Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40605, Daniel Turner, Continental Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental
Turner, Daniel
8 40605
Tom.
CONTENTS

18.341.
R
Pennsylvania
Daniel Turner
of Evansburgh in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of August 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Nov 1821 and sent to the Pensioner at Evansburgh, Pennsylvania
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1821. 37 mo \frac{26}{31} \frac{4}{30} . 303.76
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1822 48 -
$351.76
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
and first of May 1820
Death not on A. B.
+

Schedule of Property necessary clothing and bedding excepted Three Cases and Dining Table two chairs two Iron Kettles an Iron Pot One Old Rifle Gun One Woolly Sheep Half a Dozen Cups and Saucers Four Irons and Forks and one an. Mattack two Axes one Crooked Saw two Chisels and Drawing Knife
There are Sundry Debts due to me but in consequence of insolvency I will not be able to collect more than four or five Dollars thereof
I owe to John Sumner thirty Dollars for payment of part of which I have appropriated a Broad gun to me by Captain Thomas Watson for twenty five Dollars
I am by occupation a labourer or farmer but am now in consequence of a Rheumatic Affection entirely unable to work My Family consists of my Wife Hanna Aged Sixty Seven years and Son named Daniel aged About nineteen years who is a labourer but the product of whose industry is not sufficient to support us
Aspirant & Submitted this 5 th day of October A.D. 1820 in Open Court
Daniel Sumner
James Maguire Clerk
October the 5 th 1821 Read and the Court approve of the same and decreed that the Property contained in the Schedule is worth forty five dollars By the Court J. C. Maguire Clerk
Common Pleas Cambria County ss I James C. Maguire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria County Do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration of Daniel Sumner and decree of Court is truly copied from the Original remaining on file in my Office
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of my Office at Ebensburg this twelfth day of January Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and Twenty One
James C. Maguire Clerk

Received of the Sumner by the Agent of the Bureau of Pensions the sum of Twenty Dollars for John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City

Cambria County ss:
Daniel Turner the within named applicant doth on his solemn affirmation state that he resides for the most part in the County of Cambria in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and sometimes in the adjoining County of Clearfield -
Daniel Turner
Affirmed and subscribed before me the 9 th of August A.D. 1821 -
C. M. Donald

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Old can.
Daniel Turner
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James C. Magazine
agt.
Ebensburg, pa
Recd 31 Jan: 1821.
Hemshurg

Western District of Pennsylvania Cambria County ss
On this fifth day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and Twenty personally appeared in Open Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record of Cambria County in said District proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount having a Seal and keeping A Record of their proceedings. Daniel Turner aged Sixty Seven years who being first duly affirmed according to law doth on his affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820 that he the said Daniel Turner enlisted for the Term of one year in Cumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania in the month of June one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty five in the Company commanded by Captain James Chambers in the first Pstle Regiment commanded by Col. Thompson in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the month of July one Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty five when he was discharged from said Service on Long Island in the State of New York that he was in the battle of Bunker's Point near Boston and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said services except a part of his discharge and the Disposition of Benjamin Carson herewith exhibited
And in pursuance of the act of 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly affirm that I was a United Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or any manner Disposition of my Property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for Enlistment of men engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any Person in trust for me any Property by or in which 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

State of Pennsylvania and Cambria County ss
On this sixth day of August 1818 before us the subscribers Associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county in the common- wealth aforesaid Personally appears Daniel Turner aged sixty four years resident in Cambria County in the common- wealth of Pennsylvania aforesaid Who being by us first duly sworn  affirmed according to law doth on his solemn  affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the State 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 Daniel Turner enlisted in Cumberland County and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid about ten miles west of Carlisle for the term of one year in the company some of rifle-men commanded by Captain James Chambers (Lieutenant James Grier) of the first rifle regiment com- manded by Col Thomson on the first day of July AD one thousand seven hundred and seventy five That he continued to serve in said corps in the service of the American colonies until the first day of July AD one thousand seven hundred and seventy six which he was discharged from service on Long Island Opposite the watering place on Staten Island by the said James Grier who was then advanced to the Office of Captain and said James Chambers being advanced to the Office of Lieutenant Col) a fragment of which discharge is intended to be hereto attached that he was in the Battle of Red Bank  That he is in need circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evi- dence now in his power of his said services that he hath no pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge and if any such exists he doth hereby release the same to the United States.
sworn Affirmed to declared and subscribed before us the day and year aforesaid
Before
Abraham Dildebrund George Roberts
Daniel Turner

Pennsylvania and Cambria County ss
We Abraham Hildebrand and George Roberts Associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County in the Commonwealth aforesaid Do Certify that it appears to our satisfaction that the within named Daniel Gurnes did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his country for support and we now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before us to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress (August 6 1816)
Abraham Hildebrand George Roberts
Cambria County ss
I James Magaw Vice Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cambria do Certify that Abraham Hildebrand and George Roberts Esqrs before whom the foregoing Deposition or affirmation was taken is and was at the time of taking the same two of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cambria aforesaid and that all due faith is to be given to their act as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Affixed the Seal of Office at Ebensburg in said County This Eighth day of August 1816 James C Magaw Vice Prothonotary

October 22, 1936
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Daniel Turner, S. 40605 BA-J/MCS
Mrs. James Bacon Commodore Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Daniel Turner, a Revolutionary War soldier who was pensioned while living in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 40605, based upon the military service of Daniel Turner.
He enlisted at Bigspring, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1775, and served until July 1, 1776, as private in Captains James Chambers' and James Grier's companies in Colonel William Thompson's Pennsylvania regiment and was in a battle at Lechmere's Point.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 6, 1818, at which time he was sixty-four years of age and was living in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
In 1820 Daniel Turner stated that his wife, Hanna, was sixty-seven years of age and that his son, Daniel, was about nineteen and he also referred to John Turner, relationship not given. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.
In 1821 the soldier stated that he lived most of the time in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and sometimes in Clearfield County.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Certificate

Center County ss  Before me the subscriber one of the associate judges for the County of Centre, Personally appeared Adam Scott who being sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he with Daniel Turner Joseph McBride and William Simmon, that we enlisted in the Service of the United States about the middle of June A.D. seventeen hundred and seventy five, in the first or Rifle Regiment commanded by Col. Thompson in Capt. James Chambers company in Cumberland County and State of Pennsylvania, that we started our March on the 1 st day of July following and marched from thence to Cambridge near the City of Boston that we was stationed on Prospect Hill until about the fifteenth of March when we was called over to Roxbury in order to besiege Hows Army, and had a smart engagement at Bunker's Hill, and the next night How drew off his Men beyond Costler William, and on the seventeenth of March we had General Orders for the Rifle Regiment and four others to march for New York, where we was stationed at New Brich on Long Island untill the seventeenth day of July when and where we was discharged, and that I was Personally acquainted and in the mess with the said Daniel Turner, during the whole time above mentioned.
Isaac M c Henry I do further state that the said Adam Scott is a credible and disinterested witness. August 2 nd 1821
Center County ss  I do certify that the above Isaac M c Henry is one of the associate judges for the County of Centre in testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this second day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and twenty one.
John G. Lewis

Deposition of Benj m Cason in favor Daniel Turner

Benjamin Carson of the County of Clearfield in the County of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on his solemn oath duly administered according to law did depose & say - That Daniel Turner now of Cambria County in said the Commonwealth at the time of his Enlistment under Lieut. Thomas Buchanan, in Capt. James Chambers Company of Riflemen, in the month of June 1775 at the Big Spring in Cumberland County Pa: Capt. Chambers Company was attached to, or a part of Col. John Thompson Regiment; That he marched in Company with the said Daniel Turner from that place to Boston, in the same year, That the said Daniel Turner was discharged at Long Island the following year, viz the year 1776:
Ben: Carson
Sworn & subscribed the 26 th day of August 1819 Before me, President Judge of the 4th Judicial District of Pennsylvania
I certify that Benjamin Carson  Carson The above deposition is a true copy of undibility & so far as I know disinterested
Shuster
Commonwealth of Pa } I John Rankin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pennsylvania } Pleas in & for the County of Centre & Commonwealth aforesaid Centre County } Do certify that Charles Huston Esquire before whom the fore- going deposition taken & who signs the same, was at the time & still is President & Judge of the fourth Judicial district composed of the counties of Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin & Centre duly Commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official as such as are in courts of justice as elsewhere -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of the County of Centre, this twenty sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. Rankin Protho.

Deposition of John Holliday Esq. for Dan. Turner

Huntingdon County ss
Before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Personally came John Holliday Esq r late a Captain in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain, and being sworn by me according to law deposeth and saith. That James Chambers of Chambersburgh in Cumberland County, then in the Province, now Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was appointed a Captain and Commissioned on the twenty fifth day of June in the year One Thousand Seven hundred and seventy five in the first Rifle Regiment of Pennsylvania that marched to Boston, under the command of Col l William Thompson. That the said Captain James Chambers was in the month of March in the year 1776 promoted to the Office of Lieutenant Colonel of the same Regiment. - That he this deponent was Commissioned a second Lieutenant in said Regiment on the 25 th day of June 1775. and that the Company of Men to which he belonged was enlisted in the month of July 1775 for One year unless sooner discharged And the Men composing Col l Thompsons Regiment was enlisted for One year unless sooner discharged, And that all the Men of said Regiment that did not enlist again at the expiration of their year were discharged on Long Island about the first day of July 1776. Sworn to and subscribed this twenty first day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and twenty
Before David Stewart
Pennsylvania and Huntingdon County ss.
I David Stewart an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do hereby further Certify that John Holliday the above deponent is a credible and disinterested Witness. In Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1821
David Stewart

I to have received all Demands, from the Day within named Regiment charge.
Witness Present
Chas. M. ...

Daniel Turner, of Pennsylvania.
03 Certificate to be issued when the Sec- retary returns. See Letter to D. T. of 22 nd Aug. 1821. Send the cert: to him at Evansburg, Penn.

Declaration of Daniel Turner
Private Col Thompson's Rifle Regiment Pennsylvania Line July 1775 - 1 year
Adm. & Hon. J. L. E.
No enlistments made in 1775 prior to December, were for a longer period than 12 months, on the Continental establishment.
Adm. & Hon. J. L. E. Rejected.
Take Pension present

840605
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Daniel Turner a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 40605.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1. 1775 July 1. 1776 Pvt. James Chambers. James Krier. William Thompson Penn                                     
Battles engaged in, Geahmer's Point. & Big Spring
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sub. in Cumberland Co. Penn.
Date of application for pension, Aug 6. 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Cambria Co. Penn.
Age at date of application, 64 years
Remarks: In 1820 soldier's wife Hanna was 67 years of age, her son Daniel 19 years. There is no further family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Concord, Pa Sept 28, 1936.
Veterans Bureau Washington, D.C.
Will you please send me any information which you have on record regarding Daniel Turner , Revolutionary War veteran, and also information regarding his descendants if you have any on record.
If it will be of any help in finding this record, He enlisted under Col. Chambers of Franklin Co. He was originally of Cambria Co, and drew a pension, died in 1836.
Any other information which you can give me or correction on this will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely Mrs. Jas. Bacon.

Warren Ohio March 21, 1914,
Dear Sir,
I would like to be enrolled in the "Daughters of the American Revolution" and from a distant relative I have the number of Daniel Turner's Certificate, No. 18341! Revolutionary War. He served in Captain James Chambers Company of Riflemen, First Penna. I would like a copy of his Pension Certificate. Very Respectfully,
Mrs. H. E. Dunn 7½ Park Ave, Warren Ohio.

To the Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir,
I wish to be enrolled in the Daughters of the Revolution, and would like any information you might give me in regard to Daniel Turner and John Collon both of Pennsylvania. (Revolution)
Daniel Turner served with Washington, Respectfully yours,
Carrie B. Dunn.
7½ Park Ave. Warren Ohio.
March 16-1914.

542 Central Ave. Johnstown Pa.
Sir: I believe that Daniel Turner- born 1754 died 1834- was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Can you give me any information regarding his record as a soldier? What regiment he belonged to? Who were his superior officers, and how long did he serve. I think he enlisted from the state of Virginia.
Any information you can give me will be very gratefully received. If you cannot give the desired information, will you kindly state where I can get it.
Yours truly G. A. Ricketts

40605
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Pay
File No.
40,605
Daniel Farmer
W. Rev. Jas
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Apr. 17-1903 Mrs. A. L. Balmer Brookville Pa Mar. 21. 1904 - G. A. Ricketts, Johnstown Pa
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1914. Mch 25. History To Mrs Carrie C. Dunn. MM. 13.H
1936. Oct. 22. Hist. to Mrs. James Bacon. W.C.S.