Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6809, for Daniel Macpherson, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Macpherson, Daniel
R. 6809
T. L. Reg. 165952-55
Amy
CONTENTS

165-952 { Act. Mar. 31 June 12th/55.
Thos. J. Rowe, Apl. 25/56 Set. " " May 31/56
Anny McPherson via of Daniel McPherson (Blame
Capt. —
Col. —
N. Y. Mil.
Ent. His
Revolutionary War
for application for pension
NY Line 2nd Regt.
Jerome Howe Ithaca N. York.

In the matter of Daniel McPherson an Applicant for a Prison
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Declaration

State of New York
Josephus Covert Jr. In this Thirtieth day of May 1835 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Herk and Co. now sitting. I being Mr. Covert a resident of the County of Covert in the said County of Covert, State of New York, age 75, forty five years in September last, 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, 1832.
That he rendered the services of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: He volunteered in the Revolutionary service of the United States as a private under Capt. Stephen Cook in Col. Van Schaick's Regiment of Artillery at Albany in the State of New York when he then received the early part of September 1775 and was ordered by his said officers to serve under Major. Schuyler who then commanded Albany and ordered to furnish and transport stores & provisions for the use of Genl. Schuyler's Brigade. He continued his service at such particular under the aforesaid officers and was ordered to serve in transporting stores for said Genl. Schuyler's Brigade on or about the 8 th of September 1775 and from that time until the first of Oct. 1775 in continued actually & actively engaged in such service in the transportation of stores & provisions from Albany to the Barracks at Fish Creek where Genl. Schuyler's Troops including the aforesaid Regiment under Col. Van Schaick quartered & on his return back he transported stores for the use of the Army. During the term aforesaid he was in such service under the immediate command of said Maj. Schuyler and in company with Col. Van Schaick from Schuylerville. Col. Van Schaick & several others whose names he cannot now recollect and during the said service in the winter of 75 & 76 while actually engaged as aforesaid he froze his feet very badly so that he was obliged to marshall cloth about his feet instead of shoes or boots which were kept saturated with oil - During the aforesaid service & he thinks in the summer of 1776 there were several British officers & soldiers headed by Capt. Watkinson from Canada came to Albany & Albany to take Genl. Schuyler under the pretence that he Watkinson was in the American service & had an express for Genl. Schuyler from Genl. Howe but Genl. Schuyler escaped from them & from his own house top & discharged his pistols at them & raised an alarm - Watkinson and his party returned there and this declarant with several others pursued them some distance from the town but could not take them - That a part of the time Col. Robert Livingston's Regiment was there attached to which was a Company commanded by Capt. Murchison. Mr. Covert a relative of his said Murchison & by whose solicitation he volunteered into the service -
That immediately or very soon after the 1 st of Oct 1775 which he left the aforesaid service he again at the solicitation of his said aforesaid and as near as he can recollect within ten days he again enlisted

into the Ulster Regiment & as he thought under Capt Peter Vansevoort & was ordered by his officers to serve as a Baker for the Army: That from that time he continued in such service constantly employed & generally as a Baker as aforesaid at & near Albany with one Francis McKenzie till September 1778 when Genl James Clinton arrived at Albany with orders for all the forces at Albany including Genl Schuyler's Brigade & the aforesaid Regiment to repair down the Hudson River to West Point - That for some time but the greater length of time he remained there during the year 1777 by the orders of Col. Roseboom he served as a picket guard a little up the River from Albany & was stationed there as such guard on the 4 th of Oct 1777 when Burgoyne was taken - Also a small portion of the time from Oct. 1776 to Sept 1778 he was stationed by his officers to serve and aid serve as a guard to the Jail at Albany where a great number of Tories & British were confined as prisoners - That during the last stated term of service he was taken a Prisoner by the Tories on the road between Albany & Schenectady but from whom he escaped and returned to service - That soon after the aforesaid forces were ordered by Genl. Clinton to repair to West Point as aforesaid this declarant was discharged from the service by his officers his term of service having expired - but according to the best of his recollection he received no written or printed discharge - That during the aforesaid term of service he was under Capt. Peter Vansevoort, Stephen Bush, Danman Campbell, one Capt. Vadir but the particular time or period of time of his service under each of the aforesaid Captains he cannot now recollect & is therefore unable to state the same - That he will name during the aforesaid service Col. Van Schaick, Livingston, Brown, Vadir, Roseboom - & Genls. Schuyler, Ticonderoga, Clinton and he saw often Genls. Gates & Arnold - That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services -
And I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Army of any State.
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court before the said Court of Common Pleas this 20 th day of May 1835
A. S. Johnson Clerk

The following interrogatories were propounded by the court to the said above named Declarant & Applicant and answered by him as follows which are made a part of his said Declaration - Viz -
2. Where & in what Year were you born?
A. In the Highlands of Scotland 2 Miles S. from the City of Inverness in September 1760 -
2. Have you any record of your age & if so where is it -
A. I have no record of my age nor was there any brought to this country. My parents had no learning and depended upon the Church records where he was born & christened in Scotland -
2. Where were you living when called into service - Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live?
A. I came to this Country when I was 15 years old - landed at N. York August 9 th 1775 & at that time the British man of War the "Asia" lay at N. York near the mouth of the Hudson River - Went immediately with my parents up the River to Albany & staid there & near there then made to Saratoga & remained 3 years during the War & until 1782 - He then moved to Delaware County in the State of N. York where he lived 38 years - I then moved to Tompkins County where I now live & where I have lived ever since -
2. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute & if a substitute for whom?
A. I volunteered every time -
2. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the Troops when you served; such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service! -
A. Col. Munkhouse, Genl. Schuyler, Genl. James Clinton - Col. Laddie, Col. Woodhull & others named in my above declaration - Also Genl. Arnold Col. Warner.
2. Did you ever receive a discharge & if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it? -
A. I never received any written discharge but was discharged by verbal orders
2. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity & good behavior, and the and the usefulness of your services
A. Capt. Muddough, Issachar Muddough, John Muddough, Abraham Laddie, no Moses King, James King, David Heath & all my neighbors where

I now live in New Castle West of Delaware County near where I used to live.
David McPherson
A. S. Johnson Clerk
We Moses King a Clergyman residing in the Town of Danby in the County of Tompkins and David Heath — residing in Danby in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel McPherson who has sub- scribed & sworn to the above declaration; That we believe him to be seventy five years of age in Sept. last; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court before the said Court of Common Pleas the day and year aforesaid.
A. S. Johnson Clerk
Moses King David Heath
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories inscribed by the War Department that the said above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Moses King who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the said Town of Danby in the County of Tompkins and that David Heath who has also signed the same is a resident of Danby aforesaid and in the neighborhood of the said applicant and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Arthur S. Johnson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel McPherson for a Pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 20 th day of May in the year 1835.
A. S. Johnson Clerk

State of New-York,
County of Tompkins ss. Be it remembered that upon this 25 th day of May A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five before me, a commissioner resident in the State of New-York, duly commissioned by the executive authority, and sworn and authorized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, to take the acknowledgment of any deed or other writing under seal, and to administer oaths, affirmations, &c., within the State of New-York, with the same force and effect as if taken before one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, came Per an able
Amy M c Pherson aged eighty seven years a resident of Danby Tompkins County New York who being by me according to law duly sworn says that she is the Widow of Daniel M c Pherson deceased, who was a
ical.....who was a.....in the company commanded by Cap
tain.....whose name is put in the M c Pherson Regiment of
.....commanded by Colonel M c Pherson in the war with Great Britain
declared by the United States on the 18 th day of June 1812 for the term of
husband served in said war for a period exceeding
and continued in actual service in said war for fourteen days and upwards; that he has heretofore made application for
fourteen days & he resided in Walloa Saratoga
bounty land under the act of September 28, 1850, and received a land warrant No.....for.....acres which he has since legally disposed of and cannot now return;
He moved to the Town of Kortright Delaware County New York and
there remained until his death in Danby
on the 3 rd day of September 1839. She further states that she was married
to the said Daniel M c Pherson in Walla on the 13 th day of July 1798, by a minister of
the gospel, that her name before her marriage was Amy M c Pherson. Her said
husband while residing in the Town of Danby made application through Samuel
Crittenden for a Revolutionary Pension & the same was made. Pres. of his serv-
ices as officer under whom he served, the length of time and his identity
as a soldier of the War of the Revolution. She has been informed that the
records of the War department & the proof made by her said husband
showed that he served for a period of about five months and
that the pension was denied on the ground that the service was not sufficient.
She therefore refers for proof herein to the proof made in that application
and prays that a certified copy thereof may be attached to this application
and she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which she may be entitled under
the act approved the 3d day of March, 1855. She also declares, that she has never applied for nor received, under this or
any other act of Congress, any bounty-land warrant except the one above mentioned. She does not enter
her name in account of old age -
pregnancy of
we, Marcia Monroe and Alexander M c Pherson residents of Danby
Tompkins Co. in the state of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was
by making her mark Amy M c Pherson in our presence, and that we believe, from the
appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Alexander M c Pherson
Marcia Monroe
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written,
and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be,
and that I have no interest in this claim.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official
Seal the day and year above written
Jerome Rowe
Commissioner for Pennsylvania in New-York.

State of New-York,
County of Tompkins
ss. Be it remembered that upon this 25 th day of May A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty five before me, a commissioner resident in the State of New-York, duly commissioned by the executive authority, and sworn and authorized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, to take the acknowledgment of any deed or other writing under seal, and to administer oaths, affirmations, &c, within the State of New-York, with the same force and effect as if taken before one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, came
Personally
Alexander McPherson
Aged forty nine years a resident of Danby in said County of Tompkins who being by me according to law duly sworn says that he is the son of Daniel McPherson, who claimed to be a soldier in the war of the Revolution and who resided for many years in the County of Delaware Town of Harnady New York, and who removed in the year 1828 to the Town of Danby County of Tompkins New York, and there resided till the time of his death in the year 1839. Deponent attended the funeral service of his said father in the said Town of Danby & knows that he died about the 3 rd .
day of September 1839. Deponent further says that said Daniel McPherson father of this deponent is the identical person who made an application to the pension department to be inserted on the list of Revolutionary pensioners under the act of June 7 1832 as deponent supposes. Said application was made by Samuel Cullenden Jr now deceased an attorney, and deponent is informed and believes that the papers necessary to prove were upon such

Application duly filed with the pension department. Showing the officers under whom he said Daniel M c Pherson did Service, and making the requisite proof of identity and Service. Deponent is informed and believes that there was record evidence of said Daniel M c Pherson his said father's Service but not of Service amounting to six months and therefore the application of said Daniel was denied by the pension department.
Deponent further says that his said father Daniel M c Pherson lived as long as deponent can remember till the time of his said Daniel's death with his Angeline Pherson whose application for Pomeroy Land is hereto attached lived as man and wife and were always reputed in the neighborhood of their residence to be lawfully married and deponent never heard their marriage disputed, or questioned. Deponent with his brothers and sister succeeded to the estate of said Daniel their father on his decease as heirs at law.
Deponent says that he has known as long as he can remember a family record kept in the family of his said parents, and that the same is now in his possession. The said record is kept in a family Bible.

and the following is a true copy of Such original family Record and of the whole of the same so far as relates to the marriage of his said Parents and the death of his said father —
“Family Record”
“Births”
“Daniel M c Pherson was born in the Town of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland North Britain in the year of our Lord 1751”
“Amy Finchout was born in the Village of Nine Partners in the State of New York in the year of our Lord 1768 March 20”
“Marriages”
“Daniel M c Pherson and wife Amy Finchout was married in the year of Lord July 15, in Ballston at the Round Lake 1788”
“Deaths”
“Daniel M c Pherson died September the 3 rd in the year of our Lord 1839”
Deponent says that the entries of Births and Marriages in the said Record as copied above are written in the hand writing of Daniel M c Pherson

and were made many years ago, are now as they were written when Deponent first recollects the Record. Deponent sup- poses they were written long before his birth
Alexander H. Henson
Subscribed and sworn before me on the day above stated & I certify that the affiant is credible and I have no interest in this cause
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal the day and year above written
Jerome Rome
Commissioner for Pennsylvania in New-York.
State of New York County of Tioga
I the undersigned Member of Congress from said State certify that I am acquainted with Jerome Rome whose signature appears to the front of the within declaration and affidavit that he is the Commissioner of Deeds duly appointed by the Executive authority and under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and administer oaths within the State of New York & that I am acquainted with his hand and fully believe the signature to the foregoing affidavit to be his genuine signature. May 26. 1855.
J. M. Parker M. C.
Ms. B. 96.2

Rev. War Section.
November 26, 1930.
Mrs. R. C. Pope, 123 Peoples Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Madam:
In response to your letter of October 22, 1930 you are informed that from the papers in the pension claim Rejected File No. 6309, it appears that Daniel McPherson was born in September 1733, about 3 miles south of Inverness, Scotland. He landed at New York August 9, 1773, and went with his parents, whose names are not stated, to Albany where he lived during the Revolution.
He served from September 5, 1775 to October 1, 1775 transporting supplies for the army, under orders from Major Hitchcock the Commissary at Albany, and from October 1775 to September 1776 he was baker for the Army at and near Albany.
He applied for pension May 20, 1835, while living at Danby, Tompkins County, New York, but his claim was rejected, as the service performed by him were not considered military, and did not come within the provisions of the pension laws.
It is not stated whether he was married.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
B. Land Register
No. 165952 - 55 -
Papers in this C. L. claim
placed with pension
Papers June 27, 1940 ten yrs - after this letter was written M. H. D.

Rev Secy
Atlanta Ga Oct 22 1920
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sirs,
Please give me official proof of Daniel McPherson service in the Revolutionary War. He was a private in captain John Barnes Company Grahams Regiment N.Y. 1778, he was also in captain Adiel Sherwoods

Company. Colonel Graham's 3rd Regiment N.Y. 1780 to 1783. He was born in England and I would like to have date of birth marriage & death his wife was Susan Hincheloe
Sincerely Mrs. W. C. Pope 133 Peachtree St. Atlanta Ga.

6809 REJECTED
P. O.
Daniel McPherson
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleged The printed list of 1852 gives cause of rejection as -
Re-enlisted: "He did not perform military service."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1920, Nov. 26 Hiel to Mrs. W.C. Pope - En

Amy Wild & McPherson No 165,592
Boy in McHugh
Jerome Rowe Ithaca N.Y.

Itosua May 8 1856.
Sir
In rejecting the claim of Mrs Amy Widow of Daniel McPherson No 165.95-2 act of March 3 1855. The Department put their decision on the ground that record evidence is not found.
If I am right in this suggestion they will examine the proof on file & pass upon the question whether under the act passed Apr 22 1856. The proof on file is sufficient to establish a claim. The proof is therefore respectfully referred to the end that if deficient and may be by as supplied. we can make an effort
Yours. & Jerome Rowe

Moores June 8 th 1855
Sir Enland please find app d columns for Porphy Land under act of 1855. of
Martha Leary N m Anice
Geo Wightman
Daniel Eddy
Henry McPherson
Moses Browne guardian of S. H. Foster
Sally Halbert
Leather Service
rights in all Examine in their turn and report to the undersigned
Jerome Rowe
J. P. Nald.
Concord Pensylvania

Additional notes Claim No 165952 red of mch 31855
General McPherson and Army M.H. 1885 165-952 Orion M.H. 1885 Land of Pender Washington D.C.

Groton City } June 9 NY }
165.952.
Hon Loren F Waldo Bond of Pending Pension office Washington D.C.

N o 32.838
New York
Daniel M c Pherson
Rejected
dit Sam l Britten den 20 June 1835

June 16.
10.45
Rev. J. A. Church
Cornhill of Prince Washington 26.
FREE
Original

Ithaca Tompkins County N.York June 11 th 1835.
Sir
Enclosed herewith is the original declaration in the case of Daniel M c Pherson an Applicant for a Pension - He applies under the act of 7 th June 1832 to which we suppose he has in all respects conformed under the rules of the War Department - true he has not, nor can he now it be expected under all the circumstances that the applicant is able to state the precise time & time of each particular service under the various Capt's names, Hancewood, Campbell & Vaden but he states in positive terms that his service was a continual & steady service in Col Vanclief's Regt and directly under the command of Maj. Hethcock from Sept 5. 1775 to Oct. 1. 1776.
And from Oct. 1. 1776. to Sept 1. 1778. Making about 3 years service. Please give his case a hearing such as it deserves and of the result inform us as early as convenient.
Yours &c Saml Britland
M c Pherson Jas L. Edwards Counsel of Plaintiff

TO THE HON. THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS:
I hereby appoint Mr. Giles F. Yates, of Schenectady, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney, with power of substitution, to prosecute before you the claim of Daniel McPherson of N.Y. for a pension under act of 7 th June 1832 and I hereby revoke all powers of attorney by me at any time heretofore made.
You will be pleased to allow him, or his substitute, to examine the papers on file in your office relating to this claim. Witness my hand and seal, this 8 th day of November 185 2 nd .
In presence of D. McPherson
Amy X. McPherson Mark J. P.
Signed, sealed and acknowledged before me—

State of New York
Tompkins County ss On this 8 th day of November 1852 before me came Amy M c Pherson whom I know to be the same person described in & who executed the within instrument and acknowledged that she executed the same for the uses & purposes therein mentioned
Saml Smith in and for

Lan McPherson Oct 1832
State of New York, { ss. Tompkins County Clerk's Office.
I, HORACE MACK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Samuel Britten den Jr , Esquire, before whom the annexed Instrument was proven & acknowledged, was at the time of taking such proof, or ac- knowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice and verify believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that the annexed Instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity to the laws of said State.
G. S. Huley
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, at Ithaca, this Eighth day of November 1852
H Mack Clerk.

Sam l Britten 20 June 1835
Al.
Ms. B. 1. 6. 33 p. 298.

War Dept.
Pension off
June 1835
Sir
The claim of Daniel M c Pherson has been examined & disallowed. He alleges service as a component part of Van Schaick's Regt. from Sept r 75 to Sept r 78 and by his narrative of the particular duties in which he was engaged, shows that he was not under any Capt d of that Regt. at any time. M c Lusk whom he styles Capt d was a purchasing commissary and not authorized to enlist but to employ men in his branch of business. The rolls of that Regt. also confirm the conclusion that no service under military obligation was rendered by him in it. Service of teamsters (except the Continental Teamsters for the train of the army) nor that of Bakers furnish any ground to a claim for military service under the Act of 7. June 1832. Other Objections might be made to his age & his avowed inability to prove by any person whatever any part of 3 years service in the state of his present residence.
His papers are placed on file
Wm. Crittenden Jr. Ithaca N.Y.
28 th June