Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7428, for John Magaw, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE   Penn.
Magaw, John
or McGaw
Margaret
NUMBER  W. 7428
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12,740 
Pennsylvania 
John McGaw 
4
of Chester Co in the State of Pennsyl’a who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Irvine of the Pennsylv’a line, for the term of  1 year 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of August 1818   
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of July 1819 and sent to Hon William Darlington, West Chester Chester Co. Pennsylvania 
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819.  6 mos 19/31  52.90
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819.  48 –
100.90 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued 
Notification sent October 28, 1820 to John G. Wersler West Chester Pa.
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831   
Pennsylvania Phi  
Margaret McGaw 
widow of John McGaw 
Penn
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 90 Dollars to Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 31” day of 1857 
And sent to Townsend Haines Register of Treas 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 107 Vol A
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Chester County 
To All Whom it may concern this is to Certify that John McGaw & Margaret Galbraith was Joined in Marriage by the Subscriber in the Presence of Several Witnesses 
Certified January 16th 1796
Philip Scott J. P.
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Petition & Declaration of John McGaw
Penn Line
Admitted
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To the Hon Walter Finney Esq. one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas & Quarter Sessions of the Peace &c in and for the County of Chester (being one of the Counties composing the Seventh Judicial district of Pensylvania.  
The Petition and narration of John McGaw formerly a soldier in the Revolutionary army respectfully represents  
That your petitioner was enlisted in Carlisle Pennsylvania on the 22d day of January 1776 by Lieutenant (late Gen’l) William Alexander of that place was mustered in Capt William Rippeys Company of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col William Irvine (as the certificate of Captain Rippey shows, which is accompanied by your the affidavit of James Sloan shewing that your petitioner is the person mentioned in Capt Rippeys certificate) & that he was marched direct from Carlisle by New York, Albany & the lakes into Canada was at the battle of Trois-Rieveres where our detachment was compelled to retreat & continued in the service untill the 20th day of March 1777 & was discharged in Carlisle.   
Your petitioner had and honourable & proper discharge which has been lost or distroyed by time & accident - has never been a pensioner or any of the States or upon the general govern – is old and poor and has great need of the support of his country - Your Petitioner therefore prays your honour to permit him to verify upon oath the facts set forth in the foregoing petition in order that he may be enabled to avail himself
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of the bounty of his country agreeably to the act of Congress passed the 18th day of March in the present year 
And your Petitioner will pray &c 
August 17th 1818 
John Magaw 
Chester County Sess
Before the subscriber one of the Asst Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County. [seal] Personally came John Magaw and on his Oath duly administered doth depose and sware that the facts forth in the foregoing petition is Just & true, sworn and subscribed the seventeenth day of August One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen 
Before W Finney 
John Magaw
From the Docquinents & deposition hereunto annexed I am fully satisfied that John Meegan is entitled to the Benefits of the act of Congress passed the 18th Day of March in the present year 1818 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and seal the day & year above written 
W Finney [seal]
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I John G. Wersler Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify that W. Finney Esquire before whom the annexed Deposition &c. of John Magaw appears to have been taken, is and at the time of taking the same, was one of the associate Judges of the Court aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned & qualified, to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County of West Chester in the County aforesaid the twenty first day of August A.D one thousand eight hundred eighteen. 
Jno G. Wersler  Prot
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No. 969
Margaret McGaw,
widow of John
Pa.
Act 29 July 1848
Married 1796
Hus died 1834
Adm’d for 96 per ann.
Comm’g 4 March 1848
Phil’a
Townsend Haynes, Esq
Register for the Treas.
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State of Pennsylvania 
Chester County SS: 
On this seventeenth day of June A. D. 1851, personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Chester, Margaret Magaw, a resident of the township of East Nottingham in the County aforesaid, and State aforesaid, aged eighty years, who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed the twenty ninth day of July A.D. 1848. - That she is the widow of John Magaw who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of Congress passed the eighteenth day of March AD 1818 – (for a description of his services, she refers to his declaration which is now on file in the Pension office at Washington)  - She further declares that she was married to the said John Magaw on the fifteenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety six, that her husband the aforesaid John Magaw died on the fifth day of June A.D. 1834,- that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January Eighteen hundred, viz: at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension. 
Margaret Magaw
Sworn to & Subscribed, on the day and year above written before me 
She evidently being too infirm to appear in Court 
Nimrod Strickland
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State of Pennsylvania 
Chester County Ss 
I, Samuel B. Thomas Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Chester aforesaid do certify that the Hon: Nimrod Strickland, Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and taken and who has thereto affixed his proper signature was at the time the same bears date and now is Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County duly commissioned and qualified to all whose official acts as such due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given accordingly.  
In witness whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of the said Court and my hand at West Chester the eighteenth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. 
Samuel B. Thomas  Prothy
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John Magaw
12790 
East Nottingham
Con
July 19
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
CHESTER COUNTY, SS: 
ON this first day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Twenty Personally appeared in OPEN COURT of Common Pleas, held at Westchester, in and for the county of Chester, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; being a court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, John Magaw aged Sixty Five years and upwards, resident in the township of East Nottingham  in said county of Chester and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; who being first duty Sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; That he served in the Revolutionary war, in the 
Company under Capt William Rippey in the sixth Regt Pennsylvania Line commended by Col. William Irvin 
on the Continental Establishment, and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, his certificate being numbered 12740 
AND I the said John Magaw  do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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, 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 eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have 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. 
John Magaw 
Sworn to declared and subscribed on the first day of August 1820, in OPEN COURT of Common pleas, in and for the county of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the said Court, being a Court of Record by the Laws of the said Commonwealth. 
Jno G. Wersler Prothonotary, 
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY,
One Horse
One Mare
Two Cows
One Pig
One Case of Drawers
One Cupboard
One Dough Keeper
Two Tables
Six Chairs
3 Collars
2 pr. [unreadable] & Chains
One Plough
One Matock
One Shovel & hoe
One Wheel Barrow
Two blind bridles
Mall & Sledges
2 Chests
1 Wheel & ha
1 Pewter barr
1 Dish & 6 spoon
6 Knives & 6 forks
1 Tea pot
7 Cups & 7 saucers
4 Bowls
20 [unreadable]
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Schedule Continued
2 Kettle 
1 Pot
2 [unreadable] 1 Churn 
1 Bucket 2 Barrels 
2 Hay forks 
1 Coffee Pot 
Shovel & tongs 
1 Looking glass 
1 Man Saddle 
1 Woman Saddle
1 pair smoothing irons
1 Pot Rake  
Value $110 85/100 
There is not one dollar due to me - I am indebted in the following sums
Old debt of $30,  One of $15 -  One of $9 – oen of $5.  – One of $10.  - one of $11. One of $5 One of $30 – One of $4. 
I am by trade a shoemaker & from age & infirmity am unable to follow it - my family consists of my wife Margaret aged fifty years,  one son & two daughters 
And I am in such indigent circumstances as to need the support & aid of my Country 
John Magaw 
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
CHESTER COUNTY, SS: 
I John G. Wersler Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, of the said county of Chester; the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of Pennsylvania; Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Declaration & 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 & ten dollars and eighty four cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Westchester, this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and Twenty 
Jno G. Wersler Prothonotary
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 7428 
Margaret McGaw 
Wid 
John McGaw 
Pri Rev. War 
Act: July 29th 1948 
Index:- Vol. M, Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Brief in the case of Margaret McGaw, widow of John,  Chester County and State of Pennsylvania act 29 July 1848 
Claim, (“original”, ) 
Proof exhibited, (if original) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband a pensioner under act of 18 March 1818 
Marriage Certificate on file 
Adm’d $96 per annum, commencing 4 March 1848 
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
Name and residence of Agent. 
Townsend Haines, Esq. 
Register of the Treasury 
S Cole Examining Clerk.
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Jesse Coulson 
East Nottingham (or Perryville Md) 
1 June 1851 
Enclosing the marriage certificate of Margaret Magaw & her affidavit- 
Respectfully referred to the particular attention of James E Heath Esq. Commissioner of pensions To Regr office 
June 21 1851 
Townsend Haines  
Register 
M. Coulson has been informed of the deference 
Townsend Haines Esqr
Washington City 
D. C.
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East Nottingham June 19th 1857 
Dear Sir
I enclose to you the declaration of Mrs. Magaw as taken before Judge Strickland together with her Marriage Certificate.   I hope you will give your early attention to them as she is getting very anxious about the matter.  She wishes you to to enclose back her Marriage Certificate to me if her papers should satisfy the Commissioner of Pension please to let us know what is the next steps to be taken to obtain her money.  She will be enquiring of me every day till we Receive some Reply from you
Very Truly Yours
Jesse Coulson
To Townsend Haines Esq
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These are to certify that John McGaw Enlisted in My Company a soldier in the year 1776 and went to Canady in Colonel William Irvines Regiment and was in the service more than one year To winess my hand this 10th Day of July 1818 
Wm Rippey Penn Captain
Baltimore County Ss 
Be it remembered that on this 15th day of July 1818 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid James Sloan and made oath according to law that John McGaw named in the annexed certify of William Rippey is the same person who served in the army from the year 1776 to the year 1777 when he was discharged Sworn to before John T. Harris
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Sct 
I hereby certify that John T. Harris gentleman before whom the above deposition was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this fifteenth day Eighteen hundred and Eighteen 
Wm Gibson Clk Balto City Court
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I hereby certify that John Magaw named in the within certificate of Capt Rippey & affidavit of James Sloan of Baltimore, lived for many years in Cecil County & was a long time afflicted with Rheumatism & that I have often attended him as his Physician & prescribed for his complaints, & am of Opinion from his infirmities age & circumstances in life, that he stands much in need of the Relief [unreadable] by an act of Congress for Soldiers that served in the American army during the revolutionary War 
W. C. Miller
Aug 1818