Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41558, Alexander Galbraith, Penn.

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SERVICE                      [dark star printed on card]        NUMBER

Penn.                            Galbraith, Alexander                S.41558
                                  or Galbreath

CONTENTS
[handwritten on a lined, pre-printed card

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41558
INVALID
Revy
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File No. 41.558
Alexander Galbraith
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol [illegible, 8?], page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[next column]
1913 Sept. 11. Hist to
Nancy C. Morrow. [illegible]
Pa. (Her letter 
in Edw. Stern S37459) 
an

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Notification sent to John Boden Esqr 3 Octr 1820
Carlisle, Penna
D. Jan 15 1823
[handwritten on left half of page]

3,815
Pennsylvania Roll
[double printed line]
Alexander Galbraith
Capt Michael, private
Pennsylvania line: 1779 to Jan 1783
[handwritten]
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War [pre-printed]
[double printed line]
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania [handwritten]
at the rate of eight [handwritten] Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 [handwritten] of April 1818 [handwritten]

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Alexander Galbraith [handwritten in center of page horizontally]
Mar 19 [handwritten vertically on left margin of page]
No. 3815 21 Oct 1818 [handwritten vertically on right margin of page]

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Cumberland County SS
State of Pennsylvania

On this fourth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court being, a Court of Common pleas for the said county of Cumberland and the same being a court of record in and for the said county, and proceedings therin being according to the course of Common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their proceedings) Alexander Galbreath aged fifty one years resident in Carlisle in the said County of Cumberland who being first duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follous he enlisted in 1779 in Col. Butlers Regiment of Infantry in Capt McMichals Company for during the war and that he received his discharge in the year 1783 at Lancaster from Col. Butler and that the date of his original declaration is the 21st day of April 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 3815
And I do solemnly swear 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 thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for Certain persons [employed crossed out] engaged in the Land and Naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War. . Passed the 18th day of Marsh 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed ~
Schedule
one Iron pot one Chaff bed, bedstead and bedding & one set of Blacksmiths tools, he is upwards of fifty one years of age has no family but himself and wife. his children
[handwritten]

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having all left him and is entirely unfit to maintain his family by his trade being that of a Blacksmith oweing to the Rheumatism pains
Sworn and Declared on the 4th day of August 1820 Before Isa Graham} [signed Alexander Galbreath]

I R I Robert McCoy clerk of the court of common pleas in and for Cumberland County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I do further certify that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty dollars and   cents
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court on this 16th day of August 1820
[signed] Robt McCoy Prothy

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Admitted on the Penn. Rolls
Alexander Galbraith pr. 
21 Apl. 
To Andrew Bodin
Carlisle Penna. 
[handwritten in center of page]

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[printed form with handwriting to fill in names, etc]
Cumberland County }
State of Pennsylvania}SS
I, Robert McCoy Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these presents certify, that Jacob Hendel Esquire, before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken, and who hath thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such Deposition and now is [illegible crossed out] a Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the said county, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Carlisle, in the said County, this twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and of the sovereignty and independence of the the United States of America, the forty Second. 
ATTEST, [signed Rob McCou Protho]

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State of Pennsylvania --
Cumberland County SS.
on this twenty first day of April 1818 -- before me the [illegible] one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appears Alxander Galbraith, aged fifty eight years, resident in Dickinson township in said County of Cubmerland, who being by me first swon according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled " An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", that he the said Alxander Galbraith enlisted in Carlisle, County & State aforesaid, same time in the fall of 1779, as a Musician in the Company commanded by Captain McMichael, in the 4th Regiment Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Col Wm Butler for three years or during the war; that he continued to serve in the said Corps for several years, when he was drafted into the 3d Regiment of the Pennsylvania line in which continued in the Service of the United States untill some time in June 1783, when he was discharged from service in Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania by Col. Richard Butler, which discharge this deponent about two years ago sent on to Harrisburg by 
[handwritten]

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Andw. Baden [illegible], since which time he has not been able to obtain Possession of it again, believes that said discharge has been lost or Mislaid, Deponent saith that he was very young when he entered the Service was Marched to Philadelphia, continued at different Garrisons, in this State, & on duty with [illegible] parties during said time of service, that he had not an oppertunity of being in any engagement -- Deponent further saith that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services --
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid --
[signed] Jacob Hendel
[signed] Alexander Galbraith
I Jacob Hendel Judge of the Court of Common pleas as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my sattisfaction, that the said Alxander Galbraith, did Serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress -- Apl 21st 1818 --
[signed] Jacob Hendel
[handwritten]

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION    3-525
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19__

[in pencil] ans

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In reply to your request of    ,  received     for a statement of the military history of Alexander Galbraith a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed-out (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[in pencil] S. 41558
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED | STATE
| | | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL.

Fall 1779 || Musician | McMichael | Wm Bulter | Pa.
| [arrow pointing from Fall 1779 entry] discharged from 3^d Pa regt by Col. Richard Bulter in June 1783.

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Battles engaged in, none 

Residence of soldier at enlistment, enl. in Carlisle Co. Pa.

Date of application for pension, April 21, 1818 [illegible] cl. was allowed

Residence at date of application, Dickinson Twp. Cumberland, Co. Pa.

Age at date of application, 58 yrs. Died Jan 15 1823 (From A.13)

Remarks: In 1820 sol refers to his wife and children. names not stated.


Respectfully,

Commissioner.