Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,426, for John Mc Guire, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
McGuire, John
NUMBER
S. 34.426
Penn Va.
CONTENTS
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3639.
New Jersey.
John W. Guck, 4 Capt. Philip Patrick private. Va line '50 war
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 th of April , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of Dec 1818. and sent to John Johnson, Esq. Noroton, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 4 mth 29 d. 39.73 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th Mar 1819.  48.00
87.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Sussex County

Copy of John McGuire affidavit Sussex Co. N. Jersey.  Newton township.

Superior Court of
District of New Jersey -
on this fifth day of June at a Session Begun at Newton in and for the County of Sussex on the fourth Tuesday of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty Personally appeared in open Court a before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey. The said Court of Common Pleas being a Court of Record in the said County and being a Court Constituted and established by the laws of the State of New Jersey as a Court of record having its Seal with power to give and imprison and an unlimited jurisdiction in civil cases and whose judgments are only reversible by writ of error at common law. John McGuire of the age of eighty four years resident in the Township of Newton in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey late of the Township of Hardyston in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolution- ary war as follows 1 st enlisted in the Company of Captain James Hamilton at Little York in Pennsylvania in the 11 th Reg t commanded by Col o William Butler in May A.D. 1776 for three Years and was discharged at Trenton in the year 1780 after a service of four years in the said Regiment - 2 d in the fall of the year 1780 he enlisted in the Company of Capt. Kirkpatrick in the 5 th Reg t of Virginia commanded by Col o Oliver Horwell at Fredericksburg, and in the year 1781 was transferred

exchanged service with James Kirkpatrick of the Company commanded by Capt Henderson in the 2 d Regt of Pennsylvania commanded by Col Stuart remained in the regiment until after the Surrender of Cornwallis and then went into South Carolina where the 1 st 2 d and 3 d Regiments were consolidated and formed the first Regt. commanded by Col Harman and remained in this regiment until the evacuation of Charleston in 1783 and was discharged from the Service at Philadelphia in November, in the year aforesaid.
That on the sixth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, I applied for a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month being a private in the army aforesaid and on the fifteenth day of October in the year last aforesaid, obtained A certificate numbered 3693. under the hand and Seal of J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War of the United States payable on the 1 st March and 4 th September annually at The Trenton Banking Company. And I do Solemnly swear that on the 18 th day of March A. D. 1818. I was a resident citizen of the United States 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 to 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 18 th day of March A.D. 1818. and that I have not nor has my person in trust for me any property, or secur- ities 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
And this Deponent further saith that he has no trade but is a common labourer aged eight- ty four years. That he is now confined in the common Gaol of the County of Sussex for debt which he is unable to pay - That he is aged and decrepit and if at large would be unable to procure for himself a sufficient support. That his family consists only of a wife aged about sixty years whose name is Lydia who is unable of supporting the family - and this deponent considers himself in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support him- self, without the assistance of his country - except by public or private charity. sworn in open court and declared the 5 th day of June
A.D. 1820 —
John McGuire
Before Ogden —
Schedule of Property
Real Estate none.
Personal Estate none. —
Except the wearing apparel of myself and family he receives a pension of forty dollars per annum for his services in the State Troops of Pennsylvania from the common- wealth of Pennsylvania —
sworn in open court and declared this 5 th day of June.
John McGuire
A.D. 1820.
John Ogden

It is the opinion of the Court that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above Schedule is of no value except the above pension from the State of Pennsylvania
John Ogden —
Ephraim Greenfield clerk of the aforesaid Court of Common Pleas in and for said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court
and I do further certify that it is the Opinion of the said Court that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is of no value except the above pension from the State of Pennsylvania. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this Seventeenth day of July A.D. 1820.
E. Greenfield clerk of the Court for the said County of Sussex.
Copy of John McQuade affidavit Superior Court of New Jersey. Newton Township.

November 18th 1858
Free
To the Honorable J. C. Calhoun of the War Department, Pension office -
Miss Boyd
Admitted
Washington

I E. Brainerd Green junr Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex do hereby certify that J. M. Johnson Esq. before the within affidavit appears to be taken was at the time of his taking the same and now is one of the Judges of the said Court, and that he is duly commissioned & sworn a. such - due faith & credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts. — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office this Sixth day of April 1818. —
E. Brainerd Green junr. " " "

New Jersey Super County ss. Personally appeared before me Jno. Johnson one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas of said County. Jno. McGuire an old Revolutionary soldier, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he served some time as a soldier  as a volunteer in the service of the U.S. and in the year 1780. he enlisted for during the war, under Col. Kilpatrick in the 5 th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Oliver Rowell in Genl. Morgan's Brigade - That he afterwards was put in the Penn- sylvania line under Col. Stewart who commanded an attachment sent to the Northward  Southward , and he remained in the Continental Service until the end of the war - and was honorably discharged in Philadelphia at the time the army was discharged generally, which discharge he has lost, by adjutant Fullington - This deponent further says that he now has for some time lived in Super County, New Jersey, and is aged 76 years - that he has no property & is very infirm & poor, and incapable of getting a living by manual labour - and that he has a small support of $40. per annum from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - as a pensioner from said State - John H. Johnson
From said State — "John L. Lewis" Sworn & Subscribed before me 6 this 6. day of April 1818.
Dr. Johnson
To the Hon ble the Secretary of War —
I do hereby certify that the above affidavit, was taken before me the day and year aforesaid — and as to his being legally entitled to relief under the provisions of the act of Congress — I have to the superior opinion of the Secy of the War Department, I being unacquainted with him/ — " —
Geo. Johnson Judge

34 426 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 426
John McGuire Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 964
[Arrangement of 1870.]