Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39882, John Welty, Md.
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SERVICE | NUMBER
Md | Welty, John | S. 39882

CONTENTS
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Date of death not on A. B.

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2034[page torn]
20340
East Tennessee

John Welty 
of Green Coty in the State of Tennessee 
who was a Private in the company commanded 
by Captain Myers of the Regiment commanded 
by Colonel Adams in the Maryland 
line, for the term of three years 
from November 1778 to November 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of East Tennessee 
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to 
commence on the 25 day of June 1830 
1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of June 
1830 and sent to R. J. 
McKenney Esq. Greenville Ten

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1831 $18.66
Semi-anl. all'cr ending
$18.66
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{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Acts March, 18, 1818, }
{ and May 1, 1820. }

Recorded Book D
Vol. 9 page 116
[illegible initials]
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Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under 
the Act of the 18th March 1818,

State of Tennessee }
County of Greene } Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 

On this 26th day of January one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty one, personally appeared in open 
Court, being a Court of Record for the County of Greene in the 
State aforesaid, John Welty resident in said County, aged 
eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law 
doth on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to ob
tain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 
1818 and the 1st May 1820.  That he the said John Welty 
enlisted for the term of three year on the [blank] day of November 
1778 in the State of Maryland in the company commanded 
by Captain Myers in the Regiment commanded by Colonel 
(name not recollected) in the line of the State of Maryland on 
the [blank] Continental establishment, that he continued 
to serve in the said corps until the 2d. day of November 
1781 when he was discharged from the service at YorkTown 
in the State of Virginia.  That he hereby relinquishes any 
claim to a pension, except the present, that his name is not 
on the roll of any State except Maryland--And that the 
following are the reasons for not making earlier application for 
a pension.  He was unwilling to ask the aid of Government 
so long as he was able to procure a bare support; and therefore 
delayed his application until forced to it by extreme poverty. 
Formerly he was the owner and until of late, he had been in the pos
session of real property, which afforded him a living; but which 
has been sold from him, the facts in relation to which he will 
here state.  Previous to May 1818, he owned one hundred & forty 
or fifty acres of land in Greene County, and was then free from 
embarrassment, about that time he purchased a tract of land
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adjoining him from one John Cordon containing 112 acres for 
which he contracted to pay one thousand dollars; about five 
hundred of which he paid immediately and executed his obli
gation for the remainder payable in annual instalments [installments]. 
But owing to a variety of causes his declining strength, his fam
ily having almost all left him, and chiefly the sudden & great 
depreciation in value both of real & personal property, he was 
unable to meet those payments, and in consequence of such 
inability to pay said obligations, having been [illegible] to John 
Huff, were sued and judgments obtained and Executions issued, upon 
which executions, both of said tracts of land, together with every 
articles of his personal property, except one cow & calf and one 
old pot, were levied on and sold at a great sacrifice to satisfy 
said judgments, a large balance of which still remained unpaid 
And although by the laws of this State, two years are allowed 
for the redemption of land sold at execution sale, yet he 
was unable by any means to raise any part of the money 
to redeem said land, and in March last, he was forced 
to give up the possession of said land, to the purchaser, 
and is now living on a small piece of rented land, and 
utterly destitute of any personal property; and owing to 
his extreme age and bodily infirmity, is unable to do any la
bor whatever to procure or support, therefore he is compell
ed to put himself upon the charity of his country.

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820, I do 
solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United 
State on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not 
since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed 
of any 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 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in 
trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due
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to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained 
in the Schedule hereby annexed, by me subscribed.

Schedule.  One cow and calf, one broken pot
John his X mark Welty

The declarant is by occupation a farmer, but so aged and 
infirm that he is wholly unable to pursue it.  The number of 
his family now residing with him, is four viz, his wife Ma
ry aged about 81 years, and quite helpless, Rahamy his daugh
ter, aged about 22 years, and her infant child aged six or seven months. 
The said Rahamy is the only one of the family who is able to 
support herself, and upon her exertions alone, the rest are de
pendent for a subsistence.  That since the 18th of March 
1818, the following changes have been made in my property. 
At that date I was the owner of 140 or 50 acres of common land 
sometime thereafter, I purchased 142 acres from John Cor
don, I also at that date owned two head of horses, about 
15 head of cattle, 20 head of sheep and 30 head of hogs, all 
of which property was sold at Sheriffs sale to satisfy the purchase 
money of the land bought from Cordon, as above stated. 
And no part thereof is now owned by me, and there still 
remains unsatisfied, a large balance of said purchase money. 
Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of January 1821 
in open Court.

I Andrew Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 
for Greene County in the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that 
it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said John 
Welty did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the 
preceeding [preceding] declaration, against the common enemy, for the 
term of three years under one engagement, on the Continental 
establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and the 
Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of 
the said Court; And I do further certify, that it is the opin
ion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the 
property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is ten dollars.
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In Testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal of 
the said Court on this 28th day of 
January 1831.
A Patterson, Clerk of 
the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions &c
By  U. Sevier, D..

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21,631
Welty
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April 18, 1938

John Dawson
S. 8296
Moses Roberts 
Wt. 1790-300
John Welty
S. 39882
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Robert E. Lee
Willmore Hotel
Long Beach, California 

Dear Madam:

The data which follow relative to John Dawson 
were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, 
S. 8296, based on his military service in the War 
of the Revolution.

John Dawson was born in the year 1747 in 
Frederick County, Maryland, names of his parents 
not given.  He moved with his "father's family" 
from Frederick County, to Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania.

While residing in said Westmoreland County, 
John Dawson enlisted sometime in April, 1778, 
served as a private in Captain John Minter's 
company, Colonel Crawford's Pennsylvania regiment, 
marched to Fort Pitt, and down the Ohio River to 
the mouth of the Big Beaver, where he assisted in 
building Fort McIntosh, from there went in pursuit 
of Indians to the Tuscarawas River, returned to 
Fort McIntosh, where he was discharged in December 
or January, 1779.

John Dawson moved from Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania, in 1785 to Kentucky, lived seven years 
and moved to Champaign County, Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application
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executed April 15, 1834, at which time he was living 
in Urbana Township, Champaign County, Ohio.

The papers on file in this claim contain no 
reference to wife or children of the soldier, John 
Dawson.

In order to obtain the date of last payment 
of pension, name and address of person paid, and 
possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you 
should apply to The Comptroller General, General 
Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, 
D. C., and furnish the following data:

John Dawson
Certificate # 26301
Issued May 3, 1834 
Rate $20.00 per annum 
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832 
Ohio Agency.

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Moses Roberts-Wt. 1790-300

The records of this office show that Warrant 
No. 1790, for three hundred acres of bounty land, 
was issued April 13, 1792, on account of the service 
of Moses Roberts, Captain of the Massachusetts Line, 
War of the Revolution.

There are no further data on file in regard to 
his service, and no information relative to his family, 
due to the destruction of papers in such claims, when 
the War Office was burned.

This is the record of the only Moses Roberts 
found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this 
office.

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John Welty- S. 39822

The date pertaining to John Welty were obtained 
from papers on file in pension claim, S. 39822, based 
upon his military service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of John Welty were not 
given, nor were the names of his parents stated.

John Welty enlisted in the State of Maryland, 
sometime in November, 1778, served as private in 
Captain Meyers' company in the German Regiment, 
and was discharged at Yorktown, Virginia, November 
2, 1781, from the 3rd Maryland Regiment, by Lieu
tenant-Colonel P. Adams.

John Welty was allowed pension on his appli
cation executed January 26, 1831, then aged eighty
seven years, and living in Greene County, Tennessee.

In 1831 his family residing with him consisted 
of his wife, Mary, aged eighty one years, his daughter, 
Ra[u]hamy, aged twenty two years, and her infant child, 
aged six or seven months, name of infant not given.

Barbra Hauff in 1856 residing in Greene County, 
Tennessee, referred to the soldier, John Welty, as 
deceased, and stated that she was one of his sur
viving children.  She did not give the date of his 
death and did not mention names of other children.

One Peter Hauff was of Greene County, Tennessee 
in 1856; it was not stated that he was related to 
the above named Barbra Hauff.

The papers on file in this claim contain no 
further discernible data in regard to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment 
of pension, name and address of person paid, and 
possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you
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should apply to The Comptroller General, General 
Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, 
D. C., and furnish the following:

John Welty 
Certificate # 20340 
Issued June 27, 1831 
Rate $8.00 per month 
Commenced June 25, 1831
Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820
East Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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State of Tennessee }
Greene County } I Richard M Woods, high Sheriff of the 
County of Greene aforesaid do certify: That in the month 
of May 1827 Three Writs of Execution issued from the 
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions from said County, 
came to my hand, in favour [favor] of Stephen Huff and 
Joseph Huff executors of John Huff decd. who was 
assignee of John Cordon, against John Welty 
for about the sum of $738.17 [illegible] including principal 
interest, and cost; which Executions I levied on all 
the personal property I could find of said Welty's, 
consisting of a number of horses, cattle, sheep and 
hogs, and perhaps some other personal property, the 
amount, and number of which not recollected, and 
all of which I sold in June 1827 for $55.87.

I also, under said Executions, levied on two tracts 
of land the property of said Welty, one containing 
by estimation, about 150 acres the place on which he 
then lived,-the other tract supposed to contain 
about 142 acres, adjoining the former, and known 
by the name of the Cordon place.-Said lands 
I sold in July 1827 to Stephen & Joseph Huff 
the first tract for $160.00-the other for $100.00 
This was all the property of said Welty's to be found 
in this County.  The proceeds of which sales, were 
applied to the satisfaction of said judgements
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Said judgements, as I understood and believe 
were founded upon three notes or obligations 
given by said Welty to John Cordon [struck out: for] in part 
payment of the purchase money of the last men
tioned tract of land,-which notes were transferred 
by said Cordon to John Huff by whose executors 
suits were brought & judgements obtained.

A large ballance [balance] of said judgements still [repeated: still] remains 
unsatisfied, and said Welty has no property know of out 
of which the same can be satisfied-Cordon and Huff 
I believe, are both dead.

Witness my hand this 27th day of January 1831.
R. M. Woods Sheriff 
of Greene County
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State of Tennessee }
Greene County }. I, Jeramiah Jack, a citizen of said 
County, do certify, That sometime in the year 
John Welty purchased from John Cordon a tract of 
land situate in said County, containing about 142 acres 
for about the sum of $1000.00 as I understood from 
both parties.  I also understood from them, that about 
$500.00 of the purchase money was paid soon after the 
contract, and obligations on notes were executed for the 
ballance [balance].  Said obligations were afterwards transferred 
in the life time of said Cordon (who is now dead) to 
one John Huff (who is also dead)  Suits were brought 
on said notes by the executors of said Huff. Judge
ments obtained, and executions issued, upon which 
two tracts of land, and all the personal property of said 
John Welty were levied on and sold at public sale 
by the Sheriff of said County in the year 1827 in 
satisfaction of said judgements, a part of which 
still remains unsatisfied.  Jeramiah Jack

State of Tennessee }
Greene County } Personally appeared, Jeramiah Jack 
before me Joseph Brown, a Justice of the peace for 
said County and made oath in due form of law 
that the facts stated in the foregoing certificate are 
true to the best of his knowledge and belief.  Sworn 
to and subscribed before me this 27th day of Janry 1831.
Joseph Brown J.P.  Jeramiah Jack
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State of Tennessee sct.

I Andrew Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and 
Quarter Sessions for the County of Greene, do hereby 
certify that Joseph Brown Esqr. before whom the ac
companying affidavit of Jeremiah Jack was made, was at 
the date of said affidavit to wit the 27th day of January 1831 
an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of 
Greene duly commissioned and qualified.  And I do 
further certify that Richard M Woods, whose certifi
cate is likewise hereunto annexed dated 27th January 1831  
now is, and was in the months of May, June and July 1827 
high Sheriff in and for the County of Greene and that 
the signatures of the said Joseph Brown and Richard M. Woods to their respective cer
tificates as aforesaid, are in their own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 
set my hand affixed the seal of 
[Blurred seal of Court] Court at office this 28th day 
of January 1831.
A. Patterson
By U. Sevier DC
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State of Tennessee } 
County of Green }  Amended Declaration of John Welty

Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, On this 26th day of April 
1831 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of 
record for said County of Greene John Welty and on his 
oath makes the following Declaration (in addition to and in explanation
of the Declaration heretofore made and sworn to by him on the 26th 
of January 1831 and to which this is annexed as a part thereof)
to wit he served in the German Regiment as will appear from 
his discharge accompanying his original declaration, which 
Regiment was commanded by Colonel Houssegger as he has 
been reminded by a letter from the War Department since 
the date of his former Declaration
John his X mark Welty

Sworn to and subscribed on this 26th day of April 1831 
Ordered by the Court that the foregoing amendment explanatory of 
the declaration made by John Welty at the January Sessions last 
past of said Court, be made a part of the record of said 
original declaration, and that a copy of the same be certified 
to the War Department, by the Clerk of this Court, as part 
of said declaration.

I Andrew Patterson Clerk of [repeated: of] the aforesaid 
Court do certify that the above is truly copied from the 
records of said Court now in my Office.  In testimony 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and affixed the seal of said Court at 
Office, the 9th day of May 1831.
A. Patterson Clk 
By U. Sevier, D.C
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The Bearer, John Welty of the late German 
Regiment, having served the term of three years 
in the afsd. Regt. and the third Maryland Regt. [word struck out] 
being the time for which he engaged, as appears 
from a certificate given by Capt Myers, he is 
hereby discharged from the service as a soldier 
and from farther duty in the Maryland line 
given under my hand at York Town Virginia 
this second day of Novr. 1781
P. Adams [illegible]
3d Md. Regt.
The German Regiment was paid 
to the 1st Janry 1781.  [illegible]
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Greene County 
Tennessee 
August 4, 1856

Sir-

My father John Welty decd. was a Continental 
soldier of the Maryland Line in the war of the revolution, 
and received a pension up to his death of $96 per annum, 
at the Jonesborough or Knoxville Tennessee agency.

I am one of his surviving children, and as it is believed 
that he was entitled to some Bounty Land from the United 
States for his revolutionary service, and as I have no means 
of ascertaining whether or not such Bounty was due him, 
I respectfully ask that you give me such information on 
the subject as your office may afford: the object being 
to make application for such Bounty if it should be found 
to be due

I am very respectfully 
Your obt. Svt.
Attest } Barbra her X mark Hauff
Peter Hauff } test John Pates

PS.  In case there should be any Bounty due, you will 
please forward me such instructions as may be necessary 
in the application.

J. Minot
Com. of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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Pension Office
May 22 1831
100
Free
Edwards of the 
Pension Office 
War Department 
D.C.

See letter to R. J. McKenney
May 24, 1831
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Greenville Ten }
May 13th. 1831. }

Mr. J. L.
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Greenville
May 12th 1831

Sir:

Enclosed you will receive 
the amendment required in the 
pension claim of John Welty
When examined, send your reply 
to Robert J McKenney Esq of 
Greenville E Tenn.

Respectfully 
John Blair
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pen: to com: 25 June 1831

send cert: to R. J. McKenney
Esqr. Greenville, E. Ten.

recd. 25 June 1831
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Greenville, Ten.
June 10th. 1831

Sir,

I have this day received the papers in the case of 
John Welty, and having procured them to be attached 
as required by the rule of the Department, herewith 
return them.

The above rule would have been complied 
with in the first instance, had it been mentioned in 
the printed instructions, and had its existence been 
otherwise known to the individual who prepared 
Mr Welty's papers.

It is hoped the papers are now in 
such [illegible] as will entitle Mr. Welty to be placed on 
the pension roll.  He is now in extreme need 
of the aid asked for, but perhaps may not need it 
long.  If the pension should be allowed, Mr. Welty 
desires me to request that the Certificate should be 
addressed to me, as he lives remote from this place

I am, 
very respectfully, 
Your Ob't Servant
R. J. McKenney

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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L Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
War Dept. 
D.C

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Pension Office 
Feby 12 1831

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See letter to Hon. J. Blair
H.R. 15 Feb. 1831
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House of Reprs
11th Feb 1831

Mr J L Edwards; 

I send you the enclosed 
papers, which when examined you will 
either return to me or the certificate 
which they are intended to obtain.

respectfully
your obt servt

John Blair
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39882
INVALID.
Revy

File NO. 39,882
John Welty 
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"

Index:--Vol. 3, Page 551

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1938-April 18-hist to Mrs. 
R. E. Lee-See her letter in John 
Dawson S. 8296 AWF
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April 18, 1938

[Note written at top of page:
See further correspondence with her 
in James Roberts. S. 35052-May 25-38]

John Dawson
S. 8296
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Robert E. Lee
Willmore Hotel
Long Beach, California 

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters in which 
you request the Revolutionary War records of John 
and Nicholas Dawson of Maryland; Moses Roberts, 
killed February 3, 1780, of Massachusetts; Jacob 
Weldy, of Pennsylvania and Ohio; George Weldy of 
Ohio; and John Jacob Weldy of Maryland; and the 
War of 1812 record of Jacob Weldy of Ohio, whose
widow, Mary, received a pension.

The Revolutionary War records of this office 
have been searched and no claims for pension found 
based upon the service of Jacob Weldy and Nicholas 
Dawson, or of a George Weldy of Ohio.  The surnames 
were searched under similar spellings.

You were furnished, October 1, 1936, the War 
of 1812 record of Jacob Welday, under pension 
number W. C. 11069, widow, Mary.  The papers on 
file in this claim contain no further data in 
regard to the soldier or to his widow, Mary, than 
were furnished on that date.

The Revolutionary War records of John Dawson, 
Moses Roberts, and John Welty are furnished here-
with.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator

[Note written at bottom of page:
See her letter in John Dawson 
S. 8296]