Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,141, for John Mc Quinn, Virginia

SERVICE
★ McQuinn, John
NUMBER
8.40.141
Wa
CONTENTS

18,577.
Pennsylvania
John M. Quinn,
of Stewart, in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Regiment commanded Colonel Buford of the Virginia line, for the term of during the war.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of November 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of May 1821 and sent to Genl. A. Stewart, House of Reps!
  Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1822  $ 125.83    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4th: 1822.  48.00    5 months.  173.83  
13 4/30 31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 st May 1826

J. L. Edwards Esq. Prussian Office

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dr Sir.
I have got the county seat returned to the application of Mr Quinn herewith enclosed - his original application was made on the 13 th Nov. 1820, when his session will of course commence.
In your note of the 1 st inst. you say the application of Grant Dawson was rejected, on the ground that he had not served on the continuous establishment. I have since discovered among my papers, the enclosed deposition of Mayor Springer, a man of considerable veracity, which I trust fully removes this objection. I shall leave the City on Tuesday, & should be very happy

If you could make out the certificates of Mr. Lewis H. Lawson before that time
very respectfully Yr. obedt Servt
A. Stewart
May 4 1822

John M c Quinn
see if there are the
on roll page 384.
Commenced 13 Nov r 1820.
Hon. A. Stewart H.R.

Fourteenth District of Pennsylvania In the Court of Common Pleas Fayette County
On the fifth day of March 1820 personally appeared in Open Court it being a Court of Record for the said County John McQuinn aged Eighty one 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 15 th March 1818 and the first May 1820, that he the said John McQuinn enlisted at first for the term of Eighteen Months at the commencement of the war under Captain Marshall. Afterwards enlisted under the same Captain and remained in the Army during the War. He enlisted in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Marshall in the Regiment commanded by Col. Buford in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the conclusion of the War when he was discharged from the said service near Salisbury in the State of South Carolina. That he was in the Battles of Long Island and Staten Island and also in a battle in which Col. Buford was defeated in South Carolina. That he has now no evidence in his power of his said services in consequence of his being ignorant of the residence of the survivors if any there be of the Officers under whom he served, and also the men with whom he served.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 15 th day of March 1818, and that

I have not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent there by so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress 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 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for me any property or securities 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
No property of any description,
He has no fixed place of residence but goes about at different places in the County for the purpose of chopping wood &c. On account of his advanced age he is unable to do much of any thing. He has the following children viz:
William aged about thirty three
Timothy aged about twenty five
Polly aged about twenty three
All extremely poor and not able to render me any assistance
I was then and declared in open Court on the fifth day of March 1822 before me
Geo. B. French Prethnotary

Wayne County ss
I John B. Frew Preliminary of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Eighth day of April A.D. 1822.
John B. Frew Preliminary

40 141
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 40 141
John M c Quinn His Rev. Rev
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 819
[Arrangement of 1870.]