Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,143, for John Mc Car, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER

[handwritten] Penn. McCar, John S. 40.143
Mc Elcarr "
Mc Ilgar "

CONTENTS
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12.172 R.
Pennsylvania

John McCar of Franklin Coy in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cook of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd of May 1818. -

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of June 1819 and sent to Fred R. Shunk Esqr Harrisburg Pennsylvania

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 10 & 3/31 mo $80.77
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 11th Sept 1819.  $48 -
$128.77

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued

Notification sent November 7. 1820 to A. Calhoun Chambersburg Pennsylvania
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Copy of Record & [illegible] for 
John McCar
an old Soldier

Con
12172
Franklin Co'y
June 19

fees $0"80
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District of Pennsylvania ss.

As a Court of Common pleas holden at Chambersburg in and for the County of Franklin & State of Pennsylvania on the twenty first day of August one thousand [word crossed out] eight hundred and twenty, Before the Honorable John Reed Esquire president and Archibald Bard & Isaac Eaton Esquire Judges of our said County. - personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for the said district. John McCar aged 76 years, resident in Franklin County Fannet township in said district, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: In June 1775 Enlisted in Paxton Township Lancaster County Capt. Morrow commanded by Col. Hand one year, fought in the Battles of Bunker hill & Lexington  2d. Enlistment in 1776 for 3 months in Flying Camp, Commanded by the same officers engaged in Battles of long Island & White Plains & then dischd. Decr. 1776 went out under Capt. Antis & Col. Long, May 1777  I enlisted for 3 years or during the war under Capt. Miller & Col. Cook, fought in the Battles of Brandywine Germantown and Monmouth, April 1781 entered during the war & continued in to it the surrender of Cornwallis.  That he has received a pension from the United States commencing on the 2d day of May 1818 the certificate of which is dated 21st June 1819 & [illegible]2 and I the said John McCar do further 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 gifts, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby, 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 the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any persons in trust for me, any property or security, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed
John McCar

Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of August 1830 in open Court 
John Findlay Proty.
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Schedule of the property of John McCar 12 C[illegible]; I am Indebted about seventy three Dollars, my occupation is a labourer but unable to work; my age seventy six years, my wife eighty five years + a cripple in consequence of a fall which has rendered her unable to walk & confined to bed for two years past - that I have no income except a pension from Pennsylvania of forty dollars per annum
John McCar

Schedule appraised at $12.00 
By the County

Pennsylvania
Franklin County ss.

I John Findlay of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said County: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twelve dollars - 

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Chambersburg this second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty -
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Obed Fahnestock, Esq;
Judge,
Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

John McElcarr
Pennsylvania line,
Revolutionary Claim

The roll of the Pennsa. line not received. - 
["Action:" written over the above text]

See endorsement in the case of Joseph Bryan. 

[text crossed out]

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Dauphin County & State of Pennsylvania
I, John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do Certify that Obed Fahnestock Esqr who has given the within Certificate and whose name is thereunto subscribed, was at the time of so doing and yet is an associate Judge of the County of Dauphin duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such due faith & credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Harrisburg the 2d day of May A D. 1818
John Machesney Prothonotary

Dauphin County ss.
I Jacob Bucher  One of the Judges of the court of common pleas of Dauphin County do certify that I am satisfied that John McCleare the foregoing applicant is in indigent circumstances and that he needs the assistance of his country for support - witness my hand & seal the 4th day of Novemr 1818.
Jacob Bucher           seal

Dauphin County ss
I, John Machesney Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do Certify that Jacob Bucher Esqr who has given the preceeding [preceding] Certificate and whose name is thereunto subscribed was at the time so doing and yet is our Associate Judge of the County of Dauphin duly Commiss[word cut off by edge of paper] and Sworn, to all whose acts as such due faith & Credit are and ought to be giv[word cut off by edge of paper] as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my na[word cut off by edge of paper] & affixed the seal of said Court at Harrisburg the 4th da[word cut off by edge of paper] of November A.D. 1818
John Machesney Prothonotary
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I hereby certify that I have examined the signature of "John McCar" on the Pay-roll of the Pennsylvania line - book B - page 163 top line and compared it with the signature "John McCar" to the deposition taken before Judge Fahnestock 2d May 1818 (which deposition is attached to the certificate of said judge and also Judge Bucher and all under the county and state Seals and was designed as an application to the Secretary of War for a pension and which appears by the endorsement to have been presented at the proper office at Washington and to have been returned as defective) and am satisfied that both signatures were written by the same hand - I further certify that it appears that the name "John McIlgar" as entered on the said Pay-roll was an error and that a note of the error is attached thereto and the name of "McCar" written under that of "McIlgar" - I also certify that said John McCar received the depreciation on his pay - I further certify that John McCar personally appeared before me and from circumstances stated by him and observing him write his name I feel satisfied that there cannot exist a doubt of his being the same person whose name is recorded in page 163 of Pay-roll book B - top line - Witness my hand and the seal of the Office of the Auditor General the 20th day of May 1810
Geo. Bryan Aud. Gen

I hereby certify that I have examined the signature of John McCar on the payroll of the Penna Line Book B page 163 now in the office of the Auditor Genl, which name is written in the column of [illegible] and as a [illegible] for pay due to John McIlgar that I have compared it with the signatures of John McCar to a deposition attached to certificates of Judge Fahnestock and Judge Bucher which purport to be an application of -
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John McCar to the Secretary of War for a Pension, and also with the Signature of John McCar to a receipt given for his Pension allowed him by the State of Penna and am Satisfied that all these Signatures were written by the same hands
Rich M. Crain
Treasury Office May 20th 1819
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A copy of a Certificate to John McClearr 
This is to certify that the Bearer John McClearr having served in the third Regiment of [word crossed out] Pennsylvania during the Term of his Inlistment [Enlistment] is now Discharged the Service of of the united states of America given at Trinton this 16th day of January 17[illegible] 
Signed Anthony Wayne

Franklin County SS
Seal
I do certify the above certifycat [certificate] to be a true coppy [copy] of John Widney Esqrs docket taken By me John Elder Esqr this 15th day of May [illegible]3 By me   John Elder Esqr
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Wm Findlay

Pennsylvania, ss.
In the Name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA,
WILLIAM FINDLAY
[illegible]
OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH,
To all to whom these presents shall come, Sends Greeting:
Know ye, That John Elder Esquire whose name is subscribed to the instrument of writing hereunto annexed was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin in the said Commonwealth, duly appointed and commissioned.  And full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts accordingly 

Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this Second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and of the Commonwealth the forty second

By the Governor.
James Trimble
Deputy Secry.
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AW    Rev. War Section.

August 23, 1916.

Mr. William M. MacBean,
Saint Andrew's Society
11 Wall Street,
New York, N. Y.

Sir:

In reply to your letter of the seventeenth instant, you are herewith furnished the history of the only John McCar, under any spelling of that name) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

From the papers in the pension claim S. File No. 40, 143, it appears that John McCar enlisted in Paxton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in June 1775 and served in
Captain Morrow's Company, Colonel Hand's Regiment, for one year. He enlisted in 1776, served three months under the same officers and was at the battles of Long Island and
White Plains. In December 1776 he went out under Captain Antis and Colonel Long, and was at the battle of Trenton. He enlisted in February or May 1777 in Captain Miller's Company, Colonel Cooke's Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment was at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth and was discharged from the Third Pennsylvania Regiment, at Trenton, on January 16, 1781, under the name of John McElcarr.

[The text below has been handwritten in the left margin.]

Lexington and Bunker Hill omitted for he was not in service at time of Lex. & and his record did not arrive in Mass. until after B. H. battle.  See Pa archives of this Regt.
  
His officers of 2nd service were not of Flying Camp business 2d regiment  he probably was with some of that organization [illegible]ac 1776 must have been third enl. date, as three months from bat Long Island would have ended before that.
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He re-enlisted in April 1781 (details of service not given) was at the surrender of Cornwallis and served until the end of the war.

He was allowed pension on an application executed May 2, 1818 while living in Franklin County, Pennsylvania aged 74 years and his wife, whose name in not given, was then 83 years of age. The date and place of his
birth are not stated and there in no further data as to his family on file. He stated that he had been pensioned by the State of Pennsylvania at the rate of forty dollars
per annum.

For the date of his death, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, citing the following data: John McCar, Certificate No. 12,172, issued June 21, 1819, Act of March 18, 1818, rate $8 per month, to commence
May 2, 1818, Pennsylvania Agency.

The widow of said soldier did not apply for pension.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

(McCar -2-)
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40 143
Revy
INVALID.

No. 40,143
John McCar
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 5, Page 319

[Arrangement of 1870.]

I added McClearr & McIlgar because the printed archives of Pa have similar names for him.

1916.  Aug 23 Hist to Wm M. McBean, aud
1928 May 23 Mrs. V. S. Frederick adv. how to obtain dates of last payt. etc. a. d. y.  See Samuel Pollard S40272.
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Free

The Honble J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
City of Washington.

Adm

old ["card." or "case."]

HARRISBURG PENN
MAY ["10" or "20"]
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Harrisburg May 20 1819

The Honble J. C. Calhoun

I am constrained again to return the claim of John McElcar or McCar, - The certificates of the auditor genl. and Treasurer of this commonwealth will together with the references therein I hope prove satisfactory.  If no enlistments were made prior to the battle of Bunker's hill, it does not prove that the claimant did not serve in that battle, neither does it prove that he did not afterwards enlist and serve during the war. - He is an old man and when I asked him to give me his name, I gathered McElcar from the manner he expressed it, his voice is feeble and his utterance indistinct, This accounts for the difference

Old age and want urge him to ask a speedy answer.

Yours respectfully
[illegible] R. Shunk
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Rev Sec
Enc

Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York
( Organized 1756 )

OFFICE OF HISTORIAN
11 Wall Street,
August 17th, 1916.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I am referred to you by the Adjutant General of the United States Army in the belief that
you may be of assistance to this Society, as he was unable to give us the information desired.

One John McCarr became a member of the Saint Andrew's Society in 1793. In his old days he became a pensioner of this Society, and from our Records I find that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and had applied, prior to May 5th, 1830, to Congress for relief. He was
alive October 10th, 1842, having received assistance on that date, and on May 9th, 1843, his widow received help.  [The preceding sentence is bracketed and "This must refer to the Society of St. A -" written in the right margin.]

Have you any record of his application for a
pension or his receipt of a pension, and if so we should be glad to have such a description of him as your records may show. He was a native of Newton-Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland.

Yours very truly,
Wm. M. MacBean

U. S. PENSION OFFICE
D
AUG 18 1916

[The text below has been handwritten in the left margin.]

List of private claims searched and American State Papers searched  no claim on either for a soldier named McCar, McCarr, or McKarr or for widow of such soldier or McElcar or McElgar or  McIcar or McIgar        AW
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME  McCaraher, James
GRADE  Private " in the LINE Invalid Regiment"

WARRANT NUMBER 13508
ACREAGE  100
ISSUED  July 9, 1789 to - not shown - 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.