Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40195, for Richard Nagle, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
Nagle, Richard or Neagle

Number
S.40195
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See letters Nov 1, 1830 to Penn Agt & W. Tod

3rd Aud. April 25/55
Lett G. M. Reed, May 1/55
3rd Aud. May 3/55
Let G.M. Reed Aug 10/55

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20239
Pennsylvania
Richard Nagle
of Cambria County in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Caption Good of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Griffey in the Maryland 
line for the term of one year
from 1775 to 17 (blank)Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 1 day of January 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of September 1830 and sent to the Pensioner at Ebensburgh PA

Arrears to 4th of March 1830 $209.03
Semi-anul all'ce ending 4 Sept 1830 $48.00
$257.03

{Revolutionary Claim Act 20, May 1830}

Recorded Book D
Vol 6 Page 71

BLB
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Left Side Page

See letters Nov 1, 1830 to Penn Agt & W. Tod

3rd Aud. April 25/55
Lett G. M. Reed, May 1/55
3rd Aud. May 3/55
Let G.M. Reed Aug 10/55

Right Side Page

20239
Pennsylvania
Richard Nagle
of Cambria County in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Caption Good of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Griffey in the Maryland
line for the term of one year
from 1775 to 17 (blank)Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 1 day of January 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of September 1830 and sent to the Pensioner at Ebensburgh PA

Arrears to 4th of March 1830 $209.03
Semi-anul all'ce ending 4 Sept 1830 $48.00
$257.03

{Revolutionary Claim Act 20, May 1830}

Recorded Book D
Vol 6 Page 71

BLB
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October Term 1827
Declarations and
Deposition of Richard 
Nagle
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Western District of Pennsylvania 
Cambria County Ss 
On this third day of October AD 
one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven personally appeared 
in open Court of Common pleas being a Court of record of Cambria 
County in said District proceeding according to the course of the 
Common Law with [?] unlimited in point of [?]
amount 
having a Seal and keeping a record of these Proceedings, Richard 
Nagle aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to 
Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration to obtain 
the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 
and the 1st of May 1820. That he the said Richard Nagle 
Enlisted for the term of six months in Taney Town in Frederick, 
County in the State of Maryland in the Company Commanded 
by Captain Jacob Good in the Regiment commanded by Col. 
Griffey belonging to what was called the flying Camp about 
the last of June One thousand seven hundred and Seventy 
Six[?] that he continued to serve in the said corps untill the Battle 
of Fort Washington in November one thousand seven hundred 
and seventy six when he was taken prisoner by the British and 
taken to New York where he was confined until the last of may
beginning of June following, when he was exchanged and 
went to Morristown in New Jersey, where he was discharged by 
General Washington which discharge is now lost. that he was 
also in the Battles of York Island and White plains that about 
the first of May one thousand eight hundred and eighty one 
he enlisted at Taney Town aforesaid in a Company Commanded 
by Captain Moredock in the service of the United States 
and marched from thence to York Town and continued there 
until after the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and in december 
afterwards he received a discharge which discharge is lost that 
he has no evidence now in his power of his said services except 
the depositions of John Baum Peter McGuire Thomas B Durbin [?] Michael Dodson [?] & Luke McGuire herewith exhibited 
And in pursuance of the act of 1st May 1820. I Richard Nagle 
Do swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 
and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any 
manner 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 18th day of March One thousand eight hundred and 
Eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in 
trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts 
to me nor have I any income other than what is contained 
in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me 
Subscribed 
Schedule of Property, clothing and Bedding Excepted 
one mare, one set of gears, fifteen harrow[?] pins one 
Iron wedge, one shovel, one [?] fork, one [?] hoe, two 
augers, one grubbing hoe, one chipping[?] axe, one chisel, 
two Razers and Glasses, one set of doubletrees, one foot adzer[?]
One piece of [?], one Sugar Kettle & one grindstone 
Due by John Nagle four [?] Cow and Calf eight dollars, I am 
by occupation a laborer or farmer [?] in consequence of 
old age I am now unable to work. I have a wife named 
Mary aged about Seventy eight years who resides with my 
daughter, Honour Litzinger I reside generally with my son John Nagle 
Richard Nagle his [handwritten] X mark

Sworn Subscribed in open court this 3rd day of October AD 1827 Philip [?]
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Cambria County

3rd Oct 1827 Record of the Court approver of the same & deem that the property contained in the schedule is worth thirty-seven dollars sixty-seven and one-half cents by the [illegible].

 Philip Noon Prothonotary in and for the county of Cambria aforesaid do hereby certify the within and foregoing to be a true copy from the records of the court of Common Pleas of said County.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at Ebensburgh the seventeenth day of October AD one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

Philip Noon - Prothy
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Declaration of 
Richard Nagle
Private 
Col Griffey’s Regiment 
1776  1 year
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State of Pennsylvania 
Cambria County ss. 
On this third day of June A.D. 1818, before me 
the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for said County in the Commonwealth aforesaid 
personally appears Richard Nagle aged seventy one years past,
resident in the said County of Cambria, who being by me 
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the 
following Declaration, in order to obtain the provision made
by the late 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” that he the said Richard Nagle enlisted 
in Tanny Town in Frederick County in the State of Maryland 
in the Company commanded by Captain Jacob Good in the 
Regiment commanded by Colonel Griffey, belonging to what 
was called the Flying Camp, about the last of June one 
Thousand seven hundred and seventy six. That he continued 
to serve in the said Corps until the Battle at Fort Washington 
in November one thousand seven hundred 
and seventy six when 
he was taken prisoner by the enemy, and then taken to the City 
of New York, where he was confined in a sugar house until 
the last of May or beginning of June following 
when he was 
exchanged and went to Morristown in New Jersey where he 
was discharged by General Washington, which discharge is now 
lost. That in addition to the above battle when he was taken 
Prisoner, he was in the Battles of York Island and of the white
Plains. That he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need 
of the assistance of his country for support. That he hath 
no Pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States 
to his knowledge and if any such exists he doth hereby fully 
and entirely release the same to the United States.
Sworn to and declared & subscribed before me, the day and year aforesaid 
Before 
George Roberts
Richard Nagle his [handwritten] + mark
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State of Pennsylvania 
Cambria County ss
Luke McGuire Esquire of said County being 
duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he 
is well acquainted with Richard Nagle within named 
that at the time the said Richard enlisted he the 
said Richard resided in the family of the grandfather of 
this Deponent, about half a mile from where the Deponent 
lived with his Father that at the time the deponent was 
young but well recollects of hearing at the time that the 
said Richard enlisted with Captain Jacob Good and that he 
was afterward taken prisoner, and remembers seeing the said
Richard after he returned home. The Deponent further 
saith that the said Richard is in reduced circumstances,
 and from his age and frailties stands in need 
of the assistance of his country for support.
Luke McGuire
Sworn & subscribed before me one of the associate 
Judges of said County of Cambria
the third day 
of June A.D. 1818 
Before 
George Roberts 

Pennsylvania and 
Cambria County ss.
I George Roberts an associate Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas in and for said County in 
the Commonwealth aforesaid do certify that it appears to 
my satisfaction that the said Richard Nagle did serve 
in the revolutionary war as a soldier against the Common 
enemy, and that he is in reduced circumstances and 
stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support 
as stated in the preceding declaration and I now 
transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me 
to the secretary for the Department of war pursuant to the 
directions of the before mentioned act of 
Congress 
June 3 1818 
George Roberts [handwritten] seal
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Cambria County ss 
I James C Maguire Prothy of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for said Do Certify that George Roberts before 
whome the within Deposition appears to have been taken 
is and was at the time of taking the Same one of the Judges of 
the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cambria
and that all due faith is to be given to his act as Such
In Testamony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the Seal of said 
County at Elmsburg this Eighth day 
of August 1878 James C Maguire Prothy
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Ebensburg July 21st 1855

Hon.
L. P. Waldo 
Respected Sir,
Since the receipt of your favor of the 
1st May last, informing me that it appeared “from the books of the Third 
Auditor, that Richard Nagle died May 22 1837, and that his pension 
has been paid in full to that date;” I have had an interview, with 
three of the heirs of Richard Nagle, and they all say that they never 
have received any of the arrearages of their Father's pension, and 
that they never made information to the Pension office, of the time of 
their Father's death. And also, they say, their Father died in 
March 1837, and not on the 22d May 1837, as stated in your favor 
of the 1st May last, refered to above.
It is strongly suspected that a fraud, has been committed upon 
these heirs: therefore, please inform me, who made information of 
the death of Richard Nagle: and also, to whom the arrearages of his 
pension were paid 
Address as heretofore. 
Ebensburg, Cambria County Pa. 
I am Sir, respectfully 
Your Obt Sert 
Geo. M. Reed
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Richard Nagle
April 1. 1828 
refd with rev. to Mily 
Pensions 

May 12, 1828 
Refd to Com[?] whole in Bill 283 
December 5. 1828. 
red to the Com. on Mily. Pensions 

Dec. 16th 1828.
Refd to the Com. Mil. Pensions 

M. Forward
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Auditor Generals Office 
Annapolis 13th Feby. 1828 
I Certify that it appears by the muster Rolls remaining 
in the office, That Thomas Lansdale was appointed 
Captain in the fourth Maryland Regiment on the 
10th of Decr 1776. some time after promoted to 
the rank 
of Major.
Thos Karney audr
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Auditor Generals Office 
Annapolis 4th February 1828 
I certify that it appears by Army Ledger A folio 87. That 
Captain Jacob Good's account stands stated and settled for £775.3.9
on the 4th of July 1777 
Thos Karney Audr

N. B. Capt Jacob Goods was arranged to the Flying Camp and 
Richard Neagle states that he served under his command.
T. K.
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Richard Beagle 
is now aged 81 years. He makes oath 
that he enlisted about the last of June 1776 
at Taneytown in the State of Maryland in 
the company of Capt. Jacob Good and Col 
Griffey’s regiment of the Flying Camp 
In Nov. following at the battle of Fort 
Washington he was taken prisoner by 
the British carried to New York and 
there confined until the last of May 
or beginning of June following when 
he was exchanged & at Morristown in 
 New Jersey he received a discharge from General Washington which is now 
lost. Petitioner also swears that he was 
in the battles of York Island and White 
Plains. In the year 1781 he states that 
he enlisted into the service of the 
United States under Capt. Murdock 
marched to Yorktown and continued 
there until after the surrender of 
Cornwallis & in Dec afterward 
received his discharge which is also 
lost. The list of his property to which 
he has been sworn is a mere trifle 
His first attestment and services
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and capture are fully proven by the 
oath of Michael Dodson one of his 
fellow soldiers. His second enlistment 
and services are also clearly established 
by the oath of John Barron who served 
in the same company. 
This testimony is 
corroborated by the oaths of Peter 
McGuire & Thos B. Durbin 
The Committee thinks the 
case perfectly clear and satisfactory 
& therefore report favorably.
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40 195 
INVALID. 
Revy 
File No. 40,195 
Richard Nagle
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: - Vol. [3 or 5], Page [562 or 362 or 862]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Treasury Department 
Third Auditor's Office 
April 28 1855 
Sir,
I herewith return the papers in 
the case of Richard Nagle, a pensioner 
of Pa, received from you under date of 
the 25th Inst and have to inform you 
that it appears from the books of this 
Office that he died 22 Feb 1837, and 
that his pension has been paid in full 
up to the day of his death 
I am, Sir, your 
obedient Servant 
Robt Jennison 
Auditor
L. P. Waldo Esq. 
Commr of Pensions
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Ebensburg April 19" 1855.

Hon. L.P. Waldo

Sir 
The heirs of Richard Nagle wish
to procure the pension coming to them in right of their Father. 
The facts are these; Richard Nagle was a Revolutionary 
soldier, and served in several battels, those of which, I am 
informed he served in are Long Island, and York Town. 
He was taken prisoner at Long Island.
He was Married 
shortly after the Revolutionary war. And died in 1837. 
his widow also, died the same year, a few months 
previous to him. 
He drew a pension for several 
years previous to his death. He has now, five 
children living 
If under these facts, the children of Richard Nagle 
are entitled to a pension in right of their Father. 
Please Send me the necessary forms and instructions 
to make the application, in the proper manner 
I have the honor to be Sir, your obt. sert. 
George M. Reed

Address
Ebensburg Cambria Co. Pa
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Treasury Department 
Third Auditor's Office 
August 8, 1855 
Sir
In reply to your letter of 
the 3rd Inst. relative to the pension 
of Richard Nagle of Pa. I have to 
inform you that evidence is on file 
in this office that he died 22 Feb. 1837. 
and that the arrears of pension due 
to the day of his death were paid to 
William Todd, attorney for John Nagle 
Jacob Nagle, Richard Nagle, Margaret 
Farwell and Honor Litzinger, children 
of the deceased pensioner, he having 
left no widow.
I am, Sir, your 
Obedient Servant 
W. [?] Taylor
Acting Auditor 

Josea Minot Esq.⎬ 
Commr of Pensions}  Saffell
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pen: to com: Jan. 1828 
$8 per mo-Rev. roll 
Penn. 3d Sec.[?] act 
May 20. 1830 
recd Sept. 8. 1830 
send cert. to Hon 
C. Forward

[stamp] SOMERSET[?] Penn Sept 5
[stamp] FREE 

Hon John H. Eaton 
Secy of War 
Washington City

Pension }
Office  }
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You will be kind enough to direct 
a pension certificate for Richard 
Nagle to be sent either to me or to 
Moses Canan Esq of Ebensburgh 
Cambria County Pa. As Cambria 
County is not within the agency 
established at Pittsburgh you will 
of course direct payment at
Philadelphia. 
With esteem yours 
C. Forward 

Hon J. H. Eaton 
Secy of War
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Pennsylvania }
Cambria County ss. ⎬ 
I Philip Noon Esquire Prothonotary 
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Cambria 
Do certify that Philip Noon Esquire before whom the 
within Deposition of Richard Nagle was taken was 
at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said 
County, duly commissioned and sworn and that full 
credit is to be given to his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand and affixed the seal of my 
office at Ebensburg in said County the 
thirtieth day of August A.D. one thousand 
eight hundred and thirty.
Philip Noon Prot

I do certify that I am personally acquainted with 
Richard Nagle within named & 
know him to be the identical Richard 
Nagle whose name is mentioned in 
the act of Congress passed on the 20th 
of May last entitled “an act for the 
relief of sundry Revolutionary and 
other officers and soldiers and 
for other purposes”.
C. Forward 
4th Sept 1830
To the Hon. John H. Eaton 
Secy of War
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Pennsylvania  }
Cambria County ss. }
Before the subscriber, a Justice of the 
Peace in and for Cambria County personally came 
Richard Nagle, who being duly sworn doth depose and 
say that through his Representative in Congress, Chauncey 
Forward Esquire, he did apply to that Body for a Pension 
on account of revolutionary services, and that 
his said 
Representative has informed him that a bill has 
passed for his relief.
Richard Nagle his [handwritten] + mark

Sworn and subscribed  }
before me the 30th day }
of August A.D. 1830   }
Philip Noon   }

I hereby signify my desire that the United 
States will pay me my pension at the office of 
Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States 
at Pittsburg and that my Pension Certificate may be 
sent by Mail to me at Ebensburg Cambria County 
Pennsylvania.
Richard Nagle his [handwritten] + mark
attest 
M Canan
Philip Noon
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Pennsylvania Huntingdon County ss
Captn Micheal Dodson (of Bedford County) came personally 
before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of 
said County who being sworn according to Law, Deponeth
and Saith that he has been personally acquainted with 
Richard Nagle for Fifty Three years past, and the 
said Nagle was enlisted by this Deponent in July 1776 
Deponent and he the said Nagle belonged to Capt 
Jacob Goods Company who were part of the Flying 
Camp, the said Richard was taken prisoner at 
Fort Washington, when Fighting under the command 
Col McGaw Nagle at the time he was taken 
was attached to Capt Harry Harmons Company. 
this Deponant after serving his time in the Flying 
Camp enlisted with Cap Thomas Lansdel and 
continued three years in the Service, the next 
time this Deponant seen Nagle was in the Militia 
at While Mash [White Plains?] a few days previous to the Battle 
Michael Dodson his [handwritten] X mark

Sworn and subscribed 
before me 25 August 1827 
Joseph McCune
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State of Pennsylvania 
and Cambria County ss
On the first day of October 1827 
before me the subscriber one of the Associate 
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and 
for said County in the Commonwealth aforesaid 
Personally appears John Baum resident in said 
County and Commonwealth aforesaid who being 
a credible witness and being by 
me first duly sworn according to law doth 
on his oath make the following declaration 
That he the said John Baum enlisted for nine 
months at Peter Erb's Mill in Fredrick County 
in the State of Maryland in a company commanded 
by Captain Moredock of the fourth Regiment 
he does not recollect the Colonels name about 
the first of May in the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred and eighty one and 
engaged to be ready to march at a moments 
warning That in three days after the said 
deponent had enlisted Richard Negle who is now 
present and whose application for a pension 
is hereto annexed enlisted at Tarongtown [?] in 
the State aforesaid in the Same Company & on 
the same terms That the said deponent and 
the said Richard Negle were called upon early 
in July in the same year and marched together 
in the said Company and in the service of the 
United States to Fredricktown in the County aforesaid 
and from thence to Annapolis where they joined 
the army of the United States and after the 
said deponent and said Richard remained at 
Annapolis a few days they marched together in 
the said army to Little York in the State of 
Virginia and were at Little York in the said 
Army the time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis 
and that the said Deponent and said Richard 
continued to serve in said Corps untill on the 
tenth of December in the same year when 
they were both discharged at Annapolis that the  
said deponent saw the said Richard 
recieve his discharge from the hand of an Officer
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in the State house at Annapolis aforesaid and 
was intimately acquainted with the said Richard 
during the whole of the services above described 
Sworn to and declared and subscribed 
before me the day and year aforesaid 
Before 
George Roberts 

John Baum Senior



John Baum
Deposition
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State of Pennsylvania 
Cambria County ⎬ ss 
on the second day of October AD. 1827 
before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the 
Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County personally appear 
Peter Muir, credible witness a resident of said County, 
who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say 
that he is well acquainted with Richard Nagle, who is 
now present, and whose application for a Pension is hereto an need 
that during the intentionary war the said Richard 
Nayle resided in the family of the father of this deponent 
and as this deponent then understood the said Richard Nagle 
enlisted with a certain Captain Jacob Good in Taney Town 
in the State of Maryland, that this deponent will re member 
that he was sent by his father with the said 
Richard Nagle about ten miles when he was going on 
the Company that after the said Richard Nagle had been 
resent for sometime, be came back to the house 
the deponent father, and it was generally known and said 
at the time that he had been a prisoner during part of 
the time of his absence. that some time afterwards the 
said Richard Nagle left the house of the father of this deponent 
in company with Nicholas Meguin his brother, who is now 
send, and as this deponent understood from his said 
Brother and others, enlisted in the army of the United States 
and was at the surrender of York Town - 
Sworn and subscribed ⎬ before me, the word Peter his X mark Grise the for early part of "being interlined- George Roberts State of Pennsylvania Cambria County ss. Ⓧ 
on the second day of October 
one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven 
before me the subscriber one of the 
Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the 
said County of Cambria personally appeared Thomas
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B. Durbin a credible witness who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Richard Nagle mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of Peter McGuire and that he knew the said Richard Nagle during the revolutionary war - that he knew that the said Richard Nagle marched in the company of Captain Jacob Good and this deponent heard at the time that the said Richard Nagle had been made a prisoner by the British and that this deponent well recollects that the said Richard Nagle marched to the siege of Yorktown and understood at the time that he was enlisted and that he was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.

Thos. B. Durbin

Sworn & subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.

George Roberts

State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County

I Philip Noon Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that George Roberts before whom the foregoing deposition were taken was at the time and still continues to be an acting associate judge of said court duly commissioned and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I Philip Noon Proth. do hereby set my hand and seal of said court at Ebensburgh eighteenth day of October AD one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

Philip Noon - Prothy