Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,363, William White, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
White, William
S. 6363
carded.
CONTENTS

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh — at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of August, 1846, and sent to Hon. James Black, H. of Reps. Arrears to the 4 th of March, 1846, $300.00 Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4 th Sept. " 10.00
$31a.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. W. Robinson , Clerk, Book F. 2 - Vol. 5 - Page 136 .
Reprinted
See Let. to Thos. M. Howe Pen. agt. Pittsburgh, 10 th August, 1846.
let to Pension Agent Sept 4 th 1846. suspended to Hon. James Black, 5 September, 1846. —
2 Hutchinson illd. 10 1833
Henry Clinton was June 10. '61

State of Pennsylvania } ss. Perry County }
On Thursday the ninth day of April, A.D. 1846, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, William White, a resident of Carroll Township, in the County of Perry, and State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That in the fall of the year 1776 he volunteered as a private in a company of volunteers commanded (as he thinks) by Colonel  Colonel  McClure  McClure — that he marched from Carlisle, in Cumberland county, where he then resided, to Philadelphia, from thence up the Delaware, to Trenton; from thence to Princeton — that he was attached to the Seventh Battalion, but cannot remember the names of any of the Field Officers — that he remained at Princeton and in that neighborhood doing duty as a soldier to near the close of their term, which was two months, when he, along with the rest of his Company were marched to Philadelphia, and discharged.
That in the Spring of the year 1777, he again marched as a substitute for John White (his brother) in a company of Militia from Carlisle, commanded by Captain Buchanan, and Lieutenant Whitaker, from thence to the Crooked Billet, where they were attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel J. Walls — that he fought in the Battle of the Crooked Billet — that he continued to do duty as a soldier in said Regiment, until he was regularly discharged, which was two months.
That he was again drafted in the Militia under Captain John Craig, and marched to the frontier against the Indians, and continued in said service for two months, the particulars of which will be found by reference to the deposition of Captain Craig, accompanying an application of your petitioner for a pension to the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1837 — that he is now eighty eight years of age, and is in necessitous circumstances.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is only on the pension roll of the State of Pennsylvania.

Sworn and subscribed this Ninth day of April 1826,
Before Joseph Miller, Arthyr.
for the
State of
William White
(There is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood to administer him)
Questions propounded by the Court
1 Where and when in what year were you born?
Ans I was born in Lurgan in Ireland in the year one Thousand Seven hundred and fifty eight as he believes from the report of his parents
2 Have you any record of your age; and if so where is it?
I had a record of my age but it is with my son in the state of Ohio who took with him several years ago I am about 88 or 89 years old
3 Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now reside
Ans I lived in Cumberland County Pennsylvania when I was called into the service about ten miles from Carlisle, I have been living since the Revolutionary war in Cumberland, Northumberland and Perry Counties and now live in Perry County State of Pennsylvania -
4 How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom - Answer. In 1776 I entered the service as a volunteer, second as a substitute for my brother John White in 1777 and the last time as a drafted militia man against the Indians.
5 State the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your

Service.
Ans. From the length of time since he entered the service he can only recollect of Captain Goudy under whom he marched from Carlisle to Lancaster then to Philadelphia & thence up the Delaware river. And when a substitute his officers were Col Watts, Capt Buchanan and Lieut Whitaker and when as a militiaman John Craig was the Captain.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer. I believe I received discharges but have long since lost them and cannot remember by whom they were signed or any of them.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
To this he names Mistress White John Stewart
Perry County Pa.
Before me the subscriber Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County personally appeared affirmed Shorter White who being affirmed Rev. according to law doth depose & say that he verily believes that the above applicant William White was a Revolutionary Soldier, and that he verily believes he served in said Revolution as set forth in his said Declaration, and also that he was drafted, as a Militia man and also served as a substitute as set forth in said Declaration, and also that he believes that said applicant is about 88 or 89 years old, that he is a man of veracity & truth and of good standing in his neighborhood, and that he resides in the same neighborhood.
Shown & subscribed before me the 11 day of April 1846
Joseph Miller, Brother,
Shorter White

And the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of this matter and after putting the in- vestigations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that they never entertained any doubts on the subject of the petitioner being a Revolutionary Soldier as set forth in his declarations, and that they deemed it burdensome and unnecessary to procure, or require the said Applicant to produce any further testimony or evidence on the subject.

Perry County Wheatfield Township
I do Certify that I Believe William White (now of Indiana) But at the time of the war he was Resident of Cumberland County) was out one tower, in 1778 the time of the Battle of the Crooked Billet. I was Not Personaly Acquainted with him at the Said Battle. But from Different things that took place at Said Battle, which No one saw but those that were there. Which he the Said William White Does State, that he saw I do Believe that he was in Said action
Sworn and Subscribed this 11 day of November 1837 Before me
his Isaac Richard Mark
Charles White Esq
Perry County Wheatfield Township
I do Certify that William White in the above Certificate Returned from the above Campaign With my Brother Richard Stuart to my fathers house and Staid all night when he William White went Home and further I do Certify that this William White to which I give this Certificate is the Same man which Came to my fathers
Sworn and Subscribed this 11 day of November 1837 Before me
John Stuart
Charles White Esq

11 + May 1778 Battle of the Crooked Billet
Dead officers Colonel Hays
do Smith
Captain not Sowell Remembered But thinks he was Bocament
+ Lieutenant Samuel Whiticar
Perry County Ky
I do Certify that I was acquainted with William White of Indiana County, at his Residence and that I Believe him to be a man of truth and that he was a member of the Presbyterian Church in that Part, and that he is now Old and without Property, Sufficient to maintain him. (and from information that he was a Revolutionist) and that he is in Real need of Assistance from some quarter.
Shortless Whitley Esq An Elder of Shearmans Creek Church in Perry County
The Mother of William White of Harrison County and a daughter of the Revolutionary War War Pensions for said
A.P. No. 1. 1898
P see
Patricia Penn
Rev.

Perry County Carroll Township I Do Certify that William White now of Indiana County But then of Cumberland County Was out one tower in 1778 the time of the Battle of the Crooked billet, he went out as a substitute for my Self and I do Certify that this William White to which I give this Certificate is the same man which went out for me
John N White
Affirmed and Subscribed This 11 Day of December 1837
Before me
Morris White Esq

N 37,302 William White Pa- act 7 June 1832
Adm d . 6 mo. pro ucte - $20 per ann.
Service under capt Craigs under act 1798
Hon. J. Black, H of R.
Act 77 th June 1832.

Opinion of the Court
And the said Court of Common Pleas of Penn County do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter and finding the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served in the state. And the Court further certifies that there never existed any doubt on the subject of the Petitioner being a Revolutionary Soldier as set forth in his Declaration, and they deem it burdensome and unnecessary to compel him to procure any further testimony or proof in support of his Declaration. And they further certify that Messrs. White, Isaac Kirkpatrick, John White, and John Stuart are all men of good standing, of unquestionable veracity, and their statements and certificates are entitled to great credit with the War Department.
John Lunkin J. W. Stattenberger Deputy Judges
Penn County SS.
Joseph Miller In testimony of the correctness of the foregoing copy of the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of William White for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 11th day of April 1846.
Joseph Miller Prothonotary

Perry County Pa.
We do hereby certify that the said Joseph Miller who certifies under the seal of his Office to the correctness of these proceedings, is Prothonotary of the said Court of Common Pleas of Perry County and that the seal to these proceedings as affixed by said Prothonotary is the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas. In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands & seals this 11 th April AD 1846
G Blattenberger Seal
John Dunkin Seal
Perry County Pa.
I Joseph Miller Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said Court of Common Pleas County do hereby certify that the said Geo Blattenberger and John Dunkin are Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas of said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said office at Bloomfield this 11 th April AD 1846
Joseph Miller Protho of the Court of Common Pleas.

1856 Indiana Co, Montgomery Township July 25, -
M c F. C. Hasler yours of Nov. 3, 1855, is bad with regard to William White Revolutionary soldier for the name of the officers under who he served I would refer to the military rolls at Harrisburg the place of his residence was Cumberland, Co, Penn s town Miss Sherimans Valley, his service was Military first a Subordinate the Second was for his own Staff Both times Being private soldier for the time of his death See the State treasurers list of pensioners, his Second wife and him was married by Esquire I think John Shann of Westmoreland, Co, Pa. & Houghton Township Pa, he was on the pension list as follows two forty Dollars, 17, March, 1837, for Indian war Service and yearly pension by Act, no, 38, March, 20 1838, During life commencing January 1, 1838. He had his home with me from August 1836, to July, 1845, then went to Perry County Pa, where he Dies, - Since I learned your lines, St. H. A. notice of Cambria County near Carrollton Pa, O, it informs me that there was papers sent to Washington some eight or nine years ago to obtain United States pension by John White the man with whom the said Revolutionary soldier Died and was suspended on life and has by the same man his lines and sent lately to some person in Washington Pa.

and it appears it is suspended again, I believe this was the cause that you wrote to me his widow is now married again I have heard to a man named, Morris, therefore her name is Rachel, Morris, now and not White She never was on the pension list to my knowledge. I wrote to my son Daniel White near, Luzerne, P. O. Alleghany, Co., Pa., he informs me that the minor heir of said soldier is near the city of Alleghany. The name of the young man is Wilson White heir of William White Revolutionary pensioner he can give information than I have on the subject. If you need more information you will please write to my son Daniel White, or Wilson White. Luzerne P. O. Pa.
I may refer you to the census of, 1840, Indiana County, when old William White was an intimate of my family, and the census of Alleghany County where his wife Rachel White, lived with her her children for their names and ages, also the census of Alleghany Co., for, 1850, where they now are when you receive this you will be free to do as circumstances may require. You
Yours Respectfully William White to H. C. Wasker No. 512, 9 th , Washington, D. C. As his second marriage was I think in the year
D, 18 24,

N 37,302
William White
Pa
Hon. James Black June 29. 1848?
$20 per ann.
acty June 1832

Rev War
6363
INVALID.
am
File No. 6363
William White
Rev War
Act: June 7 th '32
Index: —Vol. M , Page 402
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Conestine June the 4 th 1861 To the Honorable, J. R. Barrett Commissioner of Pensions, Dear Sir I now write to Inform that William White who served in the Revolution war Applied for a Pension about one year Before Died But could not Prove More than four Months to their satisfaction yet as he was a full old Man of 89. the granted Him three Hundred Dollars until He could order proof But failing to Prove the other too Months His Name was Dropped from the List And He Did not Get any thing Neither Money Nor Land; Only from the State of Pennsylvania He got Forty Dollars per year until He Did on March the, 20, 1847, When we understand there was a Suppliment to the Pension Law that if He had Served any Length of time the Court Should the Pension, we would be very Much obliged to you if you could Enquire into this Matter and let us

Know if any thing can be Recovered, There is none of the Mens yet Living We want to know if the should sign over to the one that would Saw if any thing is to Be Had
As all the papers to Prove His Service in the War is Filed in the war Department I think under the Letter, L.
Nancy White Daughter of the the afore said William who?

House of Representatives August 11 th 1846 Hon J L Edwards
Dear sir
It is with pleasure that I certify that William White an old soldier who applies for a pension is a man of truth and great moral worth. I should have no hesitation in vouching for the truth of any statement he may have made on the subject of his application and I should be much pleased to be able to take the old mans certificate home for him he is now old and very poor your immediate attention will confer a particular on you Humble serv t
James Black

Bloomfield Jan. 15 th 1826
Dr Sir:
I hereby send you the Record of the proceedings in the matter of the application of William White for a pension, which I apprehend will be found sufficiently formal to enable you to act on the merits of his claim. I hope immediate attention will be given to the matter, and the result may be communicated to
Benjamin F. Franklin Rev. Bloomfield
Pennington N. J.
By enquiring of James Black Member of Congress from this District, any doubts respecting the claim of White will be removed

Washington City June 20 th 1845 Hon S L Edwards
Dear Sir
Enclosed the application of William White asking a pension your early attention is earnestly requested your obedient serv t
James Black

Augt 6 1846
Mr J. L. Edwards
Dr Sir -
There is an application on file in the Pension office, by William White an old soldier, for a pension under the act of Congress - A portion of the Evidence of his services is already there, And in addition to that, I transmit in this letter, his petition & the accompanying proof of his claim on the back of it, which was before our Legislature of this State, which petition was not sent by Mr Dunlans with the other papers And why it was not I cannot say - I hope this together with the other Evidence will fully make out his Case,
He is old & infirm and very destitute And a remuneration such as the pension laws of Congress will provide would very much smooth his declining days. Let me have an answer as soon as convenient
I am &c
J R H Coltenloft

Edenburg Janu y 2
Oct 6. 1852
Hon J. E. Heath
Court of Pensions
St Sir:
On the 30 th ult. I wrote to C. C. Dale Esq Pension Agent at Phila d inquiring for the heirs of William White dec d whether or not any money remained due and unpaid on the certificate of said W m White. Mr Dale informs me "that no part of said Pension has ever been paid, as it was suspended by direction from the Commissioner of Pensions under date of September 4. 1846."
Will you be kind enough to inform me the cause of the pension being suspended? — White was a Revolutionary soldier — a private in the Pennsylvania militia — And by his certificate, which I now have before and so far as I can judge is regularly issued, he was entitled to receive $20, per. Ann. during his natural life, commencing 11 th March 1831 — This certificate is dated August 8. 1846
An answer to the above will much oblige
Your Servant
E. Hutchinson Jr Atty for Heirs of W m White

The petition of William White an old soldier for relief

To the honorable the Senate and house of Representatives of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met.
The Petition of the Subscriber a resident of Montgomery Township County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania respectfully represents.
That your petitioner is Seventy Eight Years of age that he has no property to support him and is unable to support himself by labour and that to the best of his recollection in the Year 1792 he was called into the service of the United States in an expedition against the Indians on the Allegheny River, who were then committing depredations on the property and persons of the settlers of that neighborhood that he went on said expedition under the com- =mand of Captain John Craig - that they were stationed at Clarks Mill and remained in that settlement two months guarding the inhabitants. They had no engagements with the Indians, at the expiration of two months they were discharged when he returned to his then residence in Westmoreland County Your petitioner also represents that he served as a soldier in the Revolution four months, for which he can get no relief from the Pension Law passed by Congress - he has never received a written discharge, and has no record of his age -
Your Petitioner therefor respectfully requests your honorable body to grant him such relief as his present distressed situation calls for and as in duty bound he will ever pray &c -
William White
Indiana County ps.
Seal Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County Indiana the above named William White who on his solemn oath doth say that the facts as set forth in the above Petition are true to the best of his knowledge and recollection - Sworn and subscribed to
William White
28th. Dec. 1836 before me.
W Douglas

Armstrong and County ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Armstrong County, John Craig. Who on his solemn oath does say that he is well acquainted with William White the within Petitioner and that he served under him as stated in the within Petition to the best of his knowledge and recollection — John Craig Sworn and subscribed the 30th day of December 1836 Before me — John Bayle