Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16702, John Chilcoat, Penn.
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(8-1776)

Service 
Penn. 

Chilcoat, John

NUMBER
S. 16702
B.L. Wt. 35826-160-55.
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CONTENTS
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Missouri 26.134
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John Chilcoat
of Cooper Co. in the State of Mo
who was a Pvt in the Co__ commanded
by Captain Cluggage of the Regt commanded
by [Illegible] in the Penna
line for Militia
|of Mo. Pd. $63.33
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Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of March 1834 and Sent to Hon Wm H Ashley H.R
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Arrears to the 4th of Mch 34 190.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept " 31.66
$221.66
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{Revolutionary Claim, 
{Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by J T Sprague Clerk
Book C Vol. 8 Page 80
Letter to Pension Agent May 11 1848

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215.904  Act March 3 [and] Oct 2. /11
John & Joshua Chilcoat, munitions
John Chilcoat, he
NO 35826 August 1/56
Revy War
Penn, Act _____
Mo June 32 - 26134
AD.: 16th July, 28/56
B, Dynton

John Vouynt
Versailles
Mo. 
Vol C = 1 = 109
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State of Missouri  }
County of Cooper } SS

On this 4th day of February eighteen hundred and thirty-four personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Court for the County of Cooper aforesaid (the same being a Court of record, having a seal) now sitting John Chilcoat a resident of the County of Morgan in the State aforesaid Missouri, aged seventy-five years on the twenty-seventh day of last November, 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
the 7th 1832 - 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: Giles Stephens, Lieut. Frank Clugage, Capt. of the Company to which he belonged, that he entered the service under said Company officers as a volunteer sometime in the month of May (the precise day not recollected) in the year 1775, from the County of Bedford in the State of Pennsylvania; that he was marched in said Company up the Juniata River, through the gap of Jack's mountain, by the standing stone of the North side of Juniata River up Wovelence R., (having joined General Wayne's Army at Fort Littleton in Bedford County - the other field officers not recollected
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that he crossed some mountain (the name forgotten) and marched to a low flat country where they had a skirmish with the Cherokee Indians. The Indians there were commanded by Guy Johnson, a white man who was killed in that fight- that they then marched three or four days on towards the Cherokee Towns, when they halted, and General Wayne sent out a company to spy and find out where the Towns were, and in a few days two of the
company that was sent out as spies, returned
and reported that all the rest had been killed
by the Indians-- upon which Genl Wayne marched us all (the whole army) to the Cherokee Town, which we found deserted by the Indians except some old men, women & children. We cut all their corn and destroyed it, and also burnt and destroyed a full store of goods. We then marched two or three weeks to a place called the White Fields-- where this claimant with some others were verbally discharged after nine months service of this declarant, and returned home, where this claimant staid till the ensuing spring, when
the time precisely not recollected, he again entered the service as a volunteer under Capt Thomas Blair, James (not Regt Lieut.), who commanded a ranging Company. They marched from home (the County of Bedford aforesaid) over the Blue
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Mountain and ranged between it and Broad
Mountain, and returned home late in the
fall after a service of at least seven months
without being in any engagement. That they were ordered by their Capt. after returning home to keep in readiness to march again when called on. That they accordingly held themselves in readiness until the next April, when they were again called on by the same officers and marched upon the waters of the red Stone and ranged between the Glades and Laurel Hill about and at least six months and returned home and after remaining a week. We were marched over Jack Mountain after Indians where we came across a party of Indians and killed thirteen of them, & one white man & 2 wounded and continued ranging & spying at least three months. when they returned home and were discharged. That he was afterwards out in scouting companies diverse times as necessity required & was thus engaged at least six months longer. This declarant further states upon oath that cannot recollect from infirmity of body and the consequent decay of memory the precise length of his service, but from the best of his recollection he was engaged in actual service as above stated at least two years and
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seven months in the capacity of private soldier
and a volunteer, and that he makes oath to
this declaration before the County Court of
Cooper instead of the Court of Morgan
County where he resides, for the reason that
Morgan County, being a new County recently
established, is not yet provided with a seal
and the County of Cooper is, and that he
claims a pension for the two years and seven months service above stated-- That he has 
no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his service.  

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll ^ of this agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year aforesaid 
in open Court --
John  his X mark Chilcoat
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Questions propounded by the Court
1. Where & in what year were you born?
A. I was born in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland the 27th day of November in the year 1758.
2. Have you any record of your age, if so, where is it?
A. The record of my age is in my father's bible in Maryland.
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
A. I lived in Bedford County Pennsylvania when
called into service, and since the Revolution I
have lived in Bedford County, Penn.; Baltimore
County, Maryland; Rowan County, North Carolina; Madison County, Kentucky, Franklin County, Tennessee; Cooper County, Missouri, and now live in Morgan County Missouri.
4. How were you called into service?
A. I always volunteered.
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances.
A. I have stated in my declaration as near as I
can recollect.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service?
A. I never received a written discharge.
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7. State the names of persons to whom you are
known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character and veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
A. I can state George Mean, Jesse Smith, Saml.
Carr, Shadrick Castell & many others.

One Shadrick Casteel, a clergyman residing in
the County of Cooper and State of Missouri, and Henry Woolery, residing in the same,  hereby certify that we are well-acquainted with John Chilcoat, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy-five years of age; 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.
Subscribed and sworn to
the day & year aforesaid
Shadrack Casteel [signature]
Henry Woolery [signature]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Shadrick Casteel, who has
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signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman residing in the County of Cooper aforesaid, and that Henry Woolery, who has also signed the same, is also resident of said County of Cooper and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Green Seat [signature]
Joseph Patterson [signature]
Anthony H Read [signature]

I, Robert P. Clark Clerk of the County Court
for the County of Cooper in the State of Missouri, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Chilcoat for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of
February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-four
Robt P. Clark [signature]
[SEAL]
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1886
I do in behalf of John
Chilcoat acept [sic] of a pension certificate
for nineteen (19) months service
WH Ashley [signature]

29.850
application
for} Jno. Chilcoat
Pension
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Adm?
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Hon W.H. Ashley
H.R.

the19 Mo 40
20
 3.33
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63.33

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State of Missouri }
Morgan County   } Ss

On this 22d day of September AD 1855 Personally appeared before the undersigned Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County and state aforesaid, John Vought, Guardian of John Chilcoat & Joshua Chilcott,
minor heirs of the late John Chilcoat of
Morgan County, Missouri, now deceased.
who being duly sworn according to law declares that the said John Chilcoat Senior died, was for many years previous to his death a citizen of Morgan County, State of Missouri, that during many of the years of his life, he drew, annually, a pension from the United States for his service as a soldier in the war of the revolution, that he has no personal knowledge of the time said Chilcoat entered the service of the United States or of the length of time he served,, that he has been informed and declared that he entered the service in the state of Maryland & served for five years. He further states that said Chilcoat died in Morgan County Missouri on or about the 10th day of July 1851, leaving a widow and his wards John & Joshua Chilcoat, his only minor children, and that he has no knowledge
of the said Child ever having receiving bounty land for said service & believes he never did.
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he further states that John Chilcoat & Joshua Chilcoat, for & on whose behalf this application is made, are children of said deceased, and are now under the age of twenty-one years, & through him as their Guardian make this application to obtain the County land to which they may be entitled 
under the act approved March 3d 1855
John Chilcoat and Joshua Chilcoat by
John Vaught, Guardian
His mark X

We, Floyd Chilcoat & Jesse Jones, residents
of the County of Morgan State of Missouri,
upon our oath, declare that we were 
personally well-acquainted with John Chilcoat Senior, that he departed this life in Morgan County Missouri on or about the 10th day of July 1851, that he left no widow, his wife having died some years previous, that we
were at the death of said Chilcoat, & now are well-acquainted with John Chilcoat and Joshua Chilcoat, the persons named in the forgoing application & on whose behalf the same is made & we know them to be the identical
persons they represent themselves to be, & that they are under the age of twenty-one years, and are the only named children of said deceased, and that we have no interest in this claim.
Floyd his X mark Chilcoat
Jesse Jones [signature]
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The forgoing declaration and affidavit were 
subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the applicants to be credible persons and that the said John Vought is the identical person he represents himself to be & that I have no interest in this claim

In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the seal of said Court 
at Office in Versailles on the 
22nd day of September 1858
C.H. Huff,  Clerk [SEAL]

State of Missouri   }
County of Morgan } SS
Be it remembered that at a regular Term of the Probate Court of Morgan County and State aforesaid, begun and held at the courthouse in the town of Versailles in said County on the 1st Monday in September 1855, amongst other the following proceedings were had to wit
Present
John A.S. Tutt, Judge [signature]
P R Shereff [signature]

And now at this day come hereunto Court John Chilcoat and Joshua Chilcoat, minor heirs of John Chilcoat Deceased, John, aged about twenty years and Joshua, aged about eighteen years, and here in open Court, made choice of John Vaught as their
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guardian and it seeming reasonable and right a guardian should be appointed  for said minors
     It is therefore ordered that the said John Vaught be and he is hereby appointed guardian of the person and estate of the Said John and Joshua Chilicote minors aforesaid and that he give bond to the State of Missouri in the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars conditioned as the law requires
     Which said bond was given by said John Vaught with James P Ross and Floyd  Chilicote security which was given in the presence and to the Satisfaction of the court and approved and ordered to be filed

     I John A S Lutt Judge of the Probate court of Morgan county do hereby certify that the foregoing order of appointment of John Vaught guardian of aforesaid is a true copy of the record of such appointment as now remains of record in my office this the 22nd day of September 1833

John A. S Lutt Judge [signature] [seal]

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MNHF`
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May 25, 1928.
8. 16702
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Lt. Col. J. B. Barnes,
U. S. A., P. M. S. & T.,
Boonville, Missouri.

Sir:
I advise you that from the Revolutionary War records of this bureau it appears that [next 2 words underlined:] John Chilicoat (not Chilooal) was born November 27, 1758 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
     While a resident of Bedford County, Pennsylvania he volunteered in May 1775, served nine months as private in Captain Frank Cluggage's Pennsylvania Company against the Indians, who were under Colonel Guy Johnson, and was in several skirmishes, captured and burned the Indian towns.
He volunteered in the spring 1778, served seven months as private in Captain Thomas Blair's Pennsylvania Company, then volunteered in April 1777 and served nine months as Indian Spy and ranger in the same company.
     He subsequently served six months on volunteer scouting expeditions, officers' names not given.
     After the Revolution he lived in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Baltimore County, Maryland, Rowan County, North Carolina, Madison County, Kentucky, Franklin County, Tennessee, and Cooper County, Missouri.
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Rev.&

     He was allowed pension on his application executed April 4, 1834 while a resident of Morgan County, Missouri.
     He died July 10, 1851 in Morgan County, Missouri.  His wife had preciously died, her name not given.
     In 1855 soldier's sons, John aged twenty years and Joshua aged 18 years were living in Morgan County, Missouri.
     As advised in bureau letter of April 13, 1928 , that owing to lack of a clerical force available for the purpose only two histories and furnished each inquirer and that the Revolutionary War records are open to the public for research work.
Respectfully, 


WINFIELD SCOTT, 
Commissioner.
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Versailles Missouri}          Free
Sept 22/53 }

Commissioner of Pensions [last word underlined]
     Washington Cty
                                DC

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[typewritten letter]
IN REPLY 
REFER TO      Kemper Military School
OFFICE OF THE PROFESSOR OF MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS
HONOR SCHOOL
SINCE 1914     JBB/wtb
Boonville, Mo.,
April 26, 1928.

U.S. Pension Commission,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: 

     Reference your letter of April 13th (Rev. and 1812 War section).  I am listing herewith the names of Revolutionary soldiers, pensions and residents of Cooper County, Mo. in 1835.

     I will be noted that in all cases very little date [sic] can be given as a basis for establishing the exact idenity [sic].  I should like to have as much as possible of the following date [sic] concerning the men listed below, viz:

     Organizations and dates of service.
     Rank held.
     Engagements or campaigns.
     Date pension was granted.
     Date pension ceased on account of death (?)  of soldier.
     Post office address at date of last pension remittance.

       The Revolutionary soldiers' names and records as far as I am able to obtain them are as follows:

     David Allen - served in Virginia militia, Born 1783.
     George Carr - Virginia militia. Born in 1748.
      [checkmark] George Cathey - North Carolina militia. Settled in Howard County Missouri before 1819.
     [checkmark] John Chilcoal [handwritten:]t - Penn. militia
     Josiah Dickson - Virginia Continentals, Born 1752.  Settled in Missouri about 1812.
     Sergeant David Jones - Virginia militia.  Born in 1763. Settled in Missouri about 1812.
     James Kelly - Virginia state troop: settled in Howard  County Missouri in 1818.  Died in 1840.
     Robert Kirkpatrick - Virginia militia;  born 1765.  Post office address after 1819 - Leabanon, Cooper County, Missouri.

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April 26, 1928.


     Benjamin Procter - Virginia militia; born 1761.
     Richard Westbrook - Penn. Militia.
     John V. Sharp - Not a pensioner. Died 1828.
     Joseph Stevens - Virginia.  Address Cooper County after 1817.

       It will be greatly appreciated and in the interest of historical research, if any additional data can be supplied about these men.

     Very truly,

        [SIGNATURE:] John BBarnes
        JOHN B. BARNES,
         Lt. Col., U. S. A.,
          P. M. S. & T.
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1928-May 25 - Hist. to Lt. Col. J.B. Barnes, MNF. 

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16.702
INVALID.
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File No.    16,702
John Chilcoat
Pri Rev War
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Act:    June 7" 32
 Index:---Vol.  1   , Page   427

[Arrangement of 1870.]