Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6687, for John Mc Dole, Pennsylvania
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McDole, John R.6687
or McDowell or McDowel
Mary
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April 7th 1843
Affidavit of Ann Delany and Certificate of Prothonotary 
In the matter of Pension due Mary McDowell
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State of Pennsylvania County of Bucks
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace an and for the County of Bucks and State aforesaid Ann Delany who being first duly affirmed according to law doth depose and say, That sh was well acquainted with Mary Mc Do well and her family having lived a near neighbor her owning her lifetime at the time of the death of said Mary McDowell which took place on the 21st day of April A D 1840 she left the following children living and none others Abraham McDowell, Charles McDowell, Hannah McDowell, intermarried with Charles Thomas, Samuel McDowell Ann McDowell intermarried with George Thomas, John McDowell and Sofin McDowel Affirmed and Subscribed before me this thirty first day of March A.D1853 Abraham Hogelindo Justice of Peace
Ann Delany
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of the Peace aforesaid- County duly Commissioned and Qualified to act as such and I believe the signature purporting to be his to be the genuine. And I further certify that at the death of the said Mary McDowell, she left the following children living and none others Abraham McDowell, Charles McDowell, Hannah McDowell intermarried with Charles Thomas, Samuel McDowell,  Ann McDowell intermarried with George Thomas, Jonn McDowell and Sutphin McDowell. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and Doylestown this 7th day April Ao. Do. 1853 SO Rolfe Protho
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Copy
Abraham McDowell was Born The first day of January in the year 1782
Joseph McDowell was born the 11th day of March in the year 1784 Died Octo Sept 29th in the year 1822
Charles McDowell was born the first day of December in the year 1786
Hannah McDowell was born the 27th day of December in the year 1788
Hannah Tomas departed this Life January 15th 1842 in the 54
Samuel McDowell was born 22 day of September in the year 1791
Samuel McDowell departed this life Decem 19th 1843 age 52
Ann McDowell was born the 5 day September in the year 1793 Ann Tomas departed this life Janry 18th 1846 aged 52
James McDowell was born the 17 day of June in the year 1796
James McDowell departed this life the 10 day of September, 1801
John McDowell was born the 9 day of February In the year 1799
Sutphin McDowell was born the 23 day of March in the year 1801
Jorge Tomas departed life June the 14 1841
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Recede 11th moth 20th 1803 of John McDowell fifty Dollars on account $50 Benjm Love
September 28th 1805 received the sum of John McDowell of fifty Six pounds in full of all Demands Charles Johnson
December 5th 1806 Received of John McDowell Twenty Dollars on Account $20 Charles Johnson 
December 5th 1807 Received of John McDowell the Sum of Ten Dollars on Account By Me $10 Charles Johnson 
The above is a copy of a paper filed in the case of Mary Mc Dole, widow of John L Penna Act 7th July 1838 and returned to 
W W H Davis, Dansville, Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bucks

On this 29th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, personally appeared before the judges of the court of common pleas of Bucks County, Abraham McDole, aged 70 years, a resident of said county, Charles Mc Dole, aged 65 years and Stephen McDole, aged 50 years, residents of Montgomery County and John McDole, aged 54 years, a resident of Philadelphia County, state of Pennsylvania, who being first duly sworn according to law, do on their solemn oaths make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the various acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows and children of one John McDole, deceased, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War.

The said McDole first entered the service in the autumn of 1776 as lieutenant of a company of volunteers commanded by Captain Lace(?) Longstreth.  The company was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near the place of residence of the said McDole; marched into New Jersey, joined the army under the commander-in-chief and was present at the battles of Princeton and Trenton.  

The said deponents have heard many persons say that the said McDole was present in these two actions and have often heard the said McDole speak of the fact in his lifetime.  The said McDole was in service either in field or garrison nearly all the time up to the close of the war.  

In the spring of 1777 when the campaign again opened, he again took the field and was present at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, (illegible) in the years 1777 and 1778.  Said McDole remained in the Continental service to the best of their knowledge, until the spring of 1780 when he was commissioned a lieutenant
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in a company afoot in the first battalion of Militia in the county of Bucks and state of Pennsylvania, said commission was renewed in May 1780.  As an officer of the Militia, he was frequently called into service both in field and garrison and so continued until peace was concluded and he was discharged from further duty. The two commissions dated the 10th day of May 1780 and the 1st day of May 1783 are hereunto annexed as further evidence of the facts set forth.  

The deponents have frequently heard the said John McDole in his lifetime relate the particulars of his service during the war, and until very recently, the uniform he wore as an officer was in the possession of the family.  They have often heard him say that he stood beside the American soldier who shot the Hessian across the Delaware River at Trenton, a fact well known in history.  The soldier belonged to the same company as the said McDole and went from the same neighborhood.  

The said McDole was married to Mary Lutphin(?) In the year 1781 and died at Bucks County on the 23rd day of December A.D. 1807, not being entitled to any pension during his lifetime.  The said Mary McDole remained the widow of the said John McDole, up to the day of her death, which took place in Bucks County on the 21st day of April 1840; and during her lifetime the said Mary McDole never made any application for, nor received a pension for the services of her said husband.  

The foregoing facts will more fully appear by reference of the proof hereunto annexed.  They made this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension due their mother, the said Mary McDole, at the time of her death for the services of the said John McDole

Signed: Abraham McDole, Charles McDole, Stephen(?) McDole John McDole