Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33394, for William Mc Feely, Pennsylvania

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8346
New Jersey Roll.
William M c Feely of Westfield in the state of New Jersey who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Fraser of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of Two years 1879
scribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of May 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of March 1819 and Sublo South John Wilson Judge Plainfield N.J.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 Am t 80 25 10 mo. 25/31 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 48
$128:25
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Notification sent the 16 th Jany 1821, to the Hon: Henry Southard, M.P.

Declaration &c of W m Mr Feeley to obtain a Pension
Returned for further proof

and that he has no other evidence now in his power of this said Services - - - - -
Subscribed Swan to and declared W m Mr. Feeley before me the day and year aforesaid his Mark Mark
John Wilson
I John Wilson Judge etc. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Mr. Feeley did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy - as stated in the preceding declaration - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress and further certify that the said Mr. Feeley is so poor that only the majority of officers make him from living at town Plainfield Essex County New Jersey Chicago
John Wilson
May 14. 1810
State of New Jersey ss, I Silas Whitehead Clerk of the Court of Essex County common pleas of the said County of Essex here by certify to all whom it may concern that John Wilson Esquire the person before whom the foregoing Affidavit appears to have been taken was at the time of the taking thereof and still is a Judge of said Court as appears by the Rolls of County Officers in my Office and that full faith and credit is due to the foregoing as well as all other his legal acts as such. Also that the above signature appears to me to be his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen.
S. Whitehead

State of New Jersey } On this 4 th day of May 1818 County of Essex } before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Personally appeared William Mr. Feeley Aged Seventy Six years President in the Township of Westfield County of Essex and State of N. Jersey who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that he the said William Mr. Feeley enlisted on the 10 th of March 1777 at Chester in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Church of the fifth Pennsylvania Regiment - he believes on the Continental Establishment and commanded by Colonel Johnson - for one year or two is not certain which - That about three Months afterwards he was drafted or transferred into Colonel Morgans Rifle Regiment and Marched with that Regiment to oppose General Burgoyne - was in the Battles at Saratoga preceding the capture of Burgoyne and was there at the time of his capture - after which he returned with the Regiment to Pennsylvania and went into winter quarters at Valley Forge - and in that winter in Feb y was sent to work in making Cloathes for the Army (he being a Tailor) at a place then called Concord lying he thinks in the upper part of Chester County Pennsylvan- nia - was there eight Months - believes he was regularly discharged at Valley Forge - but the paper is long since lost - That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County for support and

and that he has no other evidence now in his power of this said services — — — — —
Subscribed I swear to and declare W m Mr. Feeley before me the day and year aforesaid his Mark Mark
John Wilson
I John Wilson Judge etc. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Mr. Feeley did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy—as stated in the preceding declaration — and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress and further certify that the said Mr. Feeley is so poor that the majority of friends makes him from being a town Plainfield Essex County New Jersey Charge
May 4. 1818
John Wilson
State of New Jersey Essex County
ss, I Silas Whitehead, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Essex here by certify to all whom it may concern that John Wilson Esquire the person before whom the foregoing Affidavit appears to have been taken was at the time of the taking thereof and still is a Judge of said Court as appears by the Rolls of County Officers in my Office and that full faith and credit is due to the foregoing as well as all other his legal acts as such. Also that the above signature appears to me to be his proper handwriting — In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen.
S. Whitehead

33394 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33394
William McFeely
Br Rev Dao
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Tom M c Keely's Declaration as a pensioner.
P. 346
Sept. 1819

At a term of the inferior court of common pleas held at Newark in and for the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,
PRESENT the Honorable Aaron Mun. John Dooly John Wilson Judge of said court New Jersey ss. Be it Remembered , That on the third
day of January , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in the said inferior court of common pleas in and for the county of Essex — in open court, the said court being a court of record for the county of Essex
William M. Feeley — aged Eighty — years, resident in Plainfield in the said county of Essex — who being first duly sworn — according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Boon in a Regiment commanded by Col Mergen, that he served in the same Regiment two years on the continental establishment, that he was at the surrender of Burgoyne —
and that his original declaration is dated the fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. 8846 .

I, Asa Whitehead , Clerk of the Inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Effex aforesaid Do hereby certify, That the foregoing Declaration and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifteen dollars — — — — —
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this fifth — day of January 1821—
Asa Whitehead