Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4964, Anthony Geoghegan, Md.
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(8--1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Geoghegan, Anthony
or
Gohegan
or
Geohegan Ann
NUMBER
W. 4964
B.L. Wt. 1269-100
CONTENTS
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3230 [illegible]
Ohio
Ann Geoghegan
widow of Anthony Geoghegan, Decd [Deceased]:,
Who was a pensioner under the Act of 18th: Mar: 18, and who died on the 24th : May , 1837 - of Warren Co in the State of Ohio - who was a private in the compy [company]: commanded by Col: Gish in the Maryland line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati - at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the [illegible] May, 1837 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June 1839 and sent to Hon: T. Corwin, Lebanon, Ohio - 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $142.20
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept: 40.00
$182.20
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by WM Stewart Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 217
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5950
Ohio
Anthony Geoghegan
Private Maryland Line
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence the 25 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Jan'y 1817
and sent to Matthias Crowin Warren County Ohio Lebanon
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 - 4 M
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819 

$34.6
48
82.60

Notification sent November 14 1820 to George Roling, Lebanon
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A. Gohegan
John C Calhoun
Secretary at war
Washington City
Admitted
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The State of Ohio
Warren County personally came before me the
undersigned one of the associate Judges of the court
of Common pleas for the County of Warren in
the State aforesaid Anthony Geohegan who
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he
did at Baltimore in the spring of the year seven
teen hundred and seventy eight enlist in the service
of the United States of America in a company commanded
 by Captain Benjamin Brooks in the
third regiment of the Maryland line in which
said company regiment & line he served untill the
close of the revolutionary war when he was honorably
 discharged from the service this deponent
further states that he is now a resident of
the County of Warren in the State of Ohio that he
is aged and infirm that he has a young and large
family who depend upon his exertions for a subsistance 
 that he really stands in need of the assistance
of his country to enable him in the decline of his way
in the exhausted State of his constitution & health
to subsist his family and himself
sworn & subscribed before me
the 23th day of Apl 1818
Matthias Corwin
Anthony Geoghegan
Matthias Corwin 
associate Judge W. C.D.
The State of Ohio
Warren County

personally came before me
the undersigned an associate Judge of the court
of common pleas for the County & State aforesaid
John McKnight who being duly sworn deposeth
saith that he knew Anthony Geohegan in
the service of the United States of America from
the spring of the year seventeen hundred and
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seventy eight until the close of the revolutionary war that he is at this time acquainted with said Geohgan and knowing him to be a resident of the County of Warren & State of Ohio & really believing him to be in indigent and satisfactory circumstances and ought to be assisted in his exertions decently to subsist himself and family & further saith not 
Sworn & subscribed before me this 25th day of April 1818 Matthias Corwin Associate Judge W.C.O. 

I Matthias Corwin one of the associate Judges of the court of common pleas for the County of Warren in the State of Ohio do humbly certify that I believe the facts stated in the aforegoing depositions and have given under my hand this April 25 1818 Matthias Corwin A.J.

The State of Ohio Warren County SS

I Mattias Corwin (illegible) clerk of the Court of Common Please in the County of Warren aforesaid do certify that Matthias Corwin Esquire who appears to have taken & signed the written depositions of Anthony Geoghegan & John M,C Knight & also the above certificates is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid duly Commissioned & sworn into office & to whose official acts as such full faith & credit are & of right ought to be given as well in Counts of record as theresaid [there said]

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affirmed the seal for the Court aforesaid at Lebanon this 25th day of April 1818. Matthias Corwin (illegible)
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Ann Gohagan Petition
for Pension
No 5446

Admitted
Priv 2 Yrs $80.

Capt. Brook, Col Gist [illegible]

Died 24 May 1837
Act 7 July 1838

Hon T Corwin
Lebanon, Ohio
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Pleas held at Lebanon in the County of Warren in the state of Ohio on the seventh day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty before the Honorable Joshua Collett Esquire, president Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the seventh circuit and Ignatius Brown, Jacob D Lowe and Matthias Corwin Esquires associate judges.

The state of Ohio Warren County 

Be it remembered that on the twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty Anthony Geohegan filed in court here his petition accompanied by a schedule of his property for the purpose of continuing his pension for revolutionary services in the words and of the tenor following to wit.

The State of Ohio
Warren County

Seventh Circuit Court of Common Pleas

August Term, 1820, on the 22nd day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record instituted pursuant to the constitution and laws of the State of Ohio with unlimited concurrent original jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases, Anthony Geohegan aged fifty-six years of the county and circuit aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his own oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit: I enlisted some time in the spring of 1778 to serve three years and reenlisted for during the war in the same company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Brooks in the Regiment commanded by Col Mordecai Gist in the 3rd regiment of the Maryland continental establishment that I continued to serve in said corps as a musician until the close of the war at which time
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I was discharged at Annapolis in the State of Maryland aforesaid by a resolution of the then congress of the United States. That I made a declaration in the aforegoing facts on or about the 25th day of April AD 1818 and have received a pension certificate numbered 5.250. I have drawn my pension three times and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor any person in trust for me any property, securities, contracts, or debts due to me nor have I any income whatever other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed to wit.

SCHEDULE

I lease for the lifetime of my wife in a small farm house and lot in the town of Lebanon $70.00
1 Bureau - $10.00, 6 Chairs - $4.50, 1 Table - $1.50, 1 pot and oven - $3.00, 1 tea kettle - $2.00, 1 tub and bucket - $1.50, Cupboard ware - $5.00, 1 ax and one hoe - $2.00
Total = $99.50

My profession is that of a tailor which in consequence of the failure of my eyesight I am now unable to pursue so as to contribute to my support I have a wife and one son living
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with me my wife is as old as myself and labours under all the infirmities common to old age such as weakness and failure in eyesight our son John Gohegan is about fourteen years of age and is the youngest of twelve children we have had he is so scarcely able by daily labour to support himself subsequently unable to contribute to our support he needs schooling which I would be glad to give him if I should feel myself able to borrow and subscribed in open court the 22nd Aug, 1820
M Corwin Law CLerk
Anthony Gohegan
The State of Ohio
Warren County
Matthias Corwin law clerk of the court of common pleas for the County of Warren in the State of Ohio Do certify that the aforegoing oath and the schedule thereto annotated are truly copied from the hand of said Court and do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in therefore said schedule is ninety nine dollars and fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and offered the seal of the Court aforesaid on this eleventh day of September 1820
Matthias Corwin (illegible signature title)
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State of Kentucky
Bourbon County

An extract from the return (on record in the Bourbon County Court Clerk's office made by the Rev'd Augustine Eastin of marriages celebrated by him in conformity with licenses issued from this office "Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five December twenty fourth" Anthoney Gohagan and Ann Lilly.
A Eastin 

I Thomas P Smith Clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid do certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the record in my office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 21st day of March AD 1839.

Tho P Smith - Clerk BC
by Thos P Smith
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State of ohio
Warren County

On this 25th day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before me the undersigned an associate judge of the court of common pleas for Warren County, Ann Gohagan a resident of Lebanon in Warren County Ohio aged seventy four years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled and act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Anthony Gohagan new deceased who was a private in the army of the revolution where service will appear as she is informed and believes by reference to the records in the war department where the proofs thereof have been deposited by said Anthony Gohagan on his application for a pension -who is a pensioner as a soldier of the revolution from the 25th day of Oct 1818 till his death which happened on the 24th day of May 1837 as will appear by the certificate appended hereto marked "B".

She further declares that she was married to said Anthomy Gohagen on the twenty fourth of December 1792 as will appear by the record thereof unto appended marked (A) that her husband the aforesaid Anthony Gohagen died at Lebanon Ohio on the 24th day of May 1837 that she was not married
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to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previously to the first of Jany seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz at the time above stated.

Ann Gohagen - Her X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 25th day of May 1839 at the residence of said Ann Gohagen she being worn out and too infirmed to attend court for the purpose of making this declaration.

James Cowan - Judge
Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Warren County

I Horace M Stokes, Clerk protempore of the Court of Common Pleas for said county court certify that the Honorable James Cowan whose name is subscribed above is an associate judge of the court of common pleas for said county duly commissioned and sworn into office as such, that his signature is genuine and that to all his official acts, full faith and credit are due and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Lebanon this 25th day of May AD 1839

H M Stokes, Clerk 

SEAL
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Know all men by these present that whereas the United States by an act passed by Congress for the purpose of securing strength and to augment the continental army in order more effectually to carry into effect and substantiate our independence as a Nation did allow and grant unto those who enlisted in the cause amongst other things, one hundred acres of land, for which a good and sufficient patent was to be given, when application should be made thereof - Now know ye that I Anthony Geoghegan of the County of Warren and State of Ohio have made, ordained, constituted and appointed the Hon. William McLean my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my own proper use and benefit to ask and procure from the said government of the United States a patent for said one hundred acres of land as a consideration in part of the bounty for services rendered by me the said A Geohegan in the Army of the U.S. in the Revolutionary war and upon receipt thereof my said attorney a general release or discharge for the same to make execute and deliver. Hereby ratifying confirming and allowing all and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do in the promise and further, I A. Geoghegan do hereby make constitute and appoint the Hon. Wm McLean aforesaid my sufficient and lawful attorney for me and in my name and to my use to bargain sell grant release and convey to such person or persons and for such sum or sums of money as to my said attorney shall seem most to my advantage and profit and upon such sale or sales to seal execute and deliver in due form of law such deed or deeds for the absolute disposal thereof with such clauses covenants and agreements to be thereon contained as my said attorney shall think fit and expedient and for me and in my name but to my use as aforesaid to accept and receive all and every the sum or sums of money which shall be coming to me on account of said sale or sales and upon the receipt thereof, suitable acquittance or
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acquittances, in my name and stead to make, seal and deliver; and generally, giving to my said attorney, full power of attorney, full power and authority, touching the [illegible] aforesaid, to do, execute, prove and finish, in all things, in as ample a manner, as I might do if personally present. Hereby ratify8ing and confirming all lawful acts done by my said attorney by virtue hereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of February A.D. 1828
Anthony Geohegan [handwritten seal]
Attest
John M Houston
John Reeves
The State of Ohio
Warren County Ss.
Before me the undersigned Justice of the peace within and for said county personally came Anthony Geohegan the maker of the above power of attorney and acknowledged that he signed and sealed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
Given under my hand & seal this 18th day of February 1828
John Houston JP [handwritten seal]

The State of Ohio
Warren County Ss.
I Jonathan K. Wilds, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in the County Afd [aforesaid] do hereby certify that the above named John M. Houston is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and commissioned and that full faith and credit should be given to his acts as such. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas for the County and State aforesaid, at Lebanon this 18th day of February A.D. 1828
J. K. Wilds Clk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
N.F.4.964  WASHINGTON, D.C. , ...........,19...


In reply to your request of ............, received ................
for a statement of the military history of Anthony Geoghegan or
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

Dates of enlistment or appointment/Length of Service
Spring 1778 to close of war
Rank
musician
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
Captain.
Benjamin Brooks
Colonel.
Mordecai Gish
State
3. Md.

Battles engaged in,............
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Baltimore, Md.
Date of application for pension, Apr 25, 1818. His el. was al.
Residence at date of application, Warren Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, 54 years. He died May 24 1837 at Lebanon, Ohio.
Remarks: Soldier war Dec 24, 1792 in in Bourbon Co, Ky. Ann Lilly. She as al. pension on an app. ex. May 25, 1836. While a res. of Warren Co. Ohio aged 74 years. In 1820 a son John was 14 years old, he was the youngest of 12 children. No other names are stated and there is no references made to the parents of soldier or his wife.

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
6-285G
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1916 May 19 Hish. Co. Mrs. P Simmons

Rev Y Widow, &c.

File No. 4964
Ann Geoghegan
Wid.
Anthony Geoghegan
Pvt. Md. Line

Act. July 1738
Index:-Vol. A, Page 268

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Anthony Gohagan Ohio, Act March 18, 1818
to what time j÷r
p. of. 4 March 1837
Pen Office
IH
June 18, 1818
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6.66
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  222
1998
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22.20
40
80
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142
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J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City
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Lebanon 12th June 1839
Dear sir
I send you the papers of Mrs. Gohagan and
I knew her husband well all my life
I have known her also for the same
length of time. I have no doubt of
the truth of every word stated in the
papers. The old lady is very poor
very old & very infirm. If any thing
further is necessary pray let me know
yours truly
Tho Corwin

J. L.  Edwards Esq
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The state of Ohio Warren County

On this 10th day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally came before me the undersigned a justice of the peace for one John Griff who being sworn saith that he is and for many years past has been a citizen of Lebanon in Warren County this, that he has known since 1812 Anthony Gohagen and also his wife that they lived together as such at Lebanon since about the year 1812 to the time of Anthony Gohagen's death about two years ago that said Gohagen was always reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution, that he drew a pension as such for many years before his death - That said Ann Gohagen the widow of said Anthony is now living in Lebanon, Ohio that he always understood said Anthony and his wife came to this place from Kentucky and further saith not.

John Griff

Sworn and subscribed before me at Lebanon Ohio 10th June 1839

Beng Blackburn JP
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The State of Ohio
Warren County 
Horace M. Stokes clerk pro tempore of the court of common pleas of the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin Blackburn is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified: that his commission was dated on the twelfth day of November A.D. 1836 and will expire on the twelfth day of November A.D. 1839 and that his signature within written is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said court, this tenth day of June A.D. 1839.
H. M. Stokes Clerk P.T.
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No. 1269
Anthony Geohagan

Musician Maryland line
attd Hon. Wm. McLean
Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Warren County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Anthony Geoghegan who being first duly sworn as the law directs deposith and saith that he this Deponent served as a Musician in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War. That he enlisted in the Maryland Line, then commanded by Genl. Smallwood; that he enlisted for, and served during the War, and that when peace was declared, and the Army disbanded, he, this defendant was honorably discharged at Annapolis in Maryland. This Deponent further saith that when he enlisted, the bounty was $100 and one hundred acres of land. Said $100 he has received, but the one hundred acres of land he never made application for and the reason why he never did, was because he did not really stand in need of it. This Deponent further saith that he has no doubt but that he is the identical Anthony Geoghegan that appeared on the Regular list in the Solicitor's Office (illeg.) and if any doubt is entertained as to the above facts it will easily be removed by a reference to the records of the War Department, where this Deponent's name is recorded, and legally identified as a pensionary; and that he now draws a pension of Eight Dollars per month paid semi-annually. The Deponent further saith that he is now living, and resides in Lebanon, Warren County, in the State of Ohio, and has resided there for the terms of thirteen years last past and previous thereto he resided in the state of Kentucky, and further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of July, AD 1828
John M. Houston, JD (signature)

Anthony Geohegan (signature)
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The State of Ohio
Warren County

I, Jonathan K. Wilds, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County also do hereby certify that the within named John M. Houston (was at the time of taking this written affidavit & report) is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and commissioned, and that full faith and credit should be given to his acts as such.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid at Lebanon this 18th day of February A.D. 1828.
J. K. Wilds Clk

I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with within named Anthony Geohagen a revolutionary soldier, and do not hesitate to say that in all his statements whether made with or without the obligations of an oath, I would place the most implicit confidence, having known him for near fifteen years past as a citizen of the county of warren and state of ohio here he now resides, and where he has ever sustained the most irreproachable character. He is the same Mr. McLean Anthony Geohagen who now draws a pension from the Government. 4th March 1828
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A. Geoghegan
Payable semi-annually---the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, of the Branch Bank of U.S. Chilicothe Ohio (B)
Recorded
5250
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, 
Anthony Geoghegan late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 25th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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I.N.M.I. Enid, Okla.
Revo. Sec. May 13. '16.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me the records concerning Anthony Geoghegan (or Gohagan) who was a soldier in the Revolution and his wife Ann Lilly Geoghegan, who, I believe, applied for a pension after his death. 
Is there any mention of Anthony's father?
He was a mere boy, according to my records, and his father may
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have been a soldier also. I am trying to get the name of Anthony Geoghegan's father, mother, or brothers and sisters, or the names of Ann Lilly's father or mother, for the purpose of filing papers with a patriotic society. 
Any dates connected with these names may be of help. 
Yours very Respectfully,
Mrs. P. C. Simons, 
1110 W. Main St., 
Enid, Oklahoma