Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23717, John Hume, Penn.
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Service: Penn
Hume, John
Number: S. 23717

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CONTENTS
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11,580
Pennsylvania
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John Hume
of Dauphin Co in the State of Penna.
who was a Pvt in the Company commanded
by Captain Morrow - of the Reg commanded
by Col Rogers - on the - Penna.
[illegible] Troops —

21 Mo Private — $70.00
                    
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Inscribed on the Roll of Penna.  [long line to end of page]
at the rate of 70 Dollars and Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May
1833 Wm McClure, Harrisburg, Pa
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 140,00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.  35.00
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$175.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk,
Book 6 - Vol. - 5- Page 23 -
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Dauphin

On the 22 day of April 1833
Personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Calvin Blythe, president & his associates Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Dauphin. The said Court of Common pleas now sitting John Hume a resident of West Hanover Township in the County of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty three years Six months & eighteen days who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; to wit, in the year 1776 six months tour in the drafted militia of Pennsylvania in the States of Pennsylvania New Jersey & New York his officers were Lieutenant Allen & Barnet--Captains Morrow & McKee--Major Boyd--and Colonel Clark in the year 1777 three months tour in the drafted militia of Pennsylvania at Germantown & Brandywine under Colonel Lowrie, Captain Copenhaver, Lieutenant Barnet Ensign Latcher--in the years 1777 & 1778 two months tour in the same militia as a substitute for John Morrow lay at the Spring Mountain tavern in Bucks County Pennsylvania under Colonel Rodgers, Captain Sainte & Lieutenant McFarland. In the year 1778 two months tour hauling flour from Lancaster to Valley Forge in March & April Richard Crawford waggon master. In the year 1781 & 1782 six months tour up the West Branch of the Susquehanna River as an Indian Spy, under Colonel Gray, Captain McGrady 1st Lieut. Alexander Campbell 2nd Lieut. John Cannoney. The last tour of service he went out the 1st day of August 1781 & was discharged the 1st of February 1782. The days that he marched on the other tours are not now recalled as he has now no documentary evidence and he knows of no (crossed out: "other") person whose testimony he can presume to testify to his service but Philip Fishburn
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and he further deposes and says that the was
born in the township of West Hanover in the
County of Lancaster where he has always resided.
The said Township being since the formation
of Dauphin County in said county of Dauphin.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
a pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any State - and he further
Sworn & Subscribed (crossed out: "that") deposes and says that the Rev James Snodgrass the pastor of West Hanover congregation for forty years or upwards which he has attended owing to age & infirmity cannot be in court but has furnished the required certificate & he is the only clergyman with whom deponent is particularly acquainted.

(signed) Jno. Hume

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
in open Court.

(signed) Jno. Roberts Pro(thono)tary

We David Ferguson a justice of the peace residing in the County of Dauphin and Philip Fishburn residing in the same hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Hume 
who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be of the
age of eighty three years or upwards, that
he is (crossed out: illegible word) respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, and known by one of us to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

(signed) David Ferguson

(signed) Philip Fishburn

Sworn & Affirmed & Subscribed this 22 day of April 1833 in open Court

(signed) Jno. Roberts Prot(honotar)y 

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from (crossed out: "service") the service and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer I have received discharges but they are lost.
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1 Where and in what year were you born?
Answer I was born in Township of West Hanover then County of Lancaster now County of Dauphin & State of Pennsylvania on the
4th day of October A.D. 1749
2 Have you any record of your age; and if
so where is it?
I have no record of my age at this
time.
3 Where were you living when called into
service, where have you lived since the
Revolutionary War & where do you now live?
Answer. In West Hanover Township now
in the County of Dauphin, at the time 
of the Revolution it was in the County
of Lancaster.
4 How were you called into service, were
you drafted, did you volunteer, or were
you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom
Answer. I was drafted at all the times but [illegible] when I went out as a substitute for John Morrow
5 State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served; Such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer. Generals Potter & Armstrong - And continental officers Wayne & Washington
6X I recollect.
7 State the names of the persons to whom you
are known in your present neighborhood, &
who can testify to your character for veracity
& their belief of your services as a soldier of 
the Revolution?
Answer David Ferguson Esq., Joseph Allen
& others -
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Pennsylvania State
Dauphin County

Personally appeared in open Court at Harrisburg in the County aforesaid John Hume who on his solemn oath deposes and says that his answers to the within interrogatories put to him this day in open Court are true & further saith not.

(signed) Jno. Hume

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court this 22d day of April 1833

(signed) Jno. Roberts Prot(honotar)y

State of Pennsylvania 
Dauphin County

I John Roberts Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Dauphin County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of (crossed out: "Philip Fishburn") John Hume for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22d day of April A.D. 1833.

(signed) Jno. Roberts Prot(thonotar)y
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No. 24.790
John Hume
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania

Admitted
21 months
$70.-

Wm. McClure
Harrisburg
Dauphin Co.
Penna.
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(printed form with handwritten additions)

WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office

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Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: "image of a brace"). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, shewing the Service of (by hand) John Hume Dauphin Co. Pennsylvania

(printed column heading) Duration of the claimant's service.
Period when service was rendered.
(by hand) Drafted 1776 
Years--Months (by hand) 6
Days--
(by hand)
ditto 1777 Months (by hand) 3
(by hand)
Sub 77 & 78 Months (by hand) 2
(by hand) 1778 Months (by hand) 2
(by hand) 81 & 2 Months (by hand) 6

(printed column heading) Rank of the claimant.
(by hand) Private
(by hand) Teamster
(by hand) Indian Spy

(printed column heading) Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served
(by hand) Capts. Morrow & McKee
Major Boyd
Col. Clarke
Col. Lowrie
Col. Roberts
Rich'd Crawford
Waggon Master
Col. Gray

(printed column heading) Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
(by hand) 83 Years
Dauphin County Pensylvania 

(printed column heading) Proof by which the declaration is supported.
(by hand) Living witness P. Fishburn year 1777 for a 3 months tour & Traditional Evidence

I am, respectfully
Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions
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(second page of printed form letter)
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

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(third page of printed form letter, the regulations of the act of June 7, 1832, no handwritten additions other that the following signature)

(signed) John N. Ashton
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(partly printed form, with handwritten additions)

23717
INVALID
Revolution

File No. 23717

John Hume

Pvt. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 32

Index: Vol. 2, Page 196

[Arrangement of 1870]
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(stampless cover with "FREE" stamp and "Harrisburg Apr 23" postmark)

(addressed to)
The Honbl. Louis Cass 
Secretary of War
or J.L. Edwards Pension office
Washington City
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Harrisburg April 22d 1833
The Honbl. Lewis Cass Esq.

Enclosed I send the application of John Hume for a pension to which I would request immediate attention as he is a very aged infirm & feeble man. And in all human probability will scarcely live to taste the bounty which his country has awarded to his services. An answer addressed to me at this place or to him directed to my care will oblige
Your friend &c (meaning etcetera)
William McClure
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To all whom it may concern, I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with John Hume, now an aged inhabitant of West Hanover Township Dauphin County for more than forty years, & have considered him uniformly an inoffensive & until disqualified by age for active service an industrious citizen. I can also say with freedom that I believe him to be a man of truth, whose testimony in relation to any services which he may have rendered his country may be relied on. Given this 15th day of April 1833 by
(signed) James Snodgrass pastor of Hanover Congr.
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Dauphin County
Personally appeared in open Court James Corbett who being duly sworn doth depose and say that the within certificate is the handwriting of the Revd. James Snodgrass and that he is an aged and infirm man upwards of seventy years old at least.
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court this 22d of April 1833
(signed) Jno. Roberts Prot(honotar)y

(signed) Jas. Corbett
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The Com. of Penn.
Dauphin County

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears that David Ferguson who has signed the preceeding certificate is a resident in the County of Dauphin and that Philip Fishburn is a resident of the same and that they are respectable and credible persons and their (crossed out: "statements") statements are entitled to full faith & credit. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Revd. James Snodgrass who has signed and given the attached certificate is an aged clergyman resident in the said County and that he is a respectable and credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
April 22d 1833

(signed) Calvin Blythe
(signed) Pa. Hummel
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Dauphin
Personally appeared in the open Court of Common pleas for the County of Dauphin now in Session Philip Fishburn a resident of Dauphin County who on his solemn affirmation doth affirm declare and say that in the year 1777 he served a three months tour of duty in the militia of Pennsylvania in the months of August, September and October with John Hume under Colonel Lowrie, Captain Copenhaver, Lieutenant Barnet & Ensign Latcher. Their General was Genl Irvine. And they were together in the Battles of Brandywine & Germantown & your affirmant further says that his age is now about seventy nine years & John Hume was at the time of service considered older than your affirmant. That the said John Hume was honorable discharged and performed his duty as faithful soldier during the continuance of said service & further said not.
Affirmed & subscribed in open Court this 22d of April 1833
(signed) Jno. Roberts Prot(honotar)y

(signed) Philip Fishburn