Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1,448, for John Mc Murtry, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
PENN.L
PRIVATEER

McMurtry, John
of McMurty

Margaret 

NUMBER
W. 1448
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20233

West Tennessee

John McMurtry of Sumner Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a Sargt. Majr. in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regiment by Colonel Thompson in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of from [blank] 17[blank] to [blank] 17[blank].

(Inscribed on the roll of West Tennessee at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 day of January 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of September 1830 -- and sent to the Pension at Montogomery's P.O. Sumner County Ten.

$209.06        Arrears to 4th of March 1830
   48.00        Semi-anu'l ending 4 Sept 1830k

$257.00

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act  20  May  1830   }

[illegible] Book D  Vol 9 - page 154

BSB
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293

Tennessee  - Nashville
Margaret McMurty

widow of John McMurty
who was a Private + C on board (Fair American) 
in the Pennsylvania Line for two years

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Eighty Dollars  [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of June, 1843, and sent to
Margaret McMurty
Montgomery P.O.
Sumner County, Tennessee

Recorded in Book A  Vol  1  Page  220 
[Act of March 3, 1843.]


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Lttr. to Hon. J. H. Peyton  Jan 11.45.


W, E, Fines
May 20 51
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To the Congress of the United States (National Archives Stamp] 
Your petitioner, John McMurty begs leave humbly to represent, that, to the best of his recollection, in June or July 1775 he enlisted in Capt. James Chambers Company of the first Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Col. Thompson in which Regiment he marched to Boston; after the seige was raised he march to New York and Long Island fought the enemy on the White Plains and York Island about this
period he was appointed Searient and retreated through the Jerseys and across the Delaware; he was at Princeton and Trenton, Everman Tavern, where he, in common with the  balance of the American Army, suffered severely, by forced marches and hand fighting in the middle of winter; he was at Shadoford on the Brandywine, and Paoley [Paoli] with Genl. Wayne, where the Americans were bayonetted in the night; and he was in this Battle at Germantown.  About the time of the last battle he was appointed Sergant Major and was employed in the [illegible] service in Pennsylvania; on the 1st and 3rd of September 1779, he was advanced and appointed Ensign in the same Pennsylvania Regiment, at that time commanded by Col. James Chambus; he continues with said Pug, until the 29th day of June 1780, when, he left the army and came to Philadelphia, and went to sea, on board the Fair American, a Brigg carrying 16.6 pounders, commanded by Capt. Decatur.  He was returned in the Regil, he does not know whether absent with leave , or, on command, or as [illegible] about that time the [illegible] Officer went home and he left the camp with the consent of Col. James Chambers.  For these persons he had   received nothing, from the Government of the United States
 as a pension or as any any other ways.  He 
cannot prove the foregoing facts in any other  way than by his own oath, and
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The oath of his neighbours, as he has been lately informed and believe that the officers by whom he could prove them, if they were living, are now dead.  

He begs leave farther to represent to the Government  of his Country, what he is now, in the seventy fifth year of his age, and is obliged to labour, what he is able, for a support. 

The hopes that his case will be considered, and something allowed him, to lighten the afflictions of old age and as in duty, bound he will ever pray  
John McMurtry

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
the 25th September 1885

J. W. Baldridge Clerk of Sumner County Circuit Court.

We have been acquainted with John McMurty who has made and subscribed the foregoing statement of for twenty five years he   has told us that he was an officer in the American Army time  of the Revolution he is a man of good character and honest reputation and likewise that the foregoing statement made by him is true.     James Frazer [signature]

Sworn and subscribed to before me Danl. Latimer J.P.   Sept. 29th 1828

I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John McMurtry ever since the year 1793 or 1794 and that I have lived ever since 1797 our land [illegible] little more than half a mile apart  the whole of which times we have been intimate neighbors until now, I being a citizen of Pennsylvania in service of the  Revolutionary War and frequently went in Militia service in the time we often talked of the service of the war and the different parts we acted in it from all of which the statements in his petition in [illegible].  I [illegible]
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State of Tennessee
[illegible] a County Jefferson H Douglas Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions for said County of [illegible] do certify that Daniel Latimer Charles Watkins William Montgomery + Robert Patton esquires bfefore whom the 
foregoing following after and of faout Frazier William Montgomery + Hugh Kirkpatrick,  were sworn to  and were on the status of the second office each acting further


will come back
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State of Tennesee}
Davidson's County} on this 7 January 1851, personally appeared before me and
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State of Tennesee}
Davidson's County} on this 7 January 1851, personally appeared before me and
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order to recover the difference between the $96 which his father received as his pension in his lifetime + the Eighty dollars which his mother said [illegible] sixteen $16 a year under the various acts under which she was entitled and which amount [illegible] as advised is now due +coming to the said
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FAMILY RECORD

BIRTHS

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Johen McMurtry   Son
Was Born February 15, 1759

Peggy Gomer was Born 
August 1st 1765

Henery McMurtry was Born
December 6th 1781

Jeain McMurtry was born
Monday October 18th 1784

[name cut off] McMurtry Juner
was born March 10th 1787

James McMurtry was born
Tuesday December 22, 1789

Marey McMurtry was born
June 15, 1796

Asa McMurtry was born
May 1st 1799

Peggy McMurtry was born
October 18 1806

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DEATHS

James McMurtry died 
Tusday February 10, 1985 A.D. 
5 years 1 month

John McMurtry Sener
Died Tuesday March the 16
1841 A.D. 89 years 1 month
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FAMILY RECORD.

M A R R I A G E S

John McMurtry and Peggy his wife
was Married Tusday January 29 1781
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Declaration in order to attain the benefit of the  3d section of the acts of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836 and joint resolution of 7th July 1835.  

State of Tennessee}
     Sumner County}   SS

On this the 6th  day of September, A. D. 1844, personally appeared before us Isaac C. Douglass and John Louderdale Justices of the peace holding the county court for said county now in session at the court house in Gallatin, it being a court of Record, Margaret McMurtrey a resident citizen of the county of Sumner  and state of Tennessee a good seventy-six years on the first day of  August last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 4th day of July 1835 and joint resolution of July 7th 1838 that she is the widow of John McMurtrey, late of said Sumner county deceased, who was a soldier in the revolutionary army (for the particulars of the services of her said husband she here refers to his petition now on file in the War Department upon which he attained a certificate for a pension at the rate
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of Eight dollars per month, dated the 4th day of September A. D. 1830, and which certificate was in his possession at the time of his death and had since been delivered to Joel M. Smith agent for paying pensions at Nashville Tennessee.

She further declares that she was married to the said John McMurtrey in the state of New Jersey, Summerset County, on the 29th day of January  A. D., 1781) seventeen hundred and eighty one and that her husband, the said John McMurtrey  died on the sixteenth day of March eighteen hundred and forty one and that she had remained a widow ever since that period.  She further states that she has no record evidence of her marriage except the records made thereof by her said deceased husband in the family bible, a leaf from which she here attaches as a part of her proof in her cause.  She likewise refers to the depositions of James Bowers and Sally Selford hereto annexed both of whom were present at the marriage.  She submits these proofs of her claim to the department and prays to be placed  on the pension rolls in the place of her deceased husband the said John McMurtrey, 

Margaret    X   [Her Mark]   McMurtrey
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Sworn to in open court 6th September 1841.
Andrew McGlothlin, Clk.

State of Tennessee}
  Sumner County  }

We Jefferson T. Montgomery and John Glendenning, being duly sworn, do declare that we are acquainted with the hand writing of John McMurtrey, and do further state that the leaf taken from the family bible of said John McMurtrey, does contain the register of the, of the period of his marriage + in the hand writing of said John McMurtrey, deceased, and we further [state crossed out] declare that we have become acquainted with said John McMurtrey for a number of years and with the applicant Margaret or Peggy McMurtrey and knew her to be the widow of the said John McMurtrey deceased.

Jefferson J. Montgomery
John Glendenning

Sworn in open court}
this  6  Sept.  1844   }

Andrew McGlothlin, Clk.



We Isaac C. Douglass, H. C. Bate and John Lauderdale, the Justices of said court do hereby certify that it appears to our satisfaction that the said Margaret McMurtrey is the widow of the late John
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McMurtrey dec. of Sumner County and that she is a woman of truth and veracity, and that her statements are entitled to full credit .  We further certify that it appears to us that J. T. Montgomery and  John Glending, who have signed the foregoing affidavits are men of veracity and that their statements are entitled to full credit.  

Given under our hands and seals this 6th September, 1844.  

J.  C. Douglass {seal}
H. Bate  {seal}
John Lauderdale {seal}

State of Tennessee}
    Sumner County }   S.S.

This day personally appeared before Samuel T. Schell as acting justice of the peace for said county of Sumner, James Bowers aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn on the wholly Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith as follows; that he is acquainted with Margaret McMurtrey, widow and [illegible] of
the late John McMurtrey dec.st late of said county of Sumner and state of Tennessee, that he was [illegible] before she was married, that she resided in the state of New Jersey, Summersett County.  That he was present
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at the solemnization of the rights of Matrimony between her and her deseased husband the said John McMurtrey deseas'd -- That they were married in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781)-- that he has known the said John McMurtrey and Margaret McMurtrey from the date of their marriage up to the death of said John during all which time they lived together as man and wife and have raised a family of children. Witness further states that he knows the said John McMurtrey prior to his marriage and knows that he was a soldier of the revolution-- that he saw him with the army and on duty with the army but does not know how long he served -- Witness further states that said John McMurtrey and Margaret McMurtrey were lawfully married having obtained a regular marriage license according to the laws of New Jersey.  

James Bowen, 
Sworn to and subscribed
Before me, this 23d
August 1841

J. T. Schell  JP