Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 13647, for John Mc Kittrick, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
(S—1776)
SERVICE
Va.
McKittrick, John Sr.
Or McKitrick
NUMBER
S 13647
carded
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
7081
Kentucky
John McKitrick Sir:
of Mercer Co in the State of Kentucky who was a pri, ser & cap in the company commanded by Captain Moffett of the regiment commanded by Col. Dickinson in the Virginia mil line for 12 months from ’77
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 95 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Feby 1833 and sent to Hon. R. M. Johnson H of Rep?
Arrears to 4th of March 1833 $190.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Septr 1833. 47.50
$237.50
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book 2 Vol. 7 Page 18
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas McKittrick, son of John McKittrick, a revolutionary pensioner, at the rate of $95 per annum who died on the 1st day of February 1839 and who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to prosecute against the Government of the United States, before any Department thereof, any and all claim or claims I may have to arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions, of the Congress of the United States, and especially the Acts of 7th June, 1832, 4th July, 1836, 7th July, 1838, 3rd March, 1843, 17th June 1844, 2nd February, 1848, 29th July, 1848, and 3rd February, 1853—as well as the more ancient Acts of 18th March 1818, and 15th May, 1828.
Said Attorney is moreover authorized, in my name, to demand, at any Department of the said Government, a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given, touching my interests, and to obtain, from any Department, or the archives thereof, any and all information and evidence, of whatever character, relating to or in anywise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of.
Said Attorney is moreover authorized to do any and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificates of Pension, or other character of drafts, or evidences of the amounts due me and to appoint one or more Sub-Attorneys, and to confer upon him or them all the powers therein conferred upon the aforesaid Attorney, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
Witness my hand and seal this 2nd day of June 1853
Thomas McKittrick LS
Test
R. J. Brownes
S. H. Stevenson
State of 	County, ecc
BE IT KNOWN, That on the 	day of 	185	, before the subscriber, 	in and for the County and State aforesaid.
personally appeared		subscribers to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledging the signing, sealing and delivering the same to be 	own voluntary act and deed, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
In Testimony Whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name,
J. P.
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Capt. John McKittrick
John McKittrick
18516
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State of Kentucky
Washington County Sct.
This day John McKittrick Snr a Revolutionary Soldier came into open court in being a county court for the County of Washington and made oath to the follow declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the late act of Congress for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War passed the seventh day of June 1832 I John McKittrick Snr being first sworn according to law declare that I am at this time a citizen of Washington County Kentucky and have been since the year 1793 previous to which time I was a resident citizen of Augusta County Virginia where I was born during the Revolutionary War and I am now in the 73 year of my life and that I did on the 23 day of September 1777 volunteer in the militia service of Virginia at Staunton in said State in Capt. George Moffett’s Company under Col. John Dickenson and was marched to the mouth of the great Kenhaway [Kanawha?] River against the Wyandott[e] Indians upon a three month touer [tour] of duty which I faithfully performed and was honorably discharged and again on the second day of October 1780 I was drafted into the militia service of Virginia near Staunton in Capt. James Tate’s Company in Majr. Triplett’s Battalion for 3 months and marched to Hillsborough North Carolina to the relief of Genl. Gates and from there I was at[t]ached to General Morgan’s Regt near Camden and faithfully performed my duty as a soldier in the militia of Virginia employed in the Revolutionary War in the whole and served on a touer [tour] to the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina as a sergeant in February and March 1781
I acted as Capt. commanded a company of Militia a three month touer [tour] of service in the year 1781 in the whole twelve months I further declare that I hereby relinquish any claim that I have to any pension or annuity I have on the United States except the present and I am not now a pensioner of the US or any other state witness my hand this 20th day of July 1832.
John McKittrick Snr.
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Washington County Sct/ This day we Turner Smith a clergyman and resident of said county and Alexander McDonald and Vincent Morgan residents of the same county [crossed] do certify that [end crossed] being neighbors of John McKittrick who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and we believe him to be of the age he has stated and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to be a soldier of the revolution and in his opinion we concur and we further certify that he is a respectable citizen and a man of veracity witness our hands this 23rd day of October 1832
Turner Smith
Vincent Morgan
Alexr. McDonald
Commonwealth of Kentucky Washington County Sct
At a County Court began and held for Washington County at the Conference in Springfield on the 23rd day of October 1832 John McKittrick an applicant for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier came into court and made oath to the truth of the statement by him subscribed  and the court certify their opinion after investigation of the matter and propounding the questions prescribed by the War Department that the said McKittrick was a Revolutionary Soldier and
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served as he has stated. Turner Smith a clergyman Vincent Morgan and Alexander McDonald also came in into court and made to oath to the truth of the statements by them subscribed and the court certify that they are men of good character and fair standing. And I John Hughes Jr. Clerk of said Court certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John McKittrick for a pension
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 23rd day of October 1832.
John Hughes Clk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
September 17, 1926
Mrs. Joseph W. Greene
319 North Spring St.,
Independence, MC.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 13647 it appears that John McKittrick, Senior, (pensioned McKitrick), was born in Augusta County, Virginia, date not stated.
While a resident of Augusta County, Virginia, he enlisted September 23, 1777 and served three months 	as a private in Captain George Moffetts’s Company, Colonel John Dickenson’s Virginia Regiment against the Wyandott Indians.
He enlisted in October 1780, served three months as a private in Captain James Tate’s Company under Major Triplett in the Virginia Troops and was in the battle of Cowpens, then re-enlisted in February 1781 and served three months as a Sergeant in the Virginia Troops and was in the battle of Guilford.
Again in 1781 he served three months as Captain in the Virginia Troops.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
[There is one handwritten note]
I did not say 2nd as bat. of Cowpen was Jan. 17 & made his ser. over 3 mos
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July 20, 1832 while a resident of Washington County, Kentucky, aged seventy-two years. He moved from Augusta County, Virginia, to said Washington County in 1783. He died February 1, 1839.
His son Thomas McKittrick was living in 1853. Name of soldier’s wife not given.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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1914 Io History to Mr. Boulwitt Dunlap Follir M. S. T.
6793 Henry Dobass M. 13. H
1920 Aug 19 Hist. to Sarah West En.
1926 Sept. 17 Hist. to Mrs. J. W. Chinn
13647
INVALID
File No. 13. 647
John McKitrick
Corpl. Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 247
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mercer County Sct.
This day John Magill Senr. and Richard Holman Senr came before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and made oath as follows (vig) we the undersigned state on oath that we are well acquainted with Capt. John McKittrick Senr. and we know that he served in the military of Virginia in the Revolutionary War and have known him ever since & consider him as an honest good citizen and I, John Magill Senr. well remember of serving with him seven months in the Revolutionary War and were his mess mate during said service in the campai[g]n of 1777 in Capt. Moffitt’s Company as he has stated and also the campai[g]n of 1780 and 1781 under Genl. Morgan and that the said McKittrick started from Augusta County Virginia as Captain of a Militia Company and left home as Capt. on a tower [tour] of three months in the year 1781
I also remember of the said McKittrick’s going on a tower [tour] and was in the Battle of Guilford and I Richard Holman remember that John McKittrick was drafted in Augusta County Virginia at the same time I was as he has stated and that I was personally with him in Talton’s [Tarleton’s] defeat at the Cowpens as witness our hands this July 20th 1832
John Magill
Richard Holman
I further certify that they are credible & respectable witnesses of good character and reputed to have been Revolutionary Soldiers given under my hand this July 20th 1832
Lanty Holman J. P.
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County Sct.
I Thomas Allen Jr. Clerk of the Court for the County afsd. do certify that Lanty Holman Esq. whose name is affixed to the foregoing and within certificate is and was at the time of signing the same and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the Couty afsd. duly commissioned and qualified and as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given to every of his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of Sept. 1832
Tho Allen Jr.
Jno. McKitrick Sr.
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[Stamp] HARR G. K. OCT 28
Revolutionary Claim
Free
Nov. 5
R2
18378
Honl. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Harrodburgh (Ky) October 26th, 1832
Dear Sir
I enclose you the claim of Capt. John McKittrick of Washington County a worthy and respectable man who I have known for 26 years, his proof I hope is sufficient his service as a sergeant and captain is clear altho he has not stated fully his marches.
The previous certificates of John Thompson sent, Charles Asher and James Hutton has been record, all that of William Nowen a midshipman, the [illegible] first I cannot sent him
Cornelius Vanarsdell, Sent
John Potter
John Bohon
Lawson
Are still unanswered tho sent in July 10, 1832
These men are [illegible], perhaps their papers are mislaid I record Mr. Edward’s letter for which I thank him and am contented with his rules. The New Jersey cases were all prepared over again and according to his request. I hope he will consider the case as fully opened and satisfactory.
You with Respect Robt. B. McAfee
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Mercer County
Service proven by 2 witnesses
Sufficient
From 1777 private Sergt & Captain 12 months, $95.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John McKitrick Sr which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of war when he served? 
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? 
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk’s seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief regarding his age and the general belief of his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman’s affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof can not be had? 
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses to his service, has the magistrate who administered each oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or such an age, as to have personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
6 & 6 not and.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant can not, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, A Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being first duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For--------- year --------- months, and ---------- days, I served as a ---------- For ------------- months and ---------- days, I served as a ---------; and for such service I claim a pension.”
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by a competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, as to prevent the paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
[handwritten note]
6th interrogatory requires the claimant to state from whom he received his commission as a Captain and what has become of it.
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[Stamp]
PENSION
C
APR 26 1916
U S.
OFFICE.
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Poor See
1
Independence Mo.
April 23rd 1911
Commissioner of Pensions;
Will you kindly send me the war record of Captain John McKittrick who served in the Revolution of 1776 and afterward drew a pension.
He was born in Virginia near Culpepper Court House
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on July the third, the year I do not know, but died some time between 1837 and 1841 in Mackville Ky. and is buried there.
Any information you can furnish me will be greatly appreciated and I thank you very much.
Mrs. Sam Pendleton
#301 North Spring St.
Independence Mo.
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Independence Pioneers Chapter, D. A. R.
INDEPENDENCE, MO., July 21, 1926
Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Captain John McKittrick of Culpepper County, Va. received and pension for his service in the War of the Revolution. He was living in Mackville Ky. at the time of his death.
Mrs. Samuel Pendleton desires a record of his services in the Revolution and all family history for admission to Independence Pioneers Chapter, D. A. R.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Joseph N. Greene
Regent
319 North Spring St.
Independence, Mo.
[Stamp]
PENSION
F
JUL 23 1926
U. S.
OFFICE
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[Stamp]
PENSION
A
JUL 26 1920
U. S.
OFFICE
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2cl stamped envelope enclosed
Rev. Sec
C&W
Harrodsburg, Ky
July 22, 1920
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
(Rev. War Section) Washington, D. C.
Will you please inform me if your records of the Revolutionary War give any information concerning John (or Jack) McKittrick, who was Captain in the army, and who received a land bounty of either one thousand or two thousand acres of land in Washington County Kentucky for his service. If this record is not found there, will you please tell me where it may be found.
Very truly yours,
Sarah West
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3—525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C.,…………….., 19…..
…………………………..
	………………………….
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In reply to your request of …………., received ………….. for a statement of the military history of John McKittrick or McKitrick 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. S.13647
Dates of enlistment or appointment.
Sept 23 1777
Oct 2 1780 Cowpens Jan 17 81
Guil Feb 1781
1781
Length of service.
3 mos
3 mos
3 mos
3 mos
Rank.
Pvt
Pvt
Sgt
Capt
Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain.
George Moffett
James Tate
Colonel.
John Dickenson
Majr. Triplett
State.
Va
Battles engaged in, Cowpens Guilford
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Augusta Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, July 20, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Washington Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, born in Augusta Co., Va 72 years, died Feb 1, 1839
Remarks: Son Thomas alive in 1853
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Reviewed
6—2856