Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3275, for Henry Mc Ewen, Pennsylvania
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McEwen, Henry. W.3275
                 Elizabeth
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Pennsylvania
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Henry McEwen pf Centre County in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 1 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8. dollars per month to commence on the 28th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of March 1819 and sent to Judge Walker,  Bellefonte, Centre County, Penn.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1810 10 months.  81.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819.        48.00
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                                                                    $129.83

Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March, 1818

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Pennsylvania. 2485
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Elizabeth McEwen
widow of Henry McEwen who was a private in the Pennsylvania Line for 1 year 24 days

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Inscribed on the Roll at a rate of Forty Two Dollars SixtySix cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843
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Certificate of Pension issued the TwentySeventh day on October, 1843 and sent to George Buchanan. 
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A; Vol. 1; Page 134
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Centre County fc.
On the 28th day of April AD 1818 before me the Subscriber. President Judge of the Pennsylvania personally appears Henry McEwen aged Sixty-five resident in Potter Township in said County, 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 "Enact to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the Unites States in the Revolutionary War." That he, the said Henry McEwen, entered as a volunteer in Capt. William Hendricks Rifle Company on the 11th day of July, 175 belonging to Co. William Thompsons Regimemt that on the 13th of the same month, he marched for Boston with said Company that shortly after his arrival at Boston, Capt. Hendricks was drafted for Quebec, & that he volunteered to go with said Capt. Hendricks and did go that he continued to serve in the said Company or in the service of the United States until the 31st day of December AD 1775 when he was wounded and taken prisoner by the British at the storming of Quebec by Gene Montgomery, that he continued and was kept a prisoner by the British until the month of October AD 1776, about two months of which time he was confined in Irons, that he was in several skimmages, beside the storming of Quebec as aforesaid and that he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of said service.
Signed Henry MeEwen

Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.  Signed: Jonathan Walker
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William McEwen, Esq. and Matthew Allison are both well known to me and both  of respectability being duly sworn so say that and of them [illegible]Henry McEwen the above applicant & knew him in 1775, that he then enlisted in the company of Capt. Wm. Hendricks and marched from Cumberland County in the State of Boston. That neither of the witnesses being in the service, they only knew by report that he, the applicant, went to Canada & was then taken prisoner - they knew he did not return until the [illegible] of 1776 and was then reported & believed to have been a prisoner and to be then returned from that declaration.
Sworn to this 26th of Jan.7, 1819 Before me 
Signed:  Christian [illegible]
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Revolutionary War as stated ...mon enemy and that ..and stands in need of the ...that he is a man of ..sense may be placed in ...eeding and testimony...for the war department...before mentioned act of ...
In testimony whereas..set my hand at Bellef....
Signed: Adm Jonathan
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Centre County fc. - Before me the Subscriber, President Judge as aforesaid personally appeared Francis McEwen and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with the within named applicant Henry McEwen and knows him to be a man of truth and good moral character & that full confidence may be placed in his oath and that he the said Henry McEwen is now in reduced circumstance in life and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & further deponent saith not.
Signed: F. McEwen

Sworn and Subscribed
the 28th day of April AD1818
Jonathan Walker

I Jonathan Walker, Judge as aforesaid do testify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry McEwen did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the within declaration against the common enemy and that he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he is a man of truth and good character & that full confidence may be placed in his oath and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the war department pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Bellefonte April 28th, 1818

Signed:  Adm Jonathan Walker
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V5001
Elizabeth McEwen
Pennsylvania

Service  11 July, 1775 to 3 Sept. 1776 = 1 yr 2 days




died 9th Oct. 1825
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State of Pennsylvania
Centre County

Declaration of Elizabeth McEwen widow and [illegble] of Henry McEwen, late of Centre County, State of Pennsylvania, deceased wife of, was a Revolutionary Soldier and late a Pensioner of the United States in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, befitted "An act granting half pay and pleasing to certain widows."
On this eighteenth day of March AD 1839 personally appeared before the subscriber, Office of the Associate Judge of the Court of {illegible] in and for the County of Centre -- Elizabeth McEwen -- a resident of Potter [illegible] County a aforesaid, aged Seventy years or thereabouts, who being first duly sworn, according to the law - Noth on his behalf - by make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the [illegible] made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, befitted " An Act granting half pay and pleasing to certain widows." That she is widow to Henry McEwen late of Centre County deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and was at the Storming of Quebec by Gen. Montgomery and under the [illegible] of a Capt. Hendricks and Major Henry when he was taken prisoner and detained [illegible] lengths that he was a prisoner in [illegible] and that he was at the time of his declared a Pensioner of the Unites States whose certificate is lost or misplaced. She further declared, that she was married to the said Henry McEwen on the 11th day of July AD 1786, in Carlisle, Cumberland County, State of Pennsylvania by the Rev. D. Nesbit of the same place that the records of their said marriage in their family Bible. Now is her possession is in the proper handwriting of the said 'Henry McEwen - a copy of
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whereof is as following [illegible], " Henry McEwen was married to Elizabeth Gregg, July ye 11th 1786" that her has said the aforesaid Henry McEwen died on the 9th day of October AD 1825, that she was not married to him before to his leaving the service, But the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety five. Eliz at the time alone stated she [illegible] they declares that she day required a widow [illegible] since the period of the decade of her said husband, Henry McEwen
Signed: with an X Elizabeth McEwen's mark

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before her.
Signed: Jacob Kryder,
Associate Judge
[illegibe]

State of Pennsylvania
Centre County
Copy of Marriage record of Henry 
McEwen and Elizabeth Gregg, taken from the family bible.  Bible in the possession of the said Elizabeth "Henry McEwen was married to Elizabeth Gregg July ye 11th 1789."
Having compared the above copy with the original in the said family bible, I certify the same to be a true copy witnessed my hand on the Eighteenth day of March A.D. 1839
Signed: Jacob Kryder

State of Pennsylvania
 Centre County
I, Jacob Kryder, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of [illegible] in and for the County of Centre aforesaid Do live by
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certify that the within applicant , Elizabeth McEwen, can not from bodily infirmity attend the Court to hear the declaration required, and I further certify that from her general character she is worthy of full credit and belief. The testimony whereof I have [illegible] set her hand  the 18th day of March A.D. 1839.
signed: Jacob Kryder

State of Pennsylvania 
Center County
I, Jas Gilliland, Prothonotary of the Court of 
[illegible] was in the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the [illegible] Jacob Kryder, an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County duly commissioned  and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. And I hereby certify that evidence satisfactory to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County was exhibited before me the Judges of said Court, on the 18th March last, that Henry McEwen, late a pensioner of the United States, died on the 9th day of October, A.D. 1825 - and left a widow whose name is Elizabeth and she has remained a widow ever since that period, the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Bellefonte, Centre County- the 19th day of March A.D. 1839
Signed: Jas Gilliland, Proty
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Henry McEwen
Centre City
Con
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Pennsylvania
Centre County
Court of Common Pleas & Judicial
District 8. June 1820

On the eighth day of June 1820, Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Centre, Henry McEwen aged Sixty Eight years resident in the township of Potter in the said County, who being first duly  sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows -- on the eleventh day of July A.D. 1775 he enlisted for one year in Captain William Hendricks company of the First Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Col. William Thompson and on the 13th day of the same month marched from Carlisle in Cumberland County to join the Army before Boston - that on the 10th day of August he arrived at Camp near Cambridge where he was stationed with his company until the last week of September in the same year when he was drafted to march to Quebec. 

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Conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th day of March 1818 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 had time by Gift Sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish as to 
being myself without the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act of provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and navel service 
of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1817 and that I 
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 other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
[tow sentences to faint to transcribe]
One Silver Watch. 10.00
Two cows and a small heifer 30.00
One ten plate stove, one kettle 22.00
Six sheep and four hogs 15.00
Two Pots, one iron tea kettle 2.00
One Griddle, one grill hon 1.75
One [illegible] shovel & [illegible] 2.00
Two Chests, 4 chairs & two tables not folding, very old. 10.00
One corner cupboard, made of fine birch. 8.00

Whole Amount.    $134.75
I did follow the carpenter trade when able to pursue it, but have not been so for a number of years -- I [illegible] wife that [illegible]  
I have been  for a purpose of [illegible] yearly, from the State of Pennsylvania in pursuance of the act of Legislature on this day of March 1819

Sworn and Subscribed the 8th day of June A.D. 1820 before Hon. C Huston in Open Court
.The Courts opinion of the above valuation is correct. 
C. Huston
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Centre County fc
I John Rankin, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Centre & State of Pennsylvania, being a court of Record, Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court and further I do certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one hundred and thirty four dollars and seventy five cents exclusive of the pension which he received of this state of the sum of 40 dollars yearly.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty-second day of July A.D. 1820
Signed: Hon. J. Rankin, Proth.
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of Pennsylvania.

The soldier, Henry McEwen, married July 11, 1786 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Gregg. He died October 9, 1825
His widow, Elizabeth McEwen, was allowed pension on her application executed March 18, 1839, then aged about seventy years and living in Potter Township, Pennsylvania.

Reference is made to their children, four of whom were under twelve years of age in 1820; the only name designated being Henry McEwen, who was living near Hublersburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania in 1877.

Francis McEwen in 1818 made affidavit in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and William McEwen stated in 1819 that he was well acquainted with the soldier, Henry McEwen, in 1775. It is not shown that they were related to each other, or were related to the family.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[left side]
Rev y Widow, & c. 
File No. 3275
Elizabeth McEwen
Widow
Henry McEwen 
Pri, PA. Line

Act : March 18, 1843
Index: -- Vol. M. page 18
{Arrangement of 1870}

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Jan. 11/99 [Jan. 11, 1899]
i.nt. Heist to James F. Belford, Office District Court, Denver, Colo
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May 10, 1900 [illegible]
Hon. Jas. C. Sibley H.R.
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Aug. 13, 1903Florence Mirhoi
CHJ Blair [illegible]
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1926 Jan. 8 0-Hist to Mrs H.C, Valentine AUF
1930 May 17. Photo mailed to Mrs. Charles W. Slack & Fin. Div.  ntfd. A.D.Y.
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1934 Aug. 6 - Hist to Mrs. Andrew Urban  AUF
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1935 - May 13- History to Mrs. L.A. Bostwick   AUF
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1936 - Aug. 29 - Copies of History to Mrs. Boyd Musser  AUF

[*AUF are initials]
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4342. {Right side of Page]
Pennsylvania 
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Elizabeth McEwen 
widow of Henry McEwen (dec'd)
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 9 October, 1825
of Centre Co. in the state of Pennsylvania, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hendricks of the Regiment commanded  by Col. Thompson in the Pennsylvania Line for 1 year 24 days. 
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 Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 42 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of October 1839 and sent to Geo. Buchanan. Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1839   $149.31
semiannual allowance ending 4Aug.  20.63
Total $170.94

ACT July 7, 1838
Recorded by D.M. Hurdy Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 158

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Letter to T.P. Johnson  4 Nov. 1839
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Elizabeth McEwen
PA.
[illegible]
P - 1 yr. 24 days $42.66
Capt. Hendricks, Col. Thompson
Pennsylvania Line
Died 9 Oct. 1825
Act 7 - July 1838
record of marriage in Bible file.
Signed: Geo. Buchanan, Bellefonte, Pa.
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Elizabeth McEwen 
of Henry 
Pennsylvania
Suspended
let 18 July 1839

Geo. Buchanan

Act 7 July 1838
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Bellefonte, June 17th 1883

Honorable Tho. L Edwards
Sir; Enclosed I hand you the application of Mrs. E. McEwen in respect under the  act - who was a [illegible] under the Act 7, July 1838. Thus I believe it the last application from this county - Please attach this Certificate to the [illegible]
Your Obedient
 Signed: Geo. Buchanan
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Centre  County fc

John Rankin, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Centre County aforesaid do certify that Jonathan Walker Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition & declaration was taken and made and who certifies the same was at the time subscribing the same President and Judge duly commissioned for the fourth Judicial district and sworn and that Charles Huston, Esq. was at the time at the time of subscribing the same and is now President and Judge of said Judicial district of Pennsylvania and duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all their official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said County of Centre at Bellefonte the twenty eighth day of January in the year of our lord one thousand, eight hundred and nineteen 1819.

Signed: Jn. Rankin, Proth.
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Bellefonte. July 22, 1820
Sir
[illegible] I have you Henry McEwen's card & schedule of his property with a certificate thereto attached, & as there is some doubts whether this is the correct method, or whether it will be rec'd, I wish you to [illegible] me with a line, stating whereas it is deficient & the alterations to made, I would wish you to write me as soon as possible as there is others, that wishes to send theirs on also. 
I remain your obedient & humble servant  .
Signed: L. Rankin

J.G Calhoun
Secretary of the War Department
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Philadelphia  Oct 31, 1839
J.L. Edwards Esq

[name is illegible]
I hear with transmit for your consideration the papers of several residents which have been sent me for collection. I called on the Pension agent at this place who declined paying  Ino Glentz. amount because he had rec'd no instructions from you to do so. Be pleased therefore to forward such instructions by return mail, the amount due Glentz to Sept. 20, 1839 is $33.33 and in the case of Mrs. May Miller and 
Mrs. McEwen the agent refused to pay because he had rec'd instructions not to pay any bearing certain dates until the 4th  of March next. and under which head Mrs. Miller and Mrs. McEwen comes.  This I regret exceedingly from the fact that these poor aged widows are now much, very much in want of funds and if they do not receive it they will  a consequence, suffer very much this winter and the disappointment to them  will be very great  as the person who drew up their papers [illegible]them but in a few days they should positively have their money. Be pleased [illegible] to consider the case of these two widows and if it be possible order their pensions to be paid, they are actually in  great want of the money and to receive it now will be a source of much comfort to them.  I pray dear Diz, you will decide in favor of these two widows for from the  representative I am confident there are few persons here
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in need of living than they on the event of your declining to issue an order in their future. Can and will you devise some place by which the money now due these can be raised they are perfectly willing to pay the Interest.  Can any certificate be issued saying they will be entitled to do much over the 4th of March next and payable to their an order --I mean such a certificate as would warrant any persons making them are advance leaving the foregoing to your friendly consideration.  I trust is that in case an exception can be made to their case with an order is and by your Department directing their dues by now paid. It will be recurring.
Yours beg respectfully, 
Signed: Thos. P. Johnston
304 Market Street
Philadelphia
Please muster as soon as convenient  to understand that I never before heard of these persons. I am not interested one cent in these hearings.
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Hublersburg Centre Co. PA.
August 16th 1877

Hon. Com. of Pensions
 Dear Sir - I have seen Henry McEwen, Esq. He says that Henry McEwen, the Revolutionary War Soldier was his father and was serving under Gen. Montgomery and taken prisoner at Quebec Canada
Mr. Henry McEwen is living near Hublersburg and his fathers residence was in Potter township, Centre Co. PA.
Yours respectfully]
Henry Brown P.M.
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Bellefonte, March 19th, 1837
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Contestant of Claims
To
Enclosed I hand you two declarations of widows of Soldiers of the Revolution to obtain Pensions which [illegible] and in accordance the fore regulating & that they will succeed. I am pleased to forward to you their Certificates and also those of Mrs Stoel & Mrs. Rehl who made application some time hence .
Yours Respectfully
[illegible]
Geo. Buchanan
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Declaration is made to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3rd of March 1843 granting [illegible] for one year to certain widows who have received benefits made the last of July 7th A.D. 1838

State of Pennsylvania
Centre County
on the tenth day of July A.D. 1838 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Centre, a aforesaid , Elizabeth McEwen, a resident of Potter township in the County of Centre, aged SeventyNine years - to her being first duly sworn according to the law - doth in her oath name the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits in the provision pledged by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Henry McEwen who was a private in  Capt. Wm Hendricks Rifle Corps from Cumberland County Penn. & the Regiment commanded by Col. Arnold in the expedition to Quebec Canada and led by Geo Montgomery during the [illegible] of the Revolution. That year he [illegible] was a pensioner of the United States & since deceased  and that the [illegible]  of the pension to which she received under the Acton July 7th 1838 was Forty two dollars and 66 cents. The father declares that she is still a widow. 
Her Mark : Elizabeth McEwen
Sworn and Subscribed the Fourth day of July A.D. 1843
before me. Thomas Mayes
Justice of the Peace
Wm McClaskey
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State of Pennsylvania
Centre County

I Thomas Mayes a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Centre an aforesaid - Do hereby certify that the within named Elizabeth McEwen widow of Henry McEwen deceased - is personally know to me. The testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed  by law the tenth day of July A.D. 1843.
Thomas Mayes, Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania
Centre County
I Charles  Carpenter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County - Do hereby certify that Thomas Mayes Esq. before whom the within and foregoing acknowledgements were taken in an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Centre aforesaid - duly commissioned and qualified - and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony thereof  I have hereto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed my name at Bellefonte, the seventeenth day of June A.D.  1843
Hon. Charles Carpenter 
[illegible]
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[front page - form with lines to complete]
3-550.
CONGRESSIONAL.
[by hand] Revolutionary War
No. ______
NAME OF CLAIMANT.
[by hand] widow of Henry McEwen

NAME OF SOLDIER
[by hand] Henry McEwen. Capt. Hendricks Co. of Wm Thompson's Regt Penna Rifleman.
[form]The above named Claimant is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a bona fide
resident of the District (or, if a Senator, the
State) which I represent; and this inquiry
is not made at the request of any pension
attorney or claim agent.
I desire to be advised as to 
[by hand] Papers.
[stamped] Second Depot Commissioner Jun 9 1896
[stamped] C.W. and N.Div Filed Jun 9 1896
[signed] Jno F. Shafroth ml B

These slips are exclusively for the use of Senators and Representatives in Congress, and when used by any other person will not receive consideration.
Senator and Representatives will greatly aid the Bureau of Pensions in giving them an early answer; if they will fill and use these slips in making calls in pension cases.
Jpu Lochren
Commissioner.

G-S25
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113 West Curtin St
Bellefonte Penna
Nov. 24. 1925

[stamped] Office of the Commissioner Nov 27 1925 D.S. Bureau of Pensions

Commissioner of Pensions Winfield Sct
My dear Sir:
I again ask your help regarding a Rev. Soldier of Centre Co. Penna - who received a pension by the name of Henry Mc Ewen who died on March 20. 1819 - aged 82 years pr - P.L
Henry enlisted at Carlisle in 1775 in Capt Wm Hendricks Co Col. Wm. Thompsons Regt - went to Quebec he was made prisoner etc - Had a wife Elizabeth & a number of children
All information will be thankfully rec'd as his name is on our soldiers ([illegible] 
Thanking you for [illegible]
Very fondly
Sara B. Valentine
(Mrs H.C)
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[Letterhead]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington D.C.

[handwritten letter]
Aug 20 1877
BL Div

Dear Sir
I herewith transmit to your address the Bible sent to this office by Mrs Elizabeth McEwen in 1843, to be filed in evidence when she made application for pension.
You will please acknowledge the receipt of the Bible on the back of this letter and return it to this Office  in the Enclosed Envelope.
Henry McEwen
Hublersburg
Centre Co Pa

Very Respectfully
[signed] O P G Clarks
Acting Commissioner MP
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Hubblesburg.  Aug. 27, 1877
Dear Sirs
The Bible was received [illegible] [to faint to read]
Yours Respectfully
Henry McEwen

[Stamped]Department of the {illegible]
Pensions Aug. 31 1877
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[upper left corner]
B.L. Div Evans

[letterhead]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington D.C.

[handwritten letter]
Aug. 9. 1877

Dear Sir
You will please find enlcosed a letter sent from this Office to the Post Master at Bellefonte, together with his reply.
Please ascertain if the Henry McEwen named in the letter of the Post Master is related in any way to Henry McEwen the Rev. Soldier. Please return these letters with your reply in the enclosed envelope.

Post Master Hublersburg Centre Co. Pa
Very Respectfully
[signed] O P G Clarks
Acting Commissioner
W M. P.
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Dr. J. S. Mortlock
Homeopathic Physician

Blair, Nebr. July 11th 1903

Mr. P.J. Lockwood
Dear Sir
I am trying to establish the fact that I am eligible to become a Daughter of the Revolution.  Can you assist me in looking into the [illegible] in Pension Department of [illegible] to find parents and what will be the cost of same, if not can you direct me to the source one who can.
Yours Respt.
[signed] Florence Mortlock Blair
Nebr. 
[stamped] U.S. Pension Office Aug. 6, 1903

Please answer soon as convenient
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Washington D.C. July 16, 1903

Dear Madame:
I do not prosecute claims of the character named by you but I suggest that if you write personally to the Commissioner of Pensions stating what you desire of the records in his custody, I am pretty certain that he will give you the information without any cost to you.
Very Respectfully
[signed] P.J. Lockwood

{Stamped} OLD WAR & NAVY Files Aug. 10 1903

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir
I want to establish the fact that my great Grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His name was Henry McEwen and his widow Elizabeth McEwen drew a pension, her P.O. address was Potters Mill, Centre Co., Pa. Can you assist me.
Yours Respt. Florence Mortlock
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington D.C. June 9, 1877

Sir:
Please furnish this office with the named and post office address of some of the descendents of Elizabeth McEwen widow of Henry McEwen late private Rev. War who formerly resided in your town or in Potters township.
Application was made for pension by [illegible] and certificate sent in 1843 through her agent  George Buchanan of your town. A bible containing a family record was filed in evidence.  It is now desired to return said bible to the family.  
Please return this letter with your reply.
Very Respectfully, Jas Bentley
Commissioner per HWS

To the Postmaster 
Bellefonte
Centre Co. Penn
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File No. 3275
Widows
Elizabeth McEwen wife of Henry McEwen
Private Revolutionary War
Receipt for Bible & e enclosed and to be filed in the Jacket of the above file Sept. 1st '77

[Stamped] Department of Interior
Pension Office Aug. 18 ?
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[letterhead]
Post Office, Bellefonte, Centre Co., Penna. John T. Johnston, Postmaster

[Letter]
Aug 4th 1877
Commr of Pensions

Sir: The delay in answering your letter was on account of not being able to get the desired information.
Henry McEwan, Esq. residing at Hublesburg Centre Co. Pa. will be the proper person to address on the subject you refer to.
Respectfully yours
Jn. T. Johnston
PM
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Abilene, Tex
July -19-1934
[Stamped] Jul 23,1934

Veterans Administration 
Washington D.C.
Dear sirs: I am writing for information of the war record of John Small. Born 1749. He was a gunsmith by trade and served as an armorer in the Revolutionary War. He was born in York Co. PA.  I think this was told me, but I do not have war records and as I want to join the D.A.R. must have the record to show "He was my Great Great Grandfather". I would also like the war record of Henry McEwen from Cummberland Co. PA. after leaving Cumberland Co. he moved to Centre Co.  I am not sure but I think his wife Elizabeth McEwen received a pension after his death.  "He was my Great Grandfather: Am anxious for these records and am thanking you in advance. 
Sincerely Mrs. Andres Urban
774 Meander -Air 
Abilene, Tex
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Clerks Office District Court
George W. Allen, David B. Graham, AJ Rising, JA Bentley, DV Burns Matt Adams, Clerk
Denver Colo.   Dec. 6, 1893

The Honorable, The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir:
Will you kindly inform me if any "Revolutionary"
Pension was ever issued to Henry McEwen or to Elizabeth Gregg McEwen, his wife, and if so if the following record is correct?
Name:  Henry McEwen
Rank of file:    ??
Date of enlistment: June 11, 1775
Age at Date of Enlistment:  ??
Place of Enlistment:  Carlile, Pennsylvania
Company:  Captain William Hendricks
Regiment:   Col. Wm. Thompson
Official name of Company and Regiment:  ??
Wounded and taken prisoner of War at Quebec. Jan. 1, 1776
Paroled:  August 3, 1776
Exchanged:   1778
Date of Death:  October 12, 1823

And if this record is correct was any other military service performed by him after said exchange? 
Very Respectfully your,
James F. Belford
19 Court House
Denver, Colorado
W 3275
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May 6, 1930
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me a certified photostatic copy of one page from Revolutionary War pension Claim, Henry McEwen, widow Elizabeth, W.3275

Mrs. Charles W. Slack
2224 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, California
 [Stamped ] Finance Division May 9m 1930
Received payment 40 cents
May 6, 1930
M.C. Stokes
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
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[Stamped} Daughters of the American Revolution
General Han Rensselaer Chapter
D.A.R. Rensselaer, Indiana
April 17", 1935
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
My great-grandfather, Henry McEwen was a Revolutionary soldier and he had a pension. I have no certificate, but thought you might have one, and that it might give his father's or mother's names.
My great-great grandfather _____ McEwen was in the French and Indian War and was wounded while fighting at Quebec with the Colonists under Wolf (Commander of the British forces) on Sept, 12" to 18", 1759, he was wounded and cared for in hospital where he died. 
Henry McEwen's War record
Henry McEwen, of Cumberland Co., Penn enlisted at Carlisle, Penn, in William Hendricks Co., Col. Thompson's Regiment, on the 11th day of July,1775, he marched to Boston and through the wilderness, they mounted the plains of Abraham at Quebec in the middle of November. Jan 1", 1776 he was wounded and taken prisoner, and was paroled August 3"1776. If you don't have the information I desire will you let me know where I can obtain it?
Yours Respectfully, (Mrs. L.A.) Francis E. Bostwick, Registrar
Gen. VanRensselaer Chapter
[Stamped]  Received April 20, 1935
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INS
O.W. & N. Division
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C. January 1894
Sir
In reply to your request for a statement of military history of Henry McEwen, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please fing below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.  =======. 
Date of Enlistment : July 11, 1775
Length of Service: 12 months
Rank:  Private
Captain William Hendricks - A Rifle Company
Colonel William Thompson
State Penn.
Battles engaged in: Siege of Boston. & Quebec Canada
Residence at enlistment: Carlisle, Cumberland Co. Pennsylvania
Date of Application for Pension:  April 25, 1818
Residence at date of application: Potter, Centre Co., Penn
Age at date of application: 65 yrs and died Oct. 9, 1825
Remarks: Married July 11, 1786 to Elizabeth  Gregg
Very respectfully, Commissioner
Mr. James F Belford
Office District Court
Denver, Colorado
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Henry McEwen, by occupation a carpenter, enlisted at Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Penn in a Rifle Company which marched to the Siege of Boston. During the last week of September 1775, he volunteered to go with his Captain in the expedition organizing under Col. Benedict Arnold to join Gen. Richard Montgomery at Quebec, Canada, which sailed for Kennebec River, to march through the untrodden wilderness of Maine during the inclement months of November and December.
He was with Gen. Montgomery in the unsuccessful assault in the morning of December 31, 1775 on Quebec, when he was wounded by a bayonet in his hand, was taken prisoner, confined two months in irons and paroled August 3, 1776.
He was probably allowed a pension for his wound but those early papers were destroyed by fire in November 1800.
He stated that he received a pension of forty dollars a year from Pennsylvania under an act papered March 28, 1814.  A more accurate date of his death may be obtained from voucher on which his pension was last paid on file in the office of the Third Audition of the Treasury, than stated by his widow.
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Rev. and 1812 War Section
January 8, 1926
Mrs. H.C. Valentine
113 West Curtin St
Bellefonte, Pa.

Madam: 
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3275, it appears that Henry McEwen enlisted on July 11, 1775 and served as a private in Captain William Hendricks' company, Colonel William Thompson's Pennsylvania Regiment.  In September of same year he volunteered to go with his captain on Arnold's Expedition to Quebec. He was at the storming of Quebec, where was wounded in the hand by a bayonet, and was taken prisoner, December 31, 1775.  He was paroled August 3, 1776 and exchanged in the fall of 1778.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1816, while a resident Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-
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five years. He died October 9, 1825.
Soldier married July 11, 1786 at Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Gregg.
She was allowed pension on her application executed March 18, 1839 while a resident of Potter Township, Pennsylvania aged about seventy years.
In 1820, soldier stated that he had four children, under the age of twelve. There were other children, no names stated other than Henry, who was living in Hublersburg, Centre Co. Pennsylvania in 12877
Respectfully, Winfield Scott, Commissioner
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August 6, 1934
Henry McEwen  -W.3275. BA-J/AWF\
Mrs. Andrew Urban
774 Meander Ave.
Abilene, Texas

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you requested the Revolutionary War records of the following Revolutionary War soldiers, Henry McEwen from Cumberland County and Centre County, Pennsylvania, whose widow Elizabeth, received a pension and John Small, who was born in 1749 in York County, Pennsylvania .
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States, based on military service of soldiers in that war.
A search of the records fails to show much claims on file on the account of the service in the War of the Revolution of John Small as described by you. It is suggested as a possible means of securing data relative to the military record of this soldier, that you address the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington D.C.
The date which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W3275, based upon the military service of Henry McEwen during the Revolution.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown on the claim, nor are the names of his parents given. 
Henry McEwen volunteered in July 1775 and served
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[page2] as a private in Captain William Hendricks' Company , Colonel William Thompson's Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment; they marched from Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and arrived in camp near Boston in August; In September 1775, he volunteered to go with his Captain on Benedict Arnold's Expedition to Quebec. He was at the Storming of Quebec, where he was wounded in the hand by a bayonet, was taken prisoner December 31, 1775; was paroled August 3, 1776 and exchanged in the fall of 1778. About two months of his imprisonment, he was "confined in irons".
Henry McEwen was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was sixty-five years of age and living in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. He died October 9, 1825.
The soldier, Henry McEwen, married July 11, 1786 in Carlisle Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Gregg. She was allowed pension on her application executed March 18, 1839 aged about seventy years and a resident of Potter Township, Pennsylvania. 
Reference is made to their children, four of whom were under twelve years of age in 1820, The only name definitely stated is Henry McEwen, who was living near Hublersburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania in 1877.

In 1818, Francis McEwen made affidavit in Centre County, Pennsylvania, in 1819 William McEwen stated in Centre County that he was well acquainted with the soldier Henry McEwen in 1775. There is no relationship shown to each other nor to the family.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator
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August 29, 1936

BA-J/ILL

David Lamb
S. 22675
Henry McEwen
W 3275

Mrs. Boyd A Musser
821 Vine Street
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish further information in regard to Henry McEwen, or McKuen, and request also the record of David Lamb, both Revolutionary War soldiers of Pennsylvania.
The records of David Lamb and Henry McEwen are furnished here in as found in pension claims based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
David Lamb - S. 22875
David Lamb was born February 7, 1754 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

While a resident of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, he volunteered June 25, 1775 in Carlisle, in said Cumberland county, served as a private in William Hendricks' Company Colonel William Thompson's Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, marched to Cambridge Green, near Boston and in September 1775 volunteered to go on Arnold's Expedition to Canada, went as far as Fort Halifax, where he was detailed and went with Matthew Irvin, Surgeon of the Rifle Regiment, who was very ill, to Prospect Hill where he arrive the day before Christmas; he then joined Captain James Greer's Company assigned as life guard to General Charles Lee who was ordered to command the Army in Canada, left camp January 8, 1776 arrived in New York in February from there went to Williamsburg, Virginia, returned to Long Island and was discharged at the expiration of service of one year.  Immediately after, as the British Fleet came in sight and anchored opposite Long Island, he volunteered and served three months as private in Captain Thomas Mitchell's Company. Colonel Malcholm's New York Regiment, he enlisted in the Quartermaster Department, Hugh Hughes, Quartermaster General, and served three years as wagon master during which he engaged in the vicinity of North Castle, Peekskill and Fishkill, New York.

[handwritten note on side] Mrs. Frank would rewrite this with less detail.
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David Lamb was allowed pension on his application executed November 26, 1832, at which time he resided in Walker Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania; he had resided in that vicinity for forty years. The soldier died February 12, 1837; he was survived by a widow, whose name was not given, who died March 7, 1845. There were no surviving children. 

In 1851, in the Orphans Court of Centre County, Pennsylvania, William Smythe, Junior, and Henry F. W. Schultze were certified to be the Executors of the estate of David Lamb, the deceased soldier of the Revolutionary War.

In 1833, Henry Petrikin of Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, and his brother, James M. Petrikin, also of Centre County, stated that their father and David Lamb, the soldier, married sisters, but they did not state the name of their own mother. 

It was shown also, that David Lamb, the soldier, had been an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Lick Run, in Centre County, Pennsylvania, as early as 1809. 

HENRY MCEWEN-W. 3275.
Copied for A.N. F. Joff. 3275. [handwritten]
Henry McEwen volunteered in July 1775, served as private in Captain William Hendrick's company, Colonel William Thompson's Pennsylania Rifle Regiment; he marched from Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and arrived in camp near Boston in August, in September 1775, he volunteered to go with his captain on Arnold's expedition to Quebec, and was at the storming of Quebec, where wounded in the head by a bayonet, was taken prisoner, December 31, 1775, was paroled, August 3, 1776 and exchanged in the fall of 1778. About two months of his imprisonment, he was "confined in Irons". 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was sixty-five years of age and living in Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. He was also pensioned by the State of Pennsylvania.

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The [soldier], Henry McEwen, married July 11, 1786 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Gregg. He died October 9, 1825.

His widow, Elizabeth McEwen, was allowed pension on her application executed March 18, 1839, then aged about seventy years and living in Potter Township, Pennsylvania.

Reference was made to their children, four of whom were under twelve years of age in 1820; [the only] name designated being Henry McEwen, who was living near Hublersburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, in 1877.

Francis McEwen in 1818 made affidavit in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and William McEwen stated in 1819 that he was well acquainted with the soldier, Henry McEwen, in 1775. It is not shown that they were related to each other, or were related to the family.

Very truly yours,


A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.


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