Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3675, Peter Gary, Continental Penn.
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(3--1776)

GARY, PETER
Catharine

SERVICE Continental, Penn.
NUMBER W. 3675, BLKt. 361-100

Issd Oct. 15, 1807

CONTENTS [left blank]
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1862  Nov. 18, Pension agent
"         Nov. 21,    do      etc
See letters of Pension agnt Dec. 31.
[a blotch covers words here]  died about 1854

Reported

Jany of 49

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2888
Pennsylvania Philadelphia
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Catharine Gary
widow of Peter Gary
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a musician of arty
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
104 Dollars  --- Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
8th day of Jany 1849
and sent to
Hm. Job Mann
H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 22, Vol. 2
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[Ribbon attached to page]

No. 361

Peter Gary
Srgt Penn Line

Warrant issued 15 Oct. 1807
& sent to Alex Ogle
Somerset, Att. to P. Gary
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[The following words are lined through]

He seen by spreading it thin on earthen
platter,

[Two partial pages are taped together here.]

War Office
14 Oct. 1807

Sir:

[The following words are X'd out]

I will thank you to open a cask
containing Common powder and one containing
Musket, lates placed in the magazine from the
factory of Dupont De Vancover Ore at ?
. . . . . . . open it to . . . 
[The rest of words torn off the page]
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Power of Attorney
Peter Gary
to
Alexr Ogle Esq.
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Know all men by these presents that I Peter
Gary a soldier of the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment (in the
late American War) in the Artillery, Joseph Ashton Capt.
Col. Porter & General Lincoln commanded the same.
I a soldier enlisted during the American War and duly
obtained a discharge from that service--and now a resident
of Somerset County in the State of Pennsylvania.

Do by these presents nominate and appoint
my trusty and well beloved friend Alexander Ogle Esq.
to ask, demand, and receive all my pay & emoluments
yet in arrear for my service, as the soldier aforesaid;
& yet moreover;--To Demand.  ask for & obtain
all my rights to Lands, granted either by the
State of Pennsylvania, or by the General Congress
of the United States at that time, & to obtain all my
Titles to same promises as fully and apply as if
I was personally present myself.--to give acquittances
& receipts for same & in my name, as full discharges
& receipts for same as I could do were I personally
present-- & finally and lastly to do and execute
my business in these promises as fully and as amply as
I could do in all respects as I could do myself
were I present,
Given under my hand & seal
the first day of August Anno Domini 1807.

Peter Gary    [seal]

Signed& delivered
in presence of
Saml. Selby
Jacob Schneider
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State of Pennsylvania )
Somerset County       )  SS

August the 1st Anno Domini 1807.

Personally appeared 
before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in &
for the County aforesaid Peter Gary.  I acknowledge that
the aforegoing & with this instrument of writing to be his act
& deed for the purposes therein mentioned--

Given under my hand & seal the day
& year above written--

Jacob Schneider   [Seal]
J.P.

Somerset County  SS

I Abraham Morrison Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas in and for
the said County of Somerset in Pennsylvania
Do hereby certify that Jacob
Schneider before whom the above acknowledgement
is made, is a Justice of the
Peace duly commissioned and sworn
in and for the said County to whose
official acts as such full faith and
credit is due.  In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and
the seal of the said County this first day
of August one thousand eight hundred
and seven--

Abm. Morrison
Prothy
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Pennsylvania
Somerset County SS

Before me Samuel G. Bailey as
Justice of the Peace, duly empowered to administer
oaths in the county of Somerset aforesaid in
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally
appeared, this day George Meese & John Hanna Esqr
of the said county, who did severally make
oath that Peter Gary, by whom the foregoing
declaration was subscribed, is generally
reputed and believed to have been a
musician in the army of the Revolution, in
the manner as therein stated.--
Witness my hand & seal this 17th day of
June A. D. eighteen hundred & twenty eight--

Samuel G. Bailey   [seal]

Pennsylvania
Somerset County SS

I Alexander Agle Junior Recorder
of Deeds & Commissions in &
for the county of Somerset
in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania do certify that
Samuel G. Bailey Esqr before
whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn
was at the time an acting Justice of the
Peace in & for said county duly empowered
to administer oaths--In testimony
whereof I have hereto set my hand & 
affixed my official seal this 17th day of
June A.D. 1828.

Alex Oble, Jr.
Recorder
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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 day of May 1828, I Peter Gary of Turkeyfoot
township, in the county of Somerset, in the State
of Pennsylvania, do hereby declare that I enlisted
in the Continental Line of the Army
of the Revolution, for and during the war
and continued in its service until its
termination; at which period I was a
musician of the band, under the direction
of William Moore, master of music, in the
4th Regiment of Artillery, Pennsylvania
Line--under the command of Colonel
Porter--and was honoured with a Sergeant's
discharge by General Lincoln -- -- --
And I also declare that I afterwards
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 fifteenth day of March, 1828, on
the pension list of the United States--

Peter Gary
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U.S.  Pen. Agency, Phil, Nov. 10, 62

Jos. H. Barrett Esqr

Dear Sir:

On the 9th of May 1862 I wrote you
an explanatory letter giving my reasons for paying to Patrick
O. Malley the sum of $580.66, and asking under the circumstances
an allowance of that sum.  Not having any reply I made an appeal
to the 2nd Controller who after examining the case, gave it as his opinion
that I was fully justified by my instructions in paying the claim but
said that he would correspond with you and the Sect of the Interior
upon the subjecxt.  I had intended to have an interview with you upon
that subject when I was last in Washington, but was taken sick and
had to hurry home.  Patrick O Malley has since that time died
and is therefore no longer a pensioner upon the Government.

Will you do me the favor to refer to my letter of May 9th 1862,
and give this matter your most favorable consideration.

There is another matter which I thought I would call your
attention to.  I paid Sept. 4, 1861 to Catharine Gary widow of Peter--
under Act of Feby 2, 1848, the sum of $104, one years pension.  This claim
was suspended by 3 auditor for additional evidence of identity.
It appears that she has been dead some 10 or 11 years,
during which time her pension has been regularly paid.
If you will authorise me to incur
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the necessary expense for an investigation, and send
me in the vouchers, I will set the matter in train for a thorough
investigation of who the rascals are that have been
swindling the Government to the tune of some $1100 or
$1200.

I am respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
Erastus Poulson
Pen. Agent
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State of Ohio     )
Fairfield County )  SS

Personally appeared before me
Henry Drum--a justice of the
peace in and for the County aforesaid
Gideon Gary of full age and a man
of veracity and made oath that about
three years before the close of the revolutionary
war his brother Peter Gary was
living with deponant and at that time,
he said Peter enlisted for serving in  the
war with a Mr. Bennett a recuiting officer,
when at his brothers about seven miles
above Philadelphia, as a musician--
That said Peter was absent until the
close of the war and as respondent believes
served until he was regularly discharged
and further the deponant saith not--

Diliecee Ognfoy ??

Sworn and subscribed
before me at Lancaster
this 13th day of November 1827.
Henry Drum, J.P.

State of Ohio, Fairfield County SS

I, Hugh Boyle, Clerk of the court of common please, for the county
aforesaid do hereby certify, that Henry Drum Esqr, before whom the above
affidavit appears to have been taken was at the time of the taking   ?
or on the date above a magistrate in and for said county, and that his
signature hereto purporting to be such is genuine--
 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my
hand and seal of office at Lancaster in said county
this 13th day of November A.D. 1827

Hugh Boyle, Clerk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section.

February 2, 1927.

Honorable Nathan L. Strong,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Strong:

In response to your letter of the
twenty-ninth ultimo, I have the honor to furnish you the
history of the only soldier of the Revolution named Peter
Gary found on the records of this bureau.  All spellings
of that name have been searched.

From the papers in the pension claim, W. 3675, it appears
that Peter Gary, while living about seven miles above
Philadelphia, enlisted, (date not stated) in Colonel Butler's
Pennsylvania Regiment.  He was transferred March 15, 1782
and served as a musician in the Fourth Regiment of Pennsylvania
Artillery and was discharged as Sergeant from said
regiment on June 7, 1783.

He was alloed pension on his application executed
June 17, 1828, while living in Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset
County, Pennsylvania.  The date and place of his birth are
not stated.  He died about 1844, leaving a widow Catherarine.
Her maiden name and date of marriage are not on record, nor
is it stated whether they had children.

Very truly yours,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.

The widow's papers are not
on file, probably sent for investigation.
Therefore I did not make any statement
about her pension claim.

[Comments handwritten vertically on page]

He cannot be found in pension archives
under any spelling.  Col. Butler
did not command 6.  Pai A. Porter
was only Lt. Col. of H art and he
did not serve in a co under Jos. Ashton
as J. A. was Capt. Lt. & acting permanently  of
the 4 Regt and see his name on dis. copy that is reason man
remembered it.  Hence my omissions.
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[Seal of The National Archives of the United States upper right corner]

THESE are to CERTIFY that the bearer herof
Peter Gary, Sargeant--
in the Pensylvania Artillery regiment, having faithfully
served the United States start the 15th March 1782
--and being enlisted for the war, is
hereby discharged from the American army.  Paid ?

Given at the war    the     of June 1782.

By order of the secretary at war B. Lincoln.

Jos.  Ashton 

Registered in the books of the regiment, ________
Joseph Ashton Capt. to Robert Parker adjutant.
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War office, 27 June 1783,

The within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the
bearer as a discharge, until the ratification of the definitive
treaty of peace; previous to which time, and until proclamation
shall be made he is considered as being
on furlough.

B. Lincoln

W 3675
Peter Gary
Wt. 361-100
Cont.--Penn.
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7890
Pennsylvania--
Phila
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Catharine Gary--
widow of Peter Gary--
who was a musician of Artillery
in the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
104 Dollars
_____Cents per annum, to commence on
the 10th day of Nov. 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
31st day of July 1844
and sent to Hon. A. Stewart,
House of Reps.
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(Acts of March 3, 1843.
& 17 June, 1844)
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 132

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Notr. corrected &  out to payt
Sept. 4 1846.  Cannot find this
letter.
Let to Hon. Job Mann
Jan 6, 1849
this in claim.
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Nathan L. Strong
27th Dist. Pennsylvania
J.D. Nolph Secretary

COMMITTEE ON
RIVERS AND HARBORS

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.

January 29, 1927.

Peter Gary,
Revolutionary War Soldier.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I shall be pleased to receive any
information that appears in your records concerning
the above named soldier or his family.
The soldier lived in Pennsylvania, and his
service in the Revolutionary War was probably
with a Pennsylvania organization.

Thanking you for the favor, I remain,

Sincerely yours,
N.L. Strong

[Date stamp Jan 31, 1927 of U.S. Pension Office]
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Revy 
WIDOW, &c.
________
File No. 3.675
Catharine Gary
Widow
Peter Gary
Musn, Rev. War
_________
Act: Febry 2, 1848
Index:--Vol. A, Page 200
(Arrangement of 1870)

The papers in the widows claim
are missing from the files.  Theref
were undoubtedly sent to the Phila, Penn.
Pension agent for the investigation. . . 

[Note written vertically on left of page]

1927 Feb 2. Hist to Hon. Nathan L. Strong.

[Note written vertically on right of page]

. . . was the custom but there is no note
related to it and the original letters
to the Pens. Agt. from this
Bureau couldn't be found
in the old letter books.
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Somerset, May 2, 1809
Alex Ogle--Relative to
Geo Bennet's and Peter Geary's
claim to land.
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Referred to May u Baja
a chg 11 May 1807
on Public Service
Free
Henry Dearborn Esquire
Secretry of War
Washington City
Somerset P May 3 Rec May 11 1809
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Sir

I have sent you a certificate from
the Secretary of the Land Office
of Pennsylvania a proff for
George Bennet and Peter Geary
two soldiers who have drawn the
the Donation Lands from this state
and one also entitled to one hundred
acres such from the United
States.  They are both now
living in the county of
Somerset.  The soldiers have
not sold their claim to any
persons.  The warrants will come
in their names.  Enclose theirs to
Officer Ogle Somerset Pennsylvania
as I take a pleasure of service
assisting the soldiers who fought and
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?  for our Liberty at a time that ?
mens souls

and Runin? yours
With Due Respect
Alexander Ogle
Somerset 2nd May 1807

Henry Dearborn Esqr.

George Barret rec a warrant on the 29 Aug. 1793
for 100 acres of land, issued to his assisnie? Casper
?Joarloan No. 9004

H.R.
H.R. Tdn
H.K.
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INVALID

# 3.675
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Somerset Penna, June 20th, 1828

Hon. Richard Rush
Secy of the Treasury

Sir

I have enclosed my Declaration &c for the
purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of
Congress of last session--My discharge (which
was placed several years ago in the hands
of General Ogle then to yet a member of the
Penna Legislature with the intention of having
my name put on the Penna pension roll)
has been either lost or mislaid, as it cannot
now be found--But I feel confident
that the records in the war ofice will
furnish the evidence of my having seved
in the Revolutionary War as set forth in
my Declaration.  After I enlisted I was
first placed in the 6th Regiment of Infantry
Penna Line under the command of Col. Butler
and was subseque3ntly transferred to the 4th
Regiment of Artillery Penna Line commanded
by Col. Porter--in which I continued to serve
until the end of the war--The only evidence
which I now possess of having enlisted &
served in the war of the Revolution I have
herewith transmited--being the deposition
of Gideon Gary my brother, taken last
November in the State of Ohio -- --
M6 pension will be directed o me at
Somerset Penna--

Very respectfully
Peter Gary
by A. Ogle
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Somerset May 20 1807
Alex Ogle - Recd a letter of the
11th Relative to the claim of
Barnet enclosing the discharge
of Geary--

R
Ach B. Inn 1807 ???

Somerset P May 23d                   Free

Henry Dearborn, Esquire
Secretary of War
City Washington

referred Dellay Y. Roper ???

Recd June 1, 1807
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Dear Sir

Somerset 20th May 1807

Your of the Eleventh of this month
came safe to hand the news makers
poor Barnet  speechless as he declares
that he hasnt sold his land to any person.
But he must give up all hopes of
even getting any things.  John Nicholson,
the former Comptroller general for
Pennslvania, cheater poor Barnet
out of his pay and tried for his land
in the state of Pennsylvania but I got
that for the poor soldier.

I herewith send you Gary's discharges
per hope it may throw some light
on the subject for I am sure he
hasnt got his land.  I know the man
too well he is like a number of soldiers,
one to meet

and Remains Yours
With Due Respect
Alexander Ogle

H. Dearborn Esqr.

[Additional writing vertically on left of page]

The old soldier returns your letter
thanks for your attention to his
business.
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
June 29, 1861

Sir,

I comply with the request contained in your letter
of the 28th inst. by enclosing the vouchers upon which the
last payment in the case of Catherine Gary (act 2 Feby '48
Philadelphia) was made.

Very Respectfully
Your Obed Servt
R. Jamison ???
Auditor

Hon. Jos H. Barrett
Comm. of Pensions
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Pen. Agency Philada
Nov 20, 1862

Sir

I recd this morning the bundle
of vouchers of Catharine Gary supposed
to be deceased with authority to
investigate the case.  Am I to consider
the order to investigate carries
with it an order to pay and be
allowed any necessary expenses.

An investigation that will
amount to any thing cannot
of course be made without some
expense being incurred.

Your Ob. Servant
Erastus Poulson
Pen. Agent
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12941
July 25 '46
Catharine Gary
July 1838

Free

A. Stewart
Hon A. Stewart
H.R.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
War Dept.
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I send the application of
Catharine Gary for a
pension.  Please give it
an early examination so
that if ? live it may be
returned before the ?

A. Stewart
July 23 '46

J. Edwards Esq.
Case Pens.
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Vouchers sent to 3d Auditor
Jany 18 1864
Ariory ?

U. S. Pension Agency Phil.
January 15th, 1864

Sir,

Supposing that all expectation of further
investigatings the case of Catharine Gary
is abandoned by the Department, I have
concluded to forward the vouchers received
from you for that purpose, which I now do by
mail, they are 26 in number.

Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servant
Erastus Poulson
Pens. Agent

Jos. H. Barrett Esqr
Comm. of Pensions

N. B.  I will forward the Sept and Oct Nov abstracts with
corrections of the same at the same time which I forward
the December ofc which will be tomorrow.

E.P.
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Jan 6, 49
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Pension Office,
Jan 6, 1849

Sir:

In answer to your inquiry " whether
there is an application on file, in this office
for a pension for Mrs. Gary" widow of Peter
Gary, I have the honor to inform you
that it does not appear that such an
application has been received at this
office.

The above statement is an error.
See the jacket of her pension
clause.  Cert issued July 31, 1844 & letter 1846 in claim
but of course the papers may have
been missing even there.

AW

Hon Job Mann
H of R

Act 1848
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Pension Agency
Philadelphia Bank
Aug 28, 1846

Sir

By the enclosed introduction I am
directed to inscribe the name of Catharine Gary
&c anniversary on the 4 March 1843.  The copy
of the pension certificate in the voucher today
prescribed for payment it reads commencing on the
10 November 1843.  

Be pleased to inform me which is correct.

Respectfully Your Ob Servt
Saml T. Smith
Pension Agent
Chad N. Bacon

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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House of Reps. U. S.
January 2d, 1849

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

D. Sir,

Please inform me whether there is
an application in your files for a pensioner to widow
Gary, of Somerset County Penna--or rather for the
renewal of her pension--and if so, what has
been done therein--

It appears Peter Gary was a pensioner, and died
four or five years since being a widow, and
that she drew a pension up to 4 Mar last--
and that an application has been made
for the renewal--

I am very respectfully
Yours,

Job Mann
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on public service

Free
Henry Dearborn Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington City

Somerset Pennsylvania

Public
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Somersett Agu. 3, 1807

Alex Ogle

Enclosing Peter Gary's Power of Attorney
for his claim of
a land warrant--
request to know if land
can be obtained on the
Missouri

[large initial "R"]

Do which is at is necessary
on borders-- 
------------
no land can be obtained
on the Missouri as
herein.

Recd @ Aug. 10.1807
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Somerset 3th August 1804

Dear Sir

I now send on a Power of Attorney from Peter Gary
for his claim you will be so good as to have
his warrant sent on by post.  I have no interest
in this business only to aid a good soldier who
served his country faithfully and is now
over joyed to find that he is not neglected
by that country which he served and it
is his request that his thank as an
old soldier be tendered you for your
attention to his business.

and Remain yours with respect
Alexander Ogle

Henry Dearborn Esq.

N. B.  One line on this subject if you please would there
be any way to get land on the Missouri River
for to make a settlement if Congress has made any
provisions so that the land could be had so we could
make a settlement of a hundred family in two years
time I have not seen any of the act of Congress does
session for we are in the mountains here and do
not get to hear or see much of the public business and our
member is of no use to us or any other person.
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232.

No of orig pay 232
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
=========
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
21 July 1828

Peter Gary of ____ in the County of
Somerset in the State of Pennsylvania 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 musician in captain
______in the 4 Artillery regiment of the Continental 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 on 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. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Office,
23d July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has
been issued to Peter Gary in the Pennsylvania Line.

It further appears that Peter Gary is not now on the pension
list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March
1826.

Peter Hagner Acct

#3675 - Aclt Wids

Allowed 
Act 1828
Somerset
No. 77350
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I Andrew Ellicott, Secretary of the Land Office of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that George
Barnet, late a soldier in the Pennsylvaia Line in the Army
of the United States, hath drawn two hundred acres of land
from the State for his services, that the same was patented
to him; and that the original discharge of the said George
Barnet is not remaining on file in my office.--I further
certify, that Pete Geary has also been returned as entitled to Donation
land from this State, and that he, or some person for him,
hath drawn the same many years ago--

[official seal]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and the seal of the Land Office
aforesaid, at Lancaster, this eighth day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

Andrew Ellicott, Secy Ld Off.