Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,833, for Robert Mc Cullough, Connecticut

SERVICE
Comm
★ McCullough, Robert
NUMBER
S. 41.833
CONTENTS

12. 237
1888 July 19 P. A. Copy-history Pnor
Ohio
Robert McCullough
of Hamilton City in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheldon of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of July 1818 and just to Samuel H. Hunt Esq. Cincinnati Ohio
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  72. 76    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  4 Sep. 1819.  48. 00    8 Mo. 29 4/30 31   $120. 76  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
  Invalid pension to the 4 Mar. 1819.  36. 38    Revolutionary do to 4 Mar. 1819.  72. 76    Diff. between R. & I. pension  $ 36. 38  

State of Ohio } Hamilton County }
I William Bushe one of the Asst. Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do hereby Certify That I have this day examined the deposition herunto Annexed and the Said Robert McCullough having been first duly Sworn declared on Oath that from Reduced Circumstances he stands in need of Assistance from his Country for Support. from examination I am Satisfied that he Served at least nine Months at one period of the Revolutionary War on the Cont ntal establishment against the Common enemy and I herewith inclose the Vouchers which together with his examination have induced this belief. and that from his reduced Circumstances he stands in need of Support from his Country
Cincinnati } 2 nd June 1818 }
William Bushe Asst. Judge

Rev. Samuel D. Merrill
Robert Ellis, Grafton Private Col. Sheldon's Regiment, Connecticut Line 1777 - 6 years
54.
The cert. of the clk. of the court must be affixed to each declaration -
Admitted
The Applicant trans- mits to this department his former pension certificate together with this declaration as a Resident ; under the Act, he will be paid to him, when the age certificate is to the major General April 10

United States of North America
Pursuant to the 1st section of An act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,"
Know all men by these presents that I Robert Mc Culough an invalid pensioner of the United States residing in Hamilton County State of Ohio have remised released, and forever quit claimed, and by these presents do remise, release and forever quit claim unto the United States all my right, interest claim, and demand for a pension at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per month, to which I have hitherto been and now am entitled to receive from the United States, and thereof and therefrom shall forever be barred by these presents, and do hereby request that in lieu thereof my name may be inscribed upon the Pension Roll of the State of Ohio agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Congress above recited
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2nd day of June 1818. Signed & sealed in presence, Robert Mc Culough for Samuel T. Hunt, John Stokes 8
The State of Ohio Hamilton County } Personally came before me the undersigned one of the associate judges in and for the county of foresaid Robert Mc Culough the subscriber to the above instrument to me well known and acknowledged to be his free act and

and for the uses and purposes therein contained
In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal this 2nd day of June 1818.
William Burke      R. A. C. S. M c Cluskey Associate Judge N. C. O.

The State of Ohio County of Hamilton ss
I personally come before the undersigned one of the Asociate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of aforesaid Robert McCallough who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that in the month of March 1776 he enlisted at Morris Town in the State of New Jersey in Capt. Davis's (in some accounts killed at the Battle of Princeton) Company to of Artillery to serve for one year, that he served for the full period of his enlist- ment and was honorably discharged at Elizabeth Town in the State of New Jersey, that about twelve days subsequently at the same place he enlisted under Colonel Brown of Capt. Barnett's Company of the 2nd Regiment of Light Horse of the Connecticut Line, commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon, that he served in the Regiment and Line afore- said, in the company or companies successively commanded by Capt. Barnett, Belden & Shaeffer until he was honorably discharged at Danbury in the State of Connecticut on or about the 12th day of June 1783. That for the Service aforesaid he received from Congress a Warrant for one hundred acres of land, which he sold to Genl. Cummings in the State of New Jersey and his honorable discharge was signed by Colonel Sheldon which this deponent several years afterwards lost with several other papers at sea And this deponent further deposeth and saith that he served afterwards for nearly five years in the Western Country under Generals Wayne and

Wilkinson, and was discharged at 6 in Cincinnati (Fort Washington) in consequence of disability and lastly that from his advanced age (being now in his 65 th year) and various circumstances he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and further saith not Sworn to & subscribed this 2nd day of June 1818
S Robert M'Clusky
William Burke
Associate Judge (H. 6.10)
The State of Ohio Hamilton County ss
I Dan Duncalf Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that William Burke Esq. before whom the above deposition was taken and whose certificate is annexed now was at that time an acting Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Hamilton County duly Elected Qualified and sworn into office all of which appears of Record in my office In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Cincinnati this 11 th day of May A.D. 1819
Dan d Duncalf
Robert M c Clusky
Private
Col. Sheldon's Regiment
Connecticut Line
1777 - 6 years
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The late Mr. Wilkinson joined the Army in 1775 and served through the Revolution with the exception of the winter of 1777-8 at Saratoga and 1778 at Red Bank and 1779 at Fort Mifflin and 1780 at Red Bank and 1781 at Yorktown
He was born in the County of ... in the year 1753 and died in the year 1818 at the age of 65 years

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Reg
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File No. 41888 Robert W. Callough Dec 18th 1892
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 325
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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