Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3695, for William Kirkpatrick, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn

Kirkpatrick, William
Kilpatrick
Mary
NUMBER
W. 3695
CONTENTS
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Av1
State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny, Pa. On this twenty fifth day of
February 1850 personally appeared before the subscriber
a Judge in and for said County Mary Kirpatrick or Kilpatrick aged eighty nine years,
resident of the Township of Finley in said County, who
being first duly sworn, doth on her oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the provisions of the act of Congress passed 7th July
1838 and the acts subsequent thereto.
This declarant states that she is the widow of William
Kirkpatrick or Kilpatrick - that her said husbands
name was usually called Kilpatrick, although it
was usually written Kirkpatrick - that he was a native
of the County of Cumberland (now Franklin) in the State of
Pennsylvania, where he resided until after the close of
the revolutionary war, & until his removal to the County
of Alleghany, near a place called Green Castle in said
County of Franklin, that he was a soldier in the
war of the revolution - that he enlisted in the early
part of the war into a regiment of the Pennsylvania
Line commanded by Colonel Cragie, that he served
under General Wayne, that he was in various battles
during the said war at Long Island, Saratoga, at
Germantown, Brandywine, Paoli and at the surrender
of Lord Cornwallis, as this declarant has heard her
said husband say, and that he served upwards
of four years continually in said war as a regular
soldier & Corporal in a Regiment of the Pennsylvania
Line of Continental Troops.
This declarant states that after the termination of
her said husbands service in the revolutionary war
he returned to his residence in Greene castle and
afterwards, viz, on the month of April in the year
seventeen hundred & eighty five his marriage to this
declarant took place that this declarants made
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name was Mary Reed and that she was married
to the said William Kil or Kirkpatrick by a
Justice of the Peace by the name of Young in the Town of
Hagerstown in the State of Maryland, about six
miles distant from the said Village of Greene Castle.
This declarant further states that in the summer
of the year 1785, her said husband & herself removed
to the Town of Finley in the County of Allegheny in said
State where she now resides, and that she continued to
reside in said Town of Finley with her said husband
from the time of their coming to it in the year 1785
until the period of the death of her said husband &
that since his death she has continued to reside in
the same Town,
This declarant further states that she had three children 
by her said husband, born after they came to
the said town of Finley to reside - that two of them
whose names were Mary & Samuel were born prior to
the year 1794, that the other whose name was William
was born before the year 1800.
This declarant states that the annexed record contains 
a true statement of the date of
fine birth of her
said children - that the said record was prepared
about the time of the births of her 
said children
by the direction of her said husband, & in the hand
writing of Matthew Fisher deceased, and that since
that time it has been kept by herself and her
said husband as their family record and has
been the only written evidence on which they relied
for the date of the birth of their children, and that
it is her original family record taken from
his bible.
This declarant further states that
her said husband died in the year 1812, and that
since his death she has not again intermarried
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but that she remains his widow.
And further saith not.
Sworn to & subscribed on this
day & year first above written
Before me
Wm Kerr

regarding Mark Kirkpatrick

State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny Pa
I hereby certify that the above
named widow is unable by reason of old age and
bodily infirmities to appear in open Court and
further certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced 
before me that the husband of the above named
declarant died in the year 1812 & that since his
death she has not again married-
Wm Kerr
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In the year
lord 
Kirkpatrick was 
Born March 3 in the year of our Lord 1791
James Kirkpatrick, Born May 11th AD. 1793
William Kirkpatrick Born February
5 of 1799
William Kirkpatrick was born the 2nd day of 1748
William Kirkpatrick was born the 2nd day of March 1790
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TESTAMENT
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST.
Newly translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY'S Special Command
Appointed to be Read in Churches
Edinburgh
Printed by the Assigns Alexander, K [unreadable]
MDCCLXXVII
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny Pa. I, George S Hays
Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County
do hereby certify that William Kerr Esquire is or
was at the time of the date of the foregoing declaration
an associate Judge duly commissioned and qualified
to act as such in said county, and that his signature
attached to said declaration and certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & official seal this
Twenty sixth day of February 1850.
Geo C Hays
Pro
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10930 Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Mary Kirkpatrick or Kilpatrick
Widow of William
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died in the year 1812
of Allegany in the State of Penn
who was a Corporal in the Company
commanded by Captain ____
of the _____ commanded by______ in
the_______ line for

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 88 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of
June 1850 and Sent to 
Attn. R.L. Rose HK

Total amount,

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by
Book D Vol. 1 Page 223
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State of Pennsylvania
County Allegheny 3SS.
Before me Adam Potter
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County
aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer
oaths personally appeared Samuel Turner a
resident of North Fayette township in said County
aged seventy eight years who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his oath
testify as follows, that he has lived on the
place where he now resides for the past seventy
seven years; that he has been personally acquainted 
with Mary Kilpatrick alias Kirkpatrick
widow of William Kilpatrick alias Kirkpatrick
for the past sixty years; that she now resides
in the township of Finley in said County within
four miles of this deponent's residence, and
has resided within this aforesaid distance of
deponent for the past sixty years, that the
aforesaid William and Mary were living together
in the relation of husband and wife sixty
years ago, and so lived together up to the time
of the death of the said William, which event
occured about the year 1812 and that the said
William and Mary were always believed by their
neighbours to have been lawfully married prior
to their coming to this neighbourhood, in some
place east of the Alleghany mountains. This
deponent further states that he never heard
it said by any person, that they, the aforesaid
William and Mary were not lawfully married.
and further states that the said William & Mary
had three children born after they came to
reside in this neighbourhood, whose names were
Mary, Samuel, and William, that the two first
named children were born prior to 1794 and
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the last mentioned one prior to the year 1800.
This deponent further states, that the aforesaid 
William Kilpatrick alias Kirkpatrick, (First
above named always went in this neighbourhood
by the name of William Kilpatrick and
not Kirkpatrick, although deponent believes
that his name has been generally
written Kirkpatrick.
Deponent further
States, that the said William Kilpatrick, reportedly 
told him of his services in the revolutionary 
war, that he had served through
the principal part of said war as a private
soldier, that he gave an account of his being
at the battle of Paoli and at the taking of
Stoney Point, and spoke of being under general 
Wayne and Washington, and gave an
answering
account of his encounters with the Hessians.
This deponent further states that the aforesaid
William Kilpatrick always bore a good name
for truth and veracity, and that he has no
reason for disputing the account he made to
him of his service.
This deponent further states
that the aforesaid Mary (first above named)
has not intermarried since the death of her said
husband, but is still his widow,
And further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed
this 16th day of August 1849
Samer of Terest
49. before me
A. Potter J.P.