Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,111, for David Swayze, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Swayze or Swaze, David & Alice | W.6,111

CONTENTS
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4575
Ohio, Pittsburg
Alice Swaze, widow of David Swaze, N.J., who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Mar. 1849 and sent to Anthony Beelin, Pittsburg, Pa.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 3, 1848, Page 360; Vol. 4.

Let(ter sent) to J.G. Wiseman, Apr. 11/'49.
Let(ter sent) to J.H. Monroe, March 30/'50
Let(ter sent) to Monroe & Bull, June 19/'50.
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4186
Ohio
David Swaze, of Fairfield Co. in the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Riddle of the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the New Jersey [crossed out: line for] Militia for Fourteen months from 1776.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of July 1833 and sent [to] Hon. Abel Jinn.

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832................70.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833....23.33
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                                          $93.33

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester, Clerk.
Book D; Vol 10; Page 48

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Three April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sep. 1837.
Ag(en)t notified July 1838.
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The State of Ohio
Fairfield County//

On this 5th day of November 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County now sitting, David Swayze of Richland Township in said County, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers & served as herein stated.

He was born on the 4 day of March 1762 in Huntingdon [Hunterdon] County in West New Jersey & lived there until the commencement of the Revolutionary War. He moved over into Sussex County with his father in that Sate during the war and stayed there until about the year 1790. Before he moved from Huntingdon [Hunterdon County], his father's house was a necessary rendezvous for a certain description of troops called the Flying Camp.

He enlisted in that service in the year 1776 in the Fifteenth year of his age, for the term of five months under Capt. Abraham McKinney [crossed out: Capt.] and a lieutenant by the name of Beavers. He was marched to Newark; thence to N. York. Then the company was divided and he went with a part of the company to Trimbley's Point on the Jersey Shore, opposite Staten Island...
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...there placed for the protection of the inhabitants against the incursions of the Hessians, then encamped on Staten Island. This was their recovered headquarters.

He stayed there until the Battle of Long Island, which took place on the 27 Aug. 1776. From that place they returned home in the camp after two or three weeks, after the battle. While he was in New York, the Phoenix Vessel & the Rose (74 gun ships) & other vessels came up and cannonaded the town. He re-enlisted in this service in May of that year. He believes he served four months during the time from which he volunteered. All the officers & the greatest part of the company were taken prisoner at Fort Washington, which was the reason of his return home, having no officer in command.

About one month after his return home, [crossed out: (illegible) informed his father was dead serving in the militia] he volunteered for one month [crossed out: later this applicant went as a substitute for him and] served under Capt. William Hazlet and was marched to Elizabeth Town Point in N. Jersey and stayed there till his time was out, and one week longer. The rule being, that they had to stay until substitutes arrived. He returned home and in the [crossed out: winter] fall of 1776, he was hired as a substitute for man he thinks by the name of Nubarco, not certain. He, Nubarco, was drafted for one month. He went out under officers from the lower part of the [crossed out: County] State but he cannot now give...
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...the names. He was marched to Elizabeth Town & stayed the whole time of the tour there. They had a good deal of skirmishing or skirmishes during that month with the Hessians. The British Light Horse came about several times, which then they had a fight with a small party of Hessians down the creek, half a mile in so from the town. He received his discharge and went home.

After he returned in that winter, his father was drafted [crossed out: again] for one month and he was substituted for his father. Before he went out, a Capt. Arthur Henry came to his father and he, this affiant, was sent to a mill belonging to the government, called a [illegible] mill, and which was instantly engaged in grinding for the army. And there stayed out his tour and received his discharge. He was injured in attending the mill for the government. He was raised in the Township of Milbury, which was the reason he was sent to the mill. He rec(eived) the wages of soldier from the government.

He returned home from the mill and in the summer of 1777, his father was again drafted for a month, and he went out as a substitute for him. He went out under Capt. Riddle and was marched to Minisink in the frontiers. His father then lived in Sussex. He was injured there in scouting & protecting...
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...the inhabitants again Tories and Indians. He was in several skirmishes while there with the Indians and Tories. He served out the month and returned home. There were no officers then there in command in this service than Capt. Riddle. 

During the last year of the war of [crossed out: his father served a tour, which was under(illegible) service] he was employed by enlistment in what was called the new services for six months. He was marched to Minisink where he was placed under command of Capt. James [crossed out: Bondle] Bonell & Lieutenant Jacob Rosegrant. Shortly after he got to Minisink, he was sent down to Walpack with Twenty five men, who were placed under his command. He stayed out the six months at that place in defending the inhabitants against Indians & Tories. While there, he went out as a spy to a place called Sheholy, & in which service he was mainly lost in the snow, which came on. He returned home after his six months was out. He rec(eived) discharges from his services but they are all lost long ago. He has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of but one person of [crossed out: no] witnesses that can prove his services in this State...
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...other than Mary Stinchecomb, whose deposition is herewith sent.

He herby relinquish any claim [crossed out: to a] whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

In answer to the interrogatories, he states that up to the year 1790 he removed from Sussex to [crossed out: Sussex] Cecil County in Maryland. He stated that until 1805, when he removed to this County, & has been home ever since.

He has already stated his age & places of enlisting the service & the names and the officers under whom he served. He has in his Bible, at home, the record of his age. It is also recorded in the Presbyterian Church in Ready Township
in said Hunterdon County. His discharges are all lost. He served seven years as an Associate Judge of said Court of Common Pleas & is acquainted very generally in the town & County and would name Rev. Jacob Myers and (blank) in Parkenland,...
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...who can testify as to his character.
s/ David Swayne

Sworn & subscribed in Open Court the day and year afore(said).
s/ Hugh Boyle, Clk.

I, Jacob Myers, a Clergyman, and Wm. Milligan, residing in the vicinity of said David Swayze, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said Swayze, who has subscribed & sworn to [duplicate: and sworn to] the above declaration. That we believe him to be upward of Seventy years of age. That he is reputed and believed to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
s/ Jacob Myers
s/ William Milligan

Sworn to in Open Court this 5th day of Nov. 1832.
s/ Hugh Boyle, Clk.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department. That the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Myers, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the County of Fairfield and State of Ohio, and that William Milligan, who has also signed the same, is a resident...
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...in the County last aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Hugh Boyle, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Fairfield aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Swayze for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office at Lancaster in the County last aforesaid this 20th day of November A.D. 1832.
s/ Hugh Boyle, Clk.

I am acquainted with the Rev. Jacobs Myers, whose name is affixed be the foregoing certificate. He is a Minister of the Gospel in the Methodist Reformed Church. He resides in the same town with myself.
s/ Wm. W. Irvin
8th Jan. 1833
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To the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County.

Deposition of Mary Stinchacomb, to be read in evidence in said Court, touching the application of David Swayze for a pension.

Filed in Court Nov. 5th 1832.

Attest: Hugh Boyle, Clk.
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The State of Ohio
Fairfield County//

(Seal)

Before me, S.S. Gohegan, an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came Mary Stinchecomb, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that her brother, David Swayze, at present a resident of the Township of (blank) in Perry County, performed several tours of duty as a soldier during the Revolutionary War between Great Brittan and the United States. 

The deponent further saith that she distinctly recollects the last of the tours served by her said brother was of six months duration. That it was performed near the close of the war and that the said David Swayze remained in the service during the full period of six months and procured a regular discharge at the expiration of that period. The deponent further saith that her said brother, David Swayze, and herself were both members of their father's family, at the time above alluded to, and that their father was then a resident of Sussex County, New Jersey. That during her brother's absence on the last tour of duty, a report reached her father's house. That he the said David Swayze and a younger brother who accompanied him had both been killed in the service. That her father immediately started for the American encampment; the report of the death of her brothers proved to have been incorrect. Shortly after which, the family received a visit from the said David Swayze. That these incidents served to impress on her memory the fact of her brother's services. And further the deponent saith not.
s/ Mary Stinchecomb

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 20th day of October A.D. 1832.
s/ S.S. Gohegan
Justice of the Peace
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I certify that S.S. Gohegan, with whom I am well acquainted, is a Justice of the Peace as he represents himself to be.

Given under my hand this 8th Jan. 1833.
s/ Wm. W. Irvin

P.S. I am not acquainted with Mrs. Mary Stinchecomb.
s/ W.W.I.
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David Swayze to Alice Milligan//

January Ninth One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety two.
Reverend Mr. Conden, Pa(stor) J.B.

Maryland 
Cecil County//

To Wit.: I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair and legible figures as follows.: (Jan.) 9th 1792.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and the Seal of Cecil County Court affixed this Twenty eighth day of April Anno Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty six.
s/ George McCullough, Clerk of Cecil County Court

State of Maryland//
Cecil County

To Wit.: I, George McCullough, above named, depose and say that I hold the Office of Clerk of Cecil County Court in the Town of Elkton and County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Court with the exception above named, as certified by me.
s/ George McCullough, Clerk of Cecil County Court

Sworn before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for Cecil County on this 28th day of April 1846.
s/ John A. Rankin, Justice of the Peace
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State of Maryland 
Cecil County//

To Wit.: I hereby certify that John A Rankin, gentleman before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made and whose signature is thereto subscribed, was at the time of the taking and signing the same and still is one of the State of Maryland's Justices of the Peace in and for Cecil County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and the Seal of Cecil County Court affixed this Twenty eighth day of April Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and Forty six.
s/ George McCullough, Clerk of Cecil County Court
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David Swaze
Fairfield Co., Ohio

Adm(itted) for 14 mos., Pri(vate), 1776.

14.16
Sent to Hon. W.W. Irvin, H.R., Jan. 7, 1833.

P-197

W.W. Irvin
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BRIEF in the case of David Swaze of Fairfield Co. in the State of Ohio.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? (blank)
3. How old is he? 70 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. (Years/Months/Days) | Rank. As a: | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. (Gen.)
Vol(unteered) in 1776 | (blank) | 4 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | Capt. Abraham McKinny & Wm. Hazlet |
Vol(unteered) in 1777 | (blank) | 1 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | (blank) |
Sub(stitute) in 1777 | (blank) | 1 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | (blank) |
Sub(stitute) in 1777 | (blank) | 1 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | (blank) |
[crossed out: draf(ted)] in 1777 | (blank) | 1 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | Capt. Riddle & Riddle |
1782 | (blank) | 6 | (blank) | Pri(vate) | (blank) |
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       14 (mos.)

5. In what battles was he engaged? (blank)
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Huntingdon [Hunterdon] Co., N.J.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? One witness to 6 mos. - Traditionary -
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
s/ (blank), Examining Clerk.
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11780 | Act '43 - 8946; Act '44 - 635.

Rec(eived) March 3rd 1845.

Alice Swaze
Ohio
Act 7 July '38.
[crossed out: Expired]

Act 3 March '43.
Service admitted.

M(arried) 1792
D(ied) 2 March 1838.

14 mos. $46.66
From 4 March '38 when her husband died.

Hood & Hickman, Esq.
Somerset, Ohio
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State of Ohio
Perry County//

On this 17th day of February A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Forty five, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Allice Swayze, a resident of Thorn Township, Perry County and State of Ohio, aged Seventy five (75) years, Eight (8) months and Twenty six (26) days. 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 7th A.D. 1838 entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of David Swayze, late of the County of Fairfield and State of Ohio, who received a pension for services performed by him in the Army of the United States during the War of the Revolution for some three or four years, previous and up to the time of his death.

The papers showing the particular services he performed as a soldier, together with all other evidence in that behalf, was deposited in the Department of War at the time said David Swayze made application for a pension and are...
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...supposed to be at this time on file in that department, reference to which is hereto had.

She further declares that she was married to the said David Swayze on the Twenty crossed out: fifth] (20th) day of January in the year A.D. Seventeen Hundred and Ninety two (1792). That her husband, the aforesaid David Swayze, died on the Second day of March A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty eight. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the First day of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninety four (1794). To Wit.: At the time first above stated. And she further declares that she was never afterwards married.
s/ Allice Swayze

And I do further certify that the above named and signed Allice Swayze, applicant as aforesaid, cannot from advanced age and bodily infirmity attend the Court but that she made her said declaration, was duly sworn to the facts therein contained by me and subscribed the same in my presence on the day and year above written before me.
s/ John Heck, Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Perry County//

Personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, George Smith and Daniel S. Swayze, residing in the County of Fairfield and State aforesaid, of lawful age and being duly sworn as hereinafter certified touching the declaration and application of Allice Swayze of Perry County, Ohio, widow of David Swayze, late of Fairfield County, Ohio, deceased, for the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress entitled, "An act granting half pay to certain widows," approved July 7th A.D. 1838, on their oaths do say that the said David Swayze, late husband of said Allice [Swayze], applicant as aforesaid, departed this life on the Second day of March A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty eight at the County of Fairfield aforesaid. And further saith not.
s/ George Smith
s/ Daniel S. Swayze

Sworn to and subscribed before John Heck, Associate Judge.
February 25th 1845
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State of Ohio
Perry County//

On the Twenty fourth day of February A.D. 1845, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of [the] Court of Common Pleas of said County, James Allen, aged Seventy five years, residing in the County of Fairfield and State aforesaid, and being first duly sworn as hereinafter certified, touching the declaration and application of Allice Swayze of Perry County, Ohio (widow of David Swayze, late of Fairfield County, Ohio, dec(eased) for the benefit of the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled, "An act granting half pay to certain widows," approved July 7th A.D. 1838 on his oath says that he was acquainted with the said David Swayze, deceased, and the said applicant, Allice Swayze in the County of Cecil in the State of Maryland in the year A.D. Seventeen Hundred and Ninety two (1792), and knew them at that time to be husband and wife. And further saith not.
s/ James Allen

Sworn to and subscribed before.
s/ John Heck, Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Perry County//

On the 24th day of February A.D. 1845, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, William M. Swayze and James...
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[illegible]

Marked A. | Swayze

{677}
FAMILY RECORD
MARRIAGES. | MARRIAGES.
David Swayze to Allice Milligan, January 20th 1792. | Elizabeth Swayze to Even Thomas, Feb. A.D. 1828.
Mary Swayze to James Hooper A.D. 1812. | Daniel S. Swayze to Polly R. Wiseman, Oct. [illegible]
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{677}
FAMILY RECORD
BIRTHS | BIRTHS
David Swayze, March 4th 1762.
Allice Milligan, Consort of David Swayze, 22nd of May 1769.

(A)

I do hereby certify this to be the same referred to in the affidavit of Wm. M. Swayze, James Allen and Benjamin Linville, this Feb 24th 1845.
s/ John Heck, Associate Judge
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...Allen, of the County of Fairfield and State of Ohio, and Benjamin Linville of the County of Perry aforesaid, of lawful age being first duly sworn as hereinafter certified touching the declaration and application of Allice Swayze of Perry County, Ohio, (widow of David Swayze, late of Fairfield County, Ohio, deceased), for the benefit of the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled, "An act granting half pay to certain widows," approved July 7th A.D. 1838, on their said oaths do say that the record of the marriage of said David Swayze [crossed out: deceased] to Alice Milligan (now Allice Swayze, the applicant) hereto attached, in words and figures, following.

To Wit.: Family Record, Marriages, David Swayze to Allice Milligan, January 20th 1792, is the original Family Record, in that behalf of the said David Swayze, deceased. That the same was made by the said David [Swayze] when in life and is in his handwriting. And further that the slip containing said original record was this day cut from the Family Bible of said David Swayze, deceased, in our presence and further that said Family Bible, from which said slip was detached, contained in connection therewith, in regular order, the marriages, births and deaths of the several members of said David Swayze family as those events respectively have transpired, and further saith not.

Signed:
s/ Wm M. Swayze
s/ James Allen
s/ Benjamin Linville

Sworn to and subscribed before me.
s/ John Heck, Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Perry County//

I, John Heck, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, do hereby certify that the Family Bible containing the original Family Record of David Swayze, late of Fairfield County, deceased, was this day produced before me. That the slip containing, among other things, the marriage of said David Swayze to Allice Milligan hereto attached marked (A) and certified by me, was cut from the original Family Record in my presence and is the same referred to in the foregoing affidavits of Wm. M. Swayze, James Allen and Benjamin Linville. Given under my Hand and Seal this February 24th 1845.
s/ John Heck, Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Perry County//

I, John W. Davis, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above signed John Heck, Esq., was at the time of signing the same one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, duly qualified and commissioned and that full faith and credit an due his official acts in all Courts of Law and Equity. Also that the signature is genuine.

Witness: John W. Davis, Clerk of our said Court and the Seal thereof this 27th day of February A.D. 1845.
s/ John W. Davis, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Muskingum County//

Before me, Frederick A. Seborn, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally came James H. Monroe, who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposes and says that Alice Swayze, widow of David Swayze, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, died on the Fifth day of January A.D. 1850 at about 2 o'clock am. [crossed out: 1850] at her daughter's (Mrs. Perrey's) residence in said County of Muskingum. That she, the said Alice, is the identical person whose name was placed on the Pension List under the Act of February 2nd 1848, as entitled to a pension of Forty six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum.
s/ J. Welborne

Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 13 day of June A.D. 1850.
s/ F.A. Seborn, Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that James H. Monroe, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, is a person entitled to credit.
s/ F.A. Seborn, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Muskingum County//

I, Anthony Wilkins, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify that on the 13th day of June 1850, F.A. Seborn, Esq., was and now is an Acting Justice of the Peace, duly elected, commissioned and qualified as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Janesville this 13th day of June A.D. 1850.
s/ Anthony Wilkins, Clerk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. | 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., (blank) 19 (blank)

O.W. & N.

In reply to your request of (blank), received (blank) for a statement of the military history of David Swayze, a soldier 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. W.6,111.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. (CAPTAIN/COLONEL) | STATE.
May 1776 | And served at various times. In all, 1 yr. 2 mos. & 1 week. | Pri(vate) | Abraham McKinney, William Hazlet, Arthur Henry Ribble & James Bonnel | N.J.

Battles engaged in, Skirmishes with Hessians, Indians & Tories.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sussex Co., N.J.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 5, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Richland Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio.
Age at date of application, Born Mar. 4, 1762 in Hunterdon Co., N.J.; Died Mar. 2, 1838.
Remarks: Soldier married in Cecil Co., Md., Jan. 20, 1792, Alice or Allice Milligan, b(orn) May 22, 1769 and she was allowed pension on an ap(plication) ex(ecuted) Feb. 17, 1845 while a resident of Thorn Township, Perry Co., Ohio. She died June 5, 1850 in Muskingum Co., Ohio, "At the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Perrey."

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Other people on family record not mentioned because no relationship or birth dates given at all.
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[illegible]
Act Feb. 1838
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Somerset, May 6th 1846.

J.L. Edwards, Esq.

D(ea)r Sir,

Enclosed we forward you the deposition of Mr. Allen, also an attested copy of the marriage record of Cecil County Maryland. The former deposition of Mr. Allen is with the papers on file in your office.

We have delayed forwarding the deposition and copy, hoping to procure the deposition of an old lady who resides in the neighborhood where the marriage took place but who at our last information was temporarily absent. If the evidence is insufficient or informal in any respect, please notify us at your earliest convenience and confer a favor on your obed(ient) ser(vant).
s/ Hood & Hickman, for Alice Swayze

Hon. J.L. Edwards, Esq.
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Somerset, Perry County, Ohio
February 26th 1845

Mr. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

D(ea)r Sir,


Enclosed please find application of Mrs. Allice Swayze, widow of David Swayze, late of Fairfield County, Ohio, for a pension under the Act of Congress approved July 7th 1838. In that behalf the proof accompanying may not be precisely of the character contemplated by the regulations of the department in such cases but we supposed them sufficient. If upon examination they are not so, please advise as for return mail & state wherein the deficiency consists. If they are sufficient then we will regard it as a particular favor that you inform us at your early convenience as to the amount she will be entitled to receive & when & where payable. Your kind attention in the premise will greatly oblige.

Yours truly,
s/ Hood & Hickman, attorneys for petitioner
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of David Swayze, which require further proof or explanation.

I.   Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes.
II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes.
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? (blank)
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes.
V.   *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes.
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes.
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes.
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate ? Yes.
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes.
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? (blank)
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes.
XIV. *If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No.
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? (blank)
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? (blank)
XVI. **Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? (blank)

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* - QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For (blank) year (blank) months, and  (blank) days, I served as a  (blank). For  (blank) months and  (blank) days, I served as a  (blank); and for such service I claim a pension."
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The State of Ohio
County of Perry//

Be it known that before me, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared James Allen of the County of Fairfield in the State aforesaid, of lawful age, being first duly sworn by me as hereafter certified deposes and says.

That in the matter of the application of Alice Swayze, widow of David Swayze, late of said Fairfield County, deceased, to the War Department for a pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, said affiant in a former affidavit or deposition now on file in the Pension Office deposed as to the marriage of said Alice Swayze, formerly Alice Milligan, with said David Swayze, which said fact so testified to affiant recollects from the circumstances that he, affiant, was married on the 20th day of October 1791, and that the marriage of the said Alice Swayze, formerly Alice Milligan, with said David Swayze, took place in the winter or early in the spring following and affiant further states that during said year of 1782 he lived in the same neighborhood and nearby the said Alice and David Swayze. And that the said Alice is to him distinctly known as the person married as aforesaid to the said David Swayze, late a Revolutionary Pensioner and that he cannot be mistaken either as to the time that said marriage took place or as to the identity of said applicant and further saith not.
s/ James Allen

April 16th 1846
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I, Joseph G. Wiseman, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Perry, hereby certify that the above named James Allen, signer of the above deposition, was by me first duly sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the matter of the application of said Alice Swayze to the War Department under the Act of Congress aforesaid as to the marriage and identity of said Alice Swayze and that the same was reduced to writing by me and was signed by the said James Allen and thereby further certify that the said affiant is to me known to be a man of veracity and good moral character.

Given under my Hand and Seal this 16th day of April 1846.
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman, one of the Associate Judges in and for said County of Perry in the State of Ohio
(Seal)

State of Ohio
Perry County//

I, James Culbertson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above signed Joseph G. Wiseman was, at the time of signing the above certificate, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Peas within and for said County of Perry, duly qualified and commissioned as such and that full faith and credit is due all his official acts in all Courts of Law and Equity. Also, that the above signature is genuine. 

Witness: James Culbertson, Clerk of our said Court of Common Pleas & the Seal thereof this 6th day of May 1846.
s/ James Culbertson, Clerk
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State of Ohio
Perry County//

On this 19 day of March A.D. 1849, personally appeared before the subscriber, an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Perry County, Alice Swayze, a resident of the County and State 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 benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of David Swayze, who served as a soldier in the New Jersey Militia for Seven months during the Revolutionary War and for which she received a pension under the Act of June 17th 1844 of Forty six dollars and Sixty six [cents] per annum. She further declares that she is still the widow of the said David Swayze, dec(eased).
s/ Alice Swayze

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before.
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman, Associate Judge

I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing
affidavit.
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman, Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Perry County//

I, James Culbertson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify the within signed Joseph G. Wiseman was at the time of signing the same, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, duly qualified and commissioned as such and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts in all Courts of Law and Equity and that the signature is genuine.
Witness: James Culbertson, Clerk of our said Court of Common Pleas and the Seal thereof this 20th day of March A.D. 1849.
s/ James Culbertson, Clerk
By Henry Miser, Deputy
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Know all men by these presents, that I, Alice Swayze of the County of Perry and State of Ohio, widow of David Swayze, late a Revolutionary Pensionary of the United States, dec(eased), do hereby constitute and appoint Anthony Beelin of Pittsburg in the State of Pennsylvania my true and lawful attorney for me in my name to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions in Pittsburg aforesaid, my pension from the 4th of March 1848 to the 4th day of September 1848.
s/ Alice Swayze (Seal)

Witness my Hand and Seal this 29 day of January 1849 sealed and delivered in presence of.
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman

State of Ohio
Perry County//

Be it known that the 29 day of January 1849 before the subscriber, an Associate Judge of the County of Perry and State aforesaid, personally appeared Alice Swayze above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand the day and year last above written.
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman, Associate Judge
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[crossed out: United States of America
State of Ohio
Perry County//

Be it known that before me, Joseph G. Wiseman, Associate Judge in the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Alice Swayze and made oath in due form of law.]

The State of Ohio
Perry County//

I, James Culbertson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do herby certify that the within signed s/ Joseph G. Wiseman, Esq., was at the time of signing the same one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, duly qualified and commissioned and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts in all Courts of Law and Equity.

Witness: James Culbertson, Clerk of our said Court of Common Pleas and the Seal thereof this 29 day of Jan. A.D. 1849.
s/ James Culbertson, Clerk
By Henry Miser, Deputy
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State of Ohio
Perry County//

On this 29 January A.D. 1849, personally appeared before the subscriber, an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Perry County and State aforesaid, Alice Swayze, resident of Perry County and State 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 benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of David Swayze, who served as a soldier in the New Jersey Militia for seven months during the Revolutionary War and for which she received a pension under the act of 17th June 1844 of Forty six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum. She further declares that she is still the widow of the said David Swayze, dec(eased).
s/ Alice Swayze

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before.
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman, Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Perry County//

I, James Culbertson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above signed Joseph G. Wiseman, Esq., was at the time of signing the same, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, duly qualified and commissioned and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts in all Courts of Law and Equity.

Witness: James Culbertson, Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas and the Seal thereof of this 29th day of January A.D. 1849.
s/ James Culbertson, Clerk
By Henry Miser, Deputy
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7859.
Ohio, Pitts(burg)
Alice Swaze, widow of David Swaze, who was a Private in the Revolution.
Husband died 2nd March 1838.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of July 1846 and sent to H.L. Hickens, Esq., Somerset, Ohio.

{Acts of March 3, 1843 & 17th June '44.}

Recorded in Book A; Vol. 2; Page 209.

Reported
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11022
Ohio
Alice Swaze, widow of David Swaze, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 2nd March 1838 of Perry Co. in the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Riddle of the Regiment commanded by (blank) in the Revolution [crossed out: line] for 14 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1836] 2nd March 1838, when he died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of July 1846 and sent to H.L. Hickman, Somerset, Ohio.

Total amount, (blank).

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by the Th. Rumpkin, Clerk.
Book D ; Vol. 1; Page 379

Reported
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
July 3, 1838.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, "The widow of David Swayze, deceased, late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Forty six Dollars and Sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837.

Respectfully, yours,
s/ Albion K. Parris, Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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Rev(olutionary War)
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6111
Alice Swayze, wid(ow) [of] David Swayze, Priv(ate), Rev(olutionary) War.
Act: Feb. 2nd/'48
Index: -; Vol. M; Page 251.
{Arrangement of 1870.}

1914 Mar. 28 - Hist(ory sent) to Chas. H. Farrell. M.B.H.

He is of Fairfield Co. 15 years 1832. Born in Huntingdon [Hunterdon] Co., N.J. & lived in N.J. 27 years, then Cecil Co., Md. & 1805 to Somerset Co., Ohio.
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1914 Mar. 28 - Hist(ory sent) to Chas. H. Farrell. M.B.H.

He is of Fairfield Co. 15 years 1832. Born in Huntingdon [Hunterdon] Co., N.J. & lived in N.J. 27 years, then Cecil Co., Md. & 1805 to Somerset Co., Ohio.
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Free

Mr. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

New Jersey
April 6

4515
6/'48
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Perry County, Ohio, April 5th 1849

Mr. J.L. Edwards, Esq.

Sir ,

Enclosed I send you the papers of Alice Swayze for the purpose of drawing a certificate to draw a pension under the Act of February 2, 1848. I have know [no] doubt that she is entitled to a certificate. I have been acquainted with her for the last Thirty years and that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of June 17, 1844. I presume Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Interior, is also acquainted with her as she formerly resided for more than Thirty years in Fairfield County, the County in which he resides. Direct the letter containing her certificate to New Salem, Fairfield County, Ohio, as it is near our County line and near where I reside.

Yours &c.,
s/ Joseph G. Wiseman
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[crossed out: J.H.] MONROE, & Bull
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Will attend to all business entrusted to [crossed out: his] their care throughout the STATE OF OHIO, PROMPTLY AND FAITHFULLY.
Office on the Public Square, Zanesville, Ohio,
By their permission he refers to.:
HON. ALEXANDER HARTER, Zanesville | JOHN HAMM, Esq. Zanesville.
HON. CHAS. B. GODDARD, Zanesville | ADAM PETERS, Esq., Zanesville
HON. CHAS. C. CONVERS, Zanesville | GEO. JAMES, Esq.,  Zanesville
JESSE FARNESTOCK, Baltimore City, Md.

Zanesville, O(hio), June 12th 1850

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,

Mrs. Alice Swayze, widow of David Swayze, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War is dead us you will be satisfied by the accompanying affidavit. Her name was inscribed on the Pension List under the Act of February 2nd 1848. Her pension is in arrears nearly a year. We are informed a year the 4th August ensuing. We wish to inquire whether her legal or her personal representatives are entitled to receive such arrears of pension as were due her at the time of his death.

Your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Monroe & Bull
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J.H. MONROE
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Will attend to all business entrusted to his care throughout the STATE OF OHIO, PROMPTLY AND FAITHFULLY.
Office on the Public Square, Zanesville, Ohio,
By their permission he refers to.:
HON. ALEXANDER HARTER, Zanesville | JOHN HAMM, Esq. Zanesville.
HON. CHAS. B. GODDARD, Zanesville | ADAM PETERS, Esq., Zanesville
HON. CHAS. C. CONVERS, Zanesville | GEO. JAMES, Esq.,  Zanesville
JESSE FARNESTOCK, Baltimore City, Md.

Zanesville, April 18, 1850

Honorable Sirs,

You no doubt recollect Mrs. Swayze of Fairfield, widow of Judge Swayze, deceased, and also that she now draws a pension from the general gov(ernment). I write you to ask whether she is not entitled to some land under the law recently passed by Congress? If so, please state whether I will be under the necessity of finding new proof or whether the evidence by which she obtains her pension will do. My sending on evidence to identify her as being the same person who is entitled to the pension and who receives it. I am her grandson-in-law and have agreed to attend to the matter in consequence of that fact and would like to save myself as much trouble as possible, provided I do not cause you too much instead.

I am a stranger to you but we often find good friends in strangers. Please write soon.

Yours Respectfully,
s/ J.H. Monroe

Hon. Thomas Condry
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LAW OFFICES OF CHARLES H. FARRELL
KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Mar. 19, 1914.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

Will you please be so kind as to give me a copy of the pension transcript of widow #6111 of David Swayze.

In addition to his Revolutionary War record, I wish particularly to get the date of his marriage, the maiden name of his wife, and the date of his death.

Thanking you for an early reply, I am,

Yours very truly,
s/ Chas. H. Farrell

CHF/FLM
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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR. 21, 1914

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR. 21, 1914