Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 270, for Walter Mackay, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Mackay, Walter Arthur, Catherine
R. 270
Former widow
CONTENTS

Catharine Arthur former wife of Walter Mackay
Kentucky.
Suspended.
See let. 27 Oct 1841 E. Chinn.

Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
Catherine Mullen
P. O. Wid. of Walter Mackay
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

270
No 5475 Catherine Assther Declaration V o Kentrucks
Filed by Christina Warrensburg By Oct 25: '41,

State of Kentucky Owens County Set 2
On this 31st day of July 1841 Personally appeared before me Buford Peyton a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Catherine Arthur a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3, 1837 That she was the widow Married to Walter Mackay who was a private soldier in the Militia in the Revolutionary War. The said Walter Mackay Volunteered in the service of his Country in the County of Campbell in the State of Virginia in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty and served in this tour of duty not less than three months in a Company commanded by Captain Robert Adams and Col Charles Lynch's Regiment attached to General Lawson's Brigade. The declarant recollects that when her husband started out to serve this tour of duty that she accompanied her husband some distance and gathered Keaglements on the road. And again in the year Seventeen hundred Eighty two The aforesaid Walter Mackay again entered the service of his Country and served out a tour of duty not less than three months in a Company commanded by Captain Irish of Colonel James Callaway's Regiment. The Company marched from Campbell County Va down to Bedford New London and were there stationed during this tour of duty. The said Walter Mackay received regular discharges for both of these tours of duty and were in the possession of the declarant until about fifteen years since when they were destroyed by the Chillicothe. She further declares that she was married to the said Walter Mackay in the County Caroline in the State of Virginia in the Month of January Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six (1776) by Parson Dick and that her husband the aforesaid Walter Mackay died in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty Six (1786) And that she was afterwards married to William Arthur who died in November Eighteen hundred and Thirty (1830) And that she was a widow on the 4th July 1836 and remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed. She further declares she knows of no record of her

Marriage to the aforesaid Walter Mackay nor of the age of her children but she recollects perfectly well that she had one child (Alexander) at the time her husband first entered the service of his country
Catherine her Arthur marks
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Buford Peyton And I certify that the aforesaid Catherine Arthur in consequence of Old age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court Buford Peyton J.P.C.C.
The deposition of Abraham Adams a resident of Casey County Ky taken to be used as evidence in favour of the application of Mrs Catherine Arthur for a pension
Deponent being forty seven years old Deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Mrs Catherine Arthur for the last thirty years That he from his first acquaintance with her understood she had been previously married in the State of Virginia to Walter Mackay and that the said Mackay had died in said State and that the said Catherine then intermarried with William Arthur and the said Arthur died in the month of November Eighteen hundred and thirty and that the aforesaid Catherine Arthur has remained a widow ever since to the present period And further saith not
Abraham Adams
State of Kentucky Casey County Set
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for the county of Casey and State aforesaid Abraham Adams and subscribed and sworn to the truth of the above deposition And I certify the said Abraham Adams is a man of truth and veracity
Given under my hand this 31 st day of July 1841
Buford Peyton J.P.C.C.

State of Kentucky Casey County Set
I Joel Sweeney Clerk of the Court of Casey County certify that Buford Payton is a Magistrate as above and that the signatures to the two foregoing Certificates purport- -ing to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and set my name this 24 th day of August 1841
JOEL SWEENEY Clerk of the Court of Casey County

I John Murchison of the County of Campbell and State of Virginia do hereby Certify that Catharine Arthur whose Virgin name was Catharine McDaniel inter- married with Walter Mackay in or about the year 1776 and that the said Walter Mackay was a Volunteer in the service of Virginia, in or about the year 1780 under the Command of Colonel Charles Lynch and Capt. Robert Adams, who were attached to and served under Brigadier General Laurens and that about the year 1782 the said Walter Mackay served with myself under the Command of Capt. Smith and Col. James Callaway we were stationed at New London then in Bedford County Va now Campbell County Va and I do further Certify that after the death of the aforesaid Walter Mackay his wife Catharine intermarried with one William Arthur given under my hand and seal This 29 th day of April 1839
John Murchison
Campbell County State of Virginia to wit I Henry T. Early a Justice of the peace for the county aforesaid do hereby Certify that John Murchison personally appeared before me in my County aforesaid and made oath that the above certif- icate signed by him is true, and I do further certify that the afore- said Murchison is a man of Credibility and entitled to full faith and credit. Given under my hand and seal this 29 th day of April 1839.
Henry T. Early J. P.
State of Virginia Campbell County ss. I William S. Clements clerk of the County Court of Campbell in the State aforesaid do hereby Certify that Henry T. Early before whom the foregoing certificate was taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly qualified and entitled to hold office as such Justice of the peace and that the foregoing certificate is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. Given under my hand this 21 st day of May 1839. William S. Clements Clerk

State of Virginia
Cambridge County Court To all whom these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas the within copy of the proceedings of the said Court in and for the County aforesaid and dated as aforesaid do hereby certify that William A. Plummer who has hereunto set his hand and seal to the foregoing Certificate is Clerk of the said Court and that his said attestation is not forged or altered under any hand this 10 day of June 1839.
Levi Newton
Certificate of the Marriage
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