Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2794, for Hugh Mc Donough, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Penn
CONTENTS
McDonough, Hugh
NUMBER
S2794.
Carded
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Let. to Hon. M. Hoagland
April 9th,1850
O. P Taylor Sep 19/56
Date [illegible]
1784
Ohio. - Pittsburgh.
Hugh McDonough
of Harrison. in the State of Ohio.
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Maxwell of the Briggs commanded
by Genl Bell in the Flying Camp.
for
Seven months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio. Pittsburgh,
at the rate of 23. Dollars 33. Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd
day of April.
1833. and sent to
B. S. Cowen. St. Clairsville. Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 33. | 46.66.
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 4. 1833 | 11.66
$58,,32
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. R. Palmer, Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 8,
Page 119.
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20210=7.784.
Hugh McDonough
Ohio Pittsb.
Admitted for 7. months.
from 1776.
$23.33-
Benj. S. Cowen.
St Clairsville
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BRIEF in the case of Hugh McDonough
County of Harrison
in the State of  - ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 80
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
enlisted In 1776
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
about 7 -
Rank.
As a
Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Capt Maxwell Genl. Bell
Brigade flying camp
5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester Co Pen
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary
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
Chas W. Forrest
Examining Clerk.
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Hr. Reprs. Feby. 25 / 50 
Hugh McDonough 
Revolution 
N.M. Hoagland for information     
Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions & writes so informed - A.G. office Feb. 27-1850.             
E D Townsend
A.A.S.
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House Rep
Washington, 25th Feb 1830
Sir,
Allow me to trouble you to ascertain whether the name of Hugh McDonough appears on the rolls of the army.
It is said that he served his country in the war of the Revolution and neither he nor his heirs have received that compensation which has been promised nor any portion thereof.

very respectfully, M Hoagland
Hon R. Jones
[illegible] USA
Washington City
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Hugh McDonough
Declaration forms

20210
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The State of Ohio     
Harrison County } Ss.  On this 14th day of September 1834 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of common law in said county now sitting, Hugh McDonough a resident of Archer Township Harrison County Ohio aged as he says eighty 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 7 1832.             
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.                  
In the year 1776 at Chester County Pennsylvania at Nottingham he entered the service as an enlisted soldier on some of the first days of May he enlisted under Captain James Maxwell, his Lieutenant was one William Johnson, Gen Bell commanded the Brigade. James Cummins was the ensign of the company to which he belonged. The corps to which he belonged was called the Flying Camp They marched from Nottingham through Chester the county seat of Chester County PA to Philadelphia. Thence by water in Shallops up Delaware passed Princeton College where they lay one night. marched through Elizabethtown and to Fort Lee which in the service a battle was fought at Fort Washington some men were drafted from his regiment to go and join in battle he stood draft and was not of the drafted ones. Understood Washington was at the Battle and that one Col. McGow was actively engaged in battle. He enlisted for no definite time as he recollects. He got $16 advance pay or bounty all the money he ever got for his services -  He was discharged late in December 1776 at Philadelphia when the whole of the corps to which he was attached were discharged.   He got home the morning before Christmas.                    
He states that he got no written discharge from Service. He was born July 4th 1752 and is now 80 years of age and was 24 years of age the July after he may that he entered the service he has no record of his age. He was born in the city of Dublin Ireland at age of 14 he came to America landed at Philadelphia settled first at Quail County PA. He recollects no names of any officers except what he has above named there was no regiments quartered with there while he was in service. He does not know the name or number of the regiment to which he belonged. That he lived in Chester County PA til 1780 when he moved to Western PA to Washington County PA and in a few years from Jefferson County where he lived until he [unreadable] County Ky there he moved to the county of where he now lives where he has since lived
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. He names as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his credit for [illegible] and veracity and belief of his service [illegible] as a soldier of the revolution. 
Sworn to the subscribed in open court Septr 14th 1832 before me.  Wm Tingley  Clark
We John McArthur a Clergyman residing in Cadis Harrison co Ohio
James Duval & Zacheriah Baker residing in the township of Archer in the county of Harrison in the state of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hugh McDonough who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 80 years of age; that he is refuted and believed int the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion - 
Sworn to and subscribed in open court Sepr 14th 1832 before me Wm Tingley  Clerk of County
John McArthur
James Devon
Zecheriah Baker his mark
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This Applicant entered the Service May 1776
continued in service untill 24 Decr. 1776
7 months
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The State of Ohio
  Harrison County

I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Plea of said Harrison County certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hugh McDonough for a pension.  In the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Cadiz this 14th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
William Tingley Clerk
Hugh McDonough 
Declaration for Pension - 
20210
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July 22, 1936

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Hugh McDonough
S. 2794
BA-J/WHHF:MLB

Mrs. M.T. Barrett
247 South 16th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of May 9, addressed to the National Archives, which has been referred to the Veterans Administration for reply in regard to Benjamin and Hugh McDonald, Revolutionary War soldiers of Pennsylvania, and Hugh possibly of Cecil county, Maryland, or of Delaware.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Benjamin McDonald under any spelling of that surname, and the record of the only Hugh of a state designated, found under a similar spelling, is the record of Hugh McDonough.  His record follows as found in pension claim, S. 2794, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War as it may be of interest to you.

Hugh McDonough was born July 4, 1758, in Dublin, Ireland, and at the age of fourteen years came to America and settled first in Cecil County, "Pennsylvania" (possibly meant for Cecil County, Maryland) and before the Revolutionary War moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania.  The names of his parents were not stated.

While residing in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Huh McDonough enlisted about May 1, 1776, at Nottingham in that county, served as a private in Captain Maxwell's company of the Flying Camp in the Pennsylvania troops, and was discharged late in December, 1776, arriving at home the morning before Christmas.

The soldier continued to live in Chester County, Pennsylvania until 1780 when he moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania; a few years after moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and from there to Harrison County, same state.

Hugh McDonough was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Archer Township, Harrison County, of Ohio.
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No reference was made in the claim to wife or children of Hugh McDonough, but in 1850 reference was made[to] his heirs, no names designated.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Hugh McDonough, certificate #7784, issued April 2, 1833, rate $25.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Ohio (Pittsburgh) Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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2794
INVALID
___________
File No. 2794Hugh McDonough
Pri.. Flying Camp
____________
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 243

(Arrangement of 1870)

1923 May 5 – Hist to Hon C. Ellis Moore for Miss Mary A. Stone.  MMHF
1938 July 22 – Hist to Mrs M. T. Barrett   MRB
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1923 May 5 – Hist to Hon C. Ellis Moore for Miss Mary A. Stone.  MMHF
1938 July 22 – Hist to Mrs M. T. Barrett   MRB

Rev War
2794
INVALID
File No.  2794
Hugh McDonough
Pri  Flying Camp   
June 7, 1832
Index:- Vol. A.  Page 243
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Sept 19 / 56
O. P. Taylor
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Pension Office    
Sep 19 1856 
1832  
Sir    
I have referred your letter in relation to the case of Hugh McDonough dcd to the Third Auditor for reply.  
O. P. Taylor Esq            
New Philadelphia Ohio
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Hon. M. Hoagland
April 9 / 50
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Pension Office        
April 9 1850              
Sir,   
In reply to your letter to the Adjutant Genl which has been referred to this office in the case of Hugh McDonough I have to state that application was made by him for a pension from Harrison County, Ohio, and his claim allowed on the 2d April 1833, and the certificate sent to B. G. Cowen, Esqr of St Clairsville Ohio      
Hon M. Hoagland 
H. R. [House of Representatives]
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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 Hugh McDonough 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?  No                 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? from any other seal?   
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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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?                
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?            
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?   No          
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?      
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?             
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?               
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?           
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?                      
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?   2  7             
EXPLANATORY NOTES.          
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For       year          months, and           days, I served as a        days , I served as a    and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.  
Quere XIV. Proof of Service.
 In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.               
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass attached to the certificate. under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate   
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of certifying officer, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Form K-S

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Division of Reference

DATE 5/11/38

FROM:
Mrs. M. T. Barrett
247 South 16th Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

DATED:
May 9, 1938

RE:
information about Hugh or Benjamin McDonald.

RESPECTFULLY REFERRED TO:
Revolutionary and 1812 Wars Section,
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Nelson Vance Russell 
CHIEF, DIVISION OF REFERENCE
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RECEIVED MAY 12 1938 
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS ADM READER # 37
247 South 16th Street,     
Philadelphia.     
Mr. Nelson Vance Russell,          
Chief Div. of Ref., National Archives,             
Washington, D.C.              
Dear Sir:               
Will you kindly advise me if there are any Revolutionary War records which would establish the fact that anyone named McDonald (more particularly Benjamin or Hugh) participated in the War. I believe this family lived in E. Nottingham, Chester County, although there is a possibility that Hugh may have lived either in Newcastle County, Delaware, or Cecil County, Maryland.  
I am desirous of securing this information for genealogical purposes, and, if possible, also
ROUTED TO
N.V. RUSSELL MAY 11 1938
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in order to make application to the Daughters of the American Revolution.  
Should you find any records that might be of interest, will you kindly mail order blanks so that I may secure photostatic copies of them.
Thanking you for your kind attention, I am 
Yours very truly,
May Ninth 1938.
(Mrs. M. T.)  Della M. Barrett
RECEIVED 1938 ARCHIVES OF REFERENCE
ACKNOWLEGED MAY 11 1938 NATIONAL ARCHIVES DIVISION OF REFERENCE
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in order to make application to the Daughters of the American Revolution.  
Should you find any records that might be of interest, will you kindly mail order blanks so that I may secure photostatic copies of them.
Thanking you for your kind attention, I am 
Yours very truly,
May Ninth 1938.
(Mrs. M. T.)  Della M. Barrett
RECEIVED 1938 ARCHIVES OF REFERENCE
ACKNOWLEGED MAY 11 1938 NATIONAL ARCHIVES DIVISION OF REFERENCE
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Hugh McDonough 
Rev   
p. 3 Revy
C. ELLIS MOORE     
15TH DIST, OHIO     
E. A. DRAKE
SECRETARY
Congress of the United States           
House of Representatives            
Washington, D. C.           
May 4, 1923.                
Congressional Section,               
Bureau of Pensions,                 
Washington, D. C.                
Gentlemen:              
I beg to enclose herein a request from Miss Mary A. Stone, Regent of the Cambridge, Ohio, Branch of the D. A. R., for information concerning the records of certain veterans of the Civil War.                    
I shall appreciate any information you may be able to give me concerning the persons about whom Miss Stone has written.                   
Thanking you for your co-operation in these matters, I am,                 
Sincerely yours, 
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
C. Ellis Moore          
May 5 1923
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Rev. War Section

May 3, 1823

Honorable C. Ellis Moore
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. Moore:

I have to advise you relative to the Revolutionary war soldiers named in this inquiry of Miss M. A. Stone of Cambridge, Ohio,  that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier  of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services, and a careful search the records fail to show such a claim on file on account of the services of any Thomas Stone, or of George Asberry (Asbury) whose wife's name was Hannah Hardage and who had a daughter Anna, or of Rev. James Finley born in Ireland 1738 and died in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1795.

From the papers in the Revolutionary war pension claim S. 2794 of Hugh McDonough it appears that he was born July 4, 1752 in Dublin, Ireland and at the age of fourteen years came to America and settled first in Cecil County, Pennsylvania.
 Add next time (possibly meant for Cecil County Maryland)

About May 1, 1775 while a resident of Chester
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County, Pennsylvania he enlisted in Nottingham and served as a Private in Captain James Maxwell's Company, Flying Camp, Pennsylvania Troops until he a discharged late in December 1776.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 14, 1833 while a resident of Archer Township, Harrison County, Ohio.

There is no family data on file.

Sincerely,

Commissioner.

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