared before John Hand. one of the Judges of the county courts of the county aforesaid Mary Simpson (maiden name was Mary Schinck) a resident of the town of Charleston, county and state aforesaid aged seventy one 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 act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows, that she is the widow of John 
Simpson, who was a private in the militia of the state of Pennsylvania during the war of the Revolution, but the time of his service, and the officers under whom he served, and the company and regiment to which he belonged she does not know except as is stated and particularly set forth in the affidavits, hereunto annexed, deponent further says that her husband the said John Simpson during his lifetime frequently informed her that he had served in the militia of the state of Pennsylvania aforesaid about three years at different times during the Revolutionary war.  She further declares that she was lawfully married to the said John Simpson at the Town of [illegible] Hunterdon County and state of New Jersey on the twenty ninth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five, by the Rev. John Warford, (late deceased) and that Mary Schenek widow of William Schenek late of Amwell aforesaid, was present at the solemnization of the marriage.  This deponent or claimant has no documentary evidence f said marriage and thinks that none can be found, the said Rev. Warford having left the state of New Jersey and died in the state of New York, and that her husband, the said John Simpson died at Charleston aforesaid on the second day of March eighteen hundred, that she has not intermarried, but still remains the widow of the said John Simpson that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the  service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
Mary Simpson
Sworn to and subscribed
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on the day and year aforesaid before me John Hand a judge of the county Courts of the County of Montgomery.  I certify that  I am acquainted with the foregoing named claimant Mary Simpson and know her a credible person and that the statements by her made in the said declaration are entitled to full credit.  Also that the word "the" on 29th line as obliterated, and the words "state of New Jersey on the 30 line and his leaving on the 34 line were wrote as obituaries and  all done before  sworn to.
John Hand, a Judge of the county courts of the county of Montgomery

State of New York
County of Montgomery
I the Judge aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion after examining the within declaration and affidavits hereto annexed, that Mary Simpson named in said declaration is the widow of John Simpson deceased named I said declaration that she was married to the said John at the time mentioned in said declaration that he died at the time mentioned in said declaration and that she has not en
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State of New York
Montgomery County 

On the thirty-first day of December 1838 before me personally appeared Wright Davis, who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with John Simpson, late of Charleston, Montgomery County; that he was the husband of Mary Simpson, who makes the declaration hereto engaged, as deponent was informed and believes; that deponent was present on the day the said John Simpson died, at his house in Charleston aforesaid; that his death happened on or about the second day of March 1800, as this deponent recollects and believes; that deponent saw the corpse of said John Simpson on the day he died lying in his home at Charleston aforesaid, and further say not.
Signed: Wright Davis

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I certify that the said Wright Davis is a person of credibility and the statements made in said affidavit are entitled to full credit. 
Signed:  John Hand, a judge of the County Courts of the County of Montgomery

State of New York
County of Montgomery

William Simpson of Charlestown in said county, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is son of John and Mary Simpson named in this annexed declaration and knows that the said John Simpson died on second day of March 1800 and that the said Mary Simpson has not remarried but remained the widow of the said John Simpson and further this deponent says not.
Signed:  William Simpson

Sworn to and subscribed on this 31st day of December 1838 and I certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponents and know that the statements in said affidavit are entitled to credit.  
Signed:  John Hand, a judge of the County Court of the County of Montgomery.
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State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerk's Office

I certify that John Hand Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the (illegible) of the preceding affidavits and certificates, was on the day of the date of the same, a judge of the County Court of the County of Montgomery, duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature subscribed to the same is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 17th day of January 1839.
Signed:  A. J. Comrie, Clerk
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And I, the said judge, do further certify that Mary Schenck, who took the subscribed the above and annexed affidavit before me, is a person of credibility.   Dec.19 1838.
Signed:  Elijan Wilson
Justice of the Peace
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January 11, 193[unintelligible]

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BA-J/EEL

Mrs. G.C.Taylor
Mentone
Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Robert Kerr, a soldier of the Revolutionary War who served from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania: you ask, also, whether the names of the wife and children of John Simpson who served in the Pennsylvania Troops under Captain Zebulon Pike, and died in New York, are shown in his claim for pension.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of a Robert Kerr, as described by you. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.

There are no further data in regard to the wife and children of John Simpson(W.19038) than were furnished you on December 17, 1934.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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REAL ESTATE
FARM LAND, EXCHANGES

OIL PROPERTIES
LEASES AND DEVELOPMENT

F. J. YOUNG
LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER
PHONE 1351

717 1/2 STATE STREET
SANTA BARBARA. CALIF
October 19th 1923

O. W. & N. Division,
Bureau of Pensionsm
Dept. of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

Can you please give me any information regarding the decendents of one John Simpson born June 10th, 1757 at Doylestown, Penn'a., and who married Mary Schenck, dau. of Wm. Schenck of New Brunswick, N. J. ?

He enlisted in Penn'a Infantry under Capt. John Thompson, and served under Capt. Abraham DuBois, and Capt. Zebelon Pike, in the Revolutionary War.

I believe my Mother is a decendent of John Simpson, and if I can find this to be a fact, I will be eligible for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, and have been told that probably your department can furnish the necessary data and information, and advised to write to it.

Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to furnish me, I am.

Yours very truly.
F. J. Young