Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,361, for Mathew Skipton, Pennsylvania
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Penn.
Skipton, Matthew
Nancy
W 3361
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6692
Pennsylvania

Nancy Skipton, Deceased-
widow of Matthew Skipton
who was a private
in the Pennsylvania line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
   20 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843. (illegible)
25th: March, 1844, when she died. 
Certificate of Pension issued the day of March 1845
and sent to 
A. B. Norris,
 Lewistown,
Mifflin County, 
Penn:

(Act of March 3, 1843.)
               + 17 June 44
Recorded in Book A 
Vol. 2      Page 116



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(illegible) by letter to 
(illegible) March 3rd
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30.423



Adm. 6 Months____


Hon. J. Henderson
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State of Pennsylvania 
        Mifflin County             JB

        On this forth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before David Reynolds Esquire one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas of Mifflin County aforesaid, Matthew Skipton, a resident of Armagh Township, Mifflin County, in the state aforesaid, aged seventy three years, on the 27th July last year, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on this oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.
                   That he entered the service of the United States under the following of named officers + served as herein after stated (illegible) that in the month of November 1777 he was drafted for a two months tour, and marched from (old town) now Lewistown, in Cumberland now Mifflin County Pennsylvania under Captain named Adams to Lancaster Pennsylvania from thence we proceeded to Scranton (illegible) and encamped there three or four days, we were then marched to the Radner Meeting House about fifteen miles from Philadelphia, where we remained a short time we then were ordered to White Marsh in Bucks County, where we came up with the main army, and when  we had some fighting with the enemy, from thence we returned to the Radner Meeting House, where we continued for a considerable time, we had several skirmishes with the advanced parts of the British Army during our stay at the Radnor Meeting House, in one of which two of these privates were wounded , our course from there was to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where we were dismissed- I did not receive a written discharge from this tour of service, Departments officers in this town were Captain James Adams 1st Lieutenant John Fleming, A Lieutenant, John Nelson, Ensign, John Holt, our commanding officer was Gen
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10625

Nancy Skipton

PA
Act 7. July 3 80
(illegible)
Month 
$20


Hon. James Irvin
              H. R.
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That Matthew Skipton has lived in the bounds of my congregation from the year 1776 until 1790 at which time he was regularly married to Nancy Laureman and that they lived soberly and indeffinitely in our bounds until the spring of the year 1793 is until (Illegible) 

James Johnston
            (illegible)

June 7th 1795
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Rev. Widow, & c.         am (signed)

File No. 8361

Nancy Skipton
     Widow
Matthew Skipton
  Pri. Rev. War


Act. March 3, 1843
Index:-Vol. M. Page 216.

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Left Side

1374

Pennsylvania

Nancy Skipton
widow of Matthew Skipton
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who dies on the 29th July, 1834
of Mifflin Co in the state of Penna 
who was a private in the Company 
Commanded by Captain Adams of the 
Regt. Commanded by Col. in
the Penn. line for (illegible)

Inscribed on the Roll of Phila
at the rate of 20 Dollars _____
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of
May 1844 and (illegible) to Hon 
James Irvin H of R

Total Amount $100 

                      (Act of July 7, 1838.) 
Recorded by The (illegible) Clerk,
Book D, Vol. 1 Page 231


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Rebate
Let to Hon J. Irvin May 30 1844
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6861

Dec 11 ,44 

Stamp: Lewistown PA Dec 9

Center

Honor J. L. Edwards
  
   Commissioner of Pensions

              Washington City
                      D. C. 

Right side 

FREE

Through center: 

Pa 
(illegible)
(Illegible)
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Nancy Skipton, decd-
widow of Matthew Skipton 
on 3rd March, 1843 + 17 June 1844-

adm (illegible): Private
$20 per ann: commenc 4 March 1843 + ending 25 March, 1844 when she died-
 
Payable to George Skipton 
son of said Nancy

A. D. Norris,
Lewistown,
Mifflin County
PA
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Payment to be made
at
by
Agent for paying pension-
ers, in the Agency of






Recorded in the Pension 
Office, in Book      Vol-
ume    Page      by


                    Clerk.
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                    War Department
               Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 3rd of March, 1843 + 17 June, 1844, Nancy Skipton, Deceased, who was the widow of Matthew Skipton, who was a provate in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1843 and ending on the 25th of March, 1844, the day of her death, which will be paid upon the production of the mother hereby to George Skipton, her only child.

         Given at the War Office of the United States, 
      This first day of March,
      One thousand eight hundred and forty-five

                                     Secretary of War

Examined and )
Countersigned )


                     Commissioner of Pensions.