Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2850, Bernard Hubley, Continental (Penna.)
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[handwritten witness testimony, written at the end of the Old Testament, King James Bible]

[printed] The End of the Old Testament

[handwritten testimony follows]
Bernard Hubley Jr., Son of Bernard Hubley, Entered into Holy Matrimony
with Eliza McCalla, Daughter of John McCalla, on the 20th of June in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety [illegible] by the Rev. [illegible] Morrison.
Bernard Hubley, Jr., was born the 8th of July 1754, his Wife Eliza was born the 7th April
1769.
Providence blessed us on Wednesday the Seventh Day of April [illegible]
(in the morning about Sun Rise) with a Son, who was Baptized on the 
31st, July [illegible] Called John McCalla, he was Christened by the Reverend [illegible]
[illegible]. His sponsor God Father and God Mother,were his own Father and Mother
[illegible] the Lutheran Church Book in the Town of [illegible] (Church called Zion) [illegible]
for days after said Church was Consecrated.
Thursday, August [illegible] in the morning about Sun Rise, [rest of paragraph is illegible]
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[handwritten tesitmony]

State of Pennsylvania
Allegheny County LL.

On this [blank] day of November AD. 1838
personally appeared before the Honorable T.B. Dallas [illegible]
President and his associate Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas of Allegheny County Elizabeth Hubley, a resident 
of Slippery rock Township in the County of Mercer,
aged sixty nine year, who being first and duly sworn 
according to the law, doth on her oath, make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838 -
entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to
certain widows."
That she was married to Bernard Hubley who was
a Captain in the Gusman Regiment in the Pennsylvania
line in the War of the Revolution.
That he entered or enlisted in the session in
Lancaster Pennsylvania as a private and was
subsequently appointed Lieutenant and as Captain.
That from the repeated declaration of her husband in
his life time, and the accompanying documents here
with annexes; she verily believes, that he served
in capacity of a private soldier, and officer for
a period of five years and [illegible], and until the 
end of the war. 
And further saith that she has heard her husband
in his life time say, that he was in several
engagements particularly the battle of Germantown
and Brandy Wine.
She further declares, that she was married to the
said Bernard Hubley on the 28th of June in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Two.
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in the Town of Northumberland Pennsylvania
by the Rev'd Mr. Hugh Morrison a Presbyterian Minister.
That the annexed leaf marked A. contains the only 
record of her said marriage to this [] know
=ledge, and is in the proper handwriting of her
said husband Bernard Hubley; which said leaf
marked A. was taken out of the family Bible a few days
since and which said family Bible has remained 
in the possession of this [] ever since the death 
of her said husband Bernard Hubley.
That the defacing of the same, was first observed
by this [] more than twenty years since,
but by whom it was done this [illegible] [illegible] ;
but she suspects it to have been done by one
of her daughters, with a [illegible] to disguise her
own age. This is evident on inspection that the
day on which the oldest child was baptized is 31st
July 1793.
That her husband, the aforesaid Bernard
Hubley, died on the seventeenth day of March AD, One 
Thousand Eight Hundred and ten, in the city of
Philadelphia + which place he had remained with
his said family, and his said wife.
That she was afterward married to David Perkinpine
a skin dresser by trade in Philadelphia, and 
who died on the [blank] day of [blank] AD one thous. and
eight hundred and twenty [blank] and that she
was a widow on the 4th July 1836 and still remains
a widow, and will more fully appear by reference
to the [illegible] of [illegible]
sworn and [illegible] before me
in per court the 5 Nov 1838
J.B. Dallas [illegible]