Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5920, for Alexander Kilpatrick, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn-
Kilpatrick Alexander Susannah
P 5920
CONTENTS

Power of Attorney from Susannah Kilpatrick to Sam. M. Knight

State of Ohio Ashland County ss. 3
Be it known that on this 21st day of February A D 1854 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Susannah Kilpatrick resident of the township of Montgomery and said County of Ashland and made oath according to law that she is the widow of the identical Alexander Kilpatrick whose name is on the muster roll of Captain Thomas Paxton of the Militia of the First Battalion of Bedford County under the command of Colonel George Woods. That she is credibly informed that she is entitled to a pension for services rendered by said Alexander Kilpatrick in said war and makes this affidavit to be filed with such other evidence and Declaration as my agent may use in prosecuting my said claim for pension.
Countermanning and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority before given I hereby constitute and Appoint Samuel M. Knight of Washington City my true and lawful attorney to prosecute my said claim for any amount of revolutionary pension that may be due to me as said widow; and for the purpose of Establishing additional service by the said Alexander Kilpatrick as a soldier in the revolutionary war I hereby authorize my said attorney to apply for and obtain from State archives or other sources certified proof of such service; to examine all papers or documents in relation to said service on file in the department at Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or argument and to receive for my benefit the certificate of Pension which may be issued in satisfaction of my said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Agency of this State, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for my purposes herein expressed and to do

all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness John A. M c Clusky
Susannah her Kilpatrick mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that I believe that the said Susannah Kilpatrick to be directly interested in the claim set forth and to be the identical party therein alleged in whose claim I am in no wise interested.
J. A. M c Clusky, Sur. Peace
State of Ohio Ashland County ss
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ashtland Co that the said Susannah Kilpatrick is the identical party alleged above
It is further certified that John A. M c Clusky before whom the proceeding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine and further that in the above claim for Pension I am in no degree interested
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal and signature of office this 21st day of our said Court, at Ashland, this 21st day of February A. D. 1857.
J. Saindon, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ashland County

Declaration of Susannah Kilpatrick widow of Alexander Kilpatrick —

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 29th July A D 1848 granting pensions to widows of revolutionary officers and soldiers if married before January first A D 1800 -
State of Ohio Ashland County for
On this the 21st day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared in open court in the Probate Court within and for the County of Ashland and State of Ohio and before me L. A. Curtis Judge of said Probate Court Susannah Kilpatrick a resident of the township of Milton and said County of Ashland aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision passed July 29th A D 1848 granting pensions to widows of revolutionary officers and soldiers if married before January first A D 1800 - that she is the widow of Alexander Kilpatrick who was a private in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary war, and was draughted in the County of Bedford in the State of Pennsylvania on the eighth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the company under the command of Captain Thomas Paxton of the First Battalion of Bedford County State of Pennsylvania under the command of Colonel George Woods that said Alexander Kilpatrick served as she believes, in the whole of the Revolutionary war in the Western part of Pennsylvania and in the expeditions against the Indians

in the Western part of Pennsylvania and in the companies stationed in Western Pennsylvania as a guard against the Indians - that said Alexander Kilpatrick as she believes served during a part of the time under Captain John Nelson and Colonel Joseph Martin and that she has no documen- tary evidence in support of the claim.
She further declares that she was married to the said Alexander Kilpatrick about the year seventeen hundred and ninety six and that there is no county, parish, town, church or family record of said marriage but that she was married to the said Alexander Kilpatrick at Lower Mt Bethlehem in Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania, that her husband the aforesaid Alexander Kilpatrick died in the month of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty four at said Lower Mt Bethlehem in said Northampton County & State of Pennsylvania; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first 1 st January in the year of Our Lord one one thou- sand and eight hundred and by at the time above stated) Witness A. J. Curtis } Susannah her Kilpatrick mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me A. J. Curtis Judge of the Probate Court within and for the County of Ashland and State of Ohio. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office
A. J. Curtis Judge of the Court of Probate of Ashland County, O

State of Ohio
Ashtland County ss
I hereby certify that L. A. Curtis before whom the preceding affi- davit and declaration have been made and acknowledged was at the time of so doing Probate Judge of the Probate Court within and for the County of Ashtland and that said Court is a Court of Record and that the signature annexed represents is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office this 21st day of February in the year 1852
J. Sheridan, clk of the Ct of Common Pleas of Ashtland County

State of Ohio Ashland County ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Ashland and State of Ohio Allen Lockhart aged sixty five years a resident of the township of Allen County of Ashland and State of Ohio who being duly sworn according to law makes oath and says that he has been acquainted with Susannah Kilpatrick from the time he was six or eight years old and that he was acquainted with Alexander Kilpatrick a revolutionary soldier at that time that he was at the wedding of the said Alexander Kilpatrick and Susannah Kilpatrick  Kilpatrick and saw them married, and that they were married in Northampton County and in Lower Mt. Bethlehem at the house of Jacob Price by Joseph Bowman a Justice of the Peace in or about the year seventeen hundred and ninety eight, that he knows the mere possibility in regard to the date of the marriage because he with his father moved from that said County of Northamp- ton in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and in the spring of said year and that said parties were married some time before they moved away that time and that he knows that said party was married before the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred, and that the Susannah Kilpatrick who hath been herein filed her Declaration for a pension is the same Susannah Kilpatrick who was married to the said Alexander Kilpatrick as stated above. in whose claim I am in no wise interested Allen Lockhart
State of Ohio Ashland County ss.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of February in the year of our Lord 1854 and I do hereby certify that I am acquainted

with the said Alexander Allen Lockhart and that I know the signature of the above to be his genuine signature and I hereby further certify that I believe him to be worthy of belief.
J. A. McCusker, Sub. Peers
Affidavit of Henry Kilpatrick: as to the death of Alexander Kilpatrick
State of Ohio Ashland County ss
Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Ashland State of Ohio on this 22nd day of February A.D. 1851 Henry Kilpatrick, of the township of Clinton County of Ashland who being duly sworn according to law makes oath and says that he is the son of Alexander and Susannah Kilpatrick, that he was born in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen and that he has a distinct recollection of his father's death which occurred when affiant was about six years old, and that father the said Alexander Kilpatrick died in Lower Mt. Bethlehem Northampton County and State of Pennsylvania - And that the said Susannah Kilpatrick has never been married since that time and that the said Susannah Kilpatrick who files herewith her declaration for a pension is the identical Alexander Kilpatrick Susannah Kilpatrick whose husband died as above stated and that she has no interest whatever in the claim of the said her Susannah Kilpatrick.
Henry Kilpatrick
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year above written and I hereby certify that I know the signature of the above Henry Kilpatrick to be

This is to certify that I believe him to be worthy of belief, and that I have no interest in the claim of the said Susannah Kilpatrick.
Affidavit of John Raisley as to the death of Alexander Kilpatrick.
State of Ohio Ashland County ss. Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Ashland & State of Ohio on this 22nd day of February in the year 1854. John Raisley of the township of Union Union County of Ashland and State of Ohio aged forty two years who being duly sworn according to law makes oath and says that he was acquainted with Alexander Kilpatrick and Susannah Kilpatrick previous to the death of Alexander Kilpatrick and since the death of said Alexander Kilpatrick and that the said Alexander Kilpatrick died in the month of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty four at his the said Alexander Kilpatrick's residence in the township of Lower Merion Bethlehem County of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, that he said John Raisley lived a near neighbor to the said Alexander Kilpatrick at the time of his said death and that the said Susannah Kilpatrick has not been married since the said death of her husband the said Alexander Kilpatrick, And that the said Susannah Kilpatrick who herewith files her declaration for a pension is the identical Susannah Kilpatrick whose husband died as above stated in whose claim I am in no wise interested.

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Ensaunah Kilpatrick wid. of Alexander Ohio
S. M. Knight Mar. 1. '51
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Washington
Dec 28 1854
Dear L. B. Folsom
Sir
Have the honor to enclose herewith under Act of July 29 1848 declaration of Mrs Susannah Wilpatrick for a Revolutionary Pension -
Very Respectfully Yours Affec d Serv t L. M. Wright
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2920.
P. O.
Susannah Kilpatrick
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O.
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_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .