Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,803, for William Kernachan, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                                            

Continental    
Penn                 

Kernachan, William    or Carnahan

NUMBER

S. 39.803
                                                                
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CONTENTS
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[faint writing]  
Notify-              July 24, 1821
                  Samuel Moore, Doylestown, Pa

Decision confirmed by Secy [Secretary] of War.  See letter to Hon [Honorable]:
Saml. Moore  Feb. 15, 1821--
Reinstated  19 Feb 1821-  see the other file and letter to
Hon [Honorable]: Saml. Moore, February 19th 1821--

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                                      11,032
                                 Pennsylvania
_________________________________________________________________________

William Kernachan
of Bucks Co in the state of Penn' a. [Pennsylvania]                                                  
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Hand of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of 5 years
_________________________________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6th of Apl. 1818
________________________________________________________________________  
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of May 1819
and sent to Hon [Honorable]: Saml. Moore
Doylestown, Bucks Co Penn a        [Pennsylvania]
_________________________________________________________________________    
Arrears to 4th of March 1819....,              , 87.69
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep. 4, 1819          48-- 
                                                           ___________  
        Allowed                                          $135.69
    J. C. C.

                    {Revolutionary claim, }
                    { Act 18 March, 1818}
 10 months
[illegible-torn page] 5/30  4/31
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Wm Kernahan.

11.032


(Sept. 1819)

Not entitled



$250  [illegible]
[illegible]
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District of Pennsylvania Ss:

on this 30th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open
Court of Common Pleas holding in Doylestown for the County of Bucks being a court of record, proceeding according to the Course of the common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings William Kernachan aged 71 or 72 years resident in Bucks County in said District who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of March 18th 1818 and of May 1st 1820, that he served in the revolutionary war, in the Company commanded by Captain Miller in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hand in the Pennsylvania Line, that he was afterwards drafted into the guards where he served nearly five years and was discharged in 1783, that he has obtained a pension under the act of March 18th, 1818 his certificate being numbered 11.032.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself withing 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 of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in Trust for me any property or securities  contracts of debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
            Schedule of Property.
I have besides necessary clothing and bedding,
2 acres of Land with a small hog house on it.
1 cow & 2 pigs, two sheep, one old table, six splint bottomed chair, one old cupboard, one old fashioned tin plate stove, one small glass, one bake iron, Three Iron Potts, one Tea Kettle, Six knives and forks, six plates, six cups and saucers, one old wheelbarrow, one axe, one hoe, one hammer.  I have a pension from the State of Pennsylvania of forty
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forty dollars a year and the following debts are due to me, and I believe

can be recovered  viz

one debt of twenty dollars
one debt of thirty four dollars 19/100
I am indebted in the following sum viz-
one debt of three hundred sixty six dollars /67 cents
one debt of Eight dollars two cents
one debt of Seven dollars
one debt as I believe 20 dollars
one debt of 2 dollars, 25 cents
one debt of 3 dollars 37 cents
one debt of 6 dollars 30 cents

My Family consists of my wife named Grisel, aged 74 years who can do but little towards her own support, or mine, I am by occupation a weaver, but for the last five years have been unable to follow it by reason of age and weakness.                                  
                                                   
                             William Kernachan 
                         his mark [handwritten X]
                                                
Sworn before me this 30th June
A.D. 1820    Wm. Watts on of
the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas of B. C.

Bucks County  Ss:
                                I John S Benzets Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Bucks do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the Said County, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount of the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 250 Dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this seventh day of July 1820.                    John S Benzets Prnty

[Seal of the court attached on left side]
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366,67
    8.02
    7.00
 20.00
   2.25
   3.37
   6.20
________
   413.51
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Wm Kernachan



Admitted

Hand'  Penn. Line.
2 years-
others service 3 Ys.
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Pennsylvania SS
County of Bucks--
          On this eleventh day of November A. D. 1818
before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas of the said County personally appeared William Kernichan      
aged 68 years-resident in Warrington Township, Bucks County Pennsylvania-who being by me first duly sworn 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 William Kernichan" enlisted at Little York
in Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Miller
of the 1st Penn"a [Pennsylvania]                                                                                                                           Regt [Regiment] Col [Colonel]                                                                                          Hand- in the beginning of June A. D. 1776 
That he served in said Corps until the early part of 1778.  The Regt [Regiment] then
being at the Valley Forge when he was detailed to serve in the
guard called Washington Lifeguard commanded by Capt [Captain]Livingston
and afterwards by Colfax-that he continued to serve in said Corps
until the termination of the war-he was discharged in June' 1783
at Newborough [Newburgh] in the State of New York-That he was in the Battles
of Brandewine [Brandywine], at the massacre at Peoli [Paoli]-Germantown-Monmouth &
at York Town-and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in
need of assistance of his country for support-that he has no other evidence
now in his power of his said service.
Sworn to and declared before me the day 
and year aforesaid                                                            
                                                                            William Kernachan
his mark [handwritten X]
                                                                                         

          I William Watts one of the associate Judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas of the aforesaid District-do certify-That it appears 
to my satisfaction that the said William Kernichan did serve
in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration,
against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the
continental establishment and I now Transmit the  proceedings
and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the
Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned
act of Congress. 
Bucks County Ss                                                Wm Watts
           I Samuel Moore do hereby certify
that I am well acquainted with the above
named William Kernachan, & that he
needs the assistance of his Country for his
support.                    
    Saml. [Samuel] Moore   M. C. [Member Congress]
                            from Penna. [Pennsylvania]
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[illegible] & 1812 Wars Section                         October, 29, 1930
EEL

Mrs. Marion Edwards
Apartment 303
1657-  31st Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Madam:

     You are advised that it appears from the papers in
the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.39803 that William
Kernachan (the name also appears as Carnahan) enlisted at
Little York, Pennsylvania, early in June, 1776, served as
a private in Captain Miller's Company, Colonel Hand's
First Pennsylvania Regiment, until early in the year 1778
when at Valley Forge, he was detached and placed in Washington's
LifeGuard under Captains Livingston and Colfax,
was in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth
and at the siege of Yorktown, and was discharged
in June, 1783.

     He was allowed pension on his application executed
November 11, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-eight
years and was a resident of Warrington Township, Burks [Bucks]
County, Pennsylvania.

     In 1820, he referred to his wife, Grissel, as aged
seventy-four years, but did not give her maiden name or
the date of their marriage.  In 1821 two children, both 
married, are referred to, their names are not stated, and
there are no further data as to his family.

                                              Very truly yours
                                             

                                        E. W. MORGAN
                                        Acting Commissioner.

[handwritten at left[
Date of death not rec.  AB
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 Mortgage William Kernichon to John Barclay, dated April 1st AD 1804. on Two Acres & fifty one perches of land in Warrington township Bucks County. To serve the Just sum of One hundred & One pounds.

Bucks Count Ls
         I Do hereby certify & make known that the above Mortgage William Kernichon to John Barclay is remaining of record unsatisfied, and that there is no other Mortgage against S [said] Kernichon on record in my office.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office this 20th of 
November AD 1820.
      John Pugh Recdr"
          [flourish]
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                                                                Feb. 19, 1821
Sir. 
          Notice that concerning your renewed decision against
William Kernachan's continuance on the pension list, I can
not with my intimate knowledge of his circumstances feel 
acquitted of my duty to him without one more appeal, &
I make it with the most perfect sense of your wish to
decide rightly in these perplexing cases.  This man executes the regard of myself and his [word crossed out] neighbors by the steady connections of his character & his poverty, only.  Except his wife & I believe two children, married in humble circumstance gone from him, he has probably no connections in the Country.  My knowledge of him reaches back for the last eight or ten years- he used to weave and his wife to spin for my family while they were able to labour-neither of them can labour now.
               It may be useful to notice the monies in which all the property of pensioners in Bucks County was valued.  By advice of the Court, I instructed them, through the public papers to have an Inventory & appraisement made, with the same formalities as if it were the property of deceased person & to select for the purpose persons known to the Court as worthy of confidence.  This was uniformly done and the Court had the Inventory before them when they valued the Schedule.  The Schedule in this case may be [illegible]
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on as an [illegible] given voucher, & I am sure exhibit the utmost  cont of his property.  The Mortgage, of old date, with the Interest, consumes the whole of his property without regarding other debts.  The official authentication of the Mortgage is from the hand of John Pugh, the Registrar and Recorder, a very respectable gentleman formerly in Congress.  Wm. Barclay, formerly a Judge of our Court, who resided in the vicinity at the period of the transaction, states the amount of accumulated Interest, and remarks that he does not think the property worth the debt.  He is a gentleman of great respectability, now President of our of The Banks in Philadelphia, only his forbearance leaves Kernachan a home.  May I not hope that the objections arising from property in possession will be considered as removed so that it shall not be had in view as making a part of any impediment against him.  For the annual Interest of the Mortgage, he could obtain an equally comfortable house with privileges inferior to those which his
lot affords.
       Your last decision is however grounded on his pension from the State, which probably by some obscurity of figures is stated at forty eight dollars-it is forty.  Though in my instruction to the Pensioners they were directed to report their State pension on the Schedule, it was not my interpretation that it could be an obstacle to their continuance on the rolls.  The question whether it should be relinquished in order to obtain the benefit of the Law of 1818, was decided in the negative, & I did not suppose the Law of 1820 made any change in that respect.  Being a gratuity, to be withdrawn
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at the pleasure of the State, and granted as all Those previous in the Rev War, only on evidence of indigence, is it to be considered in any other light than corroborative proof of the fact as an annual allowance from the dispenser of any public charity would be, that the party is in the circumstances contemplated by the Law of Congress-incapable of self support.   The maximum of property assumed in Penna. I am informed was by law.
        In this view of it, as I learn from some members with whom I have conversed since the rect.[receipt], of your decision, the State pension was withheld from the Schedule as not bearing the character of income within the intention of the Law, & as not being considered within the cognizance of the United States.  Whether it was in all plans, except the County where I live, withheld from the Schedule, I can not say-no one that I have conversed with is acquainted with any instance in which the State pension has prevented a continuance on the roll-Kernachan is not the only applicant from my own County who has a State pension-he is the only one whom State pension has been injurious to him.
          If however the rule be general to consider a State pension, where it is observed in the Schedule, as a part of the income on which the case is to be decided, I beg leave to suggest that in this instance the true value of the State pension is very small.  Its inferiority to the possession of the capital which would produce an equal Interest is worthy of particular regard when the Pensioner is old.  My
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the Letters of life Annuities it appears, that  the value of a 40 dollar annuity, for a life advanced to 76, as Kernachan I believe is, would be only 146 dollars.  Such a sum in possession would not I think prevent the Department from placing this man again on the list.  But this is too unfavorable in view of his claim-he can not realize 146 dollars for his premium; the Law renders it impracticable to use it-or he could do so, and having enjoyed its present worth apply to be reinstated on the U- States Roll.  He can not voluntarily relinquish it if it be considered as making a part of his income, without disabling himself from taking the oath required by the Spirit-of the Act of May last.  The Legislation of Penn, last session, discussed the propensity of withdrawing the pensions of those who were relieved by the Law of Congress, but decided against it.  Their decisions will have proven unhappy for this individual, if his States pension
now shall deprive of a much more valuable one, as I can see no remedy, in the last resort, but to request the Legislature of Penn' a. to review their decision in his behalf- a remedy in all its aspects so little congenial to any personal feelings, that I could not contemplate the measure without Pain.
     Believing that this man's case is within the intention of the Law, and within the equitable spirit of the rules of the Department, if it is still unsuccessful, I must believe it owing to the difficulty of illustrating by wisdom his real circumstances, in as to remove all hesitation
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as to the fact.  I am perfectly satisfied that this explanation shall remain on file with the other documents in his case, and to be responsible in any expectation for the comments it contains.
     One word more-this man, when I was last being home, in again reciting the explanation of his service-observed, that his last Service was in 
Washingtons Guards, & that he has on his discharge the badge of Merit, whether this was the result of his having been by his word Washingtons plain army the Guards, or whether, as he I believed considered it, as arising from his service for five years without ever having leave of absence, it is worthy of being mentioned to his credit.  I know not whether it be possible to ascertain now who [illegible] this badge but if it can, I will put the issue of the location of his Service on the fact, that he is found away  [illegible]
His character for veracity is exemplary.
                                  Very respectfully
                                          Yours
                                             Saml. [Samuel] Moore
Hon [Honorable] T. C. Calhoun
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Bucks County District of Pennsylvania, SS
     On the first day of May, 1819 William Carnahan appeared in person before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said district-who upon his oath by me duly administered did depose and say-that on or about the 6th day of April A.D. 1818 he the deponant made application before Samuel Hart Esquire then one of the Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of March 18th. 1818 entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" which application he understood from the said Samuel Hart was sent back from the War Department on account of some informality, and is since lost, that he again made application some time in the latter part of the same year which he understands from Dr. Samuel Moore is satisfactory- and that he has no other evidence of the date of his original application.
                                           
                                           William Carnahan
                                 his mark [handwritten X]
                                                        
Sworn and subscribed before
me the day and date aforesaid
               Wm Watts
                [flourish]
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I William Watts the subscribing Judge within named do Certify that to my knowledge the within deponant [deponent] made his original or first application as within stated previous to the 15th day of April 1818 and have no doubt but it was on day stated therein-
                                     Wm Watts
                                       [flourish]

From circumstances mentioned to me by William Carnahan/Kernachan more properly I am satisfied his original application was made on the sixth of April 1818 or previously.
                                                   Saml. Moore
                                                        M. C.
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Bucks County LS:
                             I Samuel D Ingham Prothonotary
                             of the Court of Common Pleas for the
                             said County do Certify that Samuel
                             Hart Esquire named in the annexed
                              deposition was at the time as is herein
                              states  one of the Judges of the said
Court of Common Pleas and that William Watts Before whom the annexed deposition was taken and who hath subscribed the same is, and was at the time of taking the same duly commissioned a Judge of the said Court this 23rd day of May in year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen.-

                                                        S. D. Ingham   Proy
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                     Washington Nov.r 24 1820

Sir
        I enclose the certificate of the proper office in Bucks County Penn to show that the principal debt reported in the debt of William Kernachan is mortgage debt, & [illegible] the whole value of his property-The letter from Mr. Barclay the holder of the Mortgage, is also enclosed.  I refer to my letter enclosed to the department in the Pensions, and can add nothing to the assurance then given, of my knowledge of the applicant, & of his helpless condition and meritorious character.
        I trust that the Secretary of war on inspection the subject, will find
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Satisfactory grounds for a favorable decisons. Concerning  this applicant for pension under the Law of March 1818, from the County in which I live, there is not one in whose favour so much public feeling is appointed.
                      Very respectfully
                                         Yours
                                    Saml. Moore
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     T. L. Edwards Esquire
              Pension Office
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                       Doylestown Penna.
                       Augt.  4. 1820.

Sir.     Your favour accompanying a decision on these final cases of pensioners lately forwarded  was[,] and - for this prompt attention I thank you.  On one case I feel its due to a very deserving individual to ask  if there has occurred no mistakes- I refer to that of Willliam Kernachan.
His Schedule enclosed exhibits property, including [illegible]-[illegible] it  perfectly  notorious here and clearly exhibited in his Schedule, that the debts in which he is involved [illegible ] his property-the  [illegible] during the
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whole war, I believe, and has maintained to the present time  a blameless character-these circumstances make me very reluctant to report to him a result so unsuccessful, unless it is irretrievable-the hopeless involvement of his circumstances, and his entire inability to labour
on will [illegible] to me-my acquaintance with him has been intimate for the last ten years. his residence is within three miles of me, and he and to weave for my family, and the neighbors while he was able to follow his trades.  May I request that his case may be reviewed and if the decision can not now be changed that you will please to inform me on what point-his claim to be on the pension list is considered to fail.
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I would not add to my own trouble with the adjustments of these pensioners, if it was not clear to my mind that in the instances now alluded to the claim is very strong.
                                Very respectfully
                                          Yours
                                    Saml. Moore
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Bridges
Letters
rcd 9 Aug 1820 with post mark


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Hon S.  Moore
Letters regarding to
reconsider  a claim of
Wm Kernachans case
under Act 1 May 1820

JLE
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office
Washington
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Post mark stamp                Free

The Honble Samuel Moore
City of Washington



[written upside down]
Wm Barclay
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           Philadelphia  Nov 20th 1820

The Honourable Samuel Moore

             Sir
                  Yours of the 16th Instant is received, and in answer to enquiries respecting the debt owing by William Kernichon of Bucks County to me, you will see by the affixed documents from the office it was originally L[Pounds]102 Pennsylvania currency or 272 Dollars with interest from 1st April 1804.  I recd. 1st April 1806 of Wm Kernichon $36.50 and on the 4th Sept 1819 $100.00 more.  This is all I have ever
received on the Bond & Mortgage against Kernichon.  There is due to me on William Kernichons Mortgage and Bond on the 1st Sept 1820 three hundred and seventy seven dollars and nine cents-
  So far am I from believing the Mortgaged premises is a sufficient security for the payment of this debt, that I would willingly assign all my evidences of the debt for two hundred dollars-

               I remain Sir with the highest esteem
                                 Your obt sevt

                     John Barclay

Mr. Barclay is a gentleman of distinction in 
Philada., now President of The Bank of the Northern Liberties-This declaration may [illegible] relied on.
                                   Saml. Moore
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                39803

         Revy   INVALID
              ___________
           File No.  39803

         William Kernachan

              Pri Rev War
              ______________
       Act:  18 March 1820
     Index:- vol 3,   Page 268

      [Arrangement of 1870]

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1915  Oct 15:  history
to Mr Harry C. McCammon
MBH
___________________________________________
1918, Apr. 20  History to
F. G. Carnahan-
Instructions for writing 
to Auditor  HC
___________________________________________
1930- Oct 29- Hist
to Mrs. Marion Edwards
EEL
____________________________________________
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[stationary from]

BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE
TOBACCO AND MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION

                                           1657-31st St. N. W.
                                            Apt. 303
                                            Washington, D. C.
                                             Oct. 17, 1930.
Bureau of Pensions
      Interior Burilding.

     Will you kindly inform me
whether you have a record of
the pension of Wm. Carnahan
serving in the Revolutionary War
from Pennsylvania.
     Any information concerning
his service

[upper left-hand side-stamp indicating receipt at the Bureau of Pensions]

Revolutionary & 1812 Wars
                  Section

                Oct 18 1930

           Bureau of Pensions
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[stationary from]
           BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE
   TOBACCO AND MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION

or any genealogical data will be 
appreciated as this information is
desired in connection with the D.A.R.

            Respectfully,
          (Mrs.)   Marion Edwards

[stamp of receipt at Bureau of Pensions]
REVOLUTIONARY WAR & 1812
                 DIVISION

              OCT 18 1930

     BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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                                      19 Bates Street NW.,
                                       Washington, D. C.,
                                       October 12, 1915

Librarian, Pennsylvania State Library,
            Harrisburg, Penna.

Sir:

I inclose herewith copy of correspondence relative to William Carnahan, my great-grandfather, who served in the Revolutionary
War, and I will tank you to give me what information you may be able to secure regarding him.  
                                     Respectfully,
                                      Harry C. McCammon

[stamp at bottom indicating receipt at Pension Office.]

   PENSION
        D
       US
Oct 13, 1915
     OFFICE
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Rev Sec

                                             112 R.R. Ave. So..
                                              Seattle-Wash...
                                              Apl 12, 1918

Commissioner of Pensions.
    Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-- One William Carnahan, of York, Pa., enlisted in 1st Reg. Pennsylvania Line, in 1776, and, judging form the records, served through out the Revolutionary War.

     In the Pennsylvania records I find his name variously spelled, sometimes incorrectly a Kernahan, and, once, at least, as Harnahan.

     Do our records show anything of this man after the war?  Whether he drew a pension, took a land grant, or otherwise got upon your books so as to show his whereabout and the time and place of his death?

     Will appreciate, specifically, information as follows:-
1:-  Was such a soldier granted a pension?
2:-   Was he grantee of a land grant?
3:-   If pension, from what point or points did he draw same?
4:-   If land grant-where was grant, and from what points came correspondence relative thereto?
5;-   Do your records show residence at his death?
6:-    Was there any widow's pension granted after his death?  If so, to whom, and of what place?

        Above and any other similar information will be greatly appreciated.  

                         Yours Very Truly,

                            F. G. Carnahan
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION,                3-525

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
                                  BUREAU OF PENSIONS
                              Washington, D. C.,  ________________, 19______


In reply to your request of _____________________, received____________
for a statement of the military history of William Kernachan or Carnahan
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his [crossed out-or his widow's] application for pension on file in this Bureau.    S. F. 39803
_____________________________________________________________________________
Dates of enlistment or appointment:
June 1776
1778
Length of service:
Served to June 1783
Officers under whom service was rendered:
Captain Miller   Colonel Hand 1' regt.
Captains Livingston & Colfax
Washington's Life Guards
State:  Penn.

Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth, Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Enl at Little York, Penn.
Date of application for pension,  Nov. 11, 1818.  His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application,  Warrington Township, Bucks Co., Penn.
Age at date of application,  68 years
     Remarks:  in 1820 soldiers wife Grissel was 74 years of age.  2 children (married)  were alive in 1821.  Names not stated.  There is no further family data.

                                                     Respectfully,



                                                                 Commissioner
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Fw.  Rev

                                                                    April 20, 1918

Mr. F. G. Carnahan,
    112 R. R. Avenue, South,
       Seattle, Washington.

Sir:

         In order to obtain the date of death, last known residence of soldier and name of person to whom the arrears of pension were paid in the case of 

         "William Kernachan, Cert. No. 11, 032
          issued, May 24, 1819, for $8 per month
          from April 8, 1818, under the Act of
           March 18, 1818, at the Pennsylvania
           Agency",
      You should forward this letter to
                 The Auditor for the Interior Department,
                 Auditors' Bldg., 14th and B Sts., S. W.,
                  Washington, D. C.

                                             Very respectfully, 
                                              G Mc[illegible]
                                              Commissioner.
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I Peter Augustine Jay Recorder of the city of New York
do certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that the
William name? Thomas Bunting it  is reduced to indigent 
Circumstances in life and  needs the assistance of his country
for support.
Given under my hand this record & day of July 1819.
                                          P. A. Jay

I Peter Augustine Jay Recorder of the city of New York
do hereby certify that I am satisfied that
Issac Hutchins & [illegible] Bunting two of
that I reviewed {illegible]
to be given   [illegible[  25, April 1820
                                              P. A. Jay