Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,741 1/2, for Francis Mc Intosh, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Pa
Mc Intosh, Francis.
P. 6. 741 1/2
CONTENTS
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NOV 11 1900
REJECTED
6741 1/2
P. O.
Francis McEntosh
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Francis H. Intosh Indiana
Rejected
see letter 11 Oct 1837 Mr. Garrison jr
did not serve six months
67 H 1/2

I do Certify that Francis McIntosh served his country faithfully between four and five months we were both drafted at the same time both started out in the same Company viz Captain Valentine Paytons Com manded by Col. Drusted Churchill and Major Dennis Ramsay and I can further say that I have been acquainted with him that I have always taken for about forty years him to be an honest man and respectable citizen - Given under my hand this October 16 th 1833
Robert Garrett
Sworn to before the subscriber a justice of the peace for Montgomery County Kentucky given under my hand this October 16 th 1833 Willis Drennan J.P. 466

Greenburgn la Sep 2 —
Sept 9.
Ind. Act 1832.
Free
Pension Office Washington City D.C.

Greencastle Ind Aug 28 th 1837.
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will observe the declaration of Francis McIntosh for a pension, with the affidavit of Robert Gannett. The declaration states that he was drafted for three months - and was in actual service for five - which are the facts of his service. He was kept in the service something like two months after he ought to have been discharged.
I am Respectfully J. S. Edwards Esq Martin L. Farnsworth Jr.

34, 205 Francis McIntosh Indiana

The State of Indiana & Decatur Probate Court Decatur County 3 rd August Term 1837 —
On this day of August 13 th personally appeared in open court of said Decatur County Probate Court, Francis McIntosh now sitting Francis McIntosh a resident of Decatur County and State of Indiana aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he was drafted in the Militia of the State of Virginia some time in the Summer of 1781. in the Company commanded by Captain Valentine Paytons field officers Col. Armsted Churchill and Major Dennis Ramsey in the County of Prince William in the State of Virginia that he was drafted for the term of three months and marched from thence to a place called the Halfway house from thence to Little York from thence to Little York where they remained for two or three weeks from thence they marched to the Barracks near Williamsburg where they had a skirmish with Cornwallis' army from thence to Old Richmond where they were discharged, that they were reconnoitering the country between the above points for the space of three or four months. That he was engaged in the battle below Old Richmond. That he was engaged in the service for the space of four or five months, that he resided in the State of Virginia when drafted and was seventeen or eighteen years of age, that his Father is dead that there is a record of his age in his father's books which he has not the possession of nor does not know where they are that he came from the State of Virginia about thirty five years since & settled in the State of North Carolina

when he resided four years from there to east Tennessee where he remained some years and then went to the State of Kentucky where he resided about ten or twelve years from there to the Alabama where he lived four years there to the State of Indiana where he now resides. That he has no documentary evidence of his services except the sworn certificate of Robert Garrett which is forwarded with this application that he was born in the year 1744 or 45 in the County of Prince William in the State of Virginia, that he has no record of his age, that he was drafted as above stated and served as per son as set forth He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. Francis G. McIntosh.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day first above forenoon
Henry H. Talbott, clk, D.C.
We William N. Bush — and John Haze rigg Esq residing in the County of Loudoun County, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Francis McIntosh who has subscribed hereto to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is respected & believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. William N. Bush John Haze rigg
Sworn & subscribed on the day first above forenoon Henry H. Talbott, clk And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after the putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that William Bush

+ John Hagebrigg Esq ————— who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and residents of Linn County aforesaid and that this statement is entitled to credit. Court
A. C. McLean Sole Judge of said Henry A. Talbott, clerk of the Linn County Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Francis McIntosh for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at office this 16 th day of August 1837.
Henry A. Talbott, Ck, H. C.