Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 19322, Robert Young, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
CONTENTS
Young, Robert
NUMBER
R. 19322
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State Indiana }
Putnam County } SS

be it known
that before me
a Justice of the Peace in & for
the County & State aforesaid duly
duly qualified & commissioned & [illegible]
according to Law to Administer
Oaths SS,,
pearsonally [personally] Appeared
Elizabeth Fain & made oath that
that She is the Daughter of Robert
Young of this [illegible] County & of
the State of Tennessee & who was
a Revolutionary Soldier who
Served in the horse & mounted
Cavalry In the Company aforesaid
Commanded by General
Washington & [illegible] Aston & John
Patten and who being duly chosen
according to Law and made oath
In due form of Law that they
are the Sons (Daughters & heirs
at Law & Legal Representatives
of the Said Robert Young 
who are Residents at the County
of Putnam & State aforesaid
Lastly are his and Representatives
at Law Said Claiments claiming
Under Said Act of Congress
passed 1832 granting pensions to
officers & Soldiers & to their Widows &
Children granting unto them [illegible]
money be due & oweing unto them
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day of the Revolutionary officers
& Soldiers at the Day of the Death
of any officer or Soldier Entitled &
Even [illegible] applied for in the Life
time of Said Soldier who was a
Soldier & Entitled to a pension as above
stated & who belonged to the mounted
[illegible] Composed of that fact
of the [illegible] of Washington County
State of Tennissee [Tennessee] and who served
During said War as above Stated
Said applicants make this
Application for the purposes
of obtaining the amount of
Pension money that might
have been Due the Said Robert
Youngs of the State of Tennissee [Tennessee] for
his services & who served the Said
mounted Cavalry as above Stated
& who was the memorable Battled
the gagements at Kings Mountains 
& In the Battle called the
Battle act the horse Shoe [illegible] the
case may be & thinks he Entered In
the year 1773 or as the Cause may
be in the regiment Commanded
by General Geocand Colonel
to the Tennissee [Tennessee] State Troops & the
Continental Line Said Elizabeth
Fain makes this Aplication [application]
for herself as need for the other
hiar [heir] before mentioned that
She & the other heirs may out
to in
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the money that was Due by right
unto Robert Young a Soldier of
the Revolutionary War of
the Continental Line & who [illegible]
out the whole time of his engagement
& who did not receive
His pension money that he was
intitled [entitled] to at his death a the
Said heirs above named as
Claiments [claimants] make this Application
that they may be paid that amount
as the Legal heirs & Representatives
of Said Robert Young
who done the Duty & Served the
Said war as above Stated Said
Claimants all that might have been due
at the Death of Said Soldier being $96 per
annum to 28th Decr 1838 } [illegible]
The Above Declaration Subscribed
to & Sworn to before me the
30th day of June 1860
[illegible]
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Know All Men by these
presents that I Elizabeth Fain
heir & Representative of Robert
Young do for myself & a such
for the other heirs of the Said
Robert Youngs Deceased &
who Died on the 28th Day or as
near as may be if Dec 1838 & claiming
oficers [officers?] at Law & Representative
of Said Robert Youngs I do
hereby Appoint John T Pasye
my [illegible] Lawful Attorney
for me & in my name to [illegible]
and a receive from the officers
of the Department & the
government officers & paging
[illegible] of the [illegible] 
the Son a Applicants pension
money may be payable & my Said
Attorney is hereby Constituted a time
honored to take all Lawful [illegible]
& meoune to obtain Said money as
above mentioned with the authority
to substitute and [illegible]
Errevocable [Irrevocable] & may said Attorney's
hereby Empowered & Authorised 
to obtain from the proper Authorities
our the City of Washington 
or Elsewhere certified [illegible] of
any Army or Navy records or
Documents In no heck lies
Said Services may be Recorded
to procure any and all
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other Evidence that May be necessary to Establish his or their claim as fully as he or they might do or might have done at the doing therof  [illegible] by revoking & countermanding all former Authority given by his previously for the above Special Purposes given Under our hands & Seal
[signature]  Betsy Fain
[hand drawn squiggly seal containing LS.]
Attested 
E.B. Chittendon

Personally appeared before me Elizabeth Fain the  Subscriber to the feoregowing Declaration & Subscribed to the Letter & Power of Attorney & Acknowledged that she Subscribed to the feoregowing Letter of proof Attorney & that it is her own free act and Deed & for the purpose therein set fourth mentioned and Expressed. C.

The above this day Subscribed & acknowledged, before me this 8th day of June 1860.
[signature] Eder B. Chittenden  J.P.  [squiggle seal]
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and the same day personally appeared before me Residents of [illegible] County & State of Indiannia aforesaid personally Known to me & who I certify to be Credible Witnesses  & Entitled  to Credit & who being duly Sworn according to law [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that they to are Personally present  & Saw the [illegible words] name to the foregoing Declaration that from their acquaintance that they have with them that they believe Declarents to believe them to be the person [illegible] that they are [illegible][?professing?] to be - that they are then [illegible words] & that they are Disinterested for said claim so that the [illegible] Reside at the place [illegible]
[signature] 
P. S. Steele
Arthur County
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the above Declaration Subscribed to one Sworn to this 30th day of Term 1860.  
[signed] Eder B. Chittenden  JP[illegible]

and I hereby Certify that I have no interest in Said Claim & that I am not Conserned in the Prosecution of Said Claim & that I further Certify that I am well acquainted with the Affiants I know them to be Credible Witnesses & that I believe the Declarents is the persons they [illegible] them selves to be [initials] E. C.
[signed] 
Eber B. Chittenden

State of Indiana, }
Putnam County, } SS.
I, Melvin McKee, Clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court, do certify that Eder B. Chittenden, Esq., before whom the foregoing instruments of writing were made and subscribed and sworn to or acknowledged, and who has certified the same, was, at the time of so doing, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his several signatures thereto are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I
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hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Putnam Circuit Court of said State, at Greencastle, this 29th day of June, A.D. 1860.
[signed]  Mel McKee, Clerk.
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[diagonally at the top: Revolutio]
19322
P.O. _____
Robert Young
Service: _____

REJECTED

Enlisted: _____ , 18 __
Discharged: _____ , 18 __

Application filed: _____ , 18 __

Alleges: Claim filed too late
to be on printed list of 1852
of Rejections.
Re-enlisted: _____

Attorney: _____
P.O. _____

_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____ , 18 __
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No 39. 167
Robert Young dead
Indiana
John D Steel, Aug 4/60
Act June 7, 1832
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June 30th 1860
To the Commissioners of Pensions
Dr Sir
I have with [illegible words] you the Declaration of Miss Elizabeth Fain applicant for the [illegible[ of what was due [illegible] Robert Young a Revolutionary Soldier of the Continental [illegible] District Applicants claim for the [illegible] of said Soldier that was due him at his Death & not payed [paid] [illegible words] your address [illegible words] John D. Steel & he is authorised [authorized] to receive the money & [illegible words] 
John T. Paye
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[illegible] please Address [illegible] John D. Steel Esq. at his Post office Address Green Castle Putnam County [?] State of Indiana
J. T. Paye
[There is an illegible postmark on the document.]
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Mr. D. Steel,
Aug 11.
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Pension Office, August 4. 1860
Sir,
I have received an informal application for pension
from the heir of Robert Young, who was it is
alleged a revolutionary soldier, with a request to
address the reply to you.
We have no evidence of the service
of Robert Young but this, under the circumstances,
is of no importance as respects this claim.
Children of revolutionary soldiers are not
entitled to pension; nor can they establish and
recover an unadjusted pension claim which
might have become due if the soldier had successfully
prosecuted it while living. Such
claims die with the soldiers themselves.
John D. Steel Esq.
Green Castle,
Indiana
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The National Archives Form VAM-51 12-5-41
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Name Young, Robert Grade Private Line Pennsylvania
Warrant Number 10681 Acreage 100 Issued August 19, 1789 To Richard Murthwaite, assignee

*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.