Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R., for John Lyon, Pennsylvania

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Lyon John
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Mary
CONTENTS

Mary Lyon Petition of Mary Lyon Widow of a Revolutionary soldier for a Pension
Ed
March 14 1842 Ref to the Committee on Rev d Pensions
July 21. 1842 Report varies - see Report on Back of Mr. Edwards letter
Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
H. W. Jack H. Q.
Jack 116 Rev Per

7 State of Pennsylvania. County of Butte. On this 26 th day of Feb. in the year of our Lord. One Thousand eight hundred & forty two; Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Butte in the Commonwealth of Penn. Mary Lyon a resident of Middlesex Township, in the county & state aforesaid; Who upon her solemn oath deposeth & saith that to the best of her knowledge & belief that she was born in the year 1747 in the County of Lancaster & state of Pennsylvania that she was married to John Lyon in the year 1775 & that her Husband John Lyon served three months in the Revolutionary War as Company men Col. James Purdy of the Pennsylvania line in the year 1777 & that the said John Lyon died in the year 1824 & that she still remains the widow of the said John Lyon that she is now in indigent circum- stances & prays your Hon. Babb to grant her the benefit of the Pension laws of the United States made & provided agreeable to the acts of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 & March 3 rd 1837 &c.
Sworn & subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Butte this 26 th day of Feb 1842
James G. Fulton
M c G ee Lyon

Butler County Pa.
Before me a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County personally came James Trimble John Lyon & W m M c Hays who being sworn according to law doth depose & say that they are well acquainted with Mrs. Mary Lyon that she is unmarried & has remained the widow of John Lyon since his decease, that she is now in indigent circumstances, & that she is a woman of truth & veracity & that her husband John Lyon was generally reputed to have been a Soldier of the Revolutionary War. James Trimble sworn & subscribed before me Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Butler.
John Lyon William M c Hays
James Hutton
The undersigned Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Butler in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that they are well acquainted with the above named deponents & that they are respectable & credible citizens citizens citizens of the said Butler County.
James Hutton Robert Brown

The papers in this jacket were all found in pension claim No. 3351, another Mary Lyon, widow of John, and separated from that set of papers on Dec. 20, 1933. MME

Hon. W. Gach
Dec. 16. '92

Pen H Dec- 16 42
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the papers left by you in the case of Mary Lyon have been filed with her other papers - There is no evidence whatever showing what & how much service her late husband rendered - Her case is not made out by the exhibits claim filed and her case is further weakened by the decision of the Committee in July last -
Am. W. Jack H.R.

Hon W. Ladd July 11 1843

187
Pen off Febry " 43
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the ad te statement of Mary Lyon claiming for 5 mos ser vice of her late husband as "Com mpa ny in the Reedy army" has been examined & filed. No information is afforded as to the particulars of this service. It should be set forth in detail as the rules require. (Showing his appointment & the authority whence bestowed) - in whose staff & where the service was rendered. If it is intended to assert that it was in the Pa te militia it may be remarked that the terms were limited to two months and if in the Pa te Line, the term was is not consistent with the course of that service.
Hon. W. Jack. H.R.

Cap
in it
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Hm W Jack
Hm W Jack H.R.

9 Butler County ss Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Before the subscribed a Justice of the peace in & for said County personally appeared James Baughman Johnstown while Esq. & John Thompson who on oath duly administered deposed & saith that they are well acquainted with Mary Lyon that she is the widow of John Lyon Leeds a woman of truth & veracity & in many inculpant circumstances Sworn & subscribed Before me } the 26 th day of Jan - A.D. 1848 } Robert Brown James Douglas Johnson White John Thompson
Butler County ss
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

I do certify that the within named Saml Soule & Abner White & John Thompson are men of undoubted truth entitled to every credit &c -
William Lusk
July 3 rd 1843
House of Representatives

Butler County ss
Before the subscribers a justice of the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Mary Lyon, widow of John Lyon, deceased, who on oath duly administered states, that in addition to the three months actual service stated in her former deposition accompanying her application for a pension, her said husband served five months as a commissary of the Army. That the reason why she did not state this in her former deposition was, because she thought it unnecessary to state any other than actual service.
Mary Lyon
Sworn & subscribed this
26 th day of January 1843
Robert Brown
Butler County ss
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Before me the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for Butler County personally appeared Mary Thompson who being duly sworn as the Law Directs Depreth & Sayeth that I am well acquainted with Mary Lyon (the present applicant for Pension) and with her deceased husband John Lyon & that I am the daughter of William Sanderson who was first Captain and afterwards Major in the Revolutionary war and have frequently heard the said John Lyon and my father talking about their Revolutionary services I have notably heard John Lyon say he served in war but have heard my Father, Colonel Thomas Forster and others speaking of the said Lyon serving in United States Army and from my acquaintance with Mary Lyon I know her to be a woman of veracity and is in indigent circumstances and further sayeth not
Sworn and subscribed before me
The 26 th day of Jan A.D. 1843
Robert Brown
her Mary Thompson mark
I certify on the representation of Mr. Magee that Robert Brown is an acting justice of the peace & entitled to all credit & have full faith in all he might do in his official capacity. That the certificate of
of James Douglass, Johnston White & John Nelson is entitled to be believed & is given in good faith & that the signature above is that of William Lash Robert Brown
House of Representatives