Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1701-200, for Robert Mc Bride, Pennsylvania
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
McBride, Robert
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 1701-200
Issued Dec. 24, 1830
CONTENTS
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Robert McBride

No. 1701
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Cincinnati Dec 15th. 1830                  
Dear Sir:  
I take the liberty to enclose to you evidence of the heirship of Robert McBride one of the heirs in fee to Robert McBride his late, father now dec’d who is entitled to land from the United States by virtue of the services of his father, who was an officer in the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Establishment during the Revolutionary war together with authority from him to you to receive the Land Warrant, It may be proper to say to you that the claim of the heir to the Land is already admitted at the War Office as he has correspondence
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with the Department on the subject
Please remit the warrant to me as early
as it may suit your convenience
I remain very respectfully
sir your most obt servant
James Hunt
The Honorable
James Findlay
House of Representatives
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State of Ohio    
City of Cincinnati}Ss     
I. Robert McBride heir at law of Robert McBride dec’d do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that Robert McBride dec’d entered the service of the United States and served in the Regiment No 9 under the command of Colonel Cook of the Pennsylvania Line and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the Revolutionary War   I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised him on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever therefore Know all men by these Presents that I Robert McBride aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint the Honorable James Findlay to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; And my said lawful attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorney under him for the special purpose aforesaid 
Robert McBride   
Test D. P. Richardson  
Personally appeared the above named Robert McBride, subscriber to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney, and made oath in due form of law to the above declaration             
In Testimony of all which
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I have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the corporate seal
of the said City this 15th day of
December in the year of our
Lord One thousand Eight
hundred and thirty, 
Isaac G Burnet, [unreadable]
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February 5, 1940
ROBERT McBRIDE
B. L. Wt. 1701-200
BA-J / MLB
Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott    
22 West 4th Street     
Williamsport, Pennsylvania    
Dear Madam:     
The data which follow in regard to Robert McBride were obtained from the papers on file in the claim for bounty land based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.     
The date and place of birth or age of Robert Mobride and names of his parents are not shown.    
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that Robert wide entered the service as an officer, rank not stated, in Colonel Cooke's Pennsylvania regiment, and continued in service to the close of the Revolutionary War. His date of death is not shown.    
Warrant No. 1701, for two hundred acres of bounty land, was issued December 24, 1830, to Robert McBride, of Hamilton County, Ohio, son of the officer, Robert McBride, deceased, and his other heirs, whose names were not designated, on account of the service of that officer in the Relovution.   
Next time (It may be stated that an acreage of two acres was the amount provided by law for service as Lieut. in the Rev. War)   
The name of Robert McBride's wife was not given and there are war. no further data shown in regard to the officer or to his family.      
If you desire information relative to the location of the bounty land granted the heirs of the officer, Robert McBride, for his service, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of issuance                  
Very truly yours           
A. D. HILLER              
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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The State of Ohio       
Hamilton County }       
At a Court held for Hamilton County on the twenty sixth of November Eighteen hundred and thirty       
Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Robert McBride is the son and one of the heirs at law in fee to Robert McBride deceased, late an Officer in the Regiment commanded by Col Cook in the Pennsylvania line, on the Continental establishment in the Revolutionary war 

The State of Ohio       
Hamilton County }    
I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office.            
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cincinnati this thirtieth of November Eighteen hundred and thirty                 
Danl Gamp   Clk   
I certify that Daniel Gano is the Clerk of the County Court of Hamilton in the State of Ohio, and I verily believe that the foregoing evidence of heirship was justly and regularly obtained     
James Findlay of the House of Repts
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Williamsport Pa. Jan 7th 1939         
Commissioner of Pensions Bureau         
Washington D.C       
RECEIVED JAN 11 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS 
Dear Sir
* Peter McBride was pensioned in Centre County $96.00 per years for service in the Pennsylvania line.  The pension wasgranted in 1818 the age given was 90 years   - list is age at 1835 report was printed
John McBride, a soldier of the Continental line was granted a pension number 71623 -7 There seems to have been some dispute relative to his pension.   
The latter information is taken from a record in the archives at Harrisburg that of Peter McBride is taken from the report of the secy of war 1835. [unreadable]  This from State Library Harrisburg    Can you advise me if the man mentioned a Francis in their pension application    Can you send me a copy of their war record either one of these men were the ancestor of Francis  McBride born 1773, I would appreciate this information very much Kindly send it to me soon as possible I am working on this line this McBride family came from [unreadable] County.   Thanking you. Trust to hear from you at an early date.             
Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott  Genealogist   
22 W. 4 str 
I wrote you several days ago I just got this 
Over
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data from Harrisburg today
 AFTER 5 DAYS RETURN TO          
Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott.          
 22 W. 4 Street    
WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
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RECEIVED MAY 19, 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM READER #73
Williamsport Fa. May 17 / 39   
A.D. Hiller        
Washington D.C.       
Dear sir             
you letter of recent Date received in regard of Peter McBride & John McBride          
This is what received from the state genealogist at Harrisburg John McBride a soldier of the continental line, was granted a pension No 91623. - There seems to have been some dispute relative to his pension - it further states                   
The latter information is taken from the record we have in the archives that is indefinate, that of Peter McBride is taken from the report of the Sec. of War, 1835. We suggest you write the Pension Commissioner veterans Bureau Washington D.C. asking if either man mentioned had a Francis in their pension application – I used to always get from the Bureau of Pension the sol [soldier] war record and several times received a copy of the affadavit when they sent application for a pension but it appears the veteran administration dont give data like the commissioner of Pensions gave it.  Since wrote you for the McBride data I have found that John McBride was not the father of Francis McBride but that Robert McBride of Sunbury Penna was an officer in the Revolutionary war - This is was found in our Lycoming County Court House in the year 1926. This county originally during the Rev war was Northumberland Co. instead of Lycoming County the aforesaid Court record found was a property release
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of his Roberts children his daughter and their brothers Francis consequently Robert was Francis Rev. ancestor all it says of Robert that in 1926 he was deceased and that he was an officer in the Revolutionary War and that he was of Sunbury Penna which was Northumberland County think that is the reason that there always made search was made in Lycoming County: Lycoming Co. was formerly Northumberland Co. until 1795,     
This Court record in 1826 does not give what office Robert McBride held or what company he served in other than that he was deceased and an Officer in the Revolutionary war. In order to Join the Daughter of the American Revolution Nat Socy this must be given. will you kindly asertain this for me   one women in Tulsa Okma and another one in Dacotah one comes down on Frances and the other on John McBride evidently if you make a research of John in Northumberland you may find more of him. usually got the War Record from the Commissioner of Pensions I have given over fifty persons their line of ancestry who all have joined the Nat Socy D.A.R. at and always got when I couldnt find what I wanted got their war record which usually give it all                 
The Mowbridge women has written for her Bowman line in my research I have found much Bowman history but she doesnt come down on that line I had written you what she gave me and all she could give me was advised at Harrisburg which did I presume you he Searched in Lycoming Co. of course found nothing in Lycoming Co. but might find it in Northumberland Co. and possibly they may have served in the State of N.Y. where the Docotah womens mother who was a Bowman came from, the Dacotah and Oklama women are relatives come down on the McBride line but never heard of each other until I wrote and told her that probably John McBride who see a pension might be his John 2 father who she had written me had searched for 15 years and was unable to learn who his father was
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I gave her your address I have found many McBrides in the archives who received pension the archived gives it Peter McBride P. L. I dont know what P. L. stands for was pensioned 1825 Centre and Clinton Co. History Page 42, is where found it.                 
There is also John, Robert, James, Andrew Samuel McBride all served Sept 1, 1781 in Capt. Grays Company Vol 8 Penn arch 2 service p 557 or 537              
Andrew McBride Private Sept 1, 1781                
Daniel McBride Private served in Capt McMullen Co. city guards of Philadelphia 
I am giving you this probably it might help you for other inquiries   
John McBride chairmaker in Potter Township Centre Co. 1807.    
Their Alexander McBride rec a Pension in Leuit James Grime Co. May 17, 1777 in Bergs Co Capt Copessack Co,             
James McBride rec pension. In my research often found that many of the settlers in this section came from down country from Bergs Co and all the McBrides who resided in Centre Co. Possibly came from there to Centre County. In my File reference BAJ, AWF that the Docotah were sent me which the claimed as her ancestor Hugh Bowman William Absolom Bowman John William Bowman of Pennsylvania and which you failed to find in Pennsylvania service for I believe they were all from N. Y. state because I have some of this womens Bowman live in that came from N Y to Penna – so if you have the pensions of the United States you may find their service under the New York Rev. Sol.  
John Bowman who served under General George Rodger Clark remember Lycoming Co was Northumberland Co during the Rev. War the Bowman name was often spelled Bauman Baughman and Boughman & Bowman names were so misconstrued
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during the Revolution Her mother came from Spencer Iowa Mary Edna Bowman
Some of this Bowmans were from Chenango Co. N. Y  I remember right there were some from Steuben Co. from says Binghamton Brome Co but it dont say any thing of being Rev Sol. but I think the name I gave you enlisted in N. Y. and probably after the war came to Penna    
James McBride settled in Michigan in 1854 where he had children.    
my Bowman in reply refer to BA-J / A. W. F.   
my McBride in reply refer to Peter McBride S.40131 BA-J / M. L. B.
This is what the Dacotatah gave me          
Col. John Bowman           
who bore arms in American army under General Roger Clark in conquest old N.W during American Revolution.           
Capt John Bowman bore arms 1812.          
It is possible their names were mispelled during the Revolution such as Baughman Boughman Bairman, probably they are listed that way they were informed that is now they were spelled in early times   
I thought maybe you might find some thing by mentioning all this you may be able to find something      
Thanking you            
I am very truly yours   
Mrs. Mary P. Wolcott  
22 W. 4 Street 
Williamsport Pa.  
RECEIVED  MAY 19 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM READER #73
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February 5, 1940   
BA-J / MMHF:MLB    
Mrs. Mary R. Wolcott        
22 West 4th Street W           
illiamsport, Pennsylvania         
Dear Madam:                
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that you have learned that the name of the father of Francis McBride in whom you are interested was Robert McBride, and not John McBride as you had thought previously, and you would like to have the Revolutionary War record of Robert McBride and of Peter McBride, also the Revolutionary War records of soldiers with the surname Bowman.             
The records of Peter and Robert McBride, of Pennsylvania, are furnished you herewith, the only soldiers with those names that are found on the Revolutionary War pension records of this office, which records were, at one time, in the old Pension Office, but not now.                    
In order to identify the particular Bowman record in which you are interested his full name is essential and all the following data which you may have: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of wife or widow.               
Very truly yours            
A. D. HILLER                   
Executive Assistant to the Administrator