Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,188, Robert Duncan, Md.

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Md. Duncan (or Dunken), Robert. S. 42,188

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5,108
Pennsylvania Roll
Robert Duncan
{7th Maryland Regiment} Private Capt Beatty
4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 12th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of Dec. 1818 and sent to [?David Stewart] Esq. Judge
Huntingdon - Penn.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 [?hr.] + 21/30
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819
37:60
48:
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$85:60
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Seven years
(illegible signature)
Hopewell Township, Huntingdon

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Tee letters to Han J. Henderson & P. Agt. March 5, 1836_
Dead
Paid at the (illegible) widow this Act of 1 April 1838 to 2. of 4. children from 4th Sept. 1838 to 26 April 1839. Agt. (illegible) 7 Dec. 1844.
(Note down right side of paper Robert Duncan, illegible, April 17th '21)

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Duplicate page (same as page 3)
Tee letters to Han J. Henderson & P. Agt. March 5, 1836_
Dead
Paid at the (illegible) widow this Act of 1 April 1838 to 2. of 4. children from 4th Sept. 1838 to 26 April 1839. Agt. (illegible) 7 Dec. 1844.
(Note down right side of paper Robert Duncan, illegible, April 17th '21)

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Gideon, Printee. 
Treasury Department, Second Comptroller's Office, May 24th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensions may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Two of four children of Robert Duncan, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia, Pa. Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars (and cents crossed off) per (annum crossed off) month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, to the 26th April 1839.
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris. Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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Declaration of Robert Duncan 
5108 March 1819 The County in which he lives (illegible and crossed off). Hopewell
(Written Sideways) Let the clerk certify in such care that the (illegible) in Huntingdon County and let the certificate follow that in which the opinion of the court is given.
Direct to (illegible) Huntingdon

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(Duplicate page, same as page 6)
Declaration of Robert Duncan 
5108 March 1819 The County in which he lives (illegible and crossed off). Hopewell
(Written Sideways) Let the clerk certify, in such care that the (illegible) in Huntingdon County and let the certificate follow that in which the opinion of the court is given.
Direct to (illegible) Huntingdon

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United States
4th Judicial district of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County at a Court of Common
Pleas hollow this day (to wit) Seventeenth day of August Eighteen Hundred and twenty at Huntingdon in and for said county (being a Court of Record) personally appeared Robert Duncan of the Hopewell Township Huntingdon County aforesaid who being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith and on his oath aforsaid doth declare and say that he enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War for during the war in a company commanded by Captain Bettis in the Regiment called the 7th regiments in the Maryland line commanded by Colonel Stewart as set forth in his declaration (inserted with arrow) originally made the date of which he doth not now recollect but believes it was some time in April 1818 which declaration was forwarded to the war department and on which a pension Certificate was issued to the said Robert Dunken dated the 14th day of April 1818. Signed J C Calhoun Secretary of the war which certificate is numbered 5108 and is in possession of the said declaiment who in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 20th of May 1820 makes the following declaration on oath (to wit I Robert Dunken do sware that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part therof with an intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions or an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and navel Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War prepared the 18th day of March 1818 that I have not nor had any person or persons in trust for me any property or  Securities contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than which is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed by

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Me subscribed the said declarant also states that he is sixty five years  of age that he has no trade but sometimes works at daily labour but that owing to his advanced age is unable to attain a livelyhood thereby for himself and family which consists of himself, a wife named Margaret Dunken aged about fifty years who is unable to contribute very little to their support. Sworn and subscribed the 16th of August 1820 in open Court.
Robert his + mark Dunken
William Steel Proty
A schedule of Declarants property and Bedding (illegible)
1 Rifle gun $12.00
1 shot gun $2.00
1 stove $12.00
1 old base knife $0.06
1 pen knife $0.25
1 olde brown pot $0.12 1/2
1 abe (illegible) $1.10
(Total) $27.43 1/2

Debts due by petitioners
James Entreken $18.00
Wm Enyeart $4.50'
Henry Summers $2.50
Widow Summers $0.53
Hep $1.00
(Total) $26.53

Sworn to and subscribed in open court 16th August 1820
William Steel Proty
Robert his + mark Dunken

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Huntingdon County, 
John Trees being duly sworn according to law doth deposes and say that he is well acquainted with Robert Dunken & his circumstances & property and estimates the same to be worth $27.43 1/2 which in the opinion of the depousant is the utmost level of its value his bed and bedding of (illegible)
Sworn & Subscribed in open court 16th August 1820
John Trees
William Steel Proty

Huntingdon County, 
The foregoing declaration being made in open court on the 16th day of August 1820 the schedule aforesaid being exhibited as the evidence of value of the property declarant produced stating the value of the same at $27.43 1/2 the court approve of said valuation of twenty seven dollars and forty three and one half cents & concur therin. 
By the Court, 
William Steel Proty

Huntingdon County, 
I William Steel Prothouotary of the Court of Common (illegible) in and for the County of Huntingdon aforesaid do certify that Robert Dunken the applicant in the foregoing declaration named is an inhabitant & resident of the County of Huntingdon and in the State of Pennsylvania. 
Given under my hand and seal of said Court at Huntingdon the 19th day of December 1820.
William Steel Proty

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Huntingdon County, State of Pennsylvania Ls.
Be it Remembered that on the fourteenth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me David Stewart one of the judges of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Huntingdon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  personally appeared Robert Duncan of the Township of Hopewell in the said county of Huntingdon, and a resident citizen of the United States and being duly sworn according to law doth and did declare and say that he entered into the army of the united colonies raised for the defense of American Liberty and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof, as a private soldier in a company of Infantry under Captain Bettis, belonging to the Seventh Maryland Regiment, In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, that whilst he under the command of said Bettis he was in the Battle of (illegible, Camden?), where his captain was slain, and was succeeded in the command of said company by his brother Lieutenant Bettis-That he served under him in the Battle of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Trenton and the white Placing, also in Gates's defeat in South Carolina. Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs. - That he was wounded in the knee at Gates's defeat in South Carolina by a rifle or musket ball-That his feet were badly frozen whilst guarding the Fort at Staten Island-That he served in the army of the United Colonies afterwards the army of the United States of America for and during the term of seven years and upwards when he was honorably discharged at Annapolis in the state of Maryland, which discharge was washed in the pocket of his overhauls about three months after he received it-And that he hath no pension hertofore allowed him by the laws.

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of the United States, to his knowledge, and if any such exists he doth hereby fully and entirely release the same to the United States-That he is now about sixty four years of age and by reason of his reduced circumstances from his country for support.
Sworn to and subscribed to the day of year aforesaid Before.
Robert his + mark Duncan
David Stewart

Additional evidence 
Huntingdon County Ls.
Before me the (illegible) one of the associate judges of the court of the common in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared before due deposeth and faith that Robert Duncan the above applicant enlisted in Captain Bettis's Company in the service of the United States in Fredericktown in the state of Maryland in August one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and continued afterwards of seven years in the Army of the United States (illegible) the war ended. Sworn and subscribed this tenth day of November A.D. 1818.
Before
David Stewart
Huntingdon Country Ls.
James his + mark Duncan

The subscriber one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Country aforesaid in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania  Doth certify to the honourable the secretary at war for the United States That the hath known Duncan for some years past and is satisfied that the applicant Robert Duncan served in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain during the time mentioned in his affidavit hereto attached and that he believed his circumstances in life are truly stated. In testimony of which the subscriber have herunto set my hand and seal this fourteenth day of April A.D. 1818
David Stewart (Seal, with hand drawing encircling) 

Pennsylvania and Huntingdon County Ls.
I David Stewart an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify, that from the examination oath of the said Robert Duncan it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Robert Duncan did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and that he is poor, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. And I now (illegible), the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the honorable the secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. November 30th 1818.
David Stewart (seal, with hand drawing encircling word)

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42188 Revy Invalid
File No. 42,188
Robert Duncan
(illegible) Revolutionary War

Act: 18th Marth 18
Index:-Vol. 5, Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Robert Duncan 
(illegible) sent 14 April
I have added an additional certificate in this case 30th November 1818.
D.S.
Admitted

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State of Pennsylvania 
Huntingdon County, Ls.
I William Steel Prothonotary (?) of the Court of Common pledge in and for the country of Huntingdon in the commwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that David Stewart esquire, before whom the within affidavit of Robert Duncan appeared to have been made, and who has signed the within certificate, is now, and was at the time of taking the same and making the said certificate one of the judges of the court of Common Place in and for said County of Huntingdon and credit is due, and ought to be given as well in court of Justice as therein (illegible).
A testimony whereof I have (illegible) set my land and affixed the (illegible) of said court of Huntingdon the fourth day of May 1818.
William Steel Proty