Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,132, for John Mc Cay, Maryland
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Md.
McCay, John or McCoy
S.40.132
B.L.W. 1491-200. Lieut.
Issued Aug. 4, 1789
No papers.
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10,382 R
Pennsylvania 
John McCoy
         McCay
In the state of
Who was a Lieut in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stone of the Maryland
ne, for the term of 7 Years. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of June 1818
Certificate of pension issued the 8 of Mar 10 and sent to [unreadable]
[unreadable] 
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.       179.91
Emi-anl. All’ce ending Sept 19.  120
8.                                                 $299.91
   30. 35
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
4 Sep 1819
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John McCoy of Erie Penn. application for Revolutionary Pension
Matt Peck
Erie Pa
10382
[illegible signature]
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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County [illegible]--On this tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in [illegible] court, being the court of Common Pleas for the said county and being a court of Record having been [illegible] by the laws of the State aforesaid, John McCay aged about 82 years resident on a hill creek [illegible] in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. To wit
He was commissioned as a Lieutenant and served as [illegible] wage [illegible] in the 4th Regiment Maryland [illegible] Command set by Colonel Stewart but at what time he was commissioned or how long he served in that capacity the applicant is unable now to state but would refer to his former declaration--That the state of his original Declaration in the 5ht of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and the number of his certificate is 10.382
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident [illegible] United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other way [illegible] defense of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby as to demand it as to bring myself [illegible] the provision 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" paper on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in [illegible] 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 [illegible]--
The following is a schedule of my property

John McCay
[series of illegible names at the left]
By occupation I am a farmer but unable to work any having had a fit of [illegible] with which I am quite greatly afflicted by
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trembling of my limbs--I have a wife about 80 [crossed out] years of age [/crossed out] old but no children residing with me--
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court
Nov. 19th. 1820
Mr. Milton Proth.

State of Pennsylvania
Erie County [illegible]--
Thomas Milton Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Please in and for said county [illegible] certify tha tthe foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto as rec'd are truly copied from the Record--
[illegible] I do further certify that it is the opinion of this [illegible] court that the [illegible] of the property inherited in the aforesaid schedule does not exceed twenty four dollars--
In Testimony whereof I have [illegib;e] at my hand and affixed the Seal of the [illegible] Court the twenty third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty--
Mr. Milton Proth.
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One Cafe. 890
John Vincent
Erie. Penn.
Rec'd 23rd June 1818--

John McCoy
Lieut
1776--War. 1st Maryland
Regt--Col. Stone--

no letter enclosed

[inverted]
Hon. John [illegible]
Secretary of the Department of War
City of Washington
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Sent to [illegible] for proof of service

[inverted]
John McCoy
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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County [illegible]

On this fifth day of June A.D. 1818 before  [illegible] the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Please within and for the County of Erie aforesaid and personally appeared John McCoy aged 70 or 75 was resident in the County of Erie aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn and 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 John McCoy, in the month of January 1776, enlisted as a private soldier, for one year into company commanded by Cap't Ramsey of the Maryland battalion; and continued to serve in said corps during said year, and that at the close of the year 1776 he enlisted at Baltimore, to serve untill the war should cease, into a company of Cap't Nathaniel Ewing of the 1st Maryland Regiment, under the command of Col. Stone, and continued
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in the service of the United States untill the close of the war, and was then discharged by the proclamation of the Commander in Chief: that during the time he was in service, he acted first as an Ensign and afterwards as Lieut. in the company aforementioned: that in what year he was commissioned as an Ensign or Lieut. he is unable to state, but thinks it was in 1777 or 1778: that in 1780 or 1781 he was Foragemaster to the 1st Maryland Brigade--that he is in reduced circumstances in life and is in need of the assistance of his County for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, Except a Circular Letter from the Cincinnati Society dated Annapolis September 12th, 1787 which is enclosed
John McCay

Sworn & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
John Vincent
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I, John Vincent one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Erie aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John McCoy did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the [illegible] declaration against the Common Enemy and that he is in [illegible] of [illegible] from his country for support--

John Vincent
Commonth of Pennsyl.
Erie County [illegible]

I certify that John Vincent, Esquire [illegible] commissioned associate Judge of the Court of [illegible] Pleas of Erie County, that he was such at [illegible] signing the above writing--and that fullf[illegible] credit to all his official auth. -- In Testimony I have herewith set my hand & the seal of [illegible] this 5th day of June 1818--

John Helio[?] Prothy
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December 1, 1931
Mrs. Lucy McCoy Shoop 
731 Bryden Road 
Columbus, Ohio. 
BA-J/ILL 

Dear Madam, 
Reference is made to your letter relative to John McCoy, a solider of the Revolutionary War. 
Data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on pension claim, S. 40132, based upon his service in that war. 
John McCay or McCoy enlisted in January, 1776, served one year as private in Capatin Ramsey's Maryland Company, at the close of that year, re-enlisted at Baltimore, MAryland, in Captain Nathaniel Ewing's Company, Colonels Stone's and Stewart's Maryland Regiment, and was commissioned ensign and lieutenant in that company, exact dates of his commissions not stated; in 1780 or 1781, hw was forgemaster to the  1st Maryland Brigade and served until January1, 1783, at which time he was a lieutenant in the 4th Maryland Regiment. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 5, 1818, while resident of Erie County, Pennsylvania. He gave his age then as seventy or seventy-five years. 
In 1820, he was a resident of Mill Creek Township, Erie County Pennsylvania, and gave his age as eighty-two years, no explanation given in [?] this discrepancy in age. His wife was then about eighty years of age, her name not given. In 1828, the solider referred to his dependent family but gave no names. 
Very truly yours, 
A. D. Miller 
Assistant to Administrater.
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40132
Revy[?] INVALID.

File No. 40132
John McCoy
Lieut Rev War

Act: 18th March 1811[?]
Index:--Vol. 3[?], Page 319[?]

[start bracket] Arrangement of 1870. [end bracket]

1931--Dec. 1--Hist.[?] to Mrs. Lucy McCoy Sharp[?]--[illegible].
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, May 1st, 1819

I hereby certify, that it appears from the pay-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that John McCoy received from John Hamilton, agent of the Maryland line, the sum of $77..9[?] 1st January 1782 Also, the sum of $240.00 for pay from the 1st January 1782 to the 1 January 1783 when his time expired.

It appears on the pay Rolls that John McCoy was a Lieutenant

Thos. Karneyand[?]
State [illegible]
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
29 Nov 1828.

I have the honor to inform you, that John McCoy formerly a lieutenant in the fourth Regiment of the Maryland line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Pennsylvania agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
Richard Ruck
The Hon. the Secretary of War.
No. 119
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1233
No. of assigned payment - 778

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
13 Nov 1828.

John McCoy of [blank] in the County of Erie in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitle "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war, at which period he was a Lieutenant in the fourth regiment of the Maryland line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of six hundred dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Pennsylvania.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By order of the Secretary Fiddicken[?].

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
18TH November 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to John McCoy, Lieutenant in the Maryland line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.

It further appears that John McCoy is now on the pension list of the Pennsylvania agency, and has been since the 3d. March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.

Peter Hagman [illegible]
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Act 1828
Settled by
Treasury
Cons with
Invalid file
#40.132
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Rec'd 5 Nov 1828. 1233

Mill Creek township Erie County Pa
27 October 1828

To the Hon. Richard Rush
[illegible] of the [illegible]

Sir
The evidence of my services as an officer in the army of the revolution was commuted to Washington when I obtained the certificate of pension [illegible] the act of the 18th March 1828--I presume this is sufficient, if not I can furnish probably any further that may be necessary[?]--I prefer you will find it convenient to pay immediate attention to my application--my age, and the [illegible] of a defendant family as my excuse for wishing your attention to the subject--If you should forward the amount due me under the law, be [illegible] to send a check from the Bank United States--directed to me, and to the [illegible] of John A. Tracy. Erie Pa--
Yours--
[illegible] 
John McCoy
March.

Protny--
William Kelley

State of Pennsylvania
Erie County [illegible]

I Edwin I. Kelso Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County Erie do hereby certify that
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828. I. John McCoy of the township of Mill Creek in the County of Erie in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare that I was an officer in the continental line of the army of the revolution and served as such to the end of the war, at which period I was a lieutenant in the fourth Regiment, Maryland line.

And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate (commonly called a commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March 1783 method of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 20th of October 1780--

And I do further declare that I have received as a pension of the United States since the 3rd day of March 1826 the sum of Six Hundred dollars paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the state of Pennsylvania--
[illegible]
William Kelley
[illegible]
John McCoy
March

Before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in the county of Erie in the state of Pennsylvania personally appeared this day James Arbuckle and John A. Tracy of the said county who did generally make oath that John McCoy by whom the forgoing declaration was subscribed is generally [illegible] and believed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution in manner as therein stated

[illegible] my hand and [illegible] this 24th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight--

William Kelley
Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County Pa

I Edwin I Kelso Prothonotary of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Erin do hereby certify that William Kelley Esquire. Before whom the within acknowledgement or deposition was taken is and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace, in & for said county duly commissioned authorised and appointed as such. That full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offered the seal of said court this twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1828

Edwin I. Kelso Prothy
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Columbus -Ohio 
Nov 10-31. 
Director of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir: In replying to my letter of Oct 9" 1931  per copy attached & the War Dept at 
informed me that John McCoy was commissioned Lieut Jany 1- 1781 date of termination of her service is not shown but ended in 1783. Also records show that John McCoy served in that war as a private in the Maryland Line and was paid for services from Jany 1 1782 to Feb 14, 1782 when he was discharged. They did not find the name of James McCoy on the records on file in the office-but suggested that I write to you for possible additional information concerning either of these men for which I think you very kindly in advance- and enclose stamped addressed envelope. 
Very truly yours
Lucy McCoy Shoop
731 Bryden Road
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Copy

Columbus Ohio Oct 29-1931

War Department
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen: Being a descendent of John McCoy (or McKay) who emigrated from Scotland and settled near Fredericktown Md. sometime prior to 1774 and who served in the revolutionary war. I am desirous of obtaining a record of his service-discharge and pension. Also the name of his wife and the names of his children--and any other information you may be able to give me. John had a brother James--concerning whom I wish the same information If you will kindly furnish it I shall really appreciate an early response--and am enclosing addressed stamped envelope. Thanking you in advance I remain very truly yours
Lucy McCoy Shwab
731 Bryden Road.

[seal with numbers 1 to 12 circling around]
RECEIVED
NOV 11 1931
REGENT SECTION
PENSION FILES [illegible]