Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7412, for Peter Mc Cune, Virginia
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3962.
Virginia Richmond
Christiana McCure Restored
widow of Peter McCure New Certificate
Va issued and sent to
who was a Private S. L. Hays Esq
in the Revolution Reported to Agent
see letter.
Death date not on A.B.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of ILL
80 Dollars - 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
18th day of Decr. 1843
and sent to
S. L. Hays Esq.
Stewarts Creek
Va,
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 150
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is Ordered that the proceedings herein had be Certified to the secretary of the Department of War
In Testimony of the above I Daniel Stringer Clerk of the said Court, have hereunto set my hand & private seal (there being no seal of Office) the said 3d day of August 1878 & 43d year of the Independence
D Springer C.L.C. {seal}

Note Lewis County was recently Organized and County Leaks had not yet been furnished.
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At A Court held for the County of Lewis September Term 1820 Peter McCure for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the Acts of Congress of the United States for the relief of the Officers and Soldiers of the Land and Naval Service of the United States Came into court and made oath to the following Declaration towit
Virginia SS At A Court held for the County of Lewis on the 13th day of September 1820 it being a Court of Record for Said County Peter McCure a resident of the Said County of Lewis who being first duly Sworn According to Law doth on his oath declare that he Served in the Revolutionary War as follows towit that he Enlisted as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War in the year 1777 in a Company of Regulars under the Command of Captain John Lewis of the 2d Virginia Regiment under the Command of Col Hennis Morgan that he afterwards at Petersburg entered as a private in Captain Campbells Company of Regulars Attached to the 9th Virginia Regiment under Col Gibson that he remained in the Service of the United States against the English and Indians attached to Said 9th Regiment for three years when he was Regularly discharged at Wheeling in the year 1781 and that he has lost his discharge that he is aged 72 years next November that he has received a Pension Certificate dated the 5th day of March 1819 No 1165 Endorsed payable Semiannually the first payment on the Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next in Richmond Virginia at the U.S. Branch bank And I the Said Peter McCure do Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not Since that time by Gift Sale or in any other manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intention thereby so to Diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress Entitled "An Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United
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I Daniel Stringer Clerk of the County Court of Lewis County do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of a declaration & Schedule Exhibited in the County Court of Lewis County by Peter McCure of Said County on the 13th day of September 1820 and Sworn to and Subscribed by said McCure in open Court and entered of record and that the Said Edwd. Jackson, J. Stuth, James Keith, and Waden Huffman are Acting Justices for Said County and were the Justices Composing the Court at the time of Exhibiting the said Declaration & Scheudle
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my private Seal (there being no Seal of Office in this County) this 13th day of September 1820 D Stringer CLC {seal}