Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1461, Richard Burke, Md. Penn.
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Service
MD
Penn

Name
Burke, Richard

Number 
R.1461
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REJECTED

Richard Burke
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1461

Hon. J R Ross H.R.
(ohio Claims)

See letter of the 2nd Jany 1821
to HOn. J.R. Ross

Declaration not [illegible] till proof of service in the Pennsylavani Regt is funished by applicant
Suspended.
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Richard Burke
Private

Col Butters
Penns Regt
1776 for 3 years
(not on Pa Roll)
prove this service

Col A. Williams'
Maryland Reg't
1777 for 3 years

By reference tot he records in this office it appears taht this applicant heretofore made a declaration & it was sent to the Auditor Gen of Md for proof of service & returned by him under dates of 22 June 1820 with a Cert of applicants having deserted therefore this service is rejected
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The State of Ohio Preble County Cort of Common Pleas of the seventh Circuit - Preble County

On this 14th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court being a court of record having prevue to fine and imprison with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings Richard Burke aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement or declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that sometime in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six he enlisted as a private soldier for three years into the company of Captain Williams in the Seventh Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Colonel Butler he served the full period of three years in the said regiment and was honorably discharged by General Wayne at Baskin Ridge near Morristown in the state of New Jersey, he received a written discharge which he has since lost - that on or about the last of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine at Basking Ridge aforesaid he enlisted to service three years as a common soldier into the company of Captain Williams in the Sixth Regiment commanded by Colonel Otho Williams in the Maryland Line he marched from thence to Camen in Carolina where he was captured by the English he was from thence taken to Charleston in Carolina thence to New York where he was liberated on the return of Peace while in the service of the United States in the Pennsylvania line. He was engaged in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his [illegible] services except as stated above - and in pursuance of the act of the first of May eighteen hundred and twenty I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it
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as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed March 18th 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in this schedule hereunto annexed and subscribed by me - Which is a follows: One axe worth two dollars and fifty cents, one cow worth two dollars, one large kettle broken worth one dollar, three plates worth fifty cents, four knives and forks old worth fifty cents, four cups and saucers worth fifty cents, six pewter spoons worth twenty five cents, the whole accounting to about the sum of seven dollars and twenty five cents.

My family consists of my wife who is aged sixty, infirm and unable to support herself by labor, one son aged fourteen unable to labor on account of convulsion fits to which he is subject, one daughter aged eighteen who is unable to do more than support herself, my occupation is that of a common laborer but by age and infirmity I am unable to follow it or to support myself and I have no other dependence for my support then my labor.

Richard Burke

Sworn to and declared on the fourteenth day of (paper cut off)
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Preble County Court
of Common Pleas

I Joseph C Hawkins clerk of the court of common pleas for Preble County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is seven dolars and twenty five cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Eaton on the Ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Jos C Hawkins - Clerk

SEAL