Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6742, for Joseph Mc Kafferty, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

McKafferty, Joseph

NUMBER
R. 6742

CONTENTS
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[Crossed out]
Acts of July 14, 1968, and March 3, 1873.

[Stamp]
REJECTED

6742.

P. O.
Joseph McKafferty

Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:

Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P. O.

[Check boxes]
Recognized
[Checked] Contract
Cert. of Dis.

Searched for:
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[Ink]
Suspended

See letter to John Woods

Hamilton, Ohio

7. March 1835

[Pencil]
6742
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32.790

Joseph McKafferty
Ohio

Joseph McKafferty, a Revolutionary soldier, suspended.

On roll for 9 months.

Please forward the answer to me at Hamilton Butler County Ohio.

John Woods, agent

Hon. J. S. Edwards
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The State of Ohio Bulter County court of Common Pleas of the time of July Eighteen hundred and thirty four -

On the thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundrend and thirty four, personally apppears in open court before the Honorable [the] Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Butler and State of Ohio. Joseph McKafferty, aged Seventy Eight years, a resident of the County of Bulter aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to laws, doth upon his oath make the folllowing declaration in Order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the Seventh Eighteen hundred and thirty two-

That in Seventeen hundred and Seventy six in Hunterdon County New Jersey the volunterence in the N. Jersey Militia, and was out as a volunteer eight different monthly rounds- That he was first in March and April, Seventeen hundred and Seventy six, one month under Capt. Growendike- on Staten Island- that in August and September in the same year he was out one month in Bergen County N. Jersey under Capt. Daniel Gray. One month in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy six, in the town of Elizabethtown under Capt. Albert Gray- One month under Capt. Francis Locke in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven, in the last of August and first of September, until Capt. Locke was killed on the twelfth of September- One month in November and December with Capt. Brink- and under other officers, and at different times and places, which from age and consequent loss of memory, declarant cannot now specify.
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Declarant states that in the month of May Seventeen hundred and seventy eight he enlisted as a regular Solider of the Revolution and was out nine months in that same year under Capt. John Ross, in the Reigment of Col. Elias Dayton- Gen. Marshall of the N. Jersey line- the most of which nine months was spent in Elizabethtown- Declarant was not in the battle of Mounmouth, being sent out with about fifty others on a scouting party.

Declarant states that he was out on a six months tour as a regular solider at Elizabethtown under Capt. Adam Hope- Sylvanus Seeley, Col. of the Reigment- this round commenced in July and ended in January Seventeen hundred and eighty- that he was out three months under Capt. Ralph Gild in the Regiment of Col. Sylvanus Seeley- that he was out in all at least twenty six months- and a great length of time which Declarant has not noted a distinct recollection

[Revision]
Declarant has no record of his age- but states that he was born in Cumberland County Pennsylvania in the year Seventeen hundred and fifty six from where his [mother] moved 
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to Hunterdon County N. Jersey from where his mother re-moved to Fayette County Pennsylvania from where Declarant re-moved to the County of Bulter aforesaid in the year Eighteen hundred and eight where he has since resided- He knows of no person living by whom he can prove his services- nor is there any Clergyman in the neighborhood where he lives by whom he can prove his reputation as a solider of the Revolution- but he is well known to John Boyd, Thomas Boyd, and Andrew Boyd by whom he can as he believes prove his character for truth and veracity, and that he is generally reputed in the neighborhood as a solider of the Revolution- He herebey relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and
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declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state-

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court-
31st July 1834
John Reily, Clerk

[Signature]
Joseph McKafferty

The State of Ohio Butler County Court of Common Pleas of the term of July A.D. 1834-

Personally appeared in open Court John Boyd, Thomas Boyd, and Andrew Boyd respectable citizens of the County aforesaid who being afflirmed, severally affirm and say, and each of them for himself doth depose and say that they have personally known Joseph McKafferty who has made the above declaration more than Seventy years- and that he has always been esteemed a man of truth and veracity, and they give full credence to his declarations above made- and they further state that he has always been reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a solider of the Revolution, and they coview in that opinion-

Severally affirmed and subscribed in open Court this 31st day of July - A.D. 1834 - 
John Reily, Clerk

[Signatures]
John Boyd
Thomas Boyd
Andrew Boyd

And the said Court hereby declare their opinion after the investigations of the matter and after pitting the interrogations
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prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Solider and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that John Boyd, Thomas Boyd, and Andrewy Boyd who have signed the preceeding Certificate, are residents of said County of Butler, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, John Reily, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Bulter aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph McKafferty for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this thirty first day of July, One thousand eight hundred and thirty four.

[Signature]
John Reily