Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,151, for Richard Meggs, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE   Penn.
Meggs, Richard
NUMBER   S.40151
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3812. 
Pennsylvania Roll 
Richard Meggs, 4   
Capt Stewart 
private 
Pensylvania line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 19 of May 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Oct 1818 and forwarded to Hiram McNeill Norristown Penna 
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 28.41 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00 
$76.41 
Ar 3 Mon  13 / 31  4 / 30 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
1 Year   
Continued 
Montgomery Penna
Notification sent to Jonathan Roberts Esqr  4 October 1820, Reesville Pennsylvania
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Rich Meigs
private 19 May 1818
admitted
To Hiram McNeill
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Montgomery County ss 
On the nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen appeared before the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery in the State of Pennsylvania Richard Meggs who being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God doth depose and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he enlisted in the Army of the revolution in a company commanded by Captain Christopher Stewart in the fifth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Magaw that he served during the term of one year against the Common enemy and received his discharge at Elizabeth Town which accompanies the declaration that he is now a citizen of Pennsylvania and in his seventy third year of age in indigent circumstances and unable to support himself and further he doth hereby relinquish his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States & further saith not  Richard Meggs his mark
Sworn & subscribed his before me May 19th 1818 
Hiram McNeill
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Montgomery County SS
On the nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen appeared before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid in the State of Pennsylvania  John Dehaven who being duly affirmed according to Law doth affirm and say that he is well acquainted with Richard Meggs, the within deponent and has been well acquainted with him for upwards of fifty years last past and that he further knows that the said Richard Meggs enlisted about the year 1775 in the revolutionary war under Captain Christian Stewart and further this affirmant saith not 
Jno Dehaven
Affirmed & subscribed before me Hiram McNeill 
19th May 1818
 I the above and within named Hiram McNeill one of the Judge &c hereby certify that the within named Richard Meggs is in a state of absolute indigence that he is too old and infirm to obtain a livelihood by labour, and that he has no other means of subsistence.  
Hiram McNeill
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Montgomery County Ss
To whom it may concern I certify that Hiram McNeill Esquire before whom the within affidavid was had and taken is now and was at the time of such taking an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid to whose official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Court of Justice as elsewhere Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 19 day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
Wm Powel Pot.
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Meiggs
Richard Meggs
Con
3812
21 Oct 1818
N. sent to Jonathan Roberts Esqr Reesville Pa
Oct 4th 1820
Mar 19
Copy of Record
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Among the records of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery is contained as follows. viz.- 
State of Pennsylvania 
Montgomery County ss. 
On this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court, the same being a Court of record for the County of Montgomery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania aforesaid Richard Meggs, aged seventy three years resident in Lower Marion Township in the County aforesaid, who being sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he served during twelve months in the revolutionary war as a private in Captain Christopher Stewarts Company in the fifth Pennsylvania Regiment of Infantry commanded by Colonel Magaw having entered the said Company in or about the ninth of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and continued to serve as aforesaid until December one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and the deponent says he was in the Battle of Long Island and also at Fort Washington where he had his knee dislocated by the carriage of a cannon. 
And the deponent says that on the nineteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen he applied to the Court of Common Pleas for a pension in conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress passed Eighteenth March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" and the deponent received a certificate for a pension dated the twenty fifth day of October one thousand by and eight hundred and eighteen, which certificate is numbered 3812 and
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And I the said Richard Meggs do swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th of March 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 the schedule hereunto annexed, and the said deponent further says that he is by occupation Wheelwright, but from age and infirmity he is unable to follow the same, the deponent has a wife and daughter who reside with him, the deponents wife is seventy six years old, and she is a cripple from the Rheumatism, the daughter of the deponent is forty seven and she support herself by serving when she is able, she is feeble and has been so from infancy – 
And the deponent says that the following is a true Schedule of all his property and its value    
Schedule 
The tools used by him formerly as a wheelwright - the value of which is --- $ 24  10/100   
The Grindstone - Doll. 4.00
One Grubbing hoe and Shovel – 1.75
One Dresser and old Desk - 2.25 
Walnut Table – 1.00
Dough Trough and flat irons - 1.00
Three Iron Pots – 3.00
Knives, forks and spoons - 0.70
Pewter Plates & Earthen ware 1.00
Queens ware, Axe and Iron Wedges  - 1.50 
one Bed and Three Chairs – 5.60  
A lot of ground on which is a stone house one story and an half high, fifteen feet square. This property
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property is subject to a mortgage for two hundred Dollars, and the house and lot are not worth more than the amount of the said Mortgage 
(Signed) Richard Meggs his mark
Sworn to & subscribed & declared on the fourteenth day of August 1820 before 
Wm Powel Prot 
# 1818 in the original ought to be 1820 W. Powel.
Montgomery County ss 
On the fourteenth day of Aug 1818 appeared in open Court Peter Pechin and Lawrence Ramey who being affirmed do say, that they know Richard Meggs the petitioner, and are also well acquainted with his property and the value thereof and they do verily believe that the schedule and value of the same as aforegoing are true 
(signed) Peter Pechin
Laurence Ramey
Sworn & subscribed in open Court 
Wm Powel Prot 
Montgomery County ss 
I William Powell Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania certify that the foregoing oath and affirmation and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the valuation of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is correct. – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Norristown, on this twenty third day of August Anno Dom 1820 – 
Wm Powel Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Mongomary
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40151  OWN
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 40,151
Richard Meggs
Pri. Rev War
Act: 18"  March 18"
Index: - Vol 5, Page 551
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Certificate of mortgage against Richd Meggs
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Mortgage 
Richard Meggs 
to John Jones Esqr} 
dated March 29. 1810. for $200.00 - on 2 acres 3 quarters and 13 Perches of Land in Lower Merion 
Montgomery County Ss 
I Certify that the above stated Mortgage stands open and unsatisfied against Richard Meggs on the above mentioned lot of 2 acres 3 quarter and 13 perches of land on the Records of the Recorders office at Norristown in and for the County aforesaid 
In Testimony whereof I have to set my hand and seal of said office this 23rd day of August Anno Domini 1820 
John Fetter Pro
George Wack Rec’r