Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2827, for John Melone, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
CONTINENTAL (Penn)
Melone, John
or
Malone

Sarah

NUMBER
W 2827
B. L. Wt. 353-100
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John Melone a
private in Colonel
Armand’s Corps

[illegible] issued 8th June 1807 &
del’d to Mr Jno Laubs
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Notif. of discon’d 
sent to Hon Tho. Patterson,
West Middletown, Wash’n,  Pa

13,148
Pennsylvania
John Melone 
of Washing’n Co in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Armand of the [blank]
line, for the term of One Year

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1 of August 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of July 1819 
and sent to James Alyson
Esquire Washington Pa.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819   $57.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48.
7 mo. 3 days arr
$105.03

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued
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4778
Pittsburgh Penn
Sarah
Melone
Malone ⎬
widow of John Malone
who was a private
in the
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
31 day of January
and sent to
A W. Acheson
Washington Penn

Act of March 3 1818
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 136

Rep 6 Jan 44
Date of death
not on AB
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John Melone
Priv
Col Armand's Legion
1782
31st August 1818 
Admitted

The deposition of two credible & disinterested witnesses, duly to be taken & authenitcated, (or the certificate of an officer of the Regt.) to prove the service of the applicant, is wanted.
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I, James Allison, Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the County of Washington in the State of
Pennsylvania, as aforesaid, do certify that it appears
to my satisfaction that the said John Melone, 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; I
also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the
said John Melone is in reduced circumstances and
needs the assistance of his country for support; and I
now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and
had before me, to the secretary of the department
of war, pursuant to the directions of the 
aforementioned act of Congress - In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this thirty first day
of August A.D. one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen -
James Allison

Washington County Penn’a Ss
I Alexander Murdoch Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas for said County do
certify that James Allison Esquire who gave the 
above certificate is and was at the time
one of the Associate Judges of the Court of
of Common Pleas in and for said County
duly commissioned, and that full faith and credit is and
ought to be given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of Office the fifth day of September in
the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred & Eighteen
Alex Murdoch Prothy
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John Melone
Private
Armand’s Legion
Dec’r 1782 - 1 year

[circle stamp] 
WASHINGTON 
10 Sep 

FREE
The Hon’ble J C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Washington County  
Pennsylvania 
On this thirty first day of August A.D. 1818  before me the subscribed one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas for the County of Washington aforesaid, personally appeared John Melone, aged fifty eight years resident in the said County of Washington, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension 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 the said John Melone enlisted to Littlestown in York County in this state, in the company commanded by Captain Sharp of Colonel Armand's Legion, in December of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two: that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until December of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was discharged from from service in York in this State, that he was in no battle during the term of his said service, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, and further, that his discharge is lost. Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid James Allison John Melone
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Certification of the proceedings in the case of John
Melone - a Revolutionary Soldier
No fees charged

remain
Sept ‘19

Suspend per 
Mr Edwards

not entitled-
W Baird
Wash’n
agt. Pa
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SCHEDULE.
PENNSYLVANIA. Washington County, as
On this Thirtieth day of June, 1820 personally
appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, John Melone, aged Sixty years, resident in Strabane township in said county, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: One year in Captain Sharp’s
company of Grenadiers, constituting a part of Col. Armong’s [Armand’s] Legion. His Original declaration was made on first day of August 1818, and that his certificate was numbered 13148. And I do solemnly Sworn 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 within 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 day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. Two horses six head of cattle, two hogs, one lot of pigs, one bear saw, two notes of hand of Hugh Wilson for one hundred and forty seven dollars, three note of hand of John Marshal for two hundred and thirty four dollars, and that he is indebted to Sundry persons about eighty three dollars- His family consists of five persons to wit, wife Sarah aged 54 years, in bad health, Son John aged 17 years, but about to leave his father to
learn a trade, Son Thomas aged 14 years, healthy, daughter Mary aged 11 yrs, healthy, Son Adam aged 9 years, unhealthy. That he is by profession a rough Carpenter, but for some time has been unable to follow it from bad health and advanced age. John Melone

Sworn to and declared on the thirtieth day of June AD 1820 before the Hon: Thomas H. Baird, President and his associates
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid.
W Sample Prothy

Washington County
I, William Sample Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas
in and for said County do hereby certify, that the foregoing Affidavit and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify,
that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and ten dollars dollars and fifty cents, exclusive of the securities mentioned above. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty fourth day of July-1820 
W. Sample Prothy
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No 8212
Sarah Malone
of John
Pennsylvania
Act 7th July 38
Admitted
1 year
priv
$40
A. W. Acheson
Washington
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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County Ss

On the 23d day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and forty two personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, in open Court, Sarah Malone a resident of Canton Township in the County of Washington aforesaid, aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 1st 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" - That she is the widow of John Malone late of Canton Township in Washington County aforesaid deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States and a soldier in the Revolutionary War, in the Virginia Lin, Dragoons, She further declares that she was married to the said John Malone on the twenty fourth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six. That the said marriage took place at the house of, and was witnessed by the Reverend Mr. Cupright, in the County of York and State of Pennsylvania who was a Presbyterian Clergyman, advanced in years at that time and died many years ago, in York County aforesaid. That she was accompanied by a bridal party consisting of several of her friends viz; William Thompson, James Chambers, Sarah Chambers, and Margaret Kents, who were present at the said marriage all of whom are dead. That from the house of the said clergyman, she went with her said husband, to William Malone, his father who resided in York County aforesaid upon the same farm with his son Thomas Malone and Eleanor Malone his wife. The said Thomas Malone died many years ago in Washington County aforesaid his wife Eleanor still survives him and resides in the said County -shortly after her said marriage, deponant and her husband left the said William Malone's and went to reside some
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miles distant in the said County of York - In the year seventeen hundred and seventy four this deponent and her husband removed to Washington County aforesaid and settled in the neighbourhood of the said Thomas and Eleanor Malone who had removed some years previous, from York County to Washington County aforesaid This deponent continued to reside with her said husband from the said period to the day of his death which took place in the 22d of August 1841, the deponant had ten children by the said John Malone, the seven eldest of whom are dead, Thomas her eldest living child is now in the thirty seventh year of his age - Deponant further states, that she had no certificate of her marriage nor has she any family record of the births and deaths of her children - that there is no person now living who was present at her said marriage. That she was in the nineteenth year of her age when the said marriage took place - That her husband the aforesaid John Malone died as before stated on the 22d day of August A.D. 1841 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place, previous to the last day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. on the 24th day of May A.D. 1786 as before stated.
Sworn to and subscribed on the 23d day of February A.D. 1842 in open Court before me: Jno Grayson, Prothy
[signed] Sarah Malone x her mark

Washington County Ss
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania T John Grayson Prothonotary of th County of Common Pleas for said county, to hereby certify that the above and fore-
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going declaration was made, sworn to and subscribed in open court, on the 23d day of February in the year of our Lord 1842. In testimony whereof, I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Washington this 10th day of March, the year last mentioned.
Jno Grayson
Prothy.
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Washington County, Ss.

The deposition of Eleanor Malone taken on oath before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County at the house of her son John Malone the 18th day of January A.D. 1842. She saith: that she is now in her eighty first year, that she was intermarried with Thomas Malone brother of John Malone, who was a pensioner of the United Sates - Deponent cannot state particularly the year in which she was married, but recollects that she was in her eighteenth year at the time of said marriage according to infomation derived from her mother. Deponent resided with her husband in York County, Pennsylvania, from the period of her marriage until they removed to Washington County, Penna. Deponent and her husband were living upon the place of William Malone, the father of said John Malone and her said husband when the said John Malone brought his wife Sarah (who now resides in Canton Township in said County of Washington, and is an applicant for pension from the United States, the from of the said Wm Malone in York County aforesaid. this deponent was not present at the marriage - she recollects distinctly of hearing the marriage talked of and of the said John Malone bringing his wife to his father's house as before stated. Some years after this deponent and her husband came to Washington County to reside the said John Malone of Sarah Malone removed to the said County and resided there up to the state of the death of the said John Malone on the 22d of August last, and the said Sarah his widow still resides in Canton township in said county - said John & Sarah had three children at the time of their removal to Washington County and several afterwards
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the said John and Sarah Malone up to the
time of the death of the said John lived together
as man and wife and were reputed & believed
to be such. Deponent states that at the time
the said John Malone brought his said wife
Sarah to the house of her father-in-law, William
Malone that it was a short time before she
and her husband removed from York County
to Washington County, Penna which Deponent 
upon reflection cannot state certainly in
what year she and her husband removed from
York County to Washington County.
Eleanor Malone her mark

Sworn & subscribed before me Jany 18th A.D. 1842.
George W. Brice 

I, George W. Brice, Justice of the Peace, do certify that the
foregoing Deposition was taken by me and reduced to writing
in the presence of the witness on the day and place therein
stated-- that the Deponent. Eleanor Malone is a woman of
veracity and respectability; and for her age, a woman of great
vigour of body and mind that the interlineations in first page
“according to information derived from her mother, "to the house of the s aid William Malone in York County aforesaid” "as this Deponent was informed at the time”, were made before signing-- and that the erasure of the words "until the year 1787" occurring in two places were made
before signing, at the request of deponent, who
could not be positively certain as to the precise year, and therefore desired that these erasures should be made.
Witness my hand & seal, this 20th day of January
A.D. 1842.
George W Brice {seal}
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Washington County ss.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
John Grayson, Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that George W. Price Esq before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, was at the time & now is, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & sworn; that the signatures thereto attached
purporting to be his I believe are genuine, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court, at Washington  the 10th day of March A.D. 1842.
John Grayson
Prothy
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May 23, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/EEL
John Melone-W.2827
Mrs. Charles Freeble
Leetsdale
Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to soldiers named John Malone, who received pensions for services in the Revolutionary War, one of whom resided in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1835; also, Revolutionary War records of Andrew Byerley, Henry Waggoner and Martin Will, of Pennsylvania and Andrew Tull, of Maryland or Delaware.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each
request pertaining to soldiers of that war.
You are furnished herein the history of John Malone or Melone, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, the data for which were obtained from the papers filed in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.2827, based upon his service in that war.
John Melone was the son of William. The date and place of birth of John and the name of his mother are not shown.
John Melone enlisted at Littlestown, York County, Pennsylvania, in December 1782 and served one year as private in Captain  Sharp's [handwritten noted John In Heitman as capt in Armand's Legion] Company, Colonel Armand's Legion. Previous to this service, he had served in the Pennsylvania troops, no details of this service given.
In 1794, John Melone moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania.
He was allowed one hundred acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 353, issued June 8, 1907, on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.
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In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the land cited above, you should address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and the date on which said warrant was issued.
It was stated that John Melone received two hundred acres of land from the state of Pennsylvania.
John Melone was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-eight years and resided in Strabane Township, Washington County,
Pennsylvania. In 1828, he was living in Canton Township, said county. He signed John Malone.
He died March 22, 1814, in Canton Township, Pennsylvania.
The soldier married May 24, 1786, Sarah, date and place of her birth and names of her parents not shown. They were married
by the Reverend Mr. Cupright, a Presbyterian clergyman, at the residence of the clergyman in York County, Pennsylvania.
Soldier's widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed February 23, 1842, at which time she was aged seventy-five years and resided in Canton Township, Washington
County, Pennsylvania. She and her husband were members of the Presbyterian Church.
Sarah Melone stated that ten children were born of her marriage to John Melone. In 1842, the seven oldest were deceased.
Only names of children shown are John Thomas, Mary and Adam Melone, aged in 1820, seventeen, fourteen, eleven and nine years, respectively. Thomas was living in 1842, his place of residence not shown.
Soldier had a brother, Thomas Melone, who preceded him to Washington County, Pennsylvania and died there in 1796. The
wife of Thomas was Eleanor Melone and she was living in Washington County, in 1842, aged eighty-one years.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Sarah Melone (W.2827), widow of John Melone, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city,
and cite the following data: [page ends]
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Sarah Malone or Melone, widow of John Malone
Certificate No. 4778
Issued January 31, 1844
Rate, $40.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1843
Act of March 3, 1843
Pennsylvania (Pittsburg) Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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1938, May 23 - Hist to Mrs
Charles Freeble - eel

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2827
Sarah Melone or Malone
Widow 
John Malone 
Pri Rev. War

Act: March 3, 1843
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 2.
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Reported
Let to A. Acheson Apl 13. 1843.

7090
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Agency

Sarah Malone
widow of John Malone
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 22d August 1841
of Washington Co in the State of Penn’a
who was a Private in the company
commanded by Captain —-of the 
regt. commanded by Col. Armand in
 the [blank] line for 

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 40. Dollars - cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of
March 1843, and sent to A.W. Acheson, 
Washington, Penn

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $200-

(Act July 7, 1818)

Recorded by D. Brown
Book A.  Vol. 2 Page [illegible-torn]
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Sarah Malone of John
Pennsylvania
Rejected
See let. 18 March 1842, to Alexr. W. Acheson, let to Hon T. M. T. McKennan July 13 1843
husband died after passage of Act 7 July 1838
Act 7 July 1838
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Letter attorney
John Melone
to 
Abram Mosser
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Know all men by there presents that I john Melone of the County of Washington State of Pennsylvania, Carpenter, late a Soldier in Capt Sharps Compy in General Armongs Choir of Dragoons Major Shafner In the army of the United States of America Have made ordained constituted and appointed And by these presesnts Do make ordain constitute and appoint, Abraham Mosser of the town of Washington State of Pennsylvania. In keeper, my true and lawful attorney for me, and in my name to settle with and receive of the United States one hundred acres of Land that I was granted to me by a Congress for my services as a soldier in said line and on the recpt of the same or any part thereof & grant acquitances from time to time on occasion shall require Granting unto my said attorney, my full power in the premises with power of substitution and revocation, ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises by virtue hereof.

In Witness where of I have set my hand and seal this twenty second of December.
Eighteen hundred and four
Sealed and Deliverd in presence of us
John Wilson Athocaringen
[signed] John Melone
[hand drawn seal]
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Wash’n County SS.
Before me John Wilson Esq one of the 
Justices of the peace for said County &c
Personly came John Melone
and duly sworn, deposeth and saith, deposeth
and saith that he the Deponant some time
after the peace was concluded this apponant
was discharged by General Armong in York
Town Pennsy’a which Discharge I left with
Jno Leonard of said County. And also Declare that he never got any land from the United States of America, or any person in his stead.
John Melone {seal}
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 18th day of January 1805
John Wilson

Washington County SS
Came before me John Wilson Esqr one of the Justices
of the peace for said County Andrew Swearinger
Esqr and being duly sworn according to Law
did depose and say that he knows and is 
personally well acquainted with the within named
John Malone and that he has resided in this
County upwards of Eight years. Sworn and sub
Subscribed this 18 day of Janury AD 1805
Before Me
John Wilson
A Swearinger
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Washington County
I William McKennan Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that John Wilson Esquire, before whom the within Letter of Attorney was acknowledged, and depositions taken and made, was at the time thereof and still is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace in and for said County, and that full faith is and
Credit and ought to be given to all his Judicial acts as such, as well in Courts of Justice, thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and
affixed the Seal of my Office at Washington, the Nineteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, One thousand, eight hundred, and five -
W McKennan

Pennsylvania Washington County ss
Personally appeared before me the subscriber
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this Commonwealth Doctor John Morris late Surgeon in
General Armong’s Legion in the service of the
United States, who deposeth and sayeth that he
was Surgeon in the said Legion & he was well and
 personally acquainted with the before named John
Malone a soldier in the United States Army in
said Legion and that he was regularly discharged
at the conclusion of the war at York town in the
State of Pennsylvania, sworn and subscribed before
me this 29th day of Oct 1865 
Thomas Smith
John Morris
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I have rec’d the Patent from the
Honorable Thomas Mckein Comm’r
of the State of Pennsylvania in the first District
of the Donation Lands No 1780
for two hundred acres as witness
My hand this 28 day September 1806
In the name of John Malone
Abraham Mosser
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Mar 2
[Maine-crossed out]
Pa

Sarah Malone
 [circle stamp]
WASHINGTON PA 
MAR 1

FREE
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Washington Feby 18th 1843
J.L. Edwards, Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose the proof required to make out the claim of Mrs. Sarah Malone widow of John Malone decd. to a pension under the act of 7th July 1838, and resolution of 16th August last.
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt Servant
A.W. Acheson
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Apl 10 1843
Sarah Malone
Pa Va

 [circle stamp]
WASHINGTON PA 
APR 8


FREE
J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
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Washington Penna
April 6th 1843.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Mrs Sarah Malone widow of
John Malone, to whom a five years pension was lately granted,
at the rate of $40 per annum, desired me to enquire whether
she is not entitled, under the act of 7 July 1838, to the same
amount per Annum for five years, allowed to her deceased
husband whose pension the informs me, was $100 per annum
Very Respectfully
Your Ob’t Ser’t
A.W. Acheson
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House Reps Feb’y 7/63
Dr Sir
Will you peruse the enclosed
letter and let me know whether under the
construction now given to the law Mrs
Malone will not be entitled to a pension.
I understand from Col. Taliafern that
according to the practice in the Department
the death of the pensioner husband
since the 7 July 1838 is not considered a bar
to the claim of the widow-- If this be the
case Mrs Malone will be entitled to
her pension and I respectfully ask
a reconsideration of her case.
Yours very respy
Th M T McKennan

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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Feb. 8 1843
Pa
Sarah Malone

Th M T McKennan

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Off

Hon T M T McKennan
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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County SS

[seal affixed left margin] I E L Blaine Prothonotary of Washington County do hereby certify that at a court of Common pleas held in Washington for the County of Washington in the 28th day of February AD 1843 satisfactory evidence was addressed to the said court to prove Sarah Malone an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress granting pensions to certain widows and who is the widow of John Malone late of said county decd who was a pensioner of the United States, is still living and resident in Canton township in the Said county In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court the 28th day of February AD 1843
[signed] EL Blaine Prothy

State of Pennsylvania
Washington County Ss
I N Ewing President Judge of the fourteenth judicial district in said State, composed of the counties of Washington Fayette Duquesne do certify that the above attestation of E.L Blaine Esq Prothy of the court of common pleas in the said county of Washington is in due form of law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal, at Washington, in the said county of Washington this 28th day of Feby A.D. 1843.
[signed] N Ewing
[seal affixed]
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Washington March 10th 1842
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration
of Sarah Malone, widow of John Malone, late of this County,
deceased pensioner of the United States, accompanied with
all the proof that can be furnished to support her claim.
After diligent enquiry the only person surviving who
would be likely to know any thing in relation to the marriage
is Eleanor Malone of this County, whose deposition is herewith enclosed. This corroborates the statement of the applicant
in several important particulars with regard to the marriage.
And her testimony taken in connexion with that of Peter
Fink fixes the period of the marriage anterior to 1st of
January A.D. 1794. Mr Fink states that Thomas Malone
husband of Eleanor removed to Washington County some
years prior to the Western Insurrection. And the deposition
of Eleanor Malone proves that the marriage of the
applicant took place before said [illegible] [revolt]. Other facts
as stated in the depositions of Mrs Malone & Mr Fink strongly
corroborating the declaration of the applicant. I presume
that the rules of the Department with regard to the testimony
of the witnesses to the marriage were designed to apply to cases only where such witnesses were still surviving, and that where this is no longer the case, that the best proof of which the
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case is susceptible is all that will be required. The friends
of Mrs Malone, since the death of her husband in August
last, have been making inquiry after persons who were living at
the date of the marriage, but they have been unsuccessful in
finding any one surviving, excepting Eleanor Malone already
mentioned. The moral religious character of John Malone &
Sarah his wife, in this community for forty years and upwards, 
can be established by the most abundant & satisfactory proof if it is thought necessary.
Yours Very Respectfully
Alex. W. Acheson
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923
J. Melone
recd 5. Sept. 1828
Ack’d 5th

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
cons’d [consolidated] with
Ad  OW&N
File #2827
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665
No of Original payment 661

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Sept 5. 1828
John Melone of Canton township in the County of
Washington, 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 Private in captain
Sharp’s company, in Armand's Corps 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,
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE.
13 September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to John Melone in  Armands Corps. It further appears that John Melone is not 
 now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826.
Peter Hagner Aud
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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 of May 1828, I John Malone of Canton township in the County of Washington and Commonwealth 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 private in Captain Sharp's Company in Armong's legion. And I do also declare that I never 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.
[signed] John Melone

Washington County Pennsylvania ss 
Before me John Wilson one of the Commonwealths Justices
of the peace in and for the County of Washington aforesaid, personally appeared, this day Hugh Wilson and James Orr Esquire of the said County, who did severally make oath that John Melone by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this first day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
John Wilson
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniqa
Washington County Ss
I William Sample, Prothonotary, of the court of common Pleas for said County. Do hereby certify that John Wilsons esquire, before whom the foregoing depositions were taken was at the time and now is a Justice of the peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and that full faith, and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts; 
In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Washington, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

For Wm Sample Prothy.
Z. Reynolds
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Wash. Penn. Sept. 1. 1828
Sir
The applicant, John Meloe, requests me to state for your
information, that he enlisted in the year 1782 a little before
Christmas, and was discharged in the year 1783 about the same time in the year. He left his discharge with his father
in law many years ago, who lost it, and he is therefore
unable to transmit with his declaration. Previous to his
enlistment he had served in the militia. The evidence
of his services will be found in the war Department
together with his application for a pension under the law
of the United States of the 19th of March 1818. In conformity
with that law he was inscribed on the pension lists, Roll
of the Pennsylvania agency at the rate of eight dollars per
month, to commence the 1st day of August 1818. His certificate of Pension was dated the 24th of July 1819 & was numbered (13148). His name was stricken from the Pension list on the 15th of March 1821. The Secretary of war not considering him entitled to a pension under the acts of March 18. 1818 and May 1. 1820 on acct of the amount of his property.
Mr Malone is now truly “in such reduced circumstances as to
need the assistance of his country”, within the spirit & meaning
of the pension law & would have been compelled to [illegible]
his application to be restored to the list of Pensioners, but
for the passage of the law under which he makes the present
application, and he embrace this last, because he esteems
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it more honorable and because it accords better with his
feelings. He requests that you will cause information
to be given to me of the result of his application as early
as possible-
I have the honor to be
with great respect & esteem
Your Most Obdt Srv’t
W Baird

The Hon. Richard Rush 
Secretary of the Treasury
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York County Ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of York Personally came Leonard Baumgardner of the Borough of York in the county of York aforesaid (aged nearly sixty three (years) who upon his Solemn oath taken according to law saith that he well knew that John Melones was enlisted in Captain Sharp's Company of Grenadeans belonging to General Armong's Regiment or Legion and that to the best of deponant's recollection continued in the company until they were regularly discharged in the Borough of york further Saith not.
Sworn to and Subscribed the 20th day of Mary A.D. 1819
Before me, Ignatius Leibner
[signed] Leonard Baumgardner x his mark

At the same time and place came Jacob Upp of the Borough of york in the county of york aforesaid (aged upward of sixty three years) who upon his solemn oath taken according to law saith that he well knew that John Melone that was enlisted and belonged to Captain Sharps Company of Grenadeers in General Armong's- regiment or Legion, and that he was Billeted in this Deponants House, and mostly paraded before his son and to the best of his recollection that he (John Melone meaning) continued in the said company until they were regularly discharged in the Borough of York further said not.
Sworn to and Subscribed the 20th day of May A.D. 1819
Before me, Ignatius Leitner
[signed] Jacob Upp

I do hereby certify that Leonard Baumgardner and Jacob Upp are Citizens of the Borough of York and  men of good repute. Witness my hand and seal the twentyeth day of May A.D. 1819
[signed] Ignatius Leitner
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Pennsylvania York County St
I William Barber Prothonotary of
the said County of York Certify that
Ignatius Leitner Esquire before whom
the within two depositions were taken &
Certificate granted, is and was at the time
of doing said acts respectively one of our
Commonwealths Justices of peace in and
for said County, & to all whose official
Acts & Deeds, full faith and credit
is due. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & seal
of Office at York the 20 day of
May 1819-
W Barber prot.
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[circle stamp]
WASHINGTON PA
JAN 18

Jan’y 19 1844
Pa
S. Malone
 3 March 1843
$40 per an

A. W. Acheson
Washington
Penn’a

FREE
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.

3219
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Washington Jan 17 1844
J. L.  Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I herewith send the declaration
of Sarah Malone widow of John Malone dec’d, made under 
the act of Congress of 3 March 1845.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob’t Srv’t
A W. Acheson
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Washington Pennsylvania September 30 day 1806
Sir
I recd your Letter Dated 16 September and
also the Patent inCloste [enclosed] of name of [illegible]. I am
vary Thankfull for it. A Power attorney John Melone
Please and located the Warrant No 17 or 12 or 32 or
31 or 30 in the second quarter South township Sword
Range. If this Patent Coute [could] be sent to me in 3 or
Weeks I am going and [illegible] aboud that time.
I Remane Your humpel servant

To Mr Josph Nourse and John Laub
Esquire
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I Andrew Ellicott, Secretary of the Law office of Pennsyla, do hereby certify that John Melone late a Soldier in the Pennsylvania Line in the Army of the United States, on the ninth day of January eighteen hundred and six drew two hundred acres of land from this Commonwealth for his Services, as a Soldier in the said Army, and that a patent hath been issued therefore agreeably to the several laws of this Commonwealth.
[seal affixed]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the land office aforesaid, at Lancaster, this eleventh day of May one thousand eight hundred & seven.
[signed] Andw Ellicott Secry Ld. Off.
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State of Pennsylvania, Washington County ss: On this day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the undersigned George W. Brice Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county, Sarah Malone a resident of Canton township in the county of Washington aforesaid, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by an act of Congress passed on the 3rd of March AD 1863 - granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - that she is the widow of John Malone who was a private in the army of the United States during the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States. That she is unable now to state to what regiment or corps he belonged - that she received under the Act of July 7th, 1838 a pension as the widow of the said John Malone of forty dollars per annum.  She further declared that she is still a widower.

Sarah Malone (signed with "her mark")

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before George W Brice in presence of William Mountz

I, George W Brice Esq, before whom the annexed declaration of Sarah Malone was sworn to and subscribed, do hereby certify that the said Sarah Malone is personally known to me and that she is the identical person to whom a pension was granted under the Act of July 7th, 1838.

George W. Brice
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Commonwealth Pennsylvania Washington County
I Ephram Blaine Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas for said County, Do hereby certify that George W Brice
Esq’r before whom the foregoing proceedings
was had was at the time and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that the signature attached to the same purporting to be his is genuine
and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his Official acts. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and
affixed the seal of said Court at Washington this 16th day of January A D 1844
E Blaine Prothy
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Mr Moore is requested to 
act upon the within by
his obed’t Serv’t J Nourse

Mr Jonship [Joseph] Nourse
& John  Loube [Laubs]

Paid 80
in the City of
Washington

Grenadier Putten
19 Apr
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State of Ohio Muskingum County Lourenville [Laurelville] Town
April 4 Day 1907
I read your letter Dated 15 October last about John
Melone.  I have sent to the Secretary of the State of
Pennsylvania to send a certifyth Copy of the paten[t] granted
To John Melone to you. You will t[hten Place [Please] and Mark and the Paten[t] for the Lot No * 5 in second quarter of the
Tenth Township in the second Range and send me a 
Plat of that section.

Sir
Herein Enclost I sent you a Power attorney of Joel
Galerd and Samuel Ewerd. You will be Pleast and locate his
Warrant lot No 2 if not No 3 of not No 6 in second quarter
of tenth Township and Range tow [two] and sent the tow [two]
paten[t]s with the Mail as soon as pasabel [possible] and 
a Blich [oblige] 
Your Humpel Servant
Abraham Mosser

To the Annabel [Honnorable]
Joseph Nouge [Nourse]
&
John Laub

* this lot is already beated
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State of Pennsylvania, Washington County ss:
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Washington County aforesaid personally appeared William Mountz of Canton Township in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that on the 21st day of August A.D. 1841 this deponent had a conversation with John Malone, late of said township deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier and serviceman of the United States, in reference to the situation of this deponent's mother who was then in a low state of health and died in a few days thereafter - the said John Malone during said conversation spoke of his marriage with Sarah Malone his wife who survived him and continues to reside in Canton Township aforesaid. He spoke of the length of time he and his said wife had lived together and remarked that there were but few persons who had lived together as man and wife so long as he and the said Sarah that they had been married about fifty five years. This conversation took place on the day before the death of the said John Malone. The said John Malone had the reputation of a man of strict veracity and was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Washington for upwards of thirty years. 

William Mountz

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of February AD 1842
George W. Brice

State of Pennsylvania, Washington County ss: Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Peter Fink of South Strabane Township in said county who being first duly sworn according
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to law doth depose and say that he was born in York
County, Pennsylvania and is now about sixty nine
years of age, that he was well acquainted with John
Malone late of Canton Township, Washington County
dec’d, a revolutionary soldier and pensioner of the United States and with his Brother Thomas Malone and Eleanor
his wife during their residence in York County aforesaid
and after their removal to Washington County aforesaid.
Deponant removed from York County to Washington
County some years before the said Thomas Malone
but after the marriage of the said Thomas Malone
in York County. At the time of this deponant’s
removal from York County the said John Malone
was a single man. Some years before John Malone
and his wife Sarah removed to Washington County
deponent recollects of hearing the marriage of the
said John and Sarah Kintone talked of amongst
the friends of the family and always understood
and believed them to have been legally married. Deponent
cannot state what year Thomas Melone
left York County and removed to Washington
County, but he does distinctly recollect that the said
Thomas Malone was residing in Washington County
aforesaid several years previous to the Western or
Whiskey insurrection. Deponant has a distinct
recollection of the said Thomas Malone, leasing
a farm in South Strabane Township in said County
now owned by James Lee and of his residing on it
before the breaking out of the Whiskey  insurrection.
Deponent cannot state with certainty the year in
which John Malone removed to Washington County
but knows that it was some years after the removal
of Thomas Malone to said County and during the
life of the said Thomas Malone-- The said Thomas
Male died in 1796. This deponent recollects that
he was lying sick at the time that John Malone
& his wife Sarah arrived in this County and believes
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it was one or two years before Thomas Malone’s death.
The said John Malone as before stated, brought his
wife Sarah, who survived him and is now living
 a widow in Canton Township, to Washington County.
along with him and he was received by his brother,
family and their friend connections as his wife and
was so reputed and held by them from that period
thru to the death of the said John Malone. The
said John and Sarah Malone are highly esteemed
for their correct moral and religious character
 and deportment and were members in
good standing of the Presbyterian Church at
Washington for many years.
Peter Fink
Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 10th day of March A.D. 1842.
George Brice

I George W. Brice, Justice of the Peace in and for said County
of Washington, do hereby certify that William Mount and Peter
Fink whose depositions were taken before me as above set forth are both men of good moral character.
Witness my hand March 10th, 1842
George W. Brice

Washington County SS
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

I John Grayson, Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify
that George W. Brice Esq before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, was at the time & now is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & sworn.
That the signatures thereto annexed, purporting to be his, I
believe are genuine, and that full faith & credit are, and
ought to be given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court
At Washington, the 16th day of March,  A.D. 1842
John Grayson, Prothy
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Leetsdale, Pa. 
March 25, 1938

Veterans Bureau
Washington

[stamped] Received Mar 28 1938 Mail Sub-Div War Vets Adm Reader # 31

My dear Sirs: Will you kindly send me any information regarding the John Malones who received pensions for services in the Revolutionary War that you may have.
There was one who received $40 monthly, 1805 who served at Brandywine, another who received a pension resided in Washington Co. in 1835.
Very truly yours
Ruby Freeble
(Mrs Charles Freeble)
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Do you have pension information for Revolutionary service and families
1.  Andrew Byerley (Baurley, Bairley, Bayley, Beyerly) Penna
2.  Andrew Tull (Tolle) Maryland or Delaware
3.  Henry Waggoner Penna
4.  Martin Will (Wells or Wills) Penna