Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22234, William Ewing, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
[handwritten] Penn.

[handwritten] Ewing, William

NUMBER
[handwritten] S. 22234

CONTENTS
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Pittsburgh No. 18980

William Ewing
of Westd [Westmoreland] Co. in the State of Penna. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Boyd of the Regt. commanded by Genl. Ewing in the Penna. Troops for 8 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Dollars 2/3 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov, 1833 and sent to John Armstrong, Greensburgh Pa. 

  66.66 2/3 Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833
  13.331/3 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March     1834
$80.00 [double underlined]

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act, June 7,  1832.    }

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E    Vol. 5      Page 75

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[illegible] letter to M. Teirnan P Att
Oct. 14, 1835
Letter to 3 Auditor 10 July "3 {page cut off]

Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 of April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1835 to 4 Sept. 1837.  Agent notified 17 July 1838.

Dead
Paid as above from 4 Sept. 1837 to 17 Nov 1838 the day of his death.  Agt. notified 13th Nov. 1839.
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Declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of 7th June 1832.

State of Pennsylvania    }
Westmoreland County  } Ss

On the nineteenth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of common pleas in the county of Westmoreland aforesaid, William Ewing of North Huntington Township in said county, aged eighty-four years, and made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he was drafted in the militia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1776, immediately after the declaration of independence and was marched to Philadelphia under the command of Captain Matthew Boyd, where we remained about two weeks.  We were marched from thence to Amboy where we remained about two weeks.  I then enlisted in what was called the Flying Camp, commanded by General Ewing.  We were marched from Amboy to Fort Lee where we remained about three months or more.  We were
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then marched under the command of Colonel McGaw (of Carlisle, Cumberland County) to Fort Washington where we had an engagement with the British troops.  We were defeated and taken prisoners.  The part of the British troops that the company that I belonged to was engaged were Scotch Highlanders.  Our Ensign Samuel Witherow received a shot in the engagement & fell  ^ he was only wounded when one of the British soldiers came up about the time we surrendered and ran his sword through him.  Declarant does not recollect who commanded the British army at Fort Washington.

About 2 or three o'clock on the day of the battle at Fort Washington, we were taken prisoners and had to lay down our arms and were marched to New York and were there imprisoned in a German church where we remained about the space of two months. 

We were then released from confinement upon condition that we were not to lift up arms against his majesty's troops untill [sic]  we should be regularly released by an exchange of prisoners.  The names of the prisoners were all taken down by a British officer.  The British troops then escorted us to the American lines in the Jerseys.  They were two days in marching us to the line, about 18 months afterwards we were regularly released.
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by exchange of prisoners shortly after the time we were released from confinement in New York.  This declarant fell sick and was conveyed to the hospital in Philadelphia where he was confined about nine weeks.

 Declarant states that afterwards in the year 1778, as well as he can recollect, he was again drafted and served a two-month tour in what was called the fifth corps of the Pennsylvania militia from Chester County and was marched to the town of Chester under the command of Captain Gibb.

We were marched from thence to the Jerseys to a place called Red Bank, where we were employed in assisting to raise the fort of that name.  Here we served out our tour of two months and were marched home to Chester where we were discharged.  

Declarant states that when he was called into the service of the U.S. he was living in Sadsbury Township, Chester County, Pa. 

The militia of Lancaster County and the militia of York County fought with us at the battle of Fort Washington.  

Declarant has no documentary evidence of his service.  He did not receive or demand a discharge for either tour of service.  Declarant states that he served between eight and nine months altogether in the flying camp.
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and in the militia ^ and claimed a pension for eight months.  That he knows of no person who can testify to his service except Captain William Cowan of Washington County, Pennsylvania.  He can testify to declarant's service during the time he was in the flying camp. He also called to see him when confined in the hospital in Philadelphia.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Signed:  William Ewing

Interrogatory 1:  Where and in what year were your born?
Ans:  I was born in ^ in the County of Donegal in Ireland in the year 1744.

2.  Have you any record of your age?
Ans:  I have none.

3. Where were you living when called into service and where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you live now?
Ans: the first end of this interrogatory is answered above--I lived two years in Franklin County in this state after the Revolutionary War I then moved to Westmoreland County where I have lived untill [sic] the present time

4.  How were you called into service?
Ans:  I was drafted in both tours.
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5.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with your troops where you served, such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. 
Ans:  The only officers I can recollect of at present are Colonel McGaw, Colonel Bull, General Ewing, Captains Gibb and Boyd.  The remainder of the 5th interrogatory is answered in the foregoing declaration.

6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service?
Ans:  No

Did you receive a commission?
Ans: No

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior & your service as a soldier after the Revolution. 
 Declarant mentioned the names of Major Humphrey Fullerton, Robert Stewart, Jacob Byerly, Esq, William Hindman, William Barns, John Barns and William Crosby.
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Westmoreland County Ss

William Ewing, the foregoing declarant being duly sworn in open court, deposed and saith that the facts set forth in the foregoing declaration are true to the best of his knowledge and belief -
Signed:  William Ewing

Sworn and subscribed }
in open court this 19th}
day of August 1833     }
Signed:  Randal McLaughlin, Prothy.

We, William Barns & William Crosby, residing in the township of North Huntington, Westmoreland County, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Ewing who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about eighty-four 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.
Signed:  William Barns, William Crosby

Sworn and subscribed in open court on the 19th day of August 1833.
Signed:  Randal McLaughlin, Prothy.
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* The declarant states that the Reverend Mr. Swan, pastor of Long Run Congregation and who was intimately acquainted with the declarant and could have testified to his veracity and character is dead, and that since the Revd. Mc Candles (the present clergyman of said congregation) came to there to officiate. The declarant has never been able to attend publik [sic] worship at said congregation and consequently said clergyman is not acquainted with this declarant.  
Signed:  William Ewing
Signed:  Randal McLaughlen, Prothy.

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 and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appeared to them that William Barns and William Crosby who have signed the preceding certificate are respectively residents in the township of North Huntington in said county and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. So also is the statement of Capt. William Cowan annexed hereunto.

I, Randal McLaughlin, Prothonotary of court of common pleas of Westmoreland County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania solemnly
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Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding in the matter of the application of William Ewing for a pension.  And also I do certify that Patrick Jack Esquire before whom the deposition of Capt. Wm. Cowan was taken at the time thereof was & now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said Court duly commissioned sworn & acting as such, and that his signature thereto is his own proper hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at my office in Greensburg this thirtieth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. ~
Randal McLaughlin Prothy [signature]

[written sideways at bottom of page]
Admitted
8 months
John Armstrong
Greensburg 
Pa
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22234

Revolution

INVALID

File No.  22,234

William Ewing

Pri

Act:  June 7" 32

Index: --Vol.  2, Page 128

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 7, 1839.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April 1938, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", William Baines, Executor of the will of William Ewing, Esq. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Pen. Agency, at the rate of Twenty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept. 1837, to the 17th Nov., 1838, the day of his death.  

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 13 1838

Sir:  

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", William Ewing a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburg, Pa., Agency at the rate of twenty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1835 to the 4th of September 1837.  

Respectfully yours, 

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Agents Office, Merchs. Manufs Bank
Pittsburgh  8th Oct  1835


Sir --

I herewith transmit the voucher of William Ewing, whose  pension has not been claimed for two years.  

Very Respectfully,
Your Most Ob. Servt.
J Cowlyling [signature is not legible]
for M. Tiernan Pr
J Penn Ag

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Westmoreland County Ss
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Westmoreland William Cowan and being sworn according to Law saith that he this deponent was personally acquainted with William Ewing who is now applying for a Pension under the act of Congress that this deponent knew said Ewing was in the flying camp during the Revolutionary war that the said Ewing was taken prisoner at Fort Washington that he did not return home until some time in the fall of the same year that the deponent understood that Ewing came home on parole said Ewing entered the service in the flying Camp under the command of Captain Benjamin Wallace.

Sworn and subscribed August 29th 1833 before me 
Patrick Jack   [signature]

  Wm. Cowan [signature]