Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2215, Hugh Forbes, Penn.

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                                 Number
Penn  Forbes Hugh S. 22/5. 

Carded

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4854
Pittsburgh Agency
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Hugh Forbes
of_________________________ in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the Company commanded 
by Captain Miller of the Ry command
by Col McGay in the Penn
line for 3 years Private $80.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburg Agency
at the rate of 80 Dollars _______[Redacted] Cents [Redacted] per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 11831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of January
1833 and first to Heir T.M.J.
Kuman, Home Refer
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Arrears the 4th of Sept. 1832 ___$120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 _____40.00

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$160.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by (Vinal) Luce Clerk 
Book D Vol 2 Page 172

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Date of death not in AB

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Declaration of 
Hugh [Redacted] Forbes

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
Pennsylvania, Washington County
On this 1st day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court , before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid.  Hugh Forbes, a resident of Hopewell township, Washington County, aged seventy five years and about seven months, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States  in the year 1776.  With Capt Samuel Miller & Matthew Jack, as first lieutenant & served in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental line.  Under the following named officers.
  At Hannahtown, Pennsylvania, I enlisted as above stated and marched to [illegible], where the whole 8th regiment was assembled under the command of Col Enos McCoy.  George Wilson, Lieutenant Col. and Richard Butler a Major.  In the month of December of the same year we marched under the command of the above named officers to Philadelphia then to Trenton N. Jersey.  Then to Quibbletown, in N. Jersey where we were placed on the lines between the British and the American Army.  After our arrival there we lost our Colonel and we were then placed under the command of Col. D. [illegible] and Lieutenant Colonel Bayard.  We remained on the lines here from February 1777, til May 1777,  when we were drafted out or detached into Col. Daniel Morgans Rifle Corps under Capt. Suerinjen.  We continued on in this state frequently skirmishing with the enemy until they left the Jerseys, which was in June 1777.  I continued under Capt Suerinjen and Lieutenant Basil Prater and John Harden as 2nd Lieutenant, and about the first of August we marched under the  command of Col Morgan, Col Butler, and Major Morrin to Kings Ferry in N. York and then to Albany to meet Gen. Burgoyne.    We went to Stillwater and joined Genl Gates Army who was in company with Genl Arnold.  While at Stillwater we had two small battles with the British, the first on the 19th of September and the 2nd on the 7th of October, 1777.  In the first, our Capt Suerinjen was taken by the British, in the last battle, Genl

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Arnold was wounded close by my side and I assisted in carrying him off the field.  After this we marched under Gates and Morgan to Saratoga where we took the British Army with Genl Burgoyne on the 17th of October, 1777.  After this we returned to Pa. Under the command of Col Morgan, Col. Butler and Major Morriss when the British had the possession of Philadelphia City.  We had a battle with the English at Lodge Hill and lost our brave Major Morriss.  We continued on the lines till January 1778 and then took winter quarters. In June 1778 we joined our old regiment and marched and counter marched along the frontiers of Pa. And finally came to Pittsburgh, Pa in late 1778 and then proceeded to the mouth of the Big Beaver and built Fort Mackintosh.  In the fall of 1778 we marched under the command of Col Bradhew, Col Bayard and major Vernon to Fort Lawrence and built a stockade fort.  In the winter I returned with Capt Carnahan to Fort Mackintosh and remained there till the next March.  I was then detached and form an part of the “fatigue [illegible]” who built a block house and afterwards proceeded up the [illegible] river and were engaged there in making canoes for Col. Bradhew to proceed up the 
Allegheny river.  In August 1779, I was discharged by Col. Bayard at Pittsburgh.  The discharge I lost some years since. 
I hereby relinquish any claim whatever and a pension or an annuity except the present and I declare that my name is not on a pension roll of an agency or state.
XHugh ForbesX
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year fore said
Thomas Officer, Prothy
In the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and sworn as he states.
I Thomas Officer, Clerk of the Court in and for the County of Washington and State of Pennsylvania.  Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hugh Forbes of Hopewell township and County aforesaid for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 1st day of October, 1832.
Thomas Officer, Prothy

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No. 13508
Hugh Forbes

Susp. 15 Dec. 1832

Obj. 14 & for proof of service

Hon’ble T. M. S. McKennan
House of Reps

Adm. 3 yrs
$ 80.

P 158

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BRIEF in the case of Hugh Forbes
of Washington Co. In the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7th June, 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or Judge? Common Pleas
2. If before a Judge does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 75 years
4. State his service, as directed in the format annexed.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
In 1776 Summer | Years, Months, Days | As a     | Gen.
                            | 3         "             "      | Private | Capt. Miller, Col. M Coy 
                             |                                 |             |Penn a line Cont. (Jnoops)

5. In what battles was he engaged? Stillwater, Saratoga, Edge Hill
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hannah's town, PA
7 . Is his statement supported by living witness, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by 
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses accompanying a (illegible)
to Congression in 1825, North certified to be credible
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Papers not properly attached
*Certifying that the Forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned. 
D. Brown Examining Clerk

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August 1 , 1932

BA-J/AWT
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Hugh Forbes
S. 2215

Mrs. Jeanie B Forbes
Fairmont
Nebraska

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to Hugh Forbes, a Revolutionary War pensioner, residing in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the pension claim, S. 2215, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Hugh Forbes.

He enlisted at Hannastown, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1775 and served in Captain Samuel Miller's Eighth Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battles of Brunswick and Piscataway, after which he was transferred to Captain Swearingen's company in Colonel Daniel Morgan's Rifle Corps., was in several skirmishes, both battles of Stillwater and surrender of Burgoyne, Battle of Edge Hill and in June 1778, rejoined his former regiment, marched to the mouth of the Big Beaver and assisted in building Fort McIntosh and Laurene, remained during the winter at Fort McIntosh and in March of 1779 proceeded up the river to Pittsburgh, where he was discharged in August, 1779.

He was out on many other expeditions and was in Colonel Crwford's Campaign to Sandusky in 1782

He was captain of militia in 1791 and served a month or two on the Ohio River at the (Illegible) of Yellow Creek.

He was allowed pension on his application exe-

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outed October 1, 1832, then a resident of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was aged "seventy-five years and about seven months".

In 1825 one William Forbes was a resident of Finley Township, Pennsylvania, no relationship to the soldier, Hugh Forbes, shown.

It is not stated whether the soldier was ever married.

Very truly yours

A.D.Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator

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Fairmont Nebraska
July 11th 1932

Bureau of Pensions
Wash. D. C.
Dear Sirs.
Please send me the service record & what you have concerning Hugh Forbes Wash. Co Pa Penshioner Pr P. Le.
Jan. 29th 1833_76.

Stamped envelope enclosed for your convenience.

Yours Respectfully
Jeanie B . Forbes
Fairmont Nebr.

Lower left of page, stamped
Received July 13 1932
Receipt secure
Pension Files [illegible] Division

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Rev War 
2215
INVALID
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File No. 2215
Hugh Forbes
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 128,
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Forbes (illegible)

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Pennsylvania
Washington County
Personally before me one of the Commonwealth    Justices of the peace in and for the County of Washington came Daniel Hamilton a credible witness who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that Hugh Forbes was an [illegible] in Capt Thos Rankins company in the year 1782 and that said Forbes was in the engagement at Upper Sandusky at the time Coln. Crawford was defeated by the British and the Indians and further this deponant saith not
Daniel Hamilton

Sworn and subscribed
Before me May 15th 1832
Thos McKeever

Th. McKeever Esqr. Is a Justice of the Peace  and the above to his signature
Th M. L. McKennan
Jan 28, 1833

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Washington County Pen

Personally appears before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County the Rev Thomas Allison who upon oath saith that to his certain knowledge, Hugh Forbes of Hopewell township Washington County Pen. Acted in the capacity of a captain of militia during the [illegible] of one or two months on the western bank of the Ohio River at the mouth of Yellow Creek and that the said service was performed in the year 1791.  Further saith not
Tho Allison
Sworn and subscribed 
Before me June 28. 1832
Jas McFadden

Jas McFadden Esqr is a Justice of the Peace and also is his signature.  The Rev Th. Allison who signs the above affidavit is a most [illgible] Clergy more of this sincere body.
Th. M. L. McKennan
July 28, 1833

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Rev John Dewar
Certification for Hugh Forbes

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I hereby certify that I have been intimately acquainted with Hugh Forbes more than thirty years;  during which time he has been a regular church member.  I have always understood that he was a regular enlisted soldier and had served three years in the continental Army.  Such is also the opinion of all his neighbors, as far as know and which opinion has never been called in question by any one.  He has [illegible] among the oldest men in my congregation n the border of eighty years old.
Given at upper Buffalo Church Jan 21st 1833.
By John Anderson pastor of said church 

I know Dr Anderson who signed the above certificate when he is [illegible] for his piety and worth.  He is now very infirm.
Th M S McKennan
Jan 28, 1833

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I do certify that Robt Quail Sgr who has given the written certificate as an9 acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Washington
Pennsylvania

Th. M. S. McKennan
Jan 29, 1833

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Pennsylvania Washington County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for Washington County.  Jacob Breding, I am being sworn according to law sayeth that in the year 1776 he entered in the United States services i the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment Commanded by Cols McCoy and Wilson and served three years and one months in said Regiment during which time of services he was acquainted with a certain Hugh Forbes who belongs to the said Regiment and served three years in said regiment and during the said time of services this deponent sayeth that said Hugh Forbes behaved himself in every way like a soldier and to the best of hiss knowledge the said Forbes was honorably discharged.   Sworn and subscribed
End of handwritten letter

[printed form]


The Comonwealth of Pennsylvania
Washington County,
I William Sample, prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, for said county, Do hereby Certify, that Robert Quail Esquire before whom the annexed deposition of Jacob Breding appears to have been taken was at the time, and still is, a justice of the peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned, 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 seal of the said Court, at Washington, the 31st day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.

William Sample, Prothonotary.

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Pennsylvania Washington County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for Washington County, Jacob Breding, and being sworn according to law sayeth that in the year 1776 he entered in the United States services in the 8th Regiment commanded by Cols McCoy and Wilson and served three years and one months in said Regiment during which time of service he was acquainted with a certain Hugh Forbes who belonged to the said Regiment and served three years in said Regiment and during the said time of services this deponent sayeth that the said Hugh Forbes behaved himself in every way like a soldier and to the best of his knowledge he said Forbes was honorably discharged .
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 22nd of September 1825.
X [his mark] Jacob Breding
Robert Quail

I do certify that Jacob Breding the above deponant was a man of good character and that his statement is entitled to full faith and credit. 
Breding is now no more, given under my hand this 7th day of January 1833
Robert Quail

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Green County Pennsylvania
Seal
Personly came before me the Subscriber
Justice of the peace in and for said County
Abijah McClain of the said County of Green
and being duly sworn as the law direct
Sayeth in the year 1776 in August this
deponent enlisted in the united states
services in the eight Pennsylvania Regiment
Commanded by Conols McCoy and Wilson and
lived three years in said Regment and this
deponent further sayeth that a Certain Hugh Forbisis the present applicant who was Intested in month and year above mentioned who belonged to the same Regiment as I myself belonged to and during the said term of Services this deponent sayeth that the said Hugh Forbes
Behaved himself in every way much like a Solder
and was true to his Country and he believes
he was honorably discharged from his services

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 28 day
of September 1825
Abijah McClain
Seal
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Thomas Burson

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Penn Greene County ss
William T. Hays Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Greene aforesaid do
certify that Thomas Burson Esq
before whom the annexed Detcoretion
was taken is a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County of Greene aforesaid duly
Commissioned and qualified and as such
full faith and cast are due to his official acts
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and the seal of said Court at Haynesburgh this 8th day of Sept. 1825
.
W. T. hays Prothn

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I am well acquainted with Abijah McClain
within named witness & I certify that he is
highly respectable & perfectly credible

A. T
21 Dec 1832

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ALLEGHENY COUNTY,
State of Pennsylvania.
I, William Mcaudly Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of
Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by these presents certify, that John
Stevenson Esquire, before
whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand
writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such affidavit
and now is
an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the
said county, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose
acts, as such, due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given, throughout
the United States and elsewhere.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Court, at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this
25 day of October.
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty five
and of the
reignty and independence of the United States of America, the fiftieth
Attest
Wm MCaudly

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Allegheny County ss
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
personally came William Forbes and David Wherey of Findley Township before John Stevenson one of the Jusstices of the peace
in and for sd County and on their solemn oath saith that Hugh Forbes of Washington County enlisted in the service of the United States in the beginning of August in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy six under Cols Mcoy and Wilson in the eight Pennsylvania Regiment
and served faithfully three years and was
Honourably discharged to the best of their knowledge.

William Forbes
David Wherry

Sworn and Subscribed before me this fifteenth day of September 1825
John Stevenson

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Washington County 
State of Penna

Personally appeared before me the undersigned
one of the Justices of the Peace is and for said
County John Gillet and David Wherry both of
whome are respectable persons and credable
Witnesses and being duly sworn according to Law doth say that they, are one as to well acquainted with William Farley and David Wherry the witness named deponent at the time they signed the within depositions that they are persons of good moral character and are entitled
to full credibility as Witness and that their statement as made within is entitled to full faith and belief that David Wherry is now deceased
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd day January 1833
John McKeever
I do certify that John McKeever
Esqr is a Justice of the peace
and that the above is my
Forber
nation
John. S. McKenna
Jan 26. 1833

John Gilercst 
SS Porter

David S Sherry for Hugh Forbes

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Hugh Forbes
127
Wilton
13.508
Hugh Forbes
27
Dec 12th 1825
Refd to the Committee
Pension & Revolt Claims
Apr. 1. 1826
Report  to his ...  report is a
No 4.
Lawrence 19. T. J. R CL

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To the honorable the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States in congress assembled.
The subscriber humbly submits that he enlisted in the service of his country in the revolutionary war in the month of August in the year 1776 in the company commanded by Cap Miller
in the 8th Penn Regt commanded by Cols Mackay and Wilson he enlisted for the term of three years, in December following he
was ordered over the mountains with his Regt which march was performed in the coldest season of the year a distance of four
hundred miles to Jersey where we were placed upon the lines daily exposed to the fire of the enemy and especially at Brunswick and
Piscataway and many other skirmishes
In the spring of 1777 he was attached to Col Morgans rifle corps where we were exposed to many dangers as he was almost daily in skirmishes, after the British left Brunswick, we were sent to the north against Genl Burgoyne and after his capture was sent to Albany to defend it against the enemy, who were expected attack that place after they had burnt the town of
sapes, after which we returned to near Phila where we were an scouting parties frequently, sometime after he was again
sent back to his former Regt and ordered on to Pittsburg and Fort McIntosh, and to Fort Lawrence on the Tuscarawas then a wilderness
soon after he returned to Pittsburg where he
was honorably discharged, he was however frequently out as a volunteer in many of the most dangerous expeditions against the Indians on our frontiers particularly the campaign of Col Crawford at Sandusky, your petitioner was exposed to all the hardships incitant to a state of war by which his health has been much impaired and of late been obliged to incur heavy expenses in Physician bills which has placed your
petitioner in stated circumstances, which
together with age and
a constitution impair, in the service of his country compels him

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the aid of his government by a compensation for depreciation of his pay which was worth but been little as it was received in continental money when at its lowest value or in any way
which congress in their wisdom may think proper
Hugh Forbes

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans'
Administration Archives

NAME Forbes, James  GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4153  ACREAGE 100
Issued July 7, 1797
to not shown-


The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD

Division of Veteran's Administration Archives

NAME Forbes, James    GRADE Sergeant    LINE Lamb's Artillery (New York)

WARRANT NUMBER  7134   ACREAGE 100     ISSUED Aug. 24,1790

"To Glenn & Barenh T Admr S. 
To the estate of Paris, assignee."

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.