Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40702, Joseph Williams, Continental Pa. Residence Penn. In 1818
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SERVICE:   Continental

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH 

NUMBER:  S40702

Pa    Residence Penn in 1818
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5463

Pennsylvania

Joseph Williams,
Private, Capt Ferguson
Pennsylvania Line,
the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 18th of April, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of Jan'y, 1819 and sent to Jesse Moore Esquire, Meadville, Crawford County Pennsylvania

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818             $36.52
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar, 1819   48.00
                         Total                         $84.52

{Revolutionary claim,    }
{Act 18th March, 1818  }

War
Continued.
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Notification sent 9 Dec. 1820 to Wm MacArthur, Meadville Pa
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Jesse Moore, Esq; Judge, 
Meadville, Crawford
County, Pennsylvania

Joseph Williams
Pennsylvania line,
Revolutionary Claim

Admitted

The discharge transmitted with the declaration of this applicant is deemed sufficient evidence of service; but the judge is desired to certify relative to the indigent circumstanes of the claimant, as in the case of Dennis Kean. 

[written upside down]
Honorable
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of the department of war
City of Washington
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[Duplicate of Doc 4 -  most likely due to the verbiage that was upside down]
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Statement of Joseph Williams residing in the County of Crawford, State of Pennsylvania, who applies for a pension from the United States in pursuance of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" prepared the 18th day of March 1818.  
Said Joseph Williams saith that on the 26th day of April 1777, he enlisted for during the war in Captain James Lee's company, in the Second Regiment of Artillery commanded by Colonel John Lamb, in the Pennsylvania line on the Continental establishment - service in the said company and regiment until the revolt of the Penn'a line, and was then transferred into Captain William Ferguson's company in the Fourth Reg't of Artillery commanded by Colonel Thomas Proctor, afterwards by Lieu't Colonel Andrew Porter, and served in the same company and regiment until the 30th day of August 1783, where he was discharged, which discharge is herewith forwarded to the Hon. Secretary at War - Said Joseph Williams was at Mud Island in the Delaware River when it besieged by the enemy, and was at the capture of General Cornwallis at Yorktown in Virginia.  
The said Joseph Williams hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension that may heretofore have been allowed to him by the laws of the United States, and further saith that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.  
Joseph Williams
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County  SS

On the eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me, Jesse Moore, President of the Sixth Judicial of Penn'a, Joseph Williams, whose name is subscribed to the statement on the opposite page of this paper, and having been duly sworn as the law directs, did declare and say, that the said statement was just and true. 
Joseph Williams
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me.
Jesse Moore

Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania SS
To the Secretary of the Department of War
I the subscriber, President of the Several Courts of Courts of Common Pleas in the Sixth Judicial consisting of the Counties of Butler, Mercer, Venango, Crawford  and Erie within the said Commonwealth, do hereby certify, that from the deposition of Joseph Williams, which I believe is entitled to full credit, it appears to my satisfaction, that he the said Joseph served in the revolutionary war, as he has stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy.  
In testimony whereof this eighteenth day of April 1818 at Meadville in the said County of Crawford, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal.
Jesse Moore
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County SS

I, William MacArthur Prothonotary in and for the County of Crawford in the said Commonwealth do by these presents certify that the Honorable Jesse Moore before whom the foregoing deposition on the foregoing page of this paper was made and whose name is subscribed to the [illegible] in the same, is President of the Sixth Judicial District of the Commonwealth aforesaid comprising the counties of Butler, Mercer, Crawford, Erie and Venango.  That he is duly commissioned and sworn and now acting under the authority of the law Commonwealth to whose official acts as such faith and credit is due any of said right ought to be given as well in courts of Judtics of the United States of America as elsewhere.  
In testimony of which I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the county seal of Meadville in the said County this eighteen day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.  
William MacArthur, Prothonotary

Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania SS
To the Secretary of the Department of War,
I, Jesse Moore, president of the several courts of Common Pleas in the sixth judicial district, now consisting of the counties of Erie, Crawford, Mercer, Verango and the provisional county of Warren in the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify, that the foregoing applicant Joseph Williams, "by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support."  In testimony whereof at Meadville in the said county of Crawford this twenty ninth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighteen I have hereby subscribed my name and affixed my seal.  
Jesse Moore

Crawford County Commonwealth of Pennsylvania SS
I, William MacArthur, Prothonotary in and for the County of Crawford in the said Commonwealth do certify that the Honorable Jesse Moore whose name in his [illegible] hand is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is President of the several courts of Common Pleas in the sixth Judicial District of the Commonwealth aforesaid, that he is duly commissioned and sworn and now acting under the authority of the same to whose official acts as such faith and credit, is due and of right ought to be given as well in courts of Justice of the United States of America as thereby.  Witness my hand on the seal of the said country [illegible] the 29th day of December 1818.  William MacArthur
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Joseph Williams
5,463

Must state his place of residency
[illegible] Jan 1819
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District of Pennsylvania
On this tenth day of June eighteen hundred twenty personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas for the County of Crawford Joseph Williams aged sixty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit in the fourth Regiment of Artillary in the company of Cap't William Ferguson and under the command of Col. Tho. Procter.  The number of the pension certiciate of the deponent is five thousand four hundred and sixty three (5463) and solomnly swear that I was a resident citizen 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 or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide  for persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.  Your declarant is by occupation of farmer and is unable to follow it with profit to himself, he has no family and unless assisted by my country I must depend on public or private change.  
Joseph Williams

Sworn and declared to in open court of record the tenth of June 1820.  Before William MacArthur Proth'y

Schedule of your declarant's property, one horse, one cow, six sheep, no real estate 
Joseph Williams
Sworn in open court the 10th day of June 1820 before William MacArthur, Proth'y
I, William MacArthur, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County
of Crawford do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule there unto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court that, the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifty dollars.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this sixteenth day of June 1820.  William MacArthur, Proth'l of the Court for the County aforesaid.  

District of Pennsylvania, Crawford County  SS
Joseph Williams that petitioner within named being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is a resident of the Township of Mead[ville] in the County of Crawford aforesaid and that he ahs resided there for the last twenty three years.  
Joseph Williams
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 13th day of November 1820
William MacArthur, Proth'y

I William MacArthur, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas for the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the record of the said County, and that when the same was made the Honorable Jesse Moore, Esquire president of the sixth judicial district of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was presiding Judge of the said Court.  
In testimony as here of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Meadville in the said County this twety-second day of November Anno Domini MDCCCXX
William MacArthur, Proth'y of the Court for the County of Crawford.
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Honorable J. C. Calhoun, Esquire
Secretary of the Department of War
in the City of Washington
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40702

INVALID.
Revolutionary

File No. 40,702
Joseph Williams
Priv Rev War

Act 18th March 1818
Index:  Vol 3, Page 367

{Arrangement of 1870}


Pa
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THESE are to CERTIFY that the bearer hereof Joseph Williams, Corporal in the Penn's Artillery regiment, having faithfully served the United States from 26th April 1777 to this day and [illegible] inlifted for the war, is hereby discharged from the American Army.  {signature]

Given at the war office the [illegible]

By order of the Secretary at war, {signature]
30th August 1783  Registered in the books of the regiment, J Parker, adjutant