Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33386, for John Mc Kinney, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
McKinney, John
S. 33386
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File No. 33,386
John McKinney Lin Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4,025
New Jersey Roll
John H. Kinney
Capt Hendrickson private
Pennsylvania line 80. 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 6 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Oct 1818 and sent to Dennis Wickoff Esq. Flemington Hunterdon Co. N. Jersey.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 39.73   Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00   4 M o 29/30 $87.73 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Hunterdon Co. N. Jersey —

John M'Kinney 6 th Apr 1818.
To Dennis Wycoff Flemington - Hunterdon Co New Jersey
admitted On Pennsylv a Rolls
Resident of Hunterdon Co New Jersey
Supt. for Penna Rolls

State of New Jersey } Huntingdon County }
On this Sixth Day of April A 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Huntingdon and State aforesaid personally appeared John Mc Kinney aged fifty seven years Resident in the County of Huntingdon in said State who being by me first Sworn Duly according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress enti- tled "an act to provide for certain persons engag- ed in the Land and Naval Service of the united States in the Revolutionary War (Viz) that he the said John Mc Kinney enlisted in the Continental Army in the year A 1777 and joined the Army on the mountains near Middlebrook in the County of Som- erset and was put in the Third Regiment in the Pen- sylvania Line and continued there for a short time, and then was taken out and put in Colonel Morgans Rifle Corps and continued in the same until the latter end of the year A 1777 and then was taken out of the Rifle Corps and put in the Third Regiment in the Pennsylvania Line under Capt Henderson near Morris town in the said State of New Jersey and in the year A 1780 was taken out of Capt Hendersons Company and put in a Rifle Corps commanded by Major Par- t of the Pennsylvania Line and remained in his Corps until the revolt of the Pennsylvania Line in the year A 1781 and then got his Dis- charge from the Army at Trenton in the State of New Jersey and that his Discharge is not in his profession and that he was in several Skirmishes on the Lines while the Enemy was in New Brunswick and at their Return to New York and then Marched to Stillwater in the State of New York and was in the Engagement of the taking of Genl Burgoyne afterward he Marched to Pennsylvania near Phil- adelphia and crossed the Delaware and was in

an Engagement with the Enemy near Cooper's Ferry and then crossed the Delaware again into Pen- sylvania and marched to White Marsh and then was in a Skirmish there with the Enemy and continued in the Army until the Campaign of Genl Sullivan at the Genesee Country and there was in the Battle with the Indians and that he is in Reduc- ed Circumstances and stands in need of Assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said Services.
Sworn to and Declared before John M c Kimney on the Day and Year first above written
Dennis Wyckoff
I Dennis Wyckoff one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hunter- don and State of New Jersey do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that he the said John McKimney did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and laid be- fore me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress Witness my hand and seal the Sixth Day of April A D 1818
Dennis Wyckoff

State of New Jersey } Hunterdon County } Js
John J. Blackwell, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Hunterdon, do certify that Dennis Wychoff Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavit and Declaration was taken then was and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Hunterdon, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full credit is due to all his official acts as such.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court this twenty fourth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred & eighteen.
J. P. M. Smith, Clerk.