Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8814, Joseph Lewis Finley, Penn.
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[notecard]
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SERVICE
Penn.
[center]
Finley, Joseph Lewis
Jane
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NUMBER
W. 8814.
B.L. Wt 743.300. Capt.
Issued Apr 6 1791 to Josephy L. Finley
No papers.
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[Left side]
Ohio Rolls
1901
Joseph L. Finley
Major
Pennsylvania line, 7 years

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to the Pensioner at West Union, Ohio.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
[strikethrough 'Semi anl. all'ce ending']
4 months 21/30   ==================
                                                   $94.11

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

Filed with March ___ 1819

Not entitled.
[check mark]
Adams County

[Right side]
Notification sent the 26th July 1821, to Hon. I. W. Campbell, H. Reps
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5003

Kentucky
Jane Finley dec'd
widow of Joseph L. Finley who died on the 23d May 1839 of Lewis Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a Captain in the ----commanded by Captain----of the Reg't commanded by ----in the Penna line for 2 years. ['Penn' written separately across the above writing]

Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville at the rate of 480 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24th day of May 1839.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of February 1851 and sent to D. D. Addison Present
[strikethrough ' Arrears to the 4th of 
Sem-annual allowance ending']

{Ending 2d July 1842 when she died}

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}

Recorded by [illegible] Weightman Clerk,
Book 2    Vol. 2     Page 407
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Jos L Finley
Brevet Major
Correct
DN
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Joseph L. Finley an officer of the army in the Revolutionary War claims the benefit of the provisions of the late act of Congress passed on the 18th Day of March 1818. To provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war for the following considerations, viz.
That I Joseph L. Finley entered into the public service on the 6th day of April 1776 in Captain Andrew Long.[s] Company in a Regiment raised by the then Province of Pennsylvania commanded by Col. Saml Miles as will appear by Commission of second Lieutenant No 1. of that date herewith produced - On the 24th day of October 1776 I was put upon the Continental establishment in Captain Tn Marshals Company in the 13th Pena Regt. commanded by Col. Walter Stewart as will appear by my Commission of First Lieut No. 2 of that date - By an arrangement of the army I was transferred to the eighth Pena Regt commanded by Col Danl Brodhead by Commission of Captain to take rank from Octr 20th 1777. No 3. I was transferred in 1782 to the 2nd Pena Regt Commanded by Col. Richd Butler at Carlisle, Lancaster as by Commission of Captain in that Regt of that date No 4. Lastly I received a commission of Major by brevet dated Sep 30th 1783. No 5. shortly after which the army was disbanded, and my services terminated embracing a period of seven years & above six months.
That for several years I have been and now am in narrow circumstances in life, being wholly uncapable of labour, by reason of old age, a broken constitution and bodily infirmities, so that I feel myself in need of some aid to render my few remaining years more easy and comfortable.
[signed] Joseph L. Finley

State of Ohio Adams County} Ss
I certify that the foregoing deposition of Joseph L Finley was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me the under signed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid and I further certify that the said Joseph L Finley has fully satisfied me by examination under oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition are strictly true - that he served
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In the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country - this last fall I also certify from my own knowledge I also certify that he states he never had a pension and does now declare the same to be true given under my hand & seal this 14th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818.
[signed] Andrew Livingston [hand drawn seal]

State of Ohio Adams County Ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify the above named Andrew Livingston Esq before whom the foregoing deposition of Major Joseph L Finley was taken and who has signed the above certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid Duly Commissioned and quallified and that full faith and credit is due to his said Certificate as well in Courts of Justice as hereunto In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 15th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818
[signed] Joseph Darlinton
[seal affixed]
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Major Finley
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The State of Ohio Adams County Court of  Common Pleas ss

On this 11th day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County having the power of fine and imprisonment Joseph L. Finley aged sixty five years resident in Morrow Township in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. I was in April 1776 commissioned a second Lieutenant in Captain Sorigs Company in a Regiment raised by the slate of Pennsylvania commanded by Col Samuel Miles - on the 24th day of October the same year I was raised to first lieutenant on continental establishment in Capt Marshals Company in the 13th Penna Regt commanded by Col Walter Stuart; by an arrangement of the army I was appointed to command a Company to rank as Captain from October 20th 1777 and transferred to the 8th Penna Regt commanded by Col Daniel Broadhead - In 1782 I was transferred to the second Pena Regt commanded by Col Richard Butler - lastly I was promoted to the rank of Major by Brevets in September 1783. Soon after which the Army was disbanded and my service ended. embracing a period of seven years and about six months. The department of war is in possession of five Commissions in proof of my service, that were forwarded with my original Declaration which I think is dated on the fourteenth day of April 1818 and the number of my pension Certificate is 1901 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions 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 on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debt due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
[signed] Joseph L Finley
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My occupation is farming my bodily ability to pursue it is wholly gone from me nor am I capable of any manual Labour. The sciatic and Rheumatic pains the secd of which were set on in my constitution in the active & severe campaign of 76 and 77 have been growing ever since and have now literally rendered me a Cripple - I have but three persons in my family under my control, my wife Jane Finley of a delicate and weakly constitution aged 56 years one son Samuel Finley aged 17 years subject to Fits for seven years part the greater part of his time incapable of any business and it being necessary he keep a watch over him for fear of fatal accidents he is more of a charge than help to me and one daughter named Margaret Finley aged 13 years of a weakly sickly habit - 
In addition to the difficulties and distress under which I labour I am justly indebted to different persons in the sum of our
nehundred and twenty dollars without the means or rational prospect of making payment: what I can consider my self in other light than a Tenant at Will and what little property I possess depends on the courtesy of my condition; indeed from the year 1812 to the year 1818 when I was put on the pension list I have been assisted by private aid, otherwise I know not how I should have got a long.
[signed] Jos L. Finley.

Schedule of the property of Joseph L. Finley
The lot of fifty acres of second rate land on which I live worth about $400. I cannot consider as justly my own as I am yet indebted for the whole of the purchase money and have no prospect of ever being able to pay it.

ITEM|dollars|cents
one lot of fifty acres of 3d rate woodland except two or three acres at one dollar of fifty cents| 75|00
one mare at fifty dollars|50|00
one cott at ten|10|00
one cow & calf at nine|9|00
4 if easy Castle at twenty|20|00
16 head of sheep at twenty three|23|00
11 swine at twelve dollars|12|00
1 truckload at six dollars|6|00
11bar shear plaugh at |5|00
1 shovel do|1|50

Total $211.50
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[annexed schedule]
amnt brought forward $211.50

Item|dollar|cents
1 fan for cleaning grain 16 and Sp aid a seventy five cents|16|75
1 uattack at one dollar 1 chain at one dollar fifty cents|2|50
4 chairs at 50 cents each 3 Do at twenty five cents|2|75
1 table at 7 dollar 1 D at one dollar|8|00
1 stand at $2 one bureau damaged at five dollars|7|00
1 Cupboard at 3 dollars one pitcher at one dollar|4|00
1 Tureen at $1.50 one bowl at $1.25|2|75
1 teapot one sugar dish one cream pot 6 cups & saucers|3|25
6 teaspoons at four dollars 10 plates at one dollar|5|00
2 Jam at fifty cents two candlesticks one dollar|1|50
1 pan of steely ask at one dollar|1|00
1 wedge at one dollar and thirty cents|1|30
2 augurs & drawing knife|1|50
one hand sat at fifty cents on iron kettle at $1.00|1|50
two iron pots 1.50 two small bowls 1.50|3|00
one tin tea kettle 75 one small kettle 2.50|3|25
3 Vol & cath Bible|21|00
other books at|6|00
one looking glass|1|00
one vase in bad hand for ten dollars|10|00
two flat Iron|1|00
Total: $320.80
[signed] Jos L. Finley 
sworn to and declared in open court on the 11th day of August 1820
[signed] Joseph Darlinton Clk A.C.

I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Adam and Slate of Ohio do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further Certify that it is the
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opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule in three hundred and twenty dollars and eighty cents and the debts owing by the said Joseph Finley amounts to one thousand and twenty dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 14th day of August in the year of our Lord 1820
[signed] Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court for the County of Adams
[seal affixed]
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State of Kentucky
Lewis County Sct.
On this Seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared in open Court and before the court of Lewis County now sitting John B Finley a resident of and in the county of Lewis and State aforesaid and is now in the fifty sixth year of his age who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follwoing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 11th 1856 and July 7th 1858 and all Subsequent acts the 3d March 1843 the 17th June 1844 the 2d February 1848 and Joint resolutions of the first of July 1848 Granting pensions to widow of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war. He states he is the only surviving child and son of Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley both deceased and states his father Joseph L. Finley was a captain in the war of the revolution and in the third Pennsylvania regiment and late was a pensioner of the General Government and drew four hundred and eighty dollars per annum up to the day of his death and he died on the twenty third day of May eighteen hundred and thirty nine He further states that his mother Jane Finley in whose name and sight he tells us this claim and under the acts of Congress for the benefit of Widows of deceased officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war was married to his late father Joseph L Finley in the State of Pennsylvania in the County of York on the fourth day of July 1782 seventeen hundred and eighty two which time and date of there marriage appeared upon record on the few remaining have of my fathers old and first bible record which leaves of my fathers Bible was by me obtained from Eliza Ann Clark the Lady who was in attendance at the death of my father Joseph L Finley and my Mother Jane Finley.  She having safely preserved the family record in an injured condition it being very old. He further says that having lately made out his declaration and stated a later date to & been the date of marriage of his said father and mother that that statement was made and so written according to the best of his recollection and not in the positive believing as he did at that time he was correct having made his declaration in Kentucky and not knowing or believing that any record testimony could be got or any was in existance He further states his mother Jane Finley died in the State of Ohio Adams
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County on the Second day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two in the same house my father Joseph L Finley lived in. He further states his late deceased mother Jane Finley did not again marry but remained and died the widow of his deceased father Joseph L. Finley. She having survived his deceased Father a short time more than three years and for which he sets up this Claim in the name and right of his deceased Mother Jane Finley and now for the right of himself John B Finley the only surviving heir of Capt Joseph L Finley late a pensioner need Jane Finley his mother also deceased He further states he has by his age and friend Caleb White of Marrow County Kentucky used exertion to obtain to obtain a certificate of the marriage of his father and mother from the clerk of the court in york county Pennsylvania and have his written statement which he hereunto fits with his declaration hoping as he does to obtian such further evidence of facts of the marriage as will fully support his claim. He recollects to her & his father and mother often say they were married by a Presbyterian Clergyman by the name of William Levin and was married in Church.
[signed] John B Finley
Sworn to and subscribed to in open court the day and year as above

And the said court after the receiving of the declaration of John B Kinley in sight of a widows pension and in right of his late mother Jane Kinley deceased late wife of Capt Joseph L. Finley as concur in the opinion that the entire statement made by John B Finley as set out in his declaration is correct and true And the said John B Finley is a worthy and respectable citizen resident in this county.
[signed] John T Waddell J.P.L.C.
[signed] Stephn V Bliss
[signed] George W. Collins

At a County Court began and held for Lewis County on Monday the 17th day of February AD 1851 at the Courthouse in the Town of Clarksburg by and before the worshipful John T Waddell, Stephn V Bliss & Gerge W
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Collins Esqr's Justices of the said Court.
John B FInley of this County this day produced a Declaration made in order to obtain a Pension which was read in open court and sworn to by the said John B Finley in open Court and the said Court concuring in the opinion and correctness of his statement and respectability which appears by their own proper names and signatures which are genuine which is ordered to be certified.
Alephy Attest
[signed] Joseph Robb, Clerk Levin Cty Court

State of Kentucky, Lewis County Sct
I Joseph Robb Clerk of the court for the county of Lewis Do hereby certify that at a county court began and held for Leis county at the courthouse of aforesaid on Monday the 17th of Feby 1851 that John B Finley did on that day personally appear in Court and made oath to the foregoing Declaration in due form and that the names of said Justices are genuine and that full faith and credit are due all their official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Clarksburg on the 17th day of February AD 1851 and in the 59th year of the Commonwealth.
[signed] Joseph L Robb Clerk
[paper seal affixed]
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THE NEW
TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE
ORIGINAL GREEK;
AND WITH THE
FORMER TRANSLATIONS
DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED,
By His MAJESTY'S Special Command.

Appointed to be Read in CHURCHES.
[Crest]
EDINBURGH
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KIRK, His MAJESTY'S Printers.

MDCCXCIII
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[illegible, soiled.  Appears to be a record of two births]
[aragat?] J Finley was born [rest illegible]
Margal born Margat [rest illegible]
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Joseph L. Finley and Jean Blair were 
married upon the 4th day of July 1782
Hannah Finley was born May 1st 1783 - 2 [illegible]
[illegible] was born October 10 1784 and died 
the 10th 1784 and died Novr 25th [illegible]
MIchael Lewis Finley was born Decr 10th 1785
[illegible] 4 o'clock A.M.D.
Elizabeth  Derborah was born Novr 17 1787  Died Feby 28 1787. [sic]
[illegible] Dean was born June 17th 1789 at 1/2 after one o clock A.M.
[illegible] Blair was born August 9th 1791 at 6 oclock P.M.
Joseph S. was born Septr 2nd 1793 a7 o clock A.M.
James D. was born May 21st 1796 at 4 o clock P.M.
Ebenezer was born Jany 21st 1798 [illegible note regarding birth]
Mary was born Decr 7th illegible] o clock A.M. [illegible date] 8 o clock
[illegible] was born [illegible] 13th 1803 6 o clock A.M.
[illegible] was born 1807
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[Page from the Bible]
[Header] Blessings to those that fear God.      CHAP. IV.    The study of the law recommended.

[Left margin] Before CHRIST cir. 39

16  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another; and the LORD hearkened and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 
17  And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my || jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18  Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked; between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

|| Or, special treasure

CHAP. IV.
1  [Begin italicized heading] God's judgment on the wicked, 2 and his blessing on the good. 4 He exhorteth to the study of the law, 5 and telleth of Eliah's coming and office. [End italicized heading]
For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the (a) Sun of righteousness arise with healing in the wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. [Right margin: Before CHRIST, cir 39] (a) Luk 6 1.73
3  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4  Remember ye the (b) law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.   (b) Exod. 20.3
5  Behold, I will send you (c) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:   (c) Matth 11.14, Mark 9.11, Luke 1:17
6  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

THE END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

[Handwritten 'old testament']
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

March 1, 1927

Mrs. W.F. Haskins
Pierce City
Mo

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 8814, it appears that Joseph Lewis Finley was commissioned, April 6, 1776, Second Lieutenant in Captain Andrew Long's Company, Colonel Smauel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment, was commissioned October 24, 1776, First Lieutenant in Captain John Marshall's Company, Colonel Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment, was commissioned October 20, 1777, Captain in Colonel Daniel Brodhead's Pennsylvania regiment, in 1782, was transferred to Colonel Richard Butler's Pennsylvania Regiment, September 30, 1783, he was made a Major by Brevet and served to close of War. He was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.
He was allowed pension on his application
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executed April 14, 1818. In 1820, he was sixty-five years old and a resident of Monroe Township, Adams County, Ohio.
He married July 4, 1782, Jane Blair who was fifty-six years old in 1820. He died Mary 23, 1839 in Adams County, Ohio, and she died there July 2, 1842.
Chlidren
Hannah born May 1, 1783.
(record illegible) born October 10, 1784.
Michael Lewis born December 13, 1785.
Elizabeth Deborah born November 17, 1787.
Harvey Dean born June 27, 1789.
John Blair born August 9, 1791.
(record illegible) born September 2, 1793.
(record illegible) born May 31, 1796.
Ebeneser born January 21, 1798.
Mary born December 7, (illegible)
Samuel born January 13, 1803.
Margaret born April 2, 1807.

In 1851, John Blair Finley, was the only surviving child, and the pension due his mother was allowed him.

Respectfully, 

Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
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[Left side of trifold which is cut off]

6.
ighton Finley
Ft. Custer, Montana
F.S.
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1915 Mch 8. History to Mrs. R. F. Leach    F.W.
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1927 Mch 1 - Hist to Mrs. W.F. Haskins AWF

[Center]
Revy  WIDOW, &c.

File No.  8814
Jane Finley
Wid. of
Joseph L. Finley
Capt, Pa. line

Act:  July 4 1736, Sec. 3d
Index: -Vol. A, Page 237
[Arrangement of 1870.] 


[Right side, cut off]
1893-Feb.,
Hist. to b...
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[The document appears to be a certificate]

No. 5.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

For Joseph Finley Esquire. Greeting. We [illegible, paper damaged] special [illegible, damaged]
and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity DO by those presents constitute and appoint you to be a captain in the sixth Pennsylvania regiment [illegible, torn] in the Army of the United States to take rank as such from the 20th day of October 1777; You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of captain by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging . And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under [illegible, torn] command, to be obedient to your orders, as Captain. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from this [illegible, torn] future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the  Army of the United States or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress beforementioned, or a Committee of the States.

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board

Witness his Excellency [illegible] Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philad'a the 16th day of July 1779, and in the fourth year of Independence.

[Signed] John Jay

Attest
P. [illegible]  Secretary of the Board of War
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[This document appears to be a photocopy of a certificate.]

IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaare, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO Joseph L. Finlay, Gent'n

We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be a first Lieutenant ina Regiment from the State of Pennsylvania in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a First Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we [illegible, damaged] charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as a First Lieutenant, And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. DATED this twenty fourth day of October Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Six

By Order of the CONGRESS,
[signed] John Hancock, PRESIDENT

ATTEST. Chas Thomson Secy
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W.F. 8814.
Joseph Lewis Finley
Penn
No 2
Liout- Jos. L. Finlay - 21
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Coy
the role is rad sinc' in ful blum
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IN PURSUANCE
Of an ACT of
CONGRESS
Of the Thirtieth Day of SEPTEMBER, 
A. D. 1783

Joseph Finley Esquire
is to Rank as Major by Brevet,
in the ARMY of the UNITED STATES
of AMERICA

GIVEN under my Hand
at Princeton the Tenth
Day of October 1783

[signed] B Lincoln
[signed] Elias Boudinot President
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The United States of America in Congress Assembled
To Joseph Finley Esquire ---- Greeting.
We Reposing especial truth and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain in the second Pennsylvania Regiment ---- in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such --- from the twentieth day of October 1777  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Captain ---- by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders as Captain ---- .  And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress (illegible) purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Witness His Excellency John Hanson Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the twelfth day of February A. D. 1782 in the sixth Year of our Independence.  
John Hanson Esq.

By Order of Congress
B Lincoln Secretary of War.
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Pennsylvania ss.
In Assembly.
To Joseph Finley, Gentleman -- April 6th 1776.
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, Do, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be second Lieutenant of a Company of Foot in the Regiment of Riflemen in the Service of this Province for the Protection of the same, against all hostile Enterprizes, and for the Defense of American Liberty.  You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a second Lieutenant as aforesaid by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their second Lieutenant.  And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from the Assembly during their Sessions; and, in their Recess, from the present or any future Committee of Safety for this Province, or from your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, pursuant to the Trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by the Assembly, or by the present or any succeeding Committee of Safety.
Signed by Order of the Assembly,
John Morton Speaker

{ Seal}  Liberty Safety & Peace 
No. 9.
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Pennsylv'a May 18th 1776
These are to certify that Joseph Finley, the Officer within (illegible) appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of the County of Chester and was qualified to the within Commission, pursuant to a Resolve of that Assembly of the Said Province, dated April 5th 1776.
Rich'd Riley
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11,280
Jane Finley
Dec'd
K L
Suspended
Let. to Wm H. Todd
Oct 31 1844.
let to W H Todd feb 5 1845
" to Sec War, Apl. 17 1845
" " J. B. Finley Apl. 29 '45.

Act July 7th '38
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Case of Joseph L. Finley, of Ohio, act 
uvo:  1 May 1820.
Suspended - (illegible) letter to Hon. J. W. Campbell 
H. R. Nov. 1820.
Property supposed to be worth more than 300$
not entitled
Hon J. W. Campbell,
H. R.

Ohio
Joseph L. Finley
Major - War Pen'a Regt
1st Sched:  11 Aus't 1820
Real Estate - 50 acres of land $400 which he does not consider his own as he owes for it. other Real Estate ---  $75
Personal ----------  $215.8
                                   $320.80
{Debted?}  --------$1020.--

{remainder of page is torn}
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[left side folded over and/or torn, letters and words missing from left side affecting readability]
on it - 1 Colt &c for
to Finley in 1821
for labor done.
[illegible] for $42.50 paid a
to G. Fitzgerald.-In
[illegible] sold 2 sheep to McNutt
labor - 2 00 to lom
[illegible]ghridge for $3.50 paid
[illegible] Flour - some small,
[ar]ticles of furnture
[illegible]rn amt-
d. 68 ys, "Palsy, failure of
[illigible]ht & bad health".
[illigible]if- 59 ys - 1son 21 ys
[illegivle]vulsion fits" 1 daugher
[illegible] married - 1 Boy 9 ys,
[illegible] authenticated copy of
[illegible]ed within
illegible] [W. Campbell Es[qr]
West Union
Ohio
[illegible]est Oct 21 1823
[illegible] wanted himself of the provisions of
the Act May 1st 1828, see letter 27
Augt 1828 to Pension Agent
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West Union Sep 18 1823.

Sire, 
I enclose the documents of Maj Joseph L. Finley who asks that his name may again be placed on the pension list.  
Yours respectfully
John W. Campbell
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West Union July 28th 1828
Rich'd Rush Esq.
Sir You will find in closed the application of Maj. Joseph L Finly for the benefits of the act of congress pased for the relief of certain surviving officers and others of the Revolution for the purpose and, I hope {remainder of letter is faded and overwritten}
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Before me John Patterson a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Adams and state of Ohio, personally appeared this day Wesley Lee the attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any Transfer, or of any attachments by levy or seizure, by any legal process whatsoever, of the pay therein authorized, to be received but that the said pay is intended to ensure wholly to the personal benefit of the person, by whom the said power was executed.
Wesley Lee
Witness my hand and seal this 28th day of July 1828
J Patterson
Justice of the peace
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       West Union July 28th 1828
Rich∂ Rush Esqr
     [smeared] Sir   You will find in closed the application of Major. Joseph L Finley for the benefits of the act of congress pased[sic] for the relif[sic] of Sertain[sic] Surviiing[sic] officers & soldiers of the Revolutionary the papers are I hope maid[sic] out ageeabe[sic] to form if the mony[sic] is paid on them you will please get a draft on the Bank of cincinnatti[sic]. and in close the Same to me your attention to the above will much oblige
     Respectfully
     yous[sic]
Wesley Lee
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act untitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved on the 15th of may 1828 I Joseph L. Finley of Monroe Township and county of Adams state of ohio, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the continental line of the army of the revolution, and served as such to the end of the war at which period I was a captain in the 2∂ engagements Pennsylvania line. in proof of which I forwarded to the departement[sic] of War in the year 1818 my five commissions shewing[sic] the differant[sic] goals of office I held during the revolutionary War.
     And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates, commonly called commutation certificates for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay which sum was offered by the resolves of Congress, of the 22∂ of March 1783 instead of half pay for life,  to which I was entitled under the resolves of the 21st of October 1780 And I do further declare, that I have recieved[sic] of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3∂ day of March 1826 the sum of four hunderd[sic] and eighty dollars paid to me by the agent for paying pensions, in the state of Ohio.
Witness my hand this 23 day of June 1828
      Jos. L. Finley
? Attested
J Patterson
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Before me John Patterson a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Adams and State of Ohio duly inpowered to administer oaths in the County aforesaid personally came before me Neil Murry and Nicholas Blake of the said County who did severally make oath, 
that Joseph - Finely by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution, in the manner as therein stated Witness our hands June 23d 1828.
Atested
J Patterson
Neal Murry
Nick Blake

Justice of the peace
Adams County Ohio
Know all men by these presents that I Joseph L Finley of the County of Adams and State of Ohio, do hereby constitute and appoint Wesley Lee of the County and state aforesaid my true
and lawfull attorney to received from the United state the amount of pay now due to me, under the act entitled, an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the
revolution approved 15th May 1828 with power to subscribe my name for the same, as a Captain in the 2d regiment Pennsylvania lime of the army of the revolution.
Witness my hand and seal this 23d day of June 1828
Jos L. Finley [his signature]
[seal]
Atested and sealed in the presents of
John Patterson
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The state of Ohio
Adams County
Before me John Patterson a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally came Joseph L Finley whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therin authorized to be received just that the said pay is intended to ensure wholly to his personal benefit.

Witness my hand and seal this 23rd day of June 1828 -

[left text]
the State of Ohio
Adams County

[right text]
Patterson
Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Darlington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John Patterson [illegible] whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to his said certificate and all other Official acts by him done as well in Courts of Justice or thereout in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 23rd day of June in the year of our Lord 1828 in the 52nd year of independence of the United States of America in the 26th year of this State
Joseph Darlington Clk A.C.
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The State of Ohio Adams Court Court of Common Pleas, 
On this 14th day of August 1823 personally appeared in open court for the court aforesaid being a Court of record having the power of fine and imprisonment Josephh L. Finley resident of said County aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision m ade by the acts of the 18th of March 1818, the 1st of May 1820 and 1st March 1823 that he the said Joseph L. Finley was commissioned a second Lieutenant on the 6th day of April in theyear 1776 in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Andrew Long in the State Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Miles, which was someime after put upon continental establishment and called the 13th Regiment in the lines of Pennsylvania and commanded by Col Walter Stewart When he was promoted to first Lieutenant and some short time after to the rank of Capatain and arranged to the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col Daniel Brodhead - In 1782 was arranged to the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Col Richard Butler and in 1783 was promoted to the rank of Major by brevect and in October or November following war disharged from the service at Lancaster in Pennsylvania having served steadily upwards of seven years and an half and been in the battle of Long Islandm White Plains, Brandiwine, Germantown and Monmouty besides frequent skirmishes with the British and also with the Indians West of the Alleghany mountains And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my proerty or any part hereof with Intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons
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engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed [strikethrough 'passed'] on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any persons in trust for me any property or securitites contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
[signed] Jos L Finley

Schedule

One fifty acre lot of 3d rate ^wood land except a few acres cleared at 1 doll per acre = 50.00
3 head of cattle at 14 doll - 7 head of swine at 4.25 doll = 18.25
12 sheep at 12 doll - 1 table and stand at 3 doll. 1 stone Jar at 37-1/2 cents = 15.37
Delf ware [Delftware] at 1 doll 1 turene at 50 cents 1 pair candlesticks at 50 cents = 2.00
1 looking glass at 75 cents 1 Iron Kettle & one pat at 1.25 doll = 2.00
1 Bake oven & pot trammell at 1.25 1 fire shovel at 75 cents = 2.00
2 smoothing irons at 75 cents 4 old chairs at 75 cents = 1.50
1 set of tea cups & tea spoons at 2.75 [strikethrough illegible] ^Tea hot at 50 cents = 3.25
3d Vol. Scotts Bible & other Books at 4.12-1/2 = 4.12
1 Bureau damaged at $4 = 4.00
[Total] = $102.50
Joseph L. Finley


That since the exhibition of my ^first schedule the following changes have been made in my property
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James Finley
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1823
1 lot of 50 [illegible] to pay off a debt of 400 doll which was upon it = 400.00
1821
1 Cott at 12 doll 1 van at16 doll for peronsal labour = 28.00
1 Bar shar 1 shovel plough & [illegible] at $10.50 for personal labor = 10.50
1822
1 pair [illegible] yard 1 ax 1 wedge 1 spade at 3 doll  for personal labor = 3.00
2 augers 1 draw knife 1 saw 1 mattock at 3 doll for personal labor = 3.00
1 chain at 1.50 for personal labor = 1.50
1823
1 mare at 42.50 to pay a debt to G. Fitzgerald = 42.50

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[illegible] Nutt & Chips
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1821 
2 sheet at 3.50 for labour = 3.50

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Mr. Laughride
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1822
2 sheep at 3.50 for flour = 3.50
[Total] = $495.50
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1821
2 Vol. Scotts Bible given to two of my married children
1 Truckle 1 pitcher 1 bowl 1 cupboard four [illegible] 1 pot 6 plates
1 Tea Kettle 1 small Kettle 2 buckets worn out shattered & broken
1 note for 10 doll is rendered of no value, the man who gave it has committed felony & fled out of the state leaving no property
3 head of cattle & several hogs slaughtered for use & 1 bullock dead by disease
1 table and a pair of tongs broken

My occupation has been Farming, but I have been so long afflicted with a bad state of health and nearly deprived of eye sight, debilitated with the Palsy and [illegible] with rheumatism, having no assistance within my self and unable to hire anymore. I am obliged to relinquish it, nor do I know of any other I can pursue. these reasons and the necessity of paying off the debts upon it have obliged one to sell any claims I have to the lot of ground on which I reside - My family consists of myself now in my 69th year, my wife Jane Finley in the 59th year of her age, a son named Samuel Finley in the 21st year of his age but so reduced by strong convulsion fits that for several years he has ben unable to earn his support and is to me a heavy charge, one daughter named Margaret Finley in her 17th year of tolerable health, but her mothers health is very delicate and a boy about 9 years of age named Thomas Lafferty - it is possible as I write from memory that some of the dates may be inaccurate. all my military vouchers being in possession of the War Department and of other things I made no memorandum, not supposing that I should ever need them

[signed] Joseph L. Finley
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The State of Ohio Adams County Ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said County; and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and two dollars and fifty cents
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 14th day of August in the year of our Lord 1823 in the  48th year of the Independence of the United States of America & in the 21st year of this state.
[signed] Joseph Darlinton Clk Adams Com. Pleas
[seal affixed]
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Joseph S. Finley
to Copy of a Deed

James Finley
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This Indenture made this 25th day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty three between Joseph L. Finley of the County of Adams and State of Ohio of the one part and James Finley of the county and state aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said Joseph L Finley for and in consideration of the assumption and payment of a debt of four hundred dollars due by said Joseph L. Finley to the heir of Michael Finley deceased made by the said James Finley and also suitably to provide for and maintain Jane Finley the wife, and Margaret Finley the daughter of the said Joseph L. Finley if they or either of them should survive him (Joseph Finley) and remain unmarried have and do by their presents grant bargain and sell unto the said James Finley his heirs and assigns for ever all the right claim or title he has to that lot of land on which he resides lying and being in the county aforesaid bounded and described as follows Beginning at a poplar the division corner between the said Joseph L. Finley and the heirs of John Markland deceased there with the division line south sixty three degrees West ninety four poles to a sugar tree in the line of Robert Ellison's land there with the same South twenty three degrees West seventy one poles to two ash ash trees corner to John Ettisons tract there with the same north Sixty three degrees East one hundred and twelve poles to an ash in the line of the original survey there with the same north fair degrees West nine poles to a dogwood there north seventy nine degrees West twenty poles to the beginning containing fifty acres more or less being part of a survey No. 2744 entered in the name of and patented to Nathl Massie by him conveyed to Jos Markland and by him to Jos. L. Finley to have and to hold the land hereby conveyed with all improvements and opportunities thereto belonging unto the said James Finley his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Joseph L. Finley and his heirs all the promises hereby bargained and
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sold with the assistinance unto the said James Finely his heirs against him the said Joseph L. Finley and his heirs and all persons claiming under them do and will warrant and forever defend by these presents In Witness whereof the said Joseph L. Finley has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first wrtitten
[signed] Jos L. Finley
[hand drawn seal]
signed sealed and acknowledged in the presence of James Moore Esq. John Patterson

The State of Ohio Adams County Ss
Personally came before me John Patterson a Justice of the Peace in and for said County the within named Joseph L. Finley  and acknowledged the within signing sealing and delivering to be his act and due for the purpose therein mentioned In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7th day of July 1823
[signed] J. Pattisson
[handdrawn seal]
Recorded the 21st day of July 1823
[signed] Joseph Darlinton Recorder A.G.

The State of Ohio Adams County Ss
I Joseph Darlinton, Recorder of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of the original as the same remains of record in my Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office at West Union this 2d day of September in the year of our Lord 1823 in the 48th year of the Independence of the United States of America and in the 21st year of this state.
[seal affixed]
[signed] Joseph Darlinton

The State of Ohio Adams County Ss
I Joseph Darlinton Recorder of the county aforesaid hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of the original as the same remains of record in my office
In testinmony whereof I havev hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office at West Union this 2d day of September in the year of our Lord 1823 in the 48th year of the Independence of the United States of American and in the 21st year of this state.
[signed] Joseph Darlinton
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West Union O. Aug. 15. 1820
Sir 
I forward the declaration of Maj. Jos. L. Finley. He is well known to me as he resides only two miles distance
Allow me to say he and his wife received what in fashionable life, would be called a fine education,
but how to labor or economise constituted no part of it. They had a fortune at command but were so far from knowing how to encrease it suffered it to diminish until they became poor
Necessity compelled them to labor when too old to do much - When unable to work I know he taught a small country school several years. At length his hand became too tremulous and his eyes too dim to [illegible] a copy and his pronunciation too indistinct to be understood except by those with whom he was very intimate.
I see him frequently and never with out his staff. Without it he cannot go His fine venerable figure and excellent character inspire a wish that he could live without asking a shilling
I know his oldest son, late of the House of Finley and Flowers of Orleans annually made him handsome presents in clothes groceries &c To him was he indebted for the little farm on which
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he now lives - But this generous son is no more!

Altho my feelings are alive to the interest and wishes of Major Finley I have not painted too highly

Respectully
yours
[signed] John W. Campbell
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John Blair Finley
Declaration for a Pension under the act of 1838
=========================
Wants proof of the time(?) of Jane Finley [illegible] & her widowhood of reason(?)

wants [illegible] of marriage in New Jersey [illegible]
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West Union Feby 26th 1844
Wm H Todd Esq
Dear Sir I Recd you of the 24th and will say to you that the matters concerning to the heirs of Joseph L Finley after the [illegible] of the [illegible] his wife [ilegible] the person to [illegible] in a few day of his [illegible] I think not necessary to get the [illegible] of any person to what you wanted in you [illegible] to me
Respectfully
[illegible]
Wesley Lee
inclosed you will [illegible] the 1/8 [illegible]
Maysville Ky. February 29th 1844
Wm H Todd Esq
Dr Sir
I this morning rd the post office this letter enclosing [illegible] one dollar note Mr Lee seemed not have understood your intention
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from the purport of this letter I have thought proper to keep posesion of the [illegible], that with the $150 you owe in account with me I will send you by Mr. Ford who I expect will leave in a few days for Frankfort unless you otherwith direct.
Yours respectfully
Chas B. Williams
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At a Court of Common pleas holden at [illegible] court house within and for the county of Adams and State of Ohio at July Term in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four

On the 12th day of July 1844 It was proven to the satisction of the court being a court of Record by Witnesses who were examined in their presence that Major Joseph L. Finley who was a revolutionary [strikethrough 'soldeir'] pesioner of the United States departed this life in Adams County Ohio on the 23rd day of May 1839 That he left a widow at his death by the name of Jane Finley who remained his widow until the first day of July 1840 when she departed this life at said County that said Joseph & Jane left a son John B. Finley who residesin Lewis County Kentucky and hwo is their only surviving child & the only remaining child of either of them all of which is ordered to be certified accordingly

The State of Ohio Adams County } ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in & for the county aforesaid Do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the records of said court now remaining in my office

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 13th day of July 1844

[signed] Joseph Darlinton
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FREE
To the Honl J L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington DC

Act 4th 1844
Add evidence
J. L. Finley

[Stamp]
GEORGETOWN
3
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Washington DC 3rd Oct 1844

Dr Sir
I enclose the deposition of F P Blair as to the marriage of Jane Blair, Joseph L Finley, The Son whose declaration on file is indefinite as to the place of the marriage, and if there be record I am unable to find it, he not recollecting the place. This is therefore the best evidence I can find, 
Very respectfully
Wm H Todd
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The undersigned F P Blair personally appeared before me John D Clark a Justice of the peace in the County of Washington and made oath
[illegible] Major a revolutionary officer (his Christian name believed to be Joseph L) was married to Jane Blair the aunt of F P Blair and  he was acquainted with the oldest son of the Marriage who according to the best of his recollection  was the older [illegible] the said F P Blair - The same F P Blair further states that he was born in 1791. & hence [illegible] that the marriage of Jane Blair & Major Finley presented
that date. The said F P Blair has understood & believes that Major Finley lived & died in the
State of Ohio
F P Blair
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District of Columbia
Washington County
to wit on this 3rd October 1844 before me
the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Francis P Blair, and made Oath on the Evangely of Almighty
God that the written statement is just & true to the best of his knowledge & belief, & subscribed
the same in my presence
John D Clark Esquire
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875.
J. L. Finley
recd Augt. 25. 1828
ackd 30.
West Union  11 o/c
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547.
738.
No. of Original payt 547
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Aug. 23. 1828
Joseph L. Finley, of Monroe Township in the County of Adams, in the State of Ohio has
applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war, at which period he was a Captain in the Second regiment of the Penna line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, 480 dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Ohio.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary.
A Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
26th August 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Joseph Finley - Captain in the Pennsylvania line, amounting to Twenty four Hundred dollars. It further appears that Joseph Finley is now on the pension list of the Ohio agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
Peter Hagner Aud
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act, entitled, an act for the relief of certain Revolutionary officers and soldi
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day of August 1828
Joseph J. Turley
seal this
18th
Attested
of
Batters
-
Justice of the peace
the State of Ohio
Adams County
before me John Patterson a Justice of
1
Personally came
John
the peace in and for said County
&
Hayslip and Robert H Wood
who did
severally make oath that Joseph
seal this 18th day of August 1828
Joseph L. Finley [hand drawn seal]
Attested J Patterson Justice of the peace
The state of Ohio Adams County Personally came before me John Patterson a Justice of the peace in and for said county John Hayslip and Robert H Wood who did severally make oath that Joseph Lewis Finley, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution, in the manner as herein stated
John Hayslip
Robt H Wood
Witness my hand and seal this 18th day of August 1828
J Patterson [hand drawn seal]
Justice of the peace
The State of Ohio Adams County ss I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Adams in of Ohio do hereby certify that the above John Patterson Esqr before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn to was at the time a Justice
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of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 18th day of August in the year of our Lord 1828 and in the 26th year of this state
[signed] Joseph Darlinton Clk A.C.
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Jane FInley
Widow of Joseph L. Finley decd
Kentucky
# under act 15th May 1828 - Ohio wcl

D.D. Addison
Present
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State of Ohio
Adams County [illegible]
Having been called on this day by John B Finley who is the only surviving child and the son of Col Joseph J. Finley and Jane Finley his wife both deceased. We do hereby Certify that the said John B Finley does introduce to us and for our examination two leaves taken from his Father Joseph L Finley Deceased Original and first Family Bible which contains the record of the Marriage of his Father to his Mother and the births of his several Brothers and Sisters And after a full examination of the record and all
matters touching the facts they concur in stating that the leaves are a part of the original Family Bible of Col. Joseph L Finley deceased. And the hand writing on the Bible leaf of the Marriage and birth of his children we do believe to be in the proper hand writing of Joseph L Finley Decd and was written by him at the dates as one of us has often seen his hand write we see clear to and do Certify the two leave of the Bible having the record on them to the proper accounting officers in Washington City to obtain a pension as undoubted evidence of the marriage of Joseph L Finley to Jane Blair and which we copy from the record leaf of the Bible now before us with the exception of the figures which we write in full and is as follows Joseph L Finley and Jane Blair was married upon the fourth day July Seventeen hundred and Eightytwo and then follows the record of the Births of the Several Sons and Daughters of the said Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley Which leave we Certify to the proper accounting officer the Commissioner of Pensions in Washington City in evidence of the proper
time of the Marriage of Joseph L Finley to Jane Blair
Given under our hand this 21st day of November 1850
Daniel Matheny J. [hand drawn seal]
James Clanahan [hand drawn seal]
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State of Ohio Adams County ss.
J R Cockerill Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certiy that Daniel Mattheney and James McClanahan Esqrs whose names appear to the foregoing Depositions were at the time of signing the same acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to Law and that as such full faith and credit are due their official acts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at West Union this 21st day of November 1850 and in the 48th year of the State of Ohio,
J. R. Cockerill Clerk A.C.
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State of Ohio
Adams County }Per

Personally appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county Alexander Woodrow now fifty two years of age and first being duly sworn according to law he states he has been acquainted with Mary Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley his wife for the space of twenty years previous to their death both of whom have been dead a number of years. They both highly respectable persons resident in this county and resided to the day of their deaths about two miles from this town Westunion At the time of the death of Mary Joseph L Finley I was called on to make his coffin which I did make which appears from my book referred to this day was made on the twentieth day of May Eighteen hundred and twentynine which date I know to be correct And when the old Lady wife of Joseph L Finley whose name was Jane Finley died I was again called on to make his coffin which I did do and which was made ont he Second day of July Eighteen hundred and forty two. All of which is according to the record of my book John B Finley who calls on me for the above statement of facts is the one and only surviving child of Mary and Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley his wife both deceased

Sworn to and subscribed      Alexander Woodrow

State of Ohio
Adams County }Per
                        I certify the foregoing deposition of Alexander Woodrow was this day subscribed and sworn to before me and I further certify that Alexander Woodrow is a worthy and highly respectable citizen of this town and county and a worthy member of our church
                       Given under my hand this 20th day of November 1850
                                        Daniel Matheny J.P

State of Ohio
Adams County }
                      Personally appeared before me one of the acting justices of the peace in and for said county Field Marshall who is now in the fortyninth year of his age and first being duly sworn according to Law He states he was well acquainted with Marjor Joseph L Finley who was a pensioner in this
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[Breaks added for clarity of transcription]

in this county for many years and drew [lined through word] four hundred and eighty dollars per annum up to the day of his death as a pensioner of the General Government   He died on the twenty third day of May eighteen hundred and thirty nine   I State the death from the fact that I was called on and did draw his corps from his residence to the place of interment which is on or ner the town of Westunion Ohio 

For five years before his death he was struck with a paralittic which continued to his death   his widow Jane Finley a very old Lady Survived her Husband some time the space of time I cannot now recollect but State at the time of her death I was again called on and with my team I moved her from her residence the same house the old Col Died in to the place of interment and was buried by the side of her late Husband John L Finley Deceased

He further States he is well acquainted with John B. Finley who is the son of Joseph L Finley who is the Identical Same John B Finley who now Setts up a claim for a widows pension and right of his deceased mother Jane Finley and that John B. Finley is the only surviving child and son of Col Joseph L Finley Decd”.   

He further state that John B Finley who is now prepairing the papers in the right of Mothe Jane Finley Decd for a widows pension to him an old dirty watersoaked leaf from his late Fathers Original Bible which leaves has on it surely to seen the record of the marrige of his Father and mother and the ages of his these several children   

And he states that having seen several times the handwriting of Col” Joseph L Finley would say there is a strong similarity and clearly of opinion that the record on the Bible sheets were in the own proper hand wright of the aged Col” Joseph L Finley Decd who was a revolutionary pensioner 

Field Marlatt
Sworn to and subscribed

State of Ohio     }
Adams County  } Sct 

Personally appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for said County Fields Marlatt and has this day sworn to and subscribed to the foregoing deposition And further certify that Fields Marlatt is very worthy
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[Breaks added for clarity of the transcription; this page starts mid-sentence]

Citizen of this county and is entitled to full credit

Given under my hand this 20th day of November 1850

Daniel Matheny J.D

State of Ohio         }
Adams County      } SS

Personally appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for Said County Eliza Ann Clark who is now in the 55” year of her age and first being duly sworn according to law she states that she did reside in the family of Col. Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley his wife six or seven years before the death of Col” Joseph L Finley and further says Joseph L Finley was struck with a paralitic stroke some four or five years before he died and was very [illegible] at the day of his death  

She states that she was in constant attendance with the old Gentleman and his wife from the time she came to reside in the family until both Col” Joseph L and Jane Finley his wife both died  She says Col” Joseph L. Finley was a pensioner and drew four hundred and eighty Dollars per annum  She States Joseph L. Finley died on the twety third day of May Eighteen hundred and thirty nine there was a funeral [illegible] in the house by a Clergyman Vandike  I then saw his only [illegible] in the coffin and removed to interment.  

I did not go but stayed at house in care of the hourse and the old Lady his wife Jane Finley  I continued in the family until after the death of the old Lady Jane Finley the then widow of Col” Joseph L. Finley [illegible] up to the day & time of her death  She was very old and very feable and peevish and required much of my attention which I gave her almost constantly.  

She died on the second day of July Eighteen hundred and fourty two  I assisted in Laying her out dressing her and putting her in her coffin  I did not go to the burial but as in the case of the old Col” stayed at the house in care of the family interest.  I remained in the family some time  As to the death of Old Lady Jane Finley I can clearly State the age by comparing her death with the birth of one of my Children which was very near the day of her death  

She Further States that after the death of both these old person Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley his wife She was left in care of the house and its contents and She took the old family Bible of Col. Joseph L Finley and which was very old and worn out the back of which had come off and very many of the leaves were torn out and it was almost in a state of falling into
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[illegible] and owing to that fact and state of case she though it very advisable and did take out and preserve the two leaves of the bible which contained the record of the marriage of Col” Joseph L. Finley to Jane Blair which appeared on the old leaf to of taken place in the 4th day of July 1782 by refference to the old leaves will fully appear

She states that she has often herd Old Col” Finly say in lifetime that this was the first Bible he ever owned and that he Sett down in it the time of his marriage and the ages of his children and she says I kept the leaves on which the record of marriage and ages for the Family 

And she further says that John B Finly the only surviving child and Son of Joseph L Finley and Jane Finley both deceased has called on me for the record of ages marriage of his Father and mother for the purpose as he says of getting a pension on account of Mothers give up to him the leaves of his Fathers Family bible he having the only right to it he being the only surviving child

Sworn to and subscribed as
Eliza [“her x mark” written vertically] Ann Clark

State of Ohio        }
Adams County     } Sct 

I certify the foregoing depposition of Eliza Ann Clark was this day sworn to and subscribed to before me And I further certify that Eliza Clark is a highly respectable Lady a resident in this County of the highest moral rectitude and is entitled to full credit

Given under my hand this 21st day of November 1850

Daniel Matheny J.P.
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[The cover of a letter, in the top left corner a round stamp reading]

York Pa OCT 30

[In the top right corner a round stamp reading]

10

[Handwritten addressed to]

Mr Caleb White 
Maysville
State of Kentucky
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York Pa Oct 29th 1832

[Illegible] Caleb White

Sir

I read yours[missing] 19th Oct asking for information in a[missing] – and to the marriage between Josep[missing] L Finley & Jane Blair between 178[missing] & 1789 -- There are no public Recor[missing] of Marriages in this County nor in this State, to the best of my knowled[missing].

Revd Dr Cathcart who is now dead has been officiating as Paster of the Presbyterian Church of this place for near fifty years and I Called on his Soninlaw Mr Latimer who has examined the matter and his records and says nothing could found here, he says there was no Presbyterian Pastor in this place previous to Dr Cathcart who came in 92 or 93  

The Lums were doubtless members of Carlisle Presbytery, But neither of them ever resided here.  There must be some mistake as to the locality.  The elder Lum was a friend of Dr Cathcarts and member of Carlisle Presbytery and he thinks had his charge in Center County -- I make no charge in this Case at all but I have for years back recd numerous letters on the subject of Marriage Records -- I am now very thaory getting ready for
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[partially torn, illegible] -- I have nothing to say more.

Yours respectfully, 

John Albilson
Clerk of Courts
[A doodle]
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[The back of a paper, written horizontally at the top]

Of others he believed to be now, 

[A large seal to the left]  Given under my hand and Seal of office this 24th day of February AD 1844

Chas B. Williams Mayor

[Written vertically along the lower left edge]

11280

Jane Finley Dec.

Ky

Act July 7th 38
Died in 41
[illegible] 39---
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State of Kentucky      }
City of Maysville       }  Sch

On this 24th day of Feby 1844 came before the Hon Chas B. Williams, Mayeor of the city aforesaid, John B Finley, aged 52 who on his solem oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act of congress passed the 4th of July 1838 & 23 of August 1842 for the benefits of widows of the Revolutionary officers & Soldiers.

Affiant States that he is the only Surviving child of Captain Joseph S Finley and Jane Finley, decd, that affiant would state that his deceased father was in the receipt of a pension of [illegible] per annum under the provisions of the act of Congress of the 15th of May 1828, which he continued to receive until the day of his death, that affiant therefore believes he was an officer of the Revolutionary army and attached to the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary war, that as to the Regt & Corps in which his father Served he [illegible] to refer to the papers, vouchers filed in support of the Said Finley's claim noow on the files of the pension office at Washington City under the act afsd.   Your affiant would State that Major Joseph L Finley was married to Jane Blair at Foggs Manor near Trenton New Jersey a short time after the close of the Revolutionary war, the county affiant does not know, never having been there, lest he believes it was in [blank space] county.  

That Said affiants father lived in Westmoreland County Pa from about his marriage until 1808 when he came to Ky & resided in Fleming County, Ky until about 1811 then went to Ohio and lived in Adams County until his death, which took place on the 23 of May 1839; that he left Jane his widow that she lived as his widow until the 3rd of July 1840 when She died on the old farm in Adams Cty Ohio.  That this affiant is now the only living child of Joseph & Jane Finley, cecd, that affiant resides now in Lewis County Ky near the Mason line & intends removing in a few days to or near Maysville, that it is More convenient for him to go to Maysville to make his declaration that to [illegible]--
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Applicant lived in Ohio at the time of his fathers & [and] mothers death & [and] has since moved to Ky [Kentucky]. Applicant would further state that the marriage of his father Jos L. Finley, with Jane Blair of Faggs Manor New Jersey, [substantial Empty space] County took place after the close of the war, but prior to 1794 at the time aforesaid. Apt [Applicant] would state from information & [and] [illegible] that his father lived at the date of his marriage in York City Pa [Pennsylvania] & [and] after his marriage came to Westmoreland as above stated. Sworn to & [and] subscribed the day &[and] year [illegible] John Blair Finley.

Commonwealth of Kentucky County of Mason
City of Maysville [illegible]
Formally approved before the undersigned Mayor of the city aforesaid John Blair Finley in open Court and made oath in due form of law that the statement contained in the forgoing declaration of his own knowledge and true and those made on information of others he believes to be true. 
Given under my hand and Seal of Office this 24th day of February A.D. 1844
Chas B. Williams, Mayor
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To the Honl Secretary of War
The claim of Jane widows of Major Joseph L Finley decd was decided & her claim for pension under the act of 7th July 1838 rejected, Major Finley was of the Pa line & drew during his life under the act of 15th of May 1828, and died Adams County Ohio after the passage of the act of 1838 above, his widow Survived him
one year & a few months and died in 1840, her
Surviving Son John B Finley applied for the arrears of pension, & it [illegible] with an unfavorable decision, on the ground that such as became widow after the act of 1838 were not entiled untill August 1842 when a favorable construction was given to the act of 1838, and as my Finley became a widow after the act of 1838 and died before 1842 that she is not therefore entitled to the benefit of the arears which
would have come to her had she lived to [illegible]
Your applicant feels that under and by virtue of
Equitable jurisdiction and authority of your department that his claim is right of his mother Jane Finley rejected last year of right should be allowed and him [illegible] an  appeal to that never ending Legislation of Congress, which in its affirmation Seldom if ever reaches any Claims, and often fails to act on Such as one reaches your petitioner pays that his claim be admitted on the grounds above stated the will evern[illegible]
J B Finley By
Wm H Todd for
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Phila August 27th 1844
Dr Sir
Enclosed is the declaration of John B only son of Josh L  & Jane Finley  decd. The action of the Department on this case is asked at the earliest day I oblige your obt Servant
Wm H. Todd
To Hon Court of Pensions
A.S.:
I have Searched in numerous places in the State
Jersey & other Sources & cannot find the County
in which Jos L Finley was married, nor the reason
his son John Could not tell the county & as both the old ones are dead. I will have to resort to other proof as to their marriage as I am totally in the dark as to the place. I visited F P Blair in Washington and asked him where my Finley married, and altho Mrs Finley was his own aunt he could not tell me. Tho he said he thought it was in Pa. Mr Blair is old enough to State from information that Mr Finley was a married man 50
or 55 yrs ago
Very respectfully [illegible] Rodd
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Washington City 10th Dec 1844

Dear Sir
I have presented the claim of Jane Finley in the name of her only son John B for access of Pension, as J L Finley died after the Act of 7th July 1838 and Mrs Finley died before 1842. the claim is not admissible under your decision, I therefore desire to withdraw the entire papers if that can not be done I desire the original proof of kinship or a copy on file in the case and a certificate that Joseph L Finley was a Capt & rced the benefits of the act of the 15th May 1828. with a view to lay before Congress a petition for relief to J B Finley 
In the case of Peter Bryan Brown who was a pensioner under the act of 1818 from from Claiborn County Miss I wish also a Certificate showing that he recd the benefit of said act & also a memo as to the time of his death as noted on your report of 1834 I wish to present a petition to Congress for the relief of the living Child
Very respectfully
Wm H Todd
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Pension Office
Commissioner of Pensions
April 17, 1845

Report in the case of Jane Finley, deceased.

I concur with the Commissoiner in the within opinion.
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War

War Dept.
April 28/45
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No 7679
Jane Finley Decd
Widow of Joseph L. 
Ky.
Act 4 July 1836

Married 1782
Pers died 23 May 1839

Admd two yrs Capt
$480 per annum Cong 24 May 1839 & endg 2 July 1842, wher she died
payable to John B Finley 
only surviving child
(see husbands papers Act 15 May 1828, Ohio Roll)

D.D. Addison
Pre/erd
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Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
27 August 1828
SIR:
I have the honor to inform you, that Joseph L. Finley formerly a Captain in the Second 
Regiment of the Pennsylvania line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Ohio, agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Richard ruth
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
No 92.
Sep 18
Major
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Namoa Idaho
Jan 7 1927

U.S. Pension Department
Washington D.C.
Will you please send record of Major Joseph Lewis Finley Born 1735 at Greensburg Pa. Died 1837. West Union Ohio - who he married and the names of his children all the data you can give and oblige yours very resptfully
Mrs W.F. Haskins
Pierce City Mo.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office
F
Jan 11 1927
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[stamped] O.W. & N. DIV OCT 18 1892 CHIEF"S DESK

Fort Custer Montana
12 October 1892

Sir:-
I have the honor to ask if the records of your office contain information concerning the following officers of the Continental Line, War of the Revolution: -
Joseph L. Finley - On the 1 Jany 1783, a Captain 1st Penna Regt living in Adams County Ohio 1813
[stamped] (illegible) Oct 19 1892 FILES
John FInley - On the 1 Jany 1783 Im a Captain 2d Penna Regt: living in Kentucky in 1834. 31025
If recorded, if any description exist of either of these officers I respectfully ask if it is possible that copies of the same can be furnished me.
Very respectfully
Leighton Finley - Lieutenant 10th U.S. Cavalry

The Chief Old War and Navy Division
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W. one 2c stamp used
Stamp ret w OSC [illegible] RWS
Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Sirs,
I am investigating our ancestors, the Finleys I
find two, Joseph L Finleys were officers in the Revolutionary  War. One Major Finley and
that one Col Finley. Could you tell where they settled in Ohio the names of their wives &
Children, the dates of their birth and death.
Also was there a pensioner of the Revolutionary War by the name of John McIntire
Hoping to hear from you soon
[illegible] Oblige
Mrs. R. F. Leach
Winchesberg
[inside stamp:] U.S. PENSION OFFICE D MAR 1 1915
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In reply to your request of ___, received ____ for
a statement of the military history of Joseph Lewis Finley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his Heir's) application for penion on file in tie Bureau.
W.F. 8814.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | 
LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE. |
Apr. 6, 1776 | to Oct 24. '76 | 2" Lieut. | Andrew Long | Samuel Mills | Pa. |
Oct. 24, 1776 to | Oct 20, 77 | 1" Lieut. | John Marshall | Walter Stewart | |
Oct. 20, 1777 to | Sept 30, '83 | Capt. |  | Daniel Broadhead | |
Sept 30, 1783 to | end of war | Major. | by British 1782 [illegible] | Richard Butler | |
COLONEL.
The above is the only Joseph L. Finley found in the Rev. War records of this Bureau
Battles engaged in, Long Island, White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Apr. 14, 1818. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Adams Co, Ohio
Age at date of application, [63 yrs is crossed out] In 1810 - 65 years. Monroe Twp, Adams Co., Oh [Monroe Township, Adams County, Ohio]
Remarks: He mar. July 4, 1782 Jan Blair; she was 56 yrs. old in 1820; he died May 23, 1839 and she died July 2, 1842 (both died in Adams Co, Oh [Ohio] Children: Hannah, b. May 1, 1783; (illegible) b. Oct 10, 1784; Michael Lewis b. Dec. 13, 1785; Elizabeth Deborah, b. Nov. 17, 1787; Harvey Dean, b. June 27, 1789; John Blair, b. Aug 9. 1791; (illegible) b. Sept. 2, 1793; (illegible) b. May 21, 1796; Ebenezer b. Jan. 21, 1798; Mary, b. Dec. (illegible); Samuel, b. Jan. 13, 1803: Margaret, b. Apr. 2,1807.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
[illegible] child in 1851
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