Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,553, for Mathew Pettit, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Pettit, Mathew
NUMBER
S.35.553
CONTENTS
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9110
Kentucky
Matw. Pettit, of Bath in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel McCoy of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of June 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of April 1819 and sent to Thomas Triplett, Clk., Bath, Owingsville, Ky.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 8 months $68.76
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 1819. $48
$116.76
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
letter: 16 January 1838
Hon. R. N. Menefee
Date of death not on A.B.
Notification sent to Wm. M. Sudduth, Esq. 11 Nov 1820, Owingsville, Ky.
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Matthew Petit
237
9,110
Continued
Sept 1819
Wm. M. Sudduth
Owingsville, Ky
16 Nov. 1820
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State of Kentucky {
Bath County { Sct     
August Court 1820 

On this the 14th day of August 1820 Matthew Pettitt produced and made oath to his schedule and statement as a revolutionary pensioner which is ordered to be certified to the Secretary of War as follows towit” On this the 14 day of August 1820 Personally appeared before the Honourable Justices of the County Court of Bath in [illegible] in Open Court the same being a Court of Record Mathew Petit aged about 60 years resident in the aforesaid County of Bath who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows towit In the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col Daniel Broadhead and was enlisted by Benjamin Peger[?] private in the Company of Capt John Finley and was attached to the same company of the said Col Daniel Broadhead was enlisted in the year 1776 the number of his pension certificate is 9101 and his original Statement having date the [blank] day of [blank] 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 way disposed of my property or any part thereof with an 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 1818 and that I have not nor has any
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person in trust for him any property or annuities, debts or contracts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
[illegible] haps - $6.00
I am by occupation a farmer and I am unable to procure a living by my labor owing to age and infirmity and [illegible] received in the Revolutionary Service. I have a wife aged forty-two years and children: Drusilla, aged 11 years, Nancy, aged 12 years, Samuel, aged 10 years, Ann, aged 8 years, Polly, aged 6 years and David, aged one month.
Mathew Pettit [his mark]
I, William M. Sudduth, Clerk of the County Court of Bath, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto 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 stated amount in value of the property entered in the aforesaid Schedule is six dollars. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Owingsville this 2nd day of October 1820 in the 29th year of the Commonwealth.
William M. Sudduth
Clerk of the Court of the County of Bath
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J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Jan 16
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Washington 15 Jan. 1838.
Sir,
I enclose for your consideration a document much mutilated, but which I hope you may be able to comprehend; with a request that you inform me whether the pensioner therein named is entitled to lands or anything further of the U. States; and if so, what. The requisite evidence, I [illegible] suppose, is on file, to enable you to make a decision. Is his widow entitled to anything? And what circumstances must be made apparent?
Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. H. Menefee
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Mathew Pettitt
for Statement
Pension
Penn. Line
Col. Willson - Col. McCoy - 8 Regiment
1777 - 1780, 3 years
Admitted
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Bath County – Kentucky Sct

Mathew Pettet a Citizen of Kentucky states that he was a private soldier in the Continental Army and served for Three years and at the end of that Period Was honorably discharged which discharge was burnt in his house at a time when his House was burnt_

That he was enlisted for three years at Jacobs Creek near to Col. Mounts, Mill in the County of   State of Pennsylvania by Capt. James Pickett [Piggott] of the 8th Pennsylvania Regt. Commanded by [Lt.] Col. Willson [George Wilson] and Col. McCoy [Aeneas Mackay] – And afterwards by Col. Broadhead [Daniel Brodhead] who gave him his discharge at Fort Pitt at the end of the time afsd [aforesaid] His enlistment was in 1777, to the best of his recollection – and of course his discharge was in 1780, but the time may be corrected by the period when Col. Broadhead was stationed at Fort Pitt

That he is now in Indigent circumstances and has not property of the value of Thirty Dollars real and personal and is unable to work by reason of a wound in his arm or rather in his shoulder near the Back bone which disables his left arm especially now in his advanced years he being about 58 years old this fall – He is also Injured by a wound in the left leg both of which wounds he got in the Battle of Brandiwine [Brandywine] – He asks for the pension allowed by Law to him as a revolutionary soldier in consequence of his total inability to support himself and says further that his Family is large having four children the oldest of which is only Eight years of age, and further that he has never had a pension allowed him for his wounds_
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And that he has no other evidence of his services save that which is sent herewith or what may be found in the war office

Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell states that she is the sister of said Matthew Pettit and lived at her Fathers when her brother Enlisted in the Continental Army

That he was absent from home more than Three years and she has always been informed and believes that he served out his time and was honorably discharged –

That she knows of her own knowledge that said Pettit is in very indigent Circumstances with a young family of four Children and unable to support them by work

State of Kentucky {
Bath Circuit { Sct
Ordered that it be certified to the Secretary at war that the proceeding examination of Mathew Pettet and Rebecca Mitchell was taken on oath in open court and that it does appear to the sattisfaction of this court by said examination that the said applicant Mathew Pettet was during the revolution war an enlisted soldier and that he served as such as in said examination as stated and that he said Mathew Pettet is in such needy & indigent  circumstances as to require the aid of his Country provided by the act of congress in such cases provided the foregoing Statements Sworn to in open court in due form of law  In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office this 17th day of June 1818 and in the 27th year of the commonwealth
                                                                                            Atl Thomas Triplett, Clk [Clerk]
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January 11, 1938.
Mr. William M. Pettit
846 North Broadway
Dayton, Ohio.
BA-J/ILL
Mathew Pettit
S. 35553
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Matthew (or Mathias) Pettit who served from Pennsylvania and lived in Kentucky about 1840.
The record of Mathew Pettit is furnished you herein as shown in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 35553, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War; he received a pension while a resident of Kentucky.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Mathew Pettit are not shown.
He enlisted in 1776 or 1777 at Jacobs Creek, in Pennsylvania, served as a private in Captain James Piggott's company, Colonels Mackey and Wilson's 8th Pennsylvania regiment, and in Captain John Finley's company, Colonel Daniel Brodhead's 8th Pennsylvania regiment and was discharged at Fort Pitt, at the expiration of service of three years for which he had enlisted; during this service, he was in the battle of Brandywine, in which he received wounds in his left leg and in his shoulder which disabled his left arm.
Mathew Pettit was allowed pension on his application executed June 17, 1818, at which time he resided in Bath County, Kentucky. He gave his age then as "about fifty-eight years this fall". In 1818, the soldier referred to a large family, having four children", the eldest only eight
years of age; he did not state the name of his wife, nor give the names
of said children.
In 1820, the soldier stated that he had a wife, aged forty-two years, her name not given, and children Drusilla, aged fourteen years, Nancy, aged twelve years, Samuel, aged ten years, Ann, aged eight years, Polly, aged six years, and David, aged one month. There are no further
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data regarding these children.
In 1838, the widow of the soldier was living.
In 1818, the soldier's sister, Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, stated in Bath County, Kentucky, that she was living at home at her father's house at the time her brother served in the Revolutionary War; she did not state the name of her own husband.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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35553
Revy. INVALID.
File No. 35.553
Mathew Pettit
Private, Rev War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: -- Vol. L, Page 325
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1913. Nov. 14 - Hist to Mrs. D. A. Rankin, M.B.H.
1933 - Hist. to A.C. Pettit - ILL
1938. Jan. 11 - Hist. to Wm M. Pettit- ILL
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Jan 16, 1838
Ken
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War Dept., Pension Office
Jan. 16. 1838
Sir,
I herewith return the Pension certificate of Matthew Pettit, deceased, and have to inform you that there is no pay due his widow, for his revolutionary services. For information respecting land, I would refer you to W. Gordon Esq. who has charge of the Bounty Land Office.
Upon referring to his papers on file in this office, it would appear [strikethrough: that his widow is not entitled to a pension under act of 4 July 1836] Mrs. Pettit in 1820 was forty-two years of age and at the termination of the revolutionary war was consequently only five years of age. She could not, of course, have been married before the termination of his revolutionary service, which you will perceive by reading the act of 4 July 1836, is necessary to entitle the widow to a Pension. Enclosed is a copy of that act.
Hon. R. H. Menefee
H. R.
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[Stamp: U.S. Pension Office, Nov 12, 1913]
7th St. S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota
7. Nov. 1913.
Dear Sir,
Will you please send me a copy of the Pension application of Matthew Pettit who served in the Rev War from N.J. and was granted a pension from Bath Co., Ky. Also Thomas Pettit a Rev. soldier from N.J. who lived at Shelby Co., Ky. at the time of the application.
Thanking you,
Mrs. D. A. Rankin
1410 7th SE Minneapolis, Minn.
A Pettit DC
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Dear Sir:
Please send me the Rev. War record of [only one]
Matthew Pettit, Pennsylvania lines B 1745. Lived in Barren Co., Ky where he died about 1821.
A. C. Pettit
1230 W. Grand River Ave., East Lansing, Michigan
[Stamp: Received Jan 24, 1933, Mail Sub-Div. Vets Adm.]
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The Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
BOARD OF MANAGERS 1937-38
WILLIAM H. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT
E. NELSON HIGH, 1ST V. PRESIDENT
H. WILLIAM HOLSINGER, 2ND V. PRESIDENT
WILLIAM M. PETTIT, SECRETARY-REGISTRAR
ARTHUR L. MOLER, TREASURER
CLARK M. GARBER, HISTORIAN
REV. H. B. DIEFENBACH, CHAPLAIN
DR. ALVIN E. WAGNER
DR. W. C. GRAHAM
DR. ROBERT B. GAGE
WAYNE DANCER
DR. L. W. S. STRYKER
HON. CHARLES B. ZIMERMAN
DR. FRANKLIN C. WAGENHALS
REV. E. P. WHALLON, CHAPLAIN EMEATUS
COL. ANSEL E. BECKWITH, N.S. TRUSTEE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
THE PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN
THE SECRETARY, THE TREASURER
HON. CHARLES B. ZIMMERMAN
DR. FRANKLIN C. WAGENHALS
NEW ORGANIZATION AND MEMBERSHIP
THE SECRETARY, CHAIRMAN
THE PRESIDENT, DR. FRANK W. GARDNER
CAPT. H. WILLIAM HOLSINGER
LEGISLATIVE-RESEARCH
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HON. MILES S. KUHNS
GOOD CITIZENSHIP
WALTER D. McKINNEY, CHAIRMAN
WILLIAM W. PETTIT, SECRETARY-REGISTRAR
346 NORH BROADWAY, DAYTON, O.
Jan. 4, 1938
Department of the Interior,
Veterans Administration,
Division of Revolutionary War Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I wish to secure information as to a Rev. War pensioner, Matthew (or Mathias) Pettit, who was in the Penna. C. L., also Ranger service. His regiment made rendezvous at Kittanning, Pa. late 1776, marched to Quibbletown, N. J., under Col. George Wilson, arriving late in winter of 1777-8. I believe he was in Kentucky and 1840, where he died.
Information is of special interest if his pension papers disclose place of birth, age, date of decease, and family.
Yours truly,
William Pettit
[Stamp: Received Jan 6, 1938, Mail Sub-Div. Vets. Adm.]
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RECORD DIVISION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [blank], 19[blank]
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Mathew Pettit, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [strikethrough: (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 35553
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (CAPTAIN., COLONEL.) | STATE.
1776 or 1777 | 3 years | Private | Jame Piggott, John Finley, Wilson, Mackey, Daniel Brodhead | Penn.
Battles engaged in, Brandywine, where wounded in shoulder and left leg.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, entered at Jacobs' Creek, Penn.
Date of application for pension, June 17, 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Bath Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, 58 years, fall of 1818
Remarks: In Aug 1820, soldier had a wife, name not stated, aged 42 years, and the following children: Dunsellah 14 years, Nancy 12 years, Samuel 10 years, Ann 8 years, Polly 6 years and David 1 Mo.
Very respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner.
6-2856
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May 10, 1933.

A.C. Pettit                                        BA-J/ILL
1230 West Grand River Avenue      Mathew Pettit
East Lansing                                    S. 35553
Michigan.

Dear Sir;

   Reference is made to your letter requesting the record of Matthew Pettit, a Revolutionary War soldier of Pennsylvania, born in 1745, who lived in Kentucky in 1821.

   A search of the records of this office fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of services of Matthew Pettit who was born in 1745.  The record of the only soldier named Matthew Pettit that is found on the record of this office as a soldier of the Revolutionary War is given below.  The data furnished are found in the papers on file in his pension claim, S.35553, based upon his military service in the war.

   He was allowed pension on his application executed June 17, 1818 at which time he gave his age as about fifty-eight years "this fall"; the date and place of his birth and names of parents are not shown.  This application was executed in Bath County, Kentucky, which county was given as the residence of the soldier in 1820.  In 1818, he referred to a family of tour children, the oldest was eight years old, but did not give their names of the name of his wife.

    In 1820, the soldier states he had a wife, aged forty-two years, her name not stated, and Drusilla, aged fourteen years, Nance, aged twelve years, Samuel, aged ten years, Ann, aged eight years, Polly, aged six years, and David, aged one month.  There is no further information
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regarding his children.  His widow was living in 1838.

    The soldier's sister, Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, made affidavit in behalf of her brother in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1818; there is no other information regarding her, or the name of her husband is not shown.

                                Very truly yours,

                                  A.D.Hiller
                                  Assistant to Administrator.