Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,205, for John Stonkard, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Pess
Stonkard John
S 41205
CONTENTS

(19,165) Virginia.
John Stonkard,
Resident in the state of Virginia . . . who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain John Reed . . . of the regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Wood . . . in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 3 years . . .
scribed on the Roll of Virginia . . . at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of January, 1824 . . .
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of Jan'y 1824 and sent to Hon. W m M c Coy , House of Rep s U. States.
years to 4th of March 1824,
27 2/3 months . . . . . $14.96
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }

John Stunkard. (Declaration.)
Wood a Lt. Col. in 1776 - see page 271, vol. 2. Journals old the  entries in the within declaration must be filled up , before the claim can be decided upon. -
The official character of the claimant when the claim is into the has been of the and Died
did further proof of the claim.
5 July 1822

District of Virginia.
Augusta County, to wit,
On this 28th day of May 1822, personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record for the county afore- said in the state of Virginia (in which Court proceedings are held according to the course of the Common Law, has unlimited juris- diction in civil actions in point of amount, has the power of fine & imprisonment, has a seal, & has all its proceedings registered) John Stankard, a resident of the said county aged about seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his Oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 12th. March 1818, & the 1st. May 1820, that he, the said John Stankard, enlisted for the term of three years, on the day of in the year
in the county of Dauphin in the State of Pennsylvania, in the company commanded by Capt. John Reed, in the regiment com- manded by Col. in the line of the State of Pennsylvania,
on the continental establishment. That he continued in the said Corps until he was discharged from the
said service at the Valley Forge, in the State of Pennsylvania. — That he cannot recollect the precise period of his enlistment, nor of his discharge, but well remembers that he enlisted a very short time before the attack on Red Bank by Genl. Howe (where he was in the engagement, & also in the Battle of Brandywine & Germantown, & that he was severely wounded in the left leg & arm), and that he has no other evidence, now in his power, of his said services, except the accom- panying affidavits of Mr. Joseph Wright & Mr. Nathl. Wright.
And, in pursuance of the Act of the 1st. May 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 12th day of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any other manner, disposed of any property, or security thereof, with intent thereby to so diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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" passed on the 12th day of March 1818. And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due me; — nor have I any income other than what is contained in schedule hereto annexed, & by me subscribed. I have no family, my occupation was that of a Tailor, but I am now unable, from age & infirmary, to follow it; and am in such indigent circumstances, as to be entirely unable to support myself without the aid of my country.
Schedule of the property of John Stankard.
I have no property of any kind whatever.
John his Stankard mark

Sworn to and declared on the 28th day of May in the year of our Lord 1872 in open Court
Per Erasmus Stirling C.B.E.
I Erasmus Stirling Clerk of Augusta County do hereby, that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that in the opinion of the Court that the said Stockwell has no other property than is exhibited in the schedule, and I further certify that John C. Sower Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit of Joseph Wright and Ruth Wright, is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to Law.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court on this 6th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Five and in the 36th year of the Commonwealth.
Erasmus Stirling C.B.E.

Virginia, the  in Augusta County, to wit:
This day Joseph Wright personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, in the State of said & made oath, that  he was acquainted with the affiant John Stonhard previous to the Revolutionary War; - That this affiant & the said Stonhard lived in the same neighborhood, also a mile apart, in the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania that shortly before the attack on Ticonderoga, in Canada, by Gen. Howe (but at what precise period this affiant cannot say) the said Stonhard enlisted (in the said County of Lancaster) in the Army of the United States, for the term of three years, in Capt. John Reese's company; - That about four years after his enlistment, the said Stonhard returned to the neighborhood where he had resided at the time of his enlistment, in that the affiant then believed that said Stonhard had faithfully served out his full term, & he has never since had any reason to doubt it. Given under my hand the 21st day of May 1832.
Joseph Wright
At the same time Mrs. Ruth Wright also personally appeared before me, & made oath, that she was acquainted with the above named John Stonhard about the commencement of the Revolutionary War, - having lived within about two miles of him in the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania; - That affiant has no personal knowledge of the said Stonhard having enlisted in the Army of the United States, but she is under the impression from what she  has heard, that he had enlisted; - She remembers also that he was absent from the said County of Lancaster for some years, & that she afterward heard that he had returned, - in this affiant, from her knowledge of the old man (Stonhard) does believe that his statements relative to his enlistment & services are true. -
Ruth Wright
The foregoing affidavits of Joseph Wright & Ruth Wright, were taken, subscribed & sworn to, before me, on the 21st

day of May 1822. - And I do further certify that the said Joseph Wright & Ruth Wright are persons of great no- -pertinence, & their answers, - if that free conference may be placed in their statements. Given under my hand.
John C. Howson
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28/11/1822
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41205 INVALID.
Rey
File No. 41205 John Stark Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: Vol. 3 , Page 388
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon. J. C. Calhoun

Washington January 8. 1824
Dear Sir, The papers herewith enclosed of John Stockard, who applies for a pension. Contains I believe all the evidence he is able to obtain. or ever will be able to obtain; in as much as he is old. poor. & what is worse, from the effects of a wound. which he states he rec d while in the service of our Common Country. he is unable to travel; the foregoing evidence. is not such as your rules and regulations. literally require. Still I feel confident. that if you could examine this illiterate Old Man. he would give such description - for instance of the attack on Quebec. of its fortifications. of the face of the surrounding Country. of the persons of Montgomery & M c Pherson. & in general so much of the topography of the Country where that part of army acted. to which he belonged. together with so many facts and circumstances respecting the movements of the army. between the time of his setting out on the Campaign to Quebec & his discharge at Valley Forge; as would satisfy you that had served upwards of three years. Continued service.
This old man has been personally known to me. since about the year 1784 or 5 & I know from Report of others. that he came to the Neighborhood. where I was born & raised about the year 1779. he is ignorant & illiterate. but always has been considered a man of truth. & he has always stated the same. that he does now, as to his services in the

Revolutionary Army. & those who know him best have believed him
There is one fact, which I will mention, which with me, would be conclusive, if I otherwise doubted. It is this; during the period between his enlistment into army, and his discharge, his Parents, removed from Pennsylvania, into Virginia, and settled in the neighborhood where I was raised; After his discharge from the Army, he also, made his way to Virginia, to them. I think in the 1779, the first time I ever heard his name mentioned, was, that he was taken up as a deserter from the Army, and taken before Col. Harrison a Justice of the peace, where he produced his discharge & in addition the evidence of several witnesses, who was acquainted with him in Pennsylvania before his enlistment, one of which witnesses, had served with him in the Army for near two years. Had been discharged some time before, him. (Attest) this last circumstance made a strong impression, at the time, on my youthful mind, because it was said, the poor man would be shot. & I was very glad to hear that Col. Harrison had discharged him with credit, that he was not to be shot.
My object in writing this scrawl, is, to ask you to renew this old man's case and put him on the pension list; he is now literally

starving and perishing, between the County of Augusta and Pendleton; in Augusta they will provide for him in the poor house, where he cannot reconcile it to himself to stay, & in Pendleton where he now resides the overseers of the poor disown him, and talk of sending him back to Augusta; therefore his support now, is from the humanity of the people; he is unable to labour
Very respectfully
yo. obl. Servt.
Wm. Milroy
Hon. J. B. Calhoun

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office

Washington Jan. 8. 1824
D. Sir
have the goodness to lay the enclosed papers of John Stratton, with the enclosed letter, before the Secretary of war. with any thing else you can say for or against the Claimant. I oblige yr.
Del. sent.
Wm. Milroy
J. R. Edwards Esq.

John Stockards, Declaration
Captain Webster's name is on the Penn y rolls - he belonged to the 2d regt. see p. 159 Book A

Pendleton County Virginia to Wit:
On this 8th day of October 1823, personally appeared in open Court, John Storkard, (which Court being a Court of Record and in which said County of Pendleton, the said Storkard now resides,) and made the following Supplementary Declaration On Oath in addition to that made in the County of Augusta in the the State aforesaid, on the 28th day of May 1822, at which latter period he resided in the said County of Augusta; in order to obtain a pension under the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st of May 1820.
That is to say, that he enlisted into the service of the the United States in the month of January 1775 (to the best of his knowledge) in the County of Lancaster State of Pennsylvania, in the Company commanded by Captain John Reese, belonging as near as he can recollect to the 2 nd Pennsylvanian Regt. on Continental establishment. Commanded by Col: Joseph Wood as he believes, but he has no knowledge of any Col. who commanded until they joined other troops at the Three Rivers , some considerable time after his enlistment, at which time and place said Reese's Company was placed in said Col. Wood's Regiment; and from Three Rivers, he marched in said Company and Regt. to Quebec where they joined the Troops under Genl. Montgomery, in the fall of said year 1775, that he was in the attack made on Quebec on the on the last day of the y r 1775 by the troops commanded by said Genl. Montgomery, where he was severely wounded in the Leg and Arm; that he was within 15 steps of Genl. Montgomery when he and his aid Mr. Sherem fell; and he well remembers Col. Campbell, there after ordering them to retreat; that he with other wounded men, lay on the Plains of Abraham for some time, in a kind of Hospital; that he soon thereafter as he

was able to march he with others marched back (still leaving others of the wounded behind) and joined the troops under Genl Stark, when he was placed in the Company Commanded by Captain Watson. Some time thereafter he was sent on a scouting party up the North River in a Company Commanded by Capt Webster; that he was in the battle of Bennington, that he continued in said Capt Watson's Company at the time of the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, that on the day of the battle of Brandywine he was on Wagon guard that his brother James was killed in said battle of Brandywine; that he was in the battle of Germantown and that he was discharged at Valley Forge, (he thinks) in the month of March 1778. That he was kept in service about Two months after his Three Years had expired, was so kept waiting until Clothing could be procured for the troops so to be discharged. That he was honorably discharged and kept his written discharge for many years until it was worn out by carrying it in his pocket — That he has no property except the Clothes which he wears, and some of them are not his own nor has he had any property for many years except his Clothing; that he is unable to gain a subsistence by labour in consequence of his age and infirmity. That his wounds first and for many years have been excessively painful to him, particularly the one on his Leg which is still a running sore — That he has no other support but that afforded him by the Charity of his friends; that he never had any wife or family; that his father's family are all dead — that his trade was that of a Sailor but has not been able to work at it for many years, nor did he ever learn said trade so as to be useful to him
his John Stark and mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 8th day of October 1823 in Open Court. Teste.
2 Dyer J.P. C

At a Court held for Pendleton County. (Being a Court of Record) on the 8 th day of October 1823
This day personally appeared in open the Court the above named John Stonebrad; and presented to the Court this declaration, and schedule of his Estate, and the same being examined, and inspected by the Court, and sworn to as before mentioned by the said John Stonebrad is here ordered to be Recorded - June 2 Dyer C. P. C
Pendleton County Set
I Zebulon Dyer Clerk Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing, oath and schedule thereto annexed, are duly recorded in the Clerks office of said County Court - And I do further certify that the said Court are of Opinion that said John Stonebrad has no other property than is stated in said schedule -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 10 th day of October 1823 - Z Dyer

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Stonnell, Richard GRADE Private LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 12575 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED April 12, 1791 To James Reynolds, assignee.
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.