Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2144, for Mark Mc Pherson, Maryland
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

McPherson, Mark
Mary

NUMBER
W.2144
B. L. Wt. 481-200

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Let to S.H. McKinney June 2/54
Let A. Smith,
Jan 29/56

[right side] 559
Kentucky
Mary McPherson
[widow] of Mark McPherson
who served in the Revolutionary war as a Lieut [Lieutenant] & Adjt [Adjutant] Md. Line
Incd [included] from H320

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 478 Dollars 04 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Febry [February] 1857 and sent to
F. S. .J. Trahue
Present

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners und[er]
July 29, 1848, Page 175. Vol.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

32.814
Kentucky
Mark McPherson decd [deceased]
of Lincoln Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a Lt. & Adjt [Adjutant] in the company commanded by Captain [name crossed out] of the Regt commanded by Col. Adams in the Maryland line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville at the rate of 478 Dollars 04 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & Ending 8th February 1847 when he died

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of February 1837 and sent to F.S.J. Trahune
Present

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-anl [annual] allowance ending
Incd from $320 under act 15th May 1828

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by H R Weightman Clark,
Book E, 2, Vol 7. Page 34
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[left side written sideways] Mr. Smith
2990
2930
60

[right side] No. 481
481-200

Mark McPherson
Lt.
Maryland Line

[Illegible] & Del.d [Delivered] to the Hon Sam.l [Samuel]  McFree Atty
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Lydia McPherson was born Feb 1st 1796 
Alexander McPherson was born March 14th 1798
died June 27th 1819
Samuel McPherson was born January 14th 1800
Malcolm McPherson was born April 6th 1802
William McPherson was born April 14th 1807
Henry McPherson was born February 20th 1810
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John Bain
was born June 30th 1812
Mark McPherson was born May 9th 1815
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The following is a copy of the certificate of Benedict Swope. A member of the Gospel which is filed and recorded in my office. towit
"On the 27 day of November 1795, Mark McPherson and Marry Middleton were married agreeable to License bearing date 26 day of November 1795.
B. Swope

Kentucky Lincoln County Court
I Thomas Helm clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that the above is a true copy of the certificate of the marriage of Mark McPherson and Mary Middleton on the 27th day of November 1795 as returned by Benedict Swope a man or of the Gospel to my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County Court at office in Stanford the 2d day of September 1848.
Thomas Helm Clerk
Lincoln County Court

Know all men by these presents that we Mark McPherson and Henry Middleton are held and firmly bound unto Isaac Shelby Esq. Governor of Kentucky in the sum of Fifty pounds current money to the payment whereof to be made to the said Governor and his successors, we bind ourselves &c firmly together presents sealed with our seals & dated this 25 day of November 1795. 
The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage
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shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound Mark McPherson & Mary Middleton for which a License has issued. Now if there be no lawful [cause] to obstruct said marriage then this obligation to be void [, or] else to remain in full force.

in presence of Thomas Montgomery
Mark McPherson [{Seal]
Mary Middleton [{Seal]

[written upside down] Certificate of Mark McPherson & Mary Middleton Marriage

Kentucky Lincoln County Sct
I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln County Court do certify that the above is a true copy of the Marriage Bond executed by Mark McPherson & Mary Middleton securely in the clerk's office of the Lincoln County Court on the 23 day of November 1795.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said County Court this 3 day of September 1848

Thomas Helm clk [Clerk]
Lincoln County Court
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State of Kentucky 12th Judicial District and Circuit Court for Lincoln County Sct 

On this 17th day of August A.D. 1820 in open court before the court above mentioned, it being a court of Record by act of assembly, proceeding according to the course of the common Law Mark McPherson aged about sixty seven years personally appeared in court and being first duly sworn according to law declared that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows Viz. that in the month of February or march [March] in the year 1776 he enlisted in the service of the United States for and during the war: that he was at first placed under the command of Capt. John H Stone, but after serving under him about a year, he was permitted to enlist under Capt. Henry Gaither for three years on the Maryland line upon the continental establishment, the Regiment was commanded by Col. Stone and the Brigade by Gen’l. [Mordecai] Gist, that he continued in the service of the United States as a serjeant [Sergeant] in the company and Regiment last mentioned untill [until] his term of service expired and was regularly discharged, having been promoted to Ensign and Lieutenant as will more fully appear by the affidavit under which he obtained his certificate for a pension No 10,207 dated the 1st day of May 1819. And I the said Mark McPherson do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with
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intent 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 below hereto annexed and by me subscribed Viz:
100 acres of land of the poorest kind} 
purchased and paid for worth}
not more than $100 -----------} $100.00
50 acres of the same kind and of 
the same value, the whole price of
which he ows [owns] ----------
2 Horses of the value of thirty} 
Dollars and no more -----} 30.00
4 Head of cattle of the value of} 
twenty four Dollars & no more} 24.00
10 Head of Hoggs worth not more than 15.00
7 Head of sheep worth not more than 7.00
Household furniture worth not more} 
than fifty Dollars ------} 50.00
$226.00

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first mentioned 
[Signed] Mark McPherson 

And further stated upon oath that he is a tiller of the ground, but is unable to perform much labour [labor] owing to his age & infirmities, being afflicted with the rheumatic pains – that his
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wife Mary is about forty five or six years old scarcely able to maintain herself owing to some bodily infirmities and diseases which she is afflicted with: that he has four children namely Walter about 19 years old, able to maintain himself by his labour [labor], living with his father; Henry aged about nine years living with his father, but unable to maintain himself, being much afflicted with sickness from his infancy and John D McPherson aged seven years living with his father but too young to render his father much service, and Mark aged 5 years living with his father but too young to render his father much service. 
And the said Mark McPherson further stated upon his oath by way of addition to the schedule above that he is allowed the half pay of a Lieutenant $13 1/3 per month by the State of Maryland, in consideration of his military services, payable annually; which he is willing to relinquish and does hereby relinquish, upon condition that he is permitted to receive the pension allowed him under the act of Congress beforementioned. sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Signed] Mark McPherson

The foregoing sworn to, declared and subscribed, before me John L Bridges presiding Judge of the court aforesaid the day and year aforesaid 
John L. Bridges 

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Court Sct 
I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Circuit Court holden for the County of Lincoln do hereby certify
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that at a Circuit Court holden for the county of Lincoln on the 17th day of August in the Year 1820 Mark McPherson an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress exhibited into court his written statement of the time and manner of entering the service of the United States, and also a schedule of his property, and that the foregoing is a true copy of the same taken from the records of my office. 
In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office hereto this 18th day of September in the year 1820 
Thomas Helm Clerk 

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Court Sct 
May Term 1821 
At a Circuit Court holden for the County of Lincoln at the Court house in the Town of Stanford on Tuesday the fifteenth day of May in the year 1821 being the second day of the term, Mark McPherson an applicant for a pension under the several acts of Congress appeared in Court and in addition to this statement made by him in open Court on the seventh day of August 1820 declared on oath that he is and was a resident citizen of Lincoln County in the State of Kentucky on the said seventeenth day of August 1820. Whereupon the Court after examining this saith Mark McPherson and Benjamin Duncan a creditable & disinterested witness order it be
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Mark McPherson and Benjamin Duncan a creditable & disinterested witness order it be certified to the Secretary of the War department, that it is the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of this property exhibited in the schedule of said Mark McPherson does not exceed two hundred and twenty six dollars.

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit Court Sct.
I Thomas Helm Clerk of the Lincoln Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the order made at the last May Term of the Lincoln Circuit Court respecting the residence of Mark McPherson and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Circuit Court of Lincoln County that the total amount in value of the property of the said Mark McPherson does not exceed two hundred & twenty six dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office hereto this first day of June 1821
Thomas Helm Clerk
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Know all men by thee presents that we Mark McPherson and Henry Middleton are held and firmly bound unto Isaac Shelby Esquire Governor of Kentucky in the sum of Fifty pounds current money to the payment whereof to be made to the said Governor and his successors we bind ourselves our Heirs &c firmly by these presents sealed with our seals & dated this 25th day of November 1795.

The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound Mark McPherson & Mary Middleton for a License has issued. Now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force.
Sealed & delivered in presence of Thomas Montgomery
Mark McPherson {seal}
Henry Middleton {seal}

Upon which bond there was a license issued but which is not in the office. And the following certificate of marriage returned by Benedict Swope a minister of the Gospel to wit 
"On the 27th of November 1795, Mark McPherson and Mary Middleton were married agreeable to License bearing date of the 26th of November 95
B Swope

Lincoln County Sct
I Thomas Helm clerk of the County Court for the county aforesaid do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the marriage bond executed by Mark McPherson for a marriage intended between him and Mary Middleton
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and also a copy of the marriage certificate returned by Benedict Swope certifying that they were married by him on the 27th of November 1795 transcribed from the original's now of Record in my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this 2nd day of February 1850 & affixed the seal of my office
Thomas Helm Clerk
Lincoln County Court

Mark McPherson
to {copy marriage Bond &c
Isaac Shelby
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State of Kentucky
County of Lincoln Ss - Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified to act as such personally appeared on this 18th day of April 1850, Mary McPherson, resident in said county aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her solemn oath make the following declaration in to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 2nd of February 1848 – 
This declarant states that she is the lawful widow of Mark McPherson late of said county who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of 15th May 1828-at the rate of 320$ per annum and who died on the 8th day of February A.D 1847- This declarant further states that her maiden name was Mary Middleton, that she was lawfully married to the aforesaid Mark McPherson on the 27th day of November in the year seventeen hundred and ninety five; that the ceremony of her said marriage was performed by a Baptist minister of the name of Benedict Swoope, and took place in the aforesaid county of Lincoln - that she had two children born to the said Mark McPherson prior to the year 1800 whose names are Lydia & Alexander McPherson - that the record hereto annexed is her said husband's original family record made by him and in his own hand writing - and made about the time of the births of the children thereon mentioned, that said record was always regarded by herself & husband as being true & correct - that since the time it was made has remained in the possession of herself & her said husband --This declarant further states that she lived with the said Mark McPherson in lawful wedlock from the time of her aforesaid marriage with him, up to the period of his death since which time she 
(over)
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has not again married but remains his widow. 

Sworn to and subscribed on} 
the day & year first above written} 
Before me}   Mary [her X mark] McPherson
James Miller - JP

State of Kentucky
County of Lincoln Ss - I hereby certify that by reason of old age and bodily infirmities the above named declarant is unable to appear in open court and make her declaration - And I also certify that it was satisfactorily proven before me by the exhibition of credible testimony that Mark McPherson the husband of the above named declarant a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of 320$ per annum died on the 8th of February 1847 - And that his widow the above named Mary McPherson has not again intermarried - I also certify from personal knowledge that she is the widow of the revolutionary pensioner above named.
James Miller - JP
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State of Kentucky
County of Lincoln Ss. - I, Thomas Helm clerk of the county court of said county certify that James Miller Esq is and was at the time of the date of the foregoing declaration an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified to act as such - And that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine - 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of said county this 19th day of April 1850.

Thomas Helm - Clerk
Lincoln County Court
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

RECORD DIVISION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION   3-525
Awf 
W.2144
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C.,          , 19  

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Mark McPherson a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

[column headings:] 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE.
[1.] Feb or Mch [March] 1776 to Dec. 19 1776 [Rank] Pvt. [Captain] John Hoskins & Stone [Colonel] William Smallwood [State] Md.
[2.] Dec 10, 1776, to Dec 27, 1779 [Rank] Sgt. [Captain] Henry Gaither [Colonel] Stone 1st Regt of Md.
[3.] 1780 [Length] 1 yr. [Rank] Ensign [Captain] [check mark] [Colonel] 1st Regt of Md.
[4.] 1781 [Rank] Lieut. Adj. [Colonel] Adams in 3 Regt. Of Md.
& served to close of war

Battles engaged in, Long Island, the White Plains, Brandywine, Guilford, Monmouth, Stony Point, taking of Cornwallis

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlistment at Port Tobacco Md.

Date of application for pension, Aug 11 1818 his cl was al. [claim was allowed]

Residence at date of application, Lincoln C. Ky

Age at date of application, 65 years

Remarks: He died Feb 8, 1847. Soldier married Nov 27 1795 in Lincoln Co. Ky. Mary Middleton, She was al [allowed] a pension on her appl [application] ex [executed] April 18, 1850, while a resident of Lincoln Co, Ky. She died July 3, 1851.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

6-2856
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Rev War Section

December 6, 1922

Mrs. A.M. Layton
4027 Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

Madam:

In addition to the miliary history of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Mark McPherson, W.2144 you are furnished the following data as to his children:

Lydia born Feb. 1, 1796
Alexander " Mch. 14, 1798, died June 27, 1819.
Samuel " Jan. 12, 1800
Walter " Apr. 6, 1802
William " Apr. 14, 1807
Henry " Feb. 30, 1810
John Bailey " June 30, 1812
Mark " May 9, 1815

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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[Left Side] 1922 Dec 8 - Hist to Mrs. A. M. Layton. A.W.F.

[Right Side]
Rev War WIDOW, &c.

File No 2144
Mary McPherson
Widow
Mark McPherson
Lt and Adjt [Adjutant] Rev War

Act July 29, 1848

Index Vol M Page 17

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Left Side]
Decision confirmed see letter to Mrs. McPherson care of Hon P Montgomery House of Reps Mar 14, 1822
dropt [Dropped] from the roll 13 Aug 1828 under act of May 15, 1828
See Letter to Hon J P Moore May 26, 1834
do [See Let] to Hon R M Johnson Jan 12, 1837
Restored to Roll 25 April 1826, and letter sent to Hon J P Moore H.R. to com: 24 April 1826 -
Let to Isaac H Trabue
May 23, '49
[written sideways] 
Notif.n [Notification] first to Hon P Montgomery Esq. 8 Oct. 1821 Stanford Kenty [Kentucky]

[Right Side]
10207
Kentucky

Mark McPherson
of Lincoln Co in the state of Kentucky
who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Adams, of the Maryland line, for the term of the revoly. [revolutionary] war

Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 dollars per month to commence on the 11 of August 1818

Certificate of pension issued the 1st of Mary 1819 and sent to Hon: G. Roberts
Lancaster, Garrard Co.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $136.48
Semi-anl all'ce [annual allowance] ending 
4 Sept 1819 $120.00
[Total] $256.48
6 Mo.s [months] 25/31

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act 19th March 1818}

Discontinued
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Reported
{Lett to Morris Orren
May 7, 1850}

G.H. McKinney June 2/54

Kentucky
Mary McPherson 
widow of Mark McPherson who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 320 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of April 1850 and sent to C.N. Trabue, Frankfurt, Kentucky

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 2, 1848, Page 175 Vol. 1 Book A
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[Left Side] 
Mark McPherson Act 1818 Paid to 4 March 1825 act 1825
Paid to 4 Sept 1847 when he died - transferred to act 7 June 1837 and increased to $480. Widow died 3 July 1851 - pd to her death.

F. Bush
Auditor

[Right Side]
Pension Office
May 30/54

Sir,
Please certify the time to which the within named pensioners were paid under the acts respectively by which they were pensioned.

Mark McPherson was originally pensioned under the act of March 18, 1818 - then under act of May 15, 1828

Very respectfully
Your obt servant

 E. Cole
Chief Clerk

F Bush Esq
3rd Auditor
Treasury Department

1819 [Illegible] 28
1828 d.d [died] 8 Feb. 47 by Act 7 June 1820 [Illegible]
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Mary McPherson
Mark Ky    Wm 29 ? '48

M Vernon Ky Jan 14
Hail Commissioner of Pensions 
Mail Washington DC City
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No 333
Mary McPherson
Ky
Let to Isaac H Trabue
June 26, '49

Act 29 July '48
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, April 28th 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office that Mark McPherson enlisted as a Sargeant in the First Maryland regiment on the tenth day of Dec 1776 and was discharged on the 27th of Dec 1779.

Thos. Karney
Aud. S.M.

was promoted to Ensign and then to Leiut.
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Land Office
Annapolis, 8th February 1851

Mark McPherson appears to have enlisted as a Sergeant in the first Maryland regiment on the 10th of December 1776 and served as such until the 27th of December 1779 when he was discharged. He appears afterwards to have been appointed an Ensign in said Regiment and after serving in that capacity to have been promoted to a Lieutenant.

George G Brewer
Reg. Land Office MD
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Land Office
Annapolis, 8th Feby 1851

The records of the Maryland troops that served in the war of the Revolution are very imperfect and do not afford any evidence of the services of Lieutenant Mark McPherson, as an Adjutant in the Army ,but there is no record or paper in the office, which shows that the office of Adjutant was filled after the year 1781, there being no regular Muster Rolls later than the 1st of November, 1780.

George G Brewer
Regt Land Off. Md.
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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
7 August 1828

Sir:

I have the honor to inform you that Mark McPherson formerly a Lieutenant in First Regiment of the Maryland line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Kentucky agency has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant

Richard Ruth

The Hon The Secretary of War

No. 66
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(Copy)

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
April 15, 1850

Sir

In reply to your letter of the 13 Inst. I have to state that it appears from the books of this office that Mark McPherson late a pensioner of the Kentucky Agency under the act of May 15, 1828, died on the 8th Feby 1847.

Resp Your
Obt Servt

Jno S Gallaher
Auditor

Mr. F J Trabue Esq
Washington City
D.C.

I certify that the above is a true copy of a letter from the files of this office.

Jno S Gallaher
Auditor
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No.333
Mary McPherson
wid. of Mark
Ky
Act 29 May 1848
Married 1795
Husband died 8 Feb 47
Adm $320 pr an [per annum]
In [inscribed] 4 March 1848

W350 Act 15 May 1828

C, H, Trahue
[crossed out - Present]
Frankfurt Ky
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State of Kentucky Lincoln County Sct

On this the 7th day of September 1848 before me A H Henley an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Mary McPherson a resident of the county of Lincoln and state of Ky who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 29th of July granting pensions to the widows of persons who served in the revolutionary war to wit. That she is the widow of mark McPherson deceased late of Lincoln County Kentucky who was a Lieutenant in the army of the revolution and consequence of his service received a pension under the act of Mary 15th 1828 at the rate of $320 per annum she further declares that she is still a widow never having intermarried since the death of her said husband and that she was married to her said husband in November seventeen hundred and seventy-five and believing herself entitled to receive the same rate of pension per annum under the aforesaid act that her husband received under the act of 15th of May 1828. She most respectfully asks the Hon. Commissioner to make the allowance to her under the aforesaid act at the rate of $320 per annum it being at the same rate that her husband received and that the certificate evidencing the same may be enclosed to her attorney Isaac H Trabue of Frankfort, Kentucky and sworn to and subscribed before me on this 7th day of September 1848.}
A H Henley - JP}

Mary [her X mark] McPherson
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I the just subscribed magistrate certify that the foregoing declarant is personally known to me & known to be the widow of Mark McPherson deceased who drew a pension at the rate of $320 per annum under the act of Congress passed May 15th 1828. I certify that she is a lady of truth and respectability and in whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be placed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on the day and year aforesaid.

A H Henley - JP

State of Kentucky Lincoln County to wit

I Thomas Hill clerk of the county court for the county and state aforesaid do certify that A H Henley Esqr is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county and is duly commissioned and sworn and to all his official acts the fullest faith and credit should be given and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 8th of September 1848.

Thomas Hill - Clerk 
Lincoln County Court
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State of Kentucky Lincoln County Sct
On this the 7th day of September 1848 Before me Artt Hunchy an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Mary McPherson a
resident of the County of Lincoln and State of Kentucky who after being first duly sworn accordingly to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a Pension that was due her husband the late Mark McPherson deceased late of Lincoln Co Kentucky who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War & in consequence of his services therein received a Pension under the act of March 18th 1818 was then dropped under act May 1st 1820 was again restored act March 9th 1823 was again dropped under act May 18th 1828 but which restoration of March 4th 1823 he never received the benefits of
and believing herself entitled to receive the pension that was due him under the act of March 4th 1823 she most respectfully asks the Hon Commissioners of pensions to make an
allowance under the said act and to terminate on the 4th day of March 1826 it being it being the time of the commencement of his pension under the act of May 15th 1828 and that the certificate evidencing the allowance may enclosed to her attorney Isaac H Trabue of Frankfort Kentucky and with him only and such others as he may direct does she wish[es] the Hon Commissioner to hold correspondence in reference to her said claims She further declares that she is a widow never having married since the death of her said husband

Sworn to and subscribed}
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before me on this the 7th day}
of September 1848}
A F. Henley J P}
Mary [her X mark] McPherson

I the Just subscribed magistrate Certify that the
foregoing declarant is personally known to me
Known to be the widow of Mark McPherson deceased who drew a pension at the rate of $320 per annum under the act of Congress passed May 15th 1828 I certify that she is a lady of worth and respectability and in whose statements the fulest [fullest] faith and confidence is to be placed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on this 7th day of September 1848
A.F. Henley J.P.

State of Kentucky Lincoln County Set
I Thomas Helm, Clerk of the County and State aforesaid, do certify that A.F. Henley, Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County duly commissioned and sworn and his signature above written is Genuine and that the fullest
faith and credit should be given to all of his
official acts
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 8th September 1848
Thomas Helm Clerk LCC
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In case
Mary McPherson
wid of Mark
Ky
Act 29 - July 1848
Adl [additional] 2 yrs Lt & Adjt [Adjutant]
$478.04 from 4 Mch [March] 1848
Former payments
at $320 to h widow

Cert sent to
F. S. J. Trahue 

Present
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Washington City

Sir

in the case of increase of pension of Mark McPherson under the act 7th June 1832, allow me to ask an examination and the certificate for the increase to issue in the names of his widow for the same and by so doing your will much oblige.

Your Obt Sert [Obedient Servant]

I H J Trabue
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J L Edwards Esq
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House of Representatives
April 24, 1826

Sir

I am personally acquainted with Mark McPherson situation.

I have no hesitation in declaring that his property is not worth two hundred dollars in value.

Your obt servt
T P Moore
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Rey Wr 38,100
Mark McPherson dec [deceased]
Ky
Act 7 June 1832
Adl [Additional] 2 yrs Lt & Adyt [Adjutant]
$478.04 per anm [annum] rom 4 Mch [March] 1831 to 8 Feby 1847 - when he died.
Former payments under act 15 May 1828 at $320 per ann to be deducted from 4 Mch 1831 --
Payable to Mary McPherson, his widow

32814

Cert sent to
F .S. J. Trahue
Present
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Please inform me 
1st Has search a case ever been provided for by law or by regulation. Grant to send him your letter to satisfy him send back the within
Yobtyn [Your obedient servant[
RS Johnson
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James L Edwards Esq
Pension office
Washington

Jan 2 '37
Mark McPherson
Ky 1818
Hon R M Johnson 
HR
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Frankfort Kentucky
October 12th 1848

Dear Sir,
I herein enclose you the Declaration of Mrs. Mary McPherson Praying for an arrearage of pension which was due her husband Mark McPherson decsd [deceased] under the act of March 4th 1823. 
You will please examine the case, and if allowed enclose me the certifficate [certificate], of Pension, and if not, write to me the objection's urged against the Mon allowance of the claim.

I have the Honor to be 
Your obedient servant
Isaac H Trabue

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington city 
D. C.
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Frankfort Kentucky
November 13th 1848

Sir,

I herein enclose you the Declarations of Mrs. Mary McPherson praying for a pension under the act of 29th of July 1848.
And a copy of her marriage bond and certifficate [certificate] of the Minister that married her, you will please examine the same and enclose me the certifficate [certificate] of allowance or inform me what is requisite to obtain the same.

- I am very respectfully, - 
- Your obt Servt [obedient servant] - 
- Isaac H Trabue

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City
D. C.
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Mark McPherson
Claim

76 - One year private under Smallwood Md
77 Three years Orderly Sar under Col Stone Md grant
80 One year Ensign in same regt.
81 Lieutenant under Col Adams till close of war
To be directed to R Lockerman Esq for confirmation as to service - 

Rec'd from Hon. G. Robertson H. of Representatives

[written sideways] on G. Robertson Lancaster Co Gerrard Ken.
Adm.t
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State of Kentucky}
Lincoln Circuit}
Mark McPherson aged 65 formerly a soldier in the Revolutionary War desirous of obtaining the benefit of the act of the Congress of the United States for the relief of officers and soldiers of the army of the United States during the revolutionary war States that he enlisted in Port Tabacco [Tobacco] in the month of March in the year 1776 as a private in the company of Captain John Hodskins [and] Stone the Regiment Commanded by Colonel William Smallwood the Brigade commanded by General McDougal, that he served one year according to his enlistment as above and at its expiration he again enlisted for three years in the continental line in the company of Captain Henry Gaither that he was soon after his enlistment appointed on an orderly seargant [Sergeant] in that company in which character he served during the said Term the regiment was commanded by colonel Stone The Bregade [Brigade] was commanded by (not recollected) that the expiration of his second enlistment he obtained a commission as Ensign in the Lance Regiment and in that character
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Served one year where he obtained a commission as Lieutenant in the third regiment commanded by Colonel Adams and as such continued to the end of the war that he was in the following Battles on Long Island the white plains Monmouth Stony Point and at the taking of Cornwallace [Cornwallis] that he had a regular discharge after his three years service by by then and accidents he has lost it together with his commissions as Ensign and lieutenant he States that he is poor and from his age and Infirmities stands in need of the assistance of his country -

[signed] Mark McPherson

Kentucky Lincoln Circuit court sct
At a circuit court holden for the county of Lincoln at the court house in the town of Stanford on Tuesday the Eleventh day of August in the year 1818 before the honorable Thomas Montgomery one of the circuit judges in the state of Kentucky Mark McPherson an applicant for a pension made oath to a statement in writing which was filed the court after hearing the statement & interrogating the said Mark McPherson are of opinion that the facts are truely [truly] stated therefore it is ordered
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that the said statements together with the above expression of the courts opinion be copied & certified to the Secretary of [crossed out the] War of the United States

Kentucky Lincoln County & circuit Sct 
I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln county court do hereby certify that the forgoing is a true copy of the statement of Mark McPherson which was sworn to & filed in my office & also a copy of the opinion of the court in relation thereto In testimony whereof I have hereunto suscribed [subscribed] my name and affixed the seal of my office hereto this 1st day of September 1818
Thomas Helm clerk
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Commonwealth of Kentucky}
Lincoln County} Sct:
I Champe Carter clerk of Lincoln county court in the state of Kentucky, agreably [agreeable] to the Act of Assembly in such cases made & provided do by these Presents, make known to all whom it may concern, that Mark McPherson, a citizen of Lincoln County Ky departed this life on the [blank] day [blank] having first made & published his last will and Testament, and having while he lived, and at the time of his death, divers goods, chattels, rights and credits, within the County of Lincoln and elsewhere, and that the right of granting sellers Testamentary, upon the estate of said decedent, and of calling for a just and true account thereof, doth by law appertain to the county court of said county of Lincoln, and the said court being desirous that all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said decedent should be well and truly administered and at a court held for said county of Lincoln on the 5th day of April in the year of our Lord 1847, the said last will and testament of said Mark McPherson decd [deceased] was exhibited into court, duly proved according to law & established & ordered to be recorded in the clerk's office of Lincoln county court; and Walter McPherson, the executor named therein, having performed what the laws in that case, required of him, the said court did grant to the said Walter McPherson full and ample power to administer all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said decedent, and to ask for, collect, levy and receive the same and did also order that the said Walter McPherson should make a true & perfect inventory of all the said goods, chattels and credits of the said decedent which had, or should come to his hands possession or knowledge or to
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the possession of any other person or persons for him: and the same so made should exhibit to the said court when thereto required by the said court and that he should pay all the funeral expenses of the said decedent as well as the first debts and duties wherewith he stood bound at the time of his death so far as the said goods chattels rights and credits should extend according to the value thereof and that thereafter the said Walter McPherson should make a just and true account of his actings and doings therein when thereto required by the law court and that he should will and truly pay and deliver all the legacies contained and specified in the law will as far as the said goods, chattels and credits will extend according to the value thereof, and as the law shall charge him; and that he would pay and deliver over all goods, chattels, wares and other property which shall come to his hands as executor as aforesaid to such person or persons, as shall be entitled to the same by law or by the provisions of said will, after due examination of his accounts; and that he would faithfully perform and execute the wish and powers with which he shall be invested by the provisions of said Will:
In testimony whereof I the said Champe Carter, Clerk of our said Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at office in Stanford Ky, this 17th day of May in the year of our Lord AD 1854
Champe Carter Clerk
Lincoln County Court
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Commonwealth of Kentucky}
Lincoln County} Sct
I Thomas W Napier Presiding Judge of Lincoln County court in the state of Kentucky, do certify that Champe Carter whose name is subscribed to the foregoing letters of administration is now and was at the time of his signature clerk of Lincoln County Court in the State of Kentucky, duly elected, commissioned & qualified according to law & that full faith and credit are due & ought to be given to all such his official acts, as well out of as in this state
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & caused the seal of our said court to be affixed this 18th day of May AD 1854
Thomas W Napier
Presiding Judge
Lincoln county court

State of Kentucky}
Lincoln County} To wit
On this 20th day of May AD 1854 personally appeared before Thomas W Napier presiding judge of the Lincoln county court in the state afs [aforesaid] Thomas Scott aged sixty two years and [delete – and] Samuel Duderas Jr aged fifty seven years residents of the county and state afs [aforesaid] who after being duly sworn according to law declare that they were well and intimately acquainted with Mark McPherson decd [deceased] late a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States who drew a pension of Three hundred and twenty dollars
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per annum as to the date of his death which took place some time in year 1847 they further state that the said Mark McPherson died at the time as above stated and that he left the following children as his only legal heirs and representatives towit Walter McPherson Mark McPherson, Harry McPherson and John Bailey McPherson
Sworn to and subscribed before} Thomas Scott
me the date above written} Samuel Dudderar
and I further certify that Thomas} 
Scott & Samuel Dudderar are} 
credible and respectable persons} 
and that they are of the ages} 
as above stated}
Thomas W Napier PJ LCC
GHM Kinney

State of Kentucky 
Lincoln County} Towit

On this 20th day of May AD 1854 personally appeared [crossed out before me] Walter McPherson executor of the goods and chattles [chattels] rights and credits, of Mark McPherson dec.d [deceased] and made oath before me Thomas Jr Napier the presiding judge of the Lincoln county court in the state afsd [aforesaid] as follows towit The said Walter McPherson executor of Mark McPherson decd states that the said Mark McPherson decd was a Lieutenant in the military service of the United States and in consequence of the military services which he rendered to the United States during the war of the Revotion [Revolution] a Pension
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was granted to him after making application therefore after the rate of three hundred and twenty dollars payable semi annually in the city of towit in the agency for paying pensions in the state of Kentucky The said executor as afsd [aforesaid] now makes application for the amount of pension which he is informed is now due for some five or six years the said executor as afsd states that the said Mark McPherson decd [deceased] was after his pension was granted to him inscribed in the pension roll of the war department and that he drew the amount as above named for the first year and for some cause or other the said Mark McPherson decd was stricken off of the pension rolls of the war department - and that after a lapse of some five or six years the said Mark McPherson decd was reinstd [reinstated] upon the rolls of the pension list in the war department and which pension or the amount as above stated he continued to draw up to the date of his death which took place on the 8th day of February in the year 1847 It is for this interim of time [crossed out which he now] together with any dues in the way of back rations & that he now makes application for believing that it is honestly and justly due to his legal heirs and representative - and that he knows that the said Mark McPherson decd never did receive the amount [crossed out for said inte]
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of pension due him from the time after the first twelve months untill his being reinstated which was some five or six years as above stated and which moment he now asks to be [crossed out as to be] allowed so that his legal heirs and representatives may have the benefit of the same together with any other dues which may be coming to them The executor humbly asks an examination into the case and refers to the papers on declaration proof & of the said Mark McPherson decd which is now on file in the war department so that justice may be fully done and in case that said said allowance is made he desires a check for the amount of same payable at the agency for paying pensions in the city of Louisville and state of Kentucky 
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above and I certify that Walter McPherson is a credible and respectable person and I further certify that I have no interest in the prosecution of this claim
Thomas W Napier PJSCC
GHM Kinney

Walter McPherson
Executor of Mark McPherson decd

State of Kentucky
Lincoln County towit
I Champe Carter clerk of the county court for Lincoln County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas W Napier whose name is
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subscribed to the foregoing certificates and acknowledgements is now and was at the time of so doing the presiding judge of the county court for Lincoln county duly elected commissioned and sworn and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine and in due form of same
In testimony whereof I have herunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office in Stanford this 20th day of May AD 1854
Champe Carter Clerk
Lincoln County Court
Kentucky Lincoln county court towit
August Term 1851
ordered that it be certified to all whom it may concern that it was this day proven to the satisfaction of the court by the oaths of Thomas Scott and James Miller credible and respectable persons that Mary McPherson widow of Mark McPherson decd late a pensioner of of the United States at the rate of four hundred and seventy eight dollars 04/100 cts per annum departed this life the 3rd day of July 1851 in Lincoln county in the state of Kentucky in which county she resided at the time of her death that it was proven to the court that the said Mary McPherson was the identical person named in an original certificate now shown to the court bearing date the tenth day of Feby 1851 and signed by AHH Stewart Secretary of War and numbered 559
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy hanscribed by me from the records in my office 
In testimony whereof
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I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office this 20th day of May AD 1854
Champe Carter clerk
Lincoln County Court

[written upside down] Address
GHM Kinney
Stanford
Ky
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McPensn
Paus
to atto
W Nu
19th October 1819
ackd in Ganard
office
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Know all men by these presents that I Mark McPherson late Lieutenent [Lieutenant] and acting adjutent [Adjutant] in the first regiment of the Myreland [Maryland] troops on Continental Establishment, for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving, do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel McKee of the county of Garrard and State of Kentucky my lawful atto [attorney] for me and in my name to ask Demand and recuse for me and in any name any lands or land warrent [warrant] to which I may be entitled for my sarieses [services] during the Revolutionary War in the above charecter [character] and the above mentioned corps, which is due to me from the United States of America, and I do hereby ratify [certify[ and confirm all lawful acts which my said atto [attorney] may do in the premises in as full and ampil [ample] as maner [manner] as if I myself were personally present 
In testimony whereof I the same Mark McPherson do hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day of October 1809

Mark McPherson {seal}
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State of Kentucky
Garrard County

I James Terrill Deputy for Bay Letcher Clerk of our said court do certify that Mark McPherson came before me in my office on the 19th day of October 1809 and acknowledged the within power of attorney for the purposes therein contained. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of my office to be hereto affixed the day and date above written.

James Terrill - DC G.C.C.

SEAL

Garrard Set

I Charles Spilman presiding Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid do certify that James Terrill before whom this power of attorney was acknowledged is Deputy for B. Letcher, clerk of said County that due faith and full credit is & ought be given to all his acts as such.
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And that his attestation hereto is in due form. Given under my hand the 20th day of October 1809.

Charles Spilman
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Hon'bl Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Mt Vernon Rockcastle
County Ky 13 Jan 1856

Dear Sir

Mark McPherson was a pensioner of the United States in Lincoln County Kentucky under the act of Congress approved 18th March 1818 on account of his services as Lieutenant in the war of the revolution, his name was stricken from the pension list under act approved 1st May 1820 on account of property and was never reinstated on the pension list until the passage of the act of 15 May 1828.

Mark McPherson and his widow is now dead. I have been noticing the act of congress approved 1 March 1823 and have concluded the heirs who survive them are entitled to the arrears of pension due the said Mark McPherson from the 1st March 1823 at $240 per annum to the 4th March 1826, would or not the heirs' children now be entitled to the arrears of pension mentioned.

The 3rd section of the act of the 1st March 1823 provides that no pension hereafter to be allowed or claims or schedules heretofore filed under the act or acts to which this is a supplement or under the provision of this act, shall commence before the passage thereof and all other pensions hereafter to be allowed under the act aforesaid shall commence from the time of completing the proof.

I was thinking these pensioners heretofore placed upon the pension list under the act of 1818 and was stricken from the pensin list under the act of 1820 the act above mentioned of 1st March 1823 restored those pensioners again
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without being required to present a schedule of their property as they are under the act 1818 & the pensions commenced 1 March 1823 but all others placed upon the pension list that had not exhibited a schedule of their property are bound to exhibit it before their names can be placed upon the list.

I look upon the section referred to as making that difference between those who were pensioners and stricken from the list & those who were entitled to the benefit of the act of 1818 & had never applied & such last mentioned claim commence who the last proof is made. if the heirs of Mark McPherson is entitled to the arrears mentioned under the act of 1823 to the 4th March 1826. Please inform me - and give me the necessary forms and instructions.

I am dear sir
very truly
Alfred Smith

The heirs of Mark McPherson has employed me to look into this claim. Thankful for a reply.

Truly yours,
A. Smith
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Charles County to wit, I hereby certify that Mark McPherson, I was very well acquainted with during the war, that the said McPherson, enlisted in the first Maryland Regiment of State troops, commanded by Col. William Smallwood ,in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six & reinlisted [reenlisted] as a soldier in the first Continental Regiment of Maryland troops in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven for three years & in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, was promoted to an Ensign, in the said Regiment, and afterwards was appointed as Lieutenant & Adjutant in the said Regiment and continued as such till the end of the war & was discharged in November seventeen hundred and eighty three, as Lieutenant & Adjutant. 
Given under my hand this first day of May eighteen hundred and fifteen.

William Bruce, late a Captain in the first Maryland Regt. of Continental Troops.

I hereby certify that the aforegoing [foregoing] is a true copy taken from the original certificate, filed with the petition of Mark McPherson, for a pension, at the December session of 1815, and now on file in the Archives of the House of Delegates of Maryland.

Given under my hand at the City of Annapolis, this 8th day of February, 1851.

George G. Brewer, clk [Clerk] & House Del Maryland,
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

409
350

No of Orig [Original] Pay 350

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 28, 1828

Mark McPherson, of [blank] in the County of Lincoln, 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 army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war 
at which point he was a Lieutenant in the Fifth regiment of the Maryland line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March 1783; and further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826, four hundred and forty-seven 33/100 dollars, paid to him by the agent in the state of Kentucky.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickens

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
31st July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Mark McPherson Lieut [Lieutenant] in the Maryland line amounting to Sixteen hundred dollars.

It further appears that Mark McPherson is now on the pension list of the Kentucky -- agency, and has been since the 24th April 1826 at the rate of twenty dollars per month.

Peter Hagner - Aud.
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To the Hon. Members of the Senate & House of representatives of the united States of America in Congress assembled 

Your Petioner [Petitioner], Mark McPherson humbly states, - that he enlisted as a Common Soldier in the revolutionary war, in the State of Maryland under (then Col.) Smallwood, during the war being Limitted [limited] to the States of virginia [Virginia] Maryland Pensylvania [Pennsylvania] & Delaware: that in December 1776 your Petitioner re-enlisted for 3 years in the Continental Service, still under (then Gen’l Smallwood, which time your Petitioner served out, at the Expiration of said Term he received an Ensign’s Commission from Congress, which Commission your Petitioner accepted & served under that Commission in said Smallwoods Division about 12 months, when he was promoted to be first Lieutenant, in which grade he served untill [until] the End of the war: that during said war your Petitioner fought in the following Battles viz: in the battle on long Iland [Long Island] August 1776 at the white Plains october [October] 1776 in the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 1777 - in the battle of Germantown oct. [Oct.] 1777, in the battle of monmouth [Monmouth] June 1778, at the Storming of Stony point under Gen’l. Athony waine [General Anthony Wayne] July 1779, at the Seige of york [Siege of York] & the taking of Cornwallis oct. [Oct.] 1781 – your Petitioner, besides the 7 foregoing battles, was in sundry other skirmishes with the Enemy. After the Seige of york [Siege of York] he went to the South & served under Gen’l. green [General Nathanael Greene] untill [until] the End of the war, and untill [until] the troops were disbanded by Congress in Nov. 1783.
But now, so it is, your Petitioner has arrived at the age of 72 years, & during his whole life has been destitute of such a support as would have renderred [rendered] his life only in
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a small degree comfortable, and he is now constrained, contrary to the natural impulse of his feelings to communicate to our Hon’bl [Honorable] Body, that with great difficulty only, he can supply himself & family with decent clothing & the bare Nessasaress [necessities] of life – your Petitioner born unfortunately of poor parents was ushered upon the worlds wide stage, like many of his indigent fellow men, without anything to recommend him to nature, Except his integrity & his honer [honor]. He went into the service of his Country at an early period of his life, but at the End of the war, his pay – being in paper was to him of poor comfort indeed: necessity forced him to sell a part of his bounty Land – at a clear loss – the Ballance [balance], proved to be absolutely good for nothing lying in the allegany [Allegany] mountains near the Potomac – unfit for Cultivation,
your Petitioner further states that he did not marry untill he was considerably advanced in life, that consequently, his children, or a part at least, are yet in a helpless situation, and himself situated as He is at present unable to afford them even the chance of a common Education; that he lives on a verry [very] poor, almost unproductive spot of Land – that his Eldest son, hitherto his chief support, has lately married, &, being also poor & needy, is obliged to work for himself – your Petitioner, old and infirm, unable to perform any labor, has still a wife and 3 Children to maintain, his wife being equally sickly & incapable to contribute towards the support of the family – With deep regret your Petitioner is forced to state that he was unfortunately struck from the Pension List by the Secreterry [Secretary] of war under a late law of Congress, for no other reason as your Petitioner has Been informed, But Because he was receiving from the State of Maryland a pension of $160 pr annum 
- This pension has certainly hitherto kept your old &
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war worn petitioner from actual suffering, but with all the economy he is able to practice, that sum of $160 falls short of providing himself and helpless family with the mere necessities of life – the highest boon, your petitioner would crave in this world -
your Petitioner prays that your Hon’bl [Honorable] Body would take such measures, as would replace him on the pension list, as He stood before the late act, by which list your Petitioner was entitled to $240 pr annum, – He cannot bring himself to presume that any patriotic member of your Hon’ble Body would deny to an old Revolutionerry [Revolutionary] Soldier, as your Petitioner, so humble a request – a Benefit so small, and for a few years only, which still would - sensibly lesson his cares and in some degree sweeten the last hours of his otherwise dolefull [doleful] existence

your Petitioner refers your Hon’ble Body to a full corroboration of the foregoing facts now deposited in the Secreterrys [Secretary’s] office at the City of Washington [Washington], a statement made out in due form under the late act above Mentioned, all which is Humbly Submitted - - -
February 15th 1826 [signed] Mark McPherson

We the undersigned hereby certify that we are acquainted with Mark McPherson the foregoing Petitioner & believe his statements respecting himself and family and his situation in life to be true that he has lived in Lincoln County Ky for a number of years & deemed himself as a good citizen and an Honorable man, and we think him well worthy of the beneficent sympathy of Congress -- February 15th 1826 
Willis G Rachford 
Jacob Swope Sr 
Samuel Dudderer 
Jos Paxton
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Jas Smaul 
Montgomery 
JS Perrin
John Bright
Willis D Blanks
TL Wilson
Peyton Parks
David Logan 
James Cooke
James Gerono
Anthony Cook
Conrad Dudderry
William Paston Jr
Henry mid Jb
JTm Whitley
Wm Farris
John Cooke
James Johnson 
John O Hall
John Gresham
William Gresham
Thomas Vaughn
Charles Adams
Adam Wilson
Beny Heatt
Elisha Daughn
Camae Bailey
Henry Owsley
John T Bell
Mishl H Lee
M Daorson
Wm Paxton
Daniel Hreoss
Hugh Logan
Willaim Spratt
Olijah Bailey 
Andrew McRoberts
John McRoberts sr
Joshua McCormack
Francis L Read
John Kincaid
Thally Huston
Penben Forbrs
BA Onsley
Tho Helm
William Craig
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For the purposes of obtaining the benefit of an act of Congress entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers of the army of the revolution approved on the 15th day May 1828 I Mark McPherson of the County of Lincoln and state of Kentucky do here by declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the army of the revolution and served as such to the End of the war - at which period I was Lieutenant and adjutant in the first Maryland regiment of the continental line - receiving forty dollars pay per month-  twenty six and 2/3 as Lieutenant and thirteen and 1/3 additional pay as acting adjutant to the said regiment 
and I also declare that I afterwards received need certificates commonly called commutation certificates for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay which sum was offered by resolve of Congress of the 22 of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21 of Oct 1780 - 
and I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a pensionner [pensioner] since the 3 day of March 1826 the sum of four hundred and forty seven dollars and thirty cents paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the state of Kentucky - Witness my hand this 27th day of June 1828 - signd [signed] Mark McPherson
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Kentucky Lincoln County Sct
Before me L Hamton a justice of the peace in the county of Lincoln in the state of Kentucky personally appeared this day Jacob Swope Jr and Michael Davidson of the said county who did severally make oath that Mark McPherson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution in name as there in stated Witness my hand this 27th day of June 1828
Signed L Hamton JP LC

State of Kentucky Lincoln County court clerks office 
I Thomas Helm clerk of the Lincoln county court in the state of Kentucky do hereby certify that Logan Hamton esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were made was at the time a justice of the peace in the county aforesaid & that he is by the laws of the state of Kentucky duly and longed & empowered to administer oaths 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this 27th day of June in the year eighteen hundred & twenty eight 
Thomas Helm clerk
Lincoln county court
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Chicago Ills
Nov 11 1922

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir,
Lt. Mark McPherson served in the Rev. War and drew a pension in Lincoln Co. Ky. where he died 1846. Served from Maryland. 
Will you be kind enough to give me the family information as to wife and children he furnished in making his application?
Thanking you and hoping I may have this at an early date I remain

Respectfully yours
(Mrs.) A. M. Layton
4027 Kenmore Ave
Chicago

[circular stamp] PENSION O NOV 14 1922 U. S. OFFICE.