Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,615, Daniel Graham, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn

 * [stamped star above name]
Graham, Daniel

NUMBER
S. 39,615

CONTENTS
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39615
INVALID
Revy
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File No. 39,615
Daniel Graham
Pri Rev War
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Act. 18th March 18
Index:-- Vol. 3, Page 204

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Notification sent May 25th 1821 to Hon John Negley Esq.

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3745.
Pennsylvania Roll
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Daniel Graham
private.
Capt. Nichols
Pennsylvania line 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the roll of Penna.
at the rate 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of Oct 1818
and sent to John Breden Esq.
Butler Penna. ----------
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 29.97
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00
3 Mo 19/31 & 4/30 
$77.97 [double underlined]

{Revolutionary claim,   }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Discontinued 18/64
Butler Co. Pa.
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Daniel Graham
18 May 1818
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To. John Breden Esq.
Butler 
Pennsylvania
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Admitted on the Penna.

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Let to J. L. Edwards of the Department of War

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Pa. line

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Daniel Graham, Pri.
13 May 1818
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Butler County } Ss

On the thirteenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County personally appeared Daniel Graham of Connoquenessing Township in said County aged sixty nine years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the  following declaration in order to obtain the promises made by the act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War.  

That he the said Daniel Graham in Tuscarora Valley in the State of Pennsylvania in Captain Francis Nichols Company of the ninth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Richard Butler in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for the year & during the war, that he continued to serve in said Corps & in the service of the United States until the month of January AD one thousand seven hundred and eighty when he was discharged by Colonel Richard Butler & General Wayne that about the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty three or eighty four when Captain Bowen was paying the arrears of pay he took his discharge from him and said he needed it as a voucher to settle his accounts that he was in the Battle of Monmouth, in Springfield, & the Short Hills, & at Connecticut [word in covered by ink and illegible] .  That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services
Daniel his x mark Graham

Sworn to & declared before me the}
day & year aforesaid                       }
John Parker [signature]
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I John Parker a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to our satisfaction that the said Daniel Graham did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding [sic] declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Witness my hand & seal this thirteenth day
of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

John Parker [signature[ [hand-drawn seal]

I John Negley Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do by these presents certify that John Parker Esq. before whom the within declaration was made, and who signed the foregoing certificate as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly accompanied and sworn and that full faith and credit is due and of right ought to be given to all his official and Judicate acts as such, as well in Courts of Justice as therewith 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at Butler this eighth day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen
Jno Negley Prothy [signature]
[faded seal at left-hand side of page]
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Exemplification of the
word of Daniel Graham's
application

No. 3.745
March 19
Not Entitled
J L Edwards
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District of Pennsylvania. Butler County} Ss

On this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas of Butler County in the fifth judicial district of Pennsylvania being a court of record for the county of Butler aforesaid Daniel Graham of Connoquenessing Township County and State aforesaid aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he enlisted with Captain Francis Negley in March or April 1777 in Tuscarora Valley in Cumberland County Pennsylvania in the ninth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Richard Butler for three years during the war; that he served in said regiment until January or February 1781 when he was discharged at Trenton in New Jersey by Colonel Butler and General Wayne which discharge he has long since lost; that the number of his certificate of Pension is "3745" and in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner deposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby & to diminish it as to being 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 on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I
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have not nor has any persons 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed

Three hundred acres of land value--$500.00
claimed by Dunning McNair
One mare value---50.00
Fourteen head of cattle eight of which are small--value 76.00
Twenty six head of hog - eighteen of them
are suckling pigs -- value 36.00
Two beds and bedding---value 8.00
Eight sheep three of them lambs--value 99.00
One Bureau without any mounting - value 8.00
One chest -- value 3.00
$780.00

I have received from the State of Pennsylvania}
forty dollars per annum as an old soldier         }

Deduct one [illegible] of them being a
patent for the land ----------$99.
One Debt to Hugh McKee}
Walter Lowrie Esquire & others}  114 67 1/2
$209 " 67 1/2
$576 " 32 1/2

That I am a farmer by profession but am now unable to work from age and being afflicted by these Rheumatic pains with which I am lame in feet and arms that I have a wife named Christiana aged fifty seven years and very frail and that I have two sons living with me both free and working for themselves

Daniel his x mark Graham

Sworn and delivered and subscribed}
in open court on the fourth }
day of July A.D. 1820}

Jno Negley Prothy [signature]
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Butler County }Ss

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I John Negley Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the record and do further certify that it is the opinion of the court that the total amounts of the value of the property exhibited in said schedule is five hundred and seventy six dollars and thirty two & one half cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Butler this twenty seventh day of December,
A.D. 1820

Jno Negley Prothy [signature]