Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4561, for Peter Livingood, Virginia
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SERVICE: Va
Livingood, Peter
NUMBER: S. 4561
CONTENTS carded
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1577
Pennsylvania
Peter Livingood
of Greene County in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the ____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Wood in the Virginia for 2 yers and upwards.

Inscribed in the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence in the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Dec 1832 and sent to Hon T. L Mc (illegible) 
House of Representatives 

As said to 4th of Sept. 1832.                    
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mch 1833
                                                                          120.00
                                                                            40.00
                                                                        $160.00
Died Nov. 14, 1834    
AB
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J McUffield Clerk

Book D    Vol: 6    Page 7 (?)
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Pennsylvania, Greene County, Pa

Before me is Justice of the Peace of and for the county of Greene aforesaid, personally came Peter Livingood, who being duly sworn according to him on his solemn oath doth say that he now lives in Greene County, in the State of Pennsylvania aforesaid where he has constantly resided since the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four- that he enlisted as a private into the Army of the Revolution in Fredrick County in the State of Virginia in the month of March 1776 for the term of three years, and was attached to a company commanded by Captain John Langlin, in the 12th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. James Woods which time he served out and then enlisted during the war in Boubrook (Bound brook?) in New Jersey into a company commanded by John Clark in the 8th Virginia Regiment also commanded by Col. John Clark. That he was placed on the pension Roll of the United States under the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 the Certificate which is now in his possession- that he was stricken off said pension Roll as he believes in 1827 on the ground that he owned such property as deprived him of the provisions of said Act of Congress of 18th March 1818- 
Peter Livingood (his mark)

Sworn and Subscribed before me July 19 1832
Nicholas Hagar
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Penn. [illegible] Greene County [symbol appears to be abbreviation for etc]
I Nisolm Hagen a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid [illegible] certify that I have the most satisfactory [illegible two words] that my own personal knowledge that Peter Livingood who appeared before me and under oath to the [illegible] and forgiving statements is the intract person named in the pensions certificate which he has upheled before me, numbered 18 682 and brining date at the [illegible] offices this 26th day of June 1822. That this said certificate was originally found for him that he [illegible] the same in his pappism and claims all the benefits arizing hencefor[illegible 3 words] my hand at Waymobough in the county aforesaid the 24th day of July AD 1832 His name "Peter" [illegible] on an [illegible] Nicholaus Hozar

Greene County [illegible]
I William R.Hays Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas[illegible] and for the County of Greene aforesaid in he commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Nicholas Hager [illegible] whose name appear to the written and foregoing statement of Peter Livingood and the above certification in a susti ofthe pearson in and for said duly compl-[illegible] and qualified and that the foregoing signature reporting to be his are genuine.
   In testimony whereof have [illegible] set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at [illegible]burg the 24th day of July A.D 1839
W[illia]m R Hays
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[illegible]District of Pennsylvania Greene County [illegible three words]
   On the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty two Personally appeard in open court being a court of Record  (proceeding according to the course of the Common Law having jurisdution unlimited in amount keeping a record of their proceedings) for the said county, Peter Livingood aged sixty four years resident in said county who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he servid in the Revolutionary war as follows in the Company of Capt[ain]  J[illegible] in the Regiment Commanded by Col. James Wood of [illegible] as far original declaration of 16th April 1818 and I do solimly swear that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March in the year 1818 and that I have [illegible] service that time by gift sale on [illegible] any mammin disposed of my property or any [illegible] thereof with issued hereby so to
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[illegible] Greene County ss.
I William T. Hays Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the
County of Greene aforesaid. do Certify
the above to be truly copied from the record
of said Court and I do further Certify
that the whole amount in value of the
property in the Schedule hereunto annexed is
Dollars and [blank] cents I testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court
the first day of April 1822

Wm. T. Hays [illegible]
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January 17, 1933

BA-J/MLB
XXXXXXXXXXXX
PETER LIVINGOOD
S.4561

Mrs. E. S. Miller
Bentonville, Arkansas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Noah MIller
and Peter Livingood, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained
from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States
based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of records fails to show a claim for
pension or bounty land on file on account of the service in the
Revolutionary War of a Noah Miller who was born in Hopewell,
New Jersey, in 1732, and died in Lincolnville, Maine, in 1821.

You are furnished herein the history of Peter Livingood, the
data of which were obtained from the papers on file in his
pension claim, S. 4561, based upon service in the Revolution. Said
papers do not show the dated and place of soldier's birth nor the
names of his parents.

Peter Livingood enlisted in March, 1776, at Zeans' Iron Works
in Frederick County, Virginia, served as a private in Captain
John Langley's (possibly meant for Jonathan Langdon's) company,
Colonel James Wood's Virginia regiment, and in Captain John Clark's
company, Colonel Clark's ^ Col. Jonathan Clark, which I didn't use
as if was not shown in claim.^Virginia regiment, was taken prisoner at
Charleston May 12, 1780, and held prisoner until June 5, 1790, when
he made his escape; length of service in all more than four years.

In 1784, the soldier moved to Greene County, Pennsylvania.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed April 16,
1818, in Greene County, Pennsylvania, where he was living in 1822
aged sixty-four years.

In 1822 the soldier referred to the following members of his
family: his wife, aged sixty-four year (her name not stated), and
children - Barbary, Mary, Jacob, Catherine, David, Anne, Peter and
Sarah, all over twenty-one years of age and whom peter only was
unmarried.

The soldier, Peter Livingood, died November 14, 1834.

In 1819, one Nicholas Livingood made affidavit in Greene
County, Pennsylvania, that he lived within one mile of the soldier,
Peter Livingood, at the time of the Revolutionary War, but did not
state relationship.

In 1819, Mary Hickman, sister of the soldier, Peter Livingood, made
affidavit in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in support of his claim
for pension.

There are not further family data in the claim.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

- 2 -
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1933 - Jan. 17 - Hist to Mrs.
E. D. Miller - MLB
1939. Apr. 15 - Hist to T. E. Merritt MLB

[right side of page:]

4561

Rev War

INVALID.

File No. 4561
Peter Livingood
Privt Rev. War.

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 223

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[illegible]
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18.682

Pennsylvania
A


Peter Livingood ^(64 yrs)^
of Greene^Co:^ in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Wood of the Virginia
line, for the term of 4 years (1776)

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 16th of April 1818 -

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of June 1822.
and sent to Wm. S. Harvay, Esq.r
Waynesboro' Pa.

Arrears to 4th of Mach 1822 - 373.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1822.  40.00
============================
3 yrs 10 mo.s 15/30  4/31   
$421:03
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Died Nov 14, 1834
AB
7.  123

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818,}

+ 1st. May 1820

Greene County -
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Waynesburg June 19

[rubber stamp:]
WASHCITY
JUN
24

free

Honb.le James Barbour Esquire

Secretary of War

Washington City

Private

Barbour[illegible]
val

[following written upside down from above:]

Caveat
dec.d 10 July 1826

Rec.d 7 July 1826

[following written perpendicular to the above:]
Wm. Edwards
Rec.d 7 July 1826
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Waynesburg Greene County, Pennsylv’a June 16, 1826
Secretary of War

Sir, 
Some of the soldiers of the late war and their widows and children have occasionally called on me to assist them in obtaining their lands and pay. I am not an “Orphans and Widows friend” or agent for pay but have contributed gratiously my aid to relieve them from such funds- Stephen Crayne, the guardian of the two daughters of Josiah Moore late a soldier in the last war sent to Doctor Robert M. Patterson of Philadelphia a power to receive the commutation of bounty land to which his wards were entitled and who sent the original certificate, that it might be surrendered on closing the accounts. Some payments had been previously made and in the hurry of business the agent made a mistake and paid above twenty dollars up than was due. The mistake is known and admitted by the agent of the government- and his books show it but he says the mistake cannot be corrected without your direction.
If my representation of the case is in proper form or agreeable to rules and regulations of the department I beg you will give the necessary instructions that the children may receive their money.

While addressing you, I cannot avoid turning your attention to a case I thought ought to be inquired into. I have no doubt in Peter Livingood in this county having been enlisted into the Army in the War of the Revolution. Neither do I doubt the truth of the general which he some time after deserted and never joined his company again. I believe that I drew one of his statements when he applied for a pension which he now obtained. He now enjoys his pension, or rather I should say his pension enables him to remain drunk great part of the year
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and keeps a set of drunken wretches about him. Some time after I drew his application [understanding that he owned a plantation and some personal property and that he had in his possession a plantation which he claimed in right of his wife, I spoke to him and asked how he could swear that his list of property was true when he held these two tracts of land- He replied that he had made a will and left it in the the care of Samuel Hill Esq of this neighborhood that by this will he disposed of all his property to his children and that he did not consider himself as the owner of it. Of these facts I am convinced there can be no doubt; that Livingood owned one tract of land and some personal estates, that he claimed and has in his possession another tract which he claims as having descended to his wife from her father- another person claims this last tract and there will probably be a trial to determine whose title is best. Since obtaining the pension this man has been endeavoring to ruin himself and family and to put his property out of his hands- he first sold his wife’s tract to his son in law,  he has lately exchanged the other tract for it- What he is now worth I cannot state, but entertain having no doubt of his having committed a gross fraud.]

Ruben Mickle of this county has some years ago applied for a pension under the acts of 1818 & 1820 and it is reported he has been allowed his claim- I think all his neighbors will prove that he was worth much more than 200 dollars when he applied. He must have owned a tract of land which he now lives on- He offered to sell it to me some time ago and yet lives on it.
These things I communicate to you confidentially- I do not wish to appear as a common informer but if any person of character in this county should be appointed to inquire into the facts, I hold myself accountable for the truth of my statements. And do think Livingoods pension and probably Ruben Mickles
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ought not to be paid till inquiry be made and the Justice of them ascertained.

With respect to Peter Livingood, Christian Sellers and Samuel Hill Esq, Nathaniel Jennings, George Huffman, any man in this neighborhood can testify to him owning the property- The record of our county will show his sale and transfer and in my presence and that of Mr Seller and Hill he stated his exchange with his son in law what three weeks ago.

Use my letter for your information- but do not publish its contents unless that step should be necessary- I will not, when necessity requires it, shrink from any thing I say.

I am very respectfully, 
Robert Whitehill
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Admitted
Private
$80 per annum

Send to 
Benj.n Campbell Jr
Waynesbourgh
Penn.a
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Waynesburgh Green County Pen
July 24th 1832.

Sir

Enclosed you have the papers of Peter
[torn]ngood an Old Soldier, which I believe [illegible] made
according to the late forms.

Yours Respectuflly

Benjn Campbell [illegible]
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Waynesburg Pa 
Nov 21

Revolutionary Claim
Free

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.

Ser letter 26th
[illegible] to B. Campbell Jr

[following written perpendicular to above:]

Francis
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Waynesburgh Green County pa Nov 20th 1832

Dear Sir

I received a Pension Certificate last
Evening, which I suppose was intended for Peter Livingood,
but has the name of Peter Livingston inserted in it. You
will let me know whether I shall return it to the war
department, or whether you will permit me to Alter the
name from Livingston to Livingood.

Very Respectfully

Benjn Campbell Jr
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P. Livingood

Payable semi-annually. The first pay-
ment on this Certificate will be made
on the 4th of September in the
year 1822 at Philad.a
by the Bk: U. States.

Recorded by EBen.r Stout,
Clerk, in Book B, Vol. 7. page 123
Examined and countersigned by
J.L. Edwards
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War Department.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Laws of the United 
States, of the 18th of March, 1818, and 1st May 1820-
Peter Livingood late a private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of Pennsylvania
Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence
on the sixteenth day of April one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this twenty sixth day of
June one thousand eight
hundred and twenty two.

JC Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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P. Livingood. Schedule -
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Pennsylvania
Greene County ss.

On the twenty third day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty, before me the subscriber a justice of 
the Peace in and for said County and State,
personally appeared Mary Hickman, and being
Sworn, deposeth and sayeth, that her brother Peter
Livingood enlisted into the Company commanded
by Captain Langlin and Lieutenant Casey, to the 
best of this deponents recollection, in the month of
February 1777. for the term of three years at
Zeans' iron works ^in^ which was then called Frederick
County, Virginia, and this deponent heard that
said Peter Livingood was promised by his recruiting
officer who enlisted him, one hundred acres of 
land in addition to his monthly pay and bounty 
money - Said Peter Livingood reinlisted again
for during the war, for which, your deponent
understood he was promised one hundred and fifty
acres of land in addition to other pay - Afterwards
in the Spring of 1780. Peter Livingood went to
South Carolina and was taken prisoner by the British
as report said, and deserted from them on the fifth
of June following or thereabouts - Deponent says
further, that said Livingood served under his
enlistment upwards of three years, and was absent
from home nearly four

her
x
mark
Mary Hickman

Sworn + Subscribed
before me
James Seals
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Greene County ss.

On the twenty third day of
November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, before me the subscribed
a justice of the Peace in and for said County and
State, personally appeared George Wisecarver,
and being sworn, deposeth and sayeth, that Peter
Livingood enlisted into the Company commanded
by Captain Langlin and Lieutenant Casey, in the
month of February 1777. for the term of three
years at Zeans' Iron works, in, then, Frederick
County, Virginia, and said Peter Livingood
was promised by his recruiting officer, who
enlisted him, one hundred acres of land, in addition
to his monthly pay and County money - Subsequently
Peter Livingood reinlisted again for
during the war, for which, he was promised
one hundred and fifty acres of land in addition
to other pay - Afterwards, in the Spring of
1780. Peter Livingood went to South Carolina
and was taken prisoner by the British, as report
said, and deserted from them, the fifth June
following or thereabout - Deponent also states
that said Peter Livingood served under said
enlistment upwards of three years and was
absent from home nearly four

his
x
mark
George Wisecarver

Sworn and Subscribed
before me
James Seals

[following written upside down from above:]
I do Certify that Mary Hickman the written
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I do Certify that Mary Hickman the within
name deponent, is a credible witness. Witness
my hand + seal November 23d 1820.

James Seals {seal}
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I do Certify that George Wisecarver, the
within mentioned deponent, is a credible witness.
Witness my hand & seal November 23d 1820

James Seals {seal}

Penn.a Greene County ss.

I William T. Hays Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Green aforesaid do
Certify that James Seals before when
the within Deposition appear to have been
taken and whose name appears to certificates
touching the same, is a Justice of the Peace in
and for the County of Greene. duly Commissioned and
qualified, and as such full faith and credit are
due and ought to be given. In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the County
of Green the 28th day of December Anno Domine
1820

Hon. T. Hays Prothty
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Greene County 16th day of April}
1818

This day personally apeared
before me David Gray one of
the Associate Judges of the
courts of Common pleas in and for Said County Peter Liveingood and
being Sworn according to the due course of Law doth depose and say
that in the Spring of the year one seven hundred and seventy six he inlisted 
as a private Solder in the United States  Army in Cap.t John
Langlic's Company in Frederic County in the State of Virginia March +
from thence to Bondbrook in the State of New Jersey and there joined
the Regiment commanded Col. James Woods of Virginia and continued
in the army in the same company and same Regiment Moveing as
ocation required from place to place and was taken prisioner by the
enemy at Charlestown in South Carolina on the [illegible] day of May
in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty where he was
kept and treated as a prisoner untill the fifth day of June following
when he found means by which he made his escape from the enemy
and got home being ^more^ then four years in the Service of his Country that
he the deponint is now got old and by fateage and hardships which he
underwent whilst in the army is rendered unable to labour for a
livelyhood and Stands in need of assistance and support from his
Country and the deponent further saithnot

Peter Liviengood

Sworn and Subscribed the day
and year first above writen
before me
David Gray


I David Gray judge of the court of Common Pleas for
the county of Greene and Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify
that it appears to my satisfaction, the said Peter Liveingood
did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding
against the common enemy for the term of nine months
at our time on the continental establishment and I now
transmit the proceedings and testimony, taken and had before [illegible] to
the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant the Act of 
Congress; - [illegible] who satisfy that he needs the assistance of
his country for support May 1st 1820.

David Gray
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Pennsylvania
Greene County ss.} 
I William T. Hays, Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said County
hereby Certify that David Gray Esquire
before whom the within Deposition appears
to have been made is and was at the  time
of taking + signing the same and acting afsid.
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in +
for said County; and that full faith and
credit are due and ought to be given to all his official
acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand + affixed the seal of said County, June 18th AD 1818.

Wm. T. Hays Prothon

[following written perpendicular to above}
 18 April 1818

Peter Livinggood
Inlisted as a private in 1776 in
Col: James Wood's Virg.a Reg.t 1780
Greene County, Pa.
16th. April, 1818

David Gray Judge - Waynesbrough

[illegible] Roll -

[illegible - crossed out] Admitted.
Let the judge give a certificate
agreeing to the enclosed
form -

The magistrate who administered 
the oath, to the
witnesses should certify to
their credibility and the 
official character +signature
of the 
magistrate should be 
authenticated by the Prothonotary 
or any other officer
[illegible]
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On the 22d Day of October in the Year of our Lord
one thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen Personally
appeared before me the Subscribed one of the Justices
of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Green
Mary Hickman and being Sworn in Due form ^Law^. Deposeth
that that Peter Livingood Did Inlist himself a private
Soldier in Capt John Langleys Company in the year of one
thousand Seven hundred and Seventyseven and that
in the year of one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine
In the Said Peter Livingood Returned to Virginia on furlow
and the Said Mary father Sayeth that Jacob Bowers
Bowers on of the Same Company told her the Said Mary
that Peter Livingood had Been in the Service With him
During the term of two years or thereabouts

her
x 
mark
Mary Hickman

Sworn + Subscribed before Me
the Day and year above written

James Seals

[illegible] the Said Mary farthar Sayeth that the Said Peter
Livengood Did Start to Join the Army again in About
two months [illegible] and did Not Return tell the End of the War

his
x
mark
Mary Hickman

J Seals

on the 25 Day of October 1819 before Me a Justice of the peace
in and for the County of Green Personally appeared Joshua
Thomas and oath that he the Said Joshua heard John Murphy
and old Soldier in the Revolutionary War Say at Different
times that Peter Livingood was a Soldier in the Revolutionary
War Nearly four years with him the Said Murphey -

Joshua Thomas

Sworn and Subscribed before the
Day and Date above written

James Seals

I Do hereby Certify that the above Named Witnesses Mary Hickman + Joshua
Thomas are Credible Witnesses My Hand the 25th of October 1819

James Seals
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Greene County ss

Before me a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, personally
appeared William G Hawkins and being duly
sworn deposeth and sayeth, that Jacob
Bowers the person named int eh within
affidavit, resided some time ago on Big
Whitely Creek in said County, and that
from general information he believes that
said Bowers is dead - and to strengthen that
belief he has seen in the Registers office
the will of said Bowers

Wm. G. Hawkins

Sworn + Subscribed
before me this 
25th Nov.r 1819.

I Certify that the above Deponent
Wm G Hawkins is a Credible Witness
My Hand this 25 November 1819
James Seals

Penn.a Greene County for
I William T. Hays Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene
aforesaid, do Certify that James Seals Esquire
before whom the annexed depositions were
taken, and whose name appears to a Certificate
of the same, is a Justice of the Peace in
and for the County of Greene aforesaid. duly commissioned
and sworn, and as such full faith and credit are due
to all his official acts
and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I
set my hadn + the seal of said County the 2nd
day of May 1820

Wm T Hays Prothy
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It is indispensably necessary that the
Judge should in all cases certify the
credibility of Witnesses -

War Dept
Pension Office June 8 . 1820

[next section written perpendicular to the above:]
Two or more disinterested and credible 
persons, Certified as
Such, by the judge,
are required to
prove explicitly
on oath, from their
Nicholas Livingood
own knowledge, the
applicant's Service
Deposition
9 months in
Continuance, on
Contl. Establ.

W. S. Harvey, agent
Waynesborough, Pa.
Rec.d 31st. Augt. 1820.

[following written right to left:]
Penn.a Greene County ss

I Wlm. T. Hays Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said
Count. do hereby certify that the Honourable
John Minor Esqr. before whom the
within deposition appears to have been taken
was at the time of taking said deposition
and still is one of the associate Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene aforesaid
duly commissioned and qualified. And to all his official
Acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to 
be given as well in courts of Justice as there out. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said court this twenty fourth day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty

Wm. T. Hays Pronthy
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Green County Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me John Minor
one of the associate judges for the County -
aforesaid, Nicholas Livingood and duly sworn
according to Law deposeth and sayeth that he
this deponant lived within one mile of Peter
Livingood and that he the said Peter enlisted
in the time of the Revolutionary War and after being
absent about two years the said Peter returned
on furlow and this deponant went to see him the
Said Peter told him that he had been taken
prisoner at Charles Town by the English, that
he had made his escape from them in a short
time started to join the army again. in about
two years more returned back, that the said Peter
is now a cripple and unable to get his living
and further Saith not -

John Minor

Sworn to before me this 18th
Day of Nov. 1819
I also certify that the
above deponant is a person
of good credit + to be -
believed

John Minor
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RECEIVED
FEB 28 .939
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM
READER No. 6

1958 42d Ave., Oakland, Calif., E-4-39

The Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.
(Copy to the Pension Bureau)

Gentlemen:

The volume, [underlined:] History of Piatt County (Ill.), by Emma C. Piatt,
1883, p. 433, states that 2 Gordon, father of Sarah (Gordon)
Monroe, was "captain in a spy company in the (American) Revolution.'
Can you give me nay data on this soldier? His daughter was
born in Ohio.

The same volume states that ? Monroe, father of Jesse (who
married Sarah Gordon, above) and of at least one other son, also
served in the Revolution. The son, Jesse, was born in Md. Can you
furnish me the elder Monroe's record?

Also, that of Peter Livengood (Liebundgut), who likewise
served in the Revolution. He may have served from Pa., for the
marriage in the Revolution. He may have served from Pa., for the
marriage of his son (grandson?), Hartman Livengood, in 1802, to 
Elizabeth Edinger, is recorded in Old Goshenhopper Church.

Your aid will be much appreciated.

Yours very truly,
T. E. Merritt
Theodore E. Merritt
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copy

[rubber stamp:]
RECEIVED
FEB 28 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM
READER No. 34

1958 42d Ave., Oakland, Calif., E-4-39

The Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.
(Copy to the Pension Bureau)

Gentlemen:

The volume, [underlined:] History of Piatt County (Ill.), by Emma C. Piatt,
1883, p. 433, states that 2 Gordon, father of Sarah (Gordon)
Monroe, was "captain in a spy company in the (American) Revolution.'
Can you give me nay data on this soldier? His daughter was
born in Ohio.

The same volume states that ? Monroe, father of Jesse (who
married Sarah Gordon, above) and of at least one other son, also
served in the Revolution. The son, Jesse, was born in Md. Can you
furnish me the elder Monroe's record?

Also, that of Peter Livengood (Liebundgut), who likewise
served in the Revolution. He may have served from Pa., for the
marriage in the Revolution. He may have served from Pa., for the
marriage of his son (grandson?), Hartman Livengood, in 1802, to
Elizabeth Edinger, is recorded in Old Goshenhopper Church.

Your aid will be much appreciated.

Yours very truly,
T. E. Merritt
Theodore E. Merritt
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ACCOUNTING DIV.
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Bentonville, Ark. Dec 28th, 1932

Veterans Administration
Washington, DC

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RECEIVED
JAN 3 1933
ACCOUNTING
NOV 3
PENSION [illegible] DIV.

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RECEIVED
DEC 30 1932
MAIL SUB-DIV
[illegible]
READER 13

Gentlemen:-
Would be please to [illegible] the pension record
and any additional information you may have in
your archive of the following Rev. war soldiers
Norah Miller form Hopewell N.J. 1732 married Mary -
He died 1821 at Lincolnville, Maine.
Reference. "Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War." archives
of Mass. vol 10, p 769. "Noah Miller, private. Sergeant
Thomas Knight's Scouting party [illegible] by order of Gen
Peleg Wadsworth."

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RECEIVED
JAN 7 1933
FILES SECTION
PENSION FILE SUB-DIVISION

Peter Livingood of Greene Co. Pa., private Va. [illegible]
placed in pension roll. June 25, 1823

Very Sincerely
Mrs E. S. Miller
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April 15, 1939

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BA-J/MLB [illegible]
Peter Livingood
$.4561

Mr. Theodore E. Merritt
1936 - 42nd Avenue
Oakland, California

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War records of [blank] Gordon, who served as captain
of a spy company, and whose daughter, Sarah, married Jesse Monroe
who was born in Maryland and Sarah, in Ohio. Your desire the record
of [blank] Monroe, father of Jesse, also that of Peter Livingood whose
son or grandson, Hartman Livengood, married in 1802 Elisabeth Edinger.

In order to identify the records of the particular soldiers
named Gordon and Monroe in whom you are interested, should they be
on file, as much as possible of the following data in regard to each
should be furnished: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of wife
or widow. Be sure to furnish the full names of the soldiers, also.

You are furnished herewith the record of the only Peter Livengood
under any spelling found in the Revolutionary War records of this 
office.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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April 15, 1939

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PETER LIVENGOOD
S. 4561
BA-J/MLB

Mr. Theodore E. Merritt
1956 - 42nd Avenue
Oakland, California

Dear Sir:

The data which follow in regard to Peter Livengood were obatined
from the papers in pension claim, S. 4561, based upon his service in
the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Peter Livengood and names of his
parents were not stated.

Peter Livengood enlisted in March, 1776, at Zeans' Iron Works
in Frederick County, Virginia, served as private in Captain John
Langley's (possibly meant for Jonathan Langdon's) company, Colonel
James Wood's Virginia regiment, and in Captain John Clark's company,
Colonel Clark's Virginia regiment, was taken prisoner at Charleston
May 12, 1780, and held prisoner until June 5, 1780, when he made his 
escape; length of service in all more than four years.

In 1784, the soldier moved to Greene County, Pennsylvania, where
he was allowed pension on his application executed April 16, 1818.

In 1822, Peter Livengood was still residing in Greene County,
Pennsylvania, aged sixty-four years, and referred to the following
members of his family: his wife, name not designated, aged sixty-four
years, and children - Barbary, Mary, Jacob, Catharine, David, Anne,
Peter and Sarah, all over twenty-one years of age, and of whom Peter,
only, was unmarried.

Peter Livengood, the soldier, died November 13, 1834.

In 1819, one Nicholas Livingood made affidavit in Green County,
Pennsylvania, that he lived with one mile of the soldier, Peter
Livingood, at the time of the Revolutionary War, but did not state
relationship.
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In 18189, Mary Hickman, sister of the soldier, Peter Livengood,
made affidavit in Green County, Pennsylvania, in support of his
claim for pension.

There are no further family data in the claim.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator