Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,036, Bartholomew Bratton, New York Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York Penn.
Bratton, Bartholomew " Brattan
S 40,036
CONTENTS

3 rd Ohio May 4/55 He was discharged May 10/58
12,201 R
Pennsylvania
Bartholomew Bratt
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Shaick of the W. Va. line, for the term of 6 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of May 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th June 1819 and sent to Jam. Roberts  Pittsburgh Penns.
Arrears to 4th of Oct 1819  $26.86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 35.30  $52.16
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }  14 July 1819

James
Case of Bartholomew Bratton.
Saml Roberts Judge
Pitts. Co. Penna
recd June 4 1819.
To the Honorable
John C. Calhoun
Wm
Washington
Bartholomew Bratton private.
Col. A: Wayne. Penna line
70 to 77 - 1 year
" Van Schaick - N. Y.
77 - mars.
On walls. 57 than

Pennsylvania Sct.
On this twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1819 before the undersigned J President of the Fifth Judicial District in the Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared Bartholomew Brallon at present residing in the City of Pottersburg Pa aged seventy three years who being by me first duly sworn according to law took an 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 & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war That he the said Bartholomew Brallon enlisted in the year 1776 in the county of York in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain James Moore in the Regiment com- manded by Col. Anthony Wayne of the 4 th Pennsylvania Line for one year At the expiration of which time he again enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. James Cook in the regiment commanded by Col. Van Schaick of the 1 st New York Reg. for to serve until the end of the war when After faithfully serving his term of enlistment he was honorably discharged at the county of Orange, in the State of New York on the eighth day of June 1783 by

Genl Washington. — That he was in the battles of Still Waters — at the capture of Burgoyne — of Monmouth — at the capture of Jamaica &c. That he is reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. His discharge being lost he has no no other evidence of his S r service in his power except that which is trans- mitted of his.
Given to William Bartholomew Braten before me this 25 day of Mark May A D 1819.
Sam Roberts
I Sam Roberts President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifth Judicial District in the Commonwealth of Penn a do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the s d Bartholomew Braten did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one period on the continental establishment and has transmitted the proceedings testimony had before me to the Secretary for the War Department pursuant the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he is in reduced circumstances. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal at the City of Pittsburgh this twenty fifth day of May A D 1819.
Sam Roberts

Pennsylvania S d
Before the undersigned President of the Court of Common Pleas of the Fifth Judicial District in the Commonwealth aforesaid personally appeared John Lorain late an ensign in the U.S. Army in the revolutionary war who being duly sworn doth on his oath say that in the year 1778 he became acquainted with Bartholomew Bratton at the Valley Forge that the s d Bratton was then serving as a private soldier in the service of the United States - he further says that the facts as stated in the preceding declaration of Bratton as far as they came within his knowledge are true - that he has seen the discharge of the s d Bratton and he further says that the s d Bratton is in reduced circumstances & in need of the assistance of his country for subsistence.
Second subscription This 25 day of May AD 1819
John Lorain
Sam l Roberts
Pennsylvania S d
Before Sam l Roberts President aforesaid personally came Alexander Gray who being duly sworn saith that he became acquainted with the above named Bartholomew Bratton about the year 1778 that he has known the s d Bratton to serve the U.S. as a private soldier for five or six years - and this deponent further saith that the s d Bratton is in reduced circumstances, in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Second subscription The 25 May 1819
Alexander Gray
Sam l Roberts

Allegheny county, Pa.
I Ephraim Pentland, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County do certify that The Hon ble Samuel Robert, Esquire, before whom the foregoing depo-
sitions were taken And whose Signature is affixed to the aforesaid Certificate, was at the time of taking And signing the same And now is President of the Court of Common Pleas of the fifth Judicial District of Penn- sylvania including the County of Allegheny And that full faith And credit are And of right ought to be given throughout the United States And elsewhere.
In testimony Whereof I hereunto set My hand And affixed the seal of the said Court at the City of Pittsburgh this 26 th May A. D. 1879.
E. Pentland, Jr. (A)
John H. Hensel — He is now in the office of the

Bartholomew Bratten
Continued of 12, 201 :

United States of America } Western District of Pennsylvania } of June Term 1820
On this fifth day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said District Bartholomew Bratten aged seventy four years resident in the city of Pittsburgh in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows - viz. that he enlisted in Albany in 1776 in Capt John Coffey's company in Col. Van Schaick's regiment known by the name of the first New York Regiment that he enlisted for & served during the war, & that he was finally discharged at Snakes hill in the State of New York in 1783, at the time of his discharge he was in Capt. his Passant's Company same Regiment but commanded by Col James Clinton. & that he has continued to receive his pension by virtue of a certificate from the war office N o . 12 201 dated 14 th day of July 1819 - And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to

being myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18. of March 1818; & that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property security contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed
viz That he has no personal or real estate except a very scanty supply of bedding & clothing - his occupation when able to pursue it was a labourer but in consequence of old age; & deafness which he received in the United States service, he is really unable to labour to advantage, that he has no children; but a wife whose name is Hannah aged about sixty five, who is likewise frail & rheumatic & little able to labour for her own or Dependent's discharge  support
Sworn to and declared on the fifth day of June 1820. in open court before J. H. Walker Esq. the Western District of Pennsylvania Bartholomew Brattan his mark
Jonathan H. Walker.
I Robert Walker Clerk of the District court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing is the & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied

from the record of said court, & I do further certify That it is the opinion of the said court that the said deponent hath no property whatever, except the necessary cloathing & bedding for himself & wife, & that the deponent is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court on this fifth day of June A.D. 1820
R. Walker Clerk
Copy from the record

40.036
INVALID.
Ray
File No.
40,036
Bartholomew Bratten
Pin New 1880
Act:
18 March 1880
Index:—Vol.
8
, Page
60
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Treasury Department, Third Auditor's Office May 8 th 1855,
Sir,
I herewith return to you the papers in the case of Bartholomew Brallon, of Pa, received from you under date of the 4 th Inst, and have to in- form you that it appears on record in this Office that his pension has been paid up to 4 March 1823.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant.
Richd. Morris
Auditor
L. G. Waldo, Esq. Commr of Pensions.

Power of attorney -
Mary Smaldson
Widow of Robert Smaldson died? - a Revolutionary Pension
To
Charles Taylor -

I Mary Donaldson , widow of Robert Donaldson dec d . of the County of Allegheny & State of Pennsylvania, And only child of Bartholomew Bratton, a Revolutionary Soldier, dec d . Who Was a United States pensioner, on his life time, on the Pittsburgh Pension Roll. Hereby constitute and appoint Hon: Charles Naylor of the City of Pittsburgh in the State of Penn a . My true and Lawfull Attorney, to examine the Rolls at the pension office at Washington, for the services of my late father as above mentioned And to prosecute such claims as I may have for a pension or arrearage of pension either from him, my father, or in right of his late widow My mother Hannah Bratton, now deceased. and I authorize him the said Charles Naylor to do all things necessary or needful to be done, in the premises, giving him my full power, for the purpose enabling him to prosecute and receive all my rights, and dues, and to receive, and receipt for the same. Witness my hand and (Seal)

Seal, at the City of Pittsburgh, in the State of Pennsylvania, this 28 th day of April A.D. 1855 - One thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of us J. B. MacMaster
her Mary X Donaldson Mark
On this 28 th day of April A.D. 1855, before me An alderman of the City of Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared, the above named Mary Donaldson, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney, given by her to Hon: Charles Taylor, to be her act and deed and desired that the same might be credited and Recorded as such according to Law. Witness my hand & seal this day and year aforesaid
J. B. MacMaster Ald., C.C.