Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40186, for Matthew Murry, Maryland
Page 1

(S-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Murry, Matthew

NUMBER
S. 40186

CONTENTS
Page 2

18.070

Pennsylvania

R

Matthew Murry-
of Blair Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart of the Maryland line for the term of three years

WAR

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 25th of Dec. 1819.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of March 182[illegible, document torn], and [illegible] Pension, [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of March 1821.- 114.83.
Semi anl. all'ce ending Sept 1821 48.-

14th 11/31. [circled]

$162..83

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
and [circled]
May 1820.

Recorded vol. 7 page 133
Page 3

Matthew Murry

[faintly] 
The applicant must sign the Certificate which 
[handwriting continues too faintly to read]
Page 4

Pennsylvania
Beaver County
At an adjourned Court of Common Pleas held at Beaver in and for the County of Beaver on this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court  being a court of record for Said County. Matthew Murry aged Sixty Seven years who being first duly Sworn according to law doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820. That he the said Matthew Murry enlisted in Georgetown in the State of Maryland for the term of three years on or about the fifteenth day of September 1781 in the company Commanded by Captain William Murdock in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel John Stewart in the line of the State of Maryland on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps for four Months and was then turned over to, and engaged in Captain Browns[?] troop of horses in Colonel Armong's Regiment in the Service of the United States on the Continental establishment that he continued in the Service of the Said Corps untill the end of the war in the year 1783 when he was discharged from said Service in York Town the State of Pennsylvania that he was in the battles of Munks corner and the Bullock pens near Gilford South Carolina and at the Captain of Lord Cornwallace at York in Virginia and that he has no other evidence now in his Power of his Services except depositions of John Coxon and John Mease which accompany this his application, And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so do deminish it
Page 5

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 day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor hath any person in best forme any property or any income other than what is contained in the Schedule here unto annexed and by me subscribed

Schedule the declarant owns and possesses the following property (viz) twenty acres of Land on which is a Cabin and Small Stable and about Six acres of Land Cleared 

I Mare worthy about $30
I bow worth about 15
Hous hold furniture [illegibe] 5

[to right of above list, after squiggle separation mark]
Indebted to Jon May " $17.00
with 4 years Interest
& to my Lou Matthew " 24.00
& to James McCrary " 3.00
& to McOakly Harmony " 5.00
[signature] Matthew Munny [symbol labeled his mark]

The declarant further States that he is a farmer but is rendered unable to labour by reason of Rupture and other infirmities his family Consists of a wife aged about forty nine years one Son named James aged forteen years, one Son named Robert aged Seven years, and one daughter named nancy aged twenty eight years
Sworn to and declared in your Court 19th Sept 1820
[signed on left of page]
Tho Benny. Attorney

[signed on right of page]
Matther [illegible] [symbol with words his mark]
Page 6

I Do Certify that the applicant Matthew Munn applied to me and I took his deposition and transmitted the Same with the vouchers thereto annexed to the office of the department of war the first time the 25th day of December 1819 and they were returned for want of the necessary proof.
Certified by me 

[signed on right]
David Drinnan
associate Judge of Pease
County, P

Pennsylvania
Beaver County 
I Thomas Henry Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas for Said County do Certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereunto annexed together with Judge Drennans Certificate are truely copied from the records of Said County and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the Court. That the total ammacent in value of the property Established in the aforesaid Schedule as one hundred & twenty four dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and appeared the seal of Said Court at Beaver the 10th day of November  [illegible initials]
[signed on right] Thos Henry Attorney
Page 7

[illegible]sition of 
John Coxson
Page 8

Mercer County
Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County Personally came John Coxson Who being Duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and Saith that he was well acquainted with a Captain Mathew Murry now. Residing in the County of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania when he the Said Murry was in the Service of the United States a soldier in a troop of horses I Marched to the Regt. of Colonel Armung  This Deponent Just then saith that the said [illegible name] was Discharged at Little York in Pennsylvania and Resided in York County & a for Several years after The next place the Deponent saw the Said Maundy Residing was in Beaver County  & a and that he has Continued to Reside there
untill this time
Sworn and Subscribed
before me
John S. McElwain

[signed on right side] John Coxson

Pennsylvania
Mercer County 
I, James Miller Attorney of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mercer, do hereby Certify that John S. McElwain Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and thereunto subscribe his name is and was at the time, taking each affidavit an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer duly Commissioned and Sworn to all - who offered acts as such due faith and evident is and ought to be given -
Given under my hand and the Seal of the said Court at Mercer the 21st day of Dec. A.D. Eighteen hundred & Thirty [smudged]
[signed right hand side] James Miller [illegible initials]
Page 9

I do certify that John Coxson whose made in his proper hand requests "is (unintelligible) " to the written Deposition is a man of tolerable character and that I have not known his character impeached and further that I do believe he is disinterested in relation to the claim of Matthew Murry within named by me. 
John S. McElwain

AT RIGHT OF PAGE:
Murry, Matthew
Md. S40186

TO LEFT OF PAGE WRITTEN CROSSWISE:
Deposition of John Coxson
Page 10

Ti[illegible]
Robert Moore

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [circular black stamp]

Thomas Henry [illegible]

Beaver
Beaver County
Penn [illegible]

mail
Page 11

House of Representatives
Jany 10th. 1821

My Dear Sir /
enclosed you will receive [illegible] Murrays application rejected you will see what is written you will hand it to him and send it to him as soon as opportunity offers. - The [waterstain over word] of the army is now under discussion it will be reduced in my opinion
1 tn Florida [illegible] is [illegible]
we have lost some members - some yet very sick. I have been un well tho not confined. and yet an not well I have a continued head ache. I [illegible] attend to his inq - my respect to Mrs Henry - I hope your father is [illegible] I am truly sorry to hear of the Death
Page 12

of our worthy and mutual friend John Morton. I have not heard James Harris being anything lately -
You get [two illegible words] by the papers -
in [illegible] I remain your
friend
[signed on right] Robert Moore
[signed on left] T Henry Esq
Page 13

The applicant must state the County which he lives and prove of service of nine months at one point of enlistment
His witness do not prove a week, service -
Page 14

John Mays Department
of Matthew Murrys Service
Page 15

Crawford County [illegible initials]
Personly appeared before me Alexander Dunn Esq a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County John May and Being duly Sworn did say that he was well acquainted with Matthew Murry in the years one thousand Seven hundred and [a word crossed out] Eighty three and it was well known to this partner that the said Mathew Murry Searved in the Trupe of Light Horse under the Command of Curnal Armstong and was discharged in Little York in the State of Pennsylvania -

Sworn and Subscribed Before
me the 28th day of August 1820
Alexander Dunn
[signed on right] John May

Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [initialed]
I William MacArthur Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county do  by these present certify that Alexander Dunn whose name is  subscribed in his proper hand write as above and before whom the above deposed and appeared to have been made is a Justice of the peace in and for the said county of crawferd, that he is duly commissioned and sworn and that faith and credit is due and right  aught to begiven  and his official acts as such [illegible] in courts of Justice of the United States as I thereout

In testimony of which I have here unto subscribe my name and affixed the County seal of [?]ville to twenty ninth day of August [illegible]
[signed on right] William MacArthur  Prothy
Page 16

To all whome it doth or may consearn I the Subscribe hereunto do hereby Certify that John May Whose Name is in his Proper hand wright is Subscribed to the deposition, on the proceeding page of this paper and to me well knowne is a Man of a good moral character and whose credibelety I have never knowne questioned and further I Believe him altogeather disentersted in [next word marked out] Relation to the Claim of Matthew Murry Before named aplicant to - This Certifes for his Servises in the Revolutionery Ware given under my hand at Fairefield Towns [illegible] in the County of Crawford the 28th day of August 1820
[signed right] Alexander Dunn

[verticle writing on left had side at the bottom]
John Mays Departm [rest cut off by fold]
of Mathew Murry s Service
Page 17

Chief Clerck of the
Pension Office

War Department
Washington [underlined]
Page 18

Sir

The enclosed papers belong to an old soldier whose service and poverty entitle him to the attention of his country.
Permit me to ask your [illegible] attention of them.

I am respectfully
your Obt. Servt.
C.F. Mercer
Leesburg - March 12th, 1821
Page 19

40.186

INVALID.
Revy

No. 40.186
Matthew Murry
[illegible] Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 358

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 20

State of Maryland Frederick County To Wit
I do hereby Certify that Mathew Murrey this day called on me to know whether I had any recollection of him as being a soldier in the first Partizan Legion of Horse and Infantry Commanded Col Armand on the Continantal Establishment in the Revolutionary War, from the length of time I must say that I do not recollect him but from his naming a number of the officers and Soldiers of the Legion and relating a number of the most remarkable occurrances that happened in the Legion at different times and at the time that they were discharged all which come fully to my recollection I have no doubt in my mind but that he was a Soldier in in said Legion about two years and behaved himself well   I was a Cernel in the said Legion and was at Little York in Pennsylvania when they were discharged given under my hand the second day of March Eighteen hundred and seventy one
[signed on right side] Joseph Sim Smith
Page 21

London Cy N. a
March 6th 1821
Appeared before the subscribed a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid Philip McDado & being sworn according to law Deposseths & sayeth, that he is well acquainted in the a certain Mathew Murry residing now in Bever County Pennsylvania & that he was in the service of the united states with him a soaldier in a trope of horse commanded by Capt Brown & attach to Col Armungs Reg this Deponent further sayeth that the said Murry was in the service with him better than twelve month & that he was discharged at little York P.a. to the best of his knowledge in the year 1733. given under my hand this 6th day of March 1821
[signed on right] Thos J Marlow
Page 22

Virginia to wit
I Charles Binns Clerk of the County of Loudoun do hereby certify that Thomas Marlow before whom the within affidavit was made was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace in and for the County & Commonwealth aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn and to all whose official and as such full faith and credit are given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office This 7th day of March 1821 and and in the 45th year of the Commonwealth
[signed on right] [illegible first name] C Binns CSC

[seal, no writing present, affixed to bottom left]
Page 23

London County Va
Appeared before the subscriber a
Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid
Micle Stream & Jonathan Householder
& solemnly affirmed that the said Philip
McDade mentioned in the previous certifikit
is a man of strict veracity &
an industrious & honest habits
Given under my hand this 12th of
March 1821
Thos. B Marlow

Micle Stream & Jonathan Householder 
are respectible Farmers
Tho B Marlow

I hereby certify that the above named
persons are highly respectable citizens of
London County and entitled to full credit
Charles Fenton Wheeler
Leesburg, Va March 12th 
1821