Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,374, Joseph Gorman, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn
Gorman, Joseph
NUMBER
S.34.374
BL. Wt. 1244-150
CONTENTS
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New Jersey
2[?]63

Joseph Gorman
Ensign
4
Capt Gray
Pennsylvania line '78 - 1 year
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey, - +
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th of July 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Augt. 1818 and sent to John Kinney, Esq
Belvidere, N. Jersey

Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818.
1 Mo  4/31.  4/30  $25.43

Revolutionary claims, 
Act 18th March, 1818

[Continued]

Mansfield [Gafsey] Co.
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Notification sent to Ephraim, [illegible], [Sr] Esq 28 Sep 1826

[name], New Jersey
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Warrant 1 [illegible] 1244 - if (illegible]
to Ensign Joseph Gorman of the Pennsylvania line for 
- 150 acres of land
June 4th - 1827  -

and delivered to [illegible] Watson
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State of New Jersey
Susses [Sussex?] County to wit

On this twenty eight day of July - AD. 1818, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of [illegible] Pleas of the County aforesd [aforesaid], personally appears Joseph Gorman aged sixty three years, resident in Mansfield township in the County aforesd [aforesaid], who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled an 'Act  to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War.'  That he the P Joseph Gorman enlisted in the year 1776 in the month of April at Phild [Philadelphia] in the company comm [commanded] by Captain Louis Farmer of the [illegible] Rifle Regt [Regiment], Penna [ Pennsylvania] Line.  Col. Samuel Miles, on the Continental Establishment - That he enlisted for the term of one year and nine months but in the April following he recd [received] the [illegible] Commission of Ensign and contd [continued] in the service of the U. States in that capacity until June 1778, when the Regt [Regiment] to which he belonged was consolidated with the 28 Penna {Pennsylvania] Battalion, and the applicant being a [illegible] officer was discharged as a supernumerary -  That during his [illegible] term of service he was in the Battles of Long Island, Heights of Haerlem, White Plains, the Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, Princeton, Couches' Mills, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth - That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support, And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his P services. 
Joseph Gorman
Sworn to & declared before me the day and year aforesd [aforesaid]
John Summoners

At the same time & place came Peter P. Weller - 
a resident citizen of the township aforesd [aforesaid] well known to me as a man of reputable character and a man of veracity, who on his solemn oat duly administered
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doth depose & say, that he [crossed out] knows the aforementioned applicant Joseph Gorman, [illegible] the sd [said] Gorman is in reduced circumstances and by reason of the [illegible] and his advanced age & infirmities stands in need of assistance from his country for support.   And that he verily believes the contents of the sd [said] Gorman's declaration to be true & further he saith not. 
Peter P. Weller

Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid.
John  [Illegible]

I John  [Illegible]- Judge as aforesd [aforesaid] do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Gorman did serve in the War of the Revolution as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy - And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the [illegible] of the aforementioned Act of Congress

Witness my Hand this 27th day of July - AD 1818
John [Illegible]
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Joseph Gorman
Pensioner - Copy of Affidavit
2,063

[illegible]
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District of New Jersey

On the Seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open Court, being the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex, and a Court of Records by reason of their proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a Seal, and keeping a record of this proceeding - Joseph Gorman, aged sixty-five years, resident of the Township of Oxford in the said County of Sussex in the said District of New Jersey, who, being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: - viz. that on the Seventeenth day of April, 1777, he received a Commission as Ensign in Captain Robert Gray's Company, Col. Walter Stewart's Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, in which Regiment he served as Ensign faithfully for more than two years when two Regiments were consolidated, and he being one of the younger Officers was left out. And the Declarant further says that he has a Certificate of his Claim, under his original application, obtained from the war Department, which is dated on the fifth day of August, 1818. by which it appears that his name is inscribed on the Pension list Rolls of the New Jersey agency as an Ensign, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month to commence on the twenty-eighth day July, 1818 and that he has received his pension up to the fourth of March, 1820 and that the number of his said pension Certificate is 2063.
And I, the said Joseph Gorman, 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, sales or in any other manner
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disposed of my property or any part thereof, with an intent thereby so to diminish the same, 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 the eighteenth day of March 1818. And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed. The deponant under his oath, also says that he is by occupation or trade a Tanner and Currier, but that he is incapable by reason of his age and infirmities/having for several years, passed enjoyed very poor health/of obtaining a livelihood and that he has no wife or children, that the Deponant thinks himself in such indigent circumstances, that he can not support himself without the aid of Government, except by private or public charity.
Sworn to & declared on this 17th day of August 1820 in open Court
[signed] Joseph Gorman
[signed] Pab H Ford
The Deponant further saith that he has no property of which to make a Schedule, save the clothes which he has on, and one other coat.
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court, this 17th day of August 1820.
[signed] Pab. H. Ford
[signed] Joseph Gorman
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I, Ephraim Green Jun - Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oaths and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of August, A.D. 1820.

E Green Prin Clerk of the Court for the County of Sussax aforesaid

[seal affixed - upper left side]
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Josh. Gorman Ensign, Pen. Line
No 1244

[vertical along right edge] 30 May 1827
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Col Watson

State of New Jersey
County of Warren Ss

I Joseph Gorman aged Seventy one years or thereabouts, do depose oath testify and declare, that I was an Ensign in the thirteenth Penna. Regiment in Continental establishment in the Army of the Revolution and that I served as such until the period in which the Regiment to which I was then attached and which was then commanded by Col Stewart marched through Maryland to the South for the purpose of intercepting Cornwallis, at which time I was left sick on the march through Maryland and never recovered my health sufficiently afterwards to join the army, but was continued in the rolls thereof to the close of the war probably as a supernumerary.
Therefore, know all men by these present that I Joseph Gorman as aforesaid to hereby constitute and appoint the Joseph Watson of Washington City my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand are received from the Secretary of War of the U States a warrant for the quantity of land due me as Ensign as aforesaid.
And my said attorney is hereby fully authorized & empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed  and the same to revoke at will - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty first day of May 1827.
[signed] Joseph Gorman x his mark
Witness
[signed] George R. King
[signed] James McMurtrie

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Judge of the Court in and for Said County Joseph Gorman Signer and Sealer to the foregoing power of attorney and declared the Same to be his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, who being duly sworn for an oath to the truth of the above statement and further says that he has never received a warrant for any land from the U. States for his said services or transferred his right to it in any manner whatever- Sworn, subscribed & acknowledged before me
this 22nd day of May 1827
[signed] J Kinney Jr
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State of New Jersey
County of Warren

Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Judge in and for said County, James McMurtrie and George R. King, both disinterested and credible witnesses, who being duly sworn saith that they have been well acquainted with the before named Joseph Gorman who has signed the foregoing power of attorney in their presence, for many years and feel confident that he is the identical person that he therein represents himself to be and that we also believe he did perform military service in the manner as by him set forth and further say that they know that the said Gorman is a U. States revolutionary War pensioner and further saith not.

Sworn, subscribed and
acknowledged before me this 
22nd day of May, 1827.     James McMurtrie
         J. Kinney Jr.                       George R. King

State of New Jersey
Warren County
I, Matthias O. Halsted, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Warren, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that John Kinney Jnr. before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken and whose name is subscribed to the same is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County, duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to take depositions, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the signature "J. Kinney Jr." to be the hand writing of the said Judge.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty fifth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty seven.
Matt's. O Halsted, Clk.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
17.34374 [illegible]
Washington, D. C., ________, 19__

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Joseph Gorman 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.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1. April 1776
2. April 18, 1777

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1. April 1777
2. June 1778

RANK
1. Pvt [Private]
2. Ensign - discharged as a Supernumerary office

CAPTAIN.
1. Louis Farmer
2. Robert Gray

COLONEL.
1. Samil Miles 1 Rifle Regt.
2. Walter Stewart 

STATE.
1. [?}
2. 13 Pa.
 
Battles engaged in, Long island, Harlems, White-Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Couches Mills, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.
Residence of solder at enlistment, Enlisted at Philadelphia.

Date of application for pension, July 28, 1818 [illegible]

Residence at date of application, Mansfield Township, Sussex County, New Jersey

Age at date of application, 63 years.
Remarks: [check mark]

Respectfully,

Commissioner
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34374
Reg.
INVALID.
File No. 34374
Joseph Gorman
Ensign Rev War

Act: 18th March 18th
Index: Vo. 2, Page 159
Arrangement of 1870

1914 May 28 Hist. to Nancy C. Morrow. V. L. M.
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34374

IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO

[Illegible] Gentleman Gorman

WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity,
DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign in a Regiment [illegible] the State of Pennsylvania


in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Ensign by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Ensign.
And ye are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to
Time, as you shall receive from the or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress,
for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States,
or any other your superior Officer
according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the
Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
DATED at [illegible]
By Order of the CONGRESS
Attest
[illegible]
John Hancock  PRESIDENT
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Jos. Gorman
Revolutionary
Forward papers

Aug 17 1818
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Sir Buvidere.    July 27th 1818

By the request of an old soldier I herewith include you time papers relative to his illegible a pension for services also during the Revolutionary War which I hope may be found satisfactory as I have good reason to believe him a deserving illegible
Yours very respectfully
John Kinney
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Belvidere N.J.
July 28th 1818}

D. (Last name is cut off on the edge)
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Joseph Gorman
Penn.
S34374
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[postcard]
[upper card]
[stamped] Oil City, PA May 23 8-PM 1914
[postage stamp] POSTAL CARD ONE CENT
[stamp cancellation stamp] South side station

[center of card]
This side of Card is for address only
[stamped] U.S. Pension Office D May 25 1914

[bottom]
Commissioner of Pensions
Department O. 
Washington D.C.

[left hand side - vertical]
Rev. SCC & B
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Kindly send copies of the following Revolutionary Pension Records:

George Shellenhaurer, pv P.M. Feb 23k 1833: 74 of Dauphin Co, PA

John Elder, pv, P.M. May 7, 1834; 70 of Centre Co Pa.

Daniel Palmer: Philadelphia Co, ppv. 42 Inf, Oct 21, 1816; M.E.

Joseph Gorman, ensign P.L. Warren Co (New Jersey), Aug 15, 1818; 79.

Soncerely Yours, 
Nancy C. Morrow
#107 E. Fourth St.
Oil City, PA. 
May 23, 1914
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T J Hudson for
Joseph Gorman
Rec 18 July 1829
193

Francis A. Dickins Esq
Treasury Department
Present
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Solicitor Office for claims in the U States Washington City 18th July 1829

Sir
I have the honor to hand you enclosed, the documents in the case of Joseph Gorman, who is believed to be entitled under the resolve of Congress of the 17th May 1778 - He has received land from the United States for services in the revy war.
I am very respectfully,
Yr Mo Obt Servt
Thos J Hodson

Fras A Dickins Esq. Treasury Dept. Present.
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Joseph Gorman - Ensign
Perm line
New Jersey
Inv File No 34.374

Not allowed
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O M J
#34.374
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Revolutionary Claims.
[C.]
Form of a Power of Attorney.

Know all men by these presents, that I, Joseph Gorman of Belvidere in the county of Warren in the State of New Jersey do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson or Thomas J. Hodson my true and lawful attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me, under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828, as an Ensign in the regiment of the Pennsylvania line of the army of the Revolution. Commanded by Cor Walter Stewart.

Witness my hand and seal, this Ninth day of July in the year 1829.

his
Joseph S. Gorman
mark
[L. S.]

Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Geo. R. King 

Before me, Geo R. King a Justice of the Peace in the county of Warren in the State of New Jersey personally appeared, this day, Joseph Gorman whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received but that the said pay is intended to enure [ensure] wholly to his personal benefit.
Witness my hand, this Ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Geo R. King.

I, Matthias O. Halsted, Clerk of the Court of the county of Warren, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that George H. King Esquire before whom the foregoing power of attorney acknowledged, is a Justice of the Peace.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and twenty nine
Matt. Halsted

[D.]
Form of affidavit to by taken by Attorneys.

Before me, a Justice of the Peace in the county of in the of personally appeared this day, the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure [ensure] wholly to the personal befit of the person by whom the said power was executed.
Witness my hand, this day of in the year

I, __ Clerk of the Court of the county of ____ in the State of ______, do hereby certify that _____ before whom the foregoing power of attorney acknowledged, is a Justice of the Peace.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the [L. S.] said Court, this _____ day of _____
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                 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
                                 =======

                  TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
                                                   31 July 1829

Joseph Gorman  Of Belvidere in the County of Warren in the State of New Jersey 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 as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,

At which period he was an Ensign in Col Stewarts regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he did not receive 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, Twenty dollars a month - dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of New Jersey.

The Third Auditor is requested to port how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
F A Dickins

                      TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
                                    THIRD AUDITOR’S OFFICE
                                          M August 1829

(Three full sentences were lined through.)
It further appears that Joseph Gorman —-is now on the pension list of the New Jersey agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month…He has been paid to 4th March 1829.
      It appears from the Book containing the names of officers entitled to land, that Ensign Joseph Gorman became a supernumerary officer, in the Pennsylvania line, on the 1st July 1778 - and was therefore not entitled to commutation. 
Peter Hager Aud.
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Revolutionary Claims
 Joseph Corman of Belvidere in the County of Warren in the State of New Jersey, Do hereby 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; and have obtained land from the United States accordingly at which period I was an Ensign in the Regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Colonel Walter Stewart and I also declare that I afterwards received certificate (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22d of March AD 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 25th October AD 180:- And I do for the declare, that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner since the day of March AD 1826, the sum of twenty dollars, per month, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of New Jersey: Whereas by a resolution of the old Congress, under date of the 27th of May AD 1778, I was entitled to receive ten pounds, or twenty six dollars and sixty six & two third cents per month, under a new arrangement of the Army: Witness my hand this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thou and Eight hundred & twenty nine - Witness Merent Joseph Gorman 1685 Morris Claims
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Warren County

Before me George R. King, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Warren in the State of New Jersey, personally appeared this day John Kinney Jnr and James McMurtrie of the said County, who did severally make oath that Joseph Gorman bywhom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reported and believed to have been an office in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand this Seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Geo. R. King           J. Kinney Jr.
                            James McMurtrie

I Matthias O. Halsted, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Warren, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that George R. King, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Warren, and duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty nine.
Matt. O. Halsted, Clk.
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Gorman, Joseph
S34374
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Proud Nimrod first the illegible due to discoloring of the document
Have began Almighty hunting and 
Pray was Man

Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his pray was Man

Proud Nimrod first the Bloody chase began 
A mighty hunter, and his pray was Man

Proud Nimrod first the Bloody chase began
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-41
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Gorman, Lawrence
GRADE Private
LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9436
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED July 27, 1789 to Richard Platt, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-41
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Gorrell, John
GRADE Private
LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9454
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED August 14, 1792
to Jasper Iserloan, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.
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CONTENTS
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9117
Kentucky

John Gorrell

Bath County in the state of Kentucky was a private in the regiment commanded by colonel Butler of the Pennsylvania for the term of 2 years.

[unclear]ibed on the Roll of Kentucky
the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of March 1819 and lent to Thomas Triplett, Esq, Plk, Livingsville, Bath County

[unclear] to 4th of March 1819 Sm 5/ 14 4 30 31 $68.70
anl.all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819...48

$116.76

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
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Copies sent to P. S. Loughborough
[illegible] the letter [illegible]
4 Sept. 1836 - see letter to
Agt. 2 March 1835 removing the
 [illegible]
do. Wm Earnst Mar. 21, '37
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John Gorrell states that he was continental soldier or a Soldier in the Continental Army in the service of the United Colonies in the time of the Revolutionary War, that in the year One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine in the month of September of that year he was enlisted by a recruiting Sergeant belonging to Capt Pratt's company by the name of Moore Bags. He was enrolled in Capt. Pratts company for or during the War. The regiment to which he belonged was command Col Wm Butler of the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment and the Company commanded by Capt Pratt, was the 4th company in the said Regiment. He continued in the said company until discharged at Carlisle in the fall of one thousand seven hundred and Eight one By general Richard Butler. He further states that he was much debilitated by age and Infirmity and not able to perform hard labour nor to support his family by his labour, his personal estate is not more than 160 dollars and having ever received any Pension from the United States or any individual state. He has much need of assistance. He further states that he had a discharge which he obtained at Carlisle. But it is lost many years ago. He further states that from his indigent circumstances he absolutely required the aid of the Government to support him.
Willim McGahee states that he Served in the continental army with the above named John Gorrell and belonged to the same company for two years or thereabouts and he further states that the above statement
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as to the circumstances and situation of the said Gorrell is substantially true.

State of Kentucky
Bath Circuit Sct.
Ordered that it be certified to the Secretary of War that the presiding examination of John Gorrell and William McGahey was taken an oath in open court and that it does appear to the satisfaction of the court by said examinations that the said applicant John Gorrell was during the Revolution War and enlisted soldier, and that he served as much as in said examination is stated and that he said John Gorrell is in such dray and indigent circumstances as to require the aid of his country provided by the act of Congress in such cases provided. The foregoing statement Sworn to in open court is in due form of Law. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Office the seal of my office this 17th day of June 1818 and in 27th year of the commonwealth.
Att Thomas Triplett, Clk.
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Kentucky Bath Circuit Court, Sept Term 1820,
John Gorrell a Revolutionary pensioner produced in open court a schedule of his estate and made oath to the same agreeably to have in such cases made and provided, whereupon the same was examined and the Court being satisfied therewith ordered it to be recorded in the words and figures following, to, wit. State of Kentucky County of Bath - on this 18th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court, it being a court of Record for the said county of Bath John Gorrell, aged 56 years, resident in said county of Bath, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: In the 7th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Col Button, Capt Pratts company, served about 2 years and nine months, was discharged at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and that he was enlisted to serve during the war, and I 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 intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain pensioners engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March 1818": and I have not nor has any person in Trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me:
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nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
John Gorrell, 
Schedule
one cow and calf -- $15.00
one bed and furniture -- 30.00
one Sow -- 10.00
one wheel --2.50
one Reel --1.50
$59.00
He has a wife and Seven children living with him, Betsy about 19 years of age, John aged 16 years, Sene 11 years, Joseph aged 8 years, Nancy aged 6 years, James aged 2 years, Polly aged about 9- the two eldest are able to render some assistance, the others are a considerable burthen and charge from their youth & wife unhealthy in a considerable degree Sworn to and declared on this 18th day of September Assc. 1820 before the said circuit aforesaid of the county of Bath being one of the circuit courts for the state of Kentucky aforesaid and it is further ordered by the court that a true copy of the same be certified to the War Department.

I John A Turner clerk of the court for the Circuit aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule there to annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said that the total amount in value of the property exhibited
[hand drawn seal on left side of page]
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in the aforesaid schedule is fifty nine dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 24th day of October 1820, 
[signed] J. A. Turner

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the original.
[signed] E. D. Bullock
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January 17, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF:MLB

Marguerite Starkey
Wallace, Indiana

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35970, that John Gorrell enlisted in September, 1779 and served in Captain Pratt's company , Colonel William Butler's Pennsylvania regiment, and was discharged in the fall of 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 17, 1818.
In 1820 he was living in Bath County, Kentucky and was aged fifty-six years, and at this time referred to his wife, her name and age not given, and to seven children, as follows:
Betsy - - - aged 19 years
John - - - aged 16 years
Sene or Lena - - - aged 11 years
Joseph - - -  aged 8 years
Nancy - - - aged 6 years
James - - - aged 2 years 
Polly - - - about 9 --- (probably months)

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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35970
Invalid
[illegible]
File No. 35,970
John Gorrell
[illegible]
Act: 18 March, '18
Index: Vol. Q, Page 477
1931- Jan. 17 - Hist. to Marquerite Starkey
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JOSEPH THOMAS
TRUSTEE
HENRY BELONG
HISTORY- COACH
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Wallace High School
IRA W. VANCE, PRINCIPAL
WALLACE, INDIANA
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MILDRED VANCE
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BLANCHE FRANCKE
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[typewritten letter]
January 6, 1931

Bureau of Pensions
Dept. of Interior
Washington, D.C.
[handwritten comment in margin - "2 lett. sent out Jan.17"]

Gentlemen:
have learned from the Division of Archives and History of the Pennsylvania State Library that a man by the name of John Gorrell who served in Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution was pensioned in Bath County, Kentucky for
his service.
I wish to clear up the question whether or not this man mentioned above is the same man whose Certificate of Military Service I have for services in the Second Pennsylvania
Regiment, Continental Line.
A record of this Certificate of Service that I now hold can be found page 872 Volume II, Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series.
I am seeking a record of the pension of this man and any other information possible. Please advise me if there is a charge for this kind of record.
Thank you.
Very truly yours,
[signed] Marguerite Starkey
Wallace, Indiana

[stamped]
U.S. Pension Office Jan 8 1931
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JOSEPH THOMAS
TRUSTEE
HENRY BELONG
HISTORY- COACH
[upper center]
Wallace High School
IRA W. VANCE, PRINCIPAL
WALLACE, INDIANA
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MILDRED VANCE
ENGLISH-MATHEMATICS
BLANCHE FRANCKE
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[typewritten letter]
December 17, 1930

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Gentleman:

I am seeking the service record or any other information concerning John Gorrel who is said to have served in the War of the Revolution in the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment. It is also said that there is a certificate of pay to November 3, 1783, and a certificate for gratuity allowed by Congress to the non commissioned
officers and privates who served during the war.
Please advise me if this is authentic information. Also advise me if there is any charges for this information.
Thank you.
Very truly yours,
[signed] Marguerite Starkey
Wallace, Indiana

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office Dec 20 1930
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Sharpsburg Ky
Feb 1h th 18350

Preston Luffborough Esq

Washington City
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15th Feby 1825

Dear Sir,
     In Persuance of my service made to you in  Frankfort last fall I have such inquiries as my time and literature would admit as to the claims of Gordan Griffin and John Penneb to be continued on the pensiers rolls> My father who was an early settler in this country says that he thinks as early as 1785 he became acquainted with Gordon Griffin that he was then a resident and having been a Rev war soldier in the Revolutionary army and has been so considered ever since William Boyd and old settler first knew him and a volunteer in the army illegible  to go against the Indians under Latt illegible he has been considered as one of the old Indian fighters he volunteered himself in a company of mounted men all of which taken with his general   Illegible as a soldier illegible my mind of the Justice of his clams   As to Mr. Gorrel I have not been able to procure as much information except as to one paid in all agree as to the respectability of William McGahey the witness By whom he presented his service and that any statements made y him is entitled to full credit I knew him well and always considered him a man of strict integrity d severe his circumstances of his having lived a close neighbor of Gahey for many years he could not have been mistake. I must therefore think his case also plainly made  and illegible  standing he must have been quite a youth when he entered the service. These facts I have sought proper to submit to you for your consideration Please advise me of the results . You will see from the papers that illegible has state Richardson Town Sincerely
W.M. Ludduth
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Washington City, October 21, 1834. Received from the Commissioner of Pensions the original paper in support of the pension claim of John Gorrell of Kentucky. The papers are two in number.
[signed] P.S. Loughborough
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Circular seal stamped on the upper left hand side of the envelope shows LEXINGTON across the top with KY on the bottom. MAR 12 is found in the middle.

Jno Gorrell
Pen rolls
File militia papers (free)
J. L. Edward’s Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
d.C.
Am Mar 20 1837

Bottom of page shows
John Gorrell
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Northern Bank Sry
Lexington March 11 1837

Sir
John Gorrell a Revoly Pensioner under act 18 March 1818 formerly of Bath County Ky has removed to Putman County Inda. She requests that you will send him the necessary Blanks in order to obtain a transfer from this to the Indiana Agency.

He has been paid up to 4th March 1837
As we are frequently applied to for information how to proceed in case of transfer. It would be well perhaps if you would send a few blanks to this Agency - 
Respy your Obt St
Wm Ernst
Pension Clk

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comr of Pensions 
Washington