Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5989, for John Kirk, Maryland
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(3-1776)
Service Md
Kirk, John.
Number R. 5989
Contents
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Rejd.  John Kirk
(illegible) continental Ohio
5989
(illegible) letter to S A Barker
(illegible)
Hon E. Ball Jany 15/56
Hon. C. B. Tompkins,
Dec. 21. 1860
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File No 5989
Rejected
Ohio
John Kirk Private
Capt Henry Harding
Col. Griffins Regt of Md Mila.
Rev War
Rank Private
Company Capt. H. Griffin's
Regiment Md. Mila

Rate per month $
Commencing
Ending
Certificate dated....18 ,
and sent....18  .
Payable at ....Agency.
....Attorney.
Act (crossed out)
Book...Vol.....Page....
....Clerk.
old Jacket inside
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House Reps, Washington,
Jany, 14.  1856
Comr. of Pensions
Sir
I send you herewith, a letter which I have received from an aged and respected constituent-- Please inform me whether the files of your office show anything in his favor; and also, please inform me whether, if he could establish the facts as he understands them to exist; whether he could by law, be entitled to any compensation to which his father was, or would have been entitled.
Very Respectfully
Edmund Ball
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17,883
John Kirk, 
Morgan Co. Ohio.
Samuel A. Barker
Agt.
McConnelsville, Ohio
Recd. 24 Apl 1821.

Secretary of War
Washington City

John Kirk
M Service
appl act 1818
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(Copy of Page 5)
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To the Hon. J C Calhoun
Sir  The applicant wishes your answer directed to me at McConnelsville.
Two applications for continuation viz, one of John Springum the other of Mathew Wilson, were forwarded in November last. No returns having been received it is thought probable that the Applications or returns have miscarried, If they have not been received you will please to inform me of it, and duplicates will be forwarded, or if they have been continued and their continuances been forwarded any length of time so as to render it probable, that they have been (here a large corner of page has been torn off. Line by line will follow)
to forward duplicates, as they are in very indigent.....
one of them in particular will soon become a towns.....
he does not receive his Pension.....
Yours with the greate.....
S. A. Barker
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The State of Ohio
Morgan County

Court Common Pleas March Term 1821 
On this 20th day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said county having power to fine and imprison John Kirk aged sixty-seven years resident in Bristol Township in said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: that he enlisted in 1776 and in Capt. Henry Harding in Col. Griffins Reg't of the Maryland line for six months was taken prisoner at Fort Washington and remained a prisoner until the following spring and then was let off on Parole of Honours.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent hereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed that is to say one black mare, 3 cows, 10 hogs and other property supposed to be worth 20 dollars and due me none debts owing me none the above is a free enumeration of all my property.

John Kirk

The declarant on his oath aforesaid further states that by occupation he is a farmer that on account of his advanced age that he is unable to pursue his occupation to any extent and that his family consists of his wife aged 78 years very weakly and infirm of her age, a granddaughter aged 12 years of good health.

John Kirk
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Sworn and subscribed in open court this 30th day of March 1821.

Attest: Samuel A. Barker - Clerk CP
Property valued at eighty-one dollars

The State of Ohio
Morgan County

I Samuel Augustus Barker Clerk pro temp of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty-one dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at McConnelsville in said county the 12th day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-one and of the state the Nineteenth.

Sml Barker CP