Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5498, for John Irwin, Pennsylvania
Page 1

SERVICE   Penn.
* Irwin, John
NUMBER  R. 5498
Page 2

5498 
John Irwin 
REJECTED 
Printed List of 1852 Rejected and Suspended claims shows following cause of rejection:
“Not 6 months’ service.”
Page 3

Rejected Letter to Hon. T.L. Hamer 
22. Decr 1834 
5498
Page 4

Hon T. L. Hamer
32,342 
John Irwin 
Ohio 
Rejected did not serve six months
see letter 22 Dec ’34 to Hon T. L. Hamer
Page 5

The State of Ohio 
Clermont County} Ss Court of Common pleas November Term AD 1834 
“This day came John Irwin an applicant for a pension together with his witnesses Jonathan S. Dunham and James Snider and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department the Court were satisfied that said John Irwin was a revolutionary and served as he stated the Court were also satisfy that said Jonathan S Dunham and James Snider are residents in Clermont County Ohio are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit all of which is ordered to be certified" 
The State of Ohio
Clermont County } ss I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify, that the above is a true extract from the minutes of the Court of Common Pleas within and for Clermont County and State of Ohio made and at the term of November 1834 of said Court it being the original proceedings had before said Court of John Irwin an applicant for a pension- 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Common pleas at Batavia this 8th day of December AD 1834
Attest J. D. Morris Clerk
Page 6

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 
State of Ohio Clermont County} Ss 
On this twenty fourth day of November 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of Clermont County Ohio now sitting John Irwin - resident of Clermont County this aged 78 years 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 under the following named officers & served as herein Stated
He entered the service of the United States at Carlisle Pennsylvania in (he believes) April the year not remembered but he knows it was the same year Cornwallis was taken at York town, under the command  of Captain John Hughes. He entered as a volunteer.  There was a the one company as far as declarant remembers raised at that time at Carlisle, they marched and went to Shippingstown the first day, the next day the company of Captain Hughes deponent with them turned off to the left & went towards Williamsport & the third day marched as well as he can recollect they got to Williamsport on the Potomac where they waited about half a day for some other companies and he thinks there was four companies came up with them.  From there the five companies (declarant with them)  went on he thinks through Winchester Pa until they joined the main army near York town.  They made forced marches and a good deal of the time went after night. He was at York town at the beginning until the ending of the siege & until he was discharged. After the surrender of Cornwallis Capt Hughes Company and another company which he guesses was from Maryland but cannot say positively where they were from guarded about four hundred of the prisoners to Carlisle in Pennsylvania.  They day they got home to Carlisle
Page 7

or the day after he does not know which Captain Hughes gave him a discharge for six months all of which time he had served & he believes a few days over. Some of the prisoners were put in the Jail at Carlisle & some in the presbyterian meeting house in that place, declarant kept the discharge aforesaid until about thirty years ago when it was burned with his shop in New Town in Hamilton County Ohio.  He has no documentary evidence of his service & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to it.  He was born in the town of Carlisle in Pennsylvania and on the 15th day of last March he verily believes he was seventy Eight years of age.  He has no record of his age, his father had in his family bible in which he has frequently seen it,  declarant set down his age in a book that he had but which got burnt with his shop at New town.  
He was engaged in the battle at Yorktown, thinks but is not sure that he was in the right wing, there was enlisted Troops at York town while he was there but he does not know how many companies of regiment there were nor who were their captains or Colonels.  He saw Genl Washington frequently at York town.  He saw Gen La Fayette in York town.  Previously to his going there declarant had handled [unreadable] La Fayettes horse, he handled he thinks two hundred at Carlisle Pennsylvania.  Said La Fayette and his troops were stationed at Carlisle.
From Carlisle he moved to Fredrick town on the Monongahela little above red stone old fort where he lived about three years, from there he moved Muddy Creek in Pennsylvania, where he lived one summer & then moved to New Town which was then a Station in Hamilton County Ohio where
Page 8

and in the neighbourhood of which place he lived until about ten or twelve years ago when he served to Clemont County Ohio in in which County he has continued to reside all the time in the neighbourhood of New Richmond in said County. About two years ago he was struck with the palsy and last summer had he cholera very badly from which affliction his memory has been greatly impaired, so that he cannot State the names of the officers & remember instances of his service in the revolutionary war as well as he could have done before.  He is certain that he served not less than six months in said tour, William L Herring, Dr James T. Johnson, Judge Robert Hainer, Plummer Hains, John G. Rogers of New Richmond and Gen Clayton Webb and William H Harrisson know him and can testify to his character as a man of truth & veracity.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that her name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
John Irwin
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 24th day of November 1836 
J. D. Morris Clerk 
We Jonathan S Dunham residing in Ohio Township Clermont County Ohio and James Snider residing in the same township hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Irwin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy Eight years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
J. S. Dunham 
James Snider
Sworn to to open Court November 24 1834 J. D. Morris Clerk