Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5992, for James Kirkpatrick, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn
NUMBER
R 5992
Kirkpatrick, James
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33. 204
application of
James Kirkpatrick
for Pension
Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania County of Armstrong ss
On this Sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty five personally
appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas
of Armstrong County now sitting James Kirkpatrick
a resident of Wayne Township Armstrong County
in the State of Pennsylvania, aged upwards of Eighty
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 7
1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers & served as herein stated, viz. 
That he resided at Shippensburgh Cumberland County Pa, 
& was drafted in a company of Militia commanded by
Capt Robert Culbertson, Lieutenant Anders Boyd
and Andrew Beames Ensign. The company assembled
at Shippensburgh as near as Deponent can recollect on
the Seventh day of July 1776 & marched to Susquehanna 
river which they crossed at Harris ferry where the town of
Harrisburgh now stands & proceeded [thence to] Lancaster &
Philadelphia & was there put on board of Shallop
& sent up the river Delaware to Trenton where they
landed & marched through Princeton & New Brunswick
& South Amboy - where they crossed the Raritan Bay to
Perth Amboy & were attached to a Battalion of Militia.
While at Perth Amboy [he heard the cannon] during the
battle of Long Island & before the battle was over they
marched for Newark New Jeney & lay there in a church
about two weeks. Many of the wounded in the battle of
Long Island were brought to Newark while Deponent
remained there. & several died & were buried in the
Church yard where deponent lay. The company
were then marched back to Shippensburgh & was
discharged on the 8th of September having served two
months on this tour, during the whole of which tour
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Deponent was the first Sergeant of the company. That he did
ask for nor receive any written discharge. He cannot
recollect the name of the Major of the Battalion to
which he was attached.
That sometime in the fall of the year 1776. Deponent
moved from Cumberland County Pennsylvania to
Loyalhanna Creek in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania
& the company of Militia which he then belonged
was called into service. They assembled about a mile
from [Dennison] town on the bank of Loyalhanna Creek
& were commanded by Doctor Marchand Captain, James
Moore as Lieutenant & the Deponent Ensign the company marched to Pittsburgh & was placed under command
of Colonel Gibson who was there with three or more continental troops & another company of Westmoreland Militia commanded by Captain Miller. The Company to
which deponent was attached was stationed on the South
side of the Monongahela river to protect men who were
sawing our timber under at Col Gibson’s direction. The company [one] part thereof was occasionally out on scouting
parties. Deponent was out as often as two or three times a week but had no skirmish with the Indians. While we lay
the Capt Miller Started on a [scout] to Fort Hand
with Eleven of his men & on his way back from Fort
Hand to [Hannas] town near which he resided he & ten
of the same were killed by the Indians but one escaping.
It was the 20th of August 1778 to the best of Deponent’s
recollection, that the company assembled at Loyalhanna
& they were discharged at Pittsburgh on the 20 of October
1778 & returned home.
That in the month of February 1780 a requisition
was made of men out of different companies of Militia
& [prest] at Pittsburgh to proceed upon an expedition against
the Indians. That Deponent reached them on the twenty
third or twenty fourth of February 1780 & was ordered
into a company commanded by Samuel Love &
Peter Thomas of Sewickley was Lieutenant & the
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Deponent was Ensign. There was one company of Continental
there - one company of Militia from Virginia & several
Companies of Militia from Pennsylvania in all five
hundred men. General Hand had the chief command - 
the Colonel & Major were from York County Pennsylvania
but Deponent does not recollect their names.
The troops set out for Cuyahoga against the Indians.
Proceeded down the Ohio up Big Beaver - Simon Girty
acting as pilot. They left the Creek & came to an Indian
town, killed an Indian who first wounded the Captain of
the Continentals & killed there a few boys. & the Virginians
killed a few squaws. Deponent with John Denniston, &
Samuel Mahaffy took one squaw prisoner & saved her
life-- We then marched to another Indian town where
the squaws & boys were making salt in kettles.
The Squaws told us the Indians were away at Cuyahoga
holding a council & if we went there we would
get our fill of fighting. We took their goods & sinks &
Kettles & their corn.  The corn was fed to the horses
& a medicine was made of the other things amongst
the men.  The waters had risen so much that the
expedition was abandoned & the troops returned to Pittsburgh
& were discharged in the 24 April 1780 having been
[g]one two months during which time deponent was
Ensign of his company. After our return to Pittsburgh
Deponent heard Simon Girty tell several that if they
would give him a post that he could live by he would
stay with them, if not he would go to the Indians.
That Deponent has no documentary evidence to prove
his service & he knows of no person living whose testimony
he can procure to prove his service. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present & declares that his name is not on the
Pension roll of the agency of any State & that he
claims a pension for six months service during four
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four months of which he was Ensign.
James Kirkpatrick
Sworn &Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Fred’k Rohrer, Pro

Inq1st When or what year were you born?
Ans. Declarant states that he was informed that
he was born where Shippensburgh now is on the 25th
Sept. 1754 but that he has no record of his age his
father having lost his family bible after the decease
of Deponent’s mother.

In answer to the second Interrogatory. [2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?] He states that he
has answered it in the former.

Int’y 3d Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war & where do you now live. 
In answer to the 3 interrogatory. He states that when he
first entered the service he resided at Shippensburgh
in Cumberland County Pennsylvania. That in the
fall afterward he removed to Westmoreland
County Pennsylvania & resided in the same until
Armstrong County was formed out of part of Westmoreland &
 Lycoming & that he has since resided in Armstrong County except about seven years that he resided in Mahoning Township Indiana County & that he now resides in Wayne Township Anthony County.

Interrogatory 4th How were you called into service.
In answer to the Interrogatory Deponent states that he
entered the service as [illegible] in his declaration

Interrogatory 5th State the names of the regular offices
who were with the troops when you served - such 
Continental & Militia regiment as you can recollect
and the general circumstances of your service.
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In answer to the 5th Interrogatory deponent states that he
does not recollect the names of any other officers
then those stated in his declaration & refers to the same
for the general circumstances of his service.

Interrogatory  6th. Did you ever receive a commission
& if so by whom was it signed & what has become of it.
In answer to Interrogatory 6. Deponent states that he did receive a commission from the Executive [Provost] of
Pennsylvania, but that he does he recollect who
signed the same & that after the war, he took no care of
the same & that it has been lost long since.

Interrogatory 7 State the names of the persons to whom you
are known in your present neighborhood & who can
testify to your character for veracity & their belief
of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
In answer to the 7th Interrogatory Deponent states that he
refers to the Revd Elisha D Barnett & James Elgin, residents of Wayne Township. [And they illegible]
as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood 
& who can testify as to his character for truth & veracity
& their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
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We Elisha D Barnett a clergyman residing in Wayne
Township  Armstrong County & James Elgin residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James
Kirkpatrick who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration and that we believe him to be about Eighty
years of age & that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the
revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Elisha D. Barnett
James Elgin

Sworn & subscribed the 16th day of June AD 1835
Fred’k Rohrer, Pro

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter & after putting the
interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states & the Court further
certifies that it appears to them that James
Kirkpatrick [note: name should be Elisha D. Barnett]
 who has signed the preceding certificate
a clergyman residing in Wayne Township Armstrong
 County & that James Elgin who has also signed
the same is a resident of the same place & is a
credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit & that John Shields who has signed
the affidavit hereto attached is a resident of
Clarion Township Armstrong County is a credible
person & his statement is entitled to credit.
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Armstrong County ss
Personally appeared in open Court John
Shields above sixty five years - a resident 
of Clarion Township Armstrong County who being
duly sworn deponth & saith that in the year seventeen
hundred & eighty - James Kirkpatrick, the 
before mentioned Deponent resided with deponent’s
father at the Loyalhanna Westmoreland County.
That he remember very well that James Kirkpatrick
started with Captain Lewis Company for Pittsburgh
& was absent during the tour & returned at the same
time the rest of the company did & that deponent
heard John Denniston speaking after that return.
That he & some others had taken a squaw prisoner.
That Denniston’s gun had gone off & shot the squaw’s
little finger off & that he remember that James
Kirkpatrick was Ensign in the [Militia] about
Loyalhanna.
John Shields

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the 16 June 1835
Fred’k Rohrer Pro
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State of Pennsylvania, Armstrong County Set
I Frederick Rohrer Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas of Armstrong County Do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of 
James Kirkpatrick for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this nineteenth day of June A D 1835
Fred’k Rohrer Pro
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Act of June 7. 1832
Claim of
James Kirkpatrick
(Penna)
Power of Atty.
To examine claim

Mr Cole
Feby 2/45

Chas. C. Tucker
Atty
Present
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Power of Attorney,
Know all men by these presents, that I, Moses Kirkpatrick Son and one of the legal heirs of James Kirkpatrick deceased
do hereby constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, DC my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of James Kirkpatrick for any
amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832 or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize the said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at WashingtonCity, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be
issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and
to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that the said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this 28th day of January 1853.
Moses Kirkpatrick
In presence of B Oswald

STATE OF Pennsylvania Armstrong COUNTY - ss.
On this 28th day of January 1852, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Moses Kirkpatrick and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
B Oswald {seal}

STATE OF Pennsylvania Armstrong COUNTY ss
On this 28th day of January 1852, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Moses Kirkpatrick,
a resident of said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical Moses Kirkpatrick who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filled with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
B Oswald 

STATE OF Pennsylvania COUNTY OF Armstrong SS
I J E Merideth Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
do hereby certify that B. Oswald  Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 28 day of January 1858
J.E. Merideth Pro
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May 25, 1932
BA-J/MLB
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
JAMES KIRKPATRICK
R. 5992
Mr. James Kirkpatrick
2725 Chesterfield Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to James Kirkpatrick, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 5992, based upon the military service of James Kirkpatrick in the Revolutionary War.
He was born September 25, 1754, in that place which was later Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
James Kirkpatrick applied for pension June 16, 1835, while a resident of Wayne Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and alleged the following service: that while living in Shippensburgh, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted July 7, 1776, served
as first sergeant in Captain Robert Culbertson's Pennsylvania Company, and was discharged September 8, 1776; that sometime in
the fall of 1776 he moved from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, to Loyalhanna Creek, in that part of Westmoreland which was later
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he was called into service on August 20, 1778, and served as ensign in Captain Marchant's
Company, Colonel Gibson's Pennsylvania regiment, and was Discharged October 20, 1778, and returned home; that he enlisted
about February 23 or 24, 1780, at Pittsburgh, and served as ensign in Captain Samuel Love's Pennsylvania company against the Cherokee Indians at Cuyahoga, and was discharged April 24, 1780; also that he was in some skirmishes with the Indians.
After the Revolutionary War he lived in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, except for a period of seven years during which
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he resided in Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
James Kirkpatrick's claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law.
No reference was made in the claim to wife.
Soldier was dead in 1853 and was survived by a son, Moses, who was a resident of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
There are no further family data in the papers of the claim.
A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the service of John Kirkpatrick in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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33,204
Suspended
See letter 29th
July 1835 to 
T. White Indiana, Pa. 

Couldn't find above ltr.
5992 

Act 7th June 1832
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5992
3-068
(Old No. -649.)

Bureau of Pensions.
James Kirkpatrick
Jun 16, 1835 [$]80
Armstrong Co, Pa 

Jn’y 76 Shippensburg Pa
Capt. Robt Culbertson
Col [?] 
Sgt 2 m

Fall ‘78 Capt.Marchand
Col Gibson
Ensign 2 m

Feby 80 Capt Samuel Love
Col - 
Ensign 2 m

Born Sept 25 1754 at 
Shippensburg Pa

some skirmishes with Indians

Rejected. no proof
of service
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18/20
FILE WITH CASE

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OLD WAR & NAVY FILES
U S P D
OCT 10 1903

O W & N
Reply through desk please

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[illegible]
OCT 10 1903
COMMISSIONER

FILE WITH CASE
Rej. 5992
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FILE WITH CASE

Council Bluffs Ia
Oct 6th 1903
To the Warren Pension Dept.

 As I desire to join the D.A.R. 
and it is tradition in the family
 that my Great Grandfather was
 an Officer in the Revolutionary
 War, I have been advised by Mr
Bender, the Regent here, that I 
might find proof by writing
and find out if any one
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had gone in the DAR or on pension list done which was
from his service which was 
James Kirkpatrick, Penn I think
either near Cowanshannock, Armstrong
Co. or Butler. He owned at one time a
farm in the Cowanshannock Valley where
my Grand Father, John Kirkpatrick was
born. Grand Mother’s maiden name was
Nancy Latimore,  Father’s name Robert
R Kirkpatrick. In a previous enquiry
I was from relatives told that the roster of the
Regiment was burned in Washington in 1812.
I do not know what Reg. or Co. James Kirkpatrick 
was enlisted in. Hoping to hear something
favorable in reply, I remain
Yours Truly
Inez Kirkpatrick Peregoy
Address 
Mrs J W Peregoy
723 1st Ave
Council Bluffs, Ia.

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OCT 10 1903
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REJECTED 
5992
P. O. 
James Kirkpatrick
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged: 


The printed list of 1852
Shows: “Four months
service admitted, further proof
 of further service required.”

Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O. 
Recognized
Contract
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for

Oct. 19 - 1903 Hist to 
Mrs J.W. Peregoy
Council Bluffs Iowa

1932 May 31 Hist to James
Kirkpatrick mlb
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[Letterhead] 
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The Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
HOLLINS AND STRICKER STREETS
BALTIMORE


2725 Chesterfield Ave
Balto, Md.
April 20, 1932

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RECEIVED
APR 20 1832
RECEPT [?]
PENSION FILES [DIVISION]

Director of Pensions
Wash. D.C.
Dear Sir.

I am writing to request the records of
James and John Kirkpatrick Revolutionary
War service.
James was born in Cumberland Co. Pa. and
moved to Westmoreland Co Pa in early life. Had a
son in the war of 1812 and a grandson Robt B.
in the war of 1861.
I wish to join the Sons of the Revolution and
prepare the way for my young son Richard Washington
Kirkpatrick born Feb. 22, 1931.
The fact that Col. Washington had secretary in 1755
by the name of Kirkpatrick makes my search most
interesting as my progenitor was at Jamestown as
early as 1683.
Thanking you for any proof in the matter, I remain
Yours respectfully
James Kirkpatrick
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Pa July 28 

Indiana Pa
18 July

Mail

Free
J S Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City
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J S Edwards Esqr
Sir
I enclose you the application of James
Kirkpatrick a Revolutionary soldier for a pension
& shall be pleased to hear from you as soon as your convenience will permit.
Very respectfully
Your obt servt
Thomas White
Indiana Pa. July 16, 1835