Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46198, Hugh Gowan, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  |                          | NUMBER
Penn.       | Gowan, Hugh   | S.46198
[There is a star at the top left of the surname]
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CONTENTS
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Invalid
46198
File No. 46198
Hugh Gowan
Private
Capt. McKinley
Revolutionary
Act March 18. 1818.
Index:  Vol. ...................., Page ...................
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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3721.
Pennsylvania Roll. 
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Hugh Gowan, ["4" is written off to the right]
Capt McKinley
Private,
Pennsylvania line 7 years 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30. of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of Octr. 1818, and sent to Jos: Nourse, Esqr. Register of the Treasury U.S.
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Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1818................$33.33
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar: 4. 1819...48. ,,
4 mo. 5/30.                                        $81.33

{ Revolutionary claim,    }
{ Act 18th March, 1818. }

[written very faintly at the bottom is:]
18/64
Northumberland Co Pa
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Admitted .
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District of Pennsylvania SS
On the 30th Day of April 1818 Before me the Subscriber President Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas &ca of the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Pennsylvania, Personally appeared Hugh Gowan, Aged 64 Years resident in the County of Northumberland in the said District, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in Order to obtain the provision made by the ^late Act of Congress, entitled an Act to provide for certain persons in the land and Navals of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that he the said Hugh Gowan Enlisted in the month of Octr,, 1776 in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company Commanded by Captain McKinley of the 12th,, Regiment, that he continued in the Service of the United States untill November 1783, when he was discharged from Service at Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania that he was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth & Several Skirmishes in the State of New Jersey, and that he is in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said Services -
Sworn to and declared before me the Day and Year aforesaid
Hugh Gowan

S[letters missing]th Chapman
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I Seth Chapman President Judge &ca as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Hugh Gowan did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding Declaration against the common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress, As Witness my hand the 30th,, Day April 1818.
And Seal of the Court -            Seth Chapman

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Admitted  .