Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3032, Nathaniel Doty, New Jersey
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New Jersey      Doty, Nathaniel      R. 3032
                          Jane
Sec N.A. Acc. No. 874 
No 050054- Not Half Pay
 Nathaniel Doty
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 ribed on the Roll f Pittsbrgh --  sale of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per        mmence on the 4th day of March 1831. 
  tificate of Pension issued the 1st day of June 1843 and sent to Gillis Do           Penna.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1843           $319.7
  Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.      $ 13.3
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                          {Revolutionary Claim
                            Act June 7, 183
Recorded by [illegible] 
Book E-2 Vol. 5 -- Page 120
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Pennsylvania}
Westmoreland County}    SS.
On this 22d day of November 1842. personally appeared before in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county -- Nathaniel Doty a resident of Derry township in the County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of he provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
    That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - that he entered the service of he United States in the fall of the year 1776 as a militia man under the command of Capt Carter of the Morris County militia in the State of New Jersey - that he was out under Capt Carter a number of times during the fall of 1776 in the months of September and October
    That there was a placed a cannon on the Short Hills called a [underlined "thirty two pounder"] which was fired off on sudden alarms to give information of the approach of the enemy who were making inroads towards Elizabeth town in the State of New Jersey and this applicant
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was drafted out and served in said Capt Carter's company and was marched from near Morris town in the State of New Jersey to Elisabeth town and stationed there to defend the place from the encroachment of the enemy. 
The name of the Lieut. of said company was George Buckhouse, and the Ensign was Joseph Bullman and the name of the orderly sergeant was David Tarball (tailor by trade) that he was frequently called out under Capt Carter during these two months on a signal given from the discharge of said cannon. His companions were sometimes called minute men - that his service was rendered under Capt. Carter who was a Capt of a militia Company of the County of Morris in a regiment commanded by Col Hathaway - the service rendered in these two months made a period of five weeks and at the expiration thereof he was verbally dismissed and went home - 
  And this applicant says he was again drafted out in the service of his country and joined a militia company under Capt Carter of the Morris County militia under the command of his old and beloved Col. Hathaway and the name of the Lieut was George Buckhouse  -
    That he joined Capt Carters Company was a place called Chatham where his Capt then resided and to which place his companions also rendezvoused and from thence he was marched  again to Elizabeth Town in said state and from thence to Springfield in the said state of
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New Jersey for the purpose as he understood of reinforcing the Continental Troops - that his companions + officers took up their lodgings in the meeting house in Springfield. that after he had been stationed there for some time this declarant with the other troops encamped at Springfield were suddenly ordered back to the Short Hills or Sourland Hills - that during the retreat of the Americans from Springfield, he saw two soldiers killed by the British with spontoons in a bark house -- this was a tour of three weeks service in Col Hathaway's regiment of Morris County militia and at the expiration of said tour this applicant was verbally dismissed by his commanding officer. that he was drafted or ordered out for one month, but did not serve the whole month as his services were not required longer than the above specified tour of three weeks - that this last mentioned tour was served in the month of November 1776 about the time that Gen Lee was captured by the British in Morris or Somerset County in the state of New Jersey.
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and this applicant was himself employed by Col. Hathaway as commanded with the troops under his command to destroy the works as soon as possible which was done in the night time, for it was feared the British would return again to Elizabeth Town with reenforcements. That previous to our troops arriving at Elizabeth town and while on the march there this  declarant overheard Col. Hathaway order his adjutant to move forward and try to discover the forces of the enemy but not to advance too far for fear he might be surprised and made a Prisoner. The report of the Adjutant being favorable the troops were ordered to move forward. this last mentioned service was rendered in the month of December 1776 and made a tour of three weeks and at the expiration of which he was verbally dismissed by his commanding officer. That this last mentioned tour was served about the time in Dec 1776 when Col. Ford commanded a body of a New Jersey militia stationed in and about Morristown in the State of New Jersey. That the above three periods of service were performed as a private in Col. Hathaway’s battalion of Morris County militia of the State of New Jersey.
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and made a tour of two months as a private soldier in the said Battalion of New Jersey Militia and at the expiration of this said tour he was verbally discharged by his Commanding officer. 

And furthermore this applicant says he was again out in the service of the United States in the year 1778 as a substitute for one Uriah Sutton. That he Joined a company of militia of the Morris County Militia under the Command of Capt. Carter of the State of New Jersey. That he served as a substitute for two months, [illegible] the months of August and September in the year of our Lord 1778 for said Uriah Sutton in a corps of New Jersey militia principally commanded by Col. Seely. that this last detailed service was performed at a place called Mount Kimble and at Springfield in the State of New Jersey where the militia was stationed and this applicant was at the expiration of each tour of duty verbally discharged from the service.  

And this applicant again declares that he was out in the service of the United States as a volunteer for two months longer. Served at one time a period of one month and one week. these two periods of duty were served in and about Amboy, and in and about Hackensack and at Morristown and
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at Mount Kimble under Capt Martin and Col dickenson and Generals Wane and Hurd. These two tours lastly above specified were served in the summer and fall of the year 1780 as a volunteer in a battalion of New Jersey Militia of the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey. that one Palfrey was the principal paymaster of the troops at that time.    And this applicant says that he verily believes he was in the service of the United States at various periods as much as one year and upwards but is now unable to specify the exact period of his service as he was so often called out and volunteered and after short intervals again dismissed but that he has absolutely served as much as Eight months and twenty four days in the militia as a private soldier in the field and Garrison as above specified. And this applicant further says that he is unable to say at present whether for a certainty he can prove the above services by any living witnesses other than those here after mentioned on by the annexed depositions and that he was not at any time engaged while in the service in any civil pursuit but was wholly devoted to the service as above mentioned vis. the service of the United States.
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And this applicant further declares that the reason why he has not previous to the about time made application for a pension is, that his circumstances in life previous and subsequent to the act of June 7th 1832 did not require him to apply for a pension, but owning to existing circumstances and the solicitation of his friends he now comes forward at the “eleventh hour” to claim the bounty of that country for whose liberties he exposed his life and endured so many toils to secure and maintain. And he would further state that he was under an impression that the regulations of the War Department in regard to proceedings for a pension were so rigid and the difficulties attending the establishment of his revolutionary claims so intricate that he was hitherto deterred from the application until the events of the above mentioned facts. 
Nathaniel Doty

Interrogatories
1st Where and in what year were you born. 
Ans. I was born in the year 1758 in the County of Somerset and the State of New Jersey
2nd Have You any record of your age and if so where is it.
Ans. I have a record of my age in my Bible at home.
3rd where were you living when called into the service. where have you lived since the revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans. When I was called into the service I lived near Morristown in the County of Morris
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and State of New Jersey and since the revolutionary was I lived in Morris county in the State of New Jersey and I now live in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania where I have lived for the space of forty six years past.

4.th. How were you called into the service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom.
Ans. I was drafted, I volunteered and I served as a substitute for the period above state.

5th. State the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services.

Ans. General Dickinson, Col Seely, Col Martin. Col Handerson, General Wine, Major Shavers, Col. Vana Angels (or Angel’s) Regiment of Easter Troops, which he thinks was posted about Springfield N. Jersey at the time this applicant served there. Col. Faoo, General La Fayette, Gen Maxwell and his troops. These are as near as he now recollects. Some of the regular officers and troops which served with him and Col Hathaway, who when he was a Capt received a musket ball from the enemy which passed through one of his ears. Capt. Carter, Leiut Geo. Buckhoven, Ensign Adolph Bullman, orderly Sargeant David Tarball, General Hurd or Heard were some of his militia officers who served with him.
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I was drafted out, volunteered and served as a substitute in the Morris County Militia in the State of New Jersey during the first part of my service I was frequently called on from alarms given from the report of a cannon stationed on the Short Hills in Morris County New Jersey. I was marched to Elizabethtown and Springfield where I was stationed with other troops to repel the british and hold them in check. I served also at and in the vicinity of Amboy. Hackensack, Mount Kimble and Morristown New Jersey in the Camp and field as above stated as a private soldier. I think it was in the fall of 1776 that Springfield was burnt. That I and my companions slept in the meeting House or were quartered there two nights before it was consumed by the enemy. That at this time on John Conklin, Moses Hanthow and Daniel Mills were this applicant’s mess mates. That in December 1776 this was detached with a number of the Morris County militia to guard the roads and ferries leading over the Delaware and to assist in bringing back to camp such soldiers as might be found without a military discharge or furlough. and also to assist in taking up horse thieves and the disaffected that during this time a number of tories were [illegible] in the jail at Morristown and that some of them made their escape from the Jail. that on of these tories a notorious wicked man algo got away and ran off crying “the prisoners are running off”. that this applicant’s uncle caught the fellow, tripped him up and had him conveyed back to Jail.

This applicant further says in answer to the 5th interrogatory, that his col. Seeley was esteemed. One of the best officers in New Jersey. He was then Head Col. that Hathaway was Lieut Col,
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that the men under Command of these officers loved feared and obeyed them. That Genl. Wine with whom he also served lived in a place called Suckey Sunny planes. That this Genl. officer would on the report of the Cannon [illegible] out side thro. the County on horseback called on the farmers to quit their ploughs turn out and fight the red coats. That this applicant was well acquainted with Col. Seeley whose hearing had been impaired by being so much exposed to the discharge of the cannons. This applicant also assisted the troops in removing horses out of the way of deserters from the army, that he himself at one time in the night time removed hour horses out of their way. This service was performed about the time that a large number of Pennsylvania [illegible] had left their camps on account of discontentment and the horses in their wasy were taken by them to expedite their flight. This applicant also served with Genl. Green in the fall of 1777. With Genl. Forrman also in the same fall and year after the summer that Genl. Washington was encamped with his army at Middlebrook in New Jersey, and when he marched to Elizabeth town and was post about there he served with under Genl. Dickenson and also other Corps of militia. That he was told one Joseph Lewis was acting at that time as Qr.master at Morristown.

6th Question. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. 
Ans. I never received a written discharge but was at the expiration of each period of my service verbally discharged from
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the service.
7th Question. Did you ever receive a commission and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it
Ans. I never did receive a commission but I served the periods above mentioned as a private soldier making a Revolutionary service of Eight Months and twenty four days as above specified.

8th Question. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for truth and veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 

Ans. I would refer to William Trimble, Robert Patterson, James Long, Ephraim A Robison Esq, Thomas Shannon Esq., Major Moorehead, Col [illegible], Alexander H. McCurdy, Reverend Thomas Davis, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church  S.L. Carpenter Esqr. [illegible] M Laird, Andrew Robertson, Benjamin Chambers, Daniel Kostler, D.H. Marchand Esqr. 
Nathaniel Doty
Sworn and subscribed
in open County Nov. 22 1842
David Fullwood [illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County 
I Jane Buckhoven being duly sworn depose and say that I am now Severty nine years of age that I resided in Morris County in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. that I was well acquainted with Nathaniel Doty the applicant for a pension. that I remember well of seeing him repeatedly when he was called out to enter the service and when he returned from the same. That he was called out to serve a number of tours in the service of the United States. That he belonged to a Corps of embodied militia of Morris County in the State of New Jersey and I think the Col.’s name was Hathaway and his Capt. name was Carter, and his Lieut’s name was George Buckhoven. When he was out on some of his tours I used to hear the cannon roar and great fear and anxiety for the safety and life of said Doty was felt and expressed by his mother and friends at home. But for what length of time he served in all his periods of duty I do not know for he was out in the service during the war a great number of times. I am positive however that he served as much as six months at least in all his Revolutionary services.
Sworn and subscribed before me Thomas Shannon Justice of the peace in and for Westmoreland County and State of Pennsylvania this 14th day of October 1842
Thomas Hannon      Jane Buckhoven

I do Certify that the above named [illegible] Jane Buckhoven who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition is a person on whose deposition entire Confidence can be placed and that she is a person of truth and veracity and entitled to credit. Given under my hand and seal this 14th day of October 1842.
Thomas Hannon
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I Jonathan Doty [illegible] being now Eighty Six years of age and being duly sworn do make the following deposition and certificate. that Nathaniel Doty the applicant for a pension lived during the Revolutionary War in Morris County in the State of New Jersey that I also lived myself in Somerset County adjoining the County of Morris in said state. Taht I was myself also in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the State of New Jersey. that I have been well acquainted with him during said war and ever since. that I  saw adn conversed with the said Nathaniel while he was in the said services as he has stated in his above declarationThat I saw him repeatedly during the whole war. Thtat the said applicant belonged to the Embodied militia of the said County of Morris and that he was out in the service for a number of periods during the Revolutionary War and that he was called out to serve by the Constituted authorities of the said county and state in which he then lived And I further state that the said Nathaniel Doty served as he has declared in the New Jersey militia under the Command of Col. Seely, General Dickinson, General Gree, and General Wind or Wine, Capt. Carter, Col. Hathaway and other officers stated by him in his declaration. That I was out with him in the militia service of said state and was stationed to serve at nearly all the places at which the said Nathaniel served as specified by him in his aforesaid narration. That I know and am positive that he served as a soldier of the Morris County Militia and stated aforesaid under and with said officers and troops specified and detailed by him the said Nathaniel Doty. But how long he continued I cannot now positively deposed but according to the best of my memory Judgement and recollection of his various periods of service I do not hesitate to depose and certify and
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declare that he has served as much as. Eight months during his above various periods of service as the said Nathaniel Doty has above stated. 
Sworn and subscribed before me Thomas Shannon a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Westmoreland and state of Pennsylvania this 14th day of October 1842

Thomas Shannon            Jonathan Doty his mark X

I do certify that the above named Jonathan Doty [illegible] who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition and statement is a credible person and that his said deposition and statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand and seal this 14th day of October AD. 1842.
Thomas Shannon
Seal
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Relinquishment

I Nathaniel Doty the applicant for a pension do hereby relinquich every calim wahtever to a pension or annuity except the present and I declare that my nae is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any state.

Sworn and subscribed before me that 22. Nov. AD 1842
David Fullwood [illegible]
Nathaniel Doty

We, Thomas Davis a clergyman residing in the County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania and Alexander Hall Curdy residing in the same county and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Doty [struck area stating ‘who has subscribed and sworn to the declaration’]that we believe him to be Eighty four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn and subscribed before me Thomas Shannon a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Wetmoreland and State of Pennsylvania this 13th day of October. 1842
Thomas Shannon
Thomas Davis
Alexander H. Curdy
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State of Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County 
I Nathaniel Doty being duly sworn depose and say that I am unable without great trouble and expense to procure the personal attendance at our next Court of Common Pleas for said County the aforesaid Clergyman Thomas Davis and Alexander H. McCurdy who have sworn to and subscribed to my above mentioned traditionary certificate. and also the attendance of Jane Buckhoven who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition of my Revolutionary services. [illegible] said Jane Buckhoven being confined to her house sworn and subscribed before Mr Thomas Shannon a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania- this 18th day of October 1842
Thomas Shannon. seal Nathaniel Doty
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
On this 2nd day of June AD. 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the [illegible] of affadavit Jane Doty a resident of D[illegible] [illegible] in the county of Westmoreland State of Pennsylvania aged Eighty two years who being first sworn according to law doth in her [illegible][illegible][illegible] following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 1836. That she is the widow of Nathaniel Doty who was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution from the State of Pennsylvania and entitled to receive by pension twenty six dollars, sixty six cents a year. She further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel Doty on the twenty eighth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one. That her husband the aforementioned Nathaniel Doty died on the 24th day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appears to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.
John Moorhead            Jane Doty
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Westmoreland County
I John Moorhead one of the Judges of the Court of Common  in aforesaid county do hereby certify that the forgoing declaration of Jane Doty was made before me at her residence, the applicant by reason of being unfortunately not being able to attend before the Court

In [illegible] whereof I leave [illegible] and I [illegible] 2 day of [illegible] 1849
John Moorhead
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Power of attorney for examining Revolutionary papers 
Case of Mary McCurdy daughter of Nathaniel Doty
Pennsylvania
Jane Doty
[illegible] 36


Sep 15 1852
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Ex. F E Hassler
Present
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Power of Attorney
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners &c.*
State of Pennsylvania
County of Westmoreland
Be it known that before me William Barnet Justice of the peace in and for the County personally appeared Mary McCurdy aged 54 years who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Nathaniel Doty who was a Revolutionary † pensioner in the State of Pennsylvania and that he died on the twenty fourth day of March 1848 and that my mother named Jane Doty died on the nineteenth day of June 1850 and that they were married on the    day of January in the year 1791 and that they were residents of Derry Tp Pennsylvania and that they resided there fifty years and that she resides in Derry Township and that furthermore she by these presents, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of Substitution F. E. Hassler of Washington city D.C. as her true and lawful attorney for her and in her name and stead to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive, from the U.S. Government and State officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due her as the daughter of Nathaniel Doty who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law she may be entitled.
In witness whereof, she has on this twenty fifth day of August 1852, hereunto signed her name, and affixed her seal.  Mary McCurdy 
Seal
Witness: J W Blackburn
Witness:  Nathaniel McCurdy
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify that March McCurdy has always by the community been known as the daughter of Nathaniel Doty.
Dated this twenty fifth day of August 1852.
William Barnett J.P.  
of
County of Westmoreland } to wit:
I hereby certify that William Barnett before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signative above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of County Court this 30th day of August one thousand eight hundred and 52
A Graham Clerk.
*If a Widow applies, state "the date of marriage and date of death of her husband"
†State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner and amount of pension.
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
ILL

Helen M. Wright
161 Harrison Avenue
Jersey City, New Jersey.

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 3032, that Nathaniel Doty was born in 1758 in Somerset County, New Jersey.

While residing near Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, he enlisted and served as a private in the New Jersey troops as follows:  from some time in September, 1776, three tours of five weeks, three weeks and three weeks, respectively, under Captain Carter and
Colonel Hathaway;  from some time in June, 1777, about seven weeks under Captain Carter; October and November, 1777, under Colonel
Seeley; from some time in June, 1778, two weeks under Colonel Hathaway; August and September, 1778, under Captain Carter; and in the summer and fall of 1780, two tours of one month each under Captain Martin and Colonel Dickinson. Soldier stated also that "during the
winters of the war of the Revolution" he was engaged as wagon master, transporting stores, length of this service not shown.

After the war, he lived in Morris County, New Jersey, from which place he moved to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 23, 1842, while a resident of Derry Township, Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania, where he had resided for forty-six years.

He died March 24, 1843.

Soldier married January 28, 1791, Jane, (maiden name not stated) who was a resident of Derry Township, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-two years in 1849. She died June 13, 1880.

Soldier and his wife had several children but the
name
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of only one is given, Mary McCurdy, who was a resident of Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, aged fifty-four years in 18[illegible].  One Nathan McCurdy was living at this time, no relationship shown.

One Gillis Doty was a resident of Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, in 1842, no relationship shown.

Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

Jonathan Doty - Rev. Sol. 86 yrs. in 1842
lived in Somerset Co. N. J. Same service- relationship not stated.
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[left side]
REJECTED
3032
P.O. ______________
___ Jane Doty _______
Service: ___widow of Nathaniel ____

Enlisted: _____________, 18   .
Discharged: ____________, 18    .

Application filed: ___________, 18    .

[right side]
Aug 8 96 sold
P[illegible] to
P.M. McCurdy Esq
Harmony Grove Md.
TNB
One Priv 40144
1930- July 21 - History to Helen
M. Wright. I.L.L.
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State of Pennsylvania,
Westmoreland County } SS-
Nathaniel Doty the applicant for a pension being duly sworn deposes and says that he is unable to procure the attendance of the above named
Thomas Davis named clergyman and Alexander H. McCurdy who have subscribed and sworn to the above traditionary certificate at the next Court of Common Pleas of said County without great trouble and expense, and particularly the attendance of Jane Buckhoven who is so ill and
infirm as not to be able to leave the house

Sworn & subscribed before me Thomas Shannon a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Westmorland & State of Pennsylvania
this 13th day of October A.D. 1842

Thomas Shannon    {seal}    Nathaniel Doty
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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter and
after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Davis who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the vicinity of the said applicant in the County of Westmoreland
and State of Pennsylvania and that Alexander H
McCurdy who has also signed the same is a
resident in the same County and State of Pennsylvania and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit, and it further appears to the Court that it is not in the power of the said applicant without too much inconvenience and expense to produce in Court the Reverend Thomas Davis who has subscribed the above traditionary certificate of the said Alexander H. McCurdy who has also signed the same. In testimony whereof we have subscribed our names the day & year aforesaid
Thomas White
John Moorhead } Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County Pa

James Bell
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No. 35.430
Nathaniel Doty's
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Pension Papers
Act of 7th June 1832
Pennsylvania
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Eight months and
twenty four days service
aged 84 years
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Admd
8 mo pri
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26.66
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Gillis Doty
Blairsville
Pa.
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County ⎬SS.
I David Fullwood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Doty for a pension and I the said Prothonotary do further certify that
Thomas Shannon Esquire who has subscribed the preceding certificates is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania.  That the said Thomas Shannon Esquire is duly commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit
as well in Courts of Justice as out of the same and that the signatures and seal thereto affixed are his genuine signatures

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this 22d day
of November 1842.
David Fullwood Prot.
[seal affixed at left]
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State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County⎬SS.  Personally appeared
before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Nathaniel Doty the applicant for a pension who being duly sworn deposes and says, that in his declaration
for a pension already transmitted to the War Department he thinks he has forgotten to state certain short periods of service in the said declaration. He therefore on further reflection remembers that he was sent out with a detachment from Col. Hathaway's Battalion some time in the month of December 1776 and stationed along and about the road leading from Brunswick to the City of Philadelphia over the Delaware for the purpose of stopping and bringing back to Camp any soldiers that had deserted or were found without a pass signed by a Commissioned officer.  That he served on this tour as a guard to apprehend and return to Camp every deserter he could find as above
mentioned. That a non commissioned officer commanded this deponent & the others with him. That he was engaged in this tour for one week. That in the summer of 1777 he served as a substitute for Henry Foster for one month
to wit the month of June 1777- That he served this said month at Middlebrook as a private in Capt Carter's Company of Col. Hathaway's Battalion N. J. Militia. that he was a part of this tour encamped near the River Raritan- that in part of this tour he served under or with Col. Morgan and Genl Sullivan's troops. He recollects of marching out about this time with
the troops out to Quibbletown towards Amboy that at the expiration thereof he was dismissed at Middlebrook where Genl Washington was encamped-  He further states that he served three weeks more in the same company & Regiment at Morristown until General Washington's army marched from
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there to a place called the Clove. This was in the month of July 1777 - He also recollects of one other small tour of two weeks served under Capt. Holman of Col Hathaway's Regt- that he served this period in June 1778 and was out on the ['Morristown' crossed out] Monmouth road and at a place called English Town near said road that during a few days in this town he served under Genl Dickenson, watching the motions of the enemy.  That immediately after the Battle of Monmouth he was discharged & went home-

He further deposes that the two months service specified in his said declaration which he served at Elizabeth town in October and Nov. 1777 were served as tours of one month each in immediate succession, altho not so stated in his
declaration- and this was the fact in regard to the other specified tours of two months - that generally one third of the battalion was called out for a month at a time & for shorter periods, but sometimes we continued longer than the draughts for which we were called out-  He trusts the Department will on the above
explanation see why he termed his said tours for two months instead of one. He hopes that his revolutionary claims will not be rejected for an error committed in specifying his tours in the manner described. There were other short
periods of duty performed by this Deponent not comprised in his declaration of which he cannot now remember. The place he marched to & others also to defend were so greatly harrassed
by the invasion of the enemy and he was so frequently drawn from home for the purpose of guarding the eastern frontier that he has forgotten some of his periods of service as well as many other terrific incidents of that calamitous war - This deponent would further state that he is now far advanced to the narrow precinct of the grave. That he is very infirm and nearly
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deprived of his sight and in very needy circumstances that if he fails to obtain his pension he must suffer the deprivations of poverty, old age and bodily infirmities increasing them - that he hopes the Department will not deprive him of his pension on account of the erroneous way of describing
his services. He would further depose that that during the winters of the war of the Revolution he was engaged as a waggon master in transporting military stores from Mt. Kimble to Morristown N.J. and so back again and he also transported military stores, ammunition & to various other Garrisons. He was engaged in transporting, the baggage of the French Army over the North river Kings ferry to New Port Rhode Island.  He must close the deposition by deposing and saying that by reason of old
age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades: for eleven months and six days I served as a private, and for such service I would claim a pension-  But if the War Department thinks proper to deduct three months from the eight months and twenty four days as estimated by this Deponent in his declaration, the remainder would be seven months and twenty nine days and for such service he claims a pension.
Nathaniel Doty

Sworn and Subscribed
22 day of December 1842
Thomas Boyle {seal}
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State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County ⎬SS.  I Robert Craig Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby Certify that Thomas Boyle Esquire before whom the aforesaid affidavit appears to have been
made was at that time and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and Qualified as such by legal authority and that the signature "Thomas Boyle" thereto subscribed is the signature and seal of the said Thomas Boyle Esquire, and that all his official acts as well in the Courts of Justice as elsewhere are entitled to full faith and credit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said 
Court at Indiana the 27th day of
December A.D. 1842
R. Craig. Prothonotary
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Deposition of Robt.
Jellison Sr. for
Nathaniel Doty
a Revolutionary Soldier
Eight Months
service.
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Deposition of Robert
Jellison for Nathaniel
Doty, a Revolutionary
Soldier, Eight months
service proven.
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County ⎬ SS.
Personally appeared before me the subscribed
a Justice of the peace in and for said County Robert Jellison Sr. who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is intimately
acquainted with Nathaniel Doty, a Revolutionary soldier and as this deponent is informed an applicant for his pension. That he resided in the neighborhood of said Nathaniel Doty in Morris County, New Jersey during the Revolutionary war and is positive from his own personal knowledge and observation that said Nathaniel Doty was out from home and served with the Morris County militia of the State of New Jersey in the service of the United States for eight or nine times or tours of one month each generally to his certain knowledge that he saw him go off from home a great number of times to Elizabethtown Springfield, Hackensack, Amboy, Morristown, Middlebrook, Mt. Kimble, New Ark & out towards Monmouth Court house and on the Delaware roads & other places on militia duty. He also served in addition to his militia tours for as much as ten months in transporting military stores, provisions & munitions of war belonging to the United States from and to various stations in the State of New Jersey, & also the baggage of the French army (our allies) on their march from New Jersey towards Rhode Island. That he served a number of tours with Capt Carter, Capt Bullious, Lieut Buckhooven, militia officers of Morris County N. J. & also
with other militia officers of the same County at present not recollected & also with & under Genl Hurd, Col. Seely, Colonel Dayton, Colonel Hathaway, New Jersey officers commanding the
militia aforesaid & continentals - that he saw him go out on these various tours & return home. that he served in the fall of 1776 two tours & others in the same fall amounting to two months- and he is also positive that he was out & served in the fall of 1777 for two tours of one month each and in 1778 in the summer of said year he served out two tours of one month each and in the summer & fall of 1780 two other tours of one month each, and he served before this period
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if this deponent mistakes not one month in June 1777 at Middlebrook as a substitute and he was out at Morristown same summer for two or three weeks, two weeks at least -he this deponent is positive that he served the above tours because he was intimately acquainted with him & saw him go off & return & saw the officers aforesaid at various times during the said war and knows that he served in his various tours as much as "Eight months" at least as a militiaman aforesaid & exclusive of his service as a waggon man as above, That this deponent is now in his eighty fourth year - and further saith not.   Sworn to and subscribed on this 15th day of April AD 1843
Robert Jellison 
Thomas Shannon

State of Pennsylvania,
Westmorland County } SS. I do certify that the above named Robert Jellison Sr. who has sworn to & subscribed the above statement & deposition is a man of truth and veracity and
entitled to full faith and confidence. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal on this 15th day of April 1843-
Thomas Shannon
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State of Pennsylvania, Westmorland County SS: I David Fullwood, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that Thomas Shannon Esquire who has signed the preceding deposition and before
whom the aforesaid proceedings were enacted or executed is an acting Justice of the peace in & for the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania, duly commissioned and qualified, and that to all his official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as out of the same.  And that the signatures and seals thereto affixed are
his genuine signature and seals

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and
caused the seal of the said
Court of Common Pleas to be
affixed at Greensburgh on
this Eighth day of May 1843
David Fullwood Prot
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[number is cut off]
A different case

No 7.633
Jane Doty,
Pa

Let J. J. Barclay, June 15/50
JB And, June 11/50
Let Hon Job Mann 26th June 1850
to H. E. Hassler 5 May 53
Hon. A. Drum 21 Decr 1854
S.M Caddon Aug 4. 1857
July 4, 1836
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Nathl Doty   N.J. militia
Oct. & Sept. 76.   Capt Carter as much as 5 weeks in two months- called out by signal gun-
                                                          1     5
Nov 76     "   do. Springfield-            3 weeks
                                                                       21
Dec 76          Carter                               1
Oct Nov. 77- Bunnell Elizabethtown   2 mo-
Au & Sept 78.  Carter.  Seely - Springfield. 
                                                                2                                                        
                                     2 times out        2

                                                 8 mo. 24 estimated
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To what time has the pension of
Nathaniel Doty who was inscribed
on the Pennsylvania Roll under the
act of June 7, 1832, at the
rate of $26.66 cts per paid?
W. On


Job [illegible]
[stamp] GREENSBURGH Pa. [date illegible]

Jane Doty
[illegible]24 7.0808
Act 32

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
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May 8
1843

Gillis Doty
Blairsville
O. P.S.
Pa

FREE

[stamp:] BLAIRSVILLE Pa. MAY 9

Hon. James M. Porter
Secy. of
War
Washington
City D.C.

Revolutionary Claims
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Pension Office
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Blairsville May 8th 1843

Dear Sir,

Permit us to recommend to your favorable
consideration the following named Revolutionary soldiers, viz. Jonathan Doty senr. & Nathaniel Doty.  These men applied for their pensions in the fall of 1842. Since then their cases have been suspended by the Commissioner of Pensions for the want (it
would seem) of additional evidence which
we have procured & transmitted & which we
presume will be amply sufficient to produce
a favorable action.  The applicants are men who
stand high for probity & veracity & they have a powerful circle of friends who are anxious to have them enjoy the benefit of the Act of Congress passed for their relief. From the tenor of Mr Edwards' Communication of last January 2d it appears that the claim of Jonathan Doty sent to the extent of six months might possibly be admitted, and from his letter of the 10th December 1842, he states that the aggregate amount of Nathaniel Doty's tours is less than six months. Since then however we have procured & transmitted testimony which we have no doubt will remove the objection and result in his favor.  We beg however you will have an interview with Mr Edwards on the subject of their claims
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and allow them to be placed on the Pension Roll
of the United States. This will be an act of Justice to them and satisfy their numerous friends who will be ready to reciprocate the kindness in the approaching contest for the Chief Magistrate.  We would also call your attention to two other applicants whose papers have been presented to the Commr. some considerable time since. Their names are Jacob Libengood & Simon Ruffener" born in Northampton County Pa. who served with the Northampton Co. ma[cut off]. The Commr. has informed us that a very full and satisfactory detail of Eight months service is set forth in their declarations, but requires more satisfactory evidence of their age & the reason for delaying to apply sooner- all which we have
transmitted & presume there will be no hesitation why they should not also be inscribed on the Pension Roll.  These are the only Revolutionary Soldiers that will probably ever present another claim, for they will all very soon be numbered with the dead. Any favors consistent with your station that you can render these venerable heroes and defenders of our once opposed nation will be gratefully appreciated.-

I am Dear Sir very truly &
respectfully your friend &c-
Gillis Doty

Hon. James A. Porter
Secy of War
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Deposition of E.P. Emerson
M.D. & the Certificate of sundry
Citizens in favor of Nathaniel
Doty & Jonathan Doty
Soldiers of the Revolution
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State of Pennsylvania
['Indiana' crossed out] Westmoreland
County. } SS.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Doctr. Edward P. Emerson, who being duly sworn makes the following Statement.  That he is well acquainted with Nathaniel Doty, the applicant for a pension. That he has known him for twenty five years and upwards. That he has
always during his acquaintance with him
sustained a fair and irreproachable character
being a man of integrity, truth and veracity; 
on whose statement in relation to his militia and other services in the Revolutionary War entire confidence may be placed.   That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides and among his acquaintances generally to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he this deponent fully concurs in that
opinion.  That this Deponent has been his Family physician for twenty five years past and has often conversed with him on the subject of his Revolutionary services.  That the said Nathaniel Doty has been a man in public business for a number of years and has ever to this deponent's knowledge, discharged his public duties with ability and fidelity-  That he has been a man in affluent circumstances, but
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owing to the pressure of the times and to many unforeseen events, he is now considered as standing in need of and deserving the benefit of the Act passed for the relief of the Revolutionary soldier. That he this deponent has often heard the said Doty declare while he was above the reach of want that he was unwilling to be termed a Pensioner. But now since he is nearly deprived of his eye sight by old age and
especially by a Cataract on both his eye balls
which incapacitate him for his usual business, and also in addition to the loss of his eye sight, his wife has been unable for a long time past, from debility and old age to attend to her ordinary business, and that in consequence of his and her bodily infirmities, the said applicant now needs his pension, which he has so often declined to apply for on account of a manly & independent spirit, and of his being in a situation that did not require the benefit of the Act of Congress.  And further he would state
that although there may be discrepancies in the narration of his services rendered more than sixty years ago, still he truly believes that his narration in substance and the depositions made consequent thereon can safely be relied upon.  That such is the unavoidable defect of memory
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resulting from the lapse of time, that simple
Justice, it appears to this deponent, imperatively requires a great relaxation in the case of the said Nathaniel Doty, whose veracity
during his long acquaintance with him was never called in question.

Sworn and subscribed on this 29th day of
April A.D. 1843
Thos Shannson J P
Edw. P. Emerson

State of Pennsylvania
['Indiana' crossed out] Westmoreland County } SS:
And I the said Justice before whom the above statement has been sworn to by the said Doctr. 
E.P. Emerson and signed by him, do hereby certify that he is a Gentleman of the first respectability eminent in his profession and worthy of the fullest confidence.

In testimony whereof I the said Justice in and
for the said County do sign my name and affix my seal at ['Blairsville' crossed out] Blairstown
in said County on this 29th day of April A.D. 1843
Thos Shannon {SS}
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County} SS.
I David Fullwood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby certify that Thomas Shannon Esquire who has signed the preceding certificate and statement is an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County duly Commissioned
and qualified and that to all his official acts full faith and credit are and ought to be given. That the signature "Thomas Shannon" and his seals thereunto affixed are his genuine signature and
Seals.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Seal of
the said Court to be affixed on this third day of May in the year of our Lord 1843.
David Fullwood Prot.
[seal affixed at left]
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To the Hon. James Madison Porter, Secretary of War and the Hon. James L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions.

The undersigned Citizens of Westmoreland and Indiana Counties in the State of Pennsylvania, beg leave to represent that Doctr. E. P. Emerson who has been duly qualified to the aforesaid Statement in behalf of Nathaniel Doty, a Revolutionary soldier, is a Gentleman of respectability and high standing in the Community, on whose said statement the fullest confidence can be placed. And we further state for the information of the War Department that the said Nathaniel Doty and also Jonathan Doty both applicants for their pensions are men sustaining fair and irreproachable characters, and worthy of the fullest credit and confidence. The latter, we are informed is an Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church of eminent piety & good standing. That there does not appear to
exist a doubt in the minds of their numerous
friends in their respective Counties, but that
they are legally entitled to the provision made
by the act of Congress of June 7th 1832
in every sense of the same. Their reasons for
applying so late are undoubtedly owing to the
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facts set forth in their applications already
transmitted to your Department. We would
therefore respectfully urge your attention
to their claims founded on their unimpeachable
testimony and solicit that their names may
be placed on the Pension Roll of the
United States-
May 1843
Thos Shannon
R Coulter
A.G. Marchand
J. McMully
Daniel H. Barr

In the Character & standing of Mr.'s Shannon, Coulter, Marchand, McNulty & Barr, the Hon. James M. Porter & J.L. Edwards are respectfully
referred to Governor Porter.
Gillis Doty
May 9th 1843
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Nov 23/52
Relative to lcase of
Jane Doty decd
wid: of Nathaniel
Revolutionary
Pension
Act. 29 Feby 1848


Cald


filed 23 Nov 1852
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Washington D.C
23d November 1852

Hon. J.E. Heath
Commr of Pensions

Sir:

By virtue of a power of attorney & for and in behalf of the heirs of Nathaniel and Jane Doty claimants for Revolutionary pension, I respectfully request that a reexamination of said claim may be made and the widow receive the benefits of the act of 29 Feby 1848. Her case having been suspended for the following reason - "married after service; may claim under act of Feb 29" 1848". See list of suspended cases State of Penna. printed by order of the Senate, 1 sess. present Congress.

Yours very Respectfully
F.E. Hassler
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Greensburgh Westmoreland Co.
Pennsylvania
Feby 21 1850 -

Hon J.L. Edward
Comm of Pensions

Sir,

I herewith enclose the application of Jane Doty the widow of Nathaniel Doty formerly a Pensioner of the U.S.

Also the certificate of the Pension of Nathaniel Doty.

As Mrs. Doty is in humble circumstances it is very desirable that her case should be acted on as soon as possible.

Very Respectfully
Your obt sert.
Th. J. Barclay
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Apollo Armstrong Count Pa. June 29 34
M Hendrixson Esqr 
After examination of the late acts of assembly
I find that there has been an act that grants to widows & orphant [orphaned]children of the war of the Revolution back pay for the widow
from the death of her husband up to the time of her death & also 160 achors [acres] of Land to those that has not Received any
N. B.

Nathaniel Doty served in the war of the
Revolutionary Service for the term of five
years there fore there is 2 years & 9 months
pay coming to the children of the widow that
is still living & also 160 of Land I have not as yet found the number of his Regiment but you can find his name on the check Rolls in you office he was a teamster for some time on commisary and after a regular. the Balance of the time I can prove his Servisses [Services] &c

Yours truly
James S. McCaddon

ple[a]se Let here [hear] from 
you By Return Mailwhat can be found
on your record and you shall be
Recompenced for you trouble
for the same

he got his pention [pension] while he
Lived

Apollo Armstrong
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Washington City
June 24 1850

Hon. J. L. Edward Commissioner of Pensions,

Dr Sir,

Thos. J. Barclay Esq. of Greensburg writes me that the papers of Mr Doty have been on file in your office more than a year, for a Pension as widow of Revolutionary Soldier - on further examination I find the papers were sent to you by Mr Barday, and not by me, but on the 8 Mar I recd. a letter from him requesting me to have the case attended to.

Please have have an examination made
and if presd disposed of.

I am respectfully
Yours &c
Job Mann
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County ss.
Before the Subscribed a Justice of the Peace in the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Stephen Pound who on his solemn oath says that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Doty  who was formerly a private soldier in the Revolutionary war   That the said Nathaniel Doty was a Pensioner of the United States entitled to receive $26.66. per annum under Pension, Dated 1 June 1843. That the said Nathaniel Doty resided for many years
previous to his death in Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania and died in the said County and
State on the 24 March 1848. That the said
Nathaniel left a Widow Jane Doty and children all of whom are above the age of sixteen years.
Deponent further states that he was not present at the marriage nor does he know the year the said Nathaniel and Jane were married but that they have lived and cohabited together as
man and wife from the year one thousand seven
hundred and ninety six until the date of said
Nathaniel's death. Deponent further says that
when he first became acquainted with the said
Nathaniel & Jane in 1796, they had been married for some years as they had children aged about four or five years-  Deponent further says that the said Jane Doty has not married since the death of her said husband Nathaniel and further that he the Deponent is
disinterested.
Stephen Pound

Sworn to & subscribed this 13th day
of November AD 1849 before me
John Bigham J.P.
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Westmoreland County ss.
I John Bigham one of the Justices of the Peace
in the County aforesaid do hereby certify that
Stephen Pound the Deponent who hath made
the within affidavit is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity.   In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal this 13th day of November A.D. 1849
John Bigham J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County SS.
Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County and state aforesaid personally appeared Robert Jellison who on his
solemn oath says that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Doty who was formerly a private soldier in the Revolutionary war that the said Nathaniel Doty was a pentioner [pensioner] of the United States entitled to receive $26.66 per annum Dated 1st June 1843 that the said Nathaniel Doty resided for many year previous to his death in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania and Died in the said County on the 26th March 1848 that the said Nathaniel Doty left a Widow Jane Doty and children all of whom are above the age of sixteen years Deponent further saith that he was not present at the Marriage nor does he know the year the said Nathaniel and Jane Were Married but that they have lived and cohabited together as man and wife from the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety five until the date of the said Nathaniel's Death. Deponent further saith when he just became acquainted with the said Nathaniel and Jane in 1795 they had been married for years and they had children aged
three or four years Deponent further saith the said Jane Doty has not married since the death of her husband and that he the Deponent is disinterested
Robert Jellison

Sworn and subscribed this 15th
day of February AD 18580 before us
William Barnett

Westmoreland County SS
of William Barnett one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid do certify that Robert Fallison the Deponent who made the above affidavit is a man of good reputation for truth and and varacity [veracity] as Witness my hand and seal this 15th Day of February AD 1850
William Barnett {seal}
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State of Pensylvania
Westmoreland County SS
Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally came James Long who upon his solemn oath says that he was acquainted with Nathaniel Doty who was reported to be  formerly a private soldier in the Revolutionary war that the said Nathaniel Doty was a pentioner [pensioner] of the United States
entitled to receive $26.66 per annum under pention [pension] act 1 June 1845 that the said Nathaniel Doty resided for many years previous to his death in Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania and died in the said County on the 24th March 1848 that the said Nathaniel Doty left a widow Jane Doty and children all of whom are above the age of sixteen years Deponent further saith that he was not present at the Marriage of nor he know the year the said Nathaniel and Jane were married but they have lived and cohabited together as man and wife for fifty years at least until the date of said
Nathaniels Death Deponent further saith when he first became acquainted with the said Nathaniel and Jane they had been married for some years and children two or three Deponent further saith the said Jane Doty has not married since the death of her husband and that he the deponent is disinterested
James Long

Sworn and subscribed before
me February 15th 1850
William Barnett J P

Westmoreland County ss
Do hereby certify that James Long the deponent who made the above affidavit is a man of good reputation for truth and as witness my hand and seal this 15th day of February AD 1850
William Barnett {seal}
Justice of the peace
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No 7.633
Jane Doty, Wid of Nathaniel
Pa
3032
July 4, 1836
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State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County ss
I Andrew Graham Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid Do hereby certify that the Hon. John Moorhead before whom the foregoing affidavit was made & who has signed his name thereunto was at the time of so doing one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid and that William Barnett and John Bigham Esquire before whom the other affidavits were made & who have thereunto subscribed their names were at the time of so doing acting Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office at Greensburgh this 21 February AD 1850 [signed] A Graham Proth
[seal affixed to the left]
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City C. D.
Revolutionary claim of Nathaniel Doty
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Blairsville, December 28th 1848
Dear Sir,  Inclosed is an amendment to Nathaniel Doty's declaration.  In taking down the periods of his tours, it appears there was an error made in stating that the tours were for two months instead of one month at a time.  It seems there cannot be a doubt but that he served to the extent as stated. It would be a sad misfortune to the old man to have his claims rejected for the above deficiency. His amendment it is hoped will account for the discrepancy with the law and be satisfactory to  Your Department. His hearing memory and sight are much impaired on account of his advanced age and hence he was perhaps unable to describe his tours exactly in the manner in which they transpired. The same deficiency applies to Jonathan Doty Senr.'s narration. He also stated some few of his tours in the same manner not with a view however of imposing on the Department, but supposing the statement to have been proper at the time. They are both men of sterling integrity and would not I am confident designedly state an untruth for the Universe. 
Yours very Respectfully [signed] Gillis Doty, Blairsville P.O. Indiana County Penna.
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commr. Pens.
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[oval stamp in upper left] REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS SECTION BUREAU OF PENSIONS JUN 12 1930
161 HARRISON AVENUE JERSEY CITY, N. J.
June 11, 1930
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Sirs:  I have applied for membership in the D. A. R. and find it is necessary, if possible, for me to know the names of the widow and children of two Revolutionary men by the same name in order that I may know which one I am related to.  They are as follows:
Nathaniel Doty [last name underlined] - Widow rejected 3032 - from Morris County, N. J.
Nathaniel Doty - Invalid 2176 - whose service was performed in Middlesex County.
I should like to have as much identifying information as it is possible for you to give me, such as residences, place and date of death, wife's full maiden name, children, etc.
Thanking you for the earliest possible response, I am Sincerely yours,  [signed] Helen M. Wright.
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Harmony Grove, Maryland, November 30, 1896
Hon. William Lochren, Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Dep't., Washington.
Dear Sir: - I am trying to secure all possible information about my ancestors who was in the Revolutionary War. [underlined]  You have already furnished me with very valuable data about my great-grandfathers Alexander McCurdy and Nathaniel Doty, for which I am very thankful.
Please send me such information as you may have of the following:
1.  Captain William McCurdy, [name underlined] who was Lieutenant, Captain-Lieutenant, and Captain in the Revolution from
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Pennsylvania. He seems to have been continued a Captain in the Army until he resigned and was honorably discharged in 1791. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati.  It is said that he died in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1822.  His widow Mary died in May, 1823, in Lancaster Co., Pa.
2.  Captain John Pound, Sr., [name underlined] who was "wagonmaster; Captain and Conductor of Team Brigade" from New Jersey.
3.  Jonathan Pound, John Pound, and Cornelius Pound [names underlined] (Brothers probably, one of whom was my ancestor), from Somerset County, New Jersey.
4.  Jonathan Doughty [name underlined] (or Doty) who was a teamster in "Captain Hinman's Team Brigade" from New Jersey. Also Jonathan Doty [name underlined] from New Jersey.
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5.  Lieutenant Thomas Colyer [name underlined] (or Collier) who was in the Continental Army, from New Jersey.
6.  John Colyer, Thomas Colyer, and Moses Colyer [names underlined] (Brothers probably, one of whom was my ancestor), from Somerset County, New Jersey.
7.  George Bockoven [name underlined] (or Bockover, or Bockhover, or Backoven), from New Jersey, probably from Morris County.
8.  Jacob Backoven [name underlined] (or Bockhover, etc.), from New Jersey.
9.  Joseph Bullman [name underlined], from New Jersey or Pennsylvania.
Any information you may give about any of these men will be much appreciated.
Thanking you in advance, I am Sincerely yours, [signed] Irwin P. McCurdy Honorary Pastor of the Southwestern Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.