Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2807, for Matthew Jack, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Jack, Matthew Nancy
W 2807
B. L. Wt. 2483-300
CONTENTS

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LORD of hosts, in us; and I will spare n that serveth him. discern between the n him that serveth
not. P. IV.
ed, 2 and his blessing on the the study of the law, 5 and telleth office.
the day cometh that shall burn as an ven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do ickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh
shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, b Exod. 20. 3. which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet c Matth. 17. 10. Mark 9. 11. Luke 1. 17. before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
The End of the OLD TESTAMENT.
Matthew 3:1-17 John the Baptist Mark 1:1-8 Luke 3:1-22 Matthew 11:1-15 Matthew 17:10-13 Mark 9:11-13 Luke 1:17

Pittsburgh 11.784 Matthew Jack
of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Capt: in the Company commanded by Captain Hutton of the Regt. commanded by Col. M c Key in the Pa. ma line for L y ons.
Died 26 November 1836 Order to pay 3 rd April 1838.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 480 Dollars 00 Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Sept 1833 and sent to J. J. Barclay Pittsburgh
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833. $1200.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Feb y 34 240.00
$1440.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book E Vol. 5 Page 80.

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PENNSYLVANIA
James Jack widow of Matthew Jack , dec. Penn who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 26 Nov 1836 of Westmoreland in the State of Penn who was a Captain in the com d commanded by Captain Jackson of the reg t commanded by Col McRae in the Penn line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per ann m to commence on the 14th day of March , 1836. 26th Nov
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Sept 1839, sent to  John Armstrong Greensburg Penn
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1839 $1099.11 Semi-annual allowance ending May 40 240.00 $1339.11
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by D.M. Wandy Clerk Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 15
✓ Lett to Armstrong Oct 25 1839 do to 2 d Comptroller 17 Oct. 1845 do to J. L. Jackson 18 Oct. 1845 do to H. Northup - do to same Aug. 18. 1846. Ltr. Norman Eddy Sept 16/57

State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County } p.
On this twenty second day of November Eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid now sitting Mathew Jack aged 78 Years a Resident of Salem Township in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provi- sions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. - In the year 1776 In the month of April the declarant Received a Lieutenants Commission in the Continental Establishment & joined the 8 th Pennsylvania Regiment Commanded by Colonel M c Key, Lieutenant Colonel Wilson - Major Butler & declarants Captain was Samuel Miller. The Regiment Recruited at Harris's town in the County aforesaid in the Summer of 1776 & marched to Wilmington in a few days after - Declarant with the Regiment lay at Wilmington till the latter part of December 1776 when the Regi- ment pursuant to order marched to the Jerseys to Quibble Town where they We joined the

Army under General Washington. The 8 th Pennsylvania Regiment to which declarant belonged was attached to Genl. Lincoln's division. In the Spring declarant's Regiment was marched to Pompton in New Jersey, where an engagement took place between the declarant's Regiment & a few Militia & some the enemy, in which declarant was wounded in the left wrist by the bursting of a gun - from which with which wound he is now disabled & draws a pension as an Invalid Pensioner - The above engagement took place on the 13. of Ap l 1777 - As soon as defend declarant's wound was partially like cured as he joined the Army at Mount Pleasant in New Jersey & during that Summer received a Captain's Commission & commanded the took Command of a Company in the same Regiment. In the fall of 1777 the Regiment was ordered into Pennsylvania & with the main Army Wintered at Valley Forge during the Winter of 1777-1778 - In the Spring of 1778 the Regiment to which declarant belonged was added up the Susquehanna against the Indians - declarant with the Regiment marched in June 1778 & took their Station at Wallace's fort about 30 Miles above Sunbury in Pennsylvania where the Regiment

Regiment Remained two months, where sev- eral men were cut off by the Indians. They Regiment in August 1778 in pursuance of Orders, was Marched to Carlisle in Pennsylvania where we Remained about a Month, & then in pursuance of Orders Marched to Pittsburgh From Pittsburgh we were Marched to Downer the Mouth of Big Beaver, where we built Fort McIntosh, where the Town of Beaver now stands. The 13 th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Gibson co-operated with us in Building the fort - Col. Rodhead Com- manded the 8 th Penn a Regiment to which de- tachment belonged. Gen l W m Fitzhugh was then & commanded the whole - He Remained at Fort McIntosh till before the fall of 1778, when we were Marched by Gen l W m Fitzhugh to the head Waters of the Muskingum River where then we built Fort Laurens - Late in December Declarant with a part of the Re- giment returned to Fort McIntosh - where he was Superseded along with all the officers of the Regiment except two - Declarant then re- turned home - Remained until sometime in February, when he received Orders to raise a company of Rangers which he did immediately. & placed them in different Stations on the fron-

teer. Genl Rodhead took the Command of declarants Company & a number of others & joined in the month of June 1779 declarant with his Company joined the troops at Kittanning Towns on the Allegheny, where they raised a fort. Colonel Payard was the Regiment also had a Command & Colonel Gibson, & Lieuten- ant Colonel Campbell accompanied the Expe- dition. From Kittanning the Army under the Command of General Rodhead marched up the Allegheny River, destroyed the Muncy Town, & after several skirmishes with the Indians be- tween to Pittsburgh in the month of Novem- ber 1779 where the  the declarant was discharged with the other troops where the the declarant has no documentary evi- dence of his services - Declarant continued in the service as above stated without interruption from the month of April 1776 till the latter part of December 1778 - and from February 1779 till November 1779. Making in the whole the term of three years & two months during which time he served as before stated - and for which time he claims - And I hereby Relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or Annuity ex- cept the present, and declare that my name as  is only on the pension Roll of the Agency in the state of Pennsylvania

as an invalid Pension as aforesaid - Wore & subscribed the 22. day of November 1832 In open Court Attest, Randal McLaughlin Prob. Matthew
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Officer & served as he states - And the Court further Certifies that he is of true credible persons & that his statement is entitled to Credit -
I. Randal McLaughlin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmor- land County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Matthew for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Grumburgh this twenty second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Randal McLaughlin Prob.

State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
On this fifth day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the Honorable John Solinger one of the judges of the County Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County Nancy Jack a resident of Salem Township in said County aged 79 years, who being 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 7th 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Matthew Jack late of Salem Township West- moreland County and State of Pennsylvania deceased who was a Captain in the Light Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line and also a pensioner under the act of Congress of the 4th June 1802. She further declared that she was married to the said Matthew Jack on or about the 15th day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two. That her husband the aforesaid Matthew Jack died on the second day of November 1806. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January a nineteen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated. Declarant further states that she was married to the said Matthew Jack by a justice of the peace who kept no record of the marriage and that she knows of no person now living who was present at said marriage except Elizabeth Thompson . She further declared that she has not been married to any one since the death of her said husband. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written - before John Solinger one of the judges of the County Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County -
John Solinger
Nancy Jack

State of Pennsylvania.
Onid
Westmoreland County ss.
On this fifth day of April 1839 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the judges of the County Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County, Robert Shields of Salem Township in said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on oath depose and say that he has been personally acquainted with Captain Matthew Jack late of Salem Township in said County, and Nancy his wife (the above applicant) for a period of more than forty years that they have cohabited together as man and wife during said time, and have raised a respectable family of children that the said Matthew Jack in his lifetime received a pension from the United States for services rendered in the War of the Revolution. - That he died on the second day of November 1836, and that Nancy Jack the above applicant for a pension is his widow and has not been married since his death. - Robert F. Shields
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before John Schlinger, one of the judges of the County Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County.
John Schlinger
State of Pennsylvania ss. Westmoreland County ss.
I, John Schlinger one of the judges of the County Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County, before whom the foregoing declaration of the said Nancy Jack was made, and also the foregoing affidavit of Robert Shields was made. Do hereby certify that Nancy Jack the said declarant, is unable from bodily infirmity to attend in court, and that the said Robert Shields is a respectable person to whose credibility full faith is of right due.
John Schlinger

State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County ss
At a Court of Common Pleas held at Greensburgh in and for said County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the Thirty first day of May A.D 1832 Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Samuel Jack and Polly Shields formerly Polly Jack are the only surviving children of Captain Mathew Jack late a Captain in the Eight Regiment in the Continental line of Pennsylvania, and that Mathew Jack left a son, Mathew Jack Jr. Since dead and leaving issue, as follows viz Isabella Jack married to John McCulloch. William Jack, Mathew Jack, Agnes Jack, Richard Jack Mary Jack, Jane Jack, & Samuel Jack. And the heirs of Elizabeth Jack viz Elizabeth Woods formerly Elizabeth Jack. Since dead and leaving issue four children to wit, Mathew Woods, Ann Woods married to Thomas Wilson, Mary Woods, and Margaret Woods, are the only heirs at Law in fee of Captain Mathew Jack dec d
I Jos Grop Prothonotary of the said Court do hereby certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Greensburgh the Thirty first day of May A.D 1832
Jos Grop Not

Matthew Jack
N o . 2483.
Joseph Stokely West Newton Penn a .
(Faint mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page)

To be filed in Room N o 98 Pension office Claim of 60 th Matthew & wife has a claim of some amount in the pension office
Joseph Stockley West Newton Pa.
Joseph Stockley 1885
Matthew Jacob N o 2483.

State of Penna ) I Samuel Sack and (Westmoreland County) Polly Shields whose husband is now dead formerly a daughter of Captain Matthew Sack being they only two children who are now living heirs at Law of Captain Matthew Sack do upon oath testify and declare to the best of their knowledge and belief that Captain Matthew Sack did enter the Service in Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six for the Term of the Revolutionary war and lived as a Captain captain in the Eighth Penn a Regiment under the command of Colonel Daniel Brodhead of the Continental line and that he continued in the Service aforesaid until April Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine when he became a Discharged or Supernumerary officer - we further declare that we have never received a warrant for the bounty lands promised to officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war on part of the United States - nor do we believe that he ever received it - or transferred his claim to it, in any manner whatever - Therefore
Know all men by these presents that we Samuel Sack and Polly Shields aforesaid do hereby consti- tute and appoint Joseph Stokely of West New- ton Westmoreland County Penn a to be our true and lawfully Attorney for ourselves and the other heirs to demands and receive from the Commissioner of Pensions a warrant for the grant- ing of lands due to us as aforesaid hereby ratifying whosoever our said Attorney may lawfully do about the same
Witness present John Baird James S. Murney
Sam Sack Mary Shields

personally appeared the within named Samuel Bark and Polly Shields formerly Polly Bark the Subscribers to the within Declaration and made oath to the same - and in the presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subscribed to be their free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned May 31 st 1854 Witness
Samuel Bark
J. M. Laird, J. P.
State of Pennsylvania, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, SS.
I
Jos. Greps
PROTHONOTARY
of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Westmoreland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Do hereby certify that
J. M. Laird before whom the foregoing
Declaration was made & the power of Attorney was duly Acknowledged
and whose name, in his own proper handwriting is to the foregoing certificate ap- pended, was then and now is an acting Jos. Greps in and for said County of Westmoreland, duly elected and commissioned, unto to all whose official acts and deeds full faith and credit are of right due.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Greensburg, the 31 st day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four
Jos. Greps - Prothonotary.

February/6, 1939
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BA-J/MLB/CC Matthew Jack W.2807 am
Mrs. Alexander Graff 108 Arch Street Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Matthew Jack of Pennsylvania, who served as lieutenant in the 8" regiment.
You are furnished herein the record of the only Matthew Jack found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data herein were obtained from the papers in the claims for pension and bounty land under File No.W.2807, based upon his service and upon disability incurred during that service in the Revolutionary War.
The data and place of birth and names of the parents of Matthew Jack are not shown.
Matthew Jack entered the service, place not stated, in March, 1776, was commissioned Lieutenant, served in Captain Samuel Miller's company, Colonel Aeneas Mackey's 8" Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Bound Brook April 13, 1777, in which he was wounded in his left wrist by the bursting of his gun which confined him about two months, then joined the army at Mount Pleasant, New Jersey, was commissioned Captain July 1, 1777, in the 8" Pennsylvania regiment, commanded by Colonel Daniel Brodhead, then Colonel Bayard, wintered at Valley Forge and in the spring of 1778, went up the Susquehanna River against the Indians, later marched to the mouth of Big Beaver where he assisted in building Fort McIntosh and later Fort Lawrence and served until the latter part of December, 1778, then returned home where he remained until February, 1779, when he was ordered to raise a company of rangers, went to the Kittanning Towns on the Allegheny where he assisted in building another fort, marched up the Allegheny River and destroyed the Munsey Indian Towns, was in several skirmishes, also, and was discharged in December, 1779.

On account of disability resulting from his injury during service, Matthew Jack was pensioned from June 7, 1785, while a resident of Greensburgh, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1832, he was aged seventy-eight years and a resident of Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He died there November 26, 1836.
Matthew Jack married February 15, 1782, in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Nancy _____, Her maiden name, names of parents and date and place of her birth were not given.
Nancy Jack was allowed pension on her application executed April 5, 1839, at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and a resident of Salem Township, Pennsylvania. She died November 20, 1840.
Reference was made to children of Matthew Jack and his wife, Nancy, their names as follow: William, Samuel, Elizabeth, Matthew and Mary Jack.
May 31, 1854, Samuel Jack and Mary or Polly Shields, both of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, then the only surviving children of Matthew Jack and his wife, Nancy, applied jointly for bounty land which was due on account of the Revolutionary War services of their father. Warrant No.2483, for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued June 6, 1854, to those heirs, and the other heirs named below.
Matthew Jack, Jr., son of Captain Matthew Jack, was survived by the following named children, the name of their mother not stated; Isabella Jack who married John McCulloch, William Jack, Matthew Jack, Agnes Jack, Richard Jack, Mary Jack, Jane Jack and Samuel Jack.
Elizabeth Jack, daughter of Captain Matthew Jack married _____ Woods, and died leaving children named as follow: Matthew Woods, Ann who married Thomas Wilson, Mary Woods and Margaret Woods.
In 1824, one Wilson Jack, age not stated, was living in Greenburgh, Pennsylvania, and testified in behalf of Matthew Jack but did not state his relationship to him.
In 1839, one Robert Shields was a resident of Salem Township, Pennsylvania, and made affidavit that he had known Captain Matthew Jack forty years; his relationship to Mary or Polly Shields, daughter of Captain Jack, not shown.

If you desire information in regard to location of the land which was granted the heirs of Matthew Jack, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of issuance.
No charge is made for this report.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County ss
In the matter of the Nancy Jack (widow of Capt. Matthew Jack late of Salem Township in said County deceased) now an applicant for a pension
Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for said County of Westmoreland Mrs. Nancy Jack The above applicant, and produced the family Bible of the said Matthew Jack deceased which contains a record of the marriage of the said Matthew and Nancy Jack and also of the birth of their children but which is so much defaced as to be illegible, and by the permission of the said Nancy Jack, I have detached said record from said Bible and attached the same to this affidavit to be forwarded to the War Office. And the said Nancy Jack being by me duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that the said Bible is their family Bible, that the record in said Bible, and now hereto attached is the hand writing of her late husband the said Matthew Jack and that said Bible and record has been in her possession ever since the decease of her said husband. Sworn and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said County the 31st day of July 1839. Thomas Wilson J.P.
Nancy Jack

State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County
Court
John Clark, Notary Public of the County of Columbia State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Thomas ... before whom the foregoing ... it was ... and whose name in his ... to the said affidavit appointed, was then and there an acting justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Westmore- land, duly Commissioned and appointed unto all his official acts and deeds full faith and credit due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Lancaster the 25th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine.
John Clark Not " "

upr. Jack in a new Doc
Pittsburgh
Matthew Jack
of Westm d Co. in the State of Penn a who was a Lt. & Capt. in the company commanded by Captain Miller of the Reg t . commanded by Col. Wilboy in the Pennsylvania line for 20 months Lt. $266.66 " " Capt. 80.00 $346.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 346 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of June 1833 and sent to Hon. R. Boultier Greensburgh P a
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 693.32 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th Sep. 1833 173.33 $866.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E. Vol. 5 Page 80
12 60 40

Nancy Jackson Pa.
admitted Capt 2 yrs #480 Col McCoy Pa.
died 26 Nov 36
Adopted July '38
John Armstrong. Greensburg Pa

Mrs. Nancy J. Greensburg, Pa. 1906 July 23 Hist. to Nancy C. Morrow, C 1908 July 1 Hist. to Mrs. E. Montgomery, V.L.M. 1913 May 2 Hist. to Mrs. E. at Walhalla, V.L.M. 1914 May 22 Hist. to Alice Grubbs, V.L.M. 1929 June 19, Photos to Mrs. Eursler & Fin Div. nfd 1938 June 18 Hist. to Mrs. J. W. 1939 Feb. 16 Hist. to Mary Grubb (Mrs. Alexander Grubb)
Sept. 24 1977 Wentling
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 2807
 Nancy Jack  Widow 
 Matthew Jack  Capt. Rev War 
Act: July 7. 1838.
Index: —Vol. a , Page 370
[Arrangement of 1870.]

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Matthew Jack m. 2807
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Feb. 1776 18 mos. Quar. Samuel Miller Reneas Mackay Penn.   July 1. 1777 17 mos. Capt Brodhed   Bayard   July 1779 10 mos. Capt Genl. Brodhed  
Battles engaged in, Boundbrook where he was wounded in left wrist.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Aug. 22 1832
Residence at date of application, Salem Twp. Westmoreland Co. Pa.
Age at date of application, 78 yrs. Recd. pension Nov. 26 1836
Remarks: Soldier served in Humphreys Twp. Westmoreland Co. Pa. July 15 1782. He was allowed pension on an application presented April 1839 while a resident of Salem Twp. Westmoreland Co. Pa. aged 77 yrs. He died Nov 20 1840. Children William, Samuel, Elizabeth, Matthew & Mary.
Very respectfully

Jan 8 th , 1939
Stamp gone when rec. in 1940 Dear Sir,
MRS. ALEXANDER GRAFF 108 ARCH STREET KITTANNING PENNSYLVANIA
Have you the Pension Application of Matthew Jack, of Newtown (now Greensburg), Bedford (now Westmoreland Co.) Pennsylvania. He served as Lieut. in the 8 th Regiment, during the Revolution.
If so will you kindly tell me your charge for a copy, and any history, it may contain. I think he applied Nov. 1783. Thanking you for anticipated courtesy, Sincerely, Mary Graff
add: no charge is made for this use

THE SPACE ABOVE IS RESERVED FOR POSTAGE POSTAL CARD THE SPACE BELOW IS FOR THE ADDRESS OF THE
Commissioner of Pensions, Department O, Washington, D. C.

Please send the pension record of the following Revolutionary Soldiers:
✓ Mathew Jack of Westmoreland county. C ✓ Archibald Leech - Armstrong " ✓ James Jordan - Allegheny " ✓ Wm. M c Farland - Fayette " ✓ Alex. M c Farland - Westmoreland " John M c Farland, an invalid pensioner, p. 494, Third Series, Pa. Archives.
We are especially anxious to receive military service of all the Jacks of Westmoreland Co.
Thanking you for your kindness, I am, Tidioute, Pa., July 6, 1906.
Yours cordially, Nancy C. Morrow.

Aug. 18. 1846 hup
From John Young, Esq. Gresham, B. 20 May
Matthew Jack, Esq. New cordwaining

Pennsylvania
See letter to H. Nat.
Matthew Jack, lieutenant , In the Army U. States
Enrolled on the roll of Pa. at $13 \frac{33\frac{1}{3}}{100} per mo. increased to $15 \frac{21\frac{1}{2}}{100} by Law of 24. April, 1816
Certificate of pension issued 7 June 1820, & sent to the care of John Young Esq. Greensburg Pa.
New certificate issued 5 Nov. 1824, and sent to John Y. Barclay, Greensburg, Pa.

Greensburgh Pa 20 May 1820
Sir
Mathew Jack who was a Captain in the 8 th Penna Regiment during the Revolution having received a wound was placed on the Pension list. He has hitherto received the sum allowed to him without any difficulty until lately and he is now required to produce a certified copy of the original certificate from the Secretary of war with new-proof as to the degree of disability occasioned by the wound.
Capt Jack has requested me to write to you for the copy which has been required. I trust you will have the goodness to order it to be forwarded.
Permit me to avail myself of this opportunity to inquire if there be any vacancy of a Surgeon's Mate in the Army. My son Francis was recommended to the President for that station about a year ago. There was then no vacancy and in consequence he proceeded to the State of Mississippi to engage in the practice of Medicine. He has lately informed me that the Profession is so crowded in that country it is almost impossible for a young man to get forward, and would therefore be very willing to take a place in the medical department of either the Army or Navy. Nothing being obtained without asking although liable to the charge of presumption you will the more readily excuse it when you think of the anxiety of a Parent to have his son usefully & honorably employed. I am
Sir
Yours Respectfully John Young

Free by Plumer
Joseph Stokely Esq r
Robbstown Pa

Dear Sir
Washington Feb y 21 st 1825
Your letter of Jan r last enclosing Documents relative to the Claim of Capt Mathew Jack for Military Bounty Land came to hand, I immediately submitted them to the Department of War to see if any thing could be done in the case, the Records in the Office was searched and his name could not be found, I then had the Books in the Auditor Genl s Office in Harrisburg examined but obtained no information from them Capt Jacks name not being on any of the Revolutionary Documents in that Office the Claim was then reported against by the Department of War
Some time after I stated in writing on the back of the Power of Attorney you sent what I knew respecting the case and submitted it again to Mr Calhoun and request he would give it another investigation which he promised should be done, I have since received a Communication from Mr Stewart chief Clerk in that branch of the War Office where the Claims for Bounty Land are investigated stating that the case was rejected, he informed me that you had several times before presented the same Claim and that you were allways told it could not be granted, you mentioned in your letter if I did not succeed in obtaining the Warrant from the Department of War to draft a Petition and sign Capt Jacks name to it and bring the business before Congress this part of your instructions I did not feel my self at liberty to comply with till Capt Jack would authorize me to do so, you will find inclosed the power of Attorney and two letters from Mr Stewart on the subject, I am fully convinced with out further proof Congress will not grant the Land
Respectfully
Joseph Stokely Esqr
Yours &c Geo Thurner

Claim of the Children of Capt Matthew Dale to bounty Lands a Revolutionary Soldier who became drowned in April 1779 & the commission to create a Special ban of this here it taken up and allowed Joseph Stokely Attorney for The Children
Joseph Stokely West Newton Westmoreland County Penn.

Charleston and County Pinel December 21 st 1867
Honourable Sir I have a number of Congress from the District
It is my request that your honour would please let know the names of the persons obeying the warrant in force to which I am with the other children entitled from the United States for hereditary succession the Revolutionary war he being a Defense man a place in the year 1778 or 79 he was a 60th the 8 th Penna. regt under Col. Daniel Brooks your attention will bring a favor upon your friend
Samuel Lock
I do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with the above named Samuel Lock that he is one of the legitimate children of Captain Matthew Lock died a Revolutionary officer as above stated there are other heirs but I cannot now name them I also well know that Joseph Stokes is their agent I therefore request that the county Court Warrant be issued to the above Samuel Lock and the other heirs the said Captain Matthew Lock being a Defense or Pensionary officer in April 1779
Jos. H. Stokes
No of Rep s of U.S.

Cap o Matthew Luck

Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
Personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County on this 23 rd day of August A.D. 1833 Captain Ma- thias Jack of Salem Township in said County Who on his solemn Oath makes the follow- ing the Declaration in addition to the one forwarded to the War Department heretofore. To Wit: That in March 1776 he received a lieutenants Commission in the 8 th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel McCoy, in the Company commanded by Captain Miller - That being wounded in the Battle of Brandywine or the 11 th of Ap. 1777 he was confined for upwards of two months. Soon or about the first of July 1777 he received a Captain's Commission in the same Regiment - That after he was com- missioned as a Captain, he continued in the American army as such until till the month of December  December 1779. During that time his commanding officers were first Genl. Washington, then & Colonel Rod- head & Bayard - for the particulars of

his services he refers to his former Declara- tion on the files of the War Department No 11.784-
He further declares that he served in the Revolutionary War for the period of thirteen  thirteen months & upwards as a lieutenant & for the period of twenty seven months & upwards as a Captain in the Army of the Revolution - for which terms of service he claims a pension - sworn to & subscribed Aug. 23 d 1833 in open Court.
allot Randal M c Laughlin, Prob e
Matthew Park
Westmoreland County ss. I Randal M c Laughlin Prothonotary of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of Westmoreland County do hereby certify that at a Court of Common Pleas held at Greensburg on the twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, Present the Honorable John Young Esquire President this Special Judges of the same Court Cap- tain Matthew Park of Salem Township in said County came into court and declared on oath that the foregoing addition to his former Declaration of services as a soldier & officer of the Revolution are true, and that he subscribed the same in open court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the same day & year.
Randal M c Laughlin, Prob e

Pennsylvania
Wiltmoreland (county), ss
(On this twenty ninth day) of October eighteen hundred and twenty four before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the said county personally appeared Michael Jack who on his oath deposes That he is the same person who formerly served as a lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller in the Legion - commanded by Colonel Richard M c Coy in the Service of the United States; That his name was placed on the former Invalid Pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania That he received a Certificate of that fact, under the Certificate of that fact under the Signature & Seal of the Secretary of War; Which Certificate sometime in the fall of 1822 (the particular day not recol- lected) was placed in the hands of Nelson Jack who of Greenough (who had derived this document's pension for several years previous to that time) at the Borough of Greenough in said county - This deponent has not seen said Certificate since that time - Nor has he received from the United States any pension on said Certificate since the payment which became due in September 1822 - as he believes - This de- ponent does not know what has become of

The said Certificate, but believing it has been lost or mislaid - And makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a copy of his pen- sion Certificate from the War Department and further saith not.
Matt n Jack
Given & subscribed to the day & year aforesaid
Before me
A. Wilson
Pennsylvania Westmoreland County } ss
On this twenty fifth day of
October eighteen hundred and twenty four before be- fore me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Wilson Jack of Greensburg - in said County who on his oath Declared that the pension Certificate of Matthew Jack formerly a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War was in the possession of this Deponent in the month of January eighteen hundred and twenty three for the purpose of claiming the pensions which had become due in  the September 1822. that he received the said pensions at the Loan office Bank of the United States Philadelphia that in the month of

February 1823. & at the same time left the said Certificate in the Loan Office aforesaid with the Officer who paid him the pensions - for the purpose of convenience & security in drawing the pensions after- wards - Thereafter Deponent has not since seen said certificate - Frequent enquiry has been made for the same at the Loan Office aforesaid, but the said Certificate cannot be found - This Deponent believes it to have been lost or mislaid - and further saith not -
Sworn to (subscribed to) } Wilson „ Sack the day & year aforesaid Before me - (A. Johnston)
Westmoreland County, ss. I David Marchand prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Hereby Certify That A. Johnston before whom the two foregoing depositions of Matthew Sack and Wilson Sack were taken was at the time of the taking the said depo- sitions and now is an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and sworn. To all whose acts as such full faith and credit is due.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office at Greensburgh, in said County this 29 th day of October A. D. 1824 (twenty four).
D. Marchand Pro.

1753
Pension Office
20 Nov 1865
Sir. Please certify date of death of Nancy Jack within named pensioned.
Very respectfully Yours with respect
J. Call
Chief Clerk
Kind Auditor, Pension Dept.

Nancy Jack, died 20 Nov. 1840, paid,
W. & M. Mison
Third Under

Matthew Jack Invalid Pension Pennsylvania Rote

Nancy Jacks Pennsylvania
Suspended.
Packet. 26 th July 1839 to John Armstrong.
Acty July 1838

Mary Matthew Jack Pittsburgh Pa. Act 7 June 1832 To what time p? ? Pen. Office.
1820. died 1836
July 26, 1839
Died 26 November 1836. paid to that period T. H. H.

Rev
W. 2807
em
Topeka, Kan.
June 17, 1908
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to you for information about my great grandfather who was in the Revolutionary war, with a view of becoming a member of the D. A. R. Society. He received a pension therefore I was directed to write to you for all the details concerning him. His name was Capt.

Matthew Jack, born in West- moreland Co., Penn.
He died in 1885 aged eighty two.
Thanking you in advance for any information you may send me.
I am Yours very truly Mrs. E. Montgomery.
717 Topeka ave. Topeka, Kan.

135 E. French Pl.
San Antonio, Texas.
Pension Department, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir -
I wish to ask if you can send me copies of the pension records of the ancestors named below -

great - great grand father Colonel Joseph Crum -
These all lived in Pennsylv- ania, Westmoreland County and served in the Revolutionary War, and I wish to have the records for use in appli- cation blanks of the D. A. R.
Thanking you in advance,
Sincerely Yours,
Address Mary Claris Walthall, (Mrs. Leon N. Walthall)
Daughter of John Claris and Nancy Jack Paul. Nancy Jack Paul, daughter of Agnes Nelson Jack and Samuel Jackson Paul,

First - My great grand- father Colonel James Paul (Paull) who received a pension in 1832.
Second - My great-great grandfather Matthew Lusk.
Third - Col. Archibald Lusk - (His wife received a pension) My great great grandfather -
Fourth - My great-

Commissioner of Pensions.
My dear Sir
Will you be kind enough to let me know, if among the files of the Pension Office applications can be found from Capt. Matthew Jack and

Alexander Craig - In pension - both of Westmoreland Counties - Penna - Both served during the Revolutionary War Please let me know also - if their Commissions as Officers are filed with their applications
Very Sincerely - (Mrs) Nancy Jack Wrapping Greensburg -
Westmoreland Co Penna - Sept - 2 nd 1897 -

Capt. $480
Admit-
2 years
Capt. 480.
Washington
War department
Pension office
Edward Age
due

New Certificate for 680 g per annum issued 17 Sept 1833.
680

Greenbury 12. Sep. 1833.
Sir, Agreeably to your directions I enclose you a new Statement in the Oaths made by Captain Mathew Jack, together with his previous Certificate for further Exam- ination.
With much respect
J. V. Barclay
J. L. Edwards Esq.

Washington July 2, 1832.
Sir
Sergt Mathew Lock became "Superannuary" 1779. He was Sergt. in the Eighth Regt Penn Line,
Computation pay is claimed, by heirs - and after service alleged
We desire to know, if there is any thing in your office to show Sergeant Lock's subseq ent to the 1779. If a Land warrant issued to said Lock or assignees - if he rec d the "one years pay" under the Res- olution of 24 Nov 1778
Very Respectfully
Moisès Eddy of Com n on Rev d Claims
Capt 8 th Regt Pennsylvania
Discharged April 1779
Then S t Waldo was entitled
Com. Pensions to persons,
3 said Yrs

Quensbury P 30 Oct
Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th inst.
War Department
Washington City

Sir,
Enclosed are the affidavits of Matthew Jack & Wilson Jack made for the purpose of procuring a new Pension Certificate for the former.
If allowed please enclose it to me,
Very respectfully Yours &
John F. Barclay
Hon. Secretary of War.
Greencastle Water. County
Down. Oct. 30. 1874

Mathew Jack
Out
admitted.
4 mo. Capt. $80 20 mo. Lieut. 266:66 $346:66
Hon. R. Coulter Greensburg Pa.

File
J. L. Edward Ely Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Greenhills Westm. Co. Penn a J. L. Edwards Esq. Aug. 5. 1833.
Captain Mathew Jack an officer officer of the Revolution, who has received under the late Pension Law a Certificate N o 11.784 for $346.66 per annum has requested me to turn your attention to what appears to him to be an error.
It will appear from his declaration that he served as a Lieutenant upwards of 14 months & as a Captain nearly two or about 2 years - in all upwards of three years, entitling him to full pay.
Now if he is pensioned as a Lieutenant his pension at $30.70 (as I am informed) per month w d be $368.40 per annum.
And if he is pensioned as a Captain, which I presume is the case, his pension at $40.00 per month would amt. to $480.00 -
This is Captain Jack's view of the matter. You

will confer a favour on a brave & honorable Officer, by examining the matter, & informing me of the Result of Your Enquiry at an Early day -
With Much Respect
J. H. Barclay.

Cap. Matthew Jack
Payments to be made at Pittsburgh by the Pres. U. S. Br. Bk. & Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Pittsburgh
Cancel this issue new certificate for $480
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 5 Page 80 by D. Brown Clerk.

Capt. Matthew Jack
Payments to be made at Pittsburgh by the Post. U. S. Br. Bk. & Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Pittsburgh
Cancel this issue new certificate for $480—
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E. Vol. 5 Page 80 by D. Brown Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Matthew Jack of the State of Pennsylvania who was a Lieutenant and Captain in the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Three hundred and forty six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 20 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three
Acting John B. B. Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Copy.
It appears by the Register of the Pa. Line, which Finley is missing as having been appointed an Ensign 9 August 1776 - 2nd Lt. 13 July 1777 - Omitted April 1779 - Discharged 10 Sep 1778 -
Accommodating Officer
Dept. of War
Oct. 25 th 1810
Peter Wagner
Para. Clerk

Merchants & Manufact. Bk. Pittsburgh March 28 th 1850
Dear Sir, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the last part of the letter of Chas. 1836. I am very respectfully Yours all the time Ever! Yours for the time being
W. Edwards Esq. Compt. of Patents Washington City

Oct 23
Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire Com ee of Pensions Washington City.
Nancy Jack, Paul E,
4343

Oct 23
Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire Com n of Pensions Washington City.
Nancy Jack, Parole,
4343

Greensburg West. Co. Penn a 19, Oct r . 1839.
J. L. Edwards Esquire Com te of Pensions.
Dear Sir
The Pension Certificate of Mrs Nancy Jack, has been received, but upon application to the Agent for paying pensions at Pittsburgh her attorney was informed by said Agent, that he had received Orders from the Com te of Pensions, not to pay any claims until 4 March 1840, whose certificate bears date since the 3 rd Sept r . Ult o . Will you be so good as to inform me whether the claim of Mrs. Nancy Jack, falls within the provisions of said Order, and if so, the reason why payment of her claim is postponed.
Dear Sir.
Respectfully
Your Obedient
Serv t
John Armstrong

Sir
Edward Esquine Commissioner of Pensions Washington City -

Greensburg West d County Penn a 6 th April 1839.
J. L. Edwards Esquire Commission of Pensions
Dear Sir
Inclosed I transmit the declaration of Nancy Jack, widow of Captain Mathew Jack late of Salem Township in this County, deceased. also the affidavits of Rob t Shields and Elizabeth M c Mahan, for the purpose of obtaining a pension - all of which I hope you will find in due form - I. Sir Yours Very Respectfully
John Armstrong

Ad 5 Aug-11
{ Military Stores T. C. 1 11
Director Hospital 1
Hospital Steward 1 - 71

See letter to Hon. Geo. Plummer in Relation to Capt. Matthew Smith Vol. 6. Page 314 Jan'y 19 th 1825

May 14 46
Matthew Jack Inw rde
4343 Jun 30
7
H A Dickins Poul

Washington 12 May 1846.
Sir,
In yours of the 18 th October last. you informed Col. Mathews that "the claim of "the children of the late Mathews "Jack, for his invalid pension, which "was due from March 1833, up to Nov. "1836, when he died, cannot now be paid, "All such claims being barred by the "4 th section of the act of 3 rd March last." As by the late law this 4 th section is repealed, I must now ask that the claim may be paid.
Yours very respectfully
Francis A. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq. Com r . of Pensions.

Washington 23 May 1846
Rec'd of the Com. of Pensions the papers referred to in the within letter.
Francis A. Dickinson.
Island.

Pa. 7 Oct 1845;
5340
Washington City 7th of October 1845 Francis Le Dithers Esq.
Sir I filed with the Commr. of Pensions on the 3rd Oct the Just the power of Attorney of the Admrs of Duglass No 6. it dated for half pay from the time the Sloop Gally was sold in May 1824 to the 22nd of April 1833 the day on which the half pay writ of force received was commenced
Also on the same day I filed with him the claim of the Exrs and one of the heirs of Matthew Jack of Westmore- land County Pa on an invalid Pension at the rate of $ 181.33 per year until 3rd March 1831 when his full Pen- sion as Capt commenced under act of 7th of June 1842 and his Invalid Pension was stopped - by two or three several acts of Congress it is provided the Invalid Pension shall not be stopped or withheld - We now claim this Invalid Pension from 3rd March 1831 to 26th June 1836 the day of his death
This day I filed the claim of the son and next heir and also the Exrs of his father's will of Duglass mate Wm J. Watts of the Va State Navy on board the Gally Amirante claiming half pay from the Commission and date of such until 22nd of April 1833 when the half pay writ of force received was commenced
As I expect to have here tomorrow or next day I wish you to attend to these cases for me and I will allow you a reason- able compensation for the same - Yours respectfully Henry Ware Trust

St. John's, Newfoundland 21 July 1829
2 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th inst. in the course of ordinary mail and in reply to inform you that the enclosures are returned by me as soon as to be sent to the carrying vessel for the United States. I am, Sir, as usual, in the act of writing to the Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I have the honor to enclose the present letter as a duplicate of the one I am writing to him.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, John D. Battersby

Oct 4. 1848.
to Matthew Jackson
Conneaut
Pa
Edwards
Esq.
Conneaut corner of Park. Sts Pittsburgh

Washington City 3rd of Oct r 1845
Sir
Enclosed are the papers of T. Hines of Matthew Jack and Stand Invalid Pensions of Westmoreland County Pa at $187.33 per annum up to the 28th March 1831. and since which time a cap t of Pensions at the rate of $450 per year his heirs now apply for the retained or suspended pension of $187.33 since the 28th March 1831 which has been expressly provided should not be stopped suspended or deducted from any sub subsequent Pension granted. This Invalid Pension has been stopped or suspended. and his children have applied same two or three times through their representation have been the claimant when they have been told there was nothing due - Along with the papers is a memorandum which will fully explain and show the nature of our claim and that the sum of $187.33 is now due to the children of Matthew Jack from the 28th March 1831 to the 26th of June 1836 the day of his death. will you in cause this claim to be taken up and acted on as early as practicable and oblige Sir
Yours Respectfully Henry Clay Trustee

Nehemiah Stokeley - Capt Andrew Finley - Lieut Mathew Jack - Capt
Joseph Stokeley

Hon L P Moldo Washington May 18 th 1854
My Br Lr I frondid an application to your honour Last Januay 54 for the Revolutionary bounty land to which Capt Matthew Sack as Serangeed or Supernumerary office was intitled to this claim I made here as Early as in the year 1825 but Still Refused - Saying he was not Returned as Such - but Lr I had another claim which caused me to have Reference to the Penn a Deprecia- tion Book in the 3 d auditor office and then I see Capt Sack Returned as Such - I now wish this claim could be Settled - The Record is in the 3 d auditors office - I was an official certificate sent for to Satisfy Mr Gordon I have had in Mr Peter Hagney time certificates for other person taken from the same Book as authority and Mr Gordon has now a certificate given by Mr Galleger but it Still does not Satisfy Now if 100 objections should have been improperly made - Must not be any Reason why this claim should not be allowed
Respectfully yours Joseph Stokes

To what time was Matthew Jack, Pittsburgh, Penn. roll, last paid?
Q 3 Please to say to what time as an Invalid Pensioner. Paid as an Invalid to 4 th March 1833. B.H.B.
Q 3 And to what time as a Pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832. per Act of June '32, Paid to 26 th Nov r 1836, the day of his death. B.H.B.
Yours
J. L. Edwards Oct. 17. 1845

18 Aug 1846. Rev. Matthew Lash
Lane L Edwards Esq., Commissioner of Pensions • Present

18 Aug 1846. Rev. Matthew Lock
James L. Edwards Esq., Commissioner of Pensions Present

Washington City 10th of August 1846
Sir
On the 20th of last I petitioned to have Mr. Foster the claim of deceased Jacob Leisler for Invalid Pension and also for the amount of Pension due the widow from his rights until the day of her death the same to be paid in monthly installments - The invalid Pension was received but the Pension due the widow at the time of her death was not and a letter was read by Mr. Foster stating the objection in the case of the Pension due the widow.
This letter Mr. Foster never had & could not find to hand now I have therefore Sir to ask of you a copy of your letter to the Honorable Mr. Foster in the latter part of July last relative to the claim of the children of Mrs. Mary Jacob for the amount of the half pay due their mother at the time of her death and oblige me yours sincerely
Henry Clay

States that he was Comm'd a Lt. in 1776 in the 8 th Pa Reg t then Com d , by Colonel McCoy - that during the Summer of 1777 he was Comm'd a Captain in the same Reg t , which in 1778 was Com d by Col o Breadhead - in the fall of 1778, he with a part of the Reg t returned to fort M c Intosh, where he was superseded, along with all the other Officers of the Reg t , except two, and then returned to his home where he remained until some time in February following, when he Rec d . order to raise a Company of Rangers which did and continued with said Com y until Novem r 1779. When he was discharged with the other troops, at Pottsburgh - that his service was without interruption, from April 1776 to the latter part of Decem r 1778, and from Feb y 1779. till Novem r 1779

Chambers Gen L Edwards Engg

Clarus, Matthew Jack a Revolutionary Invalid Pensioner of the Pa Continental Line and a resident of Westmoreland County Pa. New Pension under Act of 1785. ar 7, until 1816 when it was increased to $181.33 per annum This he drew until the 3rd of March 1832 when he applied for and obtained a Pension of $120 per annum from 7th March 1831 under act of 7th of June 1832 from this pension was deducted the amount of Invalid Pension received after 3rd of March 1831 and the Invalid Pen- sion withheld from that day to the day of his death Although there have been two several acts passed by Congress declaring that the invalid Pension shall not be withheld or deducted from the Annual Pension under either acts of 18th of May 1828 or of 7th June 1832 Matthew Jack his eldest son and one of the Exors has made his de- claration and applied for himself and Brother and Two Sisters They being the sole and only Children for the amount of Invalid Pen- sion then due of $181.33 per year from the 3rd of March 1831 to the 20th of June 1836 the day of his death The records in the office at Washington with the warrants and Vouchers of the Pension Agent for the Pittsburgh agency for the peri- od of from Septm 1836 to March 1837 will show the time of Matthew Jack's death also a certified copy of his will and the certificate of the Justice of the peace before whom Samuel the Exor has made his declaration will show when Matthew Jack died and who his living Children are and lastly the records in your own office will show when he died as you have granted his widow the same amount of Pension for life from that he drew commencing with the day of her death Will you please cause this claim to be taken up and passed on as early as practicable and oblige me Yours Respectfully
Henry Ward

THE LARDIES
Painesville, Ohio,
May 18th, 1914.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
If consistent, will you kindly furnish me with a statement of the Revolutionary services of the following named Revolutionary pensioners:
Daniel McMath of Westmoreland Co., Pa. Matthew Jack " " " Elliott, John " Allegheny County "
And oblige,
Yours truly,
(Miss) Alice C. Truby
207 Bank Street, Painesville, Ohio.

Mrs R Winnagle 285 Washington St N. W. Warren, Ohio
May 25 1938
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Gentlemen;—
It is desired to have any information contained in your records on Matthew Jack, a resident of Fayette Co Pa , and possibly Westmoreland Co., A Revolutionary Soldier who lost his left hand by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook N.J. He was a Captain in 4-13-1777.
Thanking you for the information I am
Very Sincerely
Grace M. Winnagle Grace M Winnagle

Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
List of Pages: Sledge's ap. Nov. 22-1832 5p Nancy Jack's ap. Apr. 5, 1839- 1p Farm. rec. 1p
Received payment for Nov. 22, 1832 for a full set Section

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18th Century War Pension Claim to Chief Clerk
June 8, 1929
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Please send me uncertified photostatic copies of seven pages from the Rev. War pension claim, W. 2807. Matthew Jack, widow, Nancy.
(Miss) Mary C. Overton 1415 Longfellow St NW
Received payment $1.05 June 8, 1929
W. C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 War Section

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Matthew Jack , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
m. File 2807
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apl. 1776 13 mos. Lieut. Sam'l. Miller Dennis Hickey 8 th Pa.   July 1, 77 17 mos. Capt. Broodhead   Feby. 1779 10 mos. Capt. General Broodhead   Inw. Pers. act June 7, 1785.  
Battles engaged in, Mount Braddock Apl. 13, 1777.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated.
Date of application for pension, Nov 22 1832; attorned.
Residence at date of application, Salem Twp. Wayne Co., Pa.
Age at date of application, 78 yrs.
Remarks: Sol. m. Feb 15, 1782 Nancy he died Nov. 26, 1836.
his wife apl. 5, 1839 w. Salem Twp. ac 79 she died Nov. 20, 1840

June 18, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mrs. R. Winnagle 235 Washington Street, N. W., Warren, Ohio
MATTHEW JACK W. 2307 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Matthew Jack, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, of Fayette or Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, who, you state, lost his left hand in service by the bursting of his gun at Bound Brook, New Jersey, and who was commissioned Captain.
You are furnished herein the record of the only Matthew Jack found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers in the claims for pension and bounty land under File No. W. 2307, based upon his service and upon disability incurred during that service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Matthew Jack are not shown.
Matthew Jack entered the service, place not stated, in March, 1776, was commissioned Lieutenant, served in Captain Samuel Miller's company, Colonel Aeneas Mackey's 8" Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battle of Bound Brook April 13, 1777, in which he was wounded in his left wrist by the bursting of his gun which confined him about two months, then joined the army at Mount Pleasant, New Jersey, was commissioned Captain July 1, 1777, in the 8" Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Daniel Brodhead, then Colonel Bayard, wintered at Valley Forge and in the spring of 1778, went up the Susquehanna River against the Indians, later marched to the mouth of Big Beaver where he assisted in building Fort McIntosh and later Fort Lawrence and served until the latter part of December, 1778, then returned home where he remained until February, 1779, when he was ordered to raise a company of rangers, went to the Kittanning Towns on the Allegheny where he assisted in building another fort, marched up the Allegheny River and destroyed the Munsey Indian Towns, was in several skirmishes, also, and was discharged in December, 1779.

On account of disability resulting from his injury during service, Matthew Jack was pensioned from June 7, 1785, while a resident of Greensburgh, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1832, he was aged seventy-eight years and a resident of Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He died there November 26, 1836.
Matthew Jack married February 15, 1782, in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Nancy _____. Her maiden name, names of parents and date and place of her birth were not given.
Nancy Jack was allowed pension on her application executed April 5, 1839, at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and a resident of Salem Township, Pennsylvania. She died November 20, 1840.
Reference was made to children of Matthew Jack and his wife, Nancy, their names as follow: William, Samuel, Elizabeth, Matthew and Mary Jack.
May 31, 1854, Samuel Jack and Mary or Polly Shields, both of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, then the only surviving children of Matthew Jack and his wife, Nancy, applied jointly for bounty land which was due on account of the Revolutionary War services of their father. Warrant No. 2483, for three hundred acres of bounty land, was issued June 6, 1854, to those heirs, and the other heirs named below.
Matthew Jack, Jr., son of Captain Matthew Jack, was survived by the following named children, the name of their mother not stated: Isabella Jack who married John McCulloch, William Jack, Matthew Jack, Agnes Jack, Richard Jack, Mary Jack, Jane Jack and Samuel Jack.
Elizabeth Jack, daughter of Captain Matthew Jack, married _____ Woods and died leaving children named as follow: Matthew Woods, Ann who married Thomas Wilson, Mary Woods and Margaret Woods.
In 1824, one Wilson Jack, age not stated, was living in Greensburgh, Pennsylvania, and testified in behalf of Matthew Jack but did not state his relationship to him.
In 1839, one Robert Shields was a resident of Salem Township, Pennsylvania, and made affidavit that he had known Captain Matthew Jack forty years; his relationship to Mary or Polly Shields, daughter of Captain Jack, not shown.
If you desire information in regard to location of the land which was granted the heirs of Matthew Jack, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and date of issuance.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator - 2 -

Joseph Potosky Story for the Col- lectors of both western and eastern to be sure of it
See letter to Hon. Geo. Plumer in relation to the claim for vacant land by Capt. Matthew Smith Vol 6. Page 314 - Jan 29 th 1825

Treasury Department, (M d Aud g Office),
Jan. 16, 1852
In a Revolutionary Book of this Office, entitled "Depreciation on Pay of the Army, Pennsylvania," the name of Mathews Jack, Captain, appears, with the remark "deranged, Ap l 79."
J. B. Gallaher Aud g

5150
Nancy Jack of Matthew Pennsylvania
Guest

Omit
State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County ss.
I John Clark, Prothonotary of The Court of Common Pleas of West- moreland County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that John Sobengier Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made and whose name in his own proper handwriting is to the above declaration and affidavit appended, was then and now is a judge of the County Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County aforesaid, duly commissioned and appointed, and to all of whose Official Acts and Deeds full faith and credit are of right due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greensburg the Sixth day of April in the year of Our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
John Clark Proth

State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County ss
Quist
Personally appeared before the Subscribed one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace in and for said County - Elizabeth McMahon aged seventy-five years, who being duly sworn, according to law, saith that she is personally acquainted with Nancy Jack, Widow of Matthew Jack, late of Salem Township in the said County, deceased, that she was present at the marriage of the said Matthew Jack and Nancy Jack, that it took place in Hempfield Township in said County, in the month of February one thousand seven hundred & eighty-two before John Guthrie Esquire a Justice of the peace - that said Matthew Jack departed this life sometime in the month of March 1836 and the said Nancy who is now applying for a pension is the Widow of the said Matthew Jack, and that she has not been married since the death of the said Matthew. Sworn to and Subscribed before me the fifth day of April 1839
Elizabeth for McMahon made
Thomas Wilson, Justice of the peace
And I hereby Certify that the said Elizabeth McMahon who has sworn to and Subscribed the above affidavit is a Respectable person whose testimony is entitled to full Credit -
State of Pennsylvania Westmoreland County ss
Thomas Wilson J. P.
I John Glen & Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that Thomas Wilson Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was made, and whose name, in his own proper hand writing is to the said deposition appended, was then and now is an acting justice of the peace in and for the said County of Westmoreland duly commissioned and appointed, and to all of whose Official acts and Deeds full faith and credit are of right due

Quat
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Greensborough the sixth day of April, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine -
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