Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,098, for John Steele, Pennsylvania

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Service Number
Navy Steele, John R.10.098
Penn or Steel,
or Stahl, Mary Ann
or Polly
Contents

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10571
Polly Steel
Maw of John 
PA
Act 7 July 1838

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State of Pennsylvania
York County

Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a judge of the court of common pleas in and for said county, Polly Steel, a resident thereof who being duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." 

That she is the widow of John Steel who was a soldier in the Revolution nearly all the war and to the best of her knowledge served under a Captain Green, in an expedition towards Canada, but who at that time were his other officers she cannot recollect.  That part of the time he was stationed near Philadelphia and was engaged she thinks in the battle which took place with the British at Monmouth.  That he belonged some time during the war she thinks to a battalion or regiment under the command of Colonel Johnston of the Pennsylvania Line.  She does not remember the name or number of the regiment, nor does she remember the names of the then officers under whom he served but thinks that one of them was named Steel and another Butler.

She further says that he had in his possession a paper relative to his service but does not know its contents and that it has been lost. 

 She declares that she was married to said Steel sometime in the year 1792.  She does not know the month or day and that her husband the said Steel died on or about the 15th day of November A.D. 1836.  The she was not married to him before he left the service but this marriage took place prior to the 1st of January 1794 at the time above stated.  She further declares that from bodily disability she cannot attend court and

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That she can find no record evidence of her marriage whatever, nor of her husband's service and that she is now about seventy-eight years of age.
Signed:  Polly (her X mark) Steel

Sworn and subscribed this first day of February A.D. 1844 before me
Signed: Samuel Bonham(?)

State of Pennsylvania
York County


Personally appeared before me, a judge in and for said county, Polly Steel above named, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath say that she is the widow of John Steel above named, who in his lifetime was a Revolutionary soldier and died on or about the 15th day of November A.D. 1836.  She asks that the amount of pension which may have been due to her said husband in his lifetime, but which he never received may be paid to her as his widow.
Signed:  Polly (her X mark) Steel

Sworn and subscribed this first day of February A.D. 1844 before me
Signed:  Samuel Bonham(?)

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Pennsylvania
York County

I, William Igenfritz, prothonotary of the court of common pleas of said county, certify that the Honorable Samuel Bonham(?) before whom
the foregoing affidavit was made, is one of the judges of the court of common pleas aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court. Febr. 1, 1844
Signed: W. Igenfritz, Prothy.

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Declaration
Of Polly Steele widow of John Steele drum major Revolutionary War
State of Pennsylvania
County of York
On this twelfth day of April A. D. 1852 personally appeared before the [illegible] a Justice of the Peace in and for the State and County aforesaid Polly Steele a resident

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Pension Application
of Polly Steele.
commonly called Mary Ann
Steele Widow of John Steel
Revolutionary War
Filed April 15th 1832
By John S. Gallaher

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State of Pennsylvania
County of York
On this the 11th day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before me, Henry  Doll, Notary Public I. And for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for York County.  patience Jones who being duly swore in according to law, declares that she was present when John Steel and Polly Montgomery were married, that they were married in Peachbottom township in York County by John Boyd, a Justice of the Peace, who is now deceased about the year 1795 or 6 that she was a young girl at the time and recollect it distinctly; that she often heard John Steel tell of his services in the war and she knew that he was lame from a bullet wound whilst in the service; that said John died about the year A.D.1842 and was buried in York; that 
Only, his wife, has since been a widow is about 106 years old and that said John Stell at the time of his death was aged 110 years
Witness 
John Allreson
Henry Doll.                                        her
                                          Patience    X.    Jones
                                                             mark
sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I hereby certify that

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The above deponent Patience Jones is entitles to full faith and credit whereof I have hereunto set my hand and (crossed out) affirmed my seal of office at York in the state afore said on this 11th day of March A.D. 1852
                                            Henry Doll
                                             Notary Public

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J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions

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Mary - See letter
of Wm S Cochran
dated York Penn
Oct 37 1850