Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 31248, for Thomas Mc Cauley, Virginia
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being a pressing call for men, they being scarce - and after staying at Staten Island awhile he marched through the country from Staten Island & was in several other scouts & Skirmishes among others, one at Germantown, and as Cornwallis went one way the troops with whom he was, went another towards & near Annapolis - thence back towards Fish Kill & Kings ferry & until this tour expired, when he was dismissed & went home -That he does not recollect of having rcd a discharge - if he did it has been long since lost or mislaid, - that the record of his age is at Philip H. Hopkins of South River between Baltimore Annapolis Maryland and Anne Arundel County. That he was living on Elk Ridge twelve miles from Ellicott Mills, half way between Baltimore & Georgetown, when he entered said service and then until 1818 in the Spring, when he moved to Harrison County Kentucky where he has resided ever since & now resides there. That he verily believes and affects that he served as aforesaid for full twelve months; that he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his said services. 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 the agency of any State or territory whatever
Sworn to & subscribed the day of Conley
Thomas McCauley his mark
David Snodgrass a justice of the of the peace  in and for the county aforesaid hereby certifies that the above named applicant Thomas McCauley is in my opinion unable from bodily infirmity to attend the court being very old and infirm and living a considerable from the seat of justice - given under my hand 12th day of July, 1833 - David Snodgrass