Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,753, John Hughes, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Hughes, John
S. 39,753
CONTENTS
418 677 1095

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Pennsylvania Roll 1840
John Hughes 1 st Reg t { Captain - of 8 th { Pennsylvania line 8 th Reg t
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of July 1818 and sent to the Pensioner Pittsburg - Pennsylv a
Arrears to 4th of Sept m 1818 Semi-annual ce- ending
4 M os 24/30. $ 93.33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
✿ died 15 Sept m over 1818
Hon J Patterson
See letter to Hon. T. M. McKee Feb. 12. 1836
Original Pa. Agency book act Mch. 18. 1818 - shows date of death Sept. 15, 1818.
is not in its place in the old letter book said not found. 7

I, John Hughes, of Washington County, State of Pennsylv- -vania, do swear upon the holy evangelists of Almighty God, that I served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy from the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six till the end of the war - I entered the service as a third Lieutenant in the sixth Regiment of Penn- -sylvania, and went to Canada before Independence was declared - In the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, I was appointed a second Lieutenant in the first Pennsylvania regiment - In the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight I was a first Lieutenant and in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, a Captain Lieutenant - In the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty I got a Captain Commissioned in the same regiment - At the dis- -banding of the regiments in 1780, there not being men sufficient, a number of officers had to return upon half pay, till they were called into service - I was sent out to the frontiers of Pennsylvania and Virg- -inia, and continued in that service till the end

of the war, when I received orders to discharge men, which I did July the third one thousand eight hundred and eighty three - I am now sixty seventy years of age, in reduced circumstances; and I am entirely unable to procure a subsistence - I have for many years past been afflicted with a cancer in my face, which has proceeded so far as to have eat off the greater part of my face and one of my eyes - I have never received any pen- sion from the United States government - It may be proper to mention that the regiment I belonged to was a part of what was called the Pennsylvania line - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
John Hughes Seal

John Hughes Lieut claims —
11 March
Penn Rolls not on of his Commission not forwarded — He is afflicted with a terrible Cancer —
correct
The Prisoner Pittsburg

Washington County Pennsylvania
Personally before me, the subscriber an of the associate judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Washington, aforesaid, came John Hughes who being duly sworn according to law, state declare that the facts contained in the foregoing declaration are true, and signed the same in my presence — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and seal this eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
James Allison
State of Pennsylvania Washington County I Alexander Murdoch Esq. Prothonotary of the court of common pleas for said county, do certify that James Allison Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is and was at the time of the associate judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county duly commissioned and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Washington the thirteenth day of April Anno Domini 1818.
Alex Murdoch