Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9984, for Matthew Mc Clung, Pennsylvania

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MARRIAGES.
FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
Mathew Willing
to
Jane Cummins
November 29th 1785 
Wm Reed
to Sarah McClung
January 11th 1814
James MCluing
to
Polly Martin
November 12th 1816
Wm G. Burns
Margaret MClung
January 30th 1821
Matthew McCluing 
To
Elizabeth Cafeday
July 17th 1821

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Preble County
The State of Ohio. On this 11th day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before
[unintelligible] the subscriber one of the associated Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas within and for the
said County of Preble and State of Ohio being
a Court of Record Jane McClung a resident
of said Preble County aged Eighty nine years
who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on her Oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by the act of Congress passed July 7th
1838 entitled ""an act granting half pay and
provisions to certain widows"" that she is the
widow of Matthew McClung who was a soldier in the
War of the Revolution and who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, that he was pensioned
under the act of Congress passed the 7th June
1832, at the rate of thirty three dollars & thirty three
Cents per annum during his natural life. that his
pension certificate appears to have been dated
at the War office of the United States the 24th
day of August 1833- she is informed and belives that
her said husband served as a private soldier in
the Revolutionary War that he remained on the
Pension list Roll of the Ohio Agency until the
time of his death
She further declares that she was married
to the said Matthew McClung on the 29th day of
November in the year AD 1785, Seventeen hundred
and eighty five in Lancaster County Pennsylvania
that her husband the aforesaid Matthew McClung
died on the 2nd day of June AD 1844 in the
said County of Preble that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service-