Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,733, for Neal Mc Cay, Pennsylvania
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Service:  Penn.
McCay, Neal     Rachel
Number: W. 4733
Contents _______
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Pennsylvania 761
_____________________
Rachel McCay
widow of Neal McCay
died on the 2nd March 1814
Columbia County in the State of Penn.
was a Private in the company commanded by
Captain Chatham of the _______commanded
by _____________ in the Penn. ____________
for 6 months
_______________________
Inscribed in the Roll of Pennsylvania 
at the rate of 20 Dollars _____Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
_________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 18, day of April 1837,
and sent to Robert McCay, Washingtonville, Penn.
__________________________
Arrears to the 4th of March 37      120.00
Semi-amt allowance ending Sept    10.00
                                                        _______
                                                        $130.00
(Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Lection the 3 ---}

Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk
Book H,  Vol. 1  Page 169
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Copy of papers sent to home 
R.H. Hammond, NR May 19 1838
death not on A.B.
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Sunbury, North - Co. Pa. Octo. 22nd 1836

Dear Sir,
According to your desire, I have inquired for Dr Plunket's papers, but without success, and think it morally certain that there are none in existence.  If, however, there should be any, the must be in the profession of the widow McAdams whose husband was the executor or administrator.  She resides near Jenkin's or, rather Shannan's mile with her sister Penny.  As to the marriage of Rachel Thornton (now your mother) and Neal McCay at the time you specify (Jany. 1775) these can be no doubt as her word cannot be called in question by any who know her character.

If it should be of any service in your application for a pension for her, I hereby testify to her good moral character, and also that she was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Northumberland when I was Paster of it a few years since.
Truly yours,
H. R. Smith - Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Sunbury

Robt Mc Cay
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464, 3 Sec.
Rachel McCay
Pennsylvania
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3rd section of the Act of Congress of July 4th, 1836.
State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County

On this 27th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, Rachel McCay a resident of Derry Township county and state aforesaid aged eighty three years who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress papered July 3rd 1836.  That she is the widow of Neal McCay who was a private in Captain John Chatoms Company of militia of the town of Northumberland in the County of Northumberland State of Pennsylvania. The said company was organized and nurtured in the service (in the throng after the Hessians were taken at Trenton) by Colonel Hunter who was the commanding officer of the dis. lieut. John Painter now residing in Chillisquaque Township Northumberland Penn. was the second lieutenant of the company and the only survivor as she believes now living of said company. As soon as the company was organized they offered their services to Col. Hunter as minute men which offer was accepted and the company was set to work to build forts and stockades at the town of Northumberland.  She well remembers of several houses being pulled down and the materials taken to build a stockade for the protection of the women and children of the town and surrounding country who had frequently to fly from the Indians and such a place of safety at Northumberland or further down the country.  They also built a fort about the center of the town on which were mounted some cannon.  They also built a fort at the north eastern border of the town and cut down all the timber of any size for as much as a half mile west and north of the town the only points accessible to the town without crossing one of the branches of the Susquehanna river. The company were engaged at this for several months. The deponent remembers of her husband drawing rations until the commencement of winter.  The company were stationed at the Northumberland during the whole of the war excepting the winter seasons, and when there was no danger from the Indians or when they were sent in pursuit of the Indians or on to relieve those stationed at other forts.  They were frequently sent to protect the settlements during the harvesting of the crops.  The deponent further saith that...
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her husband was absent at one time for several months at Wyoming and that at another time for several weeks as the women and children were sent down the river for safety near Harrisburg, but her husband remained at the fort and was then on his return to Northumberland this was at the time of the taking of Freeland's Fort.

For all these services my husband never received one cent of pay, then was application made by the survivors of the company to our State Legislature for compensation for their services but nothing was done until after his death which took place on the 2nd day of March 1814.  The survivors and their widows still urged their claim on the state and an act was papered in the winter of 1822 & allowing the survivors of the company or their widows each two hundred dollars which sum I received or rather it was received for me, but of which I never received ten dollars. The person who had drawn it for me failed and I never expect to get one out of it.  The deponent says it would be impossible at this late period to say with any certainty the length of time that her husband was in actual service but of this past she is well satisfied that he was as long in the service as any other of the company and did as much service for his country and as a guide to the war department for the amount of his services. She would purposefully refer them to the Declaration of Lieutenant Painter on which he was allowed a pension for his services in this company.

The deponent further declares that she was married to the said Neal McCay on the first of January seventeen hundred and seventy five by Crf Plunket in the town of Northumberland. That she never received a certificate of her marriage nor does she believe that any record was ever made of said marriage as there was no such an officer living in the place as Peroth Clark and it was some years after their marriage before there was a sermon preacher in the place by any denomination and that under a large walnut tree that was standing in the town under whose shade the people more congregated.

The deponent further declares that she has remained a widow ever since the death of said Neal McCay as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
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Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me.
William Montgomery
Rachel McCay  X her mark

State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County
I certify that Rachel McCay widow of Neal McCay late of Northumberland Penn. in consequence of age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend the court to make and testify to the above declaration.  Witness my hand and Seal this 27th day of December 1836.
William Montgomery J.S (signature)


State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges for the courts in and for the county of Columbia Penn. Nobert McCay who after being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that the above named Rachel McCay is the widow of Neal McCay late of the town of Northumberland Penn. who did the 2nd day of March 1814 and that she the said Rachel McCay has remained a widow ever since.
Norbert McCay (signature)

Before me
William Montgomery (signature)


State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County
I James Donaldson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Please of Columbia County State aforesaid do hereby certify that William Montgomery before whom the foregoing proceedings were held is one of the Associate Judges in & for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed my name this fourth day of January A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty seven.
For  James Donaldson Prothonotary
       James Donaldson Jun bth
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Rachel McCay

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Hon. G.L. Edwards
Commissions of Pensions
Washington City  DC
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Washingtonville Pa  March 25/37

Sir
Since I forwarded to you the certificate the Act of his state legislator granting to Rachel McCay $200 for the services of Neal McCay her late husband I have received from the Rev Jne H. Gnar of Lycoming County the deposition of Robert Hamilton which is enclosed.  I am aware that it wants the certificate of Mr. Clark of the county to it but Mr Gnar nine lines to me left no room for that [illegible}.  I have retained a copy and if it is absolutely necessary I will have it retaken and certified to as the distance from this place is about 40 miles. It will be attended with some  evidence.  You will perceive by the testimony of Mr. Hamilton that the service done by Capt. Chatam's company was not by tours but rather as regular soldiers and were promised for the  colonial regiment of regulars [illegible} the same pay and rations as a continental troop. M Hamilton does not swear positively that Neal McCay was one of Captain Chatam's company but Lieutenant Painter of the same company swears positively that Neal McCay was in Capt. Chatam's company.
Respectfully yours
Robert McCay

Hon. J.L. Edwards
N B if it is necessary that Mr. Hamilton's deposition should be [illegible} and the questions, signature, certificate the claim of the court, [illegible} but let me [illegible} and I {rest of page illegible}
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Sunbury Hot 11th 1838

Robert McCay Esq.

Dear Sir,
Your working information respecting Doct Plunkets papers on contracts while acting as a Justice has been rec'd and in reply say that I know of no person here to whom I could apply for the information nor do I believe there is any person here can give the information you are in pursuit of.  I believe Doct Plunkett departed this life in this town but of this I cannot speak with certainty.  It is like a dream to me.  I have no distinct recollection of him nor can I say when his decease took place.  As to the law papers by the state  giving your Mother and others a donation of $200 each for services done during the Revolution by turning to the pamphlet laws of that session you can then find the laws a copy of which one can take that will gives you all the information you want on that subject.
Very respectfully
Yours etc
Lewis Deward
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July 20, 1935

BA-J/ILL
Neal McCay
W. 4733

Emily E. Tassey
514 Emerson Street. E.E.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of the husband of Mrs. Rachel McCay, who was a pensioner of Washingtonville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1840, when she resided with Robert McCay.

The record of Neal McCay, or McCoy is furnished you herein as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4733; his widow, Rachel, of Columbia County, Pennsylvania, received pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.

Neal McCay. or McCoy, while a resident of Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, enlisted sometime in the spring of 1777, and served until the close of the war as private in Captain John Chatham's company of Pennsylvania militia, under Colonel Hunter. (Pa. Cu Vol 8)  This company was raised for the express purpose of building forts and stockades in Northumberland to protect the inhabitants in that vicinity against the invasions of the Indians.  During the period of his service, Neal McCay, or McCoy was called out at Wyoming and the taking of Freeland's Fort.

He married January 1, 1775, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, Rachel Thornton.  They lived together in Northumberland until his death on March 2, 1814.

Rachel, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed December 27, 1836, at which time she resided in Derry Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.  She was then aged eighty-three years, the date and place of her birth and names of her ...
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parents not shown.

Rachel McCay, or McCoy, was allowed $200 by the State of Pennsylvania on account of the service of her husband, Neal McCay, or McCoy, in the Revolutionary War, under date of March 29, 1823.

It was stated that Neal McCay, or McCoy and his wife, Rachel, had one child in 1776, whose name was William.  In 1838, their son William made inquiry regarding his mother's application for pension, his residence not shown.  Their son, Robert, resided in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, in 1837.  There are no further data regarding their children.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of the pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, general Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Rachel McCay, widow of Neal McCay
Certificate 761
Issued April 18, 1837
Rat $20 per annum
Commenced March 31, 1831.
Act of June 4, 1836
Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant t the Administrator

2.
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June 24-1901
Mrs. S. Kymen
Spokane Wash

1935 - July 19
Hist to Emily E. Tassey - ILL
______________________
4733
Revy WIDOW, &c
File No.  4733
Rachel McCay
Wid. 
Neal McCay
Pvt. Pa. line
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Act: July 4th 1836
Index: - Vol. M, Page 19

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Jce
A. Beaumont

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Dept of War
Washington City DC

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A. Beaumont
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Rachel McCay

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Washington   Feb 22 1837
J.L. Edwards Esq.

Dr Sir
Enquiry is made of me concerning the application of Rachel McCay for a pension as the widow of Neal McCay.  Will you be to kind as to inform respecting it?
Your friend
Most truly
A. Beaumont
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House of Rep
25 Apr 1838

Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir
I have been requested by Mrs. McCay as will be shown by the enclosed letter, to bring the application of his mother for pension before this House.

Will you Sir, be pleased to furnish me with the papers relative to this claim, now filed in your office, that I may lay them before the Committee on pensions.
Respectfully yours
R H Hammond
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Hon R.H. Hammond
May 19 1838
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Record 47  Page 2
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War Dept
Pension Office
May 19 1838

Sir,
The letter of Mrs. McCay is hereunto returned, accompanied by certified copies of the papers in the case of Mrs. Rachel McCay.

Hon. R.H. Hammond NR
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free

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Mar 21
Pa 
Addl pff
Act 1836
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Washingtonville Pa  March 16/37

Sir
The Hon. A. Beaumont transmitted to me a letter from yourself to him dated July 25/37 in which you say that the case of Rachel McCay's claim for a pension is deferred for further consideration.  You allege that the Act of State by the Legislation of this state allowing her $200 for her husbands services ought to be forwarded to you. Enclosed you will find it.  You further say that each tour performed by her husband should be stated and sworn to be a person who had a personal knowledge of the alleged service.  I was a man of this requirement by the War Department and also that the militia of Penn served in tours of from one to two months, but in the case of Neal McCay it was different.  He was one of a company that was organized for the express purpose of the revolution of the town of Northumberland.  The company offered their services to Col. A. Gunter the commander of the district who accepted their offer and set the company to build forts and stockades for the protection of the inhabitants who had frequently to fly from the Indians and take refuge with their families at the town of Northumberland.  Neal McCay was in this service during the whole of the Revolutionary War near as I think his wife has testified. If I remember John Painter swears that he remembers of the company being employed the whole of one season in the building of forts and stockades.

I think when you take into consideration these circumstances together with the Act of the State Legislation granting her $200 for the services of her husband you will perceive that the grant was not a gratuity but it was for services rendered by her husband Neal McCay.

I would further inform you that after a good act of inquiry I have not been able to find one of the company living.  It is my firm belief that they are all dead. I enclose a notice of the death of Lieutenant John Painter the deponent in the case of Rachel McCay " the last of the Mohicans".
Yours respectfully
Robert McCay

Hon. J.L. Edwards
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Lycoming County js

Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Lycoming.  Robert Hamilton who being sworn according to Law doth say that in the year 1778 a short time after the massacre at Wyoming, the inhabitants of this place were drove off by the savages, and when we arrived at Northumberland town were meet by 10 or 20 men, who plead with us to make a halt at that place, which we did, and they give us possession of the empty houses. Some short time after Col. Hartley of the regular army arrived with his regiment at Northumberland, and many of the citizens of that town returned to these houses, Col. Hartley with his troops and part of the citizens moved from this place; made a short campaign to the Tioga Point, had some fighting with the Indians turned back with the loss of several men; and shortly after and he was called back to the sea board; but before leaving Northumberland Col. Hunter (then commander to the militia of Northumberland County) and Col. Hartley issued orders requesting John Chatham captain of the militia of the town, and Capt. Alexander Hamilton, commanded of those drove from this place, promising them the same pay and rations of the regular army if they would envale (maybe enlist) then respective command; and fortify Northumberland town, and defend it.  Which was done; one large stockade fort was built in the interior of the town; ad two stockade forts, called redoubts near the outside of the town, at proper distances from the..
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north and west branches of the Susquehanna and each other, and their deponent further saith, that he was well acquainted with a Captain Neal McCay a citizen of sd. town who he thinks was involved in Chatham's Company, although he has no personal knowledge of it further, than he knew that he laboured on those fortifications and done some other military duty; such as scouting and keeping guard but this deponent and McCay being stationed at different redoubts could not have the personal knowledge as if he had been in the same company with himself.  This deponent further saith that they never received the ration & pay promised, and that his father the Alexander Hamilton was killed by the Indians toward the close of the war, and peace was made; we all scattered; some back home again and some to other parts. And I think there was no regular discharge; he does not know of any. Some few of each company have applied since to the Legislature of the State and have been paid 200 dollars each.
Robert Hamilton


Sworn & subscribed before me March the 16th 1837
Wm Turner Justice of the Peace

I do certify that I have been acquainted with Robt. Hamilton Esq. this deponent for twenty six years and know him to be a man of truth and irreproachable character.  March 16th 1837
Wm. Turner 

The undersigned certifies that he has been acquainted with Robt. Hamilton Esq. for exceeding twenty years and for the most of that time he has been an exemplary and worthy Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church of this place; Pine branch.
John H Grier Pastor of said church.
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Dear Sir!
At the time I rec'd your communication, I was laboring under indisposition which has prevented me from attending to it until the present time.  Mr. Thos. Stanten on whom you wished me to call has been dead for some years.  And knowing that Robt. Hamilton was one of those who had been engaged at that time in Northumberland, and that on his testimony, Richard, a brother of Thos. Martin had drawn a pension, I concluded I would go and see the old gentleman & see if he knew anything of Neal McCay, and I obtained from him the information contained on a proceeding page.  Hoping that it may be of some service in your mother's obtaining her object.
With due respect I remain your friend.
John TC  Grier

Pine Brake Township
Lycoming County
March 16th 1837
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An act for the relief of Rachel McCay, widow of Neal McCay, an old soldier.  Sect 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met & it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same.  That the State Treasurer be is hereby required to pay to Rachel McCay widow & relict of Neal McCay of Northumberland County or her order the sum of two hundred dollars in full for services rendered by her said husband during the Revolutionary War.

Joseph Lawrence Speaker of the House of Representatives

William Monks under Speaker of the Senate

Approved the twenty ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred twenty three.
Joseph Hiester


State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County

I James Donaldson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Columbia do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original Act of the General Assembly of this State as appears in said Office. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said County at Danville this fifteenth day March AD eighteen hundred & thirty seven.
James Donaldson Prothy
per Ja Donaldson Clk
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

J6H  Jan 9
pa
4 July 36
3 Sec
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Washingtonville Pa   Jan 5/37

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the papers of Rachel McCay for a pension.  You will perceive by the deposition of Lieutenant Painter that it has been some time since the operation was commenced.  I found it impapable to {illegibel} any evidence of her marriage as Capt Plunkets papers are all lost or at least no one knows any thing of them.  You will see this part established by the enclosed letters of Hon. Lomis [illegible} present Speaker of the House of Representatives this state.  M Demast was a member of {illegible} Legislation at the time the present applicant [illegible} allowed $200 for the pay of her husband.  I have sent you the same evidence of marriage that was admitted in the cases of Phiba Gray and Letitia MCarter hoping that the old lady may prove successful and have something to smooth her in this world which cannot be long.
Remain yours
Humble Servant
Robert McCay

for reference of the my character I refer you to the Hon. A. Beaumont
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State of Pennsylvania 
Columbia County 

I certify that on the 12th day of November 1836 personally came before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Rachel McCay, widow of Neal McCay, late of the town of Northumberland and presented to her Bible to me in which I find among her records the following viz Neal McCay and Rachel Thornton was married on the first of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy five.

Witness my hand at Derry the day and year above written.
Thomas Forster J.P.


State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County

I James Donaldson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Columbia aforesaid do certify that Thomas Forster before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned as such & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said county at Danville this fourth day of January AD eighteen hundred and thirty seven.
For  James Donaldson Prothy
       James Donaldson Jun clk
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State of Pennsylvania
Northumberland County JL
Seal

Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared John Painter, of Chillisquaque Township in said county, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that he the deponent was a lieutenant in Captain Chatham's Company of Militia, belonging to the town of Northumberland, County and State aforesaid, and enrolled in the Regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Hunter, from the year 1777 until the close of the Revolutionary War.  And that Neal McCay was a private in said company, and served in his class, as this deponent believes, on every tour when that class was called into actual service during the said time.  And this deponent particularly remembers that said Neal McCay was engaged a considerable time in assisting to build stockade forts for the safety of the inhabitants of the town of Northumberland.  All further particulars of the service in which this deponent was engaged, (and in which Neal McCay was frequently engaged), has heretofore been proven to the satisfaction of the War Department, where said proof now remains, and on which this deponent was allowed a pension.

This deponent further testifies that the aforesaid Neal McCay was a resident in the town of Northumberland aforesaid in the year 1778 and that he was then married, his wife being named Rachel and that they had then one child, named William.  That the said Rachel is now a widow of said Neal McCay, who died about 20 years ago, and that said Rachel has never been married ...
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to this deponents knowledge, to any other person and further this deponent sayeth not.
John Painter (signature)

Sworn and subscribed this nineteenth day of August A.D. 1830.
Charles Gale (signature)
Justice of the Peace


I, the aforesaid Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Northumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, do certify that John Painter, the above named deponent is a respectable and credible witness, and that full faith and credit is due to his deposition.  Witness my hand and Seal the day and year aforesaid.
Charles Gale Justice (signature)


North d County Jm
G. D Biautigam Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County do certify that Charles Gale Esq. before whom the ? proceeding was held is a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Court of Justice as elsewhere

In testimony of which I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the county aforesaid as Limbury the 31 Dec. A D 1836.
G. D Biautigam Protho
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DIED.
On the 7th inst. Mrs, Ann Wilson, wife of Mr. Craig Wilson, of Buffaloe valley.

On the 7th inst. at his residence in Hartleton, Doctor JOHN RAY GEDDIS, aged about 30 - leaving an amiable wife and an only child, with a large circle of acquaintances, to mourn the loss of him "who lived in peace with all the world and died without an enemy."
Union Times.

What year (note)
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OBITUARY
Departed this life at his residence in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, on the 7th of January instant, JOHN PAINTER, (father of the Editor of the Columbia County Register) in the 85th year of his age:  The deceased was one of the earliest settlers in the forks of the Susquehanna, having came to the country immediately after the purchase from the Indians, and settled at Northumberland: the town plot of which he assisted to lay out, when it was in the woods.

In the Revolutionary struggle for Independence, he took an early and active part; and was honored by the Commissions of Lieutenant and Captain, in the service of his country.  Among other and sanguinary conflicts he was one of that forlorn hope of the Country with General Washington, in Delaware 1776, and contributed to the signal success, which crowned that noble and daring enterprise of the Commander in Chief of the American Army.
Columbia County Register.
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[illegible}, which have always been awarded to him by those with whom he has associated heretofore."
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Awful death of mother and child. -
A poor woman named Hyatt, residing in Gloucestershire, England, left her child in her cottage, whilst she ran to her father's nearly adjoining.  On her way she heard her child scream, and immediately returned and found it in flames; endeavoring to put them out her own clothes took fire, and both were so dreadfully burnt that the mother died on Sunday, and the child on Monday morning.
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LAFAYETTE, (Indiana) Dec. 16.
On Monday evening last a rencontre took place at the store of Messrs. J. & J. Woods, in this town, between Mr. John Woods, merchant of this place, and Mr. John H. W. Frank, junior editor of the Mercury.  Mr. Woods was stabbed.  We understand the fifth rib on the left side was cur entirely off, and the instrument entered the cavity of the heart through the right ventricle; he fell dead almost instantly.
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RAILROADS
There are fifty rail roads in France; in England, 300 miles completed, and 623 in progress; in America, about 3000 miles completed, or in progress.
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A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer states that the extent of the gold mining operations in Virginia is such that by the middle of the coming summer the products of the mines will be at the rate of five hundred thousand
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4733
Neal MCay
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Dec 27, 1836
Derry, Columbia Pa - 83
_____________________________
Spg 77, Northumberland Pa
Capt. Jno Chatham
Col Hunter

Pvt - 6 mos
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Married Rachel Thornton
July 1, 1778
Died Mar. 2, 1844
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No Bal.
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Pittsburgh Pa
May 29th 1935
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs
I am seeking information concerning
Mrs Mary McCoy McCreery's mother Mrs
Rachel MCoy
In the census of Pensioners, of the Revolution
Mary War, living in 1840, the name of Mrs Rachel
McCoy is given on page 118. She was then 85
years of age, and was living in Washingtonville
Columbia Co. Pa. with Robert McCoy evidently
her son or grandson
Will you kindly obtain from her pension
application; the maiden name of the said
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Mrs. Rachel M Coy, her dates of birth and death, also the first name of her husband Mr. M Coy, his date of birth and death, his place of residence, place of birth and what services he rendered during the Revolutionary War.

Appreciating your kind efforts and a reply at your earliest convenience.  I am
Respectfully
Emily E. Tassey
514 E. Emerson St E E
Pittsburgh Pa.
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6W & N 6

Fourth 526 Cedar St
Spokane, Wash.
June 21st, 1901

Hon. H. Clay Evans
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me the military record of Neal McCay, a Revolutionary soldier from Pennsylvania - his widow I believe drew a pension.  The certificate is desired for the purpose of proving eligibility for membership in a patriotic society.
Very respectfully yours
Phibe B. Green
(Mrs S. Ke)
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Pittsburgh Pa
July 6, 1935

Veterans Administration
Washington DC

Dear Sirs

On May 29th last, I mailed you a letter in regard to Rachel McCay, a Revolutionary War Pensioner living in 1840, aged 85 years, at Washingtonville, Columbia Co. Pa.

I would like to know her maiden name, when and where she was born and died, also all information concerning her husband, his first name, date of birth, marriage, and death, and what service he had in said War.

I do hope I will not need to wait another month, but will appreciate your kind...
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immediate attention and also appreciating a reply at your earliest convenience.  I am respectfully.
Emily E. Tassey
514 Emerson St. E E
Pittsburgh Pa

Mrs. Finch - So file in claim - Aug 29/30 - JL

Seal
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$20 per ann.

Washingtonville Pa.
ahnet 11
AD15
Rachel McCay
Sh P 36
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Washingtonville April 1/37

Dear Sir
I received your of the 27th March in which you state that in consequence of the Declaration of Rachel McCay and the deposition of Lieut. Barsto not being specific you did not think that a pension could be allowed her for more than six months. I therefore deferred among? you indicated thinking perhaps the deposition of Col. Hamilton might alter the affair particularly as he swears they were promised the same pay and rations as the regular army by Col. Hartley and officers in the regular service but on recurring [illegible} of the 5th {illegible} I find you one of the same opinion. {illegible} answer I would inform you that it is impossible to know any further proof then has been forwarded already.  I am aware of the situation you are in and I am confident that the old lady (Rachel McCay) will be satisfied with any thing that may be done for her.  I conversed with her on the subject and she remarked "Write to Mr. Edwards and tell him to do just what he thinks right if he gives me a six months pension it will be a great help to me if he gives me more.  I will be still better off and if I get nothing all will be for the best".
Yours Respectfully 
Robert McCay
Hon. J.L. Edwards
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME. McCay, Peter

GRADE. Private

LINE. Invalid Regiment

WARRANT NO. 13511

ACREAGE. 100

ISSUED. December 14, 1789
to Ricard Platt, assignee