Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9508, Priticks Blackstone, [BLANK]

SERVICE
NUMBER
Patrick Blackstone, Patrick
R. 9508
Shilling, Biddy
(Former widow)
CONTENTS
Widow's second husband, George Shilling, also served in the Revolutionary War.

No 7048
Betty Shilling Dea Pa
Lebanon Pa
March 9 '48
Baptist Church Dec 22 1853
9508
act 4 July 1836

95 08 am P. O. Biddy Shilling
Service: formerly widow of Patrick Blackstone Bricks
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Is the name of George Shilling on the Rolls of Col. Morgan's Rifle Corps.?
1048 Henry Shilling no of Enrs act 4 July 1836

State of Pennsylvania Mercer County } p 3
On this twenty second day of September A D one Thousand eight hundred and forty six. Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, in open Court. George Shilling and under oath states as follows that he is the son of George Shilling and Biddy Shilling. That his mother Biddy Shilling aforesaid was formerly the wife of Patrick Blackstone - who was a soldier in the revolutionary war. That the said Blackstone was in Pittsburgh or he thinks he was, and that his mother Biddy Shilling, was married the said Blackstone before the revolutionary war, and that the said Patrick Blackstone died in the war. That his mother the said Biddy Shilling afterwards married the above named George Shilling, who died in March nineteen hundred and fifty eight. That his mother the said Biddy Shilling remained a widow until she died, which was in February the tenth A D one thousand eight hundred & forty five, and she received a state pension from the state of Pennsylvania, and that the said Biddy Shilling married the said George Shilling during the revolutionary war in the year nineteen hundred & eighty, and the said George Shilling enlisted as a volunteer rifleman, under Col Morgan, and served about three years in said war, and this deposition is the only know- ledge of George Shilling & Biddy Shilling afore- said, which will more fully appear in the evidence hereto attached, that this declaration is made in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 4 th July 1836, granting pensions to widows &c - Subscribed to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Approved of the foregoing Declaration by the Court H. C. Stout George Shilling John Shilling Sept 22 nd 1846

State of Pennsylvania Mifflin County ss
Personally appeared in open Court and after being duly sworn ac- -cording to law. says he is sixty eight years of age, and became acquainted with George Shilling & Biddy Shilling mentioned aforesaid over the year nineteen hundred and sixty four and was intimate with them afterwards until they died they lived together as man and wife. The aforesaid George Shilling is their son and only him living who presents the foregoing declaration. The said Biddy Shilling was the reputed widow of Patrick Blackston before her marriage to the said George Shilling the said George Shilling died many years ago & the said Biddy Shilling remained a widow until she died. They were residents of the State of Pennsylvania the said George Shilling and Biddy Shilling were residents in an early day in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania and George Shilling died there and the said Biddy Shilling afterwards moved out to this County now called Mifflin.
Sworn to & subscribed before me in open Court the day & year above written.
McGraw } James Love

State of Pennsylvania, Mifflin County ss 3
Samuel Blackston personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin County and on his solemn oath say he is sixty seventy years of age and that the said Patrick Blackston & Biddy Shilling mentioned in the foregoing declaration was married before the revolutionary war and the said Blackston died in the service of said war at Philadelphia in the year seventeen hundred & sixty six five and the said Biddy married George Shilling in the year seventeen hundred & eighty and the said George Shilling initiated as a volunteer under Col: Morgan and served some three years as first sergeant in the Company which he belonged, and said George Shilling and Biddy Shilling afterwards lived together as man & wife and so understood by all the neighbors and the aforesaid George Shilling who makes the foregoing declaration is their son claimed & owned by the said George Shilling & Biddy Shilling and that he George Shilling is the only heir now living of the said George & Biddy Shilling and the said George Shilling died in the year seventeen hundred & sixty eight and after which time the said Biddy Shilling remained a widow until she died which was in the year eighteen hundred and forty five. The said Biddy Shilling was the widow of the aforesaid Patrick Blackston and afterwards married the said George Shilling as stated above and has been a resident of Pennsylvania ever since up to the time of his death and said Biddy Shilling was always a resident of Pennsylvania until she died and drew a half portion from the State of Pennsylvania.
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court the day & year aforesaid.
M. C. Trout
Blackston

State of Pennsylvania County of Mercer No 3
Personally appeared Samuel M c Bride in open Court as aforesaid and after being duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath say he was well acquainted with George Shilling and Biddy Shilling his wife during their lifetime and the said Biddy Shilling was the widow of Patrick Blackston or him that reputation & so understood and deponent also understood said Blackston was in the service of the revolutionary war when he died, and the said George Shilling served also some three years in said war, as I understood under Col o Morgan, he lived with Biddy Shilling his wife until he died which was in the year seventeen hundred & ninety eight and said Biddy Shilling lived a widow until she died in the year eighteen hundred & forty five, and the said George Shilling who makes the foregoing declaration is the only son & heir of the aforesaid George Shilling & Biddy Shilling deceased and the said Biddy Shilling drew a pension from the State of Pennsylvania, I am fifty three years old, sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court the day and year aforesaid.
M c C. Groat
3
Samuel M c Bride
September 22 nd 1846 the foregoing proof Approved by the Court John Findley

State of Pennsylvania Mercer County ss
J. M. C. Prout Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County do hereby Certify that the foregoing Declaration of George Shilling sworn to in Open Court, and approved by the Court. Also the deposition of Samuel Blackstone, James Love & Samuel McClellan duly taken in Open ground Court and approved by said Court. Further Certify that the petitioner and witnesses are citizens of this County, unexceptionable as to truth and respectability as citizens
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Mercer the 25 th day of September A.D. 1846
J. M. C. Prout Prothly