Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2082, John Dyal, Penn.
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Service Penn
Dyal, John
or Doyal
Number W2082
Christina
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21233
Kentucky
John Dyal of Lewiston in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment command[cut off] by Captain Hord of the regt comman[cut off] by Col Prater in the Pennsylvania line for [unknown] prof cavalry 5th [illegible] infantry.
Dyal alias Doyal, John W.D.G. July 2 1908. Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of 41 dollars 66 cents per anna to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Oct 1833 and [illegible] Mc Connell Greensbury Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept. 104.73 + 20.83 - $124.98
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832} Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk Book 6 Volume 7 page 7
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498.
Kentucky, Louisville Christina Dyal widow of John Dyal who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private [illegible] Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 41 dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd  day of Feby:18[illegible] 0 and sent to Morris Owen Pittsburgh PA *Dyal alias Doyal Pa & VA [illegible] July 2, 1908. Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [illegible] 1848. Page 355, Vol./July 29! - Book D
Date of [illegible] AB
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?ain
 April 5 1797

? Was 
? Dyal was born January 11, 1809

John G Dyal was born 
February 17 1802

Elizabeth Dyal was born
July 27 1895

Susanna ? Was born
No[vem]ber  9 1807

? Dyal was born
?December ?
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? Dyal was born
March D of 22, 1810
Jno. Dyal senior was born November
The 27th D of 1762

Christain[sp] Dyal was born
March the 12 D of 1770
Nancy also said the ?4 Day of August 1840 
Arvine Ales was ?80 years
Old The 16 Day October after
Her Mother Died
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state Kentucky
County of Lewis
On this 7th day of September 1832 personally
appeared in open court before the circuit court for the intent and county [illegible]
said now in session John Dyal (alias Doyal)
resident then of the County of Lewis in the said State of Kentucky aged Seventy years on the 27th day of November next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States in the fall of the year 1718 Edward Dyal (alias Doyal) was drafted as a militia man under Capt Lord
The ensign was John Mason the Lieutenants name he has forgotten and this applicant became a substitute for his said father and served as such substitute a tour of three months. This applicant at the time be so became such substitute lived with his father in Fayette County in the State of Pennsylvania on the river Mahogany and he served the tour at a fort on the Ohio River about twelve miles
below Pittsburg on Montier or Munton
bottom he thinks it was called.-- During his service the applicant was engaged almost every day in ranging the frontiers observing the appearances of indian signs and guarding the frontiers. During this service they had no battle [illegible] worth naming here.-- He does not retain [illegible] be obtained a written discharge but at the expiration of the three months other troops came out believed them and this applicant the troops with which
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be served were ranged there [illegible] home.
he ever had a written discharge he knows nothing of it,
That about the last of April 1781 he still lived at the same place on the Mohogany river and he then volunteered as a light horseman under Col or Genl. George Rogers-Clarke to go to the falls of Ohio now Lewisville to fight the Indians guard the frontiers of Kentucky-- The first Captain he turned out under at this time was Capt. Benjamin Whaley who did not belong to the horse but he served some time under Whaley in Guarding boats of arms ammunition & on a small Island in the Mohogany river at a place for about forty four miles by land from Pittsburg-- That having remained in this service about two months he joined the light horse under Capt. --Fields - He thinks Benjamin Fields-- He found his own horse saddle & bridle -Ravenscroft was his Lieutenant and William Crawford was the
signs-- He thinks his Colonel's name was Prater or Prather.-- They marched from a place called the new store at which the horse rendesvoused on the Monongalia river below Redstone old fort to the mouth of Wheeling creek there they embarked  themselves & horses on boa boots that had been prepared for the expedition and descended the Ohio River to Louisville the light horse were then ordered out to guard the stations-- A detachment to which this applicant belonged went to Floyd station on Bear Grass creek-- This applicant remained in this service until sometime after Christmas ensuring the precise time he does not remember. During this service he was in the State [illegible]
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Floyds defeat. Col. Floyed commanded at this engagement. There were but twenty seven
white men under Col. Floyd, we had gone
out to bury some dead that had been killed a day or two before and the Indians lay in ambuscade and attacked us -- There were seventeen killed & taken three wounded one of whom Capt Stergus died before he got in -- The horse of this applicant was shot down under him and he made his escape on foot three days afterwards. Genl Clark ordered out his regular troops & they buried the dead --He was in no more engagements under Clark until he was discharged He does not now know whether he recieved a written discharge or not if he did he knows nothing of it--He suffered much in his return home in the year 1782 this applicant returned to the falls of the Ohio river. -- In the spring of 1783 and in the month of April as well as he recollects there was a call for rangers to serve two years as well as he remembers and be then [illegible] in this service as a private. After having served some months he thinks about six his captain whose name was Haynes or Hynes became crippled or in some way affected so that he could not continue and this applicant was commissioned by the Government of Virginia captain of
these rangers. They served as rangers a
the waters of Green River Saline river and
Wabash river. During this service [illegible] before and after this applicant was commissioned as captain he had frequent skirmishes with the indians but none of sufficient instance to be here noticed except the battle of the Saline at which battle this applicant commanded in person. He had under his command in that battle thirty four men. About three hours previous to the battle this applicant was informed by his spies of the
approach of there Indian spies, My immediately formed ambuscade.
and an abuse the whole the
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party-A severe engagement ensued in which we killed sixteen Indians & drove the ballance. We lost one man killed and seven wounded. The Indians were on horse back and we were on foot-The main body of the Indians were not discovered until as they were stealing upon us a large bell upon one of their horses came unstopped & rang very loud.
This battle was near the place now known as the United States Saline now in the state of Illinois--After this battle this applicant returned to Vienna on Cache river where they were Stationed--He thinks this battle was fought in August 1784 and the September following Genl. Clarke Sent for this applicant & gave him the command of a small company of spies and in that character he accompanied Genl. Clark in his expedition upon the Wabash and spied for him the whole expedition-There was nothing important happened on this expedition of Genl. Clarks except that after the army had marched about 40 or 50 miles above Vincennes (crossed off "except that") the Indians sued for peace and some arrangement was entered into with Genl. Clark and he returned to Louisville--This applicant there returned to his command at Vienna and continued therein until his term of Service expired. He had frequent skirmishes afterwards with the Indians--They came in and stole horses killed white persons and run off and this applicant &  his men would pursue them Sometimes overtaking and killing some of them and retaking the stolen horses since this occasional and desultory warfare was he engaged until his term of service and that of his troops expired. Afterwards this applicant again returned to his fathers upon the Yohojany river in the state of Pennsylvania. When he so returned to his fathers he left his commission at the house of a friend in Kentucky and did not return for several
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years and when he did so return his commission could not be found and he has never seen it nor paid any attention to it since—but he presumes that some memorandum of it is yet preserved by the Government of Virginia—
He states that after his service he remained at Fayette County, Pennsylvania and in the year 1789 he was commissioned a captain in the Militia of Pennsylvania which commission is herewith forwarded—After he was so commissioned he thinks in the year 1790 he raised a company & went out under Genl. Harper as captain of a company and in that capacity served during that war’s campaign and was in the battle in which Gen[era]l Harmer was defeated at or near Fort Wayne. He states that he has no other written or documentary evidence of his services or of his grade in the service and that he knows of no person within his power or reach by whom he can prove his said services except David Hayne who is now before the court. That he was born as he is informed near Winchester in Virginia- That he has no record of his age but that his father who is yet living says he is now ninety seven years of age or thereabouts That a record from which he derives his information. That his father is blind and crippled & is not to be able to attend a court or give his experience.— That he was acquainted with Captain Crasland or Cochran who was called a regular officer under Gen[era]l Clark and that his officer commanded a fort or garrison at Vincennes. He has wholly forgotten the names of the others from the lapse of time He recollects that Col. Wells commanded in the expedition under  Clark but he thinks he was in the militia. He states that he now lives in the county of Lewis where he has lived for about thirty six years last August. It was part of Mason county when
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he first settled in it. He is known to William B. Parker and Frederick Singleton Esqrs. Rowland T. Parker, C. B. Shepherd, Alexander Bruce and almost every other resident citizen of the county most of whom will prove the tradition and General belief of his services and all of whom so far as he knows will establish the character of this applicant for truth and veracity

Jn Dyal

We John Thompson a clergyman residing in the county of Lewis and William B Parker residing in the Same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Dyal who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.
John Thompson
Wm. B. Parker

Sworn and Subscribed this 27th September 1832 in open court.
Att. Joseph Robb Clerk Lewis Ct. ?Cand

Also appeared in open court on this 9th day of September 1832 David Vance who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he is now aged Sixty eight years on the 15th day of October next. That when General George Rogers Clarke was raising men to come to the falls of Ohio to defend the Frontiers of Kentucky against the Indians he this deponent lived in Fayette county State of Pennsylvania  The particularly year he cannot remember
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So long ago; That Capt. John Dyal entered the Service under Genl. Clarke, Capt Whaley was his captain and Capt Whaley the brother-in-law of this deponent. He remembers that Capt. John Dyal who was then a private staid[sp] in the service under Capt. Whaley for two or three months in that country & was employed in guarding some boats on a smal[sp] Island in the Mahogany  River and that he afterwards Joined the light horse of Genl. Clarke & went off with Genl. Clarke’s troops & was gone for a longer time the length of time this deponent does not recollect before he returned to Pennsylvania—That he knew of his afterwards being gone to the western country for a long time and it was always reputed and believed in the neighborhood there that he was a ranger in the United States service under Genl. Clarke and reputation says that he commanded a company in Harmar’s campaign and this deponent has talked with spies that served with him who stated he was a great spy and a good soldier—
David Vance

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Lewis Circuit Court . Set: September Term 1832. The following order was made at this Court on the production of the foregoing Declaration ? John Dyal, ? Of Lewis County. This day produced in open Court his declaration made under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and made oath to the same accompanied by the affidavits of David Vance, William B. Parker, and the Reverend John Tomson who also made oath to the same in open Court- & as such the Court is of opinion after the Investigation of the matter, and after putting the Interogationes[sp] prescribed by the war department, that the said John Dyal was a Revolutionary Soldier and  Indian Spie[sp] & as he States in his Declaration & Such It further appears to the Court that John Thomson, who has Signed the affidavit, or Certificate annexed to Said Declaration is a Clergyman and a resident of the County of Lewis- Ind that David
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David Vance and William B. Parker who has also signed the same
are also resident Citizens, and are creditable persons &
that their statements are entitled to credit. All which is
ordered to be Certified to the war department -
A Copy Teste Joseph Robb Clerk Lewis Ct. C.
Lewis Circuit Court - Set &
A Joseph Robb Clerk of the Lewis Circuit
Court do Certify that the foregoing contains contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of John Dyal, Sent for a pension-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of office for said Court at Clarksburg
the 3d day of October 1832. and in
the 41st year of the Commonwealth.
of Kentucky-
Joseph Robb Clerk

Dyal Johns.
Declaration for
a Pension Sworn to an
open Court. Sept. Term
1832 & stated to be
Certified &c
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John Dyal:
Kentucky
from 1777 private
of Cavly & Infy
11 months.
Pr Cavly  6 mo 25.-
Pr. Inf 5 mo .16.66
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$41.66

Service for all 1783
unless they are in a continuous
service pension to the [ ] be
act: white of 32,853. 
8332
2083
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104.15
Jno M. McConnell
Greenupsburg
Joseph Robb, Clk:

Lewis County,
Kentucky.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
May 17 1833
Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: 

⎬ ).   You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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A Statement, shewing the Service of John Dyal, of Lewis County, Ky.
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Period when the service was rendered.
Pvt. in 1778 
for his a
there, Edward
Dyal.
Pvt. in 1781
Served in 1783.
April
Served in 1790 ┃

Duration of the
claimant's service. Years|Month|Days
3. [months]
Abt 6 [months]

Rank of the claimant.
Pr.
Pr.
Pr.
Captain
Captain
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Capt Hord,
Ensign
John Mason.
Capt Benjamin
Whaley,
Capt. Fields
Cape Haynes.

Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Col. Geo.
Rogers Clark,
Col Prater, Col.
Wells.
Gen. Harman.

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.
Salt River.
Saline River
Fort Wayne.

Country through which he marched.
New Store: from thence to the mouth of Wheeling Creek.

Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.
Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Aged 70
years.

Evidence by which the declarative is supported.
Living witness and traditionary.

{Service as a captain was performed after the Revoly War.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7,1832.

  The following regulations have been adopted: 
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms " Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and " volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military services but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as person who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
   Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers,
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons. claim-ing the benefits of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in-stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will before a court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
                DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June,1832
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such 
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
   The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
   The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If 
one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
   The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
   Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
   Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
   No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. }
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his
recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For --- year -- months, --- days, I served as a -----. 
 For ---- months and ----- days, I served as a -----; and for such service I claim a pension."
   It is important, all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase 'about three or four months'
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years
in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
   [f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
   [g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
   [h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
   [i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public sweal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
   [j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses. who are required to set forth in their affidavits the name of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
   [ ] The notes from {a} to { } are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note [j] applies to continental troops only.
   [k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
   [l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
   [m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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No 
Christina Dyal
widow of John 

Acting July 1848
Married 1797
Has died 1845






 17 Aden 6 mo. Cary 1 of $11.66 per annum March 11 Morrison Gilbert
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State of Kentucky
County of Lewis [illegible] On this 24th day of
December 1849 personally appeared before
Mr Jonthan Bugles a Justice of the Peace in
and for said county duly commissioned
and qualified to act as such. Christina
Dyal a resident of said county aged
seventy one years who being first duly sworn
according to law makes the following 
declaration in order to obtain the [strikeout]
benefit of the act of 2nd February 1848.

This declarant states that she is the
widow of John Dyal deceased late of said 
County a pensioner of the United States under
the act of 7th June 1832. at the rate of $41.66
per annum and who died 8th December 1845.

This declarant further states that her
maiden name was Christina Davis, that she was
married to the aforesaid John Dyal one the
6th day of April 1777 in Mason County,
Kentucky by a Methodist minister whose name she
does not now remember. and that she had
one child born as the fruits of her aforesaid marriage prior to the year 1800.
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said John Dyal as his wife from the time of their marriage[sp] to the period of his death. And that since his decease she has not again married but remains his widow.

And further saith not.
Christina her mark X Dyal

Sworn to and subscribed
On the day and year first
above written
Jonathan Ruggels JP

I hereby certify that the above named widow Christina Dyal is unable from bodily infirmities and old age to appear in open court and make her declaration and also certify that it was duly proven before me this 24th day of December 1849 by good and valid testimony that John Dyal the husband of the aforesaid Christina Dyal, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States died on the eight (8th) day of December 1845 eighteen hundred and forty five and that his widow the aforesaid Christina Dyal has not again intermarried.
Johnathon[sp] P Ruggels JP
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State of Kentucky
County of Lewis} Ss
I Joseph Robb, clerk of said county do hereby certify that Jonathan Jonathan Rugles Esquire is now and was at the time of the date of the foregoing declaration and Certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified to act as such. To all of whose official acts full faith may and ought to be had.

And that his signature above written is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto and set my hand and
annexed the seal of said 
county this 24th day of
December A.D. 1849.
Joseph Robb Clerk
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State of Kentucky
Lewis County } Ss

On this 15th day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Lewis county court and for the county of Lewis aforesaid John Dyal, a resident citizen of the said county of Lewis and State of Kentucky was seventy years on the 27th day of November 1832 who being first Duly sworn according to law , doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Pensions made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832: That in the year 1778 he resided with his father Edward Dyal in the county of Fayetteville in the State of Pennsylvania, that in the fall of that year, his said father was drafted to serve a three month tour against the Indians, and this applicant became a substitute for his father in said service, and as such substitute, entered the Service of the United States in the Militia, he thinks about then

That he served this tour of three months under Capt. Hinds, the Lieutenants name is forgotten & the ensign was John Mason;  there were no officers of higher grade that had any immediate command over him and therefore he cannot give the name of any officer or Col. . He served this tour of three months at a fort on the Ohio River about twelve miles before Pittsburgh on Montrose  or Montoury Bottom. During this service he was engaged almost every day in hanging the sounding
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having the appearance of Indian signs and guarding the frontiers. During this service he was in the battle or Skirmish with ?? He does not recollect whether he obtained a written discharge or not, but he recollects that, at the end of the three months, other troops came and took the places of those who had served their tours and this applicant and the troops with which he served, were discharged and went home. He states herein that if he did receive a written discharge he knows nothing of it and the said discharge is lost.

He further states that about the last of April 1751 he still lived with his father in Fayette county Pennsylvania and he then entered the service of the United States as a volunteer under Gen. Geo. Rogers Clarke, to go to the falls of Ohio with Louisville Ky against the Indians. The Capt. under whom he served  a Volunteer was Benjamin Whaley. He served under Capt. Whaley two months in guarding boats loaded with army ammunition & provisions &c on a small island in the Alleghany river, about 44 miles from Pittsburgh, by home; at the expiration of these two months he joined the corps of horse under the command of Genl. Clake[sp] who was then probably only a colonel. The corps of horse ? at a place called the “New Store” on the Monongalin[sp] river below Redstone old fort; from thence they marched to the mouth of Wheeling creek where they  ? themselves and horses on board of boats that had been prepared for the purpose and descended the Ohio river to the falls. When he joined the horse as above he was under the command of Capt. Fields, he thinks his name was Benjamin, Ravencraft was his
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3. Lieutenant, & William Crawford was his ensign. When they arrived at the falls of the Ohio, the troops were ordered to different stations to guard the soldiers  and among the Indians. This applicant with a detachment to Floyd’s station on Beargrass creek and was engaged in ranging the founding and protecting the settlements against the invasions of the Indians until after the following Christmas. The precise time of this service he does not remember, but can safely say and does suspect it exceeded 8 months, but he is willing that it should be fixed at that period. During this service he furnished his own horse, saddle, & bridle. He was, during this service, in one battle with the Indians on Floyd’s fork of Salt river originally known by the name of Floyds defeat. Col. Floyd commanded in this engagement. We went out to bury some dead that had been killed a day or two before by the Indians. The enemy lay in ambuscade & attacked us. Out of 27 men under the command of Col. Floyd, 17 were killed & taken, & 3 more wounded, one of whom, Capt. Sturgus[sp], died before we got into our station. This Applicant’s horse was shot down under him and he then made his escape on foot. He was in no other battle or skirmish during this service mostly here as he mentioned. From this service he was duly discharged, but whether he had any written discharge or not he does not now remember. One thing he does know, that if ever he had such a discharge, the same is wholly lost and gone from him.

In the month of April 1783 he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer private soldier among a troop of rangers raised by government
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To ? The founding of Kentucky. At this time, he still lived with his father in Fayette county Pennsylvania, but before he so entered the service, he had gone to the falls of Ohio, and it was at that place that he volunteered this last time for the term of two years to serve as a ranger and spy against the Indians under Capt. Haynes or Haynes. He continued in that service as a private for six months or thereabouts, when Capt Haynes became crippled & in some way disabled, so that he could not longer continue in the service. This applicant was commissioned by the government of  Virginia, captain of those rangers. He continued to serve as capt. of the rangers from the time he was commissioned, which he believes was in November 1783 until Sept. 1784 and during this service as a ranger, both before and after he was commissioned Capt. he had frequent skirmishes with the Indians. His station was at Vienna on Green river In Ky. , & the services were performed on the waters of Green river in Ky. The line river now in Illinois and the Wabash river. The Augt 1784 while he had the command of the rangers, he and his troops had a ? severe engagement with the Indians on Saline river, in which the Indians were driven with the loss of three of their spies and sixteen others killed dead on the ground.This battle was fought near the place now known as the U.S. Saline, and was called the battle of Saline. After this battle, this applicant with his men, returned to their station at Vienna, on Green river and in Sept. 1784 Genl. Clarke sent for him & gave him the command of a company of spies, and in that character, to wit, as Capt. of the spies
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he accompanied Gen. Clark in his expedition upon the
Wabash & spied for him the whole state. There was
nothing important occurred in this expedition of Gen.
Clarke, except that after he had marched his army about 40 or 50 miles above Vincennes, the Indians made of peace, and some arrangement was entered into with Genl Clarke.  He returned to Louisville. This applicant then retired to his command at Vienna, I remained in the service as capt. of the
vauquez until April 1788. when his term of service expired.
He had frequent skirmishes with the Indians after he returned to his command, & before his term of service expired.  The Indians came repeatedly & stole horses &c .  and this applicant and his men pursued them, and, in some instances, overtook and killed some of them, & retook the stolen horses &c., & in this desultory and occasional warfare, was he engaged until his term of service expired.
This applicant again returned to his family on the Gohoghany River and left his commission in the hands of a friend in Kentucky.  & when he did so return, his commission could not be found, and he has never seen it nor heard of it since, and therefore the same is to him wholly lost. He continued to reside in Fayette County County Pennsylvania, in the year 1789.  He was commissioned a Capt. in the militia
of the state, which commission is herewith forwarded.
In the year 1790. he raised a company, and went out under Genl. Harmary as Capt. of this command & served in
that capacity during Harmar'ys campaign against
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[ ] The Indians, and was in the battle called Harmans
defeat, at or near fort Wayne. He states that while
he was in the service under Genl Clarke, as herein be
fore stated, he was acquainted with a Capt. Creyhun or Cochran, who was called a regular officer under Clarke, & that this capt .commanded a fort or garrison at Vincennes. That he knew also in that service, a Colonel Wills, but he thinks that Wills commanded in the Militia. That his deployment as ranges and above respectively kept him away much separated from the regularly and he never had any very intimate acquaintances with any of them, only Genl. Clarke himself, and that from the lapse of time, he has wholly forgotten the service of all the others.

He states that he was living in the County of Lewis in the State of Kentucky, where he has lived for nearly thirty seven years last paid.

He states that by reason of old age and the
consequent [ ] of [ ] he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods below, to wit, Under Capt. Hord as a substitute for his fathers Edward and three months as a private in the Militia, Under Capt. Whaley, Two months in quarding the boats of maritime men on the Gohoghany River as a private soldier in the militia; Six months under Capt. Fields as surveyor at George's station on 
Beargap  a. d as a private in the militia; Six months under Capt. Haynes as a private soldier in the corps of rangers on Green River in Kentucky; and one year and five
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                                                                      7
months a Captain of the rangers and spies, at
Vienna, on Green river Kentucky on the Naloch Indiana, & on Saline river in Illinois.
This applicant further states that he was home in the year 1762. near Winchester in Virginia-
that he has no record of his age, but his late father, (who has departed this life since this applicants former statement had one which is now in the possession of Alexander Dyal, who is a resident of Lewis county and the brother of this applicant, and from that he derived this information, that he was living in Fayette county, Pennsylvania when he first entered into the service, that he has resided in Lewis county Formerly a part of Mason Kentucky, thirty seven years, the residence of this time since the revolution. He lived in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; that he entered into the service as a substitute for his father, in the first instance, and afterwards as a volunteer, as herein before more fully detailed; that he was acquainted with a captain Croghan or Cochran, under Genl. Clarke, who was, called a regular officer and commanded a post or garrison at (??), but from lapse of time, and the nature of his service, as ranger and spy, which necessarily kept him separated from the rest of the officers, his acquaintance with them was slight, and he has wholly forgotten their names.
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8.
He recollects that Col. Wells, Col. Coy, & General Harden commanded in the expedition under Genl. Clark, but thinks they belonged to the militia. He states that he was regularly discharged from the second period of service for which he engaged, but does not recollect whether his discharges were written or not, but if written, they are wholly lost and gone. States he recd. a capt's commission in the corps of rangers which was lost as herein before stated &c. He further states that he was for a long time a justice of the peace  in and for the county of Lewis, and High Sheriff of the same, and is well known to be almost every resident citizen of said county but for a more particular reference, he gives the names of the following gentlemen, towit, Wm. B. Parker, Alexander Bruce, F. R. Singleton, Wm. Mitchell, Thomas Henderson, C. B. Stepherd Esq. who have at different periods represented the county in the Legislative councils of the state, and also Joseph Robb, the clerk of the circuit and county court of said county, all of whom with the citizens generally, will prove the condition of the applicants having been a revolutionary soldier, and capt. of the rangers and spies, as herein before more particularly set forth, & as far as he knows, will establish his character for truth & veracity.
And this applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Jno. Dyal
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I in the court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Joseph Robb, Clerk of the county court of Lewis county, Kentucky, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Dyal for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 15th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, thence, and of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the forty second.
Joseph Robb, Clerk

Mr. John Thompson, a clergyman, residing in the county of Lewis, and Wm. B. Parker also a resident of said county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Dyal, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in opinion.
John Thompson
Wm. B. Parker
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Thompson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the county of Lewis, and that William B. Parker who has also signed the same is a resident in the said county of Lewis aforesaid, and is a credible person, & that their statements is  entitled to credit.
I Joseph Robb, clerk of the County court in and for Lewis county, Kentucky, do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of John Dyal for a pension.
The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this the 15th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, and of the Commonwealth the forty second.  Joseph Robb clerk
Also appeared in open court on this the 10th day of July, 1833 David Vance who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he is now aged sixty nine years that when Genl. George Rogers Clark was raising men to come to the state of Ohio to defend the frontier against the Indians, he, this deponent lived in Fayette
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County, State of Pennsylvania; the particular years he cannot remember, it was so long ago, that Capt. John Dyal entered the service under Genl. Clark; Capt. Whaley was his captain, and Capt. Whaley the (??) of this deponent. He remembers that Capt. John Dyal who was then a private, staid in the service under Capt. Whaley further or three months in that country, and was employed in guarding some (??) on a small island, in the Yohogburg river and that he afterwards joined the light horse of Genl. Clark, and went off with Genl. Clarks troops and was gone for a long time, the length of time, this deponent does not recollect, that he knew of his  afterwards being gone to the Western county for a long time, and it was always reputed and believed in the neighborhood there, that he was a ranger in the United States service under Genl. Clark and reputation says that he commanded a company in (??) company and this dependent has talked with spies that served with him, who stated that he was a great spy, and and a good soldier. He further states that it was reputed and believed that Capt. Dyal was a captain. of the Rangers and Spies under General Clark, and served as such while in the western country as above stated.
Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year above written
David Vance
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Personally appeared before me M. B. Parker a justice of the
Peace in and for the County of Lewis, John Dyal, who being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age,
and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively
as to the precise length of his service; but,
according to the last of his [recollection], he served not
less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following
grades; for three months as a private in the militia
under Capt. Hard; two months under Capt. Whaley in guarding
boats [illegible] in the Yohegheny [Youghiogheny] river; six months under Capt. Fields as a ranger; Six months under Capt. Hynes as a private soldier in the corps of rangers; and one year and five months as captain of the rangers and spies; and
for such service I claim a pension. John Dyal
Subscribed and sworn to before me, M. B. Parker
M. B. Parker, on this the 15th day of July 1833.
J. Joseph Robb Clerk of the Lewis
County Court, hereby certify, that
M. B. Parker before whom the above
statement was subscribed and sworn
to is an acting justice of the peace
in and for Lewis County and that he
is, and ought to be, accredited as such
in all his official acts.
Given under my hand and seal of
Office, this the 15th day of July
A.D. 1833. of the Common th
of [illegible] the 42nd.
Joseph Robb, Clerk
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April 23, 1940
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mr. John A. Doyle
3743 Edwards Road
Cincinnati, Ohio

John Dyal, W. 2082
John Doyle, B. L. Wt. 2452 - 300
BA-J/MLB

Dear Sir:
You are furnished herein the records of John Dyal or Doyal, as found in the papers of pension claim, W. 2082, and of John Doyle,
B. L. Wt. 2452-300, based upon service in the Revolutionary War. There is no way for this office to determine whether or not those
officers were one and the same person.
JOHN DYAL
W. 2082
John Dyal, as this officer signed ( but referred to also as Doyal) was born November 27, 1762, near Winchester, Virginia. He was the
son of Edward Dyal who was still living in 1832, aged ninety-seven years, but was deceased in 1833; the name of John's mother was not given.
While living with his father in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, John Dyal entered the service in the fall of 1778, as a substitute for his father, and served a tour of three months as private in Captain Hord's Pennsylvania company at a fort on the Ohio River about twelve miles below Pittsburgh, engaged in ranging the country, observing the Indians and guarding the frontiers, then returned home. He again
entered the service in April, 1781, and served two months as private in Captain Benjamin Whaley's Pennsylvania company guarding boats on an island in the Youghiogheny River forty-four miles below Pittsburgh; then joined Captain Benjamin Fields' company of light horse, Colonel Floyd's regiment, went on General George Rogers Clark's Expedition
to the Falls of the Ohio River, later known as Louisville, Kentucky; his company was then divided and his detachment went to Floyd's
Station on the Bear Grass Creek, was in a battle with the Indians known as Floyd's Defeat, length of that tour six months. He returned
to the Falls of the Ohio in 1782 and in April, 1783, enlisted and served about six months as private and spy in Captain Haynes' or Hynes'
company of rangers, when his captain became crippled and could not continue in service. John Dyall took his place being commissioned
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by the Government of Virginia captain of these rangers and spies. served on the Green River of Kentucky, the Saline River in Illinois and the Wabash River in Indiana, was in frequent skirmishes with the Indians, including the battle of the Saline in August, 1784, length of that service one year five months. He
continued to resided in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was commissioned May 1, 1789, Captain of the Pennsylvania militia. In 1790, he raised a company and served on General Harmar's Campaign against the Indians and was in a battle known as Harmar's Defeat near Fort Wayne; length of that service not stated.

John Dyal was allowed pension for his service on his application executed September 27, 1832, at which time he was residing in
Lewis County, Kentucky (which had been formed from Mason County) and where he had been living thirty-six years. He was Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Lewis County, Kentucky, for some time. He died December 8, 1845.
John Dyal married April 6, 1797, in Mason County, Kentucky, Christina or Christain Davis, who was born March 12, 1778. The place of her birth and names of her parents were not given.

Christina Lyal, widow of John, was allowed pension on her application executed December 24, 1849, while a resident of Lewis County, Kentucky.

John Dyall and his wife, Christina, had children whose names were
as follow:
Rebeckah Dyal, born March 17, 1798
David D.    "       "       December 23, 1799
John W.     "       "       January 17, 1802
Elizabeth   "        "      July  27, 1805
Suanna(?)   "       "      November 9, 1807
Ann            "       "      March 13, 1811 (date of month? not legible)
Edward T.    "        "    December 20, 1813
Juan (? )      "         "    March 22, 1818

The following items of family data are shown, also, with no explanation of relationship to the family:
Nancy Ales died August 11, 1840,
Arvine Ales was 8(?) years old the 16th day of October after her mother died.
2
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In 1833, John Dyal's brother, Alexander Dyal, was a resident of Lewis County, Kentucky, his age not shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death
of Christina Dyal, widow of John, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Christina Dyal, widow of John, certificate No. 498, issued February 23, 1850, rate $41.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of July 29, 1848, Louisville, Kentucky Agency.

JOHN DOYLE
B. L. Wt. 2452 - 300
The Revolutionary War records of this office show, also, that Bounty Land Warrant No. 2452, for three hundred acres of bounty land,
was issued February 27, 1851, for service of John Doyle as Captain of the Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution. The warrant was
issued to James Scravendike and others, only heirs of John Doyle. The names of the other heirs are not shown.
If you desire information relative to the location of the bounty land granted for service of John Doyle, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the
acreage and date of issuance.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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June 19, 1904 Hist to B. M. Boyle, Gen Land Office J.P. 19?8, July 1. Hist to B.M. Doyle Gen Land Office A.P.
1910. Mar. 15. Hist to Mis Nancy E. Jones A.E.P.
1912 Aug. 27. tombstone data to 2.717 Gen c
1940, Oct. 23 - Hist to Jno Doyle  KB
order in due of John A. Doyle (illegible)243360
REF
Widow, &c.
File No. 2082
Christina Dyal alias Doyle
Pri. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:-Vol: A   Page 204
Arangement of 1870)
W.D.G.

●
Act July 29, 1848.
Index:-Vol. A, Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.
W. D. G.
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In the NAME and by the AUTHORITY of the FREEMEN of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The Supreme Executive Council of the said Commonwealth,
6
To John Dyal Esquire 
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Captain of the first Company of foot in the second Battalion of Militia in the County of Fayette You are, therefore, carefully
and diligently to discharge the duty of Captain
---by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And WE DO strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your Orders as Captain And you are to observe and follow such Orders and
Directions as you shall from time to time, receive from the Supreme Executive Council of
this Common wealth, or from your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline
of War, and in pursuance of the Acts of Assembly of this State. This Commission
to continue in Force until your term, by the laws of this State, shall of course expire
GIVEN in Council, under the Hand of the Credent, and the lesser Seal of the
State, at Philadelphia, this first Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine
ATTEST.
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Comt. of Pensions
Washington City
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Greensburg Ky. July 30th 1833
I .L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
you will please recieve herewith the amended
and additional State of Capt John Dyal of Lewis County KY. made to obtain the benefit of the act of June 9th 1832, as also his former declaration and your objections to it.
I hope it will be satisfactory to you and the department.
Too rigid a rule of evidence of service & must have the effect to deprive every man whose memory has failed him and who cannot command other proofs than his own oath who is not disposed to swear falsely; of the provisions made for them by this act of congress
Please address any communication on this
subject to "John M. McConnell Greensburg
Ky.
Your obt. Servt.
JM Connell
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Pittsburgh Pa
January 3d 1850
Hon Sir
Herewith I send the declaration
Christina Dyal for widow of John Dyal late Lewis County Kentucky praying
for a Pension to be allowed her under the
act of 2d February 1848
Very Respectfully your
Obt Servant
Morris Owen
Hon J.L. Edwards
Coms of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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3 -- 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Geo M. Moore
Claim No. May 11, 1910
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier John Doil, Doyl, Doyle
Service Pa.   Rev
Additional Service.
No. claim, State records 190.
No claim, combination records , 190-
REMARKS:
To W. Wor Rasabon
By W F 2082
0-8  Chief Division
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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
June 16, 1904
No. 2.082, Wid, 
Revolution War
Sir
In reply to your recent inquiry you are advised that John Dyal, alias Doyal, aged seventy years, residing in Lee his county, Ky. applied for
pension Sept. 27, 1832, stating that he enlisted in the fall of 1778 in Fayette Co. Penn and
served three months as a private under Captain Hood in the Penns. Line, & in April,
1781, enlisted under Capt Benj Whaley & Col. Clarke & served eight months
during whichhe was in an Indian fight
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Record Division June 24 1908
called Floyd's defeat. His
claim was allowed 
Name does not appear as Doyle
He married Christina Davis
Apr. 6, 1797, in Mason Co. Ky.
and died Dec. 8, 1845, and she was
pensioned as his widow
Very Respect
E. S. Ware, Commissioner
To
Mr. B.M. Doyle
Gen Land Office
Washington D. C.


Duplicate Copy
-
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1800 Arch St. Philadelphia
Feb 25th 1910
Commissioner of Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Will you kindly forword to me the military
record of the following Revoeluionary soldiers with what ever data we
connection with their parentage residence and family is
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to be found in your records Robert Day [or Doil or Doyl]e 3d Va Regt he appears to have belonged to when enter to the hospital in Reading Pa 1777
John Dayle from Lancaster or York Co. Pa.
and at the time a captain the First Regiment
Lieutenant Thomas Dayle also Continental
officer from Pa
thanking you for kindness - I am
Sinceely yours
(Miss) Nancy E. Jones
Address 1800 Arch St
Philadelphia Pa
U.S. Pension Office
A
Mar 1 1910
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General Land Office
Washington D. June 22 1908
the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Sir:  Herewith inclosed is a copy of a letter received from your office a few years ago
Will you be kind enough to furnish me with the names of the children of John
Doyal and wife as shown by records
 And also inform me whether the records of your office show John Doya to have been married more than once
Respectfully
B. M. Doyle
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General Land Office
Washington D.C. May 28, 1904

The Hon.  Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Sir,
Having been requested by some relatives who desire to become members of
the D.A.R.
to look up the record of
John Doyle a soldier of the Revolution
who enlisted at the age of fifteen or
sixteen and received as part of
compensation for services a warrant for
land in Kentucky which he accepted,
moved upon and resided there until
his death.  
If from such limited information you can identify him, and if
not inconsistent with the rules of your office, I will be pleased if you will
give me the information the records of your
office contains in regard to him.
Respectfully
B. M. Doyle
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[first portion too faint to read]
[5th line:] [ ] in Penna troop as field
Fall 177[ ], 3 mos. [ ] Capt. Hardy's Co
[ ] 7 mos. [ ] Benjamin Whaler's Co
[ ] 6 mos. [ ] Benjamin Fields Co.
Apl 1783 6 mos. [ ] Harper's Rangers
Nov. 1783 1 yr. 5 mos. Capt. [ ] Rangers
May 1, 1789 ~~~ "  1st C [ ] 2nd [ ]
1790 ~~~ "  [ ] standing Co [ ] prign.
Engaged in [ ]
Sol. was born Nov. 27, 1762 near [ ]
under [ ] and died Dec 8, 1845.
J.L.  Davenport.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. [handwriting too faint to read]
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Fall 1778
April 1783
[ ]
Mar 1783
Nov 1787
1788

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
3 Mo.
2 Mos.
6 Mos.
6
1 yr. 3 mos.

RANK.
Pvt.
"
"
"
Capt
Capt
Capt
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Hord
[ ]
[ ] Fields
Captain Hynes
[ ]
[ ]

COLONEL.

STATE.
[ ] 
"
[ ]
Battles engaged in, [ ], battle of Da[ ] & C[ ]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [too faint to read]
Date of application for pension, Oct. 27, 1832
Residence at date of application, [too faint to read]
Age at date of application, Born Nov. 27, 1762 near [ ]. He died Jan 8, 1845
Remarks: Soldier was in 16 [ ] by April 6, 1794 [ ] Mar. 12, 177[ ], 
[second sentence too weak to read]
[third sentence too weak to read]
[fourth sentence too weak to read] 

Very respectfully, X [ ] was nearly 97 years [ ]
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JRW
No. 2,082, Wid.,
Revolutionary War.

June 16, 1904.

Sir:
In reply to your recent inquiry you are advised that John Dyal, alias Doyal, aged seventy years, residing in Lewis county,
Kentucky, applied for pension September 27, 1832, stating that he
enlisted in the fall of 1778 in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and
served three months as a private under Captain Hood in the Pennsylvania
Line, and in April, 1781, enlisted under Captain Benjamin
Whaley and Colonel Clarke and served eight months, during which he
was in an Indian fight called Floyd's Defeat. His claim was allowed.

Name does not appear as Doyle.
He married Christina Davis, April 6, 1797, in Mason county,
Kentucky, and died December 8, 1845, and she was pensioned as his
widow.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. B. M. Doyle,
General Land Office,
Washington, D. C.
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Mr. John A. Doyle
3743 Edwards Road
Cincinnati, Ohio

April 23, 1940
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of John Doyle, your reference: 8 VR,
WD 175, 1,5. BW and acct XXII 346 HD, and of John Doyle, pen.
No. W. 2082, of Lewis County, Kentucky, also of John (Franklin)
Vier, S of W 1835, Pen 2, 137. You state that you are especially
interested in the citation above - BW and acct XXII 345 HD. You request, also, the Revolutionary War record of Peter Stricklet,
who served in the Washington County, Pennsylvania militia.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based
upon service in the Revolution of Peter Stricklet, under any spelling.

No part of the citations in regard to John Doyle, named first,
pertain to the records of this office, but possibly to Virginia
State records. For information in regard to land which may have
been granted John Doyle by that state, you should address the
Curator of Revolutionary War Bounty Land Records, Richmond, Virginia.

The Revolutionary War records of this office show that the
record of John Vier ( W. 3896 ) was furnished you April 10, 1940, and
according to your communication of April 17, has been received.

The record of John Dyal, of Lewis County, Kentucky, is furnished
you herewith, and that of a Captain John Doyle.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator