Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9836, John Dougan, N.C.
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(3-1776)
Service C
Dougan, John
Dougan
W. 9836 Born in [illegible] 
Martha
W. 31428-160-55
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 125142, 23-2
Indiana 
John Dougan of Wayne Co. in the state of Indiana who was a private in the  [illegible] commanded by Captain Dougan of the —-command, by— in the Carolina line for two years prof calvary, inscribed on the roll of Indiana at the rate of 100 dollars— cents per annum to commence on the fourth day of March, 1831. Certificate of pension issued the 29th day of Nov 1833 and Daniel Raid Richmond. Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 230.00 Semi-Anal. Allowance ending 4 March 50.00, $300 recorded by Dan Boyd Book E. Vol 7 page 109. Revolutionary Claim Act. June 7, 1832. Clerk. Dead, Letto S.B. Stanton Aug. 20, 1842 do to Hon. C. B.  Smith, H.R. [illegible] , 1846.
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194198 Act March 3/ –5
[Rest of the top corner is illegible] 
Martha Dougan
Martha Dougan, and John Dougan
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Indiana Madison
Martha Dougan widow of John Dougan who served in the Revolutionary War as a Dragoon.
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 100 dollars . Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Certificate of pension issued the 22 day of March 1849 and sent to Isaa C. Lea. Madison [illegible finished signature].
Recorded on roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 page 326 vol. 3.
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The State of Indiana
Wayne County 
Be it remembered that on the 12th day of August [illegible]1833 then personally came into open court before the honorable Nathan Smith Judge of the Wayne Probate Court in session the same being the first judicial day of said court of the term of August in the year aforesaid court being a court aged seventy June 9th. All of record John Dougan a resident of said county of Wayne who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 to wit I entered the service of the United States in the Army of the revolution in the year 1778 the day in Randolph county ([llegible] 
I do not recollect in the state of North Carolina sale in a volunteer Company, Commanded by Captain Thomas Dougher and served in said company to the best of my recollection one year during which time we were stationed at Bells Mill in said county of Randolph at a public store of provisions, said Bell then being a commissary to furnish provisions for the Army of the revolution during said years I found my own horse, saddle and bridle our company was raised for the purpose of guarding said public store and suppressing the Tories and disaffected with whom that county was then largely infected during the years service aforesaid we were employed guarding in said public store and in [illegible] companies in guarding provision wagons [illegible] provision to said store and collecting  [illegible] and other provisions for said store and in traversing the country looking out for Tories and protecting the country from their incur stones at the end of said years service says Captain Dougan was advanced to the rank of Major and William Gray the ensign of said company was advanced to the rank of Captain of said company and took the command thereof during said years service the inferior officers commanding in said Company under the said Captain Dougan were lieutenant William Clark and Ensign William Gray above named the said William Clark at the expiration of said years service to the last of my recollection and resigned his post as lieutenant.
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 One Newland was commissioned Lieutenant in his stead whose given name I do not recollect and one Joseph Clark was commissioned ensign in said  company. I continued in said company under said Captain Gray Lieutenant Newland and ensign Clark and served as a Private and the termination of the War during which time we were stationed at said Bells Mill when not engaged in active service. When not engaged in active service until the latter part of the year 1782 to the best of my recollection after that time until the close of the War we were stationed when not engaged in active service in the house of Col. and Edward Sharp in said county of Randolph during all which time I found my own horse, saddle and bridle and arms the first active service during said latter period of my service was a short time after said Captain Gray took the command of said company we were ordered out at the command of Col. John Collier and Lieutenant Andrew Balfour of said county of Randoplh with a number of volunteer in all about sixty men we marched about twenty five miles towards the East End of said last named county to oppose a company of [illegible] under the command of one Colonel Farmer [illegible] who was embodying a long force in the county adjoining below our the second night after county our station we encamped at the house of one John Needham. During the night we were attacked by  Col. Farmer and his [illegible]. After a short conflict we repulsed them with two of their men killed and four or five wounded the next morning we pursued Capt. [illegible] and two days after the conflict we come upon one Captain Michael Robbins a Tory Captain with ten or twelve Tory under his command we dispersed them with three of their men killed. We then returned to our station at Bells Mill. The next active service we were engaged was three or four months after the last named expedition we were ordered out in the Fall I think in September the year I cannot recollect the Highland Scotch of North Carolina who were embodying a Tory force about.
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Sixty or seventy miles from our station in the Highlands of said states we were joined by one Col. Saunders of Wake County of North Carolina with a body over one hundred men said Col. Saunders took the command of the whole and marched us into the Highlands and across Cape Fear River we [illegible] a march on the Torys by marching all night one night and took fourteen prisoners our company was ordered to guard and did guard the prisoners to Hillsborough in Orange County, North Carolina the district jail we lodged the prisoners in jail and returned to our station another piece of service we rendered occurred a few weeks previous to the last name expedition I did not think of it when I related the last named expedition was in defending the public store at our station the store was attacked by one Captain Edwards Franklin or [illegible] commissioned by Lord Cornwallis and his company about fifteen in number we repulsed them and the next day we pursued them overtook them and killed Franklin the Captain and one of his men and dispersed the company the next active service that I now recollect that we were engaged in I think occurred in March 1782 the spring after Lord Cornwallis surrendered. Capt. Fannen and his company consisting of 40 or 50 Torys came into county and raged the country and killed Lieutenant Col. Belfour and Capt. John Bryan in their own houses and burn my mothers house and barn. She being a widow Col. Collier and Esquire Milligan's house we pursued them and overtook them and put them to flight but the day being wet our guns missed five so that we only wound two men. The next piece of active service and the last service I did during the war occured as follows. Col. Elrod, Captain Michael Robbins and Captain Samuel Still Tory officers were passing through said county of Randolph. They killed one young man and wounded another we pursued them several days and our company separated into two parties, one part of the company overtook them and killed Col. Elrod and Captain Still the part of the company I was in was-
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Not present when they were killed we marched over one hundred miles over the Blue Ridge from there we returned home to the station that at Col. [illegible] and shortly afterwards were disbanded. I have no documentary evidence to prove my services; owing to the great lapse of time and loss of memory I cannot now state positively whether I received any written discharge from my Captain. But I do recollect that vouchers for my services were made out by my officers which were placed in the hands of my older brother Thomas Dougan who took them to Hillsborough, North Carolina and purchased land for me with them to the best of my recollection the rate of I received was twelve dollars per month for my services. I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or an annuity except the present and I hereby declare that my name is not on the pension role of any agency of any state in the union sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year above written John Dougan. Sam Hannal C.W.S  and thereupon the court proceeded to propound to the said John Dougan under his oath the following interrogatories to [illegible].
Where and in what year were you born. 
Answer, I was born in Lancaster County, State of Pennsylvania. January 9th 1763; I was but six months old when my parents left Pennsylvania and moved to North Carolina
Have you any record of your [illegible] so where is it
Ans. I have as a record of my age in my Bible which was taken from the records of my family..
Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans. When called into service I lived in Randolph County North Carolina for several years since the Revolutionary War I continued to live-
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In the county and states last named perhaps six years  removed to the State of Tennessee where I lived until I removed to the state from whence I removed to this county ( Wayne State of Indiana) where I have lived for the last seventeen years and where I now reside.
How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute.
Ans. I volunteered
State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served [illegible] Continental and militia regiments as you can [illegible] and the general circumstances of your services
Ans. Gen. Butler was the brigadier general in the [illegible] in which I lived and was stationed the one [illegible] Luther was the Colonel in the regiment in which I served he resigned before I entered the service and as succeeded in office by Col. John Collier who was succeeded in office by Col. Thomas Dougan these were the militia officers having command in the bounds [illegible] the place of my resident and where I was stationed I was not out in service under those men except a few days at a time when circumstances made it necessary to collect together as many troops as possible I was principally engaged in watching the movement of the ones and its disaffected and there was a great many of them in the part of the country I served they would lie in wait and surprise small parties of the Army and break in upon and destroy the public store 
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Ans. I was regularly discharged at the end of the War and I received my pay in the manner stated in my declaration though I cannot now recollect wether I received a written discharge or not if I did it is lost or mislaid 
State the names of persons to whom-
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You are known in your present neighborhood and who can [illegible] your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution: 
Ans. Captain Willim Gray my ensign during heart of my services and the captain during the [illegible] Captain Daniel Reid Col. William M. Doughty and John Whitehead ESQR. Sheriff of this county and thereupon here comes into open court before the judges a foresaid William Gray a resident of Preble county State of Ohio of lawful age who being duly sworn according to law on his oath says that he has heard the foregoing declaration of the said John Dougan distinctly read and that the statements made by the said John Dougan are true to the best of his (affiants) recollection that he (affiants) was the ensigns in the company states in said declaration during the first years services and that said John Dougan served the first years as stated in his said declaration. That after the expiration of said [illegible] years service Captain Thomas Dougan was advanced to the rank of Major and this affiant was commissioned Captain of said company and took the command thereof as stated in said John Dougan’s declaration and commanded the same until the termination of Revolutionary War that this affiant thinks the year was commissioned Captain of said company was and that said John Dougan faithfully served said company under the command of this affiant as captain as aforesaid as a Private until the close of the Revolutionary War in 1782 and was honorably discharged that during the whole term of his service the said John Dougan furnished his own horses, saddles, bridle and arms for the service and that he served to the entire satisfaction of his officers that the said John Dougan is a man of good moral character and that his statements are entitled to the fullest credits and that said company was engaged in the services stated in said John Dougan declaration in manner as he therein stated and that this affiant for his-
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Services as an officer of the Army of the Revolution as stated in said John Dougan’s declaration is now receiving a Pension as a Revolutionary Pensioner on the roll of the Ohio Agency of twenty-five dollars per month. 
Subscribed and sworn to in open courts the day and year above named 
Saml Hannah
His William Gray, Captain Mark
And the said court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter  and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and after hearing the foregoing proofs that the above named applicant John Dougan was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the above named John Dougan and Capt. William Gray are men of good moral character and that their statements are entitled to the most full and entire credit Samuel Hannah Clerk of the Wayne Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application pension of John Dougan. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix me seal of office this 12th day of August, A.D. 1833.
Sam Hannah C.W. P.C
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Declaration:
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the third [illegible] and 17th June 1844 granting pensions to certain widows State of Indiana, Wayne county on this 20th day of June [illegible] personally appeared before me John B. Still [illegible] judge of the probate court of Wayne County for the state of Indiana (the same being a court of [illegible] at the court house in said county of Wayne, Hanagan a resident  of Wayne township in said county of Wagner aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn in according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the acts of Congress granting pensions to certain widows: that she is the widow of John Dougan who was a private in the Army the United States, during the Revolutionary War, in the sum of in the [illegible] kind. She cannot state what troop or company or regiment her said husband served as he has no evidence  in relation to her possession. She refers for evidence upon this subject to the application of the said John Dougan her said husband, now on file in the office of the commissioner of pensions, with the accompanying papers, and upon which a pension was granted to her said husband for several years previous to his death, and which as she advised, contains full evidence of his services. She also refers to the certificate of William F. Collins [illegible) of public accounts in the State of North Carolina which is hereto attached made a part of
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this declaration, from which it appears that the records of said comptroller's office shows that specie certificate for military services for were issued in said state; to the said John Dougan for the amount of fifty five pounds and thirty shillings and in which she is advised by said comptroller, will come about two years service. She further declares that she was married to the said John Dougan in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty four but the precise date should could  not recollect and that her husband the aforesaid John Dougan died on the 25th January 1842. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the services, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninety four [illegible): at the time above I stated, sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Judge of the Wayne County probate court for the state of Indiana, John B. Still. J. W. P. C. Martha Dougan.
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State of Indiana [illegible entire top paragraph]
Aforesaid, who being duly [illegible] according to declare that she is the widow of John Dougan deceased who was a Dragoon in the Revolutionary War, and were bed in the pension list at the rate of  One hundred dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March 1848, this pension was issued to the said Martha Dougan in the 2nd of March 1849 signed by [illegible] Sec of the interior and Edwards commissioned of pension to which I would respectfully refer the commission for more certainty, this pension is recorded in the pension office on the roll of pensions. Page 326, Vol. 3, 7. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the [illegible] same to which she may be entitled to under the [illegible] of March 3rd 1854 Martha Dougan. We Peter Crocker and Samuel Fryer, resident of the county and State aforesaid upon her oath declares that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence by Martha Dougan and that we believe from the appearance of and statements of the applicant that she is the person she represents herself to be, we have no interest in this claim
Peter Crocker 
Samuel Fryer
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State of Indiana, Wayne county s.s. The foregoing declaration and [illegible]  were served to and subscribed before me on the day and year afore written and certify that I knew the and to be credible persons, that the claimant is the [illegible] represents herself to be, and that I have no claim interest in this claim David T. Smith, Notary public, State of Indiana, Wayne County.
I Andrew A Scott clerk of the County work and for the country and state above mentioned, do hereby certify that said J. Smith whose genuine signature appears above, is , and was at the time of signing the same an acting Notary Public, in and for the county and state aforesaid county court is a court of record, having given jurisdiction. I also certify that in an non-interested in this claim, or concerned in the result thereof, given under my hand and seal, twenty-third day of July AD 1855 Andrew F.  Scott [illegible]
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26.720 
John Dougan
Wayne Co. Indiana 
From 1778 
Private of calvary 2yr
$100
Captain Dougan 
M.
Daniel Reid
Richmond, Indiana
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War Department: Pension office
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. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace ( thus:}). 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, showing the service of John Dougan
The applicant should state the time that he was in active service in the field, during the whole of the time from 1778 to 1780. Indeed the affidant of his captain [illegible].
For the applicant served under him while your obedient servant, and he it would seem gets but $25 per with if he had been in actual in the year his pay been at a much higher rate for service as a Captain.
I am respectfully your obedient servant, 
J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Period when the service was rendered: 1778 & 1782
Years, Months, Days: 1
Rank of the Claimant: Priv
Names and Rank of the field officers under whom he served: Capt Dougan
Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service: 70 N.C.
Proof by which the declaration is supported: one [illegible]
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Regulations under the act of June 7,1832
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, at to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms “Continental Line,” “State Troops,” “Militia,”and “Volunteers,”all persons, enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c Teamsters, Boatmen &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
The Regular Troops.
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
Persons employed in the Naval Service.
Indian Spies.
As rolls of the Regular Troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law of officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
				Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory, or District of, County of } ss. On this day of Personally appeared  (a) before.
A.B. a resident (b) of, in the county of and State, Territory or District, of aged ( c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers
[ Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; ( and if her served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers ;) the town and county or State in which i.e. resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any ) only on that of the Agency in the State of sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.;
A.B.
[ and then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. I. Of the court Of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of —----for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of  &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the name of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia, and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: and C. D . residing  in (the same ), who has.
(k) we A.B., a clergyman residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[ And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,--- Clerk of the Court of  —-do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and seal of office, this—day of—--&c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but of neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l)  and he will also, whether he produces such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable application upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
Where and in what year were you born?
Have you any record of your age, and if no, where is it?
Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you  now live?
How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
To a Soldier
To an officer 
(Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?)
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the application.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinon of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons- one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe his is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the  neighbourhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before  Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the Act June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter-
The declarant must appear in open Court,  unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his [illegible]
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
The age of the claimant must be invariably mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the War when he served.
Every Continental Officer or Soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every Claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot by reason of the loss of memory, state how precisely long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: “ personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c.A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by the reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades—For—-year—--months, and—-days, I served as a —--. For—months and —-days, I served as a —---, and for such service I claim a pension”.
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grades of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about [illegible] or four months in the militia &. Without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case be clearly show i under what officers the applicant; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served within an corpse called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the hold or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was preformed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[ f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[ g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must… affix his seal and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
			Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of service.
	[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant’s entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and the signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written,and sent to the War Department, with the declaration
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State of Indiana 
Wayne County 
Be it remembered that on this 14th day of June 1846 personally before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said County Margarette Fryar who was by me first duly sworn and on her oath says, that according to the best of her knowledge [illegible] she is about sixty-one years of age, having been born ( as she is informed) on the 24th day of Nov. 1785; that from the period of very early infancy she knew Mr. John Dougan & Martha his wife, in Randolph county State of North Carolina; that she was personally acquainted with said Dougan & wife from the earliest period of her recollection to the day of the death of Mr. Dougan in Wayne County [illegible] which happened ( as she believes) in the year 1843, during all of which time of her certain knowledge the said Johna & Martha lived together as husband & wife; that she well knows they lived together as man & wife, previous to the first of January 1794 [illegible] in the year 1792- 
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of July 1846- Stephen B. Stanton
Justice of the Peace
Witness present, John Dougan 
[illegible] 
May a (illegible) Fryar Mark
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State of Indiana
Wayne County 
Thomas G. Noble
Clerk of the Wayne County circuit
[Ilegible]
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State of Ohio
Treble County 
Act
Be it remembered that on this 13th day of August A.D. 1846, personally appeared before Mr. Newton Larsh a justice of the peace in and for said county, Ann Gray, of lawful age who after being by me duly sworn, on her oath makes the following answers to the following questions to wit.
Question 1- What is your age?
Answer- I do not know precisely, but according to the best information I have, I am about eighty years old.
Question 2- How long have you known Margarette Fryar, and when did you first know her?
Answer- I cannot venture for the precise number of that I have known her; but I have known her ever since her mother had her in her arms, a sucking child, which I believe was in the year A.D. 1785- I first knew her in Randolph County North Carolina-
Question 3- Who was Mrs. Margarette Fryars Father and Mother?
Answer- John Dougan and Martha Dougan-
Question 4- Do you know when John Dougan and Martha were married?
Answer- Yes, I know when they were married, but cannot tell the exact year. I know that the marriage took place when I was a girl say fourteen to seventeen years of age 
Question 5- Can you tell how long it was after the marriage of John and Martha Dougan , before
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Margarette Fryar was born? 
Answer- I cannot remember certainly, but know that the parents not longer without children then most newly married persons usually are. Margarette Fryar was their oldest child Ann Gray Mark Lext
James Rhea 
John Rhea
Sworn top subscribed before me this 13th day of August 1846 Newton Larsh 
I do- hereby certify that Ann Gray the above reforment is entitled to full credit for truth and veracity this I know from an acquaintance for twenty five years with her Newton Larsh 
August 13th 1846
The State of Ohio Preble County 
I Richard S. Cunningham  Clerk of the court of common pleas within one for the said County of Preble do hereby certify, that on the 13th day of August AD 1846 Newton Larsh was a justice of the peace within and for said County of Preble duly elected and qualified 
Given under my hand and seal of office at Eaton this 29th day of August AD 1846
R.S. Cunningham clerk
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State of Indiana
Wayne County 
Act
Be it remembered that on on this 19th day of October A.D. 1826 , personally came before me John Sailor mayor of the city Richmond, and as officers of Justice of the Peace in & for said county, Moses Robins sent who was by me duly sworn and on his Oath, and makes the following answer to the questions following to-wit: 
Question 1- What is your age?
Answer- I was eighty one years old on the 26th day of last January, having her home, as I am informed, on the 26th day of January 1765
Questions 2nd- When & where did you first know John Dougan & Martha his wife, formally Martha Collin?-
Answer- I first knew them when I was a small boy, say about ten years old- I have been to school with them many a day- have known them ever since- My first acquaintance with them was in Randolph County, North Carolina-
Question 3rd- Do you know wether John Dougan and Martha Collin were ever intermarried, and if you do, when did this marriage take place 
[illegible]
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Answer 3rd- Yes I know that they were married in Randolph County North Carolina- I do not now remember the particular day, but I know they were married about two years before I was married, and I know that I was married on the 25th day of April 1786-

Question 4th- Do you know that they were married before the first day of January?
Mosses Robbins
John C. Robbins

State of Indiana
Wayne County 
Before me John Sailor Mayor of the City of Richmond and of [illegible]
Justice of the peace in and for said county 

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I John Sailor Mayor of the city of Richmond do hereby certify that I believe the above named Moses Robinson- to be a man of truth and [illegible]
John Sailor Mason
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State of Indiana 
Wayne County 
I Thomas G Noble Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court hereby certify that John Sailor ESQ.  before whom the foregoing deposition was made and whose signature is thereto attached was at the date thereof the acting Mayor of the City of Richmond in said county duly commissioned and qualified and the said attestation is in due form of land
In witness whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said Court this 3d day of November 
AD 1846
Thomas G. Noble CLK
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
January 14, 1924
L.M. Black
7216 Yale Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
Sir:  
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9836, it appears that John Dougan was born January 9, 1763, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
	While living in Randolph County, North Carolina, he volunteer-ed in 1778 and served three and one half years as a private in cap-tains Thomas Dougan and William Gray’s company of Horse, under colonels Edward Sharp, John Collier, James Dougan and Saunders. During this time he was engaged in a number of skirmishes with the Tories.
	He was allowed pension on his application executed August 12, 1833, while living in Wayne County, Indiana, and he died there January 25, 1842.
	He married in December 1784, in Randolph County, North Carolina, Martha Collin or Collier, and she was allowed pension on her application executed June 20, 1846, while a resident of Wayne Township, Wayne County, Indiana, aged eighty-three years, and she died sometime in her ninety-first or ninety-second year of age.
	Their oldest child, Margarette Fryar, was born November 24, 1785. No other children are named.
	Respectfully,
Commissioner
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of February 1848 entitled “ an act making further provision for surviving widow and Soldiers of the Revolution. 
State of Indiana 
Wayne County of  on this 27th day of January 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the county and state, aforesaid, Martha Dougan, a resident of Richmond in the County of Wayne age 84 years. Who being first duly sworn [illegible] to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of John Dougan- who was Private of Cavalry & Infantry- in the war of the Revolution and that he is served in the North Carolina line as a Dragoon.
That she received an annual pension of one hundred-dollars under the act of 17 June, 1844 and that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the above names John Dougan.
Martha Dougan
S.B. Stanton  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
Before me
James M. Poe
I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit.
James M. Poe
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State of Indiana Wayne County [illegible]
I, Thomas G. Noble clerk of the Circuit Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that James M. Poe ESQ. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the Fourteenth day of July 1846, and [illegible]
On the fourteenth day of July 1851, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 30th day of Jan. AD 1849.
Thomas G. Noble Clerk
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Rev. 1812 Wars Section 
July 27, 1925
Mrs. Clara D. Scott
1224 Main ST.
Richmond, Ind.
Madam,
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9836, it appears that John Dougan was born January 9, 1763, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
While living in Randolph County, North Carolina, he enlisted in 1778 and served three and one half years as private in Captain Thomas Dougan’s and William Gray’s Company of Horse, under colonels Edward Sharp, John Collier, James Dougan, and Sanders. During this time he was engaged in a number of skirmishes with the Tories.
He was allowed pension on his application Executed August 12, 1833, while living in Wayne County, Indiana, and he died there in Jan-uary 25, 1842.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Rev. 1812 Wars Section.
December 24, 1923.

Mrs. Gertrude H. Mulford.
Registrar, Streator Chpt., D.A.R.,
Streator, Ill.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim w. 9836, it appears that John Dougan was born January 9, 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
	While living in Randolph County, North Carolina, he volunteered in 1778 and served three and one half years as a private in Captain Thomas Dougan and William Gray’s company of Horse, under colonels Edward Sharp, John Collier, James Dougan and Saunders. During this time he was engaged in a number of skirmishes with the Tories.
	He was allowed pension on his application executed August 12, 1833, while living in Wayne County, Indiana, and he died there January 25, 1842.
	He married in December 1784, in Randolph County, North Carolina, Martha Collin or Collier, and she was allowed pension on her application executed June 20, 1846, while a Resident of Wayne Township, Wayne County, Indiana, aged.
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Eighty-three years, and she died sometime in her ninety-first or ninety-second year of age. Their oldest child Margarette Fryar, was born nov-ember 24, 1785. No other children are named,
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner
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1224 Main St.
Richmond Indiana 
May 29, 1825
Washington Gardener 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir:- being a member of the D. A. R. and having [illegible] the grave of my great great grandfather, any Revolutionary Grandfather I would like and [illegible] his military record. I have the original pension issued the Grandmother but know nothing of his war record. Where did he enlist- what kind of service and where was he [illegible]
how long in the service. I am anxious and find a suitable marker at his grave giving him credits due him. 
Respectfully, 
Mrs. Clara Dougan Scott
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My ancestors name was John Dougan. 
First pension paper. 
March 4, 1848
Recorded in pension office on roll of pensions under act of February 2-1848
Page 326  Volume 3.
Respectfully 
Mrs. Clara Dougan Scott 
1224 Main St.
Richmond Indiana 
Military Record- Minted
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Chicago Ill. 
Commissionary of pensions 
Washington. DC-
Dear Sir; Kindly send me the pension record of John Dougan.
Wayne County, Indiana 
Pensions of the Revolutionary War-
Placed on call Nov. 29-1833- thanking you in advance Respect. Yours, 
L. M. Black 
7216 Yale ave. Chicago
Pension Office 
Nov. 26 
1923
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Streator Chapter 
Streator Illinois.
Nov. 8, 1923
Bureau of Pension,
Washington D.C.
Please send me a copy of the pensions papers referring to pension granted to wife of John Dougan, for, his revolutionary war service. Service is recorded on roll of Pension Pages 326 Volume 3. This record is for W.P. Waldrip.
Yours truly (Mrs.) Gertrude H. Mulford 
Registrar Streator Chpt.
D.A.R
Pension office
Nov 18 1923
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1923-Dec. 24 Hist to Gertrude Mulford
Office 1924 Jan 14 Hist. to L. M. Black 
1925 July 27[illegible] 
Revolution North Carolina 
Widow, & C.
File No. 9836
Martha Dougan Wid. of John Dougan 
Pri, Rev. War
Feby, 2748 
Index: -
Vol. A, Page 188
[ Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mar 31 46
Mr. Dougan 
[illegible] act 
25142
[illegible]
C.B. Smith  [illegible]
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Washington 30 Nov. 1846
Sir
Martha Dougan, the widow of John Dougan late a revolutionary pensioner wishes to make application to be placed on the pension roll. She was married to Dougan in Dec. 1789 and he died on the 25th Jany. 1862. Will you do me the favour to inform me whether her case comes within the provision of any of the existing laws?
I am with respect yours 
Caleb B. Smith 
[illegible] 
J.L. Edwards 
Comm. of Pensions
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Act March 1843
[illegible]
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Richmond Indiana 
July 26th 1834
Hon. J [illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir,
Mrs. Martha Dougan widow of John Dougan- had issued to her patent for those acres of land, under the act of [illegible] of March 1835, but before the warrant was visual she died, to whom does the warrant revert to- she leaves no minor children and can her Heirs at law, inherit the warrants, and who is the proper person to dispose of said warrants.
By giving me information of the above facts will greatly oblige with sentiments of much respect I am 
David S. Smith 
31428
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 
31428
Hon [illegible]
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Madison Indiana Feb 2, 1849
J.L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir
Herewith I forward declaration of Mrs. Martha Dougan, in order to obtain a pension under act of 2 February 1848. 
Please forward certificate to your obedient servant Isaac C. Lea
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State of Indiana 
Wayne County 
Be in remembered that on the 20th day of June 1846, personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace of said county Benjamin B. Moore, Lydia Moore, Samuel Mc Whinney, John Dougan, who were duly sworn according to law and on their oath say  that John Dougan died, and Martha Dougan his widow, ( who is now an applicant for a pension) lived together as man and wife for a long space of time to wit for the space of twenty years, during all which time the said John and Martha were regarded as man and wife, and are yet so regarded to have been such until the death of the said John Dougan and the said Samuel McKinney and John C. Dougan further say upon their oath an aforesaid that the said John Dougan departed this life on the 25th day of January AD. 1842, and that the said Martha Dougan is the widow of said John, and that she has not, since the death of John, has married- Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20th day of June, 1846-
Stephen B. Stanton 
Justice of the peace 
Benjamin B. Moore 
Lydia Moore 
Samuel Mc.Whinney 
John C. Dougan
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State of Indiana 
Wayne county 
I Thomas G. Noble Clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court hereby certify that Stephen B. Stanton ESQR. before whom the within affidavit of Benjamin B. Moore Stia Moore Samuel Mc Whenny, John C. Dougan [illegible] 
The date thereof and still is an acting justice of the peace in and forsaid County duly elected commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine 
Witness 
My name and the seal of said court the 20th day of [illegible] 1846
Thomas G. Noble clerk
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D.T. Smith,
Attorney at Law, 
And real estate agency,
Richmond, Indiana 
July 23rd, 1855
Dear Sir, 
Enclosed find the application of Mrs. Martha Dougan for bounty land, she was so old an infirm that she could not remember the time of her marriage, but I suppose you have that on record when the pension was granted, and only made reference to and for that purpose, acknowledge receipt of the application. 
Respectfully yours, 
D. T. Smith
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State of Indiana
Wayne County 
Be it remembered on this 18th day of October A.D. 1833 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the said County of Wayne in the State of Indiana John Dougan aged seventy years on the 9th day of January last. (1833) who being duly sworn and [illegible] that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades. [illegible] For one year commencing in the year 1778 and ending in 1779. I served as a private horse militiaman in a volunteer company of North Carolina horse militia commanded by Capt. Thomas Dougan. And after the promotion of Capt. Dougan of said company to the office of major. I continued to serve in said company of volunteers under the orders of Capt. Gray and a private volunteer militiaman for two years and six months more. being from sometime in the year 1779 to sometime in 1782 taking at least three years an six months between the years 1778 and 1782 during all which time I was under an engagement to march, and did march at a minutes warning whenever called by our said captains either of them. One year of which I served under Capt. Dougan and two years and six months under Capt. Gray as stated in my declaration, during which service I was either in the field in garrison or stationed to guard some military position in actual service for two years, and did not, nor could not in consequence of said service during the whole of the said term of two years actual service, engage in, or follow any civil pursuit, and for such two whole years of active and actual service as a private volunteer militiaman. I claim a pension and pray that this deposition maybe attached to my declaration heretofore made as an amendment unto. 
John Dougan
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of October A.D. 1833
Dan Stratton
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State of Indiana 
Wayne County 
I [illegible] clerk of the Wayne Circuit Court do hereby certify that the within named Danl. Stratton ESQ. before whom the foregoing deposition has been subscribed and sworn to by John Dougan, and who has certified the same, was at the time the same appears to have been certified and sworn to, an acting justice of the peace in and for said County of Wayne duly commissioned and sworn according to law. That full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts. And further that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of our said court at Centreville this 18th day of October A.D. 1833
Saml Hannah C.W.C.C
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Application of Martha Dougan for pension
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State of Ohio
Table County
Be it remembered that on this 23rd day of February.1846 before me Newton Larsh a justice of the peace in and for said county, personally came Capt. William Gray, who was by me duly sworn and on his oath makes the following answers in the following questions to wit:
Question: What is your age?
Ans: About ninety years.
Question: When did you first know John Dougan & Martha Dougan (formally Martha Collins)
Ans: From my youth up- we were raised together from the time I was a smart kid in the county of Randolph of the State of North Carolina.
Question- When did you first know them to live together as man & wife?
Ans- About the year 1784- they were married in Randolph County, North Carolina about that time [illegible] I was at the wedding and infair both 
Question: How long did you [illegible] together as man and wife 
Ans- From the time of their marriage until the death of old Mr. Dougan, which was about [illegible] years, or nearly. 
William Gray
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year above written and further I do hereby certify that the deployment is a man of credibility and that there is no doubt of the truth of his statements is a man of unquestionable veracity.
Newton Larsh
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The State of Ohio Preble County 
I Richard S. Cunningham Clerk of the Court of common pleas within and for the county aforesaid do certify that Newton Lash ESQR. before whom the within affidavit as taken was at the time of talking said acting justice of the peace in said county duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Eaton this 24th day of June AD 1846.
R. S.Cunningham Clerk 
Preble [illegible]
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Indiana 
8024 
Martha Dougan
Widow of John Dougan who was a Dragoon in the N. Carolina Line
Husb. died 25th Jan. 1842
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Nov. 1846 and sent to Hon. C.B. Smith 
House of Reps 
[Acts of March 3, 1843 ]
And 17th of June 1844
Recorded in book D
Vol. 2
Page 217
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Connersville [illegible] 9 Nov 1846
Sir
I send you herewith the deposition of Moses Robbins taken to startwith the marriage of Martha Dougan, an applicant for a pension.
It appears to me that this deposition with the testimony already filed must be sufficient to establish the marriage beyond all doubt. As I shall leave home for Washington in about two weeks you will please answer me there, as soon after the commencement of the approaching session of congress as convenient.
I am with respect your [illegible]
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington
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House of representatives
1st July 1846
Sir,
I send you herewith the declaration of Martha Dougan, widow of John Dougan late a pensioner of this U.S. with a [illegible] to obtaining a pension. The declaration is accompanied by a certificate of Martha Collins Comptroller of North Carolina, showing the amount of pay issued to John Dougan and also general affidavits to prove the marriage of John Dougan with the applicant.
I shall be pleased to learn your decision upon the case as early as convenient.
Yours respect. Caleb B. Smith
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
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House of Reps.
22 July 1846
Sir,
I send you herewith an additional affidavit to prove the marriage of Martha Dougan, whose application for a pension is now on file in your office, and which I hope will be regarded as sufficient. I am with respect your
Obt. Sert. 
Caleb B. Smith
Hon
J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Aug 10, 1842
Free 
John Dougan
Hon. Secretary of War 
Washington City
Pension office
DC
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Richmond [illegible] 
Aug. 14 1842
Secretary of War for
The widow & relict of the late John Dougan, a Revolutionary pension wishes me to ask of you instructions for getting her half pay- the department doubtless will recognize Mr. John Dougan that the certificate of Mrs. John Dougan has her surrendered to Mr. J F A Lainer the pension at Madison Indiana- If you should be pleased to send me information on the subject please to the particular
Very respectfully your Obt. Servant 
S.B. Stanton 
Address S. B. Stanton 
Richmond Indiana
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Connersville Ind. 8th Sep 1846
Sir
I send you herewith additional affidavits to establish the marriage of Martha Dougan with John Dougan These with the evidence now on file must it appears to me establish the point fully
You will please inform me of your decision by letter to this place 
I am with respect yours 
Caleb B Smith 
Hon J.L. Edwards 
Comm. of pensions
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John Dougan, Indiana RM, act June 7. 1832 at [illegible] annum
 Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid 
Died 25 Jan. 1842 [illegible]
Pension office 
Aug. 20 1842
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State of Indiana
Fayette County 
Be it remembered that on this 8th day of Sept. AD 1846 personally appeared before me Joseph Justice a justice of the peace at my office in Colesville Fayette county Indiana Caleb B Smith of lawful age who being by me duly sworn upon his oath that Mrs. Margarette Fryar of Wayne County Indiana and [illegible] of preble county Ohio (both of whom have made affidavits in the application of Martha Dougan for a pension) are both persons of good standing and fair character and that he believes their statements are entitled to full credit and belief, and further says not. Sworn to and subscribed before me that day and year 
Being written 
Joseph Justice 
Justice of the peace 
Caleb. B. Smith 

State of Indiana 
Fayette County 
I Amos R. Edwards clerk of the Fayette Circuit court in the state of Indiana, do hereby certify that Joseph Justice before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, was at the time of making the same a justice of the peace in & for Fayette county Indiana duly elected & qualified
Given under my hand & the seal of said court this 8th Sept. 
AD 1846
Amos R Edwards
Clerk
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8771
1285 
Martha Dougan 
Inda.
Act 3 March AD 
And 17 June 1844
Married 1784 
Husband died 25 [illegible]
4 March 1843
Hon. C.B. Smith 
House of Reps 
Act 3rd March 1843
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State of Indiana
Wayne County 
I Thomas G. Noble clerk of the Wayne County probate court for the state of Indiana, the same being a court of Record do hereby certify that John B Stitt whose name is above subscribed is the sole judge of said court, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature and signed by him in my presence at the Court House in said county of Wayne-
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of said Court,
this 20th day of June 1846
Thomas G. Noble Clk.
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State of Indiana
Wayne County 
I Thomas G. Noble clerk of the Wayne County probate court for the state of Indiana, the same being a court of Record do hereby certify that John B Stitt whose name is above subscribed is the sole judge of said court, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature and signed by him in my presence at the Court House in said county of Wayne-
In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of said Court,
this 20th day of June 1846
Thomas G. Noble Clk.

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Raleigh N.C.
I William [illegible] of Public Accounts in and for the State of  North Carolina, do hereby certify that the name of John Dougan appears upon the records of this office by having had issued in his name the following [illegible] certificate for military services, by one for nine pounds [illegible]( 9) see books No. 3 Page 4. also another for six pounds (6) see books No 1 page 36 also another in same book same page for Nine pounds (9), also in another in same book same page for Eighteen pounds (18) also another in same book and page for thirteen pounds thirteen shillings (13.13) given under my hand and  seal this 15 day 1846
William F. Collins Compt
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9
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