Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3228, John Daly, Penn.
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Penn [Pennsylvania]  
Daly, John
Daily
Dailey

W3228

Nancy
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let 16 June 1841 
86 on H. Plumer
Let J.M. Howe, Aug 5 1832
28 Jan 1833

0453
Pennsylvania
John Daly
0f Mercer County in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the regiment commanded by colonel Wayne of the Pennsylvania 
for the term of 6 years
inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued 29th of March 1819 and Sent to the Pensioner at Meadville Pennsylvania
Arrears to 4th of March 1819     5.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept:1819     48.
$13.83
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March,1818.}
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Statement of John Daly, residing in Main County State of Pennsylvania, who applied for a pernsion from the United States in pursuance of an act of Congress, entitled, "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval division of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th day of March 1818
Said John Daly Saith, that in the year 1775 he enlisted in Captain James Taylor's Company, in the fourth regiment of the Penn Line in the Continental establishment, which regiment was at that time commanded by Colonel Anthony Wayne - that he served in said company and regiment during the campaign in Canada, and after his return thereupon, Colonel Wayne was promoted to a Brigadier General, and the Regt was commanded by Colonel Francis Johnston and called the Fifth Regiment, and the company that had been commanded by Capt James Taylor was commanded afterward by Captain Thomas Boude, in which company & Reg said John Daly serverd at the battle of Brandywine where he was taken prisoner, and continued so until a few days before the British evacuated Philadelphia, when he was exchanged, and immediatley afterwards joined his company and Regt and was in the battle of Monmouth shortly afterwards - Remained in the army unbtil the year 1782, when he was honorably discharged, which discharge he has long since lost - The said John Daly hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension that may heretofore have been allowed to him by the laws of the United States, and further saith, that, from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
{signed|} John Daly x his mark

{stamp}

{writing lower left corner illegible - faded}
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Comonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County
On the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred & eighteen, personally appeared before me Jesse Moore, President of the Sixth Judicial district of Penn. John Daly, whose mark to his name sat at the post of the statement on the opposite side of this paper, and having been duly sworn as the law directs, did declare and say that the said statement is just and true
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year
above written before me
{signed} Jesse Moore
{signed} John Daly X mark

{different handwriting}
Crawford county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
To the Secretary of the Department of War, 
I the subscriber, President of the several courts of Common Pleas in the sixth judicial district consisting of the counties of Butler, Mercer, Venango, Crawford & Erie with the said commonwealth, do hereby certify, that, from the deposition of John Daly, which I believe is entitled to full credit, it appears to my satisfaction, that he the said John served in the revolutionary war, as he has in the foregonig deposition, against the common enemy. In testimony whereof this thirteenth day of April MDCCCXIII at Meadville in the said county of Crawford I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my seal.
{signed} Jesse Moore
{hand drawn seal}

{different handwriting}
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County
I William MacArthur prothonotary in and for the said County do certify by these presents that the Honorable Jesse Moore whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and before him the foregonig deposition appears to have been made, is President of the sixth Judicial District of Pennsylvania comprising the counties of Butler, Mercer, Venango, Crawford & Erie, duly commissioned and sworn and now acting under the authority of the said Commonwealth, to whose official acts as such faith and credit is due, and of right ought to be  given as well in courts of justice of the United States of America as elsewhere.
In testimony of which I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the county seal at Meadville the thirteenth day, of April in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight and eighteen.
{signed} William MacArthur, Prothy.
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{bifold paper}
{bottom right}
F.F.A. Wilson
Meadville
Penna.
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State of Pennsylvania
County Countford
SS.
on this 27th day of
January A.D. 1854 personally appeared before
me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in
and for said County and State aforesaid
James M Daily who being sworn
according to law doth depose and say
that as an heir of Nancy Daily decd
he settled the within Bill of merchandize
and paid for the same as per Receipt, there
on, and that the same was procured
for the interment of the said Nancy
Daly, Widow of John Daily, decd
of French Creek township Mercer County
Pennsylvania who was a Pensioner of the
who was a pensioner of the United States
Albert F. F. A. Wilson
James M Daily
Sworn and subscribed before me the day
and year first written
Lewis L Lord W.
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James M Daley
Bot of A W Raymond

5 yds Muslin @25               $125
1 Pair Stockins                         38
1/2 Yd Lawn 37c  Tape 3c         40
                                             $2.03. 
Artica June 16th 1844
Recd Payment June 28th 1844
W. W. Raymond
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John Daliy
Died July 1
1820

THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Nancy Daily
Died June 16
1844
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Crawford
On this 27th day of January A.D. 1854 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State. I am M. Daily, who being duly sworn according to Law duth depose and say that he is a Son of John and Nancy Daily, dec'd, of French [Crule]  township in Muor County Pennsylvania, who upon his solum oath duth depose and say that the attached Family Record was made by himself in his own family bible, of the death of his parents, John and Nancy Daily and that the same is original. And that he has not any knowledge of the said John and Nancy, his parents, ever having kept any Family Record. But on the contrary I know that such record was never kept by his said parents, is neither of them [illegible].
and further saith me.
James M. Daily
Sworn and subscriber before me the this 27th day January  A. D. 1856 and I certify that the affiant is of good [       ] for truth, [  ]
Lewis L Lord J.P.
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9530
Pennsylvania Pittsburg
Nancy Daly Deed
widow of
John C
who was a private
in the Revolution
Penn Line
___________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 80 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
& Endg Judy 16" June 1844
Certificate of Pension issued 
the 20th day of May /54
and sent to
F. F. A. Wilson
Vol. 2
Meadville
Penna
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and
June 17, 1844.]
Record in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 106
[1832 - Lined Thru]
1828
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Crawford
On this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, personally appeared in open Orphans' Court, (being a court of record,) holden at Meadville, in the county and state aforesaid, before the Hon. John Dick and Samuel S. Adrain, judges of said court, John Daley, who being duly sworn in open court, doth depose and say, that he is one of the heirs and legal representatives of John Daley, a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner of the United States, at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum, under the act of 18th March, 1818; that at the time of filing his application for said pension he was a resident of French Creek township, Mercer county, in the state aforesaid, that he died in the aforesaid county and state in the fore part of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty (1820;) that he has not other record of his said services at this time except the certificate of J. E. Heath Esq. late Commissioner of Pensions, and statement as taken from his declaration, now on file in the Pension Department; and that his mother named Nancy Daley, (whose maiden name was Nancy McGill,) died on the 16th day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, (1844,) and that they were married prior to the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, (1794) in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as he has been informed by said parents by one Philips, who was a justice
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of the peace or minister of the gospel; that he has made diligent search for said record, but on an examination no record of such marriage can be found; and that said parents to his knowlege kept no family record of said marriage or of the births or deaths of their children; that they were residents of the county of Allegheny, in the state aforesaid, previous to and after their marriage; that in or about the year eighteen hundred and four, (1804,) his parents removed from the county of Allegheny aforesaid and settled in the township of French Creek, county of Mercer, and state of Pennsylvania, where they continued to reside until the time of their deaths; that his father was originally from the Eastern part of Pennsylvania, and that his mother was an emigrant from Ireland, and came into the United States of America as a redemptionist, and served a certain ----- Gillfillan, who settled in the then county of Washington, about eight miles southwest from the city of Pittsburgh, some few years after the revolutionary war, and that only six children of the said John and Nancy, his parents, now survive, whose names are as follows, viz: Mary, intermarried with John Defrance, now resident in Mercer county, Pennsylvania; James resident of the same county, and John resident of Venango county, Pa.; Nancy, intermarried with Hiram Ritcheson, also residing in Venango county; Sarah, intermarried with Elias Morse, resident of Henry County, Illinois; and Margaret intermarried with John Crouch, residing in Venango county, Pennsylvania. And he makes this declaration for the purpose of attaining the arrears of pension due the heirs
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of the said John and Nancy Daley agreeable to acts of Congress in such cases made and provided papers.
Witness
{signed} John Dick
{signed} John Dailey {handwritten seal}

State of Pennsylvania
Crawford County
{stamped seal on left margin}
I do hereby certify that the foregoing was sworn to and subscribed in open court this tenth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Orphan's Court of said county the day and year aforesaid.
{signed} WL Brackenridge
Clerk of O Court

We do hereby certify that the above named John Dailey is of good repute for truth and veracity. Witness our hands this 10th day of June AD 1853.
{signed} John Dick
{signed} Sam S Adrain
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Crawford 
S.S.

I Walter L Brackenridge, clerk of the orphans court held in and for said county & state aforesaid, do hereby certify that in open court of record held in and for said county, on this 10th day of June A.D. 1853, satisfactory proof has been exhibited, that John Daly, a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $96 per annum, under act of 18th March A.D.1818, died in the county of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty (1820,) leaving a wife surviving him, whose name was Nancy, who never received a pension from the United States, but that she received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania and Gratuity, that Nancy Daly, the wife of John Daly, died in French Creek township in Mercer County Pennsylvania, on the sixteenth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four (A.D. 1844,) that she did not marry after the death of her said husband, but remained his widow until her death; that she left six children surviving whose names are Mary, married to John Defrance, James, John, Nancy, married to Hiram
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Ritcheson, Sarah, married to Elias Morse, and Margaret married to John Crouch

{imprint of seal on left margin]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at Meadville Pennsylvania this 10th day of June A.D. 1853,
{signed} W L Brackenridge
Clerk of O Court

We do hereby certify that John Smith & John Robb, witnesses examined in relation to the foregoing, are of good repute for truth and veracity. Witness our hands this 10th day of June A.D. 1853.
{signed} John Dick
{signed} Sam S Adrain
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June 1, 1933

XXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/XEL
John Daly-W.3228

Sallie Daily
Irwin
Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.3228, based upon the military
service of John Daly in that war.
John Daly (the name also appears as Daily and Dailey; he was pensioned Daly) originally lived in eastern Pennsylvania. The place of his birth is not shown.
He enlisted, place not stated, served as a private in Captains James Taylor and Thomas Boude's Company, Colonels Anthony Wayne andFrancis Johnston's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the Canadian Expedition and in the battle of Brandywine, where he was taken prisoner and held until a few days before the British evacuated Philadelphia, when he was exchanged, immediately rejoined his company and regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth and was discharged in 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, at which time he was a resident of French Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
The soldier married in 1787 or 1788, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Nancy McGill, who was born in Ireland and had emigrated to
this country a few years after the Revolutionary War, and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Both were residents of Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, at the time of their marriage. Afterward, they resided on the east side of the Washington Road about eight
miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1804, or in 1809 or 1810, they moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where the soldier died July 1,
1820.
His widow, Nancy, was allowed pension by the state of Pennsylvania.
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Nancy Daly died June 16, 1844, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The ages of John Daly  and his wife, Nancy, are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
Six children survived their mother and received the pension which was due her.
They were:
Mary wife of John Defrance, in 1853, residing in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
James M. in 1853, a resident of Venango County, Pennsylvania.
John in 1853, a resident of Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Nancy wife of Hiram Ritcheson, in 1853, residing in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah wife of Elias Morse, in 1853, residing in Henry County, Illinois.
Margaret wife of John Crouch, in 1853, residing in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Another child, Jane, who married Joshua McCracken, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, is referred to. The date of her death is not shown.
The above is the history of the only soldier named John Daly, or similar spelling, who served with the Pennsylvania Troops, that is
found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 3228
Nancy Daly
Widow
John Daly
Pri. Rev. War.
Act 3 March 3d 43 June 17.44
Index :-- Vol. A. Page 167
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec. 7, 1916. History to
Lilliam A. Norton
_____________________
1930 - Nov 12 Hist. to Mis
S.R. Montgomery.
Letter in case of
Alexander Campbell
N. 4648-  EEL
_______________________
1932 - June 15 Hist to
Mrs W F. Rodenbaugh
EEL
__________________
1953 June 1 - Hist to Sallie
Daily - EEL
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11.664
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
widow Nancy Duly deed
John
who died on the 
of ------ in the State of Penna
who was a private in the----commanded
by Captain-------of the-----commanded
by-------in the Revolution
for two years
____________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
___________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of
May 1834 and sent to F. F. A. Wilson,
Meadville
__________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi=annual allowance ending   
Penna
_______________
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by A.R. Neigliman Clerk
Book D.  Vol. 1.  Page 217
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V  No. 1.5.071
dec 2
Nancy Daly 
widow of John
Pa.

Letter to
Evans & Fank 21st Decr 18

Act 7th July 1838.
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Nancy Daly widow dec. 2
of John.
Admitted.    Pa.
Act 7th July 1838 & c
2 years private at $80.
per annum from 4th March
1836 to 11th June 1844, excepting two years

Pay to,
F.F.A. Wilson Administrator for
benefit of
Mary Defraner
James Daly
John Daly
Nancy Ritcheson
Sarah Morse, and
Margant Crouch, only 
surviving children

Certificate to
F.F.A. Wilson Esq
Meadeville  Pa.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny
S.S.

On this first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and fifty three, personally came Thomas Kerr, a citizen of said county and state, aforesaid, who having first been dully sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he is about seventy one years of age that he is the Son of John Carr, dec. who was a resident citizen of the County and State aforesaid in the time of the Revolutionary War, and that his said Father drew a fund in a pension from the General Government of the United States for said Services, up to the time of his death.
And further your deponent doth depose, and say that, he was personally acquainted with one John Daily who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War. What he came and settled in the vicinity of his fathers in a very early day and that he the aforesaid John Daily dec married one Nancy McGill who was a resident of said county, and of the same vicinity, that he had not any personal acquaintance with the said namely until after her marriage with the said John That your deponent knew them to live together as man and wife at the time of the Whiskey Insurrection in the State of Pennsylvania in 1794.
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And your deponent doth further depose and say
that the aforesaid John Daily dec. and Nancy
his wife, removed from the aforesaid County
of Allegheny with their family about the
year A.D. 1809. or. 1810. and settled in
the County of Mercer in the State aforesaid
that in the year of about. 1820. the aforesaid.
John Committed suiside, And that your
deponent removed from the County of Allegheny
about the year A.D. 1818. or 1819. and
Settled in the County of Venango. Pa near
the line of Mercer County, where he [illegible]
lived in the vicinity of the aforesaid Daily &
his family untill after the death of said
Daily, several years, when he again
removed back to the County of Allegheny Pa,
his place of nativity,
Your deponent further states
that he was personally acquainted with
the aforesaid John Daily decd and Nancy
his wife, and that they were living together as
Such prior to A.D. 1794, or the year of the
Whiskey insurrection and that they had
children. which said deponent well remembers,
at that time, and thinks that the names
of the children was. Jame Mary Nancy
James & John
Jane intermarried with
Joshua McCracken of Meser County, Pa.
and that from the lapse of time he does not now
remember any more children
and your deponent further saith [illegible].
Attest. James Espy
Jane Couch
Thomas Kerr
[vertical line between "Thomas" and "Kerr" with "his" written above and "mark" written in the middle with the line over top]
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Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first written, and I hereby certify that the aforesaid affiant is Blind and aged and is of good reputation for truth. And that I am disinterested in the application in any wise

James Espy Justice of the Peace
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John Daly
Private
Johnson's Regt Penna line
1778 - 3 years
__________________
15th April 1818
_________________
The Judges certificate of
"reduced cumstances in
life" wanting

Admd.
on roll

The Pensioner
Meadville,
Pa
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Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ss.
To the Secretary of the Department of War,
I the subscriber president of the aforesaid sixth judicial district
in the said commonwealth do hereby certify, That the said John
Daly, "by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need
of assistance from his country for support". In testimony
whereof at Meadville in the said County of Crawford this twenty
ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen I have hereto subscribed my name & affixed my
seal.
Jesse Moore
Crawford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ss
I William MacArthur Prothonotary in and for the county
aforesaid do certify by these presents that the Honorable Jesse
Moore whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is
President, of the sixth Judicial district, of the common wealth
of Pennsylvania that he is now lawfully acting under 
the authority of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania aforesaid
to whose official acts as such faith and credit is
due as and of right ought to be given as well in
courts of Justice of the United States of America as
as elsewhere.
In testimony of which I have [illegible]
to subscribed my name and affixed
the county seal at Meadville the
twenty ninth day of January A. D.
MDCCCXIX.
William MacArther Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Crawford, ss
On this tenth day of June in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three, personally appeared in Orphans' Court,
(the same being a Court of Record) holden at Meadville
in and for the County aforesaid, before the Honorable
John Dick and Honorable Samuel S. Adrain,
judges of the said court, John Robb and A.D.
McCracken, who being first duly sworn in open
court, do depose and say that they reside in Mercer
county, Pennsylvania, and that they were well
acquainted with Nancy Daley, the widow of John
Daley,
deceased, for upwards of twenty years; that she
resided in French creek township, Mercer County,
Pennsylvania, and that she was known and reputed
as the widow of John Daley, a soldier of
Revolutionary war; that she died about the middle
of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four,
(1844;) and that they were also personally acquainted 
with the heirs of the said John and Nancy Daley,
named as follows, viz: Mary, intermaried with
John Defiance, James and John; Nancy, intermarried
with Hiram Ritcheson, Sarah, intermarried
with Elias Morse, and Margaret, intermarried
with John Crouch
Sworn and subscribed | A.D. M Cracken
before me in open -
Court this 10th day of | John Robb
June 1853 W S Brackenridge
Clerk of O. Court
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We do hereby certify that the written named
A.D.M Cracken and John Robb are of
good repute for truth and veracity. Witness
our hands this 10th day of June A.D. 1853

John Dick
Saml S Adrain
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State of Pennsylvania
S.S.
County of Allegheny
On this 31st day of May
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty three personally appeared before
me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace
in and for the county and State aforesaid,
John Douglass. a citizen of said County. who
having first been Sworn in due form of law.
doth depose and say that he is about eighty
years of age that at the time of the Revolutionary
war and Indian War he resided in
said County. in the immediate vicinity of his
present residence and that his Father was among
those date in said wars, in the defence
of the United States. And that he was 
personally acquainted with one John
Daily decd who was a citizen of Said County
of Allegheny and that he was also personally
acquainted with Nancy McGill decd
who was the wife of the aforesaid John
Daily decd that prior to her marriage
with the said John Daily decd She was
the Servant of a certain James Gillfillan
an Irishman, who Settled in Said County
and State, soon after the Revolutionary war
in the same vecinity where he was then
living with his Fathers family, and that
after Said Nancy McGill had completed
her Servitude to defray the expense of her
passage into the United States of Amenia
with the said James Gillfillan decd
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That she then married the aforesaid John
Daily decd and continued to reside in the 
same vicinity for many years after (and
continued to reside in the vecinity) and that the
said John Daily decd followed butchering
for a number of years.
and that many
years since the aforesaid John Daily
removed from the section of said County
in which he then resided, and that if
to the time of his removing he and said
Nancy lived together as man and
Wife and raised a family of children
the names of which he is not able to give
in consequence of the lapse of time, and
loss of memory, and that he does not
now remember the precise time of the
marriage of Said John and Nancy
but knows that at the time of the Whiskey
insurection that they were then living
together, and had a family in the
immediate vecinity of where he was
then living in said County, aforesaid
and further your deponent saith not.
Attestd
James Espy
attest Robert Douglass
John Douglass
Sworn and Subscribed before me the day &
year first above written, and I hereby certify
that the affiant, John Douglass, is a credible
witness, and that I am disinterested in
the aforesaid application
James Espy Justice of the Peace
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY,}
State of Pennsylvania,} ss
I 
Carr Campbell Jr Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that James Lespry Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits taken and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is,
an acting Justic of the Peace, in and for the said county, duly commission and sworn, and authorized by law to administer oaths and
to all whose acts, as such due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.
ATTEST:
In Testimony Wereof, I have hereto set my hand, and are the seal of said Court
at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this Seventh
day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three and of 
the sovereignty and independence of the United State of America, the seventy-seventh ATTEST:
Carr Campbell Jr PROMONOTARY
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of Con. L. P. Maldo
Com. of Pensions

Cole

Hon.
John Dick
H. R.
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Hon. L. P. Waldo.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C. Sir
My respects, &c
I transmit to your department
by the politeness of our mutual friend, &c
Hon. John Dick M. C.
The letters of
Administration in case of Nancy Daley.
for certificate &c,
Under Act of July 7 1838,
Aug. 16. 1842. March 3. 1843 (& June
17 1844. for your consideration) It appears
to me that this act is retrograde in its operation,
as the act of March 3d 1843. is to have the same
effect as if said act had been a grant of pensions
for five years instead of one year, from and
after the fourth day of March. 1843
Very Respectfully your
Obt. Sev.t &c
F. F. A. Wilson
Meadville
Pa
(6 years 3. mo. 12. days.
$501.62)
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House Reps Aug. 3/52

To the Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

I shall esteem it a favour done to an unfortunate Widow, as well as to myself if you will cause to be made out at your earliest convenience copies of the declaration and other papers in your files in the case of John Daley, who was placed on the Penna Mercer County Pension Roll under act of 1818.

I cannot from the information I possess say
whether Daley was dropped from the Rolls
under act of May 1/20. a note he deed by
his own hand in 1821 and here ends my
information--

Very Respectfully
J W Howe
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Letters of
Administration
Estate of
Nancy Daley, dec.

Issued Ap 19th 1854

(Duplicate)
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Mercer County, ss.
[A large round illegible seal]

By the tenor of these presents, I D. J. Mourer Dep. Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration, in and for said county, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to F.F. A Wilson administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of Nancy Daley late of said county, deceased, GREETING:

Whereas the said Nancy Daley lately died intestate, (as is affirmed,) having whilst she lived, and at the time of her death, divers goods and chattels, rights and credits, within the said county, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting Letters of Administration thereof is manifestly known to belong to me, I therefore desire that the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted and disposed of according to law, do hereby grant unto you the said F F A Wilson (in whose fidelity in this behalf I very much confide,) full power by the tenor of these presents to administer the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of said deceased, within the said county; and also to ask, collect, levy, recover and receive the credits whatsoever of the said deceased, which at the time of her death were owing, or did in any way belong to her and to pay the debts in which the said deceased stood obliged, so far forth as the goods and chattels, rights and credits, will extend according to their rate and order of law; especially of well and truly administering the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of said deceased, making a true and perfect inventory and conscionable appraisement thereof, and exhibiting the same into the Register's Office, at Mercer, within thirty days from the date hereof; and also a just and true account, calculation and reckoning of your administration, upon your solemn oath or affirmation, to render within one year from the date hereof, or when hereunto legally required; and I do by these presents ordain, constitute and depute you the said F F A Wilson administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the limits aforesaid, saving harmless and forever indemnifying me and all other officers against all persons by reason of your administration aforesaid, and saving harmless all others, their rights, &c.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at Mercer, this Ninteenth day of April AD 1854

D.J. Manner
Dep Register

Renunciation of heirs filed in this Office
Ap 19th AD 1854

D.J. Manner
Dep Register
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Breif in the case of Nancy Duly decd widow of John.  Crawford County and State of Pennsylvania.  act 7th July 1838

Claim, (original, or for increase [crossed out])
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

John Daly served two years as a private proved by Pennsylvania Rolls.  He was a pensioner Act 18th March 1818.

John and Nancy married previous to the Whiskey Insurrection, proved by Thos Kerr, John Douglass and John Smith.

John died 1st July 1820, proved by Family Record. Nancy died 16th June 1844, proved by Family Record

F.F.A. Wilson Administrator of Nancy Daly

Mary Defrance, James Dailey, John Daily, Nancy Ritcheson, Sarah Morse, and Margaret Crouch, only surviving children.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
F.F.A. Wilson Esqr.
Meadville Present [crossed out] 
Pa

Charles H. Rhett
Examining Clerk.
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House of Reps
27 Dec 18[illegible]

Hon James E. Heath
Comm of Pensions 

Sir, I have three small items of business which I wish to lay before you  Mrs Daily widow of John Daily decd who was pensionea in Mercer co pa about 1819 and droped from Rolls under Act of 1st May 1820. She desires to procure a copy of the declaration filed in the Department by her husband. That She may makes application for a State pension in Pa.  He having served in the [illegible] line; Will you give it to me attach the official seal:  I will pay any office fees 

The surviving heir of Thomas Thurber a Rev. Soldier and pensioner resided in Portage
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co Ohio, died about 9 May since, asking to be informed whether she is entitled to bounty land- Will you cause the papers on file to be [illegible] and inform me as to the fact if she is, will you send me such a statement of facts as they appear upon the papers- as will enable her to make the necessary declaration of facts-
I will not trouble you with the third question- please give me the [illegible] information as soon as convenient
Respectfully yours
JW Howe
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[A mix of typeset and handwriting, the latter being very faint in places] 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I [illegible] John Daly of Venango County [illegible] have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint F. [illegible initial and last name] my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution, for me and in my name, place, and stead, to [faded, illegible handwriting] Give [illegible] and if the [illegible] it [illegible] me as an [illegible] until [illegible] of John Daly, [illegible] Widow and, in my name, to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for any amount found due me and to do any and every other act or acts in the premises that I might or could do, were I personally present at the doing thereof:

hereby confirming whatsoever my said Attorney shall do in and about the premises by virtue thereof.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of June 1853

Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the [illegible] of [illegible] 

E H Chase  }  2 Witnesses  Nancy Richard  SEAL
C N Thompson } 

County of Crawford  } to wit:

On this Thirteenth day of June 1853 personally appeared Nancy Ricards and F. Henry [illegible] 
before me, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be their act and deed for the purposes therein contained.

E.H. Chase     SEAL
[Illegible signature]

County of Crawford  } to wit:

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That E. H. Chase Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of Crawford County Court, this Eighteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty three 
Joseph Brain Clerk
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John Daily
@mecr(?) co. Pa
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Pension Office
August 6 1852
Sir,
In reply to your note of the the 3d inst; asking to be furnished with a copy of the declaration and evidence upon which John Daly was allowed a pension under the act of 18 March 1818, I have the honor to inform you that it is contrary to the rules of this Department to furnish such copies unless wanted for some legal purpose, which must be stated.
It appears that Mr Daly was dropped from the Pension Roll under Act of 1 May 1820, in consequence of failing to furnish a schedule of his property as required. If his widow is yet alive and was married at the proper time she may be now entitled to a pension from the General Government.
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obl svt
F.F.C. Triplett
Actg Commr

Hon J.W. Howe
House of Reps.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the accompanying pages numbered from one to two inclusive, are truly copied from the originals on file in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
JE Heath
Commissioner of Pensions.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That James E. Heath, who has signed the foregoing [illegible]ate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations [illegible] credit are and ought to be given.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this twenty-eighth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
Alex H.H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior.
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Nancy Daily decd.
Widow of
John Daly, decd.
Pennsylvania
Act of July 1838.
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Dec, 20-53
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Calc(?)

Evan Y(maybe G?) Fant
Washington City
Pens.
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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Crawford,} ss.
On this 10th day of June in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three, (1853,) personally appeared in open Orphans' Court, (being a court of Record,) holden at Meadville, in and for said county, before the Honorable John Dick and Honorable Samuel S. Adrain, judges of said court, John Smith, aged eighty years, who having been first duly sworn in open court, doth depose and say that he is a resident of citizen of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, that he removed from the county of Allegheny, the place of his nativity, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, (1807;) that he was personally acquainted with John Daley and Nancy his wife, who were also residents of the aforesaid county of Allegheny, and that they resided in the same neighborhood or vicinity where he was raised; that he was acquainted with them previous to their marriage, and knows them having been living together prior to the whiskey insurrection in that part of Pennsylvania, which was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, (1794;) that at [that] time they lived in a log cabin on the east side of the Washington road, about eight miles south west from the city of Pittsburgh, in the vicinity of Peter's creek, in the neighborhood of General Neville, whose house was burned in July of that year, (1794,) in consequence of having rendered certain assistance to the Marshal of the Western District of Pennsylvania; that at that time they had a family, and resided on the farm of William Miskelly; that the said John
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John Daley moved from the said place of residence in Allegheny county in the year eighteen hundred and four (1804) or eighteen hundred and five, (1805,) and settled in French creek township, in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and that when deponent moved from the county of Allegheny, as before mention, in eighteen hundred and seven, (1807,) he also settled in French creek township, Mercer county, and state of Pennsylvania aforesaid, in the immediate neighborhood of the said John Daley and family, and continued to reside in his neighborhood until his death, which was caused by suicide, he thinks in the month of July eighteen hundred and twenty, (1820;) that the said John Daley was known and reputed as a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and drew a pension from the United States of ninety-six dollars per annum for two or more years prior to his death, and that he also drew a pension of forty dollars per annum from the state of Pennsylvania-
And that the name of his wife before her marriage with the said John Daley was Nancy McGill, who emigrated from Ireland as a redemptionist into the United States some few years after the Revolutionary war, and was in the service of James Gillfillan, previous to her marriage with the said Daley; that he was informed by the justice of the peace, (Joseph Phillips, Esq.) that he had performed the marriage ceremony for the said John and Nancy, and that he has also frequently heard them say that they were married; that the said Nancy Daley, one or two years previous to her death drew a pension and gratuity from the state of Pennsylvania; that she died in the township of French creek, in Mercer county,
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Pennsylvania, in the year eighteen hundred and forty four, and that she remained the widow of the said John Daley up till the time of her death; and that he is personally acquainted with the heirs now surviving the said John and Nancy Daley, whose names are Mary, intermarried with John Defrance, Nancy intermarried with Hiram Ritcheson, James and John, Sarah intermarried with Elias Morse, and Margaret.

Attest.
John Smith

I certify that the foregoing position was sworn to and subscribed in open court this 10th day of June A.D. 1853. Witness my hand and the seal of the Orphans' court of the county of Crawford and state of Pennsylvania at the day and year above written.
NL Brackenridge
Clerk of O Court

We do hereby certify that the foregoing named John Smith is of good repute for truth and veracity. Witness our hands this 10th day of June A.D. 1853.
L John Dick

Saml S Adrain

John W Howe
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1.

Statement of John Daly, residing in Mercer County State of Pennsylvania, who applies for a pension from the United States in pursuance of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed the 18th day of March 1818.
Said John Daly saith that in the year 1775 he enlisted in Captain James Taylor's company in the fourth Regiment of the Penna line in the Continental establishment, which regiment was at that time commanded by Colonel Anthony Wayne- that he served in said company and regiment during the campaign in Canada, and after his return therefrom, Colonel Wayne was promoted to a Brigadier General, and the regiment was commanded by Colonel Francis Johnston and called the Fifth Regiment, and the company that had been commanded by Capt. James Taylor was commanded afterwards by Captain Thomas Boude, in which company & Regt. the said John Daly served at the battle of Brandywine where he was taken prisoner, and continued so until after days before the British evacuated Philadelphia
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when he was exchanged, and imediately [immediately] afterwards joined his Company & Regt - and was in the battle of Monmouth shortly afterwards - Remained in the army until the year 1781, when he was honorably discharged, which discharge he has long since lost - The said John Daly hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension that may heretofore have been allowed to him by the laws of the United States, and further saith that, from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support.

(Signed) John Daly
X
his mark
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Recd. of James McKenn Treasurer of Mercery County Eightein [Eighteen] Dollars and thirty three cents the amount of Pension due Nancy Dailey at the time of her death which was on the sixteenth of June 1844, being verily authorized by the heirs of Nancy Dailey to draw the same the witness my hand and seal this 23rd day of June 1844.
$18.33.
J. M. Dailey {seal}
Attest
John B. Britten

Mr James McKean Treasurer of Mercer County, Sir please pay James Dailey the amount of pension due the late Nancy Dailey decd. up to the tenth day of June inst, being the day she died we together with the said J. M. Dailey, being the only legal heirs and representatives of the said Nancy Dailey decd. witness our hands this 18th day of June 1844
Chrstin. Heydrick
J. P. McCrachen
R. M. Defranco

John Daily
Elias Morgan
Nancy Dailey
John Croluh
John Defranco

Mary Defranco
James Dailey
John"
Nancy Ritcheson
Sarah Morse
Margaret Crouch
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Auditor Generals office
Harrisburg Apl. 1. 1854.
I certify the within to be a true copy of the original remaining on file in this Department & witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
E. Banns

Aud. Genl.
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1st Speaker Venango

Petition of
Nancy Daily of Mercer co. widow of a Soldier of the Revolution asking for relief

H.R. Jany 10 1844

Pen & Gratuities

Gratuity & Annuity
Husband was a pensioner
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, Respectfully represents: That whereas John Dailey, late a state pensioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, having been in the State Service during the time of the revolutionary war, and was regularly discharged therefrom & was inscribed on the pension list of the aforesaid State at the rate of 40$ per annum as the [blank] will more fully show and that he the said John Dailey died about the year 1820, and further represents that your petitioner was legally married to the said John Dailey about 57 or 58 years ago, as near as she can recollect, and that she has continued single and unmarried from that time up to the present time and further represents that she is in very indigent circumstances, and is not capable of her own industry (being very old and frail) to procure a livelihood sufficient for her subsistence,
Therefore your petitioner prays that her name may be inscribed on the pension rolls of this State, as a pensioner for such sum as the law in such cases makes and provides.
Nancy Dailey
X
her mark
In the presence of
Francis Dunn

Mercer County SS.
Came personally before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Nancy Dailey, the above named petitioner and on her Solemn oath deposith and saith that the facts set forth in the above petition are true to best of her knowledge and belief and further saith not.
her mark
X
Nancy Dailey
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 1st day of Jan. 1844.
Francis Dunn J.P.
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Before me this [blank] day of [blank] AD. 184[blank]}
Mercer County Ss.
Came personally before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county John Martin & John McCracken, two disinterested persons, and on their oath deposeth & saith that they are well acquainted with the aforesaid petitioner viz Nancy Dailey that they believe her to be a woman of truth and veracity and that the facts set forth in her petition are true to the best of their knowledge and belief, that they were also well acquainted with the aforesaid John Dailey, late a pensioner and that he died about the time set forth in the petition & that the Said Nancy Dailey was his wife whilst living, and has continued unmarried, from that time up to the present, and that her circumstances are such as she sets forth in her petition.
John Martin
John McCracken
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 1st day of January A.D. 1844.
Francis Dunn J.P.
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I certify that the foregoing pages numbered 1 and 2 inclusive are a correct copy of the petition and documents of Nancy Dailey, now in the files of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, as also the endorsment [endorsement] on outside of said Petition
Wm Jack Clerk
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[note, top]
Fds
Rev

[note, top right]
Norton
17

[stamp, left margin]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
O
NOV 17 1916

Washington, D. C.,
1975 Biltmore Street
November 16, 1916.

Commissioner of Pensions,

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

Will you please inform me if you have any record of Revolutionary pensions allowed in the two cases following:

One Daniel G. Ramsey came to America from England about two years before the Revolutionary War and married Susan Charcoat. He enlisted in the war probably from Pennsylvania and was killed in the Battle of Brandywine. Was a pension allowed for his service?

One John Daly (or Daily) came from Ireland and served in the Revolutionary war also probably from Pennsylvania. He died in 1830 near Carlton, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he is buried. He married Nancy McGill. Was a pension ever allowed for his service?

Very truly yours.
(Miss) Lilliam A. Norton
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Stamp Enclosed

only 1 served with Pa troops -

Barberton O. May 7th 1932,
Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:
Would you please inform me if a claim has been filed for John Daily he used to spell his name also Dailey born in Hesse Castle State Hoch Heiser Sour Brunner Germany, 1755. Came to Pa Married at Clover Creek Blair Co Pa. where he enlisted. Family history relates John Dailey was in Camp at Valley Forge on Dec 11-1777. Col Anthony Wanyes Reg't. Private in Capt James Taylor's Co. He moved to Franklin Township Summit Co. O 1816. Any information would be greatly appreciated
Very Respy
Mrs N.F. Rodenbaugh
527 Lake Ave W.
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Irwin Pa May 23 1933.

Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Wash. D.C.-- I would like the record of these soldiers of the Revolution, and if Pensions granted also name of widow or wife--
[note between lines] only one more
[check mark]Moses Holliday- Pa archives S. 6 - vol 2. Page 47 69 77 
Washington County Pa. associates and militia
2nd Bat. Capt William Bruce.
[check mark] Philip Daily, Page 33, 57. 63
[check mark] Nathan Daily        38  47
[dash] Philip Daily Jr                  38  63. 76.
[check mark] Charles Daily        47
Charles Daily Jr                          48
[check mark] John Daily            48  63.

[note pointing to all the Dailys]
all have same records as Moses Holliday -

Very Truly
Sallie Daily

Irwin Pa,

[circular stamp, bottom]
RECEIVED
MAY 24 1933
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM.
READER # 63
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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of John Daly or Daily a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. F. 3228.
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775 to 1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
[1775 to 1781]

RANK.
Pri

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
James Taylor
Thomas Boude
COLONEL.
Anthony Wayne
Francis Johnston

STATE.
Pa.

was taken prisoner at battle of Brandywine, and later exchanged and was at battle of Monmouth.
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Battles engaged in, See above.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Allegheny Co, Pa.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 13, 1818. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Mercer Co., Pa.
Age at date of application, Not stated. He died July 1, 1820 in Mercer Co. Pa.
Remarks: He mar. about 1787 in Allegheny Co. Pa. Nancy McGill, an Irish emigrant. She died June 16, 1844 in French Creek Township, Mercer Co. Pa., leaving the following children: Mary, wife of John Defrance, James M., John, Nancy, wife of Hiram Ritcheson, Sarah, wife of Elias Morse, and Margaret, wife of John Crouch. {A daughter, Jane who mar. Joshua McCracken, is referred to.
Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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June 15, 1932

John Daly-W.3228
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BA-J/KEL

Mrs. W. F. Rodenbaugh
Barberton
Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Daily, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.3228, based upon the military service of John Daly in that war.

John Daly(the name also appears as Daily and Dailey) originally lived in eastern Pennsylvania. The place of his birth is not shown.

He enlisted, place not stated, served as private in Captains James Taylor and Thomas Boude's Company, Colonels Anthony Wayne and Francis Johnston's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the Canadian Expedition and in the battle of Brandywine, where he was taken prisoner and held until a few days before the British evacuated Philadelphia, when he was exchanged, immediately rejoined his company and regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth and was discharged in 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 18, 1818, at which time he was a resident of French Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married in 1787 or 1788, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Nancy McGill, who was born in Ireland and had emigrated to America a few years after the Revolutionary War, and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Both were residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, at the time of their marriage. Afterward, they resided on the east side of the Washington Road about eight miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1804 or in 1809 or 1810, they moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

He died July 1, 1820, in said Mercer County.

His widow, Nancy, was allowed pension by the state of Pennsylvania.
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she died, June 16, 1844, in Mercer County, Pa. The ages of soldier & his wife are not stated.

Six children survived their mother and received the pension which was due her:

They were:

Mary     wife of John Defrance, in 1853 residing in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
James M.     in 1853, a resident of Venango County, Pennsylvania.
John     in 1853, a resident of Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Nancy     wife of Hiram Ritcheson, in 1853 residing in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah     wife of Elias Morse, in 1853 residing in Henry County, Illinois.
Margaret      wife of John Crouch, in 1853 residing in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Another child, Jane, who married Joshua McCracken, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, is referred to. The date of her death is not shown.

[crossed out]
It was also stated that the widow, Nancy, received a pension from the state of Pennsylvania.

The above is the history of the only soldier named John Daly, or similar spelling, who served with the Pennsylvania Troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
EEL

November 12, 1930

Mrs. S. R. Montgomery
207 Blaine Street
Grove City, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in  the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.3228, that John Daly (the name also appears as Daily and Dailey) originally lived in Eastern Pennsylvania.

He enlisted, place not stated, served as a private in Captains James Taylor and Thomas Boude's Company, Colonels Anthony Wayne and Francis Johnston's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the Canadian expedition, and in the battle of Brandywine, where he was taken prisoner and held until a few days before the British evacuated Philadelphia, when he was exchanged, immediately rejoined his company and regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth and was discharged in 1781.

[handwritten note, left margin]
I did not date of enlistment, 1775 as Wayne's regiment was not organized until Jan. 1776 & Pa archives gives soldier as enlisting in Feb, 1776

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 18, 1818, at which time he was a resident of French Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married in 1787 or 1788, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Nancy McGill, who was born in Ireland and had emigrated to America a few years after the Revolutionary War, and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Both were residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania at the time of their marriage. Afterward, they resided on the east side of the Washington Road about eight miles southwest of Pittsburgh. In 1804 or in 1809 or 1810, they removed to Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

He died July 1, 1820, in said Mercer County, and she died in the same county, June 16, 1844. Their ages are not stated.
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Six children survived their mother and received the pension which was due here:

They were:

Mary      wife of John Defrance, in 1853 residing in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
James M.     in 1853 a resident of Venango County, Pennsylvania.
John     in 1853 a resident of Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Nancy     wife of Hiram Ritcheson, in 1853 residing in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah     wife of Elias Morse, in 1853, residing in Henry County, Illinois.
Margaret     wife of John Crouch, in 1853 residing in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Another child, Jane, who married Joshua McCracken, of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, is referred to. The date of her death is not shown.

It was also stated that the widow, Nancy, received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.