Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3040, Robert Dougherty, Penn Residence In 1852

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SERVICE
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Dougherty, Robert

Penn[sylvania] residence in 1852

NUMBER
R.3040

CONTENTS
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(3-223.)
No. 3040

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OLD WAR INVALID.

Robert Dougherty  Pa
P.O. [blank]
Service: [blank], 18  .
Enlisted: [blank], 18  .
Discharged: [blank], 18  .
Application filed: [blank], 18.
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]

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No. 38,790
Robert Dougherty,
Pa:

I.C.G. Kennedy 25 July 1854.

Rejected.
Did not perform military service

File
Act 7th June 1832

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Service 
Dougherty, Robert
Number R. 3040
Penn residence in 1852

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State of Pennsylvania
Cambria County S.S.
                                                      Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Cambria in the State of Pennsylvania, personally came Robert Daugherty aged eighty five years who being [duly] sworn according to law. doth depose and say that he the said depon[e]nt, was a resident of Westmoreland County in Said State during the war of the Revolution and was taken prisoner by the British and Indians in Ligonier [Valley]. Westmoreland County State of Pennsylvania on the tenth day of May A.D. 1781 and said depon[e]nt Saith at the time he was taken prisoner. that [t]he said depon[e]nt. resided  with his father on a farm of Robert Laughlin, near Said Laughlins Mill in Said County that Said Mill at the time he was taken prisoner was Occupied by the officers and Soldiers of that portion of the army of the United States, then Stationed at Fort Ligonier, was [using] and Occupying Said Mill for their own use and grinding [flour] for the Fort. that on the day he was taken prisoner. the British and Indians late in the evening. Marched down to the Mill of the said Robert Laughlin and finding that the officers and Soldiers had fled to the Fort. [they] gathered all the property they could find about the Mill and house. they got a large quantity of Powder and lead and some provisions and after they had got every thing out of the Mill they then Set fire to the Mill and burned it down to the ground, and Said depon[e]nt Saith that he Saw the British and Indians Set fire to the Mill and Saw it burned down, that after the Mill was burned they then marched to the top of a high hill and encamped ti a little before day and they then took their March taking him and his fathers
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Family with them all except his Mother who was not at home at the time they rest were all taken prisoners. and Said depon[e]nt Saith they were all taken to Canada and remained prisoners until they were exchanged and further Saith not Sworn and Subscribed July the fifth A.D. 1852 before James H Mitchell J.P.
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                                                   Robert [x] Daugherty
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Cambria County [p]
J R.L. Johnston, [?????], of the Court of Common Pleas in + for said County, do certify that James H. Mitchell Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition was made, and whose genuine signature is thereunto attached, is, + was, at the time of signing the [????], an acting Justice of the Peace [within] said County, duly [????] + sworn; and as such his acts are [?????] to full faith [?????] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Eleeusbury the twenty first day of July, A.D. 1832.
R.L. Johnston,  [??????]