Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4289, for William Mc Williams, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
Service 
Penn. 
McWilliams, William
Mary
Number 
N. 4289
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7206
Ohio
William McWilliams
of Knox County in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Agle of the regt commanded by Col Broadhead in the Pennsylvania line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 40 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March,1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of March 1833 and sent to [illegible] D Johnston Know Co Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
Semi-anll. allowance ending 4 Sept
80.00
20.00
$100.00
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recordedby James Boyd Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 8 Page 16
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4058
Ohio Cincinnatti
Mary McWilliams
widow of Will McWilliams
Penn
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars [blank] cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued to 28 day of Feb 1849
and sent to 
Hon. Jas. H Miller
[illegible]
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, page 357 Vol. 4

[written horizontally]
Date [illegible]
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No 15024
William McWilliams
Knox County
Ohio
from 1777 private 
1 year
$40
Smiley [?] D Johnston
Knox County 
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of William McWilliams
of Knox County in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 73
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 1777 35 Days. As a private. Gen. Capt Ogle
4 Months, Williamson
1778 4 Months, Ogle
1779 21 Days, Mason
42 Days, Col Broadhead
5. In what battles was he engaged? Skirmishes with the Indians
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Washington Co Pa
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary Evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned
Dyer Castor Examining Clerk.
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Will McWilliams 
Declaration
15024
[illegible mark]
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State of Ohio Knox County SS
On they twenty fifth day of September one thousand Eight and thirty two personally appeared in open Court + before the judges of common pleas in + for the county of Knox now sitting Will McWilliams a resident of Clay Township in the County of Knox and State of Ohio aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law Doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein state to wit Capt. Joseph Agle entered the service about the first of May 1777 and served five weeks as a volunteer and left the service in June same year, resided when he entered the Service within about five miles of where Washington now stands in Washington County Pennsylvania. entered the Service as a volunteer and marched to the Beach Bottom on the Ohio River against the Indians assisted in building a block house and then [illegible] short creek to a fort at [illegible] mill, and then returned home. And again on the 2nd of September 1777 he entered the Service as a volunteer under Capt Williamson to go to the fort at Wheeling in consequence a body of Indians having attacked the fort at Wheeling on the [illegible] of Sept. he marched to Shepherd Fort and then the fort at Wheeling where he continued in the Service until about the last of December the same year. Having served within a few day of four months
And again in the month of August 1778 he entered the Service under Captain Joseph Agle as a volunteer and served under said Capt agle Lieut. John Bigs and Ensign Thomas Byers [illegible] when he entered the service as aforesaid - and marched to [illegible] Bottom on the Ohio River and crossed the River and marched with a part of General McIntoshs army to the mouth of Beaver where they built a fort
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and then in the fall of the same year marched with General McIntoshs army as far as tuscarawa where they halted and built Fort Laurens [struck through "and then returned with a fort of the army to fort McIntosh"] and in the month of December same year was discharged and return home having Served four months. And again in the Spring of 1779 he was in the service one month at the Station at Wheeling and at Shepherds fort on Wheeling creek And again in the month of June 1779 he was in the service three weeks at the Station at Wheeling under Capt Mason and again on the 6th of August 1779 he entered the Service as a volunteer to go against the [illegible] Indians up the Aleghana River and Served under Col. Broadhead and Capt. Mason Lieutenant Will Bigs marched from Washington to fort Pitt and then up the Aleghena River above French Creek has a small engagement with a party of Indians, and Destroyed their corn fields and Returned to fort Pitt and there discharged having been in the service six weeks making in all one year and about two weeks, besides many other short intermediate tours of which he cannot now recollect the amount of time and the dates thereof being at the time living on the frontier , and for about three years almost continually harassed by the incursions of the Indians
He also states that he knew General McIntosh, Col. Broadhead + Col Gibson Major Vernon, Lieutenant Finley Capt Harden, Brady Springer + Harrison of the regulars-
He also states that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except these Testimony of [illegible] McCulloch + John Caldwell of [illegible] whose affidavit accompany this declaration. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he claims that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid 
Will McWilliams
[illegible] Elliott Clerk
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In the matter of Will McWilliams applications for a pension the following questions [illegible] by the order of the Court propounded to have the said Will McWilliams and the answers hereafter mentioned given thereto by the said Will McWilliams under oath as follows
1st where and in what year wase you born 
Answer in the county Down In Ireland in the year 1759
2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answer I have in my family Bible at home
3rd Where wase you living when called in to the Service
Where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer near to where Washington stands in Washington County Pennsylvania (at that time considered a fort of [illegible] I lived when called into the service
And in the year 1758 I moved with my family to Ohio county in Virginia and from there in the year 1800 I moved to Belmont County in the State of Ohio and about eight years ago I moved from there to Knox County Ohio where I now live
4th How wase you called into service, wase you drafted, did you volunteer, or wase you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom
Answer I was a volunteer in all the service i done
5th State the name of some of the regular officers who wase with the troops where you served such continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect; and the general circumstances of your service
Answer General McIntosh colonels Gibson and Broadhead, Major Vernon, Lieutenant Finley and Captains Harden, Brady, Springer and Harrison were regular officers who
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was with the troops where i served part of the time. And I recollect that a part of the 13th Virginia regiment and a part of the 8th Pennsylvania regiment wase with General McIntosh at the time I was in the service the general circumstances of my service are set forth in the Declaration\6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Answer I never received a written Discharge
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the revolution
Answer Rev James Scott + Will [illegible]
sworn to + subscribed to before me this 25th day of Sept. 1832
Will McWilliams
Alex. Elliot Clk
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We James Scott a clergyman residing in the County of Knox and State of Ohio and Will [illegible] residing in said county + state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William McWilliams who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we beleive him to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed 
The day and year aforesaid
James Scott
Will McCreary
Alex. Elliot Clk
And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after the instigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jas. Scott who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Knox, and State of Ohio and that Will McCreary who has also signed the same is a resident of Said County and is a creditable person and that their statements is entitled to credit
I alexander Elliot Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for said County of Knox do hereby certify that the foregoing contins the original proceedings in the said court in the matter of the application of Will McWilliams for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 8th day of Oct. 1832
Alex. Elliot
Clk
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9375
Mary McWilliams
Ohio
Act 7th July '38
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The State of Ohio Knox County SS
On this fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Richard C Davis one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in the county aforesaid. Mary McWilliams a resident of Clay Township in the County of Knox aforesaid. aged seventy one years who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled " an act Granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of William McWilliams who was a private in the army of the Revolution and who was inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the Ohio agency at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum during his natural life, and whose pension certificate was date "at the war office of the United States on the 14th March 1833" Recorded by David Boyd in Book E No. 8 page 16. She further declared that she was married to the said William McWilliams on the fifth day of March Seventeen hundred and ninety three that her husband the aforesaid William McWilliams died on the Twenty first day of April Eighteen hundred and forty. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz, at the time above stated and that she still remains his widow and has not since married. 
Mary McWilliams [her x mark]
sworn to and subscribed on the day + year above written before
R.C. Davis. Judge
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The State of Ohio Knox County SS
I Richard C Davis one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in + for the county off Knox aforesaid do hereby certify that Mary McWilliams who made the foregoing declaration, cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court 
Given under my hand this 15th day of July AD 1843
R.C. Davis. Judge

The State of Ohio, Knox County SS.
I, Isaac Headley, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that R. C. Davis [illegible] before whom the several foregoing affidavits were made, was at the several dates thereof and still is one of the associate judges of the Court of COmmon Pleas in and for the said county of Knox, duly commissioned and qualified + full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such as well in courts of Justice as there[illegible]. And I do further certify that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuiune. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name + affixed the seal of said court as the clerk: office in Mount Vernon this 29th day of July A.D. 1843.
Isaac Headley Clerk 
[illegible] of Com. Pleas
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The State of Ohio
Knox County
SS
Personally appeared before me Richard C Davis one of the judges of the court of common pleas in the county of Knox aforesaid William Boggs who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth + saith that to his certain knowledge Mary McWilliams who hath made + subscribed to the foregoing declaration - is the widow of William McWilliams deceased. named in the pension certificate in said declaration mentioned, that he was present at their marriage as groomsman to late William McWilliams, that they wase legally married by the Rev. James Houghey in the County of Washington in the State of Pennsylvania and although + from the lengh of time since the Court happened - he cannot [illegible] positively as to the precise day of their marriage, yet he has no reason to doubt that the marriage took place on the day stated by said Mary McWilliams in her declaration to wit the fifth day of march Seventeen hundred and ninety three. He further declares that the said William McWilliams died on the Twenty first day of April Eighteen hundred + forty - and that the said Mary McWilliams still remains the widow of said William McWilliams + has not since married [illegible]
Will McQuary
William Boggs
Sworn to +subscribed before me this 15th day of July AD 1843 before R.C. Davis - Judge
The State of Ohio Knox County ss
I Richard C Davis one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in + for the county of Knox aforesaid do hereby certify that Mr. Boggs, who has signed and sworn to the above affidavit is a respectable person and his character for truth and veracity is unimpeachable
Given under my hand this 15th day of July AD 1843 R.C. Davis
Judge
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March 15, 1935
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William McWilliams-W.4289
BA-J/AWF
The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to William McWilliams, soldier of the War of the Revolution from Pennsylvania and died in Knox County, Ohio, April 21, 1840.
The application for headstone for William McWilliams was enclosed with your request, as was also a blank filled out by D.A.R. Chapter, Kokosing, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; both of which are returned herewith. 
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W.4289, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William McWilliams. 
William McWilliams was born in the year 1759 in [handwritten] Down County, Ireland, names of his parents not given. 
While residing in Washington County, Pennsylvania, he volunteered in May, 1777, served in Captain Joseph Ogle's company, marched against the Indians to the "Beach Bottom" on the Ohio River, on the mouth of Short Creek, where he assisted in building a black house, length of service five weeks. He enlisted September 2, 1777 and was stationed in Fort Wheeling under Captain Williamson until in December, 1777. He enlisted in August, 1778 served in Captain McIntosh's Army, marched to the mouth of Beaver, where they built a fort and on to Tuscarawas and built Fort Laurens, length of service four months. He served one month of the spring of 1779 in Captain Mason's company, and three weeks in June, 1779 in same company. He 
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Everything returned
[illegible]
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enlisted August 6, 1779, served in Captain Mason's company under Colonel Brodhead, marched to Fort Pitt, had a skirmish with the Indians, was our six weeks. He was called out on other short tours and alarms, as his home was on the frontier and harassed by the Indians. His service was as a private and with the Pennsylvania troops. 
William McWilliams moved, with his family, in 1785 to Ohio County, Virginia and in 1800 moved to Belmont County, Ohio. He was allowed pension on his application executed September 25, 1823, then living in Clay Township, Knox County, Ohio, where he had lived about eight years. He died April 21, 1840 in Knox County, Ohio. 
William McWilliams married March 5 or 6, 19=793 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Mary Merritt. She was allowed pension on her application executed July 15, 1843, then seventy-one years of age and living in Clay Township, Ohio. Her residence was the same in 1849. 
Their son, John McWilliams, was born January 31, 1797; he was the oldest son alive in 1845 and then in Knox County, Ohio. Names of other children not stated. 
George McWilliams appeared as witness in 1845 in Knox County, Ohio; Wallace McWilliams was Justice of the Peace for Knox County, Ohio in 1849; Hezekiah Merritt was a resident of Pike County, Ohio in 1847. It is [struck through] [handwritten] was not shown that they were related to the family. 
Very truly yours
A.D.Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1914, Dec. 2. History to 
G.. Harold Janeway [illegible]
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1917, Jan. 30. History to Mrs. Lizzie McWilliams
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1923 Jan 22 Hist to G. nelson wo[illegible]
1935 Mch 15 ''' [illegible]
1938. June 30 "" Ethel armstrong

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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4289
Mary McWilliams
Wid.
Will McWilliams
Prvt. Rev. War
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Act: Feby. 2d '48
Index:- Vol. M, Page 18
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ohio 8443. Cin. 
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Mary McWilliams
widow of Will McWilliams
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 20th April 1840
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of [illegible] 1848 and sent to Hon. J. R. Miller
Hos of Reps
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[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book a
Vol. 2 Page 206.

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Reported [?]
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10514
Ohio
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Mary McWilliams Widow of Will McWilliams who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died 21st April 1840of Knox Co in the State of [blank] who was a Pri. in the Comp commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by [blank] in the Revolution for 12 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 40 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the [illegible] day of April 1840.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Dec. 1848, and sent to Hon. J.R. Miller
Hous of Reps
Total Amount [blank]
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Th. [illegible], Clerk, Book D Vol. 1. Page 393

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Reported [?]
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Act '43 no. 9542
Mary McWilliams
married 5 March 1793
$40 per ann. 
commence 21 April 1840
Acts '38,'43+'44

[illegible] R Miller
Ho of Reps
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State of Ohio
Knox County
SS
I Wallace McWilliams Magistrate in and foro the county aforesaid do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence being my own personal knowledge that said Mary McWilliams who has this day appeared before me to take the oath and set her mark to the within declaration is the widow of Will McWilliams deceased and [illegible] truth and veracity cannot be questioned
Wallace Williams 
Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio, Knox County SS
I [illegible]. W. [illegible], Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby cetify that Wallace McWilliams Esq before whom the foregoing Declaration + affidavit were made was then and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I do hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at the Clerk's Office in Mount Vernon this 16th day of February A.D. 1849.
[illegible]. W. [illegible], Clerk
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State of Ohio
Knox County
SS
on this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Knox and State of Ohio, Mary McWilliams a resident of Clay Township in the county of Knox Ohio aged Seventy Nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William McWilliams who was a private in the Revolutionary war the Regiment she does not recollect and cannot state, and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of 17th June 1844 was forty dollars a year
She further declares that she is still a widow 
Mary McWilliams [her x mark]
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Wallace McWilliams
Justice of the Peace
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House of Reps
Feb 23d 1849
Sir
I enclose you the papers in the case of Mary McWilliams under the act of Feb 2d 1848. on behalf of widows of Revy Soldiers.
Respectfully
[illegible] Miller
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Recd Dec 8 1848. of Col Edwards Coms of Pensions the paper in the case of Mary McWilliams [illegible] a Revolutionary Soldier + an applicant for a pension. 
{illegible] Miller
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Mary McWilliams
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In this case the only question is as to the marriage. Is the evidence then sufficient to establish the marriage of Mary McWilliams, the applicant to Will McWilliams a Revolutionary Soldier, prior to 1794?
In the first place the evidence shows that in Pennsylvania at the time it is claimed this marriage took place, there was no law requiring a public record of marriages to be kept. 
In the second place it is shown by the testimony of the son of the clergyman by whom these parties were married, that he examined the record of marriages kept by his father. that he does not find among the marriages recorded the one in question and it further appears that affiant from his own knowledge is satisfied that the record he found does not embrace all the marriages solemnized by his father. he knows of one other record kept by his father. If any other he had it is lost. 
{illegible] it is shown by the testimony of the Eldest
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son of the applicant, that the family record of the applicant containing the birth of the children [illegible] does not contain the marriage. 
In addition to this is the affidavit of George McWilliams that he has made diligent enquiries by writing and otherwise for more than one year, to ascertain what Record or documentary evidence could be adduced of the marriage and that he is wholly unable to find that any ever did exist or if it ever did that it now can be found. 
The failure therefore to produce the record is fully + satisfactorily accounted for. 
The next best evidence the case admits of is the testimony of persons who were present. 
The testimony shows that the clergyman the Rev James [illegible], by whom the marriage was solemnized is dead. That he died ["in the year" is struck through]
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AD 18121.
The declaration of the applicant is on file. Of itself not conclusive, but the law would not require the declaration to be made under oath unless the facts contained in it were to be considered. In determining the weight to be given to this evidence, the character + standing of the applicant, ought to be established. 
In this case, I am prepared to certify to the unimpeachable character of this applicant and of her entire family, some of whom, have testified in the matter of this application. 
The [illegible] witness is Williams Boggs. I know him and know him to be a very worthy upright and [illegible] man and as such respected by the whole neighborhood in which he resides. 
He states that the marriage took place in the County of Washington in the State of Penna that he was present at the marriage as groomsman. that they were legally married by the Rev [illegible] He does not pretend
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that he can fix the day of their marriage with certainty. He says he has no reason to doubt that the time fixed in the declaration of the application is the correct time. 
The substance of his testimony is therefore that he witnessed the ceremony and thinks it was at the time fixed by the applicant, but cannot be certain. 
The next witness is Hezekiah Merret who states that the marriage took place on the sixth day of March 1793. 
This witness makes his mark in signing the affidavit. He has been for many years a Justice of the Peace in the County of [illegible] where he now resides and cannot write at this time in [illegible] of some disease under which he is now laboring. The Justice [illegible] before whom his testimony was taken certifies to the credibility of the writing. 
The last writing is [illegible] Lyon
He states that these parties were married in the spring of 1793. 
He is enabled to fix the time, by the date of his arrival in this country and
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by the date of his removal to the Monongahela river. 
He recollects distinctly the time of his arrival in this County and he recollects his removal to the River. The circumstances he could give would be stronger, for men generally have fixed in their minds the time of so important an event as a change of residence. I have frequently observed that witnesses in the [illegible] Country in determining the dates, speak of these as period one or two or three years after their removal from the older states. That date - the date of their removal - always being fixed as certainly and accurately as a Mother fixes + retains the day of the birth of her firstborn.
The Marriage in this case was one year before his removal in the Spring of [illegible] to the Monongahela River. This [illegible] my judgement, is conclusive.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William McWilliams 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 the 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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The State of Ohio
Butler County. S.S.
Personally came before me Richard L. Hard a Justice of the Peace for said county Thomas E. Hughs who being first duly sworn by me deposeth + saith that he is a son of the late Revd James Hughs of Ohio Co Virginia now deceased. That Deponent was born on the 4th ay of April 1804 in said Co in the aforesaid state. That he resided with his Father in said state of Virginia until the year 1816. That his said Father Revd James Hughs was a regularly ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church from about the year 1785 until the time of his death which took place in the year 1821. According to Deponents best recollection the Laws + usages of the states of Pennsylvania + Virginia where his aforesaid Father solemnized marriages did not within the period from 1790 to 1800 require a record to be kept of the solemnization of marriages between parties either in the Township County or parish. And further that although the Government of the Presbyterian Church requires both her ministers + church sessions to keep a fair record of the solemnization of marriages yet the aforesaid requisition has seldom been observed. 
That Deponent has in his possession the list or record of marriages solemnized + kept by his [illegible] Father Rev James Hughs. That in that list is found no notice of the marriage of William and Mary McWilliams, although it embraces a period extending from the year AD 1790 to the year 1821. And Deponent having carefully examined the said record is confident that it does not contain a notice of all the marriages solemnized by his said Father Rev James Hughs within the period last mentioned.