Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,038, for Patrick Leonard, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Penn. Leonard, Patrick S. 36,038
CONTENTS
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                       12, 230
Kentucky Roll                                  R
                    Ohio

                Patrick Leonard
of Hamilton County in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Proctor of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of Three Years  [Illegible note]

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27th of June. 1818

 Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of June 1819 and sent to Samuel F. Hunt Esqr. Cincinnati, Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819             $  66.09
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep 1819        48.00
Mar 4/30    4/31                              ________
                                                        $114.09
  Date of death
      Aug 11 1822        {Revolutionary Claim
 from Agency Book     Act 18th March, 1818}

[Note appended to bottom of page is faded, illegible]
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Patrick Leonard
app for transfer from 
Ohio to Kentucky- from  
4 March 1820-

FROM:  m 15 Nov: 20 - notif
   sent S. F. Hunt Esq.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Sep 19
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Patrick Leonard
app for transfer from Ohio to Kentucky - from 4 March 1820 -
Trans: on 15 Nov: 20 - notif
sent to F Hunt Esq Cincinnati Ohio 
Sep 19
Transfer
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
County of Campbell SS.
State of Kentucky
On this thirtieth day of October 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Campbell personally appeared Patrick Leonard who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Cluggett in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chambers in the service of the United States ; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Ohio from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state of Kentucky where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Sworn and subscribed to, before
me, the day and year aforesaid }
[illegible]
NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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State of Kentucky } Sct
Campbell County } 
I James Taylor Clerk of the County court for Campbell County do hereby certify that John B Lindsey before whom the within declaration was made and subscribed to is and was at that time an acting Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to law and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such as well in Court of Justice as thereout and further that his attestation is in due form of law
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Newport this 31st day of October 1820 and in the 29th year of the Commonwealth
James Taylor Clk
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Patrick Leonard
Col. Proctor
Pennsylvania
Regt
1780 or 81 - war
Roll
Admitted
the certificate of the Clk & seal of court is wanting
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The State of Ohio
County of Hamilton ss  Personally came before the undersigned one of the Apociate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas  in and for the County aforesaid, Patrick Leonard an applicant for pension under the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818- who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that some time in the Summer of 1775 he entered as a volunteer in Capt Scotts Company of Colonel Samuel Willis Regiment it being the first of the Connecticut Line to serve for one year, that subsequently in the Summer of 1776, having served and the period of his first engagement, on Long Island he again enlisted to serve for during the war in the 1st Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment commanded by Colonel Hand that he served in this Regiment in the companies commanded by  Captains Cluggett and Holliday until the revolt of the Pennsylvania Line when he was discharged at Trenton That shortly after he went to Philadelphia and again enlisted in Captain
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Loyds company in Colonel Proctors Artillery in which he served until the end of the war when he was discharged
at Pittsburgh by General Irwin and that many years ago he lost his discharge in descending the Miami River and this deponent further deposeth and saith that in consequence of his advanced age being now in his 78th year and reduced circumstances he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and further saith not
Patrick Leonard his X mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 27th day of June 1818
William Burke associate Judge H.C.
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State of Ohio }
Hamilton County } ss
I William Burke one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby Certify that I have this day examined the deposition hereunto annexed, and the said Patrick Leonard having been first duly sworn declared on oath that from Reduced circumstances he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. I am satisfied 
that he served at least nine months at one period of the Revolutionary war on the continental establishment against the Common enemy and from evidence furnished together with his Examination induced this belief, and that he stands in need of assistance from his Country.
William Burke Associate Judge H. C. P.
The State of Ohio Hamilton County ss
I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Hamilton County do hereby certify that William Burke Esqr before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken and whose certificate is annexed was at that time an acting associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn into office all of which appears of Record in my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati this 14th day of May 1819
Danl Gano Clk
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Patrick Leonard
Declaration for
Pension
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State of Kentucky }
Campbell County } ss
On this 26th day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record, for the County aforesaid, Patrick Leonard, aged eighty years, resident in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, that he served in the Revolutionary War in the Companies successively commanded by Captains, Claggett & Holiday, in the first regiment of Pennsylvania Riflemen, upon continental Establishment, commanded by Colonel Chambers, that he continued to serve in the said Corps, until the revolt of the Pennsylvania line, when he was discharged at Trenton, in the State of New Jersey - That his original declaration was dated the 27th day of June 1818 that he has received a pension certificate given at the War Office of the United States on the twenty third day of June 1819 which said certificate is numbered 12. 230 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 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 persons in trust for me, any property or securities contracts, or debts, due to me, nor have I any real or personal estate, nor have any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, and I further declare, that I have no wife or family, and that I was by occupation a Cordwainder, but that in consequence of old age and bodily infirmity I am unable to pursue it for a living, and
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further I declare not.
Patrick Leonard his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed }
on the 26th day of July 1820 }
in open Court. }
Attest
James Taylor Clk C.C.C.
Schedule of property and income of Patrick Leonard, now a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, made sworn to & subscribed, this 26th day of July 1820 in open Court Namely
of Chest, valued at $1.00
an annuity of forty dollars per annum } 40.00
granted to him by the State of Pennsylvania }
for his services in the Revolutionary war }
Patrick Leonard his X mark
Sworn to and declared before me this 27th day of July 1820
John Trimble Judge
2d Judicial District
State of Kentucky
State of Kentucky } ss
Campbell County }
I James Taylor, Clerk of the Campbell Circuit Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record 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 forty one dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 30th day of July 1820 and in the 29 year of the Commonwealth.
James Taylor
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Section.
June 23, 1922.
Hon. Harris J. Bixler,
House of Representatives.
In re: Patrick Leonard War of Revolution, 
S. 36038.
You are herewith furnished the history of the only soldier of the Revolution named Patrick Leonard, found on the records of this Bureau.
From the papers in the above noted claim for pension it appears that Patrick Leonard served for one year from the summer of 1775, as private in Capt. Scott's Company , Col. Samuel Wyllys' Connecticut Regiment; from Summer of 1776, to January 1781, in Captains Cluggage and Holliday's Companies, under Colonels Hand and Chambers of Pennsylvania, and from 1781 to the close of the Revolution in Captain Loyd's Company, Colonel Procter's Artiltary. There is no data on file as to his family.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 27, 1818, at which time he was 77 years old and a resident of Hamilton County, Ohio. He died August 11, 1822.
Very truly yours,
Washington Gardner Commissioner.
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REVOLU Rev. RECORDS SECTION.3 -- 525 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., 19
In reply to your request of , received for a statement of the military history of Patrick Leonard 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.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |  LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | 
CAPTAIN. | COLONEL | STATE
Summer 1775 | 1 year | Prt | Scott | Samuel Wyllys |  Conn
Summer 1776 | to June 1781 | | Cluggage Holliday | Hand Chambers |  Pa
1781 | [illegible] | | Lloyd | Prestonn's Artillery
Battles engaged in, [illegible]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [illegible]
Date of application for pension, June 27 1818 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Hamilton Co 
Age at date of application, 77 He died Aug 11 1822
Remarks: No family data
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Revolt Pa Line was in June 1781
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One Patrick Leonard is found
as a pensioner in Vol II p 767
(old Penn Arch) no data
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Penn Archives Vol III
10th [illegible] July 8 1777 - 1781 Hamilton Co Ky
[illegible] Procter Arty enl Feby 12 1776 [illegible]
Maj Isaac Craig detachment [illegible]
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COMMITTEES { RAILWAYS AND CANALS PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS WOMAN SUFFRAGE
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.
HARRIS J. BIXLER
28TH DIST. PA.
June 17, 1922
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D. C.
Sir:
For the purpose of securing war record of PATRICK LEONARD, the information contained on his pension certificate is desired by the family. We have located two men of this name.
He was in the Revolutionary War.
I will appreciate it if you can give me some information regarding his service.
Sincerely yours,
Harris J Bixler
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Ridgway Pa
May 21, 1922
Bureau of Pensions Washington
D C 
Will you kindly send me a copy of the Pension papers of Patrick Leonard, who served with the 10th Regiment  also designated as the 1st Regiment Penn Rev. War.
and oblige
Clare C Maneval
205 Jackson ave.
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April 12, 1917.
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C
[illegible]
will you will kindly send me the necessary history of these 2 Soldiers &  
the Resole here [illegible] and any family data your records [illegible]
Your very [illegible]
[illegible] Gertrude B. Tobias
285 West Fourth St
New York,
Res
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Rev Sec
1
Patrick Leonard: Private
10th Penn. Reg Continental Line
enlisted 1777. Born 1740 (about)
Died  Haselton Co. Kentucky
Aug. 11. 1822
(live  in Ohio for a time)
2.
Ignatius Keating Private
Capt Nicholas Miller Co
12th Pa. Reg, Col. Wm Cook
wounded hear Piscataway NJ.
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36038
INVALID
Revy
File No. 36,038
Patrick Leonard
Pri Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 403
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1917 April 19 Hist to Gertrude B Tobin aw
1922 June 23 Hist to Harris J Bixler aw
1922 June 28 Hist to Clare C Maneval aw
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36038
INVALID
Revy
File No. 36,038
Patrick Leonard
Pri Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 403
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1917 April 19 Hist to Gertrude B Tobin aw
1922 June 23 Hist to Harris J Bixler aw
1922 June 28 Hist to Clare C Maneval aw
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Cincinnati Novr 2, 1820
Sir
I herewith transmit to you the declaration of Patrick Leonard and the blank filled for a transfer of his pension, both which I received a few days ago, from the War Department
I am very respectfully
Sir your most obt Servant
Samuel F. Hunt
Agent for P Leonard
to J L Edwards
Pension Agent
War Department
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12 - 5 - 41 BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* Division of Veterens' Administreation
Leonard, Patrick GRADE Private Artillery LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 4843 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED November 5, 1789 to not shown-
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.