Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 728, John Defrance, Penn.

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Service: Penn.
Defrance John 
or
Defrance, Martha

Number:
W.728
B.b.Wt.26624-160-58

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Service PENN
Defrance, John
Defrance, Martha
W.728
B.L. Wt. 26624-10-55

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2246
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
Martha DeFrance
Widow of John DeFrance
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private,
Penn Line
Inscribed on the at the rate of 
20 Dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on 
the 3d February, 1853 
Certificate of Pension issued the
4th day of October 1853
and sent to
James Donahoo
Crofs Creek Village
Washington C, Pa
Rcorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 103. Vol H
M - 55- 56282

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(illegible)
(Illegible)
Martha DeFrance widow of
John DeFrance (illegible)
Pension
No 2246
B (illegible)
Penn  53  No 224
Ad: 160 acres   16/56

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32,042
Declaration of John Defrance
Rev Soldier
Pennsylvania
(illegible) 117 (illegible)
$20

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress from the 7th of June 1832. with
Pensylvania, Washington County
On this 23 day of September A.D. 1834 . Personally appeared in Orphan 
Court of the age the Court of Common Pleas in and for
said County now sitting. John DeFrance an a resident of Crow Creek township in said County, and seventy three years, who being duly sworn, according to
law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit from the 7th of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the 
following named officer, 
and serve as herein state
In the month of June 1776. I was draft by Capt Robert Craig,
in his company of militia, in Col Alexander Lowry's regiment marched
with the regiment, from Lancaster County, Pensylvania, the place of my residence
directly of the City of Philadelphia, thence Trenton, New Jersey, thence
on to Amboy, where we remain for some time, for further orders, as the
brtish were then on Staten Island & two of the vesels are now in sight.
We remain here on duty & watch & finally marched to Bergen, & command
of the field officer, we then marched homeward and when we arrived at home
by the first of August 1776.
In the month of November 1776.
I volunteered with a large number of others, under Captain Abraham Scott
of Lancaster County, in Major Cooks regiment, & march on to Phildelphia
where we were employed in making a fort at the upper end of the
City, in which employment we continued till the latter end of December, 
when by the order of our officers, we came over to Burlington, thence we
marched to Bordentown, where we remain till the first of January ┃
night though few of the British superior forces, we marched to Trenton,
where we staid on the fields till evening, as our army were then retreating, and 
the british were commanding. Then, we built fires along the creek at night, we marched a circuitous route to  Princeton, and in the morning, on that day, we took part in the memoral battle
at that place, in which we killed & took about five hundred of the ┃
enemy. After this we marched & Plackemine hill, where we stopped & got ┃
some provisions, thence we went to Morristown, New Jersey, where the army
look up their winter quarters, our company left came on to Phildelphia
at which place is (illegible) with the honors of war, General Mercer a brave

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and meritorious
office, who fell in the Battle of Princeton. Whether there
was a mock funeral or not,  I do not know. We were home in Lancaster
county, about the last of January 1777. having been about two month
in the month of July in the year 1779. I think it best of my
recollection, I was draft by Lieutenant Benjamin Mills of Lancaster County, and 
marched up the Susquehanna River to Freelands fort in Northumberton
County Pensylvania, where we were employed on reconnecting & defending
the frontier from the aggression of the indians, as they had committed
great deprovation, & murders among the citizens & had burnt the fort.
we were then employed in the most agregious duty, & returned home
by the
first part of December, having been absent three months. This 
in the whole of my service, having fully served six months. and the dates, I may,  be mistaken, from my age + failure of memory, but I have stated
them as correctly as I frankly can. 

I have no knowlege of any person
now in existence, who has a personal knowledge of my services. I was born in
Franklin County Pennsylvania in the year 1761, I have no record of my age, 
, but this I state from the best of my information. When I entered the
service I live in Lancaster county, Pensylvania, & removed & Washington
County Pensylvania, in the year 1796, where I have remained ever since I
was drafted and & volenteered. I am not able to state the names of any more
officers, than what I have already done, nor the names of the continental
militia regiments, as my memory has greatly faild. I never recd any
written discharge. I am well known by Ebeneser Bow C. James
huch lay. James Stevenson & others, who can testify to my character
for veracity & who believe I was a soldier of the revolution. The only clergy
man, on whom I could rely to such for me, is now  (illegible) the Rev
Joseph Patterson. I do hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a
Pension or annuity, except the present & declare that my name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any State
Sworn & Subscrib in Open Court
the day & year aforesaid
John Dorrance
T. Officer Pro              John DeFrance

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We James Leech & Ebenezer Boice residents of Smith township Washington County, Penn. hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John DeFrance, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be, about 73 years aged; that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  Ebenezer Boice   James Leech
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year [referenced] T. Officer Pro.
And the said Court, do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after [putting] the [interrogators] presented 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 James Leech and Ebenezer Boice, who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents of Smith Township, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, both acting Justices of the Peace, in said county, that they are both credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I Thomas Officer, Clerk of the Court, of Common Pleas, in and for aforesaid County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of John DeFrance for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of Office, this 23 day of September [1834?]
Thomas Officer Pro

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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County
On this 19th day of July 1853
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the (P)eace in and for the (C)ounty of Washington aforesaid, Martha De France[,] a resident of Cross Creek Village, in the (C)ounty of Washington and State of Pennsylvania, aged seventy eight years and four months, who first being sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd [of] February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of John De France who was a volunteer of the revolution, but she does not remember the name of the company or regiment he belonged to, nor the name of the officers that command them, she can well remember him talking of being in the (B)attles of Trenton and Princeton (and, that he was a United States pensioner at the time of his decease) he volunteered in Lancaster (C)ounty Pa about the (F)all of 1776 and that she heard him say that he was then eighteen years old, his pension was paid him in Pittsburgh in the (S)tate of Pennsylvania[.] She further declares that she was married to the said John DeFrance in the Spring of 1815[,] that her said husband died sometime in the month of June 1838, that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated and she further declar[e]s that she is now a widow, and that she is unable to go to the court to make this declaration, as by a fall in the year 1844 she had her hip bone fractured, and has not walked since, only by the use of crotches [crutches] she hobbles through the house, she can neither ride on horse back or in a carriage. Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year above written[.]       Martha Defance [DeFrance]
James Donehoo         Seal     
Justice of the Peace
Witnesses
James Lyle
John Stevenson
State of Pennsylvania
County of Washington
I[,] James Donehoo[,] a Justice of the (P)eace in and for the (C)ounty of Washington aforesaid, and empowered by the law of the State of Pennsylvania 
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to administer oaths, do certify that the foregoing deposition of Martha De France, [a] resident of Cross Creek Village in Washington (C)ounty Pa was taken before me on the 19th day of July 1853, that she is the widow of John De France, who was a volunteer in the Pennsylvania line, in the revolutionary war and who at the time of his decease received a (p)ension from the United States, as the pension rolls will show, I have been well acquainted with the said Martha De France for upwards of thirty years, and knew her and her deceased husband John De France when they lived together husband and wife, and that I was the Executor of the said John De France's (w)ill, that in said (w)ill he recognized her as his (w)ife, that he died in June 1838 and that I made out the order after his decease, and forwarded to the War Department for the (f)raction of (p)ension due him at his decease, and that the said Martha De France has been a cripple ever since 1844 as in the winter of said year she fell and injured her hip so that she has not walked[.] Since, she with difficulty gets through the house on crotches [crutches], she is very heavy and cannot ride on horse back, nor [is it] safe [for her to ride] in a carriage as the least (j)ostle gives her great pain, she has to lay all the time on one side, and therefore she [can]not by any means attend at court to make her declaration, as the distance from where she lives to the court house is sixteen miles[.] Given under my hand and seal at Cross Creek Village the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three[.]
James Donehoo               Seal
Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania
Washington County
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the (P)eace in and for said (C)ounty of Washington Pa James Lyle and John Stevenson citizens of Smith Township, Washington (C)ounty, State of Pennsylvania, who being first duly sworn deposed as follows, to wit, that they are well acquainted with Martha De France the foregoing named applicant for a pension, that they have been well acquainted with her deceased husband John DeFrance, that they knew John De France to be a United States pensioner, and that the said Martha DeFrance and John De France aforesaid lived and cohabited together, and said they were married, that they were married about the close of the 
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last war between the (U)nited States and (G)reat Britain, and they farther [further] say, they were acquainted with them before they were married and that the said John Defrance died about fifteen years ago, and she is the identical [identified?] widow of the aforesaid John De France deceased, and further we do certify that we saw her write her name, subscribing it to the foregoing application for [a] United States pension, and that she[,] the said Martha De France[,] is a cripple, and that we believe she could not have went to court to make her declaration[.]
James Lyle
John Stevenson
Sworn and subscribed before me at my office in Cross Creek Village in the (C)ounty of Washington aforesaid the 19th day of July, 1853[.]
James Donehoo          Seal
Justice of the (P)eace
Washington County of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
I[,] James Donehoo[,] a Justice of the (P)eace in and for the said (C)ounty of Washington in the State of Pennsylvania, who by the laws of said (C)ommonwealth empowered to administer oaths, do say that James Lyle and John Stevenson, the (w)itnesses named in the above deposition are citizens of Smith Township[,] Washington (C)ounty Pa that I know them well, that they were present and saw the aforesaid Martha De France sign her name to the foregoing application for a pension, that the signature was made this day, and that they are both men of truth and varacity [veracity] and worthy of belief[.] Given under my hand and seal this 19th day of July A(D) 1853[.]
James Donehoo         Seal
Justice of the (P)eace

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the of the [ ? ] of Washington this 25th day of July AD 1859
James Brown
[ ? ]

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State of Pennsylvania
County of Washington

On this twenty second day of
March A.D. One thousand Eight
hundred and fifty five personally
appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Martha DeFrance aged about Eighty one
years, a resident of (not legible)
Creek Village in Washington County
and State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to
law declares that she is the Widow of John DeFrance deceased
who was a private in the Revolutionary War, but that she
does not remember the name of his Captain, the Company
or the Regiment he belonged to as all the evidence in the
case are on file in the office of the Secretary of War at
Washington City D.C. as in the life time of said John DeFrance he was entered on the pension list at the rate of twenty
dollars per annum during his life, in the evidence at Washington City she thinks it will appear that
he was in the Battle of Princeton and Trenton, that he continued in actual service during the time of his enlistment
and was honorably discharged at the expiration
of said enlisted term,
She further states that she was
married to the said John DeFrance in the Borrough of Washington in Washington County Pa in the month of May
AD (not legible) by Esquire Wilson a Justice of the peace, and
that her name before her said marriage was Martha Ramsey
that her said husband died in (not legible) Creek Village above named ┃
on the 12th day of July AD 1838, and that she is now his widow
She further States that she is entered on the pension list
at the rate of twenty dollars per annum,
by certificate No
2246 and as follows, I certify that in conformity with the
2nd Section of the act of February 3rd 1853, Martha DeFrance
widow of John DeFrance who was a private in the Revolution war
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of twenty

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dollars per annum commencing on the 3rd of February 1853
and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which
case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage
Given under my hand at the Department of the Interior
Examined and countersigned this 4th day of Octr 1855
J B Waldo   
Commissioner of Pensions
Robert McClelland
Secretary of the Interior
She further states that she is the identical person (Martha DeFrance) named in the foregoing certificate, and that she is now
a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the
act approved March 3rd 1855
Marsha DeFrance
We William Donahoo and William Baker residents of Cross Creek Township Washington County Pa upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowleged
by Martha DeFrance in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the
identical person she represents herself to be, and the said William Donahoo further states that the said Martha DeFrance's
deceased husband the aforementioned John DeFrance died
some time in July 1838 as he made the coffin for said John DeFrance and hauled him to his grave and that she is his widow as I knew them cohabit together

William Donahoo
William Baker

I James Keys a resident of Smith Township,
Washington County in the State of Pennsylvania upon my solemn
oath declare that I was present when the above named
Martha DeFrance and John DeFrance deceased, were married that the ceremony was performed Esqr Wilson then a Justice of the peace of the Borrough of Washington in Washington
County Pa and that it was in the Spring of 1816

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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County
I William S Moore Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for each county do hereby certify that James Donehoo Esq, before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made was at the time and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for sid county, duly commissioned and qualified, that the signature attached to the same purporting to be his is genuine and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Washington the 5th day of April AD1855.
Wm S Moore Prothy

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Revolutionary war records section 3-535
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington DC 
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of John DeFrance, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his Widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
June 1776
Length of service August 1, 1776
Rank Pvt
Captain Robert Craig Colonel Alexander Lowrey
State Penna

Date Nov 1776 Length of Service 2 mos
Captain Abraham Scott Colonel Alexander Lowrey

Date July 1779 Lentgth of service 2 mos
Captain Lt. Benjamin Mills at Freeleys Ford

Battles engaged in, Trenton and Princeton
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lancaster Penna
Date of application for pension Sept 23, 1834 His cl. was ab
Residence at date of application, Crow Creek Twp Washington Co Penn
Age at date of application, born 1761 in Franklin Co Penna Died July 20 1838 [corrected from July 12, 1838]
Soldier was in spring of 1815 on May 1816, Martha Ramsey She was al pension on an application ex July 19, 1853, while a resident of Cross Creek Village, Washington County Penna agen 78 yrs.
Respectfully, Cinnussuiber'
*date accepted by auditor

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Penn.   Defrance, John    W728

             Defrance, Martha BLWt 26624-169-58

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Charles City Iowa 4-19-15
Bureau of Pension Washington DC
Dear Commissioner: Below you will find the following soldiers that I wish a war record of if any.
John Defrance born in Frankiln Co Pa 1761
enlisted from Lancaster Co Pa in 1776 served to 1783. Capt's Robert Cragg, Abram Scott, Mills, Colonel Alexander Lowery and Jacob Cook. Died 1838 or 40. Widow Martha Ramsey Washington Co Pa.

Neg:
James Defrance born in Franklin Co Pa 1763 Captain Robert McKee Co of Militia 3rd Batt Lancaster Co Pa. Colonel Alexander Lowery 
Died about 1840 Widow Elizabeth Arthurs Crawford or Mercer Co PA

Neg: John Defrance born 1793 Dauphin or Lancaster Co Pa. Enlisted from Crawford or Mercer Co Pa 17th Hall Regt Capt James Cochran. Died 1869. Mercer Co Pa. Wife Mary Daily died 1866 Mercer Co Pa

Neg: Hawkins Boone Defrance born 1777 Dauphin Co Pa. Enlisted from Lycoming Co Pa Regt or officers not known. DIed 1862 Lycoming Co Pa Wife Nancy Duffy

FC DeFrance Charles City Iowa

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March 19, 1915, 1711 Oak Hill Ave Youngstown Oh
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
your dept was referred to me in connection with obtaining information of one John Henry Defrance who served n the Rev War enlisted Dec 7, 1779. Private in Capt. Nicholas van Rensaleer Co 1st NY Regt commanded by Co Goose van Schaick. any information regarding this name Defrance will be gratefully received
S. Blance DeFrance
Date stamp: Mar 22, 1915 US Pension Office

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1915 Mch 31 Hist. to S. Blanche De France. V.L.M.
1915 Apr. 28 Hist. to F.C. S[illegible] France. V.L.M.

Revy. Widow, &c.
No. 728 Martha De France
Widow
John De France, P[illegible] Rev. W[illegible]

Act: Feb. 3. 1853
[In]dex: Vol. A, Page 174

Arrangement of 1870

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Treasury Department Second Comptrollers Office 
August 21, 1840
Sir: Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitles "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the widow of John Defrance a Pensioner on the roll of the Pittsburg, PA Agency at the rate of twenty dollars and zero cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this department, from the 4th of Sept 1837 to the 20th July 1838, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris

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Boynton

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The application of Martha De France widow of John De France a revolutionary soldier and pensioner
I think the evidence made at the time he obtained his pension is a record of service. he was certainly in both the Battle of Princeton and Trenton, I had inquiry made at the Auditor General's Office, but the rolls of the Lancaster County Volunteers of 1776 was burned at the time the other public papers at Harrisburg Pa was burned
his name was recorded in said office, as James Heys who was a member of the Pa Legislature at the time John De France made his application for a pension saw it in said office, and says he would be qualified of it - if there is an applicant at all entitled to county land she certainly is, and she greatly needs it, as she is very poor, and has not walked since 1840 having fallen, and broke her hip bone, if you can consitstantly at all give her, her county land do, I am doing all her writing in the case gratis
her No is 56,282)

yours respectfully
James Donehoo

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C.C Village
Oct 5 Pa
56282
Oct [ ? ]
Martha De France
[ ? ]
J Minot Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City- D.C.

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Cross Creek Village, Washington County, State of Pennsylvania
July 26th A.D. 1853
L.P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensionsions [Pensions]
In Sir I herewith enclose to you, the application [of] Martha De France, (Widow of John De France[,] a revolutionary (p)ensioner) asking a pension agreeable to the act of Congress of February 3rd 1853. I do say she is not able by any means to go to court to make her declaration, neither does [do] any of the Judges [that] reside in this part of the (C)ounty [of Washington], and she is very poor, and cannot get any of the judges to [go] to her. I think I have made her case as plane [plain] as the act requires under her situation, if you would be so good as to give her a pension, please make it payable at Pittsburgh[,] Pa[.]
I would like to know if the children of a (s)oldier of the War of 1812, that died before his children had ar[r]ived at the age of majority, but that they had ar[r]ived to majority before Septr [September] 28th 1850, could obtain Wa [or Pa?] County land their (f)ather would [have] been entitled to had he been living[.]
Yours most respectfully[,]
James Donehoo

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Brief in the case of Martha D France Widow of John
Washington County and State of Pennsylvania
act 3 Feby. 1853
Claim (" original, or for increase)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of June, 1832.
Parole  proof of Marriage, by the evidence of Jas. Lyle & Jno
Stevenson of Smith Township, Washington Co. Pa.
(If for increase.)

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Jas: Donechoo. Esqr
Cross Creek Village
Name and residence of Agent Washington Co.
Pa
Examining Clerk
Boynton

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Cross Creek Village, Washington County Pennsylva
Octr 4th 1855
I, Minot Commissioner
of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Sir
Your letter of Sept
24th 1855 is now before me, which did much surprise me in
regard to the claim of Martha DeFrance Widow of John DeFrance
a Soldier of the revolution - the name of John De France was on the
roll in the office of the Secretary of War at Washington City D.C. as a
Soldier of the revolution, he received a pension from the United States
and his widow, the said Martha De France, on the 4th day of Oct
1853 was put upon the pension list at the rate of $20 per annum

I herewith enclose to a copy of her Pension certificate
Department of the Interior, Widows Pension, I certify
that in conformity with the second section of the act of February 3rd 1853
Martha De France, Widow of John De France, who was a private in the Revolutionary
War, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of $20 per annum
commencing on the 3rd of Febry 1853, and continuing for life, unless she
should again marry in which the Pension is not payable after the time
of such Marriage
Waldo
Pensions
No 2, 246
Given under my
R M Clelland
Lee
of Interior
A further evidence that the name of John De France a soldier &c.
is on the rolls at Washington City D.C. in 1852 Martha De France aforesaid
applied to the State of Pennsylvania for a pension for services of her
husband John De France in Pennsylvania line as a Soldier of the revolution
I wrote to John L Davison M.C. from this district to procure me the roll
of John De Francis Services as aforesaid he did so obtain from the office
a copy of his service which forwarded to Harrisburg Pa and he did
on said evidence receive a State pension
During the life time of John De France I have heard him
repeatedly state his service in the Revolutionary War, the perils he saw
he volunteered, at Lancaster Pa his native county, I think for three

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months, was only 18 years old at the time that he fought in
both the
Battles of Princetown & Trenton, that in one of the Battles
the man at his right hand was shot dead, and that one of his most
intimate comrades was killed within a few yards of him
Those that fought with the or served with him in
said service are all dead or not known by the applicant, there is
many heard him tell of being in those battles & I think his name
is some where on the roll in the office in 1852, 1853 it was, it may
have got mislaid
The applicant is a very aged woman, and has
┃ nothing to support but the two small pensions one $20 and the $10,
besides She is a cripple having her hip bone broke in 1840 and has not
walked since Nor never will,
if his statements would be sufficient
evidence of his service it could be obtained, he told me frequently of
his Honorable discharge, and of him after said service at Philadelphia
talking with Genl Washington about it
It you would by letter let me know what can be done for her as soon as possable it will be a great favor ┃
She is truly in want

Yours respectfully
James Donahoe
Direct to James Donahoo Esq
Cross Creek Village, Washington
County Penn

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Creek Hill Washington County
State of Pennsylvania Novr 16th 1855
of
Minot
Commissioner
of Pensions
Sir, in reference to the
case of Martha De France Widow of John De France a
revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner, I am some what
astonished, John De France was put upon the pension
list at a very early date, he received it until the time of
death, and in 1850 Martha De France his widow was pensioned, John De France was pensioned not without sufficient evidence, that evidence either is or ought to be on file
in the office of the Secretary of War, he without any doubt
was in both the Battles of Princeton and Trenton, as in
his life time I have heard him tell it, and his comerade
was shot at his side, I also heard James Duff a revolution
ary soldier say that he saw him one of those Battles and
spoke of his solderly behavour, but he as well as all his
soldier comrades are gone from Earth that we know of, and the only
evidence that I now know of aught to be on file in the Interior
I have stated the case to John C Dawson former M. C. from our
District and he is astonised that her certificate
for land has
not been forwarded, if there is an applicant entitled to a land
she certainly is, she is a cripple and has not walked any since
1840 and is very poor and has nothing to sustain her but her
small pension-- if you possably can consistently give her a
Warrant do - It is said that I need not expect to get any Warrants
for any person unless employ a Lawyer to attend to
it at Washington City
I also sent you aplication for Bounty
land for Catherine Paschal Widow of David Paschal You receited me for it No 56, 281 I have not yet got any further answer from
you on it. I also sent you the following applications
Edward Shepley No 98, 970 Robert McConnell No 98.969 Matthew
Russell No 98, 968, Joseph Caldwell 98, William Marshall

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Penn
Defrance, John W. 728
Defrance, Martha B.L.Wt. 28824-160-53

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Postal Seal
3 Nov Washington, PA

Pension Cert correction
J. Defrance
for correction
FREE
Pention Cert Correction
and return to 
Hon Mr McK
Nov 18, 1834
Comm
the
Washington
of Pensions
J.L. Edwards Esq

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Dr Sir
Washington Novr 3d 1834
A mistake is made in the name of the pentioner in the enclosed certificate. His name is John Defrance not Districe. Please have the correction made and the certificate returned as soon as possible is. 
Yours very
reply
J.L. Edwards Esqr
of
The M
S. M Kennan

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No 2757
App of Martha
DeFrance
window of John
DeFrance
Washington or
Penna
Pitts
27645
27645
Ad. 3d Feb 1853
$20 per an -----
Com - Feb, 3rd 1853
Rev

James Donehoo
Cross Creek Village
Washington Co.
Penna

Department of the Interior

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(ilegible) Pa
56282
Martha DeFrance
Case of D. Paschel 56281
War of 1812
other cases and (illegible)
Fred
Minot Commissioner
of Pensions, Washington
City D.C.