Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34997, for John Mc Cauley, Pennsylvania
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(8-1778)
SERVICE NUMBER
McCauley, John S34997
Penn. McCanley
CONTENTS
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3509
Marylan Roll
John McCauley, 4
Capt Slough
Private
Pennsylvania Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 17th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of October 1818
and sent to John Moriarty
Baltimore.
Arrears to 4th of Septem. 1810 mo 4- 1d/30 - 36.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 - 48:
$84:00
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818,}
1775
Seven years
Baltimore County
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County
On this 17th day of April
in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred
and Eighteen, before me the Subscriber Chief
Judge of Baltimore County Court, personally
appears John McCauley who makes Oath on
the Holy Evangelists, that he served in the
Army of the United States, in the course of the
revolultionary War - that in the Month of July
1775. he enlists at Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the
company commanded by Captain William - 
Slough of the 42nd Regiment, Light Infantry
Pennsylvania Line. and in the Command of Colonel
Hartley; that he was immediately marched to
to the River Delaware, afterwards stationed at
 Hood Fort, was at the Battle of Brandywine
German Town & Monmouth subsequently
stationed with the Army encamped at the
White Plains which watched the movements
of the Enemy at New York, was from thence
marched to Virginia attended at the investment
and Capture of Cornwallis, and so continued
in the service until the end of the
War, and being then of the Company of Captain
Noons of said Regiment and Colonel he was
in course discharged, that in said service he
he received several wounds and is in consequence
thereof over since blind of his right eye and
that now being grown old, he from his reduced
circumstances greatly needs the assistance of
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his Country for support.
Swor in open Court before
Walter Dorsey
State of Maryland Baltimore County
I hereby certify that the Honorable Walter
Dorsey Esquire before whom the aforegoing Deposition
was made and who hath thereto subscribed his
name was at the time of so doing Chief Judge
of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of
Maryland and of Baltimore County Court duly
commissioned and Sworn.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and seal of my
office this Seventeenth day of April
Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
Wm Gibson Clk Balt Coty Co
[the following was written sideways]
Wm McCauley
the hereto
certify that this
claimant is the
individual
stated that he
is certified that the
claimant lives as
stated in his
Declaration -
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Admitted
To John Moriarty
Balt
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I Walter Dorsey Chief Judge of Baltimore
County Court do hereby Certify that it appears to my
Satisfaction that John McCauley named in
the annexed declaration made and sworn to before
me on the 17th day of April 1818 did serve in the
revolutionary War, as stated in said annexed declaration
against the common Enemy for the
term of nine months and longer, on the Continental
Establishment, and also that he is in reduced
circumstances and stands in need of the assistance
of his County for support and I
now transmit the proceedings and testimony
taken and had before me to the Secretary for
the Department of War pursuant to the
directions of the late Act of Congress
in that case made and provided - September 29th
1818 Walter Dorsey
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August 9, 1934.
BA-J/ady
John McCauley or McCanley
S.34997
Miss Anna Louise Closterman
Wilmington
Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one
John McCauley, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the
papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for
pension, S.34997, based upon his military service in
that war.
The date and place of birth of John McCauley or
McCanley are not shown and no reference is made to his
parents.
He enlisted in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in July
1775, served as private in Captains William Slough's
and Noons' Companies, Colonel Hartlye's Regiment; was in
the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth and 
at the capture of Cornwallis and discharged at the close
of the war. He received wounds in service and in
consequence therof lost the sight of his right eye.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
in Baltimore County, Maryland, on April 17, 1818.
There are no family data.
Very truly yours
Date of 
death
not on
AB
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
next time
use as in
pen il, as
neither captain
can be verified
as of Hartley's
reqt.
mustd
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[left column]
34997
Ruy INVALID.
File No. 34997
John McCauley
Pri Rev. War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:- Vol. 9, Page 264
[Arrangement of 1870]
[right column]
1917 Sept. 6 Mrs. J.J. McQuinn
1934 Aug. 9 Hist. to Anna Louise
Closterman A.nty.
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Wilmington
Ohio
July 24/34
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir
In Brumbaugh's History
of Maryland, I came across
this notice in the list of
Pensioners - John McCauley
private, Pa line. {Jan 1820
P347) If you will please
send me a copy & does it
give name e of wife & children
I will pay whatever
charges there are.
Respectfully
Anna Louise Closterman
[stamp that reads as follows]
REC'D
JUL 25 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VET8.ADM
LEAVES
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Apartment 23 Revo Sec M
#557 N. 124th St. 
New York, NY., 8-16-17.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington. D.C.
Will you kindly send complete data
concerning one John McCauley, listed as Private-Penn.
line. Act of 1868. Baltimore Co. Md.
And oblige
Yours Respectfully
Mrs. J.J. McCauley Quinn
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Rev. War Section.
September 6, 1917.
Mrs. J.J. McCauly Quinn,
Apartment 23, 557 W. 124th Street,
New York, N.Y.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 16th ultimo,
you are advised that a careful search of the Revolutionary
War records of this Bureau fails to show a claim for pension
or bounty land on file for any soldier named John McCauley.
The pensioner of Baltimore County, Maryland,
Act 1818, is John McCauley or McCanley. This Bureau is unable
to ascertain whether the third letter of his hame is u or n
as he did not sign his name to his application for pension
and it is illegibly written in the body of said paper.
Very respectfully,
GM Satzgaban
Commissioner.