Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39461, John Dougherty, Penn.
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[notecard]
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SERVICE
Penn.
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Dougherty, John
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NUMBER
S.39461
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Jno Dougherty Aug 21/54
3d [illegible] 6th 12/54
John Dougherty Oct 14/54

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Notification sent the 5 July sent to Hon. J. McCrea H.R. [illegible]

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9638
South-Carolina
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John Dougherty,
of Chester Dist. in the State of So. Carol[ina] who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel E. Hand, of the Pennsylv [a] line, for the term of one year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11. of July, 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19. of April '19 and sent to David Johnson, Judge, Union Courthouse, S.C.
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Arrears to 4th of March, 1819... 62.45
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 3. Sept. 1819 48.00
6 mos 25/31}      $110.45 [double underlined]

{Revolutionary Claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued [handwritten]
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South Carolina,
Before me David Johnson one of the associate Judges of the said state personally appeared John Dougherty of Chester District in the state aforesaid and made the following declaration on oath pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress of the United States entitled "in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" to wit , That he entered the army of the Revolution in the service of the United States as a soldier in the 1st Rifle Regt Col Edward Hand. Capt James Ross Pennsylvania line and continued in the said service until the 1st day of July 1776 as will appear by the accompanying certificate on discharge. The declarant further saith that in the early part of the year 1777 he enlisted in the 9th Regt of the Pennsylvania line Col Noggle Capt Ervin as a common soldier for two years & was from thence discharged at the end of the said Term & that his Reg was also in the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution, and that the said discharge has been lost by time or accident & that he knows of no person or document within his reach or power that would prove the facts.
The declarant further saith that he is now in the Seventy second year of his age and that in consequence of his reduced circumstances &
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advanced age he needs the assistance of his country for support.
The declarant saith that he is now and has been from the year 1762 a resident within the United States.
[signed] John Dougherty
[seal affixed]

I do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of John Dougherty was made before me at Union Court the state of South Carolina and that the accompanying documents marked Nos 1 & 2 were at the same time signed 11th July 1818.
[signed] David Johnson
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John McCreary
deposition
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South Carolina }
Chester district }
Personally appeared John McCreary Esq of S.C. district and being duly sworn on his oath sayeth that he has been long acquainted with John Dougherty of this district who has applied for the benefit of the act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." And that he has always considered him as a poor honest man of good character And that he has reason to believe & does verily believe that he is at this time (in his advanced age) in very indigent circumstances, & needs the assistance of his country; and is justly entitled to the provisions of the S.C. Act of Congress.
Sworn to & Subscribed this 31st day of March 1819 before me
[signed] Joseph Gaston JP
[signed] Jno McCreary
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Gen Bradley
deposition
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South Carolina  }
Chester District }
Personally appeared the undernamed subscribers & made oath that [crossed out word] they have been long acquainted with John Dougherty of the said District, who hath applied for the benefit of the Act [words of the act crossed out] of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval services of the of the [sic] United States in the Revolutionary War" and that they have always considered him as an honest man of good character & now in indigent circumstances.  That they have reason to believe & do verily believe that he needs the assistance of his Country (now in advanced age) & we believe justly entitled to the provisions of the said act of Congress.

Sworn to & subscribed this }
31st day of March 1819       ]
Before Jas Anderson Jdg [seal]

Charles Boyd M.L.
Geo Kennedy PM
Ch Boyd
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Doctr. Boyds
Geo. Kennedy
depositions
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State of So. Carolina}
Chester District        }

Personally came Genl. Henry Bradley of said District, and declares on oath, that ^ he is well acquainted with John Dougherty of this district who has applied for the benefit of the act of Congress for the relief of indigent soldiers of the Revolutionary war. And that he knows John Dougherty to be in very indigent circumstances-is now old & infirmed, & his family grown & left him, & and has no person to assist him in gaining a support but a wife that he supports is nearly as old & infirmed as himself, or more so.  And also understands that they have a daughter to maintain that is in a great measure an idiot.  And solemnly believes that said Dougherty is justly entitled to the assistance of his Country. 

Sworn to & subscribed this 1st day of March 1819.
Before me
Joseph Gaston, Jdg

Henry Bradley [signature]
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Gen. Bradley
deposition
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John Dougherty
9:630
Sept 1819
Con
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State of South Carolina Chester District
On the forth[sic] day of November 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the Said District John Dougherty aged Seventy Seven years Resident in South Carolina in the Said District who being first duly Sworn according to the law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz, in Coln. Edward Hand Redgmen[sic for regiment] and in Capt James Ross Company and the date of his original Declaration is the Eleventh day of July one Thousand eight Hundred and Eighteen and the number of his pension certificate is 9638 and I do Solemnly Swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 181? 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 provision[s] of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for Certa[in] persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the Unit[ed] States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of Ma[rch] 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for m[e] any property or Securities Contracts or Debts due to me nor ha[ve] any income other then[sic] What is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed

          Schedule of property     $ ,, Cts
80 Acres of                           120,,
one Mare and Colt                 30
Tow[sic] Cows and 1 Calf      15-
10 Shotes[sic]__ __ __ __ __ _5-
50 Bushells[sic] Corn at 37[1/]2 Cent p 
        Bushel18[.]75
500 Weight Fother                 2[.]50
one pot one oven frying pan & Skillet one Plow} and ax one pair Drawing Chairs} 4
One Half Doz plates ?12 Cups & Saucers and Dish                                                 1
                                                  $196[.]25
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My occupation is that of a Farmer I am not able to pursue it well being very old The Family Consists my Self and my wife who is fifty five or Sixty years of age tow[sic] Daughters the one is [the one is repeated] is 26 years of age the other is about 22 or 23 years old and is insane one nephew who is twelve years of age
   John X Dougherty
Sworn to & Subscribed
4th Novr. 1820
     David Johnson
          Presiding Judge

I John Rosborough Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annext[sic] 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 afforesaid[sic] Schedule is one Hundred Ninety Six Dollars and twenty five cents
Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my ha[nd] and affixed the Seal of Said Court on this 25[th] [crossed out: fourth] day of November 1820

  J Rosborough
     C C pls 
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Carroll County Tennesee[sic] Oct. 1st 1854
Dear Sir-
 I ?Recd. youre[sic] commucation[sic] respecting the pension that I though my mother was intittled[sic] to for the Services of my father, John Dougherty in the Revolutionary war, but I am now sattisfide[sic] She was not Intitled[sic] to any—- my father died in March [crossed out :1824] the forth[sic] Eighteen twenty five— the time of drawing of Pension at that time I do not Recollect-, but, I think It was some time in the Summer, there is a Surplus coming to the Hairs[sic]— but the time I do not recollect my object in addresing[sic] you [crossed out: at this time] is to get the time— thare[sic] is only three of the heirs now living— myself John Dougherty and tow[sic] Sisters
     now if you can give me the above Information you will Confer on
     youre[sic] Humble Servent
        John Dougherty
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January 18, 1939
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BA-J/MCS
John Dougherty, S.39461

Mrs. R. W. Hutson
19 Greenhill Street
Charleston, South Carolina

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, John Dougherty, who served from Pennsylvania and was pensioned while living in South Carolina.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.39461, based on the military service of John Dougherty.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.
He enlisted, place not given, served as private in Captain James Ross' company in Colonel Edward Hand's First Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment and was discharged July 1, 1776, having served one year. He enlisted early in 1777 and served two years as private in Captain Erwin's company in Colonel Nagel's Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 11, 1818, while a resident of Chester District, South Carolina, and he then stated he was in the seventy-second year of his age and that he had lived in the United States since 1762.
In 1820 he stated that he was seventy-seven years of age and that his wife, name not given, was aged fifty-five or sixty years and he then
referred to two daughters, one aged thirty-six years and the other aged twenty-two or twenty-three years, names not given
It was stated that John Dougherty reared a large family. In 1854 his son, John Dougherty, of Huntingdon, Carroll County, Tennessee, stated that his father died March 4, 1825, that his mother (name not given) sur-
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vived his father eight years and twenty-three days and that himself and two sisters (names not given) were the only heirs then surviving.
There are no further data relative to the family of the Revolutionary War soldier, John Dougherty.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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By EDWARD HAND, Esquire, Colonel
   commanding the First (or Rifle) Regiment, in
    the Service of the United American Colonies.

THESE ARE TO CERTIFY, That the Bearer hereof, [name is handwritten] John ?Dougherty has served the [italics] American Continent in the above said Regiment and Captain [name is handwritten] James Ross & Company, faithfully and honestly, for the Space of One Year and the Term of Inlistment[sic] being expired, is discharged from the said Regiment; he having received all his Pay, and all other just Demands from the Time of his inlisting[sic] in the said Regiment, to this Day of his Discharge. GIVEN under my Hand and Regimental Sear, at [handwritten] New Utrecht, this [written] first Day of [written] July 1776 

[Handwritten note:]
August the 2?th 1772

This is to Certify that John Doughirty[sic] had Lived in the ?state [of] Maryland During which time he Lived there ? [s]aved him?self ? to ?tly and ? ? and now ?mind to ?travel ? some of has[sic] majesty’s provinces ?iad and this is to Certify that he ?Cont. to be Molested ?eached and ran away on his Majesty Road given ?[u]nder my hand and Seal
      John Maxfield
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I John Doherty .do acknowledge
to have received all my Pay, and all other just
Demands, from the Day of my inlisting into the
within named Regiment, to this Day of my Discharge.

his
John X Doherty
mark

Witness Present
Jacob Boiser
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[the lower half of a page from a printed book]

By the [illegible] to the gentlemen who represented this province as Deputies in the late Continental Congress, for their faithful discharge of that important trust: And the same was done accordingly. 

To increase our flocks of sheep, and hereby promote the woollen manufacture in this province, RESOLVED, that no person ought to kill any lamb, dropt before the first day of May yearly, or other sheep after the first of January next, under four years of age. 

To increase the manufacture of linen and cotton, RESOLVED, That every Planter and Farmer ought to raise as much flax, hemp, and cotton, as he conveniently can; and the cultivation thereof is particularly recommended to such inhabitants of this province, whose lands are best adapted to that purpose, And RESOLVED, That no flaxseed, of the growth of the present year, ought to be purchased for exportation, after the twelfth day of this month.  

It being represented to this Convention, that many merchants and traders of this province, from a scarcity of [illegible] to make their [illegible], and other causes, had sold their goods, within twelve months next before the twentieth day of October last, at, and sometimes even below the prime cost, and that, in many different parts of this province, merchants had vended their goods as a very different advance on the prime cost it appearing to this Convention to be unjust to compel such merchants to sell their goods at prime cost, and that one general rule, allowing a reasonable profit to the trader and preventing him from taking advantage of the scarcity of goods which may be occasioned by the  [non imposed?] would give great satisfaction to the merchants and people of this province, RESOLVED, unanimously, 
That no merchant ought to sell his goods wholesale, for more than 112 one-half percent.— at retail, for cash, for more than 130 per cent.— on credit, for more than 150 per cent. advance on the prime cost; and that no merchant, or other person, ought to engross any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever.  And in the event any question should arise respecting the prime cost of goods, every merchant or factor possessing or owning [illegible] ought to ascertain the same on oath, if requested to do it by the Committee.  

As
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[A printed, ripped page from a book, with some sections illegible]

As is recommended by this [illegible], That, during the present time of public calamity, balls be discontinued.

Several counties not being fully represented, from the want of sufficient notice of the time of this Meeting, RESOLVED, that the Meeting will adjourn to Thursday the 8th day of December next; and that a letter be wrote to those counties [illegible] to request them to send their deputies to attend punctually on that day, as matters of very great importance to this province will be then taken into consideration.

The Meeting adjourned to Thursday the 8th day of December next. 

JOHN DUCKETT, Clerk

No 1 [handwritten in a hand-drawn circle]

Dougherty, John
(PA)    S-39461

[A stamp with words around the edge]
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE UNITED STATES
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19 Greenhill St.
Charleston S.C.
Dec. 1 - 1938

[stamped] Received Dec 5 1938 Mail Sub-Div Vets Adm Reader # 10 
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen, 
On the South Carolina Pension Rolls for the Revolutionary soldier I find the name of John Dougherty of the Penn. Continental Line - Will you be kind enough to give me the facts stated in his pension papers?
Yours truly 
(Mrs R.W.) M.J. Hutson
(General Rebecca Motte Chapter, D.A.R.)
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39461
INVALID.
Revy
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File No.  39,461
John Dougherty
Pri Rev War
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Act : 18th March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 131

[Arrangement of 1870.]

29 Jan. 18. hist.
Mrs. R. W. Hutson
MCS
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Honorable Judge Johnston
Union
District
So Ca

No. 2
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]

To the Honorable Judge Johnston

Be it known that this is to present Mr. John Daugherty to you, that you may take his case into your consideration and to be enabled so to do, we affix our names to the following (viz).  

He is war worne [sic] soldier of the continental struggles, and is now in the evening of life and have raised a very large family, and now being deprived of his natural and youthful faculties and above all has been an orniment [sic] to his country, and a citizen of the United States for upwards of fifty years the major of which time a citizen of this State and we having been acquainted with him for a series of years.  

We feel safe in presenting him to you as having an undoubted character and the act of Congress having made provision for such of our citizens in giving them a pension or annual support, we hope you will arrange his business so that he may get it.  He will give you his discharge, and by so doing you will oblige yours.  June 19th” 1818

[Two columns of signatures]

Names 
Alexr Quay
Jack McClintock
Henry Bradley

Names
Geo Kennedy
M McKee
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[This document is a very poorly preserved or copied cover to a letter; being so dark that very few words are visible, much less legible.  In no particular order, the are:]

Free
Cole
D
A circular stamp with the word "Huntingdon" around the edge and Oct 3 in the middle

Acting Ommissioner 
Pension Office
Washington City
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John Dougherty paid to 4 Sept 1825
Robert Pattison
Auditor
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Pension Office
Oct 12th 1854
Sir
I herewith submit the papers on which John Dougherty was enscribed on the South Carolina Roll under the acts of March 18th 1818, and May 1st 1820 at the rate of $96 per annum, and will be obliged if you will state to what time his pension has been paid. 

I am respectfully
Your Obt Servt
L P Waldo
Commissioner.


R. J. Atkinson Esq
3 Auditor
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State of South Carolina  }
Chester District              } ss

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Gen.l Henry Bradley, J. McCreary, members elect to Congress and Doctor Charles Boyd, that their respective depositions are entitled to full faith and Credit, and that I am entirely satisfied that the applicant John Dougherty is ^ as they remember him to be, in indigent circumstances ---

Richard Gautt
Chester Court House 1 Aprl 1819

J Rosborough Clk C C D
Honble. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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[whole page is upside down]

Admitted
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Rec'd. 27. July, 1818
Honble John C. Calhoun Jr
Secretary of War
Washington City
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certi claim
Admitted
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David Johnson
Judge,
Union C.h.
South Carolina.
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1 Case 1467
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1 Case 1467
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David Johnson,
Judge,
Union C.h.
South Carolina.
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[rest of page upside down]
certifi claim
Admitted 

Honorable John C. Calhoun Jr
Secretary of War
Washington City

Recd. 27. July, 1818
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Admitted
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Union Ct House. 11th July 1818

The Honble the Secretary of War

Sir, 

The foregoing declaration & the Documents refered [sic] to which are herewith returned is all the evidence that was offered me in support of the claim of Mr. Dougherty [a lined through word] to a pension.  The only remark I have to make in relation to it is that  [a lined through word] the persons who have [illegible] the recommendations addressed to myself are indisputable. 

I am with much respect.
Your Humb. Serv. 
David Johnson 


P.S. Mr. Dougherty requests that the answer to his application may be addressed to him at Chester Court House

[A final addition or line blotted out ] but appears to read I Richard [illegible] am personally acquainted
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[The cover of a letter, addressed to]

To The Commisioner of Pensions
Washington Cty D.C. 

[Two round illegible stamps, and the remains of a seal (to close the letter) are visible; written at various places on the cover are the following]

official business.
Free

D [written in pencil on left-hand margin of page]

John Dougherty
S C, [illegible] 18 Mr 1818

Cole
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Huntingdon Line
8th August 1854

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

Dr Sir
My father, John Dougherty was a Revolutionary Soldier and on the pension roll under the act of 1818 & expect it was but do not know exactly.

He drew $96 - per annum he died on the 4th of March 1825. at the time of his death there were due him some arrears of pension. he left a widow who survived him eight years and 23 days. I am informed that the heirs are entitled to the amount of pension due my father at his death and also to the amount that would have been due to my mother. be so good as to send me the rule covering such a case with the necessary forms and answering the following questions

can the action of my mother apply for pay on her acpt or the heirs can ask about draw what was due to my father at this lapse of time
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I dislike to be troublesome to the department. but at the same time if I am entitled to any thing I want it. I know no one at Washington that I would so soon trust to examine the mother for me as one of the officers of government whose duty it is to examine in to matters of this ^ kind you will find my fathers name on the pension roll. My father lived in South Carolina where he applied for the pension but I believed his service was rendered in the North.

Your attention to this matter at as early a state as convenient will oblige your obdt Servt
John Dougherty

PS My father drew his pension in South Carolina ^ first he had it changed & recd his pay the last year or two at Nashville Tennessee.