Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,358, for Michajah Posey, Pennsylvania
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T. I Jones. Chester
Michajah Posey
Petition - for relief
W. R. Jan: 13. 1823
Claims. 
Bill grat $40 annuity $40
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To the honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met
Your Petitioner a soldier
in the Revolutionary war most Humbly sheweth
Your Petitioner entered the flying Camp in
August one thousand seven hundred seventy six
in Captain Jacob Hetherlins Company and Col.
Montgomeries Regiment in which He continued
untill he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington
and carried a prisoner to New York and confined in Bridewell untill he was discharged on parole under
which he continued during one year after which he
Enlisted in Captain William Lusks Company and
Col. Harmons Regiment for three years during which time be faithfully served and received an honourable discharge at Princeton in New Jersey. Your Petitioner is now
in reduced circumstances and labouring under the
infirmities of old age, wishes your honours to grant him an Annuity for his support and your Petitioner as well as
his comrades in arms in duty bound will pray &c
Michajah Posey

I do hereby certify that all this statement
in the above petition; before his inlistment in Col Harmons Ridgments is
the truth being an eye witness to his suffering
[signature] Tho. Bulls Lt Col

Janry. 3d 1823
I do thus far certify that the petioner was taken prisoner at Fort Washington Nov 16 1776 and admited on parole in Jany 1777 . I even understood after his exchange he enlisted in the Continental army. 
HB I was a witness to his sufferings in captivity. 
[signature] Hezekiah Davies
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Hon Wm Everhart
H. of R
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AW
Rev. War Section. 
October 23, 1915. 

Dr. William Campbell Posey, 
N.E. cor. 21st & Chestnut Streets, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Sir: 

In response to your letter of the twenty-first
instant, you are advised that the only Revolutionary War soldier named Micajah Posey found on the records
of this Bureau is one whose widow Rachel applied
for pension on account of his services in the Pennsylvania
troops, but her claim was not allowed, as she
did not prove that he rendered six months service as required by the Act of July 7, 1838, under which she
applied.
The date and place of soldier's birth are not
stated in said claim nor is his age given. His widow
alleged that he lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
at the time of the Revolution, that she married him
in Chester County, on November 5 or 6, 1793, that he died either on March 30, or April 1, 1828, or on
March 31, 1829, and that he was allowed a pension
of $40 per annum by the State of Pennsylvania.
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[handwritten at top] Recd. One 2 cts. stamped envelope. Rev. War, HW
Stampd env. retd. W
ok RWS

DR. WM. CAMPBELL POSEY
N. E. COR. 21ST AND CHESTNUT STREETS 
PHILADELPHIA Oct. 221, 1915. 

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:

Micajah Posey was a pensioned soldier of the Revolution.
Will you please have the records searched to find if there is any note
made of where he was born, whether in this country or abroad, and also
his age.
Yours very sincerely,
[scribbled signature] Wm Posey

P.S.
I shall of course
be willing to pay
for the search.
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Lancaster City Pennsylvania
March 27. 1861

Sir, 
Has there ever an application for Revolutionary pension been filed in your office by, Micajah Posey of Chester County for services rendered during said war? Also application for Rachael Posey widow of the said Micajah Posey decd if so, who the atty was and when &  what has been done. 
A line an answer will much oblige
Yours Respectfully, 
Wm.  J. Amweg

Hon Geo C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D C
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Pension Office,
April 18th 1861

Sir: 
An application for pension was filed in Feby 1855 in favor of Mrs. Rachel Posey, widow of Micajah Posey, and; by Hon: William Everhart, H. of Rep? and was unpended on the 26th of Feby of that year. On the 22d July 1856, the papers in the case were sent to the Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions of the House of Representatives, & still remain in the possession of that body. 

Wm. J. Amweg, Esq
Lancaster City, Pa.
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[across left corner] copied
Pension Office
July 22 1956 

Sir
I have the honor to enclose the papers in the case of Rachel Posey of Penna and to inform you that the letter of the 26th of Feby 1855 to Hon William Everhart 1838/ discloses the true condition of her claim so far as the facts appear before this office. 

Hon Geo Jones
Chm Committee of Pensions
U S Senate
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I am respectfully, 
Your Obt Servt. 
S P Waldo
Commissioner

Hon. Wm. Everhart, 
House of Reps.
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of  Pennsylvania in General Assembly met. 

The Petition of Rachel Posey of East Nantmeal Township Chester County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioner intermarried with Micaijah Posey of the County and Commonwealth aforesaid that the said Micaijah served in the Army of the Revolutionary war for which services it pleased your honourable bodies to grant a Pension of forty Dollars per year during his natural life and the said Micaijah having deceased on or about the first day of April last leaving your petitioner poor and without the necessary means of support in her old age: 

Your Petitioner therefore prays your Honourable Bodies to grant her a continuance of her husbands Pension and she is duty bound will pray.  
Rachel Posey X her mark

Present
Thomas Care

Custer County Ss. 
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county Personally appeared Lewis Evans who being qualified according to Law doth depose and say that he believes the above Petitioner to be poor and in need of assistance and further saith not. 
[signature] Lewis Evans

Affirmed and Subscribed before me the 18th day of November A D 1828
[signature] George Lloyd Justice Peace
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35 Cong
1 Sep 
88 87
4
Petition 
of Rachel Posey
widow of Macajah 
Posey, praying to be
allowed a pension
on account of the military
services of her husband
during the war of Rev. 

1856, July 16. Referred
to the Com. on Pensions

1858, Jany 6 Referred o 
the Com on [pensions appears to be marked out]
May 14, Reported adversely
Dec 16, Agreed to

[faint writing] 12 Kingsport
address

Mr. Bigler