Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7160, for Matthew Long, Pennsylvania
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Penn
Long, Matthew
S. 7160

Carded
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26.313. 
Penna Pittsburgh Agency   
Mathew Long 
of Allegany Co in the State of Pa Pa who was Pr in the Company commanded by Captain  - of the Regt commanded by Col McCay in the Penna line for 2 Yrs Pr $80.00  
Inscribed on the Roll of Penna [unreadable] at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of May 1834  and Sent to  Hon W. Wilkins H. R. 
Arrears to the 4th of Mch 2’34   240.00 
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 Sept “34  40.00 
$ 280 00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by J.  T. Sprague Clerk, 
Book  E  Vol. 5 Page 83   
Date of death  not on A.B. [Agency Book]
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[unreadable]
30.456.
Wm. Wilkins
Adm 2 years $80
Hon. W. Wilkins
Senate U.S.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
Allegheny County, }
On this twenty fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon. Charles Shaler, President Judge, and the Hon. James Riddle, associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Allegheny, now sitting at the City of Pittsburgh in said County, Mathew Long, a resident of Wilkins Township in said County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, aged eighty years, eleven months and six days, 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 7, 1832. 
That he was born in Yorkshire, in the Kingdom of England, on the 19th day of April A.D. 1753; and arrived at Baltimore in the then Province of Maryland, on the 19th day of April A.D. 1774.   
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. 
In the month of June 1876, he, this deponent, enlisted in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, commanded by Col. McCoy; and he was attached to a company, of which Eli Myers was Captain, and Joseph Carr and Mr Wilson were Lieutenants. At the time he entered the service, this deponant resided on lands on the waters of Turtle Creek, Powell's Station, then Westmoreland County, now Allegheny County, State of Pennsylvania aforesaid.  He was ordered to Kittanning, now in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he remained doing
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military duty for the period of three months, when a portion of the Regiment was ordered to join the main army. Deponent was left behind, with other troops, to guard the frontiers; and during the whole war, he was in the service of the United States, actively engaged in the laborious and dangerous duties required on the frontiers, in Western Pennsylvania and Virginia. Deponant does not recollect the names of all the officers, under whom he served, but besides those already mentioned, he remembers General Hand, Captain Becket, Captain Harrison Captain Shearer, from whom he received orders, or under whom he was engaged in various expeditions. Deponent recollects Colonel Gibson who was stationed at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, in command of a Virginia Regiment; and he served under him at Fort Lawrence That officer having been, for some time, besieged by the Indians in that Fort, the deponent went, with other troops, to his relief. Deponant was during the war, frequently employed as a spy, and upon several occasions he was sent to apprise the inhabitants and military stations, of impending or threatened danger from the Indians. Deponant has no documentary evidence to produce, and he does not recollect of any others who survive and whose side in this County, who can testify to the fact of his service, except William Powell and William Wallace, who both served in the war of the Revolution, and who were frequently engaged on the frontier with this deponant. Since this deponant left the service at the close of the war of the revolution, he has constantly resided within the County of Allegheny He the said deponant, hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not
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on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Pennsylvania. Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid} 
Matthew Long 
Henry H. Peterson Pro
We, James Graham, a clergyman, residing in Wilkins Township, Allegheny County, and David Gilliland Esquire, a Justice of the peace, residing in the same town ship and County, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Mathew Long, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age and upwards; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
James Graham 
D. Gilliland Jr.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid 
Henry H. Peterson Pro 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
Allegheny County } SS  
On the day and year aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court, William Powell, a soldier of the revolution, and a resident of Wilkins township in the County of Allegheny, who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that during the Revolutionary war he was well acquainted with Mathew Long
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made the foregoing depositions, are credible persons and that their statements are worthy of credit. 
By the Court 
Henrey H. Peterson Pro 
I, Henry H. Peterson, Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Mathew Long for a pension on. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and thirty four. 
Henrey H. Peterson Pro
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August 6 1938
BA-J/EEL
Matthew Long – S.7160
Mr. Edward M. Golden 
#1669 New Haven Avenue 
Dermont, Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Dear Sir: 
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 7160, based upon the military service in that war of Matthew Long.
Matthew Long was born April 19, 1753, in Yorkshire, England, emigrated to America and landed at Baltimore, Maryland, April 19, 1774. The names of his parents are not shown. 
While residing on Turtle Creek, Powell's Station, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Matthew Long enlisted in June, 1776, served as a private in Captain Eli Myer’s (probably meant for Eliezer Miers) Company, Colonel Mackay's 8” Pennsylvania Regiment; after serving three months, the regiment was ordered to join the main army and this soldier was left behind with other soldiers to guard the frontiers and continued in this service until the close of the war, serving as an Indian Spy and sent under Captains Becket, Harrison and Shearer, also under Colonel Gibson at Fort Laurens and under General Hand; no dates are giv for any of these tours.  
Could not find sol. under any capts named in Pa Archives 
He was allowed pension on his application executed March [unreadable],1834, while residing in Wilkins’ Township. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.  
There are no data as to soldier's family.   
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Matthew Long, (S.7160), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
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Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Mathew Long (as his name was borne on the pension roll)
Certificate No. 26313
Issued May 2, 1834
Rate, $80.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) Agency
Very truly yours  A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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June 14-1904
Miss Lillian B. Long
Pittsburgh Pa
1938 Aug 6, Hist to
Edward M. Golden Esq
Rev War
7160
INVALID.
File No. 7160
Mathew Long
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. 1 of, Page 227
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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O.W.&N C 
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir:- Would you kindly furnish me some information concerning Mathew Long, a revolutionary soldier a member of the Colonel's Co, 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.
The said Mathew Long was granted a pension May 2nd 1834. The said pension was recorded in the Pension Office in Book E. Vol. 5. Page 83 by J. T. Sprague, Clerk
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At the time of the granting of the pension Mathew --- Long was a resident of Allegheny Co. Pennsylvania, and had been for about fifty years previous to that it is believed, a resident of York Co. Pa 
Sincerely yours, 
(Miss) Lillian B. Long 1
117 South Avenue Station D. 
Pittsburg, Pa 
June 5th, 1901
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7160 
Matthew Long 
Mch 5-- 1834 
Wilkin Alleghany Co. Pa. - 80 
Born, Yorkshire England 
Apl. 19, 1753 
June 76-- Westmorland Co Pa 
Capt Eli Myers 
Col McCoy p
Pvt to close of war 
No Bal