Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,137, Joseph Conner, Continental Va.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

Service
Continental Va.

Conner, Joseph

Number
S. 42.137

Contents

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

19.843

Ohio
Joseph Conner
of Montgomery Co. in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Compy [Company] commanded by Captain Gunn of the regiment commanded by Colonel White in the Virginia line, for the term of five years from November 1778 to 1783

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 day of October, 1827

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of Dec. 1827 and sent to Hon Wm McLean. H. R.

Arrears to 4th of March 1828 $36.12
Semi-anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending [blank]
$36.12

$36.12

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Acts March, 18, 1818,} 
{and May 1, 1820, &}
{1 March 1823}

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[left side] 17,884
Joseph Conner 
Miami County Ohio 
{page 32 Register} 
In this case the Hon. Secretary at War is requested to direct any communication as to the final result of this a application to Henry Stoddard Dayton O. who is agent for the applicant – 
Virginia line 
First services under Col Hunt 
May 1777 – 18 mo.
Second services 
Novr [November] 1778- Col. White} Cavalry
Transferred - Col. Washington} 
War
(Not found on roll) 
The additional proof of another witness is required in this case. 8 Oct. 1821
(See over.)

[right side] Again returned for additional proof of service - 22 March 1822 – 
Honble [Honorable] William McLean H. Rept [House of Representatives] 
Jany [January] 5. 1824

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Pleas at the Court house in the Town of Troy Miami County and State of Ohio Before the Honorable Joseph H. Crane Esq President and John Widney, John Wilson and Thomas Adams his associates the twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one 
Be it remembered that [that] on the day and year aforesaid Joseph Connor late a private in the army of the Revolution came into open court and made oath to and filed his declaration in order to obtain a pension according to the several acts of Congress and he at the same time produced the affidavits of Noah Hanks & James Hanks which was also sworn to in open court by said Noah & James and also the affidavit of Adam Garlaugh was produced & filed which said Declaration and affidavits are in the words & figures following to wit

District of Ohio Miami County Ss 
On this 20th day of March 1821 personally appeared in open court to wit the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid and a court of record made so by the constitution of the State of Ohio Joseph Conner aged sixty seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 & the 1st May 1820 That he the said Joseph Conner enlisted into the service of the United States for the Term of eighteen months

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at Berkly [Berkeley] County Virginia some time in or about the month of May 1777 in a company Commanded by Captain Johns that he marched from said County shortly afterward and joined a Regiment commanded by a Col’n. [Colonel] Hunt at Winchester in said State That he served out said Term of eighteen months in the same Regiment and immediately after about November 1778 he again enlisted at Pointy Fork [Point of Fork at the confluence of James and Rivanna rivers] in said State (where said Regiment then was) for a Term to continue during the war in a company of cavalry Commanded by Captain [James] Gunn in a Regiment Commanded by Col. [Anthony Walton] White that he served in said last mentioned Regiment about one year when he was transfered [transferred] to Col. Washingtons [William Washington’s] Regiment of horse in which regiment he served until the close of the war of the revolution part of the time in said Captain Gunns Company & a part in a captain Hughs [John Hughes’s] Company that he was finally discharged at Winchester in Virginia by Captain Murray at which time and place General [Daniel] Morgan attended and assisted & superintended the discharge of the men that he was in the service under both enlistments about five years & eight months in which time he was at the battle of Guilford Courthouse [15 Mar 1781] at Monks Corner [skirmish at Moncks Corner SC, 14 Apr 1780] at Utaw Springs [Eutaw Springs SC, 8 Sep 1781] at a skirmish with the Indians about three miles from Savannah in which skirmish he was shot through the leg he was also at the battle of the cowpens [Cowpens SC, 17 Jan 1781] at the Capture of Cornwallis [Yorktown VA, 19 Oct 1781] and during the same

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Period he was in a great number of skirmishes of small parties, of piquet guards to [too] numerous to mention & this applicant declares that he has lost his discharge given to him by captain Murray as before stated and he knows of no other evidence of his enlistment & services within his power to obtain than the affidavid [affidavit] of Adam Garlaugh hereto attached though he has no doubt were it in his power to go to Virginia he would there find many living who served with him as above stated.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of any of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
to wit one lot of ground containing one fourth of an acre in the Town of Newling $50.00
1 bedstead over & above one bed bedstead bed & bedding 2.50
1 spinning wheel $2.50 1 chest $3.50 1 Table $3.00 8.00
1 pot $1.00 1 oven $2 00 1 skillit [skillet] 75 1 shovel & tongs $1 4.75
1 chair 37½ cts [cents] 1 meat tub 75 cts [cents] 1 Bucket 50 cts [cents] 1.62½
Dresser & Table furniture consisting of crockery &c 12.37½
Sundry small articles (nameless) 1.00 
Total amount in Value $80.25

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And I do solemnly swear and declare that the above is a true schedule of all the property I own or possess (one bed bedstead & beding [bedding] & the necessary wearing apparel of myself & wife excepted) & that the value of the same is not more than about eighty dollars & twenty five cents as I verily believe 
That I am a farmer or hand labourer [laborer] and have no mechanical occupation That my family consists of myself & wife who is as I verily believe about sixty nine years of age that my said wife is very infirm as also myself That neither myself nor wife are able to do but little labour [labor] and my wife at this time is not able to do any thing owing to a dislocation of her shoulder & we are & for three or four years have been both dependent in a great measure upon the charity of our neighbours [neighbors] for our support & maintainance [maintenance] 

Joseph [his X mark] Conner
State of Ohio Miami County to wit}
Ct [Court] of Common Pleas Miami Term 1821} 
then personally appeared in open court Joseph Conner signer of the Declaration &C & made solemn oath to the truth of the fact in sd [said] Declaration contained sworn to this 20th day of March 1821} 
Cornelius Westfall Clerk} 

Noah Hanks & James Hanks both of Miami County at the same time with said Conner came into open court & being duly sworn depose and say that they reside but a short distance from the place of residence of said Conner who is an applicant for a

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pension as a revolutionary soldier, that they are well acquainted with him & his wife and from their appearance do verily believe that they are about the age stated in the foregoing declaration of said Conner and deponents further say that both said Conner & wife are infirm & able to labour [labor] but little and are very considerably dependent upon their neighbors for support & at times almost wholy [wholly] so Deponents also say that (neither of them) have not any knowledge of any property credits or effects belonging to said Conner other than that which is set down in his schedule above & the bed &c there excepted & having been called upon by him to examine & set a value upon the same they did accordingly & to the best of their Judgment the total amount in value of his property does not exceed the sum set down in said Schedule and these deponents from their knowledge of said Conner do verily believe that the foregoing Declaration of said Conner by him subscribed so far as it relates to his property situation & circumstances is correct & they 
[signed] Noah Hanks
[signed] Jas Hanks
subscribed & sworn to in open} 
court being the court afd [aforesaid] this 20th} 
day of March 1821}
Cornelius Westfall Clerk}

The State of Ohio Montgomery County Ss 
Adam Garlaugh of Green County in the State of Ohio aged seventy years being duly sworn deposeth [deposes] & saith that he was well acquainted with Joseph Conner an applicant for a pension as a revolutionary soldier in Barkley County in Virginia that he knows that said

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Conner enlisted at said County in the month of May 1777 in to the service of the United States under a captain John with whom & under whose command he shortly marched for said County that said Conner was about from said County about five years that after his return after the war had closed this deponant [deponent] knew him for several years & deponent well recollects to have seen his discharge from the service that said Conner resided in the neighborhood of Deponant [deponent] both before his enlistment & after his discharge for several years & during the time he was then absent it was generally understood & believe that he was in the service and after his return was generally treated as a revolutionary soldier & for a time wore the uniform and had the equipment’s & accouterments of a calvary soldier this deponent was not in the service himself as a regular soldier but he well recollects & knows that said Conner did enlist into the service of the United States as aforesaid that he was absent until the close of the war when he returned equipped as a Cavalry soldier as aforesaid and deponent also well recollects to have seen his discharge & further this deponent saith not
Adam [his X mark] Garlough
subscribed & sworn to before me this 27th day of February 1821 
John Folkerth J. P. 

The Court upon examination of said declaration & said several affidavits are of opinion and do adjudge that the total amount in value of

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of the property of said Connor (exclusive of a bed bedding wearing apparel &c) as stated in said schedule does not exceed eighty dollars & twenty five cents & the court are of opinion that said persons above named are entitled to credit in the matter, to which they depose & it is therefore ordered that said Declaration affidavits &c be entered of record in this Court –
The State of Ohio} 
Miami County} Ss 
I Cornelius Westfall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify the foregoing transcripts to be a true Copy of the Record now in my office – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas at Troy the fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Cornelius Westfall Clerk

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Joseph Conner 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. S. File 42,137

[column headings:  DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE.]
Berkeley Co. Va. 5 yrs [years] 8 mos. 
May 1777 18 mos. Pri. [Captain] Johns [Colonel] Hunt Va.
Nov. 1778 1 yr. [Captain] Gunn [Colonel] White Continental Lt. Drag.
to end of War [Captain] Hughes [Colonel] Washington 3rd Contl. [Continental] Lt. Drag.

Battles engaged in, Guilford C. H. Mch [March] 81, Monks Corner, Eutaw Spr. Sept 81 & eng. [engaged] with Indians near Savannah where he was shot in the leg – Cowpens Jan. 81, capture Cornwallis Oct. 81
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington Co, Md. [Note this is incorrect should be Berkeley County Virginia]
Date of application for pension, Mch [March] 20, 1821.
Residence at date of application, Miami Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, 67 yrs.
Remarks: Referred to his wife – about sixty years of age.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] tombstone

[center] 42137
INVALID
Revy
File No. 42,137
Joseph Conner
Pri [Private] Rev War
Act: 18” March 18" [1818]
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 95
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side] 1909 July 20. Hist. to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Robison, 523 Caldwell St. Piqua Ohio. for see letter in S. F. 44342 AW. for V.L.M.

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Mr. Burges.

"Military Pensions"

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19th Congress
2d Session

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 
In the House of Representatives
December 12th, 1826

On motion of Mr. McLean, of Ohio,

Resolved, That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to Joseph Conner of Ohio a Soldier of the Revolutionary War.

Attest

Mr. St. Clair Clarke
Clerk

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[the following is crossed out] Mr Burges
Resolution of W L McLean; (Ohio)
Military Pensions 317.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

19th Congress
1st Session

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
 In the House of Representatives.

May 6. 1826.

On motion of Mr. McLean, of Ohio,
Resolved That the Committee on Military Pensions be instructed to inquire into the expediency of allowing a Pension to Joseph Conner a Soldier of the Revolutionary War.

Attest

Mr. St Clair Clarke
Clerk

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[stamped] FREE
[circular stamp] DAYTON O NOV 7
Joseph Conner N 18 March 1818 
Hon Wm McLean H. R. 
Recd [Received] 7 Dec 1827 
pen: com: 20th Oct 1827 H. R. 
Hon. Wm McLean 
Piqua Admd [admitted]

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[D. Sir,

Inclosed [Enclosed] is a deposition which Mr. Conner has recently proved as further evidence of his service in the army of the Revolution and with the dept [deposition] of Mr. Garlough it is hoped with that you will be enabled to provide the poor old fellow his pension - & when he made his application to the Court same years since he had for a short time been a resident in N. W. corner of Miami County & he is less (if I mistake not) so described in the region but he has since removed to Montgomery County & is so described in W. Miami [Illegible] As to the range to be pursued. I will suggest that his papers which were before in your possessions & which I presume were said before Congress be withdrawn & together with the inclosed [enclosed] affidavit he said one more before the Sec. at War for these necessary. 
In the first place it is believed that it will he acted upon sooner than in Congress where the business of Gen. Jackson may again occupy another session - and secondly if granted another additional proof it is supposed that the commencement of the person will have relation to the time of his application to the Court in Miami County & hath and many desirable to the old man especially the first as he is as poor as it is possible for any and to be induce he is a fit personification of poverty - He has a son whose feet & hands were so frozen last winter that they came off & he was riding through town a few days since in that condition. When the old man

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brought in the enclosed affidavit a few days since he enquired how soon he might expect to hear the fate of this further application to which I answered that I thought not sooner than new year & perhaps not as soon – “My God” - explained the old man “the old woman & shall starve & freeze to death before that time I am afraid or else have to beg” - Do get the old fellow something as soon as possible or & his wife will have to go to the poor house & this he abhors as hid as he does the tories [Tories] of 1767. 
Matters - political same to go on swimmingly in Pa and Virginia if we may judge from recent signs, M. Sergeants Militia in Phia [Philadelphia] appearing to in take an out of no ordinary moment to the Admr [Administrator?] in many respects – 
Let me hear from you the coming winter as soon as you get organized & further have fairly [Illegible] notes in each house
Our Court is still in session 
Yours. 
H Stoddard 
Dayton Oct 29. 1827

Hon. W. McLean

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The State of Ohio Miami County Ss. [20 Oct 1827] 
Before me Cornelius Westfall Justice of the Peace within and for said County, personally appeared John W. Meredith [pension application W4737] of Lawful age, who being duly sworn deposeth [deposes] and saith, that in the years 1777, 8, 9 and 1780 he was in the service of the United States on the Continental establishment during the Revolutionary war, and that from sometime in September in the year 1778 he became acquainted with Joseph Conner now of Montgomery County and State of Ohio, and that the said Joseph Conner was then serving in the army of the United States on the Continental establishment in the line of Virginia, and that he saw him frequently in said service until about the middle of May 1780 when he was under the command of Captain Gunn as he very well remembers, and further this deponent saith not. 
[signed] John W. Meredith
Sworn to and subscribed} 
this 20th day of October 1827} 
Cornelius Westfall J P}

The State of Ohio Miami County SS 
I Cornelius Westfall a Justice of the Peace within [within] and for said County do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John W Meredith The above deponent and that he is a man of good character and that full faith and confidence ought to be placed in his oath — 
Given under my hand and seal this twentieth day of October A. D 1827 — 
Cornelius Westfall J P

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The State of Ohio} 
Miami County SS} I John G Telford Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said county hereby Certify that Cornelius Westfall esquire before whom the within affidavit was taken and administered is now and was at the time of administering the within oath one of the acting Justices of the peace in & for said county duly commissioned and sworn into office and that full faith and Credit is due to all his official acts as such 
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of our court of Common Pleas for said County at Troy the 20th day of October A.D. 1827
John G. Telford Clerk

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State of Ohio, Clarke County, SS
Court of Common Pleas of the term of November A.D. 1821. Thursday November 22. 
Before the Hon. Joseph H. Crane President and others his associates, Judges of said court. 
Be it Remembered that at the time and place aforesaid before the court aforesaid in open court this day personally came John Garlough Senr [Sr.] aged 59 years on the 17th December next, who being duly sworn deposes and says, that this deponent formerly towit during all the time of the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, resided in Washington county in the State of Maryland - that he was well acquainted with one Joseph Conner, then of said Washington county now of Miami County in the State of Ohio - that said Joseph during said war and about three of four years before the close thereof, left his (then) place of residence which was but a short distance from that of this deponent, and went to Virginia for the purpose of enlisting and did there (in Virginia) and deponent was informed and believes enlisted into the Service of the United States — Deponent has no doubt that said Conner did enlist into the service as aforesaid — he has always understood and believed the fact — he has understood and believes said Conner was in the service three years at least and was discharged at the close of the War — he saw said Conner after his return from the Service, in the uniform of a Private of Light horseman or Dragoons in which capacity deponent understood and believes he served part of the time Deponent is unable to state the company, Regiment or Brigade in which said Conner served And further saith not – 
[signed] John Garlough 
Subscribed and sworn to in open} 
court this 22d November 1821} 
before me} 
Joseph Layton Asst. Judge

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I Joseph Layton an associate Judge of the court of Common Pleas within mentioned do certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named John Garlough, Senr [Sr.], who has subscribed & Sworn to the within Deposition, and believe him to be entitled to full credit under oath. 
November 22 1821 Joseph Layton Asst. Judge 

State of Ohio, Clarke county SS
I Saul Henkle clerk of the court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that Joseph Layton, Esq. whose name appears to the above certificate and within deposition is an associate judge of said court, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn into office; and to all his official acts as Such full faith and credit are due
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Springfield the 22nd November 1821 
Saul Henkle Clerk