Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,087, for Mungo Lindsay, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
PENN.

LINDSAY, MUNGO
or LINDSEY

NUMBER
S.40.087
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4,018

Pennsylvania Roll

Mungo Lindsey
Capt. Morrow
Private
Pennsylvania Line  20 months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Penna. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Oct 1818 and sent to Jonathan Walker, Esq. 
Bellefont Penna.

 Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818  34.13
 Semi-anl.all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819  48.00
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$82.13    4 mo 8/30

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

Report to Hon. W. P. Maday
H of Rep

not entitled --

Bald Eagle Township, Pa.
26/14 Centre County
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Pennsylvania

[Faint illegible writing]

James Dougherty [crossed out]

Mongo Lindsey


Jno Rankin
Bellefonte Pa
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania   }  
Centre County Ss
 Court of Common Pleas 4th Judicial district
29th August 1820

On this 29th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record ^by the laws of the United States in and for Centre County aforesaid Mungo Lindsay aged sixty eight years, resident in Bald Eagle Township in Centre County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows -- sometime in March in the year 1776 he enlisted with Capt. Morrow, in Lancaster County, for the term of twenty months of Col. Miles' Rifle Regiment, and Marched to Marcus Hook where he remained some months thence to Long Island -- that he marched from Long Island to New York thence to the White Plains -- that from the White Plains he retreated through Jersey with the army to Pennsylvania and lay some time on the Delaware above Trenton and on the 26th December 1776 as near as he can recollect he crossed the river again with the army and was engaged in the taking of some Hessians at Trenton -- that he lay part of that winter in Philadelphia and in March 1777 marched to Bellings Fort under the command of Col. Bull -- that he was in the Battle of Long Island, White Plains - Trenton and Germantown besides many  skirmishes -- that he was honorably discharged at the Valley Forge the 1st day of January 1778 in the words following --  "The bearer hereof Mungo Lindsey  having served twenty months in the Reg.t at present commanded by Col. Walter Stewart according to the articles of his enlistment is now Honorably discharged from the service and permitted to pass  to his own home -- Given under my hand this first day of January 1778" W.Stewart, Col 13" P Reg.t

That in pursuance of his declaration made before Judge Walker on the 27th day of April 1818, he was placed on the Pension list of which he received a Certificate from the War Department dated the twenty-first day of October 1818 No. 4.0187--
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And I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18" day of March A.D. 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 so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress as titled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War", 
passed on the 18th day of March 1818;  and that I do 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed  viz -.

Valuation, valued August 16th 1820

$  90.00  3 Horses each thirty dollars
    32.00  4 cows each eight dollars
    35.00  7 head young cattle each four dollars
      3.00  3 calves each one dollar
    14.00  1 Stack wheat fourteen dollars
    60.00  4 Stacks rye 
     5.00   1/2 do oats  five do
   40.00   1 waggon forty do
    9.00  2 Ploughs ea four dollars and fifty cents
    5.00  2 Harrows - 5 dollars
    7.50    5 pair traces & Horse gears  Seven dollars & fifty cents
    5.00  1 old Wind mule
    8.00  Rifle - Gun
    2.00   Iron Kettle
    1.00   Iron Pot
    0.40  1/2 doz  Old Pewter heads
    0.50  1 Frying pan
    8.00  1 Tin Plate Stove
     0. 75  3 Chairs  twenty five cents
     0.50  1 Old Hand Saw  fifty cents
     1.00    2 Augers & 1   old axe
     2.00   1  old saddle and bridal
      . 50  1 Looking Glass
   18.00   9 Hogs  ea. 2.00
    1.00   2 buckets & churn
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$ 351.15  Total
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List of debts owing by Mungo Lindsey

$ 75.00 Judgement on Esq.  White's Docket          8.57-1/2 Jno McGhee
36.46 James Richards
38.60 William Fearon
 4.50 Chistr Bechtel
32.40  }     Note to Jno Manuel in the hands of D. Allen for collection }
 20.7  Wm Floyd  account
 1.27  Wm. Yonce
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$217.52  Total

Contra

 37.35 Henry James owes Mongo Lindsey

I did follow the weaving trade but from losing one of my eyes have not been able to follow it for some years back.  I have no wife, have two children living at home with me a son and a daughter, my son is19 years old, my daughter 16 years  -- I have other children but who are married and doing for themselves but who are not in situations to render me any assistance.  I have been ruptured in my bowel, in consequence of which my bodily powers are weakened.       Mongo Lindsey [signature]

Sworn & subscribed the 29th day of August 1820 before me in open court
Jno Ranken Prothy

The Court are of opinion that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred and fifty dollars & fifteen cents, and it also appears that the aforesaid  applicant is considerably in debt, as appears by the schedule aforesaid.  --- By the Court 29 Aug 1820.

Centre County  SS    I, John Rankin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of 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 in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred and fifty one dollars and fifteen cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this 29th day of Aug1820. 

John Rankin, Prothy
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1 March 1823

Mungo Lindsey,
Pa

March 1819


Hon. John Mitchell, of Pen. H. R.
recd 26 Jan. 1827
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2 augurs, 1 old ax, 1 old saddle + bridle; 1 looking glass, 9 hogs, two buckets, 1 chain; the whole valued at $351.15 -- and was indebted           at that time to sundry persons in the sum of two hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty two cents, and had owing to him the sum of $37.50 that of the property he then possessed     he now on retains the  horse mentioned in the application, the horse valued at thirty five dollars and one heiffer valued at five dollars, that to pay his debts, he sold the two horses, three cows and some young cattle, the wheat, rye and oats and riffle gun + stove to Oliver and James Lindsey for two hundred dollars; that the residence of the property has been a [illegible] to the support of this declarant, except such articles as worn out through use, and some of the cattle that died; that the bodily infirmity of this declarant has increased so much, that he is entirely unable to do any labour for his support. That he receives of forty eight dollars per annum from the State of Pennsylvania as a sarjent and that from infirmity he is unable to write his name.

Mongo    X   Lindsey
     His  Mark

Sworn + Subscribed 29th November 1826 Coram Jno Hawkin Prothy

And now on this 29th day of November 1826. It is duly  proved + approves to the satisfaction of the Court that Mongo Lindsey did serve in the Revolutionary War as is stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months, under one engagement in the Continental establishments and that it is the opinion of the  said Court, that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty dollars --   Per Geriam

Filed in the Prothonotary's office   }
the 1st day of December A.D. 1826}

Centre County  SS
I John Rankin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in + for the County of Centre do hereby certify that, the foregoing is a true copy of Mongo Lindsey's Declaration and list of property with the opinion of the Court, as filed among the records of this Court -- this said Court being a Court of Record --

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 29 day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six. 1826


Jno Rankin Prothy.
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Centre County }
Pennsylvania   }   SS

In the Court of Common Plea --
4 Judicial District

On the 30th day of November 1826 Personally appeared in the Open Court of Common Pleas of Centre County being a Court of record, for the fourth Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Mongo Lindsey , resident in the said County of Centre aged seventy four  years & upwards, who being first duly sworn, according to law , doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the first day of May 1810 [1820].  That the said Mongo Lindsey enlisted for the term of twenty months from the [blank] day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, in Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Morrow in Col. Miles Rifle Regiment in the Pennsylvania line, on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve to the first day of January 1778, that his name has been placed on the Pension List Roll of the Pennsylvania agency at the rate of eight dollars per month and dropped therefore on a/c [account] of his property --

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I solemnly 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 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 certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any properties or securities, contracts or debts due to me, not have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed,  viz one horse and one heiffer, that declarant was a weaver by occupation, but is  entirely unable to pursue any occupational; and does not keep house, but lives with three of his children, viz Oliver, James & Elizabeth. They are all above the age of twenty one years, and possess no property but what they gain by manual labour -- that since the exhibition of my first schedule , the following changes have been made in my property; my first schedule I exhibited the following property owned by me viz. Three horses, 4 cows, 7 head of young cattle, 3 calves, 1 stack of wheat, 4 stacks of rye, stack oats  1, 1 waggon, two ploughs 2 harrows , 6 pairs of traces & horse [geers?], 1 old windmill, 1 riffle gun, 1 iron kettle, 1 iron pot, half dozen old pewter plates, 1 frying pan, 1 tin plate stove, 3 chairs, 1 old hand saw








































Pennsylvania    }
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2 augurs, 1 old ax, 1 old saddle & bridle; 1 looking glass, 9 hogs, two buckets, 1 chain; the whole valued at $351.15 -- and was indebted           at that time to sundry persons in the sum of two hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty two cents, and had owing to him the sum of $37.50 that of the property he then possessed     he now on retains the  horse mentioned in the application, the horse valued at thirty five dollars and one heiffer valued at five dollars, that to pay his debts, he sold the two horses, three cows and some young cattle, the wheat, rye and oats and riffle gun & stove to Oliver and James Lindsey for two hundred dollars; that the residue of the property has been a applyed to the support of this declarant, except such articles as worn out through use, and some of the cattle that died; that the bodily infirmity of this declarant has increased so much, that he is entirely unable to do any labour for his support. That he receives of forty eight dollars per annum from the State of Pennsylvania as a sarjent [sergeant] and that from infirmity he is unable to write his name.

Mongo    X   Lindsey
     His  Mark

Sworn & Subscribed 29th November 1826 Coram [Latin term meaning in the presence of] Jno Hawkin Prothy

And now on this 29th day of November 1826. It is duly  proved & appears to the satisfaction of the Court that Mongo Lindsey did serve in the Revolutionary War as is stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months, under one engagement in the Continental establishments and that it is the opinion of the  said Court, that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is forty dollars -  Per Curiam* [Latin term meaning "by the court"]
Filed in the Prothonotarys office
the 1st day of December AD. 1826}}

Centre County Ss
 I John Rankin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Centre, Do hereby certify that, the foregoing is a true copy of Mungo Lindsay's Declaration and list of Property with the opinion of the Court, as filed among the records of this Court - this said Court being a Court of record -
 In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this 29 day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six. 1826
  Jno Rankin  Prothy
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40087

INVALID.
Revy

File No. 40,087

Mongo  Lindsey
 Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"

Index: -- Vol.  3  ,  Page   295

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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See letter to the Hon John Mitchell of
Pa.  H of R  
3 Feby 1827
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania }
Centre County   SS                       }

On the 27th day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber & [ajutent?] Judge of the 4th Judicial District of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared Mongo
Lindsey age sixty four, resident in Bald Eagle Township in said County who being by me just duly sworn according to law doth on this solemn oath make they're following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by late 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. That the said Mongo Lindsey enlisted in Capt. Morrow's company in March one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and was appointed a sergeant in said company then commanded by Col. Samuel Miles and afterward commanded by Col. Walter Stuart of the Pennsylvania Line as by his discharge in his possession [manifestly?] appears that he served in the army of the United States of America twenty months and  was regularly and honorably discharged.  And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support.  
  Mongo Lindsay

Sworn and subscribed before me 
Jonathan Walker

The bearer hereof Mongo Lindsey Sergeant having served twenty months in the regiment at present commanded by Col. Walter Stuart according to the articals of his enlistment.  Is Now honourably discharged from his service and permitted to return to his own home given under my hand this first  day of January 1778.

W. Stuart Col.
13th [?]  Reg.t
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I Jonathan Walker Judge & [ca?] as afd [aforesaid] Do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Mr. Mongo Lindsey did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the above declaration against the Common Enemy; And by his discharge before me exhibited a true copy whereof is hereunto  annexed which together with his affidavit. I respectfully transmit to the Secretary of the War Department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Bellefonte the 27th Day of April A.D. 1818.
Jonathan Walker [signature]

[Upside down]
To Jonathan Walker
Bellefonte 
Admitted

Mongo Lindsey
27 April 1818

[Right Side Up]

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Centre County   SS

On the twenty seventh day of April A.. D. 1818. Before me the subscriber & resident Judge as afd [aforesaid] personally came Matthew Allison Esq, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with the within named applicant that he is a man of good moral character and that full confidence may be placed in his oath and that he is now in reduced circumstances and  in need of the assistance of his country for his support and further said deponant  saith not
M. Allison [signature]
Sworn and subscribed the day 
and year just above
written 
 
Jonathan Walker