Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,349, for Joseph Sweeny, Virginia
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[typed form, handwritten response]
Service
Va.
Sweeny, Joseph
Sweeney, Nancy
Number
R.10,349
Contents
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[typed form, handwritten response; handwriting faded]
26544
Kentucky
48651
Joseph Sweeey of Washington Co in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Yarbrow of the regt. commanded by Gen Russell in the Virginia line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Ma [rest of word obscured] 183 [4 and 3 written over one another] and Hear [illegible 4 words]
Arrears to the 4th of March 80.0
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 13.3
$93 3
{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol Page 31
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Carry County Set. Kentucky 
Be it remembered that upon this day Charles Sweeny of Carry County and state aforesd personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in said county and being sworn deposeth and saith that he is the Brother of Joseph Sweeny [whose crossed out] of Washington County Ky whose application has been made in said court in order to obtain a pension and which duly certified is now before him and name to him and that he believes the facts therein stated are true   The said Charles Sweeney states that he is the younger Brother of the said Joseph Sweeny that they all lived in Amherst County and state of Virginia during the Revolutionary War [that crossed out] with their father and mother who are now both dead, He was matters the time of his Brothers enlistment [four words crossed out] by him in his petition tho he was not present at the moment of his enlistment. He remembers that after he enlisted perhaps on the same day the said Joseph in company with hs father returned home and after a very short say he was poced up to join his company and this capt was sent with him and went with him to join the Army and saw him join and left him and returned home with the Horse his brother rode to the army. After he had been some time in service, his brother returned home on furrow sick and after remained some [crossed out word] at home how long the affiant can not state precisely the said Joseph Sweeny returned to the army and remained in service for some time after after Cornwallis was taken and returned home about the time he has stated and this affiant truly believes the said Joseph was in the service as stated by him and for the length of time stated 
signed Charles Sweeney
Given under my hand this   day of   1833
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I James Clark a justice of the peace of in and for the county of Carry do certify that Charles Sweeney personally appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the facts stated and I do further certify that said Charles Sweeney is a man of good character and is entitled to credit upon oath. Given under my hand this 25th Nov 1833 yno
Jas C Clark
J.P.C.C.
I Joel Sweeny clerk of the county court of Carry County Kentucky do certify that James Clark who is signed the forgoing certificate is a justice of the peace in and for Carry County and state of Kentucky authorized to administer oaths and that full credit is due to his official acts In testimony whereof I have this day affixed the deal of my office this 20th day of Nov 1833
Joel Sweeney clk
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State of Kentucky 
County of Mercer
Before the subscriber personally appeared Nancy Sweeney aged 87 years, who is a resident in the county aforesaid and who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration under the act of 17 June 1844 & 2nd [illegible] 1842
This declarant states that she is the lawful widow of Joseph Sweeney late a pensioner of the Untied States in the County of Washington in said State at the rate of $26 66/100 per annum and who died on the seventh day of June in the year eighteen hundred & forty six. (1846). 
This Declarant states that her maiden name was Nancy Whitton, that she was lawfully married to the aforesaid Joseph Sweeny in the month of December in the year seventy hundred and eighty one. (1781) by a Baptist minister named Coleman, in the county of Amherst in the State of Virginia. that she had several children born as the fruits of her said marriage prior to the year 1790. that William Elizabeth and Moses Sweeney are the names of three of her said children who were born prior to the time last mentioned. That she with her said husband moved from the county of Amherst to the State of Kentucky about the year 1787 in which state she has continued to reside ever since the last mentioned period. That she lived in lawful wedlock with the said Joseph Sweeney from the time of their aforesaid marriage up to the period when he died and that since his death she has not again married but remains his widow and that her family record is lost or destroyed. 
Sworn to & subscribed on this 8th day of May 1851.
Before me John Leonard 
J.P.
Nancy Sweeny x her mark
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Nancy Sweeny Declaration
State of Kentucky 
County of Mercer 
I John Leonard Certify that the beforenamed Nancy Sweeny by reason of od age & bodily infirmities is unable to appear in open court and that satisfactory proof was made before me that Joseph Sweeny late of the County of Washington in the State of Kentucky, a revolutionary pensioner of the Untied States died on the 7th day of June 1846 leaving a widow who is the aforesaid declarant, and who has not intermarried since his death but has remained his widow.
Given on this 8th day of May 1851
John Leonard J. P.
State of Kentucky 
County of Mercer 
I Thomas Allin clerk of the county aforesaid certify that John Leonard Esquire is & was at the time of the date of the foregoing a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in said county of Mercer to all whose official acts full faith & credit are due. And that the foregoing signatures purporting otherwise be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 13th day of May . . . 1851
Tho Allin Clk
Mercer County Court
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28.775
Joseph Sweeney
Ken.
Ha Rm Johnson
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Washington County Ky.
Be it remembered that upon this 20th Nov 1833 personally appeared in open court Joseph Sweeny a resident citizen of Washington county and state of Kentucky who being sworn in open court upon his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain a pension and the benefits of the act of the congress of these United States passned in the year 1832 making provision for civilian officers and soldiers of the Revolution. This affiant states that he is now seventy four years of age that is he will be on the 28th Feby 1834 He was born in the year 1766 on 18th Feby of that year. that upon the first day of October in year 1780 as well as he can now recall he enlisted as a regular soldier in the war of the Revolution in the company commanded by Capt Joseph Yarbrow for and during the war at a place called New Glasgow in Amherst County State of Virginia, in the Virginia line upon continental establishment ligament. He was marched from that place to Richmond in Virginia where he was detached in the quarter Master's Service upon the command of Genl Charles Russell who acted as quarter Master Genl. and by him he was appointed a wagon master with the command of nine waggons which was called a brigade of waggons and in that capacity he served until after the surrender of Cornwallis at the siege of York in October 1781. He was at the siege and in the performance of his he duty as waggon Master and remained in the service after the surrender of Cornwallis untill the 1st of June 1782 when was discharged by Genl Russell order through on eWilliam Ingram who was an officer under Russell which discharge he has not now. He states that upon his way home he sold his certificate for his balance of pay to a Mr Brown for a well mare to ride home and he supposes that he gave up his
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discharge to him he has it not know nor has he any written orders in his possession to prove the fact of his enlistment but believes he can prove the fact of his enlistment by his Brother Charles Sweeny in Carry County Ky and he will prove his testimony.
He further states that prior to his enlistment as aforesaid he had served several tours of duty as a militia man and volunteer. That as such he was at Gates defeat at the battle of Camden in South Carolina. His captain at this battle was by name of White. His col was by name of Lewis which was from Virginia and this aft entered the service in Virginia under said while and he was changed from one Regiment to another. He is unable to state the day he was mustered into service nor the day he was discharged which sufficient accuracy but he recollects that he was out in the service during this term, at least four months before he was discharged. Afterwards he was called into the service as a malitia man from the state of Virginia. this was before the battle of Eutaw Springs he does not now remember the name of his captain. That he was marched from Amherst county in Birginia to the main Army and was at the battle of the Eutaw Springs He does not remember the day he entered the service upon this tour. After the defeat the Militia marched home He was engaged upon this tour in the public service as a private soldier at least three months. After this he was again drafted and entered the service as a private soldier. His capt' name was Harris he does not remember the name of the col or the number of his Regiment nor can he state the day he was mustered into the service for this tour. He was marched from Amherst County Virginia toward the South and joined the main Army at Guilford Courthouse the day before the battle. He was in that engagement and after the battle he returned home upon this tour he was in the service as a private at least one month which several tours of duty as a militia man when added together make his entire
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service in the militia as  a private eight months all of which was rendered prior to his enlistment under Capt Yarbrow as before stated. He claims under both & for both species of service and if he cannot under both these he claims under his service which will give him the greatest pension. He is known in this to Wm B Booker Elijah Farris and divers others He has resided in Kentucky for upwards of forty years last part
He states that he is not upon the pension Roll of any state and hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension other than the one now claimed
signed Joseph Sweeney
We William B Booker and Elijah Ferris both residing in the county of Washington do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Sweeny who has signed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration that we believe him to be near seventy four years old that he is reputed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a Revolutionary soldier and we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day aforesaid 
WB Booker Elijah Ferris X his mark
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Wm B Booker and Elijah Ferris who have signed the preceding certificate are persons of credibility and men of good character and entitled to credits. No Minister of the gospel was sworn because the applicate states none would know him who was could be got to court.
I Charles Kelly Clerk Pro Tim of the Washington circuit court to hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the
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application Joseph Sweeny for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of Nov 1833
Charles C Kelly clk
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Joseph Sweeneys 
certificate
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1133
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Joseph Sweeney of Maxville in Washington County in the State of Kentucky do hereby declare that I entered in the continental line of the army of the Revolution for & during the war and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Joseph Yarbrow company in the 41st or 42nd Regiment of the Virginia line. And I also [word crossed out] received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1826 on the pension list of the United States 
Joseph Sweeney
Before me John S Watts a justice of the peace in and for the county of Washington in the state of Kentucky personally appeared this day John Mckittrick [illegible] & William Peter of the said county who did severally make oath that Joseph Sweeney by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a private of the army of the Revolution
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in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this 24th day of Sept eighteen hundred and twenty eight
John S Watts JP
WC 
State of Kentucky }
Washington County } Set
I John Hughes Jr clerk of the court of the county of Washington in the State of Kentucky do certify that John S Watts before whom the foregoing affidavits were given was at the time a justice of the peace in and for the said county duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court the 26 day of September in the year 1828
John Hughes Jr Clk
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No 748
Nancy Sweeney,
widow of Joseph
June 17, 1844
Ky
A.P. Norton
Pittsburgh. Pa
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State of Kentucky 
County of Casey
Before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Job Sweeney aged seventy three years resident in said County who being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that he was intimately acquainted with Joseph Sweeney late of Washington County in the State of Kentucky that he is also intimately acquainted with said Joseph's wife Nancy Sweeney that he lived near neighbor to the said Joseph and Nancy Sweeney in the County of Lincoln and State of Kentucky at the time of the defeat of the United States Army under General St Clair and at the time of said defeat the said Joseph and Nancy had three children born whose names are William, Elizabeth and Moses Sweeney that he was the playmate of the said children that the said Joseph and Nancy were respectable people and lived together as man and wife and were reputed as such. that he was well acquainted with the said Joseph and Nancy up to the period when the said Joseph died. Sworn to and subscribed this 7th day of June 1851 Before me Anderson Rigney JP
Job Sweeney x his mark
I certify that the above named affiant is a man of sound mind and a credible witness 
Anderson Rigney JP
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State of Kentucky
County of Casey
I Joel Sweeney clerk of the County Court of said Count certify that Anderson Rigney Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is & was at the time of the date thereof a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in said County and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said County this 7th day of June 1851
Joel Sweeney Clk
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State of Kentucky
County of Casey
Before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Charles Sweeney aged Eighty four years resident in said county who being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Joseph Sweeney late of Washington County and State, aforesaid that he was also intimately acquainted with said Joseph's wife Nancy Sweeney that her maiden name was Nancy Whitton that he lived neighbor to the said Joseph and Nancy in the County of Amherst in the State of Virginia that they were respectable people and lived together as man and wife and were reputed as such that he first knew of the said Joseph and Nancy Sweeney living together as man & wife, as aforesaid in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty two (1782) the year immediately after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis' army at the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, that he was afterwards acquainted with the Said Joseph and Nancy in the County of Lincoln and state of Kentucky. that affiant was married on the 19th of December in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety three (1793) that he has a record of his said marriage and that prior to the time of his said marriage the said Joseph and Nancy Sweeney had three children born whose names are William, Elizabeth and Moses Sweeney that he was well acquainted with the said Joseph & Nancy up to the time when the said Joseph died. 
Sworn to and subscribed this 6th day of June 1851 Before me Wm Baldock JP
Charles Sweeney X his mark
I certify that the above named affiant is a man of sound mind and a credible witness
Wm Baldock JP
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State of Kentucky
County of Casey
I Joel Sweeney clerk of the county court of said county certify that William Baldock Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is and was at the time of the date thereof a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in said county and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said county this seventh day of June 1851
Joel Sweeney Clk
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N. Sweeney's 
Affidavit
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State of Kentucky
Casey County
This day personally appeared before us Wm Ray & James Clark two acting Justices of the peace for the county of Casey & state of Kentucky Charles Sweeney of lawful age , who states that Joseph Sweeney an applicant for a pension, entered the continental service for American Independence in the County of Amherst & State of Virginia the time & date not recollected, but he well recollects of going with him, assisting him a great part of the way to join the company to which he was attached. He further states that he has a distinct recollection of his return from the army, and believes it was after Wallace's defeat; that he then understood he had been in the service of the Army for American Independence from the time of his assisting him; to his return. But has not a recollection of the length of service; which he performed in the army; He states he is well acquainted with the s'd Jos Sweeney and any statement he would make in relation to his services he believes to be honest 
Subscribed & sworn to before us this 23rd day of February 1828
Wm Ray & Jas Clark JP CC
Kentucky Casey County }
I Joel Sweeney clerk of the County Court for the County of Casey Do hereby certify that William Ray and James Clark Esq whose names are profided to the above affidavit of Charles Sweeney are acting Justices of the peace for the County of Casey duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that faith & credit is due & ought to be given their official acts as such in the several States or Territories of the United States of America
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my County at my office in the Town of Liberty this twenty third day February Eighteen hundred & Twenty Eight and of the Commonwealth of Kentucky the Thirty Fifth year
Joel Sweeney
[stamp to the left of text]
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Elizabeth Sweeney
Deposition
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State of Kentucky 
Washington County
This day personally appeared before us John S Watts and Ambrose M Clarke two acting Justices of the peace for the County of Washington and State of Kentucky Elizabeth Sweeney of lawful age who states that Joseph Sweeney an applicant for a pension & entered the continental service for American Independence in the county of Amherst and State of Virginia: the time and date not recollected; yet she well recollects that he was taken sick whilst in the service and came home on Furlow and that his Father took him back to the army on his recovery she further states that she has a distinct recollection of his return from the Army, and believes it was after Wallace's defeat that she then understood he had been in the service of the Army for American Independence from the time of his entering the service, untill he was discharged which she thinks was upwards of two years. She states she is well acquainted with the sd Jos Sweeney and any statement he would make as related to his services she believes to be correct
Subscribed & Sworn to before us this 18th day of  March 1828
John S Watts A M Clarke JPWC
Elizabeth Sweeney X her mark 
We John S Watts and Ambrose M Clarke do state that we are intimately acquainted with the above named Elizabeth Sweeney she is an Old and a respectable Lady and that her statements are entitled to the utmost credit Given under our hands the day and date above written
John S Watts
A M Clarke
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Martin J M Henry.
for 
Joseph Sweeney. 1133.
2567.2923.
Recd 10 Aug 1829
264

Free
Revolutionary Claim
Treasury U.S.
Washington City
D.C.
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Springfield Kety
Free 
Revolutionary claim
Department of the Treasury 
U.S.
Washington City D.C. 
mail
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Springfield Ky. 27th July 1829
The honourable the Secy of the Treasury U.S.}
I am induced from motives of sympathy for the [illegible] of Mr Joseph Sweeney an old Revolutionary soldier to make one more trial to obtain for him a pension. You will find from the declaration of Mr. Sweeney which I sent for him some months since an account of his services he enlisted in Amherst County V.a. in the Continental line under a Captain Yarbour, or Yarborough, and was afterwards placed in the wagon department under Col or Genl Russel where he served during the war & was discharged by a man by the name of McGraw but does not recollect whether McGraw signed his discharge or whether it was signed by some superior officer some of these facts I think were omitted in his original declaration but will probably inable you to find some matter of record which will corroborate the statements which are made. He sold his discharge to a man by the name of Brown, who it is possible soldi it to one Buford the discharge was good for a certain quantity of land & he thinks perhaps may now be of Record in the Virginia Land office. I have written to the Register if it is to send you a copy which together with what proof you already have is hoped will be sufficient. Indeed it is though that at this period stronger proof of a fact could not be asked than the depositions already before you as to his having served in the army
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His mother swears if I recollect rightly that she saw him start & she saw him return & his brother swears that he took him to the army in addition & these we can prove by twenty persons who knew him intimately at the time that he was generally reputed to be in the service When I reflect that the declaration first sent on was verbatim in the form & had verbatim the same testimony to support it with us any others which had these [illegible] been so useful and that afterwards the two deposition which were sent on so clearly witnessed his right as I thought I am induced to believe they must well near have prevailed & that if this communication now made should lead to any discovery of Recored evidence in his favor he will get a pension which I took on as not a matter of favor but of gratitude in government. I have no doubt it is the wish of the Secretary of the Treasury that every soldier who is entitled to a pension & needs it should get it and hope that if I am not successful in this effort you will apprise me of what more will be required Direct to Joseph Sweeney Spring Kentucky to care of Mathew D M Henry
P.S. Mr Sweeney sees on the printed list heretofore furnished him and herewith returned as directed the names of many who are familiar to him but of none who he believes were personally a witness of his services
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Springfield 
March 4
Free
pension claim of J. Sweeney Depositions enclosed 
The Honl The Secretary of the Treasury 
Washington City
D C
mail
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M D McHenry
for 
Joseph Sweeney 1153
Recd 16 March 1829
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Springfield Ky 3rd March 1829
To the Honbl the Secretary of the Treasury
Mr Joseph Sweeney having appeared to me some time last fall to assist him in procuring a pension under the provisions of an act of Congress approved 15th May 1828 I prepared his declaration for him according to the forms which were published in the public prints, supposing that they were all the act required and having learned that pension had been obtained upon applications just in that form. The two depositions which I now enclose were put into my hands my Mr Sweeney at the same time and he rather wished them to be sent on with his declaration but I did not wish to swell the packet and on that account only retained them supposing that as the papers I did send were made out according to the form I had seen they would of themselves be sufficient
If these are not deemed sufficient several others of the same purport can be obtained next court
The secretary in a letter to Mr Sweeney of the 28 Jan 1829 proposes if he wishes it to send him a list of the names & residences of the surviving officers his regiment If this is not deemed sufficient you will
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please send Mr Sweeney such a list in writing to him again 
yours respectfully
W.D.M. Henry
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[no written text: solid black page, possibly fabric]
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Joseph Sweeney - Pvt-
Va. line
Kentucky
no Record
Ref. File no 10,349
OR
Evidence insufficient
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Col J.L. Eon [paper torn]
Hon R M Johnson
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It would be well to read the within from Charles A Wickoff before you decide Sweenys case
I have sent the papers to you.
yours
Rh M Johnson
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[typed form, handwritten response]
[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879]
REJECTED
10,349
P.O.
Nancy Sweeney
Service: wid. of Joseph
Enlisted: ,18.
Discharged: ,18.
Application filed: , 18.
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis.  Searched for , 18.
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If nothing more can be allowed than the 8 months Col Edwards will allow it. See Mr Wickliffs letter to me. Send the certificate as soon convenient
RMJ
Jun 17- Pv 8 mos
$26.66/100
Hon. R. M. Johnson
N. R.
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Revolutionary claim
Honl Lewis McLane
Secretary of Treasury
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Recd 19 April 1832      4465
Rep Hald
April 17th 1832
Honbl Louis McLane
Sir
Inclosed is an application for a pension to which I ask your attention
very respectfully
C A Wicklyffe
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Bardstown
Feby 23d 1834
Di Col.
Inclosed under your hand the papers of Mr Sweeney. I have detained them under a hope that I would see him and be able to explain to him the nature of the mistake and if he had made it to have it rectified and explained. In this however I have been disappointed. Mr Sweeney is a very old man and such illiterate. I wrote his declaration for him in the tanttle of a court and think it very probably that I made a mistake in the name of the Battle and called it the Battle of Eutaw Springs when some other had been named. He has no other evidence of his enlistment or service than that which was enclosed and now returned 
He said to me and I think in my former letter I mentioned the fact that he had applied under the law of 1828 and that he had then presented the deposition of his mother who is now dead. These papers are yet in the office kept by young Mr Dickens in the Treasury office, Will you my dear sir call then and
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see them if they can yet be found perhaps they may cast some light upon this subject Old man Sweeney chunks a good deal and when I wrote his declaration I discovered that he was exiled with needs and had some difficulty on calling his mind and memory to the order of events in his service
Still I do not think, that for thisnon he should have his claim to the higher pension as a regular soldier (not as wagon master) rejected. The proof by his brother is very strong and the strongest he can get of the fact of his enlistment and of his joining the army and time he was out.
If however you can not obtain from Mr Edwards a reconsideration of this point then I hope you will accept for this old crippled and needy veteran the small pittance of his 8 months militia service as the best I can do for him
Unto my office & particularly whom you think will be appointed Judge in our district 
Yours
C A Wicklyffe
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[handwritten, badly faded]
Pittsburgh Co Penna 21st June 1851
sir
I have the honor herewith to submit the application of Nancy Sweeny widow of Joseph Sweeney for the benefit of acts 11 June 1844 & 2d Feb 1848 - embracing her declaration & the testimony of Chls Sweeney & Job Sweeney-
Diligent search has been made for some evidence of her marriage with no success and in the absence of it we submit the best & only evidence we have thus far from diligent search been able to produce of her marriage prior to 1794- We hope it will be favorably considered by the Department.
I have the honor to be with the highest respect 
Your Obt Servt
A. P. Norton
Hon J.C.  Heath
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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War Department 
Pension Office
December 13, 1833
Sir,
The papers in support of the claim of Joseph Sweeney transmitted to you from the Hon C. A. Wickliffe have been examined, and are herewith returned. He alleges to have enlisted in the regular service from the 1st October 1780 for the war, and to have been discharged 1st June 1782, and that he was appointed a wagon master. He also alleges to have performed one tour of duty of four months, and to have been at the battle of Camden during said tour and one other tour of three months as a militiaman, and was at the battle of the. Eutaw Springs during said tour which two tours of duty were performed prior to his entering the regular service. The battle of the Eutaw Springs took place in September 1781. It is therefore evident that he did not enter the regular service till after September 1781. Unless he produce the testimony of at least two witnesses showing the length of his service alleged to have been performed in the regular line, and that he served as a wagon Master an allowance can only be made for eight months service alleged to have been performed in the militia. 
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your obt servt
J. L. Edwards
Hon R. M. Johnson
House of Representatives
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Springfield Ky 26th Sept 1828
Dear Sir
Enclosed you have the claim of an old Revolutionary soldier which I have prepared according to instructions printed in the news papers. If it is rightly made rait you will please direct [any crossed out] his Order for the money to him at Marville Kentucky or to me at this place
The branch bank at Lexington is nearer to him than Louisville 
Yours Respectfully
Martin D McHenry
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[Typed form, handwritten response]
1153
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
24 January 1829.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Joseph Sweeny under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed weather it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
R. Ruth.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Depart:
 Bounty land office 
The records of this office do not show that Joseph Sweeny of the Virginia line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States
Robert Taylor
27 Jany 1829
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R. 19 April 1832.
Revolutionary claim
13
Form of a declaration to be made by the non commissioned officers 
Musicians and privates
For the purpose of Obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the revolution" approved on the 15th May 1828 Joseph Sweeney in the County of Washington in the State of Kentucky do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental of the army of the revolution for & during the war and continued in the service untill its termination, at which period I was a private soldier in Captain Joseph Yarbeus company in the forty [faded, possible first] Regiment of the [gap in text, possibly illegible faded words] Continental line
I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars, to which I was entitled, under the resolve of Congress passed the 15th May 1778. And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United States witness my hand this 5th day of April in the year 1832 Joseph Sweeney + his mark 
Note the most convenient branch bank of the U.S. is at Louisville Ky most convenient post office is at [illegible city] Washington County Ky
enclose my certificate & script to Thomas Triplett Jr Frankfort
Before me Micajah Pendilton JP a Justice of the Peace in the County of Washington and the State of Kentucky personally appeared, this day Jesse Peter and Danel Sweeney persons known to me as credible witnesses who did severally make oath that Joseph Sweeney by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been a soldier in the army of the
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Revolution in manner as therein stated Witness my hand this third day of April 1832 in the year 1832 M Pendilton 
I John Hughes clerk of the court of the County of Washington in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that Micajah Pendilton before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace and dully impowered to administer oaths In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 6th day of April 1832
John Hughes clk
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[typed form, handwritten additions]
1153
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
1 Nov 1828.
Joseph Sweeney of Nashville in the County of Washington in the State of Kentucky has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Yarbee's company in the -- regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May 1778; and further, that he was not o the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary F A Dickens 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Office,
7th November 1828
[first paragraph crossed out]: It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to     in the     
It further appears that Joseph Sweeney is not now on the pension list of [the crossed out] any --- agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826 - [crossed out: at the rate dollars per month]
The name of Joseph Sweeney cannot be found among those of the Virginia line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued -
Peter Hagner Aud
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General Land Office
24 Jany 1829
The name Joseph Sweeney does not appear in the lists of Warrants Given by the Register of the Land - Office at Richmond Va as far as they have been received 
Geo: Graham
Connelly
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Has not the applicant received land for services in the Va. State line.
NO
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3rd Auditors office