Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36697, for Mathew Mc Afee, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Pennsylvania
McAfee, Mathew
or
McAffee, Matthew
NUMBER
S. 36697
B.L. Wt. 10095, issued 1789
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CONTENTS - blank
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LEFTHAND SIDE OF PAGE READS AS FOLLOWS:  
[illegible writing...] sent November 28th 1820 to Andrew P. Hay, Charlestown, Indiana
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RIGHTHAND SIDE OF PAGE READS AS FOLLOWS:

4,057
Indiana Rolls
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Mathew McAfee
Captain Carson, Private in the 1776 War Pennsylvania Line of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Prescribed on the roll of Indiana at the rate of eight Dollars per months, to commence on the 27th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31 of October 1818 and forwarded to the Pensioner at Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana.
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Arrears to 4th of September 1818  $34
Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 March 1819 $48
     Total $82

4 months 8/30
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Continued
Charlestown, Clark County
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War Department 

  Section of Bounty Lands 16th Sept. 1816. 
By virtue of an authorization from Mathew McAffee, who was a Corporal in the Pennsylvania Line of the U. S. Revolutionary Army, I the subscriber do acknowledge to have received from the War Department of the U. S. a Land Warrant No. 10005 dated 5th Nov. 1789 which was originally issued to the said Mathew McAffee for his portion of U. S. Military Bounty Land and which Warrant was afterwards returned & deposited in the said War Department by Wm. Alexander Esq to who it had previously been confided for location.  
signed in Dupt.
John Graham
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Know all Men by these Presents that I Mathew Mc Affee late a Soldier in the 8th Penna. Regiment now a Citizen of Clark County Indiana territery [territory] have nominated Constituted and appointed and by these presents do nominate Constitute and appoint my worthy Friend John Grayham Esqr. [Esquire] first Clerk in the office of the Department of State Washington City - My Lawfull [lawful] and absolute attorney for me and in my name. and for my use, to make application, to the Honorl. [Honorable] the Secretary of War, for my warrants for one Hundred acres of Land which I am entitled to for my services during the revolutionary War, With Great Britain and on the reicept [receipt] of said warrant to give such recipt [receipt] or recipts [receipts] as the rules of the office of the Department of War May Require [illegible] and Conforming all my said attorney shall lawfully do. or Cause to be done Touching the [illegible] aforesaid --
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 24th day of August in the year 1814 --
Mattw. [Matthew] Mcafee [seal surrounded by squiggles]
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Jefferson County State of Kentucky Solee
Personally came before me a Justice of the peace for said County Mathew Mcaffee. Who signed the above letter of Attorney and acknowledged it as his voluntary act and deed in my presence, and desired the same should be made of Record as such.
Given under my hand and seal this 24th day of August in the year of our Lord 1814
N. Bucknor. [seal surrounded by squiggles]

State of Kentucky
I Worden Pope Clerk of the County Court of Jefferson County in the state afsd [aforesaid] do certify that Nicholas Bucknor Esquire before whom the foregoing letter of attorney appears to have been acknowledged by Mathew McAffee was at the time of receiving said acknowledged and still is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and state aforesaid and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said County this 24th day of August 1814 and in the 23d year of our Commonwealth
Worden Pope
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I Alexander Scott Bullitt Chief presiding Magistrate of the County Court of Jefferson County in the state of Kentucky do certify that the foregoing attestation of Worden Pope of said Court is in due form of law. - Given under my hand and seal this 24th day of Augt [August[ 1814
Alexr S Bullitt  [seal surrounded by squiggles]
P. J. of [illegible]

I Certify that the within named Matthew McAffee served during the War with Great Britain, I was discharged at Pittsb [Pittsburgh] in the year 1783 - I was well acquainted with him having served int he same Regt for some years - He has been for many years a citizen of this state -- and is the [illegible] to be - Given under my hand this 24th Augt [August] 1816 [illegible]
James [illegible]
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Mathew McAfee
4.057
31. October. 1818

Cont'd


Andrew P. Hay
Charlestown, Ind/
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State of Indiana Sct
Be it Remembered that at a Circuit Court for the County of Clark continued and held by adjournment at the Court House in Charlestown on Thursday the 24th day of August 1820 Before The Honorable Davis Floyd President and William Goodwin and John Beggs Esquires his Associates Mathew McAfee a revolutionary Soldier came personally into court and Being Sworn in the manner prescribed by Law, made and filed the following Declaration and Schedule of his property, to wit, Clark County SS on this Twenty fourth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, Being a court of record for the said county Mathew Mcafee aged Sixty Years, resident in Clark County who Being first Duly Sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath Declare that he Served in the Revolutionary War as follows, to wit, he Belonged to and Served in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, Commanded by Colonel E. 
McCoy in the company of Capt [Captain] M. Carson, that the Date of the commencement of his pension is the 27th day of April 1818, And the number of his certificate of pension (4.657) and I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by Gift, sale, or in any manner whatever disposed of my property, or any part thereof
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with Intent thereby so to Diminish it as to Bring myself within the provision of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United Sates in the Revolutionary war" passed on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities contracts or Debts Due to me, nor have I any Income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed, to wit, "one horse"
Mathew Mcafee
my occupation has Been that of a farmer, and that I am Now entirely unable to pursue that Business, or in any other and as to family I have none
Sworn to and Declared in open court on the 24th day of August 1820, the property in the applicants schedule appraised by the Court at $25.00 Dollars

State of Indiana Sc
I Isaac Shelby Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clark County do hereby certify that eh foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify That it is the opinion of the said Court that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited
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in the aforesaid Schedule, is Twenty five Dollars, 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto Set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this first day of September 1820.
Isaac Shelby Clk [Clerk] of the court for the county of Clark
[illegible stamp on left margin]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME McAffee, Matthew GRADE Corporal LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10095 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED November 5, 1789
to Mathew McAffee-

*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.
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36697
Revy.
INVALID

File No. 26,697
Mtthew McAfee
Priv.  Rev  War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. d, Page 265.

{Arrangement of 1879.}
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Duplicate.
War Department.
Section of Bounty Lands. 16th Sept 1816.
By virtue of an authorisation [authorization] from Mathew McAffee, who was a Corporal in the Pennsylvania Line of the U. S. Revolutionary Army, I the subscriber do acknowledge to have received from the War Department of the U.S. -- a Land Warrant No. 10,005, dated 5th Novr [November] 1789, which was originally issued to the said Mathew McAffee, for his portion of U.S. Military Bounty Land, and which Warrant was afterwards returned & deposited in the said War Dep't. [Department] by Wm Alexander Esqr. [Esquire] to whom it had been previously confided for location.
Signed in Dupto. [Duplicate]
John Graham
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(An addressed envelope.)

Examined

Secretary of War
Washington City, D.C.

Suspended
Penna. 
Matthew McAfee
Cancel by (Illegible)

Adm'd.
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Charlestown May 3rd 1818.

Honored Sir

The enclosed is the declaration of your Humble Servant Who served seven years three Months & twenty three days, in [illegible] & fatigueing [fatiguing] War, and through age & the infirmities accruing by the fatigues aforesaid is much reduced so that he is thereby not only a little Glad to see that his Country has the Goodness to reconsider & provide for those who spent their youthful strenth [strength] in the struggles of freedom
Should you in your wisdom accept this my application it may be necessary to inform [illegible torn] reside at present near Charlestown in [illegible torn] of Indiana I take the Liberty of subscribing myself your Honor, Most Obedent [obedient] and very Humble Servant.
Matthew McAfee
The Honorable - Secretary of War
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State of Indiana}
Clark County}
In pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the eighteenth of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Mathew MCaffee of the County of Clark and State of Indiana came personally before me John Beggs one of the associate Judges for the County aforesaid on the twenty seventh day of April in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen and being duly sworn before me said Judge deposeth [deposes] and saith as followeth [follows] that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six on the tenth day of August of same he inlisted [enlisted] with Captain Moses Carson in the eight Regiment of the Pensyvania [Pennsylvania] line and continued in said servis [service] during the war as a Corporal as in additional evidence of said servis [service] he produced his certificate for one hundred acres of land to be surveyed in the lands alloted [allotted] for said Regiment which certificate certifies that he was a Corporal in same the certificate No 10095 He further saith that at the end of said war that he was discharged by Colonel Stephen Bayard the exact time not recollected and he is not in possion [possession] of said discharge he further states that he is at this time and a long time previous to this time being so debilitated in body that he haveing [having] but little to subsist on and stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he relinquishes all claim to every pention [pension] heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States and humbly prays
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the benefit of the foregoing act 
Giving under my hand and seal the day and date above written
John Baggs [LS surrounded by squiggles]

To the Honorable Secretary of the war department-}

[illegible faint handwriting]

State of Indiana Sc
I Isaac Shelby Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clark County within the State aforesaid, do certify that the above named John Beggs whose name appears as above subscribed, and before whom the within Probate of the said Matthews McAfee was made, is one of our
Associate Judges of the said Circuit Court in and for the said County of Clark duly elected Commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit, are due and ought to be given to all his Official acts as well in Courts of Justice as thereout
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of our said Court this 27th day of April 1818,
J. Shelby Clk [clerk]