Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22644, John Beatty, Penn.

SERVICE
Penn.
Beatty, John
NUMBER
S. 22644
CONTENTS

25.848 Pension
John Beatty of the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Captain in the Company commanded by Captain Beatty of the Keyser's Creek Battery by Col. McCall in the Battle of Brandywine for services rendered
9th March 1831
Inscribed on the Roll of Pensioners at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of July 1831 and
Arrears to the 14th of Sep 1833 - 15.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Oct 3 15
$ 91.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by [Signature] Clerk, Book [Signature] Vol. 15 Page 4
Letter to J. Harding July 20. 1835 to H. D. Harvey July 27. 1835
Dead Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6th 1828 from 4th March to 27th June 1840. Agent notified April 21st 1842

State of Pennsylvania } County of Mifflin } ss
On this ninth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before Thomas Burnside Esquire President and John Oliver and David Reyer Esqrs his associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania John Beatty a resident of Armagh township in the County of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy years in August last - who being duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That in the year 1780 he was drafted for two months time in the Militia of Pennsylvania, in said township of Armagh in Mifflin (then Cumberland) county and marched under the command under Ensign John Wilson to Watson's Fort, in Penns Valley Centre (then Cumberland) county - to guard the frontiers from the incursions of the Indians we were frequently out on scouts from the Fort during this time - after the expiration of two months, the term for which we were drafted we were dismissed and permitted to return home.
In the succeeding year, to wit in the summer of 1781, he enlisted in the said Township of Armagh, under Lieutenant Richard Johnstone in Captain John Bryds company for a term of seven months (he does not recollect whether the company belonged to the Pennsylvania line or to the continental service) that he joined the company at their

undersigned at Browns Mills, in said township of Armagh - Lieutenant Johnstone being laid from an accident remained behind, and we were marched under the command of Sergeant William Ward to Bedford Pennsylvania to guard the frontiers from the invasions of the Indians. My fellow soldiers in this squad were James McDowell (who is still living and whose deposition is herunto annexed) - David Milliken, William Sankey, John Thompson, John Brown, Michael Brown, William McAnamara, Balter Brant and others - Before we arrived at Bedford our Captain John Boyd was taken prisoner by the Indians, soon after we got to Bedford we were joined again by our Lieut. Richard Johnstone, he was the only commissioned officer there - David Bates was first sergeant and next to Lieut. Johnstone in command - There was a company of militia drafted at Bedford, for a short time, during our stay there - at the end of the seven months we were dismissed - Interrogatory 1 st as proposed by the court and answered by deponent -
Interrogatory 1 st When & in what year were you born?
Answer - I was born in the county of Donegal in Ireland, on the 12 th August (old style) AD 1763
2 nd Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Ans. I have no such record, my father never kept a record of my age -
3 d - Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you live now?
Ans. At the time I was called into service I lived in Armagh Township Mifflin (then Cumberland) county, Pennsylvania where he has continued to live since the Revolutionary war, and where he now resides

Interrog. 4 th How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute
Ans - In the first term of two months to Pennsvalley I was drafted in the militia. In the 2 nd term, to wit, that of seven months to Bedford I enlisted -
Interrog. 5 th State the names of the officers who were with the troops where you served. Such continental and militia officer regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service
Ans - In my first term Ensign John Wilson was our commanding officer. In the second term John Boyd was our Captain & Richard Johnston our Lieutenant. We were the only troops at Mather's fort & at Bedford. Boyd's company formed the garrison excepting the occasional presence of militia and scouts -
Interrog. 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it -
Ans. I never received a discharge. At the expiration of the terms for which I was drafted & enlisted I was permitted to return home & I did not ask for a discharge -
Interrog. 7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood & who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Ans Captain William Boyd James Milliken Esq. & James McPitt
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present from the United States, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
John Beatty
Sworn & subscribed the 9 th day of November 1888 before me one of the associate judges in & for the county of Mifflin
D. Rynold

We William Brown  James McPitt of Armagh Township of the County of Mifflin State of Pennsylvania and James Milliken of the Borough of Lewistown county aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Beatty who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed the 9th day of November 1833 before me one of the associate judges in & for Mifflin County James McPitt being first interline above the name of William Brown
James Milliken James McPitt
D. Myers D.D.
And the said board do hereby declare their opinion after a full investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant John Beatty was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that William Brown  James McPitt who has signed the foregoing certificate is a resident of Armagh Township Mifflin County, and that James Milliken who has also signed the same is a resident of the Borough of Lewistown in said County, and are creditable persons & their statement entitled to credit - James McPitt being first interline above the name of William Brown
John Plock David Reynolds
judges of the court of common pleas in & for Mifflin County

November 28, 1938.
Mr. Edwin B. Graham 362 South Negley Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BA-J/ILL John Beatty S. 22644
Dear Sir:
The data which follow are found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 22644, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John Beatty.
John Beatty (as he signed his name) was born August 12, 1763 (Old Style), in Donegal County, Ireland; the names of his parents are not shown. At the time of the Revolutionary War, he resided in Armagh Township, Cumberland County (later Mifflin County), Pennsylvania.
John Beatty enlisted sometime in 1780, and served two months as private under Ensign John Wilson in the Pennsylvania troops, engaged principally at Watson's Fort; he enlisted in the summer of 1781, served as private in Captain John Boyd's Pennsylvania company, which company was commanded also by Lieutenant Richard Johnson, engaged most of the time against the Indians near Bedford, Pennsylvania, and was discharged after service of seven months.
John Beatty was allowed pension on his application executed November 9, 1833, at which time he resided in Armagh Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; he had continued to reside there ever since the Revolutionary War. He died June 27, 1840.
John Beatty was survived by a widow, who was living in 1843; her name is not shown, nor the date and place of their marriage. No reference was made to children of this soldier.
In order to obtain the name and address of the person to whom the last payment of pension was made, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following:

John Beatty, Certificate #25848, issued January 15, 1834, rate $30 per annum commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Adm 9. Months $30
Rev. L Henderson

State of Pennsylvania Mifflin County ss
BEATTY, JOHN PA.
I David R. Reynolds Prothonotary & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin County aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing is the original proceedings had in the application of John Beatty to obtain a pension and that the Hon. Thomas Burnside & his associates John Oliver & David Reynolds are the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Mifflin County, & that also Francis Doggs before whom the deposition of James M c Devitt who takes as a justice of the peace not for Mifflin County & that William M c Coey is also a justice of the peace in for said County - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this eighth day of January A.D. 1834
D. R. Reynolds Prothonotary

To Henderson on H.R.
Pa.
J. Edwards Esq.
Connoisseur of pictures
Washington City
Gen. Henderson

O. L. Edwards Esq. Sir
Enclosed I send the record in the matter touching the petition or application of John Beatty for a pension - Also a paper not connected with the record which was obtained for the purpose of substantiating his claim but the applicant and Daniel Livingston the person making the affidavit in the accompanying paper not agreeing with regard to the year in which they served under Capt. Boyd - Beatty the applicant was scandalous as to making use of Livingston's evidence I have however thought proper to forward Livingston's affidavit with the application as corroborative evidence of Beatty's statement & McDowell's deposition
Respectfully Y r H ble Servt
B. C. Hale
Bellefonte
Pa

(Document in support of the claim of Mr. Keating)

Centre County ss.
Before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Centre came Daniel Livingston of Potter Township in said County Who being duly sworn as the law directs saith that he was enlisted as a common soldier under Captain John Boyd in the year 1779 or 80. and served for the term of seven months against the Indians and that John Beatty of Mifflin County. Armagh Township. was a soldier in the same company and performed his duty in every respect and farther saith not.
Sworn and subscribed this 10 th day of September A.D. 1833. Daniel Livingston
D m Livingston
Centre County ss. Before me one of the justices of the peace in and for the County of Centre came Robert McKim of Potter Township in said County one of the ruling Elders of the Presbyterian Church and after being sworn as the law directs saith I am personally acquainted with Daniel Livingston for more than 40 years he is a good citizen and a man of truth and farther saith not. Sworn and subscribed this 3 rd day of October.
A.D. 1833. Before me D m Livingston
Robt. McKim

Pennsylvania Centre County ss
I James Gilliland Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for said County of Centre do hereby certify that William Livingston Esqr before whom the within depositions were taken is a commissioned qualified Acting Justice of the peace in and for s d County and that his signature as within signed is his proper handwriting and that due faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of s d court at Bellefonte in said County this 3rd day of October A D 1833.
James Gilliland Proth y

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 5 th , 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the widow of John Keatly, dec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 27 th June 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 5 th , 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the widow of John Keatly, dece d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 27 th June 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Harris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Revolution
22644 INVALID.
File No. 22,644
John Henry Pr. Pa. 1841
Act: June 7 th 1897
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 82
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1923 Oct. 1 - Hist. to Anne J. Willbur cont. 1931 Nov. 28 - Hist. to Edwin B. Graham - See letter in John Beatty - W 5803 - J 22

Pennsylvania } Mifflin County } 6
Before me Francis Broggs, one of the justices of the peace in and for the County of Mifflin in the state of Pennsylvania, personally came James McDowell a resident of Heater Township in the aforesaid County of Mifflin who being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he enlisted into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, sometime in the summer of the year 1781, in the Township of Armagh in the county of Mifflin aforesaid (then Cumberland) under Lieutenant Richard Johnstone, in Captain John Boyd's company for a term of seven months - Deponent does not recollect whether this company belonged to the Pennsylvania line or the continental troops. That he joined the company or party at Brown's Mills in said Township of Armagh, and that he distinctly recollects that John Beatty the foregoing applicant for a pension was a soldier in said company, and that he and deponent were messmates - Lieutenant Johnstone being lame, we were ordered forward by him and marched under Sergeant William Ward to Bedford Pennsylvania for the purpose of guarding the frontier from the Indians. Deponent's fellow soldiers in this squad, were the above named John Beatty, David Milliken, John Thompson, William Sankey and others. Before we arrived at Bedford our Captain John Boyd was taken prisoner by the Indians soon after we got to Bedford, we were joined by our Lieutenant John Johnstone - He was the only commissioned officer there - David Beatty was first sergeant and next in command to Lieut. Johnstone - There was a company or squad of militia or scouts at Bedford for a short time during our stay there - Deponent further saith that he was personally acquainted with the above named John Beatty before they entered the service that they have both resided in the same county ever since the close of the Revolutionary war

That he is well acquainted with the said John Bratty and that he believes him to be a man of good moral character & worthy of credit & belief Sworn & subscribed the 8th day of November Before
I Francis Boggs before whom the above deposition of James McDowell was taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with James McDowell the above deponent, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & further I do hereby certify that he is a man of good moral character & worthy of credit and belief Sworn & subscribed this 7th day of January 1834
James William O'Leary
Francis Boggs

July 20 Dear Mrs. Charles (Percy) Ann's Friend of Palestine of Philadelphia

Phila. July 11 th 1830
It is requested of the Govt. State the limits of an assignment given in policy of kind able to save the West the interest the interest of the interest Mr. [illegible] & [illegible] in sending me copies of [illegible] with [illegible] attorney to collect the amt. - but the [illegible] and the [illegible] of the [illegible], which was necessary in this case, it [illegible] had for [illegible] and we were not aware that it was required to have them presented within [illegible] within [illegible] from the date of the [illegible] of [illegible] as a [illegible] then on the receipt of the [illegible] the payment was refused on the above ground Your [illegible] will [illegible] a [illegible] A very [illegible] [illegible] J. C. Edwards [illegible] [illegible]

El Dorado Kans.
August 11-1923.
Dept of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.
I write you requesting a statement of the military history of John Beatty - a soldier of the Revolutionary War. who was seven years in the service - John Beatty was born in Ireland at one time his home was in Northumberland Co. Penn. He died at Lancaster Ohio.
Can you tell me in what Vol. and page his record is found. And was a pension granted.
Thanking you for any information you may give.
Respectfully,
Mrs Annie H. Wilbur
R.F.D. #4.
El Dorado. Kans

Rev. War Section.
October 1, 1923.
Annie I. Wilbur, El Dorado, Kana. R. F. D. 4.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 38644, it appears that John Beatty was born in Donegal County, Ireland, August 12, 1763, and while residing in Armagh Township, Cumberland County (which was later Mifflin), Pennsylvania, enlisted in 1780 and served two months as a private under Ensign John Wilson in the Pennsylvania troops. The summer of 1781, he enlisted and served seven months in Captain John Boyd's company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 9, 1833, while a resident of Armagh Township, Pennsylvania. He died June 27, 1840.
In 1842, soldier's widow is referred to, name not stated.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

November 28, 1938.
Mr. Edwin B. Graham 362 South Negley Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This comes belongs in BA-J/ILL John Beatty-W. 5803 John Beatty-S. 22644
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of November 21, in further quest of the Revolutionary War Beatty records. You state that one John Beatty came to America prior to the Revolutionary War and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and that two of his children were Joseph and Samuel, Samuel having settled in Westmoreland County, where he married Margaret Lemmon.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a John Beatty who was old enough to have been the father of Joseph Beatty (S. 35188) or of the Samuel Beatty (S. 34646) whose records were furnished you October 15, 1938 and May 29, 1937, respectively.
The record has been found of a John Beatty (S. 22644) who emigrated to this country and of a John Beatty (W. 5803) of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Those records are furnished you herewith as they may aid you in your research.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.