Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,862, for William Mc Murray, Pennsylvania
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
S.I. Sea Service.

McMurray, William

Number
S. 41.862

CONTENTS
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15.710 
Ohio R 
William McMurray 
of Jefferson Bay in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson of the Pennsylvania line for the term of One Year S.C Sea Service 
Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 28 of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Nov 1819 and sent to Benjamin Tappan Esq Steuben Ohio  
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 $129.86 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820   48. 
$177.86
16 mo 7 days ans. 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued
Pen. Agt Apl 28, 1837.
Notification sent to the Hon S. Herrick 16 Feby 1821
H. R.
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202
William M. Murray
Con
Hon. S. Herrick
Hon. S. Herrick H.R.
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The State of Ohio Guernsey County 
On this 17th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County William McMurray aged sixty seven years, resident in Beaver Township in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath declares that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows.   In first Regiment of the Pennsylvania line Captain John Lowdon's Company, original declaration dated on the twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the number of the pension certificate is 15710. And I do solemnly 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 there of with intent 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 States in the Revolutionary War, "passed on the 18th 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 secureties 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 
Schedule 
3 horse creatures – @ $30.   $90.00 
2 Cows and calves- @ 12     24.00 
1 hog -                      at 3         3.00 
6 Shoats -                 at 1         6.00 
1 old Waggon          at 45      45.00
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3 split bottom chairs, 1 Tea Kettle, 6 plates, some few knives &c worth all together  - $4.00
$172.00
I have a small crop of grain in the field which I obtained by clearing land for a man at the rate of four crop, for clearing it - By occupation a Farmer, but not able to do more than one fourth of a days work in a day. The number of family is eight besides myself 
viz Ann my wife aged 46 years very sickly – 
William aged 18 years, weakly in body. 
George aged 16 - as well as common. 
Mary aged 14 – 
Betsey aged 12 – 
Patty aged 8 - Convulsive. 
Hannah aged 6 - Weakly. 
Daraniah aged 4 – 
(Signed) William McMurray 
Sworn to and declared on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820 in open Count 
Attest C. P. Beatty CLK G.C. 
The State of Ohio Guernsey County Ss. 
I Cyrus P. Beatty, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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 in the aforesaid Schedule, is One hundred and Seventy two dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 16th day of August A.D. 1820 
C. P. Beatty Clk G.C.
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The Deposition of William McMurray of the County of Jefferson, State of Ohio

Sheweth - This Deponent entered the service of his country in the army of the Revolution, about the first of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five-- enlisting as a private soldier in the Company of Capt. John Lancers of the first Regiment in the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Col Thompson for the term of one year.  In this time the Deponent marched from Northumberland County, Penn to Boston where his time having expired he reenlisted in the same Company, Regiment for two years and served therein at the Battles of the Brandywine & German Town. He was among those unfortunate Americans who were inhumanly massacred by the British at Paoli, where he was wounded and escaped with difficulty. He was honourably discharged at the Camp Valley Forge in Pennsylvania in June Seventeen hundred and seventy eight. This discharge the Deponent has unfortunately lost. he again entered the services on board an armed vessel called the "South Carolina," commanded by Comodore Gilleland (Capt John Gainer) and he was taken in this vessel, put into a Prison Ship at New York and confined for three months, suffering many and great hardships untill he effected his escape by strategy.  Further he deposes and says that he from the reduced state of his circumstances is in great need of the assistance of his country for support, that he never has received any pension or compensation whatever from the United States

William McMurray
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State of Ohio Jefferson County} ss   28th April 1818 
Personally came William McMurray who subscribed & was duly sworn to the within deposition before me 
Benj Tappan President of the Court of Common Pleas in the fifth circuit of the State of Ohio 
State of Ohio Jefferson County ss 
In testimony that the Honorable Benjamin Tappan before whom the within deposition was taken is President of the Court of Common Pleas in the fifth circuit of the State of Ohio duly commissioned and qualified to whose official acts as such full faith and credit is due.  I John Patterson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Jefferson have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville the 28th day of April AD 1818 
John Patterson Clk 
Judges certificate states that he is satisfied of the facts of the declaration  
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section. 
AWF/eel
OWN  
October 15, 1928
Mabel L. Mackoy, 
1314 Ninth Street, 
Portsmouth, Ohio. 
Madam:. I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 41862, it appears that William McMurray enlisted June 1, 1775, and marched from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania and served as a private in Captain John Lowdon's Company, in Colonel Thompson's Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Paoli, where he was wounded, and was discharged in June 1778. 
He went on board the "South Carolina”, Captain John Joyner (South Carolina sea service), was captured and confined in a prison ship at New York for three months before he made his escape, no dates to this service given. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was living in Jefferson County, Ohio. 
In 1820, he stated that he was sixty-seven years old, and referred to his wife, Ann, aged forty-six years, and
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to the following children: William, aged eighteen years; George, aged sixteen years; Mary, aged fourteen years; Betsey, aged twelve years; Patty, aged eight years; Hannah, aged six years, and Daraniah, aged four years. 
Respectfully, 
E. W. MORGAN 
Acting Commissioner.
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Merchants & [unreadable]
Pittsburgh April 15 1837
Sir
I have the honor of [unreadable] missing voucher in Case of Wm. McMurray Penr. Under the act of 18 March 1818 who was last paid up to the 4th Sept. 1835.
Having received a Voucher from Pensioner in Illinois, wherein the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court acts as a Magistrate, we do not know whether we and authorized to receive papers executed in that way as in this State no Clerk of the Court can act as a magistrate & with the affixed County Seal.  
I remain very Respectfully 
Your Obt Svt.
Fredk Rand
For [unreadable] Pa.
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pens. 
Washington
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Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ss.  
On the fourteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen personally appeared before me the subscriber president of the several courts of common pleas in the sixth judicial district consisting of the counties Erie, Crawford, Mercer, Venango and Warren in the said Commonwealth,  Charles Cochran, a disinterested and credible witness resident in the said County of Crawford, who, after having been duly sworn doth declare and depose that he is and hath been well acquainted with William McMurray from his infancy, that this deponent enlisted about the last 1775 in the company commanded by Captain John Lowdon, belonging to the first Pennsylvania regiment then commanded by Colonel Thompson, on the continental establishment, that this deponent continued to serve in the said company and regiment for one year the term of his enlistment, when he was then discharged; that this deponent personally knows that the said William McMurray enlisted the aforesaid company for the term of one year a few days after this deponent enlisted in the said month of June 1775 or the beginning of July next following the said month of June, & that the said William continued to serve in the said company & regiment for one year from the time of his enlistment; and this deponent personally knows, that the said year's service for which he had enlisted had expired, after said William again enlisted for two years in the aforesaid company and regiment - and further this deponent saith not   
Charles Cochran
Sworn & subscribed day and year above written 
Jesse Moore 
On the above stated fourteenth day of September 1819 personally appeared before me the above signed Jesse Moore president &c as above mentioned, James Long disinterested and credible witness resident in the said County of Crawford, who after having been duly sworn doth declare and depose, that while serving as a soldier in the regiment commanded by Col. Anthony Wayne, he saw the above named William McMurray on Long Island, serving in the spring of 1776 as enlisted soldier in the company and regiment mentioned by the above deponent Charles Cochran and further this deponent saith not. 
James Long
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before 
Jesse Moore 
To the Secretary of the Department of War  
I the above signed Jesse Moore do hereby certify, that the above named deponents Charles Cochran & James Long are severally disinterested and credible witnesses. In testimony whereof at Meadville in the County of Crawford I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this fourteenth day of September MDCCCXIX
Jesse Moore [seal]
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Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ss: 
I the subscriber Prothonotary in and for the County of Crawford do by these presents certify that the Honorable Jesse Moore Esqr before him the depositions on the preceding page of this paper were made and whose name in his proper hand was subscribed to the certificate in the preceding hereof is President of the sixth Judicial district of the said Commonwealth that he is duly commissioned and sworn and now acting under the authority of the said Commonwealth and that faith and credit is due and of right ought to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice of the United States as elsewhere  
In testimony of her hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal at Woodville the fourteenth day of September Anno Domini MDCCCCXIX. 
William McArthur Prothy 
Pennsylvania before the subscriber president of Court of Common Pleas of Fifth Judicial District in the Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Vaughan a resident of Roh township Allegheny County within the said district who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with William McMurray the within named applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of 18 March 1818 that this deponent knows that William served from the time of his enlistment which was the year 1775 until July 1778 when he was honorably discharge Valley Forge. And this deponent further says that that the said from his reduced circumstances stands in need the assistance of his country for support
Thomas Vaughan
Sworn & Subscribed this 20th day of September AD 1819 at the City of Pittsburgh 
Saml Roberts
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Allegheny County SS
I Ephraim Pentland, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania, do by these presents Certify that Samuel Roberts, Esquire, before whom the above deposition was taken, and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing Subscribed his name, now is and was at the time of taking the same President of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania including the County of Allegheny to all whose acts as and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout the United States as elsewhere 
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and of the said Court to be affixed at the City of Pittsburgh this 20th day of September Anno Domini 1819 
E. Pentland Pro.
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Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington
William McMurray
Penn’a Line
Col. Thompson
June 1775 – 1 year
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I Benjamin Tappan, President Judge as is aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William McMurray did serve in the revolutionary War as is stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the Continental establishment & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me as well of the testimony taken before Judges Roberts & Moore to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his Country for support by 
Benj Tappan
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U. S. PENSION OFFICE C NOV 22 1915
Rev Sec
Santa Ana Calif.
Nov 16 1915  
United States Com of Pension 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir 
I want a copy of the pension certificate of William McMurray a Lieutenant who served under Colonel Edward Hand in First Pennsylvania Continental Line, Rev. War.  
The original copy is the hands of a distant member of the family and I want
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a copy of my own & for keepsake and to help establish my identity to join the D.A.R. 
Will you send me such a copy?  I will be glad to pay any expense connected with it. 
Very Sincerely 
Vanche Etoil Plumb 
525 Wellington Ave 
Santa Ana Calif.
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OWN
O. W. & N. DIVISION AUG 10 1901 RECEIVED
McConnelsville O Aug 6 1901
Hon Clay Evans
Dear Sir 
We are publishing a new Atlas of Morgan Co O. I would like very much if you could do me a favor. I am a Grandson of a Revolutionary soldier and the information desired is to be published in said atlas.   
My Grandfathers name was William Murray or he may have written McMurray as that was originally the name.  He entered the service shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill served under Gen Wayne - want to know Regiment, Colonel, Captain and Company.  Volunteered from State Penn. I think. If you can give desired information will be very grateful. 
Yours J. M. Murray
McConnelsville
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41862
Revy
INVALID
File No. 41,862
William McMurray
Pri  Rev War
Act: - 18” March 18”
Index:- Vol. 5, Page 520
Aug 15, 1901
J. M. Murray, McConnelsville, Ohio.
1915 Nov 29 Hist to Vanche Etoile Plumb c
1928 Oct 15  - Hist to Mabel L. Mackoy  AWF
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In reply to your request of -  received  - for a statement of the military history of William McMurray a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired 6 information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. 41862  only one in Penn   
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. June 1, 1775 LENGTH OF SERVICE.  to June 1778   RANK. Private OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain John Lowden  Colonel Thompson  STATE. Penn. Battles
Discharged at Valley Forge
Captain John Joyner on board “South Carolina” S. C. Sea Service  Gillen
He was captured & confined in prison ship at New York 3 months before he made his escape
Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown, Paoli Massacre in which he was wounded & escaped with difficulty.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [unreadable] Northumberland Co. Penn.   
Date of application for pension, Apl 28, 1818. His claim was allowed 
Residence at date of application, Jefferson Co., Ohio. 
Age at date of application, in 1820, sixty-seven years. 
Remarks: In 1820 he refered to his wife Anne and Children: William at 18 yrs.; George 16 yrs.; Mary at 14 yrs; Betsey at 12 yrs.; Patty at 8 yrs; Hannah at 6 yrs; . & Daraniah at 4 yrs. 
Ok 
Respectfully,
Commissioner
(1872 Commander Alexander Gillen
Capt. John Joyner
See Vol. I S. C. book)
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Rev.
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This Woman wrote Genl Land Office Mrs Robb Connover & got 3 mos. from old book on 3 men & has written all he knows about land – So we will treat it as pension & not refer her to Land Off. S. 41862 is the only one of Ohio – Send & say so Mrs. Robb 
Ans her Dec-10-27
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1314 Ninth Street, 
Portsmouth, Ohio. 
December 14th, 1927.
The U. S. Pension Department, 
Washington, D. C. 
Gentlemen: 
I am seeking information concerning a Revolutionary Soldier, William M. McMurray (sometimes spelled Murray), who was pensioned in 1819 for his services as a private in the Pennsylvania Continental Line. He received as a pension a section of land in Morgan County, Ohio, granted to him about 1821. If you have William McMurray's pension application in your department, will you please send me all information given on it, especially any concerning his wife, Rosa Genira, I think her name was, and all dates. 
Also a Revolutionary Soldier, Joel Higley, appointed 2nd Lieutenant in Capt. Asa Bray's Company in 2nd. Battalion, Col. Thaddeus Cook commanding, Nov. 1776. Please give all information that may be found on his pension application. I think he was a native of the state of Connecticut at that time. 
Thanking you for this courtesy, 
I am Very truly yours, 
(Miss) Mabel L. Mackay 
Registrar. 
Joseph Spencer Chapter, D.A.R.
U. S. PENSION OFFICE DEC 15 1927