Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File O. W. Jno File 9872, John L Finney, Not Rev. War Sgt. Major, U.S.A. 1799 Phila., Pa. Agency

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Not Rev. War
Sgt. Major, U.S.A
1799

Finney, John L.
Phila., Pa. Agency

NUMBER
OW. Inv File 9872

CONTENTS

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Pennsylvania
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John L. Finney
Sergt. Major
In the Army U. States

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Inscribed on the roll of 
Pa. at $3.75 [??] 9 January 1799.
-Increased to $6 per mo. by law of 24
of April, 1816.
[?] 16 Feb 1799.
Ret[urned] to Dep unknown
this file.
[?]17 March
1820 sent to Hon. John Murry House of Rep.

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           [? ] March 9,, 1820

Dear Sir
I request you to hand the enclosed certificate to
to the secretary of war in order that it may be 
renewed. My reason for doing so doing is, that a copy
of the original certificate is required at the [?] office
in Philad, before I can draw my pension, and
that as the pay has been augmented by a late act
of Congress from  3.75 to $6 per month a new certi
ficate, to embrace the above is necessary.
I wish also to know from the secretary, if an oath
from the examining surgeons will be necessary in my case,
in future. The examining surgeons having last fall
giving such a certificate as pronouncing the wound
incurable. If the oath should not be required, it
will be necessary that the Commissioner of [?] should
be informed thereof as well as myself as reference     
to the Certificate of the surgeons in the [?]office will attest the 
above.
                 Yours respectfully
                     John L. Finney

John Murry ESQ
       - include by mail

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Northumb; County [unknown]
Recorded in the office
for recording of Deeds Via in and for said County in Deed book S 
Page 183. Witness my hand and
seal of office at Sunbury the first day
of September Anno Domini 1813
John L. Finney
[unknown with mark]

[County Seal on left of page]

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This is to certify,it appears by the original discharge,dated
 the ninth day of January,one thousand seven hundred and
 ninety nine, granted by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Butler,
 that John L. Finney, Sergent Major of the fourth Regiment
 of the United States was discharged for inability, in consequence
 of a wound received in his arm when in the execution of his duty
Doctor William Shippen having examined the said John
L. Finney, thinks him entitled to three fourths of a pension.

Wherefore he is entitled to receive an annual allow
ance at the rate of three dollars and seventy five cents a month,
during the continuance of his disability aforesaid sufrich
he is to produce every six months a Certificate of two respecta
ble Physicians on oath, said pension to commence from
the date of his discharge.
Given at the office of the Department
of War, this sixteenth day of February, one thousand,seven
hundred, and ninety nine.

James McHenry
Scry. of War

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1799           9872
Invalid
File No. 9872
John L. Finney
Sgt. Maj. U.S Army
Act:
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 125
(Arrangement of 1870)