Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3222, Martin Claubaugh, Penn.
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Service 
Penn
Claubaugh, Martin
or Clabaugh
or Claughbaugh
or Clobbogh, Margaret 
Number
W. 3222
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Reported
Payable to Catharine Claubaugh
Admt for sole use of only surviving children, to wit.
Martin Claubaugh
Margaret Summers
Jacob Claubaugh
Elizabeth Night[illegible]
Catharine Claubaugh
Abraham Claubaugh
8866. Phil. Pennsylvania
Margaret Claubaugh, dec
widow of Martin Claubaugh who was a Private in the Revolution. Penn Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
and 3 Mar. 1848, when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the Second day of Aug 1850 and sent to Hon. Sam Calvin,
House of Repr
[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. two Page 105.
Catharine Claubaugh Adm [illegible]
Payable to only surviving children [illegible] of this file
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2908.
Pennsylvania
Martin Claubaugh,
private
Rifle Corps.   1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 14th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st Apr 1818
and sent to D. Stewart, Esq
Huntingdon, Pa
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 and 21 /30. 37.60
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819. 48. 00
$85.60

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co
Notification sent November 3d 1820
R. Allison Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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Huntingdon County
State of Pennsylvania
Be It Remembered that on the fourteenth day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and Eighteen Before me David Stewart one of the
associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania Personally appeared Martin
Clabough of the Borough of Huntingdon in the
said County of Huntingdon and a resident 
citizen of the United States, and being duly sworn
according to law doth and did depose and say
that on or about the month of June or July in
the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven
hundred and Seventy five he entered into the
army of the United Colonies raised for the
defence of American Liberty, and for repelling
hostile invasion thereof as a private
Soldier in a Company of Riflemen under
Michael Crissip in the Town of Hagerstown and
State of Maryland. That in the same year
he was marched to Boston there 
whilst building the fort at Bunker Hill and
afterwards marched to Staten Island, where, in
the month of June or July in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and
Seventy six he was honorably discharged
Having served in the army of the United
Colonies afterwards the Army of the United States of America
for and during the Term of one year. That his discharge was lost by
accident, but in what manner he came to
now tell. That he hath no pension heretofore
allowed him by the laws of the United States to 
his knowledge, and if any such exists he doth
hereby fully and entirely release the same to the United States. That he is now about seventy
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four years of age that by reason of his reduced
circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance
from his country for support.
Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Before
David Stewart
his
X 
Martin Claubaugh
Mark
Huntingdon County ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth Personally came James Duncan of the County aforesaid & being duly Sworn according to law did depose and say that he was acquainted with Martin Clabough the
above named Applicant in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy five & saw him enlist in a company of Riflemen commanded by Captain
Daniel Crispin for one year in the Town of Hagerstown and State of Maryland & further saith not.
Sworn & Subscribed the
14th of April 1818
before
David Stewart
Pennsylvania & Huntingdon County
James Duncan 
his X mark

I David Stewart an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the
County and Commonwealth aforesaid Do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Martin Claubaugh did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated
in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit 
the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Hon the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress April 14th 1818.
David Stewart
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Application of 
Martin Claubaugh
Con
2908
Huntingdon
Cty
21 Sept 18
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
on this seventeenth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
twenty Personally appeared in open Court before Charles
Huston Esquire President and David Stewart and
Joseph McCune Esquires his associate Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas for Huntingdon County in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Said Court being a Court
of Record by the laws of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania Martin Clabaugh who being a resident in
said County aged Seventy seven years and being first
duly sworn according to Law doth declare on his
oath that he served in the Revolutionary war as
follows viz that he enlisted in the year of our Lord
1775 in the service of the United States and went to
Boston and remained one year in the service in
Captain Cressaps Company of Maryland that 
after the said year expired he remained six
months longer in said service that his original
declaration is dated the 14th day of April AD 1818 and
the number of his pension certificate is 2908 and I do
Solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the 
United States on the eighteenth day of March AD 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 an intent thereby to diminish it
so as to bring myself within the Provisions of an act of
Congress entitled and act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval service of
the United States in the revolutionary war passed
the 18th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor
has 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
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2 washing Tubs         $0.50
1 Small Tub                   .12 1/2
1 Tin Bucket                  .50
1 Killender                     .50
3 Wooden Buckets        .50
3 Old flour Barrels         .12 1/2
1 Cabbage Tub              .15
1 Soap Tub                    .15
1 Hog                           3.00
1 Set Coopers Tools     3.00
1 Pitch Fork                    .25
1 Dung Fork                   .03
1 Old Spade                 0.00
2 Corn Hoes                 0.04  
1 Small Garden Hoe     0.06 1/2
6 Milk Crocks               0.12 1/2
                                    ----------
                                    $8,81
That he's by trade a Cooper but that owing to his advanced and verry bad health and deficiency in his eyesight he is unable to pursue his trade or do any other work for his support that he has no family but his wife Margaret who is sixty nine years of age and is from her advanced age able to contribute verry little towards their support. 
Sworn to and declared in open Court
William Steel Proty
Martin Clabaugh
his mark
X

Huntingdon County ss
Christian Colstock and Daniel Africa being duly sworn in open court doth depose and say that they were well acquainted with the within mentioned Pensioner Martin Clabaugh and his circumstances and believe his property and estimate the same to be worth eight Dollars and eighty one cents which in opinion of Deposants is the utmost extent of its value.
Sworn and Subscribed           Christian Colstock
in open Court this 11th day
of August 1820                       Daniel Africa
   William Steel Proty
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Huntingdon County 
This foregoing declaration being made in
open Court on the 17th August 1820 & the Schedule aforesaid
being exibited & the evidence of the value of the property of
Declarant produced stating the value of the Same at $8,81
the Court approved of said valuation of eight Dollars and eighty one cents & concurs therein
By the Court
William Steel Proty
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County, SS.

On this twenty fifth day of March A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, 
personally appeared before me the subscriber,
one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid (said court being a court of records) 
Margaret Claubaugh, a resident of the borough of Huntingdon
in the County and state aforesaid, aged about eighty
eight years, who being 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 4th A.D. 1836: That
she is the widow of Martin Claubaugh, deceased, who at the time of his death
was a pensioner of the United States for services rendered
as a soldier in the revolutionary war - That the documents on
which the claim of her said husband was predicated, and on
which a pension was granted to him in his lifetime, and which
contain a detailed statement of his services, and of the capacity in
which he served in war of the Revolution, are, as she understands,
in the proper office at Washington city, to which she begs leave to
refer the Honourable the Secretary of War or Commissioners
Pensions for the facts as to his services in the Revolutionary army.
She further declares that she was married to the said Martin
Claubaugh as near as she can recollect, about the year 1772
(having been married when she was about twenty years of
age, and being now as near she can till about eighty eight
years) by the Rev. Mr. Young, then paster of the Evangelical
Lutheran Congregations of Hagerstown, and of Funkstown,
Maryland: that her husband the said Martin Claubaugh
died on the 15th day of July in the year A.D. 1822; and
that she has remained a widow ever since that period,
as will [illegible] fully appear by reference to the papers hereunto
annexed. That she has no certificate or family
record of her marriage; that she well recollects that
when she and her said late husband removed from
Maryland to the borough of Huntingdon, where she
now lives, about the year 1801 or 1802, they endeavoured
to procure a certificate from the Pastor of the before 
mentioned congregations of their marriage and of the baptisms
of their children, and that they were told that the
was no record, or that the church book was lost.
That there is no person now living that deponent
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knows of, who can prove the time of the marriage of the
deponent with her late husband, the aforesaid Martin
Clabaugh dec'd; and that the best proof she can now
command, on this subject in the affidavit of Adam
Sturtzman (who is now deceased) annexed to her
petition and other documents which are hereto attached,
(and to which the Honourable the Secretary of war is
referred) presented to the legislature of Pennsylvania
at the Session of 1824-5, and on which the said
legislation by act of assembly approved the 12th day
of February 1825, granted this applicant a pension
of forty dollars per annum as the widow of the
said Martin Clabaugh dec'd
Sworn & subscribed the
day & year above or before
written, Before me
John Ker
Margaret Clabaugh
her mark

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ss.

I, John Kerr, an associate Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said
County of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, Do
certify that Margaret Claubaugh, the within named
applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the
Court
Given under my hand this 25th day
of March, A. D. 1840.
John Ker

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
I James Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas
in & for the County aforesaid Do Certify that John Ker
Esq. before whom the above declaration of Margaret
Clabaugh appears to have been made & sworn to who
has attested the same & who has also signed the above
Certificate is now & was at the time of taking the same
& signing said Certificate one of the associate Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly 
commissioned & sworn & that the above several signatures
purporting to be his are genuine - In Testimony whereof
have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said court 27 March 1840.
James Steel Proty
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Phil.
No
Margaret Claubaugh dec
Mo. of
Martin
Per
act 3 March 43 [?] June
1844
Admo $40 par
from 4 March 1843 to
3 March 1848, the day of
her death payable to
Catharine Claubaugh
Administratrix of Margaret
Claubaugh, for the use
Martin Claubaugh, 
Margaret Summers, Jacob Claubaugh,
Elizabeth Nightwine,
Catherine Claubaugh, and Abraham
Claubaugh only surviving
Children of Margaret Claubaugh dec'd

Hon Samuel Calvin
House of Reps
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress
of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one 
year to certain widows who have received pensions
under the act of July 7, 1838, and other acts of Congress
made and provided in such cases, as also for
Increase of Pension

State of Pennsylvania
County of Huntingdon.

On this twenty third day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1850, personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Huntingdon, 
State of Pennsylvania, Catharine Claubaugh, a resident of
the borough of Huntingdon in the County of Huntingdon,
State of Pennsylvania, aged 54 years, who
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her
oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain for herself and the other children of her
deceased mother, Margaret Claubaugh, the
benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress,
passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to
widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary
war: that she is a child and administratrix of the estate of 
Margaret Claubaugh,
who was the widow of Martin Claubaugh,
who was a Soldier in the Pennsylvania 
Continental Line in the war of the Revolution,
and drew a pension from the United States
under the act of July 7, 1838, at the rate of
Forty Dollars per annum; that her mother,
the said Margaret Claubaugh, departed this
life on the third day of March in the year
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one thousand eight hundred and forty eight,
leaving children her surviving, as will appear
by the evidence hereunto annexed, and
remained the widow of her deceased husband,
the aforesaid Martin Claubaugh, until the
day of her decease. The makes this 
declaration to obtain such pension as may be
due under the Act of 3d March, 1843, and 17th
June 1844, together with such increase as the services of
her deceased father may entitle the children of said deceased
Martin and Margaret Claubaugh to.
In presence of
Geo.Taylor
John Scott
her 
Catharine Claubaugh
mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before
Geo. Taylor
Judge Court of Common Pleas.
Huntingdon County SS
I Theo H. Cremer Prothonatory of the Court
of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid
do certify that the Hon. George Taylor
Esquire, before whom the above declaration
was made, is President Judge of the
twenty fourth Judicial District of Pennsylvania,
composed of the Counties of Huntingdon, Blair
and Cambria, And further I do certify that the above & foregoing
signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof
have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Court
at Huntingdon to be affixed, this
23rd day of July A.D. 1838.
Theo H Cremer
Proty
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ⎬ Set

On this twenty third day of July
A.D. 1850 personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Huntingdon,
State of Pennsylvania Doctor Jacob Hoffman
a resident of said County and State who being by me
first duly sworn according to law doth depose and say
that he was well acquainted with Mrs. Margaret Claubaugh widow of Martin Claubaugh deceased: That as a
Physician he attended her in her last illness, that she departed
this life in the Borough of Huntingdon County and State
aforesaid, on the third day of March one thousand eight
hundred and forty-eight, that at the time of her decease
she left six children her [unintelligible] whose names are Martin Claubaugh, 
Margaret intermarried with Peter Summers, Jacob Claubaugh, Elizabeth 
intermarried with William Nightwine, Catharine Claubaugh, 
and Abraham Claubaugh, {that of the son Martin he only knows by report} 
[interlineation, see below], a portion of whom still reside in
this County, whilst the others have removed to the West,
and that the said Margaret Claubaugh remained a
widow until the day of her death.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the day and year first above mentioned, and I certify that said deponent 
is a credible witness, to whose evidence full faith and credit should
be given. 
Interlineation made between 18 & 19 line from top before signature.
Geo. Taylor
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
On this twenty third day of
July A D. 1850 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for
the County and State aforesaid John Africa resident
of the County and State aforesaid, who being by me first duly 
sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with
Mrs Margaret Claubaugh widow of Martin Claubough deceased: 
That she departed this life in the borough of Huntingdon County and state 
aforementioned on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred 
and forty-eight. That at the time of her decease, she left six children whose names
are Martin Clanbaugh, Margaret intermaried with Peter Summers, Jacob Claubaugh, Elizabeth intermaried with William Nightwine, Catharine Claubaugh and Abraham Claubaugh, a portion of whom still reside in this County, whilst the others have 
removed to the West; and that the said Margaret Claubaugh remained a widow 
until the day of her death. 
John Affrica

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year
first above written. And I certify that said deponent is a credible witness
to whose evidence full faith and credit should be given
Geo. Taylor
Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Ss
I, Theodore H. Cremer Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County, do
Certify, That the Hon. George Taylor Esq.
before whom the foregoing affidavit was
made & whose certificate is thereto
annexed, is President Judge of the 24th
Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 
composed of the Counties of Huntingdon, Blair & Cambria, duly commissioned and qualified. And further I do certify that the
above signature, purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the
said Court at Huntingdon, the 23rd day of July, 1850.
Theo H Cremer, Proty
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3222
Margaret Claubaugh
Widow
Martin Claubaugh ┃
Pri Rev. War
Act March 3d, 43  [Uninteligible]
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 135
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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House of Reps
July 25 /50
Hon Saml. Calvin,
Enc: application
of
Catharine Clabaugh Adm.
of Margarette Clabaugh
a pensioner under act 1838)
for renewal & increase
of Pension.
5526-38-Pa
Letter to Sam S. Calvin
July 26 1850.
M Ames
July 27/50

Ref to Com of Pension
Dep. Interior
July 26. 1850
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House of Reps
July 25, 1850
To the Secretary of the Interior.
Sir:
I herewith
enclose you the application of Catharine 
Clabaugh, Administratrix of the Estate of her 
deceased Mother Margaret Claubaugh (a 
Pensioner in Penna under the Act of 1838) for
renewal and increase of Pension, under the
Act of 3d March 1843, and have to  
request that you cause a certificate to
issue in the name of said Administatrix 
(the children residing in different
States) at an early day.
Very Resp
Yr Obd Servt
Saml. Calvin
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[All added to left side of envelope in landscape mode]
5013
Mar 31. 1840
Pa.
4 July 1836
Margt. Claubaugh
wid. of Martin

[Addressed to]
Free  [?]
James L. Edwards, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Sir
Huntingdon Penna
27th March, 1840
Sir, -
I enclose the declaration of Margaret Claubaugh made
for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the 4th sec. of the
Act of Congress of 4th July, 1836, entitled "an act granting
half pay to widows" and the best proof which she
is able to obtain in support of her application.
The proof, so far as it relates to the marriage, it
will be seen, consists of
1. The affidavit of Adam Sturtzman, now deceased,
endorsed on a petition to the Legislature of Pennsylvania
in 1825; in which he declares, that "he will knows of his
own knowledge that she was the wife of Martin Claubaugh in the 
year one thousand seven hundred and seventy Six."
This affidavit was drawn by the present Governor
of this State, to bring the case within the rules adopted by
the House of Rep.; and he has lately assured me that
Sturtzman, had it been necessary to be more particular,
would have testified that he was at the marriage, and
fixed more accurately the period at which it happened.
Unfortunately, Sturtzman is dead; and there is no other
person living, that the applicant knows of, who
witnessed her marriage; nor can she procure any
record of it.
2. The testimony of David Snyder and Margaret Levy,
who testify that they knew the applicant and
her late husband, the one in 1795 and the other in 1797:
that the parties were then reputed and believed to be husband
and wife: that they then had a large family of children,
some of whom had arrived at manhood: which facts
strongly corroborate Sturtzman and the applicant's
declaration.
3. The negative testimony of the Pastor of the
E. L. Congregations of Hagerstown and Funkstown, 
Maryland, that no records of marriage were kept or are
extant, in said congregations previous to the present
century.
Vouchers are attached to the other papers
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for the purpose of referring the department to the widow
of the service of the applicant's late husband; by which
it is believed it will fully appear that "the expiration
of the last period of his service " was subsequent to
the year 1776, fixed by Adam Sturtyman as a period
at which the applicant and her husband were certainly 
husb and wife.  Hoping that the testimony may be prove
satisfactory, and secure to a poor old woman
the benefit of the law,

I am very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
Geo. Taylor
P.S. When the application is decided upon,
please inform me by letter directed to 
Huntingdon, Penna
Geo. Taylor
James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pension
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7128
Hon.
George
McCulloch
H. Reps.
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County, ss. 
On this tenth day of June, A.D. 1840, personally appeared
before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the court of Common
Pleas of the County of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid
(said Court being a court of records) Margaret Claubaugh a resident
of the Borough of Huntingdon in the County and State aforesaid, and
about eighty eight years, who being 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions
to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Martin Claubaugh
late of the Borough of Huntingdon, dec'd, who at the time
of his death was a Pensioner of the United States for services rendered
as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. That the documents
on which the claim of her said husband was predicated and
allowed, and on which a pension was granted to him in
his lifetime, and which contain a detailed statement of his
services, and of the capacity in which he served in the war
of the Revolution, are, as she understands, in the proper office
at Washington city, to which she begs leave to refer the Honorable the 
Secretary of War or Commissioner of Pensions for the
facts as to his services in the Revolutionary army. She
further declares that she was married to the said Martin
Claubaugh as near as she can recollect when she was
about twenty years of age, and that she is now from
the best information she has, above eighty years of
age - she thinks eighty eight years of age: and
that her said husband the said Martin 
Claubough died on the fifteenth day of July, 1822
and that she has remained a widow ever since that period.
That she was joined in marriage to the said Martin Claubaugh, by the
Rev. Mr. Young, who was at the time of her said marriage, 
Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Hagerstown, 
Maryland, but that she has no family record or certificate of
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her marriage; and that she has no better evidence
of the period at which it took place, than is 
contained in the papers and documents in the Pension
office, accompanying this application for the benefit
of the provisions of the act of Congress passed
July, 1836, to which she refers: but that her said
marriage took place previous to the first of January, 
seventeen hundred and ninety four, as herein
before stated.
Sworn & subscribed on the
10th day of June 1840, the
day & year herein first before
written, Before
James Given
Margaret Claughbaugh
her Mark X
State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ss. 
I, James Given an associate Judge
in and for said county, do certify that Margaret
Claubaugh, the within named applicant cannot
from old age and bodily infirmity attend Court.
Given under my hand this 10th day of June, 1840
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County 
I James Steel Prothonotary of the Court
Common Pleas in and for the County
of Huntingdon aforesaid do certify
that James Given Esq. before whom
the within Declaration of Margaret
Clabaugh appears to have been
made and who has signed the within
Certificate, is now and was at the time of the taking &
doing thereof, an associate Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of the County aforesaid & that the within Several
Signatures purporting to be his are genuine - In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the
Seal of Said Court the eleventh day June of A.D. 1840
James Steel Proty
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I, Charles F. Schaeffer, of Hagerstown, Washington County, in the State of Maryland, do
hereby certify that I am the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in
Hagerstown aforesaid, and also of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Funkstown,
Washington County, in the State of Maryland, that no records of marriages have
been kept by any paster or Pastor of said congregations previous to the present century,
as far as the existing records show, that there are various entries of baptisms, made
in the former century, by the Rev. Mr. Young, that said records of baptisms
are in a very imperfect state, and that, as in many similar cases wherein
application has been made to me for extracts from the records of the Churches or
congregations aforesaid, no record has been found either of the marriage of
Martin Clabaugh and Margaret Householder, or of the baptisms of any of
their children

Sworn and subscribed to before me,
25th day of Feby 1840
JM. Cook
Charles F. Schaeffer,
Pastor of the Ev. Luth. congr. of Hagerstown

State of Maryland Washington County, to wit:
I hereby certify that John Cook Esq. Gentleman before
whom the within and aforegoing affidavit was made and
whose genuine signature appears thereto, was, at the time
thereof, and is now a Justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland, in and for Washington County, duly
commissioned and sworn, and to all his acts as such
full faith and credit are due as well in Courts of Justice as thereout

In Testimony whereof I hereunto
subscribe my name and affix
the Seal of Washington County Court.
at Hagerstown this 25th day of February, A. D. 1840
O.H. Williams Clk
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County, SS.
Before me one of the associate Judges
of the Court of Common pleas of the said County, personally
came David Snyder of the Borough of Huntingdon in said
County, a credible witness who being by me sworn according to
law, deposeth and saith, That he was well acquainted with
Martin Claubaugh, late a Pensioner of the United States,
in his lifetime, and also with Margaret Claubaugh, the wife of
of the said Martin Claubaugh. That he first became acquainted 
with the said Martin and Margaret Claubaugh as deponent believes 
in the year A.D. 1795. That the said Martin and Margaret Clabaugh then
resided near Hagerstown in Washington County in the State of Maryland;
that they then lived and cohabited together as man and wife and
were reputed and believed to be such in the neighborhood where they lived; 
that they then had living with them a large family of
children, reputed to be the legitimate children of the said Margaret and
Martin, the eldest of whom, juding from size and appearance
must have been seventeen years or eighteen years of age or
perhaps older. That he well recollects that one of the daughters of
the said Margaret and Martin Claubaugh was married shortly
after he became acquainted with them as aforesaid. That the
deponent came to the Borough of Huntingdon aforesaid in the Fall
of the year A.D. 1804 - and that the said Martin and
Margaret Claubaugh had [?] also to the borough of Huntingdon, 
and were residing here when deponent came. That he was
well acquainted with the said Martin and Margaret Claubaugh
from that time down to the death of the said Martin, 
[line stricken out, see below]
and with the said Margaret Claubaugh ever since; and that the said 
Margaret has remained a widow ever since the death of the said 
Martin as aforesaid. Deponent further saith that the said Margaret Claubaugh is a
woman of good repute for truth and veracity.
Sworn & subscribed this                                  [Signed] David Snyder
26th day of March, A. D. 1840
Before me, the words in the 5th
line from the bottom first sticken out
John Ker
Page 30

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ss.
Before me the subscriber one of the associate
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, came Susanna Levy, 
of the borough of Huntingdon in the said
county, who being by me duly sworn, deponeth and saith. That
she was well acquainted with Martin Clabaugh, dec'd late Pensioner
of the United States, and with Margaret Claubaugh his wife.
That she first became acquainted with them she believes in the
year 1797. That the said Martin and Margaret Clabaugh
then resided near Hagerstown in the State of Maryland; that
they then lived and cohabited together as husband and wife
and were reputed and believed to be lawfully such, in the 
neighbourhood where they lived; that they then had a large family
of children, reputed and believed to be the legitimate children
of the said Martin and Margaret Claubaugh; three or four of
the youngest of whom lived with them; their eldest daughter had
left them and deponent thinks was married; and several of their
sons had the size and appearance of young men, and were
working about in the neighbourhood. That deponent came to
Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, where she
has since resided, in the year 1801, and that the said Martin and 
Margaret Claubaugh came also to Huntingdon shortly afterwards.
That she still knew the said Martin and Margaret Claubaugh, 
down to the time of his death, which she believes was in the year 1822
and that she has been acquainted with the said Margaret ever since, and knows
that she has ever since remained the widow of the said
Martin Claubaugh, dec'd. And further that Margaret is a
woman of good repute for truth and veracity.

Sworn & subscribed this
26th day of March, A.D. 1840.
Before me 
John Ker
Susanna Levy
her X mark
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County

I James Steel Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the County
aforesaid do certify that John Ker Esq.  before whom the within affidavits
of David Snyder & Susannah Levy
appear to have been made and
who has attested the same, is
now and was at the time of taking said
affidavits one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned and sworn in and for
said County, and that the foregoing several
signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
the seal of said Court at Huntington the
27th day of March AD 1840
James Steel Proty
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4. Shippen
Huntingdon
Margaret Claubaugh
relief

J.C.R. Jan 24.1825
[unintelligible]
No 106
Bill grat $40 ann $40
Page 33

To the Honourable the Senate House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
The Petition of Margaret Claubaugh of the borough of Huntingdon
 widow of Martin Claubaugh a soldier in the Revolutionary War
Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner's
late husband was regularly enlisted and served (as your
Petitioner believes faithfully) throughout the Revolutionary war
& was inscribed on the Pension List in conformity with the
act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, as per vouched herewith
exhibited, and received a pension until the time of his death in July 1822; 
that your Petitioner was the wife of the said Martin Claubaugh during
the Revolutionary war & participated, as far as the female character could,
in his sufferings & privations during that eventful struggle;
that your petitioner is now very old, verging on eternity, in extreme
indigence & want, entirely unable to perform manual labour,
& dependent for her protection & support, solely on the
weekly wages of the hard earnings of a maiden daughter.
That your Petitioner being the wife of the said Martin Claubaugh during the
Revolutionary war and being too old & infirm to support
herself by manual labour, brings her case as she is informed
within the rules heretofore laid down by your Honourable
Bodies in granting Pensions to the widows of soldiers she
therefore appeals with confidence to the liberality of the
Representatives of her native state, that they will repudiate
the charge of Republics being ungrateful & grant her such relief as
they in their wisdom may think just, & thus in some measure
smoothen the few remaining steps of your Petitioner's journey to
eternity & she will ever pray [?] Margaret Claubaugh her mark X

Huntingdon County Pa
Margaret Claubaugh the above named Pet[itioner]
being sworn according to law deposeth & saith that the facts set forth in
[the] foregoing Petition are true to the best of her knowledge & belief
Sworn & subscribed before me a Justice
of the Peace of said County the fifth
day of Jan 1825
James Saxton

Margaret Clobbogh
her Mark X
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Huntingdon County

Adam Sturtzman being sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with the Petitioner within named; that he well knows of his own knowledge that she was the wife of Martin Claubaugh in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy six - that the said late husband of the Petitioner was a brave man & a good soldier during the Revolutionary war: that he is well acquainted with the the condition & circumstances of the Petitioner & knows her to her to be very poor & infirm
Adam Sturtzman
sworn & subscribed before me
a Justice of the Peace of said
County the 5th Jany 1825
Before James Saxton

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County, ss.

Before me one of the associate Judges of the court of Common pleas in and for the said County, personally came James Saxton, Esq, a credible witness who being first duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that the above affidavit of Adam Sturtzman (now deceased) was duly sworn to and subscribed by the said Adam Sturtzman on the 5th day of January, 1825, before this deponent (then a Justice of the Peace in
and for said county)  as above certified at that time by this deponent;
and that the name Adam Sturtzman" thereto subscribed is in the
proper hand writing of the said Adam Sturtzman. And deponent further states that he was well acquainted with the said Adam Sturtzman (now deceased) in his lifetime, and that the said Adam Sturtzman was a man of good repute for truth and veracity.
James Saxton
Sworn and subscribed this 25th day of March, A.D. 1840

John Ker
Before me
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County

I James Steel Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid
do Certify that James Saxton Esquire before
whom the within affidavits of Margaret
Claubaugh & Adam Sturtzman appear
to have been made & who has attested the same was at the time of the taking said affidavits a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & sworn
for said County & that the within General Signature purporting to be his are genuine And I do further certify that John Ker Esq. before whom the within affidavit of James Saxton the appears to have been made & who has attested the same is now and was 
at the time of taking the same an associate Judge of the County Common Pleas of said County duly commissioned & sworn & that the foregoing signature ....testimony whereupon....
...Steel Proty
Page 36

Margaret Claubaugh 
of Martin
Pennsylvania
-
Suspended
let 2th June 1840
Hon G. McCullough
July
Page 37

Huntingdon 28 Aug
-
Recd 1st Septr 1820
PA 59
Exam
The Hon'ble


J. C. Calhoun Esq
Secretary at War
Washington
Mail
Page 38

Huntingdon Penna 26th Aug 1820
J. C. Calhoun Esq.
Sir
Enclos'd you will please
find the application of Martin Clabough
an old Soldier, which is made & certified
agreeably to the late act of Congress on
the subject, as we suppose-- should there
there, unfortunately, be any error or errors
in it, please point them out or if the practice, let me know whether it is accepted or not.
very
respectfully
Y. Obt Svt
-
R. Allison
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Huntingdon County
State of
of Pennsylvania SS
I Matthew F. Campbell Register
for the probate of wills and granting letters
of Administration in and for said County do
Certify that letters of Administration
on the the Estate of Margaret, Clabaugh
deceased were issued to Catharine Clabaugh
on the 9th day of July A.D. 1850 and that she is the legally authorised administratrix of said deceased 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said office
at Huntingdon this 23 day of July A. D. 1850
M. F. Campbell
Register
Page 40

7128
Margaret Claubaugh of
Martin
Pennsylvania
Admitted
Pen/yr $40
N.K
Cap Cressup,  and
died 15 July 1822
1
Act 7 July 1838
Hon. George McCullough
Page 41

Martin Claubaugh
14
admitted
2
D. Stewart
Huntingdon,
Penna
[illegible] for further proof of service
Not on Rolls
Page 42

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County ss
I William Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Huntingdon Do Certify that David Stewart Esquire before whom
the within affidavits of Martin Clabough & James Duncan appear to have been taken & who has signed the within
Certificate, was at the time of taking the said
affidavits & making the said Certificate and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas duly Commissioned and sworn in and for said
County of Huntingdon, and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout

In Testimony 
whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court at Huntingdon the
fourth day of May A.D. 1818

William Steel Proty.
Page 43


Pennsylvania and
Huntingdon County
Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania Personally came Adam Sterzman of the County aforesaid & ┃
being by me duly sworn according to law did depose and say that he
was acquainted with Martin Claubough the applicant in the Declaration thereto attached in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy five & seen him enlist in a company of Riflemen Commanded by Captain Michael Crissip for One year in Hagerstown
in the State of Maryland and seen the said Martin Claubough
March in said Company from Hagerstown and also through
Fredricktown in the State of Maryland on their way to Boston in New England, and in the month of October in the year One thousand seven hundred and seventy six deponant
saith he seen the said Martin Claubough at a Husking of Corn where he was after his return from service in the Army. Deponent also seen Richard Davis one of the Officers
of the Company, after Claubaughs return. Davis said Clabaugh was an
excellent soldier but he could not learn him to
speak moderately he would always speak loud. Sworn to and
Subscribed this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Before
David Stewart             [Uninteligible signature]

Adam Burton
Huntingdon County ss
I David Stewart an Associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas
in and for the County aforesaid Do Certify to the Hon the Secretary
at War for the United States that the above named Martin Claubough is poor & in indigent circumstances & stands in need
of the assistance of his country for support. This I do in addition to my former Certificate. In Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of August A.D. 1818.
David Stewart
Page 44

State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
I William Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas
in and for said County Do Certify that David Stewart
Esquire before whom the within deposition of
Adam Startzman appears to have
been taken & who has signed the within certificate
was at the time of taking the deposition aforesaid
and signing the within Certificate and now
is one of the associate Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas duly commissioned and
Sworn in and for said County and that
to all his official acts as such full faith &
Credit is due and ought to be given as well
in Courts of Justice as thereafter In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said office at Huntington
the 13th day of August A.D. 1818.-
William Steel Proty
Page 45

Phila
(5526
Pennsylvania
Margaret Claubaugh
widow of Martin Claubaugh
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar. 1818, and who died on the 15 July 1822
of Huntingdon in the State of Penn
who was a private in the Rifle Co commanded
by Captain Cressup of the command
by [line] in the Maryland line for 1 year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 40. Dollars_____
Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of June 1840, and sent to Hon. Geo. McCullough
House of Representatives.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840          $320.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40 20.00
                                                                --------
                                                               $340.00
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by W. Zantzinger, Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 148
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M. Claubaugh [strike through]
Margaret Claubaugh
5013
Pennsylvania
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Rev Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES,
of the 18th of March 1818.
Martin Claubaugh, late a private in the
Army of the Revolution
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency,
at the rate of eight
dollars per month,
to commence on the fourteenth day of April
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this twenty first day of September,
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Page 48


War Department,
No. 2908
PENSION OFFICE,
3 Nov 1820
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been
examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued
on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards
To Mr. Martin Claubaugh
Huntingdon County
Penna